Six Degrees of Separation Tag _ 2018 _ Kendra Winchester

**The United States is Tin House**

Which published Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett. This is another debut, and we're just doing a lot of debuts as well apparently this is one of my favorite just feel-good books of last year which is weird because it's about a girl named Elvis and her mother has been having a problem sleepwalking. Eventually, in the beginning of the book, sleepwalks into a river and drowns, and it's how she deals with grief that involves a lot of rabbit cakes. My mom was really into like the 90s cake decorating with the star tip, you know so it talks about this rabbit cake, and I remember seeing that in the cake decorating catalogues and I was like oh my goodness that would be amazing that's what I heard about that, I just loved a lot of rabbit cakes. It involves a girl trying to deal with her grief, and that and her counselor is like here are the 12 steps of grief, it should take X amount of time, and then you will be done with your grief when she's like okay sure we're following that along.

This is one of those comedic sad black comedy type novels, I don't know if it's not graphic or anything, it's just funny, and you can see how the members of her family deal with their grief. I love this book; I just love it, I think it's delightful, it's just one of those books that is so different and special, and I cannot wait for any other heart in its next book. So this has a yellow cover with an animal on it. This also has a yellow cover with an animal on it, and this is Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones.

**Mongrels**

And this is about a Native American boy who his family has the ability to turn into werewolves, and he has not yet turned into a werewolf, and he's like am I ever going to turn into a werewolf do I have this gene or whatever it is that our family has. So after his grandfather dies, his aunt and uncle take him on the road, and they have to travel all over the southern United States, and live as kinda like nomads. You learn a lot about logistics about turning into a werewolf like why you can't wear pantyhose and while you can't eat certain things, and just a lot of different random stuff about werewolves. I never knew this is part horror novels so if you pick this up, just FYI there is some graphic stuff about werewolves and violence and so on.

But um yeah, I really enjoyed this book. This is a book that Samuel I actually read together, I'm just kind of surprised he read it but we both really enjoyed it. So if you love werewolves or horror novels, you'll definitely want to pick this one up.

**Blue Bird Blue Bird**

This is set in Texas, which I feel like is its own category of the South. The South has a lot of different cultures and accents, obviously, and just different things. So I think Texas is its own special thing, which is actually talked about in a novel. This is a mystery novel where there's an African-American Walker Texas Ranger character, and a murder happening. A black man from the north and a white girl from the town are killed, and it's how the local law enforcement deal with that double murder or at least are they double murder or are they like each a different murder, and we don't know.

And there's also like white supremacist stuff going on, and a lot of issues about race. I just love out of Kalach and what she did with this book; I think it's delightful. So excited that it's being turned into a television series. I cannot wait.

**The Strays**

Oh, that is how we went from Blue Bird Blue Bird to The Strays. And I think this is really exciting. I think this is great, and I enjoyed this tag. I tried to stay within my own library of books that I had read as well which is an additional challenge. And I really enjoyed this tag; I'm not sure if you've been tagged already, Jacqueline, but I'm going to tag you because I think that you know you're Australian and living in Texas. I think this is made for you.

I didn't even realize that until after I chosen these so I think it works out perfectly. So I'm also going to tag Doris over all the books because I think this is something that she would have a lot of fun with. So, thanks again, Sean, for tagging me and I guess I will see you guys in the next one, hi

