So it's the time of year where people's Christmas end of year book hauls are starting to come out. But I want to know, what were people hauling last year? I'm like Scooby and Shaggy, I'm solving a mystery. So if you remember a while ago I started a series called Booktube Rewind on my channel where I read what people had read a year prior. This time we're not doing what people have read, we're going to do what people bought last Christmas. I love Christmas, I love Christmas book hauls and I think it's always really fun to see what people get for Christmas, what people in their lives get them or subscribers get them. I think it's always really interesting to see the kind of books that people want to buy for others. What makes people gift a certain book? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back and watch like 20, 30 Booktubers Christmas book hauls from last year and whatever the most popular books are I'm going to read them in this reading vlog. I have no idea how this is going to go, I'm quite nervous. But my guess is that it's going to be new releases that were kind of coming out towards the end of last year but also we've seen this year especially, that kind of can mean nothing. Like look at the Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, look at so many books that have had so much success on TikTok or Booktube has a sudden wave for a book and everyone starts reading it because a few big Booktubers have been reading it, that can happen. So actually it could be anything, I don't really know what we're in for but let's cut to Megan finding out what we're going to be reading in this reading vlog. I think when I did the last Booktube Rewind where it was People's Wrap-Ups, I think I watched about 40 but Christmas book hauls are going to be bigger I assume than People's Wrap-Ups. So I'm thinking somewhere between 20 or 30 will probably give us our answer because that was a lot last time. I've been working on this for five weeks. That was a lot. I've handwrote everything, like all the lists, all the books, I'm doing it on a spreadsheet this time. It was too much for my hand but I thought we would start together by watching my Christmas book haul from last year and seeing how many of them I have read and you know some of these may possibly be in this video of other people hauled them. I'm not going to like talk about them in depth because otherwise this video would be like 20 years long. This is essentially a video in itself, this idea but I'm literally just going to say if I've read it or if I haven't read it, I don't, I don't think I've read a lot of these. My books from last Christmas. I got a lot of great books for Christmas and birthday last year and they're very close together for me and I feel like I actually have not read a ton of them. My goal would be half. I don't think I'm actually going to count. Well I'll put a counter up here but I haven't got anything to write this down. So we're just going to watch it and then we'll go and watch other People's Book Hauls. But I was looking like on, on YouTube, like Mel's, Mel's Christmas Book Haul is an hour long. Why are you doing that to me? How many books are you hauling anyway? They put me through purgatory.  So I feel like because they're longer, we won't have to watch as many tweets that it will probably give us a good representation. So. Ooh! So first is Mexican Gothic. Oh, haven't read that. Have not read Mexican Gothic. Want to. It's been a video idea for a year but I don't have any other books for the video idea. So that video idea may get scrapped and it may just read another book. Okay. So next we've got the King of Crows by Libba, Brian. Haven't read it? I will be reading that in January. So I will not be reading it for this video. I've already got a planned video for it. I was supposed to read it this month but I didn't get around to it. Next is the Gilded Wolves by Roshani Trotsky. Oh my God. Haven't read it. Have not read Gilded Wolves. Oh my God. We're not after a very good start. This is The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie. I... Oh, our first one. I've read Mystery of the Train. First one that I've read. I love it but I have read it. We've got Hunting for Instracula. I've read it. I've read Hunting for Instracula. Go me. So this is Disfigured on Fairy Tale. I have not read Disfigured. Really want to. It's probably like the non-fiction book I want to read the most but I haven't read a lot of non-fiction this year. It's a book I would really like to blog reading it but again I've just struggled to fit it into a video. It's The Strange Case or The Alchemist Bones. Okay. I have read Strange Case and The Mystery of the Midsimist. I've read both of them. This is When the Tiger Came Down. Oh, I have read When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain. I read that like that was the first book I read in 2021 so I read that very quickly after getting it. Forgotten Room in the Ritis by Jingxiu. I have not read Forgotten Room in the Ritis. I would love to but I don't think anyone else is going to haul this book so we're not going to be ready to get this video. So it got me The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. Oh, yes. I've read that. Wahoo. The Year of the Witching by Alex Henderson. Oh, I have read The Year of the Witching. Another one I read early this year. Very early this year. First we've got King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo. I have not read that. I have not read King of Scars. I do want to start that duology. Come Tumbling Down by Sean LaFayette. Oh, I have read Come Tumbling Down. This is Wahoo. This is The See Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker. But it is Have Not Read Over the Woodward Wall yet which is, it's so short. Look at it. It's tiny. Why have I not read that? It's embarrassing. I've read The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson in The Themis Files by Have Not Read. I have not read either of the next books in the way, in the, whatever it's called, Themis Files. This is The Hand on the Wall. I have not read The Cat, Right? I have not read The Novel. The Deep by River Solomon. I have not read The Deep. Oh my God. Again. A short one I own. I own the audiobook and the physical of this. I hate myself. Okay. This is the worst. This is the worst. This is the worst. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Anyway. This is Supernava. I have read Supernava. Yes. I wanted to finish that series, so I'm glad I finished it. I didn't like it though. I didn't like Supernava. Is The Weight of the Stars by Kate Ankrem? I've read The Weight of the Stars by Kate Ankrem. I've read The Weight of the Stars by Kate Ankrem. Ah! Okay. Good. I have not read The New Jim Crow by Nisha. Nonfiction to me, I haven't read a lot this year, but that's okay. But this is The Thursday Murder Club. Oh, I have read The Thursday Murder Club. Yes. I've read that one. I loved that. One of my favorite books I've read this year. Very excited to read the next one. Hopefully soon. Okay. So that is all the books I got for Christmas last year. I feel like I've read half. I've at least read 10. You'll know more than me. Of the ones that I haven't read, the ones I feel like are most likely to come up. Maybe King of Scars. That's like quite a popular book. Maybe Mexican Gothic might come up, but I feel like a little bit niche. So we're going to see. I don't know if any of these will actually be anything we read in this video. But now I'm going to go start watching loads of other Christmas book hauls. And I'll come back to you once we've got our first double up. So our first book that two people have read essentially. It's Christmas book hauls so far. It's taken me about now. I'm getting duplicates. Up until the last one I watched, we hadn't had any duplicates. And I was like, I was going to throw myself out the window. I thought we weren't going to get any. Well, that's a lie. Actually, I tell a lie. We'd gotten lots of duplicates for books that I had already read. So far, I've watched my book haul. Mel's, Ashley's, Jody's, Mina's. And then just I just watched Maya from Ocean Reads one. And Mel had hauled Strange Case of the Alchemist daughter. And after researching it and seeing that she just grabs tales and puts it in like a gothic ambiance and then twists it in a way to fit her own story. I just was really intrigued by that. And yeah, she'd hauled the only good Indians. Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary. Mel was hauling a lot of the ones I'd already read. But with Maya, Maya has pulled through. And we started getting duplicates. So we have got one I'm very excited for and actually hope continues into the top echelons of what we're going to read in this video. These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong. Mel and Maya have hauled these Violent Delights. It is a Romeo and Juliet retelling set in the 1920s. And it's supposed to be a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. It follows these two types of gangs, I think. Days of Blood and Starlight and Dreams of Gods and Monsters. Ashley and Maya have hauled. So we have Days of Blood and Starlight, which is book two. And also Dreams of Gods and Monsters, which that cover, that cover is beautiful. First of all, I got the box set for Daughter of Smokin' Bone. And Mina and Maya have hauled Red Rising. And this is Red Rising by Pierce Brown. It is the Red Rising trilogy. I've heard nothing but good reviews about this. Which I didn't, I didn't predict being on this list. I didn't think I'd be reading that and I'm a bit intimidated by it. I just wasn't expecting that. But I'm up for it if it ends up being in the final selection. So I'm going to go watch maybe like six or seven more and then check in with you again. Okay, so we're up to 13 videos watched. I have watched 13 Christmas book hauls from last year. And we now have 22 books that two people hauled. Two different people hauled. Two different booktubers hauled. But we have none that three people have hauled. Me to all the booktubers because they haven't hauled the same books. You ruined it. Laugh for you won't. There's going to be a lot of people out there tonight that can't eat. Which is what we need. We need this for a book to be featured in this video. We need at least three booktubers to have hauled it in their Christmas book haul. So that's what we're going to work towards. I'm going to do at least 21 videos. We're going to do at least eight more. This is taking me so much longer than the last episode did because book hauls are so much bigger than wrap-ups. Particularly Christmas book hauls like so many more books mentioned.  So yeah, we're going to do at least 21. But if there is not three books that have at least three people having read them, we will continue until we do have that essentially. Some notable ones that we have had since I last spoke to you. If you remember, I hauled Mexican Gothic, Nicole from Bon Bon Books, I think. It also has read that. I've been hearing so much about this book on Bookstagram, Booktube and Booktalk.  