What's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards. We're doing 2022 panini Don Resolete football hobby three box break number four Random team style. Let's go ahead and take a look at our results As always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat. Let's do it guys What's the score Mike?  So i'm not going to make Don just search for it. Well if tbs said we could get it I don't know what this is. Oh my god. These give up two runs. Is it three nothing dude? Come on Uh, no the case it is like razzle dazzle and like whiz kids are the two case hits and uh, they don't have downtown's in this That's only in um In clearly Don Russ and they come in panini one-in-one Uh, that's hide chandler to 999 Vikings So the mariners over. Yeah, no no problems. They're wk 2-0 Uh, Sam Howe rookie's on deck commanders filler for Don very bad Cooper cup to 2 399 No, but It's free for you, man Got playmakers jt Colts Aaron Donald got Joe burrow. Nice. That's nine out of 75 jersey number. There you go bangles John of the nature congrats man.  We are so stacked on those now But we need them because nt has booklets in it and then once playbook comes out. It's all over Uh, nice harrison smith harry the hitman Elite coverage going to the vikings. That's sick. I love harrison smith. Such a beast That's a combo anthony p justin jefferson going to the vikings again Here he is He's so good, dude Um, that's filler for Don Dax and hill to 399 bangles. Bangles doing well now and base. Oh nice filling Didn't say I was like, where's where's the enthusiasm got distracted by a couple of carrot wilson Elite, uh, rookies on deck base. That is chris, uh, a loticon to 399 stealers Remember what we're doing? I think we did a full case of elite like two six boxers filler for don Barry sander's elitist. Yeah, what about and there's all the kid reporter cards all over the ground. Oh, yeah No, no, I should be good. I got it close to me. Uh, sam williamson 999 cowboys Peace I know not great at it. I'll give I'll say that Kyle hamilton to 999 ravens. There you go, baltimore my life cd lamb That's gonna be treylon berks rookie pen pals auto going to the titans alexander p. There you go, buddy. Nice one there elite deck jt for another auto out of this box probably a turn of the century Uh, zemeer white 28 out of 99 going to the raiders nice combo hit there Oh, no glory. The guardians are not doing well They're not doing well Sam williams that's 45 out of 75 going to the uh Cowboys We've got 68 out of 70 ebonyl giants I'm just gonna say yielded this cowboys card. It's a rookie on deck jamison williams over non tea higgins Trevor laurence on spellbound to 349 jets I feel like there's gonna be a meme tomorrow where it's like Cleveland and Tampa game like, oh, we're the longest game ever in this game. We'll be here. Yeah rookie elitist league willis Honestly though, that'll do for box one. We are on to box two. Sorry guys I can do that again. No damage done there. Luckily nothing was open Uh, trey mcbride, it's gonna be your pen pal auto going to the cardinals. There you go, arizona a suki m on the combo that is a Uh 65 out of 91 die cut for the rams matt stafford have a neil to 999 giants ston's favorite team My name was paul, baby uh john john and taylor playmakers I like teams that win i'm sorry elite deck jj uh j jettus Vikings or teams that don't lose rather. Yeah, there you go filler for none Malik willis rookie elitist Titans moxie giante johnson going to the stealers Uh, that is 25 out of 49 on the jumbo Not jumbo, but like it's thicker james cook rookie elite for the uh bills That is uh derrick young going to the seahawks the 399 Yeah, we got another one tonight san Got five silvers and one diamond at the end of the night uh roquant smith the 399 bears This moxie's like a jaguar power like a tan color Oh, yeah, I see what you're saying. It is numbered. I think the other ones aren't usually the base ones aren't numbered So that might be why yeah, that's what filler for don michael warne eagles Yeah, there we go 999 And see the guy play over but uh, we've got that is full throttle to 349 stafford for the uh rams matt stafford I don't even know what positions Peter strong to 999 for the pets Honestly, so you guys got what gain. Well sanders. Well, since they're boston scottville scott. Oh, yeah Sam howl rookie on that Another one Oh Oh, yeah, I forgot if he was there filler for don jonathan taylor elite tech Forgot he was Eagle's running back room Filler for don. Yeah, darren waller purple 299 for the raiders I'll eat that gary wilson I like t higgins bangles that is cloud over to lair 16 out of 24 on the die cut He's looking for one more auto i believe josh allen spellbound uh 62 out of 75 bills Okay Uh turn of the century carcin strong going to the eagles 114 out of 199 There you go filly. That's don's boy don don actually says he should start in place of jail and hurts Absolutely. I don't know. I don't know why don thinks that but hey because the 399 joe mixin We're gonna use hertz for trades. Ah, gotcha Gotcha. See guys, this is all just a elite like an elaborate scheme. This is why I don't this is why i'm not a manager for And uh, that was a playmaker's rust for the broncos Let's pick some of these up. All right last box in the break.  