Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome back to my
channel and welcome to another weekly
wrapup. This one is for the 5th through
the 11th of February and this week I read a total
of seven books and 3,310 pages. I don't
know how I managed to read so many pages this
week and yet so few books, and yet here
we are.
Anyway, the first book that I finished
this week is Jane Steele by Lyndsay
Faye. This one obviously is a reread.
You guys heard me gushing about this for
like half of last year and I'm going to
gush about it again because reasons. For
anybody who's been living under a rock,
Jane Steele is kind of a retelling of Jane
Eyre, but it's also very much it's own
entity. So in this particular world,
Jane Eyre the book exists, and it is the
favourite book of the titular character,
Jane Steele. Jane Steele's life parallels
Jane Eyre's life quite closely, except for one
major difference: Jane Steele is a murderer.
The first time I read this book was last
June on my way to the US, so I literally
read this book on a flight from
Melbourne to LA and I sped through it. I
absolutely loved it but I don't think I
took in a lot of the subtleties of
the story, so I wanted to reread this to
more fully appreciate the language and
the writing and the characterisation of
the story. And I loved this book even
more on reread. Like, I honestly didn't even
think that was going to be possible, but
I loved so much about the characters,
about Jane's story, about Charles' story,
about the relationship between the two
of them, about the secondary characters.
Like, Mr Singh is totally ace. Nobody can
tell me any different.
I have a lot of feelings about this book. The
writing is brilliant, it's very very
reminiscent of the Gothic feeling of
Jane Eyre and of all the writing of the
Bronte sisters, and I just absolutely
loved this book and I think it has
actually bumped Persuasion off its
pedestal that it has been on since 2001.
Like, Persuasion has been my favourite book
since 2001, and this reread of Jane Steele
just knocked it off the top just a little
bit. So obviously I gave this book five
stars.
Book number 2 this week is Does My Head
Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah.
This is an Australian contemporary YA book
about a girl named Amal who decides
halfway through year 11 that she's going
to start wearing a hijab to school. This one is
set in Melbourne, and it's set very close
to where I live and very close to where
I went to school. So, like, that was great.
It's also set in 2002. I finished high school
in 2000, so it was very reminiscent of a lot
of my experiences. So from year 7 to year 10, Amal
attended an Islamic school in
Melbourne's northern suburbs. But that school doesn't
have enough students or enough money to
do the VCE program, so she had to change
schools in year 11 and start attending
this snooty Christian private
school. And this is basically the story of
Amal, like, working through her faith and
working through what the hijab means to
her and also working through the
reactions of, like, people on the street,
people at school, people that she knows
in the Islamic community. I did really
enjoy this book, but honestly I'm not
sure how well teenagers will relate to it
anymore because like I said, it is set
in 2002 and a lot of the things that
these kids are doing? Like, they send three
text messages a day because that shit
costs twenty-five cents each,
and there's no such things as social media and,
like, after school they go and hang out at
Sanity and Timezone and, like, be still
my teen years, that was 100% my
experience of high school. So personally,
I really enjoyed this one but honestly I
don't know how well teenagers will
relate to it. Still, I liked this so I gave it
four stars. Book number 3 this week
was another reread, and that is The Crown
of Embers by Rae Carson, which is the
second book in The Girl of Fire and
Thorns trilogy. So this is a fantasy series
that is very very heavily influenced by
Latin American culture, and it follows a
teenage princess named Elisa basically,
like, coming into her own and learning to
be this amazing powerful queen.
And I just love Elisa so, so much. She
goes through so much character
development in this book. The
relationship that happens in the course
of this book or starts to happen in the
course of this book is just...yes. I love
it so much, I am on that ship sailing off
into the distance, I love it forever.
The secondary characters are delightful
as always, there are some new characters
added in here who are just spectacular and
I love them.
The adventure element of the story where,
like, they're sneaking out of town and you know
going on this journey to try and find
this mysterious doodad thing? Yeah,
all of that is great. I love the shit out
of this book and I gave it five stars. Again.
Book number four was another reread, and
unsurprisingly it was The Bitter Kingdom
by Rae Carson, which is the final
book in The Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy. I
love this the first time that are classy
but i didn't have quite as much
look too i felt like there was a little
too much like running all over the place
and I just sort of wanted the character
to be in one place and dealing with one
set of things whereas in this family
kind of jumping around quite a lot but
only read i love this i read this book
today so like I read this between 730am
and 4pm and you know idea out of work in
there as well so I sped through this
fucking book it was amazing everything
before I absolutely adore the
relationships that crops up in the
course the story i love how brave and
how powerful as a character elusive
becomes and she's just so inspiring i
also love that she's overweight and a
person of color like all the characters
in the book basically are people who car
and it is glorious and i love the fact
that by the end of this book
alyssa is completely comfortable in her
own skin she totally fine with the fact
that she will always have like big size
and big arms because she had seen what
her body is capable of doing while she's
been running around all over the last
year trying to save the love of her life
so yeah I love the series a lot and on
read i thought this one up to five stars
the fifth book that I finished this week
is my lady jane by cynthia hand
brodi ashton and Jody meadows this book
is we shall we try this has effectively
a very strange retelling of 22 history
in which a subset of the population are
shapeshifters so like Henry the Eighth
turned into a lion and now it was six
years on the throne married to that is
very very anti shapeshifters Elizabeth
pro shapeshifters Edward is kind of
floating around somewhere in the middle
not sure what's going on and then he
tries to Pakistan to Lady Jane Grey who
incidentally has just been married off
to the sign of Edwards advisor who just
happens to be a shape-shifter through
the horse whenever the Sun is up like i
said this book is super weird and it
took me quite a while to wrap my head
around what was going on and all the
ways in which history has been changed
but this book was so fucking funny like
it's riddled with Princess Bride jerks
and monty python quote and just
ridiculous moments and slap secure and i
absolutely loved all the bad side of it
the characters turned out to be
completely delightful i was a little
uncertain at first because there are
three separate notice for you but Edward
you've got Lady Jane Grey and then
you've got the horse blasters that she
married off to his name is gifted
so you don't between these
three perspectives the chapters are
quite short I wasn't quite sure how I'm
going to handle that initially but i
ended up loving all three of them and
the relationship between Jane and gifts
that comes about by the end of the book
is delightful so i was pleasantly
surprised by how much I enjoyed this one
I do think it helps if you have like a
general understanding of the history to
be able to know what has been changed
and how much things have been changed
but on the whole I really enjoyed this
book and I got a 4.5 stuff going to fix
this week was a nonfiction book and that
is bad feminist by blocks and guy
this is a collection of essays in which
she talked about like pop culture and
racial identity and obviously feminism
and politics and a lot of them were very
interesting but I kind of feel like this
collection with Miss named because so
many of these essays didn't really feel
like they dealt with feminism that much
like there's an essay in there that goes
through probably like 15 to 20 pages
that is about her experiences of
competitive scrabble tournaments and
like it was really interesting because
I've never even considered competitive
scrabble to be a thing but it didn't
really seem to relate to feminism in any
way and in fact that the middle chunk of
the book is basically her reviewing
various pieces of pop culture in
particular TV shows and some books and I
was like but i thought this was going to
be about 10 minutes and yes there
definitely possible things that hurt
saying this show needs through female
characters that are these short needs to
diverse characters better but there was
a lot of it that we're talking about
shows that i personally haven't seen
that doesn't seem to get aid in
Australia and so I didn't really
understand quite a bit of watching
talking about in those sections of the
book and then there was a lot of it that
to me felt like it was just basically
anything
yeah I I didn't really like to show i
preferred this other show and I might
rule that's cool everybody has opinions
there was definitely a face that i
enjoyed in the collection but there were
also says that I just struggle bust my
way through so this one kind of ended up
being of it and me and so I gave it
three stars and final book that I
finished this week is a darkness
absolute by kelley Armstrong which is
the second book in the kc Duncan series
it's about the first book in the series
a couple of weeks ago basically the gist
of it is that the police detective Casey
don't find yourself being chased by
bad people and pushy and her best friend
who was trying to escape from an abusive
husband run away to this very small town
that's completely off the grid in the
Yukon and the idea is basically that you
can hide out at the time for a couple of
years and reinvent yourself and then
moves up again like once the threat has
passed basically so the best line
quesitos up and then like a string of
murders started happening she's trying
to murder because police detective and
stuff like that
the book starts with casey and the
sheriff of the town going out looking
for some guy who's gone missing and then
they get hit with some songs election
coverage case turns out that in this
cave is a woman who has been kept locked
in this case before the party she was
basically left wouldn't get raped and
abused by the sky over the course yeah
and now she's been found to get so
basically trying to work out through
done except then of course the plot
thickens when more bodies turn up and
started kind of goes from this I'd say I
did find this one slightly more
predictable than the first one like I
enjoyed the story more and I think
that's because all the initial setup
stuff has been done we display sitting
in the small town that we already know
we already know the characters you don't
have to kind of do the world-building
any sort of stuff that happens in the
first book so from that perspective i
enjoyed this one more but I deep guess
who the villain was like pretty early on
in the piece and then I thought a few
times it maybe i was wrong i was like oh
no maybe maybe that's too obvious maybe
it's this other dude or there would be
some piece of evidence that came up in
the story that was like oh well okay
maybe I'm wrong but yeah i was i was
right so that wasn't ideal to the pot
was definitely crazy i do like all the
characters in the series they're
sufficiently complex and katie is
biracial so there is obviously
represented in the story but it started
almost that was a little predictable for
me so i did enjoy this one as I said
more than the first book and i ended up
giving it sports are so they have a
friend that is all the books that this
week if you have heard anything have
more time please let me know down in the
comments I would love to talk about with
you
thank you guys so much for watching a
lovely faces and we'll see you on
Wednesday I guess
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