Hi everyone. I'm rincey and this is rincey reads. Today i'm going to be doing
my August wrap-up. So in terms of the videos that I made this month, one of the
first videos I put up with an unboxing video. I unbox the July book of the month
selections that I got as well as the afrofuture box which was sent to me kindly
by the people who created the box. If you haven't heard of the afrofuture box it
basically focuses around afrofuturism which is basically like african-american
science fiction. And if the box sounds interesting to you there is a coupon
code in there. I don't get any sort of like kickback if you use the code or not
but it's basically a discount code for you guys that they were nice enough to
send along. I also put out the first discussion video about Brothers
Karamazov. It just talks about the first half of the book so far. I'm not quite
done with this book yet. I still have a little bit more to go but there will be
a discussion video coming up most likely next Friday talking about the
rest of the book and the book as a whole and my experience as a whole. Definitely
am not going to talk too much about it here, but I have like mixed feelings
about this book which if you watched my discussion video you would have picked
up on that already. But I'm excited to talk about this with you guys because I
know there are a bunch of people who really really loved this book. There are
other people who have not. So yeah, I'm very interested to see just sort of
where everyone falls on the spectrum with this book. I also put up a little
bit of a different video. I did a what's in my bag video which a lot of you guys
really liked, a couple of you guys we're not big fans of it. You prefer I stick to
the book videos which I mean I suppose will always happen when it comes to
booktubers. But I basically just do what I want. It's my channel. I like sort of
mixing it up every now and then and doing something different. So it was fun
for me and I'm glad so many of you guys enjoyed it as well. And then the final
videos that I put up this month had to do with like bout of books but I will
talk about that a little bit more as we jump into the discussion of the books
that I read this month. So the first book I want to talk about is actually a
holdover from the end of July. I recorded and posted my July wrap-up a little bit
early in the month, like a couple of days before the end of the month. I ended up
finishing one more book and that was the Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in
Heaven by Sherman Alexie. This is the second Sherman Alexie book that I
read from him. I read adventures of a part-time Indian a couple of years
ago and I really really enjoyed it. And I've been meaning to pick up more of his
books and this one is fantastic. I mean, I knew it was going to be really good
because it's probably his most popular book. But it was
great collection of short stories. Like I am someone who doesn't always click with
short stories. If you've been watching my channel, you know that. But this
collection is so fantastic. Sherman Alexie is just an amazing, amazing writer.
He is able to write in this way that is simultaneously like heart wrenching and
heart affirming. He finds this really great balance between the tragedies that
a lot of Native Americans have to deal with while also still being like funny
and inspiring. There's a lot of really dark humor in here. One of the really
great things about this short story collection as well is that some of them
are like linked and connected so you do get to see some characters through a
couple of the different stories. But you see either secondary characters become
main characters or you see them from like a different angle or a different
time in their life. But yeah this is just a fantastic, fantastic collection.
There's a reason why Sherman Alexie is very well-loved. And this is a great
collection to pick up if you haven't read anything from him before or if like
me you would only read Adventures of part-time Indian, this it's definitely a
great short story collection to pick up. I highly recommend it. I gave it
I believe a four out of five stars. The next book that I finished was a rising
man by Abir Mukherjee. This is a historical fiction mystery book that's
set in Calcutta in 1919. You are following this British officer who is,
used to work for a Scotland Yard. He ends up moving to India. It's about him sort
of like getting acclimated to Calcutta during that time period but he also is
like working on the police force. And so the case that he's solving is there is
this high up British official who has found that in the river. And so he's
investigating to see what happened to this guy. I had mixed feelings about this
book. It's like 500-ish pages which I felt like was a little bit too long in
my opinion. But I enjoyed the mystery, I enjoyed the setup. I really enjoyed the
way that it's set in this specific period of time in India. And if you don't
know anything about this time period and the relationship between the British and
the Indians, Abir Mukerjee does a really great job of weaving in historical
information without it being like too dry or too heavy-handed or anything like
that. So he doesn't assume that you know anything about it so he provides you
with any information that you need to know and you're able to pick up
relatively easily. Some of it did feel a little bit like too easy.
There's like a love interest in here which just felt like happened a little
too easy but I feel like that in general a lot of times with mystery books. And
then also like the main character in this story is a very like progressive British
person. So like he's one of those people who doesn't like understand why people
are so mean to the Indians or look out upon Indians or looks down upon like
mixed-race people. There's a mixed-race character in here as well which is
pretty great. But yeah he just seems like a little bit too accepting of everything.
