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Things I'm Currently Loving March 2024 : Beauty, Home, Books, TV
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May 13, 2024
10 things I'm currently loving in March 2024 and one thing I didn't really like at all ! In collaboration with The Transatlantic Housewives of Youtube: @BusyBeeMaree @Maria_crocker @tinastalktime Shop my Amazon store here for products I recommend: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/geordiegrandma Subscribe to my channel @GeordieGrandma Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegeordieg... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegeordiegr... Blog: https://www.thegeordiegrandma.co.uk #favourites #lifeover50 #collaborationvideo For business enquiries email me: karen@thegeordiegrandma.co.uk Disclaimer: All products were purchased by me unless otherwise stated. These are my honest opinions. This video may contain affiliate links, which means when you click on one of the product links, I will receive a small commission. Thank you so much for subscribing and watching my videos - I truly appreciate it :-)
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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Georgie Grandma. Welcome back to my channel
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And if you're new here, I will explain a little bit later what that intro was all about
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Those of you who are returning viewers, thank you so much for coming back and you will know what it's all about
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So today's video is a favourite video. So I think I've got 10 things that are favourite
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that I've been enjoying recently and one sort of a feel. I've got a mix of things
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I've got some jewellery, some books, some TV, film, beauty things. Yeah, and maybe a couple of other things
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So we'll just get started. So the first thing I'm going to start with is a film
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and that was the new Ghostbusters film that just came out, I think it was last week
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and we went to see it at the cinema. Now, I was a big fan of the original Ghostbusters film
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back in the 80s, and I loved the second one as well. Hated the one that they did with the women Ghostbusters
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I just, I didn't even get all the way through that film, I thought was terrible. And then they brought out another Ghostbusters film
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I think it was last year, and really enjoyed that. And this one I really enjoyed as well
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It was definitely reminiscent of the original Ghostbusters film. And, you know, some of the old Ghostbuster actors are in that as well
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And I just thought it was a really fun, fun film, decent storyline
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just lots of action and comedy. And yeah, I really enjoyed it
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I'm not sure. I think it must be a PG that. film because when we went to the cinema, there was a family behind it, and they had a little boy with
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them and he was dressed as a Ghostbuster. But honestly, he must have been no more than three
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And there is a couple of, what I would say would be scary scenes for small children. I mean
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I don't think my grandson would be happy with it in eight seven. So I don't know how a three-year-old
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sat through that and wasn't scared, but, you know, some kids are different. But I highly recommend
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the Ghostbusters film, the new one. I can't remember the full title, but I will put it here
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when I find it. If you did like the originals, you will like these ones. So the next two things
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are both TV series, and the first one is a series on Netflix. It's an eight-part series
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and it is called Three Body Problem. I think it's quite new to Netflix, and we binge watch that
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in about four sitins. And it's a very interesting. interesting series. It kept us watching. We're hardly just, you know, what's going to happen next
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And it's basically about a group of, I'd say, 30 some things who were at university together and they were all doing physics
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And a few of them have become really, you know, respectable, respected physics people and other ones, you know, teachers
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and somebody ran a huge store to do with food. So they've all been quite successful in their way
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And what happens is one of them finds this, it's like a headset that you put on
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And it's like a VR kind of thing, but it is so real when they go into this game
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that it's like they're there. And it is very strange. You think, what's going on here
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And then somebody else gets a helmet, and then somebody kills herself. And it turns out it's to do with aliens
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I don't think I'm giving away too much of the story there because it is quite obvious right from the beginning
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that that's probably what it's about. So like I say, there's eight episodes
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and it keeps you watching, it keeps you guessing. And at one point you think you understand what's going on
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and then at other points you think, I don't know what the hell's going on here. And at the end, I was absolutely gutted that it finished
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on a cliphanger and there's going to be another series. Well, at least I'm assuming there's going to be another series
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But I highly recommend you watch Three Body Problem. There is some bits in it that you really have to listen to
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because they do talk some physics talk. So if you're not into that kind of thing, it may not be for you
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But it was quite interesting. And me and Warren had a couple of discussions while it was on
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about things like that, about physics and the universe. So it was quite an interesting watch The third thing that I been enjoying this month is a not so serious TV program and that is also on Netflix and it called The Job Lot Now this is quite an old series
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I think it was made back in 2015 and there's three series of it. They're just half hour
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well probably not even half hour episodes and it is just so funny. It is set in a job center
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and basically you know it's just a comedy around the lives of the people who work in the job center
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and three or four of the regular people who are looking for a job that come into the job center
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It is absolutely hilarious. It really is. If you like a stupid kind of comedy
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that's easy to watch, quick to watch, then I highly recommend the job lot
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So next we'll go on to beauty. And the first thing I wanted to talk about
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and I'm not sure if I've talked about this before, and this is the Primark
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P.S. My Perfect Color, Perfect Finish Foundation. It's in a little tube like that
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It costs me three pound. I'm wearing it today. And I just think this is a really lovely foundation
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It says medium to full coverage. And I would say it was probably a medium coverage
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I'm not sure about full coverage. I don't have skin that's really blemished
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So I probably don't need a full foundation. But I would say that was a good coverage for me
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mature skin. This is in, I think this was the second latest colour. I can't remember the
