First, Last, FavoriteChelsea Zhao2024-08-22 | Let's talk about the first book I ever read, last book I read, and favorite book I read from a few different authors!
This is a trend over on Instagram that I've seen so many times, I'm not sure who was the first one to create it.
0:00 Intro 1:25 Cassandra Clare 5:02 Alyssa Cole 7:32 Kieron Gillen 10:44 Junji Ito 13:55 TJ Klune 17:06 Riley Sager 19:36 VE Schwab 22:22 K Lynn Smith 25:17 Maggie Stiefvater 28:27 CM Stunich 32:59 Mariana Zapata
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comI need your help!Chelsea Zhao2024-10-17 | I love creating videos, but that wouldn't keep happening without you! I would like your advice on what kind of TBR you would like to see for the end of the year.
Books Mentioned: - Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Dragon Falls - The Falconer - The Break-Up Pact - A Dark and Drowning Tide - All for the Game - Somewhere Beyond the Sea - Celestial Monsters - The Croaking - Wilderlore - Everworld - Tall, Dark and Dangerous - The Lost World - Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees - Wandering Souls - Scarlet Princess - Stop My Bleeding Heart - Court of Dragons and Crowns - Curse of the Wolf King - Find the Jinn - Dark Arts - Cursed Luck - A Grave So Cold - Fake Dating a Witch - On Death's Door - Project: Adapt Found - The Protector Guild - Spark of Desire - The Awakened Prince - Slower - Home to the Hollow
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.com30 in 30 Manga Challenge Wrap Up // September 2024 Wrap Up Part 2Chelsea Zhao2024-10-08 | I read over 30 manga volumes in September!
Manga Mentioned: - Blood on the Tracks - Given - I Hear the Sunspot - Insomniacs After School - My Love Mix-Up! - orange - Perfect World - PTSD Radio - She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat - Sheltering Eaves - The Ancient Magus' Bride - The Spellbook Library - Tokyo Tarareba Girls
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comSeptember Wrap Up 2024 // Part 1Chelsea Zhao2024-10-05 | I over-exceeded my own expectations for what I read in September. This video will be about novels, short story collections, and non-fiction. Manga for 30 in 30 will be the next video!
Books Mentioned: - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Stong Female Character - Light From Uncommon Stars - The Ghost and the Goth - Fantasy of Fire - The Night Compass
Games Mentioned: - When the Past was Around - Voxelgram - Cube Escape: The Lake - Cube Escape: Arles - Cube Escape: Harvey's Box - Let's! Revolution! - A Little to the Left - Baldur's Gate 3 - Picma - Cube Escape: Case 23 - Cube Escape: The Mill - Cube Escape: Birthday - Our Life: Beginnings and Always - Cube Escape: Theatre - Tavern Talk - I was a Teenage Exocolonist
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comNew Releases for the End of the Year // 2024 New Releases (October, November, December)Chelsea Zhao2024-09-24 | Can you believe that we are almost done with 2024?
0:00 Intro 1:09 October Releases 17:57 November Releases 23:41 December Releases
Book Mentioned: - Make the Season Bright - The Merriest Misters - Model Home - Zodiac Rising - Love You a Latke - The Graveyard Gift - How to Summon a Fairy Godmother - The Nightmare Before Kissmas - Haunt Your Heart Out - Sorcery and Small Magics - Uncanny: The Origins of Fear - A Spell for Heartsickness - If I Stopped Haunting You - Under the Mistletoe With You - The Teller of Small Fortunes - Mr. Nice Spy - Something is Killing the Children Vol 8 - Her Knight at the Museum - Sheltering Eaves Vol 1 - The Last Hour Between Worlds - The Half King - Unraveled - Cemetery Kids Don't Die Vol 1 - What the Woods Took - Heavenly Tyrant - Ex Marks the Spot
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comWrite Book Reviews with MeChelsea Zhao2024-09-19 | While I have been keeping up with my reading, I've been falling behind in writing reviews on Goodreads and Storygraph.
This is the first year in a WHILE that I have written a review for every book I've read, so let's catch up!
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comDo I really need more manga? // Library Vlog and HaulChelsea Zhao2024-09-17 | September is the month of the 30 in 30 manga challenge... and apparently I want to get more manga from my library.
