24 Hr Readathon | Cozy Little Readathon

[Music] hello everyone and welcome to the very first day of the cozy little read-a-thon I have my hot cocoa I'm in my comfy clothes and I am ready for this it is going to be such a nice time and I'm just looking forward to just focusing on being cozy and reading and just you know relaxing I have already edited a video today and put it up so I spent the first half of my day cani getting everything together for the weekend so that I could focus on this and not be stressed out for the rest of the weekend so that felt really really good to do well if you watched my TBR video then you know what I'm gonna be reading but I did actually read the T Dragon Festival a little bit ago I thought that this would be a good way to start off the read-a-thon kind of get me in the mood to read I am in love with Kady O'Neal's books she does such an amazing job of telling a story but making it very simple easy to digest and just honestly her books are extremely cozy I just love them so much and this one was just as good as the rest I really really liked it it's in the same world as the Tea Dragon Society but it follows another character but you do see some characters from the other book but they're a little bit younger so that's really cool I don't know if you guys have read it but these are the two characters that you see in the other book so it was really cool to see them and kind of like how their friendship was before the first book and you also got to know a dragon which is this guy right here and he there wasn't any dragons in the last book only tea dragons so you got you kind of got to know this world a little bit better how there's two different types of dragons there's the regular dragons which are kind of they can turn into human forms and then there is the Tea Dragons which are kind of like domesticated and it's just really it's such a beautiful story I love all of that all of these books so much and they're really readable as well I feel like you could read this book again and just enjoy it just as much it's definitely more of an experience then a lot of other books are which I really love I love that it's something that you can just with each turn of the page you you have this like experience and I love it I love it so much so definitely gonna give it a 5 out of 5 stars I'm just in love with this I like this book and with this author and then the other two books that you guys know I'm gonna read are these two so the queen of nothing and snow in Rose I'm probably going to start with the queen of nothing as for today the plans are we are going to bake something I decided to make gingerbread cookies and so I've never baked them before and I also wanted them to be the really soft gingerbread cookies and we're gonna be making icing for it as well I'm really excited about it I just have to let some of the things get to room temperature and then I also have to get some vanilla because I thought I was I thought I had enough vanilla extract but there's only like a little bit left for now let's listen to some of queen of nothing and put the gingerbread house together oh geez oh geez oh geez the bag okay come on it's right here it melted I'm usually really good at this sort of thing but it melted and that's what it looks like though the tree looks good yeah so the wreath was up here and the door was underneath it but the door has completely disappeared well that didn't work out very well I think what I might do is take the pieces like the wreath and the tree and these little candy canes off and just use them I got another kit from Michaels the other day when we were there cuz this I didn't even know but it's just literally a platform in one side of the house it's not a full house whereas this is like a full house very disappointed myself and honestly the icing icing was not good it was really hard to work with and it came out really runny at first and then it came out a little heavier but it was just really difficult to work with so definitely failed that one okay take two we are going to try to put the house together and just leave it overnight and yeah this is gonna be the Michaels one that I got so hopefully you don't work out a little bit better it says to leave it for two to three hours if we're decorating it so I figured it'd be good to get it done today so then I don't have to worry about it tomorrow I can just start decorating it so let's hope okay here is the update on the actual house it looks like I think it's gonna be okay I'm gonna leave this for like an hour and then put the roof pieces on so I will update you once I do that but for now this is what it looks like I'm going to run to the store so I can get some vanilla so that we can start baking yeah I haven't read anything honestly that was stressful I was like I can't listen to anything right now while I'm doing this so um once I start baking then I'll listen to my book but for now hmm that's it [Music] everyone is here to celebrate one day we have our ups and downs when [Music] [Music] every time snow is falling down and it is cold outside together on the face so excited oh my gosh [Music] this year I'll