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200 MEGA KNIGHTS vs 200 MAGIC ARCHERS! | Clash Royale

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WWE News - Alberto Del Rio Reveals How Triple H Made Him Cry - Duration: 3:52.

WWE News - Alberto Del Rio Reveals How Triple H Made Him Cry

Alberto Del Rio (now Alberto El Patron with Impact Wrestling), had two tenures with the WWE, both ending in bitter terms. He was fired by the company in 2014 after a confrontation with another WWE employee.

Del Rio returned in 2015, but left last summer after he grew disgruntled with the company for not pushing him and giving two-time WWE Champion "empty promises.

" There's no doubting that Del Rio and WWE officials had a rough working relationship, and he hasn't been afraid to reveal the stories.

Appearing on the Keeping It 100 with Konnan podcast, Del Rio talked about the incident that got him fired, and how he responded. The employee reportedly made a racist joke towards Mexicans, and Del Rio slapped him.

He was later assured that "everything was going to be fine," and WWE understood "he crossed the line.". But Del Rio shared the details about how he received the news, as well as his reaction:.

"Several days later Triple H called me and said that they had to let me go.

He made fun of me and disrespected me yet I'm the one being fired? He responded by saying that he understood, but that they will call me later, just lay low for a while.

I said that if you let me go right now I am going to go work somewhere else, and he stated that if I did that then I may lose the possibility to come back to WWE, and then I said that if that was the case then so be it.

I ended up putting the phone down. It was a rough day where I was even crying.".

After his termination, Del Rio quickly jumped to AAA, where he had previously worked from 2000-02. He then joined other wrestling promotions, including World Wrestling Council, Ring of Honor, Lucha Underground and others.

Del Rio is not the only superstar to have a bitter and controversial departure from the WWE. Guys like Randy Savage, Bret Hart, Ryback and even Hulk Hogan have left under not-so-friendly circumstances.

He has become a main event star in Impact Wrestling, and appears content there.

For Del Rio, it may be best for him to stay away from WWE from now on, considering he hasn't been able to establish a good working relationship there.

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Favorite Books of 2017 - Duration: 18:13.

Hello everybody! My name is Rachel and welcome to my channel Kalanadi. Today I'm

going to talk about my favorite books of 2017... all 20 of them. Because I decided I

was not going to narrow it down any further. 2017 was a really terrible year

in many ways for a bunch of people. For me personally it was not that bad of a

year and I somehow came out of it with a really great reading year when I did not

expect to. So I decided that I was not going to play favorites with my

favorites. I'm not gonna cut it down to an arbitrary top ten just because I'm

supposed to have a shortlist - like who makes up these rules? I can have my own

rules. I want to celebrate every single one of the books that I think were my

favorites of the year. That I loved reading the most, that impacted me the

most, and that I still think about now. Because I can! As far as order goes, there

really isn't one, though if you're paying very close attention you may notice that

the first ten are in the order in which I read them, and then the second 10 are

also in the order in which I read them. That's the result of how I made the list

and I didn't feel like reorganizing it in any other way. So with that said, let's

get straight into it. #1 is The Invention of Nature: Alexander von

Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf. This is a biography of Alexander von Humboldt,

who was an incredibly important and influential scientist, who's mostly been

forgotten, even though he had a huge impact on the next generation of

scientists, whom we remember very well. This was probably the first real

biography I've ever read - the first one that I elected to read on my own. And I

loved it. Wulf's writing style is perfect. She draws you into Humboldt's

life as if it is a story. She tells people's lives as stories, and I love the

way that she quotes the. She uses bits from their correspondence and their own

words to bring them to life again on the page. This book is just packed with so

many fascinating details about Humboldt's life and the era of

scientific inquiry that he lived in. And I've been compelled by this to go

off and read everything else that Wulf has written because a lot of it is in

the same time period and just as wonderful. But this is where my love for

Wulf's books began. #2 is China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh - one

of those rare books that I knew was going to be a favorite from the very first

chapter. You can just feel that little zing: you know it's going to be the one.

