Hi everyone! My name is Frede and today, I'm gonna be talking about the books that I read in the second half of September.
If you wanna watch the video of the books that I read in the first half of September,
I'm gonna leave that that video down below. But not I'm gonna talk about the books that I read in the second half.
And the first book that I finished was Franklin's Flying Bookshop by Jen Campbell,
which I bought in Berlin this month and I read it in one go, it's a really really short book.
It's a children's picture book about a dragon and a little girl who loves books.
It was absolutely adorable and I really really loved this book.
The second book that I finished was a book that I have to read for uni,
and it's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
I did not particularly like this book. I thought it was kind of boring to be honest,
uhm, it was a bit too episodic for my taste.
Most of the things that happened weren't all that interesting to me, I don't know.
What I did think was very interesting was the way that people talked and the way that they like,
had their different dialects and all that. That was really interesting.
But, [exhales audibly] still the story itself was kind of boring. So I don't know,
I just didn't really get much out of this to be honest.
I'm interested to see how we're gonna work with it in class, but just reading this wasn't the most amazing experience.
I was actually skimming a lot because I was just really really bored. [laughs]
Okay, my camera battery is flashing so I'm gonna have to try to talk a bit faster than I usually do.
The third book that I finished was Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson.
This is sort of set in the 17th century I think. And you have two main characters,
and it's about kind of fruits so this is a pineapple top and there's a cherry in the title,
and every time you have a change of perspective you either have the banana or you have the pineapple.
And it was just a really nice book. It's kind of about love and about time and,
it's difficult to explain what it's about, really. You would have to read it.
It's a really bizarre book as well. You also have kind of a retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses,
which is one of my favourite fairy tales. And it's just a wonderful little book.
I was a bit confused in the beginning because I was reading it and it wasn't too easy to get into it,
like I was just like "what is going on, I don't understand this" but I got into it and I loved it.
And this was the second Jeanette Winterson book that I read, and I think I found a new favourite author
and I'm definitely gonna try to pick up another book by her sometime soon.
Can you see how I'm racing? I'm really hoping to finish this before my camera dies.
The next book that I finished was The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooks- Edward Brooke-Hitching.
This is a book all about maps and about maps that existed in the past with places that people believed existed, but they don't.
Uhm so for example Atlantis. Like that's probably the example most of us know.
It's packaged absolutely beautifully uhm, and you have a lot of chapters or like just short articles
about islands, like seaways or other things that people thought existed.
And about reasons why maybe they thought it existed, if they made it up on purpose or if they really just thought this existed.
It was really interesting. I was expecting a bit more, to be quite honest,
but maybe that was just me going into this with wrong expectations.
It's kind of more like an encyclopaedia of places that don't exist but people thought existed.
So it was quite the nice read, I wouldn't say that this was the most amazing book that I've read,
and there are probably more interesting books about maps out here.
But I thought that the concept was very very interesting.
The only thing though that really pissed me off, and especially in the book that looks as beautiful as this one does,
the formatting inside was a catastrophe. I'm exaggerating but I hated it.
So basically you have the text like this and it would always begin with like kind of bigger text,
and then it would go to smaller text. And I think the bigger text in the beginning was supposed to be like a summary of the chapter or something,
I don't even know. But it just looked like shit, to be honest. And I also didn't like that it was left-justified.
Just looks like shit. It's difficult to read, so that uh yeah.
I didn't like the formatting of this [laughs] uhm so yeah.
Also sorry if you can hear churchbells, it's 10:30 on a Sunday and I live like right next to a church so sorry about that.
I've got one more book left and that is Operation Shylock by Philip Roth.
I also had to read this for uni; it was one of the most confusing books I've ever read in my life. Uh- [laughs]
So in my video I did with my uni reading list I was very confused when I talked about this
because the premise sounded very strange, and this was a very very strange book.
So it's basically about this character named Philip Roth who is- who bascially has the same biography
as the author of this book. And he finds out about a person who calls himself Philip Roth
in Israel telling the Jewish population who has European roots to go back to Europe,
and leave Israel. And it's- he goes- he then goes to Israel and tries to find that man,
and tries to find out why he's doing this and what this is all about.
So this is also very much about the Israeli and Palestinian conflict and about Anti-Semitism in general,
there is kind of a trial going on about a man who's uhm allegedly worked in a death camp
and not only like murdered people there but also very much tortured a lot of people,
and there are just so many things in here. Like those page markers aren't because I thought those parts were particularly good,
but because I think those might be interesting for class.
This was a very very weird book. I finished this last night and I was just so confused and it just-
it's very wordy so you have a lot of monologues by characters, they have-
actually, they're in a conversation but then this one character, or different characters in different situations,
go on tangents and and they talk and talk and talk and talk and talk for pages,
I mean literally like four of five pages monologues. And you're reading this and you're like
"Why are you telling me all of this?" Because it doesn't really contribute anything to the story.
It was a really wordy story. And ugh-
I don't know, it was really strange. I don't think it was a bad book, I thought it was a very interesting book,
but I feel like I don't have the intellectual capacities to understand it [laughs]
So I'm very much looking forward to talking about this in class. Uni starts again in two weeks,
and I think this is the second book that we're gonna discuss in class.
So probably we're gonna discuss this sometime in November. And I'm looking forward to hearing what my professor has to say about this,
because I was a bit overwhelmed and a bit confused, very confused by this book.
And that's basically all I can say.
Those were the five books that I read in the second half of September.
I cannot believe that it's October, like this year has like just flown by.
I would be interested to hear if you've read any of the books I just talked about,
especially if you've read Operation Shylock because this was a hella confusing book,
and I would like to hear your opinions on them.
I would also like to hear what else you read in the second half of September, or in September in general.
And I'm gonna finish this right now, my camera is still alive. So thank you very much for watching,
and I will see you in my next video. Bye!
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