I just can't bear it.  Pretty devoid. Pretty devastated. Everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you are well. I... I'm so excited for this reading vlog.  This is going to be called Booktuber, or something along those lines. And the way that this video is going to work is, I start with one Booktuber, one of my favourite Booktubers. I ask them for a reading prompt, similar to like a read-a-thon reading prompt. They give me it, I go away, pick a book, read a book based on it in this vlog, and then I go and tell them whether I liked the book, how many stars I gave it, and based on that, they give me the next Booktuber to go to to get the next prompt. Beyond the first Booktuber, I have no control over which Booktubers I'm going to be speaking to for this video. I also have no control over what the prompts are going to be like. I just think it's going to be a great time. I'm really excited for this. When I came up with this idea, I was like, my mind. My mind! See, I'm telling you, I have the mind of a mastermind. What's that? I don't know but, you know, I'm so creative. I have decided to start with Mina from Mina Reads. Mina was one of the first Booktubers I started watching when I came into this community. I've spoken so much about how much I love her. If you're not subscribed to Mina, you definitely should be, but like, sis just hit 20k. She is doing so well right now and she deserves all of it and more, and I love her. I'm going to pull up her video. I haven't watched it yet, and I'm going to see what prompts she gave me. Hi, Megan. Your first prompt is to read a book with pink on the cover. Good luck. Happy reading. Sis? Clap if you have anxiety. I'm looking at all of my I'm looking at them all going, okay, I see if you, let me, okay. So these are all the choices that we've got. The first is feminists don't wear pink and other lies by Scarlett Curtis, which is a non-fiction book. I'm not in the mood for non-fiction, so I'm not picking this. Then I've got two classics, which is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and Little Women, not in the mood for a classic right now. I wasn't something to be liked. It was something to be understood from an academic perspective. Obviously you're not an academic. No. So I'm not going to be reading either of those. So kind of the three that I'm choosing between are With the Far and High by Elizabeth Acevedo, but I kind of don't think this has enough pink. There's only like a tiny bit. Wild Beauty by Annemarie Mackmore is one I want to get to really, really soon, so this is definitely a strong contender. There's a lot of pink flowers, and then Lovely War by Julie Berry has loads of pink. It's all pink. Everything's pink. It goes to... Pink Friday is in stores tomorrow. Give it up for Pink Friday, you guys!  No, I'm not going to read any of those. I'm not going to read any of those. I'm not going to read any of those. I am so random. I kind of just did that. I'm going to read Meet Cute Club by Jack Carbon. So I don't have this physically. I have it on Kindle Unlimited. I got Kindle Limited a couple weeks ago specifically to read this book, and I know I... If I don't read it in this video, I won't read this book. I just won't get around to it. And this is one that I know Meena really liked. So it works. Like, I don't think I'll do this for every bookstuber. Like, read one I know they liked. But for this, I get to read a book that Meena has recommended to me and Meena was one of the main reasons I wanted to pick this up. So as far as I know, this is about a guy who runs a romance book club. And when he goes to the bookstore to pick up the books he wants to buy, the guy there who is working there makes fun of him. However, the guy fancies him and ends up joining his book club. And like, it's a little romance between the two. I'm just feeling the lock. I have only ever read two romances. Both this... Yeah, both this year. Gave him both two stars. I have yet to like a romance book that I read. So we're hoping we can change that. I'm only 20% of the way into Meekoo Club and I just wanted to check in because I'm really enjoying it. This is everything I've wanted from a romance, I feel like. I mean, I'm barely into it. Nothing's really happened yet. We've only met the characters and kind of set the scene. However, it's everything I want. I love it. I love it. Firstly, aside from the romance, it's like a book lover's dream. Like seeing stuff like DNF in there. Flows my mind. Just when they speak about books and loving books and loving recommending books, it just speaks to me. Their relationship is really, really cute. I mean, they haven't got a relationship yet. They've literally just given each other their phone numbers. Jordan is kind of... No, I wouldn't say uptight that he's very organized, has his way of doing things, whereas Rex really loves taking the mick out of him, essentially, and teasing him. And I just love their dynamic. I like it actually, I think in a romance when one person is a bit more reserved and the other person is a bit wilder and like really jokey. But I think I like it more so when it's from the reserved person's perspective, because I think if it's not from their perspective, sometimes they can become too reserved and too like uptight. Whereas it doesn't feel like that when it's from their perspective. I'm loving it. I'm really enjoying it. It's a really short book, like it's only just over 200 pages. I'm hoping for a bit of steaminess. I'm hoping. A girl can wish. Two romances I've read, which I gave two stars, which are Red, White and Royal Blue and Next Room Havana. They're kind of both fated to black and so I just want a bit of smart. It doesn't have to give me a lot. Just like a little bit. I'm really enjoying this book. I'm really liking this book. The chemistry. I love the chemistry between the two main characters. It's like, it's hot. I really like how there's so much to the story beyond just their relationship. The relationships for both of them with their grandmothers are really important. Oh, by the way, I'm like 60% of the way through, just so you know. The relationships that they've had throughout their life with their grandmothers are really important to the story. So although it's really short, I feel like it's got a lot of elements to the story and it's not just their romance, but it keeps it simple. I'm so happy that I'm finally enjoying a romance book because like I said, I've never read a romance book that I have liked. So this is revolutionary. This is history. But wow, what a moment. I will never forget. A moment that is most pleasing to me.  