The World of Books: A Journey Through Reading and Tragedy

I recently had the opportunity to acquire an impressive collection of books that I am excited to dive into. As I was browsing through my purchases, I found myself drawn to four different stories that all share a common thread - tragedy. My journey begins on a ship named Wilhelm Gustloff, where four refugees from different countries find themselves united by their secrets and their desire for safety.

On board the ship, there are four different individuals who have secrets to hide. Each of them has a unique story to tell, but they all share a common fate - one that will soon lead to tragedy. As I read about their experiences, I couldn't help but feel a sense of empathy towards each and every one of them. Their stories are intertwined with the ship's tragic history, which is one of the most infamous maritime disasters in history.

The Wilhelm Gustloff disaster occurred during World War II, resulting in over 9,000 deaths. The ship was converted into a passenger liner to transport refugees from East Prussia to Sweden, but it never made it to its destination. Instead, it sank just six days after departure, leaving behind a trail of devastation and heartbreak.

As I delved deeper into the world of books, I found myself drawn to Shakespeare's works. As part of my class, we are required to read all of Shakespeare's plays, with a focus on acting out each scene. It's been a fun experience, but also a challenging one - I'm not the best actress, and I have to work hard to bring characters to life.

We've had a great time exploring some of Shakespeare's most famous works, including "Much Ado About Nothing", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Macbeth", and "Twelfth Night". We've also acted out lesser-known plays like "King Lear" and "Othello". One of our most memorable experiences was performing "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", which is inspired by characters from Hamlet.

Speaking of Shakespeare, I recently read a book that combines tragedy with the world of theatre. "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel tells the story of a production of King Lear that takes place during an apocalyptic event. The main actor, who is also a famous Hollywood star, dies on stage while performing, marking the beginning of the end of the world as we know it. This book is told from multiple perspectives and jumps back and forth in time, requiring the reader to piece together the story like a puzzle.

Another book that caught my eye was "The Queen of the Tearling" by Erika Johansen. This novel follows a young princess named Kelsea who must reclaim her mother's throne after she dies under mysterious circumstances. Kelsea learns how to rule and defeat the Red Queen, an evil sorceress who has been terrorizing the kingdom.

I also recently picked up "When the Moon Was Ours" by Anna-Marie McLemore, a magical realism tale that follows two best friends named Yael and Sam. They are both strange in their own ways - Yael has roses growing out of her wrists, while Sam paints moons that hang from the sky. The story takes a dark turn as four sisters who are rumored to be witches seek to claim the Roses, which have become a symbol of their power.

In addition to these books, I also read "Truly Devious" by Maureen Johnson, a murder mystery that takes place at a boarding school. This book was a thrilling page-turner that kept me on the edge of my seat as I tried to solve the mystery alongside the protagonist.

Finally, I found myself drawn to "The Bear and the Nightingale" by Katherine Arden, a historical fiction and fantasy novel inspired by Russian folklore. The story takes place in medieval Russia, where our protagonist Vasilisa discovers that she has magical powers that set her apart from others. She must use these powers to defeat dark creatures that have invaded their village.

As I look through my collection of books, I am reminded that tragedy can strike at any moment, whether it's on a ship like the Wilhelm Gustloff or in the world of theatre. Each of these stories has taught me something about human nature and the power of resilience in the face of adversity. As I begin to read each book, I am excited to see where their journeys will take me.

And so, my journey through reading begins. With so many amazing books on my shelf, it's hard to know where to start. But one thing is certain - I'm ready for whatever stories come my way.

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Martin's Press and Wednesday books who are also kindly sponsoring this video and they are winter song and shadow song by SJ Jones this follows Liesl whose dream is to become a musician but she cannot pursue this as she is forced to run the family in one day her sister is taken by the Goblin King who she has been enthralled by her entire life she travels down to the underground to save her sister but soon learns it's the only way to free her is for Liesl to marry the Goblin King dun dun dun so this is a retelling of labyrinth with a little bit of Hades and Persephone thrown in and I like both of those things I've actually already started this book and I intend to finish it soonish so I will let you know all of my thoughts once I finished it in case you were wondering shadow song and the paperback version of winter song both hit stores on February 6 so they are in stores if you want to get yourself a copy again thank you so much st. Martin's Press and Wednesday books for sending me these next is little fires everywhere by Celeste a which I have seen all over booktube like got myself a copy this takes place in a picture-perfect suburb of Cleveland and follows two families the rule following Richardson's and the Warrens who are an artistic mother-daughter duo these two families form a close relationship after the Warrens rent a house from the Richardson's but are torn apart when the Richardson's friends try to adopt me synopsis itself doesn't sound too interesting but my booktube friends who have already read this have said such positive things and I trust their opinions a lot so I am given it a chance also I am trying to delve more into the world of adult fiction as I am now a mature 22 year old can I have the sales by Donny Oh Clayton one of my most anticipated books of the entire year this is a fantasy novel set in a world where people are born and it is only through the help of a Bell a person who can control beauty that they are able to transform and become beautiful camellia the protagonist Isabel and is invited with a group of fellow Belle's two of the royal palace in order to compete to become the royal family's personal Belle but when she is there she learns that there are dark secrets hidden in the palace and that her beauty powers are far more dangerous and more powerful than she knew I have no idea if they are officially called Beauty powers but you know what I'm talking about I think that this sounds amazing this looks amazing I mean look at this look at this pink matte the next book is autobiography about Christina Lauren which follows a bisexual teen at Tanner Scott who goes back into the closet after moving from California to Utah he's in his last semester of high school and decides to take a seminar in which you were required to write an entire book in a four months and then he falls in love with the young mentor of the class you know I'm a sucker for a good why a romance especially one that revolves around writing also I feel like book covers are getting better I just all of the ones that have come out lately I am in love with thank you graphic designers who make these beautiful covers I wish I had an ounce of the talent all of you have I can barely do stick figures I thought got my hands on a copy of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell which so many of you have been recommending it to me because my favorite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and a lot of you think that this is quite similar if she also wrote in England in the 1800s except she wrote in the mid 1800s and Jane Austen was the late 1700s and the early eighteen hundreds but whatever this follows a young lady named Margaret Haile whose father leaves his job at the church in order to move his family to the north of England to an ugly industrial town at first Margaret hates this town but she soon develops a passionate sense of social justice and fights for the rights of the poor mill workers and I think she falls in love with the owner of the mill but it's kind of like a mr. Darcy situation where they don't like each other at first but then they fall in love I'm not sure but I'm really excited to read this I read all of Jane Austen and I need some more we then have down among the sticks and bones by Seanan McGuire the sequel to every heart a doorway which I read this past summer this series follows what happens to children after they return from the fantastical world's back to our normal world so for example what would have happened to Alice after she came back from Wonderland I thought the premise of the first book was very entertaining very intriguing it's something that I've always wondered myself but the execution I felt like it was a little rush then I learned there was a sequel to the first book and there are more books after this too I think there's going to be four six there's going to be way more books in this series so I will finally get the closure I was looking for her next is a list of pages by Robin Rowe a young adult contemporary book which follows Adam Blake a high school senior with ADHD who for his class elective becomes the aide to these school psychologists one of his jobs is to track down all of the students who have been dodging the psychologists and he figures out that one of these students is his foster brother who he has not seen for five years I've heard this is a heartfelt book which focuses on the power of friendship something that I truly believe in and that I love to read about and then half the wedding date by Jasmine Guillory an adult romance book which follows two people Alexa and Drew who get stuck in an elevator together sure needs a date for his ex-girlfriend's wedding that weekend and so impulsively asks Alexa to pose as his new girlfriend and she impulsively agrees I already