Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome back to my
channel and welcome to another weekly
wrap up. This one is for the 29th of January
through the 4th of February, and this week I read a
total of 8 books and 2,498 pages. The first day of
this week was the last day of Diverseathon,
and the first two books that I read this
week were for that. So the first book that I
finished this week is The Sidekicks by
Will Kostakis. This is an Australian
contemporary YA book that tellsl the story
of three teenage guys at an elite Sydney
high school after their friend Isaac
dies, and the three of them come to
realise that Isaac was the thing that
held their friendship group together and
that the three of them aren't actually really
friends. So the book's divided into three
and there's one chunk from each of their perspectives.
So Ryan is the swimmer/jock of the
group, and he has a big secret which is
that he's gay and Isaac was the only
person other than his boyfriend who knew
that he was gay, and so he's kind of lost
the person that he can talk to about
this huge part of his identity. The
second perspective is Harley and he is the
typical bad boy rebel who lives in the
boarding house because he's from a small
country town. And he blames himself for
Isaac's death because he was the one who
provided a lot of drugs and alcohol that
Isaac happened to be on at the time
that he died. And then finally we have Miles,
who is an aspiring filmmaker and he
reads very very much like an autistic
character, though it doesn't explicitly
say anywhere in the story that he is
autistic. So I did like all three of the
characters, though I think Harley was
probably the one that I had to come
around on the most because he was just
such, like, a typical Aussie bad boy type
of a character and he sort of annoyed
me a little bit until I got
used to his voice. At least a chunk
of this book is Own Voices, because Will
Kostakis came out shortly after this book
was published. So Ryan's story at the very
least is Own Voices. There's quite a lot
of repetition in this book because there
are certain events that happen in each
of the three effectively short stories
that you see from each of their
perspectives, and I know a lot of people
have found that frustrating but I
actually really liked it, because I
really liked getting to see that
particular set of circumstances and that
particular situation from these three
different perspectives and how they
reacted to those circumstances. I really
really loved the ending of this book, it
was absolutely beautiful and made me
cry, so I enjoyed this one a lot
and I gave it 4 stars. Book number 2 this week is
Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley.
This is the final book that I finished
for Diverseathon. If you have
even seen the trailer for the movie Lion
you pretty much know what this one's about.
And this is effectively a book in two parts.
The first part deals with Saroo Brierley's
life when he was growing up in India and
how he came to be lost, how he came to be,
like, literally thousands of kilometres
away from his family, and how he came to
be adopted by an Australian family.
The second half of the book is him deciding
"Hey, there's this newfangled thing called
Google Earth. Maybe I'll have a look and
see if I can work out from all these
satellite images where I was actually
from, because I know that I ended up in
Calcutta, and I can remember certain
elements of the train station in my
hometown and the path that I took to
get from home to the train station.
And so maybe by some miracle, I can find
my way home using this technology." I
really really enjoyed this book. It's such
an amazing and compelling story and I
cried like 43,000 times I think
reading this book, it was absolutely
astonishing and heartbreaking and one of
those books where you're just constantly gobsmacked
that, like, a kid could survive the things
that he survived on the streets of
Calcutta and then that he could actually
manage to find the needle in the
proverbial haystack on Google Earth. Like,
that is amazing. So I really really
enjoyed this one, I'm so so glad that I read
it and I gave it 4 stars. The third book I
finished this week is Grin and Beard It by
Penny Reid, which is the second book in
the Winston Brothers series. This is a
contemporary romance series and each one
of the books follows a different brother
from this one family all the from FB ads
and like your manly man living in
Tennessee authority oldest brother
Jethro who is a park ranger and it's
essentially the story of him making and
falling in love to steal 90 who just
happens to be an oscar-winning actress
and like America's sweetheart and an
amazing scriptwriter and all kinds of
she's basically moments in McCarthy but
looking up and it was pretty stinking
awesome it's really cute it's really
funny there were occasional moments of
like possessiveness that I want entirely
ok with and Tiaras family were kind of
controlling our call my pilot like
sister is for manager and services that
is very very controlling of like who she
dates and what she doesn't know all that
kind of stuff so that's tough i was
account but on the whole this was really
cute and really fluffy and just really
thinking enjoyable and sometimes your
brain needs that you know this one's
pretty stinking good
I gave it four stars for the book i
finish this week is because of gotten by
nancy favorite is the first book in the
Timothy wild series trilogy and actually
show which so this one is a historical
fiction / crime novel it is set in New
York in that the 1840 and it is a very
very dark book eventually can be wild
the protagonist is one of the first
police officers in your sitting here
they're reluctant police officer he was
a barman until this like massive
explosion fire thing happened which left
him with massive scars on his face
don't let him out of the job because
like his house and his place of
employment exploded so Timothy find
himself working in this new police force
at a time when basically discrimination
in new york city is very very high
because it's been a huge influx of Irish
immigrants following at the potato
famine and there is a lot of prejudice
against irish immigrants in New York and
figure time so there's a lot of
anti-catholic sentiment a lot of
anti-irish sentiment a lot of these
people stupid their religion is not like
out we shouldn't let them in our country
they're going to like bring down the
rest of us and overtake us and so all of
that kind of stuff was very reminiscent
of certain things that are happening in
the u.s. even as we speak so they're
actually really good reminder that no
matter what point in history you pick
there is always a minority population
that is being discriminated against for
being immigrants and being different
the bulk of the plot revolves around
Timothy finding the bodies of a whole
bunch of dead Irish children and it
turns out that these children had
effectively being sold into prostitution
and so it's a very very difficult book
to read because it feels not only with
so much prejudice towards the Irish
community but also it's incredibly like
dark underbelly of Victorian New York I
really really loved the characters and I
loved the writing and it's amazing the
amount of research that means if i had
clearly put into writing these books so
this one was definitely a difficult
books read but I didn't really really
enjoy it in the end and i absolutely
loved the way that mystery played out I
definitely did not see the villain
coming at all so I'm really really
intrigued to read the rest of this
series and see how I go with it because
this one was so difficult in terms of
water that subject matter
still I really really love this book and
I get for sup look like this weekend we
sent me into a slump and took me forever
to read despite only being 200 pages
long and that book is playing bieber's
park this is an Australian children's
classic it was first published in
nineteen eighty but reading it now it's
one of those children's books that isn't
really a children's book because young
adult books didn't exist at the time so
this book is the story or 14 year old
girl who is babysitting monday when she
sees this strange girl wearing strength
clothing and when she follows her she
finds herself in 19th century city down
in the rocks which is very me where she
lives in 20th century city but like you
know hundreds 40 other girl finds
herself living with the bow family in
the rock and it's basically her adapting
to life in the 19th century and then
trying to get home again
so all of that kind of stuff feels very
much like a children's book however
abigail is 14 that she's a very bratty
fourteen-year-old like her parents had
split up and now want to get back
together and she starts yelling about
the affair that her father had her
mother yells at her about you know that
men and sex now so like I don't know
that you can call this a children's book
because it does deal with all of those
kinds of issues are going to be pointed
by this one because i remember
absolutely loving it when I was about 8
or 9 i'm not sure why I was allowed to
read this book was I don't mind but
anyway so I remember really loving it
but it was such a struggle bus this time
around and it just seemed to drag on
forever and I was not at all motivated
to read it sorry dear this one with a
bit rough and i am looking at three
stuff another six this week is driven
out by April Daniels this is the young
adult five books that you set in our
world but it's the world where there are
superheroes and it's very similar to
some comic books where like the
superhero can die and possibly powers on
to somebody else and so the book starts
with the character of drug lords dying
and handing their powers to this boy
named Danny accepted any transgender and
when Danny take on the mantle of direct
not danny is turned into a girl and is
like oh my god this is amazing of my
body is finally like what I want my body
to be so the book is basically any
dealing with her new superhero powers
and trying to decide whether or not she
wants to be driven off or whether she
wants to kind of pass the mantle on to
somebody else did offer dealing with
what basically this book version of The
Avengers and will she join them we
should be allowed to join them but by
and large it is her dealing with her
parents attitude to the fact that she's
now a girl so I really really loved the
concept of this book i love the fact
that it is an ornament voices trans
novel that features superheroes because
that is amazing
however there was so much transform its
language in this book and it just made
me incredibly incredibly uncomfortable
time and time again any father is
incredibly abusive and has been for
Danny's entire life
Danny's mother flip-flops between being
supportive and going along with what
husband tells her to do but by far the
worst for me was the attitude that a lot
of the avenges type characters had in
particular one known as gray which who
is just the most horrific transphobic
character in the entire book and he
flat-out doctors dang and tell Danny's
parents that hey by the way your kid is
a superhero which forces everything to
come to a head and that was just gonna
be so so uncomfortable i'm not entirely
sure that i would give it to any trans
teenager because it does features for
many auntie trends attitudes in the
story and reading it was just kind of an
uncomfortable experience as a result so
I wanted to love this one but i ended up
giving it three stars the second book
that I finished this week is the melody
of you and made by M Hollis so one of
the challenges for diversity thing over
here is to read a book with a pansexual
main character the challenge specifies
that it should be on voices but i have
not been able to find any books
featuring pansexual main characters that
are or invoices and some of them may be
our invoices in fact but I'm not willing
to like basically said the other hate by
the way you pansexual total for this one
I'm okay with reading a book that just
features a 10 sexual main character
regardless of how the author identifies
with us in your dog contemporaries about
you and Chris sometime prior to
beginning of the book she dropped out of
college because she wasn't sure that
what she was doing at college was
actually what she wanted to do with her
life she dropped out to work in a
bookstore and kind of thinking those
from work out where she wants to go and
then one day this new ghosts at the
bookshop
see and she and chris has very strong
connection and you know it's basically
the story of them falling in love and
Chris kind of working out what she wants
to do with her life so it really really
liked the bromance between these two
girls and I love the fact that the past
sexual representation on the page with
it I felt really really flat for me with
the brushing it was incredibly stilted
and the dialogue in particular was just
really clunky there's almost no
contractions used in the whole book
which just made it feel kind of robotic
even though i did enjoy this story that
was so much about the writing that was
just left for me so I end up doing this
1 2.5 stars and the final book that I
think this week was a reread and that is
that great mercy by rubbing the favors
which is the first book in the his fair
assessment trilogy so this book is set
in fifteenth-century brittany and its
trade is man who is Ennis and none
yeah she's a seventeen-year-old is that
enough it's pretty stinking also it's
actually every single one of these
assessments is the daughter of get like
that will literally sired by death which
is awesome so they add up they leave at
this memory and the memory teaches them
to be a pattern so this is made like
first mission going out to you don't
work out what the hell is going on at
brittany's court and try and stop the
French from taking over i really really
love this series it's amazing struggle
fiction with small paranormal elements
thrown in for good measure I really like
the character is made i do feel slightly
squeaky about shipping the relationship
that comes up in the cause of this one
because like i said is made is 17 and
the guy in question is in his
mid-twenties shouldn't shipment but I
totally did and like a guesses
historical fiction for the circumstances
slightly different but i still don't
entirely feel like they should be
classed as weii as a result of that
anyway on the whole I really love the
book and the series and I end up getting
it for ourselves so they have a friend
that is all the books that I finish this
week if you have read any of these and
you have thought them please let me know
down in the comments that would love to
talk about it with you
thank you guys so much watching i love
faces and we'll see you on Wednesday I
guess
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