- So, I haven't done one of these favourites
videos in a while, although not many favourites
from December and January because
those ones were horrible, I'm sure you know by now.
But I have now been out of hospital
for a month now, and have had plenty
of time to accumulate some favourites,
so here are my February favourites.
Also, I'm stood up because my energy
and my mobility is better now that I think
that I can manage to stand up and talk
to a camera for 20 minutes.
Progress, oh my God.
Mona's being really loud right now,
I don't know if you can hear her,
she's like, grrr.
Did you hear that?
I don't know, anyway.
(laughing)
Oh my goodness, girl, calm down.
So I have a lot of favourites this month
because I haven't been fully back to work,
so that means more time for leisure.
Oh my God, Mona.
She's like an annoying pet.
As usual, first of all, books.
The first book I read was Turtles All
the Way Down by John Green.
I actually started reading this in December,
and then picked it back up again
once my brain was better.
I adored this, it was super-cute and sweet.
It's about, I have now forgotten because
my memory has gone to shit since being in hospital.
What is the main character's name?
Aza, I knew it was weird.
Daisy I think is my favourite character in it,
she writes Star Wars fanfiction
and there's a romance between Ray and Chewbacca.
I'm into it.
It's about them, and they find out
that some local billionaire dad has gone missing,
and hilarity and mystery ensues.
Also, Aza has OCD and it's all
about her brain environment inside
her brain when she spirals and, hence the spirals, ooh.
The next book I read was for Binding Book Club,
it's She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya.
This was gorgeous, I don't want
to say too much because the Binding Book Club podcast
episode where we talk about this will
be out in the next couple of days,
so go subscribe if you haven't already.
But it basically has two stories going
through it, one that it's Hindu mythology
and is about Parvati and Shiva.
And then the other one follows some humans
and is about relationships and sexuality and identity.
And then finally, I've been meaning
to read this for ages.
I read Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.
This is another YA book, and it's
about Simon, who is a closeted gay kid
in school, and it's about his online email
relationship with this other closeted gay kid
at school called Blue, although Blue
is his secret identity name.
And it's about their relationship
and their emails, and oh my God,
their emails are so cute.
The things that they say to each other,
my heart would skip a beat, I'd be like, oh my God, ooh.
It's great, it's so perfectly written
that you just, you feel every feeling.
It's amazing.
I also went to go and see the film
that has been made based of this book
which is called Love Simon.
I got to go to an early screening of it.
It's not actually out in the UK until the sixth of April,
but when it comes out, go watch it.
It is just as cute as this, all
of the adorable moments and everything,
but it's also super funny.
The actors in it just get the humour,
and it's, the editing, it's all, mmmm,
I was laughing out loud, and then also crying a lot.
It is a little bit different to the book,
they've Hollywood-ified a lot of it
to make it a bit more dramatic,
but you can't blame them, still a great film.
Are we gonna talk about films now?
We're done with books.
We are not done with books.
Oh, as you may remember, because I couldn't stop
talking about it, I wrote a book
that came out last year, it's called Doing It,
and it's about sex and relationships
and full of advice.
And stories, and all of that good stuff.
And, exciting announcement time,
it is getting published in the USA, wooh!
Buy poppers, champagne, I'm not drinking
at the moment, yay!
So Doing It US edition is going
to be published on the 3rd of July, 2018, this year.
And I'm pretty sure it's available
for pre-order now, so I will link
that in the description.
If you want to pre-order it, please pre-order it,
that would be really nice.
Also, it's got a different cover.
This is the new cover, ooh.
You have no idea how weird this
is just in your room, there's nothing here for me.
So all of those words that are on the cover
like consent, virginity, masturbation,
all of that, they're in hidden gloss,
so only when you're super-close up
to the book or at a certain light,
what is this, what is this, can you see those words?
And so, from far away, it actually looks like this.
So, huh, huh, huh, there you go.
I'm very excited, I'm very excited about this.
Link in the description, Doing It US edition,
3rd of July, 2018, pre-order now, how
was that for a sales pitch?