I loved it. I just finished it and it was everything I've been wanting in a romance. I'm so happy that I have finally loved a romance. It's taken us a while. It's about time! It's taken us a long time to finally get into romance, but like I'm here now. I'm here. I just want to read more romance. That's all I want to do. I just felt like the book had great pacing. It was so cute. Their relationship was so believable. The characters were so believable. It was a good mix of like storyline and there was a bit of smut, but like not not too much. I think there were only two smut scenes throughout the whole book and because it's a really short book like 200 pages, I think that was probably the right amount. It could maybe it could take one more. Maybe. I'd really recommend this if maybe you're not that into romance because like I said it's free on Kindle Unlimited. I'll see if I can leave a link down below. I think I should be able to for you to get two months free of Kindle Unlimited. I could be wrong, but I think I can leave a link to that down below. So if it's something you're interested in, I'm going to definitely check out some more Kindle Unlimited books whilst I still have my free trial and then decide whether I want to keep it. You know, if you're not into romance that much, you've never read romance or like me, you've read a few and not like them at all. This is perfect. It's perfect. Okay. This is a really British reference, but it's like a lovely Thornton's chocolate. Like you feel, okay, so you know it's probably not the finest chocolate out there. Like you could get like some artisanal truffles that are like so expensive, but you feel bougie eating Thornton's chocolate. Like it's not supermarket chocolate. It's Thornton's. Anyone?  That's what it felt like to me. Like I know I'm not a romance expert. There's probably like better romance books out there, but it still felt great. It was so lovely experience. It still felt smooth in my mouth. Anyway, I have a message Mina telling her that I loved it. I gave it four stars and she was so happy. And she was like, yes, I'm so glad. I'm just waiting to hear which booktuber she has picked for me to go to next. And so I'll see you next when we're hearing who the next booktuber is and what the prompt is going to be. I'm nervous. I'm nervous. I'm nervous. Let me... Mina chose Zoe from Zoe's All Booked. Oh, by the way, I'm at Tom's house now, but you actually would have seen that already in my Reading Rush Daily vlogs. But in case you hadn't seen them and you're like, bitch, you're in a different place. I'm at my boyfriend's house now. I have like, I would say three fifths of my unread books with me. So I think I should be able to complete whatever prompt I've got. She just messaged me the video of her giving me the prompt and she said, sorry, not sorry for what I'm about to make you do. I'm very nervous. I don't want to read a horrible book, sorry. I don't want to read a hard book. Please don't make me do this. Okay.  I just got out of the shower and it was too lazy to put makeup on, put something other than my husband's clothes on. So here we are. I'm Zoe from the channel Zoe's All Booked, which used to be called your book nerd Zoe. And in honor of my personal messiness, Megan, I'm pretty sure that you should be reading a book that you think is going to be one star. Or if you don't have any that you think are going to be one, maybe two stars at the most, a book that you think is just going to be super messy. You're welcome and happy reading.   I promise it's going to be one star.   We can just find like a bad book on Kindle Unlimited.  Oh my god, she really set me up as well for the delivery. Oh my god. I don't know. Like do I just look randomly on Kindle Unlimited and just find like a random book? The gender game. Okay, what's that? Because that looks horrendous. It looks so bad. In a world divided by gender. Oh, this looks so bad. How long is it? It's 414 days. Ever since the disappearance of a beloved younger brother, Violet's life has been consumed by an anger she struggles to control, already a prisoner to her own nation. Now she has been sentenced to death for her crimes, but one decision could save her life. To enter the kingdom of Patreus where men rule and women submit. Oh, well, I think I've got to read this because it seems messy and I think I'm going to give it one star. Like the question is, can I get through it? It's 414 pages. Like it's not even short. One piece of advice. Don't read anything. If you don't read it, it can't harm you. Oh my god, Zoe, why have you done this to me? This is why this video exists. Okay, it's got 3.82 average rating, which is much higher than I thought it'd be and 36,000 ratings. That's high. Only three people I'm friends with on theories have read it and we've got a 2.75, a three and a two. This book. I can already tell it's going to be problematic. I bet you there's not going to be like any trans or non-binary characters in this. I bet you it's just going to pretend like trans or non-binary people don't exist and that everyone's just male or female and that's, you know, that's all that there is. And matrix and patriot? Like is she just putting us on the end of words and pretending they sound Latin? Okay, obviously I've got to get into this book. I am now 15% of the way through the book, which I know isn't very long, but I just wanted to check in with my initial thoughts.  I'm not sure if it's as bad as I was anticipating. Like it's not going to get anything more than a two star, no way, no chance, but it may get a two star depending on how bad it is. It's readable. Firstly, this whole gender divided world hasn't played much of a role yet. She's just been kind of in prison.  And because she got caught smuggling him in, she's been in kind of like child manual labor ever since. She's been taken to the queen and apparently the queen has been like observing her in like these sewage plants she's been forced to work in and stuff and they want her to do this like crazy task that no one else can possibly do. Thank you.  I've never read more adjectives in like a short space of time as I have in this. It's crazy. It's so weird to read. It's like a child writing, but it's just like a thesaurus has word vomited on the page. There hasn't been any mention yet of any like trans or non binary characters and how you fit into this society. Again, I can't see that happening. I'm like holding out hope that this book will somehow address that like people who don't fit into either gender binary or who are trans and like what this society's attitude towards that is. The whole thing is based on gender and I think an outdated and like incorrect view of gender. The whole basis of the story is something I disagree with. There was the girl she killed. She was described as like big, ugly. If you viewed her from behind you could be mistaken for thinking she was a man. So like a character is portrayed as negative if they do not fit the gender assumptions and gender binaries that we know in our current society. So it's not like we're trying to break down gender expectation in this book. Like you are supposed to conform and the character and the narrator and the author, oopsie daisy, sees it as a bad thing if you do not do so. It's time to grow up. So I'm only 30% of the way through now and I don't know I'm checking in with you so much because it's not like I really have anything notable to say. Like nothing is really happening.   