Welcome back to Book Break! In today's video we are going to play a game. This is a BookTube
challenge video that was created by Jesse the Reader. I will link to his original video below.
This is the Flip the Page challenge, I've actually done this a couple of times before
over on my own channel, so I thought it was time to try it out on Book Break, but this time
with a twist. In today's Flip the Page challenge I'm going to be using entirely classics. So Flip
the Page is a kind of bookish consequences game. Jesse has come up with a storyline and there are
several points along the way, along the story, to pause, flip to a random page of your book
and fill in the blanks that way, to figure out which way your story is going.
I have collected all of the MCLs I could find to do this, so let's dive in. Let's figure out what
my story is going to be with the help of these trusty classics. So here goes. The story begins
with getting a new identity. In my first book I'm going to flip to a random page and the first
name I see is my new name. Funnily enough the book at the very top of my pile here is
Emma by Jane Austen. That's already my name. So let's see if I get stuck with Emma again
or if I can find a new identity for myself. So random page - the first name I just saw was
Frank Churchill. My name is Frank Churchill, pleased to meet you. Next we need to figure out
where I live, so the next book I've got here is Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands,
so hopefully I could go somewhere quite exciting. So where does Frank Churchill live?
Crimea. Living by the Black Sea, interesting. Next up I've got rather a spooky book, The Turn of the
Screw by Henry James. From this book I need to find out my job, so I'm just going to take the
first object I see and figure out what job I have based on that. Graves. I'm a grave digger! I'm not
sure that I'm loving my new identity so far. But next I get to find out my love interest.
That could spice things up. The next book on my pile is Irish Ghost Stories, so I think I might
end up with a supernatural love interest, which I guess makes sense. I'm a grave digger, those are
probably the people that I'm hanging out with the most, are the people who are already dead.
So let's find out Frank's love interest . . . a little girl. I'm not sure that's appropriate.
We're gonna do it again just because I don't think that's right. Corpse. A corpse. Oh my god.
Should I do third time lucky? Bob. Okay we have a name. Bob. I don't know who Bob is but Bob
is my love interest - he's not a little girl and he's not a corpse so that's much better.
Frank and Bob we sound like we make a good pair. So here it's been getting a little exciting.
I, Frank, have been making eyes at Bob across the graves for a little while now, and I'm finally
gonna gather up the courage to speak to him. So the first line of dialogue that I find in
The Count of Monte Cristo is going to be the first thing that I say to Bob. Here goes.
“What is the matter with you?” Okay I mean it's not the flirtiest of first lines I've ever heard,
but it could have been worse, considering everything's happened to me so far.
So our eyes meet across the graves - Frank and Bob - and I say “What is the matter with you?” Okay so
let's assume that worked great. Bob and Frank are now in love, and now I'm getting ready to
propose to him. But digging graves doesn't get me that much money, so I can't afford a wedding ring.
So next I'm finding out what object I'm going to use to propose instead. So the next book I've
got here is Anne of Green Gables. I'm going to find an object from here. “Dear Bob, as a symbol
of my love for you, I would like to present you with this... pencil.” A pencil. A slate pencil.
“It has my heart with it.” Miraculously, even though I proposed with a pencil and the first
thing I said to him was “what's the matter with you” we have made it to the wedding day. So next
I need to find another piece of dialogue - oh dear - to figure out what the first line of my vows are
going to be. This doesn't bode well. The next book on top of my pile is The Yellow Wallpaper
which is about a woman who is being locked in a room by her husband. So it's not going to be the
most romantic thing I could find. So we're standing up there at the top of the aisle,
I turn to Bob, and I say “I'd just as soon shoot my aunts.” What? You know what, we can fix this.
Let's assume that my vows go on to say “I'd as soon shoot my aunts as I would walk away from you,
my dear Bob.” Right we're going on honeymoon. The first location that I find in this Sherlock
Holmes collection is where we're going on honeymoon, so now we're taking a little trip
to India. We're going to India, okay doesn't say where in India we're going,
but we'll leave that up to our imaginations. Okay first comes love, then comes marriage,
then comes the baby in the baby carriage. We're now expecting a baby, so the first
name that I find in Passing by Nella Larsen is going to be the name of our first born child,
and that name is Irene. That's the main character of this book so that makes sense. Frank,
Bob and baby Irene. Delightful little family I've got going so far. But now we're gonna jump forward
five years, and baby Irene wants a pet. So somehow in Lord Peter Whimsey Investigates I have to find
a creature, and that is the pet that we're gonna let Irene have. Okay Irene, you can have
a cricket. You can have a cricket. That's actually a great pet. You can have a cricket - how long do
they live? I don't think that long. Irene's gonna be really really happy for two to three days.
Next we're sending Irene off to school, so using a selection of words that I find on a random page of
The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, I'm gonna find the name of her school. Okay we
have words like danger, violent, these don't sound great for her school, knickknacks.
Knickknacks could be a cute nursery name. She's going to Knickknack's nursery,
she can bring her cricket if it's still alive. So now with all that extra time I've got since Irene
went off to school - I, Frank, I'm gonna start a YouTube channel. The first object that I find in
The Tiger and the Smoke, this is a classic crime book, is going to be what my channel is about.
Let's hope it's not graves again. So my channel is going to be about . . . knives. Oh god Frank
is not a cheery chap. Want to see my knife collection over on YouTube? Subscribe below!
I also have to name that channel, so what should we name the weird knife channel. Triple crime.
Triple crime would be a good name. My YouTube channel is called Triple Crime, it's about knives.
The final thing I have to do for my channel is figure out what my intro is. I can't be saying
“welcome back to Book Break”. So the first line of dialogue I find is going to be my viewer greeting.
“That's what I thought.” That's the first thing I say in every video. “That's what I thought.”
Welcome back to Triple Crime, my YouTube channel all about knives. This makes no sense. But plot
twist, the reason I had to create a new identity for myself in the first place is because I was
being hunted by a killer, and this killer is going to catch up with me. I've got another
classic crime novel here, so I'm going to use this twice to find out the identity of my killer and
the object that they will use to kill me when they inevitably catch up with me. The name of my killer
is Mr Lug. Ugh I hate Mr Lug. And he's gonna kill me with a rib. Oh probably from one of my graves.
It says here that he killed me while I was setting up for a YouTube video, this is so disappointing.
So sadly I have been murdered by Mr Lug so we're coming to the end of my story, but as appropriate,
as I am a gravedigger, I should have a really nice grave. So let us just find the words that
will go on my tombstone. I've run out of books so I'm going to go back to where I started, with the
book Emma, and the first line I see, the first sentence at all, whether or not it's dialogue,
is going to be the first line on my tombstone.RIP Frank Churchill . . . “he had done it.”
What does that mean? So I hope you enjoyed that weird little story. I will link below
to Jesse's original video so you can go over and find his prompts and go on that little journey for
yourself. See how differently your story turns out. Mine was a little bit dark I think you'd
agree. If you want to find out more about this classics collection, I will link to a video we
made here. We went behind the scenes and found out how these classics are chosen, how the covers are
selected and more. And I'll also link here to a playlist full of all of our videos where we play
games here on Book Break. So do click through and have a browse, and I'll see you next time.