Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Red Hat Summit 2016. Brought to you by Red Hat. Now, here are your hosts, Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely. Welcome back, happy to welcome to the program. First time guest on theCUBE, Josh Pressures, who's a security strategist with Red Hat. Josh, thanks so much for joining us. Hey, thank you much, I appreciate it. All right, so security's always been really important, but last few years it's really been top of mind. You've been with Red Hat a few years. Tell us a little bit about your role, how things have been changing over the last few years. Yeah, sure, so I've been at Red Hat for 12 years, so I'd like to say I've seen it all twice. And I mean, back in the day, security, you know, Red Hat's taken security seriously forever, quite frankly, but it's not until the last probably two, three years that it's really gotten a lot of mainstream attention compared to kind of where it was in the past or a bit of a niche topic in a lot of areas. So what I do now is I work with the platform business unit and basically I pay attention to the industry, what's going on, what's happening out there, where's the market going, and then additionally what does Red Hat need to be doing? You know, what are we doing in this space? Well, what do we need to improve on? And obviously, where do we need to go next? All right, so what's, you know, containers has been like the hot topic of the week. That's right. Probably the last two years, you know, we talked to Paul Cormier, security obviously has a significant place. So tell us about your role as to how security and containers fit. Yeah, definitely, so I mean the biggest thing with containers that we always say is when you run, containers are magic. So if you're running a container, you don't get security for free, it's not magical, right? And so from the Red Hat perspective, it's very much where are those containers coming from? It's my analogy I like to use always, it's like finding a sandwich on the ground, right?  Absolutely not. And so when you're dealing with containers, it's very similar. And so Red Hat has a secure supply chain when you're dealing with containers. You know, we have our trusted content. We kind of carry this stuff from start to finish when we're building our containers, but then also once that container leaves our hands and goes out past that, now the hip thing is to start talking about container scanning is where we're looking at now. Because once you get your container, you have to understand what's in it, where did it come from? Is it, does it have security issues? Is there something misconfigured on it perhaps? And so the scanning is really looking like it's where the future of this is headed. Yeah, so Paul talked this morning, you know, there was a virus, there was a Linux problem earlier in the year and he said basically every container in production that was out there was infected.  That's just kind of what goes on in the world. How does Red Hat deal with those things? How do you alert people? How do you patch them? How do you, what are the systems and tools in place to make the world good again? We don't sleep. So no, this was a problem in something called G-Lib-C, which is kind of a fundamental core library of every Linux system. And so it's not even just containers, it was literally every Linux system that exists had this problem that used G-Lib-C, right? And so what ends up happening is that for Red Hat, we have a dedicated team that's called the Product Security Team, that their job is to pay attention to this stuff and understand what does a security issue mean for our products. And in this case, we know it was bad and it affected everything.  And so what happens is we literally, we bring together a war room of people that start figuring out what does this mean for every product? Which products are the most important? Just let's face it, we all have limited resources, be it Red Hat or even the customers. So we have to understand, how does this problem impact customers? How does it impact Red Hat? What do we need to do? And then we prioritize things and we just, we literally, we get cracking and a lot of us don't get a whole lot of sleep until we're done. Yeah. Josh, can you up level a little bit for us? You know, how have the kind of corporate boards getting involved in security discussions? You know, have the conversation you're having with CIOs changed recently? A little bit, yeah, indeed. So I mean, fundamentally, no one wants to be on the front page of the New York Times, right? I mean, that's the goal here. But I think what we're seeing more and more now is compliance and security are really becoming drivers and they're becoming things that you've got, your CIOs, your CISOs are really paying attention to, is, you know, am I compliant? If I'm not compliant, how can I get more compliant? And additionally, when you're dealing with someone like Red Hat, what is Red Hat doing to help with that compliance? And that's like probably the number one topic I'm seeing right now coming out of that level. Yeah, one of the terms that we hear kicked around now that more and more people will use the public cloud or consider it for something, is this thing called sort of like shared security, you know, shared, you know, dependencies? But what does that mean, where they're talking about like, I'm the cloud provider, you're the customer, we somehow have to share the security concerns or, you know, liability for that. What are they talking about in that context?  