Hi everyone, good morning, it is freezing
today. I know I'm British and that means that we
talk about the weather a lot but it was 25 degrees last week then it was snowing yesterday
and now it is zero degrees but sunny. I woke up really early at 4:30am because the
birds were very loud and I don't even mind because it was a lovely sound but because
I was wide awake, I did a couple of hours of work, which means I want to take a couple
of hours off work this morning and go for a walk which I will take you on because as
I said it's freezing but really sunny. So we're going to do that but first we're
going to buy a book. That's what I would like to do. I mentioned in a previous video (I think maybe
even the last video) that I had been thinking about books that I'd read last year and loved
one of which was Pew by Catherine Lacey and I hadn't read any of her backlist books so
I said I bought two of those this is The Answers which is a novel about a woman with a chronic
illness who's hired to be someone's girlfriend but a very specific girlfriend, she is his
emotional girlfriend and then he also has a maternal girlfriend, an anger girlfriend,
and an intimacy team, it sounds really bizarre so I bought that and also her collection of
short stories Certain American States. Then I watched Grace's video which I think
she uploaded last week where she was doing a similar thing reading books by authors who
she'd read one book by and loved, to see if they would become new favourite authors and
I thought that was a great theme for a vlog so I'm borrowing that theme Grace, thank you
very much, I will link Grace's channel in the description box down below, go and subscribe
to her if you're not already. So I'm going to go through my 2020 favourites
video and remind myself of the books that I read and loved and which ones are authors
who I haven't read anything else from, let's do it. Okay I've got my computer here let's run through
the list of favourites, there was People from my Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami and that
was my first read by Hiromi Kawakami but I've since read more by them. Then there was How to Wash a Heart which was
my first read by Bhuna Kapil as well and I know that I have another book of theirs on
my shelf, let me go and get it this is a poetry collection which is called Schizophrene, it's
difficult to sum up poetry collections before you've read them, this one also doesn't have
a blurb it just has quotes but it says âSchizophrenia is an account of imagination and trauma told
through memory, research, vision and hallucination.â I loved The Wanderer by Peter Van Der Ende
which is a graphic novel but I'm pretty sure that's the only book that he has published. This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik
who I've read before, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett who I hadn't read before and
I know that she's got a debut called The Mothers. Pet by Akweke Emezi who I had read before,
I read Freshwater. Tiny Moons by Nina Mingya Powells, I have
since read her collection Magnolia. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam who
I haven't read before. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
whose short story collection Her Body and Other Parties I've already read. A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicholl, I've since
read her second book. The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O'Neill, I've
read pretty much all of their books now, big fan. How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell⌠let me
look this up, I don't think that Jenny Odell has another book out, though she does have
a new book coming out this summer which I'm very excited about âŚyes, she doesn't have
one out now but she does have a book coming out on the 3rd of August called Inhabiting
the Negative Space, a hopeful meditation on how periods of inactivity can be reclaimed
as fertile spaces for design, and how we might use this strange moment in history. Ok, Pew by Catherine Lacey as I said I've
picked up more books by her. Benardine Evaristo who I've read several books
by, Sarah Moss, I have read all of her books apart from one, I think. Hamnet by Maggie O'farrell, again I've read
many of her books. Summer by Ali Smith, I have read every single
one of her books. Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Tauzig, I would
love it if Rebekkah had another book out but she doesn't. The Other Bennett sister by Janice Hadlow
was fantastic. The only other book by her that she's published
I think is a non-fiction book about the Georgian period I want to say and it's not something
that particularly appeals to me, though I loved her fiction. And The Bass Rock by Evie Wylde and again
I have read all of her books, so out of that list there was Catherine Lacey and Bhanu Kapil,
so I have their books here and then there was also Britt Bennett and Rumaan Alaam. Let's look at Rumaan's previous book, so he's
published two books before Leave the World Behind which was a very unsettling book, quite
reminiscent of Never Let Me Go but more on the side of horror, not overt horror but psychological
horror. Okay so he's written Rich and Pretty which
is about⌠is it two sisters? No, two childhood best friends transitioning
into their adult lives, and they've grown apart and then they meet again. Hmmm. And then there's That Kind of Mother which
has not had great reviews actually, so it's about a white mother who hires a black nanny
then the nanny dies and she adopts their son yeah and then she's learning to navigate motherhood
