Hey guys, Katie here. How's it going?
Today I'm going to do a little bit of a wrap-up.
I haven't done one since November, and I've actually been reading a lot of books.
The first two books I'm going to mention, I think I've mentioned before.
I talked about one of them a lot, because I took forever to read it.
One of them was BUFFERING by Hannah Hart,
and the other one was JAM ON THE VINE by LaShonda Katrice Barnett.
I read BUFFERING in December. I really like Hannah Hart.
I just appreciate her as a person, and as
somebody who's on YouTube, who doesn't
feel like a total fake to me. And I was
really excited to read her book, because
I knew that she's been through a lot in
her life and she deals a lot with mental illness,
so I thought that it would be something that I would like, and I did
enjoy it. I didn't think it was amazing,
but I hope that she'll continue to write.
I loved reading the really honest parts
about her struggles with coming to terms
with her sexuality, and her mother's
mental illness. I think those were the
parts that were really strong. So I hope
that she keeps writing, I'm sure she will.
I would love to read something else by
her. I really just like her a lot.
For JAM ON THE VINE, I filmed a book review for that,
that should be up, it should already
be it but it's not. But JAM ON THE VINE
was a really great book. It's about a young
black woman in the early nineteen
hundreds, who wants to write for and
start her own newspaper. And later on, it
really talks a lot about the mass
incarceration of black men, and the
different like riots and things that
happened, and injustices committed
against black people in those in those
years, in the beginning of the 1900s.
Another thing about JAM ON THE VINE that I
didn't realize going into it is that the
main character is a lesbian. I think I
said it before, but I've never read a
book from the perspective of a black
woman in that time period, and in
particular, I've never read a book about
a black lesbian that time period.
Check out my review when it's up, because I
highly recommend JAM ON THE VINE.
The next book that I read, I talked about a lot,
it is THE BURNING WORLD by Isaac Marion,
the sequel to WARM BODIES, which was also
a movie. And I've talked about this at
length, so I'm not going to go into any detail.
I just hope that you are considering it, because
I think that it's a really amazing book,
and Isaac Marion is a wonderful writer,
and I just think it deserves to be read!
So, it's the second book in a series of
three and the third book is hopefully
coming out at the end of the year. It's
called THE LIVING, I think. So be on the
lookout for that, and if you're not going
to read it now, maybe consider reading it
then and then you can read the whole
thing! So in February, I was attempting to
read some books for Black History Month,
and I only finished one, but I have two more
that I'm working on. So the one that I
finished was CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC
by Claudia Rankine. And I didn't even
know what it was, I just heard about it
so much, and it was so impactful and so
beautiful and sad. The beginning is kind
of in the form of poems about
microaggressions that black people have
to deal with on a daily basis, and then
there is a chapter that's all about
Serena Williams, and how she deals with
racism, not just in America, but
internationally. And how people treat her
differently because of her race. There's
so much more that she covers. So many
stories about people, who deserve to have
their stories told. And it was, like I
said, beautiful and kind of eye-opening,
despite already kind of having an
understanding of microaggressions and
racism... but it can't hurt to learn more,
and to read more. And I think that I
definitely see why I heard about it so
much. It's definitely an important book.
The next book that I read was BLEAKER HOUSE by Nell Stevens.
And, I'm putting out a review for that this week with my
review of BROTHER'S RUIN by Emma Neuman,
so be sure to check that out. It's sort of
a memoir about Nell Stevens' experience
of going to this isolated island in the
Falklands, and trying to write a book and
failing. And so, it's kind of beautiful
because it's about failure, and it's also
about writing. I enjoyed it, but I didn't
absolutely love it, but I do really like
her writing. I think her writing, especially the
descriptions of nature, and the memoir
pieces were really really good. So, I'm
looking forward to see where else she
writes. After that I read BROTHER'S RUIN by
Emma Newman and I really loved BROTHER'S RUIN.
It wasn't perfect, and it was a lot
of setup. It's a novella, so it's kind of
hard to say, "no I don't have time for
that," because I read it in like two
sittings... only two, because the first
time I didn't have time to read. It's
really great. Like I said, I'm putting out
a review for that this week, so check it
out. And I also have been trying to do
reviews on Goodreads and I'm hoping to
start adding them to my blog soon. So you
can check out my review on Goodreads if
you're interested now, or you can wait
until my review comes out, hopefully later
this week! And then finally, the last book
that I finished was THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE by Meg Elison.
It's a post-apocalyptic story about a nurse
midwife, and kind of her journey from when this
flu kind of wipes everybody out, and she
survives it, to when... I guess her story
ends? I don't know how to describe it.
I hated the beginning, I loved the rest of
it, and so I will say to you: if you're
thing about reading this, read it! And if
you struggle in the beginning, just push
on through because it's really worth it.
It's very dark and sad. I t's probably my
favorite of all the post-apocalyptic
stories I've read. And I've read quite a
few. So, that's something.
A couple of books that I'm working on right now, just
so you know: I am reading THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson.
It's very large, and I actually just got it from
Overdrive so I have the physical book,
but now I have the e-book, I think it'll
be easier to read. And that's really
interesting. That's a really interesting
book, because it's talking about this
migration of black people out of the
south, and it spans like this huge chunk
of time, and nobody talks about it. This
is the kind of thing that I'm really
interested in, the history that we don't
learn in school, that we should learn. And
I am I'm really enjoying it. And then I
also have THE FIRE THIS Time by Jesmyn Ward
I heard so much about this when it
came out, I think, last year,
and I haven't really started it yet. I
read the foreword, but I only have it for
like another week, so I should finish it
this week. But those were two of my Black
History Month reads. Finally, I just
started THE STARS ARE LEGION by Kameron Hurley.
So, I've never read any of her
work before. I saw the alternative book
cover that said LESBIANS IN SPACE on it, and I
was like--anyway I started it and just
like, this is incredible. It's incredible.
And it reminds me a lot of ANCILLARY JUSTICE,
And I really liked that, so I
think it's going to be fantastic, and I'm
not surprised about that at all. So
anyway, I'll update you guys when I
finish those books. It might be a while for
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, but it's
definitely a work in progress and
getting there. So let me know if you've read
any of these books, or if you're going to
read any of them... I would love to talk to
you in the comments and I will see you
next time, bye!
you
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