 Hey guys it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be doing my August wrap up talking about all the books that I read in the month of August. So the first book that I read this month was Confessions of the Sociopath by M.E. Thomas and I'm going to put this down because it ruins the lighting. This book is about a self-diagnosed sociopath. It's a non-fiction book and it's about how she hides in plain sight and all we know is that she identified as female and she's been self-diagnosed herself as a sociopath and later gets an official diagnosis. This book I read 30 pages of it and I could not do it and I started skimming after that. It was horrible. It made me like need to take breaks like to breathe into like process how upset I was getting over it. It was infuriating me and she also compares the sociopathic spectrum to the autistic spectrum which pisses me off and she was just horrible and I hated her. So I gave this book one star and I would not recommend it. The next book that I read this month was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King, about a nine-year-old girl who gets lost in the woods and it's about her surviving in there and just all the things that happen with her family and how she's coping with everything. She's also in love with this baseball player named Tom Gordon and it's about how baseball kind of intertwines in this plot and it's actually really interesting. I kind of like the references but if you are a baseball fan it's going to make it extra special for you. This one's more simplistic than King's other work. I have a full length video book review of this on my channel so I'll have it linked up on the screen and in the description box for you guys to check out if you want to hear more of my thoughts. Basically at first I gave this book a 3.25 out of five stars and though I really enjoyed reading it and it really was just I was really enthralled in the story. I just it wasn't as complex and in a way it was good but it was kind of different from King and I just really wanted more from this story but from that 3.25 rating I ended up now boosting it to 3.5 because I still think about this book and it just it's remained you know I still think about it. Sometimes I just sit down and I start thinking about this book so it's definitely memorable for me so I boosted up to 3.5 and I would suggest it if you are interested in picking it up. And the next two things that I read here are Fuku Fuku Volume 1 and Volume 2. This manga is just about a kitten and it's just daily life and the owner is an elderly woman and it's just really cute and really fun and if you're looking for something light and fluffy I definitely suggest this and from my knowledge these are the only two published at the moment and I don't think there's gonna be any more at least on Goodreads it's only these two so if you're interested in reading them you only have to read two so I would highly recommend them they're really cute and I gave them both four stars. Here I read The Gunslinger by Stephen King this was a reread for me. I read it about last year around this time as well but I reread it this month with my friend Rachel so I'll have her channel link down below as well. The book is about a man in the desert and he is trying to find the man in black and we don't know why but The Gunslinger and we follow The Gunslinger in the desert and his journey and what's going on with him. I really reread this for the movie as well so I can continue with the series because I didn't remember much about this first book. I did like this better the second time around. It's still not my favorite king novel and I still had some just issues with the plot and it's pacing doing this one a lot better than the first time. Not a ton better but I enjoyed it more and I ended up giving it a 3.5 stars and I'll have my video book review linked up on the screen and down below if you guys want to hear more of my thoughts. And the next book here that I read was On Writing by Stephen King this is Stephen King's memoir about just his life and just advice about writing and it was really good and really informative. I listened to the audiobook of this so he actually narrated it. Book does have some trigger warnings so it has trigger warnings for substance abuse and alcoholism so if you are triggered by those things or affected by those topics just keep it that in mind before picking this book up. This was super informative and just a delight to read. It took me like the first quarter I was like oh okay but like I really got into it later and I think 100% if you're writing a book right now this would help you a ton so you should read this and it was really good. And if you're a king fan you'd also enjoy it so I give this 4 stars and I'd highly recommend it. The next book I have here is You're Doing Just Fine by Charlotte Erickson and this book is a poetry collection. It's a collection of poetry and it includes prose as well. I did do a review on this book as well so I'll have that linked up on the screen. Basically I'll send this by the author in exchange for an honest review and I really really enjoyed it but I will state some trigger warnings now. So this book does have trigger warnings for addiction, depression, suicide, and mentions of self-harm so keep that in mind before picking this book up. For me this was really impactful for me and it just meant a lot and if you're into poetry I'd highly recommend checking this one out. This book a 4.25 out of 5 stars. I Think Beautiful Is Not Yet Ruin by Daniel Young Elman and this book was really good. It's a YA contemporary book with suicide, depression, and sexual assault but it's also we go between past and present and basically this girl or her mother was a famous opera singer so the mom doesn't really believe and like that music is a good career because it like even though she pulled it off for a while it went downhill for her and it like broke her heart. So her daughter wants to go into music and her mom's really against it but she says if you go to this outdoor wilderness survival camp I'll let you go to your music school so that's what she does and it's about her past with her mom and then we also follow her in her survival wilderness camp. This was a pleasant surprise for me. I think it was a great read and if you're looking for a contemporary that's hard-hitting I definitely suggest this one. I found myself absolutely enthralled by the story and this character and everything that was happening. The only issue was um there was a few spoilery issues. I talk about that on Goodreads so if you have read it I'll have my Goodreads review linked down below and the little spoilery section that you could check out but I ended up giving this a this book a solid 4 stars and I'd highly recommend it and yes it was great. You should really read it. So those were the books that I read in the month of August. Let me know what you read down in the comments and if you're new here be sure to hit that subscribe button and click the notification bell to be updated for when I post new videos and all that sort of stuff and I'll see you all very soon with a new video. Bye. Oh I'm gonna break my neck.