Not great.
Moving on, let's talk about movies now, oh my God.
I saw a lot of films in February,
and I'm very happy about that.
The only Oscar-y one that haven't seen yet
that I want to is Three Billboards,
but I don't know if it's still in cinemas,
we'll see, I'll figure it out.
So, I don't want to make this video super-long,
and I'm terrible at reviews.
So, in the spirit of Binding Book Club,
I'm gonna do sound reviews for each
of the films that I've seen.
Okay, movie sound reviews.
The Post, huh?
That was mostly because I didn't understand the plot.
I needed it explained to me throughout the film.
Cocoa, awe.
The Greatest Showman, ah.
(laughing)
I also can't stop listening to the soundtrack, I'm obsessed.
The Shape of Water, ooh, ah, ooh.
(laughing)
Black Panther, ugh, yeah!
(laughing)
I know, this isn't pinky.
Lady Bird, m-hmm, m-hmm, m-hmm, m-hmm.
There you go.
Movie reviews with Witton.
Oh my God, it's full-on snowing outside,
my road is too icy.
I literally can't leave the house
because I'm so unstable when I walk.
I don't think a walking stick is gonna help me on ice.
Oh, my walking stick is a favourite.
Where is it?
Oh, it's downstairs, shit.
I went and got my walking stick, this is my walking stick.
I am obsessed with it, it has pumpkins
and flowers and corn and wheat on it.
Basically, because my mobility isn't great,
it's getting so much better, but this thing
has given me so much confidence
and independence when it comes to
walking outside and being on public transport.
It's from this website called walkingsticks.co.uk,
which I stumbled across when I was
looking for walking sticks, and not spawned,
but seriously would recommend.
The amount of designs that they have.
I had to stop scrolling, because I was like,
there's too much choice, there's too much choice.
A big favourite of mine this month
is Civilization VI: Rise and Fall expansion.
This is one of the things that got me through hospital,
because me and Dan were like, it's fine
'cause the new Civ expansion comes
out on the 8th of Feb and we'll just play
it out all the time and it'll get
me through recovery and everything will
be better once that comes out.
That was generally my thought process.
I have not played to the end of the game
with the new expansion on yet, but I've had
a good taste of some of the different Civs
and some of the different things that happened.
So the governors, and loyalty, and emergencies,
and what else, what else is new?
Oh, all of the different ages,
so having a dark age, and then a heroic age,
and a golden age, and people who have no idea
what Civ is, and they have no clue what
I'm talking about right now.
So, in February it was my birthday,
and Dan got us tickets to go see Cirque Du Soleil,
their show called OVO, which is currently,
was currently, was currently,
was on at the Royal Albert Hall.
One, never been to see anything in the world
at Albert Hall before, wow, that venue.
But also, I have wanted to see Cirque Du Soleil for years.
And he did try and surprise me with tickets,
but the postman ruined the surprise
because an envelope came to the door
and I was there to get it and it said Royal Albert Hall
on it, and I knew that Cirque Du Soleil
was on at the Royal Albert Hall.
So I was like, damn you postman, ruining surprises.
Anyway, it was fantastic.
I love the circus, there were so many moments
where just you could hear and feel
the whole audience take a breath,
or just like ah, (laughing).
Alright, now onto some TV favourites.
This first one is actually more of a December favourite,
but I finished Season One when I came out of hospital,
and it is Crazy Ex Girlfriend.
And you guys have been telling me to watch
this for so long, and I think I actually watched
the first episode twice, and was just like ewe,
no, I don't like it.
And then I persevered, 'cause I trust you guys,
I trust your taste, and I was right to trust you,
'because hah, it's brilliant.
What was that noise?
One of the things that I like and also hate
about the show is how much I don't like Rebecca Bunch,
or at least I don't like the choices that she makes.
And so, I'm screaming at my laptop, just like no, ah.
