Hello everybody, my name is Cara, and today I'm here with the Travel Book Tag.
You might be thinking that I have already done this tag and I have done a
different travel book tag so I will link that down below in case you're
interested, but today I'm doing the one that was originally created by
Bookish Paradise and I was tagged by the fabulous Steph from steph okay and I will
of course link both of them down below. Part One is Vacation Flashback: Talk
about one of your favorite places you've ever traveled to. Who did you go with,
what did you do there, why was it so memorable? And I love a lot of the
places I've visited, I don't travel a whole ton, um, I actually had never been out of
the country until a couple of years ago, but I really really loved my weekend
that I spent in Edinburgh in Scotland. Oh I just--it was so beautiful and I was
there with a couple of my friends and we were just there for a long weekend, we
couldn't stay very long, but I loved--I feel--I feel like the people were so
friendly there and the scenery was absolutely gorgeous and I really love
how there's like the kind of metropolitan area, like there's
definitely a lot of things you can do in Edinburgh, there's so many places to
go, but there's also like a really beautiful more... I don't know, kind of
rural area outside of that. You know, like there are definitely some places with a
lot of like natural beauty that hasn't been--hasn't been encroached on too
much by...by the city, at least that we could see while we were there, and I just--
I just really enjoyed it. I would love to go back someday and actually spend more
time there. Part 2 is the bookish questions and #1 is Booking the
flight: An expensive book or edition you own. Was it worth it? For that one I think
it was either one of the two goddesses books that I showed in my last book haul
or it would be this Random House Book of Opera Stories retold by Adele Geras and
I don't know who the illustrator is...oh and there's a ton of different
illustrators, that's really cool. So I don't remember how much this book
was but I think one of the ones I got at that time, it was either this book or one
of the goddess ones or like a similar kind of opera/ballet book, I think it was
like 32 or 33 dollars or something like that, it was a lot, I never buy my books
full price almost and I never spend that much on a book but I really really
wanted this one because it reminded me of some of my favorite books from when I
was younger. And I just really enjoy reading about opera and ballet stories,
but I haven't read this one yet so I can't tell you if it's worth it yet.
#2: Packing your luggage: A book you felt had a busy but organized plot.
I'm going with My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante and this is translated by
Anne Goldstein. And I loved this, this is the first book in the Neapolitan Novels
series and it's historical fiction set in I think the 1950's, in
Italy and it is just so compelling and well-done and you--it's amazing how
quickly I got sucked into these people's like ordinary lives. And the reason I'm
calling it busy but organized is that there's a huge cast of characters,
and there's a lot of kind of relationship dynamics to keep track of and like who's
in which family and which family owns which business and like who's kind of in
a rivalry with another family, but something I thought that helped keep it
organized that I really liked is that there's a full index of characters at
the front and it's pretty extensive so that really helped me kind of keep
everyone straight but I think even in the narrative itself,
I think the author did such an amazing job of like describing these characters
so well that especially when I had the like the index of characters I didn't
have a problem keeping track of who was who because they were so distinctive and
so memorable, and I just think this was fantastic. I really want to continue the
series soon and I think even if you're not...even if you're not like a historical
fiction person necessarily, I think you could really enjoy this because it
almost feels like a contemporary, like the time and the place is so well
described that there's not this--there's not this kind of like leap of
imagination almost, that I think sometimes people worry about with
historical fiction, you know you have to kind of like put yourself in a different
time and place and get to know like the world and everything. So highly recommend!
#3: Airport security check: A book that you analyzed the most,
annotations, notes, etc. So I don't annotate my books, I just, I don't write in books but
something that I have definitely analyzed I think the most is Measure for
Measure, which is a play by William Shakespeare, and I must have written like
four or five essays on that play, at least, and it's so interesting, it's
interesting like too because in a way you could say that it's one of my
favorite plays because there's so much to talk about and I find it so
interesting, but I also hate some aspects of it so so much, like it enrages me, like
some things about that play just make me furious but I think they're supposed to,
like I think the point is that you're supposed to get angry about the way that
these characters are treated and everything. *pause* I just spent like so long
trying to describe the plot of that play and why it's interesting and important
and enraging and I think I'm just gonna have to do like a separate little mini
review on that play 'cause like there's so much to talk about but um yeah I have
analyzed it so so much and I still--I still come up with new things to talk
about and it still remains one of my favorite / least
favorite / most interesting plays I've ever read. #4:
Airport meal: A book character you wish you could have lunch with. What kind of
questions would you ask? I'm going with Lou from A Sky Painted Gold by Laura
Wood. She is the main character and I would just love to spend time with her
and talk to her because I feel like we're very similar, and it kind of
surprised me that we were so similar because I don't tend to connect with
characters who kind of have like that wanderlust and they want to *dramatic voice* "do things
with their life [and go places]" and blah blah blah, like I--I don't know... Wanderlust is not something I
identify with basically *laughs* but I think with Lou I really do identify with the
specific kind of wanderlust or ambition that she has, like this--this feeling that
you want to be, you want to be more interesting than you are, and you want to...
you want to have your life be a more interesting story. I really just
connected with that aspect of her and I would love to talk to her about that and
kind of just....I think it'd be so fun to just, to talk to somebody who--who
like I had that in common with because I don't come across that very often in
fiction or I guess kind of in life, that very specific kind of like, like "I like
where I am, I'm comfortable where I am, but I want to be more exciting where I
am." As far as questions, I can't really think of particular questions I would
ask her. I think it'd be really fun to talk to her about favorite books but um other
than that I just would love to hang out with her and kind of just almost
commiserate in a way about feeling lost but not wanting to leave. #5:
Airport souvenirs: A book you have multiple copies of. I don't tend to buy
multiple copies very often but I'm gonna go with the Wrinkle in Time series by
Madeleine L'Engle and there's actually one missing from the box set right now
that I--'cause I have it pulled out, but I got these like fancy new shiny copies um
when I decided that I wanted to reread them because my old ones are really
falling apart and actually in my 10 Strange Bookish Facts video I talked
about how I got back into this series out of sheer spite *laughs* um,
I will link that below if you want to check that out [not posted yet!] but um I really really
love this series, it means a lot to me, and then my original copies are like so
beat up and like falling apart and they're like this weird sort of
mass-market paperback format and like three of the four books don't even match
and like they're--they're just falling apart but I don't want to get rid of
them because I have so many good memories
associated with these books, and I kind of like the weird haphazard like
mismatched set because there's history there so even though I like the like
beautiful...if I can show you...the beautiful um... if that will focus! the beautiful
colors and the like neatness of the new copies, there's something about the
history of these [old ones] that I just want to hold on to and I can't really see myself
getting rid of these any time soon. #6: Airplane turbulence: A book
with a plot that made you anxious or nervous. I'm going with A Winter's
Promise by Christelle Dabos, translated by Hildegard Serle. This was such a
stressful book to read but like in a good way because you really felt for the
characters and I could feel the uncertainty about how things were going
to turn out and I actually have a full spoiler free review for this book that I
will link if you guys want more information on it but I really really
liked this, I really like how you could feel how high the stakes were, although
that being said there were some parts that were like unnecessarily stressful *laughs*
but I guess in a way that's sort of like a point in the book's favor? #7 is
Landing: Your most anticipated release of the year. And I have like a whole video
on 2019 anticipated releases that I will link down below but I'm gonna go with--
I'm gonna mention two that I actually didn't include in that video that I meant
to, and the first one is Midsummer's Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca and I don't
actually know the date this comes out but I think it's in spring? summer?
It is a Midsummer Night's Dream retelling or inspired story with an
Indian-American main character and I think there's like
baking magic involved and it just sounds like just so many things that I love and
I'm so excited about it. And then the other one is the third book in the Red
Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff and the translator for that one is
A. A. Prime, and i think that one comes out in either May or June, I will put the
exact dates in the description, but I am so so excited for it, I think the English
title was originally Letters to Maresi but I think they changed it to
something else now [Red Mantle] but you guys know I love that series, I talk about it all the
time, I mentioned it in my feminist fantasy recommendations video and I just
really want it to get more love because I think the fact that it is translated is
one of the reasons it doesn't get a lot of publicity or attention but it's so
well-done, so powerful and well- constructed and just the characters and
everything and just the world and the setting, the themes of women
sticking together, I am just...I'm so excited for that last book but I am a little
afraid it's gonna break my heart, but you know. Such is the reading life. #8:
Baggage claim: A book or series that felt like a drag. And I'm gonna go
with Mistaking Her Character by Maria Grace. Um this was my first like official
venture into kind of the Jane Austen... like JAFF, like Jane Austen Fan Fiction,
kind of genre? which is basically what it sounds like, except that it is a published
novel, that's just kind of what the category is called, and I really didn't
like this! Um *laughs* I will link the wrap-up where I talk about it in detail down
below but um yeah, I hated seeing Lizzie and Darcy together and you know that's a
bad sign. #9: Destination: A book or series you could read over and over
again. And I had several answers I could have chosen for that one but I went with
the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. We're currently doing our Artemis
Fowl Readalong which I'm sure you guys are sick of me mentioning but I'm
still so excited about it *laughs* and I'm still like enjoying it so much. I can and have
reread these books over and over and over and I feel like every time I find
new things to notice and to appreciate and I just really love this series and I
think that in addition to being a fun series and an important series when I
was younger, I think that there are a lot of important issues it deals with with a
lot of depth and compassion, and I just really appreciate that, and oh, man...like
the series meant a lot to me growing up and it still means a lot to me now, and
that's always wonderful when you come across a series that is like that, you
know, that's not just "oh it was fun at the time but I've moved on you know"; I
haven't moved on from these books, I don't think I ever will, and *happy sigh* I just love
them. Okay everybody, so that was the Travel Book Tag. I am going to tag Kazen
from Always Doing and anyone else who sees this and who would like to do this
tag. Thank you guys so much for watching, I will see you soon with another video,
and I hope you love the next book you read. Bye!
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