Hi guys. I'm gonna give this another shot because I tried to do this a couple of
days ago, after I had had about zero hours sleep and had literally just got
off a plane and it wasn't, it wasn't pretty. If I can salvage any clips from
that, I will insert them around here. I'm not entirely sure whether that is even
possible. I am in France right now. I am on holiday with my family. My mum, my
dad and my brother. And they are out getting something to eat but I wanted to just stay back and
read because I'm still absolutely exhausted. So I thought I could talk a
little bit now and I just thought I would vlog this holiday. Attempt to. Whether this
is ever gonna this is the light of day, who knows because this is me and I try to do
things sometimes and it doesn't really work out. I've never vlogged in any kind
of sense, other than just sitting down and talking about things in front of a
camera and I don't know this feels really, really different and really weird
and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. I can't for the life with me find anywhere good
to sit. So I'm currently sitting by window it's also 10 to 8, so that is why
it is slightly dark. And I am currently so paranoid that I'm thinking about not doing this right now
because I'm just certain someone is staring at me from a window. I can't see anyone but I've
persuaded myself that it's happening. Anyway what was I gonna say, yes, anyway.
I thought I'd vlog some of it. I'm not entirely sure how this is gonna work.
I might just kind of add in some clips here and there whilst we are out and about.
I also thought I would just vlog my reading because I have been in such a
huge reading slump recently and I'm hoping that whilst I am away, I may be
able to read something, anything. Literally anything would be great
because I feel like I haven't really thoroughly enjoyed reading for a little
while. I've enjoyed books but I haven't enjoyed the experience of
reading. I'm hoping that whilst I'm on holiday I might be able to read a little
bit more because I'm thinking if I can finally kind of just relax I think
that is what I need to do and I think that is hopefully fingers crossed what
will help me read some more. But as I said I tried to this a couple of days
ago but I'd literally just got off the plane but I did talk a little bit about
what I'm reading at the moment, so I'll put that in here. I'm currently buddy
reading 'Invictus' by Ryan Graudin which is an ARC I got from YALC with Maddie and Bea,
Carys and Lily. And this is like a time travel,
historical fiction type thing and then I also just started reading
'A Quiet Kind of Thunder' by Sara Barnard. I've only carried on with Invictus but
I've got a little bit better in that. I'm just not very good at reading two
books in one go. So I think I'm just gonna finish 'Invictus' and then get onto
'A Quiet Kind of Thunder'. I think I only have about a 100 pages left of 'Invictus'.
I'm on page 325 and as I've said, I don't have much left.
I've been zooming through it. Which is kind of amazing for me because as I said
I haven't been reading a lot and also yes, my 'Cars 2' postcard
is my bookmark because cars is my favourite. I'm really enjoying this so far.
It's kind of reminding me a little bit of 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. I think I'm a
little bit further than I meant to be in the buddy read because I couldn't really
stop reading it. Which is really nice because I haven't really felt that with
a book for quite a while. That is it for right now, I don't really have anything
more to say and I think if I carry on talking I'm just gonna carry on talking
and it's not gonna make any sense and I don't think I've really made much sense
anyway and I am still so convinced that someone is staring at me.
So I'm gonna go but hopefully I will catch up and do this a little bit later.
If not, this has been a total failure but whatever it is, it's happened. So yeah I'm
just gonna go. How do people end these kinds of clips? So I didn't film anything
yesterday because we essentially spent the entire day exploring and kind of
driving around the area that we are staying in. We went to the village in
which the Chateau that Picasso is buried in, is in. Which was really interesting
and absolutely gorgeous and the guy definitely had some money but after that
we just kind of came back and got some food. I just did some reading and we just
kind of chilled at at home. But since I am now currently home on my own, I thought I would
update you with my reading because I just finished 'Invictus' by Ryan Graudin
and absolutely loved it. I wasn't really expecting to love it as much as I did.
