hello booktube my name is Cait and this
is my channel chaptercviii today i'm
going to be
talking about books because
it's most of what this channel is except
for when it's not
okay so today i'm going to be talking
about books but i'm gonna be talking
about masks
because i work at a hospital so i've
been wearing a mask every single day to
work
and so i know a lot of people have had
to do this
because this is the world at the moment
some people can work from home but those
of us that have to you know go out and
have to wear a mask every day
we understand the the struggle of that
it's not a fun time necessary but not
fun my job specifically is
a music therapist so i talk
and I sing all day it's not easy to do
with
somthin' on your face your whole breathing
area
not not an easy thing so yeah now I'm
gonna be recommending actually no these
aren't recommendations
these aren't recommendations I'm going
to be talking about books and masks I'm
going to be
comparing books to masks? maybe? yeah sure
we're going to go with that
they don't look alike so don't think
we're going to get all matchy-matchy up
in here because that's not
what this party is. no. this is sleep
deprivation
because I haven't really slept well all
week that's what this is. I may be
wearing masks throughout this video
if you typically read lips, I will be
captioning this video
I don't even know how to start so let's
go so first we're gonna go with this
ol' boy for some reason it smells
like...
like sugary popcorn? I don't i don't know
why it smells this way
I have sanitized all of these
I've sprayed them all down with um stuff
and let them dry
so I'm not sure why it smells like sweet
popcorn
a good ol' surgical mask I guess. I don't- I think that's what this is
these were given to us by the hospital
where I work
when we started having to wear masks
they gave us these. they still have these
you know
this ol' boy right here smells bad
where was I gonna go with this? this mask
is understated but very effective
as shown by studies of science
understated but very effective so I feel
that the perfect
match for this mask is The Fifth Season by N. K.
Jemisin my reasoning is that this cover
would not have attracted me
um it's very understated it's not ugly
it's just very understated I would not
have you know
been scanning the aisles and this one
pop out at me you know it just
doesn't have that bam you know but even
though this mask is
not the most exciting it is very
effective
and this book even though it doesn't
look the most exciting on the outside
is amazing on the inside
yes N.K. Jemisin's world building and
character building is absolutely
astronomical
the science of like the magic in this,
the characters,
the places, the politics, everything is
just so
well done in this next we have this
thing
it's- I don't- I do not like it
it's like it has the metal so you can
kind of do that but it doesn't really
stay on your face very well
yeah so i don't think I'd ever wear this
I really don't oh no I I don't know
oh gosh this was actually given to us by
my mother-in-law she sprayed and cleaned
them as well
and and passed it along oh my gosh I
hate it so much
it doesn't stay on my face like the more
I talk it just kind of
scoots on down my face this would never
go at work because I talk all day
so there's this um
and also it just smells bad it smells
really bad um the trick though is it
looks like it would be such an effective
little thing
but it smells terrible and I will never
ever use this I will never wear this
anywhere so I feel like the book match
for this mask
is this really old and really ugly
version of Frankenstein that I found
recently look at it
it's got like his hands just you know
doing its thing and it's like this weird
purple
it's not- it's just not- it's not great I
got it just because I love Frankenstein
and I wanted another copy of it
and it smells real bad I'm probably
never going to read it because it smells
bad but i just wanted to have it
there there was a bug on it too
what there's a bug on the mask. Will never use.
Will probably never read. both smell bad
we were given this just so we would have
one I got this just because i wanted
another copy
yep and then we have this lovely number
this one's got like music notes on it in
they're
different colors see that it's like a
rainbow but only part of the rainbow
only the warm colors in the rainbow I
suppose I had been looking for a music
note mask for a while
and then apparently someone at my work
was making
masks and a co-worker of mine was like
talking about it
and she was like "yeah there was this
music note mask" and I was like "I was
looking for a music note mask"
and so yeah that happened and (crack sound) ow my
elbow I'm falling apart but then one
day I came in and we had these little
mailboxes at work and it was just like
sitting in my mailbox and Iwas like
"ah!" and it was a gift so I love it
because it was a gift but also I love it
because it's a great
mask it's very heavy duty it has these
really
tough little numbers here that they kind
of hurt your ear after a while but
they're great
it's a great mask so for this one i'm
going to
talk about The Cruel Prince you know why?
no.
because I haven't said it yet... Because I
loved Holly Black's
Tithe trilogy and I was like "wow this is
so great! I enjoy
dark faerie stories!" and then this was
given to me
as a present that I wasn't expecting
I wanted dark fairy books just like I
wanted a music note mask
but I didn't really ask for it but then
it was given to me and it was a surprise
and it was
exciting and I love it and I'm thankful
for it
so that is why I'm talking about the
cruel prince
what is this video? I forgot how pretty
these books are
underneath the covers like they're
really pretty
goodness then we have this mask which is
actually my favorite probably mask but I
ordered this one on etsy look at it it's
got little gray
music notes all up in it you see that
this is my favorite mask however
I threw it in the washer and
instead of letting it kind of dry itself
or like instead of washing it by hand I
put it in the washer and the dryer
and it bent it all up and mangled
everything so the actual underside looks
terrible
and I had to use my straightener to like
try and
flatten it out some because it
completely ruined it like
I mean I was able to fix it and you
can't actually tell-
why am I blurry?
this thing doesn't want to recognize
that I have a face because I'm wearing a
mask
yeah i'm gonna have to do that i'm gonna
have to do this because it won't like
recognize my face
so let's talk about this this beautiful
book right here The Hobbit um
isn't it great this is my husband's copy
it's very special to him his aunt gave
it to him when he was young
so it's his favorite however uh when we
first got our our dog
our little puppy um she was eating
everything
and so if you look right here there's
like
an unfortunate um situation
on page 211. i'm just gonna put that
back in there
but I just put it back in there and you
can't you can't tell if I just
close the book up and it looks just
looks just great just like my mask it's
just
it's perfect I feel terrible it wasn't
me I didn't, you know, *arr*
but I still feel really bad about it
because I noticed it
I didn't say anything cause I didn't want him to
be sad
speaking of my husband this is his mask
it's okay we kiss each other so I
think i'm okay to touch the handle of
the mask
but the thing is I would never wear this
mask and I will never read this
book that is also his this is Leviathan
Wakes by
James S. A. Corey it's on prime you can
watch it also
The Expanse Series it's the original
prime original series
yeah that's how those connect this is
his little mask look at it
no makeup on it so pure so wholesome
then we have this mask it's very crinkly
because it's still in the the wrapping
I technically work for a state
organization
yeah and so they sent us
all these masks which are really stupid
like
okay they're not stupid they're great
they're fine but like the material is
literally just like they
they just I don't it's really bad it's a
really bad material
and it's ugly but that's not the point
okay it just is it's... I haven't opened it
up okay? I was excited when I got it in the mail
but I haven't
opened it yet which is just like this
this little number Middle Game by
Seanan McGuire
I was so excited when I got this in the mail
but just like this one
I have not opened it yet um I've seen a
lot of people wear this at work
I've seen a lot of people read this
online
I haven't had the experience myself I'm
still pretty excited about this one not
so much this one
yes here we go look at this tiny mask
like it only covers like
the bare minimum which is- *sniffing* this one
kind of smells good
but yeah here's this I got this
at the pharmacy I was going there to get
...medication because that's what you get
at the
pharmacy but yeah I wasn't expecting to get this mask
and I did because I was in there
and I saw it and I was like I'm really
tired of wearing those ugly but very
efficient
hospital masks so I got this thing I
picked this one because it was like
attractive
because it was green and the other ones
were not they were pink and didn't
quite fit my
aesthetic I have since worn this to
a protest and to work a lot and I
wore it
to a conference it was very very useful
and it was very great I wasn't expecting
to like it it was very
you know unassuming but it caught my eye
at some point and I was like you know
what Imma get that mask
and I did here we go a similar thing can
be said about
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor this
is a trilogy actually I can't remember
what all
three of them are called all three of
the books I read them all they were
really great Binti: Sacred Fire, Binti: Home, and Binti:
the Night Masquerade...
mysterious this actually was really
awesome this is an awesome trilogy
also this had really really good PTSD
representation which I was like-
I don't see enough of that but this is
cool it takes place in space
which is always great and also a lot of
aspects of the book are inspired by the
author's Nigerian heritage which is
always cool I love any book inspired by
people's heritage because ♪I don't
know mine ♪I can make some guesses but
they're probably
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masks and it is
so so very soft I love it because the
texture it's also cool because it's got
like a
tie-dye situation going on but I like it
because it's soft that's my favorite
thing about it is the texture
not unlike this Vaesen
Spirits and Monsters of Scandinavian
Folklore collected and illustrated by
Johan
Egerkrans hey it's Oroboros which is significant
if you've read
Mexican Gothic recently I picked this
because it too has a cool texture it's
like cloth
it's all cloth whatnot and stuff it's
it's really neat
and it's it's got really pretty pictures
in it that are
kind of cool and kind of kind of
dark and stuff just like this mask has a
edgy-ish vibe I don't know
also this book came from Switzerland and
this mask
came from the long off city of...
somewhere else... that mask actually kind
of has a twin see look at this
look at this buddy of that mask it too
is very soft and has a very cool texture
but it also kind of looks like
inkblot tests which is why I picked
this edition of watchmen look at that
look at it move so mesmerizing what do
you
see up in this face of he this is a
cool like anniversary edition (record scratching)
anyway I hate myself and here we have
this shiny boy right here look at it
so shiny so flashy so elegant
so... intriguing so this one is definitely
gorgeous it catches your eye a lot of
people
like it a lot of people see it and
notice it
but also these things can come off and
apparently they can also
stab you in the eyes so it's also a
little dangerous so this mask goes quite
well with HP Lovecraft
you see this this is a beautiful
edition it's got some shiny
gold... foiling
is that what i'm trying to say? it's
foiling whatnot going on here
but also like a lot of people know about
this but also it too
is a little dangerous because... racism
it's
threaded throughout the pages I actually
personally have not
read Lovecraft I've read things
talking about Lovecraft I have not read
Lovecraft myself I don't know
how much of his bigotry actually comes
through on the page
but I'm sure it's there. an author's work
is part of them
and whoever they are as a person
influences that writing
in some way and then we have this scarfy
boy right here
yeah this is one of those... *sniffs*
I'm laughing because I think my husband
tried this on at some point because it
smells like
him so here's this one I got this one
because
it looked very aesthetically pleasing I
thought it was cool looking
but yeah no eventually, however, we
found out, you know, because of science
and studies and whatnot
though it's pretty, it's ultimately
useless which is why I'm pairing it with
The Hazel Wood which is
gorgeous so pretty
so full of hope so full of...
disappointment
just nothing just nothing there just no
substance
it just seems like there should be
something there it has the elements but
just...eughhh
but those are all of my masks as
books I don't know what i'm doing I
think I
think it's just not getting enough
actual air in my into my brain
from all the mask-wearing yeah there we
go
we're gonna be done now thank you so
much for watching tell me which mask was
your favorite of all the ones that I
wore
I don't know if you want to tell me
about the books or not because I didn't
really talk about that much,
but tell me which masks were your
favorite or if you have nothing to say
leave me a nice emoji and if you'd like
a video with more substance please check
out my book review discussion video
what kind of book reviewer are you? do
you read critically? or do you read to
feel good?
or maybe you're the mysterious third
type of reader... watch the video to find
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