Hey there, Kazen here, and welcome back to Always Doing. [♪♪]
Today I have a very timely tag for you guys. It's the Halloween book tag and I was tagged by
Blair over at The Blair Book Project. And there is no way I could dream up an
intro that is better than hers so make sure you check her video out.
The original tag is by Naomi TheBookLover so I'll link her down below as well.
There are seven questions and I know I'm going to be ranting for at least one of
them, and I'm at the end of a long day of filming so this will be interesting!
Let's just get into it. Number one: carving pumpkins. Which book
would you carve up and light on fire? Ooo, I had fun thinking about this one... is it
weird to say that? I have to go with Eroma by Piers Anthony. As a preface, when
I feel a migraine coming on I usually start a somewhat off-the-wall
paranormal romance. I just want something that will take my mind off of my head
pounding. I forgive things I would usually be really mad about, too, things
like instalust or unbelievable situations. I want all the cray-cray,
give it, bring it, I want it all. And that's the mood I was in when I read
this book... and it still pissed me off. The basic premise is that there is a virtual
reality game where you get suited up and you enter a virtual world kind of like
Ready Player One. You feel like you're there. And this whole world and
these programs are being broadcasted around the world for millions and it's
set up like a reality show. The thing is, though, is that the whole
point of the reality show is basically to have sex in all these different ways
in this world. Starts off with something like 64 people and they get eliminated
over time and you have to complete all of these erotic challenges in order to
continue. And so far, being in the mood I was in, I... this is alright. I can deal
with this. There are some problems baked in. It's all heterosexual sex.
I, from what I remember if two women or two men or a group
or whatever had sex it wouldn't count. So that's not cool. And these challenges are
infuriating. We're following a, um... everyone in here is cishet.
So a cishet man and a cishet woman and they are working together
as they go through these challenges. One of the challenges, in order to get past
these mythical creatures that are acting as guards, that they need to have sex
with them with a certain goal in mind. For the male character it's his job to
have sex with the female guard in such a way that they climax at the exact same time.
Okay. But. It is the woman's job to have sex with the male guard and make
him climax without climaxing herself. That's like punishment! Women can't have
pleasure? No. No. In another section they have sex with some other mythical
creatures and while the guy's experience was fairly normal - nothing bad happened -
the woman is filled with literally a gallon of ejaculate. Now if it weren't a
fantasy world I would have lots of anatomical problems with this, but it's a
fantasy. Okay, I guess it went somewhere. If I remember correctly it, like,
distended her stomach there was so much and she had to manually remove it
otherwise she would fall into like a stupor and she would lose her mental
abilities, basically. And again the woman is punished for having the sex that she
needs to have in order to complete the competition and the guy is having all
this fun. No. All of the no. What hurts is that this book could have done
something interesting. It was trying to think about how far people will go in
order to become famous. How much of your privacy you're willing to relinquish in
order to be on television. There were these underlying themes that could have
worked. But then you read the author's afterward and he's like, '"oh I had a slush
file of all these scenes that didn't fit in the rest of my books, and a lot of
them were erotic, and that's not only because I am
a dirty old man"... And that's almost a direct quote. In my Goodreads review you
can see I direct quoted what he said. He's like, "oh it's, you know, erotic romance is
a thing so I decided to write an erotic romance." But this is not... no. I haven't
read any of his other books, by the way. I have nothing else to, you know... maybe he's
a great writer when he's writing whatever he normally writes. But this
book? Carve up, burn, done. The next question is two-part. What character is a
trick? And I have to go with Soren from the Original Sinner series. This is the
first book, The Siren. I love this book, I love Tiffany Reisz. I've talked about her
a whole bunch of times. So Soren isn't always a trick. I mean,
he's a priest! So he, he's very wise and he guides his flock very well. But he's a
sadist in the bedroom and he will trick you. In... ways. Yah. The second part of the
question is what character is a treat? And I'm going to have to go way back in
my reading history for this one. The Anita Blake series by Laurel K Hamilton.
It's.... oooph. The series starts off as urban fantasy with a police procedural bent to
it and then back slides into paranormal romance, and then into erotica and into
what-the-heck-is-going-on-here-you-gotta-be-kidding-me.
But it's a very slow slide. This isn't the video where I'm going to try and
talk about the merits or demerits of this particular series. But what I will
credit it with is introducing me to my first beta hero, who is Nathaniel.
Alpha male is your stereotypical romance hero, where they usually have
some big power position job. They might be a billionaire or a CEO or a duke. And
they wear that power well and they use it to impose their will on other people.
If they're done poorly they can be alpha holes. ...yeah. Beta heroes, on the other hand,
aren't so go-get-'em and out there like that.
They will never be called, there's no such thing as a beta hole.
They are the kind of guy who will lovingly welcome you home after work.
They might have cooked you dinner. They're more of a... I don't wanna say caretaking,
but... they, they score higher on the emotional IQ, usually, than the Alpha
heroes do. Before Nathaniel I hadn't encountered any beta heroes and he is
incredibly sweet. He's almost described as effeminate in
some ways and I'm sure if I go back and read I'm going to find all kinds of
problems with characterization. I read these books so long ago. He's submissive
in the bedroom and he wants nothing more than to stay at home and help take care
of Anita. And I didn't know that was a possibility. So it was wonderful to read
a beta hero and he will always be sweet in my heart for that reason.
Question number three: candy corn. What book is always sweet? And for this I
chose Chi's Sweet Home by Konami Kanata. It's a manga. It's also available in
English, and it's utterly adorable. It's about a small kitten that gets separated
from its mother and ends up being taken in by a family with a small child. I can
open this to any page and it's just so cute.
So for example... and the art I like as well just look! So cute. If you love cats this
is utterly heartwarming and always sweet. Question four: ghosts. Which character
would you like to visit you as a ghost? So the qualities you would want in a
ghost, right? You would want them to be someone you can talk with, so a great
conversationalist. It would help if they're wise and smart. And in that vein I started
thinking about Mary Russell from Laurie R King's Mary Russell series. But the
time period gap may get a bit weird trying to explain that all the time. So
in the end I've gone with Eva from Acting on Impulse
by Mia Sosa. Eva is the heroine's best friend and she's a riot. When she is
doing chores she'll take Broadway show tunes and change the words to make them
about how much she hates her chores and lace profanity through them. She
is a very good friend to the heroine. They always put each other first, before
any romantic interests that are in each other's lives. She provides sage advice.
She has no problem calling the heroine out on her bullshit. And if I could have
Eva be my best friend in the same way that would be an awesome ghost to have
hanging around. Question five: dressing up in costume. Which character would you
like to be for a day? This may be cheating but I would love to be a background
character from The Night Circus. By which I mean I want to go to the Night Circus.
I love the whole idea of all of the exhibits and all of the shows and the
amazingness of it. The setting of this book is unbelievable and I want to go
and live it for a bit. Question six: wizards and witches. What is
your favorite Harry Potter moment? This isn't a moment I can pin to any
particular one of the books but whenever Hogwarts does its thing. So the first
time you realize that the staircases move, or when the Great Hall all of a
sudden is decked out in the house colors of whomever won Quidditch Cup, or
you learn about the Room of Requirement. All of that castle-y as sentient being
type stuff, that's my favorite part, I think, of the books. Again, setting. We need
more books with great settings! And question seven: blood and gore. What book
did you need to take a break from because it was so creepy?
Now, I don't read all that much thrillery horror type kind of stuff, so the only
book I can think of recently that kinda sorta filled this question was the
Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, which I actually reviewed in my first
ever wrap-up. I just didn't want to read it before bed because I was afraid I'd
have bad dreams. Kind of Apocalypse-y type dreams.
So. But other than that the only other book I can really think of that fills
this is The Firm and I read that a long time ago for a challenge. And the
thriller aspect of it really made me anxious, and my heart was racing, and I
had trouble getting through the pages but I wanted to finish it for the
challenge so I kept reading. And it wasn't enjoyable but I would put that
down every once in a while because I just couldn't take it anymore.
So there we have it, the Halloween Book Tag. I'm not going to tag anybody seeing
as how I'm posting this on Halloween and no one will probably want to touch it
again until next year. But hey, if you want to do it - all yours!
I tag you. I would love to hear your answers to these questions, especially
the ghost question because I feel like there should be other characters out
there that would be perfect ghosts as friends but they're just not
coming to mind. So let me know in the comments below, subscribe if you're new,
and I'll see you in my next video. Bye!
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