 This month roundup is gonna be short. I Didn't acquire nearly as many new books as I did the month before last to the previous month was a fluke I need to catch up on reading all those other books as well as far as books that I bought at the In my favorite local used bookstore. There's Katai by Andre Norton Andre Norton is a pseudonym for a woman named Alice Norton She wrote a hell of a lot of books. I mean a lot She wrote the Beastmaster that the bad 1980s movie was kind of based on I Need to read more of hers and I will I'm gonna start with this. I actually read a couple of chapters and It seemed pretty good the last unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, this is not science fiction I don't think I'll review it However, I I've always liked that movie and I've always wondered about the book the The guy who runs the store I asked him do you have a copy of the last unicorn and it was And he's and he said yeah right here, and it was right next to him on the counter. It had just come in 1968 The the year it was first published. It's a second printing It says from April 1969 and he said the only reason he didn't take it home with him is because it was a second printing So I guess I've lucked out I also got this the black cauldron Which I Was thinking the The Disney animated film from the 80s was based on I mean the the cover. That's what it It obviously implies on the cover but looking at it Apparently this was a Kind of novelization of the movie or maybe a summary of the books that the the movie was based on I couldn't really tell Apparently the the Disney movie was based on a series of books But I don't know once I Figured that out. I kind of lost interest now this what I'm about to to talk about next Goes back to a question that one of my viewers asked about Or rather a suggestion one of my viewers made about reviewing new books It brings up the subject of the the numbers of views that my videos are getting number one I'm not Necessarily pursuing views by doing these videos. I do them because I want to because I enjoy it I mean it would be nice to have more views I have other projects that I do want more views on like the board game videos I'm trying to turn them into board game playthrough videos. I just don't have the the people To help me out with on that the newly published books don't need me to talk about them They have plenty of opportunities to be discovered by you and and by other people And I'd much rather talk about books that You have probably never heard of Which which means I need to talk about older books books that I've discovered in my past and that I think you should read and Sometimes I review books that I tell you not to bother with but mostly I'm gonna tell you about books that I think you you should read I went to Barnes and Noble with a friend of mine and I bought these three books Lock in by John Scalzi. We were liars by E. Lockhart and Anya's ghost by Vera Brosgol These three books buying them new This is more than $50 More than $50. I Can't I can't do that As much as I would like to Support authors that I like and support authors in general. I can't spend $50. I Just don't have the money. I barely pay my rent I can go to the used bookstore and And come back with it with a stack like this for 20 bucks. Let me tell you about this I Bought this because it was recommended by Christina Horner on her YouTube channel. I Like Christina Horner. I Like her taste The kind of books that she reads are usually not the kind of books I read but she Described this book and it really caught my interest. It's hard for me to describe it without Giving the book away. It's certainly not science fiction. It's described here as Well a young adult novel everything is young adult these days Everything is classified as young adult if it doesn't have sex in it then it's it ends up in the young adult section That's just the trend today. I mean you you're reading books that are that are referred to as young adult I don't think you're necessarily reading young adult fiction. I think they just call everything young adult fiction It was described as a Well, I saw somewhere it was described as a suspense novel. I guess you could call it that Maybe a psychological suspense. It's about a young rich girl who? She and her cousin spend every summer on a private island near Martha's vineyard and She has some sort of accident and she doesn't remember This one particular summer and Christina Horner described the writing style of Of this book as being almost Almost poetry as opposed to straight-up prose and she was right Normally again, that would be something that would not make me interested in a book In fact, it would make me stay away from a book if someone said it was poetry, but the fact that Christina Horner recommended it made me interested and Yeah, the first the first few chapters of this book really did read like poetry and it didn't bother me It was a quick read Once I started I couldn't put it down and that that almost never happens for me But I recommend you look it up. It's not science fiction. So that's up to you And then came on your ghost This is something I had heard of and I'm a big fan of Vera brasgals art She goes by the name Vera be online Spelled be ee. I'm a big fan of her artwork that I first saw her art on her tumbler I highly recommend that you go look at Vera be Tumbler and I think the first time I saw her art was on a tumbler called draw this dress Her art is amazing So This this graphic novel has been out for a while it's been out for years, but I had not I had not read it I'm afraid. I don't really recommend it. I wasn't that Impressed with it. It's definitely not Vera bees best art by a long shot It's interesting. It wasn't exactly what I expected. Although I couldn't tell you what I expected But this is not Vera bees best work, I would say it's I think the most interesting thing about it is that These high school kids Who are Russian? immigrants Trying to fit in with American society. I think they reveal a lot about Vera herself Who who is Russian? So if you're interested in Vera and her work Then yeah read on his ghost outside of that if you've not heard of her if you're not familiar with your art I don't know that would have any any interest the Neil Gaiman seemed to think differently, but yeah That's it as far as as far as new books I do have a couple other books to talk about I'll talk about those in a minute Let me talk about answering Some questions or talking about the the channel in general Does the video jukebox work at the tumbler at the top of the tumbler is a video jukebox that is put together from my Videos that are hosted on daily motion Somebody tell me does the video jukebox work it works for me You can only see it in desktop view if you're looking at the tumbler on your phone Unless you ask for the desktop view you're not gonna see it Oh talking about the promoting new books as as as opposed to older books there's also the added wrinkle of that I I Have an audience that I'm specifically talking to now And I know that's what to what you guys are gonna be more interested in will be the older classic books that you've not heard of So I'm actually talking directly to you now as opposed to Just just doing what just doing it because I want to hear myself talk a couple months ago It was announced that Disney is going to be producing a movie version of wrinkle in time This is not happy news if you ask me and I had said in my review of wrinkle in time I said avoid movie and TV adaptations of wrinkle in time and I don't care What Disney does with it? I would still say avoid it People might be loving all the new Disney Marvel movies and all the Disney animated films that come along But I can't imagine that a Disney version of wrinkle in time could be anything other than a disaster like the Like the hitchhiker's guide movie that they did About ten years ago. Ah, that just makes my skin crawl thinking about it And apparently I mispronounce the name Bacha Gallupi So I won't do that in the future now Yesterday I posted my unboxing of the the Kano or Kano computer that I got through Kickstarter And I'll do a more detailed video about putting it together But there's some other Kickstarter things. I wanted to talk about specifically with books. I got this in this month It's a Jack Kirby a personal look by by his grandson Jeremy Kirby. I love Jack Kirby's artwork he More than any other artists kept me interested in comics when I was a kid. I still talk about him all the time I Was happy to contribute to this to this book. I Was surprised that almost the entirety of the book is composed of a script that Jack Kirby wrote called the Frog Prince So you look at this almost the whole book The rest of the book consists of pictures It's just really pictures, which is okay the book is is The execution of the book. I think is amateurish. It's not to it's not all that professional, but I really don't care I cared more about just contributing to the project. That's the kind of project This was I was just happy to contribute to the project and here's everybody's names are acknowledged at the end there Just a page full names with no spaces between them. So I don't know if I'll even be able to find myself in there but see this is the kind of project that I'm happy to contribute and the the the condition or quality of the final product is less Important to me than contributing to the project this on the other hand. I just got this in last week This is an art book an anatomy art book that I contributed to and good money to and it's not at all What I thought I was contributing to and I'm very angry about it and I'm going to be Recording a video just to rant about how much I feel I was ripped off about this book Okay, I Think that's it. Yeah Not that much to talk about This month except oh before I forget. I will be covering more graphic novels in the future I do want to talk about science fiction in comics It's it's not a very well explored subject most graphic novels and comics Don't fall into the category of science fiction but there are some unusual ones that do and That even people who read comics wouldn't think of them the science fiction But they should and I'll tell you about those At some point. I'll also talk about some more audio science fiction that you can get online. Oh, oh Oh God before I forget speaking of audio science fiction Somebody uploaded the entire audio book of the Scorch trials the sequel to the maze runner They they uploaded it to YouTube and I copied it and listened to it while I work nine ungodly hours Which just? Getting near the end of it. I was just like end. Please end. Will you just please end? Oh Oh god, it was awful terrible terrible book made no sense at all and Again had no ending. It's like JJ Abrams wrote a book If you ever saw lost I didn't see much of lost but what I did see of it I think would summarize this book each each individual chapter even within itself makes no sense and then together from one chapter the next makes No sense and then there's no ending Stay the hell away from it It's if it's still on YouTube Download it and listen to it while you work if you want to and you'll see what I mean Just please don't pay any money for it Okay, that's it. See you next time