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Don't you throw up on me! Hello and welcome to the channel!
Today I'm doing a tag which is the Music to Books tag by Nicole Pierman.
Her channel is linked below.
My cat has decided to join me for this. Some tags are kind of boring
because they're very vague or generalized
but I really like the two that I've done,
this one and the one I've done before (also by Nicole Pierman)
because they're very in depth or they get you to look at things
in a different way than you normally would and
so they kind of get you to think about things and I like that.
So let's get started! How this works is:
Nicole has picked out ten songs and then she's written prompts based on those.
The first one is Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran and the prompt for that one is:
A character you would be with forever if they were real.
which basically started off the whole thing with the hardest question
because I do have a number of fictional crushes.
Nicole talked about Rhys and I would agree with that mostly.
except I don't know if my Ace-ness would be very compatible there.
she also mentioned Mr. Darcy
which I'm gonna have to say I would pick - it's kind of a toss-up between Mr. Darcy
and Faramir from the Lord of the Rings - particularly book Faramir -
he's even nicer than movie Faramir.
Although the movie Faramir is very good-looking.
But i have to say that Mr. Darcy with the whole socially anxious dweeb thing
is something I'm very much drawn to.
Also he doesn't need an heir because he has a little sister so we'd be covered there.
And I can pretend he's ace I want to because it's not specified,
whereas with Rhys it's a very much specified.
All right number two is Spit It Out by Slip Knot
and the prompt for that one is: a book or series that has pissed you off.
One of the more difficult things about this tag
is that there are actually like three or four out of the ten that are kind of negative,
like "pissed you off" or another one is about things being poorly written,
and I like to do mainly positive reviews so I had to think a little harder
because my natural instinct is just to never talk about those ones
so I had to think a little bit. But I was able to drum up the appropriate number of negative cases.
I've actually mentioned them on this channel before, a couple of them.
Some you've never heard before or never heard in as much detail, though.
So for this one Ipicked Serafina and that one's by Rachel Hartman.
Actually it's the sequel to Serafina that has the worst problem with this.
That is that it the ending is unsatisfactory; the ending to Serafina is also unsatisfactory
but that's okay because it's the first one and there's a sequel.
But with the second one there's no more books following the same characters after that
so the unsatisfactory ending is really irritating.
So I really regret ever even reading it in the first place
because I'm just a very satisfying ending type person - I don't like open or vague endings.
Bitterblue also has a slightly open and vague ending although not quite as bad in my opinion.
Bitterblue is by Kristen something.
Basically some of the characters are still in a bad situation at the end
and it's just not resolved at all and that really really irritated me.
Because of that I didn't read her other book that had the same world but with different main characters
(which is Tess of the Road) because I assumed that it would have a similar unsatisfying ending
because obviously that's kind of what the author likes to do.
So what I really wish is that there would be some kind of a keyword
or little passphrase that had to go on the back or descriptions of books
saying "this book doesn't have a satisfying ending" because that way those of us
who that's important to wouldn't pick up the book!
Like there are age ratings so you can tell what kind of a book it is in that way
so there should also be unsatisfying ending letters or something
because there's some people who are fine with that
but there are a lot of people who are not and then it just upsets us.
Now we have number three: Video Games by Lana Del Rey and the prompt for that is:
a book or series you can't help but feel a loving nostalgia for.
There are a number of these because I read a lot as a kid
and my mom read to our whole family in the evenings for a long time
so there's a whole set of books that fit that.
The ones that my mom would read to us were mainly Rowan of Rin the series
and also Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit and Harriet, James Harriet, the books about him.
But there are some that I also read on my own and I'm very nostalgic for.
I decided to pick the Avalon series which is these!
There's a lot more, but these are the ones that I happen to have found in library sales and things like that.
There's actually at least two series I think, actually there's three or four,
but I've mainly read the Web of Magic, Avalon: Web of Magic series,
and Avalon: Quest for Magic series.
The Web of Magic series is first (that's what these three are in)
and then the second series is Quest for Magic.
You can kind of see that's kind of thicker.
It's slightly more grown up - they're middle grade -
The imagination is just so good.
I really really like the the magic system in these and the whole system of worlds.
There's a number of worlds - you actually travel between the magical worlds on the web of magic through portals
and that has actually inspired a lot of my imaginings of magic
because of how influential it was when I was a kid.
and so some of the ways that I write even now it can be traced back to these books.
And then the next one is You're Welcome from Moana.
I really love that song - and the prompt for that is:
a character that starts out full of themselves but ends up changing by the end of the book or series.
For that I'm actually having to draw from the same series.
This girl in the middle here, who is also rainbow haired girl
and walking through the fairy forest girl is named Kara
and at the beginning of this series she's very full herself.
She's the popular girl at school, she was kind of the queen bee at school.
She had all the cool friends.
She was rich, she had the nice clothes so she starts out very much caring a lot about those things,
about herself and how cool she is and how she appears to others
and she has to gradually change into someone who very much cares about all the magical creatures who are in trouble
and who becomes a very important part of the little trio and also the wider world of magic.
Next song is: Madhouse by Anthrax.
And the prompt for that is a book or series that was so poorly written they drove you mad,
which has happened to me a couple of times.
The worst case of which - I won't tell you what book or author it was -
but I read a hundred pages of a 600 page epic, and first of all: it didn't need to be 600 pages.
Second of all the, like, epic sort of parts that were about scary things or very urgent bad things happening
were actually kind of okay written but casual scenes -
-it's mystery sort of so the scenes where l two detectives were talking to each other,
like partners who've known each other forever, those scenes were super awkward
and just were written badly and then the bad guy was cliched and stupid
and it was horrible and so I finally dnf-ed it after a hundred pages.
Then I skipped the end as I do normally when I'm gonna dnf a book
and the ending was also really horribly written.
That was an action scene and that action scene was also really really bad.
It was an indie published book I will admit.
Another one that I had that I put down after just the first two pages was an indie book,
on the first page there was a sentence that read "the brave young man shielded the helpless young woman from the blast"
or something like that and like I'm not gonna even explain what's so wrong with that you can figure it out yourself.
but my personal idea of what should be done to unpopular or unknown books
that are terrible is that they should be left to suffer in obscurity.
I don't mind bashing a popular book because everybody already knows about it
so it's not like I'm gonna boost them by saying negative things about them
which would probably happen if I mentioned unknown books and bashed them.
Number six is Somebody to Love by Queen.
The prompt is: a book, author, poet, or series it needs more love and recognition.
For this one there are also a number I could pick
but I've talked about most of them before because I think that!
So I decided to pick Wren to the Rescue - the author is Sherwood Smith.
I just don't hear a lot about it.
It kind of straddles between being middle grade and YA which is common for books that start out
when the protagonist is like, 11 or so seems to be a common age
and then progresses with them into being a teenager.
So this is one of those series and it is about Wren,
a girl named Wren and her best friend Tess.
And you find out right in the beginning that Tess is a secret princess
and so when they're 10 or 11 years old Tess and her friend Wren get whisked off
from the orphanage they've grown up in to the palace.
and it turns out that Tess was hidden because her parents, the royalty,
were afraid of a sorcerer who threatened them and would take her away or kill her.
And so they bring her back in secret but unfortunately as you once again find out right in the beginning
Tess is found out and kidnapped anyway and so Wren has to go and rescue her,
because for some reason she doesn't trust the adults to do it.
Which quite frankly I kind of - and it's a major theme in my own story where the teenagers happened to handle stuff
because the adults won't do anything / are incapable so I won't knock her for that.
And she teams up with a couple of other young people, very young people, to rescue her friend
and I just love me a middle-grade quest about little kids going off and doing stuff that adults can't do.
Number 7 is Stressed Out by 21 Pilots.
I actually have some some weird nostalgic memories associated with that one
because my roommate played that a lot - my roommate when I was in Bible School -
and I particularly remember it playing while I was packing up to leave on our last day
so would that bring up some memories for me!
But the prompt is: a book or series that stressed you out so much you either had to take a break or stop reading it entirely.
And for that one an obvious pick was The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
It's just very dark and creepy and not in a horror kind of way that people know like horror would like,
just in a nasty sort of way so I had to take frequent breaks when I was reading.
I read like a chapter at a time and then took at least the rest of the day away from it
if not more and so it took me a long time to read.
But I eventually did get through it and finish it.
And the ending was really great so if you're interested in reading that and you feel stuck in the middle
like you don't want to read more because it's so dark I would recommend
skipping to the end rather than putting it down entirely because the ending is very hopeful and uplifting.
The eight song is Sound of Silence and Nicole is particularly talking about covers by Disturbed.
And the prompt is: a book or series alleged that left you speechless in either a good or bad way.
For that one I chose in a good way and I chose Temeraire
because it was one of those series where the end was so wonderful and lovely
and the whole series had been lovely and wonderful
and I really loved the characters but I also really loved the ending that the characters got.
So I just ended by sitting quietly when I turned the last
page I closed the cover and just held it to my chest silently and hugged it.
I mean, you know those kinds of books just need a hug?
The ninth song is Viva la Revolucion by The Adicts and the prompt is:
a book or series that speaks to you about a political topic.
and for that I have to one that I have already read and one that I will be reading soon-ish maybe.
First is The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace
which is a poetry collection I talked about quite a bit in my July wrap-up video.
And it's - basically it's all about feminism and all about angry feminism
and being angry about all the things that have been done to women and are being done to women.
And it's a very revolution-inciting type of poetry collection so I think that fits very well.
And another also very revolutionary topic type book is The Beasts Who Fought For Fairyland Until The Very End And Further Still,
which is a short story by my new almost favorite ever author Catherynne M. Valente.
She published it on her blog and it's about before the first fairyland book
when the person who the main character in the first book fights against,
when she first took over, how the beasts who already lived in fairyland
when she started oppressing them and etc. etc. how they fought back.
And even the title makes me cry,
makes me emotional so I definitely know the whole story is gonna make me emotional
so I have to emotionally prepare myself to read that,
kind of like I have to emotionally prepare myself for some animes.
You have to be in a steady sort of mood because you're not gonna handle it otherwise.
So I'm waiting to tackle that one until I'm in a good place for it.
The last one, number ten, is This Love by Maroon 5:
a book or series that broke your heart and you can't get over it.
And that one would definitely be Mastiff by Tamora Pierce.
Tamora Pierce has this Tortall collection that is based in all in one country.
There's like three quartets and a duology, then a trilogy.
Now she's writing more - because people will keep writing.
The last book in her most recent trilogy, Mastiff, which is about a cop,
a beat cop mostly, turned detective maybe but it's a very old medieval type of cop
so they don't have the normal monikers and everything.
She invented like a whole a slang language for them to use
and you can figure out what all the words mean by context.
It really adds to the world and it's really cool.
Like, "cove" means "man", just a bunch of other things,
and "dog" means "cop" which is why the books' names are Terrier, Bloodhound and Mastiff -
those are different titles that the main character gets for being really good at her job of being a "dog".
And in the last book Mastiff, the one thing that hurts my heart more than character death of someone I love
is a character I love going evil, which happens.
And I won't say much because that's a big spoiler but it really wrecked me.
And I haven't been able to read another Tamora Pierce book since.
I really should try to get back into it because I enjoyed them so much.
I think I'll start with First Test at some point,
which is the first book of the Protector of the Small series.
I've always been able to read it like a bunch of times in a row because I never get tired of it.
So that would probably be the best one to start over with but ugh! It'll just remind me of what happened!
So that one I still haven't gotten over.
Maybe I'll be able to read her stuff again but I don't think I'll ever get over it.
So, thank you for watching, I hope you've enjoyed this video!
You should go check out Nicole's - it's linked below.
Oh and if you would like to do this tag I tag you!
It really did make me think a lot and made me have some ideas that I hadn't thought of before
and I think it's a really interesting one to get to know how various books have affected people so I'd love to see yours!
Thanks for watching, I'll see you in the next video - bye!
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