Like A Court of Thoughts and Roses, A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Frostens, whatever.  I don't want to read them. I bought myself the first and the second book because I just had to have them physically. One of you got me the last two books that I needed in the A Court of Thoughts and Roses series. A Court of Thoughts and Roses... Rowan? What? A Court of Thoughts and Roses? Oh my God. It's A Court of Wings and Rowan and A Court of Frostens Starlight by Sarah J. Mass. I don't want to do that. Sarah J. Mass is not a can of worms I'm willing to open yet. Ray Bearer is one I'd be very happy to read. Mina and Hayley from Hayley and Bookgrunt hauled that. I've heard nothing but amazing things about this YA fantasy series. And I have heard some amazing reviews for it. Like Sun, another one. Kayla from Books and La La. Oh, Mel hauled that as well. So I can't completely be mad at Mel. So many of my friends have been reading this recently and talking about it non-stop. This cover though. The cover of this book is just the foiling. Look at that. Ooh, when the light hits. And then surprisingly, one I was not expecting, Wuthering Heights. I think I'll be up for it. Hayley from Hayley and Bookgrunt again hauled that and Ray again from Ray Ray Reads hauled that. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I've always wanted to read a couple classics and this is one of the ones on the list. You guys know I love romance. So there's some like notable mentions of what we have so far. I'm hoping, I really love Mexican Gothic to be up there. Ray Bearer, Black Sun, other ones I would like to be up there. So we're just gonna do at least eight more. Hopefully in that three books will win supremacy. Okay, I have done all that I can. I can't take any more. I have watched 21 Christmas book hauls from last year. And from this, we have our TBR, which is very exciting. Out of all of the TBRs, there was one book that appeared on four TBRs. So this was the first book I knew I was gonna be reading. And it is The Ravens by Cass Morgan and Danielle Page. So the people that hold this were Maya from Ocean Reads, Kayla from Books and La La, Brooks Books, and Maddie from Book Browsing Blog. This is about a sorority of witches. Magical witch stuff. This is the Illuma Crate copy and it's beautiful. But I'm definitely intrigued to give it a go because I can kind of vibe with Dark Academia sorority and witches. That sounds kind of fun. This is on here predominantly because it was in the December Illuma Crate box. That's why I have it. So that's why it's made onto this list. People who, you know, receive a Illuma Crate or buy a Illuma Crate, hold it. But I think there was only three of them. Kayla, as far as I know, doesn't and bought it. So that's why it ended up being four. Now, then I did something rogue, right? I don't think I'm allowed. No, I don't... I don't... No. I'm not allowed. I know I'm not allowed. We have a lot of books tied on three people having read them a lot. We'll get into that in a second. But I noticed a trend, right? I noticed a trend. This is something that four different booktubers hauled and there were eight copies of hauled. The Saga comic book graphic novel series. Okay. So usually I wouldn't do this for series, right? There was eight different Saga volumes hauled. So a lot of different Saga volumes. That's why I've decided to include it because it was kind of abundant. I kept noticing it. But different volumes. I don't think volume one was actually hauled. We had Mel hauling volume three. Ashley from Product through Fiction hauling volume five and six. Jade from JD-Ray Reads hauling volume eight and nine. And Maddie again hauling volumes four, five and six. The second volume ends in a cliffhanger and I was so very desperate to get to this one. Saga volume six and seven. This is probably my favorite graphic novel series. I stopped volume seven and never continued and really, really want to. It's Saga volume four and five.   So volume one was never hauled. And usually I have not made this rule in other ones for novels where like multiple books and series have been hauled. I'm not counting as one thing. But this was something that really surprised me. I wasn't expecting to see this on here. I didn't know it was so successful, so popular. And so I just thought, you know what? We should read this. It's something a bit different. It's something I wouldn't have picked up if not for this video. And because it felt like I was constantly seeing different volumes of it, I felt like we should give it a go. And also it's a bit different than like a novel series because it doesn't take as long to read so people are going to get through it quicker. I think the dynamics and like the context behind is a bit different. So I feel good about including it in this vlog. And I'm excited to see what I think. It's like a comic book style graphic novel. Oh, I just realized I didn't give you synopsis of this. Have I given you that already? I can't remember. A level of unprofessionalism far too much. This is a sorority of witches, basically. I think we have one new one who's entering the college, one who's been in it for a while and something goes wrong and they have to kind of save their sisterhood. Essentially is why I know about this. All I know about this is that it's set in a fantasy world and it were following a young family, a new family with a baby. That's all I know, but I'm excited to get into it. And then how many books did we have that had three people having hauled it? Hold up. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. We had eleven different books that people, that three people had hauled, right? I'm just going to tell you them all quickly and then I'm going to tell you which one I decided to end up including in this vlog. So we had The Cousins by Karen M. McManus, A Dark Ship of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows and A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab, Days of Blood and Starlight and Dreams of Godamonses by Laini Taylor, Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova, Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Mass, Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse and These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong. So I immediately got rid of The Cousins by Karen M. McManus because that was in the same on the Immacrate box that the Ravens was in. I feel like that would be like an unfair bias into a Luma Crate basically picking what I read. Then I made the controversial decision to get rid of all of the E. Schwab books, all Laini Taylor books and all of the Sarah J. Mass books because the purpose of this video and this series in general is to find out what was having a moment. Like a moment in time a year ago. Like it was having a little surge, a little moment in the sun and I feel like those authors always have a moment in the sun. So I felt like that wasn't really in keeping in the concept and the kind of idea behind the series. I felt like it wouldn't be very exciting. So that leaves us with deal with the Elf King, Black Sun and These Violent Delights. And the one that I felt like was having a real moment back then has continued to have a real moment and the one that I really just felt like you guys be most interested in seeing me read and that's why I picked it is These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong. Again another book to favorite another book to favorite this book has been just blowing up. I know this is set in 1926, Shanghai. It is a Romero and Juliet retelling where they are members of different like gangs, family gangs exist within Shanghai and this has just been so popular. So many people have loved this book and I'm really intrigued to see what I'm gonna think of it. A lot of you are wanting me to read this so it's finally happening. So that is our TBR for this video in what people were hauling last Christmas. I'm gonna start with the most popular one that was The Ravens and yeah, I'll check back in with you when I've read a little bit of this. Halfway through The Ravens and listen, I'm really enjoying it. Yes! Yes! I think this is one of like the kind of YA fantasy. It's fantastic, it's got magic in it. Books that I have enjoyed most in recent times which I wasn't expecting from this. I really was not I was kind of going into this with like very low expectations not because I thought the book was gonna be bad but just because I hadn't really heard anyone actually review it I'd heard a lot of people buy it but I'm actually really enjoying it. Like it's a really good time. I think this is such a solid YA fantasy book. So essentially, oh! Also, hang on, hang on, hang on. The author's a Kaz-Morgan and Danielle Page, right? I, for some reason, thought this was like a debut writing duo or something. No, Kaz-Morgan wrote the 100 and Danielle Page wrote is it Dorothy Must Die or something? So like these are two super successful authors, right? We're not talking like unknowns here. These are very successful authors. It's set at college or university which I really love. I love YA set at university. I don't buy into the argument that once you get to university, it's adult. Uh-uh, no!  Am I wrong? No, no, no, no. As someone who's experienced university, I did not feel like an adult. Especially when you're just, like, starting uni. Like, you still feel the same person you did when you were 16. I don't, I don't think you're that different. So I don't buy into that argument. I want more YA written with characters at uni. So we're following two characters, one who is just starting and one who has been within this sorority for years. She'll think she's like, American uni has four years, right? And she's third, yeah. It's essentially a sorority of witches. The sorority protects these witches so they can learn their magic together and become stronger together. And the one who's entering doesn't have any idea whether she's a witch or not. Has no idea of this and the other one is, like, deeply within the sorority. I'm really enjoying both of their perspectives. There's kind of a bit of, like, unwanted for both parties' rivalry between the older ones' boyfriend. Like, they're both kind of like, the younger ones, like, unintentionally kind of getting involved with him. And she, like, doesn't want that. But she's like, it's just, listen, it's just happening. But I'm loving the kind of sisterhood element of this. I think that's really fun.  We're discovering this. I like witches. I never knew this about myself until this year. But, like, I really like witchy books. I read The Year of the Witching, Once a Future Witches, This, I can't think of any other ones. But, like, I love that. I love spooky girls. Um, that was weird. I said that word. Spooky girls. I also just think it's written really well. I can't really tell a difference in writing between the two perspectives. I assume they each wrote one of them. And to me, it seems very, very cohesive between the two. And I just think it's written so well. The plot is moving along really well. Our characters are really unique. They both have interesting family dynamics. They both have interesting friendship dynamics. The whole kind of culture of sorority and these girls supporting one another, but also the elder ones testing out the younger ones to see if they are up to scratch. I just think it's really interesting. I'm listening to the audiobook and I'm really enjoying it. So, I'm having a great time. I was not expecting this from this book. But I'm glad that this video has finally gotten me to read it because I don't think I've read it for ages otherwise. Okay, I haven't read any more of The Ravens yet, but I'm popping out because Waterstones are doing 50% off all hardbacks. Every single hardback.  So, listen, I don't need more books. I just got loads for Christmas and I'm going to get loads for my birthday. But I want to go have a look and I think I'm going to aim for three books. Three? I feel like that's not too much. Sure, Jan. So that's what I'm going to aim for. I'm going to go out and have a look. I don't know if the shelves will be depleted. I might get some more Penguin Costume classics. I don't know. I don't know. Okay, let's go see what they have. When I stay at home, I need you on my fire. I want you to know that every time you're along for you so much I can find my way. We got everything here. At least to stay alive and make time not be shared. Okay, so Waterstones Mini Hall, quickly. I didn't spend too long in there. A, it was so busy. It was so busy. So I didn't film a lot. Any time, oh my God, it was so embarrassing. Any time I was trying to get B roll for you guys, like I'd finished filming and then someone who'd obviously been waiting to like look at a book or get a book, like ducked in and was like, sorry. And I was like, yeah.  I'm sorry. Smell. Did you hear me, shall we? David. Smell. Let me sleep in that room tonight. Smell. The demographic that they're coming for, not me.   So I didn't have a lot of options open to me. So I didn't get a lot. I didn't get, say, if I had gone into my favourite place ever, the Leeds Waterstones, which I miss dearly, the only thing I miss about Leeds, I think I would have come out with a very different selection of books. But hey ho, I got books that I am excited about. So I got two of the Penguin at Coffman Classics. I'm slowly kind of collecting them. So I picked up two that I really want to read. I picked up Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre is one of the classics I've probably always wanted to read the most. Mara from Books Like Woe loves it. And I love her. I've always just been very intrigued by the plot of Jane Eyre. There's a lot of like Jane Eyre retellings I want to read. So I feel like I would appreciate them more if I read this. Then I'm collecting all of my Jane Austen books in these editions. I don't know. These are the vintage classic editions, which I love. But they don't have this book in it. So that's why I got it in the Coffman Classic. And I love this edition. It's so pretty. Look at it. It's yellow. This is Sanditan.   You had a brain. You'd be dangerous there. Sanditan by Jane Austen. So this Sanditan was the book that she started writing and never finished. It was the last book that she was writing. This also has Lady Susan and the Watson's in it, which I'm going to be honest. I don't know much about what they are. I really want to read the introduction at the start of the book. But it says, New readers are advised this introduction makes details of the plots explicit. So I can't read that. I want to read more about what these things are. They're in this book before I read the book. But like the instructions like spoilers. So what am I supposed to do? If anyone has this copy, tell me like how bad it doesn't spoil it. Because I want to learn about the context surrounding it. Anyway, then quickly, I've been speaking too long. I got Cloud Cuckoo Learned by Anthony Doher. This is the author of All Like We Cannot See, which is one of my favorite historical fictions ever. I cried. This is one of the only books. That was one of the only books I stayed up so late to read. I was staying up till like 2 a.m. to read that book. I'd had my eye on this for a while, but it was quite expensive. But other than that, it was half price. The Watson's half price. So not three pound off. It was half price. So that's why I picked it up. I actually don't know what this is about. Oh yeah, it's about the Siege of Constantinople in 1453. So I'm very intrigued because I think a lot of the historical fiction I read is like Victorian, Edwardian, that kind of era. So I'm excited to read something different. And I also bowed to Tipper of Pressure and I got The Sondre of Achilles by Madeleine Miller. This is 20 pounds. Like this is what it retails for. I would never... Can you imagine? I would never pick that up for 20 pounds. However, for 10, I will. I will pick it up. Obviously, this has been like one of the kind of really popular books that has had a resurgence and everyone seems to love it. My own Cersei haven't read it and I told myself I wasn't going to buy this until I read Cersei, but like I did it because it was half price. So that is my little mini Waterstones haul. I think it's a pretty good one. Let's talk about the Ravens now. So I finished the Ravens finally. It took me a little bit longer than I expected to read it, but I really enjoyed it. I'm going to give it four stars. I think the sisterhood in this is amazing. I think it reads so fast-paced. You know, it's kind of got these magical elements. It's got like a thriller-esque mystery subplot, which I love when books have this kind of tension that's going on between it. Do I think that this is doing anything that hasn't been done before? No, I don't. I think it's like a pretty standard YA fantasy, but I think it's well done. I love witches apparently. Witches? Oh my God, like apparently I love witches. No, I don't think you understand. I'm up fast. I can't remember any time I've read a sorority book. I really struggled to say that word. Sorority. My mouth does not want to bend around that word. I can't remember I read a book set in a sorority that I actually really enjoyed. Sometimes I find them a bit cliche and like I went, meh. But I found the sisterhood that these characters had really lovely, but as a group, I would say it's such a big group. It's such a big cast of characters. Sometimes you like don't know who these people are. So that is a weakness of it. Like Vivi and Scarlet, the two perspectives we read from, are the important ones. And I really loved them. I really loved the arc that they went on throughout the book, particularly Scarlet. I thought her character development and the story that she went on was so, so brilliant. I will say there was quite a lot of repetition in this. You know when you start a book, the next book in a series, they'll have to subtly remind you of what happened in the previous book. It's like never very well done. Like they're trying to remind you of what happened and like you need to know it, otherwise you forget little things. But like it's always a bit like shoved in. They would do that every time we went back to a perspective. Like Vivi would keep talking about how she'd never had friends before and never had a sister like this before. Like every time we went back to her and I'm like, girl, we get it. We get it. You don't need to keep repeating it. So I don't know if that's maybe something to do with having two writers. If that's something that kind of gets lost in translation. But I felt like whenever we went back to a perspective, it was like reminding us of like what they were thinking and feeling when we last were with them. Like I was literally just with you like 15 pages ago. It's not that deep. But I just really loved the way that the story progressed. And oh my God, you guys, I kept thinking I had it and I didn't. See, I'm telling you I have the mind of a master master. I have the mind of a master. Like I kept thinking I knew where the story was going, what was happening and kind of that like the really plot sub part that was going on towards the second half of the book.  And like it kept surprising me. I kept thinking, oh, I know what's going on. And I mean like, like what? I think it's a really solid YA fantasy. I felt a bit disillusioned with YA fantasy towards the latter half of this year. I felt like it's not quite for me, but I really enjoyed the age of these characters were. But how, you know, it's a very suitable YA book, but the characters are a little bit older. I felt like that worked really well. So I really enjoyed it. I really, really enjoyed it and I'd recommend it. However, it is a duology and I will pick up the second book. But it kind of ends in a way that I'd be happy if this was a standalone. Like I don't feel a great urge to read the second book because I like where our characters ended up and how the stories ended up. I feel like it almost doesn't need it. It has been clearly set up for a sequel. So I'm not saying it's not been a set up for that. Like there's obviously routes we can go down in the sequel. But I've never really felt like this about a book before where I'm like, although I really enjoyed you, I could quite happily leave you as a standalone. Do you know what I mean? I would really recommend it. I really enjoyed it. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I kind of went into it with no like very low expectations and I was pleasantly surprised. So now I'm going to quickly read Saga Volume 1. I have not read. I don't think like this is like a comic book. Like it's not like a graphic novel.  