Reading Roundup: February 1-15

I kicked off my reading month with a fantastic book that I highly recommend. "The Book of Strange New Things" by Michel Faber is an incredible read that explores themes of identity, family, and humanity through the eyes of its protagonist, Jay. The story begins with Jay, who was left behind by his mother Yuki when he was just a kid, trying to make sense of their complicated past. As I delved into the world of this book, I found myself drawn in by the beautiful design elements that Faber has woven throughout the narrative. The US edition of this book is particularly stunning, with gorgeous artwork and colorful flaps that add to its overall aesthetic appeal. Art plays a significant role in this novel, and it's clear that Faber is using it to tell a story that is both thought-provoking and emotionally resonant.

As I continued reading, I found myself completely absorbed in the world of "The Book of Strange New Things." The writing is lyrical and evocative, with a pace that keeps you turning the pages to find out what happens next. The themes of identity and family are woven throughout the narrative, and Faber handles them with skill and sensitivity. I loved watching Jay come into his own, struggling to make sense of his past and his place in the world. Yuki's story is equally compelling, offering a glimpse into the complexities of her character as she navigates her own journey towards self-discovery. One thing that struck me about this book was its use of art as a narrative device. Faber uses the illustrations to tell parts of the story, often jumping back and forth between Jay's present-day struggles and Yuki's backstory.

Despite my high praise for "The Book of Strange New Things," I have to admit that my next two books were more challenging reads. The first of these was "Like You" by Rowan Haseo Be Canon, a novel from Norton that is both thought-provoking and emotionally charged. While this book explores themes of identity, family, and love, it did take me a while to get into its rhythm. I found the writing style to be lyrical at times, but also occasionally clumsy or overly simplistic. The story itself was complex and multifaceted, with multiple narratives that sometimes felt disjointed.

I was particularly drawn to the character of Yuki, whose Japanese-American background adds an extra layer of complexity to her story. Her mother's decision to leave Jay behind is a pivotal moment in the book, and I found myself wondering about the motivations behind it. As I read on, I realized that this book is as much about Yuki's coming into her own as it is about Jay's struggles with his past. I loved watching Yuki navigate her relationships and grapple with her own desires, even if some of the other characters felt a bit one-dimensional.

The next book on my list was "The Virgin Hitler Story" by April Liers Lawson, which had an interesting premise - a woman who claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Adolf Hitler. However, as I delved deeper into the story, I found myself struggling with the author's use of narrative structure. The book is presented in a series of vignettes or short stories, each one focusing on a different aspect of the narrator's life. While this style can be effective for some authors, I found it to be disorienting and confusing.

The issue wasn't so much the writing itself, but rather the way that Lawson jumps between time periods and narrative threads without always making it clear what's happening or why. At times, I felt like I was missing out on important context or backstory because the author chose to focus on a particular moment or character. The story itself is certainly provocative and thought-provoking, exploring themes of identity, family, and repression. However, I couldn't shake the feeling that the narrator's experiences were oversimplified or reduced to a set of simplistic tropes.

Finally, I came across "harmless" by Rowan Haseo Be Canon, which was another book from Norton. Unfortunately, my experience with this one was more challenging than my first two books. The story follows Jay as he tries to navigate his complicated family history and figure out who he is outside of the shadow of his mother Yuki. While I appreciated the author's use of language and their willingness to tackle tough themes like identity and trauma, I found some aspects of the book to be frustrating.

One issue was the way that Lawson uses multiple tenses in her narrative, which sometimes felt disorienting or confusing. Additionally, I struggled with the characterization of many of the supporting characters, who often felt like caricatures rather than fully fleshed-out people. However, there were also moments when I really connected with Jay and his story, and I appreciated the author's willingness to explore themes that are often overlooked in mainstream fiction.

