The truth of the matter is guys, it's a really hard market. And I want to kind of talk about what I've been doing in this bear market to kind of stay alive because I think a lot of people are accustomed to a raging bull market. Let me start with what I've been doing to stay green and make still millions of dollars in this market. But the truth of the matter is that our job in this market is just to stay alive. I know that may be a little bit discouraging to hear, but there are certain strategies and certain setups that work in all different types of market conditions. One of those strategies is just scalping, whether it be scalping along into support or scalping a short into resistance. That setup, as simple as it may be, is going to remain constant in all market conditions. What I've been doing that's been remaining constant is just shorting into resistance, covering into support, or if you're doing the inverse, you combine the support and short into resistance. And yeah, that's pretty simple, but yeah, people aren't doing that.


Hey guys, it's Nate aka the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel I want to take a look at some of the trading methods that I use right now in FIFA Ultimate Team to make me Coins on this game. It is a pretty simple and easy trading method and in regards just flipping special cards with fluctuations that happen with these cards every day or every couple days On the market because we all know this market is it's a market It is fueled by supply and demand and sometimes these cards have a little bit extra supply at some moment on the market It makes their price go down not even because of some other thing coming out in the game, but just a normal kind of Activity period on the market where these card prices fluctuate where we can actually make coins and make profits off of this and as you saw Probably in the thumbnail when you clicked on this video We had some screen cards in there We had some informs in there and that is what this trading method is based around rare out of packs Cards so these cards are not a packs anymore. They can't be supplied anymore They have a fixed supply on the market but there's still demand for these cards because people like them in their teams because They're cool. They're upgrade. They have dynamic images and stuff like that That's why people pay for these cards and they fluctuate a lot in the market because of that as well Since they don't have any constant supply that's that's pushing their price into a certain place or Constant demand that is making their price stay in a certain place These cards fluctuate up and down a lot because at some moment you might have 10 people on the market that want to sell their scream deli Ali and right now it shows 235,000 coins to this card, but they wanted to sell and they get their coins, right? So let's say one guy listed up to 33 doesn't get a sale another guy listed up to 30 And they just keep undercutting each other maybe one or two of them sell But the undercuts keep coming and within a one-hour period. Maybe his price goes from 240,000 coins down to 220 and maybe you can get a snipe under that at like 219 to 18 to 17 But you know that that card will sell at another hour at some point during the day Whether it's overnight or whether it's even at some other random point in the day because you see his footpeg graph Say so but you know that card can sell at around 240,000 coins And you can possibly pick up a card under 220k or right around 220 and sell it for 240 and make yourself some coins on Just a daily flip of this card So I want to kind of talk to you through this method over here in footbin And this this is going to be huge for you guys to know What kind of cars to trade with and which ones are going to be the best to flip and to learn the prices of and to Watch those prices as they fluctuate on the market So the scream deli ollie card is a center mid in the Prem He could play a center attack in mid, but he's like a perfect box-to-box center mid with his statistics Pretty good statistics pretty good card and he links to a lot of people because he's English He's from Tottenham a lot of a lot of green links especially inside of Premier League teams two popular guys in this game Like a Kyle Walker informed Trent Alexander Arland form Sterling Harry Kane other English players in this game that people like to use So let's take a look at deli alleys graph right now. It says on footbending is 239,000 coins, and I also want to preface this by saying footbin isn't always correct So right here you see the deli alley reached a low point today of 220,000 coins Fuppin shows the average price over that hour So deli alley could have actually been 215k on the market Somebody could have listed one up for 215 and it shows 220, but there was actually one listed up at 215 And then the same thing goes for the high side right here. It says he was 239,000 coins 236 239 there might have actually been up the cheapest one in the market at that time might have been like 242 or 241 and you could have undercut at 240 or 239 to keep yours the lowest on the market and possibly Get a flip on the sale. So what you can do to note to notice these trends in these cards is You want to look for fluctuations during the day doesn't really matter What time of the day normally is just if you see fluctuations, you know that you can watch that card and trade with it So deli alley today reached 220k at his lowest point as highest point he was 239 so at 240,000 coins We're going to have 12,000 coins of tax All right 12,000 coins of tax so that means we need to buy this deli alley card if we can sell it at 240 at The peak of the daytime where that means that we can buy that card and make money on it After we take out that tax so 240 minus 12,000 coins 228,000 coins So we probably want to buy around the 220 range or below so that we're even just making coins on the card We want to make sure that we're making profit on these You know if you know that deli alley sells at 240,000 coins during the day, but you buy them at 225 and you sell them at 240 You're only making 3,000 coins profits So again, you want to make sure that you're making profit on these cards after tax But back over here to the webpage. Let's check this out So you want to look at both days look at all the days on here look at the full day So we look at Monday. He was pretty flat in price 231k 227 went up to 240 Okay, so maybe down here at the 227 timeframe There was an undercut for 221 or 222k and then boom the out the next hour he went up to 240 So that's how crazy these cards prices could move It literally could happen within an hour debt where deli goes from 220 to 240 And you have an opportunity to flip that card and again overnight 228 into the next day he rose up to 236 and that's where we saw that 220 And he's almost back now at 240 where we're looking at him on the market right now So if you if somebody bought him into the for that 220 range On the market when he was the lowest he's almost back up to 240 So that's that's kind of the basis of this flipping model That you're just basically looking at footbin graphs. I'm gonna look at another one over here. How much Rodriguez? We're gonna look at these footbin graphs and kind of decipher does this card fluctuate enough on a daily basis Where I can buy it for a low when it's on the low for whatever reason and then sell it on the high If there is that type of fluctuation in there that could be a card that you want to flip with now Obviously you want to look at cards that are meta that are popular like this Hamas Rodriguez with the massive pace boost over his gold card 25 pace. So on Monday He reached the low of 269 and a high of 287 290 K 290 so maybe a sell points like 280 something okay 264 and 280 something so that's kind of a profit range in there, but you know again 264 Let's go check this card on foot been right now It's around the on the game It says on foot been that his price is two hundred and eighty eight thousand coins. Let's check and see if that is legit Hamas Rodriguez right now on this game is two hundred and eighty nine thousand coins for this card at the moment so We know that that is his he's basically at like the top range of his price right now We could also look for bids on these cards Bidding is definitely something that you can do with these to try to make some coins. It's gonna be harder for some of these Cards that maybe have a UCL item underneath them So maybe what you just do is you compare price and just look at it this way But I would say there is a compare price glitch like you saw right there where I press compare price And it would not show me all the listings there are way more than just four or five six cards These on the market so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna add this one of my transfer targets And when that card expires when it's read the the transaction has ended over here on my transfer targets I would keep a list of all these cards that you're trying to watch and Then compare price with the square button over here because if you compare price on a card that is expired That has the red X it will show you all the listings of that card Now if you show if you compare price again on a card that is still live on the market like this Hamas you might not always see all the listings again like right here We only see if the first page So that's one thing to make a mental note of add these cards that you're watching to their transfer to your transfer targets And watch them because you know we want to know if Hamas sells that is his highest point Fuppin might say he's 290 But does he actually sell there? That's a very important part of this as well So again, I've been looking at screen cards another one I want to look at is Dimitri Payette and You just kind of want to look at cards that are popular that are meta that people are gonna actually use and try out in This game because some cards are not of that nature I know Payette is an inform so I want to try to make sure I don't see that inform in these searches Which I do unfortunately So it looks like Payette is somewhere around the realm of 70,000 coins 67,000 coins for this screen Payette. So let's go over here to Fuppin and see what Payette looks like During the day Payette during the day 67 is a low 67 is a low his highs only 72 So there's not a lot of fluctuation with that card 65 could be interesting in 69 go to the next day 66 down to 65 64 And almost back up to 70 So you see that this card might get into the mid to lower 60s But it also has an opportunity to get up into the 70s or right over 70 as well So like right now in the game Especially with a card like this where you have the inform that's kind of making it hard to search for this card You might be able to get a sale on one of these Payettes at a little bit of a higher price Just because it's harder to search that card like if we just clear it all and go search Play that's got a lot of cards out here. So if you're looking in the market at like this boom There's one of the 65,000 coins as a base price 70 is a buy now