This is kind of a near future science fiction... possibly dystopian novel... but not

really? In it America has gone through a socialist revolution. China is now the

dominant world power, including in the US, and the main character - who is American

Born Chinese - is gay, which is highly stigmatized and illegal. And he's trying

to live his life, mostly falling through the cracks in this big system that

doesn't like what he actually is, and he needs to get training and get a career

and make money and live. It was wonderful. I did an entire video about it which was

very gushy and possibly not very coherent. #3 is Embassytown by

China Mieville. At this point if you watch my channel for a little while,

you've probably noticed I have this thing for science fiction about aliens

and their languages, communicating across species boundaries, but mostly alien

linguistics and this book has all of that. It is really about how difficult it

is and how truly impossible sometimes it might be to communicate with an alien

species that doesn't think it doesn't operate the way that you do and also

about how language can affect the way that things think and that changing

thinking might involve changing language vice-versa it was fascinating and I

think I did a better job at explaining what the book is about in a weekly

wrapup at one point number four is orbital cloud by tayo Fuji translated

from Japanese by Timothy silver this is a science fiction thriller that actually

really thrilled me and had me glued to the page basically North Korea manages

to launch something into orbit which is going to threaten possibly destroy all

these satellite communications for the entire

world and a group of international scientists spies etc has to stop this

it's a lot about orbital mechanics and how you get things into orbit and out of

orbit and moving around up there I ate up all of the details I love the

technology I love the characters it was really thrilling and I did a full review

of it number five is the Raven stratagem by Yoon Holly another one I've already

done a separate video on this is the sequel to a nine foxy gambit which I

also loved though I'm thinking at this point that the rapist stratagem was even

a little bit better than nine Foxx gambit for me just a little bit it is a

very different book so comparing the experience of reading them is maybe not

the best but I loved being immersed in the world again it's very tricky to

figure out and I love that I love that it's not spoon fed to the reader and I

definitely have my favorite characters some very dubious in nature that I might

be rooting for cannot wait for the last one number six is a bit of a shocker

because I initially picked up this book based solely on the beautiful fiery

cover art by Vic tone I and then I loved the inside of it and it also broke my

heart a little bit this book is Amber Lowe by Laura Elena

Donnelly I wouldn't call this fantasy because I don't think there's magic in

it but it's definitely set in a secondary world kind of modeled on

Germany pre-world War two it is about the rise of fascism in a state

particularly in the city of amber Lo and the inhabitants that have to deal with

this the characters are a smuggler a dancer and a spy and will they get out

in time or will they stay and fight from the inside I believe this is Donnelly's

debut novel and what a debut it is number seven is a cracking creation by

Jennifer Doudna and Samuel H Sternberg this is a nonfiction work about the

discovery of CRISPR cast 9 and the call to action to discuss how to regulate

this technique for gene editing and to consider the ethical implications of its

use so crisper is a new method for editing genes it is a very cost

effective quick precise accurate in a way that a lot of the previous clunky

expensive methods were never going to be I love this book for like three reasons

I mean the first one is that I just love reading about genetics and this was a

really great book about genetics and how it actually works but two is that it's

an incredibly compelling story about a scientific discovery that happened very

quickly the third thing is that I just really appreciate that doubted herself

as person who's responsible for this discovery and is poised to make a lot of

money from it it's actually the one coming out and saying hey we need to

think about the ethics of this we need to regulate it we have to be responsible

for our own creations and discoveries and I just really admire that attitude

number eight is the stone sky by NK jemisin the stunning conclusion to and

already very strong as series I can't see too much about it because you know

spoiler risk but I really feel like Jefferson stuck the landing perfectly on

this one it's probably one of the best series conclusions I've ever read

balancing giving all of the answers that I expected but not going too far and

over explaining and I didn't go on too long it ended when the story needed to

end it just it was amazing number nine is raising the stones by

Sheree s temper I love this book mostly because I felt at the end of it that I

gone on a very long journey and loved every step along the way and then got to

a conclusion and they're wrapping up of all the various storylines where it was

almost wish fulfillment because I I got the endings I hoped for and the good

things I hope for but they weren't so perfect as to feel contrived it was like

it was a balancing act it just worked but I also love this book because it

finally overcame my two major criticisms of tempers work that I read previously

it did everything that I had hoped her works would do with multiple points of

