We have eleven books for this wrap up, so let's get rolling.
Hello, I'm Rogan and welcome to my March books wrap-up.
Like I already said, I read eleven books this month, so I'm not going to spend too much time on each one.
This month, I had a LOT of e-books from the library, so I'll be showing you my iPad a lot.
The first book I finished this month: The Explorers Guild. It's beautiful! [mouthing] I mean, look at it!
And!
Oh… So beautiful.
It's a very interesting story. I don't know if there will be a second one, this one is called Volume 1.
It seems like there won't be another one. Who knows?
This is basically a story about a secret organization that has members all over the world, and to get into
this guild, you have to have done a big achievement in travel. This is set in…
Okay, I looked it up, it starts in around 1910. It continues for a few years.
What's really interesting about this book is that it's not just text. It mixes that with comics.
Bad example.
So… What it does is that it will tell the story through both text and through pictures.
It doesn't do pictures to tell the same story. No, it picks up where the text stops, and continues it.
Sometimes the pictures are there to enhance what you're reading. So it was showing visuals to go with it.
It's really cool. It's told almost like a journal, almost.
It's good, interesting. But it's not for everyone, it's not.
It has a lot of old-timey language, so it's not modern English at all.
It matches the period, 1910, so that's interesting.
The next book was recommended several times by Kathy, and yes, thank you. Radio Silence.
That book is amazing!
The main character, Frances, is a brilliant student at her prep school—this is set in the UK, by the way.
She's smart, a study machine, gets top grades in everything.
But the thing that no one knows about her is that she's actually a HUGE nerd.
She does fanart for her favorite podcast called Radio Silence. And it's…
The podcast is similar to one that people know, and are very familiar with, Welcome to Night Vale.
It kind of parallels that. Frances is obsessed with that podcast.
One day, the person who creates the podcast—no one knows who this person is—contacts her and asks if
she's interested in doing actual art for the podcast. She's amazed and ahh!
This leads into conflict about if (she) wants to do art, or if (she) wants to continue with (her) studies,
and university, and so on. A lot of drama happens, it's fantastic. Read it.
Next, You're Welcome, Universe.
This is… Interesting.
It's good, I don't think it was terrible, but just interesting because the story is about a girl who got expelled
from her school, because she did graffiti on the wall of the school.
The graffiti was to cover up an awful slur about her friend.
Now, the interesting thing about this story…
The main character was kicked out from a deaf school. She's deaf.
So she was sent to another school, a mainstream school. She was the only deaf one, with an interpreter.
She's getting through it. She's very angry, and graffiti is her thing, she loves and enjoys it.
She starts doing actual street art, under the cover of night, of course. But..then...
Someone starts doing over her artwork. I'm going to leave it at that.
The reason why I said this was interesting was because, yes, a deaf character, but also because of
how the author presented that. Sometimes it will have an emphasis, like "she signed."
Sometimes it will describe how a sign was done.
I'm not sure if I really like it. Some times it's fine, it's good.
But sometimes it feels almost forced, trying too hard to push in showing that she's signing.
It's so hard to portray ASL accurately in written English without seeming contrived.
But overall, the book was good, so yeah I would suggest reading it.
The next book is one I've mentioned before on this channel.
And it's part of a series, so I'm just going to talk about the series as a whole, instead of individual books.
The Inkworld trilogy. I'll show you the covers.
[Inkheart]
[Inkspell]
[Inkdeath]
The first two books in this series, Inkheart and Inkspell, are rereads for me. But the third one is the first time.
Yes, I still love this story, it's fantastic.
So the basic story is that the main character, Meggie, and her father are very into books.
Her father is a bookbinder.
One day, Meggie finds out that her family has a gift. What's the gift?
When they read aloud, their voices can bring characters out of a book.
[text: Chaos ensues.]
It's not a story that can be simply summed up. I really like this series, I would recommend it.
If you want to know more about that series, look it up. I don't want to tell you too much because it's good.
Next is a book that is AMAZING: Let's Talk About Love. Ahh, YES! Y e s.
I saw this recommended by someone, but also perpetualpages made a video about that.
I'll link it up there. Go watch it, I'll just let her do the talking for me.
But this book is amazing, because the main character, Alice, is ace.
This book is the journey of figuring out who she is, it's amazing. Read it.
After reading Let's Talk About Love, I read Inkspell, so the next book is It Devours!
This is so weird. It's made by the same people who created the Welcome to Night Vale podcast.
This is so bizarre, but it's great, it's great!
It's about the citizens of Night Vale and weird things that happen in that town.
I don't want to explain too much about this, because it's one of those books that you really
have to read to understand.
Now, I do want to emphasize, you don't have to know Welcome to Night Vale, you don't have to ever listened
to any of their episodes to be able to read this. This is a standalone novel.
Though, this does reference characters from Night Vale, so if you read this, you'll recognize some names.
If you want something really weird that makes you go huh? this is a good read for you.
The next book I read was part of a series, so again, I will talk about them together. Sleeping Giants and…
Excuse me.
Waking Gods. The third book in this series is not out yet, it will be on May 1st. I. Can't. Wait.
So. Sleeping Giants and Waking Gods is about… Hm.
One day, a little girl falls into a pit, where there's a giant metal hand.
And from that day on, that girl was obsessed with that hand.
It jumps to when she's an adult, in college, and so on.
She gets on a team to research and find out more about that hand.
So good! But that's where I'm going to stop, because it's SO good. Yes!
The next book I read: Welcome to Night Vale.
So, again, this is a standalone novel, you don't have to (listen to) the podcast.
Again, it's so weird, it's great.
If you like Welcome to Night Vale, read this for sure.
If you don't know about Night Vale, or you don't listen to the podcast, because like me, you can't hear, or just
don't listen to it, but you are curious about what Night Vale is like, this is a good book to read.
It approaches things in a way that makes the bizarre completely normal, and the normal be bizarre. It's great.
After reading Welcome to Night Vale, I finished Inkdeath, and JUST finished Waking Gods,
so I'm finished for today.
I didn't go in depth as much as I usually do for each book, but I'm short on time, and a lot of these books,
I don't want to tell you too much, because… They're things you should read.
So let me know down below if you've read any of these books, and did you like them or not like them, what did
you think about them? And if you haven't read them, do you want to read any of them? Let me know.
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