think about how I'm so lucky to have a place that I can come home to you say I'm on my way [Music] love and happiness we come together to celebrate if every time there's no fun and it is cool outside together on the fireplace no one cares about Kendall [Music] [Music] [Music] hello everyone good morning it is the cozy read-a-thon day two and I have some packages here with me I know one of them is from my friend Lexi the other one I opened just a little I didn't see what it was but I know that is from my friend Zoe how about we start with zoe's package I opened it a little bit and I saw a note in here and I was like I don't think I ordered it didn't look like books that I had ordered I don't know what they are yet but I was like this doesn't look like anything that I've ordered and I found the note and it says Merry Christmas sweet friend I love you so much and I'm so so grateful that the Lord brought you into my life this year these are some of my favorite books that I think you might like to Zoe from Zoe reads I'm so excited what did you get me Zoe okay I've heard of this one before the loneliest girl in the universe by Lauren James so I think I've read I have almost bought this before and I think I read the back of it and it says something about how okay her name is bro me and she lives in space by herself she has only brief communications from her therapist on earth to keep her company she gets alerts that NASA is going to send another ship that will be joining hers and she starts exchanging messages with the captain of the Eternity which is the name of the ship and it sounds like there might be a romance in there oh that sounds really really good and I need more sci-fi books I don't have very many so thank you that we I love you oh the girl who drink the moon by Kelly barn hell I have heard amazing things about this book I know it is a middle grade so that's exciting this is about a town that lives on the edge of a forest and every year they have to sacrifice one of their children to the witch the Witch is actually good with one of the sacrifices when you she actually feeds the moon and they end up and she ends up having really big magical power really great she ends up having really great magical powers and she names her Luna I've heard nothing but good things about this so yeah thank you so much Zoe I love you I love you I love you I love you so my let's open up Lexi's box here oh she's so cute look at how cute that is I actually saw her packing this up in one of her vlogs so it's exciting that it's here now and we have a little card Oh like you're how cute it has a little cup of hot cocoa and says warm holiday wishes I love you eggsy I love you so much oh I am I have like the best friends of all time okay what do you want we have I have this guy I love this wrapping paper it has little reindeer and snowmen and penguins on it oh yeah oh my gosh sparkly gingerbread cookie mix the Hat sounds so cute and look at the little gingerbread man oh that's so cute where did you find this it is so cute I love it and I'm very interested in this sparkly part so it comes with Gingerbread mix and some sprinkles the sprinkles are kind of sparkly but I'm pretty sure oh maybe it's not I think I was seeing this this is specially Pyatt I didn't say how the heck did they get sparkles in gingerbread mix oh that's so cute I love that I can't wait to try that [Applause] ah cute oh it's hot cocoa oh my gosh it's like a cocoa in a bag so you have like marshmallows and little chocolate chips and then the hot cocoa cute definitely gonna be making that today I feel like this wrapping paper just screams like beats me oh okay I think this is from Anthropologie yeah so this is another one of those it's like a self-care advent calendar it's seven days of self-care look at how cute that is oh my gosh now I have three advent calendars I wonder how I'll try to figure out how I should organize this but oh my gosh that's so cute so cute I'm not gonna read it test says on the backwoods in there but I don't want to know it's like a chocolate bar it is it is oh yes okay this is peppermint bark peppermint like crunch sort of thing from Anthropologie peppermint bark is literally one of my favorite things about the holidays I love peppermint bark so I'm so excited to eat this let's try it as at milk or dark chocolate dark chocolate mm-hmm so much better with peppermint yeah that's good that is so cute it's a spatula like a baking spatula and it has a French Bulldog on one side look how cute that is and then it has a kitty on the other oh my gosh and it actually has a recipe on the back for peanut butter pooch treats I might have to try that well cute I think this is yeah this is from anthropology - thank you so much Lexi this is so sweet and honestly this came at the perfect time for the cozy little read-a-thon all stuff I can use for this I'm so excited thank you so much I love you don't know exactly what my plan is for the house here it is um but I think I'm just gonna go for it and see where it takes me [Music] [Music] Stingo Garland's a ribbon three turn so bright [Music] outshine the first country for [Music] the angels are