finished this book and it is such a delight so if you're in the mood for a light and fluffy Chiclets book with a little bit of steamy times this here is your book the next four books are the Lord of the Rings series by JRR Tolkien's above the ring the two towers The Return of the King and this reader's companion which is the biggest book of all I read The Hobbit with ostentatious a few months ago and I really enjoyed it I also enjoy at the Lord of the Rings movies so I thought it was time to read the books and so first I wanted to get my own copies these are very heavy so I want to put these down now we then have let's talk about love by Claire Kahn another one of my most anticipated books of the year this follows college student Alice who is by romantic and asexual her girlfriend breaks up with her at the beginning of the novel after learning that she is asexual and Alice is single during the summer she spends working at the local library and develops a massive crush on her co-worker this is one of only two books I've heard about which have an asexual protagonist so I am really excited about the representation next is an ember ashes by Sabaa Tahir the first book in a fantasy series which was inspired by the militaristic Roman Empire I actually already owned a copy of this but it is hardcover and this was a gift I didn't buy a second copy for myself but truth be told I actually prefer this copy to the hardcover not only because I already like paperbacks more than hard covers in the first place but I love this new artwork so much I then have the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafon which is set in barcelona in 1945 the protagonist is an 11 year old named Daniel whose father is an antique book dealer and allows Daniel to pick out any book he wants in the cemetery of Forgotten books Daniel picks out the shadow of the wind and loves it so much that he wants to find every other book that the author has written but soon finds that all of these books have been systematically destroyed Daniel sets out on a quest which results in discoveries of dark secrets and murder and madness and doomed love in addition to trying to read more adult books I have been trying to read more translated works and one of my friends recommended this one I don't know what it is about books that revolve around books and reading and writing but I am drawn to them too more translated works I picked up were Persepolis the story of a childhood and Persepolis - the story of return by Marjan Satrapi these are graphic novels which were originally written in french and chronicle her life growing up in iran during the islamic rebel I've already read the first book and it's not only educational it's deeply emotional there are some funny moments but mostly it's dramatic and sad and inspiring the moment I finished this book I immediately went and ordered the second one of the best graphic novels I've ever read and especially one which covers such an important historical event the next book is one you've most definitely heard about and it is Xena the by Sasha Augsburg and Lindsey Cummings a young adult sci-fi which takes place on a spaceship occupied by a crew of women also sasha is so lovely and put me in her acknowledgments I love you so much Sasha and I am so proud of you and Lindsey for writing an entire book something that I've never been able to do so Congrats we then have love/hate and other filters by Samira Ahmed another one of my most anticipated books of the year this is an own voices contemporary novel which follows an Indian American teen Maya who was about to graduate high school and is torn between fulfilling her parents expectations and doing what she wants to do while she debates this a terrorist attack takes place and the suspect shares her last name so she is confronted with extreme Islamophobia as she is trying to figure out where she belongs in the world next I have the graphic novel for a wrinkle in time I read a wrinkle in time a couple of months ago during one of my last 24 hour read-a-thon and I thought it was okay but all of the trailers for the movie looks so amazing that I wanted to give it a second chance and then I was at Target and I saw this and I'm really integrals right now then I have the inexplicable logic of my life by Benjamin Alire a science which follows a high school senior Sal who is comfortable in his life with his adoptive gay father and his Mexican American family but one day his history comes back to haunt him and completely change his life he is no longer sure of anything and he along with his best friend Samantha face issues of loss grief and faith I've not read any Benjamin tulare science before but I do own another one of his books Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe he has very long titles but I like them he is a favorite author of several of my booktube friends and all of them have urged me to read him so now is the time this is the book the next two are in a series they are the diabolic and the empress by SJ Kincaid which were sent to me by the publisher this is a sci-fi fantasy story and as it says on the inside cover a diabolic is ruthless a diabolic is powerful a diabolic has a single task kill in order to protect the person you've been created for nothing else the main character is nemesis and her person that she was created for is named Sedona the heir to the Galactic Senate someone wants to kill Sedona so nemesis has to impersonate Sedona I always love a good impersonation a good dressing up as someone else and fooling the man I have another graphic novel it is sabha vol 3 by brian kay bond and Fiona staples I have yet to read volume 2 I've just heard volume 1 but I really enjoyed volume 1 so whenever I see the other volumes on sale I just pick them up this is another sci-fi fantasy story which follows two soldiers on opposite