And part of me was reading this and being like, did people like this really
exist? Maybe. I don't know. I wasn't alive in 1919. But it just seemed a little bit
too easy of a way to point out sort of like the racist ideals that were
happening during the time period. But I suppose that's better than it just being
full of racist ideas. So. So yeah if you're someone who likes just like
straightforward British detective stories, if you like historical fiction,
this is a great one to probably check out. It is the first in a series and I
definitely plan on picking more from this author as the series goes along
because I think that it's an interesting time period, it's an interesting main
detective. And so yeah, I liked it. I didn't love it, but I liked it. The next book
I finished was when Dimple Met Rishi. This is a young adult contemporary book. I feel
like it was one of the big buzzy YA contemporary books that came out
this year. And it was a fun read. I ended up picking it up because I was reading The
Brothers Karamazov and I was like I really need something just like light
and fun and fluffy to read to balance that out. And this basically scratched that
itch perfectly. So in this story you are following these two characters named
dimple and Rishi. Dimple's parents have like very specific expectations for her
and her life. I believe that she's just graduated from high school and she's
about to go to college. And there is this like computer programming camp that
takes place I believe at Berkeley that she really wants to attend and her
parents end up agreeing to sent her off. And then you're following Rishi who's
parents also have like very specific expectations but he very much like wants
to make his parents happy and so he follows all of those expectations. And so
apparently like dimple's parents and Rishi's parents are friends and they
decide that they want to arrange them together to be married. And so Rishi
knows this, Dimple does not. And so Rishi goes to this summer camp to meet
dimple and he assumes that they're on the same page about this, but they are not.
And so it follows them over the course
of the summer as they're both at this camp and they become friends and if it
wasn't completely obvious they kind of fall for each other. Like I said, this
book was fun. It was fluffy the way that it's set up is very much like a
Bollywood film. So if you've seen Bollywood films you kind of know what to
expect out of it. There are great discussions about like Indian family
life and culture and the pressures that you feel from your parents but also just
like the pressures that you feel from other Americans to Americanize yourself
and things like that. Yeah it's just like a light, fun,
fluffy read. I recommend it if you are in the mood for something like that or
if you're into like a really romantic mushy book. The next book I read was Monday
the rabbi took off. This is a book in this rabbi small mystery series. I ended
up getting this randomly from Amazon because I saw that it was part of like
the monthly mystery deals. And I was in the mood for sort of like a cozy mystery
and then for the road or dead podcast -- which is the mystery podcast that a
co-host. Link to it down in the description. We decided we wanted to do a
cozy mystery episode and so it worked out quite well. So I ended up reading
this, partially because I bought it and partially because we were doing that
episode. So in this mystery series you are following this rabbi named rabbi small.
And there's always some sort of like conflict that happens between him
and his congregation. In this specific story he decides that he wants to take
basically like a sabbatical in Israel because he's never been before. And he's
basically debating whether or not he wants to return back to his home
congregation or if he wants to stay in Israel. And then there's also obviously
like a mystery that happens in this book but the mystery is sort of like
tangental to everything else. A lot of the book just deals with like these
interpersonal conflicts and church politics and just Jewish traditions and
ideas and things like that and I just found it to be really comforting. That's
one of the really great things about Cozy reads is they're just like very
comforting. Was this like my favorite cozy mystery that I've ever read before?
No. I've also seen a lot of people saying that this isn't actually the best
rabbi small book to pick up. I kind of want to see if like through my library
or something along those lines I can pick up some of the other rabbis small
books. Because I kind of liked that it was a mystery that surrounds like a
synagogue and a rabbi and such. The rabbi isn't actually
solving the murder. He's usually just like around and then he ends up sort of
just like figuring it out in the end by listening to what everyone's saying and
picking up on all of the different pieces. He's not actually like
investigating or like being amateur detective. All right the next book I
finished was a negroland by Margo Jefferson. This is a memoir. And I was so
excited to read this book and I think my expectations were a little bit too high
cause I was slightly disappointed. Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 in
Chicago. She was basically part of this upper class of black like socialites
almost in the city of Chicago. And so this book basically just like follows
her life. It goes in almost chronological order like literally from when she was a
little kid and you go sort of like year by year through her life. And I think
that was just like my main problem with it. Like it felt like she was just
like reading her diary from every year. Or the chronological order just didn't
really mesh with me very well because I think I wanted more like societal and
historical sort of discussion around the things that she experienced. This book is
really great because it provides a perspective that you don't see very
often in my opinion. But I think that there wasn't enough of that explored.
