 warriors and welcome back to my channel. And yes, this background is very different than normal. I am back at home with my family. I'm not living back in my old room, but that's currently where I am at this moment. So before anyone goes crazy about like, you're in a pandemic, why did you drive 10 hours to go back home? I do want to first say that it was a very hard decision for us to make, was to decide whether or not we were going home. The only reason, well the reason that we did choose to go home was because Brennan was able to get all of work off from the week before Thanksgiving, all the way until the middle of January. And so we are here for more than two months. So we've been here for more than two months. We got tested before and after we traveled. Both tests came back negative, but then when we got home we wore masks around everyone and we kept our social distance. And actually we spent Thanksgiving in a completely different room than the rest of my family in order to keep safety and distance. So I just want to put that out there as like, I am still taking this seriously. I do, I still kind of feel a little bad about traveling because I know we're not supposed to. Yeah it's just kind of what happened and so we're gonna be here until like I said a little over halfway through January. And then we'll go back to our lonely isolated apartment. Anyway, now for the point in this video. Also yes, I am aware that the lighting sucks. I can't do much about it. But I'm making this video because it is a super exciting video and I'm making it at home because it just came out. So Ariana from The Enchanted Reader tagged me in one of her new original tags that she had just released and I was like oh my word I really want to do this. So I, now here I am in a random like room of our house. I don't have very many books with me but I'm going to do this tag and this tag is the Wonder Book Tag. And this is a tag that she created based off of the new Shawn Mendes album that recently came out and so for every song there will be a question. She tagged me to do it and I'm so honored that she tagged me. And so I'm really excited to do it. And yeah so with that I'm just gonna get right into the video then. So the first book is for the song Wonder, obviously, a book you can't stop thinking about and the book I chose for this was called We Were Liars by E. Lockhart and this book I read forever ago I think as a freshman in high school which was five, six, six and a half years ago. Oh geez six and a half years ago I was a freshman in high school. And so I read it based off of a recommendation of a classmate who I didn't know very well but we were in a writing class together and so I trusted her opinion and it just always was a book that stuck with me because it was the first time for me reading like a non fantasy book that was not required by school because I just did not read a lot of contemporary. I didn't read a lot of realistic fiction like I just know. So basically there was this, there's this family and like I said it was six and a half years ago so it's been a while since I read it but it's about this family who goes on vacation over the summer to like their family home. Some huge event happened like a year or two ago or a couple years ago and the main character kind of doesn't remember it or like has suppressed the memories or something like that and so she goes back with family vacation and endures a bunch of family drama to try and figure out or try to remember what happened, what did she do, what did her friends do, there was something about a fire like I don't know. I barely remember it and I'm pretty sure the character didn't remember it so it would be perfect for me to reread the story especially since I'm pretty sure I like didn't even understand what was going on at the time. It's a book that I always think about because it was such like like I said it was the first non-school required non-fantasy or sci-fi book that I read so it was like a really big deal for me and every time I see it I'm like oh my word that just triggered so many emotions for me I want to read it again and so I just I'm constantly I always get drawn back to it and I've never done anything but I definitely want to buy it and read it again I just I'm also a little afraid to do so. The next song is Hire a sequel that was better than the original. This is a really good one because I so the sequel I chose for this was Thunderhead by Neil Shusterman it's the second book in the Scythe trilogy. The thing is is that I always almost always believe that the first book is always the best book in any kind of series trilogy duology I just I always love the first book because there's so much world-building and explaining that has to happen and that's what I enjoy I enjoy that creativity but I do think that Thunderhead was a really good sequel if not better than the first one because it not only continues on the plot from the first book and it keeps with the characters it also adds in a bunch of new elements to the story adds in new characters and the plot just really takes off in the second one so while I do believe the first one is obviously necessary to be introduced to the story I do think the second one is where the major plot of the trilogy does pick up and like I said you they mentioned like the Thunderhead in the first book but it's not as much of a thing as it is in the second book so it's almost like a new element that was added without it without it being strictly new so I really do think that the Thunderhead was probably better than Scythe if not on the same level at the very least which is not something I always believe in books. The third one is 24 hours a book that you can read in 24 hours and there are quite a few books that I can read in 24 hours as I've done many or readathons or you know even 24 hour readathons so the book I am choosing for this is Once Upon a Time and it's a Disney Twisted Tale I believe it is by Liz Braswell and the thing is is that I could theoretically say any twisted tale book because I feel like all of them are ones that I could read within 24 hours no matter on like the length like some of them are longer than the others but they're all a very similar like easy to understand writing like I don't know if it's quite middle grade but it almost could be just in terms of the style of the writing of both Liz Braswell and Jen Calanetta books because they are two authors that are taking turns kind of like writing the twisted tales so I'm just saying Once Upon a Dream because that's the one that I did read in 24 hours but I think that any Disney Twisted Tale would be one that I could if I just sat down and read it it could happen moving on to the next song is Teach Me How to Love and this is a book with a steamy romance now I do not read a lot of romance I've said this so many times on my channel