Well, I know it's about this young family in this fantastical world. I don't really know much more than that. But I'm just going to go ahead and read the whole thing and then tell you what I think of it. I have not read anything like this before, but I'm very intrigued. I'm very intrigued. So let's go read this quickly. I don't think this will take me much longer than like half an hour. So I just finished Saga Volume 1 and I really enjoyed it. I actually, I don't know what I was expecting from this. I think it's pretty similar to what I was expecting, like funny humorous sci-fi. But I really enjoyed the humor in this. I really enjoyed the art style. I really, really enjoyed the kind of like found, not found family, like they're an actual family. The family dynamics in this of you know these two young lovers like just trying to protect their baby that they literally have like on the first page. Like she gives birth on the first page and then the rest is them just trying to survive and look after their kid. And I think it's just like a really imaginative, fun, vivid fantasy world. It's hard to have a lot to say about it because it's like just a short graphic novel. But I really enjoyed like a lot of the kind of world building in this. I think I wasn't expecting it to have as many like little elements of world building that it had. Like I think that makes it feel so vivid is when there's so many different elements to the world and you feel like you've only just scratched the surface. I love the art style. And that is by Fiona Staples. The family is kind of caught in the middle of this intergalactic war. And there's a lot of people that want them dead and they kind of just surviving against all odds. And I don't know, I just really loved their dynamic. I really loved the characters. I think I am going to continue on with this. And at first I kind of thought it might be something that I enjoy but don't pursue, like don't carry on with. But I felt like this would be a really fun thing to read, like not to vlog but to just kind of enjoy reading once in a while. So I think I do want to continue on. I really enjoyed the dynamics of this. I'm going to give it four stars. It wasn't like a five star. I very rarely give graphic novels five stars or comics if they're not cute. In order to get five stars you have to be cute and wholesome.  You get me? But now we're going to start what I think a lot of you have been waiting for. Violent Delights by Khloe Gong. The thing is the Ravens was four stars then this was four stars. And if you had to ask me my prediction for going into this, I would predict this would be four stars. Like I think it's been widely loved. I think it's going to be very good in terms of writing quality but I don't think it's going to be like an all time favourite for me. I can't really see it being that. So I don't like that in vlogs when like I read three things and they're all the same rating. I like to have a little bit of light and shade. A little variation in what we're feeling because I had so many four stars in December. Like I think I've only had one five star and the rest of them were four stars. Like predominantly I've had a few lower ratings but almost all four stars where their books I've enjoyed I've enjoyed the reading experience but nothing set my world alight and if this could set my world alight that would be great but I almost, I don't see it. But anyway, I'm going to probably read the first half of this and then check in with you on my thoughts. But yeah, not 100% what short to expect but I feel like it's just going to be another four star. Okay, many hours later. Hi. Listen, me and this book, we're going on a journey. Don't be alarmed. You don't need to be alarmed but we're going on a journey. So the first 50 pages of this, I was obsessed. I was like, this is so good. Like we're meeting all these characters. We're meeting Juliet and Roma who we know. You know, they have a little bit of a past and the two opposing gangs that they represent, they're from two big families and they each represent a different one of them. They're both heirs to the throne of the gangs. I thought it was so well written. This is very clever. It's very mature YA which we'll get into. I have a few points. And I really love Juliet's character. She's a very headstrong person. Roma is more like quiet, like a quiet power that I also find very interesting. So I'm really enjoying the characters. I think the world building is great. This immediately reminded me of Jade City by Fonda Lee because that is about like multiple mafia run families and we're following kind of the heirs who are about to take over the families and kind of turf wars and stuff. And so I think they're very, very similar. So I would recommend if you've read either of these and enjoyed them, like read the other one.  And you really love like all the political maneuverings and the meetings between people and having to be like sly and get one up on each other. From this, I would recommend Jade City because they're very, very similar to me. Okay, let's talk about some things. This is something I've been thinking about a lot. I've been watching a lot of people talk about it. About YA that is trying to target adult audiences, right? Trying to target audience, I guess, like myself. I mean, am I an adult? Sometimes I don't feel like it. But anyway, trying to target adults who still read YA and who have read it since they were teens but have aged out of it versus actually trying to target young people. Now, the point is kind of mute, mute, not mute, mute because this has been so successful, right? It's been so, so successful within young people. On TikTok, it's been so successful. But I question what proportion is teenagers and what proportion is adults. I don't know. Sometimes I'm reading this and I'm like, this is old. Like this is like, this does not read like YA to me. It reads like New Adult. And I feel like it is a full, I guess, of the publishing world that New Adult doesn't exist. Now publishers and naysayers would like say that the success of this disputes my claims. But I just think we could see more stuff of this level of this nature if that kind of space existed within publishing. And I think the success of this only shows a need for that because it just reads so old to me, you know? Like that's not a bad thing. Like I've been complaining sometimes when I read YA and I'm like, oh, it reads so young. Like there's no one can win. But this isn't YA to me. This is not YA. I'm also, you know, I mentioned I love the first 50 pages. That's waning a bit. I don't feel like the pacing in this is the best. Like I'm a bit bored. Like not a lot has happened. Not a lot is happening. I feel like we could have cut this down a bit. It's quite long. It's about 440 pages. It doesn't need to be that long. It could be about 350, I think. We could have cut some stuff out because the pacing doesn't feel quite right. I'm not attached to many of the side characters. I enjoy them when we're reading about them. But I'm struggling to remember who all these different people are and all the different families. I really like, is it Kathleen, Juliet's cousin? Yeah, Kathleen. And I really like Benedict, who's Roma's, I don't know what relation. See that's the kind of thing. I wish this had a family tree or something in it because I'm getting a bit confused on that level. So we have pros and cons. People who really wanted me to love this don't panic. It's like, it's sitting at a 3.5 to 4. Something in that ballpark for me right now. I've got reading sprints right now with my patrons. So hopefully that will mean that we can speed through it and get through it. And I will check in with you in the morning on my final thoughts. But it's good. But like I'm not obsessed. I'm not obsessed. Okay, so guys. This is totally unacceptable. I'm on my way. I didn't love it. I'm really sorry. I'm going to give it three stars. For me, the biggest problem with this was the plot. I was doing so many reviews when I wasn't feeling it and all the reviews were like the ending. The ending is amazing. The ending is brilliant. And I read the ending and I was like, it just didn't work for me. Firstly, let's say the writing, gorgeous, beautiful. The fact that Chloe Gong wrote this as a university student, I could never. Well, I can never because I've been to uni and I didn't do that.   It's amazing, right? She's an amazing writer. She has beautiful prose. Her way with language is gorgeous. And that's usually the most important thing for me about the plot. Like it was just, I was bored. I was so bored. It felt like we were kind of going in circles throughout the plot. Like the beats would be the same. We'd be doing the same things. It didn't feel like enough variety. It felt like Chloe Gong is a gorgeous writer but struggled with the plot. And like, listen, I know I'm a hypocrite, right? The Star of Sea probably doesn't have a lot of plot in it. But this book, it wasn't that it didn't have a lot of plot. It felt like it was trying to be this really fast-paced YA fantasy with so much going on, but it just didn't put it off. I just wasn't interested. That really led it down for me. Also going into this, because it is a Romeo and Juliet retelling, I thought it would be them like falling in love. But they fell in love four years ago and this is them like coming back together. Which did not work for me.  Like, I don't know. So it just didn't work for me because like I am not attached to this relationship at all. You're not giving me flashbacks. You're not like falling in love now. I would have much preferred it if it was them having this kind of forbidden romance for the first time. But it wasn't. I didn't understand that decision. So it just felt like insta-lovy. Like, I didn't see them as a romance, right? I never rooted for them as a romance. I like them as rivals who are forced to work together to kind of save the town. I don't know. I haven't said this. There's like this plague going on where there's these bugs that like are causing people to like tear at their own throats, essentially. And they have to kind of work together to try and fix this situation. But yeah, I like them as rivals having to work together but not as a romance. Like that just didn't work for me. I will say the themes in this are great. You know, it does focus a lot on like colonialism and like white people trying to overtake certain cultures and trying to infiltrate them and kind of your sense of self when you are not no longer living at your original country. You kind of the sense of self when you enter like a Western society and trying to retain your sense of identity. Those are all really, really interesting themes and I thought they were done brilliantly. The themes and the writing, great. The plot and the romance, not so great in my opinion. How do you know what's good for me? That's my opinion! Yeah, I am sad. This is the last book I'm reading in 2021 and it wasn't great. I don't think I'm going to continue on with the series. I'm not going to continue on because I don't think it would be fair. I don't think I would like it. I know I said I was going to but I just as I thought more about it I was like, A, I don't need more series to read and B, you know, I don't want to read it like rate it low and then everyone else is loving it and it'd be a bit unfair. So I think I'm just going to leave it at this. I'm not going to continue on. Bit of a sad note to end the video on but at least we had a bit of a variety. So yeah, I really enjoyed this video. I really enjoyed figuring out what people were hauling last Christmas. If you liked the video please make sure you leave a like down below. I know it's been very long so thank you for getting to this point and if you've gotten to the end comment a rose emoji or the flowers on these violent delights. Comment that down below if you've gotten to the end. Thank you so much again for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!


