 hey guys it's julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video i'm going to be talking about the 18-ish things that i read in the month of june so this includes graphic novels novels manga poetry the whole shebang there's a lot to get through here so we're gonna try to make this as fast as possible first read of the month i've read hamlet by shakespeare so basically if you do not do not know already this is one of the most famous shakespeare plays it's a tragedy it's about this dude named hamlet and his father dies and then he sees his father as a ghost and there's all these things that happen anyways i don't really need to explain hamlet because it's such a classic but i read this one for school and i didn't love it as much as i thought i was going to because i do love me a good tragedy but personally i liked a cello better and it was like i liked that to be or not to be speech and i liked a lot of quotes from it and stuff but it wasn't like my favorite shakespeare which was unfortunate because i thought i was gonna absolutely adore this but yeah i gave it three stars i read cheese sweet adventures and this is by konomi kanata and this it was super cute it was just like this little manga like graphic novel kind of thing and it's just about again a cat and it's a little adventures very cute very cute um but my only issue with this one was like the formatting was really weird and i still prefer like cheese sweet home over this one i think that one has like a better style to it and like a better storyline this was super cute and enjoyable but it wasn't like fantastic i think i gave this one around three stars as well next up here i have invisible goes by robin schneider so i'll put the new cover up so you have to know what it looks like but i received an arc of this from an hcc friendly event that i went to so thank you so much to them this is about this girl named rose whose younger brother dies and she sees him as a ghost and she spends time with him every day they obviously spent a lot of time together rose doesn't really go out that much she spends time with her dead brother at home and then this guy comes into the picture and kind of changes things for her and it's a love story meets a ghost story according to the back but it's yeah it's really interesting and it definitely was not what i expected but it was interesting basically i did enjoy this like i liked the plot and the characters the plot was super interesting like i really liked the love story means go story kind of plot that this had enjoyed the romance and like the writing was like decent for the most part i think it lacked in some areas though it was like nothing like life changing but it was enjoyable and like a quick read for me which i appreciated but if you hate that line that she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding that shows up like four times in this book and i was just like again so just be aware that that's in there because i know that's a lot of pet peeves for people including myself a little bit i i could hear ones and i'm like okay great but like four times i was like i guess one of three point five out of five stars and if you're interested in it definitely pick it up because it's out now oh yeah i did vlog for the cramathons so i will have my 25 minute vlog linked because i will not talk about these books so in depth because i talked with them for like 25 minutes but i has not grown volume one this is a story about this girl who has a fashion blog and she has a lot of allergies and it's just about her life it's very strange and interesting but the art holy shit the art is absolutely stunning like i am in love with this artwork so much the thing that i really liked about this was again the art and i thought it just had like a really interesting concept and it leaves on a cliffhanger and volume two is now out so i'm going to be picking a volume two very soon but this was just super strange but i loved a lot of quotes from it and like i'm interested to pick up the next ones so i ended up giving this one like a three point five out of five stars talk about this one because i talked about it in the cramathon vlog and then i made a video and i talked about it in that video so this is the little book of witchcraft this is just a little book about modern a bit of history on witchcraft some symbols some just a little guide to the whole witchcraft wika the whole shebang um i say that a lot but i really enjoyed this really good guide i get four stars it was a good read next up here i read saints and misfits by sk ali follow a muslim teen and so we see that perspective and the family dynamics and things like that as well as there is a big trigger warning for a break within this book so please keep that in mind i listened to the audiobook of this one and i honestly didn't like it that much at all i talked about it more in the cramathon vlog and like i have a review for it and stuff on goodreads but i just didn't love it and i was really sad like i felt like a huge disconnect i wasn't the biggest fan of the characters or the writing or the plot and i thought like the whole subject matter of sexual salt and rape could have been done better or done differently and that's just my personal opinion i know this received some praise so yeah but i gave it 2.5 out of 5 stars so oh i also read binti but and i talked about this one too i have no idea where it is lovely um but this is a little sci-fi novella it is so good like i don't even know what i explain it because it's so short so i don't want to give a synopsis but it's a sci-fi novella such a great story packs like such an interesting plot in a short amount of pages and i just like really really enjoyed it like it has it was it's really interesting and like i want to get the next one so i enjoyed that i gave that 4 stars except here i have planting gardens in gray's volume 2 i was sent this by andrew's mcmill publishing in exchange for an honest review but this was i was sent an early copy of this actually so thank you so much i was very happy with that um i really love rsn's work you guys know this he writes very short but impactful poetry and it's all very relatable and i love it a lot and this was the sequel to planting garden in gray's volume one and i was not disappointed by this i gave