Hi everybody, it's Anna, and welcome back to my booktube channel. We are gonna go
ahead and focus the damn camera... okay. Welcome back to my booktube channel!
Today is another tag video, ta-da! This time I have to thank the lovely Kathy
for essentially tagging me to do the library 411 tag, which I am very
much excited to do because I love the library so much so that about 1/3 of the
cards in my wallet are library cards. I will go ahead and link the original
creators of the tag as well as the tag questions down below in the description
box, but let us go ahead and get into the books, shall we? Okay, so these questions
are designed to familiarize you with resources and things that are available
at the library that you may not necessarily know about. I did know about
most of these, considering that I did work in a library for a few years when I
was in high school. I was basically like a page, which is the person that shelves
the books and organizes things and occasionally helps patrons use the
catalog, things like that... so let's go ahead and begin. Information desk: a book
that was helpful to you for any reason. This is probably going to get this video
demonetised, but that book was the one called "I heart female orgasm." You can
imagine why that might have been helpful for me! Return bin: what are two
books you read and immediately wanted to return because you disliked, or recent
DNF? Okay, for this I'm going to go with a recent DNF, and that was my book of the
month from last month, "the last equation of Isaac Severy" by Nova Jacobs. I just
really could not get into this book, and that made me sad because the premise was
so interesting: an elderly mathematician dies, leaving behind a mysterious formula,
and there's extenuating circumstances, but I just didn't like it.
It had everything that I expected to like, but I didn't, and I didn't like the
writing, so was happy to not finish that. Hold section: your most
anticipated release which you can't wait to get your hands on. Oh my goodness!
Let's go off on a very brief tangent about the hold section. I spend so much
time basically using the library catalogue as my own personal shopping
list to put things on hold for myself, yet I still go out and buy books, so
these are some recent releases that I actually purchased: "the long way to a
small angry planet" by Becky Chambers ; "not so stories" a short story collection
edited by David Thomas More with a foreword by Nikesh Shukla; and "the girl
who never read noam chomsky" which you can't really see because of the bright
glare, by Janet Casale. I'm sure you will hear about
those in a wrap-up or TBR at some point. Community classes and study rooms: a book
you loved that was a school assignment. So this one is technically cheating
because I was never actually assigned to read this as part of school. I didn't
read it until I was an adult, but it is probably my favorite book that is
typically assigned to school reading, and that is "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. If
you're not really sure what all the fuss is about with people talking about "the
giver," I'm not even going to try to explain it; I'm just going to put the
book in your hands and go "you're welcome!"
Okay, number five, computers: a modern classic you love or a favorite sci-fi.
I talk a lot about sci-fi and fantasy on this channel, so I thought I would switch
it up and talk about a modern classic that I love which is "the secret history"
by Donna Tartt.
DVD rentals: your most anticipated or favorite in recent history book to movie
or book to TV adaptation, or a book that felt cinematic, or a book you wish would
be adapted to a movie or TV series. Whew! Favorite one that I saw recently: "love, Simon"
Again, obvious reasons, cuz gay stuff, and I loved it, and it was cute and
adorable and a great adaptation. The one that I'm most excited for upcoming isn't
going to be too much of a surprise to anybody on booktube, but that is
"The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas, which I believe is coming out next year as a film. Either
next year or 2020. Cannot wait to watch this. Okay, library bookstore/sale: a
random book you picked up with and really enjoyed, or show off your favorite
bookish merch. I'm going to do the favorite bookish merch because I pick up
a lot of random books. So I have two things for this. The first is this little
pin... we're gonna focus here... the first is this little pin that I got when I was in
third grade. It says "star reader" on it, and it was a prize for being the person in
my class who read the most pages that year. Can anybody say that they're really
surprised by this? I continuously read more than a hundred books every year,
despite, you know, needing to do things like feed myself walk a dog, maintain a
social life, yeah-- this [reading] is easily one of the most important things in my life,
always has been. And the other thing that is a piece of favorite bookish merch is
this shirt, which was to celebrate the 100th episode of the "all the books"
podcast that's put on by book riot discussing new book releases. It says
"happy reading" on this side, and on the back it says "all the books 100 episodes."