in a different wayâ raising two children whom she loves with equal ferocity but whom
the world is determined to treat differently.â Now that does sound interesting but the reviews
are not good, lots of one star reviews⌠but I do find that his writing style does
take some getting used to, it's definitely not for everyone, so I could see that it could
divide people and then there was Britt Bennett and there's The Mothers which I've heard amazing
things about but The Mothers is also one of those books that I almost feel like I've read
because I've heard so many people talk about it, it's still on my radar but it's not really
high up, I don't think. So let's look at 2019 and see if there are
any other authors on that list that I can look into⌠okay so in 2019 all of the authors
that I read I'd read lots of things by apart from one and that was a Persephone book which
was Doreen by Barbara Noble. I read the other day that Persephone books
are leaving London and moving to Nath and that has broken my heart a little bit though
I do completely understand it and I loved that book so, so much and it's the book that
I always say to people who ask âwhat Persephone book shall I start with?â I say start with Doreen. I will link Persephone in the description
box down below. I've never looked at what else Barbara Noble
has written, I don't think that Persephone published anything else by her but I've just
googled her and she did publish a few other books one of them is called The House Opposite. Now, I am not a huge fan of World War II novels,
I think I've just read a few too many of them, however Doreen is set during the second world
war, it is an evacuation novel, The House Opposite is not but because I love that one
so much and because she lived through the Blitz in London I trust her more reading about
it, it's going to be much more authentic, obviously, than a modern writer writing about
what that could have been like; she lived through it, so let's read the blurb of this
one. It says âElizabeth Simpson is a secretary
having an affair with her married boss. Her father is an air raid warden and her terrified
mother takes her courage from concealed bottles of rum. Owen Cathcart, their neurotic teenage neighbour,
slips out during night raids to watch the fireworks and collect souvenirs of shrapnel,
and Bob Craven, a soldier Elizabeth uses as cover for her illicit romance, plans his taxi
rides to see the most dramatic bomb damage. In this riveting drama of life during the
Blitz, the extraordinary immediacy and vivid intimate details stem directly from the first-hand
experiences of Barbara Noble who lived and worked in London throughout the war. The result is a unique social document and
an unforgettable reading experience.â Okay so I'm going to purchase a copy of this
book and then let me read this one too, which is the short story collection by Catherine
Lacey and Bhanu Kapilâs poetry collection, so we've got a novel, a collection of short
stories and a poetry collection, which is a nice mixture of things, so I'm going to
take you on this walk with me and then I will check back in with you once I've started reading
these books and we can see if these authors are authors that I actually loved or whether
they were one hit wonders. Good morning, is it good morning? I think it's about midday, it's a few days
later and my book has arrived, hurrah, so all of them are here and I'm going to start
reading. Every morning I swear my body panics, it's
been a long time that I've been using this any of you who have blepharitis out there
(small niche group) when I was young we were told to use diluted baby shampoo and that's
what I've used all my life but now they have more medicinal type things this is called
Blephasol and I have to use it twice a day but it smells of suntan lotion, so weird,
so whenever I open it, my brain's like âdon't put that in our eye, it's suntan lotion, what
are you doing? That's terrible!â and then it's like âoh
it's fine, okay, this is supposed to go on our eyes and that's okayâ. This morning I woke up and I thought today's
going to be a good day, I'm going to get all of the things done on my to-do list, I'm going
to smash today, it's going to be good, I just âŚI don't know I hadn't felt like that in
a while, I was like âyes, come on, today is going to be good!â And has it been good? âŚNo. It is midday and I have spent most of this
morning chasing a referral which got lost and it's just been very⌠I feel very emotionally drained and it's only
midday. I love our NHS dearly, I love it so much and
when everything works it is brilliant but the paperwork situation at the moment⌠things
are just⌠I don't even âŚI would like to talk about
it because I think it's something that isnât always talked about a lot, advocating for
yourself in medical circumstances, or at least I haven't spoken about it a lot. I would recommend going following Nina Time,
I will link her Instagram channel in the description box down below, I'm going to link a few more
disabled people in the description box down below who talk about this, just how exhausting
it is when things are just not working. I had two scheduled phone appointments with
a doctor who didn't call me so I've had to call back and chase that â scheduled appointments
that I had been given and then I was not called, and then I didn't get any response as to why
that appointment hadn't happened and when I called again today the receptionist
said âyou know, he's very busy Jenâ because it's in the northeast so I'm doing my Geordie
accent âhe's a very busy man. I'll get him to call you back later today
