Hi everyone. I'm rincey and this is rincey reads. Today i'm going to be doing
my june wrap-up part 2. I'm going to be talking about all of the books that I
finished in the second half of the month. I have plenty to talk about. So let's
jump right in. Actually, before I jump in to the books that I read, I do want to
mention that last week I put up a video of my 10 at least popular books on my
TBR. I just want to point that out in case you missed it. I went through my
physical TBR and I looked up every single one on Goodreads to see which one
had the least amount of reviews and ratings and just talked about them a
little bit in that video. And it was kind of fun.
Link to that will be up in the cards. You can check that out if you haven't
already. A lot of you guys seem to really enjoy that as well. And I just thought it
was fun to talk about some under-the-radar books that could
potentially use a little bit more love. Alright so the first book I'm going to
mention is a reread. And I don't typically do a lot of rereads. But what
has been happening more frequently recently is that I am listening to
audiobooks and doing like reread the books through audiobooks. And something
about that is just so appealing to me. Like last winter I started re-reading the
Harry Potter books through audiobook. And I didn't get through all of them. I think
I got through two or three and then I stopped because I wanted to do other
things. And then recently on hoopla, they added all of Marissa Meyers books. So I
decided to listen to cinder by Marissa Meyer. I'm not gonna do a whole spiel on
this book because I read this when it originally came out, which was like in
2014 or 2013 or something along those lines. And I really enjoyed it back then
and I had followed the series all the way through and really enjoyed the books.
I was actually talking about this book with someone recently and, because
we were talking about like fairytale retellings. And so I was talking about
how much I love this book and then they decided to pick it up. And then I was
like, 'ah crap, what if it doesn't like hold up anymore?' And then I saw it on hoopla. So I
decided to listen to it. And luckily, for me at least, it does hold up. It is like
the most predictable out of the entire series. It follows the Cinderella story
line like so closely. It's like so obvious what's gonna happen. Like I think
even when I originally read it, I saw a lot of the plot points happen. But yeah,
it was just kind of nice to jump back into this world. I loved Iko to death
still. And yeah, I probably will be slowly
working my way through the audiobook versions of this. And I'm especially
excited to see sort of how Scarlet holds up for me because I did not enjoy
Scarlet very much. I mean, I still liked it. It's my least favorite out of the
four and I'm kind of just intrigued to see how that one holds up for me.
Especially because I think that's also the one I remember the least of because
I didn't enjoy it as much. So yeah, I'm gonna link to my super old cinder review.
Do not judge me on that video because it's so old. The lighting is terrible. The sound is
terrible. The way I talk is terrible. Like, oh man, old rincey definitely was not
comfortable in front of cameras as much as she is now. So yes, cinder. Still
really enjoy it. The other audiobook I listened to this month was the kiss
quotient by Helen Hoang. This is also on hoopla and I ended up picking this one
up because I got kind of sick and I couldn't look at screens and I wanted to
read but I didn't really want to hold up a book. So I found this on hoopla and
decided to give it a go. I gave this one a 3 out of 5 stars. I liked it I didn't
love it. There are parts of it I like super duper enjoyed and there's parts of
it that were just kind of okay for me. So in this story, you are following this
character named Stella who has Asperger's and she's around 30 years old.
She works as like an engineer or computer programmer or something along those
lines. And she has made like so much money. But the one thing that she is like
super terrible at is relationships. And she does want to like get married or
have a serious relationship. And so what she decides to do is to hire an escort
basically to teach her how to do things like kiss and have sex and things like that.
So she does that. She ends up hiring this
escort named Michael Phan who is half Vietnamese, half Swedish, I want to say.
He's half white. So when they first meet, she like sort of lays out what she wants and
she asks him if he's willing to like basically do like a 6-month teaching
lesson or something along those lines. Or like a three months teaching lesson
or something like that to slowly teach her all the different things that she
needs to know about like the physical aspects of a relationship. And then they
basically just like slowly fall for each other. And then they like realize that
she doesn't need to just learned the physical aspects but
she also needs to know like what it's like being a girlfriend and what it's
like being in a relationship and things along those lines.
So yeah the parts of this book that I really enjoyed are the characters
themselves. Stella is such a fantastic character and it's also really great to
follow a character who has Asperger's. I believe that the author herself is also
on the spectrum. So you know that like the things that Stella is going through
is relatively accurate to what it's like to be on the autism spectrum. They do a
really, really great job of talking about the things that are triggers for her, the
things that are really difficult for her to deal with. And also show how she's
able to overcome those things and live a relatively like normal life, how like her
being on the spectrum doesn't mean that she has to be this like closeted weirdo.
