Hi everyone! My name is Frede and today I'm gonna be doing the End of the World Book Tag
in which i was tagged by Jessica and Christeena at gameoftomes
so thank you for that!
The first question is: An earthquake - earthquakes separate the ground
into multiple pieces. Favourite book with multiple perspectives?
It was really hard for me to decide on a book there,
like on just one book. Because I love multiple perspective books.
But I chose A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
This is a book that I had to read for uni sometime last year,
and it's basically first of all a multiple perspective book but you also have a non-linear narration.
So you have a set of characters who you meet at different points in their lives,
and you have different perspectives and it's fascinating. So you might have this one character
in, say, 2003. And she talks about her situation and other characters.
And then you have the next chapter and you have a character that was mentioned in this first chapter
in like 1993 or something. Like- and you just jump around in time and with perspectives,
so this is probably one of the best multiple perspective books that I've read so far.
Number two: An asteroid - you can see an asteroid coming before it hits.
What book did you see the plot twist coming way beforehand?
I'm not really so good at seeing plot twists coming. But a book that I found very predictable,
I don't know if you would even say that was a plot twist but a book that I just found extremely predictable
and just really didn't like, and it's ironic because it's also a book by Jennifer Egan and that was The Invisible Circus.
Because I loved A Visit from the Good Squad so much I went to the bookshop after I finished it
and I looked if they had any books by her, and they did, they had The Invisible Circus,
and it was a really shit book. I think it was her first novel so I forgive her with that, I'm still gonna be trying
to read another book by hers. But it's basically about this girl who goes out to find her sis- not her sister,
her sister has died. But she kind of tries to find out what happened.
And it was just so shitty, I really hated it and it was really predictable.
Question number three: An epidemic - a disease that everybody seems to be contracting.
What book does everybody seem to be getting that you don't want?
I think for me that must be A History of Magic by JK Rowling.
And I've seen so many people get this book. And I'm kind of tempted to get it myself,
because I love Harry Potter but I've just been really annoyed with JK Rowling this year, last year,
so I don't really wanna give her even more of my money than I'm already doing.
So yeah, I'm not gonna buy that book.
Question number four: A tsunami - tsunamis flood everything. What book flooded your thoughts
and you couldn't get off your mind or stop thinking about?
This is another multi perspective book and it is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
I read this at the beginning of the year and I think I read in in like two or three days,
I really flew through it. But every time I wasn't reading this book I was thinking about it.
And there are some characters that I'm still thinking about because it's just constructed so brilliantly.
Because you have these two kind of family lines and you have like you jump forward in time
and every time in every new chapter you find out what happened to the person before them.
Brilliant. I didn't like the last like three of four chapters, I think those could've like been left out or just
done better, but it was amazing and I kept thinking about these characters every time I wasn't reading this book
so this is definitely my answer for this question.
Question number five: Nuclear war - the battle of all battles between humans.
Favourite human fight in a book?
I don't read many books where you actually have fights. So I interpreted it in a way of also verbal fight.
And it's ironic that I just like talked shit about JK Rowling because it is a book by JK Rowling,
and it is the- oops [laughs] Jesus Christ. It's the Casual- A casual vacancy? THE Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling,
which I also read at the beginning of the year. And it's also a multi perspective book
and also kind of one of my favourite kinds of multi perspective books where you have a town
and you get different people who live there. I love that.
And there is this one scene, I can't remember the context exactly, but you have a woman
who just like recently moved to that town and she's dating some guy who's been living there for ages.
And his family has been living there for ages.
So he- they are kind of in a relationship but it's not really going so well
And she's having dinner with his parents and his parents are the worst.
And she is very different from them and she kind of- I don't even remember the context
but they kind of get into an argument and she and I think it was the father of the guy she's dating
are just like fighting and it was just written so well.
It was a really really well written dialogue. And yeah, I don't- I'm annoyed about JK Rowling as a person
but I think what she can do really well is writing dialogue. At least in this book.
So yeah, I thought that was a really well done fight between humans.
Question number six: Alien Invasion - Best Sci-Fi novel?
I'm not quite sure if I have an answer for that because I don't really read a lot of Sci-Fi
I have like three or four Sci-Fi novels on my shelf and they were all kind of mediocre.
But a Sci-Fi novel where I thought although the story itself was kind of mediocre
I liked the way that it was formatted. Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amy Kaufman.
I was- I was not overwhelmed and amazed by this story, I thought it was, as I said it was a bit boring,
and especially the end was just cheesy and I didn't like it. But I liked the way that this is done.
Like I mean, we've all kind of seen people talk about it.
It's like- here's actually text but you have like fun stuff in here.
And I've seen people say that they listened to this on audio which just seems so stupid to me
because kind of the point of this book is the way that it looks.
But yeah, I thought that although the story was maybe not amazing,
I've not read an amazing Sci-Fi novel yet so if you can recommend me a Sci-Fi novel that's good
and that's not YA because this is YA Sci-Fi and I was bored.
If you can recommend me Sci-Fi novel that's not YA, please do
because I would like to read some good Sci-Fi, I just haven't really come across any yet.
So yeah. But that's at least in was an interesting way to package a not so interesting story.
Question number seven is artificial intelligence - robots, computers, technologies taking over the world.
Favourite book you have read on any sort of e-reader?
I don't have an e-reader I only have my phone and my computer, so the only book that I read in its entirety
on an e-reader kinda thing was Ain't I a Woman? by bell hooks.
Which was a really good book but I can't compare it to anything else
because I've just not read anything else on an e-reader. Because that's just not really a format that I like.
But yeah, that's kind of the only book. And it was a good book so yeah.
And the last question is: end of the world movie - end of the world/disaster movies will continue to be made
in Hollywood just like book to movie or tv show adaptations.
What book adaptation are you looking foward to?
I'm not so much of a film person. I never have the nerve to sit down and watch a film,
I do like tv series and I would like to watch The Handmaid's Tale,
I've heard a lot of good things about this show. And I know it's been out for ages
but I just haven't had the opportunity to watch it. I'd like to see that but apart from that,
I'm not really keeping up with like upcoming adaptations. Because I'm just not really a film person.
But yeah, those were my answers for the End of the World Book Tag,
I think this is a fabulous tag and I'm going to tag Hélène at booksbyleynes,
Shamina, you don't have a channel name but you watch my videos so if you wanna do this tag do this as well,
and also Stephen at Alffbooks. So I would like you three to also do this tag
and answer these fun questions. And yeah as I said, do recommend me some good Sci-Fi
if there is anything that you think I should read maybe someday.
So yeah that was it for today, thank you very much for watching this video and I will see you in my next one. Bye!
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