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Gav, do you know of any Americans who have one? I'm concerned about the voltage difference. (UK is stronger than the US). I got very excited when you put up a code for free international shipping 😃
Gavin: “I’ll treat myself to something small, I promise. I won’t go too ridiculous.” Also Gavin: “Ok, I took the treat yourself prompt from Can’t Believeathon a little bit too seriously.“ Truly icon behaviour.
I usually skip the sponsorship part but I never do with yours. They are always awesome! I completely failed at this Believeathon so I look forward to the next one.
Your sponsored portion of this video CRACKED ME UP!!! You have no sense! 😄 Loved this vlog! So glad you'll be getting back into middle grade, that's how I found your channel. 🖤
If I go into Newcastle and see Gavin walking by I am going to be so flustered.. Starstruck infact! 😁😁. Speaking of Waterstones..I'm trying to figure out how I can get my hands on that Nick and Charlie cardboard cut out on their Heartstoppers stand! 😉😉. I really need it!! 😆
I didnt know there was a card game of One Piece!😍 And I do that too with reading sprints, I'll switch between them so I wont miss anything of the talking bits. I have reading sprints of 15 min this way or less if the talking bits are longer 😝
Relatively new subscriber here and I’m catching up on some older videos. I just ordered “Operation Nativity” as a Christmas gift for one of the young people in my life. Thank you for the book recommendation and helping me kick along my early Christmas shopping.
My husband and I used to build a nest for my kitty Nibbler. We would prop up a blanket draped over the back of the couch with pillows to make a cave for him so he had a warm spot over night. You could try that out for your boys at night time so you don't have to worry as much.
May I suggest you start a new readathon? It would be called 'No F@cks Gavin' and it would be basically everyone mood reading and staying cozy for a whole month! No TBR, just vibes! (Disclaimer: I'm probably, maybe, kinda high on the fumes from my apartment getting painted... I apologize for this comment!)
Haha thanks! I tried so hard to make my name fit a festive song 😂
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This was so perfectly festive and cozy! Exactly what I needed right now 💚 I read The Vanderbeekers earlier this month and absolutely loved it, so I'll have to check out the other two!
Lol you do the best sponsorship bits. I got my Serious Readers lights over a week ago (surprisingly fast to the US) and I love it. More than worth the money, especially adding the dimming feature
Loved this vlog, Gavin. Actually just started reading middlegrade a few months back and I love every middle grade I’ve read thus far so much. ❄️ I have Vanderbeekers on my shelf to get to this month. I’m so excited now! 🎄
My nieces and nephews are getting christmas books this year as their gift from my husband and I. Our oldest nieces is 10 so I spent the entire month of November reading (12) middle grade christmas novels so I could pick out ones I thought she would like. It was definitely a nice change of pace but after a full month of only MG, I was counting down the days until I could read adult novels again 😂
knew you would love the sweetmakers frost fair it's great to see you excited about mg again. i just finished the little matchgirl strikes back by emma carroll it was stunningly good and listened to the audiobook as I read it was on scribd. i also found a christmas graphic novel the nutcracker and the mouseking illustrated by natalie andrewson the illustrations were stunning
Don't open the One Piece cards until you catch up 😂 a good rule of thumb to gauge potential spoilers is release date. Since these were released in Dec 2022, all spoilers up to this point are fair game in the product, so you should probably catch up to the 2022 chapters at least before opening them
Did you ever read Skipping Christmas by John Grisham? It’s the book that Christmas with the Krank’s is based on. I’ve only read the inside sleeve, and it sounded pretty similar to the movie, or at least the major beats. It’s not terribly long, maybe next year you could do a “reading books based on my favorite Christmas films,” or something like that. Not sure how many book to movie Christmas films there really are.
Your videos are as cozy as a cup of hot coco. I read a ton of books in November and now I'm having a bit of book burn out. I just finished reading Mexico's Nobodies by B. Christine Arce. Ideally I plan on tackling some romance reads for the rest of the month. How to marry Keanu Reaves in 90 days, You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty, and Legends & Lattes.
I really liked The Haunted Bookstore, but I read/bought the novel instead of the manga because the cover was so pretty. I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the manga!
speaking of one pieceeeeeee be careful haha those are a LOT of spoilers… (at least some of the character reveals) but i can’t wait until you see the worst generations… such a dope colorful cast of characters, all based on real life people too
I’m a newer viewer. Only been here a month or so but I’ve binged videos from your channel but the sponsor part of the video always kills me. Also just watched the video when you got your kitties and omg! 🥹
I wish I could do coffee b roll but I legit make a giant pot of coffee every morning. Not too interesting n I’m sure I’d get tons of shade 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have 2 toddlers soooo 4 cups of coffee a day is the norm lolol
Fabulous video as always man ! Ill add those books to my next years xmas reading list. Really loving your manga journey, and I hope you love Blue Flag, its such a cute queer story. Two I recommend are BL Metamorphosis (a wee old lady getting over her bereavement by finding BL manga and bonding with a shop assistant over it) and I Think Our Son Is Gay ( a mum trying to be supportive while letting her son come out in his own terms). Both are very much that kindness trope you mentioned at the end. Funnily enough sad things never really make me cry, but expressions of love or kindness really thaw my cold heart haha.
Deck the halls with bows of Gavin? Gav gav gav gav gav, gav gav gav gav Oh Gavin reads oh gavin reads, how many books will he read? (O Christmas Tree) I could go on 😛
Immediately going to get those One Piece cards! But I also have no one to play with. I got a One Piece board game last Christmas and still have yet to play because I have no one to play with. Lol.
Trading card games are such an expensive hobby. But I understand how you couldn't resist. Maybe hold on to them until you've caught up to the story a bit more. You never know what or who they'll put in there. 😅 I 100% agree. Retail ruined the blissful Christmas vibe for me. I used to be a Christmas maniac, but working at a bookstore for 8 years really fixed that. 😂 I kinda miss the German Christmas market vibes, though. 🥲
I bet German Christmas markets are amazing!! And yeah haha as soon as I saw the card game for One Piece and that Forbidden Planet had sold out of booster packs, I knew I had to make my move 😂
how on earth do you read so many books in the space of a month? genuinely i need tips, ive started reading a Christmas ish book, started a couple of days before December and im about half way through, i hope i finish before Christmas eve but how do you get through so many in such short time?
Just to let you know Gav I think the company you use for captions absolutely cannot understand geordie because there are so many mistakes in the captions today lol. They've written manga as 'panca' and 'mangoes' in the same sentence along with a lot of other errors. Is there a way to edit the captions once you receive the file? like if you did one pass of 'geordie edit' before things went live?
Ugh it's RUclips's auto-generated captions. I wait for them to generate and then I go in and manually change it myself. I'll be changing it over the next hour, thanks for the heads up!
Omg I really love your top/jumper. Although for a moment, I thought it was a tribute to Italy or something. P.S. The man who twerked while assembling a bookshelf has no right to go full PG on us 😂
Hi there, I've just been watching your brilliant contribution to a discussion about Northanger Abbey. There's so much to say about that book and I loved the things you brought to the discussion! There's really something I have to get off my chest about that book thati haven't heard other people talk about! I think that Sparknotes comment that was mentioned in the video is so far off the mark!!! There are two very clear reasons to me why Mrs Allen has no children. There is no way that she is jealous of Mrs Thorpe! Quite the reverse! I think it's no accident that she is childless - childfree!!! I think she is childfree very much by choice and by her actions. 1) she is fastidious about her hair and her clothes, and comments on them being disrupted or damaged by the actions of others.... These are, to me, very strong clues put there by Austen that the Allen's marriage is completely sexless. Can you *imagine* how Mrs Allen would react if Mr Allen tried to get anywhere *near* her??? How any form of close contact would freak her out, how she would be more concerned with him disarranging her nightclothes or her hair. She just wouldn't tolerate ANY physical contact that threatened that.... 2) given that the way she looks and her hair and clothing are so important to her, can you imagine her FOR ONE SECOND wanting to be pregnant or to give birth?? The physicality and disruption of that to her body, her home, her clothes.... Tbh I think she has OCD, as we would label it now. There is no way Mrs Allen would countenance being pregnant, let alone giving birth then dealing with noisy, disruptive children clinging to her, damaging or dirtying her clothes at all. It just wouldn't happen! Obviously Mr Allen would have wanted a physical relationship and to produce "an heir and a spare" but with Mrs Allen that was never going to happen!!