somebody might scroll through these cards and be like alright the cheapest one that I saw right there was That's 70k so boom. That's what we call lazy buyer boom 70,000 coins They pay the price for that one because it was the cheapest that they could quickly find But yeah, so the bidding on a card like this would be very good as well because it's gonna get confused with the inform a lot It's gonna be hard to search So if you can find some bids on one of these cards that could be very beneficial as well So maybe we scroll through here look for some of the bids again We have the the glitch with the compare price which we are not able to see all the card prices Which is unfortunate hopefully EA fix that so I'm gonna add this one at 70k boom It gets a 65 5 bid right there at the end So I would not bid on that card to go up because I don't think I can sell it for over 70k Which is where I had to sell it to make profit, but that's How we could watch that card it expires we can compare price look at his price and look at some other ones So yeah, that's kind of the gist of this flipping method now Obviously when we're looking at these prices We're looking at these out-of-packs cards because they are going to be influenced less by stuff that happens on the game Now obviously if we have a card like let's say this deli Ali card right here Which we've been talking about and they list up another center attack in mid or center mid special card SBC player from the Prem You see this dip right here 220,000 coins Right when this says yesterday the day that I'm recording this The Juan Mata flashback SBC came out on this day. So it looks like where he reaches his low point here Deli Ali was at 220,000 coins a bit lower than normal because of that Juan Mata SBC Which is another another center attack in mid or center mid in the Prem Which possibly could have caused some panic selling on this card So there are some fluctuations and there are stuff on the game that could impact these prices So when you're flipping these cards, you could get hurt a little bit They're I mean you're never you're always assuming risk when you're buying a card and trying to flip it on the market Because some other promotion or some other card could come out that makes these card prices change But that also could bring an opportunity to flip cards as well and buy them low in a panic sell and sell them after So again screen cards are great to do this with if they're Very meta and overpowered and desired cards because a guy like this screen for me No, it's one of the most sought-after cards in the game. He goes from 730 to 760 maybe seven At his highest yeah 760 highs So there's not a lot of fluctuation room in there as well for tax But if you got him on a low seven hundreds or maybe seven ten seven twenty You could definitely sell at 750 or 760 and make some decent money on that card and Informs are good to do this with as well Especially informs that are valuable that are good links and that people like to use and they're rare because they're you know Like this Fabinho card 86 rated. He's not going to get packed a ton But he's 200k a lot of people want to get him in their team. So you see he hits 190k Today and he bounces right back up. He's still around 200,000 coins So that'd be like break even if he sold him there for tax But if you see this guy go to 210k then during the day 204 204 Looks like he doesn't go too much over 200 except for on the weekends. He was up 220 233 this last weekend So if you see these cards fluctuate like some of the screen cards We looked at or some of these informs as well inform Coutinho could be another good one Obviously today I'm recording this we got the player the month surge Nabri as well So that card is causing this one to go up as a green link investment and this card being very rare But yeah, you can normally see that he fluctuates a decent amount 335 All the way up to 380. That's some big time money Especially on a very very rare card like this team of the week ones would be very good to do this with as well somebody like Mertens who is a very popular player in this game of FIFA Of FIFA ultimate team FIFA 20. He fits the meta 570 you see Here let's look at his fluctuations on the daily. What's he do 535 all the way up to 564 570 maybe Yeah, so 570 looks like his peaks During the day 535 525 559. So again, we're going to have a little bit over 25,000 coins of tax Almost 30k tax if you saw the 570s. What is it like 20? That's like 20 whatever thousand coins of tax. So Um upper let's just say 30k of tax if you can sell them at 570 That means you're going to have to buy them for around the 520 range So that's a very good card to flip again these early on team of the weeks Or team of the weeks that are rare that don't have a lot of supply Like this team of the week that i'm currently we are currently having packs right now team of week nine when i'm recording this Um nine going will be a very good card to flip. His informs are always very rare But also sought after telas would be a good flip Robertson would be a good flip and perero would probably be good flips as well but definitely these three even 11 daski because Um, just like memorize the prices of these cards in some team of the weeks Get to know their prices watch them on the market add them to your watchlist and your shelf and your um transfer targets And watch and see what they do so that hames did not get bought at 287 289 again It's as cheapest as we saw let's get back here to the 59th Have there been any undercuts since we last saw? 289 