 If you can't give the recommendations based on All Star Seven drag queens, how the hell are you going to give the recommendations based on anything else? That was the worst thing I've ever said in my life. Oh my loves, hello, welcome if you're new, my name's Megan, today we're doing the recommendations based on the drag queens in All Star Seven, the current season of All Star Seven, the all winners season. Yes! Yes! I love this season so much, and this is one of my favourite seasons ever, primarily because it has my favourite drag queen ever, ever in it. I'll give you a moment to guess who my favourite drag queen ever is, the first drag queen I ever fell in love with, still to this day my favourite drag queen and I freaked out that I found there going to be on it, Jinx Monsoon. Jinx Monsoon is by far my favourite drag queen ever, I think she's the best to have ever done it, no one compares. People say Bianca Daria is the best drag queen to ever do drag race. Incorrect, Jinx is the best. Jinx is the best. Okay. So I'm just loving this season because of that, and I want to do some book recommendations based on if you like this queen, try out this book essentially. I just want to pre-warn you before we get into these recommendations. These are Reaches Beyond Reaches, I just like, this is the first book that came to mind through very circumstantial links. If you think it's going to be Reaches, I mean just wait until you see what I actually say, because you'll be like, wow, I didn't think it could be that bad. I really didn't. The first queen I'm going to recommend a book based off of is Raja. Raja was the first winner, I think that was like the winner. Do you know what I mean? She wasn't necessarily my favourite on the season. I love Shangela and Alexis Matteo, I did love them on season three, but Raja was like the first winner where you're like, okay, yeah, I mean like no one, no one else was going to do that. So when I was thinking of a recommendation based on Raja, I was thinking she's fashion. It's fashion. It's fashion meets... It's fashion. It's, excuse me, it's fashion. I'm going to try and only use Drag Race memes, we'll see how well I do. Something that's very like beautiful, a beautiful book, but also a book that's like conceptual and like references. And like sometimes there's a bit, I feel like Raja's references, sometimes I'm not like fashion history girlie. Like I know what I like and I watch a lot of fashion YouTube, but like I'm not in the know on all the references. So a book that has a lot of references, but like sometimes you're like, I don't understand all of this. And also, I mean the running joke is that Raja's old, like who cares? I mean, do you remember her from America's Next Top Models, the makeup artist? How iconic, but anyway. So I wanted a book that was a bit older, a kind of author that is like one of the best we've ever done it. You know an iconic, iconic author who people look at as like a mainstay in their field. So the book recommendation I have is The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstin. I love this edition that I have of it, I think it's so gorgeous. This is about a magical circus that comes to town. The story kind of mainly follows these two young magicians who are kind of caught in this battle with each other without knowing it. But this book, impossible to describe, and like I cannot really remember the plot. It's above me. It's above me in the same way that Raja is above me. Raja would probably step on me. Let's be honest here. The circus arrives at that warning, no announcements preceded it. It is simply there when yesterday it was not. The black sign painted in white letters, it hangs upon the gates, reads, opens at nightfall, closes at dawn. I just feel like I need Raja to like make an outfit based on this edition because yeah, it's kind of needed. So I just love this book. It's an absolute five-star for me. It's a classic, I feel like it's a bit of a modern classic now, The Night Circus. When was this published? Like 2012 would be my guess? 2011. Oh, I was close. When did season three air? If I just, it wouldn't have been 2011, would it? It would have been earlier. Fuck off, it's 2011. Fuck off. I'm actually undisputed. They're from the same era. This book just like, oh, it breathes opulence and fashion and like, gorgeousness and magic. And I feel like that's what Raja exudes, so let's go with it. Next, my recommendation is based off of Miss Jinx Monsoon, my favorite to have ever done it. I mean, like, where'd you begin? I feel like this season has really cemented Jinx as the best. Like, I don't care. I mean, she's gonna win. I really believe more than truly she's gonna win. Delusion. Convince yourself. I don't give a fuck. Write it down now. That is my prediction. But like, oh, the snatch game, best you've ever done it. Jinx is funny. Jinx is, uh, referential. Jinx is, he always has like, an element of like, historical, you know, like references back to an age gone by, I feel like, in her drag. So I knew I wanted to go for an historical book. And I just thought about it and I thought, the best book to have ever done it. In a strange case, the outcome is told to my Theodora gods. Well, technically the second in the series, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, I think is my favorite. The whole series is five stars. Jinx is five stars. What more do you want? I mean, like, I had to say my favorite series of all time. Like, some of my favorite books of all time for Jinx because... I actually like, it works. I can imagine Jinx, like, dropped into this, this room of monstrous girls. So we follow in this, monstrous girls. We follow Mary Jekyll and Diana Hyde. We follow Catherine Moreau. We follow Justine Frankenstein. So it's daughters or female versions of a lot of classic men from Victorian literature. Sherlock and... I always say Sherlock and Holmes sometimes. Sherlock and Watson. Sherlock and Watson are in it. And it's discovering mysteries and it's funny. This book is funny. I don't read a lot of books where I'm like, oh, it's funny. Like, it takes a lot for a book for me to go, haha, haha. This is a place for legends. Okay. In this, Catherine, one of the girls, is writing the book of their story. And the other girls will interject with being like, bitch, it didn't happen that