Around Dodge City and in the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers And that's with the u.s. Marshall and the smell of gun smoke Gun smoke scarring William Conrad story of the violence that moved west with young America The story of a man who moved with it Matt Dillon United States Marshall a long time since I've been in Dodge Paul this is why you stay out of dodge will man's whole lot better off on a ranch than in a town He's a whole lot of lonelier to then get married place needs a woman anyway And I got my eye on the Sutter girl Paul But she won't be old enough for another two three years. You settle down will It's your brother print worries me He's as steady as you Brent heads strong. That's all Now you go get the wagon and load it up the store our stuff's already I've got a little business here in the lawyer's office, and I'll join you. Okay, Paul But keep your eyes open with that rab. I hear he's a sharper. I can handle him You go along now sure pa John after What are you doing in town? I Drove in with one of my boys I have after supplies Not often you get the dodge. Oh, it isn't that's a good thing. I came in this time. Why's that? Well last night I ran into the clerk in the land office We got to talking about this and that and one thing and another and then he happened to mention that paper You fixed for me here the one I signed a few weeks back Oh the transfer of title you mean the one that said my boys own the ranch now And they don't have to wait till I die What about it? You wrote it out legal and I signed it That's right aspirin and you said I'd have to wait a while before I could give it to the boys. I did Well now rab the clerk told me I didn't have to wait any time at all. It clerk is wrong aspirin. I'm a lawyer I know the law may be so rab But anyways the clerk can read and he told me that paper I signed says it my boys don't own the ranch at all It says you do All right, the deed is in my name aspirin, but I don't aim to do anything about it for the moment So don't you get all upset? You cheated me didn't I should have known better than to trust you rab Everything's perfectly legal aspirin. Oh Only you own my ranch. Well, I told you you can go on living there for a while. What if I? Went the court about it grab all right it takes forever and it cost you a lot of money and you couldn't win anyway That's just about what I figured so you might as well just forget about it aspirin I wanted the boys to own that ranch right now so they take a bigger interest working it And it seems their old Paul went and huddled everything You got outsmarted that's all yeah, I sure did Well rab I Brought this here gun long And I'm gonna kill you with it right Huh put that gun away as per You can't do that last man. I killed was in the spring of 69 made up my mind then I wouldn't be killing any more men And I sure hate to do it But I got now look here aspirin just ain't any other way rab Like you say it's all legal. There's nothing I can do about it.  You'll hang for this. Sure.  No I'll give you a few seconds to pray rab, but that's all the way wait wait. Ask me listen to me You can have the deed back. I'll fix it up right now.   I do it now. No, no, no The deed I'll fix it right now and you can go file it yourself Look, I'll do it now. You know, I can't read and then we'll take it over together and record it Oh, no, the clerk can read it for you Well All right, rab Go ahead fix it. Yes There Are you satisfied as soon as we get it recorded? Maybe I will be come on then we'll do it right now You're a pretty smart lawyer, rab I think this is about the last job. I'll ask you to do for me and if you didn't do this, right? I'll kill you sure now. Let's go find out Where have you been all week Matt? We've missed you around here a dodge been peaceful enough kitty According to Chester anyway, at least nobody's been shot. I know us. I've come close to it a time of truth Oh, well arguing doesn't sell any grieves Yeah, maybe someday men will learn that I doubt it Yeah You don't think very high of men. Do you not very after what I've seen of them Maybe the trouble is you've never seen them when they were working They aren't so bad man. That's what they're always telling me Matt, I'd like to go to St. Louis or somewhere for a while. I need a change. No Why don't you go? Oh I don't know. It wouldn't really be any good alone. Oh, yeah, Chester. Oh, hello, Miss Kitty Oh, you just say I just come from Docs. Mr. Dillon. You better get over there right away. Rabb's been shot Rabb the lawyer. Yes, sir right in his office. Doc isn't sure how long you'll be conscious who shot him I don't know sir. Some men heard the shot and they found him there all alone. Whoever it was had got out the back way I'll see you later. Kenny. Come on, Chester Can they talk Chester? Yes, sir But doc told him not to waste his strength number you got there. I came right away, Mr. Dillon. Yeah sure now doc Doc, how is he? He's alive Matt and still conscious I've done what I can, huh? The marshals here, Rabb. Yeah, if you like talking now Hello, Marshall. Who shot you? Asper. Oh John Asper shot me. John Asper? Have a fight with him? He shot me in the back, Marshall. I never even saw him. How do you know who it was if you didn't see him? I was sitting in my office and he shot me through the window in the back. But how do you know it was Asper? A couple of days ago he threatened to shoot me. That's why.  Well, why did he threaten you? Well, it was about his ranch, Marshall. I made a little little mistake and got the title transfer mixed up. But I fixed that. You can ask for a clerk at the land office. Everything was made OK. Asper was right there with me. When was all this? Four days ago, Marshall. A man's crazy. That's why he shot me. He's kind of crazy. No, no, no, no, that's enough. That's enough now, Rab. You'd better not talk any more now. Doc, what do you think? How does he look? He might pull through, Matt, but he cannot get excited. OK, we'll go. Let me know how he is, will you? More sure, man, sure. I'd like to talk to him again when he's able. His story doesn't make much sense so far. What's up, Mr. Dillon? He was just closing up the land office. For a clerk, he works pretty late. What'd he say? Well, sir, he said the same thing Rab did. Only it wasn't no mistake. What? Rab didn't make any mistake. Somehow he got old Asper to sign the deed to his ranch over to him. All clear and legal. Then, four days ago, they came in again and signed it back to Asper. The clerk thinks Rab fooled the old man somehow on the first one. He can't read, you know? Maybe Asper did threaten him after all. Yes, but if everything was made OK, why would Asper shoot him? I don't know. Maybe we better ask him. Are we going to write out there tonight, Mr. Dillon? No. No, I know John Asper. He's not going to run. Anyway, I'd like to talk to Rab again first. Yes, sir. How are the eggs this morning, Chester? They've gone up both in price and age. How's Rab, Mr. Dillon? He's still alive. Couldn't talk very long, though. Did you find out anything? No, same story. Oh, say, I nearly forgot. The old man Asper was in here a few minutes ago. Huh? But where is he now? He said he'd be right back. I told him you'd like to see him. Yeah, yeah, I would. Thanks, Chester. Well, that's all right, sir. Oh, I ordered some eggs for you, too. Oh, good. And coffee. Here's Asper now. Good morning, Marshal. Hello, Asper. You, uh... Want to see me? Yeah, yeah, I did. Won't you sit down? All right. But I can't stay long. I just rode in from cold water, and I want to get on out the ranch before noon. No? Then you weren't in Dodge last night? No, I'd had to ride mighty fast to be in Dodge last night, Marshal. It seems as how I didn't leave cold water till after supper. Maybe I should have waited till morning, but I figured it'd be easier on my horse to travel at night in this hot weather. Yeah, yeah. Um, who did you see in cold water, Asper? Shanghai Pierce, himself. Made a deal with him for some cows, too, when he comes up with his next herd. Won't be for two, three months, though. I see. Uh, Asper, tell me something. Did you threaten to shoot that lawyer, Rab? How'd you know about that, Marshal? What did you? Yes, I did. Why? Well, somebody shot him last night. They kill him? Now, he's still alive. You got any idea who might have done it? Yeah, I might have. But you didn't. No, but I would have. He's a crook, Marshal. I thought I was signing the ranch over to my boys, and he put his name in instead. He changed his mind about it, though, once I got him freed. Do, uh, do your boys know about this? Nary a word. No, now they didn't do it, Marshal. Isn't, uh, your younger son, Brent, uh, isn't he the wild one? Well, Prince of Mike Wild, you could say.  But he didn't know about Rab, Marshal. He knew nothing at all. I'd have found out somehow. I sure don't know how. I never told him. And he ain't even been to town since this started. Neither of the boys been here? Well, he came in with me the other day, but he didn't talk to Rab. Ah, I see. Well, Marshal, I don't want any suspicions about them boys. Now, you just write out with me and we'll clear this up once and for all. I told Rab I'd kill him, and I would have.  I expected that. But the boys weren't in on it, and I don't want anybody thinking they were. Now, you come talk to them. All right, Asher. All right. I'll write out with you. Sure you will. And I'll tell you about Rab. If he pulls through this time, somebody will just shoot him again. That man's no good at all, Marshal. We will return for the second act of gun smoke in just a moment. But first, young women are needed to enroll as student nurses and to take their places as graduate nurses in an ever-expanding field where opportunity unlimited await. Older women should seek careers as practical nurses where fine living and fine working conditions are in prospect. Ask at any hospital at the nurse's registry desk or at any qualified school of nursing. And now the second act of gun smoke. You've done a lot of work on this place since I was here, Asher. It's coming, Marshal. It's coming. I don't blame you for not wanting to be cheated out of it. Well, life's always uncertain. Full of boils, Marshal. Never did have it easy on this ranch. I don't see the boys around. Maybe they're in the house. Come on, we'll have a look. All right. We've got company. Hello, Will. Marshal. Where's Prince? I want both of you here. He'll be around later, maybe. Well, go get him, Will. I got some coffee on the stove. Come on for a cup, Marshal. Will. Yes, Pa. You know where Prince is. No. When did you see him last? Yesterday. Morning. All right. We'll find him later. Will. Rav got shot last night, and the Marshal here is looking for the man who shot him. Did you do it? No, I didn't shoot him. You're telling the truth. I've been off the ranch. That's the truth. Satisfied, Marshal? Yeah, I'm satisfied. What about Prince? I think Prince might have done it, Will. Ask him. You know more than you're telling me, don't you? Yeah, well, I'll be. Now, what do you know about me and Rav? Tell me now, Will. I know what I heard. I was curious, so I went around back and listened at the window while you and Rav was talking to me. I heard you say you went and fuddled everything, and I left. I told a friend about it, too. Then why didn't you listen some more since you were snooping around? I was going to shoot him all right, but he fixed everything up. This is your ranch, now yours and Prince.  That's so. But now it looks like Prince got hot-headed and rode to town. Doesn't, Marshal? That could be. Anyway, I think we better find him. I'll find him.  You just said you were going to shoot that lawyer yourself, Pa. Sure I was. It would have been the first time I've killed, but that's different.  Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. We don't know that Prince did it. I know dang well he did now. But if he shows up, I'd like to talk to him.  Well, unless Rav dies. You can find me in Dodge. Bring him in if he comes back, Marshal. All right. All right. Well, so long, Will. Bye, Marshal. I guess I was just going to write out after you, Mr. Dillon. Well, why? What's happened? Rav got shot all over again. What? He's dead for sure now. Yeah, right in Doc's office, Mr. Dillon. We were sitting down here and me and Doc couldn't rehearse it. But by the time we got upstairs, he'd gone. Whoever'd done it, and Rav was dead. Shot him right on the couch and jumped out Doc's back window. Nobody saw him that I could find him. Well, he sure was determined, wasn't he? Chester, go see if you can find out if Brent Asper's been in Dodge in the last couple of days. Old Asper, young man? Well, he's 18, Doc. Oh, well, yes, yes, yes. Oh, yeah, he's old now.  