Let's Read Some $#!7 by Peter S. Beagle, Melissa Sweeney, & Ann Liang
0Welcome to another installment of Let’s Read Some $#17 (LRSS)!
In sum, the purpose of these videos is to introduce educational resources regarding the creation of video games, to promote literacy, to provide world-building tools for creatives, to provide books for escapism, and/or to get banned books into people’s view.
They go as follows:
1. Read the summary on the back of the book (if applicable).
2. Read the “Forward” and “Preface” (if applicable).
3. If there is no “Introduction,” read [part of] the first chapter.
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Even though the purpose is education/book introduction, I only read PORTIONS because of DMCA and Copyright.
Today, I read PORTIONS of 3 books from my *TBR Stack*:
1) "The Last Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle: https://bookshop.org/a/18974/9780451450524
THE UNICORN LIVED IN A LILAC WOOD, AND SHE LIVED ALL ALONE…
…so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all about the joys and sorrows of life and love before meeting her destiny in the castle of a despondent monarch—and confronting the creature that would drive her kind to extinction.
2) "The Affinity Between Us" by Melissa Sweeney: https://bookshop.org/a/18974/9781733867962
Kevin is framed for a murder that didn’t happen.
Nikki lost both of her older siblings and can’t trust her remaining family.
And Derek wakes up, memories lost, on an island inhabited by beings called “humans.”
From the birth of these three siblings, two tween Deities stir from their 500-year slumber and reintroduce themselves back into the world.
3) "If You Could See the Sun" by Ann Liang: https://bookshop.org/a/18974/9781335915849
NO SECRET IS SAFE.
ALICE SUN HAS ALWAYS FELT INVISIBLE at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s the only scholarship student in a sea of über-wealthy classmates. But she has a plan: be top of the class, attend a prestigious university, secure a killer job, and finally lift her family out of poverty.
Then her parents drop a bomb—they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship. But that’s the least of Alice’s problems because she has started uncontrollably turning invisible. As in completely, physically invisible.
Alice realizes there’s an upside to her strange new power—unparalleled access to the secrets of China’s most rich and influential teens. Soon, Alice has a new plan: offer her invisibility services to find out what her classmates want to know—for a price.
But between balancing schoolwork, a growing relationship with academic-rival-turned-business-partner Henry, and stealing secrets, things start to fall through the cracks. As the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if helping her family is worth losing her conscience—or even her life.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Welcome Gamers!
2:43 Just Chatting
4:06 Read Aloud Prelude
5:12 “The Last Unicorn“
17:51 “The Affinity Between Us“
28:54 “If You Could See the Sun“
52:07 Commentary/Closing
55:41 Bookshop
58:18 Farewell
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