I'm just not a big romance person per se but I did go with a book for this question and I decided to go with the kiss cushion by Helen Huang this book I read last February when I was attempting to read romance and I chose this one because like yes it's steamy but not necessarily for the sake of things it's a theme in the book it's not just events it's of this girl who asks burgers it's this girl who is not comfortable with touch and so she has been having a hard time finding a life partner because of the sexual aspect of having a relationship she has a hard time with people touching her in that way and so she decides to go out and hire a male escort to help her figure it out and it's so it's steamy but not in the sake for being steamy like there's a whole story there's like a reason for it and that's like the only reason I would ever want to read a steamy book there's just not my preference it's not my type yeah so that's what I chose and this next one is based off the song Call My Friends and is what is your best friend's favorite book now this is an interesting one because not a lot of my friends read and the ones that do they don't read a lot so I decided to go with Brennan who is technically my husband but he really is like my best friend like actually and the thing is is that he has a very different reading taste than I do and he said it's his favorite is a hundred years of solitude he read it for school but it was a project that he could choose and he just he always talks about it he loves it he was he ever since that book he's like I want to read more magical realism and I'm like okay have fun I'm good so his favorite book is a hundred years of solitude and that is by Gabrielle Garcia Marquez so fun right next one is dream a book with a long-distance relationship now there are two books that I debated on going with for this prompts because one of them is like a romantic relationship and it's red white and royal blue by Casey McQuiston and I debated on not going with this one because I talk about it so much on my channel because it was the one romance I thoroughly enjoyed like I loved it completely and so like that's one that would fit the prompt but I've talked about it so much so I'm gonna go with another one that fits the prompt but not quite in the same way so I decided to go with snow flower and the secret fan and this is by Lisa see this book takes place it's a fictional book of back in ancient China and so the long-distance relationship is not a romantic relationship it's a best friend and so because it's ancient China women's lives look very different than how they do now and so this girl who never really gets to leave her house you know her duties are to cook clean be like the woman of the house she gets paired by a matchmaker not only to a husband but also to allow Tom her best I'm a best friend so it's someone who's very similar to her that would get along well with her and they are set up to be best friends but she lives in a different city and then when they both end up getting married off they continue to live in different cities and so the book it's more so about her friendship with her allow Tom over the course of both of their lives so it starts very early when they are going through footbinding to getting matched with the allow Tom to getting matched with the husband to getting married to having children like it's an entire lifetime but it's a very small book and so that's the one that I really wanted to choose for this prompt because it is a long-distance relationship but not in the way that the prompt they suggest sorry but it's just a book that I want to talk about more because it was it was so good then the next one is song for no one a character breakup that destroyed you I struggled with this one so hard because in most of the books I've read there haven't really been much of like a breakup it's always characters getting together there's never really like a breakup or a long lasting breakup and so I don't really remember a lot of character breakups and a lot of them did not affect me in the way I think the author intended so the book I chose for this one is like it fits the prompt but I chose an absolutely remarkable thing by Hank Green the main character is dating a girl it is a same-sex relationship and she breaks up with her at some point in the book and I was like okay it didn't affect me that much but it honestly was a book that had a breakup in it that was like okay that was a main thing that happened in the book moving on so alrighty then we have monster your favorite villain oh good question I never have the answer that I want so like when I'm like oh there are so many good villains out there and then I never remember who they are what they are like I'm so bad at remembering villains unless I just read them so there are plenty of really good villains but for this one I chose the house of sultan sorrow and I'm not gonna talk too much about the villain just because that is a standalone book it's a 12 dancing princesses retelling but I think I don't know if it's necessarily a villain per se but just like the cause of the trouble was so cool so creepy I loved it so while there are probably so many other amazing villains and books that I loved would probably fit this prompt better I just can't think of them so I'm going with the ending of house of sultan sorrow by Erin a Craig just just go read it then you'll understand 305 an unexpected romance between characters now the book I've chosen for this takes me back so long ago way back when I read the mortal instrument series I know I never talk about the mortal instrument series that's because I don't remember majority of the mortal instrument series I read it in middle school and the other problem is that I read the series right as like one of the last books or so was like coming out to complete the first series that Cassandra claire wrote and I sat down one week in the summer and I read the entire series over the span of a week I just sat there and I read that book because you know it was middle school I didn't have summer homework and I didn't have anything better to do with my time because what are friends right what's a social life for a middle schooler so I sat down and I read it and I did not predict and if you haven't read the more mortal instrument series spoiler the relationship between Alec and Magnus I I love it I love that it happened but I just didn't see it coming again I was in middle school so I never saw anything coming but yeah so forever ago when I read mortal instruments that happened and I was like this is very interesting video I just it's so hard filming in this room because it's like echoey and plain because no one is living in this room but there was also no good spot to film so I'm just kind of like the next prompt has always been you and that is a couple that is endgame slash your fictional ultimate OPT OTP couples alike the ultimate couple and for this one I chose Jude and Cardin from the airfolk trilogy I know I know it took me I was when I read that trilogy and I have read all three and I'm gonna try and keep this spoiler free but when I was reading the books like even the first one the second one I was like no there's no way I'm supporting Jude and Cardin no I refuse I'm not hopping on that boat no I refuse I refuse and then all of a sudden I read the Queen of Nothing and I was like oh my gosh Jude and Cardin oh my heart it has to happen it must be and I just completely flipped my my opinion just absolutely 180 turn around just like Jude and Cardin yes please and I haven't even read any of the extra books outside of the trilogy well I've read I've read one I read the Lost Sisters but that was in between books one and two but I haven't read any of the airfolk books that are like Cardin's background or his stories reason why he is where he is I haven't read those yet and I want to but I get the feeling once I read those I'm gonna be even more like oh I want Jude and Cardin and mmm but like for the longest time I was refusing to hop on that train and now I'm like so then the next front is a piece of you a book you would never lend out this one's a hard one because I actually love lending my books out the problem is no one ever wants don't let my books out to people because no one ever like asks me for them and there have been so many times I'm like you should read this book I have it do you want to borrow it and people are like maybe and then they never do but I will share a time when I did lend a book to my husband and he destroyed it and I was so mad at him I got so mad because he dog-heared like every other page every couple of pages it was just dog-eared it was flapped it was oh I got so mad at him for doing that and so I I really hate for him to borrow my books but I also want him to read so I still let him but we have now had a talk of how to treat books especially books that are not your own because like seriously who takes someone else's book and then just destroys every single corner in the book who does that seriously people so I am perfectly fine with lending out my books to people as long as they know to like respect the book respect me in my books but to choose a book for this prompt I would probably say spend the dawn just because the copy that I have is a soft cover and I got it on our honeymoon so it's like special to me so that's probably a one why wouldn't I prefer not to lend it out but I don't feel very strongly like this specific book must never leave my sight or you know none of my books can be lent out it's just yeah that's fine already we are almost to the end we've got look up at the stars a book set in another planet slash in another world and for this one I am choosing vintage which is the first book in a trilogy I read it for my class and I really I loved it for a couple of reasons one it is based off of a different world and it's very creative but to it's like a huge commentary on society even though it's like sci-fi it's really cool because it's about this girl who is from an African tribe and they cover themselves in the red dust of the earth and she really wants to leave and go to this prestigious Academy but her community is like no that's not how we roll what are you doing but then she ends up getting accepted into the Academy and so she goes and she is the only person like her who goes to this Academy in space and it's about her facing like keeping her own traditions facing who is she like why is she doing what she's doing and it's just really but then also the commentary of how other people treat her when they see someone who's different than they are did they treat her nice do they put her down and it was just it was a really good book and I think a lot of people should read it and it's also like very short so it's really like there's no excuse for you not to read it I haven't read the rest of the trilogy for it yet but I really want to so yeah based in another planet is binti but it's based off of our planet then the last song slash prompt for this tag is can't imagine a book you can't live without and this is a really good prompt um so the book that I have chosen it's another first book in a trilogy and that would actually be in cart I own this book on my Kindle because it's a book that I love to read when traveling and it's one of those rare books that I will read over and over again without like being annoyed or hating it and it's always one of those books that when I'm going through a slump will encourage me to read because the book itself is based off of books and stories it's about this girl who lives with her dad in Europe and her dad is a bookbinder but little does she know that her dad has a special gift he is a silver tongue meaning that when he reads aloud he reads things out of the book characters objects you know if he sits there and reads a paragraph about it it's coming out however that also means that something goes in and so that is exactly how Maggie and her father lost their mother is he accidentally read out a villain of a book when he was reading a story to his family and the wife went in so sad so tragic but that villain that he read out is now causing horror to the world and the and the father has to set things right and so he and some other book characters have to take down this evil and figure out how to send him back into the book considering he has no idea how to target who goes into the book obviously if he knew how to do it his wife wouldn't have gone in the book but yeah so I don't think I could live without ink heart it's a book that I listen to with my mom and then it's a book that I take with me everywhere when I travel and I read it all the time so well that was the wonder book tag thank you so much for an enchanted reader for tagging me to do this I had so much fun sitting there and like puzzling over the prompts like oh I have so many good books for this or I know absolutely nothing and so it was really fun to come up with this list of books to talk about so I cannot thank her enough for tagging me to do this and but with that let me know in the comments below what any of your answers to this tag would be also if you're interested in it the original video will be down below as well as a link to enchanted readers channel just in general so you can check out more of her videos because she makes some pretty awesome videos and she's made quite a few tags in the last couple of weeks based off of music that was coming out and I think that's just so cool how she is incorporating music and books because sometimes for some people so go hand in hand and for some people they don't and so yeah definitely check her out also feel free to 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