The other show is also one that I started before hospital,
and have now finished to Season Two,
and that is The Good Place, and I've spoken
about The Good Place in another favourites video,
but I was like, I'm not sure if I like
it, but I've been bingeing it and I can't stop watching it,
and now I can confirm that I do like it,
and it is brilliant.
And now that I understand it, I kind
of want to go back and watch it all again.
But it's just so funny and so clever.
And when I feel like it's starting
to get repetitive, and I'm like,
how are they gonna go from here?
What are they gonna do every time
at the end of each season, the way
that it sets up the next season,
you're like, oh my God, it's gonna be so different,
which is really exciting, 'cause
it's all of the same characters,
but then you just throw them into all
of these different scenarios, and I'm like, I love it.
Got a music favourite this month,
and that is First Aid Kit, aren't they my favourite
every month, yes, 'cause they're my favourites.
So, their new album Ruins came out
in January, and I was a bit ah about it at first,
but then you just listen to it a million times
and you're like, this is growing on me, I'm into it.
I really do like it.
My favourite song on it is Fireworks,
and I think that is up there
in terms of my favourite First Aid Kit songs
of all time as well.
It is gorgeous.
So I went to go see them on their tour
in Manchester a few days ago,
and it was magical, it was amazing.
They never fail to entertain live.
They're so good live.
And I also have tickets to see them in London,
but my friend, who was gonna go with me,
can't come, so I'm like last minute
trying to find someone to go with.
May have to drag Dan, and he'll hate me for that.
But also, I'm not 100% sure if I can go yet,
because I'm currently talking to the ticketing office
about getting seated tickets instead
of standing, because I cannot stand
at a gig, I need to be sat down.
So fingers crossed, if I can't get seated tickets,
then I can't go.
But I've already seen them.
But, I would like to see them twice, that would be great.
And, finally, I've got some fashion faves.
First of all, this hoodie, it is my good enough hoodie,
my friend Nathan makes these hoodies.
He doesn't physically make them himself,
but he sells these hoodies, and it's this whole
good enough movement, I'm gonna call it a movement,
I think it's a movement.
There's their design, and then at the bottom
of the hoodie over here, it says growth
begins with accepting yourself as enough.
I am enough.
Other fashion favourites, oh, my bras, yay.
'Cause I lost loads of weight
and I don't fit into the bras.
I fit into one of my bras now, which
is one that was already on the smaller side.
But also, I really didn't want to have any under-wiring.
So I managed to find these and bought me some
of these sexy, sexy numbers with no under-wiring.
The thing is, is that I am putting on weight
and they, it just goes to my boobs first.
I will probably grow out of these quite fast,
but it's good just to have some real bras
to wear, that's good.
After spending a month not wearing
any bras or any underwear.
And then another fashion favourite are these slippers.
I currently have the other one on my foot.
I had to take this off to show you.
My right foot is cold right now.
I basically got these because the physios told me
that my other slippers are a danger hazard,
because they're open at the back,
and so going up and downstairs,
they could slip off and more likely to fall.
So I needed to get closed boot-style slippers,
and so I just got these as a necessity from ASOS,
and I'm in love.
They're gorgeous, and they're so soft
and cosy, and I love them.
Ooh, don't fall over, Hannah.
There we go.
Another favourite are these earrings.
If you ever see me wearing jewellery
and you're like, where's that from?
70% chance it's from Eclectic Eccentricity,
because I'm obsessed with all of their jewellery.
They sent me these and they sent me a necklace as well
as a get-well-soon gift, and I just love them.
I love them.
Alright, that is it for my February favourites.
I hope that you enjoyed this video,
you enjoyed the favourites, monthly favourites being back.
Please give it a thumbs up if you did,
and please do let me know in the comments
any of your favourites this month
and things that you would recommend.
'Cause you know I listen to you,
you know I listen to your
recommendations, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
And, if you live in the US, please pre-order my book,
Doing It out 3rd of July.
Thanks again for watching, don't forget
to subscribe, because I think I make new videos
every week-ish again now, we'll see.
Alright, bye.
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