still is the cheapest one on the market with a couple open bids What about dimitri pietz again? We saw him at like 67 and you can tell how rare these cards are man I'm getting to the 59th minute in only a few pages even this pietz card 86 rated one of the most packed cards from the screen promo And he's back here very sellable As a french center attacking mid links to ben yetter, uh, what's this cheapest one back here? What do we see we see 70 000 looks like 70 000 still might be as cheapest 70 000 saw a couple open bids there 70 000 looks to be as cheapest So maybe you try to find some open bids add them to your transfer targets And of course again like I see this hames rodriguez right here with the hunter chem style don't Uh, forget about the values of chem styles when you're trading with this method if you get Um a snipe on a player or let's say hames rodriguez comes up at 260k you know that you can sell them right around like 280 high or 290 like he is right now Especially if you have a hunter chem style or a shadow chem style on a defender That's going to make that card a lot more popular and a lot more People will be will be willing to pay the price for that card with the popular and the very meta and usable and expensive Chem style added to it. So if you're buying a card on a snipe like that with the good chem style Uh, that's a a good way to look as well. Make sure that you Compensate for those chem styles. Don't just go and list up a card and you say, oh shoot that has a chem style It could sell for more. So muller right now is 202 as a cdm. It's not really a cdm card But it's an interesting position change there. Um, so let's look at his card really quick as the last example thomas muller Over on footbin and the reason why i'm looking at so many examples with this with you guys is because I want to teach you this and this is a very very good method to trade at any time Honestly, you can get on the market at any time. It's kind of like the same Principles as icon trading but with informs and special cards You're not going to make as much profit as an icon probably But you're still going to see a lot of fluctuations. So you saw him today 195 all the way up to 208 What about on monday? He went from 198 195 all the way up again to around 205. So again, we have 10k tax here So if you can get him for like 190 180 something on a low time of the hour and then sell him just around 207 like he is right now 208 000 coins That would be a good flip on this card But again, the screen cards are going to be very good to do this with and as the road to the final cards Continue to go out of packs as well as these cards get rare They're going to be very good to flip with as well I know I haven't mentioned them a lot in this video, but I got like Juan Jesus very popular center back card roads of the final version It's very expensive right now But this is going to be a card that would fluctuate a lot of price because it's very very rare So as these cards are on the market a little bit more definitely watch their Price movements and fluctuations because this is a card people want to have in their squad as it's a live item It's upgradable and um, yeah people are going to be paying the big bucks to this card And it's going to fluctuate Because people like these cards and they want to use them in their team So the rare cards and as we get more promos this year team of the group stage Like headliners future stars We're going I'm going to be trading like this on this game for the rest of the year because it's a training trading method That you guys can do that we can all do At any given time any point you sit down you look at FIFA say I want to make some coins I want to trade this can be a go-to method one of the best ways you guys can trade and have fun With some of these special cards on the market So if you enjoyed this video smash a thumbs up on it and comment down below if you have any questions And to also subscribe to the channel if you are new it's been Nate the foot accountant catch you guys later peace out


Friends, welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all good. Today we're gonna do my September wrap up, which was another great reading month for me. I had nothing below a three star in ratings. I had a lot of five stars and I read a lot. I had a great reading month in September. I just felt like I told you the second half of the year was about to be my half of the year and listen, we're right. I think I'm just special, special. So if you watch what my wrap up show now we'll do reading statistics first and then I'm gonna add a new thing where I tell you just each of the books I read with their rating, not going into them at all. A few of you have asked for that and then we'll do surprises. I almost forgot then. Surprises, hits and disappointments. This video is kindly sponsored by Shortform but we'll talk about that a little bit later in the video. So let's just get straight into the reading statistics of the month. Okay, so in September I read a total of 14 books which is the second highest I've ever read in a month ever. The highest I've ever read is 16 and then I've hit 14 I think about three times a month. So I'm really happy. I've read a lot of books. I'm making great progress on reading a lot of books this year. I don't think anymore I'm gonna get to 150 books. I feel like you're a bit crooked. Hang on, can we like straighten you out a bit? Is that better? If you watched my channel at the start of the year you'll know I did set my goal of 150 books which I've never read 