It feels weird to say but I feel like a lot of this just dealt with like very
standard human experiences, which I don't know if that was the point or not. But
they were points to where I was reading this and I was like yeah that's a thing
just like every teenager goes through and such and like when you're in like
middle school and high school, you have these issues with your friends. Yeah
that's something everyone deals with. And I don't know if it was meant to be a
very sort of like relatable thing like that but I think I just wanted more
insight in terms of this specific class of people. And there is some of that in
this book but it just wasn't quite enough in my opinion. But those were
definitely my favorite parts of the book. So yeah I ended up giving this a 3 out
of 5 stars. It wasn't like bad by any means. I just think that the style and
the structure weren't quite what I was expecting and I think I was just like
slightly misled about what this book was going to be. It's one of those situations
where I kind of wish I had like no expectations for this book and I
probably would have enjoyed it a lot more. Not that I hated it by any means
but it wasn't quite the like four star book that I assumed it
would be. It's just like a three star book. The next book I picked up was final
girls by Riley Sager. This is a thriller slash sort of horror novel. It's one of the
big buzzy summer books, it was also a book of the month book so there have
been a lot of people talking about this book. Again I really like this book I
didn't love this book. I talk about this one quite a bit in my bout of books wrap
up. So I'm just gonna link to that because again this video is already on
the longer side. I think I gave this one like a three and a half out of five
stars. My one recommendation would be if you're going to read this book, read it
in like as big of chunks as possible. Like set aside a couple of hours so you
can really push through it because I think this book is best experienced when you
can really like immerse yourself in the book. But yeah I'm gonna link to my bout
of books video so you guys saying check that out if you're interested in my full
thoughts on this. And then the next book that I finished was yesterday by Felicia Yap.
This was probably the biggest disappointment for me. I gave this one a
2 out of 5 stars. It's a pretty new release it's part like speculative
fiction, part mystery thriller there's a certain class of people called Monos who
can only remember about a day's worth in terms of their short-term memory and
then there are duo's who can remember about two days worth. So these two
classes of people, like the monos are seen as basically lesser than the duo's
because obviously they can't remember quite as far back. And then there's this
couple where the wife is the mono and the husband is a duo and they're seen as
sort of like this ultimate representation of like this inter class
relationship. And then one day there is this woman who's found in the river and
it turns out that the husband was having an affair with this woman. And so it's
about figuring out what happened to this woman while also dealing with this
society where there's all these people with limited memories. Yeah it was a
pretty disappointing book partially because I think this author was trying
to do too much. The world isn't built out quite enough to feel real. Like there are
so many holes in the way that this world is set up. And it also felt like the
author took a lot of shortcuts because it's kind of like our world but it's
kind of not like our world. And then the mystery felt completely standard.
Some of the characters in here just felt like complete stereotypes. There's a cop
character in here who I think was the most interesting and he got the least
amount of pages. It switches back and forth between the wife, the husband, the
woman who was murdered, and the cop. And I would have been so much more interested
in this story if it was me just from like the cop and someone
else's point of view here and there. At least that's how it felt like to me
because the cop is also a mono who is pretending to be a duo because cops
can't be duo's. So yeah I don't know there's just so much happening in the
story and it was so disappointing in the end. And I ended up finishing it because
I kind of just wanted to see how it was going to wrap up but I was not very
happy at the end of it. So yeah I don't really recommend it. Alright and then the
final book that I finished this month is we gon' be alright: notes on race
and resegregation by Jeff Chang. This is another book that I talked about in my
bout of books wrap-up. I didn't finish it during bout of books so I didn't talk
about it too much. And I'm not gonna talk about it too much here because I'm going
to do a full review on this in the month of September because I gave this book a
5 out of 5 stars. It's an essay collection. It was fantastic
If you follow me on Instagram and watch my stories, you may have seen me like
taking pictures of certain sections of this. There's so much of this book that
I've underlined and starred. And oh, it was so good. I highly recommend it. But yeah
I'm not gonna talk about it too much here. But I can just say I recommend it
to everyone. Like this is a book that is going on my sort of like "what I wish was
mandatory reading for all human beings" list. So yeah full review coming next
month but this is my first 5-star read of the year and it fully deserves it.
Alright that is everything that I have for this video. Just really quickly the
book that I am currently reading is sing unburied sing by Jesmyn Ward.
I got an arc copy of this and then I got a copy through Book of the Month. I usually
don't talk about the books that I'm in the middle of but I wanted to talk about
this one because one, I'm loving it. And two, I'm going to be doing a full review
on it on the book riot channel. I make videos over on book riot. I will link to
that in case you guys weren't aware. But I'm pretty sure that I can just
automatically recommend this book to you guys. If you get book of the month, this
wouldn't be a bad one to pick up. Although there's a lot of really great
selections so I understand why you wouldn't. But yeah, this should be on your
guys's list if it isn't already. It's, it's so good, so good. So yeah that is my
August. Feel free to leave a comment down below if you need questions about any of
the books that I talked about or if you've read them yourself and you want
to talk about them with me, always do that down in the comments below.
Otherwise feel free to let me know how your August went, let me know what your
favorite read was for the month this year. hmm That's not a proper sentence.
I'm tired. Anyways, that's a sign to wrap it up.
So yeah that's all I have for now and thanks for watching.
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