but chin up pet yeah?â and it's just so patronizing. I just would like people to call you when
they say that they're going to call you, especially about really emotionally sensitive things,
which this is. Anyway he has called me back now and the stuff
that needs to be sorted is sorted but I don't even know if I'm going to keep this in the
vlog, I feel like I've just gone [mimes vomiting] at you if I did keep it in apologies for blurting
at you but yeah the reality of some medical stuff⌠I adore my doctors, love everything the NHS
has done, sometimes the system doesn't work. Anyway other medical things but fun medical
things, look what has arrived in the post. As you know or may not know if you haven't
been around a while I'm losing my eyesight, fun times, left eye is very scarred at the
moment and my right eye isn't and when I am reading or looking at a screen for a long
period of time especially in bright light⌠if it's in lowish light it's okay but given
that we're moving into summer and everything, sunlight, bright etcetera, I wanted to try
and find something to stop me getting headaches because if I'm reading a lot of text and my
brain is trying to see through all of the scarring it just gives it a headache. So I have found some funky eye patches and
I purchased them and if anyone is looking for adult funky eye patches I will link the
eBay seller in the description down below, eBay but new and this seller also makes eye
patches for the NHS, as well, so I got a couple of different ones, this one gives me fairy
tale vibes, I guess it's like a Christmas pirate, that is what I'm calling it and when
I say pirate I feel like I have to clarify: this makes me feel pirate-y but not because
disfigurement equals villainy but because so many old school lady pirates were queer,
badass and fabulous and I'm here for that, so this is a glasses patc. I have really quite big glasses âŚactually
theyâre a bit filthy let me clean those quickly, really big glasses so this doesn't
fit quite as well as it should but it's still great, so you slip the arm through there âŚoh no on the inside, there we go and then that rests across the
eye and then it's like this how awesome? Love it. So then it just blocks out the light which
is great and so I have this one and then one in boring black which I'm not sure I will
wear because this one is much more fancy and then floral pirate, this is just a normal
eye patch. With this one, maybe because it's a lighter
fabric on the outside, it does still let some light in, which is not great so I might have
to sew an extra bit of fabric on the back but let me show you, so that you wear it like
this and then I would have my hat on too because of my alopecia which looks like this. I'm a fan, I like this a lot, so I'm hoping
this is going to help for headaches and all of that stuff, it feels good to find solutions
to things. Transition phases are always really difficult
with disability, that's the scariest time, I find it the scariest time when there is
a new part of your condition that you have to learn to adapt to and then once you find
solutions everything feels a bit more manageable, so I'm very glad to have found those cool
things. I feel like over the past few years Ive been
making disability aids, this is a form of disability aid, or medical things into fashion
accessories such as my hats to cover up my hair loss, and the funky eye patches to help
with eyesight loss. Anyway this afternoon is going to be better, I can
feel it, work stuff at the moment I am doing some work for the Scottish Book Trust, doing
an event for schools about fairy tales and disability and disfigurement, so I'm going
to do that this afternoon and then this evening hopefully I can get onto reading some of these
books and I'll come back and talk to you about them, so I'll see you then. Okay so I've read the first two stories in
Certain American States by Catherine Lacey and I adored the first story and I didn't
like the second one so a bit of a strange start the first short story in here is the
oscar-winning type of short story because it's very meta in that films about films win
oscars and this is a short story about short story writing, so it's about a man whose wife
left him and she was a writer and he still receives magazines that she's subscribed to,
they arrive to the house, and then he receives a journal that she's been published in and
he's telling himself that he's not going to read it, he's not going to read her short
story. The beginning of the story is hilarious, the
first page and a half is all one sentence, let me let me open it here so I can read you
a little bit, it's this ridiculous conversation that he's having with himself about how he
wants to call ex-wife to tell her that she absolutely should never write about him and
if she ever writes about him he's going to sue but at the same time thinking âI actually
really want you to write about me because I want to know the inner workings of your
mind because I don't know what you think anymoreâ. Okay where do I even start with this sentence
because it's so long? Okay so in this part of the sentence, this
very long sentence, he's imagining confronting her about characters that have previously
appeared in her books who he thinks are like him and what she would say: âshe would probably
respond to this by saying that it was ridiculous and childish of him to accuse her of writing
autobiography â especially since he knew how much trouble such accusations had caused
her in the past â and even if she did end up writing something that contained some or
