hello! sorry for not being here for a
while properly I was moving house and
also deeply exhausted. so I kind of just
wanted to make like a update check-in
video I guess. but before I get started I
just want to draw your attention to the
description box where there will be
links to like bail funds and some hardship
funds as well and I don't know other
links that I think are appropriate and
important to share around black lives
matter and the protests and also
fighting against police brutality in the
UK and police and prison abolition and
maybe some resources about that that I
think are useful, and if you're
interested in reading are prisons
obsolete? by Angela Davis but you don't
have the spoons to read then I read the
first chapter and it's uploaded here and
my friend has read the second chapter as
well and it should also be uploaded on
this YouTube channel and I think that is
everything! so basically I guess I just
wanted to talk a little bit about the
make your myth taker read-a-thon which is
being hosted in June. I'm currently I'm
filming this on the 25th of June I think
and I just, want to kind of tell you what
I've already read and what I'm planning
to read. I'm like terrible at these kinds
of things because as soon as somebody
says like read something I immediately
just like absolutely do not want to, even if
I like kind of do like you know, it's
like,it's really ridiculous but I'm just
like a hard-headed Capricorn. so
basically because of the aforementioned
pigheadedness about not wanting to do
what people tell me to do, even if it's
like chosen, I struggled a little bit to pick
which path I would want to be because I
kind of did want to be a goddess but I
didn't really like the sound of the
prompts when I started reading and so in
the end I had already kind of started
reading before I decided that I would do
the pirate path and then I would change
to Viking for the last one. but I would
also like to say that I don't actually
want to be a pirate I want to be a
mermaid so I'm just gonna pretend that
this path made me, made me a Viking-mermaid. so for the first pirate path
you have to read a book which features water:
which I read a throne of Jade by Naomi
Novik and this features a lot of water
it's a lot of a journey
and it was fine, it's a sequel to the
Temeraire series and the first book I
really really loved but I kind of
expected that I wouldn't like this one
as much so I wasn't too sad about it. um
then you have to read a book with a dark
cover and for that I read the novella
sisters of the vast black by Lina rather
which I loved a lot queer nuns in space!
or some queer nuns in space, just
really good and I actually I think I'm
gonna make a video about like all of the
tor published books I've read because i have some here and I'm also reading another
one and I just finished another one and they're generally pretty cool and generally pretty queer. next I read another five-star book for me
which is salt fish girl which had to
feature a journey and this features
multiple journeys and this is like a
really fun mythic Dykey gross story
about two characters. I hope this is in
focus, I can't really tell but things
probably have changed because my camera died. so this was a five star read for me
I read it for the featuring a journey
prompt on the pirate path and it's about
two people generally kind of through
different time periods and they're weird
mythic bodily gross queer lives and
stories and yeah. I actually wrote a
review on it for the lesbrary which is
up I think now. this is my second larissa
lai novel and I already did know that I
was gonna love it but i really loved it... and im
excited to read her other novel when
Fox is a thousand. so then like I said I
swapped over to the Viking path because
i didn't want to do the pirate one
and I also didn't just want to be a
pirate but also yeah we already agreed
that I was a mermaid anyway so it's fine.
the last prompt for the Viking path was
overhyped and so I chose one that I
think fits with hyped because I mean,
overhyped is a judgement on the book
because you're saying it's too hyped
whereas like a hyped book is just a
book that you've seen, that you haven't
read yet, that you don't know whether
it's overhyped or whatever because you
haven't read it yet. so yeah let's just
take that as hyped rather than overhyped,
and I ran to pet buy akwaeke emezi
and this is also the
second book I've read by emezi and I
really liked, I loved the first book I
read by them and this book I also
enjoyed, I think it's quite hard for me
to talk about and might cry about it.
it's about a.. it sort of.. the thing is
it's not really a young adult book even
if people sort of say it because the
main character is 16 but she doesn't
read like she's 16 she reads like she's
much younger or at least in my opinion.
