 I did this try a chapter book tag video thing last year and I enjoyed it. It was a good way to introduce myself to books I hadn't read and a good way of deciding what books I might want to read next. And I think it's a good way to introduce my viewers to more books as well so I'm doing it again. And I can't really call it a tag video because I wasn't tagged by anybody and I'm not tagging anybody else. Unless anybody who's watching this wants to do it for themselves. Okay I tag you. There. So here's the five books that I chose. I read the first two chapters of each. I feel like one chapter isn't enough. In these books in particular and actually in the books that I read last time the individual chapters weren't really long enough. So two chapters plus whatever prologue there might be. I'll start off with the authors whose names I recognize. Paul Anderson is this classic reprint called Tau Zero. This is also the least interesting. It's about a group of people in the middle distant future in a utopia where there's no war and they're getting ready to board a ship to go to Alpha Centauri and start exploring for possible colonization I guess. It didn't excite me. I didn't think the writing was all that well. It wasn't bad. I'll read it someday because it's Paul Anderson. And Kate Wilhelm. I found this recently. It's called The Killer Thing. Not a very descriptive title but actually the cover tells you everything you need to know. It's about a guy who's being chased across an airless desert planet by a giant killer robot. It starts right off in the middle of the action and I liked it. I definitely want to continue reading this one. Last year I bought, I think it was last year maybe it was the year before I bought a collection of short stories by Kate Wilhelm and I thought they were really bad. I started reading several of the stories skipping from one to another because I didn't like them and I didn't like any of them and that was kind of disappointing but anyway. And this one that I bought just recently, an author I've never heard of, Raymond F. Jones. If I've heard his name before I don't remember it. This actually appears to be a collection of five novellas. Whatever the case, the first story in here was divided into small chapters and I read the first two of those and it was the second least interesting although I would continue to read it. It's about an insurance executive who notices some odd trends in the claims that he's seeing in his district and he looks into it and I guess I'd continue to find out what what the deal is. I just read the first two chapters of this today plus the brief prologue. This is Alifian Scene by G. Willow Wilson. The first two chapters were okay. The second one it started to get interesting but what was really interesting was the prologue which is only a few pages. It was about an aging professor or something who had captured a demon of some kind and he was forcing it to tell him the stories of its people and its culture so he could write them all down. That was really interesting and I'm wondering how it's going to be brought back into the story later so we'll find out. Now this, this is something special. This is something I've never heard of. Sherri Priest is an author I don't know and this is something I've never seen or heard of before. I bought this in Seattle at a bookstore called Ada's Cafe and Technical Books and wow, wow, wow. The first two chapters of this book blew me away hard. I'll just read the first paragraph or so and give you an idea of the kind of writing we're dealing with here. Libby Deaton and May Harper invented Princess X in fifth grade when Libby's leg was in a cast and May had a doctor's note saying she couldn't run around the track anymore because her asthma would totally kill her. That first sentence caught my attention and made me want to keep reading. I like the way it was written. Their PE teacher sent them into exile on the little kid's playground where the kindergarten teacher sat in the shade reading a romance novel with a mostly naked man on the cover. A crowd of nervous six-year-olds watched the newcomers from behind the swing set, big-eyed, silent and ready to bolt. For all the little kids new, fifth graders were capable of anything. Now see, I like that. In the first two chapters of this book, I had no idea who these characters were, what was going to happen or what they were going to do and I suspect the entire book is going to be like that or I hope it is. This is definitely going to be my next read and probably this one after that and then I definitely want to read this one. I will let you all know what happens. Please remember to press that like button. It helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction book, TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.