- You know what I really wish that I had just an intro
that I did to videos so that when I turn the camera on,
I wasn't just like, standing there for five minutes
going (speaking gibberish).
It's really frustrating.
Why does it look like one side
of my hair is longer than the other?
This is the first time I've noticed it.
Is this, am I going, what?
So welcome to my September favourites,
but before I get into all of the stuff,
I just wanted to thank you all for the response
to my last video, I Am Not an Artist.
I made it to premiere at Buffer Festival
and the response has been incredible.
I was not expecting it at all,
because obviously I've never made a video like that
or kind of expressed how I felt about creativity
and all of that kind of stuff, so thank you.
Okay, favourites time.
First of all, books.
For Banging Book Club in September,
we read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides,
and this book is so weird and so cool.
The episode where we talk about it is live,
so I'll link that in the description,
and we also watched the film.
We had a Banging Book Club sleepover
where we recorded the book podcast then we watched film
and then we had a sleepover, and then in the morning,
we recorded the minisode about the film.
That minisode will be out soon.
But if you've never heard of The Virgin Suicides,
it is about a town in America where five sisters
all kill themselves within the space of a year
and how that affects the people living there
and like, their response to it, and it's kind of eerie.
I also read Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women
by Otegha Uwagba, and I'm sorry
if I'm pronouncing that wrong.
This is just a very cute tiny little book
all about just work and career
and productivity and all of that good stuff,
like chapter one, Getting it Done,
chapter two, Overcoming Creative Blocks,
chapter three, Building Your Brand.
It's all just very exciting, and there's like,
some straightforward money talks in it,
some like, public speaking tips,
and then the last chapter is this Q and A
where she's got all of these incredibly inspiring women
to answer the questions.
I read this cover to cover because that's kind of like,
how I like to read books, but it's definitely one
that you can dip in and out of,
and I feel like I'm ever like in a work slump,
then I'll probably like, come back to this
and just like, get some inspiration.
And finally, in September,
I read It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne.
Now, you may know Holly.
She is a friend of mine.
She has been on this channel before
and I've read a whole bunch of her books,
and I'm pretty sure that the day
that I'm filming this is the official publication date
for It Only Happens in the Movies, so that's cool.
This book is basically a take down of all of those tropes
that you see in rom coms and romantic movies
and just basically calls bullshit on it all
and how that never happens in real life
and sometimes the things like the romantic gestures
or the dynamic between the romantic pair
can be a bit manipulative or abusive
if those things were to happen in real life
and yet we put them on this like,
romantic pedestal when we see them in film.
I will say no more.
You should read it, but also,
if you are in the Birmingham area on the 18th of October,
I am doing an event with Holly
where I will be interviewing her.
It is the evening at Waterstones and I will leave a link
in the description to where you can get tickets,
and afterwards, me and Holly will be signing books,
if you would be interested in that.
Speaking of book events, I am doing the keynote Q and A
at the South Banks YA Literature Weekender.
Sana from Books and Quills is doing the Q and A with me
and we're gonna be talking about my book Doing It
and all sorts of other things.
That is on Saturday the 28th of October in the afternoon,
and if you get a day pass or a weekend pass to the festival
then that gets you access to my talk
and a whole bunch of other talks
from other amazing authors, as well.
So links to book events that I will be appearing at
in October in the description.
Come say hi.
Okay guys, this favourite is a big deal.
So, you may know, I love First Aid Kit.
First Aid Kit are my favourite band.
They have been for a good seven years now.
So the last album that they released was in 2014.
That is three years ago.
That is far too long.
I know that they've recorded a new album
because they like, did some tweets
about the fact they were recording it,
and so I have just been sitting and waiting all year,
just like, "When? When? When?"
But whilst I was in Toronto, Canada,
they released the first single off of it.
It's called "It's a Shame" and it's amazing
and it did not disappoint.
I'm just so happy that First Aid Kit are back in my life.
They still haven't announced the release date for the album
but I'm like, "Soon, soon, soon, soon."
Got that off my chest.
I'm just, I'm just obsessed with them.
My next favourites are TV.
So, me and Dan started watching House of Cards.
Also, my boyfriend's name is Dan.
I'm getting sick of being like,
"The boyfriend, the boyf, my boyfriend."
I'm getting sick of that,
so we're just gonna call him by his name now.
Like, it's fine.
So we started watching House of Cards.
We are now into season two.
No spoilers, please, please.
I mean, everyone else has said this,
but it's Game of Thrones set in the White House,
so you know from going from Game of Thrones season finishing
just straight into House of Cards
has just been really helping fill
that Game of Thrones void for me.
Also, I have finally gotten 'round
to watching season five of Orange is the New Black.
I say that, I still have two episodes left,
but this is the best episode since season two.
Best episode?
It's like perfect Orange is the New Black,
which is like, the really highly intense drama,
but the really highly intense comedy.
I feel like I've got so much stuff to talk about this month
because I've got everything.
I've got some theatre things now.
I went to the 11th anniversary of Wicked in London.
I love Wicked.
This was my fourth time seeing it.
I got this fancy souvenir programme,
and I'm not entirely sure what to do with it.
This, this, I need it.
I think I'm gonna rip it out and frame it at some point.
The other bit of theatre that I went to see
was Alice's Adventures Underground, which is like,
an immersive interactive walky aroundy theatre thing.
It's really difficult to explain 'cause basically,
you end up getting separated into different groups,
like different suits, so I was a heart,
so the narrative in the story that I experienced
would be different from someone
who was a club or a spade or a diamond.
The set design was so cool and you got
to attend the Mad Hatter's tea party.
You were like, characters in it.
You're like, fully in the story,
and I was completely in awe of whoever's job it was
to organise the structure and the order
in which the cast have to like,
be in one place doing one part of the story
and then they have to like, run around
to another place and do a different part
of the story with a different group of people,
because there was a show every 15 minutes.
They are like, rotating.
I think it's over now though,
so this is obviously a great time
to be talking about it in a favourites video
because I'm pretty sure you can't get tickets anymore.
Next I've got some films to talk about,
so on the plane, I watched The Big Sick,
which is the new Judd Apatow film that came out
in the cinemas ages ago and I completely missed.
I really liked it, and for some reason on that flight,
I was very emotional and so, you know, it made me cry.
I was like, tearing at parts.
It was about this Pakistani guy
who dates a white girl and then they break up
because of like, cultural family divides,
and then she gets ill and is in a coma, and then it's like,
him and her parents in the hospital hanging out.
But it's really sweet and it's really funny
and it's based off of the actor's like, real story,
like, his real life, so you know,
I can't always get onboard with some rom coms
'cause I'm like, "That's so unrealistic,"
but this one is like, literally based off of his life.
The other film that I saw was Home Again,
which is the new one with Reese Witherspoon,
and I adore Reese Witherspoon.
It was a bit ridiculous.
It is a classic rom com, and I went to see it with Riad,
and every so often I would like, whisper to him,
like, "This is gonna happen," and then it happened
because it just has those like, predictable beats,
but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
My next favourite is Buffer Festival, of course.
I just got back from it.
It is a YouTube film festival in Toronto.
This was my third year going.
Yes, third.
And it is one of my favourite YouTube events
and I love Toronto as a city.
This year, finally went up the CN Tower.
Wow.
Buffer was so good this year.
The organisation was on point, so well done team Buffer.
Thank you, please invite me back next year.
And finally, I've got some physical items.
I have some clothes and I've got some jewellery.
So the other day, me and Lena went charity shoppin'
and I bought some really cool stuff.
It was a successful trip.
So, I got this blue dress and it's got like, this netting.
Can you see? There you go.
I also got this huge plaid shirt.
I love plaid.
It's so soft and it's big and it's oversized.
I love it.
And I also got this yellow top.
This looks like something that just belongs in my wardrobe.
I'm just really getting in the autumn mood.
Like, I'm so ready.
I mean, it's October.
We're in autumn. It's exciting.
So this jewellery company I have showed off
in Instagrams and in favourites videos before
and they emailed me asking if they could send me
some new bits, and they're just,
they're the only jewellery I wear.
I just love 'em.
They're all like, space themed.
The brand is Eclectic Eccentricity.
So I got these earrings, which have like,
crescent moons in, which I love.
I was wearing this in a video recently.
It's like, a moon necklace.
They sent me this little astronaut guy
and I actually have one that is similar
except on this one, they have embossed HW,
Hannah Witton, on the little flag.
There's this, like, moon choker thing,
which I'm obsessed with and I love.
And finally, this necklace,
which I think I've worn in a video as well recently,
and also on this bit here, it says Hannah.
It says Hannah.
All right, that is it for my September favourites.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Please give the video a thumbs up if you did
and let me know in the comments some of the things
that you have been enjoying this month,
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Bye.