Hi everyone. I'm rincey and this is rincey reads. Today i'm going to be doing
my October wrap up. And some of you guys might be watching this video and going,
hey, it's not quite the end of October yet and also isn't it still the
middle of the autumn read-a-thon? And both of those things are correct but
I've just realized that my time is just extremely constrained right now. So I'm
not going to like get very much reading done between like now and the end of the
month. And anything that I do get done is probably just gonna be like one book
that rolls over to the next month. I'm just gonna do my wrap-up now to make it
easier on myself and I'm not gonna try to like cram in another wrap up before
the end of the month is out. So I didn't make a lot of videos this month. One of
them was my TBR for Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon and the autumn read-a-thon.
But I'll be talking about those books kind of in this video. And then the other
video that I made was a Friday reads and in that video I actually talked about a
lot of the books that I read this month. in that video I talked about American
fire by Monica Hesse, you bring the distant near by Mitali Perkins and
temporary people by Deepak Unnikrishnan. So if you are interested in my thoughts
in any of those books then I recommend going to check out that Friday reads
video because I don't want to talk about them all over again and make this video
longer than it needs to be. So yeah, that'll be linked up in the cards in
case you are interested in hearing my thoughts on those books. I have very
varying thoughts on these books and some of them are more complicated than
others. But yeah, check out that video for more info on any of these books. Another
book I talked about in that video that I was in the middle of when I recorded
that was the color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated
America by Richard Rothstein. This is a nonfiction book and I really enjoyed
this book. I think I gave it a 4 out of 5 stars. I would not recommend this to
absolutely everyone because this is a little bit of a drier nonfiction read.
And it's very like fact heavy. So it's not necessarily like a narrative
nonfiction or like a memoir or anything like that. I feel like if you aren't like
super interested in the topic of segregation and housing in the United
States, I don't necessarily know if this is going to appeal to you. But if you are
interested in those topics like I am, then I do recommend this book a lot.
Richard Rothstein does a really great job of just covering a bunch of
different points in history and a bunch of
different cities here in the United States and talking about different aspects of the
law and government that sort of forced segregation past the point of when you
would think. It talks a lot about things like the federal-- FHA, the Federal
Housing Association and different like housing programs that existed here in
the United States or still exist here in the United States and how they
discriminated against black people at various points of time through various
means and how it was all technically legal. And how the government sort of
made it okay for certain organizations to be able to get away with certain
things. um How that has led to the way that our
neighborhoods are very much segregated here in a lot of different cities across
the United States including Chicago. So yeah, it was really, really fascinating reading
this stuff. It was also really fascinating because there's a lot of like suburbs of
Chicago which is basically where I live and grow up, have grown up mentioned in
this book which I was not expecting and it was slightly horrifying some of the
laws that have been passed. Obviously some of them have been fixed by now but
the effects of those things are still felt in the way that a lot of these
cities and suburbs are handled and even just the people who live there and
whatnot. So yeah this was just a really fantastic read. I definitely recommend it
if you are a fan of nonfiction. I just find it to be so so interesting. So yeah,
four out of five stars. The next book that I finished was the
Miles Morales books by Jason Reynolds which I think I also mentioned in that
Friday reads video. This book was a lot of fun. I gave it a 3 out of 5 stars
because it's not like the best book ever and the ending is sort of like easy.
But I think that if you like comic books or even if you like comic book movies,
this is a really great one to pick up. I really, really liked Jason Reynolds'
writing style so that already like really works for me. But I also just really
liked what did with the character of Miles Morales and just sort of looking
at what it's like for a poor black kid to try to be a superhero. It is sort of
like a middle grade, young adult sort of like that borderline
age group. So it doesn't get like super complex or super complicated. The
mystery that's happening or the thing he's trying to deal with is pretty like
simplistic. But I feel like if you read comic books, you should be used to that
to a certain extent. But yeah, if you've been wanting to give sort of these
superhero novelizations a try, this is a really good one to pick up. I've tried a
couple of others and they've been pretty hit or miss. I feel like a lot of it
really depends on who the author is. And so, again, I love Jason Reynolds writing
so this was a good one for me. The next book that I finished was wife of gods
by Kwei Quartey. This is a mystery book that I picked up and it's the first
book in a series. I picked this one up sort of on a whim. I don't remember how I
heard about it, probably through book riot because that's a lot of how I hear
about books like this. But I decided to pick it up because it sounded
interesting and different. It takes place in Ghana and you are following this
detective named Darko Dawson. He is a really solid detective who works in the
capital of Ghana and he gets called away to a smaller village in Ghana to help
solve the mystery of this woman who was like a medical student. She was found
dead. The question is like whether or not she offended some of the people in the
village or if you know someone just attacked her randomly on the road, etc.
etc. But yeah it was good. I gave it a 3 out of 5 stars because it wasn't like
again overwhelmingly amazing but it was a pretty solid mystery. If you are
someone who likes mystery books, if you like detective stories, this is a pretty
good one to pick up especially if you are looking for one that doesn't take
place in like the United States or the UK. The detective in here is a really
interesting character. I felt like there were sort of two sides to him. There's
very much like the good at his job detective sort of situation but then he
also has this sort of like darker side to him which was really interesting to
see how it plays out with like his family and with his work
and things like that. But yeah, I didn't really guess what the ending was which
is always a positive thing to me and it definitely left me wanting to read more
of the books of the series, which I'll probably do eventually. So the next book
that I picked up was devil in the grove by Gilbert King. And the subtitle
to this, and I'm gonna look down at my computer to read this correctly,
is Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland boys and the dawn of a new America.
Now this is a book that I have had on my list of books to read since before I
started booktube. I would see it all the time at like the library and bookstores.
And it has like a different cover.
Obviously this is like the special Harper Perennial
olive editions. It has like the pretty stripes and everything. So it just got
released this year in this edition. So when I saw that I was very excited. And
then I was in Atlanta recently and when I was there I obviously went to a bookstore
and they had the new Olive Editions. So I picked this one up immediately and knew
I was going to finally buy it and read it. And oh man, it's so good. This is
definitely my favorite read of the month. I gave it a 4 out of 5 stars. It was
almost a 5 star read for me. I was debating a lot between 4 and 5 stars
with this book. Definitely one of my favorites of the year. So this book
follows this specific case that Thurgood Marshall helped defend. It follows
these four guys named the Groveland boys because it takes place in Groveland
Florida who are accused of raping this white woman in the 40s or the 50s. 1949.
That's when this happens. I was right with that estimation. Yeah, this is so
well written. The story is so compelling and I didn't know anything about the
case other than this is a case that occurred. So I had no idea what the
outcome was going to be at the end of the story. And man, there's so many just
like shocking and appalling things that happen in here. It's a really great look
at the way that the justice system can be twisted and used to not have the
right outcome occur. And also just like the failings of like the police forces
and things like that. I felt like Gilbert King does a really
good job providing a lot of context, too, for the time period and also just like
where they're living and like the specific things that are happening in
Groveland. This is a book that feels like it should be made into a movie for sure
because there's just so many twists and turns. It's like completely unbelievable
some of the stuff that happens to these four boys. And there were like parts
where I was just stopped in my tracks by pure shock of the events that occurred.
So yeah, I highly, highly recommend this one. Don't be put off by like the size of
this if it seems slightly intimidating because it is a thicker book because
this is like mass-market paperback size. So it's like gonna be a little bit
fatter than a typical trade paperback. I think the typical trade paperbacks
only about like four hundred and something pages and there's a
significant amount of like notes and glossary and like references at the end.
But also it's just a really really compelling readable story. If there's one
book this month that I would want you guys to read, it would be this one.
