I have been doing a lot recently and because I've
been doing so much recently I haven't had time to one read as much or to Vlog as much and I have
to say I miss vlogging so this week even though it's not really in my filming plans because I have
plans for so many videos I really feel like doing a weekly reading vlog and just kind of seeing
what I get up to reading and sharing my thoughts on it because I miss doing that with you guys I
have been in a bit of a reading slump lately but I feel
the tables turning I want to get through
these books so that I can do a few more challenges and things that I'm filming in the future also
do you like the sheets that I put back there um the boys that I watch are allowed to eat
snacks in my car it's a car it's meant to be used it's meant to get dirty even though I
don't love it but I decided to finally put some protection back there so these are some old
sheets that I tie-dyed when I was like in middle school or high school and in my tie-dy
e craze I
mean I'm still in tie-dye craze because it's just so fun and satisfying but it's a look the first
book that I really want to finish is the Secret Garden I am slowly trying to read more Classics
because I really haven't read that many Classics if I'm being quite honest a lot of them are on the
Audible Library so I picked the secret garden up I have seen the movie so I do kind of know the plot
line so it's not really a surprise to me that's okay I'm still really enjoying it it's so
simple
and pure the imagery is so vivid and I feel like it's the perfect time to be reading it right now
because in the book it's like the cusp of spring and everything is starting to shoot up and Bloom
and that's exactly what's happening in my life right now things are starting to Bud some of the
flowers are starting to Blossom and Bloom and just like the fresh scent of spring and it's just like
perfect time to be reading it it's making me smile and I only have an hour and 20 minutes left
to
listen to that book so I'm sure I'll get through that soon and I want to get to some pretty springy
books right now because I'm in the mood you know I'm such a mood reader let me know Down Below in
the comments if you're a mood reader too oh my gosh also I totally forgot about this but you guys
are amazing thank you for so much love on the book haul video there are so many new subscribers so
hey you guys if you're new here what's up my name is Elise welcome to my channel we just like hav
e
good time we we just have good time proper English I need a nap I just got back from a long weekend
in Nashville with my best friend we haven't seen each other in a little over a year so it was
really nice but I'm also High key exhausted and just like barely keeping myself together I have
a big old vat of coffee even though it's 4 P.M so wish me luck tonight it's the only way I'm gonna
get through an afternoon with an eight and a 10 year old wow she's chatty today I'm gonna go now
before
I talk for another 10 minutes about nothing anyway bye see you soon hey y'all that sounded so
Southern hey everyone I just dropped the boys off I look crazy the boys like crashed out on the
way home from school it is the first day back from spring break so I figured that maybe they're
just worn out from Spring Break and from the first day back to school getting on a schedule again so
I just kind of let them sleep in the back for a while while I read so I got about 30 pages through
Under th
e Whispering Door which I totally forgot to tell you guys that I'm reading it I'm trying
to read through it really quickly because my Libby hold ends in like three days maybe four my library
is very small especially for the popular books it takes like three to six months for your hold to
come in I think I've waited maybe four months for it so I really want to finish it and get through
it this time I love how quirky the characters are like the personality of the characters is really
thorough
and strong even this early on in the book I'm only like 27% into the the book so far so
I'm really loving how strong each character is and how unique each character is their voice
is really coming through the page and you can really imagine them and the setting and the scene
it's almost like it's written as a movie script right now we're following Wallace who I believe
is maybe in his like 40s mid-40s late 40s he is like an attorney or some Powerhouse man at this
company that he helped cre
ate we see very right off the bat that he's one of those mean guys
who just does what he needs to get done to be a successful businessman and then next thing we
know he's dead and he's staring at himself at his funeral and this random chick Mae is there
and may kind of takes him to this house called like Charon tea house or tea shop or whatever this
all happens within like the first two chapters and he's dead but he's still there and he's like what
am I doing here who are you guys why am I
here what's going on none of them are answering
any of his questions they're all very like answering questions with questions or dodging or
like trying to have him answer his own questions I'm interested to see what's gonna happen when
more information drops but I'm just enjoying the Vibes so far it's been a good time you guys
will definitely get an update by the end of this Vlog about that book so keep watching if you're
interested wow chaotic vibes okay I'm gonna drive home and finish lis
tening to The Secret Garden
I should be able to finish that on my drive home [Music] good morning everyone I'm on the hot mess Express I like literally jumped out of bed and went
straight to yoga I haven't even brushed my hair and it's like drizzling and raining outside
it's so nasty I'm like struggling so hard today because yesterday I finally got home from my trip
and you know whenever you take like quite a busy trip I don't want to say not relaxing because
