i'm so tired i filmed my q& a
i filmed my wrap-up and now i'm filming
a vlog segment welcome back to dead good
book reviews and to another reading vlog
i make this reading vlog number 25.
cheers to that happy monday it is the
first day of my week off it's also a
bank holiday so everyone is off but
i have a whole week off i have already
filmed a bunch
as you will have seen maybe if i
included at the beginning i filmed a
bunch
i've edited a bunch i've uploaded a
bunch it's all going
very very well where did i leave you
last week
um i was about to start the name of all
things and i've started it and i
finished it this morning and it was very
very good
and now i'm going to move on to the next
book but it is
over there and under a pile of stuff so
i'm not gonna hold it up for you but i'm
gonna read book three and that i
really enjoyed the name of all things i
made a very conscious effort to read it
with a detail-oriented brain on and i
think i've retained some of the
information
sure jan but yes plans for this week
include
clearing out the kitchen clearing out
the bathroom both of which need doing so
those will get done this week
and also going back to clear out my
childhood bedroom so it's a very
clearing outy kind of
week i hope that's okay with you
alongside that i want to read
the big big big book ideally i'd like to
read
one of the how to train you about dragon
books and unconquerable sun
those are kind of my three goals i think
having because unconquerable sun is long
and so is that
the big chorus of dragons i think it'd
be over optimistic to expect myself to
read any more than that
i'm going to go because as i say i have
been filming
and editing all day and i would like to
have a break now
um but i will see you tomorrow hello
happy tuesday welcome to
what feels like the proper first vlog
segment of this week
i'm wearing the shirt again but i've
layered it with a pinafore dress
so it doesn't feel like i'm wearing the
shirt again it feels fine
uh hello i've been doing some reading
uh i've done a lot of stuff today i
cleaned the kitchen like
deep cleaned rearranged put gadgets back
in boxes
boxes are up on shelves cleared out
whole cupboards worth of stuff like the
kind of thing that would make
really good vlog content that i did not
film
i also baked bread again would be great
vlog content but
it is delicious and almost gone never
mind
um so instead you get me in the same
angle that you've seen me in for
25 weeks i am
163 pages into the memory of souls
by jen lyons and i am enjoying it uh i
think
i'm finally getting a handle on this
series
and it has taken reading them all back
to back so anyone who is looking for
someone who just says
oh yeah no don't worry pick it back up
you'll basically understand what's
happening
i think if you don't already have a good
idea of what's happening
reread like this does have explains at
the beginning and it picks you up
everything you need to know you get
through the book but i think it just
makes more sense to reread it that's all
i'll say there's a lot of characters to
keep track of
if you're that obsessed with this series
take the time do it
um but no i am really enjoying it i
wanted to read this today
somehow i don't think that's gonna
happen i think this may be a push until
tomorrow kind of thing i think i'm gonna
try and get to
250 pages today which isn't quite
halfway but will do
uh so yeah about another 90 pages to go
and i'm looking forward to that i have
also
bought the audiobook of dra blood of
dragons
by robin hobb which is the fourth
rainwilds book because audible had a
sale on (not sponsored)
i haven't started it yet
but it does exist and it is there
um but i've been having a nice day
listening to some music i've
edited my wrap up that's uploading as we
speak
the tbr is up i've also been planning
videos i'd really like to have my
content scheduled for the next
i want to say till the end of the year i
think that's doable partly because i
want to get in a routine about filming
for if
and when i'm ever back in an office
again we're doing good things and
getting in good head spaces with videos
and
content and so forth but all of that is
vaguely meaningless in the world
at the moment but since videos are
uploading so i can't be on my laptop i'm
gonna do some organizational stuff
in the rest of my life and i will see
you tomorrow
it's the kind of lighting that makes me
look like an actual
demon hi it's
wednesday evening things to update you
on before we move on to
the next part of the week i finished the
memory of souls the memory
of souls by Jenn lyons today because
i'm traveling tomorrow and i don't want
to carry this with me i'm already having
to take two laptops i'm not gonna hold
it but i'm gonna keep talking about it i
really enjoyed it
definitely definitely reread the first
two
i'm converted maybe to rereading before
you read the next book in a series
maybe i think it was really good i was
talking to monique from book witch
reviews and we both agree that this is
probably the funniest of all of them so
far
and i think that the tone of them really
shifted from book one
uh book one felt very stuffy and
complicated with a few funny bits and
now it's like
mostly funny i think because you know
the characters better
and so all of the like ironic moments
are more
more so yeah it was good i enjoyed it
greatly
so has a lot of exploration about
fantasy
gender i guess and how gender would look
in a different culture
fantasy culture and i don't know why i
picked it up again um
so that was in there again so if that
wasn't your jam in book two
might not be in book three i had a good
time reading it i'm really glad i
finished the series
i think i want to script out a video
talking about the book so far
