hey guys so today I wanted to make a wrap-up video for all the books that I read in May and June they
made a wrap-up video for April and I really wanted to make one for June what month is it July May I
don't even know where the [ __ ] I am um but you know me I'm unorganized and it just didn't
happen whole month of June I couldn't get there may wrap-up to happen so we're making it happen
now and considering that I only read one book in June I'm just gonna throw them together four books
in May or one book in June we're gonna talk about them now so the first book that I read in May was
the Outsiders by se Hinton so I read this book for the first time in high school follows this
boy called Ponyboy Curtis Miney lives with his two older brothers Gary and Sodapop both of their
parents have died so the older brother dari is kind of like the parental figure for the boys
this book follows two gangs there's socks which is short for the socials and they're the West
Side kids and then the other gang is called the greece's which are the East Side kids the socials
are like really preppy the greases are kind of described as being like rough and tough kind
of like degenerates Ponyboy and his brothers are part of the greases gang so twenty boys
the youngest one in the group he's really smart does really well in school I think it's kind of
insinuated that like out of all of them Ponyboy has the best shot of like making something of
himself in the future so there's so much that I could say about this book like I understand why
it is starting in schools and I'm not gonna dive into all of the themes and like some super deep
analysis so any like 15 year-olds they came here thinking that I was gonna help them write their
essay for them like I'm not gonna get into it it is very interesting there one thing that I really
like about this book is the concept of fan family most of the boys don't have really strong family
connections so they kind of band together and the group becomes like a surrogate family for them I
think this story is really gritty and authentic it explores a lot of different themes like division
by social class coming-of-age friendship as well as the concept of self-identity in regards to I
guess the expectations or restrictions that are set upon us by society family and friends very
good book if you haven't read this I would highly recommend reading it it's really interesting you
know Essie Hinton was like 17 years old when she wrote this book that I read was snow falling by
Jane Gloriana Villanueva so this was written by goes right off clearly so if you don't know
the show Jane the Virgin so basically the main character in the show Jane she's writing a book
and it gets published this book is supposed to be the book that Jane wrote and by the
way I think the way they marketed this book was genius the fact that they timed the release of
this physical book with the release of the book on the show I love [ __ ] like this I love when
you're really invested in TV show something like a book is mentioned in the show and then they make
it like a physical real thing that you can bind I love that they I think um Parks and Rec did
that as well with the the Pawnee greatest town in America yeah so anyway back to this book um
this was like the worst thing I've read in quite a while I really regret reading this book it's
like a recap of season one but set in the 1900s I refuse to believe that this book is anything
other than a joke on purpose it has to be I don't know what I would do if it wasn't there parallels
four characters on the show so Josephine is clearly Jane Martin is clearly Michael so
the main character Josephine is in a relationship with Martin he's a detective talking about getting
married and everything and they're talking about like waiting till marriage basically the way that
this book because it's set in the 1900s the way it tried to like work its way around the
concept of Jane being accidentally impregnated with IVF Josephine sees Martin in the distance
with some lady and they hug I think and then she puts her head on his chest and Josephine
freaks out oh my god is cheating bastard instead of confronting him or asking him about it she's
really passive-aggressive to him the next time they speak doesn't bring it up at all and then
that night goes and sleeps with the owner of the hotel she works out and she ends up getting
pregnant from it and then it turns out that that woman was Martin's new police partner that was
like just some [ __ ] that I didn't really enjoy reading right after that but also it's said in the
1900s and there were so many times throughout the book where they would reference things that just
like weren't invented until at least fifty years later again like I know this book is meant to be
bad on purpose made the character Josephine really just made me want to walk into the ocean with bags
of cement tied around my feet she is the worst hypocrite um and she just like super unlikable as
a character as well also the writing was just not that good in the terms of they would say the same
lines over and over again it became so annoying I don't know I really like the show so I thought I
would really like this book as well and I just didn't like the book yeah so in conclusion it
was insane so the next book that I read in May was the hate you give by Andrew Thomas I've had
this book for a very long time I'm actually so mad at myself for not reading this any earlier
because it's [ __ ] brilliant this is like one of my new favorite books of all time it just had
everything everything that I like in a story the writing is so good um I actually met Angie Thomas
she signed my book well I don't remember what event it was for actually a pretty travel vlog
yeah I made a vlog on my channel yeah I got to hear her speak and they were having a discussion
about diversity in literature she's also a super lovely person anywho back to this book um let
me first start by saying I read this book like one week before I'm Ann Arbor was murdered and
then it seems like straight away after that George Floyd's murder happened and then we started to see
the black lives matter protest sweeping America and then the world which is still going by the
way like protests are still happening they're just not reporting on it but these protests are
still going guys it's not over it's absolutely not over so you know that being said it's so
incredibly important for us to be continuing to educate ourselves and don't just turn a blind
eye and remain ignorant because racism and police brutality don't affect you or it's not something
that you're confronted with in your day to day life I know there are some people you're not
confronted with it so you don't think about it and that's not good enough I've shared a lot of
links on Instagram and Twitter and so of course I'll be sharing links in the description box of
this video too um and that also includes how you can support Indigenous Australians because this is
not just America's problem so yeah everything is below so hey you give is a book about a black girl
named Starr Carter um and she's living in like a low socio-economic black neighborhood she goes
to a private school in like a really rich white neighborhood so this story kicks off when star
witnesses her childhood best friend Khalil gets shot by a police so while he was unarmed after
being pulled over for a broken taillight and it follows all the fallout after that with the
media's portrayal of Khalil the protests within the community that followed this book was written
in such a way that just completely sucks you into the story like I know while I was reading it I
felt so immersed in the story I'm not gonna spoil anything actually you know what spoilers if you
haven't read the book just wait till this picture goes away I think it's really important that we
didn't get a really fluffy upbeat happy ending and that everything kind of worked out the way we want
it to because I feel like that would really take away from the message this book is trying to send
which is that black people are being targeted and killed by police and they're not getting
any justice for it these police officers are getting off scot-free this book is just so good
not only with the themes in the plot all of that aside the characters are just written so well but
they're all very multifaceted I think the family dynamic is great I think the way Angie illustrates
stars everyday life living in her neighborhood is really great I really would strongly recommend it
to anyone who hasn't read it so the next book that I read was children of blood and burn by
Tommy on eme um this is another book that is own voices just like the hey you give this takes place
in a fantasy Nigeria I believe it follows three perspectives daily Amari Annie nan in this world
there are two types of people so there's diviners and then people who don't have any magic so these
are people who are born with the ability to one day become Maggie people who can perform magic
basically all of the magic people were wiped out like a decade ago so people can still be born as
diviners but they just can't ever turn into Maji because magic was vanished diviners are
distinguishable by their really white hair those a Lee's a diviner the other two characters that we
follow Amari and anon are the prince and princess of arisia which is the name of this fantasy land
their father the king is the one who banished magic and has since oppressed and enslaved a
lot of the decline of people the characters all had really distinct voices I never got confused
with who whose perspective I was reading from at any given time but yeah they were all very
different from each and they all brought something different to the book my only complaints a pacing
is quite slow which put a little bit of a damper on the reading experience because I think this
is mainly attributed to the fact that there are three different perspectives we read one section
from one perspective and then we read basically the same thing from another perspective that's
one thing that got quite repetitive and I think honestly maybe if there was just less chapters
within and like we didn't have to have that many chapters with him I think also the romance was
just not good in my opinion super forced came out of nowhere yeah it didn't make any sense and it
was like borderline cringe I really like Tamara's character growth and like I didn't really like her
that much in the beginning but um but I really liked her by the end of the book she had really
great character development Anand's character on the other side just I'm kind of confused with
like where his character went it seemed like the point of his character was for there to be lots
of growth with him it just didn't have it like it happened and then it and then it like undid
itself and I'm so confused yeah I don't know it's like he came to his senses and then he relapsed
back into his old ways overall I really like this book it's a bit hard to read at times still it's
a story that really gets your blood boiling when you think about how this translates to real life
and real history because essentially this book's main theme is institutionalized racism in such
institutionalized racism okay let me fix the lighting it's getting oh well that just helped
a lot so June was just like not a very good month for me in general so I didn't really read a lot
I read one book and that's good enough for me the book that I read in June was after worlds by scott
westerfeld's this is a book that I have had been sitting on my shelf on my TBR for like six years
it feels so good to finally read it so even though it took me a whole month to read I still feel so
accomplished so this is a book about an 18 year old girl called Darcy Patel just sold her book to
a publishing agency and she's moving to New York I guess she's moving there for the rewrites and
it's basically following her year leading up to the published date this book is really unique in
the way it's written slipped up into two different types of chapters so as you can see but all of the
white chapters are following Darcy's perspective and all of those black lined chapters are the book
that she's writing if that makes sense so Darcy's book is called after well and it's like paranormal
romance I guess so Darcy's book is about a girl who is able to crossover from real life into the
after world like an in-between from real life and the underworld like limbo I guess or purgatory
this happens when she has a near-death experience it happens at the like first chapter of the book
that's not a spoiler she has this near-death experience and then it turns her into a psychopomp
which is like it's a human who isn't a ghost but they have the ability to like hop between
realities she can also see and talk to ghosts and help them cross over so it's quite a difficult
concept to grasp at first but as you go through the book and learn more about it it's really
interesting but I think what really makes this book is those two stories coming together because
they do intersect in various ways things that are happening in Darcy's life end up affecting
her story of course so it's really interesting to see aspects of Darcy's life materialized within
her book I wasn't like super fond of the character Darcy to be honest with you I think she she came
across as very immature like I know she's only 18 and when I was 18 I was a [ __ ] idiot so like
I'm not really one to judge I just think she's like thrust into this life that she's not like
ready for to be honest the publishing company gave her a huge check for this book and it's
really like painful to read about the way that she's just like pissing it all away so I kept
thinking that that was gonna be something where like she'd eventually run out of money and that
would be like a huge issue but it never happened so I'm like why I write about her being super
irresponsible with her money it doesn't even bite her in the ass she's not unlikable by any means
I just mean like I didn't really resonate with her so this book also features a female female
romance I think it's really cool that that's not like the main focus of the story there's
like the main story and then that's just like an extra thing about her character overall I think
it's a really interesting concept for a book I think if you're an aspiring why a author or
if you're just an aspiring author who likes reading why a I think you would really like
this book so that's everything that I read in May and June thanks so much for watching
let me know if you've read any of those books and what your thoughts are and I was goodbye