Like one of the things I really like about this book is that Stella is
portrayed as being like really successful and relatively likable. Like
she's not super duper like off-putting to everyone that she comes into contact
with. But she just has a hard time with certain aspects of relationships. And
obviously they talk about how it's like difficult for her to read certain social
cues and things like that. And I think that the way Michael in the story
handles that as well as the way that he like accommodates her and things like
that is like really sweet and really touching. What I didn't like about the
book is like how sex heavy it is. I mean, I know that sounds kind of weird cause
this is basically a romance book and like they tell you that Stella wants to
learn like how to have sex. But they basically just start having sex
immediately and it feels like they just constantly have sex. Like I don't know if
it's just because I was listening to it in one like straight listen. But it just
felt like it was so much sex. And maybe it's just me being a prude but it just
felt, I don't know. It just felt like too much for me at times. And then also like
the way the story goes. Like things that happen in the second half of the book
just feel a little bit too outrageous I suppose you can say for me. I don't know
like the way everything wraps up is just nice and sweet. And again it wasn't a bad
book by any means but I think it's just personally not my favorite romance novel
that I've read. But again the fact that I'm enjoying these romance novels
are great. And I think that the author is writing a second book in the series. And
it's not following the same characters, Stella and Michael. You're actually
following I think it's Michael's cousin who also has autism. So I'm kind of
intrigued to see how that plays out. So I probably will pick up the next book in
this series. But again, this wasn't like my favorite romance by any means.
All right, the next book that I finished was Undead girl gang by Lily Anderson. This
is a pretty new young adult book. This book was pitched as Veronica Mars meets
the craft, which is 100% the reason why I ended up picking this one up. So in this
story, you are mainly following this character named Mila Flores who is a
teenager. She's in high school and her best friend and basically only friend
Riley ends up dead. She's like found in the creek and people just assumed that
it's a suicide. But Miley is very much convinced that it was murder or
something happened to her because there's no reason why Riley would ever
be in or near the creek. And this death happened shortly after two other girls
from their high school were found hanging in what seems to be sort of like
a suicide pact sort of situation. So people are wondering if like Riley was a
part of that or is just like amongst this trend of girls in their high school
committing suicide, something along those lines. So Riley and Mila were basically
like practicing Wicca. So she decides that she is going to try to use the
spells that she finds in order to bring Riley back to life, at least temporarily
to figure out what exactly happened in her death. But when she does the spell,
not only does Riley come back to life but so do the two other girls who
recently died. Then you just follow them as they try to figure out what exactly
happened in their death. Because when they came come back to life, they don't
remember everything that happened immediately right before they died.
So it's sort of like the story of crazy hijinks as these three basically zombies
are wandering the earth trying to both hide as well as to see the people that
they love and they're not gonna be able to see anymore as well as trying to
figure out what exactly happened here. So yeah, this is another book that got a
three out of five stars for me. It's very like addicting page-turner, very unique
plot. There's a lot of things in here that just don't seem-- it seems kind of
stupid to say don't seem realistic cause like it's a story about zombies. But like
even within the zombie-ness, some of it just didn't really click with me. There are
situations where people see the zombies and I feel like
the reaction is a little bit underrated, sort of. Like people aren't asking as
many questions as I feel like they should be asking when they see people
that they know are dead. But again really fun book. It's really interesting
to see sort of where it goes because it does not go where I think it's going to
go or where I thought it was going to go at all. Like the last 50 to 75 pages,
there's like this major thing that happens and then from then on it's sort
of like a roller coaster to see how it all wraps up. It's pretty unique.
Like I don't think I've ever read anything like this and even just what
Lily Anderson does with the book is very like original and things like that.
I think one of the flaws that I had with this book is that they talked a lot
about being Wiccan and that sort of like religion thing and I feel like it
was sort of underserved. For a religion that's pretty non mainstream,
they don't talk about it very well. Like they talk about all these aspects of
Wiccan culture that feel like caricatures of being a witch. And while
they do point out that some of the things that happen in here aren't
typical of Wiccan culture or religion, I feel like they don't do a good job of
explaining what being a Wiccan is actually like. So that was one of the
reasons why it's only a three star book for me as opposed to a four star book.
