On behalf of the U.S. Department of State, welcome and thank you for participating in this workshop on Ebola reporting. The large number of journalists participating in both the English and French sessions of the workshop underscore what an important issue this is. Prior to joining the State Department as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, I was a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 35 years. Over the course of my career, I reported from more than 40 countries and covered every major conflict from the first Gulf War to the Afghan War. People ask me often, are you a recovering journalist? And I say, no, you never recover from being a journalist, nor do I wish to. I'll always be a reporter at heart, and that's one of the reasons why I'm happy to address you this morning. I know firsthand how very difficult your job can be, but also how very important it is. I also know that journalists have an important role in shaping the public's view of an event or a crisis. It is therefore critical, critical, that you tell the story accurately. As Secretary of State, John Kerry has said, Ebola has the potential to become a scourge like HIV or polio unless we all do our part. Combating the Ebola epidemic is a major challenge, and it requires a unified, collaborative, global response. As for your part, there is an abundance of misinformation out there on Ebola that can make it even more difficult to fight this epidemic, and it can make it more dangerous for those who are treating it and for those who are exposed to it. Therefore, by providing accurate information about the disease, every one of you can prevent a potential panic over rumors and misunderstanding. Ultimately, you can save lives by getting the facts out to your communities. The information that you provide to your audiences and readers is a critical component of global health security, and we hope the knowledge and resources you gain from participating in this program will inform your reporting and help to ensure the well-being of your communities. As President Obama has said, no single country, no single NGO, no single UN agency can defeat this disease alone. We all need to work together, and your contributions as journalists are crucial to this effort. Hello. I'm Dr. Rudley Archer, an epidemiologist with the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Global Health. We understand that Ebola is scary to many people, and we want to give you information about Ebola so that you can help protect yourself, your family, and your community. Today, I'm going to tell you how Ebola is spread and how it is not spread, what is being done to stop the spread, and finally, how you can help end this epidemic by educating others through your work. Let me start by telling you the basic about Ebola. Ebola is a rare and deadly disease in humans that is caused by the Ebola virus. It is highly contagious, but can be prevented. Ebola viruses are found in several African countries. Ebola was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in Central Africa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, outbreaks have appeared sporadically in Africa. The current outbreak is the largest Ebola outbreak in history. So where does Ebola come from? From the evidence we have, researchers believe that the virus comes from animals and that fruit bats are the most likely reservoir hosts. A reservoir host means that the animal gets infected, but not sick, and pass the virus to other types of animal or people that can get sick after being infected. Ebola can cause disease in humans and primates like monkeys, gorilla, and chimpanzees. Once a person is infected with the Ebola virus, symptoms can appear within 2 to 21 days of exposure, although it is most common from 8 to 10 days after exposure. Historically, death rates for Ebola range from 50 to 90%, but early care can save lives. So what are the signs and symptoms of Ebola? Fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, muscle pain, stomach pain, and unexplained bruising or bleeding. It is important to know the sign and symptoms of Ebola because a person can only spread Ebola when they have symptoms. It can only spread after symptoms begin. Now that you know the signs and symptoms, how is Ebola spread? Ebola is highly contagious. Ebola spreads to direct contact with a sick person, including the blood and body fluids, which include vomit, urine, stools, sweat, semen, and saliva. And when we say direct contact, we mean contact through either broken skin or through mucus membranes, which include your eyes, nose, or mouth. This means that people caring for family members or others who are sick with Ebola are at high risk of getting Ebola themselves. Ebola also spreads when family members participate in burial preparation of the body of a person who has died of Ebola, such as washing or touching the body. Ebola can also spread through direct contact with objects contaminated with infected body fluids, such as clothes, bedding, needles, or other medical equipment. Ebola can also spread through handling bush meat, that is, infected food bats or primates, wild animals, hunted for food, common in some African countries. The most common way that Ebola is spread is human-to-human transmission. So now you know how Ebola is spread, but how it is not spread. Ebola is not spread by people who don't have symptoms, even if they have been exposed to Ebola. Only a person with symptoms can spread Ebola. Ebola is not spread through the air or water. And it's not spread through mosquitoes or other insects. So how do you prevent getting Ebola? Here are a few prevention steps to follow. Always careful hygiene. Wash your hands often with soap and water, an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, or mild chlorine solution. Avoid contact with blood and body fluids, such as vomit, urine, stools, sweat, semen, and saliva. Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person's blood or body fluids, such as clothes, bedding, needles, or other medical equipment. Avoid funeral or burial ritual that require handling the body of someone who has died from Ebola. Avoid contact with bats and primates, or blood, fluids, and raw meat prepared from these animals. Early care saves lives. See care immediately if you develop fever, severe headache, muscle pain, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, or unexplained bruising or bleeding. Who is really at risk of getting Ebola?  Healthcare provider taking care of patients with Ebola? People handling bushmeat that has not been thoroughly cooked? And burial teams who prepare, bury, or cremate the bodies? What is being done to stop the spread of Ebola? CDC and its partners are working with the ministries of health in the affected countries to respond to the outbreak. We do know how to stop the spread of Ebola.  