You cannot get this anymore, but I will go ahead and link to their site down
below if you'd like to learn more about the podcast and the other work that book
riot does as a website. nNext is teen or youth room: favorite YA or favorite book
you read as a kid or a book you can't wait to share with your future kids and
nieces and nephews. So a book that I can't wait to share with the kids in my
life, once they are old enough to read it I suppose, is "The Phantom Tollbooth" by
Norton Juster. The title really does not show up super
well... Wow, okay. I adored this book when I was a child. I turned all of my siblings
and my parents onto it as well, and I cannot wait to read it or have it read
to me by children in my future. Next is Museum tickets. This is
a cool thing that I actually did not know could happen until moving to
Seattle. A lot of libraries just by virtue of you having a library card will
give you free admission to local museums in your area, so definitely check that
out and see if that's something that your library offers. My library lets me
go to certain local museums for free once a month and then have reduced
admission at other times, but hey, that was something that I had no idea existed!
I just assumed that I would either not go see museums because they are
expensive in the United States, or I would just end up shelling out a fortune
to go see something, but I don't have to now, which is really awesome to know!
So that question was: a book that made you feel a bit more cultured upon completing
it. That book is "possession" by AS Byatt. This
is a literary fiction novel about the parallel stories of Victorian poets and
the scholars who study their lives. I adore this book. It is very dense; it is
extremely luscious, written in the style of an amazing amazing Victorian novel,
and it definitely made me feel very [high pitched british voice] "oh I'm a fancy person! I can go to a
cocktail party and chatter above the hoi polloi!" [normal voice] or whatever. It's not really a
snooty book, but it does deal a lot with culture and scholarship and academic
elitism, so it definitely made me feel very cultured after having finished it.
Next is overdrive or hoopla: an audiobook that you love. Now, I kind of came late to
the game when it comes to overdrive and hoopla because most of my audio book
listening I did when I was in high school, and my library didn't have that
capability, so I listened to a lot of things through audible, but my favorite
audiobook that I listened to you at that time was the audiobook of my favorite
modern classic "mr. penumbra's 24-hour bookstore" by Robin Sloan.
That was actually my introduction to the book. I didn't own a physical copy of the
book until maybe a year to six months after I had listened to the audiobook
for the first time. So yeah, awesome audiobook. Request a purchase: a
lesser-known book that you want more people to know about and read.
So this is the first in a series, and that is "village school" by Miss Read. That
is a pseudonym of a woman who was a schoolteacher in England in the 1950s
60s etc, and she wrote these semi- autobiographical series of novels about
her time as a village schoolteacher in post-war England. These books are
charmingly delightful and sweet and just a balm for the soul, if you are at all
interested in stories of friendship, the importance of teachers, the importance of
education and reading and community, do yourself a favor and check out these
books. We did have to request some of these for purchase at my library because
the series is quite long and they didn't have but really worn down beat-up copies
of some of them. So I did request a few of them for purchase, but it's well worth
it if you're just looking for a comforting read. Okay, and then sanctuary:
this is another thing that you may not know about your local library, but if you
are a person in crisis, especially if you are a youth in need of a safe place to
stay, you can talk to a librarian and they will have the resources to be able
to get you in touch with somebody that can help see to your needs. There's also
a lot of resources even if you are not immediately facing a crisis to put you
in touch with things like housing, hygiene resources, public health
resources, LGBTQ stuff--anything that you really need help with, you can find the
way to it with a librarian. The question for sanctuary is: a book that is your safety
net, is like home to you, or helped you through a troubled time. This book
continues to do that again and again, which is why I will never stop talking
about it, and that is "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. It gave me a voice when
I felt like I had none. It gave me a person that I could look up to, admire,
emulate. It gave me a story that I could escape into, and it gave me a lasting
love of women's literature, especially from the 18th and 19th centuries, that
has persisted and led me to so many other great books and great authors. This
is... my second reading copy of this that I've
ever had. The first one was destroyed by a friend I unwisely lent it to, but it is
really well loved. This is back from when you could buy a paperback this size for
$7.95, so that gives you an idea of how long I've had this,
that I paid about eight dollars new for this book. I love it so much!
One day I'll need to make an entire video just on how important Jane Eyre as
a book and a character and a world means to me.
But for now, that is going to wrap up the library 411 book tag! I'm going
to leave a list of people that I tagged down below, but if you don't see your
name listed, don't take it personally, but please do complete the tag and make sure
to tag me on social media if you do decide that you're gonna make a video or
a blog post or anything like that about this, because I would really love
to see what you come up with. Thank you all so much for watching, and I will see
you in the next one! Bye!
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