But yeah, if you're looking for something different and plot driven and want
something sort of like out of the box and weird, I recommend this. I think that
if you like shows like izombie, you'll probably like this one as well. So yeah,
three out of five stars. Not bad, but not you know great either. Alright next up, if
you watched my June wrap-up part one, you would have seen me talk about how I was
reading John Adams by David McCullough. And I said in that video if I would just
focus solely on this book, I could probably finish it. And so I decided to
just do that after I like got over my sickness and could read like a normal
person again. So I did. I focused on this book and I finished it and I really
enjoyed it. I was slightly skeptical about this book going into it because
John Adams doesn't have like the best reputation. Like he's not the smartest
founding father and he's not like the bravest like George Washington and he's
not like super a fun and exciting like Thomas Jefferson.
But he was a very like honest and hardworking person. And especially like
his relationship with Abigail was probably the best for me. I also think
David McCullough is just a fantastic history writer. Like he is able to make
everything seem interesting. I think it's because like he's so invested in the
topics and people that he decides to write about and that comes across in his
writing. And so I feel like this is like really-- So I feel like this is a great
biography of John Adams for sure. It's super readable. Obviously like it's on
the longer side and it's gonna be like extremely detailed. But I think that if
this was your very first biography that you ever read, this would be a pretty
good entry point. One of the things though that I just found amusing is just
how much of the other founding fathers are in this biography. Like obviously,
talking about the Revolution, talking about the starting of the country, you
have to talk about even just like Washington and things like that because he
was vice president for Washington and you talk about how he compares to the
other people around during that time period. But it felt like so much of this
book was taken up by the scandals of Thomas Jefferson and like the scandals
of Hamilton and things like that. There were like legitimate giant chunks
that just talked about Thomas Jefferson. And I was like, 'well this has nothing to
do with John Adams.' But I'm assuming that's also because it gives you context
for things that were happening during that time period and that John Adams
had to deal with. And you know, he was sort of friends with Thomas Jefferson. So
he would have had to encounter all of these stories as well. So I know, I
understand it provides context. But some of the time when I was reading this book
I was like, 'is John Adams just so boring they don't have any fun stories about
him? So they're throwing in fun stories about Thomas Jefferson?' And by fun I mean
like scandalous. So yeah, John Adams interesting president. I'm definitely
glad that I've read this and I'm very excited to continue on with the next
biography. Now I have to look up to see which Thomas Jefferson biography I'm
going to read since he is next up on the list. But yeah, I wish David McCullough
would just write a biography on every president because I feel like he would
make them all seem interesting. All right, the next book that I finished this month
is probably my favorite read of the month. It's a contender for my favorite
read of the year or at least it'll probably be on my list of favorite reads
of the year. And that is there there by Tommy orange.
I'm not gonna talk about this one too much here because I am gonna do a full
review on it because I loved it so much. It deserves its own review. But this book
was fantastic. Tommy Orange is of Native American descent.
And this book follows Native Americans modern-day who are living basically in
like the Oakland area. It's a multi-generational story and you are
following a bunch of different characters every single chapter follows
a different character. And then like after a while the characters you know
rotate through. And so typically stories with multiple points of view
don't vibe with me. But I think because all of these characters are intertwined,
like the way that their relationships are, like actual blood relationships,
really do look like a spider's web. One of the things that someone at book riot
was talking about recently like right before I picked up this book was how
like complicated the web was. And they decided to like draw out like a family
tree type of situation or draw like connections between all the characters.
And they like posted a picture on Slack and it's like all over the place because
there are so many different connections. So I will say that if you decide to pick
up this book, it feels more like interconnected short stories than a
novel. There is like a plot that sort of runs through it. But it's more of a
character based story than a plot based story. In fact I think the plot is the
weakest part of the story. But if you are having a really hard time, I highly
recommend like writing down the character names as you're coming across
them and then writing down what their relationships are to other characters
and just like keeping that piece of paper like as your bookmark in the book
because it does get a little bit confusing at times how everyone is sort
of related to each other. There's a lot of characters that you come across. But
this book is beautiful. It's beautifully written. Like there were so many passages
in here that if this, I wasn't owning a library copy I would have underlined.