Yes, sir. And Chester, I'll be at the Texas trail. All right. Doc, you've known John Asper for a long time. Boy, I've been in Dodge, man. Yeah, well, so have I. I just hope for his sake, Brent didn't do this. Oh, yes, man. Asper's a crafty old buzzard, but he's straight as a comb. Yeah, sure is. Well, I'll see you later, Doc. Yeah, sure. Sit on, Matt. Thank you. Yeah, the place looks kind of deserted tonight. Oh, surely. Most of the boys haven't slept off last night yet. Uh, Kelly, tell me something. You know Brent Asper? He's been in a couple of times. When? Oh, not for a couple of months, Matt. Why? Uh, I'm looking for him, that's all. Is he in trouble? Yeah, I think so. What are you doing? Yeah, Charlie at the stage office sign this morning. The first place is stopped. Was he sure? Yes, sir. He said Brent walked right down the street, but wouldn't even say hello to him. He went right past him. All right, Chester. Matt, over there by the door. Isn't that old man Asper? Yeah, it sure is. Here he comes, you know. The doc told me I'd find you here, Marshall. Yeah. He's going to ride out to take care of Will. I want you to go after Print with me. Take care of Will? Well, what's happened? And I'll just about a half hour after you left, Marshall. I was out at the barn, and then I heard Print and Will arguing, and I started with the house. But before I got there, Print pulled a gun on Will and shot him. Then he rode away again. I did what I could for Will, and then I come for the doc. Well, as Will heard that, I don't know, Marshall. But doc can fix him if anyone can. Let's go now. We'll get fresh horses at the ranch. Yeah, all right, all right. Chester, go get our horses, huh? Yes. I taught Print everything I know about the prairie, Marshall. It's going to be a long ride. Asper was right. It was sure enough a long ride. We cut Print's trail just beyond the ranch and followed it west for two days. The old man tracked like an Indian. To determine how fresh the trail was, he'd spent a long time at certain places just looking at grass blades or scrutinizing the fine little marks made on bare ground by insects or calculating on the age of a doodle bug hole. He was slow, but as certain as death, and we never lost the trail once. On the fourth day, he announced that the tracks were just a few hours old. He rode faster. About noon, we stopped behind a small hummer and walked forward to where we could see a cabin 100 or so yards off surrounded by high-brown prairie grass. He's in there, Marshall. Are you sure? Yes. He's decided to make his stand from there. It's a good spot. You sure he is. You've got a clear field all the way around. Well, let's surround him and wait it out. That's too slow. And I'm in a hurry to get back to Will. He's still alive. I'll put a couple of shots in there. Maybe he's ready to give up. I doubt it. But go ahead. He'll never give up. Let's spread out and rush him. No, Marshall. That'll just mean more bloodshed. He'd get one of his shore. I've got a better idea. Oh? We'll burn him out. What? Look at that grass. It's as dry as tinder. All we have to do is fire it and take him when he comes out. He'll come out shooting. I know. I'll be waiting. Look, Asper, Chester and I will stay here and starve him out. Why don't you ride on back? No, I don't figure that way. Marshall, thank you just the same. The cabin's downwind. We can fire it from right here. Okay. You and I will move out a little, Chester. And let go any time. Yes, sir. Look, Asper. I'll do the shooting, huh? I can knock him down without killing him. He'd only hang. We'll all shoot, Marshall. Okay. I bunched up a handful of brown grass and lit it. And the wind did the rest. And carried the flames springin' higher and higher toward the cabin. It started down from Chester, too, and from where the old man lay. It was four or five feet high when it reached the cabin, which caught fire at once and was soon burnin' fast. No man could live in there for long. And after a minute, the two print ran out the door and came toward us past the flames.  You're caught there. All right, Marshall. Chester? All right. Come on, Chester. Oh, watch it. He may not be dead. Is he? Is he dead, Marshall? Yeah. I'm sorry, Asper. I was afraid he'd kill one of us if I didn't get him first. I saw your shot, Marshall. You hit him in the shoulder on purpose, I figure. I killed him. I had to. Now, let's get him buried. I want to get back to Will. We buried print near the charred ruins of the cabin and then started the long ride back to the ranch. On the way, the old man never mentioned print, but talked endlessly of the prairie and his long life on it. He knew the land the way a preacher knows the Bible, and he accepted it in its ways with the same mixture of faith and fear. When we finally reached the ranch, Chester and I waited outside the house while the old man went in alone. After a moment, Doc appeared on the porch, smiling, and then the three of us rode back to Dodge. Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. Tonight's story was especially written for Gun Smoke by John Messon, with the music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in the cast were Joseph Kearns, John Dana and Sam Edwards. Harley Bear is Chester, Georgia Ellis is Kitty, and Howard McNeer is Doc. Gun Smoke is heard by our troops overseas through the facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Join us again next week when Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall, fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the West in Gun Smoke. Next Monday night, the lure of the wilderness will be your luxe radio theater feature attraction starring Gene Peters and Jeffery Hunter in their original screen role. 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I once saw a man fight a bear with his bare hands. Come on! I'll take you with my bare hands! He wore sharp clawed bare hands. The bear, not to be outdone, wore boxing gloves. The man fighting the bear with his bare hands. The bear fighting the man with his man hands. It was quite confusing listening to the announcer. Let's get her! The man clawed the bear, striking with the man's right bare hand. But the bear jabbed back at the man with the bear's left man hand.


Hi, I'm Daniel Weisberg, Search Advocate at Google. And today, I'll talk about how to use Search Console to monitor and optimize your performance with Google Rich Results. By the end of this video, you will understand what are rich results, how to monitor your rich results appearance on Google Search, where to find errors in your structured data, and how to ask Google to validate fixes you've done to your website. But before I go into the nuts and bolts of Search Console, I'd like to say a few words about structured data and rich results, as an introduction, if you haven't heard about it, or to refresh your memory. When you search on Google, you can see many kinds of results, including blue links with text snippets and rich results. For example, if you search for a venue or a music band, you may get results that show you nearby events. Or if you search for falafel recipes, you may get instructions on how to cook it. Those are examples of rich results. If you own a website, you might want to trigger these types of results for your site, as they can be more attractive to users. For that, you'll need to implement structured data markup. Check our developer documentation to find out more about what, how, and why to implement structured data. In a nutshell, here's how your decision-making process should look like. Review the search gallery examples. Find a structured data type that matches your content. Check guidelines and requirements to be eligible to appear on search. Implement the markup on your pages. After you do that, you can start using Search Console to help optimizing your implementation and monitoring your performance. In addition to the Search Console interface, which we'll talk about in a minute, you can also use a public structured data testing tool called Rich Results Test. This tool can verify the syntax of your structured data and, in some cases, provide a sample of what the result might look like in Google Search. You can either upload a piece of code or check a specific URL for Google to crawl. The tool shows whether your implementation has any errors. You'll also have an option to preview your page's search appearance on Google Search results and how it will be seen by Googlebot. Checking your own code can be very handy during development cycles to make sure your structured data is valid even before you move to production. Over time, as the pages with structured data are indexed by Google, Search Console will start showing reports for those structured data types. After setting up your pages and seeing them get indexed, your next step is to monitor their performance. Let's run through an example of how you check your Rich Result performance on your site. First, open Search Console and navigate to the Performance Report. Select Search Appearance in the tabs just below the main chart. You'll see, in a glance, the volume of traffic coming to your website through Rich Results. In order to understand your Rich Results performance over time, add a filter to the report, including only Rich Results. You can do that by clicking the Rich Results row in the table. This will update your performance charts to show your Rich Results traffic by queries, pages, countries, and devices. You might find patterns in your data that show how important or how unimportant a specific segment of traffic is. Perhaps a specific group of queries or pages are not driving Rich Results, which could point at opportunities to enhance your structured data implementation. Additionally, you might notice a drop in Rich Results performance if your structured data implementation was affected by a website change. Once you have a better idea of your overall performance, you should take a closer look into each specific structured data report in order to learn about warnings and errors that Google has encountered in your website. Errors disqualify your Rich Results from being shown in Google Search, but you may still be shown through a standard plain blue link. Warnings can provide a somewhat reduced experience for users. When Search Console detects structured data for one of the supported Rich Results types on your website, it will create a report for it, summarizing all errors and warnings, and it will send an email to account owners. But if an existing issue gets worse, it won't trigger an email. So it is important for you to check your account periodically. This is not something you need to do every day, but I recommend you check it once in a while to make sure everything is working as intended. For example, if your website development has defined cycles, it might be a good idea to log into Search Console after changes are made to the website to check that nothing broke down. You'll find the structured data reports under the enhancements section in the sidebar. You will see a report only if Search Console has data for that Rich Result type on your site, and Search Console offers a report for that type. Open the structured data type summary report you have access to. By default, you'll see the trends for error items in the main chart, but you can also click Valid with Warnings and Valid to check their trends at the chart and more details in the table. The bar chart is great for monitoring trends over time, but you'll probably want to check the details in the table below the chart, which provides the specific issues that Google found in your website. To get more details on a specific issue, click one of the errors to open a detailed report. Here, you'll see the date when the error was detected, the number of errors over time, and examples of pages where Google detected it. You can click a specific example page to check instances of the error in your HTML code. Now that you know what needs to be fixed, you have two options. Make the required code change yourself or share the details with a developer that can perform code changes to your website. You can do that by grabbing a link using the Share button. After you or your developer have fixed the error, click Validate Fix, and Google will validate your changes. There are quite a few types of errors and warnings, so if you don't understand what's wrong, check the developer documentation on the specific structured data type you implemented. You can find a list of them in the search gallery. Before I leave you to work on your property, I want to mention one last report, unparsable structured data. If Google finds structured data that for some reason breaks while parsing the page before it can even identify the rich result type, it will show that item as an error in the unparsable structured data report. Parsing issues could point you to lost opportunities for rich results for your site. You should fix the errors in this report to get the benefits of structured data. Once they're fixed, the page structured data will be added to Google or in case there is still an issue, it will show up in the respective structured data report. That's it for today. Hopefully you'll be more comfortable to monitor and optimize your rich results from now on. In the next episode, I'll talk about how to use Search Console to improve your AMP implementation and make your site more usable. Don't forget to subscribe to the Google Webmaster's YouTube channel where we'll be publishing lots of Search Console videos. So stay tuned.