And then for Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon, I picked up two books. The first one was Ms.
marvel vol 6, which is Civil War. This was okay until the
very end because this is one of those that like ties into like the big Marvel Civil
War thing that they were doing over the summer. And those are always just like
meh to me. But I do really like the things that Ms. Marvel explores in this
sort of volume. Especially because there's this whole storyline of Captain
Marvel coming out with this program where they can sort of like detect
crimes before they're happening. And Ms Marvel originally is like okay with it
because she's like oh this is great. No one I know has to get like get hurt
or get in trouble or any of these things because they'll figure out who's gonna
do a crime before it happens. And then it turns into this thing about like racial
profiling and stuff like that which is just aces. But then also a bunch of stuff
happens at the end of the story with Bruno and just oh my heart. I'm not gonna
spoil it because I know people are just not necessarily caught up with the
series like they read it in trades like I do. But yeah, I need to go out and pick
up volume 7 as soon as possible because, Oh, Bruno. So yeah, still love this series.
Still highly recommend it. And then the final book that I picked up for Dewey's
24 hour read-a-thon but I didn't finish it until the next day is the power by
Naomi alderman. This book really disappointed me. I gave it a 2 out of 5
stars. Did not enjoy it whatsoever. I found the writing to be really not great.
I should probably explain what this book is about. Basically it takes place in
this world where girls suddenly have the power to like do extreme like physical
harm as well as they have this sort of like electrical type power to them.
No one really knows why it's happening. It might be like a genetic mutation or
something along those lines. And you follow I think it's like four or five
different points of view as like this is happening and as it progresses over time.
There are so many problems I had with this. It's such a good concept that's so
poorly executed. First of all, I hate multiple perspective books. I say this
all the time. It's very really executed well. If this book had been two, maybe
three perspectives I would have been so much happier. Because it's so split I
felt like you don't get to know any of the characters really well and you don't
get to really understand what's happening in this world. You're just
sort of like jumping back and forth between all the different perspectives
and seeing how like different people are dealing with the power and how it's
affecting their society. I wasn't crazy about the way that they portrayed
like women in the Middle East. Like as if the power structures changed they all
would automatically sort of react in this way. I didn't find the ending to be
very satisfying. They do this thing where they're like "nine years to go" and then
it'll be like a couple of chapters and we'll be like "eight years to go" blah, blah, blah.
So I feel like the reason why I kept reading this book is just because I
wanted to know what it was coming down to. And it's also sort of set in this
structure where like the beginning and the end for like the first like five
pages and like the last five pages or ten pages or whatever is like this person
writing to someone else saying have written this history about this thing
that occurred read it um and then the power sort of like this middle section
that you're reading and then the end is like I'm talking about the book that
they had written and whether or not just realistic and I just found that whole
thing to be stupid and didn't really add anything for me. The idea is really interesting again
but I feel like it didn't really go anywhere. I feel like she just sort of
flipped the genders and put 'em into the other gender stereotypes and then didn't
really do much more than that. Yeah not, not really my jam. I, yeah, it happens.
So yeah that's everything that I've finished so far this month. So the book
that I am currently reading is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier which I'm really
enjoying so far. I have no idea what's gonna happen and I'm only at like the
halfway mark right now. And again I don't have a lot of time to read so I'm
basically just reading it on the train and it's like a slower read, like it's a
bit of a slow burn. So I don't want to just like rush through it. I kind of want
to just take my time with it and enjoy it.
So yeah that's probably like the only book I might finish before the month's
out. So yeah that's everything that I have for you guys feel free to leave a
comment down below letting me know what you guys read this month or what your
favorite book was that you read this month. Or if you have any questions or
opinions about any of the books that I talked about, definitely leave that down
in the comments below as well. If you read the power and you liked it, feel
free to tell me why you liked it. I don't think that like anyone's opinion is
wrong when it comes to liking or not liking books. So you're welcome to
disagree with me and to tell me why you enjoyed the book. I definitely would like
to know that because I do always like to see sort of like other people's
perspectives when it comes to books. So yeah, that's all I have for now and
thanks for watching
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