Hi guys, good morning, and welcome to my
first OWLs and also 30 books in 30 days
reading vlog! It's April 1st and it is day
1 at 6 a.m. bright and early.
Let's start reading! So I've decided to
start with Stories from Arendelle, the
Frozen book, because it's two hundred
pages of an easy reader meant for kids.
It's also the one I'm least excited for
this month but it's got the cutest
backstory to it, which I talked about in my
TBR linked up there. So going to just try
and nail this book very quickly this
morning and make some headway. Okay, so it
is bang-on 7 o'clock and I just finished
reading the Stories of Arendelle. So that
only took an hour but you know what? It was actually pretty cute. It was
pretty cute except for the over abuse of
exclamation!! marks!! and remarking that
Elsa and Anna are so pretty
nearly every chance they possibly got.
This was a really cute book with some
good messages about helping people and
about caring for the people that you
love, and how important communication is,
which are all very important things. It also means I finished my first of the
30 books and I finished my class of a
artihmacy. So what am I going to do
today? I don't actually know. I've got a
to-do list so let's go see what I'm
supposed to do the rest of the day. And
the trick for reading 30 books in 30
days is not to try and read one book a
day but it's to try and read one book
and like, a hundred pages or a bit more
every day so that you don't feel the
pressure towards the end of the month,
where you have to read three books in
the same day. Which is what I had to do
in 2018 to finish my challenge. Let's not
do that this time. I'm done with reading
some more... Okay, I'm done with reading some more
of When Dimple Met Rishi. I'm gonna take my March wrap-up photo. I haven't done a
flatlay in like, 8 months because I've
just had pre-shots of all the photos
that I shared on bookstagram for the
last 8 months. So I feel like maybe I've
lost my touch. But I'm gonna try it and
go for it. And then I'm gonna be studying
with my sister. We're gonna be studying
in the room together and yeah, that's the
plan. Hablo un poco español pero mi español
es muy mal y estudio mucho para aprendar mas... aprender? 
But anyway yeah,
working on my Spanish. I've got a long,
long way to go. But I'm just popping in
because I'm gonna start reading When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon.
This I'm buddy reading with Gaia Athena, so I'll leave a link to her channel down below.
I've said I was gonna start this one for
for ages and it's on my 2020 TBR for this
year so looking forward to reading the
first seven chapters. We're doing seven
chapters a day. And then I'll probably
take a nap because while I did sleep
last night I spent quite a few hours
just lying in the dark awake because
sleeping problems. So: have a nap,
do this, do a core workout... I'm sorry the
first week vlog -- the first three days of
this vlog -- are going to be a bit
unexciting because I am self isolating in
this small room. I get out on Friday and
there's not much space for me to like =, do
time lapses or do like, exciting things,
and show you my workouts and stuff. But
that will come soon!
It's now evening time. I read 50 pages of
Dreamology and it's pretty cute.
I really have nothing more to say than
it's pretty cute. And yeah, I am going to
well -- I just wrote 3,000 words of my Camp
NaNoWriMo project which is a very good
start. I originally set my goal at 500
words a day but I wrote one chapter and it
was 3,000 words. So that's that! I'll talk
more about that project and be
monitoring that more later. I think I'm
going to close up here for the first day
and give you guys an update again
tomorrow.
Good morning and today it's the second
of April which means it's my parents
birthday! Yes, they were both born on the
same day and the same year. However, I
don't get out of self-isolation until
tomorrow so they agreed that tomorrow we
will have a big dinner. We're all going
to dress up fancy, eat some good food and
we're gonna celebrate the fact that I'm
finally back home from my year abroad,
officially able to be out of this room
and that it was their birthday yesterday.
So I'm looking forward to that. I woke up
this morning and spent an hour reading
and I am now on page two hundred of
three hundred and twenty pages of Dreamology
by Lucy Keating and I just
have to say I really enjoyed this book. I
didn't expect to like it as much as I
did because it is a young adult
contemporary about dreams. And while I
like dreams as a subject for books, young
adult contemporary is a hit or miss for
me when it comes to the writing style.
But I really jibed with this writing
style and the concept is just so
interesting! And the romantic interests
are actually, yeah, I quite like them.