Hello and Namaste. The learning extension trajectories are mechanisms in a learner centric move to address the diversity of learners and their learning levels. Structurally, the LXT is consist of multiple type of resources followed by a graded assimilation quiz that incentivizes the access to these resources. In this learning dialogue, I will be providing you with guidelines that help in answering the third question that is how to create an assimilation quiz. Consider this scenario of a face-to-face classroom where you have just finished a lecture on an interesting concept. You know that the students found this topic really interesting and they are actually trying to look at the different variety of applications that are related to this concept. To further engage them in pursuing the concept, you have already prepared a list of resources related to the advances in this topic in the form of maybe videos, it could be research papers, it could be interviews with experts working in this field, the list of applications that use this concept etc and have brought a USB with you. At the end of the class, you pass this USB to the students and ask them to copy it. Now take a moment, pause and think about the following questions. How many students are going to access all these resources? How many students are going to access at least one resource? I expect a most common answer to the first question to be a number which is very close to 0. Yeah, there might be few numbers but it is closer to 0, isn't it? But most of you would have thought a majority of students to access at least one resource that is for the second question, you would have an answer which is slightly greater. Now let us rewind back for a moment. You are still in the same class, you see that all the students or most of the students have copied the resource, for a difference you are now saying the following sentence to all the students. In the next class, I will take a 5 minute quiz. Each question in the quiz will be based on these resources that have shared. You are required to answer only one of these questions. Now re-think about the questions that I asked before. How many students are going to access all the resources? How many are going to access at least one? So I now imagine that there is going to be a difference in the numbers that you have right now. The answer to the first question will be a number which is slightly greater than 0. It is so close to 0 right now, but I think most of you would have thought that most of the students will access at least one resource. So you will have a number close to 100% as an answer to the second question. Why has this happened? So this has happened because you have incentivized the access to these resources and this is what assimilation quiz also does. Now let me give guidelines on creation of an assimilation quiz. So guideline number one is that each learning extension trajectory should have an assimilation quiz associated with it. Second guideline, the quiz should not be too complex that a person has to spend additional time in finding out the answer. So the guideline number two is anybody who access this resource should be able to immediately answer the question of assimilation quiz. So let me give a simple example to it. So consider the case of a research paper which you have given as an learning extension trajectory. While creating assimilation quiz to this research paper what you should keep in mind is that the learner should be able to immediately get this information by just accessing this resource. So you could give a question as to something that is there in the abstract. So some important new contribution of the paper that is already available in the abstract. So your question could be what is the contribution of this paper? But they can easily find out from the abstract. Consider the example of a video that you have already shared with your students as a learning extension trajectory. One possible assimilation quiz could be what has happened in that video at a particular time point. This would encourage the learners to actually go to the video and look at what happened. A third guideline for creation of assimilation quiz is that ensure that the assimilation quizzes have a minor grade associated with it. The marks should not be too high nor it should be too low. So once you follow all these three guidelines you will be able to make your assimilation quiz.


All right, we got our stuff ready. Good boy, babies! Good boy! All right, we just stopped at Quick Trip and got some little munchies for dinner, and now we're on our way. So excited! I hope this works out. We both just got burgers, which is cute because on our last road trip, we got burgers, and yeah, it's cute. So we're headed out! Four hours to go, and then we're going to be sleeping in our car at the campground, and then a full day of hiking after that tomorrow. So we are about an hour away from the campsite. Weston is currently getting some gas.  So we're almost there! I'm so excited! Oh there's Weston. Good morning everybody! It is currently 8am. Actually I shouldn't be talking. And we just had a night sleeping in our car, basically winter camping, and we're gonna go visit the start of the Mississippi River today. We are at Itasca State Park, and we slept in the Pine Ridge Campground site 115, and it was pretty nice. I thought it was pretty easy to find, and yeah, now we're just looking for a bathroom, and we're gonna start our hiking day. We're here at the Mary Gibbs Mississippi Headwaters Center, and we're gonna go check out the start of the Mississippi River. Is it chilly? Not too chilly. It's only 25 out here, not cold. That other spot was a little warmer. Now we are officially at the Mississippi Headwaters, and there it is! There's the start of the Mississippi! And there is a little webcam over here, and then there's this big sign, and this says here 1,475 feet above the ocean, the mighty Mississippi begins to flow on its winding way 2,552 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. We are going to go down the path there, but we're gonna check out the webcam really quick before we go. We are at the Headwaters, and this is a screen shot of the webcam they have, and there we are. Hee hee! The Minnesota thing I could wear today. To visit the Mississippi Headwaters. Hey, smile again! Cute! There's the Headwaters. We are going to go down this little boardwalk path over to, I guess, back to the car maybe, but yeah, I'm so glad we made this trip, and it was super fun to just do a little winter camping and come visit the start of the Mississippi that neither of us have ever been to, so it's just a really cool and special experience, and I'm really glad we did it.  Oh, we got shy. All right, we're at the Visitor Center. We're gonna go check it out, see if we can get one of those passport travel books for the Minnesota State Parks, and just go check it out. I don't think really anything's open right now, but we'll see, see what we can find, and we saw some deer. Crazy, so much wildlife right now. Great, we just left the Visitor Center. There wasn't really much, unfortunately, due to COVID, but we got our little passport club, so we got our first stamp, and then we got a cute sticker and some pins for our hiking bags, even though we didn't really hike that much, but I don't know, we still marked it off the list, so it's exciting. So yeah, so we're gonna go to the next stop now, which is in Bemidji. We are making a brief pit stop at the, what's this called? La Salle Lake State Recreation Area. So this is part of the Mississippi Headwaters, and we're gonna go check it out. We're just walking down to the boat launch. This is so cool.  It's a little windy. There's Paul Bonion and Babe. I am blanking for some reason on the story behind them. We are here on Lake Bemidji, our first, my first time, your first time, right? It's been a fun trip so far. The sun feels nice. We're checking out this little ice snow mound. Bemidji State Park. There's Lake Bemidji. This ice is kind of great. It's nice to make, but this is kind of cool. Crazy. It's like, it's like cold, but it feels good. It's weird. So we're here, so then if we just, oh, it goes right there. We are now at Schoolcraft State Park. It is our third state park of the day, and there's the beautiful Mississippi there, and there's a bunch of these really pretty old pine trees, which is super cool. So unlike the other two state parks that we went to, and we're like some of the only people here, which is really cool. So this is really beautiful, and the sun just shining through the trees. It's so pretty. Why are you laughing at me? Oh, it's about a little like baby pine tree. They're specifically like breed that they're protecting because they have some of them. They're just like sectioned up. There's that little baby pine tree, which is what it is. I'm just talking about. This guy who was walking by talked about the otter holes, the sea otters, the river otters.  That's pretty cute. These trees are so large. We are now in Grand Rapids, hanging out at Culver's right now, getting some lunch or dinner or whatever you want to call it. So yeah, we're just in Grand Rapids now and then we're going to two more state parks and one of them we're going to spend the night at the camp ground there. So pretty excited. I booked a backpacking site and we're just going to sleep in the car. Maybe they have the parking. So that'll be interesting to say the least, but yeah, it's been a good day so far. Is that my barbecue? We are now at Savannah Portage State Park and this is a little bit off the Mississippi, but we are here. It's around 5pm now. The sun is going to start setting very, very soon. So we are just getting in our last little hikes here. We're not really sure where to hike. We kind of just walked up a little trail there. So yeah, we're just going to look around a little bit, see if there's anything else to check out. But otherwise, after that, we're just going to drive the hour to hour campground and get ready for bed. What have we got here? That sun looks so pretty. This might be our only like really snowy place. This is kind of crazy though. Oh, there's the bridge. Made it to Malax, wait, no, Malax, Cathio State Park. And we are in the car night number two. And yeah, we're all late for the night. So hopefully it won't be as cold as yesterday. And I think the windows bent a little bit better today, hopefully. But yeah, we're going to head to bed.