this like a solid four stars i quite enjoyed it i loved his work nothing new there next up here i read smoke by alan hofkins i have no idea where it is so i'm like picture so this is the sequel to burned which this is a duology the very intense story it's how do i even describe this it has a lot of trigger warnings like a lot like if you read alan hofkins you know how many like how serious her books are but this one is written in verse and it was a very like interesting story again i talk about it in that reading vlog so i'll like link that but it was good and impactful and it was like a short reading if you're in the mood for like a short but impactful like quick duology then definitely check that one out it's not my favorite alan hofkins by like by any means but it was like solid i gave it like 3.5 to 5 stars here i read open earth and this is by sarah murk ever cabaria and claudia agari this book comes out in september this is like a little graphic novel i'll try to find a page that isn't explicit but basically this is about these people this group of friends who live on a spaceship and this explores our main character with love and sex and relationships and it's full of sex basically so keep that in mind before picking this up that it is explicit um i wish this had more to it like i wish there was more sci-fi to this i thought the concept was interesting but like i wish there was more sci-fi like who's mostly just sex and i was like okay uh great but it was okay the art style was like decent um if i can remember to pick up the volumes in the future i will but it's just if this sounds interesting to you check it out it's been getting like better reviews than i'm saying but like i only gave it three stars i read 25 poems for the nsa and this is by ins thomas i believe hopefully that's right um i this one was fine i gave it 2.5 stars it was just okay it was super short but it was okay next up here i read the poet x is by elizabeth ace fedo i buddy read this with my friend jessica so i'll have her channel linked down below she just started and yeah i'll link her down below but this book is super interesting it's written in verse and i got it in my cage have a box so like i have all the like things in it but this is about a girl named x maro x so mara she it's basically i don't want to give too much because i was pleasantly surprised by this one and i was different than i expected but it's about her and there's poetry involved and there's a lot of things like that and it's about her like finding her voice through poetry and being able to express herself and things like that actually this had some carry vibes to it like there was some religious elements to it and that was really interesting to read about definitely not what i expected at all the main character was so badass like i loved her so much at times i was like police thought but at the same time like she had some she had some like a punch to her and i really enjoyed that and the writing was decent like it was overall like a pleasant surprise if you are thinking about picking it up i would suggest it i think i gave it around like a 3.5 3.75 rating so i read some i did some rereads so i read uh the present stage itself in this one and the witch doesn't burn in this one i'm in a lovelace who i love but these are poetry books this one revolves around like literally what the titles say this one's super feminist like more feminist than this one but they all deal with like they both deal with some tough subject matter and it's poetry it's great i've read them both twice this is not my i have two copies of this so this is not my tab one but okay i love these both i ended up giving this one a five and i gave this one a 4.5 this time around next appear probably my favorite book of the month it's following twitter you know what it is but it's the fortune suicides which i think this was like my 7.3 read um i listened to the audiobook of this one scribbed and holy shit did i love it so much listening to it i love this book with all my heart basically it's about the five lesbian daughters who all commit suicide and it's narrated by these boys who live across the street and are very fascinated with their lives and they narrate the story for us about what happened to them and their interactions with them and all the evidence they come up with and stuff like that it's very interesting love it so much the audiobook like the times that i've reread this like the what five or six times i've reread this have all been physical so like to listen to it on audiobook was really great and like i just loved it so much next i read smoke and mirrors and this is like an erotic poetry collection i read this author's other one dirty little pretty dirty pretty things or something i didn't like this one either a lot of poetry isn't my thing because it will like flow like really nicely and then i'll just be super blunt like the last word and i'm just like you just ruined the whole thing like i just don't like it and i don't like the way this author writes i gave this two stars there was some good poems in here that i did like but for the most part like these were just like the last time i write about you i read this one on scribbed out of the ebook because i read some ebooks this month and i enjoyed this one i thought it was solid like i don't have too many thoughts on it it was just decent like i like some poems i thought it was okay i gave it three stars then i listened to the audiobook if entwined with you by sylvia day and i remember i said for the second book like i'm so done with this series which the series does suck like it's pretty bad like it's basically like 50 shades but different names and less bdsm slightly um but this is just these are so dramatic and so much but like they're so stupid and like you could say they're trash in my opinion but they're entertaining and that's why i read so i listened to the third one on audiobook like i would never spend my money on them but yeah it was okay it was interesting you guys have it those are the books that i ran the month of june let me know your thoughts down below and what you read your favorite book of the month possibly and yeah i'll see you all super soon with a new video make sure to like this video if you enjoyed it and subscribe down below yes anyways bye