I kept like posting pictures of it on my Instagram stories. I didn't even post all
of the pictures. Like I took so many more pictures than I posted because I was
like, okay this is getting kind of obnoxious with the number of quotes I
was posting out to my stories. But the writing in here just like poignant and
heartbreaking. This book talks a lot about just like grief and trauma and the
way that we deal with like these difficult situations. And by we I just
mean like people in general. But also like the very specific
difficult situations that Native Americans have had to deal with in our
country and their like erasure. Both like literally being killed off and
their culture also being killed off, and what it means to be a Native American in
the United States today. Especially because like most people just think of
Native Americans as this very specific type of person. But if you're
living in like a major city like Oakland and you've grown up your entire life in
the city and you are just like almost everyone else but you're also not like
everyone else because you have this whole culture in history and how much do
you need to know about your culture in history in order to consider yourself an
Indian. All of these different topics are discussed in here and it's just like
beautiful. I have a strong feeling that the ending is going to be very divisive
for people. So just a warning for that. But I just love this book so so much.
This is probably my number two book of the year so far with Circe being number
one. I loved it. I loved it, loved it, loved it. All right so after he finished there
there, I was having a little bit of a book hangover. So I decided that I would
pick up a comic book to deal with it. And I picked up Ms. Marvel vol 7. And this one
is subtitled damage per second. Again, if you follow me on Instagram and you watch
my stories, you would have seen me posting some panels from this. This one
covers issues 14 through 18, 13 through 18 I believe of like the most recent run.
And 13 is almost like a standalone. Then 14 through 17 are a three-issue arc and
then 18 is almost like a standalone. So the first issue in this arc deals a
lot with like voting and democracy and I think it was meant to come out right
around the time of the election or I think it did come out right around the
time of the election. And they're just like these really great panels in here.
Like full-page panels of Ms. Marvel like holding a flag encouraging people to
take part in democracy and to go vote. And I just like desperately want all of
these as like full giant posters to hang on my walls. So that's one thing. But yeah, I
was reading this like right after the most recent Supreme Court decisions came
out and I was feeling like so disheartened by democracy. And then I was
reading that issue and I was like, well, that's a little bit healing / helpful
and I was like tears running down my cheeks in my bed. So yeah that issue was
like great. I mean it's very much one of those things that's like written for
kids, high schoolers who might be
entering voting age soon here in the United States and like encouraging them
to take part in what's happening in the world and politics and to go out and
vote and make your voice heard, which 100% to hear for all of that. Then
the arc for this volume is probably like my least favorite arc that I've read so
far in Ms. Marvel. Not to say that it was terrible but it just felt like super
preachy to me. The villain in that arc is like a literal internet troll. And the
way that she talks about things like being kind on the internet and stuff
like that, I'm like, yes, good message. But also just, it just walked that line, that
very fine line of like being helpful and good for teens but also just being like
super preachy. And I was just like, it was a little bit eye roll-y at times. So yeah
this is not my favorite volume of Ms Marvel by any means, but I'm still
continuing on because I love Ms. Marvel. Also the final issue features Bruno and
that was fun. I don't think I can say more than that without spoilers. But I'm
kind of hoping that Bruno comes back soon. Is that considered a spoiler?
I don't know. If you're not caught up I suppose. But like this came out forever
ago. Like I'm super behind in Ms. Marvel cause vol 8 is already out.
So yeah stuff happens with Bruno in the previous volume which broke my
heart. And yeah, stuff's happening with him and so I'm very intrigued just to see
what happens with him. I don't know how long he's gonna be gone for. I own vol 8
so I might as well just read that one just to see what happens.
Alright so that's everything I have finished so far in June. I had a pretty
great reading month to be honest. I'm very proud of myself for reading the
John Adams biography because I didn't know if that was actually gonna happen.
If you saw my last video I think I talked about how I did a summer TBR type
of video for a book riot. And so I basically picked out three big books
that I'm gonna be reading over the course of like June, July, and August.
June was John Adams obviously. July is going to be me attempting to read
Barkskins by Annie Proux. And then August I will be reading Three Musketeers which
will hopefully be a read along with some of you guys. So I will have a video
coming out next Friday talking about the three musketeers read along and talking
just about how I deal with read alongs in general and inviting you guys to pick up
Three Musketeers along with me in August. So just a heads up for that. So yeah, that's
everything that I have for this video. Feel free to
leave a comment down below letting me know, have you read any of these books?
Do you have any questions about any of these books? Otherwise let me know what
your favorite read of the month was. So yeah, that's all I have for now and
thanks for watching.
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