150 books a year before and then this start of the year was quite tough for me. So yeah, I don't think it's gonna happen. All you want to do is not necessarily what you're gonna do. I've lowered my Goodreads reading goal to 132 which might sound like a strange number but the most I've ever read in a year is 131. So this would be making it the highest I've ever read in a year which I think is kind of all you can ask, you know? If you're improving, that's all you can ask. So I have lowered it and I'm basically on track now to read 132. So yeah, hopefully we might read a little bit more than that but I'll just be happy if I top my previous record. So 14 books definitely helped me make progress towards that. Total pages read was 4,196. I don't often hit the 4,000 so I'm pretty happy about that. My average pages per day is 140 which again I'm super happy with. That's one of the highest average pages per day that I've had in a long time. The video that I just filmed which was reading seven horror books in seven days definitely helped with that. The average book length was 300 exactly. We're not quite exact. I think it was like 299.8 something. But I did tell a bit of a lie there. I read a lot of short books if you saw the horror book video I read a lot of shorter novellas for that but I also read some longer books. I read some of the longest books on my TBR as well. So it balanced out to 300. My average rating was a 3.89 which isn't super high. I've had a higher than that this year but I think that's still higher than my average because like I said, I didn't have anything below a three and the average time a book has been on my TBR was nine months. Again, we had quite a few books this month that I had literally just bought. I bought for videos.  In terms of ratings, I had three five stars, one 4.5 star, three four stars, four 3.5 stars and three three stars. So three and 3.5 stars did make up half of my reading which you know, like they're kind of gonna be books that I enjoyed but there were some aspects of it that I didn't enjoy especially the three stars. But the 3.5 stars, I think a lot of them were still books that I had felt like we're gonna be five stars so we're a little bit disappointing. In terms of genre, I read one contemporary, two fantasy, one graphic novel, one historical, five horror, two mystery, one nonfiction. So it's only five horror because out of the seven horror books I only read six in September, finished six in September and one of the horror I categorized as a graphic novel but yeah, horror still makes up the vast majority of what I read this month because of that video. In terms of format, one book was audiobook only, five books were mixed media which meant I had the physical and the audiobook and eight were physical only. I've been trying to read more books just physically. I feel like actually this month I struggled to get into some audiobooks. I was just ending up enjoying books just physically which earlier this year, that hadn't been the case. Earlier when I was struggling at the start this year I needed those audiobooks. I was not reading without those audiobooks. Oh how the tables have turned. So it's just interesting to see that shift in terms of audience. I read 13 adult books and one YA. Yeah, it was a lot of adult books this month. In terms of where the books came from one was from Book of the Month, three were gifts, eight were books I bought myself, one was from Audible, one was sent to the publisher and one was from Script. In terms of series stats, three books were part way through series and 11 were stand-aligns. So no new series started this month which I'm pretty proud of myself for. I'm gonna be starting at least one more series next month. I don't think I'm gonna reach my goal because I think my goal was perhaps a bit unrealistic but we'll chat about that at the end of the year. I'll have a series video right at the end of the year and we'll see how we did. And then in terms of authors' status, seven were from authors I'd read from before and seven were new to me, so 50-50. Okay, next let's quickly just read out all the books that I read this month. So these are not in the order in which I read them. I just took a picture for the thumbnail. So yeah, they're in order of size more like but let's go through each of them individually. So I read feminism for the 99% and manifesto and I gave this four stars. I read this thing between us and I gave this three stars. Final Girls by Riley Sager, I gave this three stars. A Picture of Murder by T.E. Kinsey, I gave this 3.5 stars. Comfort Move Apples, I gave five stars. Ring Shout by Peter Jenny Clark, I gave 3.5 stars. No Feel 10, Other Lives by Krista Madalardo, I gave three stars. Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins-Reed, I gave five stars. The Final Girls Support Group by Grady Hendricks, I gave four stars. The Neighbor's Secret by L.E. Erson Hellia, I gave four stars. The Dragon Republic by R.F. Krang, I gave five stars. And The Burning God by R.F. Krang, I gave 4.5 stars. The House of Lost Horizons, a graphic novel, I gave 3.5 stars. And Then Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones, I gave 3.5 stars. Okay, but before we get into the disappointment, surprises and hits, I wanna give a quick thank you to the sponsor of today's video, which is Shortform. So Shortform is super-powered book summaries. If you've ever wanted to try out a service that gives you book summaries, Shortform is where you need to go because they're not your ordinary book summaries. They're like