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colour it is and I can't see anywhere on here where it says. But yeah, I highly recommend that
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If you're in Primark, that's worth picking up and having a goal for £3. Yeah, definitely like that
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one. And the other thing I've been enjoying from Primark that is a beauty product is the PS skin
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vitamin C moisturiser with SPF 30 and it says it perfects and brightens
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now in the tub it's a little orange tub it's a white cream
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and it's a very it's a very bouncy cream so it's not like a mussy cream
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or a loose cream it is a very bouncy cream and it feels a little bit like
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when you put on sun time lotion You know, it's got a little bit of a drying texture to it, but it is really nice cream
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You don't need to put that much on, and I do feel like my skin feels a little bit brighter
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I've only been using it for a couple of weeks, but I do like it, and I would pick that up again
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That was £5.000 if you're interested in some vitamin C moisturiser. That is a very nice moisturiser and well worth the price of £5
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pound. So next I wanted to talk about a couple of probably household objects and the first one is my
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waffle maker. Now I think I've definitely mentioned this on some video before recently. My daughter
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bought it for us from Home Borgans. You can get them on Amazon. They're only around the 10 pound mark
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And this little waffle maker has changed my life. I'm going to see. I like to eat low carb
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slash keto pancakes for breakfast with fruit and yogurt, but they are such a pain to make
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I'm useless of pancakes, so Warren usually ends up making them, and they are just such a pain to make
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So when I got the waffle maker, I thought, I wonder if I could make these keto pancakes in the waffle maker
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Now I've seen, I can't remember the woman's name, but she's from low carb love on YouTube
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and she made them. So I thought, I'm going to try that with the same recipe that I use
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to do the pancakes and they work perfectly. I'll put a picture there
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They are so good and so simple to use, you know, so simple to do in the waffle maker
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You haven't got the fath with putting them in the pan and waiting and flipping them
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Just make up the mixture. Put a, maybe a spoon and a half in the waffle maker
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Leave it for roughly two minutes and there you go. It's done. And it actually made up a batch three days worth
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and put some in the freezer. Just really, really handy. I highly recommend that Waffle Maker
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If you like pancakes or anything like that, then I highly recommend that
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The next thing I wanted to talk about that has been a real favourite of mine
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and I've been enjoying this for probably three months now. And it is a little silicon cupcake case
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But what I've been using it for cupcakes, What I'm using this for is to put the wax melt on the top of the wax burner
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Because I find if you just put the wax melt in the top of the
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that is such a pain to get the wax out when you want to put a different wax melt in I think I got this idea from Caroline I sure she did it on her channel
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But it's just so much easier. Instead of putting it in the top of the wax melt burner
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put it in the little cupcake case and it melts and it stays in the cupcake case like that
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It still melts, you know, exactly the same, still has the same throw
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And then when you've finished with it, you've got this little, wax melted disc
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Now this still, I probably use this a few times now and it still smells
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And what I've been doing with them, I've been putting them in little goes bags and putting them in my drawers
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my actual drawers, not the drawers away, putting them in my chest of drawers
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just to keep it smelling nice. And you could actually just stand them in the room somewhere
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but they still smell really nice. And I just think that is so simple
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such a fantastically simple idea, that saves the cleaning of the wax milk burner
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and all that hassle of doing that. So if you got a wax milk burner
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I definitely recommend you go and getting some of these silicon cupcake cases
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And I think I got these from Flying Tiger, which, I mean, you can get them in lots of different places
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but I think I came in a pack of five for about £3 or something, but well worth it
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So for anyone who is new to this channel, if you wondered what that intro was all about
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as it had, you know, four people on it. On a Sunday morning, I do a collaboration with three of their YouTubers
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who are Marie from Busy B. Marie, Maria from Maria Crocker, and Tina from Tina's Talk Time
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And we've been collaborating for the past year, every Sunday morning at 7.30, we bring out a video
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We all talk about the same topic, but we put our own spin on it
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And the reason we call ourselves the transatlantic housewives of YouTube is
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it's just for a bit of fun, but is busy being Marie lives in Vegas, so that's where the
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transatlantic comes in. Myself, Tina and Maria all live in England. Marie who lives in Vegas
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is also British, but she lives in America. So that's what that intro is all about. So once you've
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watched my video, you can go across and watch their videos on the same topic. So they will also be
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talking about their favourites this week, but obviously they have their own favourites. We all put our own
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spin on it. So back to the favourites. The other thing I picked up from Flying Tiger recently
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that I thought I'd show you because I think they're so cute is these little balls. How sweet are they
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These were three pound each. I've got a purple one and a blue one. I'm not sure if they had
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a green one as well, but they're only three pound each and they had some bigger ones, but I just thought
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they were so cute. And what I wanted to use these four is to put me earrings
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You can see I've got some stud earrings in here. I'm constantly taking out my earrings
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and just leaving them lying around the house wherever I am. So I bought the two bowls
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One's for in the sitting room on the coffee table because I'm always taking my earrings out while I'm watching the TV
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So very handy to put in there. I actually got wrong off my son for putting them on the coffee table when he was here
