Hello everyone!
today I am going to be doing something
super exciting
if any of you are new around here
or you're newly subscribed or
you just weren't watching YouTube through the summer
then you might not know that I did a book club with WHSmith
it was even more exciting for me
after it was launched to see how many of you
got involved and read the books
I was actually like
blown away
by the amount of you reading
and buying the books
and kind of tweeting me about them
and tweeting the authors about them
and tweeting each other actually and not just tweeting
many forms of communication
but twitter was where the hashtag was
and where quite a lot of the author take overs happened
and it was so nice
to see so many of you enjoying things that I had recommended to you
so many of you read one and then
wanted to read another and then another and another
and
some of you were even reading all of them
it was unbelievably
lovely to see
and I am so happy that so many
of you enjoyed all of the books that I recommended
and getting to the point
I'm doing another round of the book club
and I am so excited
if you watch my vlog channel then you
will already know that I have been
reading, reading, reading
non-stop since the last book club
and I am super excited to be able to say that
the second round of the book club is launching tomorrow
which is Thursday 20th October for you guys
and that is launching in WHSmith
Reading is something I
thoroughly enjoy and so to pass on that enjoyment to others
really was such a lovely feeling
and, so
doing another round, was kind of a no-brainer
I was so excited to kind of
find
some more amazing books
that I know that you will all really love
as well as seeing how you guys react to all the books
and kind of discuss it
and talk amongst yourselves about all the picks of the book
by the way yes I do have
a hairband
cutting off the circulation to my finger right now
I'm not sure why
and it's wet and damp and that's disgusting
As well as that I also loved
picking the books
I think stories and books are quite personal to each person
I think
people will take something away from a story or book
that someone else might not
and it kind of really
resonates with how someone is feeling
in terms of how they see or read or feel about a book
and so
picking them
I feel like is such a huge task
and so making sure I have the perfect
eight
in order to share with you guys
is important to me and also
I flipping love doing it
so I feel like with this round
it's a little bit more diverse
in a sense of genre and story
and also
there are some kind of more seasonal themes in these books
which you will see soon
I would 100% say out of these eight books
there is something for everybody
and I am really happy and confident in saying that
I'm not going to be going into too much detail
on the eight titles I have selected
in this video
because I'm going to be talking a little bit more in depth
about each one
over on the WHSmith YouTube channel
and blog which I will leave a link to below
so you can go on over and check that out
LIke last time
each title will be given two weeks
of being the kind of chosen title
there will be author take overs on twitter
there will be Q+As
and actually
do go on over and get involved in those
because even last time
I was kind of watching them all happen
and
reading all the exclusive Q+As
and the exclusive interviews with all the authors
and
I
find them so interesting
because when you have invested your time
and imagination into a book
it's so nice
to be able to hear more
from the person who created it and
who obviously that story means
absolutely everything to
and you learn so much more about the books
that you've read and
just things you never knew or hadn't ever
thought about before
and all the authors are so lovely
and helpful and
just generally very proud of their books
and it's really lovely to see so
do get involved in those and if you have any questions about the book
then obviously that would be the time to do it
so each book will be kind of highlighted
for its two weeks
and during that two week time
it will be half price
so the first book to be kicking off the book club
is, where is it? where is it?
this one, called if I was your girl by Meredith Russo
Obviously without going in to too much detail, this story is about
a trans girl who is, kind of, finding her feet when it
comes to friendships, school, romance and I think just
generally in life. And it was so eye opening, I think
this is such an important book, I think absolutely everybody
should read this, and obviously I'll be going in to a lot more detail
but, this one, absolutely loved it.
Also worth noting again that every book I've selected
for the book club has it's exclusive to W H Smith covers
and there all so amazing and they all look really great together
As you guys know, I love a horror, I love a thriller
so, reading a thriller and a horror, around the time of Halloween
I think is just kind of perfect.
So, this one is called Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell.
And it is so creepy and amazing
I'm not sure I would recommend you reading this before bed.
But I loved it.
It's about a girl called Sophie who goes to stay at her cousin's house
and lots of creepy things keep happening
around these little porcelain frozen Charlotte dolls
On the front cover it says
"we're wating for you to come and play"
it's creepy and you will never look at small china dolls in the same way ever again.
