hi friends welcome back to where in the world is Leah Jane and today we are
traveling from the depths of my ability to overthink because I have been tagged
and here's what I realize at first I'm like yes because someone noticed me and
then I have to answer the questions and I'm sitting there like you know like so
many options but at the same time all the books I have ever known have now
flown out of my head but you know I just got right through that and I'm ready to
answer the questions now before I get into them I want to think Snow White and
the seven shelves and bookemjenna
for tagging me if you have not checked
out their channel just like pause this video real quick and head right on over
because they are both such lovely genuine people who put up some really
unique content so yes we are doing the coffee book tag and I am drinking water
because I don't drink coffee unless it's an emergency
so just pretend that I'm cool enough to drink coffee and let's talk about books
question number one black coffee well name a series that is tough to get into
but has hard core fans definitely The Wheel of Time series like I have been to
a number of writing groups and book club discussions where people get into these
really intense conversations I have never read it because I tell myself I
haven't at the time but everyone I know who has read it is like Leah no you must
so yeah definitely that series people just their whole lives around that
series Two is peppermint mocha and it's to name
a series like it's more popular in the winter or like a festive time of year
the ones I can think of are like the Grinch The Snow Queen I think of those
the fairy tale around the snow queen is my favorite
and now that I think about it one interpretation of the story is about a
girl who tries to change a boy who suddenly becomes very cruel and
aggressive not the best message so I'm just gonna not think about that anymore
let's just move on to something more nice okay uh how about some hot
chocolate what is your favorite children's book so I have a two first
for anyone who has a young readers out there I'm going to say Stellaluna this
book was my favorite as a child it is about a young fruit bat who gets
separated from her mother and is sort of adopted by these three hatchling birds
who think she is so strange and quirky but try to accept her and teach her the
ways of being a bird anyway I think it's probably where my love of bats now stems
from the second one is the dealing with Dragons series Cimorene was everything
I wanted in a princess as a young girl she was strong and brave and a little
bit defiant I loved that she spent the books learning new things defending
dragons and witches going on adventures and fighting off all the hapless Knights
that thought they could save her or that she needed saving
it's the perfect book for someone who's just getting into chapter books or maybe
even a little bit after that you have a young reader who likes a little bit of
silliness some adventures and a really strong female character then you might
want to gift this book to them double shot of espresso name a book that kept
you on the edge of your seat from start to finish this one is like a hard one
some books that really kept me engrossed the whole story are crooked Kingdom my
current read for a muse of fire I am loving this book and finally this one is
going to be a little unconventional but Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson Aurora is
about this group of people living on a multi generation ship that is being sent
out to terraform another earth-like planet it follows all
of their challenges while they're on the ship I think a lot of people are going
to disagree with me because Kim Stanley Robinson has a tendency to put all of
the things that he's learned while researching a book into the book like he
just loves hashtag cool science facts so it can be a little slow at points for
people I will say I've definitely seen that more with his other books but this
one I could not put it down all I will say for the people who have a read this
book is ship is the best ship no one can convince me otherwise ship has a very
special place in my heart Starbucks named a book that you see
everywhere I still see homegoing by yaa gyasi
I've really loved this book so I can see why it's popular the second is fear by
Bob Woodward again DC I think I'm probably the only person in this city
who has not read it yet that hipster coffee shop give an indie book a
shout-out wow this is a real gap for me because it means that I trust publishing
as an institution to choose which stories I should read um and we all know
publishing is imperfect so let me think about this I feel like a lot of the
stories that I read that aren't formally published are just somewhere online like
through your fiction Pressman that was a thing tumblr there's one tumblr user in
particular we're going to be highlighting and a video that's coming
up who is such a versatile writer I just realized I forgot worm aka the longest
web serial ever which launched while those careers so I guess we can count
that although the boy needs to learn to edit 2,000 years later. Did any other
early online reading nerds and read Worm please let me know I feel like it's
an experience people bond over oops I accidentally got decaf named a book you
were expecting more from and I'm gonna say Magonia I picked it up because Neil
Gaiman blurbed it to be frank the back description didn't do justice
the more brilliant aspects of the story namely some of the world's building the
introduction of these fantastical elements that I hadn't seen in that way
before but I think the fantastical elements are probably the only thing I
liked oh don't hit me the story felt choppy the pacing was off and the
characters were underdeveloped name a book that was bitter and sweet but
ultimately satisfying I'm gonna say never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro and I
know this one is also gonna be controversial because it was a very
polarizing book for some people it was grueling felt like hundreds of tiny
moments that didn't quite connect the voice of the main character felt
pretentious and some of the interpersonal interactions felt
melodramatic I think kind of see where they're coming from I can see why it
would be read like that when I read it about eight years ago it was more
touching to me the little moments build it to the climax in a way that was
satisfying to me and the question that Kazuo Ishiguro was trying to get us to
ask ourselves about our humanity and what it means to be human and how we do
humanize others really struck a chord the story was poignant
and heartbreaking and I still think about it from time to time though I have
not reread it and those are all the questions if you have watched this whole
thing thank you so much for watching now it is my turn to tag a few people I am
going to tag Kathy Trithardt Castle library Grace Mari and borderline
bookends these are all lovely people and I am just really curious to see how
they're gonna answer these questions so tag you're it and I think that is all
I've got to say about that so I hope you have a lovely day and until next time
keep traveling bye
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