Not because I didn't think I would like it. I just I'm not sure I think it's
because I don't really read a lot of sci-fi and this definitely was sci-fi.
So it was just very pleasantly surprising. It had a very 'Guardians of the Galaxy' vibe to it.
If 'Guardians of the Galaxy' had been about time-traveling teenagers. It was just
brilliant. I loved it. It read so quickly, it was so easy to read and I just flew through it.
Which was so refreshing because as I said before, I haven't done that for a
very long time. So I feel as though I've started off my reading holiday pretty
strongly with that. So I think I'm gonna give that probably about a 4.5 but now
I'm just gonna continue with 'A Quiet Kind of Thunder' by Sara Barnard. I'm excited
to get back into this because I really enjoyed what I had read of it.
So yeah, I think I'm just gonna go and read for a little bit until my family come
back and then I think we may go out this evening and just have a little wander
around. So if I manage to get some footage from that I will put that in
some time around now but yeah I will hopefully, fingers crossed, manage to do
this again tomorrow at some point.
Okay, I've put you in a cupboard and I'm currently standing on two books because
I can't keep sitting on the kitchen floor but also I'm too small to make
this work if I don't. So I'm probably committing some kind of sin right now
but oh well. Yesterday, oh, yesterday I didn't really do much until the evening,
when we ended up going out for a drink in this little square and there was
this band playing and they were playing KT Tunstall and things like that. Which was
really, really great because weirdly enough KT Tunstall is kind of like the
soundtrack of so many of my family's holidays because she was my mum's
favorite singer at one point and we just had her CD on loop because it was probably
one of the only CD's we owned. But whilst they were playing one of her songs, this
couple came and started dancing along to them but not just dancing, they were
actually dancing. And I am so jealous because although they were stunning in
the dancing and also the way they looked, everything about it was just gorgeous.
I'm just so jealous because I have not an ounce,
not one single drop of talent when it comes to dancing and all they made me
want to do is become a dancer. But whilst I was filming the band playing, I did also
manage to catch some of their dance I think as well. So I will put a clip in
now if I can. I'm not entirely sure how it's gonna come out because it was very
dark and my camera isn't great and they were quite far away but I'm keeping my
fingers crossed that something will come out. And then I finished 'A Quiet Kind of Thunder'
by Sara Barnard and I've really really enjoyed this. It had a really great
balance between the cute fluffiness and also discussing mental illness because the
main character in this had anxiety and selective mutism and I really, really
enjoyed the representation of that in this. And I'm going to have to have a look
and see if I can find an own voices review of it regarding the deaf
representation in it because the love interest was deaf but without any sort
of prior knowledge to it, I really enjoyed reading about that because I
really liked the fact that that was sign language in it and just discussion about
being deaf and having a relationship with someone is that is deaf when you
aren't. It was a really, really lovely read. I flew through it and I really
enjoyed it and I think I'm gonna end up giving it a 4.5 out of 5 stars but right
now I'm gonna go up onto the roof and get some reading done.
Because despite the fact that I've been in France for nearly a week, now I'm
still resembling someone that could be related to Edward Cullen. Which is my
normal state but considering I have been in the South of France for nearly a week,
that should have changed by now hopefully because I do look like I'm 300
years dead. But I am going to go and read on the roof. If I can manage to not
get distracted because I keep getting super distracted whenever I go up there
because there are so many pigeons and they keep talking to each other and it's
just really interesting. I don't know. Who gets distracted by pigeons. Anyway I'm going to
go up there and try and get some reading done and finally after so many years of
saying that I will do start 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen because I am
incredibly intrigued by this and I said on this holiday, no matter what, I had to
read this book and I've already been here nearly a week and I haven't picked
it up yet but I'm really intrigued to see how I'm going to do with this
because the last two books I've read have been very easy comfortable reads
and I'm assuming this is gonna be a little bit harder and a little bit tough
to get used to at least but I'm very intrigued. I don't really know too much
about it at all because I haven't watched the movies or the TV shows or ever read it
before and I've somehow managed to not really find out what this book is about.