sides of a giant galactic war who fall in love and have a child even though they're not supposed to do that so both sides want them dead there are other characters and they have their own plot lines but it all revolves around this galactic war there are robots there are creatures these people have horns and wings and there are different species the art style is just amazing I can't believe they come up with all of these characters there are ghosts cysts it's great the next book is I believe in a thing called love by Maureen goo another young adult contemporary romance this fall is a high achieving korean-american teen named desi Lee who has achieved everything she set her mind to with hard work she is the student body president she is on the track to go to Stanford but she has a hard time with romance but she decides to set her mind to that as well and with the help of her father's kdramas she creates the perfect plan to win her crush over I recently just got into kdramas so this was so much fun to read I've already read it I thought it was really cute there's actually a little starter guide recommendations at the end of this book so if you don't know what kdrama to watch get this book like I said before my birthday was in February and my beautiful friend Hannah from a clockwork reader actually sent me two books for my birthday the first one was Avatar The Last Airbender the graphic novel part 1 the promise a continuation of the Avatar The Last Airbender series I didn't even know that these existed until she told me so of course she got me this we are actually watching or trying to watch avatar together but you know we both have school so we can't just sit around and watch avatar all the time like we want to and the other book which isn't really a book but I thought I would include it in this video anyway it is a coloring book of Pride and Prejudice actually it is kind of a book because it follows the whole plot of Pride and Prejudice there are some words there are some words so it's a book I wonder if I can include this on my Goodreads Reading Challenge I have been wanting a coloring book for so long something to do while I am listening to audiobooks and not driving or doing dishes or whatever I normally do when I listen to audio books but it's almost too pretty to actually color in I'm so bad about this I save all of the things that I really really enjoy and I never touch them the goodness anyway thank you so much Hannah for giving me these books I will cherish them forever and then have everyday by David Levithan which was actually sent to me because it is the movie tie-in version I've been meaning to read this since it came out in 2012 when I was in high school I always put it in my Amazon cart but never actually purchased it because of reasons I don't know so thank you so much for setting this to me as follows a soul named a who wakes up in a different body a body of any gender every single day soon falls in love with a girl of course complications arise because how are you going to maintain that relationship I'm not sure I have not read the book next we have the city of brass by SH Chakraborty this is a historical fiction of fantasy novel I love my historical fiction it takes place in 18th century Cairo following a con woman named nari she grew up not believing in magic but once she summons aging warrior to her side during one of her cons she has no choice but to accept that magic exists the June Warrior tells her of the magical city of brass and I assume they go there I've read very few novels set in the Middle East so I am very excited to read this and learn more about the culture of 18th century Cairo I admittedly I have no idea what was happening there at that time I have salt the sea by rudest pennies another book that I feel like everyone but me has already read this takes place in 1945 as the events of world war two are winding down this is set on a ship named Wilhelm Gustloff and on board are four different refugees from four different countries they all have secrets to hide and they unite when tragedy strikes yet again they believe that they are fleeing one tragedy a world war two but unfortunately they encounter another one and I believe that the ship sinks because there is a quote that says The Forgotten tragedy that was six times deadlier than the Titanic so oh I did not know that this was based on a real story goodness gracious Oh fun fun fun we then have most of Shakespeare's works because this semester I am in a Shakespeare class where we have to read all of Shakespeare's plays and it's fun it actually is fun because we have to act everything out that is most of our grade is just acting I mean I'm not a great actress but it's quite fun anyway Shakespeare we have much ado about nothing how to act that one out I was Beatrice the Taming of the Shrew we have Macbeth in Midsummer Night's Dream we have the Merchant of Venice we have not gotten to this one yet we have Twelfth Night we have King Lear and we have Othello I also had to purchase Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead this is inspired by characters from Hamlet and speaking of Shakespeare the next book is station eleven by Emily st. John Mandel one night during a production of King Lear by Shakespeare the main actor who is a famous Hollywood star slumps over and dies while he is acting and that marks the start of the Apocalypse this is told from multiple perspectives is told from the perspective of the Hollywood star and from the travelling a theatre company and it's also told from multiple points in time so it is not chronological you have to piece everything together like a puzzle next I have the queen of the tearling by Erika Johansen which follows a young princess who must reclaim her mother's throne her mother was Queen and learned how to rule and how to defeat the Red Queen who