Hi everyonS, it's Wandy and today I'm back with another weekly bookish vlog and as
you can see from my background, I have finally finished rearranging my room and
my bookshelves are now complete. So over the weekend, I wasn't vlogging, but I was
filming me moving all my books, moving my bookshelves and then putting all my
books back on, so I'm going to insert clips from that and I hope you enjoy.
I finished putting all the books that were on the floor back on the shelf. I do
have a lot of shelf space. Right now, I'm going to take off all the books from
this shelf so that I can eventually move these shelves to this wall.
All right, so my bookshelves are now completed. There is this weird empty spot
right here but I'm just going to leave it because if I push the shelf further
in, then it's just gonna block this whole thing so I'm just gonna leave it like
that because this is going to be my filming bookshelves anyways. My bed is
finally moved but I just had a brilliant idea to do this to my bookshelves so as
you can see with this one, I'm starting to tilt it out so that it just looks
nicer and that there's not that empty blank space in between these two
bookshelves. Can we just take a moment to appreciate this because I'm loving how
it's turning out. I think it really like transforms this
area and I'm really happy with how it looks right now. Time for the big reveal
this is how my book shows currently look and I'm so happy with it. I think it
looks beautiful in its entirety. That's pretty much it. After a month I am
finally done rearranging my room. This is what my bookshelf currently looks like
and I'm so happy with it. This was quite a long process because I kept
procrastinating everything. I'm really excited to start filming in front of
these bookshelves because my window is directly in front of me
instead of like having half of my face lit so it was hard to play around with
lighting in my videos but now that my windows are directly in front of me,
lighting should be a lot better and I'm really excited about that.
Today is Monday, June 11th. I work from 10:00 to 5:00 p.m. today and right now,
it's about a 8:26 so I'm about to leave my house in like 40 minutes. Since I made a
really quick and light breakfast, I have a lot of time to chill. On my way to work,
I plan on picking up Till Death by Jennifer L. Armentrout.
I don't have a physical copy of the book I just checked it out from my library so
I'm going to be reading it on my Kindle. All I know is that it's a mystery/
thriller book. I just want to read something that's really fast and
entertaining and typically, that is what Jennifer L. Armentrout's books are, so I'm
excited to pick this book up and hopefully, I enjoy it. It is now about
6:35 p.m. I'm currently working on editing my BookExpo/BookCon vlog. It's
not really a vlog. It's more of a montage video. Pretty much everyone I know has
already posted their vlogs, posted their hauls, and here I am, just beginning to
edit my vlog. And I still haven't filmed my BookExpo/BookCon haul yet,
which I plan to do it sometime this weekend. It's about 8:40 p.m. right now and I'm
currently on chapter six of Till Death. That's about 16% through the book.
I am enjoying it so far. What I know about this book so far is that it follows this
girl named Sasha. When she was 19 years old, she was kidnapped. She did escape the
kidnapping but she ended up going to college far away from the town that she
was born in and now the story is taking place ten years later as she's coming
back home and dealing with everything that's going on at home. That's pretty
much all I know about the book so far so I'm going to continue reading for a bit
until I go to bed. So it's about 5:18 p.m. I got home from work about thirty
minutes ago but after I got off work I went to H&M so that I can buy some
business casual clothes because I have an internship next semester and the
dress code is business casual and I don't have a lot of business casual
clothes so I decided to start doing some shopping for that. The lighting in this
corner of my room sucks but this is basically the outfit that I bought.
Ignore the background for now. I know it's a mess. I bought three pairs of
shoes and I just tried them on. This is a shirt that I got from H&M. It's about ten
dollars. It has this floral pattern print on it. I think it's really cute and then
I bought these dress pants. They're perfect on my waist but then they're
like really baggy in like my butt area and on my thighs so I don't know, I think
I'm gonna go try to return it and try on a smaller size and see if that fits
better. So back to the shoes, I basically bought three different pairs of shoes on
Payless, mainly because the store was having an online sale where everything
was 35% off and the shoe at Payless are already pretty
inexpensive. The total for three different pairs of shoes including tax
was about forty dollars so I think that was a really great deal because usually,
one pair of shoes is like forty dollars, even more than forty dollars. I think I
got a really good deal because I don't really own any business casual shoes.
First pair of shoes that I got are these loafers and I think they're definitely
pretty business casual and I think it goes really well with this outfit. The
original price for these loafers were $35 but I got them for $12. The second
pair of shoes I got are flats but unfortunately, they are a little bit too
loose. I think they're like really plain and simple and good for pretty much
anything. So I'm going to be returning these but they were originally $25 and I
also got them for about $12 and then the last pair of shoes that I got are these
ones. I don't know, I can't decide if these shoes are cute or if they're ugly. The tag is
still on but should I return them or should I keep them? Please let me know
cuz I can't decide. I'm not really a shoe person but I just wanted to have
different pairs of business casual shoes so I bought this one on a whim and I
can't decide if I should keep them. So, right now I'm going to take off these
clothes and I'm going to shower and begin editing. It's about 7:50 p.m. now
and I'm going to finally continue reading Till Death by Jennifer L.
Armentrout. I'm actually currently 64% through the book. I'm not loving it. I
thought I was enjoying it for the first 20% but then the love interest got
introduced and I just don't like the romance at all and half of the book does
have to do with romance. I don't know, I usually really like Jennifer L.
Armentrout's romance I know that some of the romance that Jennifer L.
Armentrout writes could be problematic and I am
aware of that. I felt like the love interest is just very assertive. I
understand that these two characters did used to date prior to the main character
being kidnapped. It is now 10 years later so that's a lot of time but the love
interest, Cole, begins calling Sasha "babe," she immediately tells him not to call
her babe and then the next page, he calls her babe again. And he continues to call
her babe and things between the two of them are starting to pick up really
quickly and I don't know how I feel about the pacing of it. So right now, I am
really interested in the mystery, I just don't care about the romance at all. So
Cole just referred to Sasha as "my woman" excuse me? Instead of saying "my woman" like
she's your property. You could say something like my girlfriend, my partner,
I hate this so much. I'm currently 91% through the book. I
have about 13 minutes left and the killer was revealed and I kind of knew
it. I had a feeling that this person was the killer. I'm kind of surprised but I'm
also not at the same time. It's about 10:11 p.m. right now and I just finished
Till Death. I'm still processing everything that happened but I think I'm
going to end up giving this book a 3 out of 5 stars.
I do have work tomorrow so I'm going to try to pick a book to start next before
I go to bed because I don't want to waste time in the morning trying to
decide that. So I discovered the Libby app, which is basically an
updated version of Overdrive and I saw War Storm was available to borrow, so I
think I'm going to read that because it is the last book in Red Queen so I'm
going to borrow that. I'm also borrowing the audiobook of From Twinkle, With Love
by Sandhya Menon. I have been meaning to find a new audio book to listen to and I
was surprised that this was available so I immediately checked it out so I'm
hoping to start this book tomorrow as well. So it's now Wednesday and it's
almost 7 p.m. I got home from work about 4:30 and I actually did stop by
H&M again. I returned the pants and I exchanged them for a smaller size. I also
ended up buying this shirt I bought two shirts actually. This is just like a
striped white t-shirt but I think it looks good with the dress pants so I
exchanged the dress pants for a smaller size and also wearing these shoes again
because I really can't decide if I like them. I did end up returning the black
flats after I left H&M but I'm still keeping these shoes for now, so please
let me know if I should keep them or if I should return them. These dress pants
definitely fit better than the ones that I got yesterday. It is a little bit tight
on the waist. I also ended up buying another shirt and it's another floral
print shirt. I think this will also go well with the dress pants but it was
like 2 for 10 dollars so that's why I bought these two shirts. I wasn't
planning on buying anything but you know, the sale got me. So to give an update
about my reading. I did start War Storm earlier today. I made it about 10 percent
into the book and I'm feeling ok about the book. I'm not completely in love with
it, which I wasn't expecting because I thought the previous two books were
alright. I'm one of the few people who really enjoyed Red Queen but I think the
second third book just weren't as great and I feel like the main reason that
contributes to me not liking the second and third book as much is because I
completely like forgot everything that happened in the previous books and I
just jumped right in, which is why I didn't want to start Reaper at the Gates
right away. After reading War Storm, I think I'm going to pick up An Ember in
the Ashes but one thing I don't like about War Storm right now is that a
character point-of-view was introduced for a character that I really don't care
about. I just don't want to read from this character's point of view but I
have to. So right now, I'm going to change out of these clothes, get back into my
PJs, and maybe catch up on a few of Booktube videos before
I get back into reading.
Trinh: We're leaving for BookCon. We're all wearing denim
jackets. It's really cute. This... exhibit one, two, wait did I get Kyla? Okay.
So I'm watching my friend Trinh's BookCon vlog and I'm just reliving everything
that we did during the week of BookCon. It was so much fun meeting Trinh and Kyla
and rooming with them throughout BookCon. I had a really great time. I didn't
really do any vlogging. I did gather a bunch of random clips throughout the
week and I tried to put them all together in this montage video and I am
pretty much done editing it but I'm just not happy with how it turned out, so I
don't think I'm going to upload it, but if you're curious to see the things that
I did during BookCon, then definitely check out Trinh and Kyla's BookCon vlogs. I will
leave the link to both of thire channels and their BookCon vlog videos in the
description box below. They're really great people. I love both of them and I
wanted to give them a quick shout out and I just really enjoyed watching both
of their vlogs because I miss them so much, and since I didn't do any vlogging,
it was really great reliving all the experiences that we had.
I am going to finish watching this video and then I'm going to continue reading
War Storm. I'm now 21% into War Storm and I think I'm going to stop here and
go to bed really soon. I really don't have anything new to add with my
thoughts. Hopefully things start to pick up soon
because right now I feel like not a lot is happening. Alright let's see what time
is it. It's 7:30 p.m. It is Thursday. Let me see
where I'm at with War Storm. I was reading on my Kindle but I don't have my
Kindle with me right now so I'm just gonna check on my phone. The Kindle app
isn't updating where I'm at but I'm too lazy to go get my actual Kindle. I know
that I was at least 30% through the book. There has definitely been some
action that picked up but I still don't like the point of view that was added to
this book. Her name is Iris. She was introduced in the third book, but I find
her character to be so boring and I just don't care about her. Every time her
chapters show up, I want to skip them so bad but I just can't bring myself to do
that, so anyways I did make some progress in From Twinkle, With Love. I did start
the audiobook for it yesterday and I'm on chapter 6 so far, which let's see how
far I am in the book in the physical book. Right now I'm about 70 pages into
From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon. I do like the story but
there are a few things in here that I really don't like. First thing is the
romance. I feel like there is some sort of love square going on because Twinkle
has a crush on this guy named Neil, but Neil has this twin brother named Sahil,
who has a crush on Twinkle, but then there's also another character named
Brij, who potentially likes Twinkle as well, but Twinkle is completely oblivious
to these two crushes. Twinkle thinks Brij likes her best friend
Maddie but I feel like it's so obvious that Brij has feelings for Twinkle and
it's also so obvious that Sahil has feelings for Twinkle as well. I just
don't like this whole complicated romantic situation going on. I really
like Sahil's character. I want him and Twinkle to be together and I just
don't care about the other potential love interest and another thing I don't
like about this book is Maddie, who is Twinkle's best friend. Basically she and
Twinkle used to be best friends but then Maddie ended up joining this popular crowd
and she's still friends with Twinkle but in school, when she's with her other
group of friends, she acts as if Twinkle doesn't exist and then when she's by
herself, she and Twinkle are suddenly BFFs again and I just hate it so much.
Maddie is just a terrible friend and Twinkle is letting Maddie treat her like
shit basically. It really sucks reading about it but overall, I do like the story
and I really like that it's told through letters written to Twinkle's favorite
female directors. It's almost 11:30 p.m. and I made it through 35% into War
Storm. I'm going to go to bed soon. Tomorrow is actually a day off so I
don't have to go to work. It is the next day. It's Friday and it's about 9 a.m. I
woke up at 8, had some breakfast and now I'm going to get ready to film a video
because I am now filming my BookExpo and BookCon book haul. It's about 11:15
a.m. I pretty much just finished filming and I only filmed one video and that's
pretty much the only video I'm going to film today. Filming this book haul took
like an hour and a half. I messed up a lot when I speak and I didn't know what
a lot of the books that I got were about or I had some sort of vague idea but I
wanted to give a proper synopsis when explaining what the books were about so
that took some time reading through the synopsis and trying to form a brief
summary. My room is pretty much a mess now. So this is pretty much the situation.
All the books that I got are right here. I opened some tote
bag packages and there's just like plastic thingies around and lots of swag
as well. So I just imported all the footage into my computer I'm gonna try
to get started editing a little bit. I'm definitely not going to finish editing
today. Later today, I'm going to meet with a friend because we're going to the
movies and we're gonna see Incredibles 2. Super excited. Honestly, I don't really
remember a lot of what happened in the first movie because I haven't seen it in
probably like a decade. Wow, I kind of feel old saying that. That's pretty much
an update for now. When I see my friend, I'll try to vlog with her. It's about
6:30. I just got out of the movie. I'm with my friend, Vivian.
We watched Incredibles 2, and what did you think of it? Vivian: The movie was great.
Yeah I really loved it. It was really funny and now I really want to rewatch
the first one. The movie theater that we went to had reclined seats, which was
amazing because it was really comfy watching the movie. I have lived in
Chicago my entire life and not once have I been in this area. This is at the south
end of Grant Park and this whole area is called the Agora,
which has 106 headless and armless sculptures. Hi everyone so it's now 10:30
p.m. I got home from hanging out with my friend about an hour ago. I didn't do any
reading for War Storm but I did get through a good chunk of my audio book of
From Twinkle, With Love. I have about 4 and a half hours left of the audiobook
which is pretty much like halfway through and to be honest I'm not liking
it very much. I really don't like the way the romance is being handled throughout
the book and how Twinkle is dealing with it. That's pretty much the main reason
why I don't like it very much. I'm not going to read War Storm tonight. I do
have work tomorrow so I'm gonna go to bed. Hi everyone, it is now the next day.
It's Saturday. It's almost 9 a.m. and I'm about to head out to work soon but
before I head out to work, I'm going to finally start replying to some comments
on my latest video.
it's about 5:30 p.m. I just got back from work and I have a package that I'm
going to open. There are no books in here but I did buy some things that are
related to Booktube, sort of, not really?
Alright, the first thing that I got is this thing and it's a tripod and I
bought this for my vlogging camera. So I've been vlogging without a tripod and
sometimes I just want to set my camera down and not hold it but I don't have a
tripod so trying to set it down in certain places is just very difficult so
I bought this from Amazon. It was like 10 dollars and then the last thing that I got
is this thing and it's basically two battery packs for my DSLR camera. When I
film, I try to film at least two videos but since I always mess up when I'm filming,
I always have to repeat the things that I'm saying and that takes up a lot
of time. By the time that I film my second video, my battery starts dying and
so I have to rush through filming my second video or I have to take a break
from filming so that I can recharge my battery pack. So I bought two from Amazon
so I don't have to worry about that. Hopefully these battery packs works
because they're not like associated with Canon. I pretty much bought like a
generic battery pack so hopefully these work well. That's pretty much it for the
unboxing. I hope you guys enjoyed that little snippet. My dad's vacuuming
upstairs right now so sorry if you can hear that but I'm going to take a shower
right now and then I'm going to get back into editing because I need to post a
video tomorrow and I haven't finished editing this video yet and I still have
probably like an hour of footage. So I'm going to go take a shower now. I'm going
to continue listening to From Twinkle, With Love in the shower.
I have about three and a half hours left of From Twinkle, With Love. I know I've
already said it in this video but I just don't like this book very much. I know
I've talked a lot of negative things about this book but what I do like about
it is that I do really like Sahil and Twinkle. I really like their scenes
together. I think they have really great chemistry and I just want them to be
together. I do like all the filming scenes, so seeing Twinkle in her role as
a director I really like that. I just feel like this secret admirer plot is
just very unnecessary. To talk a little bit about War Storm, I read nothing
yesterday. I have read nothing again so far today. So I'm going to try to do a
little bit of reading before I go to bed for War Storm.
It is now Sunday, which is the last day for this weekly vlog. iIt's about 11 a.m.
I have finished editing my BookExpo and BookCon haul so I'm currently uploading it
to YouTube right now. I'm going to get started and begin editing this weekly
vlog that you're currently watching because vlogs do take a lot longer to
edit just because there are so many clips that I have to watch through. It's
2:42 p.m. I feel like I've been editing all day. About a month ago I bought this
wall art of basically the world map. I bought it from Michaels and it was 70%
off and I really love how it looks. My dad is the sweetest and he helped put it
up for me on my wall. This is what it looks like. I think it looks really nice
so I'm now going to continue reading War Storm. This is a pretty big book. I just
checked on Goodreads and it's 662 pages. I just really want to be done with this
book so I can start something different because I feel like I've been reading it
forever, even though I only started this book on
Wednesday so it hasn't been that long and plus, I haven't read this book in
like two days. I did read a little bit last night but I read like three percent
and then I got tired and
*loud stomping noise from upstairs* Brother: FUCK!
Well that was my brother directly upstairs from me,
probably raging about one of his video games that he's playing right now. I'm
38% into the book and I really want to be at least 60 or 70% through. So it's
currently 10:30 p.m. and I'm going to end the vlog here but before I do that I
wanted to quickly wrap up what I read throughout this week. I'll basically talk
more of my thoughts in my June wrap-up but the first book that I finished is
Till Death by Jennifer L. Armentrout, which I gave a three out of five stars.
That's pretty much the only book that I finished but I made it through 75% into
War Storm by Victoria Aveyard, which is about 463 pages. I'm not loving this book
but I don't hate it as well. I think it's probably gonna end up being another
three out of five star read. And then the last book is From Twinkle, With Love by
Sandhya Menon. I am almost done with it. I have about this much left and that is
currently on page 253, so I'm on chapter 19, and unfortunately I am not enjoying
From Twinkle, With Love very much for all the reasons that I've discussed earlier
on in this video. I think it's going to end up being a 2 star read. This week of
reading hasn't been super great. Recently, I've been reading a lot of 2 star 3 star
reads. I just need to pick up a book that's like a 5 star read or even a four
star read because I'm tired of all these three stars.
Hopefully this upcoming week of reading will be much better. Thank you so much
for watching this reading vlog. I hope you enjoyed it and I will see you next
time. Bye!
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