a cozy winter week, reading 3 books + a book haul 🎄📖✨ WEEKLY VLOG

[@SadiaTheBibliophile723]

voiceover Olivia is a vibe, I love her.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🫶🏻🤣🩷

[@aspiring_recluse]

I love plastic covered library books too. I think it sends my brain straight back to the school librarian reading us books in elementary school. It makes me want to hold the open book out to an audience in front of me so they can see the pictures, which inevitably causes more of the crinkling plastic noises

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hahahaha yes it does!

[@abbeyroche2983]

1. Love voiceover Liv ❤️ 2. Love your makeup free natural beauty and love your made up face beauty, love it all ❤️ 3. Love watching YOU, whether it’s vlog, wrap up, or a tutorial for homemade syrups? Yes please! I don’t even drink coffee but I still love your coffee content ❤ 4. Love your transparency with mental health ❤ 5. Love you ❤

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Awh thank you so much, this is so kind 🩷

[@reimoon517]

I love unhaul videos! You could do it vlog style and take us with you going through your shelves and not even explain why you're unhauling it! Also I'm opposite and love even numbers, but I understand you, I gotchu! Love your videos!!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I think I’ve don’t that before and maybe I will do that again!!

[@therealjojo6139]

As a Canadian watching your videos, I gotta have a second tab open to translate your temperature into normal cause you always mention it 😂 Texas is such a different world I actually love seeing your B role of driving and stores and stuff

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hahaha, it truly is its own world down here 🤣

[@motive_of_the_witch2369]

I love voiceover Olivia. ❤️😂 It's the best! And I love Ginger, she is so cute. ❤️❤️

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hehe thank u 🐈

[@jordant929]

The ships on Hurricane War are supposed to be printed that way. When you flip the pages quickly it makes a moving picture of the ship moving. Like one of those art flip books. I hope that makes sense.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Oh that does make sense! I’ll have to try it out and see how it works

[@TessableDraws]

Your videos are always so cozy and comforting. As someone who also has gremlins in their head, loves to read, and enjoys the comfort of their own home -- I feel seen!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I’m so glad they can help 🩷

[@leilakoehn]

my comfort KZbinr 😭 we love you Olivia

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🫶🏻💛

[@mangotreebranch]

Yes! Syrup content would be awesome.

[@CynthiaSaychay]

We (my cat & I) love a cozy weekly vlog!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🐈🫶🏻

[@bangfangbang]

I'm so obsessed with your book room; I hope you do a room tour eventually, even if it only lasts like two minutes. I love Gothic lit too; it would be cool to see a video on your favorites

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I definitely want to do a bookshelf tour one day!

[@DanaHaupt]

I feel like Ginger became aware of her fame this week. She's simply giving the people what they want.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

She truly does it for the people 🐈

[@sofiabonilla9569]

I would love to see clips of you making coffee recipes!! It would be really fun

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I need to gather the recipes and do this thing

[@IntuitiveReading]

I mean, clearly Ginger is the star of the show here. 🤣 Your animals are great! 🐈🐢🐕

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hahahaha 🐈🩷

[@Purrfectlybookish5]

That copy of starling house is amazing!!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Right??

[@SuperBabyDaisy]

I love that you're so open about your mental health. I have been going through it with the SAD this winter and i feel so seen knowing that one of my favorite content creators gets it

[@emilyc9266]

I love the weekly vlog cozy corner 🥹

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🫶🏻🩷

[@ja.ck.IE_Ma.kw09]

I LOVE voiceover Liv 🤣🤣 I was laughing so hard!! I can imagine it's annoying to you, but it's very entertaining to me. ❤

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hahaha thank you, I’m glad to turn it into something funny 🤣

[@meganhinde4624]

Voice over Liv is the best. Thanks for that, you enlightened my day.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Thank you hehe 🫢

[@mindylee2591]

The ship is like a flipbook thing and you can make it fly up and off the page.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

So cool, I didn’t know!

[@mindylee2591]

@@oliviareadsalatte I was very confused too at first until I start flipping it around. I haven't played with a flipbook for ages! It's such a fun idea.

[@katinic3125]

😂😂 I love the “I forgot the mic” voice overs

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hahahaha I’m glad 🤣

[@tawnyachristensen7310]

I would die for a Chestnut Praline syrup recipe!!! It's my absolute favorite! Got my Illumicrate Starling House copy yesterday, so thrilled!!!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I’m looking into one now because I really wanna make one!