book summaries cranked up to maximum. They have comprehensive coverage of all the book's key ideas, but plus commentary and analysis, which is the coolest part of it for me. They have so many genres from communication, lifestyle, marketing, politics, every kind of book, non-fiction book you could want. The summaries come with interactive exercises to help you consolidate your thoughts and help you remember everything better. But one of my favorite parts is that they bring in analysis from other books based on what that book is saying. You know, particularly in non-fiction, books aren't astound alone, you know? So when, you know, there's a certain idea in a book summary that can be linked to another book or analysis can be brought out, they put that in there, which I think is so great for learning and like drawing ideas together because when you're learning about a topic, it should be like a spiderweb of thought, not just, this is what this person says, this is what this person says. You need to like contrast and compare. I think Shortform is a great way to discover books you've never heard of before, give them a go, see if you like the ideas behind them before you maybe read the whole book. That's what I have been using it for. One book that I have been reading the book summary for is The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier. This is like a political economics book that my politics teacher used to recommend a lot when I studied politics back in sixth form. And I've always wanted to read the book itself. I've never gotten around to it. It's one of the oldest books shelved all my good reads. It's been there since the beginning and I've never gotten around to it because, you know, I'm super busy but reading the book summary has been giving me an idea of some of the key ideas. It's basically about how The Bottom Billion in the world are stuck in poverty traps and will stay stuck unless governments, aid agencies, international organisations and private charities work together to craft policies that help them overcome these traps. It's basically talking about how The Bottom Billion of the population is, well, not even forgotten about, is treated terribly to the benefit of the, you know, people above them, but how that needs to stop. So I've always been really interested in reading this book and reading the book summary has been helping me learn a bit more about the topic, taking me back to my learning politics days. So to get five days of unlimited access and 20% off, get this, a 20% discount on an annual subscription, join Shortform through my special link, shortform.com forward slash meg or check the link out in the description. Okay, thank you to Shortform again. Let's get into the disappointments of the month. The Bottom Billion of the World First is No Filter and Other Lies I'm so sad, I'm so sad. That's so upsetting. Fact Chance Charlie Vega, this author's debut was one of my favorite YA contemporary romances I've ever read. I loved it, but this one I just didn't love. I didn't love. So in this we're following Kat Sanchez who loves photography, but feels very insecure. Her Instagram doesn't get a lot of followers and she sees that as like a failure of herself. One of her friends from work lets her take pictures of her photography portfolio. And one day she uploads a picture of her friend to Instagram as like a catfish and can't stop doing it essentially. And there's romance in this as well. And my biggest problem with this was that I found it cringey. I found, this is a problem I have a lot. Is there a problem I have a lot with like contemporary YA contemporary? I was so happy when I read Fact Chance Charlie Vega because I was like, I found the author who I don't find cringe. Let it be no. I was just so sad. Like there were just so many phrases in this that just sounded like stilted and not like what any human would say. I don't know, just a strange tone of voice. And I found it really hard to get past that. For me, the writing is always the most important part of a book. If I don't vibrate the writing for whatever reason I find it really hard to just enjoy the book full stop. That annoyed me and also the whole, you know conflict surrounding the catfish Instagram did not need to happen. Like once she realized this was a bad idea she could have stopped it. There was like a hundred pages at the end where she knew I should just delete the Instagram and she just didn't. And the Instagram wasn't really mentioned. If she kind of made it, use it for a while realize she shouldn't then stop using it. It's not mentioned for a hundred pages and then guess what happens, you know what I mean? If I'm being honest, I'm a bit pissed off about it. Order that to say I didn't love it and I don't know if I'm gonna pick up Crystal Madalena's next one. For me, she was an author who I was gonna get every book from and now I just don't know. Oh, I will say there were elements obviously that I enjoyed about it because I gave it three stars. I loved the friendships in this and my favorite part was her relationship with her grandparents and exploring a difficult relationship she had with her parents who left her with her grandparents when she was young but took her brother and they lived down the street and have raised her brother but her grandparents have raised her and she only goes around there one night a week for dinner and that to me was the most interesting part of the book. I think the discussions around that was so well handled. So, you know, there were elements that I did enjoy. I also read Final Girls by Riley Sager. This was for my patron book club and I gave this three stars as well. This was not what I wanted it to be but we're following the perspective of one final girl who is living her normal life.  