Let's do this. Hey guys, it's Emily! for today's video I am doing
the Mid-year Book Break Out tag which was originally created by Chami. I will
leave a link to her video, channel, all that stuff, down below. I was tagged to do this
by Sylwia over at Wish Fulfillment who is just the very best. She's so great!
She has such wonderful reviews, so you should check out her channel if you are
not subscribed already--you're missing out. This tag is like a high-level
overview of how your year is going in reading, so far. So now I'm gonna do
that... The first question is the best book that you've read this year. I always feel
a little bit weird when it comes to picking a best book because I
read very widely across a bunch of different genres and age demographics
and things like that. So it's like, well, a high fantasy book is not
comparable, really, to scientific nonfiction. But I also didn't want to
just spiral on with this question. So I'm going just with two books, one
fiction and one nonfiction. My favorite fiction book of the year so far is Red
Clocks by Leni Zumas. I don't have a copy of it anymore because I lent it to
a friend. I adore this book! I did a full review of it, which I will link to in the
cards and down below, and you can check that out if you're so inclined.
It is literary speculative fiction. It's a little bit avant-garde, about a world
in which a personhood amendment has been passed. Abortion is illegal,
artificial insemination (and IVF) is illegal, and it also affects immigration and things
like that. We follow five different female characters, and you can watch my
review if you want to hear more about it. But it is fabulous! The other "best book"
that I want to talk about is I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong. I just don't know
where this is... I may have given it away, I may have it somewhere in my house, I just
don't know. It is scientific nonfiction that looks at the microbes of the world
and also within your body. It focuses, I would say, a little bit more on the
microbes in and on your body. Microbes in general--covers all that good stuff.
It's wonderfully written. It's accessible but doesn't seem watered-down. It's just
all around really, really, really impressive work. I love it, I would
definitely recommend checking it out. Number two: what is
the best sequel that you have read this year? For this I'm going with The
Stone Sky by NK Jemisin. This is book three and her Broken Earth trilogy, which
takes place in a world in which there is just a ton of seismic activity, and
certain people--called orogenes--have the ability to kind of control and manipulate
seismic activity. It looks at how that world and those powers within that world
affect power hierarchies and structures because orogenes are a marginalized group
within this world. They are oppressed and controlled. It's just an amazing,
incredibly inventive fantasy series. I adore it. The first book is The Fifth
Season. It takes about a hundred pages to get into because there's no expository
world building. So there's none of that like, "Joe walked into town for the first
time, and someone explained to him how this town works, and what the powers are
on this town, and who are the important players in this town," which you do
sometimes get in fantasy. This is just, you've got to dive in and you've got to figure
it out for yourself. So as a reader it can be a little off-putting at first. The
concluding novel was fabulous, and I loved it. Number three is, what's a new
release that you want to get to? And I have two for this. I am just cheating all
over the place with this tag. The first just came in the mail from Book of the
Month and that is Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. This is a fantasy book,
a companion book? I think it is a companion book set in the same world, I believe, as
Naomi Novik's novel Uprooted, which everybody loved and... I liked. I just liked
it. But I'm hopeful about this! So we shall see. The other new release that I
really want to get to is There There by Tommy Orange. This is literary fiction
that follows several different characters as they relate to the Big
Oakland Powwow. I mentioned this book in my "Most Anticipated Book Releases of the
Summer" video that I did. Very excited to pick this up.
Number four is, what is an anticipated release for the second half of this year?
I'm going with The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory. This is romance, which I'm still
so tentative about, but I read Guillory's first book The Wedding Date. It is
adorable and I loved it a lot. This is a new book in which we follow one of the
side characters from the first book. He now gets his own romance story, and he
was one of my favorite characters from the first book. In this, I just, I heard the
premise and I was like, "Sweet Jesus, this is
amazing! I love this!" He sees a woman get proposed to on a Jumbotron and it's
clear that like she is not into it, so he kind of rescues her, and we go from
there. It is my nightmare to have an incredibly
public proposal, or like public displays of romance like that in any capacity. It
just... Oh no. Mmmmm. I hate it so much! I just... It makes me so wildly uncomfortable.
I just really, really don't like it. So what I heard that was the premise I was
like, "Sign me up!" Number five is, what is the biggest disappointment of the year?
For this I'm going for a whole series, and that is To All the Boys I've Loved
Before by Jenny Han. I love me a good, fluffy, contemporary YA situation
every once in a while. I was in the mood. I was getting on a plane. I wanted
something easy and light and fluffy, and I've heard from so many people that
that's exactly what this series is! Unfortunately, the main love interest is
the worst ever. Gross hyperbole... He's not actually bad, he's just the epitome of
mediocre. He's like doing the bare minimum. The protagonist Laura Jean
in this book she's like oh my goodness he's so nice it's like no he's not he's
not that nice to you he doesn't really care about what you have to say he's
kind of boring he treats you like shit occasionally he does weird shit with his
ex-girlfriend and just not very into it I have the whole series and no other
books with me on this plane flight so I was like time for book two I don't even
care if I'm spoiling things now we were getting a new love interest I was so
excited for an examination on what actual good behavior is and how often
girls and women are conditioned to think the bare minimum of human decency is
something to be lauded rather than something to be expected and I was so
ready for great analysis and then mmm nope I didn't get that so so there's
just there was just a lot of disappointment involved number six is
what did the book that surprised you the most this year and for this I'm going
with a book that I've already talked about and that is the wedding date bike
Jasmine Guillory this surprised me because it is the first romance book
that I've ever read truly non ironically or like not to be a part of the greater
cultural zeitgeist because yes I did in fact read Fifty Shades of Grey because I
wanted to know what everyone was talking about and yes it was as bad as I thought
it was going to be but still I read it this I read not going in expected
I hate it I was very tentative but then it was so fun and lovely and wonderful
and I had a great time it was great and I really really enjoyed it
number seven is your favorite new author this can be a debut author or one that
is just new to you again I'm gonna name multiple authors because this is my
channel and I can do whatever I want the first is Fonda Lee I read her adult
fantasy novel Jade City which is the first in a series and it is so much fun
I loved it it's so great I did a full review on this did I I think I did if my
memory is serving me well today I will leave a link to that so you can check it
out it is super super super fun inspired a lot by martial arts movies and she has
also written a lot of y8 novels that I'm very excited to check out because I
loved this so very much next I have show her out I adored her
short story collection and unrestored Woman I liked her debut novel which is
more and brighter but this I think is stronger she can write a sentence her I
just loved her prose if you like short fiction definitely check this out all of
the stories in this are centered around the partition of India and Pakistan in
1947 and it is so very good 9 is your favorite new character and I am going
again with - sorry I'm not sorry at all the first is asked her from an
unkindness of ghosts I loved that despite how people often treat her so
poorly she retains such kindness and empathy and it's just lovely and she's
so smart and I loved her inquisitiveness all around reading from her perspective
was such a delight in a very dark book she is amazing I loved her and the other
is Cyril from the envelope dossier series this is book 2 the first book it
is amber Lo and it is great but I gave it away to a friend to read so I just
had the sequel which I finished and it's really really good there's follows
several characters and kind of the underground and a vaguely reminiscent of
1920s Germany place where they are in the first book at least trying to combat
the rise of a new fascist regime very cool premise he is a spy he's so deeply
flawed like doesn't want to care about people but dies he is the bit of a
coward but so like tried his best and I just love him he is amazing number 10 is
what's a book that made you cry so I cry easily when it comes to media so I did a
quick little tally we consult my notes I have read 61 books 19 of them have made
me cry which is a whopping 31 percent all books that I have read this year so
you can pick out like almost any book that I've mentioned in this video
probably made me cry but I do want to talk about one in particular that's just
great hunger by Roxane gay this is just like a gut punch of a memoir it made me
cried so many times I had to put it down several times because I was just like I
don't think I could live in this headspace for a prolonged period of time
I need a little break it is amazing gay it's just such a
strong writer I just loved this number 11 is what's a book that made you happy
I'm going with Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones this book is a delight
and every character in it it's just such an idiot and they're so stubborn and I
love them all and I just want to spend time with them there's not a great plot
in this but the book is better served for that I just want to follow these
idiot characters around who I love so very much
I just felt joyful reading this and if I am NOT being clear enough I recommend
this book a whole lot number 12 is what is your favorite adaptation of the year
I haven't been going to the movies very frequently lately and as much as I talk
to my friends about TV I don't actually watch that much TV I start a lot of TV
don't finish anything but one movie that I did see in theaters and really enjoyed
was love Simon which is of course the adaptation of becky albertalli
Simon vs. the Homo sapiens agenda' which is just the cutest little fluffiest why
I contemporary and it is just a lovely quick light read number 13 is what is
your favorite review that you've done this here definitely my read clocks
review back at that our beginning of the year so you should check that out number
14 is what's the most beautiful book that you've bought all year and that
simply must go to the 109th of hero by isabelle greenberg this book is so
gorgeous it's a functionally a standalone graphic
novel although I guess it is a companion book to the encyclopedia of early Earth
I haven't read that but I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything
because I hadn't read that so that's good and it's just it's so beautiful the
art is really really cool and I love the way that she plays with color it is just
all-around gorgeous and it's also wonderful the story in it is so great
number 15 is what book do you wanna get to by the end of the year and I'm just
gonna say all of them that's I'm gonna tag some people so check down
in the description box to see if you're tagged and if you're not too it anyways
it's a pretty fun video thanks so much for watching if you like this video give
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