It comes to something when it's actually more difficult,
to set the camera up in bed.
I need a tripod!
Eeekk!
Hi guys, I'm Shelly and it's been a while.
How are you guys?
I haven't picked up the camera
in ooohhhh, I don't remember how long.
Life happened, illness happened.
In the couple of weeks that have gone past
since I last saw your lovely faces,
I don't see your faces,
but since you last saw me,
this is going so well already.
I have accumulated some books!
Most of them from the library,
I may have bought one,
I may have been sent some by publishers,
and I was going to share them with you
because I thought you
might like to see them,
which I'm starting with library ones.
The first one being Pivot
Point by Kasie West.
This was recommended to me by Liz,
over at Liz Books, Liz Reads Books,
I'm sorry.
I'm terrible with names,
but I'll link her below.
You have a girl named
Addie who's in high school
but she's in a high school
for people with powers.
She's basically an X-Men.
They have abilities and her ability, is Clairvoyance.
And her parents are about to split up.
Her mom is gonna stay in the compound
and her dad is going to leave,
and go into the Muggle World, the normal world.
She uses her powers, to look at both paths and see
which is better for her.
♫ Look into the future, what do you see.♫
There's a lot of tropes in this.
There is a cute boy in both paths.
There is the annoying, but adorable, yet troublesome best friend.
But the twist is you get to see,
both these worlds, so you get to see
which she should choose
and how she should choose.
I have actually read this already.
I gave it 3 stars.
I liked that it was funny.
The relationship between her and her best friend,
is really quite hilarious.
It is a series apparently,
but to be honest
I quite liked it as a stand alone
cause' it, leaves you wanting more.
But I don't think I want to read more
because I don't think I'm gonna get,
it's just gonna get silly after that.
Next up from the library, I got
Miracles From Heaven,
a little girl, her journey to Heaven,
and her amazing story of healing
by Christy Wilson Beam.
I believe this is supposed
to be a true story,
sorry, glare.
I got this on a whim because I saw the trailer,
a movie of
this is about to come out.
It is about a young girl
who has a incurable,
life-threatening, digestive disorder.
Which funny enough,
looks like the same disorder I have,
which is that her stomach doesn't work.
But then she falls out of a tree,
knocks herself on the head
and is somehow cured,
by the power of God apparently.
I think I'm gonna have a
bit of trouble with that.
Kind of worried that it's
gonna be a bit silly.
We'll see.
And we'll see if she does actually have
the same illness as I do.
I'm not completely sure.
And on Liz's recommendation again,
I picked up Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury.
The authorized, adaptation graphic novel
by Tim Hamilton.
Now I tried to read Fahrenheit 451, a couple of times,
I get lost, about two or three chapters in.
And so I thought, oh hang
on, there's a graphic novel!
I might actually make it through it this time.
So i will show you inside
what the art work is like.
See if we can find any pictures of fires??
not really.
This is a world where
firemen purposely light fires,
and they light fires to burn books.
If you have any books,
they will burn them, that is their job.
Follows a fireman who starts to question,
whether is the right
thing to do, to be setting
fires instead of putting them out
because they can't
actually remember a time
when firemen used to put fires out.
Then, the lovely people at
Walker Books, have sent me 2 books to review.
(Voice Over) "AN-EERR!"
"Check your facts there past Shelly."
"The first book was actually sent to you by Little Brown"
"you complete nincompoop,"
"but you know carry on as normal."
And the first one is
It's Okay to Love, Crying is Cool Too,
A memoir about loving madly and letting go,
by Nora McInerny Pur---Pur????? Purmort.
Here it is.
It's very pretty actually, I like it.
I think this is actually
what the published one
is going to look like.
I hadn't heard of this when
it was first sent to me.
This is based on Nora's blog.
It's a real life story, it's a memoir.
I'll read the back a little bit.
When Aaron was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer,
they refused to let it limit their love.
They got engaged on Aaron's hospital bed
and had a baby boy while he was in chemo.
Nora and Aaron packed 50 years of marriage, into the 3 they had.
Spending their time on what really mattered to them.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer re-runs,
Okay I'm starting
to love this book already!
Each other, and Beyonce.
A few months later Aaron
died in Nora's arms.
The wildly creative obituary they wrote
during Aaron's hospice care,
touched the heart's of many.
Buffy, Beyonce, and a love story.
I can't wait to read this now.
This is gonna come out on the 24th of May
so I better get a wriggle on, read this
and I will put my review up on GoodReads for you guys.
Then Walker also sent me the bright orange,
very happy looking Girl Out of Water
by Nat Luurtsema????
Thing is, I'm a fan of this woman
and I cannot pronounce her name.
This is a young YA novel,
kind of Agnus, Thongs and
Perfect Snogging age.
I am Lou Brown, social outcast,
precocious failure,
5 foot 10 and still growing.
This is based on a young girl named Lou
who is about to do her Olympic trials
in swimming, to join the team
and unfortunately she doesn't make it.
But her best friend does.
So suddenly, she's left without a best
friend,
and without her vocation in life.
She has to find something to do.
Perfect for fans of Holly
Smale and Caitlin Moran.
It looks really, really cool.
I cannot wait to dive into this.
There's the pun.
This comes out in early June.
This is a proof copy,
I believe a young girl
is going to be on the
front of the published one.
Last but oh so very much not least,
is the book that I bought myself.
I haven't actually been
physically reading books that much.
These ones that I've got will take me
a very, very long time to get through
because physically
reading is quite difficult.
So I have been listening
to a lot of audible.
I'm kind of hoping to
do a video on that soon,
about the books that
I've been listening to,
audible versus reading,
narration and all that other stuff.
But the latest book that
I started listening to,
I've been so so excited about.
There is a comedian,
and her name is Susan Calman,
My mum introduced me to her
and she's just...........
believe me if you're a fan of Sarah Millican
you will love this woman!!!
Her book is called,
Cheer Up Love, Adventures in Depression
and the Crab of Hate.
It's a look at Susan's
life with depression
and you think, oh God
depression it's gonna be
uuuhhhhg.
I swear to God this is a hug in a book!
And I want to hug it.
Listening to the narration
Susan does of it,
It's 1, fantastic because she's so emotive
in the way she talks.
And she's Scottish, so she has this Scottish lilt
which is always a good thing.
I'm just slightly in love with her.
I wanted to get the physical copy
because there is so many bits in this,
that I want to underline and note.
She explains depression,
or her particular kind of depression,
in a funny way through stories,
through narratives, through ways
that you wouldn't have though of.
The bit I found really kind of,
Wow, no that makes sense!
She relates her depression to how many
box sets she can get through.
If she can get through 7 series of The West Wing,
without wanting to talk to anybody,
just staring at the TV because that's all she can do.
Then she classes that as depression.
Where as if she just gets
through like,
a series and a half of something
quite light and funny,
maybe she's not too bad that week.
I don't know if I have depression
because with ill health watching TV,
7 series of The West Wing,
kind of a thing I do to cope with pain,
not just with mental health.
But it's (stammers) very, very
intuitive and it's very open
and it's very inclusive I think.
It really really is a hug in a book.
And funny enough,
This week is mental health awareness week,
so I'm kind of reading
it at the right time.
The publishers actually
done a really cool thing,
where they've taken
little bits of her stand up tour,
that talk about sections from this book.
It made a youtube playlist.
So I will link that around here somewhere, and down below.
So go check
that out if you want to.
Then you can find out a bit more about Susan.
That's all the books, and that was a lot of talking.
Wow.
Wanna talk about any of these books?
Hit me up down below,
we can have a little natter.
How are you guys?
I'm losing my voice, now.
This is good.
I'm gonna shut up.
But I hope you guys are good,
I'm gonna go hide under the pile of books.
I will see you guys soon.
Bye.