This is probably my least favorite Riley Sager in terms of reading experience. I can recognize it's a better book than Survived the Night which I gave two stars but I had fun reading Survived the Night. I like hate read it but I enjoyed that experience whereas this was just boring. If I speak I am in big trouble. In big trouble. It was just like nothing interesting, exciting, insightful, imaginative happened. Something that a lot of my patrons had an issue with was the descriptions of sex in this. There's a lot of it and the reasons people have sex and like it's just, it's such man writing woman. Like I really, I have this problem often with Riley Sager and how he writes his female protagonist I often find is a bit not great but especially how sex was discussed in this I was just like, girl, Riley, Riley, come on. I didn't like the kind of reveal at the end. Riley Sager often has this issue where there's only like two suspects throughout the whole of the book or three max for who the kind of big bad could be. Once he like eliminates some of them via some clues it's either so obvious who it is or it's totally not satisfying who it is. I feel like he needs a few more. For me, I love like six characters, five to suspect, do you know what I mean? And I always feel like he doesn't quite have enough. Okay, surprises. One that I want to give a quick mention is the final girl support group by Grady Hendrix. I gave this four stars and it's just a surprise because so many of you told me you hated it and I liked it. I'm an acquired taste. You don't like me, acquire some taste. So obviously it's another final girls book I wrote to this month but this is more what I wanted from it, right? We have this support group of like six women who were final girls back in the 70s, 80s and 90s and now someone it seems is trying to make their way around the group and kill them all off. Things I enjoyed about this, much more campy fun, like quick, high stakes, crazy stuff happening. Two movie references are a big part of this. I really love the mixed media elements. All of the women like films have been made about what happened to them, like kind of slashes. After every chapter, there's some element of mixed media and it often relates to the films. If you're gonna write a book about final girls, I feel like Riley Sager's one was too serious whereas this is like ridiculous mirroring the energy of like slasher films and I loved that element of it. The second half of this or the last third, I didn't love as much. I just think it dragged a bit so that was why it was a four star but I really enjoyed this.  Like by the end, you're like, no one should be alive. This should have ended like 100 pages ago with everyone dead. Like this is ridiculous. But I don't mind that sometimes. I honestly don't. And then my other surprise this month, this is one of my three five stars I gave out this month was Comfort Me With Apples by Catherine M. Vellent. I didn't know what to expect from this. I honestly didn't even live the plot going into this and I loved it. I have to be very careful with how I pitch this because it is only 100 pages and I don't wanna spoil anything. But we basically meet our protagonist who believes she was made for her husband, how she is perfect for him, how her life is perfect. She lives in this perfect society and then you know, it becomes clear that's not the case. This was just such a creepy haunting book and what I really enjoyed about it was that in a chapter, there'd be stuff happening that made you feel a bit unsettled. You'd be like, um, anyways.  And you'd be like, um, the rest of the chapter would somewhat mirror the rules of reality. And then something happened at the end that just is so absurd that you're like, I'm gonna collapse. No, I don't. I feel faint. So I really enjoyed that. I loved the writing and my favorite part of this is the ending. I think the ending was really, really great. I don't want to say anything, but I loved the themes that it went and explored and I really was not expecting it to go that way. Okay, time for the hits, which are my final two of five stars. We have Carrie Soto's back by Taylor Jenkins-Rood. I read this on holiday. If you wanna go watch my holiday vlog to hear more in-depth thoughts about it. I read like the first 90 pages one day or maybe 80 pages. And then I read the whole rest of the book on the beach one day, which was just the best reading experience. And I loved this. I loved it so much. So we're following Carrie Soto, who is the best tennis player the world has ever seen. Also, it seems when she's watching years after retirement, watching this other tennis player equal her record for slams and she decides to come back to playing. And there's just something about Taylor Jenkins-Reed's writing that I just find very comforting. Like, I don't think I could dislike one of her books. Now it's gotten to that point. This is my fourth five star that I've given to her. I've given all of her big name books, you know, the recent ones, five stars. I loved seeing Carrie Soto grow in this book because we saw her in Mother Be Rising and she wasn't my favorite. So I loved getting to love her and getting to know her. I loved the exploration of personal determination and, you know, seeing how this all rested on her. I spoke about how in that video, I watch a lot of sport, but mostly like football that is group based. Whereas in tennis, it's all on you. It's all on her to like pull it out of the bag and be great. And I found that really interesting. And one of my favorite parts of the book was her relationship with her father. Her father is her coach and the journey that they go on throughout the book and what they learn about themselves alone and together is really, really beautiful. So I loved this. It was fun. I had a great time on the beach reading it. I lived my best life. I sipped some strawberries, I ate some pizza.  