view multiple religions and lots of subtleties

and good and bad things for both or it's very hard to point to any one thing and

say oh this is what's wrong it needs to be fixed there are bad guys but there's

like actual explanations for how they became bad guys and really it's the

story of different religions conflicting with each other and a lot more as well

number 10 is the Seon summer by George Turner a science fiction novel about the

social impact of climate change in the far future this one I've already done a

full review on so I will refer you to that if you want to know more but I

think it says a lot that this is one of those rare books that at the end of the

year I had to upgrade to a five-star book because I just kept thinking about

it and how great it was number eleven is six weeks by mer Lafferty the crew of a

spaceship in deep space wake up and freshly cloned bodies and have to figure

out which of them killed all of their previous bodies it's a murder mystery in

a locked room scenario in this case on a space ship and I ate it up for the

mystery for the cloning aspect which was very well thought out and then I had to

be on this list because I kept being reminded of this book all year long I

would read something and connect it back to this I've also done a full review of

it which will be much fresher thoughts on it that I have a year later number

twelve is seven surrenders by ADA Palmer this is some weird metaphysical

philosophical possibly utopian far future science fiction I don't even know

if that's a good description because I'm not sure if it's actually a utopia or

not but it's definitely very into metaphysics this is the direct sequel to

- like the lightning which was also one of my favorite books of 2016 very much

on par with the quality of the first book and I loved it more because I got

so many answers a lot of things pay off in this one and it had my mind just

madly churning trying to figure things out before they're explicitly answered

by characters so it was it was fun just the story and the ideas but also the joy

of trying to figure things out before it's revealed

I loved it and I can't wait for more number 13 is a maka by Karen Ted Beck

translated from Swedish by the author and the past I may criticize some books

for being heavier on atmosphere than actually telling a story but this one I

loved because of the way that it felt because of the atmosphere created by the

writing which is very simple and efficient but clear I don't know how to

describe the atmosphere of it in some ways it makes me feel melancholy just

thinking of this world which is rather bleak but it was beautiful too this is

another story that also uses language language is used to create and shape

physical objects from this alien environment and the names and labels of

things have to be constantly reinforced so that they don't melt back into this

alien goo substance some really cool ideas but mainly I loved the way it made

me feel and that I actually dragged out reading the book so that I could prolong

the experience number fourteen no surprise to finally see this on a

favorites list new york 21 a forty by Kim Stanley Robinson I really fail at

describing the plot of this book in a nutshell because there's so much going

on in it but this is a climate change environmental novel that is also very

heavily about the economy and the financial world and there's a lot of

info dumping about how all this works number fifteen is another book about

genetics called the epigenetics revolution by Nessa Kerry this one I

will say up front I don't know if this will really be other people's favorite

book it is not a light easy non-fiction read by by any means but for me I

learned so much from this book it was a much more technical cutting-edge book

about recent discoveries and genetics rather than just rehashing the history

of the field again and that is what I wanted it read a bit like a textbook at

times but that's also kind of what I wanted I think this was the first book

on genetics proper that I read in 2017 and it really got me off on this journey

to read more in that area and it was extremely rewarding number 16 the name

of the rose by Umberto Eco translated from Italian by William Weaver I have

spoken about this book multiple times as one of my favorite wreaths of the year

I'm not sure what more to say about it than that it is it's a mystery novel and

I love the mystery in it I love the untangling of clues and more mysteries

and deaths piling up it's also historical fiction and it really dives

into theological discussions which I didn't always follow but the whole thing

is rich in detail wonderfully told just a good story that will really appeal to

people who love libraries and books because you know a library is at the

heart of the story number 17 is the fall of language and the age of English by my

name is Remora this is translated from Japanese by Juliet winters carpenter and

Mari Yoshihara I would basically say this is an

extended essay in which emizner Mora is talking about choosing to write and

publish and one's native non-english language in a world dominated by English

where English is an international language and kind of a default language

for books and publishing and not publishing in English can put a writer

especially a new writer at a disadvantage and greatly limit their

reach and how many how many readers they can have this is also missing mortis

thoughts on languages are on national language as local languages and the

literature's the canons of literature that various languages have or don't

have and why and and what that means and what that feels like I'm not sure that I