Yeah. And then when you have your cloud provider, what are they doing as well? And so obviously it's up to both parties to understand what's happening because from the perspective of the customer, you want to ensure that your cloud provider is vigilant and they're taking the right steps around security. But additionally, as a cloud provider, you want to make sure your customers aren't just putting piles of trash in your cloud either. So it kind of goes both ways, right? It's a very interesting, and this is something that we don't have all the answers to today, but now from the redhead angle, we have tools like CloudForms, for example, that helps you kind of orchestrate some of this. You can get a feel for what's happening in your environment then. Yeah. One of the other big topics is automation. You know, Paul talked about it yesterday. Jim talked about it yesterday. Like the only way to keep up with all these things is we're going to have to automate more and more. Security and automation in the past didn't mess, they're sort of oil and water because, what's going on with that? We're seeing Ansible doing things, we're seeing CloudForms doing things. What is going on with security and automation? How are they coming together as well? I think those two stories are tied together now in a way like we've never seen. So from the security perspective, one of the really important things you need to do in any organization is understand what's in your infrastructure. And now, this is a difficult problem. It sounds easy and obvious, right? Oh, what are you running? But a lot of people, it's hard to answer because you might have been spinning machines up for 20 years and never paying attention to it. So what's happening now from the security perspective and the automation perspective is it's all about how do we start automating ourselves into security? Because let's face it, number one, humans make mistakes. It doesn't matter what we do, we're going to screw it up. And so with automation, we have repeatability. Okay, that's a big deal there. Number two is obviously understanding what's going on in your environment, what's happening, how could we do this? And then the most important thing around automation is the ability to do inspection. I mentioned container scanning. We have a tool we call OpenSCAP that lets you inspect you, you can scan your machine and you have a profile that basically says these are the things I want to understand what's going on, am I missing security updates? Do I have a password policy? Is there a root account with no password? And there's all these things you can check on. And in the past, literally a guy with a binder would sit down, open it up and go through hundreds of pages of these rules and it would take hours to days. And now you can do it in a couple of seconds and it is phenomenal the power that's available through automation with the security perspective. So it's really about sort of trying to replace as many of those will be human mistakes with automation that you can do repeatedly. Absolutely, right, right. So Josh, how does ransomware fit into discussions that you're having with customers today?  Yeah, I mean, it's definitely a concern that you're seeing and it's something that's affecting literally every infrastructure that exists today. It's very opportunistic. I mean, this is one of those things in the past, people would write malware. And the quest, I remember, I'd get asked all the time, you know, why do people do this stuff? What's the benefit? And there wasn't a lot of benefits, fame, notoriety, just being general pain in the behind. But now with ransomware, there's actual financial benefit to what's going on here, right? And so the things we're seeing is, people are obviously very concerned about this and they're asking, what's going on? Like, what is Red Hat doing in our systems to make sure that we're making this very difficult for these ransomware authors to interact with us?  We have containers, we have a virtualization, it's called S-Fort, that kind of protects the VMs. And there's even more work going on now, things like, how could we do some application whitelisting? How could we have a better idea of what's in the environment? Things like open S-CAP scanning, I just talked about, fit into this, where when you can start inspecting your environment, you can watch for problems and hopefully catch them before they become, you know, something that's going to really devastate your business. Yeah, I, you know, one of the things with security, we had a guest who was on, who was from the Bombay exchange. So in India, the Bombay Financial Markets. And he said, you know, we've moved our infrastructure over to Red Hat. It's open source now. But he said, in general, there was still a feeling in India that, you know, open source is still kind of a, it's a, maybe it's not a secure, it's still kind of a tool, it's an open source community. As somebody who's talking about it all the time, how do you try and convince people, try and show them that it is secure, that you're taking all those steps, that they can feel comfortable with it for big mission critical applications? Yeah, absolutely.  