I reread Divergent because I (don't?) love myself
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- Опубликовано: 20 мар 2021
- My first and possibly last Get Ready With Me
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Books/Series Discussed:
-Divergent by Veronica Roth
-The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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"Are you a protagonist, smart, nice, or a nazi" I've just never heard it explained so succinctly lmao amazing
Reread? I can't with this much bravery.
I share the TRUTH on this channel okay
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be?” -Lao Tzu
Fascinating, I’m 72% into (loving) my read of The Signature of all things. I say this because Elizabeth Gilbert expressed her reservations/angst about how different this story was behind Eat, Prey Love in episode 207 of the Magic Lessons Podcast with Neil Gaiman. They share a profound classification (or storytelling faction typing) of Otter 🦦 and Dolphin 🐬: that you either the otter & go out and tell different (divergent/diverse) stories & story types; or you are the dolphin & you lock into your toolbox of tricks. It’s worth a listen just for the illustrative examples they give that I am deliberately omitting.
I vacillate, as I get older, between wanting to know what's going on in the zeitgeist and not really caring because those things tend to be geared towards younger people. I don't want to be left behind but I also am now old enough to know what I like, so I don't feel the need to consume those things anymore. So I just watch a summary or something and get on with it.
I increasingly feel this way about YA zeitgeist especially, that I'm okay having someone else do the reading and summarizing for me. But every now and then the itch returns and I just need to read about a 16-year-old who inexplicably holds the fate of governments in her tender hands
I don't like the implication that this is the last Get Ready With Me we'll ever see! Perish the thought!
You actually make me consider reading Divergent. I never did but I stumbled across a spoiler for last book and thought "well that is intersting but do I want to read it, though?" Stop putting things like this in my mind, Jenny.
It's actually a suprising promotion strategy to present a selection of groups that one can mentally "join" and then let people fight about it. There were more people invested in where they would end up than the plot itself ^^
Personally, I think YA taps into a specific type of high emotion release that some people need in the lives. Like everything is larger than life and makes you think like maybe in some small corner of a world you can find a little reflection of it. It's prelevant in all sorts of media - movies, TV, video games - you just got to find your prefered supplier. Mine has been TV for a long time (the number of clip compilation of romantic scenes from some show set to a song by The Fray I've seen oh boi xD) but I would be lying if I said I don't have the softest of the pots for some of Cassandra Clare's books and I am sure if I reread the ones I loved I would still love them as the elements that resonated with me the most (the relationships that take first seat to the possible end of the world) will still be there.
Some people lose the need for such stimuli with time and some are born without it.
My sister for example. She hate-read first 10 pages of Twilight while complaining about every sentence out loud and it made actually feel bad for the book. Like it was too much even for the poor Bella story to handle xD
20:00 this is a great application of And But Therefore. Low key thinking there is some illustrative use of convergent thinking to play with all the divergent thinking that launched that dystopian tsunami.
"And then I tried to buy happiness"
Right, so the kitten.
"And now I have a full drawer of make up."
Oh. That works too.
I loved this video. I think you hit on some really good points here about why Divergent both does and doesn't work. I remember when I read it, I got strong The Giver vibes, moreso than The Hunger Games. The ceremonies are very similar and there is the story of being the chosen one who has more knowledge than everyone else, and the question of what lies beyond.
THE GIVER. What a book and what a great observation. Brb time to go reread The Giver now, may report back in another vid who can say
I am currently reading The Giver and I completely agree.
Buying happiness has been my only coping strategy this past year so I’d love to know what products you’re using!
Same!
Seriously I'm a makeup junkie now so we can DM anytime about this. I'm very much on the Em Cosmetics/Glossier/Kosas/Auric train--the "I live in LA and am vegan on the weekends" aesthetic, ya know--with a hint of Charlotte Tilbury and Bobbi Brown when my debit card can take the hit
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere omg please bougie LA fake vegan is literally my entire aesthetic, I feel so seen
Never read em or seen the movies. Watching the cinemasins breakdown of those movies was good enough for me lol. Coping mechanisms have also failed me. A course of behaviour management therapy helped me curtail myself somewhat!
Also - your necklace looks gorge.
I've not read The Hunger Games or seen the movies... would you recommend them? I remember once we looked at one chapter in an English class when I was about 14 and I thought the writing seemed dreadfully stale...
And are you gonna do Booker vids for this year, or follow the Women's Prize much? Gwendoline Riley - author of your beloved First Love - has a new novel out. I can't wait to review it and imagine you seething haha.
I never watch GRWM videos but a bookish one is my jam (especially when you talk so eloquently).
Watching another time because sleep needs but I came to give thumbs up and lols for the title alone. Classic you
Full respect for your sleep needs and appreciate the thumbs up ;)
PLEASE give all the makeup details! I really enjoyed watching this format and topic.
I so enjoyed this! Haven't read Divergent or Hunger Games but was working in a bookshop during the time they came out, and remember how buzzy they were! Your thoughts about YA having protagonists that are somehow special yet totally 'normal' is so true 😂 Am a fan of a lot of YA but as I get older totally relate to what you said about the intensity and force of the emotions being less relatable as I get older (it's that weird thing when you start to relate the parents more than the teens😣) ..which is still kinda fun though as it's like reading about a whole other world. Loved seeing the make-up...ASMR vibes 💛 Bert
I loved this, thank you !!
And I would LOVE if you could review A Court of Thorns and Roses (was that it ?). It would be so fun ! I loved your Bridgerton review... we need escapism right now ! I’ve just bought the first Bridgerton book AND the Queen’s Gambit book. Yes, Netflix was my friend these last few weeks...
I would love to reread/rewatch Divergent because I remember really liking them. Not the other two though.
“are you a protagonist, smart, nice, or a nazi?” ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
The tv series LOST. I am overwhelmed with feelings of betrayal and bitterness when I think about how it ended. As far as YA series, I haven’t read any lately but when my daughter was in high school (I’m that old...I have a daughter your age) I read what she was reading. I also worked in a middle school. So I read The Hunger Games, Twilight, Divergent, The Dust Lands, the one by Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver Trilogy?), and a few more I’ve since forgotten. I came at them all with a different perspective because of my age and because I was experiencing them alongside my kid/students. I enjoyed them all at the time. Don’t think I’ll give any a reread because so many books so little time.
I totally get those feelings of betrayal and bitterness you describe! Honestly the new Star Wars trilogy was like that for me, every time I think of it I feel this irrational surge of injustice that something could've been handled so badly
I’ve never read the Divergent series but watched the movies for fun (which is the same thing haha) and yeah they were pretty much forgettable... I did read the Hunger Games though and really enjoyed them.. it’a been a while but I feel like it still stands, I enjoyed the ending as well, I felt it was very real, not tragic not disney like happy... this was an interesting video to watch!
HANG ON I just realized I never ended up watching the third Divergent movie, that should be fun 🙃🤣
She is pretty
I am here for any deep dive for pop culture books! I read The Divergent series but I honestly don't even remember Book 3 or very much of 2. That probably says a lot, lol.
That says that your brain has been trying to protect you and I respect it for that
Which YA books do you feel will live on, the ones that will transcend the zeitgeist?
That's a tough question, and I've read so selectively from YA that it's hard to say. I think The Hunger Games has a decent chance of living on, especially the first two in the series. The Hate U Give is another, especially because it's getting a lot of traction in school curricula. Twilight will live on as a cult-type book but not as something generally popular, imo. Beyond that I couldn't begin to guess!
There’s also a spin off novella called Four which is some of the events of the first book from Four’s point of view. Just putting that out there if you need ideas for a ‘Break glass in case of emergency” kind of thing 😬😆
It was too late last night to watch you. I had fun doing it ont first day off ! I never read any of the YA books even the most famous ones you quote because I wasn’t into fantasy and YA books at all. I smiled when you mentioned the exaggerated emotions of teenagers because I remember hating that when I was in high school. I thought girls were stupid. I was actually myself going through exaggerating emotions 😂 As you may have guessed I didn’t have many friends and didn’t care about it. So YA books never attracted me though I have watched the Hunger Games (the last one during a trip in the US I think 🤔) and if I remember the first one I don’t really remember the ending except that Philip Seymour Hoffman had died in between ? I also watched the first Divergent but never saw the next episodes so I don’t know the ending. As for betrayals, Dexter and Lost endings were so stupid and yes definitely angered me ! As for popular books, I tend to be attracted then repelled by the attention of all medias. I remember that with Eleanor Olyphant is fine - because it was all over the news I didn’t want to read it. I usually wait a few months to read it when the hype is going down. And I did enjoy Eleanor while I hated the French book that was also carried to the skies by the medias. Lila is growing fast ! Take care
I'm reading Shuggie Bain, and I'd value your opinion of it if you're willing.
What an interesting retrospective. As someone who read dozens upon dozens of YA dystopias in middle school the massive explosion of the genre post-Hunger Games and its subsequent disappearance from the market by the late 2010s is such a head-scratcher. I don't know much about the publishing industry so this might just be common, but the fact that such a cultural zeitgeist is pretty much irrelevant only a decade later is insane to me.
I know, I'm so curious to see what actually endures from that era and what we'll be explaining to younger generations like "yeah this was a thing, can't really understand why now"
Interesting book commentary! What blusher do you use? and what was the thing you used at the very beginning?
I used the Glossier Cloud Paint in the shade Dusk! Such a pretty color (even though the packaging is a little messy and only feels like 3/4 full when you get it). And the first thing I used was a trial size of the Bobbi Brown Face Base as a primer--super great but SO expensive, I usually try to get samples using Sephora points rather than shelling out for the big jar
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere thank you so much!
I don't know why I know this, but the draft of Divergent that Roth originally submitted apparently covered the same ground but was a LOT shorter than the original novel. A big part of the editing process was just fleshing out Dauntless initiation. So, the pace was even faster in the first version of the MS... (The only thing I like about Divergent is the Dauntless initiation sequence even though it is extremely silly, so I'm glad this was addressed).
Another slightly unrelated question - who are your favourite booktubers at the moment? :)
it's funny, teenage me was always suspicious and snooty towards the Hunger Games since i assumed it was a western rip-off (popular in the 00s) with toned down "grit and violence" of the Japanese book and film Battle Royale... was really interesting to hear how it was seen by Western publishers, tbh i've been wondering about it for a while since i finally read (and enjoyed!) Hunger Games for the first time last month ~
OK I need to know what that blush is.
You had previously asked for Eastern European literature and I just finished Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones. It was very good and really sucks you in
I read Divergent long long ago because it was super hyped, and holy crap I had never been so disappointed. It was so bad I was ACTUALLY ANGRY I hated it so much 😭
It's really very bad, isn't it? But sometimes bad good, and at other times BAD bad, you know?
I've been rather book snobbish on YA franchises and zeitgeist books I must admit. I'm still catching up with stuff from decades past so maybe I'll read them one day. As for buying happiness I am a huge proponent of that even though I'm typing this from a debtors prison. 😉