 It's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be doing the book recommendations tag. This is a super quick tag with only four questions so that's pretty good and this was created by Zariah Rose so I have her links down below and I was tagged by Julie from Pages and Pens so thank you so much Julie for tagging me. Basically this is simple so let's start off the question number one. So starting with number one recommend the best book that you read in the last month. So I would talk about misery but since I've talked about that so much so much on my channel I'm not gonna talk about it again so in this video anyways. But I'm gonna be talking about Rumble by Ellen Hopkins and I'm hoping to do a review on this. It might already be up by the time this video goes up because this is pre-filmed but I don't know. This is about a boy named Matthew who has lost his brother and so he's dealing with his brother's younger brother's death. He is also dealing with the fact that he's an atheist. He doesn't believe in God. It talks a lot about religion in this book and his girlfriend is very Christian and sometimes their beliefs clash and it's just about that and there's a lot of trigger warnings for depression, suicide, PTSD and I think there's a few more as well but it's just a very serious book but it was done so well and I just loved how raw this was and how emotional this was. It had like a lot of substance. It was so honest and probably my second favorite Ellen Hopkins book impulse being my first but this was a pleasant surprise for me because I didn't know how much I was gonna like this but I did quite enjoy it and an old favorite. So for this I'm gonna be talking about Made You Up by Francesca Zappia and I know everybody talks about Eliza and Hermazza's including myself because it is such a fantastic book but Made You Up was her debut. It's absolutely incredible. I read this in a day and I think at 2015 whenever it came out I read it in the summer. I just sat down and read it for a day which I don't usually read for over 400 page books in a day. So yeah and I didn't even like intend to do that and it was just especially because it was years ago and I don't think I really did that often. It was just awesome and basically this book deals with a girl who has schizophrenia and there's this boy that she met when she was younger. This time she believed that he was a hallucination that he wasn't real and then she walks in a class one day and he's there and she's like what the hell I thought I made him up. Made you up, get it? So that's kind of what this book is about and it deals with mental health in such an important way. I don't want to spoil the ending but I just really enjoyed this and it was I thought it was amazing. So yeah. Recommend nonfiction which I really like this question because I feel like we don't talk about nonfiction as much on book tube but I'm going to be bringing up a Brain on Fire by Susanna Cahalan. I love this book so much. This was I think in my top three favorite books of 2015 or 2016 2016 I think. Yeah and this was just absolutely incredible. Basically we follow Cahalan, go through a psychosis and it's about her break from reality. It's we follow her as she's in the hospital and how she's feeling, what other people think about this interviews, hospital footage, all that sort of stuff. It's absolutely phenomenal and I just I remember when I read this I was just so happy that she decided to share this story with us because it is so personal and so raw and emotional and like probably one of the hardest things I think anyone could deal with and I remember tearing up about this book which if you guys have been here you know I've never cried from a book but this one had me tearing up and I remember reading this. I just have good memories with this. I remember reading this when I was at like a family thingy and I was uncomfortable and I just wasn't feeling up to socializing so I literally just went in this room and I just started reading this and it was just a huge escape for me so I do have a lot of like memories attached to this and just how much I loved it and how much time I spent loving it so yeah I would highly recommend this. I talk about hunger by rocks and gay all the time but this is another one of my nonfiction faves. A book that will help people escape. So for this I thought I'd go with more of like a fantasy-esque read so I'm gonna talk about this Savage Song by Victoria Schwal but I also haven't talked about this one on a long time but this is about a boy and a girl one who's a monster and one who's human and Kate Harker is considered human but she just wants to be ruthless just like her dad but it's that and then there's this dude in the story. What's his name? He was a babe August. August is technically a monster but he's probably more human than Kate technically emotionally and things like that but this book was just so interesting. It's about monsters and humans and it's written just I remember the writing style was so dark and so good and this was my first Victoria Schwal book and I was just so impressed by it and the characters. I was a little bit disappointed by a book too but for this book I just really really enjoyed it and it doesn't have a romance in it which is really surprising for YA and for YA fantasy. Well this is more urban fantasy if I remember or no it's along those lines. Um actually I'm gonna book tag for this so long ago so like shout out to you guys if you were here when I made that book tag. Kayla and I made that book tag cuz we did a buddy read of this so yeah those are my recommendations for the book recommendations tag so thank you so much again to Julie for tagging me to do this and I also am going to have Zerai's links in the description box to tag a list of people but like I was making a list and then I was like girl you gotta stop because this list is just gonna go on forever so I'm like you're gonna stop it here so I'm going to be tagging Saadjit from Books on My Social Life, Peter from Peter likes books, Jesse from Jesse's shelf, Kayla from literature reads, Peyton from Peyton reads, Olivia from I Love You for Books and Cam from Wolf Shop Publishing so if you guys have not done this tag which I don't think any of you have or also I probably would have seen it um then do this tag if you feel like it it's short it's like for it's for questions you're good. 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