My First Book Unhaul of 2020

My First Book Unhaul of 2020

Hi, everyone! I am back with a new video today!

Today I'm sharing with you popular books I didn't like and therefore decided to get rid of and unhaul.

I hope you enjoy the video!

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[scull]

Your reaction to Little Women is so funny. I'm still laughing :)

[adrianagarcia]

"She wasn't the daughter of Aphrodite." 🤣

[TK-mnid]

It is always very sad not to like books you wholeheartedly believe you would. I hope you enjoy your next reads!

[laurab]

Your feeliong with Akatawitch and the last books you've mentioned are similar to me with Between Shades of Gray. I only have to read 30 pages to finish but in my book, this book is brong, ccharacter are flat.

[Maren]

Totally agree with your unhauls (exept Little Women, lol). If you want my advice on a REALLY great, warm-hearted, fun book set in Africa, written by an African (a white man, but he can't help that and his characters are black): The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. It's set in Botswana in the 90s and features a female detective and her various cases - fraud, crocodiles, cheaters, child kidnappers, forbidden lovers, and giant cobras that get stuck in your car. You'll love it!

[Mrs.Moriarty]

For me I love the Story Little Women itself, but only as movies and TV Series. The Books are not realy for me^^

The Author did'nt like it to let Jo marry either. But there was a lot of pressure from the publisher in that time. In the newest Movie Adaption (the one where Emma Watson plays Meg) there is a scene, where Jo sits in the office of her publisher and talks with him about this. He only asked her, when her hero married, and thats something the Author herself experienced. For her time period the Book is really progressive. And I think the newer movie Adaption always trie to show this.

I got the same struggle with Children of Blood and Bone.

[lauraa]

I know what you mean about The Haunting of the Hill Hause. Man that book was scary

[vanillafluff]

I didn't know that was in Little Women! So disappointing and untrue. ❤

[sydney]

Hello, Native American here! I feel like There There by Tommy Orange was a bad choice for learning about Native Americans and our culture. Without understanding the historical treatment of Natives, you probably aren’t going to really get why Orange portrayed Natives the way he did. Yes, he did emphasize drug abuse, alcoholism, and other such issues amongst Natives, but they really are serious issues. That being said, I don’t think it’s fair to place the blame on Natives, and no, you don’t have to believe we are all bad - we’re human people just like you. The important thing that I think you missed before, during, and after reading is knowing how both the Canadian and the United States government have treated their Natives. We are a group that has consistently been victims of genocide and other horrors, and even in current day politics Native lives are often heavily endangered. If I’m being honest, a white European having such harsh criticisms about a book that a Native man wrote exploring Native identity in contemporary American culture is a little bit shocking, and it’s a little bit bothersome that your interest in our culture is only limited to one book and that you’re willing to base your entire perception of us off of that without getting a full understanding of the context that has caused much of the suffering and pain that Orange wrote about. Additionally, Orange was trying to communicate that addiction is a huge negative stereotype that predominantly white American culture has placed on us, without sympathizing how sorrow and pain have built that addiction. I understand it’s not a fun or uplifting thing to read, so imagine how much worse it is to live that. Before completely writing off Natives as horrible or depressing, it might help to actually learn about our history, how we’ve been treated, and the racism we face on a daily basis. A really good and recent place to start could be with the DAPL, something that I personally, as a Native on the North Dakota - Minnesota border was, and am still being incredibly negatively hurt by. Basically, please put actual effort into understanding a culture, it’s people, it’s past, and the discrimination it has faced before passing such harsh judgement. Tommy Orange wrote a book about Native struggle and modern Native identity, and judging it so harshly without having much of any context for it is a little bit unfair, from a Native perspective.