joining us hello hello this is reading sprints oh my god look at everyone in the chat I can't believe it there's so many of you okay welcome these are reading sprints for Becca's book oplathon I'm sure all of you here know what they are in case anyone does anyone doesn't it's a readathon that Becca runs this is a 4k hour round and there's like four hour blocks of reading sprints throughout the whole 48 hours and we are going to be hosting the next four hours me and Nicole I'm joined by Nicole hello and I'm Megan from make of works in case any of you don't know me and you're new here what time is it for everyone that's what I wanna know starting off like how much reading has everyone been doing it's 8 a.m. for me I called the the sprints good morning or good night because it's morning for me but it's evening for Nicole so it's everyone's gonna be different different time oh my god 3 a.m. mid I saw Kayla said midnight the chat is moving so fast I can barely even keep up 2 a.m. 9 a.m. 5 p.m. it's 5 p.m. for you right Nicole yeah so time same one same one threat oh my god those at you at like 3 and 4 a.m. how we got different times for everyone 8 a.m. it's 8 a.m. for me as well and how's it been going everyone how much reading I read 700 pages yesterday and 130 so far today oh my god it's amazing um watch is everyone else read how's everyone doing on all the prompts I'm reading in these sprints now here's the thing I was saying to Nicole before we go on I have a tendency in reading sprints and live shows to just talk and not do any reading and part of me was like should we play a game you know like with my patrons we often play Geo guests and like no we're gonna get loads of reading done it's not listen I've already been called out is this gonna be a mix prince when we just stop playing random games and said it's not it's not we're actually gonna read we're actually gonna read um yeah I want to read a lot in these sprints so we're gonna be strict we're gonna do like big reading sprints we're not gonna play any games as much as I'm tempted I feel like everyone's gonna want to do lots of reading so that's what we're gonna be doing um oh my god 800 pages yesterday I read 419 pages and finished four books I had half finished oh my goodness 300 pages yesterday whoa oh my god reading girls paper and fire for the white prompt just for you oh my god I hope you enjoy it that can definitely be a very like engrossing quick read so I think that's a good pick okay let's chat about what what what why couldn't I speak all of a sudden oh my god we're going to tell what you're reading first I'm gonna be reading Robin Hobb just a short one of hers though instead of the big ones this is the willful princess and the pie bold prince it's a prequel novella I'm only 20 pages in so I can't tell you much at the moment but yeah start with this move on like that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um I'm trying to think if you are oh Mara from books like well she read it before yeah read the fools is it the fools trilogy yeah yeah the last trilogy yeah she read it before she read that okay because that's where I'm up to is that oh that's cool oh I'm reading The Broken Girls by Simone St. James it's a very like spooky spooky horror thriller and I have it I'm only 40 pages in I haven't gotten super far in but I want to try and like almost finish it in these sprints I've got at the speed I'm reading it I've got the audiobook I've got like three hours and 45 minutes left so I won't finish it in the sprints but like hopefully I'll get close is you can do it you've got this yeah I've got it I don't get distracted and we actually read reading a love list for the wire prompts that's a good pet I read that when it came out and it was it was really good oh my god what do you think of siren queen I'm so excited to read this I need to get my hands on it I like so it's one of my most anticipated releases of this year it's like a lot of people have told me because the other couple weeks ago I was asking for recommendations like Evelyn Hugo that have that old Hollywood setting I really like the old Hollywood studios kind of setting and people have said this one by the way if my Wi-Fi is bad it's telling me my Wi-Fi is bad I apologize I'm freezing next book is gallant or reading daughter of the moon goddess I love that one I haven't read it yet it's like okay how I love something James I want to read her new one but it doesn't seem to be out here yet I've never read Simone St. James this is my introduction to Simone St. James and I'm yeah I'm enjoying it so far but I'm only 40 pages in it's so weird but good I'm confused okay listen I can I can deal with just vibes sometimes I don't need anything other than vibes has a murder club yes okay shall we start reading I feel like we should start our first sprint let's get real cuz like those of you who are in the UK we might just be waking up like let's let's get some great reading done how long do you want to read the first sprint how long should we feel like I feel like maybe like a 45 does that sound good I feel like people like longer sprints in the chat but you can let me know I used to be the kind of girl that was like 25 minutes sprint is I think I'm still that kind of girl but look we can we can we can stop in a 30 I feel like a 30 is always a good a good starting sprint let's do that yeah let me get a timer up okay me one second oh people want 45 we'll do a 45 next let's start over the 30 minute for people who are just waking up and then we'll do a we'll do a 45 okay I'm gonna share the timer and then go in everyone oh my god I'm so excited okay there we go that will start going in a sec the 45 minutes is scared me as well now I'm joking we'll start with a thing and then we'll go okay okay let's begin everyone to see you in half an hour hello how did we do how much do you read decent like 25 decent I read like 35 but mine's really good wow it's like it's so good it's so good I'm really really enjoying it and so I was telling the call before the live it's for tonight's video so I need to finish it but I almost thought I think I've had such good luck with tonight's video with what I've read so far that I'm like oh my god this is like I don't know what's going on with me I'm having good luck let me just scroll up because someone asked yeah there is the last roll drop is gonna be on the next live the one after this so in like three three of the hours the last roll drop will be finish my fifth book all that's left is color in the title and I have no idea what I want to read oh does anyone have any suggestions for a color in the title I saw that and I was trying to think of something and my mind's gone blank even though I'm sure there's loads of books I love that have colors in the title I'm not sure there's one of the way would children books have color every heart of doorway what's a lot of that down amongst the whatever digs and bones and I'm to dream sugar sky come sugar sky what is it no I feel like one of them should but maybe no across oh there we go across the green grass field okay this is like one of my favorites my brain is not awake yet my stomach is like really loud if anyone hears that apologies but my stomach is like really pages 85 pages in like half an hour oh my god I need your energy what the hell to be fair there was a book I read um I read reckless girls by Rachel Hawkins a couple weeks ago and I read that that fast but that was like the only book I've ever read that fast or not but lately because that was just like such a page turner 32 pages which is 52% of my novella 90% of six crimson cranes oh my god I'm very excited to read that I have not read that yet I also want to read only a monster a lot of people tell me I'd like that so very intrigued by that apparently the um authors Australian oh really I didn't know that and I found a lot of people said it's kind of like fantasy and mystery which is like I love the combination so yeah I'm intrigued um a hundred pages but it's mixed media I do love a good good old mixed media um what else we got oh lots of people oh silver in the word people have suggested for color that's a good one because it's just that's a good one I think I read that for the last book hopefully that I did not the last one but one of them the one that I vlogged I think I read silver in the word I can't remember what the prompt was but I'm pretty sure I read silver in the word blackouts a good choice as well I read that for thousand doors that's a good that's a good readathon pick um oh the black flamingo is a great one I love the black flamingo that's like I read that for a 24 hour readathon I did these are all good readathon picks that people are suggesting quick reads um oh I've just the chat has just jumped loads for me I'm not sure where I have got up to apologies if I miss anything um oh someone else is reading only a monster I really am excited oh Melbourne Australia oh is that where the awful is yeah um oh house the serenity is a good that would be a bit too long for me for like a readathon I like quick reads because I get panicky I get if it's too long I get stressed and it's not enjoyable reading experience cuz I'm like oh my god I've already done this so far so I like really short pics um I would say stalking Jack the Ripper is spooky enough the spooky prompt it's got like a spooky vibe it's got the vibe yeah yeah yes it was such a quick read and it had tons of tea wasn't it was just like at the end it was like boom boom boom it was a good thriller it was fun I would say it's a good breakfast girls you could read it in a readathon cuz it reads so fast I would say it's a good like holiday thriller you know when you go on holiday and you're like it's set on a beach first of all so like you have the holiday vibes but also it's just such a quick read that you can dip in and out of I really liked it oh my god 25% through girls of paper and fire over to fish well listen we're gonna get a lot of reading done so I love girls of paper and fire oh it's taking me my Wi-Fi is bad again apologies if my Wi-Fi you're fine at the moment okay okay okay good good it's something to tell me why I'm Wi-Fi's bad and I get really panicky that I'm like a pixel and no one can understand no you're fine yet for me you haven't been a pixel at all you've cut out a couple times but you come back quickly that it's not too destructive for you okay don't stress you're good you're good okay back down see what else I've missed I read zero pages listen you still got to make dinner so it's still a good use of time lots of suggestions for people who want a suggestion for the color one there's lots of good good suggestions um where am I all systems read I do want to read that's the murderbot novellas I've only read the first one it was like years ago I think when it first came out um but it was really good I do want to go back re-read and then continue eventually yeah because I think at least the first ones on script if not they're all on script so I was just like lessons for audiobooks I listened to the audiobook it was good yeah I think I'd you better go truly devious I think it could be good through read-a-thon but I didn't really yeah I think it could I think it could I've read them all really quick have you read the latest one I haven't because here's the thing right I have them all in paperback so I wait and because I don't want to start getting one in hardback because I have all the others in paperback so I always am a year behind with this series because it takes like a year for the paperback to come out so I haven't read it but I will when it comes out in paperback what did you think of it did you like it it was weird I thought it was going to start off um like basically another trilogy like open a mystery that's going to go over three books but it kind of all ended in one book so yeah it was a weird um I don't know just it was like I think that's what she's doing now is kind of like you know like um Urquiporo where it's like each book is its own contained thing I think that's what the truly devious world is now going to be it's just gonna be like steamy going and solving like singular mysteries like not interconnected I think is my understanding okay I don't think I'm going to count it as a series anymore I finished the first three that was a series the rest I'm trying to like independent sand alone so they don't have to go on my series list of how many series I'm reading um what else let's see let's see uh I'm just like scrolling through yeah look good things about murderbot I'm intrigued I do think I'm going to get around to that at some point um the latest one's the best yet hmm I don't know I I will when does the paperback come out actually let's find out what's it called box in the woods yeah yeah let me have a look that took me a minute to no august 4th the paperback's coming out so okay around then and just be a year behind like always with this series that's okay another person saying truly devious would be a good pick um there would be because on 1.8 speed is five and a half hours that could be a good pick yeah that would be a good pick I would like a hundred percent if anyone has this book read it for the spooky prompt I'm telling you now I'm 70 75 pages in and I'm like hooked uh I'm like so good it's so so so so good I'm like loving it um and I've got the audiobook is like 12 hours I don't know I've only got three hours left but I'm listening at three time speed now when I'm reading a lot oh yeah like I can't remember when I'm when I'm just listening to an audiobook I listen at 1.8 usually yesterday I read death on the Nile and I read that at 1.5 because the narrator was a bit fast but usually 1.8 and then when I'm reading physically I usually start at 2.8 and then like a slowly amp it up if I'm like really enjoying the book and just want to get through it fast but like I have to like you know slowly work my way up to it um oh does anyone have any mixed media recommendations that's not a good girl's guide to murder um mixed media why is my brain gone blank when I read like loads of mixed media uh um what's that I don't know if you've read it yeah I know you got it last year for Christmas like true crime or something oh true crime story oh yeah someone said it beneath true crime story I want to reach out so bad I like I look at that because when I this is going to sound so stupid guys but like when I do yoga I'm right in front of my book cart and sometimes I just sit there on yoga I just look at that back because if you're the one if you're here for the readathon you don't watch me I do all themed reading vlogs so like I only read a book if it's like it's the theme of what I'm doing and I'm like how can I read that book how can I read that book an interesting vlog and it's just I haven't I haven't figured out yet but that's one of the books I want to read most you need to do like uh like a mixed media reading vlog but I don't know if it's high enough of a concept I like like weird concepts I don't know if just a mixed media vlog is like high enough I need like a few more not interesting enough I need like a few more complications after that in order for me to be excited you really make it hard for yourself don't you I like it everyone's always like Megan just shut up and just mood read not much more um okay oh yeah some people saying night film that's another one the illuminate files is a is a good one the appeal oh yeah that's all letters that's all letters like emails sorry it's all emails oh yeah um I am I'm gonna I own her latest one the book of cold cases so I'll probably read that next but I'm like already like I'm already like huh I'm a bit obsessed I'm a bit obsessed recommending House of Leaves for a read-a-thon are you crazy that took me a month that took me um like over a month to read over it like it like it ruined my life last year was it last year wow that was like a year ago forget like I'm old this is crazy I've built it too long yeah night swim illuminate the appeal are the kind of recommendations um I only can do it if I've got the book in front of me and that's after a long time of working my way up to it if I remember correctly I read when I was reading Jade Legacy and I was like so into it and so obsessed I listened on 3.5 which was like a all-time heart for me I was like I'm just so obsessed I need you know I need to read it fast I'm the opposite I slow down if I'm really obsessed I go oh you're gonna like take it in like no I'm like let's go let's go it's like I want to read at the speed my eyes are followed I want the audio to be the speed that my eyes are going and if I'm oh yeah my eyes are going faster so that's why I speeded up yeah that makes sense I hardly ever sit down and listen to an audiobook and read along I just started doing it loads it's like it's so helpful I really it makes me keep focused because I can easily like I'm like a fake reader I can easily lose focus so it makes me focus um yep Sadie Sadie's I was gonna say Sadie but I've only listened to the audiobook of Sadie so I wasn't sure how it presented like in the in the text but I love Sadie I'm gonna reread it soon um I have not looked at the author photo why should I look at the author photo and do it now do you have it we've been rich I'd have to go get it right here everyone let me make sure I don't smash anyone right okay I'm not gonna open it until I'm back right okay okay I'm expecting something is it just that this person thinks he's hot is that the situation here that's that's what I was expecting but not that I was expecting something worse is it just that we think he's hot that must be it do you think I didn't think that he would look like that writing this kind of book but um okay that's the author photo um okay I'm really behind in the chat let me try and see oh wicker king good suggestion um oh Nicole your room looks so cozy and nice oh thank you um I get told to do this all the time right but the problem is with doing a reading vlog where you read a book so you couldn't fit in a reading vlog that's like a hundred books so like then how do I begin to narrow it down that's like all my books um oh my god I've gotten really behind ah okay I'm gonna try and speed up um true crime books you can read in 24 hours that could be a good idea but this is quite big I wouldn't read this for a readathon on first I mean it is like a lot of it's big text and it's a lot of whoa it's like a lot of like interviews and there's pictures and stuff so it could be a quick read but that would scare me and with a book I'm so excited for sometimes I don't like to put the pressure on myself to read it really quick do you know I mean if I read it really quick that's like a positive but I like to put the pressure on myself to do so because I want to like enjoy it yeah um yeah any good recommendations for someone who doesn't really read YA put them in the chat if anyone thinks of one uh good way I would always recommend the I think the way we're children series classes is classes YA because it's like about kids but I think it's like the books are so interesting and like beautiful that I always say anyone could read them like I think even kids could read them and I think adults could read them and like everyone well not some of it not kids but you know what I mean like I feel like everyone can enjoy it um we have six prompts out now I believe yep someone in the comments has said six I think six prompts um oh my god if I have a book in front of me I can bump up to four I've never gone that far oh my god isn't