Hi it's Divya G. What does the g-stand for? The g stands for going to disown this slogan in 2022
just like my daddy disowned his sister. So i read 10 out of 10 books. Turns out I read 233%
more books this year then last year! We started off the year with shadow and bone the first book
in the shadow and bone trilogy titled shadow and bone in preparation for the shadow and bone
show first shadow and bone so that i could watch shadow and bone and i read shadow and
bone and shadow and bone and shadow and bone- what is shadow and bone about? The once-great
nation of Ravka has been torn in two by a gigantic fart cloud: the Shadow Fold,
a swath of near impenetrable darkness and moulding onion-bhajee stench crawling with monsters who
feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one bland, lonely refugee.
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything - including having realistic motivation for anything
other than infatuation with a toxic man.. or men. It turns out oh wait this girl has the potential
power to destroy this no man's land fold and restore economic growth! The first book is like
training your powers, discovering your destiny plot line. We love seeing ordinary people become
extraordinary. The main issue with shadow and bone is the fact that it's cut from the
same YA cloth as a lot of other stories that you've already read. girl destiny chosen one,
she lacks a lot of believable motivations behind her actions. It's not like necessarily a bad thing
for me it just felt a little bit uninspired. If you're looking for a storyline where the young
person becomes a chosen one and has a lot of responsibility on their shoulders then i would
say watch the princess diaries because i had a better plotline. "Super super easy to read
giving me acotar tog vibes" also known as the only other books that i can reference
that i've read in the past seven years! "Alina ain't doing anything for me right now but i'm
enjoying it" honey alina isn't gonna do anything for you for the next 700 pages
To summarize my feelings for shadow and bone and the entire trilogy to be honest as I so
eloquently put it "not gonna lie i can't be asked to read book two unless the story is better but
i don't know"... I read book two and I didn't like book two. Two is always exposition so book
two alina is basically just running away from her responsibilities which is like okay. Like
miss leigh bardugo really snapped in the beginning of this book all right we had action
she was throwing our characters into the sea, we were doing some peter pan nonsense in this,
we were searching for magical creatures here, there, everywhere. There was gonna be some sort
of like adventure plot line storyline and then the middle was just my eczema. The ending was
also full of action but they just put a band-aid on the eczema and there was no cream.... I'll just
i'll never read this book again. It's a little bit dry but it can't really get any worse from here
and then i read the next book. What even was it? It was waiting, trying to like regain powers,
trying to like amplify powers, and it concludes with this like epic battle between light and dark,
sacrifice and love. This series is really relatable because it's like me trying to
do my assignments before the deadline there is no action until the very end. Can i be mad when
i'm like exactly the same? There was a really great twist at the end. Was the series fun?
In a way it's as fun as you paying money to watch a movie that you don't really enjoy in
the cinema for example Tenet or Cats like okay i paid money for that i paid money to watch
Tenet in imax and i was like i'm gonna force my eyes to be wide! And so because i paid for this
yeah it was fun. The biggest downfall for this entire series is the fact that
it's too tropey so if you can look past that yeah you're gonna enjoy yourself.
It's time to read six of crows and crooked kingdom to forget! A YA fantasy is a duology.
Short and sweet takes place in the same world as the shadow and bone series. In contrast
it has really nicely fleshed individuals, people that you root for, people with complex histories,
people with believable understandable and motivations that you kind of want to dig
up and decide hey! Why are you the way that you are? Why are you the way that you are?! It's fun
it's a thrilling heist plot! Of course it's not perfect there's parts where the pacing is either a
bit too fast or a bit too still but overall the series solid i like it it's a good YA series.
Then i read the song of achilles. as painful as this story was IT bangs all right! I read this
in the space of like three days. I hate greek mythology right i hate it right i can't you
can't even get me to read percy jackson. I tried to read like the first two - three i was like nah
can't do it but madame miller i don't know what is she a witch she's probably a witch? Burn her
at the stake because i don't know why, i don't know how but she got me to like greek mythology.
This is a greek mythology story for people who don't like greek mythology. Achilles is infamously
just like an angry man and miller finds love beneath the infamous rage! It's a romanticized gay
it's essentially fanfic retelling of the story of achilles & patrocles from the ilyad. History
would call them roommates, they would call them best friends but i called them lovers! She really
said none of this homophobic erasure. The biggest thing for me were if i could kiss this book i
would kiss-! The fact that her prose is so buttery smooth like GHEE you gulp it down you swallow that
[ __ ] like smooth coffee! Song of achilles is an aesthetic in itself if you need a book
to quote if you are writing a love letter to someone and you're like okay i need i need some
inspiration you read the song of achilles. If you need to steal some [ __ ] for your wedding vows
read the song of achilles. If you need a book that's gonna push you back into depression read
the song of achilles. If you need a book that's gonna make you cry like your dog just died after
eating your left toe read this- This book needs a trigger warning yeah before you read it and the
trigger warning is the trigger that you're gonna cry like a [ __ ]. Showing emotions is healthy
and valid but you're gonna cry like a bi- I'll read some quotes for you to really try and get
you to read this book context. Patroclus is on some battleground and someone who's like
shooting a spear at his face okay. “Through the haze of terror I see a man leveling a spear at
my face. Somehow I am quick enough, and it passes over me, ruffling my hair like a lover's breath.”
Lover's breath! Like a lover's breath that's so poetic! “I could recognize him by touch alone,
by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I
would know him in death, at the end of the world.” ..... hello?!! I'm sorry if your so, if your
partner, if you're whatever the hell does not do this for you... you're settling! Babe don't SETTLE
if you are a fan of crying until you've regressed into the early species of man then i would suggest
read song of achilles. So i was like okay let's go back to reading Leigh Bardugo. I read king of
scars now babes. I'm the type of reader where if i read something i will just immediately
forget it but the fact that i cannot tell you what the hell happened in king of scars shows that i am
either mentally ill or this book is just dry. Yeah to be fair this book feels more like service to
those who really enjoy their characters in shadow and bones. If you are a fan of that series that
world yeah read king of scars you'll probably enjoy it. I gave it like a four stars and i
said "fun times decent you know it helps we have our loved characters nikolia and nina-" loved?!
loved?! me in may 2021... i i love you no more! I read the midnight library okay
now i have seen all of the memes i have seen the jokes i know what people say about this but as a
depressed [ __ ] when i read it it give me hope okay like hope it's the only thing stronger than
fear! Imagine you're given the chance to live all the lives that you ever wanted, imagine you're
given the chance to go back in time, to choose different choices, to kind of undo all the regrets
that you've had and to live out your dreams! That is what the midnight library is about. It's about
a girl who suffers from situational depression she's 30, she's working in a shop and she feels
like she really hasn't lived up to any of the potential that she had when she was a child. So
one day she decides that you know what life is just not worth living anymore and when she's in
the cusp between life and death she finds herself in the midnight library where there's books with
different choices, and different paths that she's made in life and she can essentially choose hey
if you find a story or a path in one of these books that you want to live in you're given a
second chance. I think the moral of the book is great if you're one of the people who constantly
thinks like "what if i've done this" whatever. This really gives you a different perspective
in the choices that you've made. It allows you kind of to shed all the regrets that you've
harbored throughout your life. I feel like you really come to have this sort of like gratitude
you come to have this sort of appreciation. I think it's a great book if you're wanting to feel
that sense of wanting to feel like hey maybe the choices that i've made it's okay what you've done.
Obviously yeah this isn't therapy this is not some sort of book where if you've got like long-term
depression or whatever that you're gonna read and suddenly you're gonna be cured no that's
not the book and the main character in the book also doesn't have just this sort of long-term
depression it's literally just situation. There are moments where you could argue yeah it's like
borderline cheesy it's basically like one of those intstagram quote books for me i was reading this
in a time where i was like life is darker than my pits. We always say that rejection is redirection
and i think this book is an embodiment of that. Now i'm not gonna talk about any of
those like plot holes or whatever, whatever i enjoyed the book and that's what matters!
