 So Either I look super awesome right now or super dumb And without my proper glasses, I can't tell But how about this space, huh? This is the conference room at a shared office space called NXT Industries in Portland I saw a picture of this space on their website and I was like Wow This looks like the set of space 1999. I need to shoot my next update in this space and here I am So by the time you see this, it'll be September 4 Which means it's time for me to do my wrap-up of August and First things first I received a package in the mail from a fellow youtuber overseas Becky M on the beach by a Neville shoot She reviewed this last year. I believe it was one of her Favorite books of the year. She was kind enough to send this to me. I definitely look forward to reading this Thank you Becky next I found this It was on the giveaway table At the office space that I share up here and it's got the disc in it. I Don't have an Xbox 360 though, but I wasn't gonna walk past that table and leave this there It's a street fighter versus Tekken by the way. I think I should say the title, you know Okay, before I get to books that I bought last month We'll talk about what I read last month the most importantly. I read Christine by Stephen King 7800 page book and I read it in one month Which is remarkable for me. It was an okay book. It was just okay It's a better movie than the book, but I'll review it in October for a horror month and right now I am halfway through Exigency by Michael Siemsen. It's an e-book that I got in a free giveaway from Kobo comm and a surprise gem. I'm enjoying it. I'll definitely review that sometime now to books that I bought in August I Couldn't remember if I showed this last time or not. It was in the stack of stuff that I showed last time space and time and anthology edited by Raymond J. Healy with It's got Asimov in it Anthony Boucher Ray Bradbury a even vote Look at that great cover the great classic sci-fi cover Me and the lighting in here is great, isn't it? In order for my face to be seen properly I had to put I had to bring out all my lights and put them right in front of me around the camera because With me with all this light directly behind me. I was just a silhouette So it took some work, but man look at this lighting, huh? My last trip to a Powell's I got rid of a few books including that that big copy of Christine Here's a couple of pictures of people who were in line at the book buying table at Powell's these people are doing proper unhauls This is how you do it. You bring stacks of boxes of books with a dolly Anyway, I sold my four little books and I got some credits and trade and I picked these up anthologies the shape of things edited by Damon Knight at a great classic cover there It includes Ray Bradbury Theodore Sturgeon the A.E. Van vote C.M. Cornbluth Anthony Boucher There's the some of the names I read on that other book aren't they? Well, they're good The Solaris book of new science fiction volume 3. I don't know if I've talked about this series before I haven't read any of them I don't know if I have any sitting in storage back in Florida If I do I haven't read them and I'm sure I don't have this one This includes stories by Stephen Baxter and Alistair Reynolds some of my favorites and This thing Look at this cover It's called three times infinity. I like how they use the infinity symbol there the three novellas One by Ray Bradbury and Lee Brackett a collaboration between the two I really want to read that and the Golden Helix by Theodore Sturgeon and Destination Moon by Robert Highland. I don't think I've read Destination Moon This is all the books that I bought in August by the way Not very many and only two two buying trips the next batch of books. I got at Goodwill of all places There's a huge there are Goodwill's on almost every corner up here in Portland and there's a huge Goodwill down the street from here and I went to get a duffel bag and I decided to go see if there were any science fiction books in their book department. They had a science fiction section at Goodwill and There was great stuff too. Most of it for a dollar. There's something called Copernic's Rebellion. I don't know anything about it. The description was interesting. The cover was certainly interesting It looks like satire. We'll see the second Omni book of science fiction Back in the 80s and part of the 90s. I think there was a magazine called Omni That called itself a science magazine, but it wasn't it wasn't real science It was a pseudo science mostly Bigfoot Loch Ness monster that kind of thing But they were famous for publishing great science fiction So this will be good. There's Harlan Ellison spider Robinson Ray Bradbury. He's everywhere and he's dead The man cousin wars three novellas three long stories one by Larry Niven who created the cousin universe and Two other stories one by Paul Anderson and Dean Ying I've I've read about the man cousin wars for decades now. I've never read any of it Now here's a title here's a book title that I've been reading and hearing about for some time the neutronian alchemist Does that even show up on the wow It's so reflective. It doesn't even Wow My camera's freaking out The neutronium alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton one of his big books. I think what I'm gonna do with these Big novels is I'm gonna do some more of these try a chapter Book tags, which I've enjoyed quite a bit and Two more things here from Goodwill There's something called the bear went over the mountain By William Cotswinkle. I have no idea who that is the title and the cover Were really attention-grabbing it must be satire This says that he's the beloved author of ET the extraterrestrial. Was that based on a book? Or did he write the novelization? I'll have to look that up, but this looks like it's about a bear who tries being human and finally 2030 by Albert Brooks. I remember when this book came out. I remember him doing the talk show tours It sounded very interesting for those of you who don't know Albert Brooks as a comedian one of the greatest comedians in the world Some more trivia he was discovered by Mel Brooks His real name is Albert Einstein As far as what's coming up in September, let's talk a little bit about the channel I am well above 800 subscribers. It's it's coming along smoothly For the last several months My one video that's getting the most views every month month after month is the review I did of that Works weed wacker that electric string trimmer Before that the video getting all the views was my review of the coherence movie Which is fine with me because it's bringing the the kind of audience that I want for this channel The review of the weed wacker is not bringing the kind of audience I want so I may take it down I've taken down videos before videos that were getting 80,000 views 90,000 views that still even though They've been taken down for years They still have more views than I've ever gotten on any other videos But I took them down because they weren't bringing Subscribers they weren't bringing an audience So I don't know I may take down that that string trimmer video In the meantime, I'm getting more comments than ever before. I'm getting more active viewers Which is great a few weeks ago. I started doing these live streams here on this channel of the h1 z1 Video game that I've been playing I've been enjoying that and it brought in a few new subscribers People who are chatting with me while I'm playing if you're not interested in the h1 z1 gameplay videos Then just skip them don't watch them because I'm certainly gonna continue to do everything else that I'm doing here And for those of you who are new subscribers tell me how you found my channel and Why you decided to become a subscriber? I'd really like to know that and for those of you who are seeing me for the first time Please become a subscriber and certainly press the like button below the video Subscriptions and likes are how videos get seen on YouTube. That's how I'm growing and of course Please consider becoming a paid sponsor of my channel here There's a link in the description below you can subscribe for a small monthly amount or you can choose to make a one-time donation Everything helps. There's some great book reviews coming up this month and of course in October for horror month And I will see you then bye