I say likely the 999 and then still have inserts of them in their account I don't know.  That's kind of odd. I agree with that Does the legacy come out before elite though? Turn to the century Carson strong again going to the eagles 178 out of 199. What's the number on that one? Where's the number? Uh, right there. Uh, this is 114. Okay, so different number in 178 It was sequential. I'd be cool. Tristan ebner Um trust in ebner 10 out of 49 going to the bears Okay, who bought who bought the eagles? It's because I got the eagles here. Um Um There's combo jeffrey c jeffrey c. Yeah, jeff. You don't you don't need two Two on the elite insert That is a filler for don got courtland Sutton 43 out of 86 I was low-key looking at getting I think they have the turn century Carson strong out of like 10 on ebay I think it's all Under 20. Yeah Jumped on that train. Yeah Aaron donald rams. Yeah, we had two of the same autos. That'll happen though That is filler for don elite deck mark. Andrews I've been nailed to 399 giants. Oh, i say a spiller. This one's going to the chargers nice blue ink.  He's really good. Nice. Can he pick it to 999? There you go stealers now. He's He's like he's like shoeing unless he gets hurt. He's like guaranteed I'd be great to trade uh dean in a draft pick for Jordy nelson going to the packers 110 out of 299 throwback threads Blair warn on the jordy john t elite deck joe burrow traps kelsey McCoby dean in a first round Why not? That seems fair. It'll throw in. It'll even throw in a uh second rounder. No, I end the seventh rounder. Maybe yeah, so 399 de andre swift Alliance michael thomas filler for don Cooper cup highlight filler for don again Ecchemic wanu going to the uh panthers. There's a little bit of a like peeling on the bottom there We'll send an empty box and wrapper with the panthers See if you can get that replaced Yeah, very badly peeled That happens in elito happened in basketball a ton You'd see a lot of that peeling on some of the like insert cards Let's go. It's judge june homer, baby. There there we go We've got nice razzle dazzle michael warren the second for the eagles Nice one there on the super short print technically a case hit In the last pack of the uh the break jeffree c. Congrats, man Damian harris that'll do it for the break guys. Get that in the recap too Um, let's uh go through a quick recap here. We've got Jordy nelson for the packers and deontay johnson going to the Steelers. Do you have the uh, Uh, harry the harris and smith too, and we got a harris and smith elite coverage for the uh, vikings. I know that jersey Yeah, no, you're good. You're good Michael warren razzle dazzle for the eagles Isis filler chargers carcin strong eagles carcin strong eagles tray mcbride for the cardinals Sam williams cowboys and treylon berks for the titans That'll do it for the break everyone. Thanks again for the fill next up. We've got select


Putting this as a definitive list makes me feel incredibly nervous, but I feel like it's time. Hello friends! So the other day I realised I have never done my favourite books video ever. I've never done it in the history of my channel. I've only ever done like best books of the year, but I thought it was time I give you a definitive list of my top 25 books ever. It's about time! Putting this together was actually easier than I thought. I feel pretty confident in my picks. Of course there's anything like this, there'll be a comment. It's like why don't you put this book in there? Why don't you put this book in there?  But at the moment I feel confident in my choices and the way that we're gonna do this is I haven't ranked them from like 25 to 1 because that would be too difficult. But what I have done is we've got three kind of tiers. We've got 25 to 16, 15 to 6 and then the top five. So I've been able to rank it like that. I have got my top five books of all time and like the tiers kind of separating them. Should we just get into it? I don't read how to do! This is I just guess a video of my top recommendations. Some of these will be books I haven't spoken about in a long time because they're books I read a long time ago. It might be books you don't even know that I've read or loved and some will be more recent editions. So shall we just get into it? I feel like I don't know if you can tell. I feel nervous. Let's just begin. So we'll start at the bottom of Workaway Up. So this is the 25 to 16 number book. So it's not ranked in this um but yeah this is the first tier. So first book I want to mention is The T. Jaggen Society by Kate O'Neill. I still haven't read the next two in this series because it's so precious and incredible. I want to like keep it for the perfect day. But basically you're following these like tea dragons who like help brew tea. There's a different types and it's just the most gorgeous graphic novel you've ever seen. Like literally a hug in a book. I need to reread this. Maybe I'll just like reread this like right now. Found family, fantastical little magical creatures and I love it. I can't wait to read this with my kids one day. I generally think that. Like I think about when I'm reading it like oh my god imagine a little candle. Very strange. It's just so wholesome, so beautiful and you've got kind of this friendship between these two characters as well. So yeah I had to put this on here. I find that I prefer cute graphic novels. I like graphic novels that are cute wholesome, happy and so if you ever have any recommendations for that let a go know. Oh my gosh no I've bent this book.  Well then we have the only non-fiction book on this list. It was tough. I almost put another one on here. I almost put The Five by Hallie Rubinhold but it didn't quite make it. But this is the only non-fiction. It's one I read a super long time ago and it is Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay. So this is a series of essays from Roxanne Gay. It's set into sections. We've got Me, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Entertainment, Politics, Gender and Race and Back to Me and I just thought this was so insightful, so interesting. It's such a great look at intersectional feminism but you know the difficulties of sometimes being a feminist was also having these ingrained societal perceptions. I never highlight but I highlighted a lot in this book and this is actually one I would really love to reread. I just thought it was so interesting. I felt like when I was reading it I opened my eyes and I always say my favorite essay in this is the one where she talks about her love for Scrabble. I love it. Like I love the essay about Scrabble and this. I found it so interesting. So we have a new edition. This is The Broken Girls by Simone St. James. This is just a pretty simple kind of mystery. We have these two timelines. One in the present day, a woman whose sister was murdered about 20 years ago I think and found on the grounds of this old school and then we also follow perspectives of these girls who went to the school when it was happening and in the present day timeline again a body has just been found on the school grounds again and I just loved this. I loved the relationships between some of the girls and this. I found the way that the mystery unfold was so interesting. I thought the writing was incredible. It really made me fall in love with Simone St. James' writing and I've been wanting to try more from her ever since and I always say there's like a little bit of speculativeness. It's the camera not focused again. What is going on with you? What has happened? It's like having a job working 24 seven for two days on the trot. Yeah there's always a little bit of speculativeness to these books. There's always a little bit of like something lurking and I just loved that. I wasn't expecting that because so often a book promises me spooky vibes, ghosty vibes and yet then at the end it's like oh it was nothing.  Is that else? Yeah but it's not overpowering. It's not really what the book's about but I love that. I love a bit of supernatural speculativeness outside our wilderness so yes cannot wait to read more Simone St. James. Another one from last year was Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee. This is the last in the Green Zone saga. We're following this family who are like uh it's kind of like a mafia fantasy and this family are one of the most powerful families in the city and this book, don't even look at me. Trauma, family trauma, generational trauma, family trauma, you know generational trauma, generational trauma, generational trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma. By this book you have been with this family for so long. You have cried. You have been emotionally damaged and this book also takes place over the course of I think about like 15 years I want to say at least it's a long time and I just I haven't read a lot of fantasy series to the end especially like adult high fantasy like this is kind of intimidating to me but by the end the level of detail that you are immersed in with this book and the level of connection you have to the family and to everything that's gone on and like the way that things happen in this book that the roots were laid off in the first book I just thought this was an incredible combination of what was a really great series I didn't love the first in the series I think I gave it a 3.5 so I liked it but I didn't love it whereas Jade Wall got a 4.5 and this got a 5 I just like I loved it I read them like two days as well and it's really long I just thought it was incredible I thought it was such an amazing feat of writing. Then we have one of the first murder mysteries I ever read and the first Agatha Christie I ever read and that is a murder on the Orin Express by Agatha Christie. I am about to do a reread of this pretty soon I think I've got to read one more in the Proro series and then this comes up and I'll do a reread. I think this is a perfect murder mystery I think it's a perfect murder mystery so there's a murder that happens on the Orin Express on this train Proro is there and the train is snowed in as you can see the train is stuck so Proro's like I'm gonna find out who did this.  Next we have House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune this is like a found family a cozy fantasy story I'm sure you all know what it's about we're following Linus Baker who goes to this orphanage and he's supposed to kind of be checking up on how it's being run but it's a found family and the love that they have there this is just a hug in a book I just love it. Next okay this one is a little bit controversial because it's lower down than you guys would expect I think you would expect it to be one of the upper two tiers but it's a guest list by Lucy Foley. Now this was once my favourite book of a year but I am not I don't know if I I reread it okay this is one of the first murder mysteries I ever read so I love it for what it did for me and like the path it put me down we're at this wedding on this remote should I put this higher I don't know just this could be higher okay but whatever we're following this wedding at this remote Irish island and there's a murder that happens we know at the beginning but we don't really know who's murdered and then we go back in time or we're kind of catching up with time and it's really really I mean I love Lucy Foley but I reread this last year and I don't know I mean can a murder mystery like ever especially one that you really went into so blind and not really knowing the genre can it ever really match up on a reread I didn't feel like it really you know was quite as mind-blowing on a reread but that's because I knew everything so I don't know if that was fair of me to do I loved the writing I love Lucy Froley's writing she writes horrible rich characters so so well like so good I thought the reveals and how this book unfurled was amazing maybe this should be high I'm talking myself into it but these are all my favourite books you know so it's tough then we have a good girls guy to murder in this we're following Pip as she tries to solve a cold case in her town this is YA mixed media I love it right Holly Jackson we're just pretending five survived doesn't exist okay I love this series I love it so much I think it's incredible this first one the way that the mystery again unfurls the uh mixed media elements are so fun and using such a fun way throughout this series she uses things like Fitbits or like I don't know location day I don't know so many interesting things that I think she just does so well and I love Pip as a character and being able to see Pip grow I think this is just a great solid YA murder mystery it's a very compelling case her ties to the case we've got a girl who went missing is presumed dead her boyfriend uh supposedly confessed and unalived himself a couple days later but Pip isn't convinced so that's the case and I just thought the way that this unfurled the characters we meet the relationships it's so good okay I'm like doubting myself I've left two places in this category for books from the Bear and the Nightingale series but I can't remember which ones are my favorite um can we just say three for two the rules don't apply I feel like the winter of the witch used to be my favorite but I'm gonna go with the Bear and the Nightingale and go on the tower so this was one of the first fantasy series I ever fell in love with girl I swear to f***ing god what is going on with you yeah this is one of my first favorite fantasy series I love it I love it we're following Russia in kind of old Russia as she it's difficult this series not to spoil anything um she can kind of see household spirits it's very much Russian folklore and there's also the winter king uh who appears in this story and kind of helps I don't know I love this series I love it so dearly I've reread the whole series once and it held up and I don't know it's just so special to me I love it here's the thing perhaps it's lower than it once would have been because it's not the most complex fantasy I've read like you know Jade Legacy is much more complex but the vibes the winter vibes the writing it's immaculate it's so good and I can't wait for what Catherine Arden's gonna come out with next because after this she wrote like a horror middle grade series which I did enjoy but I just want like a YA or adult from her again I'm craving it and I'm very excited to see what she comes out with okay so now we're in the 15 to 6 so we're in a high we've jumped up a tier I'm excited to chat about these so first we've got the billet and miss by Richard Osman I've talked about this a s*** tongue lately so I'm not going to talk about it much this is the third in the Thursday MediCup series you know you can probably guess we're gonna see number one later on so we'll talk about it more then you naughty naughty you teasing me you naughty naughty but this was a great continuation of the series to me Richard Osman I can't believe how amazing his books are I generally can't I have found out the other day the first two books were the most two borrowed books from British libraries last year how crazy is that it's doing so well my murder mystery phase I love them so much I've given the whole series five stars it's incredible my oh the okay we'll talk about it later because we're gonna talk about number one later but the book that misses on here okay then we have a book that I still don't well I say I don't own I finally bought it I was thinking about this lesson I was like why have I not bought a copy of this book because usually if I listen to a book or an audiobook I just don't buy a copy but I'm like Megan it's time so Sadie by Courtney Summers oh my god this book so we're following Sadie whose sister was murdered and half of the book is Sadie trying to find out what happened to her sister who did this to her sister and then Sadie has gone missing in the present day and there's a podcast and a podcast host trying to tell the story of what has happened to Sadie trying to find out what's happened to her and this book was incredible this book is incredible I feel like it was pretty like you know an originator of putting a podcast in a book I feel like it wasn't done a lot before that and like tapping into the nature of true crime and it's full cast the audiobook's great it's full cast so like when the host interviews people we get different voices for them Courtney Summers right you guys know that Courtney Summers is one of my favorite authors ever okay and um I the hurt and the pain that this book caused me my god everything hurts and I'm dying I was thinking about it the other day actually and I was remembering when I read when I listened to the audiobook for the first time and before that when I was listening to audiobooks I would always be doing something but I remember for the ending of Sadie I just sat there on my bed and just listened and I was like and I immediately stomped into my mum's room was like you don't know oh my god I was like sobbing it's a lot so I love this it was a book that got me into audiobooks it introduced me to Courtney Summers that was a loud slap um so yeah I love Sadie and I'm my copy is arriving in the next couple of days finally oh shit oh shit I just realized I haven't put a book on here oh shit okay with a problem when making this list I only looked at past years I didn't take into account any of my reading this year because like I don't have one of my top I do there is a top 25 um okay this is gonna be top 26 okay we'll talk about that book in a sec after this one one of my favorite fantasy books ever is the starless sea by erin morgan stand I love her this book is again very difficult to describe we find we meet a guy protagonist who finds a book that something that happened to him is written in it but he can't understand like how is that possible because there was no one there when it happened and we go into this world of like books and craziness and I don't even know how to describe it it was so long ago I read this but erin morganson's writing does something to me it does something to me I love erin morganson's writing it's gonna be for you or not I'm waiting right erin morganson only has two books out I'm waiting it's probably gonna be like at least another five years but I'm waiting just the magic and the whimsy and the I need to reread this I need to reread this I need to reread this I love it so much I think it's so magical I this was again at the very early days of me getting back into reading I had no idea who erin morganston was when I picked this up I thought I discovered a book like no one knows about this and it wasn't the case I fell in love I don't know how else to describe it to you I fell in love I loved it so much okay the book that I forgot to put on here was legends and lattes by Travis valdry yes it's new we have a bit of recency bias but I adored this so in this we're following an orc who wants to leave her lives of venturing behind and starts up a coffee shop and it is the most cute wholesome lovely comforting book you have ever read it is incredible I think the writing is incredible it is so feel good it is so lovely it is so uh thimble the character thimble I love of my life love of my life just the descriptions of like coffee and baking in theirs I can't I loved this it is incredible obviously it's been everywhere but if you haven't read it yet I'm like so 26 favorite books full time apparently next we have another book oh my god I've been talking for so long already we're like halfway through holy shit should we speed it up a little bit next we have this fucking what is going on with you do you have like I don't understand have I dropped it or something one of the books I read a very long time ago that I love dearly seven house friends at evan hugo I don't need to speak too long about this we're following hollywood's style at evan hugo by the way I have always wanted to be another book sent old hollywood and I just can't why is there not more I think siren queen by nevo on my tbr is I want more I want more books sent on hollywood what a what a vibe like there's so much to draw from from this era anyways we're following the story told by evan hugo of her life and of her seven husbands and her one true love and god what a book what a moment ter jenkins read you guys know I have given five stars to every single day the jenkins reads I have ever read I love this book and evan hugo and ter jenkins read so much god what a book what a book what a book what a book what a time that's what I need to say then we have I think the only romance on this list and that is the love hypothesis by ali hazel word I don't want to hear any any criticism I love love hypothesis dearly I love it dearly okay my favorite romance ever yes it's kyla run fanfiction we're going to talk about that okay we're following these two scientists they fall in love it is the best okay I love ali hazel word are you can attack me I don't care yes her writing is fanficy that's why I like it I grew up reading fanfic that was my life I grew up reading one direction fanfic so I loved it I loved it I loved it I loved it it did something to me it ignited me loving romance and ali hazel word it will forever be my favorite romance author I'm saying it and I'm saying it now then we have another from the good girl's guide to matter series as good as dead it ranks a bit above a good girl's guide it ranks a bit above a good girl's guide to matter for me listen this book is marmite people love it or hate it I think it is one of the boldest boosiest things an author has ever done with an end of a series that I have read like it goes there right so you're following pip she's schoolgirl she's a goodie girl you know whatever and over the course of the series she's been struggling with what she's doing like is she doing the right thing with what she's doing and uncovering these cases and solving these cases and she gets these letters in this one this last one saying who will look for you when you're the one who disappears seeing when she has a stalker the like wireless printer turns on and people are printing stuff into her house from somewhere outside and then this book takes a turn oh how the tables have turned I'm not going to tell you what it is but it takes a turn and if you've read I the way this made me feel we've got another book coming up like this tense tense tense tense it is incredible it is a work of art it is high high high stakes and I loved it I loved it but some people don't like it but I think incredible and some people know about the ending of this and how it's open and like oh what happens have some reading comprehension it's obvious what happens it's obvious how this ends okay they're like oh I wanted this to happen but I don't know if it will it does okay it does read oh anyways I loved it I loved it I loved it I think it's incredible then we've got my other favorite graphic novel other than tj ike society it's heart stopper okay I'm shocked this is shocking news I've put heart stopper one on this list but I genuinely don't know which my favorite is so we'll just we'll just say this one but it could be any in the series for honest you all know what this is about now because the netflix show nick and charlie fall in love whatever about these two guys falling in love this is what I'm saying I like cute graphic novels so cute and wholesome and lovely and wonderful you guys it's incredible it's incredible it's incredible I love it I love it so much gosh I liked the tv show I didn't love it as much as I love this just Alice ozman you do something to me I like when I read a YA book and it's set in high school and these characters fall in love and it's realistic to what it was like you know sometimes I feel like characters act away I'm like oh that would never happen like the nervousness that's like falling in love when you're like 15 16 or whatever how old they are in this like it's terrible like it fills you with a fucking I didn't eat for days it's horrible like you you feel nervous and anguished and like does it like me you know what I mean it's a completely different ballgame to as an adult yeah we know I love heart stopper the best then we have the other book that I was mentioning in relation to as good as dead and that is no exit by Taylor Adams I always say for me I think this is the a perfect thriller it's a perfect thriller so we're pulling it's her name Darcy I want to say my name's Darcy Darby sorry she's driving through this blizzard she gets snowed in at the service station and some other people there as well and she goes out into the car park at one point and finds out that there is a child locked up in one of the vans outside and this book I have never felt more sick more apprehensive more tense it's horrible it is the perfect thriller you enter this book it is level 100 from the get go like it's not it's not gonna go down it is level 100 from the get go I think it's incredible again this was um adapted on Disney plus actually I liked the adaptation I didn't like some of the character changes they made I thought they were unnecessary but it does do a good job of absolutely towards the end having that same like but it's not as good as the book the book is incredible it's incredible and then finally in this tier we have numbers two and three in the what are these called again my favorite series ever oh the extraordinary adventures of the Athena Club that's why because it's complicated lesson for a long time I said we were not seeing number one so we know that's happening this is my favorite series of all time for a long time I said number two was my favorite in the series but I haven't reread this I've reread number one I keep meaning to reread this I'm just not getting around to it so I'm putting it in this tier because I mean let's be honest I could put all three of these in the top tier but I decided to show some restraint okay so know that we're number one it's doing some heavy lifting because these are kind of there with it as well in this we're following these monstrous girls uh the Athena Club and by the time and these two it's a found family it's the best thing ever we've got a fucking you know Dracula showing up I love it I think these girls oh gosh I always say I want 10 more I always say if I win the lottery the first thing I'm doing is setting up a publishing house and just paying Theodore gosh to write more of these books I love the way it's written it's written by one of the girls Catherine and the other girls will cut in when uh they don't agree with something I we're about to talk about this series again but I love it and I always say number two is my favorite I think but I haven't put it in there because I haven't reread it but it's so long and it has no business it's like 800 pages it has no business being as long but it means I get extra time with the girl so I do not care okay now we're into my top five books of all time this is tricky okay but I think I think I think that I stand by this I'm saying it now I think that I stand by this okay so this book was not my favorite but my second favorite book of 2021 so I had a pretty good reading year in 2021 because number one is on here as well but this was my second favorite and it is the once and future which is by Alex E. Harrow oh my gosh it has so many my favorite things in this right imagine beautiful local writing Ella Erin Morgenstern we've got sisters I love sisters I don't know why we've got witches they're sisters who are witches they're in uh this is in 1893 a new Salem I want to say yes and it's about them uh they're kind of like wrapped up in the story of the suffragists who are kind of campaigning at the time this book oh my god what a what a moment what a moment I need to reread this one as well I keep saying this but yeah it's so good it's so good sisters who are witches I don't get like the writing incredible storyline incredible vibes incredible everything incredible I don't even know how to describe this book to you the relationship that you see between these sisters grow over time I don't even have words for it I don't even I don't even want to say to you just say to you it is incredible incredible incredible loves of my life I love them I love this story then we have another one that I spoke about earlier the Thursday Meta Club by Richard Osmond okay it's here it's in my top five we are following these group of friends who live in a retirement home and they have a Thursday Meta Club where they try to solve cold cases and man it hands up on their doorstep baby it's so good these books are so funny so heartwarming such a incredible look at the human race and human nature and what life is and what life what it means to live life like it's amazing I can't tell you much I love these books they always leave me feeling hopeful but at the end of the day they're a great meta mystery as well I love them I do understand why if you're from the US or Canada or just not from the UK I'm not saying you're not gonna love this because plenty of people have given this five stars who don't live in the UK but it is very much British humor and a lot of British references like in terms of like celebrities or like I'm just thinking a bit of a miss like when it talks about local news like what are local news it's like like you just have to be there like to get it do you mean there's a lot of niche British references but that's not to say you can't enjoy it outside of that this but oh this one I've just remembered some things that happened in this one let's not talk about it and make me sob this is what trauma looks like sob because at the end of the day right I'm not going to explain anything about this series but like we're following elderly characters so there is a lot about the the fragility of life at the end of the day and that's why it makes you want to get out there and just live life because it reminds you like Rony here once do you know what I mean and um yeah wow what a moment incredible incredible book these books are also super popular in Germany apparently I remember him saying that like top of the list in Germany so I don't know but I love them okay the next book I don't know how much I stand by this but I feel like because of what it did for me and it's the whole reason we're here today I have not reread this I will reread it at one point but I have to put it on here okay and it is the secret history by Donata the other day I got a comment it was like have you ever read the secret history I think you'd love it and I'm like girl so those of you don't know I stopped reading for many years I got super consumed with school I was that kind of girl I was a nerd and I stopped doing a lot of stuff I love and I stopped reading and this was the book that got me back into reading I read I think I read about 10 books in 2018 I was reading a little bit but then I read this in 2019 I went on to read like 80 books it made me fall back in love with reading I've never reread it it's been four years okay and my reading has blown up since then I never I mean when I used to read Moshango probably only read like only but I probably read like 20 books a year maybe so my reading taste and what I know I love has exploded and I'm nervous to reread this because I don't know how to react to it there's like this friendship group and they're starting well they study I don't even remember is it Latin something like that at university one of we know at the beginning that there's a death a murder perhaps within this friendship group I vividly still remember reading this I remember sitting on the sofa like at New Year's around that time and just being so I couldn't tear my eyes off of it I loved it and so it's the reason I'm here today it's the reason I'm making YouTube videos yes I don't know how it holds up yes I think there's been some discussion of some problematic elements but I feel like with this book it's like you're following terrible characters right you are you are following and it was written a long time ago it was written what 1990s I want to say 1992 would be my guess 1992 oh my god look at her sorry I mean you have to take that into account but you're following awful characters these are horrible people this book means a lot to me and I'm terrified to reread it because I don't know how you're gonna react to it so I don't mention it a lot anymore because I don't know to what extent I stand by it but it was my favourite book for a very long time I said this was my favourite book is it still I don't know I don't know but it's the horror reason we're here today so there we have it then we have my favourite book of last year and it's Babel Babel by the way I this book wow incredible no notes incredible we're following I seem to like university I do like university I love a good university setting we are following these group of translators at Oxford and we're in a fantastical world where there's like the magic system is powered on translation and silver working with that translation and I just love this I love footnotes but I just thought Arif Kwong's writing and this was incredible the writing the development what this book means what it's saying about history and about present day and about colonialism and racism and everything I don't even know I just describe it I love this and I cannot tell you enough how much I love this book I think it was amazing I can't wait for everything Arif Kwong is going to write in the future I think she's one of the best writers of our present day in my opinion Tom my boyfriend has just started reading he was never a reader but he's just read the Wolf Hall trilogy and then after that he's going to read Pochinko because I got that for Christmas because I thought he would enjoy it and then he's reading this and I'm very excited to see why he thinks that nervous because you know he can be a scathing critic if he doesn't like something but this book is near and dear to my heart and it's going to be a favorite forever to come and then the final book oh my god it's like the longest I've ever spoken but this is my favorite book so can you blame me holy shit oh my god that actually made my heart hurt oh my god uh final book Strange Case the Alchemist Daughter by Theodor Goss this is my favorite series I need to reread the number two and three I could reread them forever though like I love these so much I have to kind of keep myself away from them a bit because I could just read these books over and over again I cannot tell you how much I need more so I can't remember what I told you but we're following daughters or female versions of classic men from Victorian literature we've got Mary Jekyll and Diana Hyde we've got Catherine Morrow, Justine Frankenstein, Beatrice Rappaccini and it's them solving mysteries together Sherlock and Watson are there but they're kind of in the background the girls are the star of the show and it's I love Victorian right I've always loved Victorian history since I was a kid I was super into Victorian history so I love a book set in Victorian times and I think it's such a great setting for like mysteries because it's like dirty dingy like Jack the Ripper like you know what I mean and there's these these girls I've never I'm not a big like character person like you know when like people run fan accounts like you know that's great for you but like I can't imagine I've never read many books where like I love the characters I'm much more of like a plot and writing girl but these characters I would fight to the death for I need 10 more theatre of gods I'm gonna ring her up I'm actually done I'm actually gonna write I've never contacted her because I'm kind of like afraid like oh my gosh like I'm actually like a crazy fan but I'm like please write more I just love it so much these books are my perfect books mystery Victorian these girls I love how it reclaims women's place within classic Victorian literature and uplift these women and makes them the star of the show it's the best it's the best it's the best so there oh my god I actually feel sick that was my top 26 books of all time because we had to add in legends and lattes it is it has solidified itself in my I wonder if any other books I see oh my god how exciting I wonder if more books this year will solidify themselves in my top 25 books I'm hoping I just I'm feeling more and more of a time I do get to know my reading taste to be fair from last year there wasn't a ton of new favourites so we do need to go on the hunt and get more but um yeah I hope you enjoyed this video it was that's this is a long video this is gonna be I mean I've got 45 minutes of raw footage I don't know what I would have gotten it down to this is a long video so thank you for watching if you've gotten to the end please tell me what your some of your favourite books of all time are I would love to know and comment a star emoji you guys thank you for watching I love you and I'll see you very soon in another video bye


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