So how do you know you're in the right relationship? And when I say no, I mean, how do you really know you're in the right relationship? And how does a man know they're in the right relationship? And these are really good questions to explore because the reality is these days, dating is very complicated, relationships are complicated. There's things like situationships, there's casual relationships. The whole variety of terminology that comes out can be rather confusing. So we're going to explore how to know that you're really in the right relationship. And quite frankly, this is correspondingly true for men who are in the right relationship. I think it's important to recognize though that most people in relationships today find themselves in what's known as situationships. And what I mean is the situation ship is a relationship that is undefined. There's no labels. There's no calling each other's boyfriend. There's no real direction. There's lack of intentionality. Think about that for a moment, a lack of intentionality. What does intentionality mean? It means, you know, having a goal in mind and then doing the action steps to achieve that goal, that's being intentional in one's life. And yet many people today dating are, let's just live in the moment. I just want to live in the moment. You know, let's not put a label on it. And let's not talk about the future. But when you think about relationships, that's a really significant aspect of an individual's life. It's like saying, I want to get a job at a company, but they can fire me whenever they want. Well, yeah, that's true. A company can, you know, do at will employment. But when two people enter into a professional capacity, isn't it an intent to do long-term? Or is it short-term? Now, a lot of, there are certainly jobs out there that are entry-level jobs. And today's dating is much the same. It's entry-level. It's just like, yeah, I want to just go work as a, you know, at a Starbucks so I can get my feet wet. And certainly younger people do that. And yet today's relationships are the same thing. And yet when a company invests in employee, don't they want to get some return on their investment? Well, it's the same thing. If you enter into a relationship with someone, you want to get a sense of a return on your investment. Now, what I mean to say is, is this something where it's a short-lived or is it long-term? So it really behooves everyone to decide now, do they have a short-term mating strategy or a long-term mating strategy? Because a long-term mating strategy requires a different way to approach the dating, the getting to know you process. Folks, many women have a broken man picker. You choose men who are not right for you. And in that, you find yourself in these short-lived experiences. It's like those temporary jobs or those starter jobs we've talked about. If you are intent on actually getting a significant relationship in your life, then look at schedule a discovery call with me. It's right here. There's also a link below. Schedule a discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. My area of expertise is all centered around helping you make better choices through what I call radical honesty, laying your cards on the table and the rules of engagement. What is radical honesty? It's being vulnerable. It's being authentic. It's being transparent. And transparent means if it's material to the relationship, then these things should be discussed. That's radical honesty. Laying your cards on the table, that's unpacking someone's past relationship experience. It's important to do that, just like an employer would want to investigate your past work experience because that gives an indicator of how someone's gonna operate in the future. And the rules of engagement are what I call the standards you're looking for in a relationship. And yet, sadly, many of you have not established your standards. So you're more than welcome to borrow the standard I use. And that is, I think a healthy standard for two people in the early stages of dating. When I say early stage of dating, when two people have decided they wanna explore a relationship together, exploring a relationship together, then here's a really good standard. You spend two, three, four days, nights and weeks together doing shared activities, hobbies, mutual interest, spending time with family and friends, traveling together, teamwork, building skills, both in your personal and your professional life, intimacy, both physical and emotional intimacy that leads to either moving in together, getting married or maybe living together apart. That's something you might wanna explore as well. Okay, why is this so critically important? Because as I said just a few moments ago, people are dating ambivalent. There's uncertainty, they're living in the moment. And without that goal in mind, how can you actually know you're in the right relationship? I know what you're gonna say, but Jonathan, I'm in a long distance relationship, but Jonathan, I have a busy life, but Jonathan, he has a busy life. Lookie, really, I wanna encourage everyone to really ask themselves, do you want a life partner? Because if you want a life partner, then you must have a long-term mating strategy, not a short-term mating strategy. And a long-term mating strategy means evaluating this person to see if they can fit into your life. When two people live in far distances, or quite frankly, even an hour drive is a long distance relationship, can the two of you actually blend lives together? And more importantly, will you spend the requisite amount of time to get to know one another? Folks, I'm here to say, I want you to think about this for a moment. The best way to get to know someone is to live with them. That's the best way to get to know who this person really is, is when you live with them, okay? Second best way to get to know someone is to go on a long extended vacation with them. You get a sense of how they operate when you're in close quarters, quarters on a regular basis. Our current dating process is a very long drawn-out process where two people have their own respective lives, they come together, they share some companionship, they share some connection, and they share some sex, and they go back to their respective homes. And yet, quite frankly, you can't really get to know someone to know if they're the one unless you spend a concentrated amount of time together in a relatively short period of time. That's right, concentrated amount of time together. And if it's not conducive with this person that you've become attached to, it's going to be more likely to be problematic because today, human beings are experiencing what's known as artificial, artificial intimacy. What that means is they're highly dependent upon their devices for connectivity, but it's artificial, it's cyber intimacy. Because if I'm, how to know a man's, how a man knows he's with the one, it's when he's with her and he feels good. He feels good when he's with them, with this person, and you feel good when you're with this person. So I've laid out six things to know that you're with the one and he's with the one, and I wanna dive into this right now. And ask yourself, are you experiencing this in the relationship that you're in right now, or more importantly, really, I wanna actually, for those who are single and looking for a significant relationship, please write these down because this is all, this is your barometer for establishing or for assessing, excuse me, is this the right relationship for you? And I guarantee you, if these things are being met, it's the right relationship for him as well. So let's dive into this. First and most importantly, you feel calm when you're with them. You're not chasing him, nor are you chasing the relationship. That's really important to recognize calm.  You're on Google, you're searching, you know, why do men ghost? Why do men disappear? How to get an emotionally constipated man to open up? I call it emotionally constipated. I believe there's no such thing as being emotionally unavailable. I just think there's blockage for someone to be capable to emote their feelings. And we all need a little bit of help with that. And yet when you're in the right relationship, it should feel calm. You're not chasing him, nor are you chasing the relationship. Two people are mutually making effort with one another to connect with one another. Is that sinking in? I hope it is. Number two, when you're together, you want to be your best. Does anyone remember the movie as good as a get with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt? In that movie, Jack Nicholson has got some, I forget, is he OCD? And he's got some other quirks as well. And he goes on to say, he goes on to take medication because he really likes Helen Hunt. And he says to her, you make me want to be a better man. When you're in the right relationship, you actually want to be a better person. You've tried harder to be a better person.    I want her to feel special. Being with her makes me put down the toilet seat more often than I not. Being with her means I'm gonna clean up a little bit more. I want to be a better version of myself because being with this person brings me so much joy. You want to be the best version of yourself. And sure, we can be lazy at times and consider it sometimes dismissive, but it's such a minor compared to the effort. And when you're with the right person, you should be feeling this. You want to be the best version of yourself and you're feeling calm while you're doing it. Number three, you feel comfortable sharing your feelings. You both feel comfortable sharing your feelings. You know, folks, this is where I see a lot of women compromise so much. And it's not that they're compromising. It's that their own individual fear of bringing up your feelings causes one to believe that this person will break up with you. And I'm here to say it's quite the opposite. When you're with the right person, you can be vulnerable. You could be authentic. You can be transparent when you're with the right person. And by the way, if this man is a little bit emotionally constipated by leading by example, by being the expressive one, it will naturally draw out his. If he's really the one, the wrong person will get scared. The wrong person will run away from emotions and feelings. That's right. The wrong person does. But let me ask you something. Is a mediocre relationship where you can't be expressed your truth? Be the relationship that you want to hold hope for? Are you hoping for magic fairy dust to change this person? Many of you are. Many of you find yourself in situationships and casual relationships are worse. You're actually in a friends with benefits relationship that you don't really know about it. You know, being able to express your feelings is a critically important part of a healthy relationship. In fact, it should be a prerequisite. One of the things my sweetheart and I do, there's Marie right there. We have every morning our coffee. Every seven a.m. every morning, we sit and we have a cup of coffee for an hour and we share our thoughts and feelings about the previous day of what's coming up for us. We talk about our emotions. You know, we carve out quality time. Quality time is critically important for a healthy, happy relationship. And in that, it's being able to express your feelings. And if you need some support with that, check out my book, What the Heck Is Self-Love Anyway? A Journey of Personal Development, Self-Help and Spiritual Work, there's a link below. Okay, there's three more things I wanna share. When a man knows he's found the one and when you found the one. Number four, while you might not like things about the person, you don't feel a strong need to change them. You know, there's an old saying, men marry women hoping they don't change and women marry men hoping they do change. Here's the thing. There might be things you don't like about your partner. There might be things that you wished were different. You know, the reality is, is