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Okay, April was a wild month and I have so many favourites,
so we're just gonna get right into it
and go as quick as possible.
Okay, first of all, books.
In April, my book came out.
Doing It, by me, Hannah Witton.
What?
It is out, it is real, it's in shops in the UK
and you can get it online.
I am incredibly proud and I just can't believe it.
It exists.
There you go.
I also went on tour with Lucy Moon after the book came out
and we did this big live show, Doing It Live,
and it was so much fun.
Oh my goodness, I want to do more of them.
It was such an experience.
And then last week, because my book was the official book
for Banging Book Club in April,
we did a live recording of the podcast
at the YouTube space, which was so much fun
and we got to meet so many of our listeners
and Banging Book Club Bangers.
What do we call you guys, bangers?
We actually filmed the event as well,
so there'll be a video up on my channel later this week
and the podcast, so look out for that.
Also, go follow @bangingbookclub on Twitter
whilst you're at it, it's a great Twitter account
curated by me, Lena, and Lucy.
Other books that I read in April.
I read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood,
which is basically like the OG feminist dystopian novel.
I still haven't like sat down properly
and talked to someone about this book.
I just, this was so gripping and so harrowing
and just so clever.
It's a story about Offred, who is a handmaid
and in society handmaids are basically the fertile women
who are used as just vessels for their body
to produce children for richer couples.
But what is wonderful about this
is that you don't just see the world
that she is currently living in as it is,
you also get all these flashbacks to see how they got
from a fairly normal society like we live in now to that.
And you see all of the different stages that happened
and it's really quite scary,
especially with what's going on in America right now
and stripping away of women's reproductive rights.
She saw it all, she knows!
Also The Handmaid's Tale has been made into a TV series,
which I hear is incredible.
It's on Hulu, which I can't get in the UK.
If anyone knows any ways, I must watch it.
I read Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay,
which is a bunch of essays.
I've been meaning to read this for so long.
But I finally did and I really enjoyed it.
It was so interesting,
especially because Roxane Gay is an academic
and so a lot of the essays are coming
from a really academic standpoint,
which is something that I've not read in ages.
There's a really great essay on trigger warnings
and if they're useful or not and should we use them.
And I think that her stance that she has
is a different one to any that I've heard before
and I'm kind of like part persuaded by that.
It's just really interesting to think differently
about trigger warnings.
The trigger warning essay is called The Illusion of Safety
slash The Safety of Illusion.
Very interesting.
This is another book that I got this month
after seeing loads of my friends show off in videos.
I was like "I must have it."
It is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
and it is basically loads of illustrations
of different incredible women who exist slash existed
and just a short bio on them.
And it's gorgeous.
The illustrations as well are all done
by different female artists.
Something beautiful to dip in and out of
and like read one story before you go to bed at night.
Learn about a woman, like Evita Peron.
Never heard of you, but I'm sure I will soon.
Next, films.
Basically everything leading up to book and tour,
I just wasn't watching any films.
And then as soon as tour was over,
I was like "Yay, I can go to the cinema again,
"I've got time!"
I saw Beauty and the Beast, which was beautiful.
It was gorgeous.
Beauty and the Beast is probably my favourite Disney film,
like the animated one.
I was a bit nervous because I was like
"This is my favourite one, please don't mess it up."
But it was stunning
and Emma Watson is just one of my favourite humans.
I just love Beauty and the Beast.
And they kept all the songs, they did all of the songs!
Okay.
I think I teared up about twice watching it.
I will say, it was basically shot for shot
the animated version, but I love the animated version
and so for me, it was like being able to relive watching it
for the first time.
Don't we all want to do that with our favourite films?
Like watch it for the first time again.
So that's what that was like for me
and that's why I cried a couple of times.
Because it was like "I just love it so much."
(laughs)
I finally saw Get Out.
Oh my goodness.
I'm so glad people told me to go see this,
because when I saw the trailer,
I was like "Looks too scary for me."
But it was like the right amount of scary.
It was kind of like Black Mirror-esque thriller.
You probably all know what it's about
because it's been out for ages
and everyone's talking about it, but go watch it.
If you haven't already, go see Get Out.
It's amazing, so good.
Guardians of the Galaxy.
I love Guardians of the Galaxy.
When the first film came out, I like immediately went
to go see it again in the cinema
and I don't do that very often with films.
I went to see it in IMAX 3D, which was everything.
That screen, that screen.
It was so good though.
It's just so funny, it's such a perfect antihero movie.
The comedy was, it lived up to first movie expectations
and I love Chris Pratt.
He's amazing.
And Baby Groot!
Oh my goodness, Baby Groot was the cutest thing
and it didn't help me being broody
and now I'm feeling broody over a stick.
