Hi guys! Kendra here! So I decided to talk to you about some of the books that
I have read that didn't qualify for the award, the Reading Women Award.
Dylan over their with squeaky toy just so you know, and there's also people
running around and doing work outside. So we're just gonna press on, through clouds and
everything and talk about books. I have some great books to talk to you about, so
first up is THE CITY OF GHOSTS by Victoria Schwab. She wrote the Darker
Shades of Magic trilogy under her adult fantasy name V.E. Schwab, but she writes
some really interesting books. And her strength is in her world building, and
THE CITY OF GHOSTS is no different. There's a girl from America and her
parents have gotten this contract for a TV show when they travel around the
world inspecting really haunted places so they go to Scotland to Edinburgh, and
then they inspect different things. Only what they don't know is that their
daughter actually can see ghosts, and she actually has a ghost familiar who's her
best friend who no one else can see. So she goes to Scotland her parents, and
it's like her figuring out kind of like the first in a series book . . . it's a first book
in a series kind of thing, where everything's kind of set up, the world
building is a set up; she learns kind of who she is, and I feel like if
you binge read a lot of these books . . . Maybe it's just the fact that it was really
short, but I felt like it was a little unfinished or that was an introduction.
Because it's just the first in a series, so I would really like to see where this
goes. Obviously be picking up more in this series, so if you haven't checked
out THE CITY OF GHOSTS, it's definitely the perfect time of year, at least right
now where I am. It's like before Halloween, so it's perfect for that
spooky time of year, and I really enjoyed listening to it. The next one I have is
THE CREEPING SHADOW by Jonathan Stroud and THE EMPTY GRAVE by Jonathan Stroud.
These are books four and five in his Lockwood & Co series. Now you guys
know I love the Bartemaeus Trilogy. I think that's phenomenal,
but I hadn't liked his standalone novel in between the bottom age trilogy and
this series. So I'm so happy that he came back with the SCREAMING STAIRCASE,
and it's different. But it's similar in that it's another London. So in the
Bartemaeus Trilogy, it's a London where demons give magicians the power to
control Parliament, and they run all everything. And in this London, there is
what's called "The Problem," and it's the fact that ghosts can now come out in the open,
and they touch people. Only kids can see them, so there are these kids, like ghost
capturing kind of companies. And they run around.
Well, Lockwood & Co is the only one that's just kids. They don't have adults
oversight. And so we have a female protagonist Lucy who joins Lockwood & Co
after this stuff happens with her old job. And so begins the series. It's really
great. I think it's really creepy. There is this one . . . They have usually in
the beginning of each book, there's like this the setup where almost, like, where you
you enter the movie on an intense scene where you get the idea, where you're
meeting all the characters while they're doing their main job. And then some
random person comes in and gives them a new job. And the whole movie starts that
kind of thing. Well, he does that with these books, but the jobs that they do in the
beginning of the books are really creepy. And the first one in the fourth book was
a man who was a cannibal, and the ghosts have sources. And his was like this jar
of teeth, and they could hear him. And Lucy's special thing is that she can
hear ghost; Lockwood can see ghosts. Like, they have a higher instinct for it or
talent for that or whatever. And so she can hear, like, chomping teeth—ah!
So creepy. And I would listen to these before bed, so I really enjoyed these
books. And I think they're a great series. They're a lot of fun. The dialogue
with this ghost and a jar thing is perfect.
Lucy is really just kick butt protagonist, and she is so driven. And I love her as a
character. If you have not read these, that probably did not make sense, but
that's fine. It's fine. Just start with THE SCREAMING STAIRCASE and just listen
to them or read them all the way through and you will enjoy it. Another
book that I listened to is John Carreyrou's BAD BLOOD. And this is about Theronos,
which is the company that Elizabeth—I think, Holmes—was the CEO of and started,
and she had the idea that with a few pricks of blood, she could scan all
of these things, like diseases and test your blood for all of these different
things that normally require lots of vials of blood in different machines. The
only problem was when she started the company, she was like nineteen, twenty, and
had no background in medical devices or anything really that you would need to
be able to invent something like that. And it's just how, you know, the company
was, now is under charges of fraud and all of this kind of stuff. It is a
wild ride how she was able to keep everything a secret and no one ever
figured out. Like, this is just an insane story. I know where everyone's talking
about this and singing the Taylor Swift song and all this kind of stuff, but I
feel like it definitely lived up to the hype for me. And I cannot believe that
everyone missed this. And I mean, everyone was so excited to have a female CEO in
Silicon Valley. I was very happy to have one in Silicon Valley. But she was not, is
not a great person. So we need more women in Silicon Valley, so we're not hanging
all of our hopes on one very faulty person. But if you haven't read this book,
it's really a great piece of journalism, so excited that I read it. I definitely
recommend it. Now look, I'm going to talk about is actually a former winner of the
Reading Women Award, and you can't win it twice because we promote your books
basically for the rest of your life—long story. So what book I did read is Rebecca
Traister's GOOD AND MADE: THE REVOLUTIONARY POWER OF WOMEN'S ANGER
One of the things that I really love about Rebecca Traister is that she has such
an intersectional focus on feminism and gives credit where credit is due.
A lot of the African American women and their activism and how women of color,
particularly black women, have been pushing feminism forward throughout
history is noted and praised as it should be in this book. And I feel like a
lot of feminist writers who are white miss that, and they don't give
credit where credit is due. So I'm so happy that she does that, and she takes a
lot of time doing that and she criticizes different white feminist
groups. And anyway, so I get nervous sometimes when I go into books like this.
It's like, are they gonna get it right? Are they gonna screw up? Are they actually gonna give
credit to the people who deserve it? And she does a great job with that,
so that's amazing. And I appreciate that I'm glad that she did her job, but she
did her job very well. Rebecca Traister writes about feminism
in such a vibrant and concrete way where she gives you illustrations so that
you understand what she's talking about with the terms that she's using and the
topics that she's talking about. She explains complicated ideas so clearly.
It's one of the things I love about Rebecca Traister. If you don't follow her on
Twitter, please do so. She writes so many amazing journalistic
pieces on women's rights and feminism and politics. And she does an amazing job,
so definitely check out GOOD AND MAD by Rebecca Traister. Also, we have to once
again look at these amazing end papers of signs for the women's March. Just, uh,
yes! She also wrote, of course, ALL THE
SINGLELADIE, which won the Reading Women Award, the very first nonfiction Reading
Women Award. And that's also amazing. I have not read, I think it's BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY
or something. It's her reflections after Hillary did not win the Democratic
nomination in . . . What was that? 2008? Was it that far ago? Whenever that was.
A long time ago in a land far far away at this point. [laughs]
It was just, it was just really good. This is amazing. It's so amazing. I feel so
validated as a woman, as an angry woman, by reading this book. Yes,
go forth. But yeah, those are some books that I read in the first part of October.
I will be back and in the middle of November to tell you the second part of
the books that I read for October that weren't part of the award. And, yeah, I
guess that's it, and I will talk to you guys later. But first, tell me what you
guys are reading, what did you read in October. Did you read any spooky things
for Halloween? Tell me all the things down in the
comments below. As always you can find all the books I've mentioned today in
the show notes with links so you can go find better descriptions of them than I
have given you today. Because I'm sure you all need those. Anyway,
I will talk to you later—bye!
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