It was amazing. But it was a great reading experience. So yeah, I can't wait to see what Miss Taylor brings out next. I need her to announce it today, honestly. I need to know. And then finally, my other five star this month was the Dragon Republic by I.F. Quang. So I obviously said I gave the Burning God 4.5 stars. The Burning God, I'll just go back quickly, was interesting because it has one of my least favorite sections in the whole trilogy, which is like the middle section of the Burning God. I just found it boring. But the ending of the Burning God is one of my favorite sections of the whole trilogy, the ending, along with the beginning of the Poppy War. The bookends of the series are my favorite parts. But I didn't give the Poppy War all the Burning God five stars, whereas I gave this five stars because for me, this was great throughout. It was like solid throughout. So I can't say much about this because obviously it's the sequel, but in the Poppy War series where he followed Rin, she comes from poverty, she goes to the elite training warrior school and gets embroiled in war. It's probably just a case of the Mondays. And this one's a lot about military tactics. We see relationships grow between her and Noja and Kite. Kite is my favorite, one of my favorite characters ever. Like I love him, I wish I could die for him. I want to protect him with every fiber of my being. I adore him. I feel like he was great in this book. I didn't feel like his character was as great in the Burning God. I feel like he got a bit lost, whereas I loved his character in this book. Are of Quang's writing is incredible. Like she could do no wrong in my eyes. I'm so excited to read Babel next month. I just loved this and I'm finding it difficult to talk about it without spoiling anything. So go watch the vlog because I did a much better job of doing it in the moment, I think. But yeah, the ending of this also killed me. I sobbed. I just love her. I love her of Quang. I love everything about her. I love everything she does. So there we have it friends. That was my September wrap up. Let me know how your reading went in September. Tell me your disappointment, surprises and hits. Tell me any of your reading statistics. I would love to know. Again, make sure you check out Shortform down below. Even if it's just to try out the five day free trial, I would 100% recommend it. I've had so much fun learning more through it, discovering more through it. So yeah, go to shortform.com forward slash Meg. Go check it out. If you got into the end of the video, comment the heart of hands emoji down below if you got into the end of this video. I love you guys so much. Thank you for watching to the end and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye.


Legion, freedom of Russia and Red Army of Ukraine drove tanks to the Kursk and Belgorod regions. After the demilitarization of two oil depots, it became known that the freedom of Russia legion Red Army of Ukraine and the Siberian battalion entered the Kursk and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation as part of a joint operation. As reported by Russian opposition leader Ilya Ponomarev, the border town of Lozova, Rudka in the Belgorod region is completely under the control of the Liberation forces. Representative of the main intelligence directorate of Ukraine, Andrey Yusov, in a commentary to channel 24, commented on the entry of the freedom of Russia legion, the Red Army of Ukraine and the Siberian battalion into Russian territory. The legion, freedom of Russia, the Red Army of Ukraine and the Siberian battalion on the territory of the Russian Federation act as independent units since they consist of citizens of the Russian Federation. They, after all, are at home, Yusov noted. He confirmed that a joint operation of these units is probably now taking place on the territory of the Russian Federation. Returning to the armed assault inside the Russian region of Belgorod earlier this week, and Major General Rupert Jones says that while there is still a degree of confusion about the incursion, it poses different challenges for Russia, Ukraine and Western allies. He told Sky News, From a Russian perspective, it points to an internal security problem. It's humiliating for them. It's an attack on their own soil. He adds that from a Western perspective, it will cause some concern over what degree Ukraine is supportive of that incursion. When we're giving weapons, we're concerned about those weapons being used into Russia, so there will be some diplomatic concerns. Russia says more than 70 attackers were killed in the Belgorod region and the remnants of their units were pushed back into Ukrainian territory after two days of fighting. Moscow has blamed Ukrainian militants, but Kiev portrayed the alleged incursion as an uprising by Russian partisans. Supporting that, the Russian Volunteer Corps and Freedom of Russia Legion, who back Ukraine in the war, have both said they were responsible.