Like it's just so bad. A problem I'm having so far is that it's obviously supposed to be like matriarchy and patriarchy. But when we were in the matriarchal society there wasn't anything that made it like obviously matriarchal. Like I didn't see anything in which ways like women were like so benefited in this society and we didn't see any signs of that other than they were the queen. But when we got to the patriarchal society then it was like so aggressively women can't leave the house without a man, women are men's property etc. But like it's almost like the matriarchal society was like our society and so it's almost like the author is saying you think you live in a patriarchal society now well it could be a lot worse. Not on my watch. Not on my watch. And I thought it was going to be a romance between the guy that she, oh I didn't mention it, she has to marry a guy to get into this society because her secret mission means he has to go to the patriarchal society and I thought it was going to be like an arranged marriage romance. But I think she's going to fall in love with the security guard at the place that she's trying to steal something from. And he's like rugged and like has a beard and lives in a cabin in the woods and he's like the most stereotypical man you could ever think of like masculine man. So I just don't see, I can't figure out what the author is trying to do with this book. Like I really can't. So it's so bad. I'm now 70% of the way through. So I've read like 40% of it since I last spoke to you and I honestly, I don't know what's happened and nothing's happened. I've made notes. I've made notes. The makeover scene. Makeover isn't even the right word but they're going to somewhere where people recognize her like she's met a lot of people in the society and their approach to this was giving her a beard and a moustache and a wick and dressing her up as a man. You're going to play a game. Girl, play it right. This society seems to have an obsession with caged fighting. I think that's like their sport choice. And it's honestly like the author has just thought of the most stereotypically masculine stuff and just like chucked it in. And I think it could have been so interesting if she had decided to look at it from a perspective looking at what it's like for kids or like a young boy to grow up in this heavy masculine society. But it doesn't. Apparently everyone's fine with it in the society and it's only her who can see all the issues with it. Like as you can me tell, I'm just exhausted by it. Like I don't want to read anymore but I've read 70% of it and so I might as well just finish it off. I'm not going to DNF it. If this is like Rebel City of Indra by Kendall and Kylie Jenner where there isn't an ending, like it just carries on into the next book, I'm going to be so pissed. I'm going to be so pissed. Just at least give me an ending. The weirdest plot twist just happened and quite frankly I cannot take anymore. So it's a week later and the reading rush has just ended and I realised I never told you what I thought about the end of this book. So it was one star. It was one star. It was one of the most terrible books I have ever read in my entire life. I have kind of blurred out of my memory like I've kind of just gone you know chucked it away because I just can't bear it.   I thought it was on drugs reading it. Like it was a fever dream that ending. It was so bad. It was so bad. So don't read this book. And Zoe, thank you for the torture. Zoe gave me the next booktuber to go to to get a prompt and she gave me Caris aka one of the most kind lovely booktubers that there is. So I'm going to watch her prompt now. Hello Megan! It's Caris here from Library of Caris. If anyone's watching and you don't know who I am, you can find me everywhere at Library of Caris. I'm sure Meg will include a link in the description. So go check that out. I have a prompt for you. So I hope this is doable and this isn't too crazy but like I want you to find a book that you would recommend to one of your pets based on your pet's personality. So if your pet was a human what book do you think your pet would enjoy? Obviously you're going to read a book that you haven't necessarily read. So you just have to go with what you think but yeah give it a go. Oh my god Caris. I would love to do this with my cats but I'm not currently living with them. I'm living around Tom's right now. So what I think we'll do is we'll do this with Freddie the dog who is Tom's dog who is here.  Like he just thinks the world is perfect. He's always hoping that you'll play with him. Like he always thinks now's gonna be the time. Today is the day. What kind of book would you like Freddie? We want to find the happiest book I have. I don't really know. I mean I think that's quite happy. Is that a dog on the front? Yeah but I don't really fancy a graphic novel right now. He's not a thriller guy. I don't feel like. Bro he's her thrillful. He's not a thriller. That's about a woman a girl who talks to the passengers in planes. And that kind of sounds like. That kind of sounds like Freddie. Yeah Freddie would talk to anyone. Do you think I feel like yeah. That's the one Megs. You think? Yeah 100. We have chosen Ask the Passengers by A.S. King. This is actually gonna be my fourth A.S. King I've read. And a lot of people say that this is one of her best. The last one I read, Dick which was her newest. I gave five stars. I gave Please Ignore Vera Deets five stars. And then I think I gave Variety Boy two or three. We were all so happy that day. It's actually hard to even imagine how terrible things would soon become. We've chosen this book because we think you'd like it. Oh don't chew it. Yeah he loves eating but I won't give it to him. You're so friendly. We thought you'd like to speak to the people in airplanes too.  You always send loads of. What do you think? So I am about a third of the way through Ask the Passengers. Essentially we're following Astrid as she sends love to the passengers in the airplanes above her. And as with a lot of A.S. King's books it has that fabulism element where the people on the planes can actually hear her. Like they hear her say something to them. Oh well come here tell it Tubby. Teleport us to Mars. But it's also about Astrid's journey figuring out her sexuality and like learning that it's okay to be who she wants to be in this small small American town that is very intolerant. However I'm not enjoying this as much as I want to. There's nothing wrong with it. I'm just not particularly interested in reading it. Two of the three books I've read from her are five stars and a lot of people say that this is her best one. I'm kind of like panicking a bit. I'm a bit stressed out about this. It could just be that I'm suffering a bit from reading Rush Burnout because I read so much last week that I kind of just don't want to read. I think that may be part of it. But also I'm just not as into it as I am with her other book. It's almost not weird enough for me. It's okay. It's okay. Hey okay so there was a point the other day when I thought this was going to be a two star and I was breaking my heart. But right now I think it's at the moment it's like a three star. It's picking up a bit. I am on page 190 so I've only got like 90 pages left. It's getting better. I still don't love it as much as other AS King. It's not what I was expecting coming into this. A nightmare. It's literally a nightmare. One thing I do think AS King does really well is a critique of small town America. Like really bigoted ways of thinking in some towns in America. And what it's like to be living there when you are the outlier and you think equality exists essentially. So like I do like that aspect of it. I like the aspect of Astrid coming you know coming to terms of coming out possibly. Like figuring out her sexuality. Like I like that aspect of it. However number one the smaller thing is that I don't always like the way Astrid acts. And I have a problem with some of the stuff that she has done. And I'm guessing that that's going to be confronted at some point just not right now. But if that's not confronted I'm going to be like not happy. Also I so like AS King's books are like fabulism. In the rest of her books it's kind of like intertwined throughout the story. And this the only fabulism element is her talking to the people on the planes and them hearing her. However they're kind of like these very brief interludes at the end of chapters. Like she would be having some kind of existential crisis. She'll be like I send my love to the people up there.  She is never aware that they can hear her. And so it's so isolated within the story and then the rest is kind of like a contemporary. And I like how the weirdness the fabulism element was all throughout AS King's books. And they really affected the storyline. But here it just kind of feels like an add-on to an otherwise a contemporary story. And so I think that's the main reason why I'm not enjoying it. I hasn't actually been a struggle to read it. Which AS King is one of my favorite authors. So I'm pretty devoured. Pretty devastated. Hi! I finished Ask the Passengers last night.  And I'm going to be giving it 2.75 stars which is heartbreaking. Considering AS King was before this one of my favorite authors. So I'm really sad about it. I just think I prefer AS King at her weirdest. And this was not weird enough for me. You know I said it's like a contemporary with a bit of weirdness slapped in to like make it better. But it didn't really work. None of it felt fully fleshed out. And there were just some things that pissed me off throughout this in the way that it was happening. And I think they're just personal things. But like it meant that I didn't enjoy the reading experience. So I'm gonna spoil it quickly. So I'll put spoilers up if you don't want to know. Or if you haven't read this yet. Basically at a frat party that she goes to she cheats on her girlfriend with another girl. She makes out with her. It's never addressed. She never tells her girlfriend that she is made out with this other girl. And I think they are supposed to be exclusive. Like they've been seeing each other for five months. So I mean you would imagine they were exclusive by now. I understand that it is a key moment for her in like accepting her sexuality. Feeling fully fulfilled in her sexuality. Like it's a very important moment for her in that regard. However you still cheat on your girlfriend. And you never tell her and there's never any repercussions. And then throughout the rest of the book she's sometimes like oh maybe I should ring that girl and meet up with her. And like she generally doesn't see a problem with that. Maybe it's like I said just a me problem. And I have a problem with like people cheating on books and there being no repercussions. But it just felt very strange. Like a very strange add-on to me. And I liked the ending the last couple pages. Very interesting. It's the only time that I felt like the Arthur passenger element really worked. And for that reason I feel like AS King had this idea for the ending. And the whole rest of the book and the whole rest of the concept are built around that.  This just was not weird enough for me from her. Then Keris gave me the last booktuber to go to. This is gonna be the last one that we do. She chose Lily who I love Lily's channel. I'll be linking all of the creators down below. All the booktubers who have been featured. But you should definitely go check out Lily's channel if you haven't already. And she has just sent me through the video. So I'm gonna watch it. Hey Meg, it's Lily. I hope you're doing well and I hope your reading vlog is going well. So I have been thinking about what reading challenge prompt to give you. So I was thinking about how much you love memes. And I was thinking about one of the meme queens that I know we both appreciate, Gemma Collins. So my reading challenge to you is to read a book inspired by Gemma Collins in some way. So I'm thinking either a book you think Gemma Collins might like herself, or possibly a book inspired by who she is as a person. So something very dramatic, maybe with lots of plot twists, maybe set in a reality show in like an isolated location, like she's done with Big Brother and I'm a celebrity, with like a feisty main character who has high standards, who knows what she wants. If you struggle with any of that, they'll just read a book that begins with G. But my main kind of reading prompt for you is to read a book that is inspired by Gemma Collins in whatever way you see fit. And you can interpret that however you want to really. I hope that makes sense. And I'm looking forward to seeing what you pick.   I'm off. Okay, so my first instinct was a book that has a similar main character to Gemma Collins. However, I soon realized I can't really tell if the characters are going to be similar without reading the book. I think I'm going to go with something that has like a lot of, I think have a lot of plot twists or be very dramatic. I've chosen The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware. Now I don't think this is a book that the GC herself would want to read. However, I think as it's a thriller, it's going to be very dramatic, have a lot of plot twists. All of Ruth Ware's books I've written in the past are like really plot twist heavy and you're like, another reason that I picked this over all my other thrillers is that the premise of this is that a woman receives a letter saying she's inherited a lot of money from a relative and she knows that that relative, she really doesn't think she's related to them. However, she goes along with it to get the money. And I feel like if Gemma Collins got a letter saying she'd inherited loads of money and she knew she wasn't related to the person, she would still go ahead, you know, with the cash grab. The entrepreneurial queen that she is, Gemma Collins would not miss a beat. Gemma Collins is in denial. I love Ruth Ware's books. I'm hoping this will not be a repeat of the AS King situation because the two books I've read by Ruth Ware already have both been five stars. I've read The Turner Key in one by one. So they are her newest books and I've heard some people say that she has definitely improved over time. So like maybe I should be a bit nervous for this. I have just got 100 pages into The Death of Mrs. West away and it feels very, very different to her other books. Ruth Ware's two newest books that I've read are like super fast paced, like a very intense thriller, whereas this feels a lot slower. And I'm kind of like thinking now maybe it's not going to have the plot twists that I was expecting. That's why I picked it for this prompt. I feel like it's going to be a very slow build intention with like a big reveal at the end. I am enjoying it. However, I am finding it a bit difficult to read sometimes. I think it's because it's so slow and I'm used to Ruth Ware's books being real page turners.  I've had enough of playing games. It's not her aunt that she finds out as died. It's actually supposedly her grandmother who has passed away and has left her some kind of money and who she fakes to go and pretend that she is the inheritance because she needs money so, so badly. There's definitely something going on where I think she is going to have some kind of link to this family and she's been lured there. I'm now on page 242 of The Death of Mrs. West away. This is just so different than what I was expecting. Like, it's a completely different book. It's much less exciting, no. But I did tell a bit of a lie there. It's much less dramatic and has... Oh, pen? Pen? Pen? Is it pen? Approximately 10 hours later. Okay, they scored the pen. It just took a turn which I wasn't expecting and I really don't know whether to believe. Like, I feel like it's a lie. I don't buy it. I could be wrong but I just don't buy it. I just don't think it's true. What did she say? She's just talking shit! It's a weird one. It's really not what I was expecting. It's such a slow read. Like, I was thinking on the last prompt I was like, oh, if I choose a thriller it'll be such a quick read and I can just fly through it. This isn't that kind of book. It's such a slow book. It's not quite giving me the three act tricks that I want but I'm gonna go finish it and then I'll let you know what I think. Ignore my spot. We're just not talking about it. I just finished The Death of Mrs Westaway and a lot of people say that the start of this book is really good and then the ending isn't great. Whereas I thought it was the other way around. I don't think it really picked up into the final 25% at all. Like, I feel like the final 25% was the best part of it. I thought the ending was good but a lot of it was what I expected but I kind of think you're supposed to expect it. There wasn't any surprises. I'll say that but I thought it was well written and well crafted and an enjoyable ending. This could have been way shorter though. Like, it did feel like a bit of a drag. There was a lot of scenes that did not need to be there. I feel like it really could have been edited down and I would have preferred it much more. Throughout most of it it was like a 3.5 but I think I am gonna up it to a 4. That is the end of this video. I want to do it again so if you have enjoyed it let me know and I will definitely definitely do this video again with more booktubers and new prompts. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed the video. Let me know what you would have picked for some of the prompts. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you again in another one. Bye!


After a week of Davis Cup for the men post-US Open and not too many of the ladies playing this week, rankings have kind of been a little bit weird this week. A lot of players outside of the top 10 have done well. On the ladies side, on the men's side, nothing's changed. But let's go have a look at the players who actually won tournaments last week. There's only two tournaments last week and both of them are on the WTA. Starting with the San Diego Open, WTA 500 event, Krajikovar. Getting a three-set win over Cannon, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. So both of them got a big boost in the rankings, especially Krajikovar, who has had a bit of a rollercoaster of a year. Then over in Japan, Kruger gets her first WTA title against Zoo, the Japan Women's Open, 6-3, 7-6. To lift her first big trophy and both of those players who made the final actually got a boost in the rankings as well. Let's start with players outside the top 10 that have done well this week. Starting with Zoo, she goes up to 31 in the world, a career high for her, 4th spot higher than last week. She's having a really good season. Starting at the start of the year at the San Open and she's continued that throughout the season, almost in the top 30. Sophia Cannon goes up 40 spots. The number 53 in the world after making the final of San Diego saw a huge boost for her. And Kruger, she goes a career high number 73 in the world, 50 spots higher than last week. So the three finalists from last week getting a big boost in the ranking with a couple of career best rankings for some. Some of the players are 4th down out of the rankings, Pogu goes down to 61 in the world, 12 spots lower than last week. Sinia Kovar drops down 35 spots to 89 in the world. And Fruva Toba goes down 48 spots to 116 outside of the top 100 for the first time in a while. So unfortunately, she's going the wrong direction with rankings. That's because they all lost points from this time last year. So some big movements in the rankings there for some. Starting on the ladies side of things. And there are a couple of changes to the top 10, but nothing up the top with Saber Lancashfield at number one. She'll be on ticket two, Goff at three, and they're not playing next week. So there won't be much change over the next few weeks, you would expect because unfortunately they're not playing in Guadalajara. But we do have a change in the middle. With Poguola going up one spot to number four and pushing Rabakina down to number five. That's because Rabakina lost points in this time last year. So a little bit of a change there. And again, those five players are not playing in Guadalajara next week. So Poguola is going to lose a lot of points because she won last year's Guadalajara. So expect her to drop again. But no change really to the top of the top until we get to the Asian swing. Ondrusova stays at number six, Jabara at number seven. Mukavera at eight, Sakari at nine. But we have a change down the bottom with Krajikova pushing Garcia out of the top 10. She goes up three spots after winning San Diego. And of course Garcia is at such a bad season starting from really the start of the year. After she won the WTA finals, it's all been downhill with not much to talk about. And now she's out of the top 10, which is kind of crazy considering how good she was this time last year getting back into the top 10 for the first time in a while. So Krajikova, she's back in the top 10 for the first time. And let's see whether or not she can get to the finals race as well. Going over to the finals race now and still only four players qualified. Sabalenkesh, Fiontek, Goff, Rabakina, they take up the top four spots. Pagula not too far behind at number five with Ondrusova at six. Mukavera at seven. Jabara stays at number eight. Keys at number nine. And Kovitavra at number 10. And remember, the top eight players qualify for the tournament. So there's only four spots left. And Keys and Jabara really have to do well this week in Guadalajara. So they can either cement their spots or for Keys is to get back into that top eight like she was at the start of the season. But it's really starting to shape up now. We've only got a handful of tournaments left until the WTF finals will be confirmed. Over on the men's side of things. And like I said, they played Davis Cup last week, which is worth no points. So everyone either had a rest or some of them played for their countries. Djokovic did play for his country, got the win, but didn't get anything for it. Stays at number one, though, with Alcors at two, Medvedev at three. Ruiner at four and City Pass at five. Both of them played at the Davis Cup as well for their countries, but not in the big world group. They were playing sort of the qualities, I guess, for Denmark and Greece. So they played, but they obviously didn't get a rankings boost. Rublev at six. Sinner at seven. Fritz at eight. Rude at nine. And Zverev runs out the top 10. But we do have a few of those players playing next week. Zverev being the big one next week playing in Asia. So we'll see whether or not he can get further into the top 10 in his rise back after that horrible ankle injury of last year. Gone to the race of the finals. And again, no changes with only three players qualified. Djokovic, Alcors, Medvedev, they're the top three, all qualified for the end of your event. Five spots left up for grabs. Sinner's just behind the qualification line, which is about 5,000 points. So he's not too far behind. Rublev at five. City pass at six. Ruiner at seven. Zverev at eight. And like I said, Zverev playing next week is going to be huge to try and get himself further in to that top eight. Fritz is just behind at number nine. And Rude rounds out the top 10 for this week. But it's really starting to shape up now. And only two massive tournaments left before the end of year finals. Of course, we've got Shanghai coming up in a few weeks and also Paris to end the year. So it's going to be a really exciting finish, with still five spots up for grabs and a lot of players in contention. So those are the rankings for this week. Not too exciting. I mean, on the women's side, there's a couple of changes here and there. Nothing on the men's side to talk about. But of course, the Asian swing starts next week for the men. And of course, Guadalajara for the ladies is going to be massive. We're going to see some big changes. Not so much because we have the best players playing. In fact, Guadalajara might be the weakest WTO 1000 of the year. But it's a great chance for the players outside the top 10 to maybe get into the top 10 and kick some of those players that are not playing out of that top 10 or even a race to the finals like Keynes, for example. But let me know in the comments below. Are you shocked about anything in the rankings this week? Are you disappointed that some players are not as high as you expected or are you kind of content with it? How do you feel about the race to the finals for both the men and the women? Do you like the top eight so far? Would you be happy to see those players play or do you want to see somebody else in that top eight contention? Are there the rankings for this week? Not too much to talk about this week in the ranks.


So let's recap. We've had a look at the theory of quantum mechanics as evidence through the two-slit experiment and we've had a look at the history of quantum mechanics. And to recap the theory everything's a wave.  And this theory, although it does sound a little strange to begin with, turns out to explain to the dozen significant figures or more every property of everything we've ever measured. Okay, it has no known bugs. Now we saw, especially through the history, how it explained the existence of atoms and how they work, we saw how it explained absorption and emission, the photoelectric effect, interference, and so forth. But our history only went through to about the 1920s where the modern form of quantum mechanics finally emerged. So what happened after that? So after that the next major advance happened when we tried to marry the theories of relativity with quantum mechanics. Now not only did that help us get the details right so that we could get a dozen digits of significant figure agreement between theory and experiment, it also actually put a lot of restrictions on our quantum mechanical theories. In order for our wave evolution to obey the principle of special relativity, there are only certain theories that would work. And it turns out that some of those theories actually predicted particles that we'd never seen before. And then we went and looked for those particles, they were there. And this was the first time that completely new things had been discovered from theory rather than from experiment first. The normal role of science was that things would be observed, and then theories would be developed to explain those things, and then those theories would be tested by further experiments. In this case, the principles behind the theory suggested a slightly different version of the theory, and that version of the theory made predictions that turned out to be correct. And we saw completely new phenomena, in other words entirely new particles in nature that we hadn't seen before. And it didn't stop there. Quantum field theory, which is what this theory is called when you marry relativity with quantum mechanics, has predicted many new particles which have been observed, and also new forces and relationships between those forces, all of which have been verified to the best of our ability. And our best model of all these particles and forces is called the standard model.