is an evil sorceress intent on destroying her actually bought two buddy read with Hannah from a clockwork reader she's gettin a lot of shoutouts in this video but both of us did not finish it maybe I'll read it someday nearing the end we have when the moon was ours by Anna Maria MEK l'amour which is a magical realism tale following two best friends yael and sam they're both quite strange mule has roses growing out of her wrists and rumors say she spilled out of a water tower when she was five and Sam paints moons and hangs him up all over town but there are four sisters rumored to be witches who want the Roses growing out of miele's wrists and they're willing to do anything to get them I was sent truly devious by Maureen Johnson a murder mystery that takes place at a boarding school I think it's boarding school it's a private Academy I hope it's a boarding school I love preaching folk boarding schools we have the bear and the nightingale by Katherine Arden which is historical fiction a fantasy and inspired by Russian folklore this takes place in Russia on the edge of the wilderness and follows our main character vassilisa who loves the fairy tails that her nurse tells her about demons and spirits her mother diets on her father brings home a new wife her new stepmother bans the entire family from honoring the family spirits and from performing rituals which causes the crops to die and for dark creatures to creep forward from the darkness fossil ISA must use the powers that she has long kept concealed oh I I I want to read about Russia and fairy tales the last two books are two books in a series they are scythe and thunder head by Neal Schusterman this is set in a world where humans have conquered death there is no hunger and no disease the only people who can end a life are sights and they must do so in order to avoid overpopulation two teens citroen Rowan are ordered to apprentice a scythe and learn the art of taking a life and neither one wants the job but they gotta do it what else happens I do not know that is all that is in the synopsis so I don't know what direction it goes in I'm assuming not a happy direction or else there wouldn't be two books so those are all the books that I have acquired over the past few months thank you to my friends and family and the publishers who got me some of these books I am very very grateful let me know down below which book you think I should read first like always I am overwhelmed with options there are so many amazing books here of course I am reading the Shakespeare already because I have two four grades so don't recommend that too late already doing it thank you all so much for watching and making it to the end of this video I really really appreciate it and I'll talk to you soon in my next video byehey YouTube it's that we and today I want to share a whole lot of books that I acquired over the past few months since my last book haul we had Christmas and my birthday so a few of these are gifts also a couple of publishers kindly sent me some books with that being said let's get on to the haul the first two books were actually sent to me by st. Martin's Press and Wednesday books who are also kindly sponsoring this video and they are winter song and shadow song by SJ Jones this follows Liesl whose dream is to become a musician but she cannot pursue this as she is forced to run the family in one day her sister is taken by the Goblin King who she has been enthralled by her entire life she travels down to the underground to save her sister but soon learns it's the only way to free her is for Liesl to marry the Goblin King dun dun dun so this is a retelling of labyrinth with a little bit of Hades and Persephone thrown in and I like both of those things I've actually already started this book and I intend to finish it soonish so I will let you know all of my thoughts once I finished it in case you were wondering shadow song and the paperback version of winter song both hit stores on February 6 so they are in stores if you want to get yourself a copy again thank you so much st. Martin's Press and Wednesday books for sending me these next is little fires everywhere by Celeste a which I have seen all over booktube like got myself a copy this takes place in a picture-perfect suburb of Cleveland and follows two families the rule following Richardson's and the Warrens who are an artistic mother-daughter duo these two families form a close relationship after the Warrens rent a house from the Richardson's but are torn apart when the Richardson's friends try to adopt me synopsis itself doesn't sound too interesting but my booktube friends who have already read this have said such positive things and I trust their opinions a lot so I am given it a chance also I am trying to delve more into the world of adult fiction as I am now a mature 22 year old can I have the sales by Donny Oh Clayton one of my most anticipated books of the entire year this is a fantasy novel set in a world where people are born and it is only through the help of a Bell a person who can control beauty that they are able to transform and become beautiful camellia the protagonist Isabel and is invited with a group of fellow Belle's two of the royal palace in order to compete to become the royal family's personal Belle but when she is there she learns that there are dark secrets hidden in the palace and that her beauty powers are far more dangerous and more powerful than she knew I have no idea if they are officially called Beauty powers but you know what I'm talking about I think that this sounds amazing this looks amazing I mean look at this look at this pink matte the next book is autobiography about Christina Lauren which follows a bisexual teen at Tanner Scott who goes back into the closet after moving from California to Utah he's in his last semester of high school and decides