THE SIMS picks what I READ! 🎮📚

Hello friends so something I don't know if I've spoken about enough on here is that I love the Sims I have loved the Sims since the Sims 2 I play Sims 2 Sims 3 Sims 4 Sims 3 is obviously the best one we can all agree Sims 3 is undoubtedly the best Sims 4 is undoubtedly the worst and I still love playing The Sims if I have a month where I haven't read as much it's probably because I'm currently in a Sims Obsession the obsession that I got with it was was borderline unhealthy I don't know how I'm going to integrate in society after this does anyone else do that where like you play The Sims like obsessively for a month and then don't play it for a couple months and then play it obsessively for a month so if I'm not reading like The Sims is one number one of my like other hobbies that I do so I thought why not combine two of my loves and for a week let the Sims pick what I read we're going to do it in a really fun way involving packs which I'll tell you about in a second but yes today in this Vlog The Sims is going to be picking what I read so shall I just get into it find out what we're going to be reading find out how going pick the books and let's go see cuz I love I love the Sims I'm so excited we should sit down at some point and talk about how much I love the Sims maybe I don't know but let's go find out what we're going to be reading but before we get into the video I want to tell you guys about something super exciting I am working with Bessa and together we are doing a massive sex toy giveaway and everyone who signs up will win a free toy or gift card Bessa is a bywoman company for all things sexual wellness and their mission is to empower everyone to embrace explore and celebrate the their sexuality and honestly as a woman as a f person I think we're often taught to kind of like hide our sexuality or not talk about it or not show it and I really think that it's important to like they say Empower Embrace for everyone to so they sent me some toys which I 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kits are not helpful so we're going to be having a randomizer of the expansion packs the game packs and the stuff packs one of those will be randomized and then I have to use that pack to pick a book whether it be linking to the theme of the pack or something in the ti of the book links to the theme of that pack that's what we're doing and that's going to be how we pick what we read are we excited I'm very excited we did like a test run of this with my Patron and we were like trying to make every book linked to the favorites I don't even have my hands on that yet but I really want to read the favorites guys I need to read some good books book on this Vlog I need to read some books I'm in the mood for so I'm hoping I can like twist a little bit whatever packs end up appearing into a book I'm genuinely like really in the mood for right now cuz I feel like I need it you know I need some good books so I'm going to have one pack of here at a time and shall we just begin oh my God I feel so nervous okay first pack I feel like if there's something like movie hangout stuff that's hard okay first pack vintage P glamour stuff okay wait a minute I'm figuring this out so we I think I might know what I'm going to pick for that already okay okay okay okay okay third third pack third pack third book cats and dogs what books do what books do I have there a cat wait I must have some cat books I must have some cat books I surely have a book with a cat on the cover oh I do okay I know what we're reading for that okay let's go over to the Bookshelf vintage glamour stuff cats and dogs okay let's let's go find out okay first pack vintage glamour stuff the first book that came to my mind obviously you're going to want something historical but with glamour to it right you want historical but you want like a certain Vibe I think I'm going to go for this is a book I really wanted to read and I think it fits it the Final Act of Juliet willby look at that cover is that not vintage glamour is vintage glamour it's got three timelines one in Paris in 1938 one in Cambridge in 1991 and one in Dubai now and it's all about three suspicious deaths over the course of a century there's a lost paint art I'll tell you the plot once we get into it but I am so excited for this this is like one of the books I'm when I was thinking oh I want to read a book I'm in the mood for this is it this is it this is what I'm immediately in the mood for success I think that's such a win right like that is Glam this is this book is glamorous and it's vintage right that's that's I that's an obvious pick okay cats and dogs the first one that came to mind I'm sure I have other cat books I probably have a lot of cat books but we have the full moon coffee shop which is about a coffee house Rand by cats run by talking cats yep y y y I love a good cat book and obviously we know historically my problem is when Cat books that aren't Cat books that are liars you know that are lying to me and saying they're Cat books and they're not but this genuinely is if it's translated from Japanese I'm very intrigued about this one so I think that's a really good pick these two were definitely going to be reading which I'm very excited [Music] about hello I went away and I read the entirety of the full moon coffee shop by my Muki cuz this was so quick it was so fast like it looks like a fairly sizable book it's like 260 pages but the font mive biggest font you've ever seen she's huge but she's so beautiful she's a mammoth of course I'm going to give this a 3.5 but it's like a