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He says, what if Milo, our cat gets a hold of them
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Well, she never goes on the table, but I can see a point. So I thought I'd get one
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for the sitting room and I got one for my bedroom as well for my bedside table because I have
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been known to go to bed with my earrings in and think I don't really want them in and take them out
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and just dump them on the bedside table but now I've got this little ball to put them in I just think
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they are really cute and very spring like so the next thing is a piece of jewelry or two pieces
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of jewelry actually and it is a necklace this little um I'm not sure if it's actually sterling silver
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or just, I think it's probably just silver plated. And it's got like a little pink jewel in the middle
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But I just thought that was really pretty. And that was reduced from £8 to £3 to £3 in Sainsbury
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And while I was browsing the jewellery, I also saw these earrings
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which are the same kind of silver plaided with the pink little pink jewels in there
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and I just thought they were so nice. I don't often wear dangly earrings
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but I do like to wear them. I just don't often see any I like. But when I saw those
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they were reduced from £6.50 to £3. So I thought, yeah, I'm picking those up
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They're just so pretty. Don't often look at the jewellery in Sainsbury's. I look at the clothes quite often
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but I never really look at their jewellery, but I'll definitely look at the jewelry from now on
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because they might have some good bargains. And next we'll come to Bo
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So one of my favourite books that I read in the last couple of months is the fourth Richard Osmond Murder Club book which was The Last Devil to Die Now I really enjoy these books If you never
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read them before, it's about a group of friends in a care home
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They're probably in the 70s, maybe 80s, and they solve crimes, they solve
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murders. One of them is one of the main women characters, she's a ex. I'm sure it's
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MI5 agent. It's just, they're lovely books. They're about, I mean, yeah, there is murders in them and they're solving the murders
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but the characters are really relatable. You know, Richard Osman has really built up the characters over the four books
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so you feel like you've really got to know them. And this one, I found it's funny, it's poignant
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and it is sad. I did cry at the end of this book, so Trigger Warning for anybody
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it does have dementia in it. It's not a very big part of it, but it is in it
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And yeah, I did cry at the end of it. But I've really enjoyed these Richard Osmond books
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He said he's not going to write any more for a while, but there will be more to come
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because their stories definitely aren't finished being told and I would love to read more about them
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So, yeah, highly recommend the Richard Osmond Murdoch Club series and The Last Devil to Die
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I don't think you have to have read any of the other three to read this one
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or I think they all stand alone, but you do get to know the characters a bit more if you read the whole series
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Now, the last thing, those were all my favourites, really enjoyed all of those
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This one is probably a fail for me, and it is a book
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And I did mention this in a video recently that I said it was on my To Be Read list
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and it's called Days at the Murasaki Bookshop. and it is by Satoshi Igasawa
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Sorry if I've mispronounced that name. Now, I had high hopes for this book
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I love the cover of it. I love anything to do with books, so I thought I'm going to love anything to do with a bookshop
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And it says it's an international bestseller. And I think the guy actually won an award for his first novel
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this one, his first novel. and it's a strange book. It's about a girl who at the beginning of the book
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our boyfriend, she realizes he's got another girlfriend and he's getting engaged to her
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and she's absolutely devastated and she leaves where she's living and she goes to help her uncle in his bookshop
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in another part of Japan, Mrs Set in Japan. Her uncle's wife left him five years previously
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And it just I don't know what else to say apart from that
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It kind of tapy lappies along. She reads a lot of books
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so you get to know about some of the books she's reading which, you know, it's quite interesting
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I like to watch YouTube videos where people are talking about books so I didn't mind reading about people
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talking about books. She sits in a lot of coffee shops and has a coffee and reads a book
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And then her uncle's wife comes back. And there's some mystery around that
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ends up going on a trip with his wife. And there's a little bit of mystery around that
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And then it's the end of the book. It's just, I really don't know what this is about
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I'd say it was probably about relationships. The characters are quite well written
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It is a nice book to read. It's a nice, slow, steady, nothing's really happening book
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I don't know how else to describe it, But that for me was disappointing
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Luckily, it's not very thick books that didn't take as long to read it. Yeah, but I don't think I would read any more books
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from this offer. If you've read this book, let us know what you think
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because I just, I didn't get it. I don't know what the hype is about. If it's an international best seller
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I don't understand why. Apart from the fact that a maid is want to go and sit in a coffee shop and read a book
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So if that was the same, it worked. but no, that wasn't for me
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So those are my 10 favourites and my one fail from things that I've enjoyed and not enjoyed recently
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Remember to go across and watch Busy Bay Marie, Tina from Tina's Talk Time and Maria Crocker
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and see what their favourites saw recently. I'm interested to see what they are as well
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because like I usually say, we don't tell each other. So remember to go across and watch those
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I will leave links to their chat. in the description box below
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And I will leave links to any of these products in the description box if they are still
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available anyway. So thanks so much for watching. I'll see you again soon
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Bye for now
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