Cozy September Days Writing at the Library Vlog! #bookish

Hello everybody, I hope you enjoyed this week's vlog. It was a bit of a weird one, kind of all over the place, but I did some work at the library. I've been working on this mystery story in my head for a while, so I thought it'd be good to get it down, some of it down on paper at least, and I like to do that in pen sometimes. It just helps with my brain and plotting things out. Yeah, I've had this story. I found this plant down the road from me, and it looked really creepy. It had like bulbs on it, and they looked like eyes, so I looked it up and I was like, what is this plant? And it turns out it's called doll's eyes. That's the nickname for it, and it's very toxic. If you eat it, you instantly get a heart attack, and you could die from it. Then I went back the next day to go look at it again, and it was gone. I have no idea who took it. I'm hoping it's somebody who knew that it was toxic and just got rid of it, but yeah, it was kind of weird that it just disappeared the next day. So I thought that'd be a cool story to write about, and to have like a poison garden involved, and I really don't know that much about it other than that. I don't even know who dies. Yeah, I gotta figure out the characters, but that's been really fun to plot that out. I don't know if it's gonna be a short story or another book. I don't really know what it is yet, so this is when I say that I'm a planter, because I plot a little bit, and then I discovery write for the most part. But yeah, that's been really fun, and I got to work in my favorite little back in the library while I waited for my bandmate to come get me. This week I finished An Unexpected Peril, which is the sixth book in the Veronica Speedwell mystery series. I enjoyed this. This was light-hearted compared to the last one, which was about Jack the Ripper. So yeah, I like that she goes back and forth between the dark and light mysteries. So yeah, this is just a really fun series, and I think there are 10 books in it so far. I don't know if that's the end or not, but yeah, this is set in Victoria, England, and she's a butterfly hunter, so it's just really fun. It's a three-star book for me. At the library I found some short books just to get ahead on my reading goal. So I found this mystery series called Murder at the Lighthouse, and I also have a lighthouse story idea forming in my head at the moment. This one is set in England, and it's called Exim on Sea, and she finds a body at the lighthouse while she's walking a dog. So it's really short. It's 158 pages, so I finished this pretty quickly. I did get another book out of this from the library, but I realized that one is like number six or something. So I try to read things in order if I can. So I finished the first book, and I might continue with this series because it was cute. I started reading The Library at Hellbore. I got this a while ago. This is a really pretty book. It's got sprayed edges, nice end papers, and it's also got this on the inside, which is really cool. Yeah, this is Dark Academia. They have to fight their way out of the school. It's really gory. I didn't realize how gory it was when I picked it up. That's really not my cup of tea. I don't like being grossed out and scared at the same time. There's something about that that just turns my stomach. So yeah, I kind of skip over the really gory bits. So don't eat while you read this book. But it's really short, so I'm already halfway through. I was trying to finish it this week, but it didn't happen. I got busy again. Those were the three books I was focusing on, and I'm still reading Phantasma. It's going to take me a bit. And I just got a new part-time job that starts next week, so I'm very excited about that. I only have to work two days a week, so that's really nice. And it's only a few minutes down the road, so I'm very excited about that. It's going to get really busy shortly because I have a new job, plus in October I have gigs every weekend from now on. So it's going to be busy, but yeah, it's going to be fun. So we'll see what happens. I don't know how much reading I'll get done or how much writing I'll get done. I'm trying to start back with writing now that I've had a little break after publishing my third book, The Promised Kind. Funnily enough, on Amazon, it doesn't show up. When you look it up, I don't know why my other books show up. So my editor has been having the same problem with her books. So I don't know what that's about. If anybody knows what's going on with Amazon right now, please tell me because I would like to fix it. I just don't know how to fix it and there's nobody to call anymore. So yeah, dealing with that stress. It's like, nobody can find my book. What's going on? But it is up on Barnes & Noble as well, so if search it on Barnes & Noble, it does show up. So I would recommend finding it over there and let me know what you think of it because I would really like to know. I need more reviews on Goodreads and Amazon. So if you would like to review it, please do. And yeah, I will see you all in the next video. Bye for now.