وأقولوا في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزاله وأقولوا قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي ولا أتأوله الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أبد الله ورسوله اللبين محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته مرحباً في أخر أبسودي في هذه السلسة أخبرتكم عن المدرسة العمارية والتوكب هو كما كانت لديكم في هذه السلسة أخبرتكم عن دعاء ومصطفه بسبب تكلمة الله عز و جل وقال ربكم ودعوني أستجب لكم ورحمة الله قلت بي و will answer you حين نحن نحن now is a very very important topic and it is the topic of topic of going over boundaries transgression in دعاء and I'm going to start by summarizing the concept of transgression in دعاء and saying that transgression in دعاء can fall broadly speaking varies in a very summarized sense into three types of transgression the first is transgression in relation to who you are making the second is who you're making and how you're making كل هذه الثلاثة يوجد فيهم تطبيقات ترغب أكثر منها يجب أن نقوم بعمل مع الله سبحانه وتعالى وهذا هو ترغب as it relates to who you are making Dua 2 now in the general topic of transgression generally speaking the concept of transgression we start with an ayah in which as Zawajal said call upon your lord in a state of submission in a state of showing your need of him and in a state of fear he does not love those who transgress and this is the bit we need from the ayah he does not love the people who transgress this ayah by the way is he does not love those who transgress and the scholars of Tafsir among them are those who took the ayah to be general all kinds of transgression but it certainly has a specific kind of transgression which is transgression in Dua that's what we want to talk about ألي أتداء في الدعاء transgressing as it relates to دعاء الربيع رحمه الله تعالى he said in the meaning of the ayah إياك أن تسأل ربك أمر قد نهيت عنه أو ما ينبغي لك he said stay away from asking your lord for something that you have been prohibited or something that is not right for you أنا من دعاء رحم الله تعالى in the meaning of the ayah إن من الدعاء there is within Dua transgression kinds of transgression يكره رفع السوتي والنداع والصياح بالدعاء ويؤمر بالتضرر والاستكانة he said إن دعاء there are types of transgression it is hated for a person to raise their voice to shout out and to scream in their دعاء and they are commanded to have تضرور humility displaying the need of Allah سبحانه وتعالى نستكانة they've been commanded with the etiquettes we've talked about in دعاء humility and humbleness and and a person to ask to sincerely a person to ask to ask softly in a way that is appropriate in terms of the etiquettes of دعاء and these are just some of the examples of going beyond the bounds as it relates to دعاء اليمام أحمد narrated in his Musnad as did أبي داود narrate in his سنن آن مماجه and others رحمه الله تعالى from the hadith of عبد الله المغفل رضي الله عن أنه سميع ابنه تهي هاده السن يقول same اللهم إني أسألوك القصع والأبي ياضى عن يمين الجنة إذا دخلتوها قول الله I ask you for a white palace or for the white palace on the right of paradise when I enter it فقال أي بني يسمى my son سل الله الجنة وتعول به من النار يقول ask Allah for a paradise and seek refuge from the fire فإني سمعت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول سيكون في هذه الأمة قوم يعتادون في التهور والدعاء I heard the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم say I heard the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم say there will be in this أمة who will go transgress in purification and in دعاء what's the example of this transgression we'll get into the details later in صلى الله عليه وسلم but just to give an understanding the example of transgression here is unnecessary restrictions and details in your دعاء ask Allah for a paradise do you know that the best place in the paradise is the white palace on the right of paradise do you know that's what's best do you know that's the best thing or are you put in a restriction that you don't need it's unnecessary and you're asking Allah ما لا ينبغي you're asking Allah ما لا ينبغي لك what's not be fitting and it's not appropriate for you to ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for it so he warned this time he said ask Allah for paradise Allah will give you the best place in paradise wherever it is seek refuge from the fire because there will be a people who go overboard as it relates to as it relates to دعاء and we see this from people asking for things very specific things they don't know whether that specific thing is good for them and there exists a general دعاء which would suffice them and Allah سبحانه وتعالى would give them what it is that they want they want from it so this is something to bear in mind we're going to come into it إن شاء الله وتعالى in more detail so let's get into the examples of the best transgression as it relates to دعاء the greatest transgression is to ask other than Allah سبحانه وتعالى إن الشركة لا ظلم عظيم شرك is the greatest oppression and the greatest transgression is to ask other than الله سبحانه وتعالى وأن المساجد لله فلا تدعوم الله أحدة the mosques the mosques they belong to Allah so don't make دعاء to anyone notice the word أحدة here the way it's worded is in a general form meaning no one don't ask anybody don't make دعاء to anyone except Allah and the ayat prohibiting دعاء to other than Allah are so many that you can almost not count them you can almost struggle you will not be able to count the ayat that mention that prohibit a person from making دعاء to other than Allah سبحانه وتعالى the greatest lulman the greatest transgression is to direct your دعاء to other than Allah عز وجب from the examples of transgression is to ask Allah something which is not permissible something which is not permissible like asking Allah to facilitate something حرام والعياد بالله we seek refuge with Allah from that asking Allah for something which is حرام for example you know like someone is let's say they are trying to get themselves into a haram relationship but we seek Allah's refuge from that they're trying to get themselves into a haram relationship and they're making دعاء to Allah for this relationship to happen if you know Allah please make her say yes سبحان الله asking Allah for something which is حرام this is اعتداء it's transgression from the examples of اعتداء in دعاء of transgression in دعاء is to ask Allah something that we know that it is not from the wisdom of Allah to do it in other words الله عز وجل has told you that from his wisdom he will not do this and his wisdom dictates that he will not do this for example الله سبحانه وتعالى has told us that from his wisdom is he will not allow someone to live on this earth without dying you need to live eternally on this earth in other words to live forever الله سبحانه وتعالى from his حكما we know that إبليس was allowed to live on this earth until the day of resurrection but Allah سبحانه وتعالى has not given any profit الله عز وجل has not given any person the ability to live on this earth eternally until the day of resurrection so to ask Allah for something that he has specifically told us that he will not give from his wisdom this is disrespectful to Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's disrespectful or Allah سبحانه وتعالى has told us that he does not give is the unseen knowledge of the unseen in a general sense except to the prophets and the messengers that he gives them what they need but he doesn't give the the knowledge of what is unseen with him and a person asks الله عز وجل for something that Allah has told you that he will not give you for example the prophet سبحانه وتعالى that if it were not for the fact that you would not bury your dead لا تداثنه if it were not for the fact that you would not bury your dead that he would have asked Allah to show us the عذاب القبر the punishment of the grave the prophet سبحانه وتعالى عز وجل for something that Allah has told you or the prophet سبحانه وتعالى has told you that Allah will not do and that is disrespectful to Allah سبحانه وتعالى from the examples of transgression as it relates to دعاء is that the prophet سبحانه وتعالى he had a reason for it from the wisdom that was revealed to him by Allah is not to ask Allah to show the punishment of the grave and then someone comes along and says oh Allah show me the punishment سبحانه وتعالى is asking for a position or a status that doesn't be fit you like asking Allah to make you a prophet or asking Allah to make you an angel that is not your status that's not your position Allah is not decreed that for you and it's not befitting for you to ask Allah it's not respectful for you to ask Allah after Allah has chosen for you the status that you have Allah has chosen that you will not be a prophet Allah has chosen that you will not be an angel Allah chose that for you when He created you He chose for you the station that you have He gave you flexibility within it to to aim for the highest the best you can be but Allah is with you to not make me or you prophets and messengers so it's not right to ask Allah for something that he out of his wisdom has not given you a status or a station like saying Allah make me a prophet or Allah make me an angel likewise to ask Allah without showing your need and like as if you don't care as if you don't care like you are مستغني like you don't need Allah و أما من بخيلة و استغنى و كذب بالحسنة فسن يسره للعصر as for the one who is stingy and sees themselves that they don't need Allah and disbelieve in paradise or disbelieve in the reward of Allah this person we will make their life and we will make difficulties for them so Allah is with you prohibited in many many of the Quran استغنى that you see yourself like you don't need Allah so a person for example raises up their hand and they behave like they don't care they're like oh Allah give it if you want if you don't want don't give it and this is the way the prohibition on saying إن شاء الله comes from don't say oh Allah give it to me إن شاء