[@brittanywaynestilphen4685]

The ginger purrs are amazing!! I loved seeing her right up in our face! Also I don't blame you for being worried about mental health reactions but I love knowing I'm not alone!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🐈🩷🫶🏻

[@daniellai4403]

Another great vlog Olivia! Always love them. I hope everyone is having a great week. Remember to be kind to yourself and others.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Thank you! You too! 🫶🏻🩷

[@tove_sofie2388]

❤ Cozy vlog with random ginger-bathrom-chats made my night 🥰

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🫶🏻🐈

[@MollytheReader]

"im going to have to lotion my entire life" me since November 😂 also all the Ginger content & Olivia voiceover, Im obsessed 💕

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hehe thank you 🐈💛

[@padlocksncocoapuffs]

Ginger reminds me of my old cat Summer. She was 24 when she screamed her last scream lol.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

She grew to be so old, that’s amazing!!

[@brittayoung5574]

Love me some sassy Ginger screen time!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🐈🩷🫶🏻

[@tish_has_plans_to_read]

Your voiceovers are so entertaining!! 😂

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hehe thank you ☺️

[@helenvanzetten]

I’m just so obsessed with your videos! So calming and nice to watch❤

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Thank you so much 🥹🩷

[@ThruMegsEyes]

That kitchen voiceover was so funny 🤣

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hehe thank you 🫢

[@kaitlynhantz2467]

I'm here for all the emotions! ❤❤🩷🧡🧡💛💛💚💚💙💙💜💜

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@heathers_happily_ever_afters]

I really like the Illumicrate edition of Starling House. My only issue is that the book wasn't wrapped in anything and the box was filled with paper filling, which caused the book to have paper dust all over it. I can't get it all off. I like how Fairyloot has their books in a special dust bag.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Same!! I don’t need the bag, but I do like when they at minimum can put plastic wrap over it to keep all the dust and stuff. Plus, it could’ve definitely been damaged in there like that and it would’ve been so sad

[@LindsNW05]

Get a cheap moving blanket from Harbor Freight or Home Depot and put it on your windshield before you go to bed, and if you forget, take a storage bag and put hot water in it and it will take the ice off instantly. I love how chaotic Ginger is in this vlog. 😂😂 Girl, you are beautiful, my skin is the same way, anytime I wear makeup too much my skin hates it so much, I also get hormonal acne really bad, but yeah, your skin isn't even that bad, good Lord, most everyone has acne. People need to stop being rude as F.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Oh that’s a good idea!! And omg she is a mess 🐈 Thank you for your kind words. I’m definitely trying to not care because truly, who cares lol. It’s hard tho!

[@kate-ne]

Be careful with hot water. I cracked my windshield doing that 😆

[@sarahlopod]

@@kate-ne i was about to reply and say this! glass going from cold to hot or vice versa very quickly can be dangerous (as a former bartender i found this out the hard way)

[@brontula]

Hey you should buy the spray to defrost windshields. It works instantly, amazing!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I’ve never heard of that, thank you!!

[@ButtercupBooks15]

Your vlogs are something I always look forward to because it makes the treadmill less terrible, and I stay on it longer. Thank you for unknowingly aiding my health journey 😊

[@ButtercupBooks15]

For NK Jemisin, I loved City We Became, and I’ve read everything else beside Fifth Season, so I would recommend starting with either the Inheritance series or the Dreamblood duology, both were really good.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Awh thank you! I love that!!

[@theones4344]

I loved the voiceover!!!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@nicoleali1164]

This vlog was everything 😭❤️ Your so beautiful, if only you could see what we all see❤ Thank you for making me laugh (especially the voiceover bit had me dying) ❤

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Awh thank you so much 🙈🩷

[@organizedMOM]

OK I’m driving to work at 6 AM and I’m crying. I’m laughing so hard at your voice over. Thanks for that.😂

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hahahahaha I’m glad you like it 🤣

[@angelaholmes8888]

I need to check if the library has hurricane wars im really glad that my library stop doing late fees that way i can take my time with my reading when im inna reading slump

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Fingers crossed they have it 🤞🏻

[@angelaholmes8888]

@@oliviareadsalatte just checked they have it 🙂

[@kiramccarthy7382]

Gorgeous edition of Starling House! Wow! 😍

[@oliviareadsalatte]

It really is! 😭😍

[@brandim1230]

3 and 13 are my favorite numbers. Sometimes they pop up when I pay for something . My oldest niece was born on the 13th of May. a day before my birthday 💕💙

[@oliviareadsalatte]

How cool!

