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I am back home. We got Korean hot dogs for the first time. We went to the charity shop, which actually I went. My boyfriend waited for me downstairs, so I couldn't spend too long in there, but it was interesting. They had books, they
A week in the life of an unemployed reader sharing daily routines, book thoughts, meal planning, and creative projects.
Key Takeaways
- Daily life routines can be creatively documented even during unemployment.
- Reading choices reflect a mix of nostalgia, curiosity, and genre exploration.
- Meal planning and organization help reduce food waste and improve cooking habits.
- Creative hobbies and pet interactions provide comfort and inspiration.
- Editing and content creation require balancing energy, focus, and personal care.
What the video covers
- The creator visits a charity shop, exploring books, puzzles, and other items but buys only a nostalgic cup.
- They discuss beverage choices while editing a video and starting to read 'The Memory Police' by Yoko Ogawa.
- Reflections on reading preferences, including Sherlock Holmes mysteries and the desire for more engaging stories.
- The creator shares thoughts on pets, dreams, and the challenges of editing while managing distractions.
- Meal planning and grocery shopping routines are detailed to build a sustainable cooking system.
- Cleaning the fridge and food waste concerns are addressed before grocery shopping.
- Baking plans include banana bread and blueberry crumble while continuing to read and review 'The Memory Police'.
- The video touches on personal feelings about Dolly Parton's passing and literary interests like Nora Roberts and Hemingway.
- Creative projects include collecting and decorating Coke bottles as flower vases.
- The creator emphasizes the importance of starting the vlog editing well to maintain motivation.
Chapters
- 00:00Charity Shop Visit and Korean Hot Dogs
- 01:40Choosing Drinks and Starting a New Book
- 02:42Book Reflections and Mystery Genre Thoughts
- 04:42Pet Care and Quiet Coffee Making
- 05:49Editing and Dream Technology Wishes
- 08:16Meal Planning and Grocery Preparation
- 10:34Fridge Cleaning and Food Waste
- 12:11Baking Plans and Book Review
- 13:19Personal Reflections and Literary Interests
- 16:26Creative Projects and Vlog Editing Motivation
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had. They had a bunch of stuff. It was really fun in there. I'm going to go back soon. I found a bunch of puzzles, a bunch of CDs, tapes, a bunch of movies, TV shows, which is something that I
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want to have time to go through because right now I didn't have that much time.
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Anyway, but I did get something. I had a puzzle and a cup. So, I asked the lady if we could check if the puzzle has all the pieces. I don't think it does. We opened it and to be honest, we don't
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know. So, I only bought the cup, but I love this cup. It reminds me of my childhood. I think I used to drink hot cocoa from a cup like this. Again, I would have bought more things, but I
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just didn't have the time. I just didn't have the time to spend in there. Right now, I need to drink something cold. I don't know if I should make coffee. Maybe not coffee because it's going to be hot and I'm going to have to
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wait a lot. Might make... No, I was thinking of cold cocoa, but I don't... I don't want anything that sweet right now. Let's see what we have in the fridge. I live for you. I think
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we have a winner. I am collecting Coke bottles and I'm turning them into this.
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I'm actually just cleaning them like this. I have three so far. I want to collect as many as I can so that I can print out labels, maybe a certain text on each bottle with a nice design and I want to put flowers in them
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and put them on a windowsill somewhere. I want to have maybe at least 10 of these, which means that this is going to be turned into this and this is going to be turned into something else. Yeah, I think I'm just going to
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have Coke and work on a video. Also, I'm starting The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, I think is how you pronounce it. I wanted to start it last night, but I was too tired. I just really want to
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read this book because apparently we're getting a movie adaptation or series. I'm... I'm not sure. What I know is that Charlie Kaufman is working on it and of course I want to see everything that Charlie Kaufman is doing. I have a lot
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to catch up on because I already had this book on my bookshelf. I just thought it... it's the perfect time and I just didn't know what else to pick up. I mean, that's a lie. I really wanted to
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pick up The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but I don't have it. I thought I did. I thought I had this book, but I don't. So, I pranked myself because I have the next three books in
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the series, but I don't have this and I just really wanted to read some Sherlock Holmes right now because I just finished The Hound of the Baskervilles, which is the third book in the series and then I read The 39 Steps by John Buchan and I
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just really wanted to go down that road and not look back. I wanted another mystery. I don't know if this is a mystery. I think it's a... Okay, this is kind of a 1984, I'm guessing. That's what time says. Yeah,
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so it's not exactly what I'm looking for, but I don't know if I have any more mysteries that I'm necessarily interested in right now. And on second thought, I don't know if I want to have Coke right now because I'm feeling pretty
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jittery already. I've been editing for two hours and a half, and I got myself a little snack.
