Hi everyone, it's Vanessa. It's currently October 21st, which means it's going to be non-fiction November very very soon. And I thought I would sit down and talk to you about some of the non-fiction things that are on my radar for the month. I feel like so far, October has been very non-fiction heavy, so there might be some fiction in November, but I do expect that I'm going to read plenty of non-fiction in non-fiction November. First, I wanted to talk about the things that I'm currently reading that probably will get done before non-fiction November starts, but are still the non-fiction things that I'm currently thinking about. One of that I mentioned in my last video and it's no my name by Chanel Miller. I am currently almost halfway through this book. And I've been reading it very slowly just because I'm not listening to it on audiobook. I literally have to sit down and read the book. This is so beautiful, and I've taken pictures of parts of the book that I really love. I think her writing is really really beautiful. I feel like sometimes people force metaphors and like similes and like poetic writing, and when I'm reading this book it doesn't come across like that at all. It comes across very genuine and very natural, so it's beautifully written, but also it's just powerful to me, and it's inspiring, and I'm loving it. So that's a very good one. I feel like it's going to be five stars. Another book that I feel like it's going to be five stars so far is The Only Plane in the Sky, an oral history of 9-11 by Garrett M. Graph. I am 40% of the way through this one. It's a very long audiobook, like 15 hours long, but yesterday I worked like five hours, and today so far I've already read an hour and a half. It's so good, it's so compelling. It literally, you have a reaction to what you're listening to. I have cried, I have made like faces reading it because it is just so painful, but also very gripping, and there's stories in it that I do recognize, and they're kind of like lore of 9-11 that you just know about. But then there's also lots of other little stories that I love how the author is kind of putting together and weaving into the story, the threads of it, and the audiobook is also fantastic, because it has more than 45 voices. It has like actual recording from the coff pit and the black boxes, so it's very, very good, and very painful to read, but good. Now let's move on to my pile of books that I've been grabbing at the library every time I think, oh this might be good for nonfiction November, I've been kind of piling them on, and then bringing them home. So let's go through, maybe let's go through books that are not new, and then I'll go through the new books that I found. So one book that I really want to read is one that I've heard a lot about on BookTube, and it's why I'm no longer talking to what people about race. This is from the perspective of a UK-based person of color, and they are giving us their thoughts about race. I've read a lot of books about race, the one that I most recently read that kind of disappointed me was white fragility, so I'm hoping that this one is better. And also from the perspective of a non-American look on race, because I don't really know much about race relations in the United Kingdom or Europe in general. So that shall be good. I also have the Battle for Room 314. This is my Europe Hope and Despair in a New York City high school by Ed Bulland. It's from the perspective of a nonprofit executive that decides I'm going to go be a teacher, and then realizes the adversity that these kids that he's teaching are really going through and how the educational system is really failing them in this public high school in New York City. I love reading books about the educational system in America. I loved reading with Patrick was a book that was about the education system that I really, really loved, and I just I love hearing the perspective of teachers and realizing like what they're up against. When it comes to students who are facing a lot of issues outside of the school system, and that's affecting their learning. So this looks to be good. And one more non-new book that I want to read is one of the Sarah Skribble's collections. I've never read them from cover to cover like in a collection. I've seen them plenty on the internet, but I think this will be a lighter thing to read during non-fiction November. So I have this set aside for that, and I'm hoping these make me laugh. Let's talk about new books. I have so many of them. One book that you've heard me talk about, because I had an audiobook and then I just didn't have enough time to read it. So I got it in physical copy is the Truffle Underground, a tale of mystery, mayhem, am manipulation in the shadowy market of the world's most expensive fungus. So it's all about the Truffle industry and kind of how people steal it and try to harvest it and sell it, and it's very expensive and fancy. This is by Ryan Jacobs. I honestly don't much more than that. I know this is very much recommended to people who will enjoy reading True Crime. So that's why it's on my list. Maybe I'll go back on hold for the audiobook version of it, but it's a pretty short bucket. It's like 200 pages. So that's not the one. I saw this one. Arbeca Tracer blurbed it on the top. This is C. Jane Wynn, the inspiring story of the women changing American politics by Caitlin Muscatelo. I'm thinking this is going to be like that Netflix documentary following like the different women candidates after I feel like a 2018 and one of them was like Thunder O'Costio Cortez. I feel like that's going to be that, but what it was called did knocking down the house or something like that, knock down the house. I feel like it's going to be that but in book form, but we'll see. It looks like it follows four different women and it takes them inside winning campaigns. So it seems like they all win. So that might be nice, but it's going to look at the realities of running while being female. I also have No Visible Bruges by Rachel Louise Snyder. This is what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us. And I've heard a lot of good things about this book. I wish it was available on audiobook, but I got the physical copy explaining what domestic or intimate partner violence is and how prevalent it is in our society and the effects of that in our society. It's supposed to look at victims and perpetrators and law enforcement, kind of like the whole system that works around this. And I think this is just like good reading to think about people who commit like mass violence as well, because it usually starts at domestic violence. So that is another book that's on my radar for nonfiction November. A book that might be good might not be good. I'm not sure yet is a collection of writings, poetry essays, and it is called Indelible in the Hippocampus. Writing's from the Me Too movement edited by Shelley Aurea. And it's a tiny little book and inside there's just poetry stories of writing. Having to do with Me Too, it takes the title Indelible in the Hippocampus from Christine Blasey Ford from the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. One thing that she said in those hearings, Indelible in the Hippocampus was the laughter. I don't know if this will be great, especially because sometimes it's difficult for me to enjoy poetry. It could be good. So here it is. It's another option. I'm so excited for a new Sadie Doyle book. This is Dead Blonde's and Bad Mother's monstrosity patriarchy and the fear of female power. She wrote Trainrite, which was a book I really enjoyed a couple years ago. And it took a look at Trainrite, the idea of Trainrite in our society, and then looked at historical and present day iterations of the Trainrite. And basically kind of dismantled the Trainrite as like an idea. Like being a Trainrite is not a bad thing. It's kind of what she was getting at, especially because I talked a lot about pop stars that I really enjoy. That had been classified as Trainrite and I just am here rooting for all of them. This one is supposed to take a look at monsters and demons and how we pin women into these kind of categories. So instead of Trainrite looking into demons and monsters and doing the same thing, looking at historical examples and present day examples is what it's kind of sounded like. It asks women to look to monsters for the frostity we all need to survive. I'm excited for this one. Again, wish it was an audiobook. I listened to Trainrite on an audiobook and I really liked it, but this one is not available. Then I haven't been able to see so far. Last but not least, the most anticipated. It has so many people unhold waiting for it. I don't, I need to subredate it like now because I feel like it's going to take me some time. Is Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrell. This is a brand new book about basically the conspiracy to stop publishing stories, taking down powerful people who have done bad things. For example, NBC News tried to kill a lot of his stories about Harvey Weinstein and a lot of other publications have sort of done these same things of kind of like stopping reporters from taking it to the next level because they fear the repercussions of powerful people being mad that these stories are being run. I've heard the audiobook is not great and that Ronan Farrell narrates it and puts on his own voices and I listen to some clips of examples of that. He like has his own like, exasperated dad voice. He has his own like Donald Trump voice. He has like accents that he's doing. So that is not necessarily super appealing to me. So I think the best way is that I'm going to repeat this so I don't have to listen to these horrible accents and voices that he's putting on in the audiobook. But yeah, I'm excited for this one as well. So that is all that I have so far. I have a couple things unhold and we'll see if they come in on time. So that's it for me and nonfiction November. I hope that you're excited for the month. Please let me know in the comments if you're participating. I need to watch so many more videos. I've only watched a few so far. And if you're curious about any of these books or if you've read any of these, please let me know in the comments as well. I'll see you next time. Bye bye. And did you see Sam behind me? He's sleeping right there. He's sleeping. He's tired.