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Poet?. Hey guys welcome back, today i wanted to talk about my most anticipated book releases for
2021. there's not a whole lot to be honest with you there's like 10. i've got like 10 here i don't
have a heap because to be honest with you my goals for next year are to read more backlist books if
you look at my goodreads challenges first of all you would notice i've never reached one of them
except this time, i'm two books away this time. i've never been this close to hitting a goal
before i've really read nothing so my goal is really to just read the backlist books that i've
been wanting to read for the longest time but that being said there are a couple new releases that
sound pretty interesting most of these i'm pretty sure are ya i think i've got like two nonfiction
on here maybe only one i'm gonna try to go in order let's see so the first one is concrete rose
by angie thomas this one comes out january 12th so this is like a prequel to the hate u give which i
read this year and i [ __ ] loved it it's honestly one of my top books of the year i mean i didn't
read that many but like even still it's one of my top books of all time i really [ __ ] love that
book this one is actually about star carter's dad when he was 17 when star's older brother was born
and like that's the kind of period it takes place in um if you read the hate you give you would know
that um star's dad was involved with gangs and so this is kind of like following that period
of his life so yeah really excited for that one comes out january 12th the next one comes out on
february 9th and it's a faux love story so this is kind of like i don't know i think i've heard
this one be described as like romeo and juliet between rival faux restaurants so there's these
two families they both own four restaurants they're competitors and i'm pretty sure
they're like their stores are right next to each other follow these two teenagers their parents
run the restaurants i think they've heard of each other but they've never met each other before
and then one day they have this chance encounter and the sparks fly so yeah sounds very interesting
cannot wait to read this one february 9th the next one comes out on march 2nd and it's
clara and the sun by kazuo ishiguro my accent just [ __ ] that man's name up so bad i'm so sorry
i'm really i apologize sincerely this one is like a science fiction book so it's about this
this i don't know it's a robot called clara and she's like an artificial friend she has really
great like observational qualities she's literally just designed to be a best friend basically the
blurb says that she's like sitting in this store watching the passes by and the people who come
in waiting to be bought by somebody i think it delves into like artificial intelligence
society and humanity and i think that's very interesting so okay if the lighting keeps
[ __ ] up i'm so sorry it's really hard to manage the lighting in this room anyway yeah clara in the
sun sounds very interesting march 2nd the next one is how beautiful we were this one comes out
march 9th this one is set in a fictional african village called kosawa i'm gonna read you the
blurb for this one it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation
wrought by an american oil company pipeline spills have rendered the farmlands infertile children
are dying from drinking toxic water promises of clean up and financial reparations to the people
are made but ignored and basically like has a really corrupt government it's led by a dictator
who's really just acting in self-interest the people of kosawa decide to fight back against
the government follows this girl called foola she grows up to become a revolutionary it says
it explores what happens when the reckless drive for profit coupled with the ghost of colonialism
comes up against one community's determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman's
willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom sounds very [ __ ] good
this one comes out march 9th oh [ __ ] there's another one for january alright let's go into that
one it's an it's a nonfiction it's called work won't love you back how devotion to our jobs keeps
us exploited exhausted and alone i feel like the title is pretty self-explanatory as to what this
book is going to be about the tagline is a deeply reported examination of why doing what you love
is a recipe for exploitation creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily
acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives i think this one goes more into the idea of like
doing what you love like do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life and how
whether you're like working for exposure or for experience it's kind of like doing something you
love isn't really work so you're kind of expected to give more of yourself to it and not complain
it shouldn't be a problem to break your back doing something just because you love it like it's still
work at the end of the day feel like it's probably going to look into freelancers and things like
that because i feel like a lot of people get [ __ ] over with freelance jobs and they're expected
to do a lot of [ __ ] for free and a lot of stuff with no payoff with a lot of the time being told
like this is your passion that's your hobby it's what you love doing like you should be happy to do
it for free and i think that's very interesting so this is a like a non-fiction sociology book
sounds very interesting up my alley comes out january 26th so the next one is ace of spades by
farida ibk immediate i think it's like a thriller mystery thriller this one deals
with institutionalized racism it follows students at niveau's private academy where money paves the
hallways and the students are never less than perfect until now because anonymous texter aces
is bringing two students dark secrets to light i think people have said that this one reminds
them of gossip girl like if you had to give it a comparison sounds [ __ ] good this one comes
out june 10th very excited next one also coming out in june and that's a [ __ ] lie it's actually
coming out in july the tiger mum's tale by lynn lau butler this one comes out july 6. this one
follows a girl called lex thomas from what i've heard i think half her family's taiwanese half