that when you're with the right person, you don't feel a strong need to change it. It's learning to accept your differences. And yes, human beings are gonna have differences and being able to lean into those differences and saying, it's kind of like the movie Harry Met Sally. Does anyone remember the movie Harry Met Sally? Sally had some particular quirks about how she ordered food. And I'm sure Billy Crystal or Harry, excuse me, was like, oh my God, she's neurotic. She's high maintenance. At the end of the day, he recognized that that's just part of her personality and it was okay for her to be a bit neurotic. He didn't try to change her. He learned to accept it. My sweetheart goes on and on about stories. Oh my God, she has more file cabinets than anyone on this planet. And she can reach into a file cabinet and tell you a whole story. And she's Colombian, so she has so many cousins in her life, so many stories, sometimes it's exhausting. But at the same time, I don't feel need to change that because it's part of who she is. And when we can actually love those things about a person that might drive us slightly nuts, like maybe occasionally I forget to put the toilet seat down. She doesn't try to change me. She doesn't shame me. She doesn't belittle me because we're not perfect human beings. Number five, you both manage conflict well. Folks, this is probably the most critically important aspect of any relationship is the ability to resolve conflicts. And by the way, this requires being a good listener and listening means, and first off, being a good listener. Listener means listen to what someone says, acknowledge what they say, meaning you might need to repeat it back to them and recognize that that person's feelings might be true for them, even if you have a different opinion. Look at healthy relationships require two people that want to work together instead of being right, you wanna be happy. And conflict resolution skills is an imperative aspect. So when two people can resolve conflicts with relative ease, you're feeling a sense of safety with this person and allows you to go deeper. So when there is a real conflict, you know that you can actually overcome it instead of it being the deal breaker in your relationship. And the sixth most important piece is that you trust and understand each other. And trust isn't simply about fidelity. Trust is, does this person have my best interest at heart? Does this person genuinely care about my feelings as much as my own? And do we understand this person? You know, trust and commitment. Commitment plays a big role in this as well because ultimately when you've achieved these six things, it leans into the invitation for a more serious commitment, whatever that looks like for you. Again, if you have a short-term mating strategy, just live in the moment. How's your day going? Did you have a good day? I hope you had a good day. But a long-term mating strategy is all about feeling safe with this person. Do I feel calm? Do I feel like I wanna be my best with this person? Do you feel comfortable to share your feelings? Do I feel not a strong need to change this person? Do we know how to resolve conflicts well and most importantly, do I trust this person because these are the building blocks for a healthy, happy relationship. And when you build the deep roots of trust with one another, it's the kind of relationship that you wanna go the distance with them. And yet sadly, as I said in the beginning of this broadcast, many of you are experiencing casual relationships, situationships or long-drawn out friends with benefits. And I'm here to say, if that's not your desire, then stop it and refocus your energy from a short-term mating strategy to a long-term strategy. Is this sinking and is this resonating? Please let me know. All right, like to hear your thoughts on this video. Please post a comment below. If it had value for you, please hit that like button. Please share this video with friends. Please subscribe to my channel. And again, there's a link in the description below. You can schedule a discovery call with me. You can join my membership group. You can follow me on Instagram. You can get my dating vows and get the free gift I offer as well. All right, I think we've covered a lot today. I hope you did find value in this. And if you did, please let me know. Okay, I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do.  I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone a pet, Teddy Barrett Pillow. Give Iter them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. And let's face it, we could all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch. Bye-bye now. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.


So, I'm nervous for what's in that to happen because I'm not enjoying this experiment. I'm really, I'm just not enjoying it. I'm really not enjoying it. Go. There's been a death already. I love it. I, whoo! It's something I enjoy and not everyone else has to enjoy. Hi. Hello, friends. Today I'm going to do a vlog that I've seen a few other people do and it is reading for 24 hours but stopping the timer whenever I'm not reading. So it's not going to be a 24 hour readathon. Like you typically see, I did one of those recently. It's going to be me reading for 24 hours, probably over quite a long amount of time. I was thinking about it and in a 24 hour readathon between like I always tend to sleep in them still, eating, doing other stuff, you probably only read for like eight to 10 hours max, I would say. So I'm super intrigued to see how much I read in this vlog and how I find the experiment. So let's go. So it's time to start figuring out what I'm going to read in this video. And if you haven't seen, the last video I just posted was reading seven horror books in seven days. I literally just finished that yesterday. And so I'm a bit horrid out. I'm a bit like dark books out. Like I don't really want to read like a dark, murderous book yet right now. I'm absorbing so much, I'm an empath. I absorb it all. But the problem is that's all I own pretty much. So for example, I know in this video I would like to read True Crime Story by Joseph Knox and Sleep by C.L. Taylor, but both of these are like murder mysteries. So I was talking to my patrons last night. I was like, I know I don't want to read something dark. Like, but I feel like I have no contemporary or romances I want to read. Like I have nothing. I was like going through my list. And then one of my patrons, Hannah, was like, bitch, read Love on the Brain. So I think I'm going to start with Love on the Brain by Annie Hazelwood. I really wasn't planning on reading this anytime soon. Not because I didn't want to, but like I just didn't have plans to. But it's kind of just so happened that I need something light and fun to act as a bit of a, you know, breaking point between the horror video and this one. So we're going to start with this. I actually don't think I'm going to read any of this today, though, because I'm about to go out to a concert with my brother to go see AJR, which is one of our favorite bands. We're both really excited.  So I can't bring this with me. And I was thinking again in the audiobook, but I'll probably just chat with my brother or listen to music on the train that we're back. So I just wanted to tell you we're going to start with Love on the Brain probably tomorrow. And that way, true crime story we can read after, and this will be my 100th book of the year. And this feels like a very deserving book to be my 100th book of the year. So yes, we shall start with Love on the Brain. Okay, first check in. It's getting a bit cold, you guys. Like, oh my God. Okay, so time check. I have read for two hours and 52 minutes. Well, was all of that time 100% reading? You know, sometimes I get distracted and might go on Twitter for a bit. So it could be like up to half an hour of that, maybe not reading, but like, I was still in the spirit of readings. And I am halfway through Love on the Brain and I'm really enjoying it. I know this hasn't had the best reviews. I know that everyone's been loving it, but there's just something about how it is what I do enjoy. Nothing that you say with the details is going to change my mind. So the synopsis of this is basically that, again, it's two scientists in a romance. These two knew each other from like, is it grad school? I don't know, like early, early school. They knew each other a couple of years ago. She's always thought that he really hates her. And you can tell, no, it's just him trying to control his undying uncontrollable love, but then they have to work together on this project at NASA. They're co-leads on this project. And another element of it is that she runs this viral Twitter page called What Would Marie Curie Do? And she's, for years, has been messaging this guy who's another famous anonymous Twitter science academic. And they've been messaging each other and it's like, it's obvious from the get go, I'll guess who that is. I wonder. I'm shocked, this is shocking news. So they're like very close to each other, everything.  So miscommunication there. And I'm just like waiting for the moment. That is one of my favorite moments when he's like describing to her all the things that he loves about her. But like, she thinks he's talking about someone else. She doesn't know that that's him. And you're just like. I will say the one drawback for me so far has been that we had like a Harry Potter reference within maybe two Harry pages. Okay, on page 15, page 15. And I feel like we're past the point now of like when authors had books coming out that had Harry Potter references, they were obviously written a long time ago and thus couldn't have them removed before everything went down. Like, we know at this point to not do that. That's all I'm gonna say. We know not to do that. I just do love something about her writing. It reminds me of when I used to read a lot of fanfic. When I was like 14, I read a lot of One Direction fan fiction.  I was a bit addicted. Like, one shots. Woo! And so I think it just reminds me of those days. It has this fun joyfulness to it that I do just, I enjoy it. What can I say? Do I love it quite as much as I love her? But it is, I'm really enjoying it. I just can't help it. This is obviously the kind of romance I enjoy. And you know what? Good for me. Good for me. Good for her. Also, I do think this is a case of like reading something at the perfect time because this is exactly what I needed after reading seven horror books in a row.  