 I've been keeping an eye out for something positive to do as far as books and book reviews and I've seen a number of other booktubers do a thing called the try a chapter book tag where they pick a handful of books off of their to be read pile, read the first chapter or two and see what it's like and then decide which ones to continue reading. So that's what I've done here and I have books all over the place. I have piles and piles of books everywhere. Most of which have been sitting for months, either on shelves or on the floor or wherever. So I pulled out six books, I'm going to show them to you now. The first three I picked up, Latro in the Mist by Gene Wolfe, The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid, which I just received in the mail a few days ago, and The World at the End of Time by Frederick Paul. The other three I picked were Dawn of the Onthalos by E.C. Tub, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, and Queen of Angels by Greg Baer. First of all, I'll tell you about the ones that I did not go with, the second set of three. This is an interesting premise. I wasn't crazy about the writing. It didn't make me feel like I wanted to continue reading. That's really all I have to say about it. It's only a 150-page book, though, so I'll probably read it at some point. Parable of the Sower, I've been wanting to read an Octavia Butler book for a long time. I think I read the first two chapters. They're very short chapters, so I read two very good, very well-written, also very dark, and I wasn't in the mood for that. There's an awful lot of talk about God, and that's something that I don't particularly like in my science fiction, so I'll definitely read this someday. It's not right now. Greg Baer, Queen of Angels. Greg Baer is a hell of a good writer. His writing can be really thick, though, a real slog. Even though it's good, it can be hard to get through. The first chapter in here was that way. I wasn't sure what was going on at first. It took me a while to get the hang of what was happening. I don't feel the need to continue reading, although I do have to say that this one chapter that I read seemed awfully familiar. I'm sure I haven't read this book, although it's possible that he wrote a short story or a novella, and then later expanded it into this book because Greg Baer has done that a number of times, like Blood Music, for example. I've read the novella. I've not read the full novel. Yeah, I don't feel like reading this one. OK, the three that I do want to go with, and I continue to read more of them after deciding that I liked them. First of all, the world at the end of time. This is from 1990, but it's not something that I've read. The first chapter describes an alien life form that is truly alien, and that's the kind of thing that I like. And again, like with the Greg Baer book, it was really, really familiar. I know I've read at least that chapter before. I started reading the second chapter, and the second chapter is super long. It's like 60 pages long or something. And that did not seem familiar to me at all. So I may have read part of this book before, but we'll see. I'll continue reading and we'll see. Lattrow and the Mist. This is from the mid-80s, 1986. And then it's a collection of two books, actually. Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Aritae, 1986 and 1989. Tiny little chapters. I've already read the first five. And wow, I love this. This is really, really good. A book this thick is really daunting for me. I really have to like something to dive into to a book this thick, and I really like this. I said this when I first received this book. Gene Wolf is an amazing author whose work I have not read nearly enough of. But wow, this is good. It's a firsthand account of an injured soldier from Roman times. And the prologue explains that it was found written on a scroll. And wow, it's good. Well written. I love it. I'm definitely going to continue with this one. And then there's this, The Diabolic by S.J. Kinkade. This is not something I would have picked up on my own. I heard about this through another booktuber called One Minute Books. She is a librarian named Mary who specializes in children's books. Really, children's books, grade school stuff, and younger even. Every once in a while, she'll review a young adult fiction book like this. And because of her specialty, she always finds stuff that I'm not hearing about and that I wouldn't pick up myself. And her descriptions of this was so strange and so intriguing that I had to order it. And the prologue in the first chapter are gangbusters. Wow, I like this. It's going to read very quickly. It's not thick reading at all. It's written for young readers. And this is a story, this is a situation set up here that I've never seen before. And you know how much I like that. You know how much I like unique stuff. I use the word unique too much. But whenever I find something unique, I want to talk about it. It's hard to describe. So I'll wait until I've finished it and then tell you about it. I hope it pans out. I've had the experience of books starting good and then ending bad. In fact, my next book review is sadly going to be one of those situations. But one of the things I wanted to talk about, while I was researching other book reviews, I found this three year old video from Jude H&D, where she mentioned that the song Get Lucky by Daft Punk. It sounds like they're saying Mexican Lucky, which they're not. But she says that's what it sounds like. So I'm going to play that and see what I think. Get Lucky. OK, let's calm down. And there will be a new book review coming up before the end of the month. There'll be more videos coming up tomorrow and the rest of this week. Please remember to like this video and subscribe to my channel. That's how my videos get seen. I am patron supported, so please consider becoming a patron. 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