hockey reading vlog 🏒💙 (romance, nonfiction & going to an NHL game)
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I love that you and Chandler both posted hockey romance vlogs today
I was just thinking this!! We're so in sync 💐🏒
I just finished watching Chandler's and was wondering if anyone else was going to watch this one today too.
I was just coming to say this!
I'm so glad you did this video because THANK YOU for touching on the issues with the relationship in The Fake Out between the physical therapist and her athlete. I'm an athletic trainer for a college hockey team and I legitimately can't read these books because of relationships like this - I've seen multiple books written with this trope and it gives me the BIGGEST ICK because yes, it is unethical practice: you will get fired, be reported to the board of certification, and lose your license
I know it looks appealing for outsiders because it's basically forced proximity and makes for the perfect meet cute, but let me tell you, I couldn't even look at any of them that way. I'm the same age as some of them but I'm basically their mom lmao
omg THANK YOU for sharing this insight!! I've been learning a lot about my romance preferences lately, and uneven power dynamics and dubious workplace ethics put me off a lottttt. Happy to hear there are indeed guidelines in place IRL!
This is such good input!!
Yessss! Like what self-respecting medical/healthcare professional is sleeping with their clients?!
This is my favorite thumbnail!
As a Floridian who just thinks it's hilarious that we have a hockey team and that they're actually good, I'm contractually obligated to root for them.
UM EXCUSE ME!!!! We have 2 hockey teams (FLORIDA PANTHERS & TAMPA BAY LIGHTENING) and they are both very good!!!
@@lesap8889Ummm - my hometown in Florida also has a hockey team apparently - Jacksonville Icemen.
I grew up a few minutes away from where the Panthers play and it's so funny to me because I don't think I knew anyone growing up who had ever actually played it. Clearly it's popular enough that we have two teams but I just always assumed it had to do with how many people here come from up north.
lol same 😂
Please know that I wasn't being mean. I am a Floridian with a Canadian husband who has all his relatives still in Canada otherwise, I probably wouldn't know myself. The arena is so close to our house that we went there for their opening day long ago. 🏒 books over hockey any day. (ps. Basketball is my real game-Miami Heat!
Listen. Maybe a controversial opinion but I think that gay hockey romances are the way to go. I've read many (many) hockey romances over the years and now every time I feel like reading one I'm always reaching for the gay ones. Idk why. I just think they're super sweet.
they’re the superior hockey romances! plus, often they’re the ones that actually have a lot more hockey
Dude yes! I got into mm hockey romances on accident but when I tried reading straight hockey romances I was disgusted. They fall into such unhealthy patterns of behavior and are really gross to me most of the time so I don't even bother reading any other hockey romance or any sports romances except for mm ones.
Oooo drop some titles please!!
What are your faves?
no i agree!! i think i’ve dnfed all the straight hockey romances i’ve read, and even tho the gay hockey romances aren’t all perfect, i have much preferred them!!
Girl don't read icebreaker unless you are mentally prepared. it's the thinnest plot to the horniest story
i love how this vlog ends with Rob saying "oh my god" ahahaha so funny and real i love it
Thanks for talking so in-depth about Fred Saskamoose’s book! I learned about the horrors of residential schools in school (MB) but I had NO idea about the “pass system” and now I’m reading all about it and other racist policies against the indigenous populations that we weren’t taught about in school.
PS. I found a great documentary about the pass system called “the pass system” on thepasssystem.ca for anyone who wants to learn about it
kayla focusing on how it should play out based on how the fans feel is so cute and funny
Has anyone read "Check Please!" by Ngozi Uzaku? It started as an online comic, and is available as two graphic novels now! It's SO GOOD! So funny and heartwarming and romantic... It follows the story of a gay hockey player who falls in love with a teammate, how he deals with it, and ultimately how the team deals with something that is so "taboo" in their world of sports. I really highly recommend it!! ❤❤❤
Yes!!! So good!!