to take a seminar in which you were required to write an entire book in a four months and then he falls in love with the young mentor of the class you know I'm a sucker for a good why a romance especially one that revolves around writing also I feel like book covers are getting better I just all of the ones that have come out lately I am in love with thank you graphic designers who make these beautiful covers I wish I had an ounce of the talent all of you have I can barely do stick figures I thought got my hands on a copy of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell which so many of you have been recommending it to me because my favorite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and a lot of you think that this is quite similar if she also wrote in England in the 1800s except she wrote in the mid 1800s and Jane Austen was the late 1700s and the early eighteen hundreds but whatever this follows a young lady named Margaret Haile whose father leaves his job at the church in order to move his family to the north of England to an ugly industrial town at first Margaret hates this town but she soon develops a passionate sense of social justice and fights for the rights of the poor mill workers and I think she falls in love with the owner of the mill but it's kind of like a mr. Darcy situation where they don't like each other at first but then they fall in love I'm not sure but I'm really excited to read this I read all of Jane Austen and I need some more we then have down among the sticks and bones by Seanan McGuire the sequel to every heart a doorway which I read this past summer this series follows what happens to children after they return from the fantastical world's back to our normal world so for example what would have happened to Alice after she came back from Wonderland I thought the premise of the first book was very entertaining very intriguing it's something that I've always wondered myself but the execution I felt like it was a little rush then I learned there was a sequel to the first book and there are more books after this too I think there's going to be four six there's going to be way more books in this series so I will finally get the closure I was looking for her next is a list of pages by Robin Rowe a young adult contemporary book which follows Adam Blake a high school senior with ADHD who for his class elective becomes the aide to these school psychologists one of his jobs is to track down all of the students who have been dodging the psychologists and he figures out that one of these students is his foster brother who he has not seen for five years I've heard this is a heartfelt book which focuses on the power of friendship something that I truly believe in and that I love to read about and then half the wedding date by Jasmine Guillory an adult romance book which follows two people Alexa and Drew who get stuck in an elevator together sure needs a date for his ex-girlfriend's wedding that weekend and so impulsively asks Alexa to pose as his new girlfriend and she impulsively agrees I already finished this book and it is such a delight so if you're in the mood for a light and fluffy Chiclets book with a little bit of steamy times this here is your book the next four books are the Lord of the Rings series by JRR Tolkien's above the ring the two towers The Return of the King and this reader's companion which is the biggest book of all I read The Hobbit with ostentatious a few months ago and I really enjoyed it I also enjoy at the Lord of the Rings movies so I thought it was time to read the books and so first I wanted to get my own copies these are very heavy so I want to put these down now we then have let's talk about love by Claire Kahn another one of my most anticipated books of the year this follows college student Alice who is by romantic and asexual her girlfriend breaks up with her at the beginning of the novel after learning that she is asexual and Alice is single during the summer she spends working at the local library and develops a massive crush on her co-worker this is one of only two books I've heard about which have an asexual protagonist so I am really excited about the representation next is an ember ashes by Sabaa Tahir the first book in a fantasy series which was inspired by the militaristic Roman Empire I actually already owned a copy of this but it is hardcover and this was a gift I didn't buy a second copy for myself but truth be told I actually prefer this copy to the hardcover not only because I already like paperbacks more than hard covers in the first place but I love this new artwork so much I then have the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafon which is set in barcelona in 1945 the protagonist is an 11 year old named Daniel whose father is an antique book dealer and allows Daniel to pick out any book he wants in the cemetery of Forgotten books Daniel picks out the shadow of the wind and loves it so much that he wants to find every other book that the author has written but soon finds that all of these books have been systematically destroyed Daniel sets out on a quest which results in discoveries of dark secrets and murder and madness and doomed love in addition to trying to read more adult books I have been trying to read more translated works and one of my friends recommended this one I don't know what it is about books that revolve around books and reading and writing but I am drawn to them too more translated works I picked up were Persepolis the story of a childhood and Persepolis - the story of return by Marjan Satrapi these are graphic novels which were originally written in french and chronicle her life growing up in iran during the islamic rebel I've already read the first book and it's not only educational it's deeply emotional there are some funny moments but mostly it's dramatic and sad and inspiring the moment I finished this book I immediately went and ordered the second one of the best graphic novels I've ever read and especially one which covers such an important historical event the next book is one you've most definitely heard about and it is Xena the by Sasha Augsburg and Lindsey Cummings a young adult sci-fi which takes place on a spaceship occupied by a crew of women also sasha is so lovely and put me in her acknowledgments I love you so much Sasha and I am so proud of you and Lindsey for writing an entire book something that I've never been able to do so Congrats we then have love/hate and other filters by Samira Ahmed another one of my most anticipated books of the year this is an own voices contemporary novel which follows an Indian American teen Maya who was about to graduate high school and is torn between fulfilling her parents expectations and doing what she wants to do while she debates this a terrorist attack takes place and the suspect shares her last name so she is confronted with extreme Islamophobia as she is trying to figure out where she belongs in the world next I have the graphic novel for a wrinkle in time I read a wrinkle in time a couple of months ago during one of my last 24 hour read-a-thon and I thought it was okay but all of the trailers for the movie looks so amazing that I wanted to give it a second chance and then I was at Target and I saw this and I'm really integrals right now then I have the inexplicable logic of my life by Benjamin Alire a science which follows a high school senior Sal who is comfortable in his life with his adoptive gay father and his Mexican American family but one day his history comes back to haunt him and completely change his life he is no longer sure of anything and he along with his best friend Samantha face issues of loss grief and faith I've not read any Benjamin tulare science before but I do own another one of his books Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe he has very long titles but I like them he is a favorite author of several of my booktube friends and all of them have urged me to read him so now is the time this is the book the next two are in a series they are the diabolic and the empress by SJ Kincaid which were sent to me by the publisher this is a sci-fi fantasy story and as it says on the inside cover a diabolic is ruthless a diabolic is powerful a diabolic has a single task kill in order to protect the person you've been created for nothing else the main character is nemesis and her person that she was created for is named Sedona the heir to the Galactic Senate someone wants to kill Sedona so nemesis has to impersonate Sedona I always love a good impersonation a good dressing up as someone else and fooling the man I have another graphic novel it is sabha vol 3 by brian kay bond and Fiona staples I have yet to read volume 2 I've just heard volume 1 but I really enjoyed volume 1 so whenever I see the other volumes on sale I just pick them up this is another sci-fi fantasy story which follows two soldiers on opposite sides of a giant galactic war who fall in love and have a child even though they're not supposed to do that so both sides want them dead there are other characters and they have their own plot lines but it all revolves around this galactic war there are robots there are creatures these people have horns and wings and there are different species the art style is just amazing I can't believe they come up with all of these characters there are ghosts cysts it's great the next book is I believe in a thing called love by Maureen goo another young adult contemporary romance this fall is a high achieving korean-american teen named desi Lee who has achieved everything she set her mind to with hard work she is the student body president she is on the track to go to Stanford but she has a hard time with romance but she decides to set her mind to that as well and with the help of her father's kdramas she creates the perfect plan to win her crush over I recently just got into kdramas so this was so much fun to read I've already read it I thought it was really cute there's actually a little starter guide recommendations at the end of this book so if you don't know what kdrama to watch get this book like I said before my birthday was in February and my beautiful friend Hannah from a clockwork reader actually sent me two books for my birthday the first one was Avatar The Last Airbender the graphic novel part 1 the promise a continuation of the Avatar The Last Airbender series I didn't even know that these existed until she told me so of course she got me this we are actually watching or trying to watch avatar together but you know we both have school so we can't just sit around and watch avatar all the time like we want to and the other book which isn't really a book but I thought I would include it in this video anyway it is a coloring book of Pride and Prejudice actually it is kind of a book because it follows the whole plot of Pride and Prejudice there are some words there are some words so it's a book I wonder if I can include this on my Goodreads Reading Challenge I have been wanting a coloring book for so long something to do while I am listening to audiobooks and not driving or doing dishes or whatever I normally do when I listen to audio books but it's almost too pretty to actually color in I'm so bad about this I save all of the things that I really really enjoy and I never touch them the goodness anyway thank you so much Hannah for giving me these books I will cherish them forever and then have everyday by David Levithan which was actually sent to me because it is the movie tie-in version I've been meaning to read this since it came out in 2012 when I was in high school I always put it in my Amazon cart but never actually purchased it because of reasons