The rest of this video is probably gonna be like mysteries, thrillers, stuff like that. This is what I needed right now to like get me in the right head space. So anyway, it is half six. Never likes to focus on the clock. I'm getting a new phone, by the way. I've had this for seven years. I've had my phone for like, I think about seven years and I'm gonna get a new one. But I can't decide which one to get. Do I just get the 13? Is like the 14 not different enough to justify it? If anyone's a big iPhone, knowledger, who knows a lot about iPhones? Let me know. Cause I don't think I wanna get the expensive 14s cause I'm not that bougie. I am gonna have dinner in a sec and then at eight o'clock we have got football. We've got North City are playing on sky. So we have to watch. We have to watch. Tom's actually like, I'm not bothered, but I'm like, watching. But I'm hoping I'm gonna finish this this evening. That is the goal because I really need to get moving on my reading. We'll see how quickly I read the second half in comparison to two hours 50. Cause that's pretty slow, I would say, for me to read 170 pages. Yeah, I'm excited to see where it's gonna go. I'm really enjoying it. Could it be another five star? It generally could be. And there's nothing wrong with that. Even when it's 90 degrees. Hello, good morning. So we are up to, let me show you the timer. How much have we read? Five hours and 30 minutes basically. And I just finished love on the brains. But I would say I did prefer the first half to the second half. I didn't dislike it. I'm gonna give it a 4.5 star. So I really, like I really still enjoyed it. I know not everyone has been loving this and I can just accept that like it's something I enjoy and not everyone else has to enjoy. But I'd say the first half was a five and the second half was a four. So 4.5 stars. But I think I gave it a four in Goodreads cause it does feel a little bit closer to a four. Usually with 4.5 lately, I've been rounding up on Goodreads cause I feel kind, you know, like I'm a giving person. But it felt close to the four for me. I think I loved the first half so much cause I loved like the pining and like knowing, knowing how much you love that has love in it. She wants to marry me. That got me. Once like the actual romance side happened, like I wasn't as interested. I was into the pining. I'm like just like, ah. This is basically the love hypothesis 2.0, right? It is basically, I just really like her writing. What can I say? Allie Hazelwood, I just, I do enjoy her writing. She does seem to be the romance author for me. Towards the end, it almost made me cry twice. I really just enjoyed it. It was fun. It's exactly what I needed right now. Didn't love it quite as much as the love hypothesis, but I did still really enjoy it. It was a 4.5. I think Allie Hazelwood can just write. I will just say, Miss Allie, I'm paying a request in, please can the next book not be, he's so big, I'm so small. Like I've had enough of it. You've done five books. If we're including the values at this point, all five. All five have the trope. You can live without it for one book. One book. Just give me one book without it. That's all I ask. It doesn't need it. 4.5 for our first one. I've been thinking actually about this whole reading for 24 hours thing. I probably don't typically read for 24 hours in an average week. So I'm like, shit, I actually have to read a lot. This is a lot of reading. And it's making me think differently about what I'm reading. Cause usually I have three books I have to read in a week for a video. And it's about reading those books as quickly as I can to do the video. But it's like, no matter how quickly I read, I've got the set amount of hours I have to read. So I don't know, it's just interesting. It's making me think differently about my reading. And I think I'm going to end up reading a lot more this week because I'm doing this. So next we are going to start True Crime Story, which I'm so excited for. But actually this isn't what we're starting next. But I did tell a bit of a lie there. Because today I'm doing lots of stuff where I can send to an audio book whilst I work, which I don't usually do. I have to paint a lot of TBR comics today. So if you don't know, if you join my Patreon, if you join the top tier, you get sent two of the TBR Cluedo books. And I paint them.  And I need to do a whole new batch of painting. I've got them made, but I need to do a whole new batch of painting. So that will take me a while. And I can send to an audio book while I do that. I've got to cook. So I do have the audio book for this, but because this is so visual, there's so many different visual elements to this, I absolutely do not want to just listen to this. I'm going to read this physically with the audio book the whole time. So what I think I'm actually going to read, I was having a look through all my audio books on script and on audible. I think I'm going to read World Flower by Drew Barrymore. I wanted to read this in September. I didn't get around to it, but after doing Jeanette McCurdy's audio book, I realized I do enjoy audio books from female celebrities who have been through a lot. And I've loved Drew Barrymore since I was very young. So it looks like we're going to read World Flower by Drew Barrymore. I don't know how excited you guys are going to be for this, but I should probably finish it today. So I'll probably just read the whole thing and then give you my thoughts. It's seven hours long. So it will probably take me only like three and a half to four hours of reading. So my reading is going to probably slow down. Like if I read Wildflower physically, it'd probably take like two hours to read in terms of our 24 hour timer, but I'm listening to audibly. So like my book to time ratio is going to be lower than it would have been if I just read stuff physically, but listening to audio books is still reading. And just cause it's a slower form of reading doesn't devalue it. So I think I'm going to listen to Wildflower. Well, I do work today because I've got a lot of stuff to do that I can listen to the audio book. And I think sometimes I struggle even when I'm doing anything to listen to an audio book, but I think nonfiction is easier to follow because it's not like a story where you can like lose the point in the story. It's like listening to podcasts I find always easier to listen to no matter what I'm doing. So I think this will probably be on a similar wavelength. So yeah, gonna listen to Wildflower whilst I do work. And then probably this evening we will start two crime story. And I'm just like, I think I might just like read the whole thing today. Depends how much time I have later, but I'm very excited. Evening. I feel like I was wearing this hoodie last night when I spoke to you. Let it be known, right? I changed like 20 times a day. I wore this for maybe two hours last night and I've literally just got changed into after cooking. Fully to defend myself. I feel like I just sounded like Victoria Beckham in that clip, which is like, they're playing this song just to annoy me.  That's how they put it on there. Danik to be annoying. Danik just to annoy me. So it is the end of the evening. It's quarter to eight. What's on the end of the evening? I'm gonna read more tonight. But it's quarter eight. I have read for 10 hours, 46 minutes. It took me a little bit longer than expected to read Drew Barrymore's book, Wild Flower. Partly because I think I had to read on a bit of a slower speed, because because she's a celebrity, they speak a bit quicker and less clear than like professional audiobook narrators. So I couldn't listen as fast. But I finished it whilst I was doing work today. Well, I just finished it now actually after I cooked dinner. But I listened to the majority of it whilst I was working. And I don't have much to say about it. I'm giving it three stars. Not because it was bad. I wasn't really expecting a ton from it. But I just, I'm not sure if it was like entirely great. The writing wasn't amazing, but like I still loved Drew Barrymore. It wasn't really talk about what she went through as a child. I didn't really want to touch on that. I didn't want to bring it out because I know she wrote an autobiography as a child about that experience. But I don't know. I mean, I don't think she really wrote that. But she probably didn't want to go into it again. I also feel like the book didn't necessarily translate. It almost did, but it didn't necessarily translate that kind of joy-filled, carefree energy that I feel like she emanates in a lot of stuff. I really liked the audiobook. If you're gonna read it, get the audiobook. If you loved Drew Barrymore. I feel like if you loved Drew Barrymore, you've probably read it already because it was like seven years old. Get the audiobook because she just starts screaming a lot. If she's ever angered in the book, she just starts yelling, screeching. That's quite fun. Parts of it just made me sad though as well because there was a lot about her young children and her husband and then building this stable family that was gonna last forever because she didn't have that growing up and her and her husband divorced like a year after the book was written. And so there was a lot about him and their children and the family that they were building for them. And it just made me kind of sad, like reading those parts. I don't know. It's just sad listening to someone hope for that feature and not getting it. But I don't know. I don't really have any thoughts about it. I just feel like it didn't lean either way. It didn't lean into the difficult stuff that she's gone through, which like she doesn't have to do. It wasn't necessarily what I wanted. In fact, I wanted the opposite but like that still would have been, you know, interesting to hear her reflection on that. She talked about it sometimes but not a lot. And she didn't lean into fully like the hippie, like connected to the universe stuff that she's touched on sometimes but didn't get fully into. I feel like the book should have gone in either those two directions, essentially. I think I would rank it bottom out of all the kind of like strong women memoirs that I've read. Cause all the other ones I've given, I've given five stars like Michelle Obama, Mariah Carey, I love, Jeanette McCurdy. And yeah, it didn't touch a lot on why I found so interesting was Jeanette McCurdy talking about being a child actor. And obviously Drew was from the age of like, I think like seven months or something. She was a child actor. And it like, it would touch on it but always just like, I was a child actor and it was so tough. Drew and me wouldn't like get below the surface. So yeah, I enjoyed listening to it but it wasn't amazing. So for the rest of the evening, I'm gonna read as much of True Crime Stories as I can. I'm gonna start it. I've gotta be honest, I haven't been in the best mood today, especially this evening. And it's always that part of me is like, this book is so five star slay, five stars prediction slay. Do I wanna read it right now? But it also could be the thing that helps me feel better. So this evening, I wanna tidy my room up a bit. I mean, it's not messy, but I wanna have a great day tomorrow and just feel like no weight on my shoulders. So I wanna tidy the room up a bit. It's really just like somebody pressed a button on a cultural reset. And I'm gonna grab a bath but other than that, I'm gonna read this. Maybe I hope to get like 50 pages into it tonight. Good morning. 12 hours and 22 minutes we have been reading for. And I have gotten 100 pages into True Crime Story and I'm really enjoying it. So basically this opens, it's really clever. It opens with a publisher's note saying that this is the second edition of the book being published to clarify certain things. The author and Penguin Random House have agreed to not work together anymore and the author's like, there's been libelous accusations, gross misrepresentations of my character. We haven't got to what would cause that yet but I am intrigued because it's like him. It's Joseph Knox writing that. So he's like a character in the story himself and it does start to make you think like, oh my God, did this actually happen? Like was there a first edition of this that has caused so much drama? There's not. It's all part of the like theatrics but I love them giving me a moment. Like setting the scene, mm, I love it. It's all the drama Mick, I just love it. I love books that do something a bit different. So we're following the disappearance of Zoe Nolan. Joseph Knox, his friend Evelyn, investigated this disappearance, interviewed all of her friends and family and then was killed, was murdered. And so he is putting together the book that Evelyn was writing and it's, I'm listening to the audiobook. It's a forecast, it's all interviews. These are all different interviews with people in Zoe's life and we have emails between Evelyn and Joseph. I just love the drama. I really do. I'm like, oh, I love it. Something that's so well done already. I mean, we've barely gone into it. We've kind of just set the scene but the different characters will like say, oh, I bet this person is gonna say this and they're lying because of X, Y, Z. And then the other person will say what was predicted for them to say.  Who's telling the truth? Who's deceiving? Like, what is going on? Like I need to know. I just feel so deceived. I know, but like, honestly, I just feel so deceived. I will say, I was supposed to post this video this weekend but I pushed it back to next weekend and I was gonna read for 20, like, do like a whole day of reading today to try and finish this video because I'm not enjoying this experiment. I'm really, I'm just not enjoying it. I'm really not enjoying it. It's like stressing me out. I don't, because like, here's the thing, when you're trying to read a certain amount of books, like you can read quicker and it's like a sense of validation. Like if you get through a bit quicker, you're loving it, you're reading it fast. Like, you can't make time move faster. And I just feel like it's stopping me doing other stuff I wanna enjoy. I don't think I read for 24 hours in a week. I probably read for more like 18 if I had to guess. Do you think I am trying to film this video in five days though? I was trying to film it from Monday to Friday. So maybe I would read 24 hours if I included the weekend but I wanted to start filming a different video this weekend. But I've pushed this video back a week. I'm not gonna read as much of this as I was going to today probably because I could just sense it was stressing me out in this video. Part of it was like, I just wanna scrap the video but obviously I don't wanna do that because of the books I've read already and started reading. But I just feel like it was really negatively impacting how I felt about the books and this one in particular. So yeah, I'm gonna go outside and do some yoga in my garden now and then do some patron stuff today. But I have got reading sprints tonight with my patrons and Riley, Marie's patrons. We're doing it together. So I will get some good reading done by then. Hopefully by then I won't be feeling as much pressure. Now on page 245. So I'm nearing the end of True Crime Story. Oh, how many, what's my time? Where's my phone? 14 hours and 30, 30 something minutes? 31 minutes is how much I have read so far. I am so, so glad I made a decision yesterday to push this video back a week because it means I'm not rushing and I'm not anxious about how much I have to read. Like I'm just gonna read for 24 hours no matter how long that takes me. So it's made me enjoy this book a lot more. Now I will say, I initially was just, when I think I first checked in with you, I'd been listening and reading along. And then I did do a bit where I listened only. I wasn't reading physically. They don't say the name of who is speaking before it switches every time. You know, every time it switches who is speaking, it doesn't say who it is. So you just have to remember the voices. Unless it's like a new character, then it will introduce them. But you just have to remember who everyone is. Who is she? Who is she? Where did you find her? And I think it's not that hard. Like you do, you do get to kind of learn who everyone is. But if that's tricky for you, maybe you've experienced that. I think Daisy Jones on the sixth does that. At the moment, it's probably like a four star. It's not quite giving me that five star slay. Gonna be honest. Maybe because it's one of those books that I attach too much pressure to that I think I'm gonna love so much that it's then hard to adjust my opinions. But however, if this last third absolutely amazes me, it absolutely can't be a five star. It's probably more like a 4.35, 4.35 right now. I think the only thing that I'm not, like I don't love that's holding me back a bit is I wish it was a bit more different mixed media. It literally is just all these interdies with these people that has been collated into a book. I would like, I mean, I don't know what it would be. That's not my job. We have occasional emails between chapters, but that's basically it. And I would like other forms of mixed media other than just the interviews. We're probably my only complaint. But the audio book is really good. It's really cool. It's got sound effects, like typing sound effects. All the people sound like they're being recorded by like a phone, not like a, you know, audio book recorder. So it adds to the sense of atmosphere. And last night I was on sprints with my patrons and with Riley, Marie and her patrons. And Jenny was reading this. And I think I picked it for her to read in my last sprints. Claire knew I was gonna be reading it. And she was like always like 50 pages ahead of me. And she got to a certain point and she was like, from page 275, bro, it goes crazy. She was like, it's just been twist after twist after twist from page 275. So I'm nervous for what's about to happen, but I'm really excited to read the end part of this. And I feel like if it really, like the twists get going, it could easily be a five star. So I'm hoping to finish this today. So let's go see how I find it. I've literally only read like 30 more pages, but I got to the first twist at 275. Love a bit of drama. I am so, guys, whoa, you're on a twist day. Oh my God, I'm so excited to read on. I need to like edit a video today. And I'm like, yeah, I don't really want to do that. Well, we will continue with that in a sec, but I just realized I have some stuff that I can unbox with you. I have an Amazon parcel and a fairy loop box. So I thought let's do that, but like I'm gagged. So I don't know what this Amazon parcel is, which is why I decided to save it. Oh my God. Okay, so this is an elderly lady is up to no good. This is, I did not realize it was so tiny. This has been sent to me by Jenny, who recommended this to me in one of my reading sprints of my patrons, and she's got it for me. Oh my God, that's so kind. I had no idea this was so small. Jenny says, this is perfect for a read-a-thon and I completely agree. Oh my God, that's so cute. Like let me find a paperback, like a normal-sized paperback. Look how much smaller it is than a normal-sized paperback in terms of like, size. Oh my God, I'm gonna be like, how cute. Thank you, Jenny. And then this is September's Fairy Loot, I believe. Oh my God, a six crimson cranes blanket. I don't wanna get it all out now because then it will just be a nightmare for me until I figure out where I want to store it. But wow, that's really soft. How cute. A tea tin inspired by the book of the month. Okay, cute. Oh my God, some botanical coasters. Wow, these are cute. I'm gonna use these when I eventually have my own place. That's like a really nice usable thing that like it doesn't look overly like book merch-y. Do you know what I mean? When there's stuff for the home, I'm not the kind of person to have a lot of like book merch-y stuff but that just looks cute. Oh my God, I love that. Wow, that's like one of my favorite items I've had in a while. A Trinket Dish inspired by Cardin from the Folk of the Air series, which I have not read. I do love a good Trinket Dish and there's Cardin. Okay, cute. I'm still like in my head like shook about that twist I just read. I just, I have to do work and I don't want to. So let's see what the book is. Oh my God, we're purple. Donut by, I'm too overwhelmed. It's Belladonna by Adeline Grace. I have wanted to read this so about. I'm like, do I just read this in this vlog? No, I don't think so. That's like a bit quick, but oh my God. Oh my God, look at her. I'm obsessed. Wow. Oh my God, the vibes, the vibes. I'm so excited. I might have to read this this month. I feel like I'm gonna have to read this. I've never read anything by Adeline Grace, but I've always been intrigued. But this one is definitely like the best synopsis I've ever heard from her. The thing says, it's a romantic fantasy set in a gothic infused world of wealth, desire and betrayal to uncover a murderer. The main character forms, oh my God. I can't even speak. An unlikely alliance with death himself. I'm gonna read this in this video, but I might read this in a vlog later in October, perhaps. I've got a few videos where I don't know what I'm reading for them yet, and this could slot in there quite nicely. Oh my God, look at just the vibes of that. My God. Okay, thank you very much. I will leave them linked down below. Now I am gonna go ahead and finish True Crime Story, and I am not ready. My camera's got like 4% batteries. Let's be quick, but I'm giving it five stars. It was so good. From that last point when I checked in with you, it was just twist after twist after twist after twist after twist. I'm shaking. I'm physically shaking. It was done so well, like right up to the end when I was just filming myself, you were constantly like, it's that person. No, it's that person. No, it's that person. I had no idea. And I thought a couple of times, oh, it's the person who it ended up being, like the person who was behind Zoe's disappearance and everything else that happens throughout the book. But then I would like doubt myself because it would kind of be like explained away. I'm like, no, no, no, it's not that, it's someone else. It's that person. I was like, ah, you're pointing the fingers at everyone. It was just so good. It was such an imaginative way of telling a story. I just absolutely loved it. I got really into the kind of interview format by the end of it. And I think I'd felt a bit disconnected from some of the characters at the beginning because, you know, you're only getting like, you're not getting description of them. You're just getting to hear them as characters. But I got really into it. I got really into it. I would 100% listening to the audiobook and reading it physically if you can, if that's within your means because it is a great experience reading the two together. I think that is the best way to experience this. I loved the emails. I loved this. We've got also a mystery of what happened to Evelyn whose book this originally is. I thought that Joseph Knox, the author, is such an interestingly flawed character. There was like two mysteries in this in a way and I just loved it. It was just so good. It gave me drama. It gave me suspense. It gave me everything. I loved it. I would love to read more stuff like this from Joseph Knox in the future because he has a trilogy here but I think it's not similar to this really. So I think I'm at about almost 17 hours now in terms of how much I've read. I'm now gonna take a break from this vlog to go ahead and read Cersei by Madeleine Miller. This is my book club pick for last month but I always read it the next month because that's what our live show is and I thought about including this in the times of, you know, the timings that we have but it didn't feel right because I do a separate vlog for it there and I wouldn't vlog it in this video so it didn't really feel fair to you or them. So I'm gonna step away from this vlog for the weekend, read this and I'll be back with you probably early next week. Depends how quickly I get through Cersei deciding what to read next. Okay, it's been a couple of days. More days than I wanted. I think I last spoke to you last Friday and it's Thursday. In that time I got quite sick with a, it was just a cold but like I still don't feel good, gonna be honest. So I read Cersei, it took me quite a while to read Cersei but we're gonna get back into this vlog today and I'm gonna read Sleep by C.L. Taylor because this is in my TBR Cluedo for this month so I have to read it this month. And when I was reading Cersei for my Patreon Book Club it was not what I needed to read while I was ill. When you're feeling ill and like your brain is a bit foggy, like I don't think Cersei is really the vibe. It's not the vibe, stop! So I've been craving like a fast-paced murder mystery thriller and that's what this is. So I'm gonna try and read this pretty much all of today. Just for recap, we are at 16 hours 44 minutes. So I reckon this will keep us under the 20 hour mark. I don't think this will take that long to read. It's only about 340 pages and I think it will be just like a super fast read and I'm gonna focus on getting this read today. So that's the plan. Basically, I'm just gonna do a lot of reading. I have just been sitting here on the sofa under my new heated blanket. We bought heated blankets because electricity and heating is gonna get very expensive in the UK. So we've got these to try and offset the cost