There's not a love triangle actually, but
like I kind of ship her with somebody
else? But at the same time I ship her
with who she will probably end up with.
There is cheating in this book which is a
bit of a downer but it's done in such a
way that I can understand. But it's also
breaking my heart a little bit because I
did expect more from these characters. But just the concept of how her dream
guy actually ends up being real and that
she's been dreaming of him for so long...
and it's just so intriguing. I've got some uni work to do today but I'm
gonna just sit here until I finish this
book and then get writing, get studying,
get going for the rest of the day. Also I
know you can see those tabs there but I
want to just clarify it's not me. I don't
actually tab books that I read unless
I'm studying them.
I got this book secondhand from a
booktuber who was unhauling it so these
are her tabs. And it's interesting to see
what she chose to tab. Guys, I just
finished reading Dreamology and I can't
stop smiling! This book was so cute. And
while things did resolve a bit too
easily at one point for one certain plot
line, I still didn't mind. I still was
just having the most fun reading it this.
This grin, like, I can't stop it. I love
the characters. I love the best friends
as well as the two main characters. I
just really enjoyed this. It's not
perfect. It is an imperfect book but
sometimes you just have so much fun with
a book and it's just so cute that you
just can't even! I realised I'm reading a
lot of romance this month so that's
going to be fun because romance really
does make me happy as a genre. Like, by
the time I finish the book
I'm usually smiling. And the next thing
I'm gonna read is gonna be American
Sweethearts by Adriana Herrera. And I
love that series. I'm bittersweet about
coming to the end of this romance series
which are all like, companionable. So you
can read them as stand-alones but I also
can't wait! Okay, hi guys, it's quarter
past 10 at night and my favourite time
to read romance books, especially new
adult romance, is during the night. So
I've got my Kindle. I'm gonna read
American Sweethearts. I've already read 5% and it's...
nothing's
happened yet. But you know, you've got to
get to know the characters first. I've
got what's left of my glass of white
wine, this is my second. And I've got my
cherry scented candle which I'm about to
light on camera. Got a cosy bed with
double blankets 'cause you need double
blankets. Yeah, let's get some reading
done tonight! Hello and good afternoon to
you from day three. So today's really got away from me. I
stayed up pretty late last night because
I have read
62% of American Sweethearts and it's
just everything I want from this series
finale in a single book. The theme of this
book is communication because we have a
second chance, third chance, fifth chance? romance. So they really need to
learn how to communicate. And they seem
to be doing that. There's been a wedding
in this book and you know if you watched
my
book tropes video, I love a book with a
wedding in it. It's got like, the gang
coming all together and I'm just
getting so emotional because I just love
it so much. And the steam is real and
very well done. But yes, I woke up this
morning, went to Bible study, didn't feel
so good but then that past, and then I
did some yoga and workout and now I'm
going to finish this book. Then I have to
study and I need to study because I just
kind of been pushing that to the side
lately. But in about 4 hours my self
isolation is done and I'm gonna have a
big party with my family and get hugs! So
there's gotta be no time for studying
later, no time for reading later. So let's
get this book finished. Guys, it's done!
It's done. I don't know how to go on. That
ending was just perfect. I'm an emotional
mess. I have feels. I've just the -- wow, I
just hit my face with the book... with the
Kindle... look, the only comfort I have
right now is the fact that I have all of
these books on Kindle and I can
basically reread this series whenever I
want. Because I will definitely be
visiting these boys and this friendship
group at some point in the future. That
was fantastic.
With that I have read my third book out
of 30 this month. And I have also
finished and completed that OWLs prompt
from muggle studies because it's a
contemporary from a human perspective.
I'm gonna go study. Next thing you'll
probably see is the dinner party and then
tomorrow brings a new day with more
books to read. What's going on here?
Mummy has prepared a really nice dinner to celebrate the birthday of mummy and daddy. O: And what else? S: And Tamara and April will be joining us on zoom.
O: AND?! Why else are we celebrating this dinner? S: because Olivia
was got out of her place. O: yeah thanks, sis!
Simone what are we watching? S: Merlin. O: and who likes Merlin in this family?
Hello and welcome to day four. So it is
9:30 in the morning. In fact I've had
quite a productive day already. I started
and finished Cain by Lord Byron and this
is something that I needed to read for
my dark hero literature class. And it kind
of reminded me of Paradise Lost but the
extended part because it follows what
happens after Paradise Lost. And it was
so good. I really really enjoyed it.