I don't know so thank you so much for setting this to me as follows a soul named a who wakes up in a different body a body of any gender every single day soon falls in love with a girl of course complications arise because how are you going to maintain that relationship I'm not sure I have not read the book next we have the city of brass by SH Chakraborty this is a historical fiction of fantasy novel I love my historical fiction it takes place in 18th century Cairo following a con woman named nari she grew up not believing in magic but once she summons aging warrior to her side during one of her cons she has no choice but to accept that magic exists the June Warrior tells her of the magical city of brass and I assume they go there I've read very few novels set in the Middle East so I am very excited to read this and learn more about the culture of 18th century Cairo I admittedly I have no idea what was happening there at that time I have salt the sea by rudest pennies another book that I feel like everyone but me has already read this takes place in 1945 as the events of world war two are winding down this is set on a ship named Wilhelm Gustloff and on board are four different refugees from four different countries they all have secrets to hide and they unite when tragedy strikes yet again they believe that they are fleeing one tragedy a world war two but unfortunately they encounter another one and I believe that the ship sinks because there is a quote that says The Forgotten tragedy that was six times deadlier than the Titanic so oh I did not know that this was based on a real story goodness gracious Oh fun fun fun we then have most of Shakespeare's works because this semester I am in a Shakespeare class where we have to read all of Shakespeare's plays and it's fun it actually is fun because we have to act everything out that is most of our grade is just acting I mean I'm not a great actress but it's quite fun anyway Shakespeare we have much ado about nothing how to act that one out I was Beatrice the Taming of the Shrew we have Macbeth in Midsummer Night's Dream we have the Merchant of Venice we have not gotten to this one yet we have Twelfth Night we have King Lear and we have Othello I also had to purchase Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead this is inspired by characters from Hamlet and speaking of Shakespeare the next book is station eleven by Emily st. John Mandel one night during a production of King Lear by Shakespeare the main actor who is a famous Hollywood star slumps over and dies while he is acting and that marks the start of the Apocalypse this is told from multiple perspectives is told from the perspective of the Hollywood star and from the travelling a theatre company and it's also told from multiple points in time so it is not chronological you have to piece everything together like a puzzle next I have the queen of the tearling by Erika Johansen which follows a young princess who must reclaim her mother's throne her mother was Queen and learned how to rule and how to defeat the Red Queen who is an evil sorceress intent on destroying her actually bought two buddy read with Hannah from a clockwork reader she's gettin a lot of shoutouts in this video but both of us did not finish it maybe I'll read it someday nearing the end we have when the moon was ours by Anna Maria MEK l'amour which is a magical realism tale following two best friends yael and sam they're both quite strange mule has roses growing out of her wrists and rumors say she spilled out of a water tower when she was five and Sam paints moons and hangs him up all over town but there are four sisters rumored to be witches who want the Roses growing out of miele's wrists and they're willing to do anything to get them I was sent truly devious by Maureen Johnson a murder mystery that takes place at a boarding school I think it's boarding school it's a private Academy I hope it's a boarding school I love preaching folk boarding schools we have the bear and the nightingale by Katherine Arden which is historical fiction a fantasy and inspired by Russian folklore this takes place in Russia on the edge of the wilderness and follows our main character vassilisa who loves the fairy tails that her nurse tells her about demons and spirits her mother diets on her father brings home a new wife her new stepmother bans the entire family from honoring the family spirits and from performing rituals which causes the crops to die and for dark creatures to creep forward from the darkness fossil ISA must use the powers that she has long kept concealed oh I I I want to read about Russia and fairy tales the last two books are two books in a series they are scythe and thunder head by Neal Schusterman this is set in a world where humans have conquered death there is no hunger and no disease the only people who can end a life are sights and they must do so in order to avoid overpopulation two teens citroen Rowan are ordered to apprentice a scythe and learn the art of taking a life and neither one wants the job but they gotta do it what else happens I do not know that is all that is in the synopsis so I don't know what direction it goes in I'm assuming not a happy direction or else there wouldn't be two books so those are all the books that I have acquired over the past few months thank you to my friends and family and the publishers who got me some of these books I am very very grateful let me know down below which book you think I should read first like always I am overwhelmed with options there are so many amazing books here of course I am reading the Shakespeare already because I have two four grades so don't recommend that too late already doing it thank you all so much for watching and making it to the end of this video I really really appreciate it and I'll talk to you soon in my next video bye\n"