Hey! What's up, you guys? It's Connor, and today I'm gonna be continuing my 2018 reading
wrap ups with books 21 through 25. If you guys have missed any of my other wrap
ups from this year, I will leave them down in the description as a playlist,
and you can check them out. But today we're gonna be talking about the next
five books that I read. The 21st book that I read in 2018 is My Favorite
Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferrris. If you guys don't know, this was nominated for
the BookTubeSFF Awards in the graphic novel category because it is indeed a
graphic novel. It's a very thick one. This one follows two different timelines
really. It follows this main character named Karen who is on the back. There's a
mysterious death in Karen's apartment building, and Karen is a amateur
detective and decides to take on the case and try to discover what happened
surrounding this character's death. She's a young 12-year-old maybe... I can't
remember the exact age that she is, but she is queer. And she's growing up the
1960s, so that's an issue. And then it also follows the woman who was murdered
Anka, and it follows her in the 1930s and 40s as she's growing up in a very tremulous
Germany. Anka's Jewish, so it's gonna follow her as she's growing up in a Nazi
Germany and having to deal with all of those terrible things. I really enjoyed
the diversity in this book. The main character Karen is half-Mexican, I
believe, and she's Jewish as well. And Anka's obviously Jewish. And there are
some other characters as well. Like, Karen's brother is having to deal with a
lot of racism, and there's another character that's in her class that's gay.
And he has to deal with people being rude about that. Yes, I really enjoyed the
diversity included in this historical setting. I really, really enjoyed the
artwork that's in this. It's very sketchy. It has, like, little little little little
lines. Like, all of this... let's see if it'll focus. All of the artwork is all
these just, like, tiny tiny teeny tiny lines of different colors, and sometimes
they are full color like on this one. And sometimes they're black and white like
this page. And so I just thought the artwork was incredible, and I really
really enjoyed it. It is crazy how Emil Ferris was paralyzed from getting the
West Nile virus, I believe and then had to really work to get her drawing
ability back, and she created this. It's amazing.
I enjoyed both timelines equally. I thought really interesting things
were happening in both. Anka's was just, like, heartbreaking because she has had a
very, very rough life, and Karen is not having the greatest of lives either.
Karen thinks that being human is the worst thing on the planet, and she just
wants to be a monster so that she can live forever. She wants to be a werewolf
specifically, so I thought it was really interesting that Karen is always drawn
as a werewolf and [that] other people around her are just drawn as regular humans. So
I thought that her self reflection and everything like that was really
interesting. I also really enjoyed Karen's brother. Let's see if I can find
a picture of him. There he is! So [Deeze] is the one that's having to
deal with a lot of racism, and he's kind of down and out .And I really appreciated
his character because he's not the greatest character ever. He does make a
lot of mistakes, but he's trying to be a good brother and a good person. So I
thought that he was really interesting. He's one of my favorite characters in
this graphic novel series, and one last positive thing I'll say is that this has
a lot of art history references. There's a ton of famous artwork that is
reproduced in here and has something to do with the story, so I thought that was
really cool. I'm not a huge art person, so I didn't get a lot of the references.
Like, I've never seen the original artwork of a lot of the ones that are
put in here, so I didn't really know exactly what they're talking about. But I
thought it was really cool that she did do that. One thing that I was expecting
was I thought it was gonna be a lot more monsterous, I guess. It's a [historical]
graphic novel, and she just really loves monsters. So I thought it was gonna
actually have monsters in it because "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters," but there
isn't any real monsters in this. It's just personal monsters, personal demons,
and the fact that Karen wants to be a werewolf . That's the monsters., and I wish
that there was actually some science fiction/fantasy elements in here. And the
other thing about this is that it ends very, very abruptly. It's just like boom! Ending!
I am eagerly awaiting the second book of the series, but the ending of this one is
just like a dun-dun-duh moment. And then it's over, but yes definitely recommend
this one. I think I ended up giving this 4.5 stars.
Next I picked up Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I read this as an audiobook, and I
think the narrator did a very good job. I did a
book review for this as well, and I'll leave that up in the card symbol. You can
check it out, but it follows this main character Darrow who's a part of the
lowest class in society. He doesn't even realize that he's being mistreated as
much as he is until certain events happen, and then he's on a path for
revenge. And he's trying to take down the society. It's a dystopian, science fiction
human civilization. I thought this book had really, really great world building,
and I really enjoyed the main character. I thought that he was fully fleshed out
and believable, and I really enjoyed all the side characters as well. And I just
want to learn more and more about them. I thought the plot was very fast-paced
and engrossing, and I definitely recommend it. It was just a little slow
to get into. I thought that the training session/ Hunger Games-like
environment went on just a little bit too long, and I started to get a little
bit bored of it. But I did really enjoy this. I gave it four stars. If you want to
know more specific thoughts, check out that review. But yes,
four stars. I then picked up White Sand, Vol. 2 by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin,
and Julius Gopez. This series follows a boy named Kenton who's living on this
planet called Taldain, I believe, and on this planet there are two different
sides of the planet. There's the day side and the dark side. The day side has sun
all the time, and dark side has no sun ever. Kenton is from day side, and on Taldain
the magic system that they have is that they're able to control threads of
sand. Kenton is actually one of the weakest people that are able to do this.
He can only control one strand of sand, and he has to figure out ways of
accomplishing greater things and things that other people can do with just
having one strand of sand that he can control. At the very beginning of the
book, the Sand Masters are in trouble. People have not really enjoyed their
presence for quite some time, and now people are trying to kind of get them
out of society and get them out of power. And it's Kenton's goal to keep the Sand
Masters relevant and keep them with some amount of power. But in this world there
are also groups of religious people that do not believe that the sand mastery
magic is acceptable. They think it's heretical,
and they want Kenton and the Sand Masters to be eliminated. So it's
causing a lot of problems and everything like that. It also follows a couple of
people from dark side who come looking for the sand magic because they've heard
about it and they're hoping that it'll help fix things back in their countries.
The artwork in this is very relevant to the environment that they're in. So when
they're in the desert, it's a lot more muted. There's a lot of grays, light
blues... there is some red, but it's not very vibrant. And when they're in an
environment that is less desert-like, the colors start to be a lot more vibrant, so
I really enjoy the coloring of this novel. The thing with the art is that at
the beginning, it's one artist, and it's very sketchy. It has a lot of stray
lines and everything like that, and then towards the very end of the novel, it is
very stereotypically comic-book-like. It's very modern: clean bold lines. So the
artwork changes drastically in this one. There's also not very much that happens
in this. It's just Kenton going around and - I
don't know trying to survive. He's not really doing anything. Nothing really
gets accomplished in this one, and I actually had a hard time getting back
into this world. I had forgotten so much from the first
volume that I could not remember who certain people were, and what was
happening, the countries, and the different religious groups. There's just
a lot of words that I didn't know the definition of, so it took me a while to
get back into it. And I actually had to make a list to keep track so that I
wouldn't get confused because sometimes the names are quite similar to each
other. So I enjoyed this one, but I didn't absolutely love it. So I ended up giving
it three stars. After that I picked up Braving the
Wlderness by Brené Brown. This is The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage
to Stand Alone. I actually read this as an audiobook from my library which I
definitely recommend because Brené Brown reads it herself. If you guys don't know,
Dr. Brené Brown researches different social... feelings, I guess. I'm not sure how
to describe it, but she researches things like shame, and vulnerability, and the
effects that those have on people's lives, and the roles that they play. And
in this one, she's examining trust, and belonging, and true belonging, and
everything like that. I really, really enjoyed it. I thought it had a lot of
really interesting things that she was exploring. You can definitely follow
everything that she talking about. It's not too scientific
heavy or anything like that. It's just very real. Her delivery is very direct,
and you're able to understand exactly what she wants to get across very easily.
And in this book she also addresses a lot of other things as well. This true
belonging and the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand on your
own really is about belonging to yourself and keeping yourself mentally
healthy, I guess. BRAVING is an acronym for surviving in
the wilderness, being able to stand on your own, and feeling confident about
yourself, and feeling like you belong anywhere and nowhere. B is boundaries:
setting up boundaries and respecting those. Not going into situations that are
gonna be going against being true to yourself. Reliability:
did you do what you said you were gonna do? Accountability: being accountable for
what you do and what you say. Owning up to your faults, and apologizing for it,
and trying to do better. V is for vault. So did you respect the vault: keeping
secrets that you're not supposed to share with other people as well as not
sharing too much. I is for integrity. N is for did I ask for what I needed? Was
I nonjudgmental about needing help? And G: was I generous towards myself? There's
also some guides and everything to being a good person and braving the wilderness.
Like, "People are hard to hate close up. Move in." 2) "Speak truth to bullshit. Be
civil." 3) "Hold hands with strangers." and 4) "Strong back. Soft front. Wild
heart." And I just really, really enjoyed it. I ended up giving this four stars. I
definitely think that it's one of those books that can reset how you think about
your own life, and think about how you're acting on a day to day basis and how
you're interacting with people. It's a lot of being in the moment
and investing yourself in every moment of your life. The only thing is that I
haven't read any of her other books, and she does reference certain things in
those other books. So I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of stuff, so I'm
gonna go back and read those as well. She also talks about a ton of other books
that you can go to to learn about more. Like one of the books that she mentions
that I'm really interested in reading is The Big Sort. I can't remember who it's by,
but it's about how people are so keen to sort themselves into certain groups and
to surround themselves with people that are "like" them. But it actually creates
more loneliness when that happens, and I thought that was really interesting. And
she explores that topic some, so I definitely enjoyed it. Definitely
recommend it, and yeah, four stars. And the 25th book that I read in 2018 is
Oath Breaker by Michelle Paver. This is the fifth book in the Chronicles of
Ancient Darkness series... yes! The series is set in a Scandinavian-ish ancient
time period where there are different clans of native people. The main
character Torak is an orphan because his dad dies in the beginning of the first
book. He is able to communicate with a wolf pup, and it follows Torak with
his wolf as he is navigating all of these traps that are laid by evil people
within this world. And he's trying to protect people that he loves and defeat
the evil people. It's just a very fun middle grade series with some magic, and
some adventure, and a lot of native influences. I read this as an audio book,
and I did not know that the narrator of this book is Ian McKellen. So that was
fantastic! It was like Magneto and Gandalf telling me a story! I've been
really enjoying this series, and the amount of research that Michelle paper
does into these novels before she starts them is incredible.
Her coming up with these different clans, and having all of these different native
traditions, and everything like that was really well done. She doesn't pull from
any specific group. She just pulls from a lot of different native groups around
the globe, and in this one, Torak acts unintelligently and gets himself into a
bad situation where he's hunting down someone for revenge. I really enjoyed it.
I can't really talk about it all that much because it is the fifth book in a
series, but I ended up giving this book four stars. I think that it continues to
be just as fun as the first book, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how the
series ends in the sixth one. So I'll let you guys know how the series is as a
whole when I do read that one. So those are the next five things that I've read
in 2018. If you liked it, please give it a big thumbs up and comment down below
what you guys have been reading recently. Is there anything that you would
recommend to me? Anything else you want me to know, leave it down below, and I
will talk to you guys next time. Bye! <click>
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