Hi, everyone! My name is Camilla, and it's
time for another episode of Recent Reads
and Tea! Or rather, it's *over* time for
another episode of Recent Reads and Tea: the
series where I rant and ramble about the
books I've been reading lately and drink
tea! Except I'm not drinking tea today
because I have so many books to talk
about, but I do have a tea recommendation!
Tulsi green tea by Organic India. Not
only is it organic, but it's also fair
trade, so it supports the small farmers
who actually grow the ingredients that
go into the tea. Tulsi is the "holy basil"
of India, so this tea has a much stronger
basily flavor as opposed to green tea,
but it's really really interesting and
delicious, and I highly recommend it! As
always, I'll start with the books that
I'm currently reading. I'm still reading
Ulysses by James Joyce. I'm still reading
John Donne's poetry, but I've also gotten a
chance to start The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I have
read this before, but I'm rereading it
for an individual project for one of my
teaching classes. I will be creating
lesson plans for a unit centered around
Douglas Adams for a high school
classroom, so I'm really excited about
rereading this classic piece of science
fiction from an educator's point of view
instead of just for entertainment! And
hopefully I'll be able to use the lesson
plans that I make in this class for my
future classroom as a teacher! As many of
you know, I co-host a book club with Lexy
from Gaming Readers, and in February, we
read Attachments by Rainbow Rowell which,
I gave five out of five stars! I have
loved every single Rainbow Rowell book
that I've read, and this was no exception.
This is basically about a guy who works
as internet security for this company,
and these two girls who email back and
forth, who are also workers of the
company, and their emails keep getting
flagged, so he has to read them as part
of his job. And I will go ahead and say
that he does feel guilty about that. A
lot of this book is a discussion about
the morality of obligations versus
privacy--but as he continues to read the
emails that keep getting flagged, he starts
to form an interest in their lives
because they're interesting people! Very
good; highly recommend! The book that we
read for March, I also gave 5 out of 5
stars, which was My Grandmother Asked Me
to Tell You *She's Sorry by Frederick
Backman. This is the same author who
wrote A Man Called Ove, which I have not
read. I've never had anything by this
author. but as soon as I read like 10
pages. I knew that this would be an auto-buy
author for me from now on! His
characters are so perfect! He--ah!--his
character development is so perfect! I
was crying and laughing all throughout
this book. I read it slowly because I
wanted to. Usually when it takes me
multiple weeks to read a book, it's
because I'm not that into it, but I
wanted this book to last as long as it
could! That's another one that I highly
recommend, and in April our book club is
reading The Diving Bell and the
Butterfly by Jean Dominique-Bauby. This
is an autobiographical text from a man
who had a stroke and now has locked-in
syndrome. This book was published in 1997, so
I'm not sure if he's made any progress
or if he's even still alive, but at least
when this book was written, he only had
mobility in his left eyelid, so this book
is written completely by him
communicating to a translator by
blinking. So if you'd like to check out
our previous discussions for any of the
books that I mentioned just now, or you
want to join us for future discussions,
then check out the link for the
Milexy Universe Book Club down below! The
next two books I'll be talking about
are books that I read for my Literature
and Film class. So for both of these books, we
read the novel and then watched the movie
adaptation and then discussed. The first
one is Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard, and
the movie adaptation is Jackie Brown by
Quentin Tarantino. I gave the book 3 out
of 5 stars, but I admit that I don't
think that's a good representation for
people who enjoy these kinds of stories,
because I just don't think that I enjoy
these kinds of con-artisty stories. I
enjoyed the movie a lot more. With the
book, I really liked the characters and
the writing style is really interesting.
Elmore Leonard specifically says that he
rewrites "anything that sounds like
writing," and I think that's a really
interesting way to approach writing! The
result is very informal, broken up
language that comes directly from the
character's head, and I will admit that
was very interesting to read even though
I didn't necessarily enjoy the story.
More recently, we read The Grifters by
Jim Thompson. I gave this one four out of
five stars because I thought the
characters were really really well done,
but again it's just not the kind of
story that i would have read on my own
if I weren't reading it for class.
Now let's talk about poetry! Bellocq's
Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey is the
focus text of one of my entire courses:
Critical Thinking and Research Theory. We
read this near the beginning of the
semester--I gave it 5 out of 5 stars,
by the way. We have had... I can't even
relate how much valuable discussion
we've had revolving around this little
collection of poems! We read it a long time
ago, and we've been reading articles and
doing research that relate to it ever
since then, and it's been an invaluable
experience! Next is a tiny poetry book
that I borrowed from the library, and I
just returned it yesterday, and that is
Across the Darkness of the River by Hsi
Muren. I also gave this five out of five
stars. It is a beautiful, tiny collection
of poetry, and I highly recommend it
whether you're just beginning to get
interested in poetry or if you're an
avid poetry reader! She does touch on
the "typical" poetry topics of loss and
love, but she also deals a lot with
memory and history, and I found it--it was
such a perfect little gem of poetry! In
my Teaching Secondary English class, we
read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I
really enjoyed this! I gave it four out of
five--I've never read it before, but this
is one of those classics where I can
really understand why it's a classic! One
of my biggest pet peeves is when science
fiction writers don't understand the
science that they're writing about--I'm
looking at you, Ender's Game--but I feel
like Mary Shelley really understood the
science that was going on in her time
and the past science, and she knew how to
apply it to a fantastic situation! Next
we read the graphic novel adaptation of
Dracula, and I've never read Dracula
before, so I can't compare it to the
original, but I loved the graphic novel
so much! I gave it 5 out of 5 stars. The
art in it is gorgeous, and the way the
text is presented is very cohesive and
comprehensive, which is hard to do with
epistolary texts! And finally i'm going
to talk about the plays that I've read
from my Shakespeare class recently! First
up is Twelfth Night, which I did not
enjoy it all, and I gave it two out of
five stars. I didn't enjoy the writing. I
didn't enjoy the plot at all. But then we
read Hamlet, which I really liked I gave
this one 5 out of 5 stars! I loved the
idea of Hamlet pretending to be insane for the
sake of getting information out of his
uncle. I love detective stuff, but
obviously, Hamlet is not a detective. He
doesn't have the authority to arrest his
uncle and force him to give them
information, so he has to be creative
about it! I also love how the two female
characters in this book are very complex,
and they lead to lots of interesting
discussion about society and psychology.
And then we read Macbeth, which I gave
three out of five stars because I just, I
did not enjoy the plot at all, but the
writing was beautiful, which is what
saved this from being a two-star play, in
my opinion. All right everyone, those are
all the books that i read in February
and in March! I know that there's still
about a week of March left, and I'll
probably read in that because I'm an
English major, but I didn't want the pile
of books that I needed to talk about to
stack up anymore! Thank you all so so
much for watching! Let me know in the
comments if you would like a full video review of any of the books that I
mentioned in this video! Also let me know
what books you've been reading lately!
Which ones you loved, which ones you
hated, and which ones you're in the
middle of ^.^ I hope that you all have a
super wonderful day, and don't forget
that progress is more important than
perfection <3
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