Next up is this one, which, I mean the front cover of this I absolutely love
This is, I Was Here by Gayle Forman
I always love looking at your book recommendations
and so many of you recommended I read a Gayle Forman book
which is what I did, and I loved this book.
So at the start of the book there is a girl called Codie
whose best friend Meg has recently committed sucide
and it's got a little bit of mystery in there
and it's also just a very emotional and heartfelt story
of how a girl is coping after the loss of one of her best friends
and this was so touching and so unbelievably like,
almost raw, it was a really good book, I would highly recommend this.
And also it's just a good tale of friendship
and a little bit of romance thrown in there as well.
Next up is the book A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
This book is so, I'm gonna say good and almost good
It's about a little boy whose mother is very ill
It's so hard to explain without giving it away but the imagery in this book is
really amazing and it proper tugs on your heart strings
like your gonna need a pack of tissues to read this one.
I believe this is being made in to a film which makes me so excited
because, I after reading it the first thing I wanted to do
was almost watch it, if that makes any sense?
I think you'll know, if you've read this, you'll know what I mean
The next one is The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Obviously, as you can see with the "twelve days"
and the fact it looks like it's been gift wrapped, is based
around Christmas, I can't have thrillers in there
to be based around Halloween and, uh,
not have something in there that's a little nod to Christmas
because you guys know how much I love Christmas.
And I feel like there's nothing better than listening to Christmas songs
watching Christmas films but also reading Christmas books because
they do say the imagination will always conjure up something
that's way better than anything you could ever watch.
So, that's why I thought a Christmas book would be really great
This is about a guy and a girl, called Dash and Lily
and they are a couple, and they have been for a year and it's just
about Dash, who is her boyfriend, I think finding
not just the spirit of Christmas in Lily but her spirit.
And I think it's a really lovely story and I,
after reading this I wanted to read it all over again.
The next one is called Lying About Last Summer
You can't hide the truth, this is by Sue Wallman
And this story is again, another thriller with twists and turns
and everything that's amazing about a thriller novel.
Again this touches a little bit of grief and a little bit of romance
with big twists and turns and I don't really want to give too much away
but, I really loved this book, it was great
Next up is a book that you may have seen me talk about
before in one of my favourites but I was so happy
I was able to put this in to the book club because
I love this story, this is by Sophie Kinsella
and this is called Finding Audrey
This book is based around a girl who is suffering with mental illness
and it also has a little bit of kind of self discovery
and romance and I really enjoyed this because there were traits
in Audrey that I could see in myself, and I think that always works very good
when your reading a character that you're like "I do that"
like I could really relate to her as a character.
So overall, i would recommend checking this one out also.
Lastly, if you're after something a little bit more good
a bit funny, a little bit of romance and, um, some real
like a kind of emotional roller coasters you have got
Paige Toon's The One We Fell In Love With
about three women who all have one thing in common
which is the same guy. This is one of those books
that's an absolute page turner, I loved it and I honestly think that you should all read it.
So there we go, that is the eight books in the second round
of the book club, which I'm now finally so excited I get to share with you.
Let me know in the comments if you've already read any of these
and what you thought of them,
obviously without giving anything away,
if any of these have bumped right to the top of your to read list
and which ones, because i am super interested.
Don't forget across the next sixteen weeks there will be
more in depth reviews of each these books over on the WH Smith channels
which I will leave below.
And as I mentioned before, um, there's going to be author interviews
Q & A's, extra chapters, videos, there's going to be lots of amazing content
to go alongside each of these stories
which I really do recommend you check out because I absolutely love
all the exclusive, exclusive moreness of each book
That's everything that I get to share with you in this video
thank you so much for watching, and again, thank you so much for being
so amazing about the book club, the response has been
fantastic, I just love seeing people reading and enjoying what their reading
and I think that's the most important thing.
Pick up a book, read it, when your done pass it on to someone else
who you know will love it.
And if you want to read all of them you can buy the eight book
bundle online for £35 so I will leave a link to that as well
but, for only one week, so if you want all 8 books at discounted price
check out the website, they did that last time and it proved
to be really successful because apparently a lot of you are book worms
and you didn't just want one or two you wanted to read the whole lot
which I applaud you for and I hope you enjoyed them.
It's like a sauna in here so I'm going to go.
And I hope your having an amazing week,
I will see you again at the end of the week
I love you very much and I will see again very soon.
Bye!