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A snack doodle. I don't want any more Coke. This is how much Coke I drank in two hours and a half. I actually want to make some coffee now. I feel like I need some coffee because I want to get this
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edit done, and I feel like in order for me to make it good, or at least okay, I need some energy. And because I can't drink this Coke, I'm going to make coffee. I hope I don't wake Fieval up
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because if he wakes up, I'm going to have to sit in the kitchen with him. I can't bring him on this side of the apartment because Edgy and Fieval don't get along.
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So, let's do it quietly. [singing] I still had some coffee from this morning. Should I make iced coffee?
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[snorts] I don't think I'll actually need ice. No. I'm not going to get any ice because I'm going to wake Fieval up. We are here. We got our coffee, and my dog just farted.
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He's been farting for the past two hours. And he's also sitting right next to me. Like he doesn't want to move. Anyway, I will get the first day of the vlog done. I want to make it in a way that I'm happy with, because if
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I start the editing well, if I start the vlog well, then it just makes me feel better about the rest of the vlog.
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Let's do the deed. I wouldn't have even realized if I didn't feel my chair vibrating. You know, I really wish we could know what our pets dream and how they dream. I wish that technology could be invented or to see each other's dreams even or to
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see our own dreams. I've always wanted that since I was a kid. I always wanted a technology of seeing, being able to see our own dreams. That would be so cool.
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Guys, I'm really tired. I've been editing a bit more and now I need to spend the next hour. It's currently 11:43 p.m. I need to spend the next hour planning my meals, our meals for this week and tomorrow I'm going grocery
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shopping, and I need to take it very seriously because we ended up ordering again tonight. So, I need to make it easy for myself. I need to build a system. I'm not expecting to come up with the best system, but I need to
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think about it, and I need to have the right ingredients for me to make it easy for myself. I'll see you tomorrow. Look, the other side, the other side, the other side of me.
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As you can see, I've been watching some "What I Eat in a Week" videos so I can get inspired, and I made this thing. Here I wrote the schedule and rules. Here I wrote just a little bit of
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a grocery list for today, and here I have the meals planned daily. I don't know that I'm going to make two meals a day. Probably if I have leftovers from one day, I'm just going to use them for the next day
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and make just one meal the next day, but I really want to get disciplined to cook every single day. These things I just got from Pinterest. All of the photos are from Pinterest, and I also have some breakfast ideas and some snack ideas as
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well and just some more meal ideas in case I want something else other than what I already have in here. So, that's what I've been doing last night and also this morning, but now I just want to eat. I don't want to go
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to the grocery store on an empty stomach. I just spent an hour cleaning the fridge and I'm all ready to go grocery shopping. He's heavier than a newborn at this point. Last time we weighed him, he weighed 4.6 kilos, which is heavier than a
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newborn. And now for sure he's over 5 kilos. What do you want? Where do you want to go?
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Oh, okay. You just want to stay there. I presume. No, you want to cross over.
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Okay. Thank you. Let me show you the fridge. You can't see much, but trust me now it's clean. It was horrible. I had to throw out a lot of food. I absolutely hate wasting food, but sometimes it just
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happens and you can't eat food that's gone bad. Oh my goodness. Hi, it's September 3rd. The hour is 12:22 and I am planning on baking two different things. I want to bake banana bread and a blueberry crumble which I
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plan on eating while finishing The Memory Police. I'm really liking this book. It's not a literary masterpiece.
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Disclaimer, okay? So, don't expect to really enjoy the writing necessarily, but I do enjoy the story. I think it is very original and it's very interesting and I'm very curious about what's going to happen. I thought it was going to
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approach some subjects that it just didn't. Yeah, I... I... I... I just thought some answers would have been given. Also, something else that annoys me about this book is the fact that the main character is a writer and we get to see the novel
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that she's currently writing and that novel is just so boring, man. I know this happened in Misery as well and I didn't like it in Misery either. I do get that whatever th
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that they're writing. So, I guess that's the only interesting part in seeing their manuscripts or fragments of their manuscripts, but other than that, the novels in the novels are very boring.
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And we rely on each other. Uh-huh. This song has been stuck to me. I I've been humming this song. I've been singing this song for the past three days and I can't stop listening to it and I can't stop singing it. It's become
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one of my favorite songs ever. Unfortunately, Dolly Parton passed away, I think, about eight days ago now and it hurt me so much. I think she's one of the best people that ever lived on this planet.
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So talented. And her songs just touched me so deeply. Especially, I love country music a lot, which is something that I discovered when I was a kid, and country music just has a deep effect on me.
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I literally have around six pages left of The Memory Police. I'm going to finish it now, while in bed, and then I want to take some time to remake this area of the What are we in right now? The bedroom. I
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want to put my pick up here and bring some records. I don't know, make it a cozier space. I thought that I could put it in my office, but I just don't spend that much time in there, actually. So, I
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think I'm just going to bring it here. I don't know how I'm feeling about finishing the book. I don't know how I'm feeling about the book in general. I think it's a three-star, just because it was such an enjoyable read. But, I do
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recommend it if you really want to get immersed into a story. I don't know why I've been wanting a little romance, like a Nora Roberts. So, I need to find a good Nora Roberts. I have read The Fallen Angels by her, and I really
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enjoyed it, but that was years and years ago. So, I'm curious how I would see her work now. Let's finish this book, and then we'll figure out what the next read is going to be. Also, my banana bread
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and my crumble came out so good. The crumble didn't really crumble. I up the recipe a little bit, but the banana bread was just amazing. And I made it with rice flour and it still turned out good. This book, just so you
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know, if you start it, you won't get any answers. You'll be left with more questions than answers. Usually, that's a good thing. I'm not saying it's a bad thing for this book. I just think that it's the kind of book that needs to give
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you answers and it doesn't. I don't know what the I just read. You need only, you know, the important stuff, but yeah.
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[singing] He's like my parrot. Morning. I'm coming to you from the office with a little coffee, lukewarm, which I hate, but no other option right now. Actually, it's a little better than lukewarm, I would say. It's just a
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little bit cold. So, it's 10:49. I have some things to do, which first of all, I don't know. I have to go through all the unknown words from three books, these two and from this book. Other than that,
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what have I been doing? I started watching The Anatomy of a fall last night. It's so good. We have a little bit left. We're going to finish it tonight. I'm really enjoying it. For now, I want to chill. Every morning, I'm
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very rapid-fire with everything. Taking AG out, giving food to the animals, making the bed, making coffee, whatever.
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I I just don't have time to chill in the morning. So, right now I just want to take my time and start a new book. We have to choose a new book to read, which is exciting. We might go through the TBR
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that I made, but we'll see. Okay, I wasn't ready for this. But, I have over 100 words.
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Over 100 unknown words in The Thirty-Nine Steps. This is the folder. Look at it. It's never-ending.
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I did spend around 40 minutes doing that, and now I am going to organize myself a little bit, write in my journal. I know I talked about my plan for recipes this week, but I realized that for breakfast, I didn't really plan
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anything, and oops. I talked to my friend. It was nice. Now, what the hell are we reading? I was looking at Catalina. Wait.
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Catalina by Somerset Maugham. It's quite interesting. I think going to like the writing style.
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But, am I going to read this now? First, I need to look on my TBR.
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If you're wondering, I'm listening to country playlist to drive to your divorce hearing. Now, this is September.
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No, actually this is films for September. This is September books, and this is what I have on the list. I don't own any of these books. We have So people know it's me.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock, In the Margins, and November. Actually, I might pick up November by Gustave Flaubert, but first I need to make sure my Kindle is charged. My Kindle is here.
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Okay. It turned on. 38%. That's good. Now, let's see how many pages this has. I don't really want to go into like a 500-page book right now, so And I haven't read anything on my Kindle for so long. I've only been reading
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physical books for a while. 106 pages. And I also think this will be my first Flaubert book ever that I read. I think going into an author like this with such a small book, I think it's the right
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thing to do for me at least. I know that I bought something from him recently. I bought Madame Bovary recently. I will read this, but I want to read November first. Also, I got a couple of books which I need to pick up, I think, on
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Monday. I think that's for the next vlog. Who says we can't buy more until then? I think we can. I think we can find some good stuff if we look thoroughly through what they have. So far in September, I
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have only read The Memory Police, which was great. I do want another book like that, and I know what I'm going to read after November. Okay, I have to read The World According to Garp at some point and I need to put this back here. Okay,
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I can find it now, but I was talking about the Subtle Knife, which is the second book in the His Dark Materials trilogy. This is what we're working with. I need some tape.
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Also, I got to do my nails cuz they're chipping really bad. Who said Who said I can be Superman? What else do we have to do today? Oh, I want to make bolognese and I want to use up some cheese. Not
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actual cheese, but like fresh cheese to make some donuts because it's expiring and I need to do something with it. So, that's it for the food. We're editing, we're reading, and we're doing laundry.
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I am going to add here that I want to finish Anatomy of a Fall.
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I need a new pen. I feel like I don't have any pens that I actually like writing with and this one doesn't write properly. Every time I write with it, I just get annoyed.
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So, I think I'm going to have to get some new pens soon and the problem is that I feel like writing all the time, but if I don't have good pens, it just takes away from the enjoyment of it.
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By the end of the vlog, I want to have some hot chocolate. I already love it. I already love it.
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Sometimes I would see the cows coming home mooing at the setting I remember this image so vividly from my childhood, from my hometown. I used to see the [music] cows every single day, and they were coming home when the sun was
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setting, and each cow knew where their home was, and it brought up such a distant memory for me.
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I'm getting a bit tired, not going to lie to you. I don't know how much I want to read today. I don't know how much I'm going to be able to read today. Probably 15 more pages, if I'm being honest. I
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thought I really liked the book, and I really liked the beginning, but now it just seems kind of not necessarily to my taste. I feel like it's talking a lot about women right now, and about this guy's infatuation with women, and
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putting them on such a high pedestal, and whatnot. He also talks about love a lot, which I like.
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Oh, you know what we didn't do? Actually, let's do it right now. We didn't look for books to get on Monday.
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Let's look for books, because I already bought two books from that store. They're very cheap, and And I'm going, maybe I can add something else to the list. I found a really cool edition of Travels with Charlie, but it's in
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German. But it looks so cool. Look Look at that. And it's like a dollar. It looks so cool. I really want to own this. Baby, when I met you, there was peace, I know. I really want a shelf
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full of Kurt Vonnegut books. And from this particular website, I bought Galapagos. They have nothing today. You know what? Google, my dear old friend, let's search.
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What do we search? Best authors to read. Hemingway. I mean, I never read him in English, but I don't think his books would be cheap.
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They have a bunch of books by him in Romanian that are so cheap. Fun fact, my first Hemingway ever was The Old Man and the Sea, and I read it on a shift working at this bookstore.
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Selected stories. About a dollar. From a publisher that's called Progress. And I clicked on Progress, and I am seeing some very interesting books for very little money. Progress Publishers was a prominent Soviet state-run publishing house based in Moscow that printed
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multilingual books on politics, science, arts, and literature. So, if I do buy any of these books, I can expect for them to not be the right editions with all the words and everything, cuz I do have, for example, The Red Pony by
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Steinbeck's Steinbeck's from a Soviet publisher. I checked it with the actual book, with the actual short story that I found somewhere else, and I'm sorry to say it's not the same book. So, I didn't read it. But unfortunately, they have
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pretty cool covers. Why? Why do they got to do it? Why do they got to do it? Okay, you know that I want this. You know that I want this. This boy, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.
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254 pages. Is this an actual uh volume in the series? I want it because of the collection. I want all of these books in this collection. All Sherlock Holmes books in order. Yeah, it's the last book. Okay.
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I'm getting it. You create your own reality.
Topics:unemployed readerbook vlogmeal planningcharity shop haulThe Memory Policecreative projectspet storiesvideo editingdaily routinereading habits
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