 Hello again, everybody. It's December 1, 2017, which means it's time for another monthly wrap-up video this time for November. First of all, I want to remind everybody that my work here on YouTube is supported by viewers. You can become a sponsor by going to my 50th Street page at 30secondsci-fi.50th.st or just go to 50th.st, the 50th Street website, and look for the 30-secondsci-fi link. You can make a one-time donation or you can become a monthly sponsor. If you're not subscribed to my channel, please do so and give this video a thumbs up. And also make sure you press that little button shaped like a bell. YouTube will send you an announcement when I've uploaded a new video and when I'm streaming live. Right now I am doing my monthly Reads video from a bookstore, a Portland bookstore called Another Read-Through. It is in the Rose District on Mississippi Street. It's a very interesting little place. A small bookstore, very large and well-curated science fiction and fantasy section. I'll show you some videos of it here. And after this I'll publish a slideshow of books that I've been looking at on the shelves here. But I want to thank Elisa Sapphire, the owner of Another Read-Through for allowing me to do this. It's a quiet Friday afternoon here right now. I also owe you several movie reviews. I saw Terry Gilliam's Brazil on Monday evening. And on Wednesday evening I saw Howell's Moving Castle. I believe it was the final installment in the Miyazaki Festival they've been showing all year. So look for those. I also saw a week or two before a double feature of Ghost Theater and Monsters at the Asian Film Festival. And I want to talk about those. Unfortunately my reviews won't be positive. Alright, about the channel. Right now I have 883 subscribers. So we're approaching 900, which means in a few months we'll be at 1,000. That's good. That's good. I actually lost a lot of subscribers this past month. I think it's partially because of the Rift Skechathon, but also because of the video about Don't Go to Thanksgiving this year. The same thing happened last year. I lost a few subscribers because of that. But the amount of subscribers I've gained is a lot larger than the amount that I lost. So that's good. Thank you all for the new subscribers. Please give this video a thumbs up. That's how videos get seen and recommended on YouTube as they get liked. So keep that in mind. The number one most watched video again this past month on my channel is the Old School Cuber video. It's not just the most watched video. It's been watched five times as much as the second place video, which is the Coherence Movie Review. And last month, the very day that I published my wrap-up video and I mentioned the kind of views that it's getting and the kind of hostility it's getting from kids. This came up. Speaking of the devil. And just today, before I came over, I got this comment. I've said before, I've intended for a long time to publish a follow-up video to that video. And I will. Wow, the sun came out. Maybe I should shift over to this side. There, that's much better. You may have noticed that I've experimented with monetizing my videos, placing print ads next to the videos and along the bottoms of the videos. Some of my videos, like the Old School Cuber video and my most viewed videos, I'm also putting video ads on. As of today, YouTube tells me that I've made $8.29 in the three weeks that I've been experimenting with that. That's $8.29 more than I expected. I expected zero. Half of that, fully half of that came from just the Rubik's Cube video. So yeah, I'm going to leave the ads on to have video for sure. New videos, and especially the book review and science fiction related videos, will not have video ads on them. Before I go on to what I read and what I bought this month, I want to thank again my sponsors, Greg Kruski, Darren Vanaria, Kyle Geertz, Cesar Aravalo, and Sean Bell. Thank you guys. I hope your ranks grow. Let's hope for that. This month, I read Islands of Dr. Moreau, the HG Wells book, and I read it because we discussed it briefly with Becky in one of the recent episodes of the 32nd half hour. Speaking of which, I don't know when there's going to be an next episode of that. I need guests. I also read Shadow of the Vulture and Tower of the Elephant, of course, by Robert E. Howard, which was my most recent book review. People seem to like that review, and I'm glad of it. I started reading The Wind-Up Girl by Paolo Bazzigalupi, which I've owned this for a while. But I started reading it now because this bookstore, another read-through, has an active science fiction club that meets in the middle of the month, and that is their book for this month. I hope to go to that meeting and have a good percentage of the book finished so I can discuss it. The first chapter was very good. The second chapter, I thought, was not as strong. I've just started the third chapter. I've given Paolo Bazzigalupi strong reviews in the past. He's an excellent world builder. I've read a lot of his short stories and his novellos. I've not read any of his novels, so we'll see. I'm still picking my way through the Nebula Awards Showcase 13, which I mentioned before. It's a long book, a lot of stuff in it, and almost everything in there is fantastic. Once I'm done with that, I'll review it. I read the first four chapters of Autonomous by Annalee Nevitz, which is available for free at, let's see, what's the? Torforgeblog.com. I'll put a link below. Really good first four chapters. Not perfect, but very good. It definitely made me want to read more. And I also have reread the first two chapters of Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Shannon McGuire, which is the sequel to, or prequel rather, to Every Heart of Doorway. There's a link to that below. It's at torforgeblog.com. And apparently there is a third chapter available in audio form, which I've not listened to yet, I believe the link is there on that page. Speaking of reading first chapters of books, I've read a number of first chapters, first two chapters of various books, in addition to the ones that I've read, that I've mentioned here, because I want to do another tri-chapter book tag video. I've been meaning to do that for a long time now, and I'm overdue, and I've got a backlog of those books. I'll get to it. I'll get to it. As far as books that I bought, I only bought two books this month, and I bought them here at another read-through. These right here. The Outcasts of Heaven Built by Joan D. Vinge, whose work I love, what little I've read of it, and I need to read a lot more. And Paradox Alley by John DeChancey. Not an author I'm familiar with, I've seen his name before, and certainly not a book I've read. But I found them here, right here at this store. That's it as far as books that I bought this month. Okay, I believe I'm done. Thank you again to Elisa Sapphire and another read-through books for allowing me to do this. There will be more book reviews and movie reviews coming right up. So stick with me. If you're new to my work here, be sure to subscribe and give this video a thumbs up. That's how videos get seen. And consider becoming a sponsor to follow the links below. Bye.