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey I'm come to Winchester welcome back to my channel today I'm gonna be doing the six degrees of separation tag and I was tagged by Sean over at the book maniac who is also the creator of the tag so I will link that original video down the scription you can go check it out the whole idea of this is to pick two books and kind of figure out how they match with six degrees of separation and it's inspired by was it a play and became a film I'm not exactly sure maybe a book in a film I don't know but I thought they sound like a great idea so I have picked two books today and we'll see how they are connected so the first one is the strays by Emily Bidault this came out from 12 books and this is set in Australia during the early what the 20s 30s somewhere around there and I've also chosen blue bird blue bird by Attica Locke which is set in Texas and contemporary Texas so I picked these two books and let's see how I can connect them so here we go so first of course is the strays this is a book set as I said in early 20th century Australia and this is about a girl who discovers her best friend and their amazing house and like the artist colony that lives there and how she interacts with that the thing I love about this book the most is the writing the writing is just so beautiful especially when read out loud Emily but oh is a poet and just writes like nobody's business I just love her writing and I will never get over it and it's one of my favorite books that I read last year purely because of the prose but also there's good storytelling not perfect but amazing it won the 2015 Stella Prize and it definitely deserved it how it's connected is we also have the life to come by Michelle the Kretzer and this is also set in Australia this was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and I just love this book I reviewed it recently so you can go check that out if you want to but I just love this book because of the style as well the thing that will I really love about books is when books have amazing writing I love a lot of books but not all of them have amazing writing some of them have good writing some great writing but a lot of times it's just you know good you know nothing overly exciting but this is exciting this is great and this is sort of like stream-of-consciousness Virginia Woolf Ali Smith you know I love them so this really works for me this is told in several episodes and it's almost like an insult or II that you're reading and all of them go together to create this novel about mice community and contemporary Australia so of course you definitely need to go check this out a book that's also told in different episodes is home going by yah Jesse this is a book about twos half sisters and one is abducted as a slave and taken to America and we follow the generations there but then we also follow the generations that stayed in Africa and what happened to them and so each generation that character gets its own story and we go back and forth between Africa in the United States to the end of the book and I know that was told very well I do wish that the book had been longer that the later generations had been fleshed out a little more but I really enjoyed this and I can't believe yo Jessie did this with her first book which is phenomenal I can't believe that this is a debut because I really enjoyed the type of storytelling that she did and the structure of course I love structure structures all my favorite things but yeah I just I just gg-great down so Austin discovered was just oh my goodness I bought the UK cover because I think it's I really love the UK covered us covered anyway but that's also a debut is Senhora by Hannah Lilith Asadi this is this is a book about a young Palestinian girl growing up in Arizona and she wants to go to New York and so she does but this is mainly a book about friendship this is a book about two girls in their relationship with each other and how it can be toxic yet some but yet there's still a lot of love there and a lot of meaning and what that relationship meant to this girl and I just really enjoyed it I didn't think I would like it and when I finished it I couldn't stop thinking about it and how these girls work together and the relationship with each other and just the mess that they kind of made of their early life and normally I'm not really big on that kind of New York story I think it's just overdone but there's something different about this book that really captured my attention so congrats to my Missoni for doing that I thought it was great this is published actually by Soho Press and i'm thats an indie press here in the united states another indie press here the united states is tin house which published rabbit cake by annie Hartnett this is another debut we're just doing a lot of debuts as well apparently this is one of my favorite just feel-good books of last year which is weird because it's about a girl named Elvis and her mother has been has a problem sleepwalking and eventually evil in the beginning of the book sleep walks into a river and drowns and it's her dealing of how she deals with grief it involves a lot of rabbit cakes and my mom was really into like the 90s cake decorating with the star tip you know so it talks about this rabbit cake and I remember seeing that in the cake decorating catalogues and I was like oh my goodness that would be amazing that's what I heard about that I just laughed so I'm loves a lot of rabbit cakes and it involves a girl trying to do with her grief and that and her counselor is like here are the 12 steps of grief it should take X amount of time and then you will be done with your grief when she's like okay sure we're following that along this is like one of those comedic sad black comedy type novels I don't it's not graphic or anything it's just funny and you can see how the members of her family deal with their grief and I love this book I just love it I think it's delightful it's just one of those just books it's so different and special and I cannot wait for any heart in its next book so this has a yellow cover