it a lifesaver like reading the physical and the audio together if it wasn't like expensive I would do it for like every book I love it so much I love it it really helps me focus he's not bad to be fair it's quite dramatic isn't it it's quite like you can tell he really likes himself do you know what I mean like you can tell he really thinks I'm the shit you know what I mean for that to be your own the photo you really think yeah I'm that bitch you know what I mean that's the energy it's giving up reading books by hot or um okay oh I think these are good YA rex the people who don't need to be a good girl's going to murder I think as well could be a good that's just so good like it's it's so I always think the writing is so good when I read other YA mysteries in particular that I'm a bit like I just think back to a good god's guy to murder I'm like nothing compared it's a blueprint it is the blueprint she is the moment I wouldn't say ace of spades because for me ace of spades read quite young but I know everyone else loves ace of spades so like ignore me but for me it read quite young so I wouldn't recommend it in that case whereas I think a good guy's going to murder reads quite a bit older YA especially towards the end um oh well which one's technically adult wow well I would I would bend the rules I think you know if you go into a library I reckon it would be like shelved in YA I feel like in a lot of libraries I need to go suck this out yeah unless it's like I do think that I don't know I think of them as YA but um okay I'm like so behind and we need to start reading again in a second the proper people are like shut up Megan you said we'd be reading and we knew this would happen you can't shut up all the inheritance games I've never read I've heard so many good things I am going to read it at some point because it is like you know my kind of shit but um I yeah I've heard so many good things but I want to get I'm going to get the the US covers on book depository because I don't like the UK covers UK covers are ugly they're real ugly they're real I think we have the same ones are they just the people yeah just the people yeah yeah we get no not reading that um oh I agree dig is a funny one dig is one that kind of blurs the lines between age categories by AS King but a great book but it's a difficult one to to classify um okay so once we're reading our comments counts as reading though um oh I read a spindle I think that one's tricky because the protagonist is 21 so I don't know what that I think that's more like a new adult if it was to have a classification maybe um do you think I could use a good guz guy tomato for both spooky and YA the prompts um I think you could I think you could cast it as spooky it's like it's like yeah yeah yeah I think just go with it listen we're having fun just yeah do what you want it's always my my approach um because I think it's like creepy spooky to me usually means like dark vibes but yeah I would say spooky you could you could cast it as I would say like yeah sure why not there's points of it which are spooky I wouldn't call the whole thing spooky there's a few points I think especially the third book I reckon would probably be the spookiest yeah yeah but I think I'm thinking towards the end of a good girl's guy to murder certain scenes that like I don't want to say anything because I don't want to say anything but like there's like one scene in particular I'm thinking of that's like a bit a bit spooky um I would recommend Elizabeth Acevedo for YA I love Elizabeth Acevedo really good good pick um I think a book like you know Elizabeth Acevedo like is always a good pick for a readathon um it's all about the vibes yeah spooky there's no real strictness on it it's just vibes okay I don't think it's because YA I don't think so I haven't read it though so that's why I can't answer but I think I don't think it is class as white I don't think it's YA um oh Portuguese cover for the Harrison's games I'm gonna have to look look that up I like the US ones though uh who is it just a Luma Crater's just come out with special editions um of them but I'm not buying that because expensive oh I very rarely buy special editions like I didn't even buy the Heartstopper ones and I love Heartstopper but I was like no I can't justify it I can't justify it the Bear and the Nightingale ones are like some of my only ones and I got my parents get them to me for Christmas or I didn't actually have to buy them so it was like easier to soften soften the blow oh dear okay shall we read again should I should I shut up and we read again oh it's fairy loot oh because I always think it is fairy loot and then I um and I doubted myself so okay let's read how long should we do a 45 minute at this time yeah I think that's what everyone wants can we handle it can we handle it Nicole I think we can we've had a warm-up we're good to go oh you guys understand we truly are 25 minutes sprint galleys that is truly we are and then like 40 minutes talking yeah we're having to really change who we are for you guys like this is none of us it's good this is fun we're actually reading I'm really into my book so I'm excited I'm really really excited I'm like super into it okay let's do 45 minutes I'm going to share my screen one sec there we go all right see everyone in 45 minutes it is starting there we go see ya hello hello I couldn't unmute myself the struggle what do we prefer that or that what do we prefer I prefer the second the yellow one not this one this one it's true it's true like oh Siri just came up 3 44 in the morning go to sleep go to sleep I'm such a grandma I have to be asleep I like 11 I have to I have to do um I only pages I read I'm on page 116 now it's still really good I'm really enjoying it I've got like two and a half hours I think oh getting there getting there I'll get close to finishing on the sprint but I won't I won't finish it I'm not too sure how much I read either but I'm on page 70 something I'm almost up to I think it's like yeah part two it's so sad like you know how wrong home it's just like constantly sad yeah it's good though it is good just sad um oh hang on I'm going to screw it up oh you just woke up okay I don't know I want to be the kind of person who wakes up at like five but I just can't be that person I can't uh 56 pages 24 70 can we read so fast guys we read so fast 40 pages 81 pages what is a total secret 100 pages again oh my goodness wow um the chat just jumped again oh just like Malibu rising I love Malibu rising I still haven't read it it is really good I gave it five stars I've given all of the latest latest books five stars I really loved it people didn't love it as much as the other two I feel like it didn't get as great reviews but I still really really loved it I thought it was great made me cry it was great oh I do want to read it it is good eventually um oh the chat keeps jumping hang on where was I only have 100 pages left you can definitely finish in these new sprints we're almost halfway this has gone really fast almost this has gone fast wow we're going quick oh my god made some banana bread how exciting oh yum I want I want to be a girly who bakes that should be I'm saying next year that's going to be part of my personality I want to be a girly who bakes you know I want to bake lots of things yeah I used to when I was younger and I tried to be but then my brothers would eat all the food so there was like no point yeah I'm I've got world famous brownies I've been making the same brownie recipe since I was like eight I'm not kidding and I always make it like on my birthday and take it into school for everyone because I'm so kind and like I'm they're world famous like Tom makes me make them he's like they're the best brownies in the world and it's true I make the best brownies you're master I have I've got it on lock like I have this recipe on lock it's not my recipe so I can't take full credit but like I found the best recipe um wow are we 20 pages all systems right I'm at 76% now whoo finish my fifth book of the readathon unfortunately it was a one stop oh no at least read five I can't those of you who read like eight books in two days I'm like what like this is crazy crazy um hang on the chat keeps jumping I'm so sorry okay here we are uh uh uh good morning hoping to finish Jade legacy oh my god get ready get ready for how much it's about to put you through that book I still haven't read that anyway anyway you haven't read Jade legacy I haven't I haven't I know the shame the I would have thought I just like took it for granted that you've read it because I like think of that as something you would have read I've read the first two I just never well okay in fairness what happened was is it was got delayed for when it was coming out here I got the dates mixed up and then I just that's my excuse I will get to it I want to reread and then like because you know how like binge reading like a series back to back it's my yeah it's my thing I did I did read Jade war and Jade legacy together and I feel like it helped so but it's so you know it spans like it spans like 20 years I know I know I know everyone has read it but me it's so good yeah literally how how do you guys read so fast my brain is like read short it's easy to read in short chapters yeah that is true good short chapters when a book is like one page chapters like you read it so fast even if it's longer um um um um where am I 150 pages of manga so that's more understandable to me but um yeah still really good real great I woke up at 1 a.m to join Gavin oh my god I see here's the thing I feel like one of the key things for readathons like success is coffee and I don't drink coffee so like I'm at a disadvantage I've never had coffee you know that I've never had it you'd never even tried it no and I used to work in a cafe where I made it like every day but I don't want to start it right I don't want to put myself up to it it's like in the teller I don't let myself have in the teller because I know these things I could get addicted to so I just don't let myself it wise um yeah I want to be the person who makes them 5 a.m I woke up at 6 today and that was good that was pretty proud of myself lots of people making breakfast lots of gallant people reading gallant yeah is there a read along for that at the moment when is it quite short I feel like it's quite a short book so maybe it gives any like 300 pages ish I could be completely off though I know it's small like it's like a small hardback it's not like a big size hardback so um oh my god the chat you're jumping um I have made them in a video like I made them oh my god the reading brush I made them for one of my vlogs I don't think I shared the recipe I'll share it I'm not like I'm not gatekeeping as recipe it's the hummingbird bakery recipe that's a bakery in London and it's from their recipe book now they could have changed it if you google it it might not be the exact recipe I use but that's my recipe is the hummingbird bakery recipe and it's so good secrets and art listen bookish mom I need to reject legacy but I'm scared you should be scared I'm just gonna say it now this is me also I'm so scared um the love hypothesis is my favorite romance I've ever read it's the only romance I've ever given five stars and I love I really liked it too and I don't read much romance no it's good rump sunshine with science it's it's really good I really loved it um oh it just jumped again this chat oh my god okay I'm like keep losing my eight books depending on last drops I know oh we were a bit nervous like what the what are the last drops gonna be like it's two hours away it makes me a bit anxious I'm like cool um I'm just making graphic novels fit the prompts that is a good idea I don't own enough graphic novels I feel like I don't own many so I only have like a few but I want more yeah I really want to go back to what's it called where I've got this name there's a graphic novel shop in London I went to once and I loved it but the name has suddenly escaped me oh my god what is it called I don't know it's my brain it was in my video that I did when I went to loads of different bookshops in London and I can't remember did you get heart stopper there no I got um I'd already read no I got Laura Dean keep breaking up with me I think I remember the video I don't remember the next door I don't remember I don't remember I know it's a good and planet is that it no I didn't plan it it was gosh comics it was gosh comics what's forbidden and even planet a good and planet is another is another kind of graphic novel shop or shop oh okay in London but I haven't been there so many gosh it was very nice I need to go back to London I want to go to more bookstores and I've been in ages um uh uh uh hang on um the audio for gallant is amazing intriguing I do want to read it I haven't bought it yet but it's on my list to get at some point uh and some of the pages only have a few sentences okay so that's good for a readathon that's why so many people are are reading it um everyone is reading oh galaxy's both spooky why are they combining prompts I see that makes sense yeah um I read bunny for my spooky prompt and I'm still reading from that whoa here's the thing I have an unpopular opinion I didn't love bunny I gave it like three stars I think or maybe like a 3.5 it didn't hit for me in the way I feel like it hits for a lot of people but um yeah yeah it's got a huge following now doesn't it like I feel like in the last year it's blown up even more yeah people are like obsessed with it and I'm like good for you I just that wasn't me that wasn't my experience it was a great idea but it didn't it didn't like hit for me you know um I don't give a lot of romance with five stars but I gave love hypothesis and take a hint denny brown five stars they're both good romances but love hypothesis for me is like top tier and then I read um ali haze would put out a three novellas as audio books and I read the first one of them and it was like a 4.5 it was like the second like I loved it ali haze would just does something she gets it she gets what I want she gets what I want apart from in both the two books I've read from her now she has the whole like oh my god the girl is so small than tiny trope do you know what I mean oh like in the in the scenes like I'm just talking high like in the scene she's like I'm so small and I'm like girl I don't want this to be in every one of your books um oh to be fair I gave Heartstop a five stars I was more talking like novel like romances but I mean they're amazing Heartstop pro is the best um let me catch up on the chat oh the audio is because for gallant I assume how long is it I'm in like I'm intrigued now let me just I have a feeling it's not super long I'm intrigued I do need to get it I need to get it I need to get it no you haven't missed another prompt roll the next prompt roll is in two hours exactly well probably not exactly it would take them a few minutes to start this room but in two hours um I looked at the next 12 prompts on both fours to see where it could land and I'm scared oh my god no that's like advanced thinking that's like that really is um hang on I'm just looking up gallant how long is it it is on script oh my god this is great I love this for me um oh hang on seven hours it is a short one that's a good pick guys it's a good pick uh yeah I forbidden planet my understanding was more it had like other stuff than just graphic novels gosh comics is just like graphic novels and manga manga I always say manga wrong don't clown me don't clown me no one comes to me man I just say things wrong okay I know I say things wrong and I'm very self conscious of it so let me just not speak um oh my god really I got a good girl's guide I assume um to murder I think that's quite hard to read in the readathon it's quite it's like it's not short do you know what I mean really I read them quite quickly I think if you get hooked though you could read it quickly yeah true I just get nervous right my readathon strategy is always like 300 pages max I can't otherwise I get stressed out otherwise I get super stressed out um oh we haven't right I think people want us to start on the hour we spoke we'll speak for a little bit longer and then we'll read again guys oh we've missed the hour haven't we we're great at this oh you finished siren queen what did you think of it um yeah seven hours so 3.5 on two times yeah that's a good pick that's a good pick um oh my god A level revision for your first one in two days oh my god good luck good luck A levels I A levels were like the toughest time of my life I went insane so I wish you all the luck with your A levels as much as as much as you know as you can I hope you do really well um oh my god the other two novellas have the trope oh my god oh girl I'm still gonna read them but it's like it's getting old miss alley it's getting old do you know what I mean it's just like why why does every scene has to have to have that um all those images in gallant that I integral to the plot you guys are getting me excited to read this book you know I need to go get it let me not go after this and go get it like you can't interrupt me I need to save my money I tend to out I'm not a celebrity do you not bring this inside joke from the patron over and make me look bad I'm not I said I think it was personality Kendra basically let's not get into it don't don't worry everyone it's an inside joke for a patron okay um okay okay I'm Korean but I'm also unsure how to rate it because I'm still wrapping my head around it that's fair I feel like Nebo's books take a while to like figure out how you um how do you feel about it you know and I haven't read the chosen and the beach we yet which is her release last year um and I think people's are the same thing about that I've already read 10 novellas um I've read that oh have you what did you think of it I didn't write it in the end because I didn't know how to write it like I don't know it was a weird experience yeah I feel like her books are like experiences yeah like I love her writing but I think the story I just wasn't on jibs and shawr on yeah I heard people say as well because it's like a great Gatsby retelling but like it was kind of strangely done I had I don't know I'm excited to read it though um yes I hope so too the thing is right the thing is someone mentioned this to me I think in my comments when I mentioned it in a video like the love hypothesis and these novellas have been reworked from fanfic that she had I think and um I feel like in fanfic you're more likely to have those repeated kind of tropes so I'm hoping the next novel won't have that um I love you too Kendra I know it's fine the illustrations now make it easy to read there's also a lot of diary entries oh my god oh so it's basically mixed media it is oh you guys I just saved my money stop influence me to buy it and I'll buy it and I won't read it for like five months so like I must contain myself I need to try and get my my physical tbr down a bit that's really my goal because it's bad it's really bad it's really bad how much do you know how many well no I said it's in the cold but I know Nicole's is worse hey do you feel like this is a safe space Nicole you can tell us counted in like well over a year but the last time I counted it was like almost 500 in books and sales little yeah but so many of them are from like charity shops and things and I've been looking at them recently like am I actually going to like read you because I'm not sure so yeah mine's at 224 right now give or take a few I could have missed a few but mine's at 224 and I want to get it under the 100 I want to get it on the 100 under the 200 sorry into the hundreds I feel like 150 is a good place for me so we've got to get it that involves a lot of reading though oh my god like oh no right where did I get up to um gallon it's a standalone apparently we'll do alongside it as well oh my god oh my god how exciting uh 500 it's fine no one's judging you Nicole it's a safe space um I judge me impressive it's impressive thank you thank you we'll read in like one second I promise you my physicality that consists of books I brought on a totally different reader yeah I can understand that problem some folks I own I'm like I was just a different girl back then you know that's a different girl yeah I feel that oh we've got people's TBRs like 98 trying to get it below 60 that is such a good number yeah yeah um my mum calls me out all the time because I think once upon a time I told her like 60 is a good number for me I think 60 is a good number now I'm at 220 um okay let's read how long do we want to read for in this sprint I could keep trying but I know you know the people want to maybe another 45 because then after that we'll have to make sure we match to the hour won't we yeah okay let's do that we'll do a 45 oh we've got people saying how long this is T10 500 you got another 500 150 60 4 you legend wow I wish I was me you're 170 under 50 80ish good good um good numbers I need to get it back into like the 100 okay okay okay let's do another 45 minutes sprint I'm gonna show my screen hello hello how did you do how did it go good hang on I don't think I've connected oh what earphones I think I connected to someone random like next door neighbors or something oh no someone in the apartment okay now we're on my we're on my we're good oh my god how did we go that round I did okay I got to halfway and then I had to stop to film a vlog clip so I didn't read I think I read like four pages but yeah that's so good though halfway halfway and then we'll do like one more big sprint I've only got two hours left with the audio bit so I'll probably have like an hour left um that's so good yeah let's be good it's a very good bit um what about you how did you do good um I've almost done I think yeah I think I've only got like 30 pages left so I might finish this I feel like my reading is slowing down because it's like the end of the day for me so yeah you know it's totally slowing down yeah yeah I'm so glad you're here see how everyone's been doing uh 44 pages 22 pages oh my god Becca's here 62 pages 52 pages yeah it's great 54 pages I'm gonna have to read it I'm gonna have to read I'm like so tempted I'm so so tempted oh my mouse is like freezing 82 pages 18 pages this is crazy oh oh the chat just jumped again uh what did I get to um oh no this is a thing when people are so into their books us talking again on the live can be so scary oh my god who is that oh finished all systems read and loved it five stars I'm gonna have to give that a go as well you guys are influencing me to like read so many different things um uh what else have we got page on page 21 17 of only a monster excited to read that as well um oh what's thornhill I've never heard of that am I supposed to know what that is what's thornhill hmm I don't know is it a middle grade it sounds like a middle grade it does sound like a middle grade oh I've heard great things about this book too but I've never oh I loved it oh really it's so good it's so good it's like the writing oh it's so magical oh wow oh my god someone you're reading curvy of the orange tree in a oh my god listen I admire that so much that could not be me well just finished my third book and got 45 pages into my new book the black flamingo wow you guys are killing it look all these books you're reading this is crazy I hope you like the black flamingo I loved it um up to 70 percent the girls are paper and fire oh my god just you're going getting to that so quick so fast listen we are all feeling the gullet so we're always probably influenced to read it from everyone reading it in the chat um I'm reading The Broken Girls by Simone St James and it's really good very much enjoying it what about you Nicole I'm reading the willful princess and the piebald prince um I only got to a hundred pages left of my book for the spooky prompt um it makes a change you're not influencing us listen change I've always been interested in it but like you know I'm just you've made me even more excited there's a piece of my hair that's doing there we go I fixed it five a.m 15 more pages to go one more sprint left in me you've got this five a.m um I'm reading manga so I don't know how many pages but a good chunk is what I read in that sprint um hang on it's jumped again I'm catching up I'm really far behind let me like speed through this quickly um trying to decide if I read a YA book or wait for the next prompts it's a hard choice because the next prompt is only an hour away so it's like do I start for those of you who are just finishing a book it's like do I start another book or wait for the next prompts it's a real conundrum I mean I should say it's because I'm running sprints but I wouldn't read if it was me I'd like go but I know I shouldn't say that because I'm the one who's running sprints but I'm if it was me that's what I do I'd like pretty wait for the next thing oh thornhill is a graphic novel it's two perspectives one in diary entries and one completely in illustrations wow that sounds interesting because I need more um need more graphic novels um gallant was amazing we got a lot of gallant love here today a lot of gallant love so much no I know I'm not I feel like gallant isn't right but I feel like I'm saying it wrong whenever I say it but it's not a word to use often like how often in your life have you said gallant I need sprints to get through beach read because it's so meh oh no I have never read Emily Henry right Emily Henry oh my god yeah it's Emily Henry yeah I've never read Emily Henry neither um oh no the chat just jumped again um okay oh my god finish the 100 page plus chapter in princess bride what I'm 100 wow neither have I I loved the film like my parents of the film when I was younger so I used to watch the film a lot when I was younger but um I've never read it I haven't dreamed how long is it is it really long like if it's really long it's not happening like it feels like well I suppose it's gonna be really long if it's go 100 page bus chapter I'm trying to find the book it's all just I'm trying to like find the book but what I'm finding is the music um oh that's it there how long is it I was 336 pages why why is there a 100 page long chapter then someone needed to step in and say we need to oh my god thank you so much thank you thank you oh my god we just said thank you like in unison what the hell that was um got 80 pages after my spooky book you can do it I believe in you we'll probably end up doing like quite a long sprint I would say like chat for a long and then we'll probably do like another 45 minute sprint to finish us off probably thinking of time that probably what's gonna work best so you can do it if you read like super fast I think yeah that's a good idea re-reading a heart stopper volume for the YA prompt that's quick like you can do that in like 40 minutes easy especially if it's a re-read even faster exactly I really hope I can fit this book in the next two prompts because I don't want to stop reading it I hope so too I'm very intrigued to see what the next next prompt for all is going to be um I'm not a Schwab fan normally and I'm loving Gallant see me and Miss V E Schwab have have a difficult relationship right because I read Vicious which I gave five stars like I thought was outstanding then I read Vengeful which I gave two stars the city of ghosts the middle grade yeah three and then I gave Adi LaRue five so she's had two five stars for me and a two and a three so very yeah it's been a bit mixed bad for me I've read Vicious and Vengeful I like Vengeful more than you but definitely didn't love it as much as Vicious I didn't love the darker shade of magic trilogy I read the whole thing and everyone goes it gets better it gets better and I was like no not for me it's all I don't think I've read so I haven't read Adi LaRue did she have anything oh I've read the archive actually I did really like that but I read it a million years ago so I don't really trust path to Cole's opinion yeah there was that one what's the one everyone was telling me I did the other book challenge as a video the other day and there's one challenge a book that has magic um sorry that has music as magic and I couldn't get it and I think her book oh yeah yeah everyone was telling me that we have a song and I'll talk to it the duology yeah yeah I haven't heard that one either but I've heard really good things about that one yeah me too let's see what else oh my god everyone's getting Gallant everyone's getting it um nearly finished with book six oh my god thank you for the graphic novels and novellas listen that's a good strategy that's a good strategy uh oh my god I'm so behind again so everyone I'll go quick um Gallant was really good go a lot of lot of love for Gallant I thought beetroot was meh but oh book lovers is the new one I've heard good things about that one um you think Gallant will be a four star for me Kenjo I remember that and I will see if your prediction comes true do you have to add in the root I can understand I feel like it's a bit more mighty I don't know and I read it right when it came out and then since like more people have read it I do agree with some of the criticisms of it so like I gave it five stars but I can recognize a lot of the criticisms