Overall, my reading month started out strong but ended on a slightly rocky note. While "The Book of Strange New Things" was an absolute standout, the next two books were more challenging reads that required patience and persistence to fully appreciate. Despite these challenges, I'm always eager to explore new stories and authors, and I'm excited to see what the rest of my reading month has in store.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello there friends welcome back to my channel I am going to do my wrap-up my February wrap-up today and I'm sorry this is a day late the Winchester household has had the flu which is why we are doing minimal makeup and preparation today because really you're here for the books and I I've accepted that so it has also enabled me to embrace my true on makeup self so we're just doing so yeah let's get started first we have tell me everything you don't remember by Kirsten Heung Oakley and this is from echo and all the tabs all the tabs can you see that like look at that isn't that wonderful oh my goodness it is it is worthy of those tabs this book is about Christine who had a stroke when she was 33 and she didn't really realize she had a stroke at first and so this talks about her recovery and how she had to basically learn to be a new person because part of her brain had died and she can no longer control her emotions she had torque she had short term memory loss like Dori so that makes life really difficult but what's worse is that she couldn't she could write stories because you have to be able to remember what you just wrote and so she tried to recover all of that by writing in her journal and eventually obviously she has cuz she's written this memoir and I was very fortunate enough to be to interview Christine with autumn on the reading moon podcast and we were able to ask all the questions like how on earth did you do that structure and ask her so many different things that we wanted to we had wonderful discussion with her and she's a wonderful charming person and I really don't know why I haven't seen in this book everywhere as far as nonfiction goes I just it's amazing i I really love it and it's really important because she talks about how she hurt her face didn't look like she had a stroke that there was none of the side sagging or whatever that you traditionally think of when a person has a stroke no one could fathom that a 33 year old would have a stroke and part of that was because she did have a heart defect but really it just goes in to the idea of how we have some presumptions about what life should be like for different stages of life and I really delves into invisible chronic illness and as you know maybe you don't know I have an invisible chronic illness that's fairly severe and I really struggle to find books that have a representation of chronic illness that I really like I'm struggling to figure out how to say this exactly but I really appreciated the level of hope that Christine brought to her story a lot of times people with chronic illnesses who have it suddenly like Christine did like her life suddenly changed they didn't grow up she didn't grow up with this illness they struggle with a lot of bitterness and anger that their life has changed and she just buckled down and dealt with the problem and was like okay I need to do this and it was a process of recovery and it took a very long time but she was willing to do the work and she did it and she wrote this memoir and now she's writing a novel which is coming out in 2018 which I'm super excited about and I can't talk about this book enough so please go find it this is definitely worth going the extra mile try to find and to purchase because I just love this book and what it means and it really does a great job with just the discussions everything everything in here I think especially if you have experience with Alzheimer's and dementia that you will greatly relate to this book as well because they involve the brain so and that is this book it's been a long time talking about that book because I really love it I really do so the next one I will try to make shorter but I also really loved Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff I didn't really like the witches which came out last year it just I felt there were problems but I was like she has had so much positive press and she's an amazing historical like hit narrative historical fiction fiction what am i sings is nonfiction narrative nonfiction there we go but she's so amazing at it that I should give her another shot and I did and I'm very glad I did because Cleopatra is amazing she takes this legend of a woman and we know her as a woman if they were pewter she slept with two men had children than by her husband who's also her brother which is also kind of weird and she was the last Pharaoh and she's like known as taking down the dynasty or whatever but actually that's not exactly the story and how's about to just sit here and tell you the entire story of Cleopatra but I was fair you because you need to go read the book because it is that it is that great and I really appreciated how she would say so-and-so said this so-and-so said that but really we don't know and she placed Cleopatra well within her context she just did an excellent job with this so if you for I guess Women's History Month is in March right yeah that's right so go pick up this one if you want to have a reading project for that because it's definitely worthwhile the next book I read is actually a graphic novel it's called March it's by John Lewis and the illustrators who I can't remember I will put them in the show notes this book is really amazing for young people it's a story about the civil rights movement and there are three volumes you'll notice that the last volume won the National Book Award for young readers I don't remember it's it's like the children's version of that and it's well illustrated it's really beautiful I think it's excellent for describing what happened during the civil rights movement it told me a lot of things I didn't know I felt sometimes it was too much of an information dump at times but that is the only critique and I thought they mean it's a nonfiction educational type graphic novel so I didn't really have a problem with that but that's just I'm nitpicking I know I know anyway it is a wonderful graphic novel and I can't wait to read the next to please hoopla get the next two very soon yeah the next book I want to talk about is hidden figures by Margot Lee utterly I really love this book and this book is about african-american women who were mathematicians for NASA before it was NASA and they were basically called computers and this book as you probably know is been made into a movie and I was really excited to read the book it was autumns pick for the reading women podcast for a March and it is just it is great I really love learning about all the women all the stuff I didn't know yeah it's definitely something that you're gonna want to read for Women's History Month or ever it's an important narrative to not just the history of african-american one for all women in all people and America in general and I didn't really realize like me and my modern self I didn't think oh what did they do before they had computers to crunch all those numbers and all of these women have just there's like two generations of these women that go through and the NASA section brawled not they just go it's sorry I don't even know what it's called but it is just wonderful and you have there's a lot of intersectionality it talks about like the struggles of the black woman and then they you know contrasted that with black men and one of the things that was noticeable was that a lot of people didn't want to call women engineers even though they did the same job they were like no women are this and even though that they did the same job they didn't want to call them that because it would make it too official or something and you see that and a lot of other jobs I was well so I I loved it only critique I would have is that again with any non-fiction book I thought thought sometimes it was just like a load of information to take in at once but that's again I'm nitpicking I know the next book we were switching gears totally switching gears and this is the book of strange new things by Michel Faber I know I am very well where I am two years late to this party but I got this for my around the world book club actually got a paperback and I ruined the hardback so it was very convenient so I sent the paper back on and I actually finished it later I'm sorry guys but I really did love this book I started reading it over Christmas and you learned of Peter who is a pastor from the UK and he goes to the foreign planet Oasis to be a pastor or missionary person to the Oasis and when he gets there he discovers that one another pastor missionary person has already gone missing so was a linguist and that he has already a large amongst the OSN people and I I could talk about this book forever I have in fact my poor husband Sam he had to sit there and listen for like 30 minutes about me talking about all of the imagery and religious themes and images and so many things at Peter his name in and of itself Peter the Apostle you just said panis Rocco build my church and what he meant was that Peter would be important to the foundation of the early church and but Peter the Apostle ironically was a racist and didn't want to go preach the Gentiles and God like no go go preach the gospel to every creature and Peter in this book is totally fine with going and preaching to a bunch of aliens or I guess they're not aliens if their own their own planet went away since they're not even called away since I don't know what they're called but that's another topic in this book is colonialism and ironically Peter's the least colonialist of all of the pioneers or whoever are there that's called pioneers I don't know all the people living on the planet Oasis he is the least colonialist and I guess racist is that right species this I don't know but it's just really really fascinating and the other half of the book is his wife Beatrice she's on planet earth and she's sending him messages like emails and it's like the world is ending and Beatrice her name if he's read Dante's Inferno a Beatrice is like a spirit guide they she's this and they were just spiritual purity or something who leads what is the protagonist of Dante's Inferno I remember his name anyway but Beatrice in this book is actually the person that originally introduces Peter to Christ which is really interesting so even though Michele Faber is an atheist I could barely tell I actually went and looked it up halfway through the book so I was like I can't tell I need to know this is important to me and I looked it up and he is an atheist but he really respected Peters faith he respected that it was something that really helped Peter and this isn't and losing your religion type novel for Peter and I really appreciated that because a lot of times you get a lot of angry atheists who want to just disparage on people's faith as I said I could talk about this book forever I will spare you but let's just say I really really love this book so please go check out the book of strange new things by Michel Faber next is a book that has already been out in the UK and that is harmless like you by Rowan haseo be canon and this is from Norton and it is wonderful this is the US Edition which is gorgeous this wins one of like like look at the inside little flaps like the four colors are repeated over and over throughout the book design and it is just just gorgeous I love this book and art plays a huge part in the book this is about you start out with Jay who his mom left him his mom Yuki left him when he was a kid and he doesn't really know what's that about and at first you're like what kind of woman would leave her son and Yuki then we go back to Yuki's viewpoint and Yuki is a Japanese girl who's mostly live in America but her parents are going back to Japan and she wants to stay and it's just about her coming into her own and she makes a lot of horrible decisions you want to shake her but she's still very likable and then I wall is very thought-provoking I keep thinking about it and yeah there's just so much going on with