الله because the the implied meaning of إن شاء الله is that you don't really care like إن شاء الله or إن شاء الله if you wish you gave it and if you don't want well it doesn't matter that's what إن شاء الله إن شاء الله in this context in this situation means and it's the biggest one of the biggest mistakes we see people generally from the from practicing Muslims making is saying إن شاء الله in دعاء may Allah make you knowledgeable إن شاء الله that's a very bad etiquette to have in دعاء and it's an example of today example of transgression in دعاء and it's an example of calling upon Allah without تضرور without proper humility and need and showing yourself to be subjugated and desperate for Allah سبحانه وتعالى to help you the word إن شاء الله in this context I know that's not what people mean but that's what it means it means if you want and if you don't want if you don't want don't give it to me if you want give it to me and if you don't want then you don't have to give it to me that's very disrespectful it shows a lack of a lack of need a lack of desperation a lack of being poor before Allah it shows that you know like well if you give it to me and if you don't I'll just get it myself it's that kind of feeling that kind of mentality it's very very rude and it's transgression so don't say إن شاء الله when you're making دعاء for someone like oh Allah give it to me إن شاء الله or may Allah bless you إن شاء الله it's very it's prohibited and it's something which is a kind of transgression in دعاء from the examples of transgression in دعاء is to worship Allah with what He did not or to come near to Allah with what He did not allow you to do so this includes the kinds of توسل that are forbidden we're going to come to توسل getting near to Allah in your دعاء with something that is forbidden calling upon Allah with names that He has not given for Himself and He has not given to His Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم like those people who call Allah هو and they say هو هو هو الله سبحانه وتعالى did not call Himself هو or الهو الله سبحانه وتعالى did not name Himself this and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not name Him this so this is transgression and it's disrespectful to Allah to call upon Him with a name that He didn't call Himself with or the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم didn't call Him with and this includes دعاء دعاء any kind of دعاء innovation that creeps into دعاء this is from transgression in دعاء from the examples of transgression in دعاء that we see is دعاء cursing the believers or asking Allah to disgrace them or to lower them this is also an example from the دعاء or some of the some of the pious predecessors they said in the does not love the people who transgress the people who transgress are those people يدعون على المؤمنين فيما لا يحل they made دعاء against the Muslims in that which is not permissible they say الله مخصهم or Allah disgraced them الله ملعنهم or Allah cursed them and we still see this until today we still until today see people making دعاء against entire countries making دعاء against Muslims making دعاء like just blanket دعاء الله ملعنهم الله مخزهم or Allah cursed them or Allah disgraced them and often it's when people get emotional about something they feel like the person let them down they feel like the person didn't support them maybe didn't give them charity or didn't stand with them in a matter like a matter of defending them or a matter of politics or something and they become furious and they say الله ملعنهم or Allah cursed them cursed them this is from transgression in دعاء from the transgression in دعاء والله مستعل and we seek Allah's help for how common this is is رف أو سوت رف عن يخل بالأدب is raising your voice in a way that is disrespectful and includes this this kind of wailing that has become common among many of the إماء in the masjid the imams in the masjid I'm not talking about natural crying that happens the imams making in the winter in رمضان and he becomes overcome with emotion he tries to keep it together for his voice breaks there is nothing wrong with that but there are some people سبحان الله they are brought to wail in the masjid like the women who are brought to wail over the dead in the time of jahili they bring the imam not because of his not because of his knowledge not because of his but just because he knows how to scream and wail at the top of his voice and سبحان الله you sometimes would pray behind one of them you don't even understand what they said you can't even understand the dua and it's not natural it's a it's a deliberate wailing that is exaggerated and screaming سبحان الله I prayed behind one they screamed so loud سبحان الله I never stood in a a prayer and had an intention to leave it except that prayer that I stood in the prayer والله I was متردد I was doubtful that I wanted to to leave this Allah because the imam was screaming at the top of this voice screaming in a way that is والله very strange wailing screaming in a very exaggerated way and when we asked the people coming out of the masjid they were happy about it they were yeah he's well known for this you know this is what he does this is speciality والله المستعى this is من الإرتداء from an example of transgression into our and it's not something which is permissible we heard the statement of ابن جريدر رحم الله تعالى that from دعاء that is a kind of إرتداء يكره رفع السوت والنداء والصياح بالدعاء it's disliked to raise your voice and to call out and scream when you're making when you're making دعاء this is something hated now compare this to the statement of أبي موسى العشأري that he said رفع الناس وأصواتهم بالدعاء فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أيها الناس أيها الناس إربعوا على أنفسكم فإنكم لا تدعون أصم ولا غائبة إن الذي تدعون هو سمي قريب he said all people keep to yourselves they were raising their voices in دعاء they were people they were أبي موسى saw them raising their voices in دعاء the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said to them all people keep yourselves to yourselves you are not calling upon someone who is death or absent you are calling upon one who is all hearing and who is near أنا الحسن البصري رحم الله تعالى he said لقد أدركنا أقواما ما كان على الأرض من عمل يقترون أن يعملوه في السر فيكونوا علانية أبدا he said we met people حسن البصري is from the كبارة تابعين the older from the Sahaba we met people there wasn't a deed on the face of this earth that they could do in secret that they ever did openly ولقد كان المسلمون يجتهدون في الدعاء وما يسمع لهم صوت the Muslims they used to make hard big efforts strong efforts in دعاء and you couldn't hear any sound from them إن كان إلا همسا بينهم وبين ربهم عز وجه it was just a whisper between them and their Lord عز وجه وذلك أن الله تعالى يقول أدعو ربكم تضرع وخفيا call upon your Lord in humility and خفيا here we can take from it privately quietly quietly and privately وذلك أن الله ذكر عبد صالح رضي الله فعله الله عز وجه mentioned a righteous servant of his that he was pleased with the deeds that servant did فقال إذناد ربه نداء خفيا ذكرية عليه السلام he called upon Allah as we told in Surah Maryam ayah number 3 he called upon his Lord نداء خفيا in a with a hidden call you know a private he kept it to himself he didn't raise out his voice he didn't raise his voice it was خفي it was lowered he lowered his voice and he called upon his Lord secretly and in private عليه الصلاة و السلام we're going to conclude with a quote of مجالد بيمسعود سلم رضي الله عن أنه سمع قوما يعجون في دعائهم فمشى إليهم فقال أيها القوم لقد أصبتم فضلا على من كان قبلكم أو لقد هلقتم فجعلوا يتسلدون رجلا رجلا حتى تراقوا بقاعتهم التي كانوا فيها مجالد بيمسعود رضي الله عن يرد الناس who were raising their voices loudly in their دعاء so he walked up to them he said oh people either you have gained a virtue that the people before you meaning from the صحابة they didn't gain or you have destroyed yourselves so the people they started to just walk away from this gathering of raising their voices in دعاء man by man person by person until no one was left in that place look what he said he said look I'm going to give you one of two choices either you're doing something you've got a virtue the صحابة didn't have or either you're destroying yourself by doing دعاء in this way which is one of the ways of innovation and of course one of the ways of الاعتداف الدعاء a way of going over the limits as it relates to دعاء that's what Allah has made easy to mention as it relates to the issue of الاعتداف الدعاء going overboard when it comes to دعاء and in the next episode إن شاء الله تعالى we're going to begin to talk about توصل إن شاء الله getting near to Allah سبحانه وتعالى finding a means of nearness to Allah through additional actions that can bring your عنية to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the permissible ways of doing that and the impermissible ways of doing that and Allah is the best والصلاة والسلام على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعي السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته how can you do a two second action right now that will give you a share of the reward of everything we're doing on this YouTube channel simple like this video and click subscribe why 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Welcome. This is Melissa. I'm the stock swisher. I'm looking at fdx really nice gap today that had a very very bearish opening and then Didn't really go anywhere and I ended up calling a put in this and a short the put is still on but not for a long time I really don't like this gap. So let's just go over what happened in this today If you day traded it and get out fast. You made money if you held it you lost So I think everyone fared differently in this today, but I really thought that it had a long long way to go I mean down and it just it just sidelined pretty much all afternoon Here's the drop and this is not nothing. I mean, I'm I mean, it's this was you know $2 depending where you got filled a buck buck and a half But I honestly had such high hopes for this to just completely fall off a planet And it did not and so at a certain point in here when it rallied back It looked like it was going to do great and looked amazing and look beautiful look perfect You could have even taken more it even looked good here after 10 o'clock Here here. It's the sidelining and then this is this all of this in here and then Everything still looks good. I mean this looked good for so long and then it wasn't right so There was a Fed minutes announcement today that lifted the market and with it fdx But to be honest with you, I believe that if that hadn't happened this would have broken down at some point in the afternoon Didn't play out that way So if they get out in the morning with the quick drop made a buck whatever a buck and a half You fared well and made money and fdx short today was definitely not a long though It just didn't have the follow-through to any bigger number to the downside. So if you held it You got stopped. We'll see what we get tomorrow I think the put in this really still could probably go tomorrow on its own without the market But I guess we're gonna have to wait and see so good luck everyone. We will see what we get tomorrow morning