So I'm very, very excited about this and I'm going to go up onto the roof now and
try and start it and see how it goes.
It's the next day and I'm about ten chapters into 'Pride and Prejudice' and I'm
enjoying it but I'm gonna be honest, I am definitely struggling a little bit with
it and I think that is basically purely because I am not used to the
language or the writing style at all. So I've put a poll onto Twitter and
asked whether I should read the book first or watch the movie or TV show
first. Which I feel like a little bit of a fraud for doing but I'm thinking that
maybe being initially familiar with the story might help me kind of get into it
a little bit more and understand it a bit more. Just because it is taking me a very
very little time read. So I am going to continue and read a little bit more now
and just see whether I get used to the writing and also I'm just gonna wait and
see what more people say on the tweet and on the poll and things like that.
Poll update. I've had a lot of people now recommending to me 'The Lizzie Bennett Diaries'
on YouTube. So what I think I'm gonna do is continue reading this today and just
see how far I can get in it and then this evening, I'm gonna catch up on 'The
Lizzie Bennet Diaries' and watch up until the point that I am in the book. I am really
enjoying the characters and I am really liking the plot, it's just so tiring
because it is definitely quite a bit of work for me but I've had a lot of people
telling me how fantastic that is, especially since it is set in a
modern day setting. So it doesn't really spoil anything but it definitely gives
you a feel of the different characters and things like that. So that is what I'm gonna do and I'm
going to continue reading this now. I'm back on the books and you're back in the cupboard because I just got
a splinter, about that big in my foot and I now hate the outdoors and I knew that there was a
good reason why I don't trust it. So I'm never going out there again but I am now
on page 127 in this edition of 'Pride and Prejudice' and I have just read
the best passage I think I've read in a book at a very long time and it made
me laugh a lot. Which makes me feel kind of great because it means that I think I'm
finally getting used to the writing because I'm actually getting it.
following along and I'm understanding what's going on. So I'm slightly proud
of myself right now. I'm not gonna use any names because I don't want to spoil
it for anyone, in case they haven't watched it or haven't read it.
Basically it's this chapter where Lizzie Bennet the main character in it, whose name I
will use. A guy asks her to marry him and she's like nah no thanks
and he goes oh no I know you mean yes because I've been told
so many times that people always refuse the first proposal and sometimes second
and third but that's only because basically you want attention and more
admiration. She's just like, no I just I don't to marry you. So then he goes off
and is essentially like, yeah well you'll never get any better than me. I'm rich. I've
got this amazing house. I've got so much money. I've got this old lady looking
after me. You're really poor, so you'll be lucky if anyone marries you if it's
not me and she's just like, okay bye and walks off to her dad really cooly and
it's just the best thing ever and he just now feels like a bachelorette
contestant and I'm absolutely loving it and it's just one of my favourite things
I've read in a very long time. So that's my little update. I feel like I was
reading a weird 1800s version of 'The Bachelorette'. So I'm enjoying it.
Also I am now very aware that none of that probably made any sense whatsoever.
It's been a couple of days since I last updated you but I am now officially
halfway through 'Pride and Prejudice' and I haven't watched the movie, nor have I
watched the TV show but I have been watching 'The Lizzie Bennet Diaries' on
YouTube. I'm really enjoying that, although there are so many episodes that
I'm not even I think about four chapters in yet. I didn't read too much of this
yesterday as we were out for most of the day
and I didn't bring my book because I thought it was going to be a very short
car journey, so I didn't wanna read in the car. It turns out we were in a traffic
jam for about two hours. So I ended up reading a novella that I had downloaded
on my phone and I just stumbled across on Kindle. Which was 'Plain Vanilla'
by Ines Bautista-Yao. I'm so, so sorry that I've probably pronounced their name
wrong but that is the cover of it and I absolutely loved it. It was so cute.
