✨COZY 24 HOUR READATHON✨ Reading The Chronicles of Narnia, Trying Turkish Delight and Baking!❄️⛄️
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2020
- Hi friends and welcome to #vlogmas week 3!! I hope all of you are having a cozy and magical winter season! ALSO! Even though as you can tell I really liked the Turkish delight in my vlog- I LOVE IT EVEN MORE NOW! Someone send help I CAN'T STOP EATING TURKISH DELIGHT!!😩😩❤️❤️
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Vlogmas Week 1: • ✨Book Haul, Decorating...
Vlogmas Week 2: • ✨Reading The Starless ...
Also, WHO KNEW I'D LOVE TURKISH DELIGHT?!
I ordered online from here: • This 240-year-old swee...
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The cookie recipe I used was: www.allrecipes.com/recipe/111...
The books mentioned in this vlog are:
1. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
by CS Lewis
Middle Grade, Fantasy, Classic
2. The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
Adult, Fantasy, Experimental Writing
3. A Castle in the Clouds
by kerstin gier
Cozy, YA, Fiction
4. The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
Adult, Magical Realism, Winter
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Time Stamps:
Preview: 0:01
Intro: 0:24
Baking: 2:33
Cozy Reading: 11:57
Knitting and The Starless Sea: 14:48
24 Hour Readathon Announcement: 16:23
WELCOME TO NARNIA B*TCHES: 18:02
Trying Turkish Delight: 18:34
Cozy Reading: 23:56
Wrap Up: 27:10
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You can try making recipes for stuff that characters ate in books, make things you think characters in a book would like or decorate your creations in a way that ties it to a book ☺️📚🍪🍩🧁🥧🥮
Oooo I love that idea!! Thank you!!
I think that sounds amazing! :D
@@alexandraroselyn Yes that's a great idea! You should maybe do a mini vlog or review of the book so you include the book more:)
".... and Zachary wonders how you can miss someone's smile when you've only seen it once before."
My fav. quote from the Starless Sea🥰
YESS!! I marked that one too! Honestly that book has so many beautiful lines🥺❤️
Im Turkish!! We call it Lokum. There are like million versions of it. I like the plain Rose ones and the one with berries. The rose ones are the most common. Yours look so authentic!! And expensive hahah the ones that look like sticks are luxe ones and are pretty expensive. The ones covered in sugar are kinda cheap and easy to find. I am sad you dont like the rose one haha but its true; its really good if you kinda grew up w it like with honeycomb. I think you would like sweet sucuk or the lokum thats just plain with coconut that has the texture of a dense marshmallow.
Omg I AM SO EXCITED THAT YOU COMMENTED!!! I was really really hoping someone who was Turkish would give me some insight in this candy MY WHOLE DAY IS MADE!!! Can I just say- this is quickly becoming my very favorite candy it was absolutely wonderful!! Do you have any recommendations for any Lokum I should try next?? I really liked the tart berry one and the pomegranate!!
Edit: I didn’t see that you recommend the lokum that has coconut!! I’ll def look into ordering that thank you so much!!!😊❤️❤️
@@alexandraroselyn you are so sweet!!❤️❤️ there are just so many different variations of them. There are these mini ones that look like the rose ones but are very little (kus lokumu). They are fruit flavored and I think you’d like them! You have ones that taste like bubble gum (damla sakizli lokum) and just plain ones (sade lokum). There are chocolate coconut ones (cikolatali sultan lokumu). I think you’d like these more!! ❤️❤️
rose ones❤️❤️ onlardan bayılıyorum ya
Her true chaotic energy comes out in this one.
The Starless Sea was my favorite book I read this year. So much so that I even got a tattoo dedicated to this book. It's not for everyone, but the writing was just so beautiful that it's almost lyrical. I could not put this book down.
if you wanted to incorporate cooking into your channel/ instagram you could do something like making foods from books! just find basically any reference to food from a book you like and make it!
I love that idea!! Thank you so much!!
I made those cookies, my moms recipe. I make them every year in memory of her. I make them with sliced almonds and almond extract. So very yummy. My family calls them Almond wedding cookies.
I’m so sorry for your loss, but I think it’s beautiful that you make these cookies in memory of your mother. That’s why I like baking too- it helps me remember my grandma! Sending lots and lots of love my friend!!❤️❤️
When you were trying to decide what to read next, I was like, “NORTH CHILD!” 😆 I absolutely loved that book and didn’t want it to end. I loved it so much after I finished it that I retold a super condensed version of it to my five year old and she was in love with the story
Is the book appropriate for a 10 year old girl? I’ve been eyeing it for my oldest.
@@Megs901 IMO it reads like a YA but it was distributed through usborne so I imagine some ten year olds have read it. When I retold to my daughter I left out some details and elements of the story because I thought they may be too complex or scary for her, but overall I do see a middle grade age enjoying it if they enjoy a longer book with a slow burn. This book kind of felt like a cross between The Little Mermaid and Beauty and The Beast, but with a unique story all it’s own and set in Scandinavia
My mom used to make russian tea cakes every year. This year we're toning it down.
love your baking segments lmao it was the "i dont think you're supposed to bite into chunks of nuts...lets move on" for me 😂
Oh my goodness!!!! The Chronicles of Narnia is my favorite series!!! I’m so excited that this is this week’s video😊
I love it too!!!
This is making me want to do my own 24-hour readathon and watch The Chronicles of Narnia while drinking hot cocoa and eating cookies
Omg DO IT!!! It’s honestly so therapeutic 😩😩😩
@@alexandraroselyn My holiday break starts on Wednesday, so I might just do it! 😉
This was the best description of The starless seas I've heard. Now I know what I would get myself into if I decide to read it. Thanks💜
Oh yay I’m so glad I could help! I hope if you decide to pick it up you love it!
Nothing makes me want to read more than cozying up and watching one of your videos. I get so excited for every notification I get from you!
Yes!! Just do bookish inspired baking like how you did the snow cookies! And insert a clip of you reviewing the book and voila! **chefs kiss**
Those cookies look delicious!
I definitely recommend reading The Starless Sea physically over audio the first couple of times. The multiple perspectives plus multiple timelines is hard to follow with the audiobook unless you’ve read it a few of times before. It’s one of, if not, my favorite book (s) and I love it a ton. Glad you enjoyed the writing and the quotes!
Oh that’s a good tip!! My next reread I’ll stick to only the physical copy thank you! :)
@@alexandraroselyn Of course! Don’t get me wrong, the audiobook is incredibly well made and I love the voice actors that worked on it. The physical copy just helps keep the storylines separate. 💜
I love your videos and your spirit! This video made my day! 💕
Wrapping Christmas presents while I watch this! 😍
Aw yay! I hope you have a nice morning wrapping presents Liv!!
Imagine try to eat these cookies without lick your lips! They look delicious!!! And also, thank you so much for your hard work Lexi. Had a tough day but your video made me feel warm inside and smile for the first time today.
Aw I’m sorry you had a bad day! I hope tomorrow is better!!
@@alexandraroselyn Thank you! I think tomorrow's going to be better.
Such a fun and cozy video. This Christmas is the hardest of my life so being able to come on here and feel like I am with a friend has helped get me through these dark times. I do wish you took a video of you rolling the cookies in the sugar, that would be so pleasing to watch !!!!! ❤💚❤💚
You can use a blender or food processor to chop nuts. It's way easier and faster. Sorry for all the separate comments, I comment as I'm watching.
I love how your videos and reads are always relating to festivals and seasons😍
Aw thank you!!
This vlog put me in such a cozy holiday mood! ❤️
I completely understand you on The Starless Sea. I really enjoyed the book as a whole, but I was a bit lost at times, and some parts were hard to get through I think because I wasn't following everything. But wow, some parts were just so beautiful and the visual I got was amazing. All the "underground" descriptions, and the whole feel was just incredible. And yep, I even teared up at times. I loved The Night Circus. And I will definitely read, Anything she writes.📚💗
This video is so dreamy. Ah!! Love the vibes
The cream cable knit sweater you are wearing while knitting is perfection. Beautiful video, thanks for sharing.
I LOVE seeing your realness! Thank you for showing that it’s not all perfect, but it can still be awesome ❤️
The passive aggressive baking, the signing, the pad Thai break and this before any of the reading happened. Loved it
It would be so cool if you did incorporate both baking and reading.
Maybe do a bake and book review kinda video? Like bake something tasty and then books after? I don't know, but whatever you do thank you so much for your amazing content! ❤
You should knit dish cloths! They are just squares and all you need to know is garter stitch. Then you can make something that you can use or give as a gift! There's a great pattern called grandma's favourite dishcloth that you can google. I always feel happy when I can use a handmade dishcloth.
Queen Lexi of Narnia! All hail! Lol loved this video so much! 👑
This video was EVERYTHING! Finally got around to trying the snowball cookies & they’re amazing 🤩
I am so excited for this!!! Love the setup!!! 🖤🖤🖤
Thank you Veronica!!❤️❤️
you're vlogs literally bring me so much joy omg
YOUR** OMG
This made me feel so warm and cozy. Have a wonderful day, Lexie. I love your videos so much💚
Aw thank you Nicole❤️ I hope you have a wonderful day as well!!
I don’t know why but I love watching you bake and especially trying to find something that relates to what your reading 😀 It’s so relaxing 😌
I wish you and the whole family a Christmas full of love and peace. May 2021 be the year of many achievements and readings.
Thank you, I needed something happy and whimsical to watch...been feeling not so hot and it's sad at home right now. I love reading The Chronicle of Narnia when I was a kid too and I have been wanting to reread it for quite some time now. I finally bought a physical copy during Black Friday sales. I bought the adult omnibus version one...should have bought the original because of how big it looks, I find myself intimidated 😅
The wait what? You reminded me so much of Anna from frozen with that line! Love your one liners lexi!
Your 24 hour-a-thons are always the coziest!! I neeeeed to know where you got that onesie!
20 seconds in and I'm already LOVING IT!!! 💗💗
thank you so much!!!💕💕💕
ahhhh i loved this !!!!
OMGGGG I AM SO EXCITED TO FREAKING WATCH THIS I CANT EVEN TELL YOUUUU
that's so nice of you to say!! Thank you🥺❤️
Same Razor, same! :)
Omygosh! You look so gorgeous in your crown & I absolutely love your onesie! 😍😍😍
I feel like reading The Starless Sea versus listening to the audio book is a whole different (and better) experience.
Reading the Starless sea is beautiful, listening to it is atmospheric
When you said marshmallow taste it made me think of divinity. I’m definitely getting a box to try!
Have you read "I love you so Mochi" by Sarah Kuhn? It is such an amazing ,sweet, romantic and wholesome book💖💖💖
How ironic that I’m having a cozy morning in bed with coffee and Mexican wedding cakes (what my family calls them) aaaaand lo and behold you’re about to bake them!
Favorite part was definitely the please stand by hahaha
looooooovveee your videos
That's exactly how I felt reading the Starless Sea!!
Eating cookies while reading in bed, wearing a CROWN, and having a virtual fireplace in the background... Perfect day!!!
You're adorable. I love this kind of vlogs
I just love all your videos they r amazing!!!!!!!!!!
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Aww thank you so much!!!
Aww. I've never had a snowball cookie. 🍪 Thanks for sharing the recipe though! 😍
It's so good I hope you try it!!❤️
Have you read the "Keeper of the lost cities" series? It is sooooo GOOD💖💖💖
Ohhhhhh I love The Chronicles of Narnia... I love your videos you always make me smile.
aww thank you Mayra❤️❤️
@@alexandraroselyn your welcome 💕💕💕
Honestly I'd watch you baking without any bookish twist!
I always watch your vlogs monday morning so that I have a great and motivated start into the new week. You always radiate so much positive energy, love that! Also how awesome is your singing voice? :D
I love Edmund so much!!!!
Your thoughts on The Starless Sea are SPOT ON. I'm reading it right now and have decided to just take it super slow, pick it up here and there when I'm ready for a few whimsical chapters and read it almost like a collection of short stories or poems. Trying to force it to have a linear plot line or cohesive ending will only frustrate me.
You could bake things that reminds you of the book or foods from book descriptions or something!
oOMGGG i was freakin out in the intro where u had the beautiful tiara......🥰
Omg gurl I was thinking of re-reading Narnia this week! This is a sign from the universe😩😩😩
Omg YESSS!! Highly recommend-Narnia is self care!😩😩😩
@@alexandraroselyn u right u right💯😂
I only saw the movies and i really want the narnia books 🥰
I love your videos you are such a lovely person 😍🥰
I never knew I needed a tiara but now I realise that I desperately do!!!
Omg yassss!! A person can never have too many sparkly crowns!✨🥰👸🏽
My mom and I make those cookies every year! We add pecans instead of walnuts and our family calls them Pecan Sandies. I never knew they had so many other names, that’s kind of cool 🤗 also, love your videos!!
I just finished The Night Circus. Soooo good!
Not sure if you’ve already did you baking sequence buuuuuut there are Recipes in the Love Sugar Magic series! That would be such a fun bake along with me episode!
It tastes like a salad.. 5/10 😂😂 love the christmassy vlogs!
We need a baking with Lexie series!
On the baking note, you should read The Secret Ingredient of Wishes! It’s about a lady who bakes peoples secrets into pies. 😊
I love your vlogs and baking please do more also your funny 😊🤓👍
Okay but that pad Thai looks so good. Omg
It was amazing!😩😩😩
There are cookbooks for different books (my favourite is the Little Women one) and you could do a vlog where you read the book and bake something from the cookbook!
Please recommend some more of your favorite middle grade books 💖💖💖
Well I def recommend Howls Moving Castle if you haven’t read that! I loved it!!❤️❤️
I loved this video, so cozy and fun.
I think you would really enjoy the Sister's Grimm series by Michael Buckley. It's my favorite series of all time and it's full of whimsy, adventure, fairytales, and everything you want in a middle-grade.
I’ve been hearing about that one a lot recently!! I really have to pick it up! Thank you for the recommendation 😊❤️
My family is from turkey and i don't really love turkish delight but I think it's okay. We also put the turkish delight in between butter cookies and squeeze it, i really like it, maybe give it a try❤️. I rlly enjoyed the video, it was so cute 😍
After I finished The Starless Sea, I Googled the ending explained and there are some great summaries and a good Reddit thread where people are discussing all the things they got out of the book. It was some great insight.
I get what you mean by The Starless Sea. It is personally a favourite of mine but I will stand by that the book itself doesn't make much sense and that while you are reading you are going to be somewhat confused. But it is the world, the writing, and the attention to stories and the emphasis of their importance that makes me love this book entirely. But I do understand why people have problems with the book and the people that just straight up not enjoy it.
That Narnia set up is beautiful though
I really really love this book 📚 love this channel to love from Australia xxx
Aw thanks John!! Love right back!❤️
@@alexandraroselyn no worries 😉 thank you 😊
AH I love Russian tea cake cookies!!!!
I wait for Lexi to say "so" in a British accent before I award my Like to a video... or I see a cool hat
hahahaha I love this!!!
I made Russian Tea Cake cookies today! But I think our recipe had the oven at 425? Idk, we made 4 different types of cookies today. PS every single vlog leaves me feeling like we're kindred spirits. Thank God for YT.
First of all where is your onesie from? I love Buffalo plaids it’s my absolute favorite. Your videos always put me in a great mood. I loved you stressing that if we r stressed taking time to just relax. Unfortunately we are quarantined due to my kids school having an outbreak and my husbands job is in code red at an assisted living facility. So no work and no family. Also in the struggle of all this I’m very behind in school due to my husband being sick and having three kids. All I’m trying to say is thank u I really needed to hear that.
I am so sorry!! It sounds like you’re going through a lot right now so I just want you to know you’re in my thoughts and I’m sending really really good thoughts your way. I hope things get better and that you get to relax soon- it sounds like you really deserve it! I also hope your family is okay they’re in my thoughts as well!!❤️❤️❤️ as for the onsie...I actually have no idea??? I’ll check on the tag and get back to you!! Lots and lots of love my friend!!!
Lovely video as always. Where’s your red top with the blue/white design from?
Soo excitedddd (nothin new i m always for your videos; i think u have experienced that for a booktuber u believe)....lots and lots and lots of love from india💜💜💜💜💜💜💕but i just wanted to know what was your FIRST video abt..what was the first response ( and also how did u become such a good bootuber)can i expect a reply?
I think my first video ever was a book review and thank you so much for the compliment! I'm not sure how good I am at being a booktuber- but lots of practice has helped me become better! Lots of love right back Priyanshi!!❤️❤️
@@alexandraroselyn you have to be sure...because u r being really good...but i want to eatch your first video...can u link it in any of your videos..i m excited
I love your videos 💖💖💖
Aww Barbie you always leave such sweet comments❤️❤️❤️ thank you💕
I love your videos SO much 😍😭 I have a little make-up related question 😂: What highlighter are you using in the video? Your cheekbones look sooooo beautiful 😍😍😍
Thank you so much!! I use the Cover FX dew drops in the shade “moonlight” 🌝
@@alexandraroselyn OMG you answered, I'm so happy right now 😍😭 I love your channel so much ❤️
@@christinaschulz131 awww that's so sweet!! Thank you so much- that means the world to me!!!❤️❤️❤️
My mom made snowball cookies when I was little and I never knew anybody else that made them.
I used to have an absolutely beautiful copy of The Chronicles of Narnia and I have no idea where it is, I think its in my mums attic. Side note, I always think Turkish Delight and anything Rose flavoured tastes like soap
Get a slap chop. Its so much easier for chopping nuts. Plus you can get aggression out lol
That you eat the teast like mashmallow is colled "turrón". Most of the turquish and the latins country eat for christmas
Oh!! Thank you for telling me that! I loved it so much!!
@@alexandraroselyn Thank to you for such a amazings videos!!!
The quarantine was more bearable when seeing them!
Love your books recommendations ♡
Lexi... you are too precious and adorable!! 💖 💕...
oh no Auld Lang Syne makes me CRY!
DID YOU GET PAD THAI
YES YOU DID
YUM!
You're so funny 🤣🤣
Also, I shake them in a ziploc plastic bag. Its easier and less messy.
Ooooo that’s smart!!
Technically if you knit one huge blob of yarn, it’s a blanket
Why not try to sow the knitted 'blobs' together to a huge cosy blanket. 😉 Have seen severa blankets made of knitted squers 🤔
Omg wait Lexi, I don't think we've ever actually talked about our mutual love for Narnia... I was OBSESSED with Narnia, I mean... I still am. But I used to go on this Mr. Tumnus chat simulator and talk to Mr. Tumnus on thelionscall.com oh those were the days...