many details that echoed her life (as every writer did or had done at some point or sometimes
constantly), she knew that he knew that she was not interested in writing memoir, and
she knew that he knew that she was, as a reader and as a writer, interested only in work that
used the tangibility of character and plot as a method of elucidating intangible ideas,
not to record a personal history, and even if she did write a character who somewhat
resembled him she could never really write about him, the truest and realest him, because
there was no such thing as an immovable, constant self, and even if there were such a thing
she certainly couldnât claim she knew his, or if she did it was far too abstract to put
into words, and, anyway, he had always seemed either incapable of or indifferent to being
emotionally vulnerable with her and even after all their years together she was still baffled
and deeply hurt by the sudden revelation of his secret cruelty and the damage he had been
capable of inflicting on her, so of course she wasnât going to write about him, because
she had clearly never known him.â it's just so, so hilarious that this is a
whole conversation that he has manufactured in his head, I sympathize, and when he obviously
does open the journal with her short story in and reads it, he's complaining about how
long the sentences are, how overwritten it is and it's just very meta and funny. The second one is not meta and funny, so the
second one is about a woman whose brother has recently died and her mother has said
that she wants to move from Texas where she's from and move up to New York to be with her
daughter but really it's because she's lost, she doesn't actually want to be in New York
and the daughter knows that, so there's this unspoken sadness between them where they're
pretending to need each other but actually it's just because they don't have anyone else. I really like that premise, I thought that
worked really well but when the character is walking around townâŚ
well, actually, she's out running I think, a man comes up to her who is deaf and has
a scar across his face and she says that she has this fear in her that he's going to sexually
assault her or be violent in some way and then she says âoh I just think that because
I've been conditioned to think these thingsâ so it's acknowledging fear surrounding uh
disability and also race, which she mentions in that without saying that this deaf man
is also black, but I assume he must be given the rest of the text around it, and then at
another point in the story she encounters someone who she says has a hunchback and he's
talking to her on a bench and she doesn't want him talking to her. Yes the story is writing about basically a Karen in a park, right? A white woman who is very prejudiced against
people and thinks it's okay to feel that way towards other people because she's acknowledging
that she feels that way and brushing it off and not interrogating it in any way but let
me try that one again âŚbut so far in Catherine Laceyâs writing that I have read disability
and disfigurement have been used as teaching moments for non-disabled protagonists, or
to make a point, or as some kind of symbolism instead of actual characters who have disabilities
and who are part of the narrative too and I don't like that, I really⌠pet peeve,
massive pet peeve, red flag! So that's definitely something that I'm going
to be very mindful of reading the rest of this book, so no conclusions so far: a really
great story and a bit of a not so great story, good night. Hey, I'm putting laundry away as you can see,
in the next clip which I was just editing I realized that I have a bit of toast on my
lip and I could just refilm the whole thing but I was talking to you about books and things
that I was passionate at the moment and I don't really want to redo that. If you were here in the room with me I know
that you would have told me and that would have been your friendly advice but I'm just
here in the room with the camera which doesn't give me friendly advice or tell me when I
have stuff on my face so we're just going to live with the fact that in the next bit
I have a bit of toast on my face, that's it, that's life, bye! It's a few days later and I have started reading
the House Opposite, I don't think I'm going to finish all of these books in this video,
I'll talk about them in my wrap-up, so this is like first impressions of the books by
previous favourite authors that I'm reading, and I am loving the beginning of this one,
this is the one that as I said is set during the blitz and I think what I particularly
like about this is that it's not dramatic, so many books about the
blitz, about world war II that I have read are, understandably, about the immediate danger
and trauma of those situations which is obviously so valid and yes let's write and read about
those things, but this is taking a bit of a different view in that it's the exhaustion,
it's the âoh yeah, the blitz is still happening and we don't have the capacity to be at that
level of anxious the entire time so we've sunk into it a bitâ and I think it's⌠it's weird to compare the two things but that
sense of exhaustion is kind of I feel like where we're at with all world things right
now, you know, it becomes your âŚI hate that phrase ânew normalâ but you know what
I mean, you sink into that, it becomes just usual and you hate that it's usual and it's
a strange place to be, it feels very alien, so she's talking about walking around London
and how empty it is and no one is there because it's the evening and there are a few restaurants