good 3.5 versus some of the 3.5s I've had a lot of 3.5s lately some of the 3.5s had lately have been like disappointing 3.5s this is like a 3.75 I just don't think it's quite a four so basically this is the story of a coffee shop that talking cats run and we have three main story lines three kind of little short stories but they are all interconnected as well uh throughout this book of people who are kind of at like a Crossroads in Life or need something to understand about their lives coming into contact with this coffee shop run by talking cats and that's all you really need to know it's very much before the coffee gets cold Vibes not I I wouldn't say this is like as emotional it's more like figuring stuff out you're at a Crossroads do I choose this do I choose this or I'm in a bit of a funk what do I need to get me out of it versus like before the coffee gets cold is like very emotional but it's similar and that it's like Japanese magical realism um with these short you know but interconnected as well stories that you're traveling through together and you know I just think this is very sweet and cute and lovely a lovely little book but like did it do anything major for me not really you know it's that you just have those books sometimes where it's like it was perfectly feel-good lovely a nice read but it's not memorable and there's nothing about it that made me go oh yeah I I love I love how that was done you know it just fun I don't really have a ton to say about it I enjoyed the stories that we encountered in this I would say my favorite was the first one and like then all the others kind of p in comparison cuz at the at this start you don't know there's going to be short stories so you kind of get more attached to that first character who the first story centers on because you think oh I'm going to be following them for the whole book but then it turns out you only follow them for 80 pages and then I think you don't get attached to the other characters but I really do like how all their stories linked there's like near the end I don't want to spoil anything but like you find out how all of their stories interconnected I mean you know so little bits throughout like this character there's this character whatever but there's like a a reason why they all know each other and it's all interconnected and I really loved that and listen I love talking cats I love talking cats oh also astrology plays a big role in this and I'm trying to get a little bit more into astrology I'm finding it quite interesting oh sorry how long have I been out of focus who knows I I'm trying to get more into astrology I think it's very interesting and um that plays a huge role in this like all the the cats read all the characters like Nal charts and like oh this is in your sixth house so this means this and whatever and I thought that was really interesting so like it's a sweet little book I had a really nice time reading it it's so quick and fast but I don't think it's memorable I don't think this is going to stick with me so that's where we are Fast book I enjoyed it I had a good time reading it we're now going to start the Final Act of Judy Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd I have been so excited to read this book for so long it is triple timeline which does make me nervous you know that's not always my favorite thing however I'm hoping I could still love it there's like some mixed media elements to it I'm just really really excited for this one so I will let you know when I'm about halfway through what my thoughts are but I am hoping for wonderful things I have been sent something so I thought I'd open that with you really quickly I don't know why I move positions to open something but it's okay I can't see what it is let's see who it's from from VA I love SEL and now you have to film your new home Library somehow I hope you enjoy this book oh I know what this is already then this is for the first time again by SV Nal now I don't want to read the synopsis of this because I haven't read the second book in the series yet but I really enjoyed the first book in the series it's sci-fi and it was about this mother and daughter who were like existing within oh I can't remember it's not spoiler I read this series the first series so long ago it's about like a a they're like at pivotal moments in history to do his space and interacting with it that's what I want to say and it's told in a very interesting way I think think it doesn't have speech marks it's like dashes anyways I'm very excited thank you so much VA that is so kind of you okay I'm going to go start the Final Act of J want to be and I'll let you know my thoughts but I'm so [Music] excited oh my goodness we have a lot to talk about it's very exciting okay so I am halfway through the Final Act of J it would it be I am obsessed I am obsessed in the first like 30 page of the B I had five star feeling guys okay okay okay I'm obsessed let's talk about this plot because it's very interesting so like I think I've mentioned multiple times in talking about this book we have three timelines we have Paris 1938 where Juliet willab be this this artist which I'll tell you more about in the future timelines but she is in Paris painting this very famous painting and she ends up dying in a fire with her lover now we are then in Cambridge 1991 and in the first half that has been the main timeline following these two art students who are kind of discovering about Juliet Willoughby because she has been kind of like erased from history she has not been remembered her most famous painting there's no pictures