To stop Ebola, we need to use the find, respond, prevent model. We must find people with Ebola, confirm they have Ebola with a laboratory test, and isolate them so they can spread Ebola further. When we isolate them, we provide them supportive care while asking who they have had contact with. We then do contact tracing. This means we find everyone who had contact with the sick person and monitor them every day for 21 days to see if they show any sign or symptoms. And then we need to prevent spread by making sure healthcare workers use proper protective equipment and ensure that our deceased loved ones are safely buried with dignified medical burials or cremations. How do you treat Ebola? Early care saves lives. Basic action done early can significantly improve the chances of survival. These interventions include providing oral rehydration solutions and intravenous fluids to rehydrate the body, maintaining oxygen status and blood pressure, and treating other infections if they occur. Early case identification, isolation, treatment and effective infectious control are essential to prevent Ebola transmission. So how do patients recover from Ebola? Recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive care and the patient's immune response. People who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies against that strain of Ebola that last for at least 10 years and possibly longer. It isn't known if people who recover are immune for life or if they can become infected with a different strain of Ebola. Some people who have recovered from Ebola have developed long-term complications such as joint and muscle pain and vision problems. Is there a vaccine for Ebola? Experimental vaccines for Ebola are under development, but they have not yet been fully tested for safety or effectiveness. So we should focus on our effort on finding cases and isolating them, following their contacts, preventing new cases and helping treat those who get infected. Most importantly, how can you help? Here are the basic messages we need your help in sharing. 1. Wash hands frequently with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer or a mychlorine solution. 2. Avoid body contact with others. 3.  4.  5. Do not touch the body of someone who has died from Ebola. 6. Do not touch anything a person who has died from Ebola has touched. 7. Practice safe, dignify, medical burial or cremations. 8. Call district hotlines for help and more information. 9. Early care saves lives. With early care, a person immune system can fight off and clear the Ebola virus. Additionally, here are 6 key messages to tell your community to protect them from Ebola. 1. Early care saves lives. If you or a loved one has symptoms of Ebola, take action to protect your family in their home while waiting for help.  Protect yourself and be safe while you wait. Do not touch the sick person, their body fluids or anything they touch. Support the sick person by giving them as much fluid as they can drink an oral rehydration solution if available. 2. Practice safe, dignify funerals, burials and cremations. Treat any death as if it could be Ebola because once someone has died, there could be massive amounts of the virus shed by their body. Call district alert hotlines to report all deaths. The body of someone who has died from Ebola or is suspected to have died from Ebola should only be handled by people who are trained in safe medical burial practices and are wearing full personal protective equipment. Protect yourself. Do not touch, wash or clean the body of anyone who might have died of Ebola. Do not touch body fluids of a dead person or anything a person who has died from Ebola has touched. 3. Address myths about Ebola. Ebola is real. The outbreak is not over. We all need to work together to stop Ebola. You can get Ebola from a person who is sick with Ebola or has died from Ebola. While prayer is very important and meaningful, you still need to take the necessary action to prevent getting Ebola and get to a health facility if you are sick. Provide accurate information that addresses rumors or misinformation. 4. Support and provide an accepting environment for survivors. It is safe to be around someone who has survived Ebola. Accept survivors and welcome them back to your family and the community. Once people recover from Ebola, they can no longer spread the virus to people in the community. However, because Ebola can stay in semen after recovery, men should wait to have sex, including oral sex, for three months. If waiting is not possible, condom may help prevent the spread of Ebola. Sexual transmission of Ebola has never been reported. 5. Eliminate stigma and provide an accepting environment for Ebola service providers. Healthcare workers, ambulance workers, contact tracers and burial teams are heroes in taking care of people sick with Ebola. Co-operate with them and treat them with respect and dignity. Speak out against negative comments or negative behaviors. 6. Promote unity, cooperation and hope in the fight against Ebola. The Ebola outbreak is not over. We need hope and action to stop Ebola together. Early care saves lives. We all have a role to work together to defeat this disease. For more information on Ebola, go to www.CDC.gov. The US government is mounting a major response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, one that draws on the capacities from all across our government. The US Agency for International Development has the lead on coordinating that response in West Africa and the Office that I lead, the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, has that lead on the ground and executes that mission. So we are working in very close cooperation with our partners from the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Defense, the Embassy and other parts of the US government to mount one of the largest international disaster responses in the history of the US government. The Ebola outbreak poses an unprecedented challenge to international responders, to the global health community and to the international disaster community, and that is why we have pulled all of these different capacities together because we know that no one part of the international system can manage this response effectively on its own. So we're also focusing on providing support to the health system, to the economies and to food security support, for food security support in these countries because we know that those second order impacts could end up doing as much damage as the outbreak itself is doing. We are working very closely with international partners including the United Nations, other donor countries, non-governmental organization partners, and of course local organizations and partners within the countries themselves because this takes a whole of government, a whole of society and a whole of international system effort. This is unlike anything we've seen before and deploying all of those tools that the international and the national systems have is absolutely critical to ending this. We're pursuing a strategy that focuses on several elements. First of course we want to stop chains of transmission and ensure safe isolation and treatment in the countries and so for that we are working with CDC partners to support contact tracing. We are supporting the development of Ebola treatment units all over Liberia and across the region but we're also supporting effective coordination and leadership within each of the three countries. The US government is providing support but we're not leading the efforts. The efforts are being led by the governments in these countries and that is absolutely critical and central to success. These governments know their countries far better than we do or ever will and their leadership, their involvement and their overall management of this crisis is fundamental to success. We are coming in in support of that to fill in capacities that they may not have, to provide resources and to mobilize tools from across our government and across the international system. So we are supporting that coordination element through effective emergency operation centers in each of the three countries and pushing that coordination out to a district, county or regional level in the affected countries. We're also supporting safe burials. We have seen that unsafe burial practices in the affected countries can be one of the major drivers of transmission. There can be traditional funeral ceremonies where many people from the many members of the community will touch the body or potentially come into contact with the bodily fluids. We are supporting safe burial teams across all of the affected countries and we have seen particularly in Liberia that as those teams have come online, there has been a significant reduction in new cases which confirms to us that attacking that chain of transmission is having a major impact. We are also working to improve infection control in the health systems. Health workers on the front lines have been one of the most affected groups and face the greatest risks. Many cases do not necessarily present at an Ebola treatment unit. They often present at a normal health facility. So both to ensure safe triage and to ensure the safety of the staff working there, it is very important that staff in the normal health system, even outside the ETUs, have access to training and supplies to protect themselves from potential transmission. Finally, we are working to ensure that the public in these countries are well informed. Ebola is a disease that thrives on rumor and misinformation. When people have a little bit of knowledge about how to protect themselves from the disease and better understanding of how it is spread, it is much easier to avoid transmission. This is not a disease that is spread through airborne contact or through mosquitoes or something like that. It is only spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. With some basic measures to prevent that sort of contact, it is fairly easy to avoid potential transmission. So we are trying to help people to understand how it is spread and how they can protect themselves. And we're doing that through targeted information campaigns at a national level, but also through more grassroots peer-to-peer engagement so that people, even in far-phone communities who may not have access to major media, can get some basic information on how to protect themselves. Those are the core elements of the U.S. strategy and the core elements of the international strategy. In Liberia, where they have been most broadly applied, we see real impact. We are confident that our strategy in support of the Liberian government is working. We are seeing cases go down in Liberia, and while there is still a long way to go to fully extinguish the outbreak there, there are good signs of success and progress. Now that does not mean we are overconfident. It does not mean that we think that this will be over soon. It does not mean that we are taking our foot off the gas pedal or easing up on our focus. Instead, we are redoubling our efforts because we now know we have a strategy that works, and we are pursuing that with absolute vigor. As the nature of the outbreak changes, we are also making adjustments to our strategy. So we have seen, for example, that large numbers of Ebola treatment unit beds are not necessarily needed, but what is needed is to have access to an Ebola treatment unit in every major geographic area. So we are trying to ensure that rather than have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of beds, we have smaller numbers of beds but placed in very strategic locations so that they are accessible to the population. We are also shifting towards a rapid response strategy, where small outbreaks may pop up in far-flung, outlying areas of these countries. Teams can be rapidly deployed to go there, educate the community, set up some very rapid isolation and conduct contact tracing to try and extinguish those micro outbreaks in the localized area before they can spread elsewhere. The United States government is absolutely committed to helping West African nations end this outbreak, but our commitment does not stop there. We are also investing in long-term health systems strengthening in these countries. And we have requested from the U.S. Congress significant resources to not just end this outbreak, but also to rebuild health systems to strengthen them against future Ebola outbreaks. We know from what we have seen of Ebola in Congo and Uganda and elsewhere that once Ebola is present in an area, even if an outbreak is extinguished, it can and will likely come back again. So it is imperative that the health systems and the health personnel in these countries be empowered, be strengthened to end outbreaks quickly, to extinguish them at the source rather than allowing them to spread. One of the biggest challenges in this response is not just the disease itself, but the fear of the disease and the stigma around the disease. We have seen overseas, but even in our own country, instances of health care workers who are doing heroic work being stigmatized, it is really imperative, it is really critical to the success of this response that the health care workers, the people working on the front lines, be supported, be admired and not be stigmatized, not be shunned, but be recognized and affirmed as the heroes that they are. These people, whether they come from West Africa or from the international community, are the lynchpin of defeating this disease. Recognizing that heroism, recognizing the risks that they are taking, the personal risks that they are taking to support this response and to end this disease is absolutely fundamental to our overall ability to end the outbreak. Again, thank you for taking the time to participate in the workshop and for the important health reporting work you will do going forward. The U.S. government is your partner in the fight against Ebola. Working together, we can all make a difference.


Once again, feel free to place your bets on how many of these I'm actually gonna read. All doing good. Today we're going to be discussing the 24 books I must read before I turn 24. So I do two big kind of TBRs every year. I do a yearly TBR, so I did a 2023 TBR and I do a book I have to read before I turn that age.  Like when I'm like 30 am I still be doing this? My birthday's at the end of January so I tried to do this a good amount of time after my year TBR that comes out in January but also enough time for me to actually read the books. I think one year I did this in like September and like that's just not, it's not realistic. It's not realistic. It's not realistic. It's just not realistic. So yeah we're gonna be discussing 24 books actually before I turn 24 but before we get into the video I want to say the biggest thank you to the sponsor of the video which is Serious Readers. You guys know I am obsessed with my Serious Light. 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I've kind of separated them into genre but like there's like two books per genre but let's just go per genre. First we have got some horror books and if you know me you know my flavour of horror is campy not too scary not I can't deal with my my horror being clever or trying to like say deep things with hidden meanings because like I'm fighting for my life on the trenches just being able to read it I don't have time to theorise. So my first is My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. This wasn't originally on the TBR that I made I made the list last night and I looked at this this morning and I was like hang on you have to go on there because I have a feeling I'm gonna be obsessed with this. I mean time to stop being so obsessed with me. I feel like Mariah Carey. So I just know this is set like in the 80s and we've got a girl who she thinks her best friend is like a demon inside of her and we're gonna exercise that. I read my first Grady Hendrix last year and I really enjoyed it it wasn't like a five star but I feel like we have the potential me and him to get a five star because I feel like he's my flavour of horror not too serious over the top ridiculous campy I have a feeling I'm gonna love his books that other people love and even his books that other people don't love I'm so excited to just make my way through Grady Hendrix I feel like I need to read all of his books so I'm really hoping that I will get to this before I turn 24 by the way turning 24 I actually thought I was still 22 the other day oh my gosh then we have The Drift by CJ Tudor this is a release that's come out this year and I think this does lean more horror so on the description of this it says an overturned coach full of students all of them are trapped a stranded cable car full of strangers one of them is dead an isolated chalet full of friends soon they'll be enemies so we're in this snowstorm and it says here a locked room mystery a dystopian thriller a nail shedding horror so it's kind of I guess like a combination of all of them but I've had really good things about this I've only read I think one CJ Tudor and that was the chalk man which I did enjoy but I'm really excited to see what I think of this one and I love a good isolated book you know isolated in the snow that added danger the tension the drama she's giving me the drama she's giving me the drama I like drama drama drives me at times I think without drama what's the fun in life so I'm super excited I've had such good things about that and then one that I feel like a lot of people were reading like last year and I'm a bit late to the party on but I really want to get to is sleuth that by Brom I don't really know what this is about I'm gonna be honest Connecticut 1666 we've got I think like a demon called sleuth that and I think there's like there's like pictures in this I've just heard so many good things about this I'm very intrigued I love the kind of vibe the kind of atmosphere to this and oh my god guys I have the past couple days or like maybe the past week even I haven't been excited to read you know you go through fits and spouts of being like oh my god I'm loving reading right now and you go through fits and spouts of being like I don't want to read like I'm not excited to read I'm not excited for the books I've got on my tbr like I'm not feeling it and the holding the stuff and talking to you about it is making me excited to read it's making me excited to read I've had such wonderful things about this I feel like it's gonna give me the atmosphere the drama that I want next I have a few mysteries and they happen to be probably the two longest mysteries on my tbr I'm putting them on here to try and make me read them first we have night film by marisha pestle this is like a classic I feel like everyone in their mom has read this this is one that I feel like a lot of people read when I wasn't really reading but I mean it is long move it into a date but I've heard always such wonderful things about this it's a mix media mix media it's a mix media I love mix media guys I love mix media I just feel like a mystery with a mix media element just it gives me the drama it's always what I'm asking for just give me the and I don't really know what this is about let's read this back together because it's quite short on a damp october night the body of beautiful ashi cordova is discovered in a manhattan warehouse though her death is ruled a suicide investigative journalist scott mcgrath suspects otherwise the last time mcgrath got too close to the cordova dynasty he lost his marriage and his career this time he could lose his mind so that already there's like web pages what's here oh like files and stuff how exciting does this look oh my god there's pages I feel like this is definitely one that I should get around too soon see what I make of it see what I think about what everyone else has been saying about it and then another mystery that I really want to get around to is the enigma of room 622 by joel joel dicker so this is set a luxury hotel I do I love a hotel as a setting I can't lie I love a hotel as a setting in a mystery they're at this hotel there's no room 622 and that's because an unsolved murder happened there and I believe our main character kind of wants to solve what happened and I feel like it's going to be like a clever mystery when I think of this I think of something similar to like the seven deaths of an Holocaust which I didn't love but like a clever murder mystery and about a mystery that's going to do something is going to go somewhere so again it's long that's why I put it on here to try and get me to read it then we have a few sci-fi on the list first we have a sea of tranquility by Emily St John Mandel I recently read station 11 and did enjoy it there's something about Emily St John Mandel's books that aren't ever like a five star for me but although I'm hoping this could be because I've had such wonderful things but they're always like they make me think more than many other books do they kind of get in my head and like root around and like I don't know I imagine them as like little bugs barring down my brain I don't know oh Jesus gross I can never describe an Emily St John Mandel plot to you because I'm like reading this it seems part of it's set in 1912 part of it's sent two centuries later we've got detectives a girl I don't know parallel worlds a girl I can never give descriptions at Emily St John Mandel's books but I would love to get around to this soon and see what I make of it because I've heard such wonderful things and having read both the glass hotel and station 11 the way that they were intertwined I don't think this one's intertwined the same way that those were but the way that they were intertwined and related to one another made me really intrigued just to read more from her I can't really describe it I could make a lot of links in how they were similar and different and it made me want to see how this kind of applies to that as well and then one that is wrapped up I've got quite a few on this list that are wrapped up actually one that's wrapped up is someone in time which is an anthology of time travel romances which is pretty specific for all these books on this anthology uh to be all these short stories to be time travel romances but this has a lot of authors I love in it I know Theodor Kost is in it and after reading Snow Whitelands witchcraft I just need more Theodor Kost in my life she doesn't have any more novels I she has a few more like short stories that I haven't read but there's not much out there so I'm like grabbing at any Theodor Kostness that I could get I think Shona McGuire may have a short story this as well I really want to read this I just feel like it's I haven't really had anyone speak about it I don't read a ton of anthologies but I mean it's more Theodor Kost and just the idea of all these books being time travel romances I'm really intrigued as to how all the different authors will kind of take that idea and make them different from one another at least I'm hoping they will because I feel like it's difficult to get not make it one note you know so I'm intrigued next we have fantasies and one fantasy I'd really like to get to is Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg this is one of the only like cozy fantasy books I still have on my TBR that I haven't read I've been burning through them quite fast I don't know a ton about this one I know it's set in 1846 I think there's something about this like house this magical house but I kind of don't want to know I kind of don't want to know anything about it I kind of want to go into it blind I've heard really good things when people have read this I think I saw this on Lexi's channel oh my god we've got a map guys we've got a map of the house I love them doctrines of magic let me not look at too much so yeah this is just the next cozy fantasy on my list I would love to get this in we also have Amari and the Great Game by BB Alston this is the sequel to Amari and the Nightbrothers which I loved and I would love to make progress in this series I haven't put a ton of series stuff on here because I couldn't like I couldn't prioritize what I wanted to do I'm finding it hard to prioritize what I'm going to get around to soon I need to do a series wipe out uh video soon because I haven't been making progress for this year yet not good but yeah I loved Amari and the Nightbrothers we're following Amari whose brother goes missing in the first book and she gets sucked into this like supernatural investigation bureau that he kind of worked at it's this supernatural world she never knew existed and she finds out that she has powers and yeah I'm super excited for this next one they're just a lovely like comforting read I love them they're such a nice read so I don't know if it's going to be a trilogy or more in the series but I'm really excited then two that I wrapped up that I would like to get to first we have Daughter of the Moon Goddess by School in Tan I feel like I need to get to this soon this is one that literally I feel like everyone has loved who's read it everyone has loved it is the most beautiful book that I own in existence it is wrapped up maybe I'll get it soon and wrapped up who knows but yeah I just know we've got I've I've forgotten the plot of this it's been too long isn't it we've got the Daughter of the Moon Goddess and her mother was exiled and she's like trying to get back to her mother something like that but I just had beautiful writing gorgeous prose I think the whole trilogy is oh yeah I have the whole trilogy I have the second one I bought the same fairytale edition of the second one before I even read the first because I was just so determined to love this series but it's a geology which is like it should be fairly easy if I start to finish she says that doesn't always work out but like she says so yeah hope I'm gonna love that one and then we have Unraveler by Francis Harding now I love Francis Harding I read A Skinful of Shadows last year and it was like a favorite I am obsessed with her writing and her style I think is it this is the problem when a book is wrapped up for ages I when I don't look at it and I don't see it I forget the plot but I just love Francis Harding's writing the first chapter of this I remember I wasn't gonna buy it I saw it in Waterstones like right when it came out and I was like I can wait to get it I mean I could have waited to get it because I haven't read it you know quickly I sat down and I read the first chapter of this which was all told in this you you know what's that second person terminology isn't my strong suit I was like off school quite a lot as a kid in primary school and I feel like I missed the lesson where we learn about perspectives like second person first person whatever no is it third person I don't even know I feel like I missed that lesson and I've never been able to get it in my head because I didn't get it in the roots when I was like eight you know I mean like I didn't lay the foundation for it and so I've never been able to like remember the correct names from perspectives but it was told in this really interesting way it was like if you ever come to this place but where like it was instructing you how to travel there and it was just a really interesting perspective I don't think the rest of the book is written like that but it just had that magic it gave me that drama so then I have a few that I would class I guess as contemporaries although maybe these I don't know if these class I think on Goodreads their class is like contemporaries but I don't know if any of them lean more thriller for these two we have all the rage and some girls are by corny summers these the two backfist corny summers that I haven't got round to yet and I'm really excited to try out both of them corny summers is one of my favorite authors we know this we've talked about this a lot recently so yeah I don't know too much about the plots one I think it's about a popular girl who starts getting like frozen out and accused of bullying and like I don't know ono gets bullied I don't know and then I think this one is about a girl who is sexually assaulted by the sheriff's son and it's about her speaking up but that costing her everything I guess it's like a small town maybe where like everyone turns on her for saying that so yes I really am excited to read more corny summers then I also put on this list as long as the lemon trees grow which by the way guys I think this is like one of the highest rated books I've ever seen on Goodreads it's got such a high rating especially for a fiction book sometimes you get non-fiction that's rated high but this is like I don't even know I think it's like a 4.5 or something ridiculously high so we're following Salama who lives in Syria she is a pharmacy student as war breaks out it's about her and her family and I guess the people around her and just the human stories of what's happening I have just heard such wonderful things about this I think it's going to be heartbreaking emotional but I'm really excited to read it and see what I think I have two categories left we have non-fiction which is a pretty big category and then I also have a few 2023 releases that haven't come out yet or I haven't got my hands on yet so let's get into the non-fiction first because we have quite a few first we have In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado which another book I have just heard wonderful things about I think it is like a semi-autobiographical book about the protagonist's abusive relationship she was in with another woman and I think it's like told through mini essays or kind of mini chapters imagining this relationship through different lenses and this is just another book that I have heard nothing but wonderful things about it's another like super highly rated book but I've heard it is also kind of a difficult read so it'll be one that I read at the right moment but I feel like it's one that I need to get around to then we have two Book of the Month books that I haven't gotten around to yet that I really want to we have Bitter Sweet, Howl's Sorrow and Longing Makes Us Whole by Susan Cain and Tell Me Everything the Story of a Private Investigation by Erica Krauss I don't consume a ton of true crime I don't want you guys to think that I don't really consume podcasts about true crime but I'm interested in looking at true crime from like an ethical perspective and I feel like books about true crime often are so this one I guess is kind of part memoir and part kind of literary true crime I'm not sure where those divisions blur but it's about this woman's life as a private investigator and it's just one that I've been meaning to guarantee for ages it came out about a year ago so hoping to get around to that and then also came out about a year ago is Bitter Sweet I would just be interested in learning more about this it's not really a perspective I've ever read a non-fiction about I know she has another book that was maybe more popular yeah quiet I'm really interested in the idea of like the having space for sadness in your life and the importance of that to then feel happy and like appreciate the happy moments so yeah really intrigued to read both of those then we have reach for the stars by Michael Craig this is like it looks like a hefty boy but I mean the font is pretty big and it's like all interviews so I feel like it'll reach fairly quickly this was an archives very kindly sent and this is all about noughties 90s and noughties pop in the UK we're following spy scars I don't even know five s club seven like all of these sugar babes it's camp it's camp I don't know what to tell you he's interviewed all these people who are pretty key like managers artists from this time and I just think like if you like brick pop oh my god iconic girls allowed but girls allowed this era they might have been a bit later than 2006 oh steps we've got steps so yes I am so intrigued I've never seen a book about this topic and I would love to learn more so definitely excited for that and then my final one is I could be Christy a very elusive woman by Lucy Worsley I did a video which is one of my favorite videos ever done and it's like no these so if you want to go watch it I did a video about when I could see disappeared and the true story behind what happened is one of my favorite videos I've ever done so I'll leave a link down below please check it out if you haven't seen already but I consulted this book a lot I read the chapters about like leading up to and about her disappearance and it was so helpful I think Lucy Worsley is an incredible historian and I feel like she really gets to the heart of who I could it is and I was reading about how a lot of acotas biographers before this are men and I don't think they always had the most sympathetic lens to certain things and I don't know I just loved the way this was written it was written so also what I'm looking for like it's so accessible you know it wasn't like high brow but it was really getting to the meat of what truly happened and the truth behind acotas relationships and feelings and I just loved it I was obsessed with the little chunk that I read I may be read maybe 60 pages of it already so I'll leave it a little while and then I will read the whole book um but yeah I'm excited to learn more about the whole of acotas life because I don't know a ton about it and then let's quickly chat about the 2023 releases that I either don't own yet or haven't got my hands on yet we have we have five here we have the once and future sex by I can't I didn't write the authors down for any of these Eleanor someone you'll see it here this is all about women in medieval history women and the truth behind women in medieval history and about how a lot of our perceptions of what women's roles were at this time and famous women from this historical period don't match up a lot of the women that we know were like strong headstrong cutthroat ruthless and the idea of women for that time period doesn't necessarily match up with that so I'm really intrigued to read this I love the cover this is definitely one of the little fictions I want to get my hands on most then I only wrote Vera Wang's unsolicited is it advice for murderers I can't remember but it's I have seen a lot of people reading this lately I need to get my hands on it the paperback it's only out in paperback in the UK it's like five pounds so like I need to just get it like how often do you spend five pounds without thinking about it I need to just get it but yeah I've heard such good things I think on Goodreads I mean it's only just come out but it's got like a 4.5 average rating it's got like a high average rating and we're following this grandma who discovers a body in her restaurant I believe she like walks in and there's like a dead body in her restaurant it's been murdered and I think she decides to like instead of like calling the police uh investigate it for herself so I decided to go and investigate it so yes I'm super excited for this one then we have Death of a Bookseller this is I think kind of like a thriller about these two people who work in this bookshop and I believe it's like these tensions and insidiousness between them and one of them starts acting weird and maybe like wants to kill the other one I don't know I've heard this one is a bit more like literary than other thrillers you know it's a bit more of like a highbrow thriller but I've heard good things from people who have read it and I think it's a very different book and it's one that I think is getting a big push here in the UK in terms of publishing so I'm intrigued to see what I think of this one we also have The Golden Spoon which all I'm going to tell you is that that it is Grape Bush Bake Off Meets Made of Mystery it this one hasn't had the best reasons it's got like a 3.5 average rating already I don't think it's going to be highbrow but I did just place an order for this it doesn't come out in the UK till like September so I just placed an order on Book Depository RIP and didn't before it goes extinct to get this so I just have ordered this one this is Grape Bush Bake Off Meets Murder Mystery I'm getting excited just thinking about it like listen it's not it's that I'm not expecting higherbrow from this I'm expecting Camp Fun Silly that's what I want from it that's what we're hoping for so yeah it has one of the best reviews but I feel like I might love it and then finally on I guess a similar note we have Love Theoretically by Allie Hazelward Allie Hazelward is my favorite romance author to ever exist I love her yeah this is her next book that's coming out this year and I just I'm gonna read it I'm gonna read it I love Allie Hazelward I love her again like I recognize her books aren't the best written romance ever they're fanfiction I say this every time and I love fanfiction when I was a kid you know I read I grew up reading fanfiction and so that's what I want that's what I want it seems this is another fake dating one which surprises me that she's doing that so soon after Love Hypothesis but maybe she wants to kind of recapture the success of Love Hypothesis I don't know but um not me acting as if I can see like the inner motivations of Allie Hazelward but I don't need to know the plot I just know Allie Hazelward romance there's the cover doesn't it look cute that's all we need to know so there we have it that is the 24 books I'm hoping to read before I turn 24 at the end of January next year I always feel like when I make this list I'm absolutely gonna do this like I'm absolutely gonna read all of them like how could I not and then I proceed to not like I say I'm always hoping for at least half if we get over half it's a win it's a dub if we get over half so let me know how you think I'm gonna do how many of these you think I'm gonna read down below thank you guys so much for watching if you got to the end of video comment is there a spoon emoji I don't know why there would be but if there is I'll look it up but if I've left this in it because there is a spoon emoji if you got to the end comment a spoon emoji down below for the golden spoon thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. 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Everybody for a seer ripping 2022 a slight football hobby six bucks half case number 39 The results link is in chat if you're watching live You could always find the results anytime elite sports cards calm results quick link is the bottom of the page I use a search bar look at old results if I need to that's a pretty good way to do it Let's go ahead and get started y'all Select half case 36 hobby of course So in the next this break in the next one we should see three XRC's in Hopefully lots of sick cards Snapshots Christian Watson Packers rookie First hit goes the Titans as a trail on Berks rookie Jersey out of to 199 Nice start Titans Abraham Lucas Tricolor Kyler Murray Cardinals that one's numbered to 199 All the premiere level silver concourse Justin Jefferson Vikings gave his price Silverfield level Watson Browns 25 breeze haul rookie tie-dye patch jets to have 25 Nice breeze tie-dye silver Mac Jones concourse for the Patriots Neon icons Kenneth Walker the third silver concourse rookie Martin Emerson Browns Silver phenomenon Najee Harris for the Steelers they silver Antonio Gibson commanders on the club level Antonio Gibson Henry silver sweet level Brian Burns Panthers Christian Watson rookie for the Packers purple DAC Dallas 75 And a 75 Panthers auto DJ more Silver rookie concourse to Marvin Leal Steelers When it was the last like really good Bears receiver probably Brandon Marshall, right? Al Robbins, I did have one really good year though. Tricolor rookie is Tyler Linderbaum Ravens number 249 Silver concourse Cooper Cup Rams. Yeah, I probably brand Marshall I guess Hadn't been a whole lot in their history of good reception like good offensive players Concourse maroon rookie Chargers Cameron Dicker 149 Silver Justin Jefferson Vikings Tricolor Luke Fortner rookie Club level for the Jags to 149 I'm gonna say brown Silver rookie Algiers Falcons dude Vaughn all the Red Sox haters in the offseason As far as like the moves they made We're like are super quiet now about Cassis being good Beyo being good and Just not re-signing Xander and all that stuff Yeah, they stink right now, but the future pivots they've made have been pretty good Kenneth Walker the third rookie snapshots Silver concourse Josh Allen Bills Josh Jacobs Jack Jones on the white rookie going to the Patriots the 35 on the Premier level silver concourse Devontae Adams Raiders Yeah, I know some of the other records not that good. Yeah, I don't care. They literally didn't spend a ton of money Yeah stable windows. 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Yeah, I'll shine's a good one Try color rookie is Charles Cross for the Seahawks number to $1.99 Silver Kyler Cardinals concourse red rookie Lewis scene Vikings number to $2.99 Silver concourse rick into Kobe Dean Eagles To $99 CJ Moseley on the jersey card for the Jets Silver concourse Aaron Rodgers Packers blue concourse rookie Kobe Bryant going to the Seahawks It's out of $1.99 Kenny Pickett sweet level rookie for the Steelers Silver Jonathan Taylor Colts gardener Silver sweet level rookie Giants cave on tip of dough Snapshots Christian Watt Watson rookie Packers silver sweet level rookie Alex Kappa Bengals For 80 field level John Dotson sweet level silver concourse rookie Tyquan Thornton Patriots Billy Zappi rookie Kenny Pickett base sweet level Brady to $1.49 try color for the Buccaneers Seven of $1.49 Malik will a sweet level for the Titans silver rookie Alconpo Titans 275 Johan Dotson rookie Jersey Auto Commanders. I know vonna. It really is nice Like it's just good to see that The moves that they're making as far as like the prospects are like the right moves Concourse blue George Kittle Number to $1.99 Giants now if Johan and Matta can be really good pitching pieces to like pretty solid I'll be I'll be really happy silver concourse Hertz Eagles Christian Watson rookie Johan seems like starter potential Matta. I'm not sure but Matta seems pretty solid, too Need some guys in the minors as far as the bats pick it up though They're getting there they're getting there 49 Kenny Pickett rookie light blue auto going to Pittsburgh Always awesome to hit a picket auto William M purple concourse AJ Brown Eagles That one's numbered to 75 Silver rookie Shahid Saints Yeah, like I did a I did a case break with the Red Sox and heritage and I got some numbered Bayo's some Crohn's and Things like that. I'd like a mini I'm gonna keep him forever rookie silver Olave Saints Tyrion Davis price to 49 on the rookie jersey or the rookie jersey for the for the Niners there Silver concourse Hertz Eagles Silver concourse rookie Carl Aftis chiefs Silver field level digs for the Bills tie-dye rookie Ravens Isaiah likely that's a premier level 25 Silver rookie Corral Panthers Yeah, it's good to see your kind of bounce back and just find consistency because he was Finally player of the year for the Red Sox in 21 and he was tearing it up and then Had a rough season last year concourse maroon is darnold To 149 Panthers tip it over there silver rookie Ritter Balkans concourse Josh Allen star cage short print Love these these are definitely my favorite addition to Penini football this year star cage Josh Allen Bills Hunter B on the short print. That's going into a mag Silver sweet level Davenkuk Vikings silver sweet level Derek Henry Titans Tri-color sweet level rookie Malik Willis Titans to 149 Franchise numbers auto Cowboys Drew Pearson sauce Silver concourse rookie Kenny Pickett Steelers Yep, time ball game bottom eight blue concourse rookie builds Khalil Shakir. This one's out of 199 silver rookie spiller Chargers Vaughn is it crumble time yet? It's 49 Christian Watson Packers in the rookie jersey auto Dalvin silver neon icons silver rookie is Bernard Raymond for the Colts Field level blue Peyton Manning nice Colts color matches to 49 as well Good one for the Colts to 75 for the Colts Reggie Wayne Jersey auto. How about that duo back-to-back there? Jeffrey H at the Colts Probably hoping for Richardson, but definitely not bad to get some Peyton and some Reggie Wayne Menus up and it's interesting. Oh boy Silver concourse rookie Watson for the Packers here. Let me just bring it up. Whoa. Is that a cosmic brownie cookie? All right. All right wedding cake a Soft vanilla bean cookie covered with vanilla and a raspberry frostings top with white chocolate pearls. That sounds pretty good Sweet level tricolor Austin Eckler Chargers to 149. She doesn't like sweets. So They have that one every week silver rookie concourse. He's a comma dolphins. I'll just get Sean for those What's the next one peanut butter blossom An iconic peanut butter cookie rolled in white sugar and decorated with a rich soup of fudge frosting. Yep That's it right there. I'm gonna get eight of those Yan icons pretty rookie the Niners silver field of a seguan giants chocolate milk and stingly rookie field double Texans What's next? What's next galaxy brownie brownie covered a brownie cookie covered in warm fudge glaze and sprinkled with rainbow candy bits Yep that one too Blue rookie concourse cults again here Alec Pierce to 199 Sweet level rookie Jack Jones for the Pats There's always like one more Fruit pizza pass a soft sugar eat up pass It's heart lemony frosting and a spread of fresh assorted fruit That's a cookie, huh? Rookie Marcus Jones Patriots to 149 tricolor club level Silver concourse Justin Jefferson Vikings Honestly Take the fruit off and I'm in a sugar cookie with tart lemon frosting. Yeah, I'll eat the heck out of that I Don't know how I feel about that. I just don't trust them to put like fresh fruit on it. I just don't trust them Silver sweet level Lamar Jackson Patriots Yeah, pink sugar is always fire. I usually skip it though Fruit pizza that's interesting one. I don't I just don't trust fresh fruit from crumble, dude I just don't trust it. No Josh Allen is 75 jersey card bills That's what I'm saying Vaughan Can I just request that without the fruit on top because I love lemon desserts silver concourse Mac Jones Pats. What do you say? I'm a fan of lemon dessert. Yeah, just give me that sugar cream with the lemon frosting. I'm in I'm in just give me a lemon and a bag of sugar Silver concourse rookie Martin Emerson Browns. Just get some vodka. You got a lemon drop Done let me drop shots or martini is whatever you want to do Eckler chargers red club level to 49 That's something that's exactly what I'm thinking if this was that some fancy rational I'd be like, yeah, give me it. I'll eat it. Rikki sliver Hassan Askin's tights, but crumbel Everything everything sounds pretty good though That peanut butter blossom my guarantee is gonna be money. All right, let me check spots real quick here Still at six to go on Sunday fun day I'm with you adventure pink sugar is pretty fire. 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I Like like black finite school like the true black though Like when you get that just like straight black no like mosaic design on it, whatever it is I like that a lot Guy rookie tri-color a cone who panthers to 249 EZE rookie Otto dolphins to 199 Erick easy conma Probably finish in fourth place in the ALE or the AFC East Got a white club level Jair Alexander 35 Packers Silver rookie premier level Jerome Ford Browns Silver Damien Pierce silver club level Nick Bosa to 25 Brian Robinson, Jr Rookie tie-dye patch commanders three colors Silver concourse Darren Waller Raiders We how do you how are your thoughts on ice cream cake? Love ice cream cake. So the concourse rookie tyquan Thornton Pats. It is pretty fire. I want cake really Like just a straight-up Carvel where it has like that school the crumbling chocolatey crumble. Yes It's the ish man.   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Thanks again everybody. Move it on to the second half of the case