that are open illegally⌠or I'm not even sure if it's illegally but ill-advisedly,
because everybody else has gone down into the tube stations to hide from the bombs which
are going to be landing very soon, the sirens are already going off, but she just has blitz
fatigue and she is dating her boss and they're sneaking around together and yeah I'm just
really enjoying it. The writing style is very similar to Doreen,
it makes you feel is safe, is that a weird thing to say about a book? I feel like I'm in safe hands reading her,
I feel like âyes, you know what you're doing, you know how to write a good story, I can
just be with these characters and have them feel like friends.â And I'm really enjoying that, so I'm not very
far into it but enjoying it immensely. I thought I would show you what arrived in
the post this morning. I bought the Last Resort by Jan Carson, I
haven't read any of her books before I know that she wrote the Fire Starters and something
else as well let me see⌠quite a few other things, Postcard Stories and Malcolm Orange
Disappears. I read her short story in last year's BBC
national short story award anthology, it was my favourite of the shortlisted stories, I
thought it was phenomenal and if I can find it I will link it in the description box down
below, if not I will link the anthology. I think she's able to convey such an amazing
amount of stuff in such a short period of time and I also bought Sick Volume II which
is an anthology by disabled and chronically ill, people this is Sick issue number two
so I'm very much looking forward to reading that but as I should have said what this is
the Last Resort, this is giving me Summerwater vibes by Sarah Moss because I think it's set
on a caravan park⌠it is, and then this is a collection of short stories and each
short story is about one person who lives on that caravan park, and this was read out
on BBC Radio 4, so very much looking forward to that and that's a good segue to talk to
you quickly about today's sponsor which is Skillshare, speaking of short stories writing
short fiction about Jan Carson being able to make you feel immediately within the setting
of whatever story she is writing, Skillshare have many classes on short story writing,
let me tell you who they are first. Skillshare is a company that I have worked
with the longest on YouTube, I think about five years, I think that they are great. They are an online learning community and
they have over 25,000 classes on loads of different things: baking, how to look after
house plants, how to start a business, how to design a logo, how to write short stories,
they have writing classes from Roxanne Gay and others but the one that I particularly
wanted to mention today is by Yiyun Lee and she has done a series of videos specifically
about character-driven short story writing and how the nature of a short story exerts
pressure on its own narrative, on its characters to blossom really quickly, to be present and
fully formed, and that's a really challenging thing to do as a writer but a really satisfying
thing to do when you get it right. And as many of you know I'm an author myself,
I have written short story collections as well as many other different things and I'm
always interested in learning more about other people's writing process, how they approach
their writing, I think sometimes we can trick ourselves into thinking that there is one
particular way to approach certain forms of writing, you know if you read a book on how
to write a novel then you'll know how to write a novel, and that's not true, which is not
to say that classes aren't helpful, they are but what I think the most helpful thing about
classes, apart from the individual tasks that they set which is a tangible thing that you
can do, is just hearing somebody talk through their method and realizing people do this
all the time, writers write things, they complete them, things get published, it's a thing that
happens, so it's not alienating anymore. I just really enjoy hearing people talk about
the way that they write their own books as someone who also writes books, so I will link
Skillshare at the top of the description box down below they have very kindly given me
a link and the first 1000 of you to click on that link will receive a free trial of
Skillshare premium. If you fancy staying on after that month,
it is a very affordable platform, it's less than ten dollars a month and their classes
are really compact, they're split into a few minute long sessions so you can get to them
whenever you have the time to do so, it's a really great place to be, so thank you very
much to Skillshare for sponsoring this video. Something else that I need to do today in
between work, I'm currently working on some non-fiction pieces for submission, is package
up this, actually I should keep the lid on before I pick it up otherwise it will fall
over, this is the best escape room that Mr M and I have done so far so this is Unlock
I want to say it's number eight, I can't remember, but it's called mythic adventure this one
in particular, you get three escape rooms in here, card games with different clues for
you to solve, different riddles, so much fun, you download a free app and then you play
along with the app because it's timing you and playing atmospheric music. I've mentioned this company before but this
one is much better than the other ones that weâve played by them, so I'm going to pack
this up because this escape room is really good, you can play it more than once â not
yourself because you know the solutions but you don't have to cut any of the cards up