[@bybun]

Lol...Miss Ginger is everything!!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Truly she is 🐈🩷

[@BooktrovertReader]

I live for this hour vlogs. Highlight of my week❤ I really loved The Hurricane Wars. One of my fav fantasy romances this year

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Yay! Thank you! And it was such a good one 🩷

[@christy2935]

For ambiance videos when you're reading I highly recommend Story Sounds and Books of Azwei. They're both on KZbin and Spotify. They do them by books too. I love them and listen to them all the time. My goal for 2024 is to read books I already own too. Lovely video as always.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I’ll have to check it out! 🩷

[@christy2935]

@oliviareadsalatte Story Sounds also does Pomodoro sprints. Books of Azwei is actually instrumental music, but it's themed to books and is nice background music. They do some lyrics playlists too.

[@tracy2919]

Your opening set me off and I had to go make a coffee then come back 🤣

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🫶🏻💛

[@Sarasstorytime22]

I love the author note in the Illumicrate edition of Starling House. It is exactly how I feel about coming from a small town.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I need to go read it!

[@daryanthelibrarian]

been freaking out about finals all day so this was just what i needed😌

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I hope the finals go well 🫶🏻

[@leafsonata]

Olivia, I hope other BookTubers and Tokers promote visiting libraries and borrowing books as you do. Let's Save those "dollar dollar bills Yo". But seriously, I'm from Alabama and have seen several libraries close because of a reduction in patron support (checking out books, requesting books, attending other services and classes for gardening, creative writing, computer skills, book signing, crochet, children's storytime hour, foreign language, etc). I've also seen the fight to reopen them. You're a wonderful model in this respect. THANK YOU!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Listen!! I have to save this money I do have 😭 but also, supporting them is literally so so important. Libraries do so much, I really think people don’t even realize-heck, I didn’t even realize how much they benefited the community until I started going this year! I need booktok to get on the library train because it’s everything 🙌🏼

[@jcoff85]

Team weekly vlogs 🙂

[@oliviareadsalatte]

saaaaame 🫶🏻

[@brandiwithaneye]

Regarding your association of numbers to colors and vibes: Look up Synesthesia. ❤

[@oliviareadsalatte]

👀

[@kathleenwhowell5731]

great video as always. your cat is so precious. She likes to be held, My cat not so much . she can be vocal as well and pounce on you early in the mornings which is not so fun. Tfs happy reading.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

she didn't love being held when she was younger but she definitely does now! 🐈💛

[@LaurasChronicLife.]

Always love your long vlogs. I do understand skin insecurities, I've had cystic and hormonal acne since I was 12. Makeup also irritates my skin as well and so I don't wear it as often anymore. I've tried all the things, proactiv, murad, accutane, birth control, etc. The best thing I have started using is skin products with snail mucin in it. Best thing ever for my skin and my husband uses it when he gets a break out now lol. I use a morning one from CosRX and a night pak with snail mucin in it. Obviously things work different for different people and I honestly forget to use it everyday ( Hello adhd) but anyway I love watching you and hangign out with you in video form and want to say I appreciate the way you address things like insecurities and mental health and of course books! Have a happy holiday and happy reading! Edit: Also super enjoyed the voice over and peace sign counter! :)

[@oliviareadsalatte]

thank you! I’ll have to check those products out for sure 💛

[@KatQuackLaugh11]

Look forward to the weekly vlog every week 🎉🎉

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Yay! Thank you! 🩷🫶🏻

[@musiqluva3459]

I'd like to see you make syrups. I recently thought about making some, but didn't try it. I liked the voiceover. It was so funny. I thought the emoji thing was cute! I didn't know or remember the reason behind them. Also, I'd be into an unhaul video but I love all your videos anyways. ❤

[@amandabeeeeee]

i borrowed a book and an audiobook from libby of a book i’m reading and thought of you! i had never considered borrowing the audiobook that way i can clean and still stay on track. 🤓💖

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I’m glad you liked doing it! 🧼🫶🏻

[@mickeeelizabeth9782]

I'm in Nebraska. We have a windshield cover and i also get a defrosting spray for my windows. You just spray and it melts 🤣 I hate scraping.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

This…. This is genius

[@brookestraub7933]

Your channel is yours to do and talk about what you want! Share what you're comfortable sharing and don't share what you don't want to. I (and many others) will vibe with your content regardless of what you post!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Thankyou so much for your kind words 🩷

[@blackraven7774]

oooohhhhh Ginger is so adorable. I really appreciated your vulnerability last week as someone who has CPTSD. 🙂🤗

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Thank you so much 🐈🫶🏻

[@Silverraine1]

I don't like anthologies either but I love single-author short story collections especially if the stories are interconnected. My last fav was 'Where the Wild Ladies Are' by Aoko Matsuda, almost cozy spooky stories based on Japanese folktales.

[@maureendeming]

Ha! That's always my reading plan - see it, like it, try it.😅 Although I do have long-term overarching goals - like reading all the 40-odd Discworld novels.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I’m so convinced 2024 is gonna be such a good reading year!

[@sopharesogood]

I love seeing Ginger as an elderly cat! Makes me think fondly back on my lady Fiona who I shared my life with for 17 years.🐈💔

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🐈🫶🏻🩷

[@eloa5]

Olivia, I need to know where you got the bookmark with beads from!! I'm OBSESSED

[@oliviareadsalatte]

From shelf edit on IG!

[@hannahblackwellbooks]

Love me some native. I use their coconut body wash

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Their body wash is great!

[@lindaklinedinst9236]

Love this Vlog - the book that you are reading is just beautiful. I don’t wear any make up. If I do it is only Lipstick and that is it. It is cold where I live at too - Northern Indiana. We did get a little bit of Snow this week too. It’s gone now. Take Care & Happy Reading ❤️🤗🙏🎄🐾🐱🐾☕️🔰❤️

[@oliviareadsalatte]

You take care as well 🩷🐈

[@missisy2823]

2:06 you're so pretty 😍 I love these vlogs they're always so relaxing for me to watch . Although they may be chaotic for you 😂

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Awh thank you 🩷

[@IntuitiveReading]

I have books on my phone and sometimes a physical book with me at all times. I’m a slower reader so 1 is usually enough. I always read at least 2 at a time at all times. 😊 if that just made any since at all!🤣

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I always read multiple books at a time 🤭

[@cherylNA]

Can you share what lotion you use? I’m a dry prune from November to March. 😝

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I’m trying to find a new one! But on body I use cerave

[@jinawickedwoman4223]

I am a Cancer, too. My favorite number is 9 too. (Mike Modano was my favorite Dallas Stars hockey player.)

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Twinnnnnns 👯‍♀️

[@jinawickedwoman4223]

@oliviareadsalatte lol😀 I live in Texas too. No wonder you are my favorite booktuber. The vibes. 😎

[@justinerudzone6182]

Loving the cat content keep it coming ❤❤

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hehe always 🙌🏼🐈

[@chrisisbookinit]

Lmaoo I will literally get an iced coffee in the middle of a blizzard then stop at cold stones for some ice cream 😂

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Exactlyyyyy

[@livfomusic]

Hey Olivia! I'm actually an Olivia too! Your collection of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series is beautiful!! Where did you find it? I watch your videos every week love the content and vibes! ❤

[@oliviareadsalatte]

It’s from the bookish box!!

[@kellyreadingbooks]

Sorry I am commenting over multiple days watching this 😂 but my cat Carlisle was talking to Ginger when she started meowing in the background and I just wanted her to know my cat is a fan 😂

[@ReadingNymph]

😅 the voice over parts are just comedy gold

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sambarnard9506]

💛💛

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

The voice over is hilarious 😂

[@oliviareadsalatte]

hehe thank u 🤭

[@kathy2539]

funny how some of us love 'daylight' savings and others 'hate' it. I feel it might be what season you have, here in the South we've just begun our Summer season, so longer daylight hours, we generally love at this time of the year. You're all in Winter season, so it probably has a truly different vibe. Daylight saving ends here in Autumn Season which is our Mar-May so shorter hours through Autumn into Winter is a good feeling here. I think we have a different vibe because our seasons fall differently in the South!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

That makes sense because I adore spring time for the mild temps and longer days, but that would end up being your autumn season!

[@amandalopez5514]

Dutch bros half sweet breves are the only way i drink their drinks iced, i like any nutty flavor w caramel drizzle it’s the best coffee flavor that ive found from them

[@amandalopez5514]

Also a filling little libraries video/ excerpt in a vlog would be so cute instead of an unhaul

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Which drink do you get? I never know how to order at Dutch bros if it’s not on the menu!

[@ohladysamantha]

a vlog watcher here catching up 3 weeks later... Ginger and my cat Ginny were separated at birth I swear. same behaviors!!

