DNF'S AND UNHAUL 👋🏻

LISA FRANK SHE MEANS LISA FRANK 😅

Yeah, Anne Frank was definitely not the one with fuzzy unicorns. I laughed, and now I feel bad🫣🙃

Donkeys are very hardworking and love to laugh. Sounds like a pretty good spirit animal.

I love when people have a video style of making it seem like friends talking to one another. And you are one of those people, even though you can’t hear me.

Cassie Clare does love having the old CW/WB style show vibe where everyone is hot and into each other lmao

hype for libraries! As a volunteer, I so wish people were more aware of all the services (& community) available there. It would be so much easier to get support from voters & politicians if folks realized how much all the wonderful professionals there make possible.

Aussie here Definitely break out in American and UK accents randomly. Usually UK to sound posh. The American accent usually shows up when I'm quoting lines from a show or a movie so the accent changes depending on who said the quote originally.

The fuzzy unicorn stickers are Lisa Frank! It took me a second to think of the name too. Blast from the past.

I remember inhaling Shadowhunters and all of the attached series in high school and I think you nailed it as to why - it was like the constant ANGST for literally EVERYTHING. Characters can't be together angst. Father is a bad man angst. Friend is neglected angst. And I feel like those emotions drove the story and made me keep reading because I just wanted to feel resolution so badly. Another thing that really bothered me was how the book read like a reader insert for the author, but it was a little TOO self indulgent. As soon as that thought crossed my mind I felt really uncomfortable and couldn't unsee it

"The story was great" yeah, probably because she lifted the plot from somewhere else 😂

Donkeys are a wonderful spirit animal. I’ve worked with a lot of animals, and donkeys are the smartest, and cleverest. They have options…they’ll run from a predator, or they’ll fight. They’ll mooch your lunch. They’re not afraid to greet you enthusiastically. And they have a reputation for being stubborn because they have their own opinion about your dumb human agenda. 😆 Sure, the big cats are flashy, but donkeys are way more cool.

I am Mexican living in Mexico and we do make Spain Spanish accent and Colombian and Chilean randomly at my house 😂

Your description of The Sword Catcher made me think of Throne of Glass, everyone is just hot for everyone all the time 🤣

I love my local library! I do get some books physically from them since I love physical books, but I made a spreadsheet for my TBR and out of the 400-something books on there almost all of them are free on either Libby, Hoopla, or Cloud Library which are the ones my Library uses. I also have Kindle and Audible on my sheet to see which ones are on Kindle Unlimited or Aubible Plus for free, and then to help me look for things during sales or getting the best value out of my Audible credits.

Omg, when you did your southern twang I laughed so hard. Yes, I randomly speak in a British accent and a southern accent and a Minnesotan accent, and I am from Missouri. ;-) lol

I sort of wanted more CW drama from Sword Catcher than I got 😅 but I also felt like it was a choice naming a character Kel who has a similar role to a Kel in another popular fantasy series. Like someone on her team had to have made that connection

I really enjoyed A Botanical Daughter and I was made aware of it through your channel in a new books video, so thanks! 😊

I've found Hoopla surprisingly useful for books that I didn't expect to find audiobooks for. Both for backlist (Comicbook tie-in novels from the 90s) and more recent, but more niche stuff (Currently working through The Laundry Files, by Charles Stross) I do wish the search function wasn't so bad and I could check out more than 4 things a month.

About the accent thing; I'm french-canadian from Quebec, and yeah we imitate accents ALL THE TIME. Parisian French, specific rural accents to sound "hick", and then the "elderly dialect", I guess? Basically there's a marked generational gap between my parents' vs grandparents' accents. The only English accent I can do successfully is the valley girl, make of that what you will lol

Ooh fab video. Also as a scottish person, I do randomly do Valley girl, New Yorker or Southern belles accents spontaneously throughout the day. Also cackled at the Anne Frank/Lisa Frank mixup haha