Manga Mentioned: - Blood on the Tracks - Insomniacs After School - Tokyo Tarareba Girls - She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat - Sakura, Saku - I Hear the Sunspot
Books Mentioned: - Hot Summer - The Phoenix Keeper - Bury Your Gays - Stars Collide - Alley - Full Speed to a Crash Landing - Haunted Ever After - Brothersong - Amari and the Despicable Wonders - Plume - He Hears Death - The Story Collector - Pheromone - Stolen Crush - Small Miracles - Til Death Do Us Bard
Books Mentioned: - Spy x Family - The Nice House on the Lake - The Girl from the Other Side - The Blonde Dies First - Something is Killing the Children - House of Slaughter - Alley - Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees - The Unmaking of June Farrow
Books Mentioned: - The Spellbook Library - Sheltering Eaves - She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat - PTSD Radio - orange -to you, dear one- - Witch Hat Atelier - Princess Jellyfish - Tokyo Tarareba Girls - I Hear the Sunspot - Perfect World - The Demon Prince of Momochi House - Given - My Love Mix-Up! - xxxHolic - Tsubasa - Your Lie in April - Blue Lock - Our Precious Conversations
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comI need to renew my Barnes and Noble membershipChelsea Zhao2024-08-20 | Can I actually walk into a Barnes and Noble and not buy a book?
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comHow many books do I have?! // Bookshelf Audit 2024Chelsea Zhao2024-08-15 | How many books do I have? How many are actually read? How many are still on my TBR?
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comLets go get a new library card!Chelsea Zhao2024-08-13 | We've been in our new home for almost 2 months now. It's time to go get a new library card!
Books Mentioned: - A Novel Love Story - Secrets of Blackthorn Hall - The Love of My Afterlife - Home is Where the Bodies Are - A Sign of Affection - Heartfall - The Ocean's Mercy - A Dance with the Fae Prince - Fool the Demon - The Stolen Apocalypse - Mayfly Library - Lucifer's Daughter - Mermaid's Return
0:00 Intro 1:22 Stats 5:50 May Books 17:09 July Books
Books Mentioned: - After the Forest - Mostly Harmless - The Ever Storms - Mimi's Tales of Terror - Boston Metaphysical Society - Stitches - Minimum Wage Magic - The Hunt - Bad Dreams in the Night - The Ghostkeeper - Saga - Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comPresley is FIVE!Chelsea Zhao2024-08-06 | Presley has been asking to see dinosaurs ever since we moved. So, we decided to take out dinosaur and space-loving boy to the Pacific Science Center!
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comHow Many Books??Chelsea Zhao2024-07-25 | Just a fun and quick video while we're still recovering. I was inspired by the classic readathons that had us do quirky challenges with books as well as reading.
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comSeasons of Shadowhunters Unboxing // Secrets of Blackthorn HallChelsea Zhao2024-07-23 | Let's unbox the first of the exclusive Kickstarter Shadowhunters books by Cassandra Clare!
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.com2024 New Releases (July, August, September)Chelsea Zhao2024-07-18 | What books are you excited for that are coming out in July, August, or September?
0:00 Intro 1:05 July Releases 12:32 August Releases 26:41 September Releases
Books Mentioned: - The Undermining of Twyla and Frank - The Love of my Afterlife - All This & More - Bury Your Gays - The Backtrack - The Lost Story - Cross the Line - Exes & Foes - Amethysts & Alchemy - The Blonde Dies First - Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch - The Truth According to Ember - Full Speed to a Crash Landing - Glass Houses - Haunted Ever After - The Break-Up Pact - The Phoenix Keeper - Love and Other Conspiracies - Amari and the Despicable Wonders - Long Live Evil - Dungeon Crawler Carl - Magical Meet Cute - Sunderworld Vol 1 - Haunt Sweet Home - Prime Time Romance - Celestial Monsters - Splinter & Ash - Exodus: The Archimedes Engine - A Dark and Drowning Tide - Can't Help Falling in Love - The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year - The Most Boring Book Ever
This video was 100% my husband and father's idea. One of the conditions of our lease is to take care of the front and back yard. However, the condition of the yard upon arrival was: jungle. We had to buy Leon his first-ever lawn mower and for Father's Day, the guys started mowing the yard.