My name is Ivana Ivanova and I work at Curtin University, at Curtin University. It's a special sciences discipline, now used to be department, now we are a discipline. And my role there is a senior lecturer in special infrastructures in geographic information and all sorts of related things. My background is in special data quality and for 19 years or a little bit over, I'm dealing with standardization in all sorts of levels, national, international, community and so forth. So Ming asked me to introduce the fundamental standardization bodies and their roles for spatial data quality. I'm not sure what some of you for sure are dealing with spatial data, but I think not all of you. Is that correct, Ming? In this group we have non-spatial people as well? Probably for people come here today or deal with spatial data quality. Okay, never mind. Anyway, this talk is about standardization of spatial data quality and we look at the two main bodies which drive this space, which is the OGC Open Geospatial Consortium and the Technical Committee at ISO. I'd like to start with introducing both groups and then see what are the synergies between the two. ISO TC211 is a technical committee that deals with standardization of all aspects of geographic information and geometrics. It has been established in 1994 after the miss of a European Normalization Committee who started driving standardization in spatial data or geographic information domain. Today ISO has 38 participating members, among which Australia, and 32 observing members. It has more than 40 internal and external liaisons including bodies such as the Open Geospatial Consortium and WSAC, the two main organizations which deal with geospatial web. The role of ISO TC211 is to produce standards within the 1900 series and the overall philosophies to build these standards for a long time perspective and that is also a reason that these standards are very, well most of them are quite abstract, offering the conceptual foundation in a specific aspect of geographic information rather than specific implementation instructions. Currently we have 75 published standards and 25 standards under development, so it's quite a large body. They are related some closer, some not so close, but it's not meant to be implemented as a full collection. Standards can be selected individually based on the needs of implementing organization. On this list I've only selected few interesting standards for us in this group and those that relate to data quality. Some are specifically defining data quality and its model and aspects and some are defining additional quality elements and those are the standards for data quality and the metadata. In Australia within organizations dealing with spatial data standards for metadata are well known and most organizations implement them in full or in as a profile of these standards. I'm not sure about the data quality standards, they are implemented indirectly most of the time as part of the metadata implementation and I haven't seen a full implementation of data quality so far, but that may be only me. The model of spatial data quality as defined in ISO series of standards is as following. The data quality is expressed through data quality elements, a long list of elements and there are two elements which can be quantified or at least qualified, some of them. These elements relate to a data quality scope which relates to the data set scope so if part of the data set has data quality evaluated that's possible within ISO standards and these data quality elements are typically reported in metadata and some are reported, those that are directly or indirectly evaluated are reported also in more detailed data quality evaluation reports. Those elements currently present in standards are the following. These are the five notoriously known in spatial data quality domain, completeness, logical consistency, temporal quality, thematic accuracy and positional accuracy or spatial accuracy and one additional element which is fairly new from 2013 which is called data quality usability element and this set is very likely to change shortly or shortly within coming few years but I'll conclude my talk with more detail on that. The other defining organization for our standardization is the OpenGeo Special Consortium which is well contrary to ISO TC211 which is a formal standardization body producing so-called day-use standards. OGC produces de facto standards which are those that are driven by the needs of industry and immediate needs of industry so these are very technical and implementation or usually implementation specifications. As you can see from the new definition of OGC, this organization strives at producing geo-web and services in a fair way and that's the concept many of you might have encountered in recent years. It stands for findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. That didn't used to be, well, fair wasn't a word or wasn't a thing few years back so it wasn't at OGC as well but the organization is picking up the general approach to fair data science if we can say that and they change their mission into paying specific attention to that aspect as well. OGC standards, there are two main standards which are abstract specification and implementation specification and because of the very close liaison between OGC and ISO, abstract specifications are typically equivalent to ISO conceptual schema. So for instance, a standard for feature geometry features as defined or the main object of real-world object is standardized that OGC is specified equally as is in spatial schema by ISO. Several implementation specifications exist, here just few examples which might be familiar to you. There are two other interesting documents at OGC's website which are worth to follow and these are the engineering reports which report results of the innovation program new standards are developed or existing standards are implemented and also discussion papers which normally bring topics which are hot outside spatial data domain and try to actually see what that means in spatial data domain. So one example is the discussion paper on UNCERT ML which was a proposal to define metrics to mark up uncertainty measures and expression of spatial variation in objects. Here in this graph I'm not going to go into detail just so I wanted to include that in slides to show you the synergies between various organizations and in standardization so you can see there are different types of liaisons between these and class aliasing between OGC and ISO means ISO TC211 means that whatever topic is standardized within ISO TC211 is not going to be redundantly standardized at OGC but OGC adopts that standard within their set and other way around. So for instance standard specifications such as web map service, web feature service have been defined by the OGC and adopted within the set of ISO 1900 series. This is interesting for one other reason because OGC strives at producing open standards whereas ISO produces standards which are conceptually open but they cost a lot of money so if you actually are after a standard for web map service or web other service then it's wiser to actually have a look at the OGC's website and download it from there because the content is exactly the same. At OGC we have, there are several standards working groups and domain working groups where standards working groups are set up at HOP when a new request for a new standard is there and members join efforts in producing the standard and then there are domain working groups which aim at facilitating work of these standards group or other groups in certain topics so one of the topics which has a domain working group is the data quality. Now what we mean here is spatial data quality but also quality of service and quality a bit more general so not really spatial data driven. So this group has been established in 2006 and one of the first task was one of the first programs of work or items on program of work was to learn what data quality means to various stakeholders in geospatial supply chain so all sorts of bodies involved in production or consumption of spatial data. In this survey