I really enjoyed the Daisy Jones TV show, plus they made the whole album, so getting to listen to all of the songs was amazing. There were some changes to the story, but as I read the book like 2-3 years before watching the show, I didn't really notice/mind.
I actually really enjoyed this kind of vlog with the little clips and the voiceovers! I wish we had something as cool as Comic Con in my area; I will be going to the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, but they never have any small, independent merch/stationary booths, which I would love to go to, and the panels are usually overcrowded... Also very excited to hear your thoughts on Throne of Glass - I am definitely team ACOTAR though (and the main story is finished btw! book 5 was a separate story about the protagonists sister, and book 6 will also be about someone else - so I would highly recommend you start ACOTAR quickly as well!)
oooh that's really good to know about ACOTAR! I've seen enough TikToks to know that it's Feyre and Nessa's POV but I didn't know the main story is finished, thank you!
I think the absorbing people energy thing might be autism related? I have autism and I experience a similar thing and I’ve always felt it’s something to do with masking and emotional regulation autism things, I’m no professional though
Sometimes, you just have to sit and read that I can have a list of tasks I need to start and just think I am going to continue reading . I know what you mean about editing. Sometimes, I am just not in the mood. I know it needs doing, but no energy to do it . Great vlog .
I am graduating with my Masters this week. Very expensive and sleepless nights, I made it and got a great job BUT once I realized I could have learned everything online for free because me succeeding was up to ME not the school I went to, it was too late to drop out. And now I have to live with myself knowing I can’t change the past. Think deep and well before you commit to a masters anyone reading this.
I think this was suppossed to be a type of retraining program and that's why they were trying to squeeze a 3 year undergraduate program in 1 year of masters. There are such programs and I think they didn't advertise it properly. That's why probably you are now dissapointed. Unfortunately, I think many of us don't know how to do proper/exact research for job training/job prospects. Whenever something gets hipped up, people start immediately trying to flock to it because they want to earn money, a good salary or just a better job than supermarket clerk or barista at Starbucks. But the market is oversaturated with people who have a college degree, so even in this field that sounds new and in demand, digital marketing or digital something, there is a lot of supply and unless you already work in the field, the master's won't help you much in getting a job in the field. There are simply very few jobs in Journalism or Media Production to offer everybody with a degree in the field a job. That's the reality. And it applies to so many other areas of work, from humanities to Political Science, multimedia, marketing, journalism etc. Literaluy there are too many people applying for these jobs and unfortunately employers don't trust universities anymore. They simply don't believe that your degree means anything and they will only hire you if you have connections or were recommended by someone. You have to have skills in areas that are really in demand in society such as IT, medicine, farmaceutical industry, engineering, law, accounting, education or the trades. These are the only areas where studies/degrees/certificates really set you apart. For all the other jobs on the market, your degree is useless because there are very few jobs and everybody applies to them because they don't want to work in the professions mentioned at the beginning (or don't have training in it). You may never end up working in this field, but I suggest you just any job you can at a large company and try to move your way up afterwards. It's the only way to be honest.
I know it's just a short clip but at 25:50 when you're in the café, your hairstyle looks really lovely! It seems like you had a great trip, and I am excited to find out what book is inside your blind date
Oh dear I’m sorry you’re having to go through this heartache of finding a diagnosis. It seems understanding Dr’s and getting the right referrals is an at times a very stressful process. I’ve had the same kind of experiences with my own health. Mostly just sent to more doctors or specialists and hope you’ll get some answers. I hope you feel better soon, love your videos! 👍🏻🙏🏻❤️
Just ordered first two manga volumes of Lore Olympus. They look like a fun way to read Hades an Persephone story! 😊 Hope you get to feeling better, meds really can throw our sleep patterns off. 🙏🏻👍🏻
Hi Sophie, I completely understand where you're coming from being fired, ptsd, anxiety and panic disorder. I currently am also working through those things myself. I have taken the time to get therapy and I medicate with a psychiatrist because nothing was helping me get out of my slump that I just couldn't get out of and I hated feeling on edge all day, every day. Reading has always been a huge part of my life but when my mental health, its been something that brought me down because i couldn't focus on it. During my early stages of working on my mental health, i had to change to short books, anthologies, evem changed to reading comics, manga, and webtoons. I found focusing on something different from the hefty books i was used to, it really helped a lot. Sometimes we just need a change up. I hope that your mental and overall health improves and that you have all the good fortune of getting employment. Happy reading and everything in between. -Sam
"not a big enough RU-vidr to post 30 minute vlogs" Me seeing this 35 minute reading vlog pop up in my sub tab and immediately getting a cup of tea to settle in to watch & enjoy all 35 of them👀
I feel you and this is something really relatable except I don't think my MSc course was organised badly, it's just the marking was generous and that half the stuff I learned already previously from my undergrad. You see graduated with 2:1 in MSc Advanced Multimedia, after all that I felt like I didn't deserve it and burnt out with living in a big city by myself. Don't get me wrong, there were some elements I liked about my MSc but overall it wasn't needed to begin with and that my original plan was to do a job or intern but my mum forced me to do MSc along with me looking up to someone who was a former alumni that got a job within a animation studio by doing masters in animation, not realising he probably gained industry experience prior to that job. Overall, I should've went with my gut instinct and forge my own path instead of listening to others 😂
I feel the same about Carrie's books! I've read two (glutton for punishment) and when someone asked me what they're like and I was like, "Imagine if the first draft of a piece you wrote for GCSE English got published" It's odd, because I actually think she's a really intelligent and articulate person, she cannot write fiction. I'm so glad to hear someone read one of her books and went, "What is this?!"
