Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome back to my
channel. Today I'm going to be doing
the This and That book tag. This tag was
created by Kelly from What Kelly Reads
quite some time ago - I think it was back
in 2015?
I was not tagged to do it but I saw Olive
from A Book Olive do this recently and it
seemed like fun, so let's do it.
Question number one: what is your oldest
book and your newest? If we're talking in
terms of publication dates, the oldest
one that I have is The Theban Plays by
Sophocles, which was published somewhere
around 440 BC. And the newest one I
have is Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson,
which came out like a week ago or
something. But if, in contrast, we're
talking about how long the book has been in my
collection, then the oldest book
that I own is Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, which I was
given when I was four days old, so I'm
pretty sure this is the first book I
ever received. I'm also not convinced
that I've ever read this, but I do
remember looking at the colour plates
as a kid, you know. There's that. And if
we're talking the most recent
acquisition I have, it would be
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. I finally,
finally bought a physical copy of this
book so that I can love it and hug it
and read it forever. Question 2: what
is the biggest book in your collection
and the smallest? I'm gonna start with the
smallest because it's easier to hold and
I need to build up my arm strength for the
biggest one. The smallest one I have is
this adorable teeny tiny little thing,
which is two complete Sherlock Holmes
adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle. So it
is The Five Orange Pips and The Blue
Carbuncle, and I bought this book in like
1994 at 221B Baker
Street. The biggest book that I own
is Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman. This book
is absolutely amazing. Andrew Zuckerman is
a photographer and so this book consists of
portraits of famous people over the age
of 60 and the wisdom that they would
like to impart to younger generations.
It's pretty incredible.
It's not the kind of book that you sit
down and read all in one go and like
it's really heavy, so you wouldn't
necessarily want to do that. But the
photography is absolutely stunning and a
lot of the writing that goes along with
it is just gorgeous.
Question number 3: what is your
longest book and your shortest book? My
longest book will probably come as no
surprise to anybody. It certainly didn't
come as a
surprise to me. It's the brick: Les Miserables
by Victor Hugo, which clocks in at 1,232
pages. And the shortest book that I
own is Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
by TS Eliot, which is 59 pages and, like,
probably half of those pages don't
really have text on them because they're
dividers between the poems. Question
number 4: which was your most expensive
book and your best bargain? I tend not
to spend a huge amount on books, so
definitely my most expensive book is my
Honours thesis. I had to get three copies of
this thing hard bound and it cost me
like $100 per copy, sooo
yeah. This...this thing that nobody will
ever ever read including me is
definitely the most expensive book
that I own. If we're talking conventionally
published books, then it's probably the
illustrated Harry Potter which I
think cost me like $45, maybe? Yeah, it
pales in comparison to this stupid thing.
As far as my best bargain goes, I think
that has to go to Firefly: A Celebration
by Joss Whedon because this thing
is enormous and it is beautiful and it
was a present from a friend to say
congratulations on graduating with your
Masters. So yeah, I don't know how much
this thing retails for, but I...I definitely
got the better end of the deal here. So
if you have not seen this book before, it's kind
of like the Hamiltome but for
Firefly. So there are all these amazing
pictures and discussions of the
characters,
it also has a script for every page [episode] of
the show with photographs, as well as
essays about things like props and
settings and stuff like that. And there
are also like bonus stories written by
the screenwriters where they kind of
made up new episodes effectively to put
into this. So yeah, this was definitely a
bargain.
However, if we're talking about books that I
actually spent money on, then it
would probably be Jurassic Park by
Michael Crichton, which I got for
£1.50 at a book sale when I was doing
study abroad in 2002. I tend not buy
second-hand books very much so I think
this is the one that I've probably paid
least amount of money for, so
yeah, let's go with that. Question number 5:
show the most beautiful cover on your
shelves and the ugliest. The most
beautiful was kind of a difficult one to
decide, but in the end I went with The
Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by
Becky Chambers, because I just love this
cover so, so much. It's so beautiful and like
I've said before, I wanna be this person
standing staring at the gloriousness of space. So yeah.
As for the ugliest, I debated long and
hard about which cover was the ugliest
one in my collection, there were quite a
few to choose from. And in the end I went with
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. I
have the US edition of this, the US
covers are so fucking ugly. I hate every
single US cover for the Discworld series,
but this one is a particularly hideous
piece of work, and when you compare this to
the covers that the UK editions get?
Like, why? Why would you do this to a book?