with an animal on it this also has a yellow cover with an animal on it and this is mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones and this is about a Native American boy who his family has the ability to turn into werewolves and he has not yet turned to werewolf and he's like am I ever going to turn to a werewolf do I have this gene or whatever it is that our family has so after his grandfather dies his aunt and uncle take him on the road and they have to travel all over the southern most of times southern United States and live as kinda like nomads and you learn a lot about logistics about turning into a werewolf like why you can't wear pantyhose and while you can't eat certain things and just a lot of different random stuff about werewolf I never knew this is part horror novels so if you pick this up just FYI there is some graphic stuff about werewolves and violence and so on so forth but um yeah I really enjoyed this book this is a book that Samuel I actually read together I'm just kind of surprised he read it but we both really enjoyed it so if you love werewolves or horror novels you'll definitely want to pick this one up as I mentioned this is set much in the American South and so is blue bird blue bird by Attica Locke this is set in Texas which I feel like it's its own category of the south the South has a lot of different cultures and accents obviously and just different things so I think Texas is its own special thing which is actually talked about in a novel this is a mystery novel where there's a african-american walk like Walker Texas Ranger there's a african-american Texas Ranger and there is a murder happening and a black man from the north and a girl white girl from the town are killed and it's how the local law enforcement deal with that double murder or at least are they double murder or are they like each a different murder and we don't know and so there's also like a white supremacist stuff going on and a lot of issues about race and I just love out of kalach and what she did with this book I think it's delightful so excited it's being turned into a television series I cannot wait oh that is how we went from blue bird blue bird to the strays and I think this is really exciting I think this is great and I enjoyed this tag I think it's a lot of fun and really makes you think about your books and I tried to stay within my own library of books that I had read as well which is an additional challenge and I really enjoyed this tag I'm not sure if you've been tagged already Jacqueline but I'm going to tag you because I think that you know you're Australian and living in Texas I think this is made for you I didn't even realize that until after I chosen these so I think it works out perfectly and so I'm also going to tag Doris over all the books because I think this is something that she would have a lot of fun with so I hope you like this source and that you pick it up that is it from me I hope that you've enjoyed this tag yeah I did definitely and thanks again Sean for tagging me and I guess I will see you guys in the next one hihey I'm come to Winchester welcome back to my channel today I'm gonna be doing the six degrees of separation tag and I was tagged by Sean over at the book maniac who is also the creator of the tag so I will link that original video down the scription you can go check it out the whole idea of this is to pick two books and kind of figure out how they match with six degrees of separation and it's inspired by was it a play and became a film I'm not exactly sure maybe a book in a film I don't know but I thought they sound like a great idea so I have picked two books today and we'll see how they are connected so the first one is the strays by Emily Bidault this came out from 12 books and this is set in Australia during the early what the 20s 30s somewhere around there and I've also chosen blue bird blue bird by Attica Locke which is set in Texas and contemporary Texas so I picked these two books and let's see how I can connect them so here we go so first of course is the strays this is a book set as I said in early 20th century Australia and this is about a girl who discovers her best friend and their amazing house and like the artist colony that lives there and how she interacts with that the thing I love about this book the most is the writing the writing is just so beautiful especially when read out loud Emily but oh is a poet and just writes like nobody's business I just love her writing and I will never get over it and it's one of my favorite books that I read last year purely because of the prose but also there's good storytelling not perfect but amazing it won the 2015 Stella Prize and it definitely deserved it how it's connected is we also have the life to come by Michelle the Kretzer and this is also set in Australia this was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and I just love this book I reviewed it recently so you can go check that out if you want to but I just love this book because of the style as well the thing that will I really love about books is when books have amazing writing I love a lot of books but not all of them have amazing writing some of them have good writing some great writing but a lot of times it's just you know good you know nothing overly exciting but this is exciting this is great and this is sort of like stream-of-consciousness Virginia Woolf Ali Smith you know I love them so this really works for me this is told in several episodes and it's almost like an insult or II that you're reading and all of them go together to create this novel about mice community and contemporary Australia so of course you definitely need to go check this out a book that's also told in different episodes is home going by yah Jesse this is a book about twos half sisters and one is abducted as a slave and taken to America and we follow the generations there but then we also follow the generations that stayed in Africa and what happened to them and so each generation that character gets its own story and we go back and forth between Africa in the United States to the end of the book and