way. Bitch, excuse me. Excuse me. Get your shit together, Catherine. That's basically what they say. And it's just fun. And it's wholesome. And it makes me feel warm inside. Like, Jinx makes me feel warm inside. I feel like they go together. I actually, Jinx Monsoon, let me recommend you this book. You know, I love this season. A lot of Jinx's fashion on the runway. Firstly, I'm just so proud of her. Like, she's really turning looks. But like, it's all got this kind of vintage historical slant to it. So I feel like this is the perfect book. Okay, next we have, is it the Vivian still or just Viv? I don't know what we're calling her anymore. What I think of the Vivian, I just think British. I gotta admit, Vivian, we're not, she's not my good books at the moment. I gotta be honest, I never finished season one of the UK Drag Race. I didn't, I'm just, something about it. I just didn't, I didn't love it. I didn't love, I didn't love it. And Vivian and Jinx, obviously, I head to head at the moment. So me and Vivian, I'm kind of like over it. I'm kind of like, I don't want to recommend a book based on it. But I just thought, what is one of the most British gay books that I own? And I've gone for Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow by Benjamin Dean. By the way, all these books on this list, I've given four or five stars. They're all books I'd really recommend. So this is a book where Archie sees a pride leaflet fall out of his dad's bag and he goes to pride with his friends in an effort to try and learn more about his dad because his dad and his mum have just split up. So it's very much gay. They go to London for pride. There's drag queens in this who help them more towards the second half of the book. And I mean, is there much beyond this other than the British and gay that screams the Vivian? No, no, no. But... I don't want to hear any goddamn excuses anymore. Me and the Vivian aren't friends right now, so I don't really care. And I want to recommend this book to people because I haven't spoken about it for quite a while. But I think it's a great middle grade at exploring the issues that it explores. It was a very fun, enjoyable read that I'd really recommend. Next we have Monet, who other than Jinx is probably who I'm rooting for. I have always really loved Monet in all the seasons that she's been in. I actually saw Monet live. There's a few of these I've seen live actually, but I saw Monet live on her own, which is I think the only drag queen that I've seen on their own show. She came to my university. It was like in the fucking university hall, which like isn't the most glamorous setting, but she was there and she was amazing live, amazing live. And one of my favorite things about Monet is like, she constantly shocks you. She constantly like pulls the wood, like the wall over your eyes. She's like, oh, you know, it's a constant shock. I mean, two of my favorite lip syncs ever. Two of my favorite lip syncs ever. Firstly, the fake death drop. Secondly, the wig off to the same wig. Yes sis, pop off, go in. You didn't have to snap so hard. I mean, here's the thing. Arguably all stars, I get them all mixed up for, was it that they won? Trinity had a better track record by the time at the end. Trinity was probably who should have won, but Monet demolished her so badly in that lip sync, they had to let both of them win. Like Trinity was like flaying around and Monet was like, oh, the wait. And I wanted to pick a book that had a lot of twists and turns and that is Dead Dead Girls by Nekisa Athia. This is a 1920s mystery where these girls are being murdered in Harlem where our main protagonist lives and she basically decides to like uncover what is going on. And I just feel like it has those twists. It has those whoop, it has some really good twists, especially for a debut. This was a debut. I'm very excited to read the second one in the series, which comes out in a couple of days. Here's the thing, Monet is a bit r- Another reason I picked this is Monet is a little bit rough around the edges sometimes. I think we can all admit that. A little bit rough around the edges sometimes. And this is a little bit sometimes. I gave this four stars because it was a debut. It was a little few moments where I was like, okay, like a little bit, a little bit rough. But on the whole, I really enjoyed a read, a really rememberable read. Rememberable? That's not a word. Memorable. And one that I look on very fondly and I'm very excited to continue on in the series. Next is Miss Jada Essence Hall. I feel like Jada gets forgotten. And that's a part of this book. I feel like this book and Jada go under the radar a bit incorrectly. I feel like Jada is like an all-rounder, all-rounder. She like hits everything. Also great, great looks. We've seen that in the design challenges so far this season. Turns great looks. This book is very beautiful. And I feel like Jada of all the girls is very good at making friends with everyone. She's very good at like uplifting everyone, supporting everyone. So the book I'm going to recommend is The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. I love this edition. I just really, really love it. I think it's quite simple with like how the cover bleeds into the design here. But I really, really love it. This is a mystery set in 1634 on this ship where basically they think the devil on the ship, the people on this ship. And one of the most famous world detectives thinks Sherlock Holmes is on the ship, but he's imprisoned. So his equivalent of Watson is the one who has to kind of figure out what's going on. Now, beautiful book. I don't think it's spoken about enough. The author's other book, The Seven Deities of Evelyn Hardcastle is more spoken about, but I think incorrectly. I didn't really like that one, whereas this was five stars. Aside from the mystery, which obviously I loved, one of my favourite parts of this book was the friendships and relationships that are built throughout the book. The main character, he's very good at befriending some of the people on the ship who you wouldn't expect him to befriend. And it kind of makes this like Scooby Gang vibe on the ship that you really just wouldn't expect. So I really, really appreciated it. And yeah, I just think it's forgotten and like not spoken about enough. And I think like Jada, we should uplift