LAST WORD OF LAST BOOK CHOOSES WHAT I READ NEXT ✨reading vlog - new faves, fairyloot unboxing +more!

Hello! Welcome to my channel if you're new, welcome back if you're not. This vlog has been in my brain for a while. Basically the last word of the last book I read is going to choose what I read next. So I read a book and the last word of it then chooses what I go on to next. Very simple I think. So the last book I read was The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearce. I will leave the reading vlog here for you to go and check that out. Basically I just have to see what the last word of this is and then if the word is in the title of any book that I own physically or I have an audiobook for I have to read that book. Or like if there's multiple books with that word in the title which I very much doubt then I choose one of them to read. If not, if it's not in the title of any book I own then we're gonna do word association. So it can either be word association with the title. So say I got the word water, I don't know, I may pick the night swim because it's that swim in the title. Or it can be something that I associate with the book itself. I can't really come up with an example of that but like what I know the synopsis of the book itself something I associate with that if that makes sense. So without further ado let's just find out what the last word is. Victims. Victims. Oh wait okay I can't. It could be in the title like a long title of the book I'm thinking of. Let me have a look. Okay I've just had a look and it's not in the title of anything I own but I know what I'm gonna read for this. So I'm gonna read The Five by Halle Rubenholdt. This is about the five victims of Jack the Ripper. This is non-fiction. It's gonna be my first non-fiction that I have read so far this year. I really love non-fiction but I definitely don't read it enough anymore. So it was a goal to read one a month but I haven't, I didn't read one in January. But this is gonna be at least my one for February and it literally is just non-fiction going through these women's lives and what they went through and telling their story so that they are remembered instead of the man who killed them. Let's just start it I guess. I'm really really excited. This has been on my TBR and something I've wanted to read for the longest. So I am now halfway through The Five and I'm really really enjoying it. I mean it's like it's heartbreaking but I think it's such a necessary book. I've always been very interested in learning about forgotten women in history and as this book is about Jack the Ripper's victims it's about these women who are just seen as worthless women that he killed and not being deserving of their stories being told and instead he's the one who has lived on and what this story is really trying to do is to bring their lives to the forefront and it's really heartbreaking what some of these women have been through. You know the first two that I read about had families, had a husband and children and for various reasons they left that life and were living in lodging houses or were sleeping rough and just hearing you know one of them had an alcohol addiction and so had to leave her family and it was just really heartbreaking to hear what they had been through and that it ended for them in the way that it did. It's so well researched it's so fascinating you know really it paints a complete picture of these women and their lives and what they would have gone through and how they would have lived and like really interesting to see like the rises and falls of their life you know it doesn't just paint a picture of misery there's a lot of points where you you think like they're on the up you know like they're doing well and then it all kind of goes wrong and then it's really really sad. It just makes you angry like how a lot of these women weren't prostitutes the police just thought they were because of the area in which they lived there was no evidence in fact the people around them the people who knew them best knew other people who lived in these lodging houses would say like they weren't a prostitute but the police went and the media went with that narrative because it fit what they wanted to say these white men are dangerous so if you've ever been interested in any of like the non-fiction i've recommended about forgotten women this is really really interesting and there's also lots of pictures in here so you can see the women this is one of them with her husband and then the next page has pictures of their their daughters as well it just really brings to life these women who i have never heard anything about other than their names and the fact that they were prostitutes but that's not even true so learning about them is really fascinating also i think the audiobook is great and i think if you are interested in like forgotten women throughout history but you don't tend to read a lot of non-fiction i think this would be a great place to start because it's a very easy non-fiction to get into you're literally being told the story of their life and so it's not like loads of facts and figures and statistics it is a human story it's heartbreaking but it is really fascinating so i'm enjoying it so far and i'm excited to read the rest of it and i will come back to you when i finished it with my rating but it's definitely going to be very high because i just think it's so well researched and explores you know these women's lives so well in others there's the towers of wooden boxes filled with tiny pieces of metal type there were rooms where men bent and molded leather tools gold leaf onto covers and stitched bindings there were sheds in which copper plates were etched and lettering was forged there were shops stacked high with books newspapers it's a couple days later and i finished the five yesterday and i'm actually going to give this five stars but wow what a moment i will never forget i wasn't feeling like i was going to give it five stars until the conclusion and the conclusion just brought it together so well i feel like i need to reread the conclusion because like i was listening to the audio book at the time like making dinner and um i feel like i didn't fully take it in like i didn't fully absorb how brilliant it was i feel like it's something i want to read again and again but this book is so incredible and i think it makes you so angry it makes you so angry that these women's lives have just been forgotten and completely pushed aside for the man who killed them they'd all been through so much ---- and it makes you realize if you were a woman particularly born into the working class at this time your prospects were so low you know you were so dependent on any man that you married you were so limited in your prospects for making money you know it makes you realize how this whole industry that has been built up almost idolizing jack the rapper museums in his name and like the just the myth that he has become they have become so forgotten in that and the joys and the difficulties that they went through have become erased also kind of the discussion around framing them as just prostitutes it wouldn't matter if they were all prostitutes but there's only evidence that two of them had ever been prostitutes in their lives framing them as that was a way to diminish the worth of their lives and the the horrificness of their murders you know and it still is today it's still that content has continued today and so it's just like another way in which women who don't meet society's wrongful expectations of what a woman should be their personal worth their worth as a human is like completely eradicated through that i would literally read it again straight away before we actually i can't remember the last word of this book is but before we find out the last word was i have something oh my god i keep treading on there's loads of stuff around my feet i have something that i have been waiting to open this is from imposia blankets which if you don't know they are like a bookish blanket company and they reached out to me and asked if i wanted to receive one and like i'm so excited i'm about to live in this i'm about to live in this you may say i'm a dreamer oh my god i'm so excited it's just it's sitting there waiting for me oh my gosh oh my gosh so can you see can you see how it's all like soft and fleecy this is the design i picked out can you see i can't see what you can see can they see the deer can they see the deer uh you should lift it up higher it can't go much higher and it's got books on its end hang on i'm gonna put it on i'm gonna put it on look at me she's an icon she's a legend and she is the moment now come on now look at me oh my god this is so cozy i feel so i feel like i'm literally gonna live in this it is so cozy and cute i can't think how cute oh my god i love it so much i'm so happy to have finally opened it if you wanted to go and purchase one of these just oh my god i just feel like so cool i can't stop looking at myself if you want to go and purchase one of these i do have a 10 discount code it is cozy it's so cute it's so cute what is the last word of this enough i know a lot of things but i don't know about that i'm not sure why i don't know if i have a book with enough in the title and that's a that's a really hard word to like come up with association like word association as well hang on i gotta go look on goodreads oh my god yeah i do okay okay okay oh this is this works out so well this is a book i've wanted to read for so long the only book i have with enough in the title is black enough by ibiza boy edited by ibiza boy this is a collection of short stories from different black authors talking about being young and black in america this is one of the books that has been on my tbr for the longest time that i don't own but the audiobook and the ebook i believe are on script so i can just read them on there i cannot remember the last time i read an anthology like a collection of authors i don't it might have been years like i generally can't remember the last time i read that so i'm so excited i feel like we all know i haven't quite gotten into my reading game yet this year but i feel like an anthology could be a really great way to like get me reading faster because you're constantly starting a new story and so the pace is constantly on the move so i'm going to read black enough i'm so excited to finally read this i'm about a third of the way through black enough i've read the first six stories i'm really enjoying it so far where there's been some amazing stories my favorite one hang on let me tell you my favorite one so far is out of the silence by kekla magoon i hadn't heard of her before but i've now gone and like put one of her books on my wish list because it was just so good it was really short like some of them are about 20 pages but this one was only like six pages or something so really brief but really just so good like that one was dealing with uh the protagonist knowing someone who had been killed in this car crash i won't say anything else than that because literally six pages long but um it was really interesting and i'm just loving the variety of stories that we've got going on some are more serious some are just like snapshots of friends joking around with one another so you've got a real variety of stories and i'm just loving like getting introduced to all these new authors that i've never read from before i feel like there's definitely going to be some more authors as like reading forward that i want to pick up their books i feel like that's what anthologies are so good for and they're so good for discovering authors and finding the authors who's writing you just click with in such a short amount of time i'd really recommend it if you like anthologies if you want to read some black authors and maybe discover some new ones um i'd really recommend it so far like i said great variety of stories we've touched on like sibling relationships academic pressure just friendship like young love like there's been so many interesting topics covered already so i'm really enjoying it i didn't finish black enough because i was really enjoying it so uh so uh and i feel like short story collections are a bit hard to speak about throughout but i really really enjoyed it i am going to give it i don't know it feels like a 3.5 though to me and i think that is a little bit harsh i'm gonna rate it as a four on goodreads but i think on the whole it's a 3.5 because i i loved the kind of like idea and experience of reading it with the variety that it gave none of those short stories were five stars to me or maybe like one one or two or five stars but the majority were like three and four so it feels like a 3.5 overall i was thinking throughout reading it i generally cannot remember ever having read a short story collection like i'm sure i have in my life but it's been years and years and years and now i just want to read more so if you have any recommendations for short story collections you think i'd enjoy please let me know because now i just want to read them i think they're so great i love finding like new authors i really wanted to read so there's been loads that i have put on my want to read now because of this i think it did such a good job of like having joyful stories having stories about pain having stories about difficulty having stories that are bittersweet having stories that like are wrapped up in a nice neat bow it had a really great variety and in terms of i always think it must be hard to decide the order that you're gonna like put the stories in and there was never anything that felt samey from story to story but there was never a story that completely broke the tone that the previous one had established i thought that was done really really well as well i'm obsessed yeah my favorite ones on this i really liked ibiza boys at the end oh yeah kekla magoon i really liked j cole's one i really liked justina island's one i really liked donyell clayton's one so they were probably my favorite short stories i just really love the experience if you like me have never really read short story collections before i would just really recommend it like i loved the experience so this was a success even though like it's a 3.5 i think like the experience of reading it was a four but in terms of my rating of the content it's a 3.5 if that makes sense so now i have to read one more book in this vlog so i have to find out what the last word this book was i've completely forgotten smile smile worried me never i don't think i own any books with the word smile in the title so i feel like it has to be a happy book like the happiest book i own i don't i i don't really own happy books like i don't read i don't read happy books there's always going to be an element of like sadness or difficulty in there ---- i'm upset all right everyone has their own days and this is one of mine okay oh let's go for this i'm gonna go for me my dad and the end of the rainbow by benjamin dean this just came out a couple months ago this was very kindly sent to me by the publisher all i know about this is that it's about a boy whose dad comes out as gay and it's kind of like their their story together and i've heard okay on the back it says are you ready for a rainbow-colored joy-filled adventure that's gonna that's gonna fit i generally don't think i have a happier book than this there's no other happy books here and this is one i've been so excited to get to one of my most anticipated reads of the year i'm really really excited to read this this is one i've been trying to figure out how i'm gonna fit into a reading vlog for ages so hopefully this one will go well okay i'm really excited i'm gonna go start this now i think i was definitely right to pick this for the word smile because literally when i turned to the first page all of the reviews that are on there the first three the first three of the five reviews all have the words joyful in them so this book is just obviously very happy and joyful at the start we're very much dealing with like difficulties but you can tell it's just this positive happy book so basically archie's parents have just split up they're arguing a lot like around him and at his school in front of his friends he comes home at one point and they don't know that he's there and he hears his dad say that he's gay and that's why their parents are split up and so it's just him kind of trying to understand that and understand what that means for like him and his dad's relationship and how nothing's gonna really change and i think what's about to spur the story on is a pride leaflet which has fallen out of his dad's pocket it's really just like heartwarming so far i can already tell i think this is gonna be one of my favorite middle grades i've ever read i'm just really loving the experience of reading it i love the writing like this is a debut and i think the writing is just absolutely wonderful so far like the way it sometimes breaks the fourth wall and talks to you directly i really like that in middle grade well that all books but i think that's something really fun like when you're a kid it when the book starts speaking directly to you that was always the coolest thing like i loved when i'd be reading and it'd like say you and talk to you oh my god i just really love the writing i love archie i love our friends i love like the dynamics between the parents i think the kind of the way it's explaining this complicated relationship between his parents is perfect in the way that it like it simplifies it enough for kids to understand but there's also layers to it that make it a really enjoyable thing to read when i'm like 21 do you know what i mean so i think it does a really great job of like balancing it for everyone i don't know i really love it i think i'm gonna just be absolutely in love with this book there's just a lot of great discussions around sexuality and i think it'd be really helpful for kids if maybe one of their parents comes out as gay the discussions we're already having about how it doesn't change who they are and it's just like a small piece of who they are and the kid doesn't need to worry and stuff like that i just think is really helpful and lovely and touching i'm just gonna read the rest of this today i don't think it will take me that long to read the rest of it if you like middle grade i would already recommend this i think it's wonderful already and i'm only so i'm now two-thirds of the way through this and i'm still loving it they are going on their adventure um archie and his friends and i don't know it's just taking me back to being a kid again i don't know why but i'm getting a very specific like visceral reaction and maybe it's just because it's just been world book day but when the um when you're a kid and the book fair used to come and it was like amazing i don't know why but this was like the kind of book i would have got at the book fair and i feel like that's so weird but there's nothing wrong with my views or beliefs because i have freedom of speech and everything i'm saying is true i feel like i'm literally a kid again at school reading this and i just got the book fair i love when i read middle grade and i can enjoy it so much now but i can also look at it and think this is such a great book for kids to read now at the same time i feel like this could even end up being a five star i don't know like it's not gonna be an all-time favorite five star but there's nothing wrong with it and i'm loving it so like i feel like it could be a five star so then we'll have had two five stars in this video i just really love it's teaching about friendship about family and yeah it's just fun like it's just joyful it's just the celebration of you know sexuality and learning about that as a kid so before i finish it i thought i would just quickly show you what came in the february it's upside down fairy loop yeah the february fairy loop box i opened this yesterday because i was feeling sad and i needed i'm ready to go home babs i'm knackered i needed to pick me up but i thought i would just show you because this is genuinely one of my favorite book boxes ever again like i feel like fairly pull it out the bag i was just gonna like open it myself and look at it but fairly just kill it every time like i love their items i love the books i love the like the special editions they do to their books so i'll just show you quickly so we've got a candle inspired by the lunar chronicles it smells so good it's so different than anything i've ever smelled like usually i get very um caramelly vanilla candles but this one is cranberry peach citrus vanilla and it smells so good so i can't wait to light that then i thought this was super useful a really great useful item we've got cutlery set inspired by warcross and i just thought this was super helpful for like when i eventually have to go back into the real world not that i really want to do that because it makes it super helpful to take your own cutlery in and like reusable cutlery and this i haven't unwrapped them all actually to have a look and it's like gold cutlery with um a little quote on them so i thought that was so cute so usable something that i actually feel like maybe i needed so i always love that when you get like a usable item i haven't tried these out yet i haven't put batteries in them but you also get some little present moon fairy lights which are so cute i'm a big fan of fairy lights so i'll never say no to more fairy lights there is also a red rising pillowcase um which comes with art on both sides which is very nice i haven't read red rise i haven't read red rising i haven't read red rising just catch the pine but i think it's very lovely design there's always with fairy loot an enamel pin inspired by villain uh villains the it says plenty of humans were monstrous and plenty of monsters knew how to play human just looks like that and then the book isn't one that i'd actually heard of but it is this golden flame by emily victoria which i know nothing about at all but it actually looks kind of interesting i i don't know i'm really excited to give book box books as a go because i don't think i've even read one yet but obviously no i'm not reading a ton at the moment but this does look interesting it's something about orphans there's a girl trying to find her brother traitors this kind of thing i don't know it sounds very exciting and i really like the um oh my god just look at that like the pink and the blues come on um the artwork that's on the inside of the cover so oh my god wait i haven't seen that look at the design on the heart if i had a wig i would throw it that's so cute oh my god i love it so like i say fairy loot in my opinion if you want to get some book boxes get fairy loot like i just love them i just love them so much i think they pull it out of the bag every single time so yeah i want to show you this um quickly i'm now going to go watch the football like always on a saturday and i'm going to finish the last third of this i'm really excited i'm back with slightly strange lighting it's very dark in here and i have finished me my dad and the end of the rainbow by benjamin dean i'm gonna end up giving it 4.5 stars i'm gonna rate it as a five on goodreads because i think you know it's a debut middle grade about like queerness so i think you know it deserves to be boosted in that way on something like goodreads but just in like my personal rating i'm gonna give it a 4.5 nothing was wrong with it just the ending i wasn't as into reading it as i had been but i also think i would at that point i was just reading it to finish it to finish this video and i so i think that plays a role i'm trying to keep reading for enjoyment not just for content which is hard when like i feel like my i feel like i'm not as good at these check-ins at the moment like my brain is just a bit like god give me the ******* strength i don't know it's just like my light you know everyone knows my life is quite overwhelming at the moment it feels like uni um but hopefully that will all be fixed soon but anyway i love this i loved it so much i think it is the perfect middle grade for educating kids about queerness about the lgbt community about love about family like whenever i read a good middle grade i'm like i can't wait to give this to my kids when they're old to read i know that's kind of weird but it's the truth like i said throughout it was beautifully wonderfully written like i could not tell this was a debut it was absolutely incredible and it was just so much fun it was so much fun it was perfectly paced you know the dynamics between like his mom and his dad and him and his dad were all so interesting and real and you know it didn't shy away from like how difficult it was for his mom for example like to find out that her husband was gay maybe it could have done but it didn't shy away from her pain and like almost like denial of that fact i guess and so i really liked that aspect that wasn't something i was expecting from this and i cannot wait to read everything that benjamin dean writes in the future because it was just amazing it was just so so good so if you like middle grade or if you like queer books or if you like anything like i would recommend this to anyone i think it's generally the kind of kind of book that anyone could pick up and enjoy it was the first book i've read for ages without an audiobook so i think that tells us something that's a point in its favor so yeah i feel like this vlog has been very successful so maybe if you've enjoyed it i'll have to do it again in the future where the last book of the last book i read picks what i read next i really just think it's a fun way to like not get a choice on what you read like i have had black enough on my tbr for so long and haven't read it so i was so happy to finally read that and yeah i had a lot of fun with all the books i read so i think maybe i might do this again if you've gotten to the end of this video leave a rainbow emoji of course from a book i'm gonna and i will see you next week with a vlog that i've been promising for a very long time okay i'll see you next week with that and on thursday friday wednesday on wednesday for the next live okay i'm gonna go now peace love you bye