I followed it while it was ongoing and cried when it ended. I have the books too!
@@pauieeepau that's so sweet!
YES
your editing lately has been amazing 😙🤌
My best friend started reading hockey romances and is now why we - as a group, her, me & our partners - have a season ticket to our local hockey team (yes in the uk lol) and follow the NHL now lol so despite the fact I’ll never read a hockey romance myself, this was so fun to watch!!
That Thumbnail is fantastic!! You never miss but those colours and that cohesiveness is so good here
I’ll save the video for tomorrow though, once I start I go on a channel binge haha and it’s literally midnight rn, can’t do that 😅
As a person from a country from the rest of the world somewhere not North America I have no idea what are you talking about, but I'm still watching.
Same, she completely lost me when it came to the finals and the final game is multiple games?? Don’t have any idea how that works and very confused but still really enjoyed the vlog!
@@EliSa-cf6dm 🤣 nhl playoffs are 4 rounds, each round being a best-of-7 series!
When you mentioned this vlog was coming I got excited!! The Panthers were my home team growing up and I worked at bar next to the arena 2007-2009 . We would put free tickets at the host stand for EVERY game ...that's how bad they were. I'm excited to see them doing so well in this year and the recent years. Im an Avs fan these days but I hope they're finally able to take the cup 🤞🤞🤞
Hope So! From your fellow Panther fan (from the very being!!). we have our rats out and on the tv!!
Being from Montreal, I'm super excited to know you're Habs fans and Rob is Québécois ❤
Is anyone else who knows nothing about hockey just imaging them playing for one of those Stanley tumbler things everyone was obsessed with?
You: this will be a boring Stanley cup finals
Oilers: And I took that personally
😂😂😂😂
Dude the Oilers are my team and I will fight Kayla over it 😤 🤛
i really like riley reid's hockey romances. Her writing just pulls me into the story.
I love hockey romance. The Fake Out was not my thing, but The Deal and The Graham Effect I loved. Thank you for doing this video. It was fun! I was just in Canada during game 2 and 3 of the playoffs, and it was fun to see the excitement around hockey.
Girl, you are my absolute favorite bookish blogger. Blackhawks and books?! Yessssss.
Watching this with the final game on the background. Always love when you talk about hockey! I read call me Indian when you first showed it in one of your vlogs and liked it
It was so fun to relive the playoffs through this video, as an Oilers fan! I don't know if we're gonna win but I love that we're still in it 🏆
Oh this was soooo fun even for someone who is definitely not into sports at all. Also that hotel at a walking distance is amazing 😮 so useful!
Hahah you just brought back memories of driving to my highschool to look at the class schedules with my friends. What a time!
As a fellow hockey girlie, I love this already!
Watching this the day after game 7 of the finals has been so much fun. Great vlog, as always.
It's monster romance/smut, but I swear you would LOVE CM Nascosta for romance where they go into depth about their jobs. Particularly 'Sweet Berries'.
this was a great vlog idea to combine reading with your life!
I had to explain my love for you last night when my boyfriend and I were at a concert and I saw the notif for this video pop up and I audibly gasped and screamed “YESSSSS!” in an almost maniacal way 😇♥️
This is very fun to watch in June as an oilers fan 😂💙🧡
I loved this vlog💓 I know that no-one’s life is perfect, but following along with what you get up to is so cute!☺️
(Also, I know this has absolutely nothing to do with the vlog, but I’ve been struggling with body image stuff and intuitive eating. Just seeing you eat icecream was the permission I needed to treat myself to a brownie today without feeling guilty. Your meals always look so delicious btw!💛)
I'm really interested in reading Call Me Indian! Sounds so good. (Btw you looked so ethereal in your floral blouse in you last fit, gorgeous!)
I have been wondering about the status of the hockey brackets, so I'm glad to see this! (Definitely could not remember which video you showed them in before to go back and look.) As a hardcore, lifelong Oilers fan, the last couple of games have been extremely stressful! However, I'm STILL putting my (metaphorical) money on the Oilers to win. GO OILERS GO!