I know that was told very well I do wish that the book had been longer that the later generations had been fleshed out a little more but I really enjoyed this and I can't believe yo Jessie did this with her first book which is phenomenal I can't believe that this is a debut because I really enjoyed the type of storytelling that she did and the structure of course I love structure structures all my favorite things but yeah I just I just gg-great down so Austin discovered was just oh my goodness I bought the UK cover because I think it's I really love the UK covered us covered anyway but that's also a debut is Senhora by Hannah Lilith Asadi this is this is a book about a young Palestinian girl growing up in Arizona and she wants to go to New York and so she does but this is mainly a book about friendship this is a book about two girls in their relationship with each other and how it can be toxic yet some but yet there's still a lot of love there and a lot of meaning and what that relationship meant to this girl and I just really enjoyed it I didn't think I would like it and when I finished it I couldn't stop thinking about it and how these girls work together and the relationship with each other and just the mess that they kind of made of their early life and normally I'm not really big on that kind of New York story I think it's just overdone but there's something different about this book that really captured my attention so congrats to my Missoni for doing that I thought it was great this is published actually by Soho Press and i'm thats an indie press here in the united states another indie press here the united states is tin house which published rabbit cake by annie Hartnett this is another debut we're just doing a lot of debuts as well apparently this is one of my favorite just feel-good books of last year which is weird because it's about a girl named Elvis and her mother has been has a problem sleepwalking and eventually evil in the beginning of the book sleep walks into a river and drowns and it's her dealing of how she deals with grief it involves a lot of rabbit cakes and my mom was really into like the 90s cake decorating with the star tip you know so it talks about this rabbit cake and I remember seeing that in the cake decorating catalogues and I was like oh my goodness that would be amazing that's what I heard about that I just laughed so I'm loves a lot of rabbit cakes and it involves a girl trying to do with her grief and that and her counselor is like here are the 12 steps of grief it should take X amount of time and then you will be done with your grief when she's like okay sure we're following that along this is like one of those comedic sad black comedy type novels I don't it's not graphic or anything it's just funny and you can see how the members of her family deal with their grief and I love this book I just love it I think it's delightful it's just one of those just books it's so different and special and I cannot wait for any heart in its next book so this has a yellow cover with an animal on it this also has a yellow cover with an animal on it and this is mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones and this is about a Native American boy who his family has the ability to turn into werewolves and he has not yet turned to werewolf and he's like am I ever going to turn to a werewolf do I have this gene or whatever it is that our family has so after his grandfather dies his aunt and uncle take him on the road and they have to travel all over the southern most of times southern United States and live as kinda like nomads and you learn a lot about logistics about turning into a werewolf like why you can't wear pantyhose and while you can't eat certain things and just a lot of different random stuff about werewolf I never knew this is part horror novels so if you pick this up just FYI there is some graphic stuff about werewolves and violence and so on so forth but um yeah I really enjoyed this book this is a book that Samuel I actually read together I'm just kind of surprised he read it but we both really enjoyed it so if you love werewolves or horror novels you'll definitely want to pick this one up as I mentioned this is set much in the American South and so is blue bird blue bird by Attica Locke this is set in Texas which I feel like it's its own category of the south the South has a lot of different cultures and accents obviously and just different things so I think Texas is its own special thing which is actually talked about in a novel this is a mystery novel where there's a african-american walk like Walker Texas Ranger there's a african-american Texas Ranger and there is a murder happening and a black man from the north and a girl white girl from the town are killed and it's how the local law enforcement deal with that double murder or at least are they double murder or are they like each a different murder and we don't know and so there's also like a white supremacist stuff going on and a lot of issues about race and I just love out of kalach and what she did with this book I think it's delightful so excited it's being turned into a television series I cannot wait oh that is how we went from blue bird blue bird to the strays and I think this is really exciting I think this is great and I enjoyed this tag I think it's a lot of fun and really makes you think about your books and I tried to stay within my own library of books that I had read as well which is an additional challenge and I really enjoyed this tag I'm not sure if you've been tagged already Jacqueline but I'm going to tag you because I think that you know you're Australian and living in Texas I think this is made for you I didn't even realize that until after I chosen these so I think it works out perfectly and so I'm also going to tag Doris over all the books because I think this is something that she would have a lot of fun with so I hope you like this source and that you pick it up that is it from me I hope that you've enjoyed this tag yeah I did definitely and thanks again Sean for tagging me and I guess I will see you guys in the next one hi\n"