of like it's not really known what it looked like she's kind of just remembered as the lover of the artist that she died with and these art history students are trying to uncover more about her and learn about her life and learn what the photo looked like and then we have present day Dubai I think it is and one of them is Accused is arrested for murder at an auction where I think are we selling this paint I don't know we're selling some kind of painting at an auction now what I think this very cleverly does is I I obviously have an issue with split timelines but what it does is that you have a main timeline and I think the main timeline has shifted but for that first half it was just the Cambridge timeline we went back to Paris in 1938 to read Juliet's diary because one of the art historys finds her diary in these archives and is kind of like transcribed it so we read her diary and then we have brief flash forwards to the present day but now I've read like five pages of part three so set in Parts read like five page part three and now it seems like the 2023 timeline is going to be our main timeline I love that I love that I love that I love that I think it's such a good way to do multiple time see I can like multiple timeles it's when there's like multiple timel competing for dominance and it's like 50/50 time with them and you end up kind of like only half loving both whereas like I could really invest myself in one timeline but like there's little puzzle pieces coming from the other timelines and it's all being pieced together and interwoven in a really interesting way I'm loving this SP I'm loving this SP I'm loving this B I mean I think it's like from the synopsis you can kind of start to see why it's something I'm going to love it is about a woman who has been raised from history and like if you know me you know that like a real interest of mine particular when it comes to non-fiction is like women's stories from history that have not been remembered in the way that men have because history so male it's so male dominated women's stories matter yeah they just matter know I still remember when I went to uh look around the six form I ended up going to but I if I'd stayed at my secondary school I was going to do history a level but I went and they they have different syllabuses and the one I was going to the six ended up going to was an all boys grammar so it's all boys from year 7 to 11 and the six form girls can come and join and my mom said to the history teacher like your syllabus is entirely male history and the teacher's like yes just because they're boys doesn't mean they shouldn't let and there's girls there as well it's mixed in sex anyways it REM that I think it's so important to learn about women's stories and so this is obviously fiction but it's the story of these these students trying to like bring This Woman's who very important from history perhaps like one of the most wonderful painters that just like history has has lost you've been lost to history I think is so interesting it's it's so so so interesting I'm loving the writing I'm loving the story it's got an intelligence to it I would say it it on this front it says think the secret history meets salurn I think it's very much like the gold finch because it's got that art element that The Goldfinch has it really reminds me of the gold finch with like auctions and like ventage like you know artist art sales and like all this stuff but I think it has got you know the first half they art Cambridge so it's got that kind of like University element to it as well now I am interested to see how it's going to go now that it seems then we're now in present day because there's parts right so I've read the first two parts and I will say all the parts start and end on really like catchy moments like the the kind of like thing that happened at the end of the last part was like gag a trra like it was a huge gag and I just think this is ending really well on all the guys I'm loving it is is so fun to love a book I have decided by the way we're only going to read two books in this Vlog because there's been some wild stuff happening behind the scenes I'm not ready to talk about yet to do with the flat we maybe talk about in the next Vlog but um it's taken up a lot of my week so there was supposed to be three books in this Vlog and I just kind of cut out the part earlier in the Vlog where like I found it was my wedding stories was the pack if you're interested so I was either going to read something set at a wedding or a romance but I just haven't been reading as much because there's been some stressful stuff happening behind the scenes anyways also I do just want to talk about this ellerie Lloyd is a husband and wife writing Duo isn't that fascinating and she studied at the history of art at Trin College Cambridge interesting and then worked as a journalist in Dubai so that's where that's coming from interesting interesting interesting that's fascinating I always find writing Partnerships very interesting like how does it work are they sitting down together and like writing because it seems like one cohesive voice it doesn't feel like they're writing you know one person's writing one chapter one person's writing another chapter it feels like I'm One Voice the writing voice is very good very strong I'm really enjoying it but I just wonder how that works like what their process is because like I've read books before where it's written by two well-known authors and you can really feel like they obvious usually they write like one character's perspective each and it flits back and forth