or destroy them which you do with other escape room companies so I am going to package up
each individual escape room because it's very small, I mean the packaging is ridiculous
look at that, so three individual games, put a hair band around this or something and send
them to Lauren and David because I think that they will really enjoy these, so I'm going
to do that get on with writing work and then I'm going to come back to you once I have
read some of Bhanu Kapilâs work, I'll see you in a bit. You know we have reached the end of this vlog,
well, nearly, I'm going to speak to you about this one book and then I'm going to bid you
farewell, we have reached the end of this vlog and I haven't baked in this vlog or cooked
anything, I feel like I've let myself down a little bit, let my brand down, I'm sorry,
we can cook next time, so I have read the beginning of Bhanu Kapilâs book Schizophrene,
this feels a lot more academic than her other book that I read last year which was How to
Wash a Heart, academic and it feels very much like an art gallery, so she focuses on one
particular image and then she moves across and says âwe'll talk about something completely
differentâ there's a lot of space between those stanzas on the page, it's very much
prose poetry, and I'm enjoying it,I think it's going to take me quite a while to read
through because it does feel very dense, very purposeful, very mapped out and important, as though she really
is grabbing your hand and saying âcan we please look at this and discuss it for a while? Okay absorb that now let's move on to this
one over here, which is slightly connected but not really, and let's talk about that
tooâ. At the beginning she's talking about how she
wrote down lots of fragments of poems and then she didn't like them, she couldn't read
them anymore, so she took the notebook outside and she threw it into the garden, she threw
it out of its home and then she goes on to talk about migration and displacement and
mental illness, which comes about possibly because of migration and how those two things
intersect and the work that's been done she's actually speaking to researchers who have
been looking into that particular area and she uses psychosis and images of psychosis
to explore that too, so when she throws out the notebook which contains all her thoughts
about migration into the garden, it's like the characters come out of that book and start
interacting with the plants around them and I just thought that was such a wonderful image
and the way that she talks about colour is great, it says ânevertheless reading these
words I can't have them in my house and so I open the door, flinching from the blue fire
of the individual blades of grass, the bonds of the plant material that release a colour
when they are crushed, when the book hits the ground a sub red spike without a source
(a stem wrapped in a thin blue and white). Checked towel of the salt used to wrap the
earthenware pot of unset yogurt again and again, arriving the rose like a colour just
ahead of them, a torch she thinks held there and upright in her grandfather's grasp.â It definitely is something that begs to be
read slowly and absorbed, it feels like almost a process of photosynthesis given the things
that she is writing about, yeah very much enjoying that and there's something about
it that reminds me of jr carpenter's work who wrote um static⌠ocean of static? Yes, Ocean of Static. I will insert the cover here, which was taking
records of the voyages of ships and then combining them and cutting them up and then sticking
them back together again to try and find an alternate story and that's what it feels like
she's doing here, taking lots of different stories of migration and then cutting them
up and sticking them together again and forming something new, so the three books: Catherine
Lacey, loved the first story, didn't love the second story, so we'll see how I get on
with the rest of the book and I'll talk about it in my wrap-up. I am loving the Barbara Noble book the novel
about the blitz, The House Opposite, enjoying that very much so far,I mean it could all
change obviously but at the moment very much liking that and Bhanu Kapilâs book I don't
know if enjoying is the right word, I am enjoying parts of it, but I'm more in awe of her work
I just think that she is quite incredible and I think I have the same feeling when I
read work by Maggie Nelson or by Olivia Laing, I am admiring their mind instead of being
lost in the actual words there are writing. There are so many different reasons to enjoy
a book and some of those are opposites, so you may enjoy a story because it completely
sucks you in to the book and you forget about everything that's going on in the world, equally
you may love a book like Schizophrene because it doesn't suck you into a story it forces
you to look at the world around you and see it in an entirely different way. I hope that you enjoyed this video and that
you are having a good week. I would love to know what you are reading
in the comments section down below and if there are any books that you loved last year
or earlier this year by authors you haven't read any other things by and therefore would
like to read more by âŚ.that was a very long-winded way of saying that: are there authors who
you think could possibly be new favourites but you've only so far read one book by them? Let me know. I hope you're all doing okay and I'll speak
to you very soon, thank you very much to Skillshare for sponsoring this video, don't forget to
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