It was set in Manila and it was basically about this girl who decides to do a
bunch of dares after a guy calls her boring.
I loved all of the characters, I loved all the relationships and I just
finished it kind of wishing that it had been a full length novel. So that I ended
up giving it four out of five stars. It was just a really, really cute summery
fun read. Now I'm currently deciding what to read because I'm going home
tomorrow and I don't want to read this on the plane because I know I won't be
able to fully focus on it and I'm sure I'll end up reading a bunch of pages and
have to reread it. I'm currently deciding out of two other books. 'Love & Gelato'
by Jenna Evans Welch and 'If Birds Fly Back' by Carlie Sorosiak. I think I might
read a chapter of each now and try and get into one of them this evening, so that I don't
end up starting a book on the plane. I do think I might go for this one but we shall see.
Okay, I have you very, very precariously balancing on a curved roof tile. So if you fall
that way, the camera's the goner but I think I've decided that I'm going to
pick up 'Love & Gelato' by Jenna Evans Welch because I'm so excited about this.
So I don't really want to start it now and start it on the plane because I'm
not entirely sure how well I will be able to get into it and also this seems
like it's gonna be incredibly easy read. Then tomorrow I'm going home and I'm so
gutted about it because I just don't want to go back to the grey sky. I don't
even mind so much not being on holiday. I just want the sunshine but the upside is
that I get to see my dogs again, which I'm so happy about. Oh my goodness. Literally
you will fall down there, so this is really not the best plan I've had. Oh this is just a mess. I start talking
about the dogs and I nearly lose my camera. Anyway, what I was saying was I get to
see my dogs tomorrow, for the first time in 10 days, which I am so, so happy about
because I've missed them so much. I have pined over my dog for this entire holiday.
I am now gonna go and start this or maybe possibly watch a little bit
more of 'The Lizzie Bennet Diaries' before we have to wake up super early again
to get the plane home tomorrow.
I am home. I am officially back from France and I thought I would just do one
last update, as I finished 'Love & Gelato' whilst travelling back. I enjoyed this.
I didn't love it. It was just a very mediocre read for me. I think I'm going to
give it a 3 out of 5 stars but I read this so quickly. I think I read two
or three chapters before we left and then I just finished the last two
chapters as we got back but the rest of it I read traveling to the airport,
whilst at the airport, on the plane and traveling back home. I can't remember the
last time that I finished a book in a day, so this was definitely the perfect
book for me to have read because it was very easy, very quick and I really didn't
need to concentrate too much on it because it was pretty simple but this
officially concludes my holiday reading. So I managed to finish this, 'A Quiet Kind of Thunder',
'Invictus' and I am so, so close to finally finishing 'Pride and Prejudice'.
So I'm really happy with what I managed to read actually. I think I've read more
this holiday and enjoyed reading more this holiday than I have done for the
past couple of months. I was also wondering whether this, as in reading vlogs,
is something you would like me to do more of and something you would enjoy,
if you did like this. If you didn't I won't do it again but if you did do let
me know so that I can consider doing it again. This vlog probably isn't even
interesting in itself and my usual day-to-day life isn't even 1% as
interesting as my past couple of weeks have been. So it would literally just be me
updating you on what I'm reading and maybe what I'm watching, TV wise and
movie wise and things like that. I really enjoyed doing it. So yeah do let
me know if this is something you would like me to do more of. I'm not sure
whether I would do it monthly or weekly or fortnightly or something like that.
Now I'm just gonna go and cuddle my dogs because I've missed them so much
and I can't leave them alone and I'm just going to pretend and convince myself
that it isn't extremely grey and pouring that rain outside. I hope you've had a
fantastic past couple of weeks and you've read some really great books and
I would absolutely love to know what you have been reading over the past couple
of weeks and yeah that is it, bye!
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