Assembly languages are often called low-level languages, because they are metaphorically low in the sense that programmers using them are left down in all the details of the actual machine instructions. When you write a program in assembly, you're piecing it together, machine instruction by machine instruction. The advantage is precise control. You can have the CPU execute the precise series of instructions that you want. In contrast to low-level languages, a high-level language takes away precise control from the programmer in exchange for convenience. In a high-level language, each line of code typically corresponds to more than just one machine instruction, thereby accomplishing more work per line of code. By abandoning one-to-one correspondence between source code and machine instructions, high-level languages also allow us to write code that is portable across different processors. The programmer can write a program once and have it run on many target platforms. In the first 30 or so years of computing, most programming was done in low-level assembly languages. Also, the vast majority of programming is done in high-level languages and assembly is only used in a few niche cases, such as in writing certain portions of operating systems. The conversion of high-level language source code into machine code is not called assembly, but rather compilation, and the programs which do it are called compilers. The reason for the different term is that to assemble connotes a simple process of one-to-one correspondence. Each line becomes one instruction resulting program. To compile, in contrast, connotes a more sophisticated process of translation in which lines of source code and machine instructions do not strictly correspond one-to-one. Each line of source can translate into many machine instructions. Still, the general idea of assembly and compilation is basically the same. One form of code gets translated into another form of code. So, for example, say you're programming in the high-level language C. We've written our C code in two different source files, one called foo.c and the other called bar.c, and we run each one independently through the compiler, spitting out two separate object files foo.o and bar.o. Then just like in assembly, we run the object files together through the linker to produce a single executable. It's possible in some cases to link object files generated from different languages. For example, it's quite common to link object files generated from assembly code with object files generated from C code. This can be useful because the precise control of assembly may allow me to optimize code in a way that I just can't in C. So, I might write most of my program in C for the relative convenience, but for the portion of code which I need to optimize, I might write just that part in assembly. Another reason to mix assembly code with C code is that in C, and in fact in all high-level languages really, there is no way to directly invoke a system call. Remember that system calls are invoked using a particular instruction. Well, nothing in the semantics of the C language will cause the compiler to output that machine instruction. So in fact, C code is ultimately reliant upon assembly code to invoke any system calls, and the same is true of any other high-level language. Without native machine code, without assembly, we just couldn't invoke system calls. An alternative to compilation is a scheme called interpretation, performed by programs called interpreters, whereas a compiler reads your source code and translates it into another form of code, usually machine code, an interpreter reads your source code and translates it into action. That is to say, an interpreter reads the source code, and as it reads the source code, it does what the source code says to do. Admittedly, the choice of terms here is not apt. An interpreter in normal life refers to someone who translates one language into another, but that's more analogous to what a compiler does. An interpreter in programming refers to a program which reads and acts upon code. So whereas a compiler is more like C3PO, an interpreter is more like an action hero, like John McClain. To run a program with an interpreter, we don't produce any executable file, we just run the code through an interpreter, and the interpreter's actions as it reads the code is the running of our code. To run source code split into multiple files, we just run them all through the interpreter together. The interpreter then handles any business of linkage between the files as it runs the code. To imagine an interpreter at work, start off imagining a program which reads a list of mathematical expressions. As the program reads each line, it evaluates the expressions. So when reading these three lines, the program would get the values 93, then negative 7, then 16. Now imagine that we introduce variables, such that the value produced on one line is remembered by the program as a symbolic name, such that we can then use the name on successive lines. So here the value of 1 plus 2 is retained as the name foo, so in the next line the expression 1 plus foo would evaluate to 4. Next imagine that we introduce control flow with if and while, such that some lines may get evaluated only conditionally, and some lines may repeat. Lastly, imagine we introduce functions, such that a group of lines can be invoked by name. Well, once our program can process expressions, variables, control flow, and functions, we basically have an interpreter for a programming language. Another way to run code is to use compilation and interpretation together. For instance, in the Java language we first run the source code through a compiler, but rather than spit out machine code, this compiler generates an intermediate form of code which Java calls bytecode. This bytecode is then run and executed by an interpreter, which in Java we call a virtual machine. Java bytecode actually looks very much like machine code. The instructions of bytecode denote basically the same kinds of operations of a processor instruction set. However, no processor directly understands these bytecode instructions, instead a virtual machine interprets them, meaning it does what the instructions say to do as it reads them. The thinking behind this hybrid approach is that it gives us the advantages of compilation and interpretation at the same time. On the one hand, compiled code tends to run faster than interpreted code because it needn't parse the source code when we run the program, and a compiler isn't under time pressure to actually run the program, so it has all the time it wants to optimize the code it generates. On the other hand, interpreted code allows us to run the same code on multiple platforms without first compiling for each platform. In the hybrid approach, we only have to compile our source code once in the bytecode, and then the same bytecode can run on any system with a Java virtual machine. So in short, we compile for efficiency, but interpret for portability. Now, interpretation, even of pre-compiled bytecode, always introduces performance overhead compared to running straight machine code. Whereas machine instructions are directly executed by the CPU, interpretation involves the extra work of reading the code, deciding what work that code denotes, and then actually doing the work. So for greater efficiency, many virtual machines have adopted a scheme called JIT, standing for just-in-time compilation. With JIT, the virtual machine may actually compile some or all of the bytecode into machine code and then run that machine code rather than interpret those parts of the code. Even though this of course introduces more work upfront when a program is loaded, the idea is that a smart VM can decide when and where the performance gain will outweigh the cost. In fact, by delaying compilation until a program is actually run, the VM can make intelligent decisions about how to optimize the generated machine code in a way that a normal compiler cannot, because the VM has the advantage of observing the code actually run and thus knows more about its real performance. For example, in some cases, there's a trade-off between optimizing for space, meaning for minimizing memory usage and optimizing for execution time, for minimizing processor usage. By measuring actual performance, the VM can make an informed choice between the two. So the argument is sometimes made that it's possible for code running in a VM with a just-in-time compiler to actually exceed the performance of code that's compiled into machine code ahead of time. How often this actually comes true in real-world scenarios, if at all, that's a highly debated topic.


