hello and welcome back to my channel it feels like the longest time since i've actually sat
down and filmed a video if you've been keeping up with my channel you'll know that i started a
new job about six weeks ago so i filmed all of my videos edited them and scheduled them
on youtube ready to go so that i wouldn't have to stress about doing that while starting my
new job so it has literally been so long since i've actually sat down and filmed something um
so i am back um it is november now which is crazy which means this is the month that it's
been a year since i've been on youtube which feels really really weird i still feel very new starting
this video is slightly delayed we're going to be talking about the books that i read in october
i literally didn't have time to get around to doing it and posting it for the end of october
so here it is today so as i said i have been uh at a new job i started at body books uk and the
children's team working across five different imprints so that's piccadilly press templar big
picture press studio press and hotkey so there are mix of ages so piccadilly press for example
is like 9 to 12 7 to 12 and hotkey is more like teen and y a so i've got a real like mix of books
so in order to kind of market them and like work on them to the best way possible obviously
it's really kind of like recommended that you read all of the books that you're working on
so literally all of the books that i've read this month are from work so luckily
this didn't cost me anything i started off with a why a book i started off excuse me why i ugly cry
excuse me why i ugly i don't know why i can't say excuse me why i ugly cried by joya geoffny
and this was a book about a teenage girl who is at school and she relies on journals and lists to
like get her through life and she writes about her crushes all the things that she wants to do before
she leaves school and all of this and she kind of uses it as a kind of like therapy i guess and
one day it goes missing and the person that has taken it has started to blackmail her and saying
that they're gonna start kind of like leaking some of her lists to the rest of the school and they
do it once um saying i think it's like her list that's like all the things that she's supposed to
do by the end of school and that gets leaked and they say you have to do one of these things a day
otherwise i'm going to start leaking all of your other lifts that lists that are like really secret
and just obviously mean a lot to her so it's a book that kind of covers romance secrecy
friendship and bit like blackmail and it's all about kind of like discovering who you really are
and the main character kind of like accepting herself for herself i absolutely love the way
that each chapter starts as a new list so for example chapter 13 is called what i know about
my father so if i go to the contents page for example there are 28 chapters and there's you know
if i could change one thing about today how to solve the case or the missing journal how to make
new friends so it's a very kind of like young book perfect for people that are in secondary
school and that are maybe dealing with a bit of like loneliness or making friends problems
and really kind of like heartwarming the reason it's called excuse me ugly cry which i think is a
fantastic title is because she talks in this book about how she ugly cries and there's a list of all
the places that she's ugly cried and reasons why she's ugly cried so that is the first one that i
read i then moved on to a completely different genre and something that's not like me i never
really read kind of like thriller fantasy stuff like that but i thought perfect for halloween i
read house of hollow by crystal sutherland this is a hockey book as well and it's a kind of like
a smaller book and it's about three sisters that go missing for an entire month and then
they return with all these scars and their bodies and they don't remember anything that happened
about them it's kind of like them discovering what happened while they went missing and like
their mother and father discovering like what what happened to them it's a really creepy read
i actually really enjoyed it because it was just very it was kind of like quick to read it was kind
of very page turning i was kind of like just on the edge of my seat like what's gonna happen like
why did they go missing what is this all about definitely kind of like weirder than i thought
it was going to be it was one of those ones where like i don't want to say too much because there's
a couple of like twists in it but i was just kind of reading it thinking that this is this
could easily be real and that's one thing that really stuck with me that it was really heavily
descriptive in terms of like i could actually visualize what was what was happening and for
me i find that quite hard normally where i can't actually picture what's going on in the story but
with house of hollow by crystal sutherland i definitely felt that's possible i felt that i
could see everything that the characters were going through so that is definitely perfect
for like the kind of like spooky seasons the wintry november december nights that's house
of hollow i then kind of eventually went down in the age group so i then read elephant in the room
which is a piccadilly press book it's kind of a smaller book again kind of the same size of house
of holo i guess this book um is not what i thought it was going to be about at all this book is kind
of about like immigration so it's about i mean i honestly thought it was going to be like a very
young book it does deal with some sensitive topics like immigration obviously so it's about the main
character sila i think her name is and still yeah she her mother has been sent back to turkey
for some immigration problems and it's about sila kind of like dealing with that on her own
and she befriends this kind of like old man that adopts this circus elephant so that's why
it's called elephant in the room that doesn't actually happen until quite far into the book
though because originally i was like obviously the elephant in the room is a phrase i was confused
first of all why it was called elephant in the room i thought maybe they're just using that
as a phrase like is there actually going to be an elephant in the story and there is an elephant in
the story and but it does come kind of like later so if you're suddenly thinking what is this about
it does come eventually and then when it does it's just like really heartwarming really sweet
for me personally i would have liked to see more plots like more storyline actually happen
and so i would just bear in mind that it's a little bit of a slow book for obviously younger
people but yeah just bear in mind that it's a bit of a slow read um but that was elephant in
the room then again moving even further down in the age category i then read this book is pants
which took me probably all of five minutes as you can see this book has got a corner cut out
which means that if you open it to a certain page for example this one has all the elephants in you
can stand up and they can be your pants which is perfect picture opportunity so if you have
any younger people in your life or if you just fancy taking a picture like that then i would
definitely recommend standing up taking some pictures of you wearing the different pants
this does have a story line of course it's not just pages of pants even though that does
seem what it's like i feel like you just can't fault this book it's a very light-hearted very
funny very entertaining book that you could definitely pick up at any time and keep reading
i feel like children especially will love this because it's just kind of like a silly easy read
there's really not a lot of words at all sort of like a few per page they talk about something on
the text pages and then it's related to the pants pages afterwards so this one says it all started
one day when i decided to go to space i built a rocket and made a helmet but something was missing
i needed space pants so then the next page is obviously space pants and it goes on like that
throughout and i just really really liked it it's like again very just happy fun book that
children can just keep forever until they grow up and yeah can't afford it then finally another
book that i probably read in about five minutes is leo and the octopus this is a book about leo
who struggles with autism and it's a very kind of simple but effective exploration of that and how
he finds things a little bit difficult to process than others and such as like sensory problems
it's basically just filled with these beautiful illustrations about him meeting this octopus and
how they're actually really similar in some ways um more than he expected and so it's just a very
kind of like nice easy read that is is sensitive in some ways but it's good for children for and
for parents as well for kind of like understanding some aspects of autism those last two books were
templar books as well so but they were the five books that i read in october 2021 so
it is now november so i have read a couple books already or one and a half books already
the first of which i am still not over so watch out for my november roundup where i'm gonna
be talking about that i'm probably going to do a whole nother video on that just because i loved it
so much if you are wanting to know what that book is head over to my bookstagram which is
eleanor e l e a n o r m rose with two e's and you can get like a sneak peek of all the books
that i've been reading at the moment i am kind of like trying to jazz up my book stream a bit more
trying to play around with like my photoshop skills and taking some new photos of my books
because i didn't like the way that i was kind of like running the theme of my book instagram before
so if you would like to keep up with the books i'm reading then i will put my bookstagram down
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but for now thank you very very much for watching i hope you enjoyed it let me know if you've read
any of these books or you're interested in any of these books and hopefully see in my next one bye