singing you [Music] this Christmas is my [Music] trees I get down ringing and you almost choked on your bowl Oh [Music] Stan angel choir singing time for a little gingerbread house tour here it a look at how cute turned out pretty well if I say so myself it took me forever and was really really messy but I really like it here's the side it's pretty much the same on the other side as well and then the back of it it's kind of a mess so that's why I only focus on the fret different is really cute so there you go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you can probably see I changed into pajamas and I made some butter beer so we're gonna watch Harry Potter we've been watching all of the Harry Potter movies and we're currently on the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and I was like oh why don't we make butter beer tonight for that um that's what I did I got this recipe online so let's give it a try I think we have some cold months here do also I got a cold mug here and I'm gonna pour some butter beer and hopefully it'll taste good oh yeah that looks amazing oh my gosh guys I am so excited okay let's taste it Oh hahahaha oh my gosh mmm it is good really good let's taste the cream by itself I put less sugar in than it asked and I actually like it it's not super super sweet mmm I love that I'm so excited [Music] okay I just finished clean of nothing but I thought I would show you what it's like to read with my dogs so we have one she's always has to be laying on me don't you it's really cute though I mean look at that and then down here we have Hubert and I have my legs over him he's just tucked in there so it's a lot of cuddles it's kind of uncomfortable at times but it's also really warm and cuddly anyway I'm gonna get up so I can tell you my thoughts about clean of nothing because uh uh man this series is so good I just I love it I love it I love it I think that Holly black is really good at keeping your anticipation high throughout the whole entire book the romance is so slow burn but it's just really really good and I feel like all the characters kind of grew into themselves and what they believed in and you know they kind of learned morals at the very end as well which is really cool because in the first book they were very selfish and didn't have very good morals um and I think it's important to see characters that have growth in that way you know so anyway I loved it I am like so sad that this series is over I'm really really sad it was a series that really made me want to start book two because I love it that much um when I read the second book I just freaked out and I was like I have to talk to someone about this and that's when I was like I need to start a booktube channel because it's just I need to talk to people about this um anyway uh it holds a dear place in my heart and I can't wait to see what else that Holly black comes out with I really hope that she continues to write Fayette books I think she is she's like the Queen of Fae books fairy books um and she's just so good at them and uh yeah I'm not only gonna give it a 5 out of 5 stars um it was a great ending to it it was satisfying and it just went ha it makes your heart happy you know you're like yes this is how this is how it should end and I was kind of worried about it I think I'm going to make some hot chocolate now and get a cookie and probably start reading snow and rose [Music] Oh catalyst waiting now Oh [Music] it's cold but I know we'll be sitting by the fire and dream tell me little things that I stone I'm smiling [Music] Oh [Music] it has been such a productive day of reading hi OB wants to be in this okay um so I just finished reading and this was so cute the illustrations are gorgeous so pretty I love them it really makes me want to paint which I love reading books like this especially when I love the illustrations because it makes me feel creative and want to be creative anyway I really loved this book really cute I think I'm gonna give it a four stars I think I still need to let it kind of sink in a little bit but I really enjoyed it and I highly recommend it I also finished the queen of nothing today and I read the festival of the Dragons on Friday so it has been a weekend full of really good reads and just really fun it's been so much fun and I'm really glad that I was able to do this this weekend and participate in the read-a-thon and just it's been the most relaxing weekend I am I feel like I've just had a head rub that's how relaxed I do but I think for the rest of the night I'm going to make some dinner and honestly just watch TV and just be with my husband it has been an awesome weekend and thank you guys so much for joining me thank you for watching just thank you for being a part of my life um I hope you all had a good weekend as well if you participated in the cozy little read-a-thon please let me know in the comments how your brief on went another than that I think that is it I love you guys so much I will see you again next week goodnight

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Length: 31min 47sec (1907 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 20 2019