there were some relaxing moment
s but it was quite busy and full and you don't have enough
buffer between your trip and like going back to work and that's me today that's a very silly thing
to be complaining about but I'm just letting you guys know I'm on The Struggle Bus and I have so
much to film today I have so many fun things to film that you may or may not have seen already
the order is iffy I wanted to show you guys some books that I checked out at the library where
yoga is so first I checked out Artemis I have read
project Hail Mary and the Martian by Andy
Weir I absolutely loved project Hail Mary it's in the top of the top of the top of my favorite
books of all time the Martian was also really fun really humorous I have this on audiobook and I'm
just not getting into it so I thought maybe if I did like a tandem listen and read I don't know if
it's the narrator or if it's the story itself but I would really like to finally get through this
book so now I'm going to get some caffeine and some breakfast
and look presentable because I'm
a mess let's do that hey friends it's quite a bit later we got ourselves together and filmed a few
videos I filmed Steph Bohrer's Book Recommendation Tag and then I'm in the middle of doing a Tour
of my Physical TBR and um that one is a doozy I finished the Secret Garden yesterday evening I
really enjoyed that book The overarching Story of like hope and perspective and the way that you
view the world and how that really affects the way that we live our life
and step through
our lives so I really liked the overarching story that it had I actually had forgotten the
ending of the movie because I remember I used to love that movie as a kid the ending was kind
of a nice it's like the best time to be reading that book because it does coincide with spring
it happens over a greater period of spring so I really enjoyed that and my camera battery died
now I'm listening to Andy Weir's Artemis there are settlements on the moon and the politics
and the r
ules and everything are very strict but somehow she kind of works on the the black
market kind of doing some shady things for money and then she was just offered this kind of very
shady deal that has to do with the oxygen supply and supplier of the Moon things are going a
little crazy we're gonna see how it goes I have a feeling things are gonna get very dramatic
and very adventurous at some point so I'm excited to see how it goes I think it'll be nice to
be able to flip back and forth betw
een the book and the audio just to kind of like speed
through it you guys the sunset is stunning look at that gorgeous [Music] hey friends I'm looking some type of way I have
all the skincare going on it's much later it's 11 30. I have listened to a little bit more of
Artemis Artemis is about this colony of people who live on the moon our main character is a
porter on Artemis which is like the settlement on the moon so Porter is a person who like makes
deliveries gets packages delivers them
to people so she does some little like behind scenes Black
Market shady sh*t going on she gets contracted to do a special job to help a businessman in this
community and that's all I'm gonna say I have listened to two hours and six minutes so far I'm
a little disappointed it's very dry writing very much like telling you what things are and how
they look we'll see how it goes I'm gonna do a little bit of reading the goal is to get to
50% but that's where I want to get before I go to sleep t
onight anyway I'm currently on page
111 so let's see if I can get to page 195. Maybe [Music] hey friends what's up it's a few days
later I honestly don't remember when I last checked in with you guys maybe Tuesday also do
you hear that you guys I've literally picked the worst week to do a reading Vlog number one I'm
applying for grad school this week so I'm trying to get everything together references resumes
letter of intent applications FAFSA so it's been it's been a week and then also in
my community
we have something called Thunder in the Hills or something like that so it's a motorcyclist
festivals situation where a bunch of motorcyclists gather around and they go ride in the hills
and it is loud loud loud loud I had all these plans to film these this week and all of them are
squashed so please enjoy the sound of nature and motorcycles in the background but I wanted to give
you guys an update *loud motorcycle engine rev* they said no filming for you I wanted to give you
guys an update first I did finish Artemis I ended up listening to part of it and Reading part of
it it took me a while to get into about halfway is when I really started enjoying it and I think
that's because the main character finally had a little more that you could relate to because at
the beginning of the book she's all about money money money money money money it's kind of hard
to like Jazz at the beginning because she's so snarky and Only Money centered but later in the
book you lear
n why she's money centered and it ends up being kind of sweet I don't want to spoil
it for you because I really enjoyed that kind of reveal other characters in the story also start
being a little more quirky and you get to know them and they're a little more of their features
start to show and so it's easier for you to get to know them and relate to them a murder does
happen about halfway through the book and then it sets off this whole other series of events and it
gets like really fast pa
ced really fun on I love Svoboda he ended up being my favorite character
and I loved him so much it kind of has a found family aspect romance is not a big thing there's
some humor our main character is pretty quirky she's really smart but she wants to do what she
wants to do with her smarts and she doesn't want to do what other people think she should do and