we had quite a lot of responses more than 700 from a wide range of organizations and interestingly only 17% of these were members at the time so this was really a wide view from outside organizations and most of them were both suppliers and consumers of spatial data. A result in summary was that almost everybody stated that data quality is important but close to I don't want to say close to nobody because just 60% but 60% is a large number indicating that they have no idea how to manage these data. Now you might think that since 2008 this must have changed but I'm not so optimistic so I think if we would do the benchmark here the percentage will slightly maybe even rise. Well I think it's very similar today. Now at OGC when it was established and as a result of this survey the main mission was to actually help provide guidance in implementing quality control in organizations so there were data quality standards at the time with different numbers but also defining the fundamental set of elements such as accuracy, consistency and integrity and this group aimed at helping implementer organizations to actually establish quality evaluation routines in their process workflows and one of the first deliverables was exactly related to that and that was topological quality assessment guidance. Today data quality domain working group has around 40 members, 41 members I didn't check today but more or less. We are with three co-chairs two based in Europe and one based in Australia and what we are interested in today is that we'd like to understand in more detail what quality means for producers and consumers of spatial data so you can see that from since 2018 the core interest didn't change because it's up until today. There is no agreement within these two extremes on the supply chain so it's not so sure producers understand what users mean and other way around. Then we'd like to see what are the limitations in use of data quality information and these are the activities related to constantly evaluating the applicability of existing standards for producers such as the current data quality standard is it possible, is it easy to implement where are the problems, what needs to be changed and we also would like to know how to manage or how to deal with the quality of non-authoritative spatial data resources and those are typically coming from citizens' volunteers so which is the type of spatial data and the spatial resource increasingly common and increasingly being adopted and combined with authoritative data but both of these resources have very different notion of spatial data quality. How we work, we usually meet at quarterly OJC technical meetings in person or online and then part of that is the objective of those meetings are discussions so we have several presentations and then group discussions about selected aspects of data quality and what we also do, we commonly do reviews and mainly of existing standards so for instance in 2010 the group has reviewed both the metadata standard and the data quality standard and we do internal reviews before engineering reports are published at OJC and those reviews, those reports that relate directly to data quality or the aspects and at this moment the data quality is now indirectly involved in revision of ISO 19157 what does indirectly mean that we don't have in the revision process we don't have a data quality domain working group at OJC participating in the project but we have project members nominated through standards bodies who are also members of data quality domain working group so let me just conclude this talk with few information about revision of ISO 19157 so that's the data quality standard. Currently we have three parts of that standard, one amendment and one implementation so part of the revision is to join these and then also update its content so there is a new project at ISO since July 2019 and it aims at producing a new standard called data quality part one general requirement which defines the fundamental concepts for data quality first geographic information Now these, well there are two project leaders, myself nominated by standards Australia and my colleague from Swedish Standards Institute and we have a support from 227 experts nominated by respective standards organizations among which some of them are also members of the OJC The timeline is as outlined and the standard should be ready in June 2020 and one interesting thing to say is that the revision has been proposed despite the fact that all national, well most national standards bodies during systematic review confirm the standard as is there have been only three objections or suggestions for revision and the argument so strong that the ISOs technical committee decided what they would normally not do if 19 members approve and just three object they would not propose the revision but those arguments in those three comments were so strong that the standards has been proposed for revision despite its being confirmed by the majority I think this is a good thing because standard as it appears is still not that straightforward to implement and there are many uncertain things in its definition and it requires an underlook and I think that was all from myself thank you for your attention and if there are any questions then feel free


It really is, I think, a question of the leadership at the organization taking a stand and taking the lead in being sure that those that are sitting at the table are indeed heard wherever they come from with their unique experiences. I love that you brought up the aspect of leadership because one of the things that we are constantly thinking about at our organization, our mission is to not just help people attain positions that are of note at their particular corporation, it is to help them progress to the point of senior leadership. And what we constantly talk about is that it's not just a pipeline issue, it is to what extent can you bring them into the organization, train them, involve them, create a sense of belonging, and ideally retain them to such an extent that they want to stay mature, grow, and eventually be a senior leader. Now, there's also a different component and it is helping organizations understand that it is not just a philanthropic effort to bring in more women. That is not the end goal. Having a diverse workforce is actually a business imperative. It makes your organization stronger, it makes it more nimble, it makes them better able to serve their entire customer base, and last time I checked, women represented half of the population. So if you don't have a decent number of them, if not a critical number of them, giving input to what you create, how you serve, and how you lead, then more than likely your organization is not being responsive to that of its core group. Well, and I know sometimes women's leadership styles tend to be a little different than men. How do these organizations then make space for that kind of leadership style? Because I think that that's something that ultimately helps the organizations be stronger. Absolutely. One of the things that you can think about as an organization is if you were trying to bring in and to make your organization much more receptive and much more collegial to a diverse group of people, first and foremost is to, one, start with a couple. You said start with the top. To get things going, you need to bring in someone at the top that sets the tone, that showcases to other people it is okay to come into work and not to be dressed the same as the men, to conduct a meeting in which listening is more emphasized than expressing one's opinion, where it is okay to share your comments at the end as opposed to having to constantly jump in and lead from the outset, where there is a sense of comfort in how you develop teams and how people contribute and when people see that at the top then it's more comfortable at the vice president level, at the director level, at the managerial level and yes at the associate level for someone to come in and say women like me and how I engage in business are not just accepted but celebrated and respected and listened to and I think that's critical.