and it's about a world where there
aren't any police and there aren't any
prisons and there are also no sort of
monsters or like bad people and the main
character Jam suddenly sort of
experiences this monstrous creature who
steps out of one of her mother's
paintings and tells her that there is a
monster in Lucille which is the place
where she lives
and it's about what that does to her
understanding of people and of good and
bad people and monsters and angels. this
is a book that's a lot about csa and
it was like an amazing book to read right
now in the current kind of political
global discussions around police
brutality and abolishing the prison and
the police but I also did really
struggle with the ending and the only
reason I personally could read this was
because I was prepared with the subject -
like because even though it's not sort
of explicitly described it's very
obviously about about csa and that's
really difficult like personally and and
i felt like the ending, Jam doesn't
experience the abuse which is why it
makes the story easier to read and also
and I think it also means that the
ending is upsetting and not as good as
it could be maybe or it's like
unsatisfying or it doesn't quite
articulate what justice might be like in
a post prison and police world and at
least that's what I think.
I really like the book up until
basically the epilogue but also I don't
even know if I could say I really like
it because I did read it with. because I
was really upset by it all the time but
I am like really glad exists, I think
it's yeah, it's so cool, it's beautiful
yeah if you've read it
maybe let me know your thoughts but be
gentle. yeah I think it would be a great
book to read with like transformative
justice reading group. but that was me
finished the pirate-Viking path
mermaid-pirate whatever and then yeah so then I was
like okay cool now I'll go back to see
if any of the sorcerers have prompts
that I actually would like to read books
for because I really wanted to be a
goddess like I said and there was also
like witch, there's also Oracle. I think
I'm probably gonna try and complete some
of the witch path in the last few days
of June. I've already read one book that
would fit for the witch path. im reading the prompt that unites the whole group
of sorcerers next but which could also
fit the first prompt in the goddess path
so I don't know we'll see what happens
but whatever. so the one that I read for
the witch path is a book featuring an
animal; I picked the five daughters of
the moon by Leena likitalo which is the
first in a duology and it wasn't very
good but I'm still gonna read the second
one, like the final part of it because
apparently it's better and I did like
some things about. I actually have been
thinking about it a lot.
it's a fantasy story inspired by the
1917 Russian Revolution and the Romanov sisters and you get the perspectives from
each of them and it doesn't quite work
really there's lots of things about it
that don't work including obviously like
really questionable class politics and
also the whole representation of
revolution, it's all a bit of a mess.
basically I think this could have been
better if it had....  I feel like I didn't
talk about like the other books already
talked about at all but whatever clearly
didn't feel like it apparently. i feel like this would have been better if
actually we didn't hear from every
sister especially cuz one of the sisters
like only one of them we hear from her
diary and she's like 15, it was really
jarring to have to read somebody's
Diaries. it's extremely hetrosexual too I guess
which is often my critique, but I'm still gonna read the last part cuz I just want to know
what happens. It's just called sisters of
the Crescent Empress and I think it
would fit for some of the other prompts
if that arrives in time because i did
have to order it then I will get to that.
it does have this whole system with like
animal souls and one of the sisters has
two dogs who are her
companions and then the book that I'm
reading for the foiled cover prompt on
the witch path slash on the sorceress
path is the unspoken name by a.k
Larkwood which could also fit for the
first goddess prompt because that's to
read a book with a nonhuman character
and the main character of this as far as
I'm aware is an orc called csorwe. I'm
excited because lesbian orcs and I
have started reading and it was good and
I'm looking forward to reading more of
it. yeah I think that's sort of
everything I wanted to talk about
hopefully I will be able to make a few
more videos fairly soon I just yeah my
fatigue and fibro and stuff has been
kicking me in the head.
definitely check out the links in the
description. I think that's all I have to
say I'm definitely check out the links
in the description box and you know
donate and share your wealth and stay
safe as safe as you can I will see you when i next
see you!