them both more. So next is Shea. Again, I think Shea is one of the best all-round performers. Like turning looks, turning acting challenges, turning performance challenges. Now, my history with Shea. I've always loved Shea, but in season nine, she wasn't my favourite. Sasha Valour was my favourite. I really was a Sasha Valour galley. I saw them both at, I can't remember what it's called. It's like some performance tour that a lot of the queens do here in the UK. And I saw them both. And Shea, I was kind of disappointed by her performance live. I was like, hmm. What? It didn't really give me what I wanted. Like out of all the queens. I saw Latrice, I saw Shangela. I saw all these queens, like Kim Chi on this tour. And Shea was kind of like one of the most lackluster ones. I'm not gonna lie. And then Sasha Valour came on and I cried. I was in a sea of quiz. Like, and I was sobbing. Like literally sobbing. I was sobbing. And everyone else was just like woo. And I was like crying, crying. Because Sasha Valour just like hit home. Right. Shea wasn't my favourite. But she has grown on me. She wasn't like, she was probably my second favourite on that season. You know, I'm being, you know, exaggerated. But she's really grown on me. And to the point where I see her as like one of the best queens to have come from the show. So the book I'm gonna recommend is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. So I originally gave this, I think, like a four slash 4.5 star. But I look back on it now as a five star. That doesn't happen to me very often. I don't change my ratings. I need to go and adjust my rating actually for this on Goodreads. This man wakes up on this spaceship. And he doesn't really remember why he's there. Until he kind of slowly realises that he has this impossible task to save humanity in front of him. His crewmates are dead. He's the only one there. And this book has some surprises up its sleeve. Just like Shea does. It has some shocks to it. It has some really great, great plot twists to it. And yeah, I think it's just a book that's grown on me. And I look back on as one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read. I don't know why I rated it lower. I think I just read a five star. There was undisputably a five star. Whereas this is like a better book than that book. It was like a cozy mystery that I read. But I felt like I couldn't give it a five star. But I look back on it as great. And I think that's something special in a book and a drag queen. Next is Evie, who was, in contrast, absolutely my favourite on her season. I loved Evie. And when you think of Evie, just think strange. You think oddball, you think crazy, you think whatever, you know? So I had to think what is one of the craziest books that I own. But that I absolutely love. And that is Dig by A.S. King. We literally have a character in this called The Freak. The Freak. I mean, come on. They couldn't get any more. Any more perfect. So this is like a story about a family of potato farmers. We have one called The Freak. We have The Shuffler. We have a girl who has a flea circus. A circus of fleas she owns. And it's just one of the strangest books I've ever read. In the way that it's told, in the way that it's structured, in the way that the characters act. It's weird. And A.S. King as a whole, I think I'd recommend if you'd like the strangeness of Evie, you would really like A.S. King. This book at its core is actually, I haven't made a link to this too with Evie, but it's about white privilege and white power and white supremacy and ingrained structures of whiteness that benefit white people and recognising that. And it's very, very interesting how you think it's going to be a story about potato farmers, but it turns out to be much more. It is on the back. YA Master A.S. King explores how a toxic culture of polite, affluent white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation has a shot at digging its way out. So that's kind of what it's about at its core, but it's got all this crazy, wacky stuff going on on the surface that you have to kind of read between the lines on. And finally, we have Trinity, who again is a very good all-round performer. You kind of expect her, remember when I first saw how you expect her to just be looks just like pageantry, but she's great at comedy, great at performances, great at acting challenges, like she really is really great on so many different levels, great at a snatch game we saw this season. So I wanted to pick a book that again was just a perfect all-round book for me that is gorgeous and is a bit of a surprise. It's a bit of like a shock as to where it goes. So I picked Watch Over Me by Nina LeCourt. I read this last year and I mean, firstly, what is that cover if not drag? The hair. I mean, come on. And then look. Oh, her eyes are open, bitch. Closed, open. She's watching you. I mean, come on. What is that if not drag? This is about a girl who has just aged out of the foster system and so she goes to work at this kind of remote farm that has foster kids there. But it's strange. It's very strange. She's dealing with stuff from her past and it goes in this very strange direction towards the end of the book. I don't want to say much because I kind of forget what's a spoiler and what's not but it's very much a surprise in the way that I feel like Trinity over her course on Drag Race has surprised many people and it goes in a really, really interesting direction and I love it so much more than I could have expected to and I feel the same way about Trinity. So there we have it, everyone. That is all my recommendations based on the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7. Let me know what you're thinking of this season down below. What you thought of my awful recommendations. There would definitely a reach. Let me know who your favorite queen on the season is. I would really, really have to know. Jinx. I mean, Jinx stands stay together though. I feel like you should all be Jinx stands. Anything else is incorrect, I'm joking. But thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this bit of a different video. I actually had a lot of fun making it. I love you. If you got to the end, comment lipstick emoji. Comment that if you got to the end. I love you and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye.