 hey guys it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be talking about the books that I read in the month of August the beginning of August I there was the booktubeathon that cut into August late July and then cutting into August so those books that I read during that week I have a vlog of vlog slash wrap-up so I will link that up on the screen if you guys want to check that out as well as with all these books I did do weekly reading vlogs so you could check those out if you want to hear more details about any of these books but there's a lot to get through so let's jump right into it. First up I did some rereads so I reread orange this manga series so good so I reread volumes 1 and volumes 2 and these were amazing. Want to start watching the anime soon I've read these both twice now but basically if you do not know the series it talks about suicide and friendship and really close friendships. Hello our main character who receives a letter from her future self and it's about what the letters asking her to do and her relationship with her friends and the guy that she's interested in. So this series is just amazing highly recommend it I gave this five stars I gave orange complete volume 2 4.5 stars and I also read along with that I read the little orange future they had so I gave this one 4 stars this is just part of it's like from another character's perspective in this book and then part of it's like a little bit after the events of the last one but this was enjoyable as well. Next I read capture by you by Sylvia Day. I don't know I'm reading this series right now and it's literally just romance business he's the boss you know she dates the boss it's very tropey very cliche it's basically 50 shades but like slightly better. There fourth book in the series I don't know these are like so bad I just read them when I'm really bored I listen to the audiobooks of them but this one was okay I gave it two stars. Next I read pillow thoughts volume 2 this came out and I read it on script because I didn't want to buy physical copy but this I really enjoyed pillow thoughts volume 1 by Courtney Peppernell and this was good as well so basically it's kind of divided into like if you are feeling doo doo doo doo and then it's like if you are feeling this way or if this has happened to you blank and then I'll have some poems on it and stuff but pillow thoughts volume 2 I thought was solid as well. I personally enjoyed volume 1 better but volume 2 was pretty good as well I love the cover for this just saying but this was a this was good it just wasn't as good as volume 1 which I think I gave four stars and this got a 3.5 stars. Another reread I reread the outsiders by Essie Hinton this if you do not know is but a boy named Pony Boy and he is in a gang you could it's a gang but he is part of the greasers which are like the lower class the grungy gang kind of thing leather jackets greasy hair the whole kind of thing yes we follow Pony Boy and his friends and his like his little interactions with the Sochas who are another part there's the Sochas and there's the greasers. Sochas are like upper class and they have expensive cars they get all the ladies kind of that kind of thing but we follow Pony Boy who gets himself in a bit of a scandal and how he's dealing with this and how he like it's a lot about friendship and gangs and like what it means to be friends with different people as well if that makes any sense. I really enjoyed rereading this one it's a good read and it's middle grade and I remember reading this back in like seventh or sixth grade and now I'm going into grade 12 so this was just as good as I remember it it's a really enjoyable book and I want to watch the film as well but it was good I gave it four stars. I read I read adulthood as a myth during I think booktupathon and I love that book I give it five stars I thought it was hilarious so I read the other two in the series so big mushy happy lump and hurting cats, hurting not hurting, hurting cats yes so I read these two they were both pretty good they weren't my favorites they I think adulthood as a myth is one that you definitely should pick up this one was these were good but they weren't as like relatable or as funny as the first one I gave them both like three star. Next to I talked about a lot in a reading vlog so I'll have that linked up on the screen but I read heretics anonymous which we follow a boy who is an atheist and we follow him at school he there's a group called heretics anonymous and they kind of get themselves in some scandals as well. It was Jewish, pagan, an atheist like our main character and someone who is like strongly Christian and it's about our main character narrating it it's super funny super enjoyable I thought it was a great read for so many reasons and I talked about those more in the vlog but this was solid I would highly recommend this I gave this 4.5 to 5 stars which I don't give often but this was very very good and totally worth the hype it's been getting. Next I read the apocalypse of Elemen Doza I listened to this one on audiobook it's about our main character who it's basically the opposite of Shadrame if you think about it but it's her one day she heals someone. Basically the beginning of this book this girl gets shot and is dying and our main character heals her and the other the guy who shot her disappears and a beam of light and it's like what the hell just happened and it's about our main character how she can heal people and how she was born of a virgin birth and what that meant like what that means for her and like how people view her and her relationship with the world and because she objects talk to her she's it has that magical realism component to it and it was a really nice touch to this story if you definitely definitely if you enjoyed We Are the Ants I think you'll enjoy the Elemen Doza it was a really interesting read and it has those same kind of underlying messages that We Are the Ants had so I just really enjoy this really different super enjoyable read I gave it 4 stars I think it's definitely worth picking up his writing isn't anything as well so check this out. I read B and Puppycat at volume 2 this is just a little graphic novel series that I've been reading on my phone every now and then but this is these are good they're not great they're just like when I'm bored sure it's on my phone but these are just this girl and her Puppycat and their adventures it's the weirdest thing but this volume was just okay for me I don't really like that it's like different artists and it's little short stories like instead of a continuous volume so I had trouble with that not my favorite series but it's super cute and like some of your styles I'm like yes I love it and then the next one will be a different one and I'm like no no I gave this 2.5 stars it was fine like not great but it wasn't too bad just wasn't good next I read a silent voice this is by Yoshitaka Oma totally said that wrong I apologize this is about a bully and it's about a new girl who comes to the school and she is deaf and it's about how he still bullies her and the consequences of that and how he sees her get bullied and doesn't do anything as well and it's about the relationship between these two characters the bully versus the person who's getting bullied it talks about our main character who is deaf and going to a new school kind of what that's like a little bit and it's a very it was a very hard volume to read because of the bullying and like huge trigger warnings for that like please keep that in mind the end it had a really important message to it and I think the first volume was a really good setup for what the rest of the series is gonna hold so I'm hoping I did pick a volume to I did purchase it so I'm hoping to read that one soon and you'll hear my thoughts on it next month's wrap up but this was really interesting I think it has great reviews and I get why and yeah I enjoyed it as well like it was tough to read at times but I think it was worth the read I gave it a 3.5 set received a book for reviews so thank you so much to the publisher for sending this to me but that is disconnected this is a book of poetry and prose poetry and short story is not prose and then this has some of my favorite authors in it including SARS Parker Amanda Lovelace Nikita Gill and this is just I was so excited for this great I requested it I was like yes I got an e-arc of it thank you so much to the publisher again I totally appreciate it but I didn't enjoy it I found that the the authors that write poetry I think they write poetry best and their short stories weren't anything I was really enjoying I found myself like skim reading their short stories and just wanting to get to the poetry because that's I think what they do best best I think that's what they do best and in their original collections they're all like most of them are almost I think all of them I love or almost all of them I love their collections so it was really disappointing for me I don't know why but I had a huge disconnect with disconnected unfortunately but yes if you do like these poets and you still want to check it out you can it just wasn't really my thing I guess I just didn't click with it so I gave it 2.5 stars last but not least I read The Black Witch by Laurie Forrest so this book is about our main character who thinks she has no magic and you know how these books go and she looks exactly like her grandmother who was the black witch and there it's just a fantasy book it's an aspect of like a magical school in this book so like it has that like Hogwarts aspect to it as well I'm going to a magical school there's totally like different types of like beings in this book so there's like witches elves egg rolls which are like demons there's so many cool things in this book I read this because I went to an HTC frenzy event and the author was there so I got to this sign so I want to read this before the event because I did some exclusive stuff with the author and some like exclusive interviews and things like that did I get this copy signed I don't even know now I don't think I got this one signed I have like now I have like two copies of this and I have a copy of the art for the second book so I'm like what do I do with them but I did like the black witch I listened to this one on audiobook it was 18 hours but yeah cuz this thing is a pretty chunky book so I'm very happy I read a chunky fantasy this month we did I thought the main character at times was annoying but there was a lot of world building there was a lot of setup in the first bit of the book I did overall like the book I thought a lot of aspects of it were interesting it talks about prejudice a lot in this book I also thought the magic system was really cool the school aspect I really liked there's some touches of romance throughout the book but it's nothing like set in stone yet but I will be picking up the second book because I have an arc for it and I would like to see what happens but this was a solid setup book in my opinion I don't love the characters as much as I love like first book and fantasy series characters I not too attached to the characters but I like the world and that's what's gonna keep me going I guess throughout the series but I give this three stars I thought it was good it wasn't like fantastic but it wasn't awful but yes the world is my favorite part so if you're interested in a fantasy that has some interesting world building medical school definitely check this one out and give it three stars so there you guys have it those are the books that I've read in the month of August thank you so much for watching let me know your thoughts in the comments down below if you like this new setup let me know this is how I used to set up my videos actually so since I rearranged my room you'll notice there's only one of those shelves and not two because it's moved to another side of my room but hopefully you guys like the setup it's very comfortable for me to film and I personally like the way it looks it's not too distracting like you can't see all 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