Also in films category but not new films that came out.
So, after tour, I like rested properly and on the Friday,
I did a Lord of the Rings Extended Editions marathon.
I had never seen the extended editions before,
so what a treat.
And marathoning them is like the only way to go.
It really is.
You get the snacks in, you start before midday.
And then you just get it done.
Yeah, so that was a perfect post-tour treat.
Oh, and the day that we were doing
our Lord of the Rings marathon was when the trailer
for The Last Jedi came out.
So in between two of the films,
we were like "Okay, pause.
"In this break, we are watching the trailer."
And we like had it up on the TV
and we were like watching that trailer.
And I'm so excited for December!
In the spirit of nerding out, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars.
Also went to the Warner Brothers studio tour,
the making of Harry Potter,
because they had the extension of the Forbidden Forest
which was so cool!
And also any time I go to the studio tour
and you exit through the gift shop,
I have to, I have to buy something.
This time around, I bought Hogwarts pyjamas.
Tiny cute little Hogwarts pyjamas like this.
And then you've got the shorts.
And I love them, I love them!
I can't help it, I have to every time I'm in that gift shop.
It gets me.
I have to buy something.
Got some other clothes things.
This jacket, am I right, am I right?
I got this jacket in a charity shop.
I was walking past the window
and on the mannequin was this jacket and this skirt,
this long one.
And I just saw the mannequin and was like "I must,
"I must have, I must have that."
I asked the lady to take them off the mannequin for me
and I tried them on and they fitted
and I was like "I'll have these."
And so now I've got this incredible skirt
and this incredible jacket,
which I do wear together sometimes.
What a bloody great charity shop find.
Also this was a month of award ceremonies.
I went to the UK Blog Awards,
where I won Best Vlogger and was highly commended
in Dating.
(laughs) Highly commended in Dating.
And then there was the Shorty Awards,
where I was a finalist for best web series
for Girl On Girl.
Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the voting stages
to get me to like finalist stages.
Thank you so much.
And the Shorty Awards is in New York
so I got to go to New York, because I will take any excuse
to go to New York because I love New York.
We got a goodie bag at the UK Blog Awards
and normally it's not great stuff in goodie bags.
But there was this phone case.
And it's from this company called Ideal of Sweden
and I just love it.
Like, just putting on a new phone case on your phone
makes it feel like you've got a new phone.
And so now my phone just feels new and shiny and everything.
It's great.
In the goodie bag, Ideal of Sweden also have a discount.
So the discount code UKBLOGAWARDS for 20 percent off
until the 15th of May.
There you go.
Not even spon.
This was just in the goodie bag and I really liked it.
Another physical thing, someone gave this to me on tour.
Thank you so much.
I can't remember your name, I'm sorry.
But you know me so well and I love it.
It is a mug with, like, flowers and vaginas
and uterusi, uteruses?
My final bits of favourites are TV.
I finished Girls.
It was the final, final season of Girls.
Not gonna lie, it ended kind of weird.
Feel a bit cheated by the ending.
I was like...
In the recent season, episode, I think it was three,
blew me away.
It's like a bottle episode of just a conversation
between the main character Hannah and this writer.
And (gasps) it is such a good episode.
The writing in that is just phenomenal.
But it's basically about her confronting him
about there being sexual abuse allegations against him
and that whole dynamic of, like, famous people
and that power imbalance and then people making allegations
against them and then them not getting convicted.
Or like what is justice?
Did they really do it?
These allegations, you should believe the victims.
And like, all of this.
But it was so clever, it was brilliantly done.
Also in TV, I haven't actually been watching any shows.
I just haven't really had the time.
But they premiered the first episode
of Rick and Morty season three, which was so good, so good!
And I can't wait to see the rest of the season.
It was incredible.
I love Rick and Morty.
I love Rick and Morty!
And then also Game of Thrones season seven trailer.
Teaser trailer, trailer, I don't know, I don't care.
It was amazing.
My heart is beating.
I need to go watch it again.
Now TV, please sponsor me, because I love Now TV
and I have a subscription to it
and that is where I watch Girls and Game of Thrones
and everything.
But I think by now, all the seasons of Game of Thrones
should be back on Now TV, because they tweeted me
telling me, because I was like "Where is it?"
I am planning on binge watching seasons one to six,
rewatching them all before season seven starts.
Because also my boyfriend hasn't seen past like season four,
so I'm like "Mate."
This is something we're doing together now.
I think that's it.
That is a lot of stuff.
I've been loving a lot of things.
Please give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it
and let me know in the comments any things
that you have been enjoying this month
that you think I should check out.
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And I'll see you soon.
Bye!
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