Hello! Today I have for you a book haul. One of the main reasons I really wanted
to do a book haul was because I picked up tons of LGBTQI A+ reads throughout
the month of June, throughout Pride, and I just wanted to
share them off with you guys and talk about them and get excited about all of
them! And also this video is partially being sponsored by Film 14, who I've
worked with before and I will show you a clip from one of the new trailers, which
is related to a book I got recently, later on in the video. Let's start with
all the queer books because I'm wearing a rainbow shirt. The first one is one
that I've been meaning to pick up forever and I could not find when I was
in the UK and so I was like it's fine, I'll get it this summer, it'll be fine
and that is Of Fire and Stars by Aldrete Coulthurst. Of Fire and Stars in short is a
story of a woman who is betrothed to a prince who is meant to align two
kingdoms or something along those lines, but she ends up falling in love with the
princes sister. That's all I really know about it, that's all I need to know, I'm
invested. I've heard so many great things about this book throughout the year and
I'm very excited to pick this up. The next book I have this one I've actually
already read and that is How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake. How to Make
a Wish is a really really wonderful story of a girl named Grace who has a
very toxic relationship with her mother and she's going through a very
transitional point in her life where she's applying to colleges and trying to
get away, but also knows that she's going to be held back by having to support and
stay with her kind of volatile mother. In comes Ava who is a biracial girl, which
is awesome for representation, who moves in with Grace's best friend because her
mother has recently passed away. Her mother and her were very close and her
mother was friends with Grace's best friend's mom so she moves in with them
and the two form a friendship and eventually potentially a relationship
and it's just a really really great story as a whole. Great relationships.
Okay, that's this it's, really really wonderful contemporary. The next book I
have here is Tosh Hearts Tolstoy by Katherine Ormsby. I don't know a ton
about this book I know that it does have asexual representation and I believe the
main character in this story is like a youtuber or she does something on the
Internet that becomes really popular, she goes viral, yeah, her show was a modern
adaptation of Anna Karenina. Yes I'm-- this sounds great. The next book I'm
currently reading and that is More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera. I loved
History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera, so I've need to pick this up before his
next book, which is They Both Die at the End comes out in September. Preorder it.
This is the story of a boy named Aaron, whose father has recently committed
suicide, his whole family is kind of reeling from that. He also had, I believe,
attempted suicide, as well. They live in a world where you can undertake a
procedure to kind of forget everything about yourself, essentially, I think is
the gist of it and he finds out that he's gay
and then wishes to undertake the procedure to forget that he's gay, so I'm
really excited about this. I'm not very far into it I think I'm like 60 pages
but love Adams writing. the next book is one you've probably heard a ton about
here on YouTube and it is Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde. Another one I really wanted
in London but I couldn't find a copy, so I waited till I got home. This is the
story of another vlogger, I love all these like vlogger books. It's a story of
a girl who's a vlogger and she goes to a sort of comic-con thing and meets
another girl who's a vlogger and I think they form a relationship. There's a
lot of different types of representation in this book. There's a lot of different
representation in the story, I believe that there's anxiety rep, there's, I
think, autistic representation in this. I can't be sure it does say that she her
brain works differently, she's wired differently than other people, so lots of
different representation. Girl-- queer girl novel, I'm here for it.
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour I loved We Are Okay by Nina LaCour, so I
knew I had to pick this one up. This is story of a girl who works as a
production designer and she's kind of like an assistant, she's lower in the
ranks, trying to move up in the film industry, and she-- sorry, I'm looking my
dog he's pacing. She finds a letter from some Hollywood film legend and they--
there's a mystery, I don't know. I don't know much about it. I just know I love
Nina LaCour's writing and I know that this is a book about two girls falling
in love, so I really want to pick it up and I'm excited about this one. This is
on my--I'm going to read that soon. Seven Ways We Live by Riley Redgate is a
book I've actually already read because I was told and there is a pansexual
representation in it, which excited me and yeah this is story of seven
different students who all represent the seven deadly sins. At my local bookstore,
sometimes they have used copies that are cheaper so I got this for $8.99 or
something, which is cool because it's hardback and this is a
recent release. This is Noteworthy by Riley Redgate and I believe it's
about a girl who joins a male a cappella group, like disguises herself as a male
to be on the acapella team or something like that, which sounds really fun. I
liked Riley Redgate's last book, I figured I'd pick this up, especially at
such a low cost. None of the Bbove by I.W. Gregorio, I don't know anything about
this except that the main character is intersex and so I want to pick it up
purely because of that, because I've never read a book about an intersex
character and that seems like a gap in my reading. So definitely had to
pick this up, I know that the author is not intersex, but they are a doctor, so--
and who works within intersex patients, so I feel like that is applicable. And I
believe my final queer novel of this haul is Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy and
this is one that I heard a lot controversy about because apparently,
it's the story of a girl who believes she's a lesbian, who actually ends up falling for
a boy and really discovering that she is bisexual and I heard a lot of people
kind of calling that out and whatever, but I feel like that's really good
bisexual representation. Sometimes you think you're, for a really long time, you're
one thing, but sexuality is fluid and you find out that you don't just like
girls or just boys or whatever, binaries are for computers, you know. I just love
this cover too and the spine looks so nice on my shelf. I'm going to pick that
up soon. The next book I have is The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr. I was
actually sent to by Penguin a really long time ago and I I just haven't
gotten around to talking about it, but I do think it's really interesting. it's
about a girl who has short-term memory loss, but she has one memory that sticks
and it's of this guy. And so she has to go find the guy. I actually- I'm working with
Film 14 because they made this really beautiful, incredible trailer that I'm
going to show right here.
Imagine waking up every day not knowing what happened to day before. My name is
Flora Banks I'm 17 and I have no short-term memory.
Every new experience and thought slips away from me as quickly as it comes,
except for Drake. I remember him and the night. He is my one and only new memory. I
have to find him I think he may be the one.
How do you know you can even trust them?
Don't you just want to read it? I think it looks really pretty. Next book
I have is one I'm really really excited about and that is Love, Hate and Other
Filters by Samira Ahmed and I just got sent to me by Soho Teen, so thank you Soho
Teen. This comes out in January of next year, which is really far away. This says
that it's about a Muslim teen coping with Islamophobia, cultural divides among
peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape.
I want to read this because I think it's going to be a great voice in YA
literature. I really like stories about people experiencing two different
cultures and kind of balancing the two that kind of code-switching, is that what it's
called, code-switching? I'm really interested in that because
it's something I have obviously never experienced being a cis white person.
Really excited about this. My next read is actually You're Welcome, Universe by
Whitney Gartner and you've probably heard about this because it came out quite a
while ago, but I just recently picked it up at my local bookstore and that is--
this is a story about a girl at a deaf school who gets bullied and the main
character is a graffiti artist and she like, covers the awful thing that someone
is written about her friend with her own graffiti, which then gets her kicked out
of school and sent to like a regular public school and she's the only deaf
person there. And yeah, it's just her experience in that context. As I said, this
is my next read once I finish More Happy Than Not, so I'll let you know my thoughts
soon. Second-to-last book I have is Not if I See You First by Eric Lindstrom. I
bought this for diversity bingo because I need a book about a character or a
main character with who's visually impaired. This is story about a girl
named Parker who has all of these rules and her first rule is don't treat her
differently because she can't see, so I think that's really cool. I like all the
Braille on the cover. and the final book is one that I've been seeing everywhere
I'm so excited about and it's Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. I
actually have another book by Francesca Zappia called Made You Up, it's
right there, that I've been meaning to read for ages, so I'm going to read that soon
and I think I'll read that before this, because I like reading authors in
publication order, but yes this is a story about a girl who I believe it has
really good anxiety representation. It's about a girl who
creates an online web comic and she meets someone who really likes the
webcomic and they kind of build a friendship and something along those
lines. This reminds me a lot of Radio Silence by Alice Oseman, which I
absolutely loved, really encourage you to pick up Radio Silence. It's another, I really
love the illustrations on the cover. I think this is really cool. And that is
all for me. Sorry this is long. Thank you to Film 14 for sponsoring this video, let
me know what books you've picked up recently and I'll see you real soon with
my-- I think my next video will be my June wrap-up, reads, thing. Cool, bye!

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