Hi, I'm Caitlin and this is Book Chats.
Today I'm doing the Tom Hanks book tag
I was tagged by Sam from Thoughts on Tomes.
I think this is actually the first time
I've been tagged by someone else for
something so I
was so honored. This tag was
originally created by Emily Jean and I
will put links to both of their videos down
below in the description.
The first question is about the movie
Big
and it's to identify a book that
you read when you were young that was
intended for a more mature audience.
This was actually really difficult for me to
answer because I'm really good at
self-censoring.
The book that came to mind, I think
 technically I was the intended
audience when I read this book but,
I don't know if I was ever gonna be... it
definitely was not the right age to read it
when I did.
It is Ready or Not by Meg Cabot it's actually
the sequel to All-American Girl which I
loved. I read it in
this phase that I had when I was obsessed
with reading books about the presidency
and the president's [fictional] children.
I was obsessed, basically, with the White House,
so I read All-American Girl because the main
main character
saves the president's from an 
assassination attempt kind of
accidentally and then also dates his son.
It was great and I really loved it so of
course I picked up the next book
and I, I read the back, but I just thought:
"this can't really be what I think, that's what,
like..."
I just assumed it would be more like
All-American Girl and less like what it
was. Which was a book about whether or
not the main character is going to have
sex
with her boyfriend: the president's son.
It just was
not something I was prepared to read, it
was not something I really
enjoyed reading, but i just, I think part
of my brain thought that it would be
more like the first book in the series.
It's actually really funny I talked
to a friend [who grew up in a completely different place] years later
she had the exact same reaction to this
series that I did we both love the first
book and we were both like "What!?!?!"
for the second book.
The second question
is kind of based on Forrest Gump: Life is
like a box of chocolates so books are
like a box of chocolates
you never know what you're going to get.
What book did you pick up not knowing
anything about it?
This also was a really difficult question
for me to answer because I'm
really obsessed with researching things
before I read them
or watch them. I just don't like to go
into things totally blind. [poor analogy?]
I used to have
this book club, I've mentioned it before. We
wrote in books and then mailed them to each
other and I did not know what
the book was going to be
until it appeared on my doorstep. Like, until
I got that package and
opened it and then I had to read it because I was part
of this book club and so one of the books I read
for that I actually really enjoyed is
called To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Connie Willis. This actually has
been reviewed or promoted
by John Green, who really enjoyed it,
which I found out after I'd read it.
I did hear from friends "Oh, Grant",
my friend Grant recommended it,
"When you get Grant's book, that one is really great."
It was totally not what I expected at
all from just, anything?
But it was fabulous, not only because
the book itself is really entertaining, but the
copy I read had three or four friends
comments in it already and they had the best
comments, it was really hilarious.
I describe the book as a time
traveling Victorian romp.
The third question is based on Sleepless
in Seattle.
What was the last book to keep you up
late (or sleepless) reading?
Definitely when I look at what I've read
recently The Winner's Curse is this book
for me.
Technically I think I was up until
11:30 p.m. and then I finished it but
I started it at, like, noon.
I started reading it, and I just
didn't leave my apartment
until I finished it. The beginning was
intriguing enough but
you hit the halfway point and some things happen
and you're like "Whaaaaat?"
Then you have to keep reading. The fourth
question is around Toy Story
Identify a timeless book you plan to share
with... the original question is with
your future offspring or current offspring
but I have started to replace my
Theoretical Future Children with my nephew
in any question or statement that I make
because, my Theoretical Future Children
are still very theoretical but,
my nephew is totally real.
I love my nephew, he is so adorable, but
I am not sure he's going to be a big
reader. It's hard to tell right now, he kind of
eats books. But, when they're young enough, you
can force them to listen to you read
to them.
I am that aunt so I'm going to go with my
classic childhood favorite
picture book which is Go, Dog. Go!
I remember it so distinctly from my
childhood.
and there were many childhood books I
liked or enjoyed, but this is the one that I was
like yes
every child has to read Go, Dog. Go!
because it has dogs,
it has action, it's super easy to follow
along with and there's a board book version
which I should probably get my sister
and her husband because apparently my
nephew really likes to chew / rip
at books so, board books: they're more sturdy.
The fifth question is kind of based around
You've Got Mail, which
if you didn't know is a remake of
a previous film called The Shop
Around the Corner
but, of course, it doesn't have Tom Hanks in it.
It's a book you heard about on the internet
and where you heard about it from.
The thing about this is that probably
eighty to ninety percent of the books that I
hear about or read now are books I heard
about
on the Internet. Even when a friend
recommends a book to me, now I
spend so much time on the Internet reading
about books, seeing books, and stalking
them on Goodreads that
I've probably already heard of it. What
I thought of is kind of
the book, or more like the person who
got me into this pattern
of looking up books on the internet
and being part of the Internet reading
community and writing community and
just how I got
to where I am now and that is Throne of
Glass by Sarah J. Maas,
or specifically Sarah Maas. She is a
total sweetheart
and I read her book back when it was
Queen of Glass
on Fictionpress and was completely
different.
I followed her blog and followed her on her publishing
journey. Through a progression of blogs that
she had I was connected to
other reading and writing blogs
talking about books and then through
those I was eventually connected to writers on
Twitter and through writers on Twitter
I was eventually connected to BookTube
and that is how I have found primarily,
like a huge chunk of my to-read list is
things I found online.
The Sixth question has to do with
Cast Away which, can we just have a
moment of silence for Wilson?
If you can only bring one book to a
deserted island what would it be?
I decided the book that would
probably be best for me bring to a deserted
island would be All Creatures Great and Small.
It's basically my favorite memoir. It is an
English country veterinarian's memoir
and I have read this book more than, I
think, any other book.
A nice thing about it is that each chapter is
a little vignettes so you can read it straight through
but you can also read a chapter at a time and bounce
back and forth. I already know these stories so much
but I still so
enjoy reading them again. The 7th
question is based on Cloud
Atlas, it's what book did you have
high expectations for that
didn't quite meet them? Apart from
Cloud Atlas itself, which I was severely
disappointed by
most recently a book that I was very
excited for and then was very disappointed by
was Jesus Feminist [by Sarah Bessey].
I basically expected it to be one thing and
it turned out to be something else
and I want it to be ready for a
certain audience and it really wasn't at
all so that's the end of the original tag
but Sam added some bonus questions
One of which is based on Saving Private
Ryan and it's favorite ensemble cast.
Sam, I think, defined this as more than
4 characters.
That was really hard because I realize
that it's really tricky to pull off
ensemble casts and
I don't necessarily read a lot
of ensemble cast books.
I think this counts: Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
I think has a pretty ensemble cast. I
love the way that it plays with fairy tale
tropes
and I love this book but I also love
its movie and they're two completely
different things.
The ninth question has to do with The
Green Mile and it's your most hated
villain.
This was so clear to me, it's Thiago
from Laini Taylor's Daughter of
Smoke and Bone series. Specifically in
Days of Blood and Starlight. When I
was preparing to read the third book I
listened to the first book again
but on audiobook this time. Every time
Thiago was talking or is in the book I
just had rage,
inner rage at how upset I was with him. *sigh*
There are other really evil characters
in that book but nobody gets under my skin
and it makes me so ticked off
in the way Thiago does.
The penultimate question
was based on Turner and Hooch.
It's an animal character that
stole the show. I chose the Perspicacious Loris.
The Perspicacious Loris is from
Scott Westerfeld Leviathan series.
Not just because it taught me the word
perspicacious,
but it just is used so well by him in
these books. The final
question that was added by Sam is based
on A League of Their Own.
It is what is your favorite female
friendship? This is so clear to me
It is Queenie and Maddie (a.k.a. THE friendship) 
from Code Name Verity
they just have a friendship that is so
true. What I love about their friendship is,
the aspects of their friendship that are so
tight and so true
like, the book itself is in a very
specific setting
and it benefits from that setting, but their
friendship could be taken out of that setting and put
anywhere and still be as strong and
wonderful as it was.
They would be friends anywhere, anytime,
anyplace. The very last question
which is actually part of the original tag
is just what is your favorite
Tom Hanks movie? Mine is actually one that
hasn't been mentioned in any of these questions
it is Apollo 13. I love Apollo 13.
I watched it as a kid when it came out in
theaters and enjoyed it
and then years later in college I was
like " I wonder if that's as good as I remember it
being" and I watched again and it was
just as good as I remembered it.
So, definitely my favorite Tom Hanks movie so far.
But hopefully he will continue to have a
long and prosperous career.
I would like to tag Rebecca from Why
Mermaids who I basically will tag any
time it's movie related, 'cause I
want to hear everything you have to say
about movies. April from
April Sarah and Sarah Ella.
I hope that you ladies have time to do
this tag, I hope that you like Tom Hanks
at least somewhat. I definitely did not
know as many of these movies as Sam did, but
I really enjoyed taking the time to do this
tag. Thank you so much for watching. Bye!
 I was talking to, again, my
younger sister who is my consultant for this
channel.
I am obligated to note that my sister
wanted me to choose the cat,
Angela's Were-cat or
whatever it's called, from
Eragon and although I remember the
cat being very interesting
I don't actually remember enough about Eragon
and Eldest to choose the cat and I never
finished that series, so
I chose the Perspicacious Loris, but
my consultant chose the cat. *laughs*