Madeline miller put her whole her whole mussy into this all right,
all right. If you want to read a sort of feministy tinged novel about a witch who turns men into pigs
this is the book for you. Circe daughter of a titan and from her rage and from her jealousy
she discovers that yeah she actually has power: she turns gods into monsters. Zeus gets scared
because he's threatened by her and then he's like you know what i'm gonna i'm gonna abandon
you on an island! Forced to live alone as an island gal and she lives out her cottage core
life. She was complex she was jealous she was half god half human she really struggled with
defining a name for herself because she exists beyond the accepted boundaries all right She
wasn't valued by her family. It's a story about a woman it's a story about her loneliness,
it's a story about her finding strength within the loneliness. I don't know how madeline
does this but with Circe you literally spend thousands and thousands of years with this girl
yeah but still you're like okay! Again um i would say it's a lot more action-packed than song of
achilles so if you find song of achilles a little bit too slow for you try Circe see if that works
The last book I read was on earth we're briefly gorgeous. This novel is written in the form of
confessional letters written by a son to their illiterate mother. Ocean is actually a poet and
you can really tell that when you're reading this you're like yeah this is like a poet
writing a novel. The story of someone trying to make sense of their fractured memories, of their
family histories and tying stories together. So the protagonist is called little dog. You
almost get the sense that this story is a way for them to kind of heal,
process their memories, the sort of strained relationship that they had with their mother
and their mother has lived a really rough life. She's half white, she's a product and she's born
from the vietnam war and she struggles a lot with racism with schizophrenia with an abusive husband
with you know being a working class having to work in the salons breaking her back day. And the
grandma character as well who's also schizophrenic and she's kind of like a little dog kind of like
protecter. But she battles cancer and she also tells little dog the stories about the family.
I think the writing is really relatable in the sense that it really captures parts of a new
immigrant experience like for example one is about showing love and how some immigrant parents tend
to do that through actions instead. Sometimes our words are few and far between, or simply ghosted.
In which case the hand, although limited by the borders of skin and cartilage, can be that third
language that animates where the tongue falters." little dog is writing a letter to his mother and
he's talking about his mother right now when he says "As a girl, you watched, from a banana grove,
your schoolhouse collapse after an American napalm raid. At five, you never stepped into a classroom
again. Our mother tongue, then, is no mother at all—but an orphan. Our Vietnamese a time capsule,
a mark of where your education ended, ashed. Ma, to speak in our mother tongue it to speak only
partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war. " Some circumstances especially with the
vietnam war a lot of people kind of were stripped of their identity, were robbed
from their own roots. But i do think it's really worth reading and i really did
enjoy it there are at times where i do think the poetic-ness of the
prose was just a little bit too much but i i really did enjoy it. One bit that really like
got me emo was when the grandma is like ill and then she's talking to little dog and she's like oh
i used to be a little girl you know" i'm getting EMO. For me that's really emo because it's like
okay our grandparents, our parents like they used to be children too and like okay I know
that's obvious or whatever but it's like life is so difficult and it hardens you and you go through
so much trauma and this grandma's like at the end of her life she's suffered so much and she's
like losing it and she's like got schizophrenia she's got cancer she used to be young she used
to be innocent she used to be just essentially a child and i don't even know what i'm saying makes
sense but do you get what i mean? It's just like you kind of like stripped away from that
but yeah those are the books that i read i'd say my favorite i would say the midnight library
one of the top bangers of the year. Both circe and the song of achilles maybe circe more so.
I actually read more books this year but i just didn't finish if you want
to know things like dnf's i don't know if that deserves a whole video in itself but
maybe i'll make a tiktok or something so you can follow me there but let me know what you'd want if
you'd want a youtube video. And yeah let me know your favorite book from last year what was your so
the most shit book from last year because i wanna know. What about you? Have you read any of these
let me know your opinions and i'll see you guys next time. Please like subscribe or whatever the
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hi oh so gross that's really gross i'm not gonna do that again what just happened oh my god i
wanna that was my 13th reason
and my battery is dead so after that i read six of crows and cookie crooked cookie
so after that yeah i read so after that okay so after binging that