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➡Thanks Serious Readers for sponsoring this video! Remember you can get the perfect gifts for Christmas by going to try.seriousreaders.com/pages/gavin22/ and use GAVIN22 at checkout for a free compact light worth £150 AND free international shipping!
Gav, do you know of any Americans who have one? I'm concerned about the voltage difference. (UK is stronger than the US). I got very excited when you put up a code for free international shipping 😃
You are the only RUclipsr I watch the commercial for. It is always entertaining. 😂
Aw yay thank you 🥰
Gavin: “I’ll treat myself to something small, I promise. I won’t go too ridiculous.”
Also Gavin: “Ok, I took the treat yourself prompt from Can’t Believeathon a little bit too seriously.“
Truly icon behaviour.
I shouldn't be proud but I kinda am
gavin is an icon
A heated throw is brilliant if you live in a cold house and an electric oil radiator is a great cheap way to heat a room.
I may have to invest, thanks for the recommendation!
@@GavinReadsItAll deffo best thing I ever bought. Heated throw is heaven
That's the one thing I hate about living alone...having to pay the bills
Gav Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 🎄 Does your light friend have a name? I feel like with that Serious of a relationship it should have a name.
Love Gav Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 😭💙 haha ooo no it doesn't have a name, maybe I should name it 👀
@@GavinReadsItAll we could do a poll
Me, justifying my procrastination to myself: “I like working under pressure.”
I'm nearing the end of Operation Nativity and I agree, it is the best middle grade Christmas book I've read to date. So funny and heartwarming
Glad we have similar feelings on that one, it's so good!
Ngl The Serious Reader Lamp reminds me of ‘E.T.’ 😂
I usually skip the sponsorship part but I never do with yours. They are always awesome! I completely failed at this Believeathon so I look forward to the next one.
Aw thanks Dana! And plenty more bitesize Believathons next year 🥰
@@GavinReadsItAll looking forward to a great year in your Patreon!
Your sponsored portion of this video CRACKED ME UP!!! You have no sense! 😄
Loved this vlog! So glad you'll be getting back into middle grade, that's how I found your channel. 🖤
Everytime I see a new video from you my heart feels with joy. You really help my aniexty calm down. Who needs Lexapro when I got Gavin videos.
Aww glad I can be that for you Roxie ❤
If I go into Newcastle and see Gavin walking by I am going to be so flustered.. Starstruck infact! 😁😁. Speaking of Waterstones..I'm trying to figure out how I can get my hands on that Nick and Charlie cardboard cut out on their Heartstoppers stand! 😉😉. I really need it!! 😆
I loved your little tour of the Christmasy city- wish I could be there! Also enjoyed watching you play with your babies. 🐈⬛
The title of this video wins. 🎄🎅🏻
Liv ❤
I love the garland on all the stalls in the market 🥲
Me too, so festive!
Your coffee station looks so lux and professional. I’m getting tips and tricks
I didnt know there was a card game of One Piece!😍 And I do that too with reading sprints, I'll switch between them so I wont miss anything of the talking bits. I have reading sprints of 15 min this way or less if the talking bits are longer 😝
Relatively new subscriber here and I’m catching up on some older videos. I just ordered “Operation Nativity” as a Christmas gift for one of the young people in my life. Thank you for the book recommendation and helping me kick along my early Christmas shopping.
All of the Vanderbeekers books are a joy so I'm so glad you decided to pick it up!
Gav Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Fantastic vlog! Love the vibe and your enthusiasm ♥️. With those reviews, great gift ideas for my grandkids. 🎄❄️
My husband and I used to build a nest for my kitty Nibbler. We would prop up a blanket draped over the back of the couch with pillows to make a cave for him so he had a warm spot over night. You could try that out for your boys at night time so you don't have to worry as much.
Ooo great idea, thank you!
It's the lifted leg while drinking coffee that does it for me 🤣👌🏼
Welcome to parenthood lol. You start something and the kids interupt.
Love that ad placement, hilarious 😂
Looking at the weather report for next week, Gavin might get snow ❄️. The vibes are coming.
It literally snowed today!! I was so happy because SNOW but so sad it snowed AFTER I finished the vlog 😂
@@GavinReadsItAll just have to make sure you get it in your next vlog, lol
I want to read all three of these. I'm so glad you've found your love for MG again
NOBODY does a sponsorship like Gavin ❤😂
May I suggest you start a new readathon? It would be called 'No F@cks Gavin' and it would be basically everyone mood reading and staying cozy for a whole month! No TBR, just vibes! (Disclaimer: I'm probably, maybe, kinda high on the fumes from my apartment getting painted... I apologize for this comment!)
Haha omg bet the apartment is gonna look amazing after all the painting though 🙌
That sounds brilliant to me
You are so sweet with your cats 🥰
I love cuddling my own ones 😻
I LOVE THIS XMAS VIBES!!!!
Thanks for adding to my middle grade TBR. I'm currently reading The Book of M and The Queue. Both interesting in very different ways.
I buy sooo many of my books used too!
I’ve seen a few of my favourite booktubers talk about serious readers lights recently, and I definitely liked your ad the best 😂
Ahh I’m so excited to see you read Sailor Moon! The anime is one of my favorite things. I hope you enjoy it.
Happy Gav-vent!🎉
wait the pun in the title is so perfect! love it.
also, i haven't read middle grade in a long time and you made me want to pick it up again!
Haha thanks! I tried so hard to make my name fit a festive song 😂
This was so perfectly festive and cozy! Exactly what I needed right now 💚 I read The Vanderbeekers earlier this month and absolutely loved it, so I'll have to check out the other two!
I love Christmas with the Kranks
Me toooo!!!!
Such a great vid. Thank you for always bringing me joy. Love and Happy Holidaze from Dallas, Texas! Thank you for all your hard work!
Lol you do the best sponsorship bits. I got my Serious Readers lights over a week ago (surprisingly fast to the US) and I love it. More than worth the money, especially adding the dimming feature
Ahhh I am so happy you're loving your Serious Light and it arrived so fast! It's such a lifesaver for reading, isn't it?
I collect the Digimon cards they're bringing out now but I keep them in a folder and just stare at them
14:55 I have rewound this part a few times. My mind is somewhere else.
Loved this vlog, Gavin. Actually just started reading middlegrade a few months back and I love every middle grade I’ve read thus far so much. ❄️ I have Vanderbeekers on my shelf to get to this month. I’m so excited now! 🎄
My nieces and nephews are getting christmas books this year as their gift from my husband and I. Our oldest nieces is 10 so I spent the entire month of November reading (12) middle grade christmas novels so I could pick out ones I thought she would like. It was definitely a nice change of pace but after a full month of only MG, I was counting down the days until I could read adult novels again 😂
knew you would love the sweetmakers frost fair it's great to see you excited about mg again. i just finished the little matchgirl strikes back by emma carroll it was stunningly good and listened to the audiobook as I read it was on scribd. i also found a christmas graphic novel the nutcracker and the mouseking illustrated by natalie andrewson the illustrations were stunning
Oh I have the Little Match Girl Strikes Back and I need to read it!
I’ve read all 3 were really good going to read some more middle grade Xmas books this month xx
Yay glad you already enjoyed the books, have fun getting more, you'll have to let me know what you get!
Not the passion star martini burps?! 😱🤣
Don't open the One Piece cards until you catch up 😂 a good rule of thumb to gauge potential spoilers is release date. Since these were released in Dec 2022, all spoilers up to this point are fair game in the product, so you should probably catch up to the 2022 chapters at least before opening them
Did you ever read Skipping Christmas by John Grisham? It’s the book that Christmas with the Krank’s is based on. I’ve only read the inside sleeve, and it sounded pretty similar to the movie, or at least the major beats. It’s not terribly long, maybe next year you could do a “reading books based on my favorite Christmas films,” or something like that. Not sure how many book to movie Christmas films there really are.
Ahh yes I read it back in 2019, gave it 3 stars. It was fine, but lacked the humour of the movie in all honesty. Still a worthwhile read though!
26:21 Gavin’s Café for Witches has expanded quite a bit 🔥
Gotta collect all them syrups!
@@GavinReadsItAll Gotta catch ‘em all!
Your videos are as cozy as a cup of hot coco. I read a ton of books in November and now I'm having a bit of book burn out. I just finished reading Mexico's Nobodies by B. Christine Arce. Ideally I plan on tackling some romance reads for the rest of the month. How to marry Keanu Reaves in 90 days, You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty, and Legends & Lattes.
so excited for you to read more manga! I really hope you love them❣
I am so excited to read ALL the manga, it's all I ever want to read these days 😂
I really liked The Haunted Bookstore, but I read/bought the novel instead of the manga because the cover was so pretty. I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the manga!
Oh I saw the novel of it and wondered if I should pick it up!
This will be my first holiday season not working at Barnes and Noble. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself
speaking of one pieceeeeeee be careful haha those are a LOT of spoilers… (at least some of the character reveals) but i can’t wait until you see the worst generations… such a dope colorful cast of characters, all based on real life people too
Ahhh I'll just have to wait to open them until next year haha
I’m a newer viewer. Only been here a month or so but I’ve binged videos from your channel but the sponsor part of the video always kills me. Also just watched the video when you got your kitties and omg! 🥹
6:59 I just had this moment a few hours. Folding legs to sit is a nightmare.
Can't do it comfortably like I used to when I was a child
So happy to see you revive your love of middle grade. xoxo
THIS blog is rated pg lmaoo
I wish I could do coffee b roll but I legit make a giant pot of coffee every morning. Not too interesting n I’m sure I’d get tons of shade 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have 2 toddlers soooo 4 cups of coffee a day is the norm lolol
Also let me just say this vlog is giving me ALL of the cozy Christmas vibes ❤❤❤
Karina Yan Glaser was my very first author dinner as a bookseller. She's delightful and this book is so charming...
Oh wow really? That's so awesome! 😍
Fabulous video as always man ! Ill add those books to my next years xmas reading list. Really loving your manga journey, and I hope you love Blue Flag, its such a cute queer story. Two I recommend are BL Metamorphosis (a wee old lady getting over her bereavement by finding BL manga and bonding with a shop assistant over it) and I Think Our Son Is Gay ( a mum trying to be supportive while letting her son come out in his own terms). Both are very much that kindness trope you mentioned at the end. Funnily enough sad things never really make me cry, but expressions of love or kindness really thaw my cold heart haha.
GAVIN YOUR ADD IS SO GOOD I SENT THIS VIDEO TO A FRIEND JUST SO THEY COULD SEE IT. ridiculous lol
Deck the halls with bows of Gavin? Gav gav gav gav gav, gav gav gav gav
Oh Gavin reads oh gavin reads, how many books will he read? (O Christmas Tree)
I could go on 😛
Immediately going to get those One Piece cards! But I also have no one to play with. I got a One Piece board game last Christmas and still have yet to play because I have no one to play with. Lol.
Oooo a board game 👀haha as long as we collect them, one day we will find someone to play with
buddy, omg,what a insane vlog,=)
Haha thanks!
Zoro is casually sleeping on the manga (probably drank too much sake as usual lol)
Haha it's very fitting for him (the actual figure just won't stand on its own but I like the idea of him being passed out better)
I want to read Operation Nativity so bad but I cant find it in the US 😭
I Stan this casual strolling through Waterstones. I’m so happy to see the ‘Heartstopper’ Section.
I need the standee of the Heartstopper group!!
If you want to go full Gay, Judy Garland has a song which when adjusted to you, becomes ‘Gav Yourself A Merry Christmas’.
Gav Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is genius and shall be used as a vlog title next year 😂
@@GavinReadsItAll Happy to help.
Wish I could afford the light can’t afford my heating
Trading card games are such an expensive hobby. But I understand how you couldn't resist. Maybe hold on to them until you've caught up to the story a bit more. You never know what or who they'll put in there. 😅
I 100% agree. Retail ruined the blissful Christmas vibe for me. I used to be a Christmas maniac, but working at a bookstore for 8 years really fixed that. 😂 I kinda miss the German Christmas market vibes, though. 🥲
I bet German Christmas markets are amazing!! And yeah haha as soon as I saw the card game for One Piece and that Forbidden Planet had sold out of booster packs, I knew I had to make my move 😂
💜💜
Operation Nativity going on my list 📝
Get it on there!
16:02 I blame the Pandemic. Going out feels more and more tiring. It could be also be anxiety adjusting to going out.
Could be, could be!
You're not going to want to open those One Piece cards for quite a while. 🤫
how on earth do you read so many books in the space of a month? genuinely i need tips, ive started reading a Christmas ish book, started a couple of days before December and im about half way through, i hope i finish before Christmas eve but how do you get through so many in such short time?
Just to let you know Gav I think the company you use for captions absolutely cannot understand geordie because there are so many mistakes in the captions today lol. They've written manga as 'panca' and 'mangoes' in the same sentence along with a lot of other errors. Is there a way to edit the captions once you receive the file? like if you did one pass of 'geordie edit' before things went live?
Ugh it's RUclips's auto-generated captions. I wait for them to generate and then I go in and manually change it myself. I'll be changing it over the next hour, thanks for the heads up!
@@GavinReadsItAll ahhh ok i was gonna say, didn't seem like something you would just not check
Omg I really love your top/jumper. Although for a moment, I thought it was a tribute to Italy or something.
P.S. The man who twerked while assembling a bookshelf has no right to go full PG on us 😂
I can pull the PG card when I need to 👀haha
Hi there, I've just been watching your brilliant contribution to a discussion about Northanger Abbey.
There's so much to say about that book and I loved the things you brought to the discussion!
There's really something I have to get off my chest about that book thati haven't heard other people talk about!
I think that Sparknotes comment that was mentioned in the video is so far off the mark!!!
There are two very clear reasons to me why Mrs Allen has no children. There is no way that she is jealous of Mrs Thorpe! Quite the reverse!
I think it's no accident that she is childless - childfree!!!
I think she is childfree very much by choice and by her actions.
1) she is fastidious about her hair and her clothes, and comments on them being disrupted or damaged by the actions of others....
These are, to me, very strong clues put there by Austen that the Allen's marriage is completely sexless.
Can you *imagine* how Mrs Allen would react if Mr Allen tried to get anywhere *near* her???
How any form of close contact would freak her out, how she would be more concerned with him disarranging her nightclothes or her hair. She just wouldn't tolerate ANY physical contact that threatened that....
2) given that the way she looks and her hair and clothing are so important to her, can you imagine her FOR ONE SECOND wanting to be pregnant or to give birth??
The physicality and disruption of that to her body, her home, her clothes....
Tbh I think she has OCD, as we would label it now.
There is no way Mrs Allen would countenance being pregnant, let alone giving birth then dealing with noisy, disruptive children clinging to her, damaging or dirtying her clothes at all.
It just wouldn't happen!
Obviously Mr Allen would have wanted a physical relationship and to produce "an heir and a spare" but with Mrs Allen that was never going to happen!!
The only things you should not have bought are those One Piece cards … that was an impulse buy 😅
No Gavin, No! Step away from the One Piece merch!!!!!! Spoilers alert!
Haha I had to get them before they sold out! 😂I'll definitely not be looking or opening them though, I promise haha
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I have down booties I wear when it's really cold. I can't sleep it my feet are cold.