with it if that makes sense um oh um um um um I'm upset the substrate you're like oh I didn't speak then oh my god that was just noisy stage of magic didn't like the savage song haven't tried the others um two five stars and two three stars I'd say a good experience I gave one two star though so it was two five stars one two one three and the three was probably like a two point five I was just like not not into it but I've loved some of them oh my god Aaron's here hey Aaron how you doing um what else uh I should oh you just woke up I'm guessing I just woke you uh just finished your legacy listen hang on let me get the comment up the crying emoji the crying emoji let me just say I relate I relate I relate Nicole I need you to read it I don't think you understand I I know but now I'm getting more scared it Nicole I told you I was screaming crying screaming crying like I had earphones in and Tom like made me to come out and he was like listen to how loud you're being I was like oh listen we all agree Nicole I miss you come back to the interwebs come back I'm missing here too I'm going to I need to listen Nicole Nicole has always been one of the people like I don't know there's not many booktubers I watch every single one of their videos and you've always been one of them for me you've always been one of them for me so I'm gonna like I feel the need to go back and like watch all your old videos to like oh oh darn some of the old ones are terrible do you ever do that like oh I should probably private that my like first three are like ropey like like my I was very I was just trying I was like how are we like like very quiet and I'm like who is this girl what the hell oh the new witch that's what we forgot oh the new which that's her debut right the new which was the first one I'm pretty sure and then it was republished after she got popular yeah um oh lots of people were speaking about Mistborn Mistborn yay I love Mistborn you say Mistborn and Nicole like is like oh my god um Grace asked are you Aussie Nicole I am um what else we got I only uh I'm scared for Jade legacy yeah listen be scared be scared I'm so school scared trying to read and talk anyway sometimes words just don't come out right you know sometimes words they don't get lost in there oh come out bad we've got so many people saying Nicole come back lesson oh you guys are so sweet thank you people want it the people want it it's wanted I just looked over at my unread Mistborn perks and pretend should we do the next sprint yes I was gonna say should we just do one more 45 then we have like five minutes at the end 45 what should we do hang on maths it's 10 pass but let's do a 40 give us a 10 minute chat at the end I feel like we need 10 minutes to sign okay good idea do a 40 minute sprint we get it up um okay give me one sec and we will go oh I've got the wrong oh no I haven't it's fine don't worry everyone uh okay is that working yeah yes we can see it and 40 minutes everyone it's our last friend hello it's still mute I can't hear you hi what were you saying I'm just saying how did you do I got over 200 pages into mine so not long not much I was so good I'm so close to finishing so pretty good how did everyone else go I'm laughing at how we've got high school musical over chat summer summer summer and I'm sitting over here we're feeling like winter oh no finish gallon oh we scared them again sorry it's hard not to I mean if we like if we start if we unmute ourselves and I'm like hello like that's creepy we need a sound or something like yeah it's too late now like when we're reading so it's like how do we do that anyway um loads of people have read loads 55 pages loads people reading only a monster I suppose it's probably spooky in YA I'm guessing people are telling us 56 pages loads I got 300 words of my uni assignment finished that's a win that's a win um I saw we haven't got long left we've got like nine minutes till you guys need to switch over to I think it's Maddie's next I put it in the description yeah I'm pretty sure it's Maddie's but I doubt myself but um I've got like eight minutes now until we need to end this and you switch over there but I saw someone ask I can't find the comment now but I saw someone ask what prompts do people want to see come up in the next role which are going to be at the start of that what what prompts are we hoping for I'm intrigued um one time on sprint someone did the quiet hello and I thought it was a lot to know because if we go hi like that's creepy so yeah Maddie is next good okay I knew she was but I would just you know when you think blue cover blue blue on the cover is a great thing to get because there's a lot of you know blues romance retelling everyone's gonna be hoping for different things it's going to be something easy yeah graphic novel contemporary or short book I want something that fits a little life I have 70 pages left of that oh my god that's brave as well for Rita Sun is um is a large book one that could come up is that like one of the next roles that could come up I'm not sure who's looked at the list who has a list of possible prompts oh becker I'm cackling because I know what the prompts are oh no becker's there like something I can double up with color in a title way or spooky but listen I love doubling up I want something to put love is like give us a clue becker give us a clue can you imagine um big book would be so cruel for the final price I would just like check out about five back I spent five um she said there was one awkward prompt but I'm not sure if I if we have had it yet or not oh oh god becker is it good or should I start sweating now oh god if I got big book I would just like I would just I'd say no I'd say absolutely get a graphic novel or a big manga or see what I would do if it was big book I know it's supposed to be oh can you hear me can you hear me no you're good you're good okay if big book came up right and I know it would say like a book over X amount of pages I'd read something like the tea dragon society which is like physically a bigger book pipe wise that would be how I would do it that's my own rules basically we have not had the awkward one yet oh no oh my god yes see I thought big book was at the start of the board if I'm remembering correctly I could be completely wrong so I'm doubting myself again but I didn't think it was possible for it to come up um oh no oh listen with a readathon you just gotta twist it to your own aims you know that's what I believe yeah a physically bigger book is what I would do I would just say no we're reading all right that just doesn't work for me for readathons I don't think uh and here I was thinking it was being nice this time oh excitement has become has become concerned oh my god oh my god you finished your sixth book just some time for the next roll so that is crazy perfect um Becca is just living her best life right now yeah that's what I thought start where you were at the end of the last roll so um what do you mean by awkward though because big book isn't awkward it's just cruel yeah it could be smart or something like that god I'm so excited I can't wait to see what it's gonna be um yeah I'm very scared we've got like four minutes left see we're gonna like it's like we're on radio like we're gonna like talk it out until we do we do oh it's two prompts that contradict each other that would be horrible that would be absolutely horrible if it was two prompts that contradict each other absolutely not absolutely not um half the volume four is 384 pages that's big photographic novel yeah I would just if I'm just you know twisting it to see my own aims I could I can imagine that smart would be awkward because not everyone reads smart do you know what I mean like I feel like not everyone reads it and it can actually be like quite a small other prompts like speakey or YA like there's a wide range of different ways you can interpret that um it's absolutely evil um where one prompt is middle grade and the other prompt is smart oh that's true yeah I would just get a quick like ebook or something it's like pages long that's true you could do the um you know what was the one everyone was reading was it last year the coronavirus one oh yeah that's like 10 pages I think oh everyone's got their detective hats out trying to figure out what the what the prompt is going to be prompts are going to be oh my god I'm at a family dinner so I don't want smart um what if it's yeah it could be a very specific prompt god two minutes everyone two minutes well we should probably start signing off I don't know how to time this but um yeah it's going to be on the next live so after this go straight to Maddie's live the links in the description or if you're on the playlist it should just go straight into it and um they'll be doing the last rolls on that okay we're going to say goodbye so that Maddie is about to start probably her live but thank you guys for joining us on these sprints I've had so much fun um yes thank you everyone thank you Meg for having me I got so much reading done so it definitely it definitely helped me out this morning it was so much fun so good luck everyone with what you're about to experience with the with the roll drop I'm going to head over there as well thank you so kind thank you for joining us and we will see you soon thank you for joining us bye good luck everyone good luck