this book it's definitely worth worth reading I think that everyone has a lot of potential and I have very few nitpicky things about this book there are some but I believe their ultimate ly unimportant because this book is great so go check it out I had a great first part of the reading month it was great and then I hit this book and I hit a wall and the second half of February isn't going to be as great I've already read some struggling ones but this one I think just dude off and I'm I made a sticky note on the book so I would not rant because I don't do rants I do reviews this is how I convince myself not to just fuss at the camera or other okay i rant to my husband but generally speaking on the internet so I made this thick note so that I wouldn't get distracted this is the Virgin Hitler story by April iers Lawson and okay so I had I had a problem with that she switches tenses a lot in her story I'm going to read this because I okay so so I'll have the stories they just end and not in a good way like The Dubliners or some cool vague ending it just sort of like stops it's not like the narrative arc has ended but they don't actually use text to end it just stops mid arc and you're like what is going on I don't even know it does feel like an MFA you know that MFA feeling the MFA a feeling this is I feel like that there's definitely this book like she's very very talented but I feel like she's just your standard really great MFA writer and she hasn't kind of come into her own personal voice yet yeah I don't I don't know I liked one story out of the collection out of the six so and I felt like she had a lot of anger about certain things and that she really didn't let it sit we talked with a scene he hung ugly on the podcast about how she had to wait like eight years before she could really tell his story about her stroke because she needed to let it sit emotionally she needed to let it sit and I feel like this author did not let the stories and her feelings sit before she wrote and I feel like she's kind of like yelling at you not you but like thematically yelling at you like she's very angry about certain things in this book this is all about repression especially sexual oppression of certain types and I often felt that the people in this book were defined by their sexual desires or lack thereof or whatever and I feel like they were kind of oversimplified - in that way if that makes sense like a person is that's just one part of who a person is I felt like they just weren't well-rounded it's like the only thing important about them that we knew was this repression of a sexual desire or whatever I just thought that they were a mess and I really did not like them however I think most people do like them so there's a good chance that you might like them and I don't want to disparage anyone from reading this if this is something that you like I just really didn't like it and I made this taquito of the reasons so that I would not ran because I have a lot of things I want to rant about but I don't think that's appropriate because I just don't that's just for my personal rules from my booktube channel I said no ranting so there we go so that is all of the books that I read in the first half of February and yeah I guess that's all for me I hope we'll talk to you guys later byehello there friends welcome back to my channel I am going to do my wrap-up my February wrap-up today and I'm sorry this is a day late the Winchester household has had the flu which is why we are doing minimal makeup and preparation today because really you're here for the books and I I've accepted that so it has also enabled me to embrace my true on makeup self so we're just doing so yeah let's get started first we have tell me everything you don't remember by Kirsten Heung Oakley and this is from echo and all the tabs all the tabs can you see that like look at that isn't that wonderful oh my goodness it is it is worthy of those tabs this book is about Christine who had a stroke when she was 33 and she didn't really realize she had a stroke at first and so this talks about her recovery and how she had to basically learn to be a new person because part of her brain had died and she can no longer control her emotions she had torque she had short term memory loss like Dori so that makes life really difficult but what's worse is that she couldn't she could write stories because you have to be able to remember what you just wrote and so she tried to recover all of that by writing in her journal and eventually obviously she has cuz she's written this memoir and I was very fortunate enough to be to interview Christine with autumn on the reading moon podcast and we were able to ask all the questions like how on earth did you do that structure and ask her so many different things that we wanted to we had wonderful discussion with her and she's a wonderful charming person and I really don't know why I haven't seen in this book everywhere as far as nonfiction goes I just it's amazing i I really love it and it's really important because she talks about how she hurt her face didn't look like she had a stroke that there was none of the side sagging or whatever that you traditionally think of when a person has a stroke no one could fathom that a 33 year old would have a stroke and part of that was because she did have a heart defect but really it just goes in to the idea of how we have some presumptions about what life should be like for different stages of life and I really delves into invisible chronic illness and as you know maybe you don't know I have an invisible chronic illness that's fairly severe and I really struggle to find books that have a representation of chronic illness that I really like I'm struggling to figure out how to say this exactly but I really appreciated the level of hope that Christine brought to her story a lot of times people with chronic illnesses who have it suddenly like Christine did like her life suddenly changed they didn't grow up she didn't grow up with this illness they struggle with a lot of bitterness and anger that their life has changed and she just buckled down and dealt with the problem and was like okay I need to do this and it was a process of recovery and it took a very long time but she was willing to do the work and she did it and she wrote this memoir and now she's writing a novel which is coming out in 2018 which I'm super excited about and I can't talk about this book enough so please go find it this is definitely worth going the extra mile try to find and to purchase because I just love this book and what it means and it really does a great job with just the discussions everything everything in here I think especially if you have experience with Alzheimer's and dementia that you will greatly relate to this book as well because they involve the brain so and that is this book it's been a long time talking about that book because I really love it I really do so the next one I will try to make shorter but I also really loved Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff I didn't really like the witches which came out last year it just I felt there were problems but I was like she has had so much positive press and she's an amazing historical like hit narrative historical fiction fiction what am i sings is nonfiction narrative nonfiction there we go but she's so amazing at it that I should give her another shot and I did and I'm very glad I did because Cleopatra is amazing she takes this legend of a woman and we know her as a woman if they were pewter she slept with two men had children than by her husband who's also her brother which is also kind of weird and she was the last Pharaoh and she's like known as taking down the dynasty or whatever but actually that's not exactly the story and how's about to just sit here and tell you the entire story of Cleopatra but I was fair you because you need to go read the book because it is that it is that great and I really appreciated how she would say so-and-so said this so-and-so said that but really we don't know and she placed Cleopatra well within her context she just did an excellent job with this so if you for I guess Women's History Month is in March right yeah that's right so go pick up this one if you want to have a reading project for that because it's definitely worthwhile the next book I read is actually a graphic novel it's called March it's by John Lewis and the illustrators who I can't remember I will put them in the show notes this book is really amazing for young people it's a story about the civil rights movement and there are three volumes you'll notice that the last volume won the National Book Award for young readers I don't remember it's it's like the children's version of that and it's well illustrated it's really beautiful I think it's excellent for describing what happened during the civil rights movement it told me a lot of things I didn't know I felt sometimes it was too much of an information dump at times but that is the only critique and I thought they mean it's a nonfiction educational type graphic novel so I didn't really have a problem with that but that's just I'm nitpicking I know I know anyway it is a wonderful graphic novel and I can't wait to read the next to please hoopla get the next two very soon yeah the next book I want to talk about is hidden figures by Margot Lee utterly I really love this book and this book is about african-american women who were mathematicians for NASA before it was NASA and they were basically called computers and this book as you probably know is been made into a movie and I was really excited to read the book it was autumns pick for the reading women podcast for a March and it is just it is great I really love learning about all the women all the stuff I didn't know yeah it's definitely something that you're gonna want to read for Women's History Month or ever it's an important narrative to not just the history of african-american one for all women in all people and America in general and I didn't really realize like me and my modern self I didn't think oh what did they do before they had computers to crunch all those numbers and all of these women have just there's like two generations of these women that go through and the NASA section brawled not they just go it's sorry I don't even know what it's called but it is just wonderful and you have there's a lot of intersectionality it talks about like the struggles of the black woman and then they you know contrasted that with black men and one of the things that was noticeable was that a lot of people didn't want to call women engineers even though they did the same job they were like no women are this and even though that they did the same job they didn't want to call them that because it would make it too official or something and you see that and a lot of other jobs I was well so I I loved it only critique I would have is that again with any non-fiction book I thought thought sometimes it was just like a load of information to take in at once but that's again I'm nitpicking I know the next book we were switching gears totally switching gears and this is the book of strange new things by Michel Faber I know I am very well where I am two years late to this party but I got this for my around the world book club actually got a paperback and I ruined the hardback so it was very convenient so I sent the paper back on and I actually finished it later I'm sorry guys but I really did love this book I started reading it over Christmas and you learned of Peter who is a pastor from the UK and he goes to the foreign planet Oasis to be a pastor or missionary person to the Oasis and when he gets there he discovers that one another pastor missionary person has already gone missing so was a linguist and that he has already a large amongst the OSN people and I I could talk about this book forever I have in fact my poor husband Sam he had to sit there and listen for like 30 minutes about me talking about all of the imagery and religious themes and images and so many things at Peter his name in and of itself Peter the Apostle you just said panis Rocco build my church and what he meant was that Peter would be important to the foundation of the early church and but Peter the Apostle ironically was a racist and didn't want to go preach