Question number 6: what is your favourite
book and a book that you hated? I can't
actually show you guys my favourite book,
because I don't have a physical copy of it.
My favourite book at the moment is Jane Steele
by Lyndsay Faye. So instead, I will show
you the one that Jane Steele knocked off its
pedestal, and that is Persuasion by Jane
Austen. As far as one that I hated, I weeded
a lot of stuff last year and got rid
of all the books that I hated. So the
only one that I have left that when I
think about it I'm like "Ugh, that was the
worst, I would not reread it" is Queen
of Shadows by Sarah J Maas. This was just...[sigh].
That romantic relationship, it just needs
to go away forever. Question number 7: name a book
that made you cry and one that made you
laugh. I used to not cry over books. I
used to be that person who was like "What
do you mean you cry over books? That's weird."
And the first book I read that made me
cry made me cry, like, forever and ever
and it's been a very slippery slope since then. Now I
cry over pretty much every book I read.
Anyway, the first one that ever made me cry
was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by JK Rowling. I made it nearly to the
end and then one of the deaths at the
Battle of Hogwarts fucking broke me.
Speaking of crying over books, the one that
made me laugh made me cry as well because
it was sad and also it made me cry
with laughter. And that book is Let's
Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny
Lawson, which is fucking hilarious and also
full of feels. Question 8: name a book
that warmed your heart and a book that
made you shiver. As far as a book that warmed
my heart, I don't think this will come as
any surprise to anybody: Simon vs the
Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. I
just love my little adorable squishes so
much and I need the movie come out
immediately, please and thank you.
And as far as one that made me shiver, it
takes quite a lot to creep me out, I
think, reading books. But Karin Slaughter
can do that every time. Surprisingly, this is
the only one of the books that I
actually own in physical form, all the
rest of them are on my Kindle or I got them
from the library, so let's go with
Criminal by Karin Slaughter. Question 9:
what is one book that you can't wait to
read and one you have been putting off?
The one I can't wait to read I just got
last Friday, and that is Blood for Blood
by Ryan Graudin, which is the sequel to Wolf by
Wolf. And I haven't picked this one up yet
because I am currently rereading Wolf by
Wolf so that I remember everything that
happens before I start this one but,
like, seriously? I need to read that book faster
so that I can read this one, because I need to
know how this ends. And the book that
I've been putting off is His Other House
by Sarah Armstrong, which a friend
gave me for my birthday in 2015. It was
one of those, like, mystery book sort of things
where the bookshop had wrapped all the
books in brown paper and written, like,
words on the front of them and you picked a
book based on the words. And when I opened
this, she was like "Oh, wow. Yeah. I...I would not
have picked that book for you if I had
known what it was."
Question 10: recommend a book you want
more people to read and one that
wasn't as good as expected. So the one I
want more people to read I think is now
out of print, but that is Blue Moon Rising by
Simon R Green, which is an epic fantasy
book but it's an epic fantasy book that
doesn't pull any punches and throws you
straight into the action and you get the
world building as you go and there are
badass female characters and it's funny
and sad and all of the things and I just
love it and, like, nobody has ever heard
of this book so go find yourself a copy on
Abebooks and read it and then report back
please and thank you. And the one that wasn't as good
as expected will probably come as no
surprise to you. It's The Twelve Days of
Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn and David
Levithan, and this book kinda sorta stunk. And
finally, question number 11: the next book
you want to buy and the next book you're going
to get rid of. I think the next book that
I buy will probably be The Hate U Give by
Angie Thomas, because I have discovered
that the Australian edition doesn't
come out until, like, April? I think the
7th of April or something like that?
And it comes out in the US on the
28th of February. Also, I do not like the
Australian cover and the US cover is so much prettier.
So I'm actually going to break, like, all
of my rules and buy a fucking hardcover
book, even though I hate them. Because I
want to read it now and I like that
cover 10,000 times more. And the next book
I'm going to get rid of is one that I
can't believe I didn't get rid of last year
when I was weeding things, and that is
Where Is Bin Laden? by Daniel Lalec.
This is basically Where's Waldo but, like,
with Osama bin Laden, and frankly it's
just really really offensive. I don't
even know where I got this book from. I
assume somebody gave it to me for Christmas.
This...this is just... It's not okay. So it can
go. So there you have it, friends. That is the This and
That tag. If you have not done this tag and you
want to do it, consider yourself to be
tagged. I don't know who's done it so I'm
not going to try and tag people. Thank
you all so much for watching. I love all
your faces and I'll see you on Friday. Bye guys.
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