Books Mentioned: - Bergman Brothers - Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places - The Last Murder at the End of the World - Assistant to the Villain - Out on a Limb - Horror Movie - Middle of the Night - Hearts That Cut - Flawless Girls - Earthflown - Let's Play - Heavenbreaker - Sagittarius Saves Libra - The Lost Princess - The Sons of Echidna - Visions of Snapdragon - Shifting Forms for Clumsy Felines - Death Eternal - Talking with the Dead - Something Wicked - Space for More - The Green Door - Disenchanted - The Dragon's Rose - Legend of the Wildlings - The Wolven Mark - Dragon's Don't Eat Meat - Winetaps & Whiskers
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comMid Year Book Freak Out Tag // 2024Chelsea Zhao2024-07-09 | It's that time of year... the time of year when all the bookworms freak out over all the books they haven't read yet.
Questions: 1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2024. 2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2024. 3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to. 4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year. 5. Biggest disappointment. 6. Biggest surprise. 7. Favourite new author. (Debut or new to you) 8. Newest fictional crush. 9. Newest favourite character. 10. Book that made you cry. 11. Book that made you happy. 12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received) 13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
Books Mentioned: - Role Playing - The Weeping Tide - Hearts That Cut - Haunted Ever After - Amari and the Despicable Wonders - Celestial Monsters - The Merriest Misters - Heavenly Tyrant - Those Beyond the Wall - What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic - Take a Hint, Dani Brown - Legends & Lattes - Voyage of the Damned - Minimum Wage Magic - Light From Uncommon Stars - Ghost Station
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comLets Unpack and Organize my Books!Chelsea Zhao2024-07-04 | We've been at the new house for a little while, but my books have been stuck in their boxes. Let's let them out!
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comElliott is TWO, Lets go to the ZOO!Chelsea Zhao2024-07-02 | It's our first birthday in a new state, so we decided to take Elliott to the zoo!
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comWe Moved to Washington!Chelsea Zhao2024-06-25 | It's a moving vlog! Join us as we move over 1400 miles from Arizona to Washington.
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comMostly Harmless Live Show // Hitchhikers ReadalongChelsea Zhao2024-06-01 | Join us in discussing the third book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams: Life the Universe and Everything
Books Mentioned: - Dust & Grim - The Kiss Quotient - The Heart Principle - An Unkindness of Ghosts - The Death of Honor - The Ex Hex - Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake - Less - The Rehearsals - The Blonde Identity - An Enchantment of Ravens - One Way or Another - Clown in a Cornfield - Eat Your Heart Out - Dragon Pearl - Frogkisser! - I Am Not Your Chosen One - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - The Dead Lifeguard - Silent Night - Exorsisters - Hexed - Kiss Him, Not Me - Maplecroft - The Thousandth Floor - The Name Bearer - After the Forest - School Live - The Carver - The Octunnumi - Loki: Where Mischief Lies - Trailer Park Fae - Somewhere Only We Know - Vicious Spirits - A Dark & Hollow Star - The Fate of Stars - Letters to the Lost - The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza - The Book Jumper - The Ones We're Meant to Mind - The Grace Year - Sweet & Bitter Magic - I Hope You Get This Message - Ronan Boyle - This Savage Song - The Demon's Lexicon - Foolish Hearts - The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
Books Mentioned: - Chain of Thorns - How to End a Love Story - Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone - Light from Uncommon Stars - Starter Villain - Exes & Os - Act Your Age, Eve Brown - Zhara - Hang the Moon - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Ocean's Echo
Books Mentioned: - The Kiss Countdown - Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White - Junker Seven - Icarus - Keeper of the Lost Cities - The Dead Guy Next Door - Canadian Boyfriend - How to End a Love Story - This Spells Love - Can't Stop Cursing You - Mimi's Tales of Terror - PTSD Radio - My Love Mix-Up! - Stitches - Saga - Ghost Station - The Sunshine Court - Bioluminescence - Realm of Monsters
Contact: chelsea.zhao.reads@gmail.comApril Wrap Up 2024Chelsea Zhao2024-05-09 | April feels like it was just not my reading month. I didn't even complete the 2 readathons I wanted to.
Books Mentioned: - The Name Bearer - The Thousandth Floor - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Late Bloomer - Gmorning, Gnight! - Nailbiter - The Raven Boys - The Dream Thieves - Can't Stop Cursing You - What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic