Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome back to my
channel and welcome to another
installment of Library Love, where I tell
you about all the things that I
currently have out from my library. Once
again, this is all the stuff that I have
out from work and I discovered today
that I've actually lost my library card,
so clearly I will not be using my local
library for a while because, you know, I
have to go down there and get a new card
and all that kind of shit. Or try and work out
where I've put my card. One of those things.
At the moment, I have 21 things out from
work, which is bad. I really need to get
through all of these very very quickly
and take them back because...yeah. The
books are actually for the kids and not
me, shockingly.
So let's start out with the four that I
have already read and will be taking
back to work very very soon, the ones I
told you about in my weekly wrap up on
Monday. So I'm just gonna go through
these because, like, you already know
about them. The Sound of Things Falling
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez. A Respectable
Girl by Fleur Beale. The Hollow Boy by
Jonathan Stroud. And The Accident Season
by Moira Fowley-Doyle. Next up, I have one
book that I have left over from, like, the
last time I did a Library Love video. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure I borrowed this book in,
like, December. I should probably
read it and return it... But that book is
The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende.
I know nothing about this one
except it's her debut novel, it was
translated from Spanish, I love Isabelle
Allende's writing so, like, I really need
to just get off my arse and read this
book. Next up I have four books that are
shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the
Year for older readers. For those of
you who don't know, the CBCA is the
Children's Book Council of Australia.
Every year during Book Week, they
announce the best books of the year - as
far as they're concerned - for older
readers, younger readers, picture books,
early childhood books, non-fiction and
illustrations and stuff like that. Anyway,
there's a whole bunch of categories. So I
try to read the CBCA shortlisted books
for older readers because, you know, then
I can recommend them to the kids, stuff
like that. I have not been a huge fan of
the books that have been on the list in
the past couple of years, but I'm gonna
try and read most of them anyway. So
there are six books on the CBCA short
list this year. I have already read one
of them, which is Yellow by Megan
Jacobson, and i enjoyed that one. There is
one that I will not be reading this year,
and that is One Would Think
The Deep by Claire Zorn, because it
explicitly says in the blurb that it is
about a boy recovering from the
aftermath of his mother's very sudden
death because of a brain aneurysm. And
having had a family member die of a
brain aneurysm very very suddenly, like,
two months ago?
Yeah, I'm not reading that book right now.
However, I have the remaining four books
that I will be getting through in the
next couple of weeks hopefully. The first
one I am currently reading and I'm not
really loving it so far but I'm not very
far into it, so we shall see. And that is
Frankie by Shivaun Plozza. This one is
about a teenage girl who is incredibly
angry. She clearly has anger management
issues. She's been abandoned by her
mother, she lives with her aunt, and she's
just discovered that she has a
half-brother who is I think three years
younger than her? And he had suddenly
gone missing and she is looking into
that. So, like, I'm not loving it so far
but like I said I'm not very far into it.
So we'll see. Then I've got Waer by Meg
Caddy. This one is a fantasy book that I
believe involves werewolves in some way?
And I'm kind of surprised that this one
ended up on the list. I've heard
interesting things about it. The kids at
work who've read it were like "It...was kind
of a struggle" so we'll see. But the
interesting thing about this one is that
it is already out of print and I'm
starting to suspect that this might
actually win the prize this year and
that's going to be super awkward if the
book they give it to is out of print and
the publisher has no intention of
publishing any more. Then I've got The
Bone Sparrow by Zana
Fraillon, and this one is about a boy
who was born in an immigration detention
centre somewhere in Australia and the
friendships that he makes with, you know,
people who live outside the camp or
something? I think? Yeah, it's basically
kids growing up as refugees and stuff.
I've heard really good things about it.
And the final one on CBCA shortlist is
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley,
which is the one I am most excited about
reading because I've loved Cath
Crowley's other books that I've read and
this one is set in a secondhand
bookshop,
so, like, yes please. Then I have a chunk
of books that are, like, books that kids
have told me I need to read. So starting
out with The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan
Stroud, which is the fourth book in the
Lockwood & Co series. This one just came
out this year and after the cliffhanger
ending of the third book I'm really
excited to get stuck into this one. I
feel like I need to read the CBCA
shortlist books first but, like, this is
what I actually want to read so it might
get bumped up the list. The next one is
one that was on the CBCA short list I
think
last year but possibly for 2015, and that
is The Pause by John Larkin. This one is
about a teenage boy who everything has
gone horribly wrong in his life and he
is trying to decide whether or not to
commit suicide by jumping in front of a
train. So it promises to be incredibly
cheerful but considering it was
shortlisted for the CBCA awards, I'm hoping
that it deals with things...well? We'll see.
Next up I have Auslander by Paul Dowswell.
This one is set during World War
II. It is about a Polish boy whose
parents are killed but he has blonde hair
and blue eyes so he's sent to a German
orphanage or something? I don't know what
to expect from this but, you know, a kid
told me to read it so I'm reading it. Then
I have Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck?
Whoock? Something like that. This one is a,
like, paranormal series - I think it's a
quartet - paranormal YA series that
involves shape-shifting into tigers and
I've heard good things about it but, you
know, I've been burned by the
recommendations for fifteen-year-old
girls before, so we'll see. And the rest
of the pile is just, like, random things
that I've gone "Ooh, that looks interesting!"
while I've been shelving and, you know, I
figured I would actually read those. So
the first one is Nameless by Lili St.
Crow, which is a retelling of Snow White
I believe? And it reads like it's kind of
fantasy, kind of contemporary so I'm
interested to read this one. Then I have
Skylark by Meagan Spooner. I have been
wanting to read this one for a while
because I really like the Starbound
series which Meagan Spooner wrote with
Amie Kaufman and I'm really really really
dying to get my hands on their book that
comes out in January of next year, which
I think is called Unearthed? I read a
chapter sample of that and was like "Holy
shit, I need this book now!" So I'm really
interested to read one of her books that
she's written on her own. This one I
think is a dystopian book about a
girl who has never left the city that
she lives in and there's magic involved
and yeah... A Company of Swans by Eva
Ibbotson. I've been meaning to read
something by this author for, like, years
now and I still never have. This one is
set in the 19th century and is about a
girl who runs away from home to become a
ballet dancer and ends up, like, dancing
in the Amazon or something? It sounds
like it could be terrible. We shall see.
Then I've got The Night Watch by Sergei
Lukyanenko - I am so sorry, Olive,
for that mangled pronunciation.
Please help me in the comments. This one
is billed as, like, Harry Potter but
Russian, and I don't even really know
very much about it. It's kind of to me
sounds more like Daughter of Smoke and
Bone but maybe, like, mixed with Harry
Potter? It's...that...that's pretty much all
I know. Blood on my Hands by Todd
Strasser. I know nothing about this book
except I read the blurb and it sounded
interesting. The blurb says "If Callie
Carson is found kneeling by the dead
body of Katherine Remington-Day with a
bloody knife in her hand, she must be the
murderer - mustn't she?" So this promises to
be terrible. I'm kind of hoping that it's
like Christopher Pike but, you know, with
better writing. We'll see. Days Like This
by Alison Stewart. This one is an
Australian dystopian book and that's
pretty much all I know about it. But it
has been on my, like, keep-on-the-radar
list for years now so when I saw that we
had it, I was like "Oh! I should finally
read that book." Web of Darkness by Bali
Rai. This one is I think a YA thriller
sort of thing. It's about a girl who
there have been a spate of suicides
at her school and then she makes this new
online friend and it seems like maybe
there's more to this online friend
than meets the eye.
So, like, trashy YA thriller? Obviously
I'm there. And finally I have 13 Days of
Midnight by Leo Hunt. This one is about a
teenage boy whose father died and as a
result of that, he inherits 13 ghosts.
It sounds like a kind of a necromancy sort
of a thing? As it says on the cover, it's for fans
of Skulduggery Pleasant. I have not read
Skulduggery Pleasant, but this one
sounded intriguing so I figured I may as
well give it a shot. So there you have it,
guys. That is everything that I have out
on loan from work at the moment. If there
are things you have read and loved and
think I should prioritise over other
things, let me know down in the comments.
I'm hoping to get these all read in the
remaining four weeks of term. We will see
how that goes.
I do not have high hopes. Thank you guys
so much for watching, I love all your
faces and I will see you on Friday. Bye guys.
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