Hi friends, I hope you're all doing really well.
Welcome to my channel,
and welcome to this reading vlog.
So, in this reading vlog, I have some specific plans.
First, I'm going to be trying to finish
Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff,
and I'm also going to be starting on
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.
Darkdawn I am buddy reading with Anisha,
like I mentioned in a previous video,
and Ninth House I'm buddy reading with Ashley,
so I'm super excited about these two.
Anyway, today I have a package that I thought would be kindda fun if I unboxed it on camera because I've never done like an "unboxing," so that's kindda exciting.
This was sent to me by Penguin Random house,
and I have some idea as to what might be in here,
but let's just open it.
I actually received this a couple days ago, but I've been, like, holding on to it because I didn't want to open it by myself, and I wanted to open it on camera.
Okay, I was right. There are two books in here.
And the first is Darius the Great is Not Okay.
And the second one is Darius the Great Deserves Better.
So this is book 1, and this is book 2 that just came out.
And I've seen this book around in bookstores and stuff so I'm super excited to read it.
This, I believe, is about an American-Iranian teen who gets involved in this love triangle.
Yes, so his name is Darius and he's half Persian.
And he's taking his first ever trip to Iran which is about to change his life.
And he gets involved in a love triangle is what I know.
I really love these covers too.
Hi, and happy Thursday!
Today, I just went to the library and got Spinning Silver.
One of my friends in real life really, really loved this book, and she recommended it to me,
which is why I decided to pick it up.
I have been in a mood-reading type of mood recently,
so I think I might just start this right now
because I am intrigued.
I actually have no idea what this is about, whatsoever, but I'm excited to find out.
Hey friends, happy Monday!
As you saw, we got a puppy, and I am so excited and happy to have him here.
His name is Jasper, he is six weeks old, and he's a labradoodle. And he is so cute.
For the past two days, I have just sat on the floor next to him, and have done little else.
So I'm here to give you a sad little reading update because, understandably, I have not done that much reading since he got here.
I got to about page 70 of Spinning Silver,
and I am loving it so far.
I went into this knowing nothing;
I didn't even read the synopsis.
By what I can tell so far, this is kind of like a Rumpelstiltskin retelling, and there's also this character that kind of reminds me of Rapunzel,
so I really love it so much.
The writing style is so beautiful; I think this is one of my favourite books just because of the writing style.
And I'm only 70 pages in so
I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of it.
I'm actually getting through it pretty quickly.
I mean, I haven't really been reading much, but when I do sit down to read, I fly through the pages.
So I'm really looking forward to finishing this.
And I've finally started Ninth House.
As I said, I'm buddy reading this with Ashley,
and I'm really liking it too.
It's definitely slower than Spinning Silver,
but I am enjoying the slower pace.
Our main character is Alex
and I have mixed feelings about her.
I don't dislike her, but I don't really like her either,
so we'll see where that goes
And the other point of view that I really like is Darlington.
I just loved his point-of-view chapter
from like the first sentence.
And the moment I read that sentence, I knew. I knew it. That it's over for me. That I'm in love with this character.
Hopefully, he doesn't end up being like a bad person.
Hey friends, happy Thursday!
And thank you for making it to the
end of this very chaotic vlog.
At least it felt really chaotic when I was filming it, but maybe I'll be able to make it less chaotic while editing.
There were several books that I tried to read this week,
but never once did I actually think
that I would finish all of them.
The purpose of me having so many options
was so that I'd just be able to pick whichever one
I was in the mood for the most.
I ended up finishing Spinning Silver,
and of my goodness, I'm so glad I decided to
pick this book up because it was so amazing. So good.
I am speechless.
And I just finished it like 10 minutes ago,
so I haven't exactly processed all of it.
But this is definitely a 5-star read.
There are three main girls: Miryem, Wanda, and Irena.
Miryem's story was a Rumpelstiltskin retelling,
and the other two, I'm not quite sure.
I said earlier that one of the girls reminded me of Rapunzel, but I take that back
because she just has like really long hair,
and none of her story actually like
lines up with Rapunzel, I don't think.
It also has, in my opinion, the best,
hands down, the best portrayal of fae/faeries.
I'm not exactly sure if that's how you'd classify them,
but it's pretty close, and I really love the way
they were depicted in this book.
To give you a quick little summary:
Miryem is the daughter of a moneylender, and he's really nice, so he keeps lending all this money out,
but he just doesn't have it in himself
to go and collect all these debts.
One day, Miryem has finally had enough,
so she goes out in her father's stead,
and collects all the money that people owe them.
And she is ruthless.
She doesn't accept any excuses from anyone.
She's just so amazing; I love her.
This book also has some of my favourite
strong, female main characters.
So that's also another reason why
I really loved this book.
Next, I mentioned this before already, but I also made it through a hundred pages of Ninth House.
Ashley and I are reading about a hundred pages every single week, so we'll be done by the end of September.
I loved it right away and I was into it, but Ashley said the beginning was kind of boring.
So I can definitely see why people have mixed reviews.
And it's also, like, a bit confusing right now
because there are so many new people and new places that are mentioned.
Hopefully, as the book goes on, I understand more,
and am able to figure things out more.
And finally, I made it through a grand total of 14 pages of Darkdawn.
I don't know why I cannot just get into it.
The writing style has not been appealing to me
at all so far.
And it has been a really long time since I read
Nevernight and Godsgrave,
so I kindda have forgotten really what goes on.
I'm finding it really hard to convince myself to
sit there and read this.
So...
Hopefully Anisha isn't that far into it yet
because I'll need to catch up.
In addition to these two, I will also be reading these two.
This book is called VOX, and I am buddy reading it with Sonali from The Melodramatic Bookworm.
It takes place in a dystopian United States where
women are only allowed to speak 100 words a day.
They are no longer allowed to be literate and get an education and all these things because
they are only allowed to speak 100 words a day.
So that's all I really know, and it sounds kindda intriguing so I'm excited to get into it.
Finally, the last book I mean to finish in September is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
I am buddy reading this book with Nicole, and
the two of us have been buddy reading this since June.
So, neither of us really read much of it in June.
So then we decided to finish it in July.
And then we didn't read it at all in July.
August, we were like, "We'll finish it for sure,"
and then we just ignored it for like the entire month.
So now that it is September, we have decided that
we'll finish it for sure in September.
And it's funny because I just...didn't read it back in June.
I just ignored this book.
And then every time I would talk to Nicole,
because I'd still be talking to her about like other stuff,
I just wouldn't mention this book.
And I was just like, "I hope Nicole doesn't ask me how much I'e read," because I was 100% sure that she was like halfway through the book already.
But then, both of us realized that both of us were just ignoring this book and we really need to finish it.
Anyway, that is all I have for this vlog.
I know it's not like the "aesthetic" vlogs that I did the last two times, but I hope you like it still.
Thank you so much for spending time with me,
and I hope your day is as wonderful as you are!