of heating and not have to put heating on. And I'm already halfway through sleep and listen, it's almost like I know myself because this is exactly what I needed. In this, I just realized I've got like a library ASMR on. Can you stop? Basically our main character Anna, she is in a car accident that kills two of her coworkers and she was at the wheel. It's not her fault, but there's like a truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and like drifted over into her lane. But she was distracted when that happened and so she blames herself. And so she's like, I need to get away. I'm gonna go work at this like remote hotel in Scotland. So she's working there and she's having trouble sleeping as well. And they keep seeing messages about sleep that come up like you will sleep put on her car and stuff, which is very suspicious. And she's working at the hotel and it becomes clear that because of her being the car driver in the accident, someone might want her dead. And one of the guests who have arrived at the hotel may be there to kill her, essentially. I'm getting older. I don't know if I can, if I want all this drama all the time, if I'm being honest. And it has gotten off to like, it's been a slow start because I've read it super quick. I think we're at like 18 hours. So it's taken me about two hours, I think, to read what I've read so far. But we had a slow start where it was her dealing with the aftermath of the accident and feeling so much guilt and paranoia and feeling like people were out to get her and her separating from her boyfriend as well, who like their relationship was already over before the accident, but like he's up to something. There's like other storylines going on at the same time as being at the inn. We're mostly at the hotel, but yeah, he's got a storyline and I'm like, girl, men, I just don't like men. So yeah, no, it's like exactly what I need right now. Cersei was just wrong place, wrong time. Whereas this is just like, my brain can just relax.  They're stuck in this hotel together. There's a storm going on. There's like, they're on like a Scottish island. There's no contact, like the wifi's down, phone signals down, everything's down, go. There's been a death already, I love it. I, whoo, I love it so much. I still don't feel great in myself. I've been feeling a bit like brain foggy and like I've been getting very anxious about finishing this vlog for you guys, full disclosure and filming, because I wanna read, but I worry that I'm not saying as insightful or interesting stuff as I usually do, I mean, I don't know if I, it's already, we're already scraping the barrel. You know, I, when I'm ill, I feel like I'm not, I don't do as good a job at communicating my thoughts and that's something I always really wanna do. I wanna say stuff that's like interesting and worth your time and then when I get really anxious and then cause I'm anxious, I'm overthinking stuff and it's just like not a vibe. But I am really enjoying this. I feel like it's almost, it's very interesting. I feel like Cersei, oh for context, I gave Cersei a four star, maybe more than a 3.5, but I recognize that that is entirely due to the fact that I read it when I shouldn't have. I read it when I wasn't feeling well, when I was very tired, when I've been like struggling to focus. So the Cersei got a lower rating than it would have had I read it in another situation, whereas this could get a higher rating than it would have usually because it's exactly what I wanna read right now. So isn't that interesting? We learn something new every day. Anyways, I'm gonna go finish this. And once you finish this, we'll probably only have one book left of the vlog and I don't know what it's gonna be. It depends how much time we have left. I'll have to figure it out. But yeah, I'm super excited to see where this goes. I feel like the tension is just gonna build and build and build.  Okay, good morning. So I just finished off sleep this morning and I was actually a bit disappointed by it. I still enjoyed it. Like I had a good reading experience. It was a fun, quick, fast-paced thriller, but it just wasn't everything that I wanted. So I feel like we had a lot of characters. We had probably, I think, about eight main characters and I forgot who some people were. Some of the characterizations bled into one another and weren't distinguishable enough. That's problem numero uno. Problem two is that the reason that they are stuck here is called a storm, right? And I just didn't feel like the atmosphere was built up enough. I kept thinking back to An Unwanted Guest by Sherry Lupina. Let me just talk about how literally all UK thrillers are like blue, yellow, white, like what the hell. You're what? I'm you. And I loved this. This one, they're like stuck in a remote inn again in a snowstorm, I think. And this one, the storm was like almost a character in itself. It was so atmospheric, so like overwhelming to the story. And this one, I actually didn't feel I didn't feel like I was actually there. I didn't feel like the storm was happening. They'd be like, every time they went out, they'd be like, we were buffeted by the storm. We could barely walk. But I don't know, it just didn't evoke for whatever reason. It didn't evoke that feeling and that imagery to me very strongly. There wasn't a lot of twists. And if you don't give me a lot of twists, I want there to be like high, high, high stakes. And it didn't feel like until the last 40 pages there were high stakes. I didn't feel like enough stuff happened. So yeah, I was just a bit disappointed by this. But I still enjoyed a lot of it. Like I had a lot of fun reading it. Am I gonna give it a three? I think I'm just gonna give it a three. You've been very, very harsh. Nice to meet you, Kelly. I was gonna give it a 3.5, but I feel like it's more of a three. It was fine. It was a fun read. I feel like this is the perfect book to read in one sitting. But it just wasn't amazing. But like when the reveal happened, I wasn't like, oh, I got that. And I wasn't shocked. I was just like, okay. Do you know what I mean? So now we are up to 21 hours. So I was thinking about this. We need a book that's gonna take me three hours to read. That's hard. I feel like books are often like short, like two hours or four hours. I think this took me about four hours to read. And it's hard because you don't know whether a book is gonna be like fast paced or not. I think we're probably gonna want a book that's like 250 pages, 200 to 250 pages.  I can actually record my screen. So let's go on my own shelf. And let's do number of pages. Okay, and we'll sort by that. So we want something that's around 250 pages, I think. So all these are unknown. These are all too short. Okay. Oh, I could read an Agatha Christie. Or I could read a Forgotten Women. I think they're good options. Okay, yeah. Do I read? What's my next Agatha? Is it Lord Edge where it dies? Am I in the mood for an Agatha? I feel like that will be quicker than three hours. Oh, I don't know. Parallel end house. How many pages is that? 287. Yeah, should we read that? Or do I read a Forgotten Women? My initial assumption that I was gonna do is Forgotten Women. But this might take me less than three hours because it has pictures as well. How long? Let me go on Script. And see how long the audio book is for parallel end house because that'll give me a better judge of how long it's gonna take me. Parallel end house. Where are you? Three out of five. Oh, there are only five hours. I don't think that'll take me that long. Let's go with Forgotten Women the writers. Should I do the writers? Yeah, let's do the writers. Yeah, I feel like because it's nonfiction, it might take me a little bit longer to read this and I've been wanting to make progress in this series for so long. If you don't know, this is a nonfiction series. We have Forgotten Women. I've read the leaders and this is the writers and I have the artists and the scientists as well. But let's read the writers today and it's just about Forgotten Women throughout history and it has illustrations about them and a couple pages about them. So yeah, no, I'm super excited. Let's go read this. I said you feel like Just where it was needed Coisted in just this dead So I finished Forgotten Women the writers and I do have to say I didn't enjoy this as much as the leaders. I'm going to give it a 3.5. This is difficult to talk about, right? Because it's like nonfiction and it's just like, you know, three pages on each woman because the other book was The Leaders. I found there was a lot of variation as to what the woman did in their life. But this is the writers and so, you know, it was all kind of along the same wavelength, essentially. I don't know, I think just the whole book being about writers actually didn't work for me when it when it should because I love books, I love writers. Like it should work for me but I think it was just too much of a good thing. Do you know what I mean? Whereas in The Leaders, there's a lot of variation as to what the person led in. You know, that's a fairly broad term it does make me a bit worried for the artists and the scientists because again, it could be fairly narrow. It is what it is, it is what it is. I still enjoyed it though. I still loved learning about forgotten women throughout history. I think it's so important that we do this because, you know, it's always frustrated me how male history is. I remember I was thinking about studying history at A level and me and my mom said to the teacher, the curriculum that I would study, it's very male, it's all about men. And he went, yes, yes it is. As if, like, he wasn't saying it was a bad thing. He was like, what do you expect? To be fair, it wasn't all boys' school for most of the school, six-form girls could join which was when I was joining. So it was majority boys in the class but that doesn't mean they should just learn about men. Like, excuse me? I was angry, I was angry. So yeah, you know, I still think readings and stuff like this and learning this is important. I'm still gonna read the other books in the series. I don't know, they all just kind of bled into one for me, I don't know. So, let's get the books together that I read in this vlog. So I read five books in this vlog and I would say this is my ranking. Obviously, Wildflower isn't here. I would say that is at the bottom probably in terms of enjoyment. These two are probably the more I think about it, they are interchangeable between 4.5 and 5, both of them. I would say like, I enjoyed the start of this more and enjoyed the end of this more. So I mean like, whoa. Books always are more likely to be rated higher when the ending is better because you end on the high, right?  But they're pretty similar, those two. But yeah, let's see how much I read. So I read for a total of 24 hours and 26 minutes, which did take me a little bit longer to read Forgotten Women the Writers because it's non-fiction. It is a little bit more dense I guess than I anticipated. But also at least 26 minutes of those 24 hours I probably wasn't reading and I was on my phone but the timer was still running. So I've read for about 24 hours, give or take. I didn't like this experiment. I found it stressful. I don't think I wanted time my reading. I think I find much more gratification from finishing books than I do reading for a certain amount of time. So I won't be doing this again. But it was an interesting experiment. You know, I read five books. You know, some of them are a bit shorter but I still read five books. So it's interesting to see how long it takes me to read that amount of pages and books. But yeah, let me know what you thought of any of the books in this vlog. I would love to know if you've read any of them. If you've gone to the end of the video, comment the pen emoji for Forgotten Women the Writers. Like the, you know, there's like a pen emoji or the notepad or anything to do with writing. Comment emoji down below if you've gone to the end. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye.