I laughed out loud about your enthusiastic cat getting into the fight mode. You are such a good story teller btw! Loved listening to all of it, thank you 🫶 Edit: I’m very sorry to hear that you’ve had a difficult time and many not so good days.. wishing you the best!

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!! That's really a huge compliment to me, I love telling stories 🥰 but yes haha, Kitty's fight mode is quite something 😅 hope December is better for all of us!!

I think November bullied all of us 😭

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

FOR REAL there must have been something in the air because we all went through the horrors 😭

@anastasia8268

7 ай бұрын

Yesss

@AllTheArtsy

7 ай бұрын

not really...

@knitwitchcraftingpodcast

7 ай бұрын

fact!

I do that too in my dailies - if I don't have anything to really write about I'll do a collage of favorite memes.

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

I love that! Memes are life, to be fair 😌

perfect video for body doubling today (also i never finish video games, i understand you haha 😅) edit: omg yes Evermore is my winter album i play it constantly this time of year i used to make playlists every month of my favorite songs of the month but because sometimes it's just full albums i'm obsessed with, i've been doing more my year playlists (like a playlist just called "2023" with all my favorite things from this year because some months i might literally just listen to two songs lol)

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

yessss evermore fans rise up! and video game not-finishers 😅 love the idea of a yearly playlist! I've been splitting mine by season lately, but having the same issue of it just being entire albums lol

always lovely to see your flip throughs! i’m sorry to hear november was rough for you, i hope december is better! thank you for sharing 💛😊

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words!! So far, so good in December 🥰

the Zelda comment about you running around for 70 hours doing nothing is so real 🤣 love that game... and your content!

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

ahhh thank you so much for the kind words! 🥰 and for validating my Zelda playstyle haha

december will be better i hope! november is a rough month. either way lovely to see your flipthrough :)

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words :) yeah, it seems November put us all through it a bit lol

yes what was it with november that was just SO hard 😭 wishing you a better december! 🤍

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Lauren, and same to you!! ❤️

It looks absolutely lovely! Thanks for sharing

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! 🥰 and still super grateful to you!!

I think you'd really like Coral Island if you like Stardew Valley/ACNH/Cozy Grove ☺️

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

I've added it to my wishlist - thanks for the recommendation 😄

Thanks for sharing ❤

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

You're so welcome - thanks for watching 🥰

Every game I love, I start building myself a database of information that I feel like I need to have at my fingertips before I start playing (I will probably restart)… and start burning out before I can even play the game >_

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

omg I feel this so hard. I'm trying to go into things with less prep to avoid this, but it feels scary somehow!!!

Medieval history geek here too (I may or may not have a couple of degrees in medieval history...). Added "I, Julian" to my TBR pile, and I *think* I have Alison Weir's book already. Who is the historian you mentioned in a few other videos? I'd like to check her stuff out!

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

Ahhhhh yay! Medieval history is the best 🥰 The historian is Janina Ramirez - her book Femina is amazing!

I love your journal spreads! What was the brown washi tape with the coffee/books from?❤

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🥰 It's from Salam Creative on Etsy!

Omg Spotify Wrapped called me a vampire too 😂 so rude 😮

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

It called SO MANY of us one, I'm a bit worried for our collective mental wellbeing 😂

Purely based off conjecture and some informed guesswork, but I think narwhals are connected to Christmas because they are essentially aquatic unicorns (talking about the horn, of course, obviously, lol) and unicorns, believe it or not, are traditional Middle Age iconography symbolizing Christ, specifically in relation to his Virgin Mother.

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

!!!!! medieval links?! iconography?! this is right up my street and now I need to research this lol

@AllTheArtsy

7 ай бұрын

@@ellesbooks PBS' Monstrum did a great short video on this as well as Kaz Rowe that are worth checking out

@ellesbooks

7 ай бұрын

@@AllTheArtsy thank you for the recommendations :)