her family is living in america i don't know if they're white or not but they're living in america
let me read you the blood for this one lexa thomas has never quite fit in having grown up in a family
of blondes while more closely resembling constants where she's neither white enough nor asian enough
visiting her father in taiwan as a child lexa thought she'd finally found a place where she
belonged but that was years ago and even there some never truly considered her to be taiwanese
when her estranged father dies unexpectedly leaving the fate of his taiwanese family in lex's
hands a safe life in new york city is no longer enough she's faced with the choice to return to
taiwan to claim her place in her heritage or leave her taiwanese family to lose their home for good
armed with the advice of two sisters one american and the other one taiwanese who can't stand each
other a mother who has rediscovered her sexuality and a man whose kisses make her walk into walls
lexa finally confronts the person who drove her away from taiwan all those decades ago that sounds
so [ __ ] interesting does it not the tiger mom's tale july 6th i've decided to just completely
abandon the whole idea of going in order of publication because we've been jumping around
because this next one comes out in may arsenic and adobo by mia p manonsala first of all i think this
cover is super cool right this one is about a girl called lea macapagal lilla macapagal
she's tasked with saving her auntie's failing restaurant i mean she has to deal with a group
of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment there's this notoriously nasty food
critic who happens to be her ex-boyfriend he drops dead moments after a conversation with lila and
then everything just kind of turns from there the cops are treating her like she's the one and only
suspect there's a shady landlord that's trying to kick them out of the restaurant so they can
resell the store and she basically turns herself into agatha [ __ ] christy and she decides to
solve this [ __ ] on her own because it seems like everyone is working against her and i love that so
yeah i'm very excited for that one as well that one comes out may 4. the next one is dial a for
aunties by jessie cusutanto this one is another murder mystery that involves a team of messy
aunties which [ __ ] yes so this one deals with a chinese indonesian family the description says
this one accidental murder 2 000 wedding guests three maybe cursed generations four meddling asian
aunties to the rescue it's about a girl called madeline madeleine chan who accidentally ends
up killing her blind date and basically her mom and all of her aunties help her get rid of the
body but unfortunately i don't know what the [ __ ] happens but accidentally they managed to
ship the [ __ ] dead body in a cake cooler to this like over-the-top billionaire wedding basically
her family has like a has a wedding business and it's like the biggest job that it's like
the biggest wedding job their family's ever done and they ship a dead body to it messy
team of aunties covering up for a murder like i'm already there i'm already there i'm setting
up my tent in front of the bookstore camping out waiting for the release as we speak i'm so excited
like [ __ ] honestly like don't [ __ ] talk to me when this book is released you know like i'm not
available anyway comes out april 27th i'm so [ __ ] excited for this one and yes next one is empire
of the vampire by jay kristoff this one comes out september 16th now the first thing i want to
say about this is that i don't actually know why the [ __ ] this is on my anticipated releases but
i think this is a case of i've met this author multiple times i've been to almost all of his
book releases since illuminae came out like i've been to all three nevernight releases i've been
to his gemina and obsidio release i've been to his aurora rising release lifelike release i went to
that i've been to so many releases for this man and i've never [ __ ] read a book like i'm just
now reading his books i read illuminae recently which i'm going to talk about in a video soon and
i'm currently reading gemina which we will discuss i don't even like i don't even like vampires i
don't i really don't know why i'm why i'm putting this in here but i think like i know it's going
to be on my list to read regardless and i think because i've met him so many times he lives in he
lives in my home city and also i've been watching his instagram stories and he's been talking like
non-stop about this [ __ ] book you know when you see the process of a book being written like
when you follow an author and they're just like constantly putting out like sneak previews and
like talking about the process of getting the book published and then when it's actually published
you're like okay i may as well read it but yeah this one is it's about a vampire obviously
according to him cool vampires not twilight vampires the genres are like paranormal vampires
dark fantasy supernatural horror adult urban fantasy so apparently they're all the categories
of volsunda there's genres that i never read to be honest with you but like i'm willing to give it a
go gabrielle de leon i don't even know if that's how you pronounce him gabriel de leon who's one of
the last silver saints a holy order dedicated to definite to deafening realm and church now
utterly destroyed imprisoned for the murder of the vampiric king gabrielle is charged with telling
the story of his life so it talks about his youth in a monastery a love spell betrayal a grail
eternal light like i'm hearing a lot of [ __ ] that like you know like i feel like you
know what this story is gonna be about you know anyways interesting possibly we'll see
oh for a minute i thought it was said 800 pages and i was about to [ __ ] remove this
from my list immediately but it's 400 pages i'll give it a go i'll give it a go for that
anyway that's the last book always my battery is dying let's just finish this video okay
so they're all the books the video kind of got derailed when we got to j christmas book but
i really do want to try to read all of these as they come out this year that's all for my most
anticipated 2021 releases i would love to know what books you guys are highly anticipating the
release of for next year anyways thank you so much for watching i'll see you soon have a great day