I really like that about Jazz the character Arc was really good so I I ended up really enjoying it
it does kind of get less stars for
me because it took so long for me to enjoy it I like a story
that's going to be engaging from the beginning and I don't mind having information sprinkled in
slowly but I also wanted to be engaging at the same time if that makes sense and I know that's
a high standard but it is what it is next is actually a book that I haven't even talked about
I had been kind of slowly reading it over time I was about halfway through and that is Sweet
Berries and I did finish this yesterday so this is about
Grace who works at a farm and she
lives in this *interspecies very welcoming City and then there's Merrick who is a Mothman who just
moved to the city his job is research he is very nerdy and socially anxious and very adorable and
so they kind of meet Grace has her reservations because she got out of a bad divorce where he was
a gaslighter she thinks he's only going to be in town for his research time period so she's like ah
like a short time but a good time it's kind of the opposite of Ar
temis actually where the beginning
was so fun the world that C.M. Nacosta is building is so fun it's this little town or maybe it's
a city where humans and creatures live and it's supposedly one of the most inter-sperced,
*interspecies cities that are welcoming to different creatures and not just humans
and so I love the setup of this city it's so cool and I can tell she was planting seeds
for other books in this series but towards the middle it really dropped an interest from me
there wer
e some conversations and characters that were mentioned and interacted with but there
wasn't closure when it came to them and again maybe it's because she's weaving it into these
other series she wants you to read the rest of the books but I like for the book itself to
have closure or for those things to kind of be wrapped up it is very steamy to have monster
romance so if you're not into that skip ahead um but yeah it was cute I really enjoyed
Merrick he was really shy and adorable I had t
o talk about his little like antennae so cute
it was entertaining it was fun let's do an update on Under the Whispering Door I am currently on
page 148 so I am 40% through with the novel I'm hoping to read some more tonight and to finish
it tomorrow but this weekend I don't have any plans so I'm like catching up on everything like
applying to grad school I did my taxes I made all these appointments for like my hair and my teeth
and you know being adult things it has been so fun to see all o
f the springy things coming out the
other day there were deer and some babies and we have this animal called mouflon they're like a
mountain goat variety we have a lot of like ga- big game ranches and these animals have just kind
of gotten out and are now in the wild so that's why we have them but a lot of them had babies and
like twins and they were so cute and the peach blossoms are blooming and the river the trees are
coming to life and it's been so fun just seeing everything come back t
o life and like getting in
the sun Happy Spring y'all my mom is designing and creating a baby blanket for my cousin's baby she
has the fabric all cut out and ready to go so I'm just gonna go to town and I'm going to listen to
an audiobook and right now I'm listening to Light From Uncommon Stars I hope I pronounced this right
by Rika Aoki is about this person who sold their soul to become a great musician and now in order
for them to continue living instead of for their soul to be like taken
from them forever they have
to find seven more souls to collect this person I forget her name but she is their teacher and
so she looks for brilliant musicians to take under her wing and then they sell their soul
to be brilliant musicians and the cycle goes on so we're on the last and final soul for this
instructor this particular student is a violinist she ran away from her family because they were
very unsupportive of her transition then she was bullied and beaten up a lot and so she run
s
away the instructor and this student cross paths um so it's really interesting so far I'm
really enjoying it because I really enjoy music I was in choir for like nine or ten years
of my life competed on a state level so it's really nice to read a book from someone who
obviously knows music and is really passionate about it gonna listen to that while I sew up a
baby blanket so let's put you on a time lapse. 21 the next morning Katrina rode with shizuka to
the Santa Anita Shopping Plaza Ka
trina had been in shopping centers before and in Asian areas before
but nothing had prepared her for this [Music] hey again everyone one of my part-time jobs is
to clean a local library so I'm here and I'm currently listening to this book I was starting
to get a little tired of it because it just felt like everything was floating around and nothing
of substance was actually happening but I feel like some of the loose ends are starting to
kind of weave together and tie it up so I might be ab
le to finish it today we'll see but
anyway I'm at the library I love cleaning this library because it's so peaceful and like quiet
and I can listen to books while I'm cleaning four books bless. 33. Lon arrived at shizuka's house
shizuka had her coat on and was waiting outside "I'm sorry to bother you so suddenly"
Lon said as they drove down the hill "it's fine Katrina is working with Astrid" hey
friends it's quite a bit later I finished cleaning the library I'm currently 70% through with Li
ght
From Uncommon Stars the narrator is jumping around from character to character a lot more
frequently than before so I feel like things are kind of gonna start wrapping up I'm not sure it
just feels more sporadic than before and more chaotic I'm not sure how I feel about it it's
very confusing to me so I'm not sure how to put it into words I really wish I had the physical