can agree or disagree with or even pass judgment of any type on what busy Mora

is saying in this book but for me it made me think much more about what

reading translated fiction does for me because when I'm reading translated

works I'm reading something translated into a

language that the author wasn't thinking in wasn't writing in and didn't choose

to publish in so what does that mean and the sense that I'm really accessing

something different a different way of living a different way of thinking and

of telling stories when I read something that was not written in the language

that I think in number eighteen continues the language theme with the

art of language invention by David J Peterson I love this because the topic

creating invented languages has been very near and dear to me for most of my

life at this point but this is also just a really great book about how to create

constructed languages in a realistic fashion about grammar in linguistics and

how languages actually work and evolve so appealing in many ways very

well-written quite funny but also I felt like it was reconnecting me to my

childhood in some ways the last two books on this list I would categorize as

plain old fun reads that I flat-out enjoyed number 19 is children of time by

Adrienne Tchaikovsky I really loved seeing the rise and evolution of one

species pitted against the fall and the evolution of another and never thought I

would be rooting so much for spiders and last number 20 is all systems read by

Martha Wells about murder BOTS a soldier unit that cracks its governance module

becomes autonomous but really doesn't want to have anything to do with other

people it's very anxious and just wants to watch trashy entertainment videos all

the time but it might have to end up doing more and those are my favorite

books of 2017 perhaps an odd mishmash of books I enjoy just for the sheer great

storytelling and fun and some more serious things that changed the way I

thought or set me off on new directions to read in I know I called it a success

I have two aims with my reading to enjoy things but also to learn things I think

that for once my favorites list of the year really reflects both of those

things and not just having fun with that I think I will bring my year

of reading to a close thank you very much for watching and thank you all of

you for making a wonderful year for me as well

there is always the pleasure in reading but I also have the pleasure of sharing

what I'm reading and my thoughts with all of you and hearing your thoughts as

well and I appreciate that very very much so thank you and I will talk to you

again in my next video and until then bye

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Favorite Books of 2017 - Duration: 18:13.

Hello everybody! My name is Rachel and welcome to my channel Kalanadi. Today I'm

going to talk about my favorite books of 2017... all 20 of them. Because I decided I

was not going to narrow it down any further. 2017 was a really terrible year

in many ways for a bunch of people. For me personally it was not that bad of a

year and I somehow came out of it with a really great reading year when I did not

expect to. So I decided that I was not going to play favorites with my

favorites. I'm not gonna cut it down to an arbitrary top ten just because I'm

supposed to have a shortlist - like who makes up these rules? I can have my own

rules. I want to celebrate every single one of the books that I think were my

favorites of the year. That I loved reading the most, that impacted me the

most, and that I still think about now. Because I can! As far as order goes, there

really isn't one, though if you're paying very close attention you may notice that

the first ten are in the order in which I read them, and then the second 10 are

also in the order in which I read them. That's the result of how I made the list

and I didn't feel like reorganizing it in any other way. So with that said, let's

get straight into it. #1 is The Invention of Nature: Alexander von

Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf. This is a biography of Alexander von Humboldt,

who was an incredibly important and influential scientist, who's mostly been

forgotten, even though he had a huge impact on the next generation of

scientists, whom we remember very well. This was probably the first real

biography I've ever read - the first one that I elected to read on my own. And I

loved it. Wulf's writing style is perfect. She draws you into Humboldt's

life as if it is a story. She tells people's lives as stories, and I love the

way that she quotes the. She uses bits from their correspondence and their own

words to bring them to life again on the page. This book is just packed with so

many fascinating details about Humboldt's life and the era of

scientific inquiry that he lived in. And I've been compelled by this to go

off and read everything else that Wulf has written because a lot of it is in

the same time period and just as wonderful. But this is where my love for

Wulf's books began. #2 is China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh - one

of those rare books that I knew was going to be a favorite from the very first

chapter. You can just feel that little zing: you know it's going to be the one.

This is kind of a near future science fiction... possibly dystopian novel... but not

really? In it America has gone through a socialist revolution. China is now the

dominant world power, including in the US, and the main character - who is American

Born Chinese - is gay, which is highly stigmatized and illegal. And he's trying

to live his life, mostly falling through the cracks in this big system that

doesn't like what he actually is, and he needs to get training and get a career

and make money and live. It was wonderful. I did an entire video about it which was

very gushy and possibly not very coherent. #3 is Embassytown by

China Mieville. At this point if you watch my channel for a little while,

you've probably noticed I have this thing for science fiction about aliens

and their languages, communicating across species boundaries, but mostly alien

linguistics and this book has all of that. It is really about how difficult it

is and how truly impossible sometimes it might be to communicate with an alien

species that doesn't think it doesn't operate the way that you do and also

about how language can affect the way that things think and that changing

thinking might involve changing language vice-versa it was fascinating and I

think I did a better job at explaining what the book is about in a weekly

wrapup at one point number four is orbital cloud by tayo Fuji translated

from Japanese by Timothy silver this is a science fiction thriller that actually

really thrilled me and had me glued to the page basically North Korea manages

to launch something into orbit which is going to threaten possibly destroy all

these satellite communications for the entire

world and a group of international scientists spies etc has to stop this

it's a lot about orbital mechanics and how you get things into orbit and out of

orbit and moving around up there I ate up all of the details I love the

technology I love the characters it was really thrilling and I did a full review

of it number five is the Raven stratagem by Yoon Holly another one I've already

done a separate video on this is the sequel to a nine foxy gambit which I

also loved though I'm thinking at this point that the rapist stratagem was even

a little bit better than nine Foxx gambit for me just a little bit it is a

very different book so comparing the experience of reading them is maybe not

the best but I loved being immersed in the world again it's very tricky to

figure out and I love that I love that it's not spoon fed to the reader and I

definitely have my favorite characters some very dubious in nature that I might

be rooting for cannot wait for the last one number six is a bit of a shocker

because I initially picked up this book based solely on the beautiful fiery

cover art by Vic tone I and then I loved the inside of it and it also broke my

heart a little bit this book is Amber Lowe by Laura Elena

Donnelly I wouldn't call this fantasy because I don't think there's magic in

it but it's definitely set in a secondary world kind of modeled on

Germany pre-world War two it is about the rise of fascism in a state

particularly in the city of amber Lo and the inhabitants that have to deal with

this the characters are a smuggler a dancer and a spy and will they get out

in time or will they stay and fight from the inside I believe this is Donnelly's

debut novel and what a debut it is number seven is a cracking creation by

Jennifer Doudna and Samuel H Sternberg this is a nonfiction work about the

discovery of CRISPR cast 9 and the call to action to discuss how to regulate

this technique for gene editing and to consider the ethical implications of its

use so crisper is a new method for editing genes it is a very cost

effective quick precise accurate in a way that a lot of the previous clunky

expensive methods were never going to be I love this book for like three reasons

I mean the first one is that I just love reading about genetics and this was a

really great book about genetics and how it actually works but two is that it's

an incredibly compelling story about a scientific discovery that happened very

quickly the third thing is that I just really appreciate that doubted herself

as person who's responsible for this discovery and is poised to make a lot of

money from it it's actually the one coming out and saying hey we need to

think about the ethics of this we need to regulate it we have to be responsible

for our own creations and discoveries and I just really admire that attitude

number eight is the stone sky by NK jemisin the stunning conclusion to and

already very strong as series I can't see too much about it because you know

spoiler risk but I really feel like Jefferson stuck the landing perfectly on

this one it's probably one of the best series conclusions I've ever read

balancing giving all of the answers that I expected but not going too far and

over explaining and I didn't go on too long it ended when the story needed to

end it just it was amazing number nine is raising the stones by

Sheree s temper I love this book mostly because I felt at the end of it that I

gone on a very long journey and loved every step along the way and then got to

a conclusion and they're wrapping up of all the various storylines where it was

almost wish fulfillment because I I got the endings I hoped for and the good

things I hope for but they weren't so perfect as to feel contrived it was like

it was a balancing act it just worked but I also love this book because it

finally overcame my two major criticisms of tempers work that I read previously

it did everything that I had hoped her works would do with multiple points of

view multiple religions and lots of subtleties

and good and bad things for both or it's very hard to point to any one thing and

say oh this is what's wrong it needs to be fixed there are bad guys but there's

like actual explanations for how they became bad guys and really it's the

story of different religions conflicting with each other and a lot more as well

number 10 is the Seon summer by George Turner a science fiction novel about the

social impact of climate change in the far future this one I've already done a

full review on so I will refer you to that if you want to know more but I

think it says a lot that this is one of those rare books that at the end of the

year I had to upgrade to a five-star book because I just kept thinking about

it and how great it was number eleven is six weeks by mer Lafferty the crew of a

spaceship in deep space wake up and freshly cloned bodies and have to figure

out which of them killed all of their previous bodies it's a murder mystery in

a locked room scenario in this case on a space ship and I ate it up for the

mystery for the cloning aspect which was very well thought out and then I had to

be on this list because I kept being reminded of this book all year long I

would read something and connect it back to this I've also done a full review of

it which will be much fresher thoughts on it that I have a year later number

twelve is seven surrenders by ADA Palmer this is some weird metaphysical

philosophical possibly utopian far future science fiction I don't even know

if that's a good description because I'm not sure if it's actually a utopia or

not but it's definitely very into metaphysics this is the direct sequel to

- like the lightning which was also one of my favorite books of 2016 very much

on par with the quality of the first book and I loved it more because I got

so many answers a lot of things pay off in this one and it had my mind just

madly churning trying to figure things out before they're explicitly answered

by characters so it was it was fun just the story and the ideas but also the joy

of trying to figure things out before it's revealed

I loved it and I can't wait for more number 13 is a maka by Karen Ted Beck

translated from Swedish by the author and the past I may criticize some books

for being heavier on atmosphere than actually telling a story but this one I

loved because of the way that it felt because of the atmosphere created by the

writing which is very simple and efficient but clear I don't know how to

describe the atmosphere of it in some ways it makes me feel melancholy just

thinking of this world which is rather bleak but it was beautiful too this is

another story that also uses language language is used to create and shape

physical objects from this alien environment and the names and labels of

things have to be constantly reinforced so that they don't melt back into this

alien goo substance some really cool ideas but mainly I loved the way it made

me feel and that I actually dragged out reading the book so that I could prolong

the experience number fourteen no surprise to finally see this on a

favorites list new york 21 a forty by Kim Stanley Robinson I really fail at

describing the plot of this book in a nutshell because there's so much going

on in it but this is a climate change environmental novel that is also very

heavily about the economy and the financial world and there's a lot of

info dumping about how all this works number fifteen is another book about

genetics called the epigenetics revolution by Nessa Kerry this one I

will say up front I don't know if this will really be other people's favorite

book it is not a light easy non-fiction read by by any means but for me I

learned so much from this book it was a much more technical cutting-edge book

about recent discoveries and genetics rather than just rehashing the history

of the field again and that is what I wanted it read a bit like a textbook at

times but that's also kind of what I wanted I think this was the first book

on genetics proper that I read in 2017 and it really got me off on this journey

to read more in that area and it was extremely rewarding number 16 the name

of the rose by Umberto Eco translated from Italian by William Weaver I have

spoken about this book multiple times as one of my favorite wreaths of the year

I'm not sure what more to say about it than that it is it's a mystery novel and

I love the mystery in it I love the untangling of clues and more mysteries

and deaths piling up it's also historical fiction and it really dives

into theological discussions which I didn't always follow but the whole thing

is rich in detail wonderfully told just a good story that will really appeal to

people who love libraries and books because you know a library is at the

heart of the story number 17 is the fall of language and the age of English by my

name is Remora this is translated from Japanese by Juliet winters carpenter and

Mari Yoshihara I would basically say this is an

extended essay in which emizner Mora is talking about choosing to write and

publish and one's native non-english language in a world dominated by English

where English is an international language and kind of a default language

for books and publishing and not publishing in English can put a writer

especially a new writer at a disadvantage and greatly limit their

reach and how many how many readers they can have this is also missing mortis

thoughts on languages are on national language as local languages and the

literature's the canons of literature that various languages have or don't

have and why and and what that means and what that feels like I'm not sure that I

can agree or disagree with or even pass judgment of any type on what busy Mora

is saying in this book but for me it made me think much more about what

reading translated fiction does for me because when I'm reading translated

works I'm reading something translated into a

language that the author wasn't thinking in wasn't writing in and didn't choose

to publish in so what does that mean and the sense that I'm really accessing

something different a different way of living a different way of thinking and

of telling stories when I read something that was not written in the language

that I think in number eighteen continues the language theme with the

art of language invention by David J Peterson I love this because the topic

creating invented languages has been very near and dear to me for most of my

life at this point but this is also just a really great book about how to create

constructed languages in a realistic fashion about grammar in linguistics and

how languages actually work and evolve so appealing in many ways very

well-written quite funny but also I felt like it was reconnecting me to my

childhood in some ways the last two books on this list I would categorize as

plain old fun reads that I flat-out enjoyed number 19 is children of time by

Adrienne Tchaikovsky I really loved seeing the rise and evolution of one

species pitted against the fall and the evolution of another and never thought I

would be rooting so much for spiders and last number 20 is all systems read by

Martha Wells about murder BOTS a soldier unit that cracks its governance module

becomes autonomous but really doesn't want to have anything to do with other

people it's very anxious and just wants to watch trashy entertainment videos all

the time but it might have to end up doing more and those are my favorite

books of 2017 perhaps an odd mishmash of books I enjoy just for the sheer great

storytelling and fun and some more serious things that changed the way I

thought or set me off on new directions to read in I know I called it a success

I have two aims with my reading to enjoy things but also to learn things I think

that for once my favorites list of the year really reflects both of those

things and not just having fun with that I think I will bring my year

of reading to a close thank you very much for watching and thank you all of

you for making a wonderful year for me as well

there is always the pleasure in reading but I also have the pleasure of sharing

what I'm reading and my thoughts with all of you and hearing your thoughts as

well and I appreciate that very very much so thank you and I will talk to you

again in my next video and until then bye

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