but like how does this work how does this what they sit down together and write it that's so fascinating isn't it anyways I'm loving it I'm loving it I I just think it's a book that's got a little bit of everything it's got mystery it's got historical it's got vintage glamour it's got a bit of a romance it's got tension it's got so many little Mysteries and it's got like a lot of breadth and depth to it you know which I love in a book it's got what I want where it's not a straight line the plot is got little branches coming off anyways let's talk quickly about the Sims my love of the Sims because this Vlog is about you know the Sims picking what I read so I just want to CH about the Sims briefly you can skip this part if you're not interested but I want to talk about the Sims so when I said I was doing this video some of my patrons are like are you going to show us your Sims play and I don't think so a because I just got my new laptop and so I've only got like one game one family on there at the moment it's not particularly exciting one but also I think I play Sims in quite a boring way I don't know it's not a not an interesting way for you guys to see hang on I need to hike this camera up a bit so I am not a builder I don't build I'm not um I don't use mods you know like you know like appearance mods like to make them look like crazy aesthetically pleasing The Sims I don't use cheats I I like to abide by the rules I just like having families that I make you know promoted at their jobs and earn money and get skills I don't know I just like the game play I'm very much a family game player but I end up like because basically I like the hustle I like getting them to work really hard at their job earn money do side hustles you know they go and look for frogs they go and look for time capsules and then I get them like to move into a big house and then like the the hustle is lost so I not being interested and I start a new game so like my families only ever like get toddlers if a child if I'm lucky I very rarely when I made the family I made at the moment I made a teenager on purpose so I could play with a teenager because I never play with them I literally I just like gameplay I just like family gameplay it's so boring it's not interesting talking about your performance darling you know I just like I like a narrative I really like strong packs like packs that I can really build a narrative around so I love Cottage living in the simur is my favorite pack I love playing in that world I love like having a family who have a cow and some chickens and like you know of you know where they have to like go buy the groceries in order to cook and like one of them will paint and one of them will fish and like they won't have jobs but they'll just like do like stuff to make I love that I love I love that or at the moment I'm doing a horse ranch one cuz that's like a very again a very strong story line so I like the packs where it's a world and it's a strong story line and I I'm not really interested in super natural stuff I just like normal game it's so boring it's so boring now here's the thing I don't like about the Sims 4 that I really liked about when I played The Sims 3 is that I want constant control of all of my Sims at the same time so like in The Sims 4 all of my Sims just end up staying at home because in the Sims 3 I could send someone off to get a message or I could send someone off to go here and do something and I could control everyone simultaneously there is not a single minute in my Sims gameplay that is wasted Everyone is always doing something like either to increase their fun or to increase their skill or like everyone's always doing something so they end up staying at home which is annoying in The Sims 4 cuz like I want to send everyone off different places but I need to control you all at the same time whereas if one person goes out somewhere in The Sims 4 everyone else is left at home I don't know what they're getting up to they're wasting precious minutes anyway so I'm in control but I'm out of control and I'm also um controlled so in a way I'm everything but yeah my Sims gameplay is very boring I don't build I bet I mean I do like renovate but even then I use like the know rooms in the in the build store as like inspiration and I just like drag and drop the item in into the room that's already existing like your little makeover it's very boring I'd love to know if you play The Sims how you play The Sims because um yeah I mine isn't very interesting like I never think I could stream it like I don't want to do challenges I don't want to do mods I just want to have a family that I take from strength to strength like at the moment my teenager in this family is like she's a horse gly and she is doing all the competitions and her and her horse are besties and they're rising up the ranks and I don't let her enter the next if you know the horse competitions there's all those categories and there's like level I don't let them end to the next level until they get a gold in the previous one like that's that's my little challenge at the moment it's it's not interesting but I um I love the Sims it's always been pretty much my favorite game that and Nancy Drew the ncy Drew games I feel like I need to get back into playing the Nancy Drew games maybe but I don't think I could stream The Sims because it's so boring how I play it but I love it I find it so interesting you can waste 10 hours playing The Sims easy peasy lemon squeezy I love the so anyways I am going to go finish the Final Act of Juliet Willoughby and I'll let you know my thoughts but at the moment it's feeling like a five star it's feeling like a five star like I am loving it loving it so um yes we're going to out for a walk today and I'm going to read this book and hopefully we're going to have a great time Hello friends I literally just finished the book five stars five stars I literally just finished it and I've run upstairs to talk to about it I have not put my thoughts together at already five stars I loved loved loved this book like every I just wanted I like this is like art like I love it like there's something about this it is so good it is so good guys there are so many little mysteries in this book there's so many little moments that have little Clues towards different things happening with different characters and they all come together and are resolved in such a satisfying way at the end like really it is a talent keeping all of these threads together it reminds me of the mysterious case of the AP Angels by Janice I felt the same way where there's just so many elements and so many different characters and so many different plot points and this person does this and this person what does it all mean oh it was so so so good I mean it's like my kind of thing let's be honest like forgotten women from history and it really is making that point like women getting a raised from history by men and like you know particularly in the art world at this time how that happened women but I loved it I loved it it's the kind of book that I feel like I could almost recommend it to anyone I challenge you to go read this book and give it less than like a 3.5 like bare minimum I think everyone I can't imagine you giving this less than 3.5 I want to say four but I know people are harsh rers I want to say I don't think you could give it less than a four I feel like everyone could give it a four but let's say 3.5 like I really don't understand how anyone could read this book and not enjoy it like I think it's just a great book it's just a great book it's such a satisfying but oh I loved it I loved it and at the back there's um like a bibliography from from the authors that of books that informed all different aspects of this book so ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs has like 10 books The Art Market auctions Paris in the 1930s women and surrealism that is all books they informed they've done their research and I just feel like you can feel that I say this a lot about books you can feel that there's been a lot poured into and really I think that ends up being some of my favorite books you know books that you can feel the reset like Katherine aren I say is always like this or RF Quang like often historical books and yes this does have an historical elements but like most of it happens either in the present day or in the 1990s um and you can just feel that the authors have done such amazing work to like make this feel like a fully fleshed out book I love it is it my f what book do I read this year what was my first book of the year that I gave five stars why am I drawing a blank hold on what was it oh Disney High I say it's my favorite fiction book that I have read so far this year I adored it I Ador it it's got so many quotes on the back as well like I feel like authors know that it's an amazing book but it hasn't had enough ratings it's only got I think about 5,000 ratings on good read which is not that high that's like kind of like a lesser readed book and so I just want more people to read it I want you guys to go and read it I loved it I think this is a wonderful wonderful book the authors this author Duo the husband and wife wrote the club which is a thriller that came out a couple years ago and I feel like was more of a I don't know just like flashy Thriller and I I feel like this is tonally very different so I don't know if I'm going to read that I feel like that wasn't very highly rated either so I don't know if that was just the book that got them like their debut deal if that was their debut and then this is the book they've poured a lot into but I know people like her it seems like was their debut I don't know this feels very different than what I pursued of people talking about the club I just loved it I just loved it you can feel oh the characters in this all the characters are so complex feel so real I also love reading about like rich people like messed up rich people stuff like Lucy FY does that very well there's a lot of like family history family dramas family entanglements all kind oh guys it's got a bit of something for everyone I loved it I loved it I loved it I'm so glad that I've read it it was so good I could not put it down I did not want to stop reading I didn't want to do anything other than read I feel like maybe I'll reread this one day like it is so good it is so good it was so good so I hope you enjoyed this video of The Sims letting me pick what I read it was less that I read less this week than I wanted to but uh obviously life got about way a bit we'll talk about that soon but um yeah I hope this was a fun video let me know if you love The Sims and how you play The Sims and let me know if you're going to read this book I'm being so deadly serious I need to push this on everyone it's like a fiction book immortalized of my favorite stuff from non-fiction and it was just so well written oh it was so good I think if you you like Taylor Jenkins Reed you would enjoy this I think if you like Lucy Foley you would enjoy this I think there's a that's want to go read it it was so good anyways thanks so much for watching this video I will see you very soon in another one bye [Music]