For Divergent - for me the first book was the best of the three and had so much potential for a cool dystopian story and I'm still annoyed at how it played out. Insurgent was just.. there, and I'm firmly in the *pretending Allegiant doesn't exist* camp (and frankly so are the movie producers because the movie Allegiant pt 1 was so poorly recieved that they didn't even make Allegiant pt 2🤦🏽♀️) I also really enjoyed the novella Four (from the character Four's perspective) arguably more than the books from Tris' perspective so there's that.
I love your journal! Your handwriting is so neat and you also have so many cool stickers! For me, bullet journaling did not work for general planning, as my days at uni are super hectic and things change a lot, so I do it digitally, but I have a bullet journal for books, budgeting, diary entrys and monthly planning and I've been doing that since 2019 and I LOVE it.
It's a beautiful journal! I love the idea of visiting bookstores and putting the map in. Don't worry about the handwriting. I don't have the attention span to do fancy lettering. Like you, stamps work just fine. Other thing I discovered was Etsy has digital paper. It's nice to have the paper I want and like.
Haha thanks for the reminder that I need to do my nails too before christmas! And it's so nice to hear your story about dance, I started ballet at 18 and I have a friend that also just started dancing again at 25 and it's such a healing and rewarding experience
I use craft/scrapbook paper as end papers as well. I will sometimes color the bit that shows between the glued pages with a marker. My other tip is to up the washi tape down before you glue in your papers so that it's under the papers. That usually looks good.
I actually don't have that many reading goals for 2024. My goals are reading my 12 for 2024 non-fiction books, then doing the Buzzword Readathon (but as a monthly challenge, so reading one book that fits the prompt somewhen during each month), doing the Magical Readathons in April and August, reading x books (haven't decided yet but I usually do a multiply of 12 just because I like even numbers) and reading as much as I can from my owned tbr :)
I literally just finished The Cheat Sheet! Excited to hear your thoughts about it - I enjoyed it, but I prefer Practice Makes Perfect by the same author. And Legends and Lattes was also so, so good. I actually decided to do only a 12 books for 2024 list, but only with nonfiction books, with for example the Barack Obama memoir A Promised Land, Atomic Habits or 101 Essays that will change the way you think on there. With me being halfway done with my master, I maybe feel the quarter life crisis coming up and hopefully I will be inspired by these books.
aah I've not read Practice Makes Perfect either, are they a series or interconnected standalones or completely separate?? ooh love the non-fiction idea!! that sounds like perfect timing
@@SophieCountsClouds Practice makes Perfect is connected to When in Rome. When in Rome is about a pop star and some random guy in a small town, and then Practice makes Perfect is about her bodyguard and his sister :)
I am enjoying your videos. I came to your channel about a week ago. Your soft spoken voice is welcome. Looks like you're pretty new to RU-vid and you two are doing great.🎉🎉
Back now that I've finished watching the video - to me (and the other spreadsheet girlies) this was not boring AT ALL and actually gave me some awesome ideas for more data to collect in my own spreadsheets!! Been building out my 2024 docs this past week and love seeing how other people do theirs😊
This just made me look into books I am excited for coming out in 2024 and I realized that most of them are books that already came out in 2023 in English, and only the German translations are coming out in 2024 😂 of course I could read them in English, but with the new Percy Jackson book, we have literally every other Rick Riordan book in German, and otherwise it would look bad on the shelf. The only "real" new releases I am looking forward to are Father Material by Alexis Hall (third book in the Boyfriend Material series) and the 10th and final book of Keeper of the Lost Cities, where there is zero to no info about so finger's crossed it's actually coming out next year.
oh that sucks that the release dates are so different! I have the new percy jackson but I want to reread the whole series so I haven't read it yet. I've heard good things about the Boyfriend Material series so maybe I need to give that a go!
Until our giggles barter tears, let's live; to spin in freedom though damnation prowls; our shimmy dried an angel’s wettened wings. We’ll be regretless when we’ve fallen down. I’m sure they’ve warned you all about the cold. Has thunder knighted any face that’s dry? It rains and everybody wanders home to reign tomorrow at their 9 to 5. Let’s frolic down pneumonia boulevard; the only souls in the midnight birdbath. O, even in the rain be what you are, to own a smile wrinkles never tax. Surpassing judgements in the thunderstorm, go on and find a thing to shiver for