Classics are just vibing with my soul
lately. So that is the fourth book out of
thirty and doesn't count towards my
OWLs or anything. And it wasn't actually
on my TBR but I had to read it for class
so even though books might not be
counting towards my thirty books in 30
days, I'm still just gonna count them
onto my my count goal for this month. And
if I end up reading more than thirty books
in 30 days, brilliant! If I need a
substitute day I've also got one. I also
read another seven chapters of When Dimple Met Rishi and I'm actually really enjoying
it. It's just so cute and I think this is
something I won't mention in my wrap-up
so I'm just going to mention it here. But when they talk about how attractive
they are to each other the thing that
they point out is that they really like
each other's smiles or laughs. And I just
find that so refreshing and cute because
that's something I like to see in other
people and I just like that instead of
it being, I don't know, just like you're
so hot, like, your face looks like this,
high cheekbones... it's just like, a smile
can really make someone look attractive.
A little detail that I really appreciate.
I'm here with my mum and my sister. I've got tea, I've got chocolate
digestives and two lectures that need
watching. So we're all gonna studying together.
I just undid my hair yesterday with my
family. I introduced them to Knives Out and it was
fun to watch them watch it for the first
time. And it also watched Fast Five while
I undid my hair. I just love Fast and
Furious so much. But now I'm going to
bulk film videos and I'm ready to talk
books. We honestly have so many teapots
in this house 'cause I'm -- we just -- we're just
those kind of people. So let's see if I
can use a different teapot in every week
vlog. But I'm about to just start Ghost
by Henrik Ibsen and i hope I can just
start and finish it. I haven't cleared up
from my bulk video, I haven't cleared up
from my bulk photography session...So
that's... that's gonna need to be done. But
I'm just gonna relax. I helped my mum
prepare dinner, I have a nice cup of tea,
read this play so I've got one book down
for this day, and then catch up with my
buddy read and do that tidying up.
Hey guys, so my hair is not at its finest
but I am very very tired. Yesterday was
night classes day. I've mentioned this on Instagram but because I'm still
an Australian student but I am in European
times -- I mean a European time zone --
I'm still doing my classes. But all of
them happen to fall during the night. So
I've been up all night doing classes and
now I am just spending a day where I'm
really tired. And that's gonna happen the
same thing tomorrow because I have night
classes tonight and then tomorrow I'll be
pretty sleepy. It's day 6 and I just
finished Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen and I'm
just really disappointed because I loved
A Doll's House and this play had a very
very strong start, but then it just
dissolved into ableism. And just has
very problematic ideas which made me
dislike it. I've read some more of When
Dimple Met Rishi which I'm reading with
Gaia, and I'm just really enjoying it. It's really cute. We've got to the part
where I can just tell things are about
to go wrong. But that's that. I am -- so this...
What does Ghosts count for? So Ghosts is my
fifth read out of 30. I am now a day
behind. I don't think I'm gonna finish a
book today but that's fine. I have to
focus on schoolwork and studying now and
then hopefully I can have a day where I
can read like, two books in one. And this
one means that I have passed my potions
class which is... which is really good.
Hey guys! Not quite sure why my hair has
decided to rock the triangular shape
today but we'll just... we'll just go with
it. So I just finished reading Hedda
Gabbler by Henrik Ibsen and this was a
play that I liked more than Ghosts but
didn't entirely blow me away. I did enjoy
that we had a female villain and I feel
like everybody got what they deserved to
get... but also no one deserves to get that.
So it was a bit complex. And it
definitely struck some deep themes.
Henrik Ibsen does not hold back and I
bet viewers of the play, the audience,
must have been absolutely shocked. It's day 7
but I've read six books so it seems like
I'm a day behind. However, I read another
7 chapters of When Dimple Met Rishi
and I am loving it so much. It's so cute,
it makes me smile, it makes me happy, it's
got some really great discussions and
tomorrow we finish this read. And
hopefully I will start and finish the
last of Henrik Ibsen's plays so that
means I'll be on track because on the
eighth day I'll have finished eight
books. Please let me know in the comment
section down below
what are you currently reading, and then
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