Oh, and also really interested in your review of Call Me Indian. I have added it to my TBR.
A hockey romance I loved was Icebreaker, by AL Graziadei (NOT the one by Hannah Grace!! Different books!). It's YA, but I'm not a huge YA person so giving 5 stars to a YA contemporary romance for me is nearly unheard of for me haha. Two hockey rivals on the same university team fall in love, sort out difficult family dynamics, and decide whether to come out publicly. It was lovely, and some of the dad/son conversations and relationship progress made me cry!
I love these hockey vlogs. Please make more
I’ve been looking for the surprise charm necklaces for ages! I’m such a dang child but it’s so cute. I’ll go give them some business. Thanks gal 😊
Also the video you posted about the haters had me in kinks 😂😂
And I think you have beautiful eyes by the way. 🫶
As a fellow Canucks fan and romance book girlie I can't wait to watch this!! :)
I remember when you got the book Call Me Indian!
That was a fun blog, even though I know minus one about hockey.
And oh! Liam is preparing to be Mom's editor!
This was fun! I grew up about an hour away from Vancouver until '05, so it was so nice seeing places I'm somewhat familiar with. I'm deffo only a casual hockey enjoyer and don't keep up with the Cup, but I laughed my ass off at the transition between the stadium being hype as hell, to 'so the Canucks lost'. That's the team I remember 💙
loved this video so much! ❤
So glad I watched this. Picked up ‘Call Me Indian’ at my library and WOW. Thank you.
Romance is not really my genre, but I'm glad I wanted the video anyway. It was so interesting! And your babyblue nails look so cute! 🥰
You've inspired me to read outside my normal genres and try books I NEVER would have picked up myself this year. I don't really follow Hockey at all, but I'm curious to read 'Call me Indian' now. I couldn't find one if you've done a video for it, but I'd love your updated favorites of ALL time. I would watch the full length cenima episode of that!
My partner likes hockey and I like books, so this was so nice to watch with him. (We're cheering for the Oilers --even though we're American, they're his favorite team!)
I have no idea if it will be for you (the best start to a recommendation 😂) but I want to mention the Fake Boyfriend series by Eden Finley (and the other series in the same univers). It has a lot of smut. But also fun stories and sports. Not just hockey but also hockey. I like the audiobooks!
I also married a Habs fan. But I happen to be a Bruins fan, which makes it even funnier.
(Also I'm so jealous that you got to go to that game, it was a really great watch!)
Loved this video! We are huge Nashville Preds fans and love to go to hockey games!!!
There’s an indie romance bookstore in Calgary called Slow Burn Books! 😍 When I saw your shirt I def thought you got it from here haha!
Wait…HOW did I not know you were a Blackhawks fan??!? My little Chicago heart is so happy at this news 🥰🏒 Go Hawks! ❤️🖤
You should deffo read Shoot Your Shot by Lexi LaFleur Brown when it comes out! She is a hockey goalie and her husband is an NHL player. She said it’s gonna feature plenty of hockey in the book!
Yesterday I was at my local used bookstore, and I found a beautiful copy of Call Me Indian, by Fred Saskamoose! Thank you for influencing me in the best way, I'm looking forward to reading it!
Wearing the slow burn shirt today too ❤
I love your Hockey 🏒 vlog - coming from a Hockey fan! Something unique but lets us into your own interests ❤
It is definitely an under-represented sport in books. Loved the Beartown series, now hoping to pick up The Graham Effect as an audiobook!
Onto the Stanley Cup Finals - hoping the Oilers win!( Although, I really am an Anaheim 🧡 Ducks 🦆 fan! )
My favorite hockey romance is Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid, I love Ilya and Shane. It's very steamy but it's also more the games, the competition between them, fear of being caught in the act and falling in love ! I love this book
You should give it a try ❤
As a South Floridian and a Florida fan the past week has been SOOOO PAINFUL! But also I'm glad that we are having an exciting Stanley Cup Final.
Also Heated Rivalry should be on your Hockey Romance list! Please read it if Florida wins LOL
I just got severe whiplash seeing your Vancouver hotel room because I was just in that exact hotel the first week of June for a work trip. Also, glad to see your feedback on these books since I had seen them in stores but was worried about wasting money on a potentially bad read 😅
love you Kayla! FLORIDA PANTHERS fan here!!!!
I know nothing about hockey, but I am a BIG basketball fan and it seems these sports seasons align because the finals just ended and my team won, the Celtics! They arent my favorite team but they were the ones I was rooting for and my favorite player in the league is Jayson Tatum (their star). All this to say cheers to the end of our respective sports seasons, I am greatly anticipating their returns! Being a sports fan (no matter the sport) is so much fun.
Ahh, I would've loved to see you read Pucking Around. It is decent for the hockey references, etc., but I think it would've made for a fun reaction. Great vlog nonetheless!
me currently in a huge reading slump and not knowing anything about hockey still eating this vlog up!!!
The fake out is a sequel. I felt like there was more hockey in the first book.
I can't say I'm a hockey fan but I am a fan of hockey romances! I love when you can tell just how much the author loves the sport and that they really know what they're talking about.
If I were to root for a team it'd probably be either the Panthers (my home team technically) or the Kraken (I lived in Seattle for a few years so that feels right lol). I went to a Kraken vs. Canucks game a couple years where they introduced the new Kraken mascot. I had a lot of fun and would definitely go to another one if I get the chance. Hockey was not a big thing at all in southeast Florida where I'm from, so I never paid any attention to it until after I moved to Seattle as an adult.
We were reading the Graham effect at the same time!😮
Go Edmonton!
watching this with about 20 min to go until game 7 puck drop is a RIDE and also as a flames fan who has liked the panthers since round 1 (lots of former flames but also the last live game i attended was in like 2019 in sunrise !) plus also as a calgarian a major part of my personality is hating the oilers and being anti-cheering for rivals just because they're canadian..... girl im scared 🤣 but this was a great way to lead into the game so thanks!
i’m surprised that becka mack’s playing for keeps series didn’t come up for you! she’s canadian & the team in the series is an invented vancouver team. each book follows a player and their love interest! there are three books out which were previously self published, but they’ve been traditionally published now and the fourth book comes out soon. might be worth looking into since it’s close to home! disclaimer that they are very long for romance books which may be a turn off
Omg you really need to read Time to Shine by Rachel Reid!! A new goalie and a winger playing for a team in Calgary fall for each other. I think you would like it (idk about love since you don’t give romance 5 starts hahaha😅)
So jealous of the playoff game! I’m routing for the oilers!
I love icebreakers. I'm like 70% through my second listen of it this week lol
I knew you lived in Canada, so I imagined the east coast. When you said you lived about 4 hours from Vancouver I was like wait what, so do I lol. It’s funny how small the world can be!
You might enjoy Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday, plus the audiobook is partially narrated by Joshua Jackson.
Trick Shot and Puck Shy by Kayla Grosse are fantastic hockey romance/smut novellas! Highly recommend:)
I love that you said you were a Flames fan to be a contrarian. I grew up in an area where a lot of my friends were hockey players who loved the Bruins and have a lot of family from Ottawa but decided to be a Blackhawks fan in high school just to be kind of annoying lol
Wish my school had wood work and metal work. That would be so cool! Also great for kids who don't want to go to college and would rather learn a trade.
As someone who has never lived anywhere with ice or hockey, this was super informative 😂
Very excited for this hockey vlog in the midst of the Stanley Cup playoffs! (Go Panthers)
The only nice thing I will ever say about Tkachuk is that his Hustle saving that goal was amazing.
Anyway, I love your videos I always feel like I can relate to your content with kids sports and books and I appreciate seeing someone like me on this app. Thanks!
Go Oilers! 😏
perfect timing for my boring wednesday! off topic but wasn’t there a website mentioned in a previous video where you can see what authors have blurbed what books? i’m going nuts trying to find it again!! 😝
that would be fantasticfiction!
Enjoying watching you talk about the Panthers sweeping after Edmonton is forcing game 7 😂
Great video, as always! Btw thank god you didn’t read Icebreaker, i think it's one of the WORST romance book I've ever read. (And I'm a romance girlie)
I agree
Completely 100% agree
and now we are about to go to game 7.... wild series and not what many predicted lol
You not reading Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid, the ultimate enemies-to-lovers hockey romance is A CRIME!!! CRIIIIIMEEEE.
I've been scrolling through the comments to find this recommendation. Honestly, Heated Rivalry and The Long Game by Rachel Reid is not only one of the best hockey romances, it's absolutely spot on enemies to lovers, with such great character development and a great romance overall. Please, please read it Kayla!
@@tweetypieplansandreads when people say there's no good hockey/baseball romance it's clear to me they're not reading the queer ones!
like someone else said if you want more heavy on hockey themes or heavy sports themes in romance novels in general try mm romance! 🤭🤭
When you said Liam has French classes ngl I had war flashbacks
I would looooove to see Lord Stanley come back to Canada, but I do think Florida will end up taking it! 🍁 I also had Rangers and Stars in the finals!! But alas. It has been an entertaining series, for sure.
Poor rob with his predictions 😂
lol go rangers womp womp 😅 I don’t know a lot about hockey but I enjoy it and I enjoy a hockey romance. The Call Me Indian book sounds really good though!
if you're looking for more hockey books with realistic hockey and complex characters check out Cait Nary's books! i especially like season's change
I know nothing about hockey and the stanely cup. I didn't even know Canadian and American team played one another. But I am now invested and need the oilers to win! I love an underdog
Ohmygod, thank you! Hearing the titles hero and heroine being used for normal people makes no sense to me XD. This isn't a fantasy or a superhero story or something where there are good and bad guys, someone wants to destroy or take over the world, there aren't teams teaming up to save a civilization... it's a high school romance... It's an office romcom... It's tennis.
It's become a pet peeve, I've realized.
Didn't know Rob was borned and raised in Mtl! Is French Rob's first language? I loved the Beartown series by Fredrik Backman 🙌
Kayla please do not ready my killer vacation. It was terrible 🫠
I was about to comment this, too 😂
@@MoJordanReads lol I’m glad someone else agrees!
I too have been on a hockey romance kick!!! This is fate!!!!
I'm bummed you missed Him by Sarina Bowen! I would go so far as to say it's considered one of the best hockey romances out there. Something like Icebreaker won't even hold a candle to it.
Have you tried the Hockey series my S.Massery? They are dark romamce but the stories involved are different from the usual.
I just read a sports romance (Formula 1) and there were lots of inaccuracies in the sport part, calling things by the wrong name which fully ruined it for me. I think they're difficult to do well!
I would love a top 10 Indigenous books to read from Kayla. 📖
I have a strong suspicion that you would like Powerless by Elsie Silver. I haven't read it, but I have read the first two in that series. Based on what you have enjoyed it romance, I think the author has a good balance of depth and fun that I feel would be appealing for you!
You should check out the Vancouver wolves series by odette stone. They're not good if yk what I mean. But they're a good time
Only Kayla could make me start Googling hockey games.
Devastated there was no Rachel Reid 😩 Heated Rivalry and The Long Game are god tier hockey romance
Jelly that you got to see Quinnie Hughes on the ice even if it was the ending of their season
Kayla, so good to see someone else having the same response to these SCFs 😂 Panthers and Swiss cheese Bob choking was NOT what I was expecting
Agreed. Heated rivalry is the best romance I've read so far this year.