Hey guys, it's Emily! For today's video I'm doing the mid-year book freak out
tag. I'll leave a link to the original creators down below.
Basically the point is kind of a mid-year recap of how your reasons going, what you
doing, what you're liking, what you're not liking, all that kind of fun stuff put
together into a tag. So let's get started. Number one is what is the best book that
you've read this year, 2017? For me that's hands-down, this should come as a surprise
to no one who watches my channel, but it is My Favorite Thing Is Monster is by
Emil Ferris. This is a brilliant book! I love it so, so, so much! Ah! It's an
all-time favorite, like top three books of all time. One of my favorite, favorite,
favorite, favorite, favorite books. I did a full spoiler free review of it which I
will link the cards and down below. It is brilliant! It is a work of like genius! I
can't rave about it enough. It's a graphic
novel about a young girl living in 1960s Chicago who's obsessed with B monster
movies and she imagines herself as this werewolf girl, and when a woman in her
apartment building dies she decides that no, it is not a suicide like the police
ruled, it is actually a murder and she's gonna find out what's going on through
sleuthing. And it is brilliant. It incorporates Holocaust history because
the woman who died is a Holocaust survivor. It's a story of self-discovery.
The art is amazing! It's incredibly intricate line work done in ballpoint
pen and it is just phenomenal, just phenomenal! Honestly I was looking at
some of the questions and I was like, "I'm just gonna say My Favorite Thing Is
Monsters for almost all of these, except for the negative ones," because honestly
this is all of the positive things! It's all positive things, it's a favorite. I
love it so much. I am gonna try and switch up my answers to these questions, but just
know that in my heart of hearts all of the answers to the positive-skewed
questions, it's truly My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.
Number two is the best sequel that you've picked this year, and I selected
The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley. This is book 2 in the Chronicle of the
Unhewn Throne series which is an epic fantasy series that I really enjoyed. I
had a couple little issues with female representation in the first book and
they are largely--though not entirely-- largely resolved in this book. So I
really loved that. This whole series is just a super solid
epic fantasy series. It's really, really fun. I definitely recommend checking it
out if you like high fantasy. Number three: a new release that you haven't
read yet but you do want to read. And I'm going with Down Among the Sticks and
Bones they Seanan McGuire. It's a companion book to Every Heart a Doorway.
This is a series about a boarding school for kids who have gone through portals
to other worlds, other dimensions, and then returned home and been like, "Shit!
This all sucks! I want to go back!" and coping with that. So it follows two side
characters who feature prominently in this book, and their world is the super
dark gothic Romantic literature--that world come to life. So like Dracula and
Frankenstein and all that kind of crazy stuff. So that is what Down Among the Sticks
and Bones is about and I'm really excited to read it. I think it takes
place before Every Heart a Doorway, so it's about these two characters before
they came back through the doorway to our world. I've heard wonderful things.
It's gonna be really dark and creepy and I'm so excited for it! Number four is the
most anticipated release of the second half of the year and that is, surprise
surprise, volume two of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris. I'm going to be
talking about this book a lot. The first one ends on a cliffhanger, and this is
volume 2--I believe the concluding volume. It's just going to be two in total, and I am so excited to read it!
I just want more of it in my life! And that comes out in October.
Number five is biggest disappointment, and I can be quite critical on my
channel, and there have been a few big disappointments this year. Some I'm
gonna name off the top of my head. Number one: The Bronze Horseman by Paulina
Simmons, I think? I hated this book and it has a crazy high Goodreads rating, so I
was like, "I'm gonna love it!" No. It's one of my most hated books of all
time. So that's a disappointment. Another disappointment is... The further away
from it... Kind of controversial but A Court of Wings and Ruin my Sarah J Maas.
I loved A Court of Mist and Fury. This... Disappointed. Perthe question, it
disappointed quite a bit. I thought it fell quite short of my expectations and just
generally the bar set by the previous book in the series. Number six: biggest
surprise. I could say My Favorite Thing Is Monsters because it was surprise. My dad
randomly sent it to me in the mail. He didn't like include a note or anything.
So it was just this big surprise when I received it. But I'm trying to not to
only talk about that, so what I'm going to mention is a book that I had picked up
before and been like, "Eh..." and I picked it up again pretty recently actually, and I
was like, "I was such an idiot! This is amazing!" And that is is Pride and
Prejudice by Jane Austen. This is my beautiful Jane Austen bind up that I
love so much. I've had this for a while but I had only read Sense and Sensibility
which I enjoy, generally. I'd started Pride and Prejudice in high school and
been like, "Ugh," but I was also very deep in like the Twilight hole, I only wanted to
read the popcorn candy junk food paranormal romances that dominated that period of
time. And so I picked this up and I was like, "Oh, it's hard to read," and I think
maybe as I've gotten older now I try to read pretty widely so I've encountered
more classics. I'm more used to the old timey language. I was maybe just in a
better mood when I picked this up. Who knows. But I loved Pride and Prejudice! I
loved it so, so, so much! So it was kind of a surprise given my previous ambivalence
towards it. Number seven is favorite new author and I would say Emil Ferris,
but other than that I'm going to say Seanan McGuire, who I have also already
mentioned on this list, but I absolutely loved Every Heart a Doorway. I think it is
very difficult to write a good short book. I think it is much easier to write
a longer book because you have more wiggle room to stumble around with plot
and pacing and characterization, and if you don't get it right within the first
page you try to it's okay maybe like a few pages later you figure it out. But in
a short book you simply don't have the real estate to get it done. Seanan McGuire
gets it done! It's so good! I love this book. As I said, I'm very excited for Down
Among the Sticks and Bones. So I'm hoping to read more of her work because she's
also written some adult fiction as well, I believe. I'm gonna check that out!
Number eight: favorite new crush, new favorite crush, new crush, we're all
having crushes. And in keeping with the theme of recycling all the same books
in this video I'm going with Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice because I love
him! Like love him. I'm actually going to film a review video.
So that is coming down the pipeline, and I'm going to talk about why I love
Darcy so much. So I'm just going to say here that I love him! Number nine: favorite
new character surprise it's Karen, the main character from My Favorite Things Is
Monsters by Emil Ferris. Surprise, sursprise, surprise.
No one is surprised. Karen is hilarious and weird and precocious and absolutely
wonderful. I think she is da best. I want to be friends with her. Oh, she's so
great! she's so wonderful and earnest and sincere and oh I just want to protect
her. I love Karen. And like this is how she pictures herself, as a noir detective
with werewolf fangs. I think it's lovely and amazing. I love Karen. Number 10: a
book that means you cry my answer for this is the Year of Magical Thinking by
Joan Didion. this is a memoir chronicling the year in Didion's life after her husband
passed away when her daughter was still gravely, gravely ill and it is just
gorgeous writing. It's beautiful and heartbreaking. It's a study in grief. I
cannot recommend this enough it made me cry like a baby. Number 11: a book that makes
you happy. And I'm going with Strange the Dreamer
by Laini Taylor. This is also a book that made me cry, but first it made me really,
really happy, and I think that's mostly to do with Laslo, who is just the
loveliest little cinnamon bun. He's so pure and I love him so much.
And reading about him just made me really, really happy! Number 12 is your
favorite adaptation of the year. Hands down it's gotta be Handmaid's Tale by
Margaret Atwood. I did a discussion video about the first three or four episodes
at that point I'd watched and I was like spewing how much I love it. I love this
book, but the show! I think I like the show better... It's like sacrilegious to say in the BookTube community, but
yeah. I think the show is absolutely brilliant. It's beautifully made.
They do like lens flares a lot--there's a little caveat. A lot of lens flare. I think
it's brilliant. I saw a review and I think this is so
true, how shows, their weakest points are flashbacks and narration. They're used as
crutches a lot of times and they detract from the show or movie. They are some of
the best parts of the Handmaid's Tale which is amazing to see, pushing the
genre forward. It's really bleak though. It's
really, really dark. That's a little something if you're not ready to be so sad,
maybe don't watch it, but at some point you should get to it. This is a brilliant
TV show. Number thirteen is your favorite review that you've done this year.
Surprise, surprise it is once again My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, but also I
really liked my review of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I
will link both those and the cards and down below and you should--could, if you
want, if you want check them out, a little self promo
going on. Number 14: the most beautiful book that you bought this year.
Surprise, surprise I want to answer My Favorite Thing Is Monsters because it
is gorgeous! But I don't even know how many times I've mentioned that already,
so I'm going to pick a new book. I haven't read this one yet but it is The
Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. this is a fantasy fairy tale
retelling based on Russian fairy tales. I got this from Book Depository because I
didn't like the US cover and I thought this cover was gorgeous! It's so pretty!
I'm really excited to read this. And finally, what books do you need to
read by the end of the yea? I'm not even that good of TBR's, you think I keep
track for like a full year? No chance. Ooooh, I'm gonna say The Witcher series. I don't
know who writes it off the top of my head, but I'm gonna say the Witcher series
because I heard that they're doing in Netflix adaptation of it. Gotta read it
before I see it, that's my go-to thing. So I'm gonna start that. Elliot Brooks has a
YouTube channel--you should check her out she's like the queen of fantasy--and she
talks about the Witcher series. She's a huge fan. So
based on her opinion, which I regard quite highly, and based on the Netflix
series I'm gonna stay the Witcher series-- those are some books that I gotta read
by the end of this year. That is it! Thanks so much for watching if you liked
this video give it a thumbs up, subscribe to see more of my face, and I will see
you next time!
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