Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome
back to my channel and welcome to
another installment of Library Love,
where I tell you about everything that I
currently have out from my library. In
this case, once again it is everything that
I have out from work because it is the
school holidays once again and I went a
little bit crazy when I was shelf
reading the other day. Shelf reading is a
really really dangerous thing for me to
do, particularly in the fiction section
because I am constantly finding books
that, like, I have never seen before in my
life that I'm like "Ooh! That sounds interesting.
I should borrow that!" And then I end up
that I have, like, thirty books out
on loan. These first three are ones that I
have already read and have not yet had a
chance to return because, like, school has
finished and I'm not at work. And these first three
I talked about in my weekly wrapup so I
won't go into too much detail about
these. But to start with, I have The
Astrologer's Daughter by Rebecca Lim, I have
The Amateurs by Sara Shepard, and I have
One True Thing by Nicole Hayes. So the next
three books that I have out are actually
books that I borrowed from work before
we finished for the summer holidays
last year... So yeah. I've had these three
since December and I really need to
hurry the fuck up and read them because
at least one of them has a hold on it at
work. So some poor kid is waiting for me
to read this book and I've had it for, like,
four fucking months now. So those books
are Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler,
which is illustrated by Maira Kalman.
This is a YA contemporary book about
two kids who dated for a whole five
weeks and then broke up. And it's, like,
she basically gives him back a box of
junk of stuff to do with their
relationship and she uses this to
discuss why the two of them broke up. So
when I borrowed this I was like "Yes, that
sounds amazing, I need to read it. It's
really popular with the kids." And now I'm
on, like, page one. Like, I literally have
my bookmark here. That's... that's how far
I've gotten. And I'm not loving it so far
because, like, you were together for five
weeks, how the fuck do you have this entire
box of shit? Then I've got Pieces of Sky
by Trinity Doyle. I was about to start
reading this a couple of weeks ago when
that whole, like, death in the family
thing happened and because this deals
with a girl whose brother has drowned,
I couldn't really deal with that at
that particular point in time,
particularly as her brother and my
brother have the same name. I was like
"Yeah, no. No. Nope. Nope. Not in the headspace
to deal with this book." And the last one
that I've discussed in a previous
Library Love video is Girl About Time by
Kiersten Gier, which is translated from
German by Anthea Bell. So, into the stuff
that I have literally just hauled home
over the course in this past week. First
up, I have Room with a View by E.M. Forster.
I know literally nothing about the
plot of this book. I know that it is tiny,
so I'm hoping I can get this one
knocked off during school holidays. It's
less than 200 pages I think? Yes, it is
196 pages, so I should be able to get
through this one fairly quickly. Then
I have All the Light We Cannot See by
Anthony Doerr. I've heard absolutely
amazing things about this book. It's set in
Paris during World War Two, and it's told from
the perspective of a blind girl and a
kid who's in the Hitler Youth. So we'll
see what I think. Next up is one that I
found randomly when some kid returned it
like a month ago and I'm like "I have
literally never seen that book before in
my life." Anyway, it's Refugee Boy by
Benjamin Zephaniah. It's the story of a
kid named Alem whose mother is Eritrean
and his father is Ethiopian. They are
refugees from both of those countries.
Like, they started out in Ethiopia and
were told to leave, they moved to Eritrea
and were told to leave. They've now ended
up in the UK and so it's him kind of
like processing all of the shit that
he's gone through before leaving
Africa and then, you know, processing the
way that he is treated in Britain. Next
up, Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder. This is
the third book in the Poison Study
series. I read the first two really
really close together and, like, I enjoyed
them but I needed a break in between
because rape is handled in a very
very casual way in these books, and I was
not really okay with it so I needed to
put some space between reading those
ones and reading this one. And I'm hoping
I will pick this one up in the school
holidays because otherwise I think I'm
going to forget everything that
happened in books 1 and 2. Next up
is another one that we basically just
acquired and that is The One Memory of
Flora Banks by Emily Barr. This one is
about a girl who has an acquired brain
injury and so she has not been able to
make new memories from the time that she
was 10. And then she kisses this boy and
it's, like, the one thing that she can
remember and so it's kind of like 50 First Dates
except not. So I'm really interested to
read this one and find out what happens.
Next up I have The Pale Assassin by
Patricia Elliot, which is the first book
in the Pimpernelles series. I'm trash for The
Scarlet Pimpernel, so when I saw this one -
which appears to be some kind of
retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel with
girls - like, yes. Obviously I was going to
read this book because I'm trash for The Scarlet
Pimpernel, but also it sounds kind of
amazing. Then I have Big Little Lies by
Liane Moriarty. Obviously we have a lot
of kids asking about this book at the
moment considering, like, the TV show has
just come out and so I figured I should
read this because the page that I
randomly opened it out when I was shelf
reading said something about auto-erotic
asphyxiation and I was like "Hmm .Don't
know that a Catholic high school
library should have this book..." So I'm
going to read it and see what all the
fuss is about, partly, but also be like
"should we have this on the shelf?". And
then the last four fiction books that I
have out at the moment are ones where I
was like "Oh hey! That's set in a country
that's, like, not the US, the UK or, like,
a fantasy world or Australia because I
feel like a lot of the stuff that I've
been reading this year that isn't
the US or the UK or fantasy worlds has
been set in Australia and I want to kind
of branch out a bit more. So the first
one is The House of the Spirits by
Isabel Allende, and this one was
translated from Spanish by Magda Bogin.