the Gentiles and God like no go go preach the gospel to every creature and Peter in this book is totally fine with going and preaching to a bunch of aliens or I guess they're not aliens if their own their own planet went away since they're not even called away since I don't know what they're called but that's another topic in this book is colonialism and ironically Peter's the least colonialist of all of the pioneers or whoever are there that's called pioneers I don't know all the people living on the planet Oasis he is the least colonialist and I guess racist is that right species this I don't know but it's just really really fascinating and the other half of the book is his wife Beatrice she's on planet earth and she's sending him messages like emails and it's like the world is ending and Beatrice her name if he's read Dante's Inferno a Beatrice is like a spirit guide they she's this and they were just spiritual purity or something who leads what is the protagonist of Dante's Inferno I remember his name anyway but Beatrice in this book is actually the person that originally introduces Peter to Christ which is really interesting so even though Michele Faber is an atheist I could barely tell I actually went and looked it up halfway through the book so I was like I can't tell I need to know this is important to me and I looked it up and he is an atheist but he really respected Peters faith he respected that it was something that really helped Peter and this isn't and losing your religion type novel for Peter and I really appreciated that because a lot of times you get a lot of angry atheists who want to just disparage on people's faith as I said I could talk about this book forever I will spare you but let's just say I really really love this book so please go check out the book of strange new things by Michel Faber next is a book that has already been out in the UK and that is harmless like you by Rowan haseo be canon and this is from Norton and it is wonderful this is the US Edition which is gorgeous this wins one of like like look at the inside little flaps like the four colors are repeated over and over throughout the book design and it is just just gorgeous I love this book and art plays a huge part in the book this is about you start out with Jay who his mom left him his mom Yuki left him when he was a kid and he doesn't really know what's that about and at first you're like what kind of woman would leave her son and Yuki then we go back to Yuki's viewpoint and Yuki is a Japanese girl who's mostly live in America but her parents are going back to Japan and she wants to stay and it's just about her coming into her own and she makes a lot of horrible decisions you want to shake her but she's still very likable and then I wall is very thought-provoking I keep thinking about it and yeah there's just so much going on with this book it's definitely worth worth reading I think that everyone has a lot of potential and I have very few nitpicky things about this book there are some but I believe their ultimate ly unimportant because this book is great so go check it out I had a great first part of the reading month it was great and then I hit this book and I hit a wall and the second half of February isn't going to be as great I've already read some struggling ones but this one I think just dude off and I'm I made a sticky note on the book so I would not rant because I don't do rants I do reviews this is how I convince myself not to just fuss at the camera or other okay i rant to my husband but generally speaking on the internet so I made this thick note so that I wouldn't get distracted this is the Virgin Hitler story by April iers Lawson and okay so I had I had a problem with that she switches tenses a lot in her story I'm going to read this because I okay so so I'll have the stories they just end and not in a good way like The Dubliners or some cool vague ending it just sort of like stops it's not like the narrative arc has ended but they don't actually use text to end it just stops mid arc and you're like what is going on I don't even know it does feel like an MFA you know that MFA feeling the MFA a feeling this is I feel like that there's definitely this book like she's very very talented but I feel like she's just your standard really great MFA writer and she hasn't kind of come into her own personal voice yet yeah I don't I don't know I liked one story out of the collection out of the six so and I felt like she had a lot of anger about certain things and that she really didn't let it sit we talked with a scene he hung ugly on the podcast about how she had to wait like eight years before she could really tell his story about her stroke because she needed to let it sit emotionally she needed to let it sit and I feel like this author did not let the stories and her feelings sit before she wrote and I feel like she's kind of like yelling at you not you but like thematically yelling at you like she's very angry about certain things in this book this is all about repression especially sexual oppression of certain types and I often felt that the people in this book were defined by their sexual desires or lack thereof or whatever and I feel like they were kind of oversimplified - in that way if that makes sense like a person is that's just one part of who a person is I felt like they just weren't well-rounded it's like the only thing important about them that we knew was this repression of a sexual desire or whatever I just thought that they were a mess and I really did not like them however I think most people do like them so there's a good chance that you might like them and I don't want to disparage anyone from reading this if this is something that you like I just really didn't like it and I made this taquito of the reasons so that I would not ran because I have a lot of things I want to rant about but I don't think that's appropriate because I just don't that's just for my personal rules from my booktube channel I said no ranting so there we go so that is all of the books that I read in the first half of February and yeah I guess that's all for me I hope we'll talk to you guys later bye\n"