mostly to kind of get my head around
what i liked and what i didn't like and
how it went for me that's i think that
will come at some point in the future
i just realised my window is open so if this
audio is weird i apologize  on the
subject of things i do not want to take
with me tomorrow
uh i don't think i want to bring my
camera because i don't have a decent bag
for it
and i'm already kind of anxious about
traveling anyway
and i don't want to also have to think
about the very expensive camera
the very expensive laptops and things uh
i don't really want to do that
so we are going to be moving to phone
vlogging
uh so a real return to the original
judith quality content uh i don't think
i've even got space to take my tripod so
it will be
phones balanced on bookcases thankfully
there are many of those in my old room
it's going to be pretty low tech
but i should still be able to produce
content and uh next week's video is all
set so that should be fine
i'm looking forward to it i think i'm
going to try and start unconquerable sun
on the
train tomorrow because kindle easy
enough
and then i don't know if i want to pack
another book
again purely because of how heavy things
are
if i do i'll probably take a paperback
but i think i might just
take uncnquerable sun oh i could take
one of the how to train your dragon
books that would make more sense
that would make a lot more sense i'll
take the first one of those done if i
remember to vlog in the morning i'll
remember to vlog in the morning and if i
don't then i will see you when i'm at my
destination
okay so i might have forgotten my
microphone it may turn up in my bag when
i unpack
hello welcome to my not quite childhood
we moved here when i was 19
bedroom it has a lot of stuff in it i've
been going through
i've done one whole wardrobe to be
honest most of the stuff here i'm not
planning on keeping
there's been some sewing supplies which
is a real win including
three pairs of fabric scissors so that's
a win because i've been needing to buy
fabric scissors for quite some time
yeah it's been it's been an interesting
kind of day so far
the trains were fine the dog adorable
the clearing out of stuff emotional
but not like
ridiculously so i found some nice things
from asha
which is very lovely and it'll be nice
to bring those to our place
just some just some stuff a lot of stuff
a lot of stuff i really didn't need to
keep and if i may speak candidly with
you
just so many tampons clean fresh
but in every single box i unpack at
least one tampon
why were there so many 
where were they coming from i don't know
um so that's that's fun
i have one more wardrobe left to do and
then i've got to do the books uh which
you are
currently conveniently perched on uh i
was going to go through them but they're
not
hugely interesting there's a huge amount
of
uh caroline lawrence's the roman
mysteries which i don't think should be
too surprising
uh we've got very few hardbacks but
a hardback of awakened uh pc and kristen
cast
tempting to reread this evening and then
you get into
proper big biographies of the city of
jerusalem avalon high
that i might take that's a good book uh
just the accumulation
of many years of books that i didn't
love enough to take to the new place
but didn't hate enough to get rid of and
ain't that the story
i am working tomorrow because apparently
i couldn't give myself a full week off
like me in the future watching this back
if you've just booked a four-day holiday
just book five days
what are you doing um but thankfully i
can work here that's fine the beauty of
working from home
uh so i've got some work to do tomorrow
and
reading update i did film a vlog clip
earlier but it was super awkward
so i'm gonna re-talk about things now uh
on the train all the way up i was gonna
read unconquerable sun
still not in the mood and the journey
here is like three sets of 30 minute
journeys
doesn't quite work with how i work so um
i just read
what's it called how to speak dragon
ese and how to break a dragon's curse
something books three and four in the
how to train your dragon series because
i read books one and two
yesterday and both of them all four of
them in fact because i haven't talked
about them on the vlog were really good
fun
i liked them a lot i
i hear the audiobooks are good i don't
like i'm not a middle grade reader
and so i assume that the people watching
this are not middle grade readers
and if you are i feel like talking about
one of the most well-known middle grade
series in the uk
it's probably not that helpful basically
if you were interested in my opinions of
them
i think they're all right i'm gonna stop
because i i just need
to stop and start editing the vlog for
tomorrow
hello again and for the final time i
am closing out the vlog it is saturday
afternoon we've been for a nice picnic
with the dog i will probably have
inserted
all of my dog footage somewhere in this
vlog assuming it all
backed up to the right places uh it's
been a very nice time i've cleared out
my bedroom i have a pile of stuff that's
coming home with me
i'm bringing i think two books home i
have a copy of nimona that's coming
and a box set of books that i need to
bring home
uh but all of it i've read so it's not
really affecting my tbr i've read
20 something percent of unconquerable
sun which i'm feeling pretty good about
it i'm enjoying it so far much more than
i thought it would i thought it was
going to be too
too confusing but actually it's worked
out pretty well and i like it well
enough
thank you very much for watching this
vlog i hope you've enjoyed it comment
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there's gonna be some bloopers now thank
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