This is a family saga that I assume is
set in Chile because, like, all of
Isabel Allende's books are set in
Chile, basically. So I don't really know
anything about this one. I think this is
her debut novel from memory, and I've
heard really really good things about it.
It's one that I've always been meaning
to read, so I'm glad that we actually
have this one at work because now I can
read it. Next up I have The Sound of
Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez,
and this one is set in Colombia. It was
translated from Spanish by Anne McLean,
and this is one where I was shelf
reading and I was like "Um. That does not
sound like a book that we should have,
because the blurb sounds kind of intense..."
So I'm just going to read you the blurb
of this one because, like, yeah. It's
complicated. "No sooner does he to get to
know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy
billiard hall in Bogota than Antonio
Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a
secret. Antonio's fascination with his
new friend's life grows until the day
Ricardo receives a mysterious unmarked
cassette. Shortly afterwards, he is shot
dead on a street corner. Yammara's
investigation into what happens leads
back to the early 1960s marijuana
smuggling and a time before the cocaine
trade trapped Colombia in a living
nightmare." So it sounds really really
interesting and kind of like a noir
mystery novel sort of thing? But at the
same time, there's a lot of stuff going
on in that blurb that doesn't sound
particularly appropriate for a girls'
high school. So we'll see... Then I have A
Respectable Girl by Fleur Beale. Tis one
is a YA book that is set in New
Zealand in 1859, and it's dealing with,
like, the tensions between the Maori
population and the Pakeha
population, and then the main character
is sent from New Zealand to England and
yeah. It just sounds really interesting
and I haven't read a lot of New Zealand
fiction, so it seems appropriate to give
this one a go. And then the final
fiction book that I have is The
Apothecary's House by Adrian Mathews.
This one is set in Amsterdam and the
main character seems to be a woman who
is tracing the prominence [provenance] of paintings
that were stolen by the Nazis and then
this old woman comes in demanding the
return of a picture painted by her 18th
century ancestor and then they meet
again and...weird Nazi investigation-y
kind of stuff but it's to do with paintings.
So it sounds really intriguing, it sounds kind of
like a DaVinci Code sort of thing, but
with, like, Nazi looted artwork or
something. And then finally I have four
non-fiction books that I picked up kind
of on a whim. So the first one is In Cold
Blood by Truman Capote. I have been
meaning to read this book for years now,
because it just sounds so so interesting.
So this is a true crime book that
basically recounts a murder that took
place in 1959? Yes, 1959 in a small town
in Kansas. Next up is one that we weirdly
have shelved in the fiction section? I'm
not entirely sure why, because it's
definitely non-fiction. But that is The
Man Who Loved Books Too Much: the true
story of a thief, a detective, and a world
of literary obsession by Allison Hoover
Bartlett. This one is a story of a guy
who steals books because he just loves
books so much and it's also the story of
the guy who is, like, trying to find him
and the author is a journalist who, you
know, has woven the story together in
some kind of narrative so it doesn't
feel like non-fiction? So maybe that's why
we have we have it in fiction?
I don't know. I've been intrigued by this
one for a while and I'm finally gonna
read it. Next up, I have When I Fell From
the Sky: the true story of one woman's
miraculous survival by Juliane Koepcke,
which was translated I think from German
by Ross Benjamin. So this one tells the
story of the author in the 1970s, she was
on a flight somewhere in Peru, the plane
crashed - it fell literally two miles from
the sky - and she was the only survivor.
And not only did she survive but then
she was in, like, the remote Peruvian
jungle and she had to kind of get her
way to safety or survive until she
was found or something of that nature.
I've heard from kids at school that this
story is really really amazing and, like,
it sounds like an amazing story so
obviously i'm going to read it. And the
final book that I have out at the moment
is Every Falling Star by Songju Lee and
Susan McClelland. This one is a YA
non-fiction biography thing that tells
the story of the author's escape from
North Korea. He is, I believe, still a
teenager and at the age of 12 he ended
up that he had to live on the streets of
Pyongyang and kind of fend for himself.
And it's how he escaped from North Korea
basically, and it's I think the first
book that has been published
specifically for a young adult audience
dealing with North Korea, and having read
Yeonmi Park's biography last year I'm
really really interested to read this
one and see, kind of, how the two compare and
how this may have been toned down in
some way for a young adult audience. So
yeah, I am really really interested to
pick this one up and give it a go as
well. So there you have it, friends. That is
all the books that I currently have out
from work. If you have read any of these
and have thoughts on them, if I should
prioritise some over others, let me know
down in the comments. I would love to
talk about them with you. Thank you guys
so much for watching, I love all your
faces and I will see you on Friday. Bye
guys.
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