copy or like a digital copy so that I could read it because I can read and process faster then
I can listen and proc
ess which is kind of what I did with Artemis earlier today hopping over to
Under the WhisperingDoor we are also at 70 percent I really want to finish this book tonight so even
though I work early tomorrow we're just gonna get it done so they have two hours left and it's
currently 10 p.m oops I'm ready to finish this book The Vibes are Immaculate the characters are
so fun but I don't really know what's happened really Beyond Wallace's death and arriving to
the tea house and just kind of like
floating about and like yes he's learning things about
himself so I guess this is a very character based story there's not a ton of plotline however
a new person did come a new dead person did come and is kind of causing a ruckus so we're right
in the middle of that I had to stop for dinner so that's where I'm picking up amid the chaos
Light From Uncommon Stars is just like chaotic storytelling and then Under the Whispering Door
it's like a chaotic moment let's see how this goes [Music] I
finished it the last 30 percent was wild now i'm physically exhausted as
well as emotionally exhausted I'm happy with the ending A lot happened in
that last 30 percent I think I'm going to talk about it more tomorrow because it's
like midnight my brain needs some rest hey y'all it's the next day let's talk about the
last few books that I finished reading first off we have Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
I needed a moment to just think about this book and sleep on it because that night
ooh it hit
me that night I still believe in what I said about it though where the first you know maybe
15% or 20% of the book Wallace dies and then he is taken to this kind of crossing point where he
is allowed to stay for a while before Crossing on through what they call the 'whispering door' no
one knows what's beyond the whispering door all they know is that it's not painful it won't hurt
them and that everyone crosses on to the Beyond but Wallace is very confused he likes to know
the
facts and Wallace kind of goes through this metamorphosis this transformation of realizing
he wasn't a great person before and kind of fixing that to his best ability as a ghost or
as the Un... unalive the dead so that kind of like 50% in the middle is very wandering not a lot
actually happens but there's a lot of dialogue a lot of talking a lot of internal processing but
physically not a lot of things happen so that part kind of lost me I'm not gonna lie
but then the last 30% of the book w
as like oh it was so good the last 30 percent it really
hit me there was a lot of emotion and love and found family in that last 30% and I really enjoyed
it I really liked the ending I kind of wondered if something or other like that would happen and I'm
glad that it did I wasn't upset that it wasn't the most surprising ending to me ever I wasn't upset
because I liked that that's how it went okay and then like early the next morning I finished Light
From Uncommon Stars I want to like this b
ook more if I'm being honest I loved the concept of it I
loved the women empowerment the queer empowerment the focus on the transgender world and the
people in it and how the outside world and what people say and do really affects the transgender
Community especially with all that's happening right now so I wanted to like it more for that
but because of the way that it was written there were like four or five different point of views
and they jumped around really frequently and it really th
rew me out of the loop if you've watched
some of my older videos you know that floating third person narrative is not my favorite when
it's done well it's excellent but when it's not it really takes me out of the story and so
I wanted to like this book so much more but the execution and the writing style of it with
that floating third person narrative just like yanking you around from one perspective to
another perspective really threw me off and it took me out of the story I like the endin
g of
this book as well I kind of wondered if something along those lines would happen at the ending
and so I'm really glad that it ended the way it did but the execution of the ending was
not how I expected so there was like this moment where it wasn't going like I thought it
was going to go and I was just like devastated and then 'whoop' it flipped around and I was like
oh okay good job that was well done um I really liked the kind of found family aspect in this as
well I love the focus o
n music and morality and kindness so there were a lot of things that were
well done in this book but there were some things that weren't yeah that wraps up my week-long
reading Vlog this is my first reading Vlog that I'm doing that doesn't involve a challenge it
was kind of nice to just read whatever I felt like whenever I felt like it and just chat with
you guys about it I was also unsure of how much daily life to put in there let me know in the
comments below if you like more daily life s
tuff or just mostly like book related stuff either one
is fine it's your opinion that's why I'm asking so you're not gonna hurt my feelings if you only
want book related content I get it so that's not a problem thanks for joining me in this video I
hope you guys enjoyed it I love all of you but I love those of you who comment and like chat books
with me it's so fun love you guys sending you all the Good Vibes I hope you have a wonderful day
and I'll see you in my next video bye everyone [Mu
sic] [Music]
Comments
Oh my goodness I’m so excited that you read The Secret Garden!! One of my favorites as you now know after watching my video 😂 It really is the perfect spring time read! I love your vlogs ❤
I like the daily life bit. 😁❤
Can we talk about your hair though?? Lookin good! 💛💛