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Good afternoon folks, this is Steve Rhodes, coming to you live from the shores of sunny, yeah, still sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 2 p.m. update and currently have a slightly mixed bag, that mix coming from the Russell, which is up three points, otherwise the other indices are trading to the downside. That was off 269, S&P 14, NASDAQ 35, the semis are basically flat out there, they're off 1.20s, are down 347, they're actually confirming a sell the D-point pattern out there, so we'll take a look at that in a moment.  So let's go take a look at our indices, our cash indices charts out there, we'll move over here in the upper left-hand corner momentarily, you will see the Dow. Now, you know there's A to B equal CD patterns that are out here, and what the Dow would need, or any of these would need would be a bearish reversal candle to confirm A sell the D-point pattern out here. The other thing you'll see that most of the oscillator and change lines, those are the green, red, squiggly lines out there have changed colors, ones that haven't as a New York Stock Exchange. When they change color, now typically what happens is when you get a topping pattern, then price will go back in, retest that oscillator and change line. Now it can happen without a topping pattern, perhaps that's where we're at. What you want to watch inside the Dow is the approximate area of 32047, a test and reject level says we continue the rally higher. S&P, it just got a doji that's forming right now, but we don't know what the candle will look like at day's end. But it's price targeted to downside could be or should be the 3996 level, the NDX100, that would be a 12497, but it's better to get a bearish reversal candle to confirm a sell the D-point pattern to then suggest that price will go ahead back there. If we take a look at the Russell 2000, more likely than not, this is going to go target 1916 before it goes and targets 1830, the oscillator and change line. The semis out here, they are likely going to go target its TD-9Cal breakdown level. That price point is 3080-238, they're likely to do that before they target the 2844 level. Inside the Dow transports, if we take a look at the A to B leg out here, that looks like this, we take that over to the C-point out there and you'll see that this has completed an A to B equal CD pattern. We do have a bearish engulfing candle, as we speak right now. If it maintains that at day set, that will be a confirmed currently sell pattern. That will suggest price headed back to the 13939 level. Folks, stay tuned. Your favorite polar bear, David White, is up next. Have a terrific Tuesday. I'll see you tomorrow on wonderful Wednesday.


Hello friends. I am Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on my YouTube channel. My channel contains more than 800 videos related to various programming languages. You can search those videos through the keyword programming by Sanjay Gupta. You can also search my channel by typing my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube. Don't forget to subscribe my YouTube channel. For queries, you can connect with me by following these details. In this video, I am going to discuss how you can convert a number whose base is other than 10 to a number whose base is other than 10. It means we are going to convert any octal number into binary or binary to octal or octal to hexadecimal or hexadecimal to octal. So the number which we are going to convert is not decimal and the resultant number is also not decimal number. So now I am going to convert integer numbers first. So first have a look on the steps. So first step is convert the original number into decimal by following the multiplication method. So you have to convert the source or original number into decimal first and then you have to convert the decimal number into the required number or you can say new base number by following the divisional remainder method. So these two steps we have to follow. So let's understand these steps with the help of an example. So this is example one. Question is we have to convert 11011 the number is having base two into octal number. So here I am going to use the multiplication method. First I am going to convert this binary number into decimal. So I have identified the positions of each number sorry each digit. So this first digit is having the position zero. Then second digit position one third digit position two fourth digit position three and fifth digit is position is having position number four. So this way these positions are multiplied here with this formula. So first I have mentioned the number and then it is multiplied with its base raised its position. So one into two is four. So two is the base of the number and four is the position of the digit and the digit is one. Similarly, all the digits are multiplied. The multiplication are added further and the addition result is 27 which is decimal number. So 11011 which is the binary number its equivalent decimal number is 27. So here I have performed only step number one. Now I have to apply a step number two. It means I have to convert this 27 into octal number. So for that I am going to use this division remainder method. So 27 is the decimal number. I am going to convert it into octal. So 27 will be divided by eight. So it will be divisible three times. So remainder will be three. Then further we can divide three by eight. So remainder will be three. Now if you combine three three number will be three three and its base is octal. So 11011 which is the binary number. Its octal representation is three three. So this way I have converted binary to octal. Now example number two here I am going to convert octal number into binary. So first I am going to convert octal to decimal and then decimal will be converted into binary. So for octal I have identified the position. Position of six is zero. Position of two is one. Then I have multiplied these digits. So two is multiplied with eight raised one. Here eight is the base and one is the position. And then six is multiplied with eight raised zero. Then these multiplications are added and finally the result is 22 which is decimal. So this is the step number one. Now I have to apply it. I have to apply step number two. So here I am going to convert 22 whose bases stand into binary. So 22 will be divided by two each time and the remainder is mentioned here. So we have to put all these remainder values from bottom to up. So you can see the number 10110. This is the binary conversion of 22. So original number was 26 which is an octal number and it is converted into 10110 which is its equivalent binary number. So I have applied multiplication method as well as division remainder method to convert octal number into binary. One more example is here. Here I am going to convert hexadecimal number into octal. So first I am going to convert hexadecimal number into decimal and then that decimal number will be converted into octal. So you can see here 25a. Three digits are available. Position of a is zero. Position of five is one. Position of two is two and a will be converted into one zero because we can't use a for any calculation. So its representation is 10. So here I have multiplied the digit two with 16 days to why 16 because base of the number is 16 and position of this visit to is to that's why it's far is to then five is multiplied with 16 days one. So the position of five is one. That's why 16 days one and similarly 10 into 16 days zero. So all these multiplications are added further to find out decimal number. So 25a is hexadecimal number and its equivalent decimal number is 602. Now I have to convert this decimal number into octal number. And also I am using divisional remainder method. So 602 is divided by 875 times remainder is to 75 is divided by eight nine times remainder is three nine is divided by eight one time remainder is one one can't be divisible. That's why remainder is one. So we have to put all these remainder digits from bottom to up. So the final outcome will be 1132. Hexadecimal number is 25a and it's equivalent octal number is 1132. So friends this way by applying these two different methods multiplication and division remainder method you can find out conversion of a number whose basis other than 10 and that number will be converted into the number which doesn't belong to decimal. So after conversion of integers, now I'm moving to conversion of fractional numbers. So here we are going to convert octal to hexadecimal. So first convert octal into decimal by applying this multiplication method. So here you can see the digits which are available at left inside of decimal point. Their positions are 012 and the digits which are available at right inside of decimal point their positions are minus one minus two. And with these positions, I have multiplied all the digits. So one into eight raise to eight is the base of original number and it's power is position of this visit one. So here you can see the position of one is to that's why power is to for this to position is one. Position is one. That's why eight raised one for seven position is zero. That's why eight raise zero for three position is minus one. That's why eight raise minus one and so on. Finally, these multiplication results are added and the outcome is eight seven point four zero six to five. So one to seven point three two which is octal number. It is converted into decimal. Now this decimal will be converted into hexadecimal. Now we are going to see how we can convert that. So here you can see first we are going to convert integer part by division remainder method. So this 87 will be converted first. So you can see it is converted through this division remainder method and the result is five seven, which isn't hexadecimal. So here we have only converted it into the part that is eight seven. Now we have to convert this four zero six to five into hexadecimal. So for that purpose, I'm going to this, I'm going to use this method, which I have already discussed in my another video. So four zero six to five will be multiplied with 16 because targeted numbers basis 16. So result is 6.5. We have to keep the integer part on the here and the fractional value will be available here for further multiplications. So this point five will be multiplied by 16 result is 8.0. So integer part eight is maintained here and the fractional value zero is available here, which can't be multiplied further because if you multiply any number with zero, the result will be always zero. Now we have to put these two digits together. So the result is six, sorry, 0.68. So this fractional parts hexadecimal equivalent value is 0.68. So finally, if we combine all the values together, so eight seven point four zero six to five is converted into this five seven point six eight. And finally, if we find out the complete answer, so original number was one two seven point three two, which is octal. Then I converted it into decimal. That was eight seven point four zero six to five. Then it is converted into hexadecimal. So finally result is five seven point six eight. So this way I converted octal number into hexadecimal number. I hope you have understood whatever I have explained in this video. 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