Good day, fellow investors and welcome to the weekly stock market news with a fundamental twist. Today, we'll discuss what's going on with the Fed, the new chairman, the productivity in the US, what's going on in China with their consumption, expected consumption, extremely important for the long term. Just touch on Greece a little bit and then we'll discuss what's going on with two interesting stocks, Sketchers and Treehouse Foods that everybody expects me to talk about as it declined more than 25% last week. Let's start with the Fed, what's going on, Trump announced Jerome Powell as the new Fed chair. This won't change anything, so don't worry, who is the Fed chair doesn't matter that much now. Also, Janet Yellen didn't increase interest rates as was forecasted last Wednesday, but everybody expects the Fed to continue to increase interest rates in December and then slowly continue to increase them over the long term. However, what the Fed has been doing over the past 10 years, buying a lot of bonds and putting a lot of liquidity into the market, has lower returns on bonds, savings returns and pushed people to invest in stocks in chains of higher returns. Most people invested in passively managed index funds and ETFs. This has led to actively managed funds losing share and passively managed and ETFs gaining a huge share of the market. And here you can see what the Fed, the ECB and the Bank of Japan have done. You can see the SIP500 in the dotted line has followed the quantitative easing of central banks. They have been at 2 billion in 2008 and now their balances are around 12 billion, so they have increased it by 4 to 6 times depending on the bank.  Therefore, even active managers have stopped selling, which means that there is no more correcting force in the markets and the markets just continue to go up. When it will blow up, will it blow up? I don't know, but it's very interesting why the stock market continues to go up. Because there is one thing, sure, it's stupid to sell now because the trend is that strong. Another recent election 2 weeks ago, Shinto Abe was re-elected in Japan, which means the politics will continue, which means that the Bank of Japan will continue to buy ETFs and push the stock market higher. If you look at the Nikkei index, everybody expected Abe to win and then the stock market just continues to go up. I'm thinking about just putting my money in the Nikkei index and let the Bank of Japan make me money over time. It's not inherent to my investing style, but I think perhaps it's even the smartest thing to do. In the last year, the Nikkei index went up 31.54%, incredible. For me it's incredible, there is no inflation, people are printing money, buying everything, pushing stocks higher, everybody is happy and I really hope nobody breaks the party. I am also enjoying the party, so I can't complain. However, what's very interesting is that US productivity. Productivity, remember, contributes two-thirds of GDP growth over the long term. In the short term, GDP can grow on credit, but most important factor is productivity. US productivity is at the lowest levels in the last 40 years. This is really important, a little bit growing now, positive trend, but still extremely low over the last 40 years. This will have severe implications for future growth, future GDP growth, because the current GDP growth is all based on credit. Another very important thing is that people are not saving. Why would you save when the saving rate is close to zero? So it doesn't pay to save, everything will be good, there's plenty of money you don't need to save and the personal savings rate is again declining as it was the case in 2005 to 2007. So no more savers, which is not that good again for the economy. As long as the Fed prints money is good, let's hope this inverts with higher interest rates. As I mentioned, China, and this is a very important trend to invest in the long term. Just found this chart, however, you can see that personal consumption is expected to double in the next 15 years in China. So if you invest in a companies that are exposed to personal consumption in China, you know what to expect. Much different situation than the retail environment in the US. Going on to Greece, it's very interesting how the 10-year Greek bond went to 5%. For a country that has defaulted 8 times over the past 200 years, an interest rate of 5% on 10-year nodes is crazy. However, the situation in Greece is improving. In the 2019 election, we expect a new government, a right-wing government that's pro-business, which means again an improvement in Greece, that will probably make the reforms that the current left-wing government isn't doing. And Kyle Bass is also heavily invested in Greek banks. So if you want to turn around the story, if you want to invest in a risky country that's doing better and that's taking advantage of the low interest rate trend in Europe, Greece is definitely an interesting play. Now let's go to the two stocks I wanted to mention, Skechers and Treehouse Foods of course. What's very interesting about Skechers is that it was sued by past investors who want renumeration for their losses because they say that the CEO was too positive in 2015. Of course, these lawsuits I agree with the management are frivolous, but nevertheless they every lawsuit impacts the stock price. And if you read Skechers 20F you will see a lot of lawsuits, I believe they have 800 lawsuits with all companies, with everybody in the world. However, just one lawsuit can really negatively impact the stock price and in this case was 1.12%. Usually the lawsuits are discarded because when you invest in the stock market you know what the risks are. And the risks are shown everywhere, so you cannot sue the management for everything because that would destroy the market and no judge will give you the right. But again, the negative sentiment creates a drop in price. This shows how people don't really attach right probabilities and weights to what's going on around the company. Again, Skechers after a few weeks good performance, good earnings, strong growth, everything good lost 5% in the last week. Why did Skechers lose 5%? Well, because it is in the retail sector and there is so much negative sentiment in the retail sector and most people are invested through ETFs and when you invest in an ETF and people start selling ETFs, the ETFs have to sell everything, thus also the good stocks like Skechers that have had great results. And that is the force that's pulling Skechers down. How low it can pull it, I don't know. But it's very interesting how the market works. Another company in a very negative sector with negative trends is Treehouse Foods. The stock price dropped 38% in the week and is also 48-40% lower from when I analyzed the stock and issued a recommendation that it is a goodbye. Oops, I apologize. But that's the risk of the stock market. You never know what will happen. Now what's very interesting here is the stock price drift after the bad results. So first the stock price dropped to 52. So somebody could have sold immediately at 52 only to drop during the day as there was more selling, selling, selling to a low of 40 and now close as 42.16. So it's very interesting how the stock price didn't drop immediately to 42 and stabilize, but first to 52 and then down, showing how markets are inefficient. Let's see what happened. So again to show how the market works in tandem, no matter what the company does, it's most important in what sector it is. So all food companies have declined when Treehouse posted results. Again investor pushed Treehouse Foods to multi-year low because they lowered estimates from 0.91 to 1.01 versus 1.28 for what was the consensus in Q4. After the stock price has already fallen, I don't know how much in the last year, then there is a downgrade from William Blair to market perform from outperform. Be careful with those downgrades because analysts mostly downgrade the company after the bad events have happened. So very interesting situation. Then another terrible news, CEO resigned after only 100 days. That's really terrible news because nobody knows what happened there. Nevertheless the key takeaways are still good. They lowered their adjusted earnings per share guidance from 3.3 to 2.7, which is a significant blow to earnings, but they authorized a 400 million share buyback program. The cash flows will be around 300 million, which is $5.6 per share, which means that the company is still healthy, however private label is also still healthy. They have showed modest but steady volume growth, despite strong headwinds elsewhere. They still expect strong sales, however they lowered their margin guidance and that's terrible. When you lower your margin, lower earnings, lower everything, that's not good. So to conclude about Treehouse, it is all about what will the management do? Will the management be able to revert the negative trends to increase the margins and increase profitability? As soon as that happens, Treehouse will return to previous levels. If that doesn't happen, then we will start to see private equity funds travel around, but I don't know whether the stock price will go up or down now. For me I'll still wait a little bit, perhaps there will be more negative news, an impairment or something like that and then Treehouse could really become interesting. Now it is also very interesting, so you have to see how that fits your risk reward portfolio. However if the management delivers on what they are promising, again the 300 basis point improvement in margins by 2020, Treehouse by 2020 might be a great stock. However we have to look into the private label sector, what's going on with the bidding, how much supply there is, how much demand and see how that will affect the company. If you wanna dig deeper, please dig deeper, share with us your knowledge and tomorrow there will be a video about catching falling knives, which Treehouse obviously is. And I'll try to give you 10 rules about how to catch them and you'll see if you can do that with Treehouse or not. Thank you for watching, hope you enjoyed the video, looking forward to your comments and I'll see you in the next video.


Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemian Crafting Today's video. It's coming by my my confusion Lately I see many artists many jungle journal creators to use Masterboard and I was a little bit confused by that But what that mean why it's now the paper which from the first point of view looks like clash paper It's called now Masterboard. So I did my Small research on Google and today I'm coming to share with you how I do understand It doesn't have to be for everybody same But I how I do understand those differences between a franken paper, a collage paper and Masterboard for all of them You can use your scraps everything you saved in the past From your previous projects you can use now And I'm gonna start with franken paper and then we will continue So for franken paper we gonna use the scraps and for franken paper. It's good if you know Both sides of your paper What is the difference and if you actually like both sides of your paper because franken paper it's Visible from both sides. I mean the background of your paper will be visible Because you are gluing the papers together just with edges and Here putting them to larger sheet So if you don't like really don't like one side of your paper you should save it for collage paper That is the difference that franken paper It's like stitched from many pieces to one large one and You can actually see both these sides So you will glue your pages or your scraps together in One large project and you can add it it added those papers By looking on both sides and kind of putting it together. Oh look at me good Put in it together By looking on both sides to make sure you actually like what you create So if this will be here From other side, I will see this one and I'm okay with that. So I'm gonna glue it here This one is the same from both sides Yeah, I Don't need that big and once you have some larger piece done You can take a ruler and just cut with a ruler or paper to the straight position And you do have done your Franken paper where you can see both sides of your scraps. So for franken paper I Would say be more careful of the choice of your papers if you don't like One side of your paper save it for collage paper, which is coming now For collage paper you should use some base it can be cardstock it can be Normal paper or if it can be even old Wrapping or packing paper as I am using here and on that paper you are putting your scraps and Again, you are creating kind of like your pattern And you can use any kind of scraps you like and for this paper It's best to use scraps from the paper where you maybe don't like one one side Let's say here if I will choose I don't like this one and I will definitely use this so I will save these For my collage paper and I will glue them on my base sheet The way I would like to see that paper. So if I don't like this this this size I will definitely use that top one and again like before you are creating from your scraps Some kind of pattern like here This is kind of too dark. I like it, but it's too dark So I will rather use this a little bit softer side And that way with your scraps you're gonna create your amazing collage paper and Really, it depends how you would like to use your scraps if you want to have more of it or more dimensional so As many layers you will add maybe you want to add also Offcuts from die cutting use it for that and that way you will create your collage paper which is from the pieces on one side and One solid pattern on other side. That's from my understanding is collage paper and now masterboard so that was what was confusing to me and I went to Google and I found that masterboard has few different Explanations, but all of them are kind of in mixed media style from the dictionary The masterboard is a calcium silicate board reinforced with selected fibers and fillers and it's sanded on the One side and smooth on that reverse side From art the masterboard is a self-made mixed media patterned paper That the artist creates herself and by that I do understand that masterboard It's something where you can use paper fabric Modeling paste and you are creating your own Basic paper which you will use later In your project and that's what you will create now. I'm gonna start again With my scraps, but this time I'm gonna pull out also scraps from my fabrics And I will add them here and there in my board. So I do have here my scraps I do have bunch of fabric and there are also pieces like this and I think yeah pieces of lace and Cheesecloth so that's what I've got here and I'm gonna start again with the paper. I'm gonna put my scraps on that On that base paper in some kind of pattern and then we will build The rest around So I did glue to my paper, which is now collage paper and from that I'm gonna go a little bit a little bit more And that's my understanding what actually Masterboard is that you will add there also different things than it's just paper You will add their paintings. You will add their Modeling paste you will add their pieces of fabric Maybe you will even song through to that paper and do a little bit more than it's just collage paper which is Mostly just from from paper So this is my understanding and I'm gonna use few different things Which I think they should be on Masterboard So first I'm using Very weird Pieces of fabric. Oh my what is that? Oh, okay Yeah, and because there can be used also modeling paste and Stumps and paintings He's gonna go for it and I'm gonna use it here as well If you would like to know how to Start on your empty page, I would highly recommend Marta from Mare Mismol Art She did in the past few amazing tutorials and I think it's called how to break blank page I know it's for mixed media for those beautiful beautiful mixed media projects, but It's it's a really perfect tutorial how to start How do not be afraid to put something on the paper if you are not sure what you actually want to create Her tutorials with this how to break blank page. I do believe it's called it this way They are just amazing really you will learn so much and she always finished. I think she mostly finished One or two those those basic boards. She created so go to have a look I will try to find the link at least for one of these tutorials from that you can go and Find those others But I think she does have at least three Videos on this thing maybe even more But they are really amazing amazing So I'm editing my fabrics To that board and I think I'm gonna place one more here And then I'm gonna have a look what kind of paste or painting I want to use And I'm gonna do also a little bit of painting Here this one So I decided to go with white acrylic paint and first I'm gonna use my braille and go with braille just Here and there and add there some painting But I don't want to cover it too much with that painting. I still want to see my papers underneath So I go like really very lightweight not too much To make sure I will still see the patterns, but there will be some kind of painting Sorry for that noise Good is that on those fabrics you can also clean your Braille and then what I will do I think I Will try to do If that is possible Some heavy splashes. Yeah, even these Why not and I'm gonna take my I'm gonna take my heating tool And just died and as you can see I do have really heavy splashes, so I'm gonna leave it there I'm gonna take my heating tool and dry my board so I think my Masterboard it's the eye that painting and I'm gonna do there a little bit more. So I'm gonna take my glue It doesn't matter how what kind of glue you're gonna use it will works with any kind of glue, I guess and I've got here cinnamon The spice you are using in the kitchen and I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a Little bit rusty effect So I'm adding glue and I'm spreading the cinnamon on it and with brush Yeah, this way it will be best so with my finger. I am editing a Glue on the spots. I want kind of spread it the way I want and With the brush with the brush. I'm editing the cinnamon one more time cinnamon The spice we are using in the kitchen. I am creating kind of like rusty Rusty effect on my paper. So I do have my masterboard done But it's not done totally those last touches will be when I will create actually something from that masterboard So I will add those last touches and that it's what is it about? That you are creating some kind of papers Franklin paper I will totally use as a journal pages because it's just called They are just calling for that to be used in journal as a journaling pages. They are amazing to look They are so interesting to look at that. So Frank and paper where you can see both sides of your papers. I will use as a journal pages The collage paper I will probably use for pockets tacks and Some decorations some small decorations in my journals So I would create basics like this The string envelope because I just love these envelopes and it's very easy to create it with those collage papers base for my postcard base for attack and Also some mini folder because they are just so cute to add them to your journals and what I will create from Masterboard that will be probably Not probably that will be definitely frames because it has so much so much texture and base for ATC cards Like this. So these are my ATCs ready to be decorated and used for Artist trading cards and these are my very unique frames and I really love them Every single one is unique every single one looks different and they do have already texture because of those laces and fabric I used And I think that it's a very decorative way to use your scraps And I actually like if I do understand Right what the Masterboard means I Actually like to create my frames for my journals this way. So I guess If I didn't understand right, please feel free to correct me in the comments down below I will love to hear from you how you do understand those differences between Frankenpaper like this Between collage paper which we can use for tax folders maybe postcards once I will decorate it, of course our pockets and That Masterboard Which I think it's the best to use for frames because it does have that beautiful texture and for ATC cards so this was my sharing for today my Understanding of these differences. I hope you did enjoy it. I hope you like it. Thank you so much for visiting me today Thank you so much for jumping in and spending your time with me today. Have a beautiful day They care about take care about yourself, and I will see you soon. Bye


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