Hi, YouTube, it's Kathy, and welcome to the Cake Book Tag.
Firstly I'd like to tell you how we got onto me doing this tag. I was sort of tagged by MrsJennaRodgers -
I'll link her down below - but in a very strange way. Sometimes I get bored and I
use that Question feature on Instagram Stories and I ask people questions, like,
what kind of book videos would you like me to do next?
Or is there a tag video you'd like me to do? And Jenna answered that she wanted me
to do this tag, which I'd never heard of before.
There's a possibility I just wiped off some lipstick while getting the sweat
off my face. We're gonna go with it. I can't see myself. It's fine. This kind of
social media back-and-forth is why I also did a bookshelf tour, so you can
click up here to see that if you'd like. But without further ado, let's make some
book cake. Number one is self-rising flour - a book that was slow to start but
it picked up as it went along. We've got to start this one with an unpopular opinion,
but it's Harry Potter in the Philosopher's Stone. Back in 1998, my
little brother, who is not a reader whatsoever, came into my room and said
"Kathy this book is really good; you should read it."
Twelve-year-old Kathy will read pretty much anything and at this point she had
moved on to books with swearing in them. Twelve-year-old Kathy read the first ten
pages and went "meh" and gave it back to her little brother, and then didn't
actually read the series until 2013 - 15 years later. So yes, it picked up but
those first 10 pages, though. Number two is margarine - a book with a very rich plot,
and for this one I've gone with All Our Wrong Todays. This one is a time
travel book - the best one I've ever read in my life, and it's right at the top of
my list for the best books I've read this year. Additionally, if you happen to
enjoy audiobooks, it is read by the author and he does a very good job,
especially in one very, very funny chapter. This book is set in a very
utopian 2016 where there have been tons of technical advances, and then there's
time travel, and then basically he time travels to our 2016 because something
gets messed up. It's not a perfect book but the author approach time travel in a
way I've never seen before and I really enjoyed it.
Number three is eggs - a book you thought would be bad but you ended up quite enjoying it.
Now, I didn't think I was going to hate this book, but I went into
it with a little bit of trepidation because I'm not a big classics fan and I
knew this was a retelling of a classic and
that book is Jane Steele. This is a Jane Eyre retelling - still haven't read Jane Eyre,
but now I've read at least two Jane Eyre retellings and I enjoyed them both.
This one takes place in the same time frame but it imagines as though Jane
Eyre was a murderess. Also, I just really like Lyndsay Faye's writing style, and the
Timothy Wilde series is amazing, except for the fact that they change audiobook
narrators on the third book, for some reason, and he just does the voices wrong.
Number four is sugar - a very sweet book, and for that one I picked Let's Talk About Love
by Claire Kann because that book is goals. Everything about the
friendship and relationship in this book is so freakin' adorable, it breaks the
cute code, and I just love it so much. I was actually in a bookstore today and
like picked it up just to hold it, and then looked at the Canadian price and
went, "I am so poor" and put it back on the shelf. Although, as an aside, the reason I
was in the bookstore today is because I was picking up Spinning Silver, because
this is one if the two book club picks for BookNet Fest, which I'm going to in
September and I'm very excited for it. So I had to pick this up. This is $35
Canadian; really glad I had a $10 gift certificate and it was 20% off, but I
still had to pay $19 even with those discounts. It's just there's no way I'm
gonna get this from the library before September. Number five is icing - a book
that covers every element you enjoy in a book, and some people are already
guessing what I'm going to say. Just say it to yourself in the privacy of your
own homes, or wherever you're watching this video...
Words in Deep Blue.
This one is an Australian contemporary and it has a dual narrative between Rachel and Henry.
Rachel moved away from her hometown about three years ago and is
coming back. Henry lives and works in this family bookstore. I mean, right
there - living and working in a bookstore... but then the relationships of
the main characters and all the side characters are super intriguing.
There are romances. There are moments where you just cry. This book has everything
and I love it. Number six is sprinkles - a book series
you can turn to for pick-me-up, and at first I didn't think I had an answer for
this that I'd read in the last, say, 20 years or so. When I was a kid I read a
lot of Christopher Pike books and I'm sure that I could pick up those any time
and just read them even if I'd before, the same with Nancy Drew, but
I haven't read those since my mid to late teens, so I thought there's no
series that I've actually reread. There is technically one series I have
actually reread, although the series only has two books in it so far, and it's the
Creekwood series. I've read both of these books more than once, so I guess
this counts, and it does give me a pick-me-up because these books are adorable.
And number seven is the cherry on top - your favorite book of the year so far,
and I'm greedy so I want lots of cherries, so I'm going to mention three.
The first one is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
This blew me away. This book is about Monique, a journalist who gets an assignment to
go talk to an aging starlet, and when she gets there, the starlet, Evelyn Hugo, says
"actually you're not here to write an article; you are going to write my biography".
Evelyn Hugo is super famous has never
had a biography written about her before, so this is a very big deal. If Monique
pulls this off, she will make a lot of money. Evelyn is very well known for
having had seven husbands, so Monique starts with a question "who was your one
true love?" and it wasn't one of those husbands. My other two cherries on top of
this delicious cake include The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde, which is about a
group called The Brightsiders, they're a band, they're a teenage band,
they're doing very, very well and their drummer, Emmie King is going through some
hard times. Childhood fame, her parents are terrible people, she has a terrible
girlfriend. And, yes, there are elements of this that can take some people out of
the narrative, because they have problems but they're also rich so the way that
they get away from the problems is just, like, traveling, and yes we can't all
afford to do that, but I don't care about those types of things. If I had that type
of money, I would do that too. This book was extremely queer and
uplifting and I absolutely loved it. I love everything Jen Wilde does.
I'm already waiting for her book from next year because I am so excited for it.
And my third and final cherry is one What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and adam Silvera.
This book was so darn cute. I talked about it really recently in my last
wrap up, so I'll leave that linked in places so you can check that out.
This book isn't out yet for a few more months but I recently just read it as an ARC
during the 24in48 read-a-thon, which was so much fun. I'll link that in places,
as well, and I'm so excited for it to come out so we can all talk about it.
And there you have it. If you didn't want cake already, I assume you do now, or at
least that's just me maybe? If you've read any of these books and you want to
talk about them, let me know about it down in the comments below. On the way
down to the comments, if you hit that Subscribe button, that would be very nice of you.
You can like and share this as you see fit and I will see you very soon.
Bye!
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