[@surpriseitsus9622]

I love coffee ☕ but I feel sick with anything in it. I drink hot coffee or decaf year round in Phoenix. Hi to Jake ❤

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Jake say hello 🐕🫶🏻

[@cuppa.books.]

Maybe you could combine your unhaul with a reading challenge so for example for every book you unhaul you have to read for 10mins?! 🐕💜🐈💜🐢

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Oh that could be interesting!

[@katiebuckingham1090]

What song do you use at the end? I’m obsessed with it

[@oliviareadsalatte]

It’s Cody Francis weather any storm ⛈️

[@themodernbookwoman]

Look, I loved Hurricane Wars! I know crazy fans of Star Wars are being critical bc it's supposedly a fan-fic, but I'm not a SW fanatic so I had no expectations going into it and ended up really really enjoying it!! It was a good time, and I'm looking forward to the sequel!!

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I’ll def read the sequel too!

[@kellyreadingbooks]

Me, Chicagoland native laughing at your intro in the cold 😂 I would perish in anything over 95. I don’t leave my house if it’s 85 or higher lol I treat it like -10

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🤣🤣🤣

[@anitarucker8589]

Perhaps IF you put a towel or blanket over your windsheild outside and put the ends in the car doors so it does not blow away, that MAY get rid of the frost. Please try.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

It may help!

[@fa3ryg1rl1]

Wait, did you say you like 113° weather? I would melt. We get heat waves of 90s and I hide in the house in the AC. Sometimes when it's in the 30s I open my window and sit in front of it 😅

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Hahahah yes it was up to 115 this year!

[@fa3ryg1rl1]

😅​@@oliviareadsalatte

[@suetaylor]

I came to the comments to check if anyone has been mean to you. I'll get em for yah! Rude? Not on my watch. Voice over 😂😂😂 A good tip for any skin issue is epsom salt baths. Providing you dont gavevany heart issues... Handful of salts in a hot bath for half an hour. 3x a week. Shower aftercto get rid of the salts on your body. Once clear you can reduce to once a week. If no bath do foot soaks. ❤

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I’ll definitely have to try it out!

[@mangotreebranch]

Ma’am you do not have wrinkles. Your skin looks so smooth I’m jealous.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🙈 thank you hahha

[@Silverraine1]

The City We Became is good but I feel people don't think it's great because the premise it isn't as unique or innovative as in her other books, it's basically an urban fantasy and it's like a superhero-team's origin story. Except for the prologue the writing is not difficult to read.

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Okay this honestly sold me. I love superhero stuff

[@e4mi]

Im currently reading this and i think it is like entertaining but yeah not "amazing". The audiobook is more interesting too for the narration

[@cassiopeia416]

If you're interested in what all the numbers around you are about, I recommend "The Witch's Book of Numbers: Enhance Your Magic with Numerology!" It's really interesting what all the numbers in your life mean about you! I think you'll vibe with it. :)

[@Silverraine1]

Please do more voice-overs Olivia!! 😂

[@oliviareadsalatte]

looks like it may be a weekly thing 😅

[@Ms.SpookyNerd]

Great vlog my current read is a Sci Fi/Fantasy called "Elixir" by Hilary Duff which came out in 2011. Its about a 3 star so far.🎁🌨️📚☕🎄⛄

[@oliviareadsalatte]

I hope you enjoy!

[@Tarasreadingnook]

I have a backpack back & forth with work but I only get [paid] 15min breaks so physical books don't work right for me. So I Aduiobook

[@oliviareadsalatte]

That’s def makes sense

[@Hi_I_am_Cate]

Olivia: Ginger, stop. Ginger: No. 😼

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🐈🤣🩷

[@jannetier]

I got really confused when you said 'Guten Morgen'😅 anyways....greetings from germany🤗

[@oliviareadsalatte]

hehe 💛

[@Julie_ao]

😍❤️❤️❤️

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🩷❄️✨

[@sarahlopod]

i wrote a comment because i found something you said sooo relatable but i accidentally left the video and lost it :') i cannot for the life of me remember what it was so i'm just leaving this comment instead! 🐕🐈🐢

[@oliviareadsalatte]

🫶🏻🩷

[@JamiesonReads]

“Hello guys, I have the worst update ever.” 😂 spoiler, it could have been way worse. Lol

[@oliviareadsalatte]

Oh for sure 💀

[@michelepbotelho]

Eu tendo experiência funciona cetra aprendi começa quinzenais se puder possam alguma temporizador