And so here's what I always say. All software has bugs. It doesn't matter if it's open source or closed source, it makes no difference, right? And so that's the first thing. But then what you need to look at past that is if you look at how open source has dealt with security, and you look at especially how what Red Hat has done in the past, we have a phenomenal track record. Even in the days when Microsoft and Red Hat didn't get along very well, Microsoft acknowledged Red Hat's response to these security issues was top notch. And so you look at what's going on in the industry. You know, I'm not going to say open source is more secure. I'm not going to say it's less secure. Then we'll say other proprietary software. But the thing to keep in mind is how is the response to this? You don't hear about open source where there's security bugs that are six months or nine months or years old at times. Things like Heartbleed and Shell Shock were literally fixed in a couple of hours. And so in the context of security, there's always going to be security issues. Unfortunately, they're not going away anytime soon. So rather than saying this is more secure, less secure, it's all about when there is a problem, how are you dealing with it? And that's where the open source universe generally is very quick. But then additionally, when you look at someone like Red Hat, we kind of add our own magic on top of that, where we've got, we're informing customers what's going on, we're paying attention to things. You know, we build these patches, we test them to death to make sure that they aren't going to ruin what's going on inside your infrastructure. And then you've got the management tools that once you have the patch, what do you do with the darn thing? So a lot of new people here at Red Hat, some of DevNations going on, application development is continuing to grow. For anybody who, you know, lots of core rel customers that are here, but anybody who's sort of new to Red Hat, what's the best way to go, hey, how can Red Hat help me with my security? What's the best place to go find tools? What's the best place to find information about all that? It's right inside the door there, right? It's got the booth full of people. But no, I mean, in all seriousness, a lot of the people we have who actually work on this technology and are setting the policies and they're the guys in the trenches, you know, they're in that building right there behind you. You know, go in there and talk to them. Come find me, have a chat with me. We love talking about this stuff.  What about that person at home that doesn't get a chance to come to San Francisco? The unlucky ones, right? No, but in all seriousness, we have a lot of community involvement that goes on. There's obviously RedHat.com with our customer portal. We have plenty of information there. We're involved in lots of open source upstreams. We have things like the Fedora project. We've got Jboss YFLOW, we have RDO. There's so many places people can interact. And I know Jim's big message yesterday was all about, you know, that power of participation, right? And that's really how we see security, too, is we've always treated security not as kind of a RedHat secret thing we're going to lock up and not do anything with. We are very participatory. We've always worked, I mean, in fact, a good example here is we work with some of RedHat's competitors in the security space where, you know, once we're out in the field, it's beaten hands without a doubt. But on the security front, we understand that we all win or we all lose. We're in the same leaky rowboat and if we're not all bail and water, it's not going to end well. All right, Jeff, I want to give you the last word.  I think the biggest thing to take away is just understanding what's going on in your environment and the future of all of this that I see is all in that automation. It's all about automation. So understand what you're doing, how you can do it better, how can you automate this? The less people that touch your things, the better you're going to be off at the end of the day. All right, and I said it was the last question, but containers, you know, secure, not secure? I would say they're a bit like Schrodinger's container these days. They're neither secure, insecure. It's like any tool. If you do it right, they can be secure. And if you do it wrong, they can be insecure. And of course, RedHat is doing them right. All right, well, Josh Brosch, I just really appreciate you giving us the update here on security in the RedPad portfolio. We'll be back here with lots more coverage from RedHat Summit 2016. You're watching theCUBE.


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Welcome, everybody, to the Private Property Farming Podcast. My name is Ibali Walgoyal. Thank you so much for joining me in another special episode of the Farming Podcast. Tonight, we're on episode 123. We're fast approaching the 150th episode, and I really hope that you've been joining all the conversations that we've had on the podcast thus far. Today, we're joined by an agri-entrepreneur, Bruce DiAle, who is a CEO of Brewkull Global Development. And really speaking, everything around agribusiness and access to markets and farming, and any entrepreneur's journey, access to market is quite a critical component towards any business because without customers, you have no business. And most of it's said that the agriculture industry is quite a very difficult industry to penetrate where markets are concerned. So I'm quite keen to hear what Bruce and his conversation does, especially in the fact that they work around the rural development space. So it would be interesting to know, what work do they do? How do they uplift communities within the rural areas? And how do they, as an agribusiness, generating and operating in the space, more so, how are they providing access to markets, not only for sales, but maybe the farmers that they support or the entrepreneurs that they support on the ground? And so if you have any questions, please feel free to comment on the comment box below and reach out to Bruce at the end of the show if you found any synergies and ways to create. However, let's get straight into it and welcome Bruce to the podcast. How are you doing, Bruce? I'm good. Thanks, Nium Bali. Thank you very much. Fantastic, fantastic. I'm doing good. Tani, you are the CEO of Brewkull Global Development, Brewkull Global Development. What does the company do? Well, Brewkull is an agribusiness consulting company and our primary focus is to provide world development support from an agricultural perspective to farmers and people living in the rural areas. So we have those that are really existing in the farming space and we also have those that are interested in getting into farming as a means to alleviate poverty and to access a better future. So what we do is provide training, skills development, innovative solutions and we also provide access to markets and access to finance for these farmers in the rural areas. Perfect. What type of training do you provide to the farmers and the farmers that you work with? Just tell us a little bit about their demographics. Is it young people? Is it slightly older people? Is it people that are very experienced in the industry or is it just up-and-coming farmers? So generally, in the world, we have a challenge. We're about 78% of the farmers are old and above the age of 75. So we have a lot of those who are above the age of 75 that are already farming and we're trying to help them, you know, through accredited skills development programs that are accredited through SITA. We're able to provide to them training programs that are in line with ways they can understand and they don't teach them and make it better and easier for them to do what they're doing in agriculture. And then we also have a lot of females, young people, who we provide skills development to in agriculture to help them introduce them into the agricultural space because most of them do have access to land facilities in the rural areas. But unfortunately, you find that they just don't know how exactly to go about the process of starting an agricultural venture. So these training that we provide then makes that process much easier for them. Yeah. So you've mentioned that you're obviously coming up with a solution or providing a solution to the many problems that farmers in the rural areas face. Over and above just, you know, understanding how the business operates at farm level. What are the other challenges that you've experienced on the ground that farmers, particularly in the rural areas, although the farmers that you're particularly dealing with are faced with on a daily basis? So there are three key components that these rural-based farmers struggle with. The first one is they have very little access to information, and which is why we are providing the skills development programs that we have in place. And the second one is that they have very little access to markets, primarily because of their remoteness of where they are, you know, the lack of access of roads and infrastructure and so on. So we then come up with ways to make it easy for them to have better access to markets by providing, you know, group, holding services like logistics where we're able to help them take their produce in bulk from where they are to the markets and then lastly, the biggest challenge that they face is that, you know, access to financial support, especially because there's very little confidence from a market perspective towards a rural-based farmer. So we come up with our own financial models that is a risk profile towards supporting these rural-based farmers. And it's something that the market is looking quite forward to and the farmers are benefiting from that because they're getting access to financial support which generally wouldn't. Right, so you mentioned three key components, right? It's access to markets, access to financial support, as well as they have limited access to information.  Meaning, you know, do you look at what the farmer is growing in which seasons and the quantities and then you're linking them up to the markets which then obviously ties into the logistics. And if so, you know, how does your model work? Do the farmers have to pay you a sales fee, a percentage of the sales that they generate from their farm products and also going into the financial support? Are you drafting business plans for farmers? Are you seeking funding on their behalf or is Brucol Global Development specifically funding or financing the farmers in maybe short-term loans within anything? Are you just providing financing to the farmers directly from your entity? So what we do is that we have different models to approach all of these different questions. I mean, from an access to market point of view, we have farmers that already they are planting, already they have their own market, but unfortunately due to the quantity and the frequency of how often they have to go to the market, you find that they struggle to get transportation services that will link them with the relevant market. So when we come in, we then help them to link their planting processes in such a way that they're able to be able to provide them with the logistics services that will help them to be able to get their produce. They will then just be paying for the logistics. So basically they will be paying to have their product on the track. And then when it comes to access to finance, I mean, we're really very diligent in selecting the farmers that we support financially. And in that process, we put together the business plans along with them looking at where they are at the growth models and so on. So we don't necessarily wait for farmers to come to us and say, we are looking for financial support. We look at the key areas. And when we finance, we finance them in a group or in a bulk and we will put together a business case around that on their behalf. So they wouldn't necessarily have to pay us for that process. Yeah, for interest sake Bruce, which areas are you guys operating in? We are currently operating in Lompopo, Lompomalanga. And we've also had a couple of projects that we have done in KwaZulu Natal and Haudenay province. But at this present moment, most of our work is concentrated around Lompopo and Lompomalanga province. Right, there's a very nice areas with good climatic conditions. Tell me as an agribusiness owner yourself, how are then you running your business? How are you generating income? Are farmers paying your consulting fee to a system that doesn't access to information, markets, financial support, as you've mentioned? Or do you have partners that work alongside your brand and vision that support you financially to be able to support the rural farmers? Look, I wouldn't be too keen to share with my foreign business model because I wouldn't want to be inviting everybody to. Yeah, but what I can tell you is that, look, we are operating profitably and there are ways to deal with these issues. Sometimes the farmers are not always our customer, but they are our beneficiary. So we have many different institutions that want to support farmers. So we do that for them. I mean, the land bank is our client, the Department of Agriculture is our client, different sitters are our clients. So majority of our clients are corporate institutions that have a rural developmental approach to supporting people. So we don't go to these farmers and expect them to pay us a fee to provide them with skills development. For example, through the SETA, we are able to help them access discretionary grants that are available through SETA that actually takes payers money that they contribute through skills development levies. And we help them access those funds in order to provide some skills development support to them. So there are many barriers, ways in which we raise funds to implement these programs because we understand that the farmers themselves generally wouldn't be able to afford a six months or 12 months mentorship program. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So tell me Bruce, what's your background and how did you come about being in the agriculture? So I studied a bachelor's degree in agriculture and then I then studied a master's degree in business administration. But I do come from a very strong agricultural background. I mean, my father was an agricultural scientist, so he worked as an agricultural advisor for more than 30 years. So I was exposed a lot to the agricultural space by sometimes going to work with him and then I mean, even in our house at our home we've got quite a number of different fruit trees. So I grew up within that agricultural space and my passion for agriculture just brewed from there. But yeah, basically, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so we've said it a couple of times throughout the podcast is that the cost of farming is increasing month to month and it seems like rural farmers, I mean, are gonna be left out. Farmers that don't have enough resources and capital or deep pockets are also gonna be left out because of the high costs in farming. What's your view, especially working with farmers in rural spaces, what's your view on the projection in which the industry would be going in the next few years? Is it gonna be difficult to access more markets or would markets become less more lenient? What's the perception on the ground with rural farmers? Do they have higher hopes to continue to farm? You mentioned that your percentage of your clients or your beneficiaries, elderly people, is there sufficient plan maybe in the near future for the elderly individuals to really pass down their agribusinesses to their kids or their grandchildren? Just maybe just give us your opinion on what your view on the agriculture sector looks like from teaching an elderly generation, helping farmers in rural spaces and also just trying to navigate the high costs in farming these days. What's the solution that BroCo Global Development is coming up with? I think the question is a very important question. Because you have to look at how the government is going to contribute to this whole process. Because understanding that the government itself has to play a huge role, it's in subsidization and also in supporting initiatives that are geared towards ensuring that these rural farmers have access to what they need. So the answer to that question is highly, highly, highly focused on the level of support that these rural farmers will get, the level of programs and the innovation in which these programs will be able to implement solutions that will make it easy for farmers to have access to what they need. So I don't think the trajectory on its own can determine anything. But if there's enough support for initiatives to support rural-based farmers, and I think we are going to head in that direction primarily because there is so much land that rural-based people have access to. And once they are programs in place to help them access markets and access violence, then we'll be able to unlock this potential that these lands have to be able to eat these farmers to export, then essentially contribute to the general economy at large. So it's entirely based on the support structure that's going to be present. And of course, companies like us and other companies that exist within the agricultural consulting space, how we are going to navigate around providing solutions that are going to make the sector better. And with your experience, is government really helping with your initiatives on the ground, especially in the regions that you mentioned, like Limpopo and Bumalanga, because it's just as farmers and individuals, government tends to get quite a lot of flack around their non-performance and non-delivery of the things that they said they will do. So maybe giving us an insight into the rural communities is government, or maybe in this case, the Department of Agriculture playing a very critical role in uplifting the communities, or are they dependent on consultants and experts like yourself to tell them in which direction rural communities are going into, especially where primary or secondary agriculture is concerned? I think the problem with this is that, you know, there are always three sets of receivers to anything that comes up. You know, firstly, when the government comes up with programs, which I generally think they do have a lot of interesting programs and good programs that they're trying to come up with to fix the agricultural problems. People like myself, institutions like mine, some of them fail to understand the actual purpose of the project, and therefore you find that the funds end up being misused and not fully doing what is supposed to bring out the outcome that is anticipated by the institution themselves. And then sometimes you find that the consultants fully understand the program, but the beneficiaries who are the recipients of the program fail to understand and to fully grasp what is expected of them and what this program is meant to do for them. You'll find sometimes people have been funded and they'll use that money to pay for their children's school fees or renovate their houses, you know? So all of these things, I think that government has really played a huge role in coming up with support programs, but of course due to higher levels of corruption and not only from the government's perspective, but also from consultants' point of view and also from a lack of understanding and a high level of... I'm trying to find the right way where beneficiaries have this syndrome of entitlement. So when they receive funds, they believe we are entitled to this money so we can do whatever it is we want with it. And sometimes that derails, actually not sometimes, but most of the time, that derails the success of many of the initiatives that the government have come up with. Yeah, I didn't ask you this before and I think it's quite critical to our discussion this evening is that the farmers that you work with, what type of commodities are they trading? Is it from grains, horticulture to livestock or is there a specific emphasis that you particularly as an organization or an entity focus on? We work with farmers from all commodities, from cotton to livestock, horticulture, grain farmers, potato farmers. So we've got a vast array of different farmers. We work with rural based farmers. So it's not specific to commodities but any farmer who is from a rural area who operates within a rural spectrum and is trying to commercialize their operation, that is the person that we tend to focus on supporting. All right, this conversation has been quite interesting and yeah, I'm thankful for the podcast because we wouldn't have known of individuals like yourself but for farmers that are listening and watching the podcast episode, how did they get in touch with you and for how long can they work with you? Is it like a fixed 12 month program, six month program or they can continuously work with the organization you know at every stages of their business life cycle in their farms and also are you only focusing on farmers or would you assist those entrepreneurs who've seen a problem in the agri space and have identified maybe a tech solution, a finance solution but sort of need a big brother to help them overcome certain challenges that they faced with in business, et cetera. So how do people reach out to you and are you only focused on farmers or you are willing to consider and assist just general agripreneurs who are providing non-primary or production level services and products? So our slogan is innovating agriculture, that is the heartbeat of our operation. So any body or any entrepreneur or any organization that is coming up with innovative agricultural solutions, we are gladly, our doors are always open to collaborate, to partner, to support, to mentor, to assist, you know because ultimately we cannot do it by ourselves to bring this sector to where it's supposed to be. And then farmers, yes farmers, our doors are always open to farmers to come. We do host mentorship programs. People are able to book a session on our website and we also have different training programs that we have. So if people want to come for a one-on-one session, they're able to book that on our website, which I will do once you give me permission to do so. Yes, you can. Yeah, so on our website is www.bruccol, which is B-R-U-C-O-L dot C-O dot C-D. And all our information is there on our landline, our office address and our email addresses. Everything is there for anybody who is looking for assistance of any sort. Oh, Bruce, I think you're doing amazing work and I think we need more organization and entrepreneurs like yourself assisting rural communities because at many times they're often left behind, even though there's a lot of focus towards rural communities, but some organizations have failed, some are not really getting it right for a myriad of reasons. That's yeah, I thank you for coming on to the podcast and for sharing us your experience and the work that you're doing on the ground with rural communities. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure. That was Bruce D'Ali from Brucol Global Development. If you missed their website, it's www.brucol.co.cd and Brucol is B-R-U-C-O-L. If you are a farmer and entrepreneur just needing some assistance, business advice, business guidance, just also as a farmer seeking assistance from access to information, markets, or financial support, Brucol is a company that you should reach out to because they have worked extensively with farmers within the Limpopo and Limpomalanga regions predominantly and they all have major, major partners that are supporting the work of the land bank, all the CETA institutions. And so, yeah, if you're needing some upskilling, some training, some mentorship, some advice in terms of how you can grow your business or start that idea that you've been thinking of within the agri space, I think Bruce is someone that you could reach out to just to get a little bit of advice and a different perspective and thinking. Reach out to them and thank you so much for supporting the Private Property Farming Podcast. 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Hello, I love welcome back to another reading vlog and today we're going to do a chill reading vlog for those of you that are here a lot. We are going to be spending the vlog reading the books that T-Rail Cluteau picked for me this month. So excited. So not all of them are going to be reading three that they picked for me. We're going to be reading the three that the super prompts picked for me. So a goal this year is to read more of the super prompts from TBR Cluteau. So these are the ones that aren't the little books that are on these spaces but they are the weapons that I can pick and I basically have not been using them enough. So it's a real goal for me to use them more and so I thought it would just be fun to do a dedicated vlog for the books that have been picked for me this month using the super Cluteau prompts and then we'll just integrate them into other videos but I thought this month it would be fun to do. So I will leave this month's January TBR Cluteau linked down below if you want you to go back and watch the whole experience you're a little bit crooked. Yeah if you wanted to go back and I feel like you're still crooked. If you wanted to go back and watch the whole experience because for some of these it wasn't experience okay. So first we have The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson. This was picked by the magnifying glass which is recommended by the viewer. So I have my all my unread books video that I do every year. When I get the magnifying glass I have to go randomize the comments from that video and the first book that appears that someone loved I have to read. This is in the list with a few other books so if that does happen I do get to pick whatever book from the list I want to read but I'm a little bit nervous about this because me and Tiffany D. Jackson I have read two books from her and I gave them three stars and I think of 2.5. Tiffany D. Jackson's synopses excite me like no other. I get so excited for her books but then I'm seeming not to love them but I feel like I should get a five star I feel like if I don't give this like at least a 3.5 or a 4 I kind of have to stop reading D. Jackson. I don't know I just feel like it's not fair to her to keep picking up her books and reviewing them badly and rating them low so I really hope that we're gonna have success this one. I just know it's a carry retelling focusing on like racial inequality and injustice. Then we have The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. This was picked from the Rose Prompt which is if I get that I have to pick a book out of this jar that my patrons have chosen for me it's very full now and two of my patrons had picked this when I pulled it out it was either one of them we don't know who's it was but it was one of theirs. I don't really want to know much going into this I just know it's a very weird book and we are following a woman and her husband has left her for a younger better newer woman a woman that looks just like her. Okay. That's suspicious that's weird. It's pitched as Big Little Lives meets Black Mirror and I loved Big Little Lives when I read it so very intrigued about this. I don't I feel like I could fall on either side of loving or not liking this. And then finally we have The Dagger which is a random number generator I have to go to my TBR and pick a random number and the one it picked after a few attempts of picking books that were already on TV ugly day was The Cartographers by Peng Shepard. This one has had mixed reviews I know it's like magical realism-y and we're following a girl who her and her father were really renowned map makers and her father has been killed and she thinks it's to do with this particular map. I've heard not the best things about this but I'm really excited to see what I think and to give it a go. So those are the three books that we're going to be reading in this vlog and let's just get into it and see what we think of TBR Crudeau's picks. So I have started with The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson. I don't know what I said to you in the intro but this is me and Tiffany Jackson's last chance. That's quite dramatic. I just kept feeling like it's not fair on her really for me to keep reading her books if I keep writing them low. So this is my last chance. I have read the first 100 pages that we have got to the end of part one. I'm loving it. I'm really enjoying this. This is by far the best initial reaction I've ever had to a Tiffany D Jackson.  What's the procedure everyone? What's the procedure? Stay f***ing calm. This is a carry retelling but very much focused on kind of racial injustice and racial injustice and racism. So we know kind of from the beginning there's a podcast set I think about 10 years in the future from the events that we're reading about in the book and from the podcast we know that at the end of the book there's going to be a prom where most of the kids you know and everyone says that Maddie did it and then in the past we're following Maddie who at the beginning is trying to pass as white but then there's a rainstorm as she gets caught in her hair becomes like an afro. She had straightened it previously and everyone kind of finds out that she's black and she's bullied for it. I don't want to say much more because I think there's a few elements to this book that I didn't realize we're going to be in it and have been a pleasant shock so I don't want to say too much but I'm loving it. I'm really enjoying the audiobook so I think the audiobook is the way to read this. I'm debating just listening to the whole rest of it just via the audio. I'm gonna go cook dinner. Now it's my night I'm making an enchilada mix so I'm going to listen to the audiobook while I do that and then I have got reading sprints that are my patrons but I could just like play some games on my switch and listen to the audiobook in the sprints because I've read like I read probably the last 20 pages physically and audibly and I didn't quite enjoy it as much as just audibly. So we've got a podcast section I'm really enjoying. We've got like a full cast for this. It's really really good and then we're following different storylines. We're following Maddie's storyline. She's got a very strict racist essentially dad who's forced her to pass as white. We're following a black I think he's American football player in the school who kind of doesn't want to get involved in like race and stuff like that. He wants to focus on going to university and then we're following one of the girls who kind of bullied Maddie when it first was revealed that she was black and they were throwing pencils and into her hair and we're kind of following her grappling with she wasn't necessarily the ringleader of that but she did participate in it and think at the time it was funny and now she's kind of looking at what she did in a different light. The writing in it is really great. I think all the character voices are interesting are you know there's characters in this that you don't like but they don't almost feel like unrealistic you know as terrible as it is to say I've met people like this and not quite on the same time because obviously I live in England and I think this kind of like America South racism is like a different it's not something we necessarily have an equivalent of here but you know I've met people with along similar lines and it feels I feel like Tiffany Jackson is writing this from a place of not this isn't like something that I would wish for anyone but of experience and of living something similar I will say I have not read Carrie and I feel like there's probably a lot of direct parallels to Carrie all I know about Carrie I think is that there's like mixed media like news reports and stuff and I guess that's the function of the podcast is serving in this but I think I've heard people say that there's like real direct mirroring of some scenes and that is going over my head so there could be aspects of this that I really enjoy that are like I really enjoy because they were something that Carrie did did first and then this is kind of copying not that that's a bad thing but I just don't know where the references begin and end if that makes sense but I think this could be me and Tiffany Jackson's like our success story we're finally gonna be friends hello cuties how are we doing so I have to apologize to you I have to apologize okay I'm sorry I last activity when I was a hundred pages into the weight of blood and then my mental health she had an episode okay actually can't do the last time I was happy I literally can't tell you nothing bad but just the past few days I just had a bit of a dip where like I did not want to film I did not want to be on camera when I get like that I don't want to be perceived I don't want to be seen I don't I don't want to have to come on here and I don't know I don't think I'm very good acting like everything's okay but it's not I think you guys know by now a bit of an open book and I don't know when I'm in that mood I just don't make myself film it's my shirt okay good sometimes I put this on inside out when I film it's so embarrassing so yeah I just don't make myself film when I get like that and I was still okay to read and so I finish the weight of blood okay now what rating am I giving this drum roll please five stars I know Tiffany Jackson had a five star enough for me I knew it all along I just kept trying I kept searching all five stars I'm so happy so I actually listened to all of this I think via the audiobook I was really enjoying just the speed of the audiobook that I was listening to and I wasn't really physically I was just really enjoying consuming it that way so I addressed that myself play my switch game unpacking where you're unpacking a little house so cute yeah listen to all of this via the audiobook and I'm so glad I did that I think the audiobook is great I would recommend reading this via the audiobook like the podcast the sound effects I think all the narrators do such a wonderful job and I just loved it I thought it was great now I do just want to preface this review by saying I have not read Carrie I have not seen Carrie I have I know nothing about Carrie right and some of the reviews that I've read on Goodreads and seen people say from people who have read Carrie like it's a bit too close like it's a bit too like direct and adaptation and so when I in this there were moments I was like oh my god like gagged a little bit gagged by stuff I think my enjoyment is probably higher because I have not read Carrie I think people's enjoyment will probably be higher if they have not read or consumed the story of Carrie because I was kind of shocked at moments but obviously wouldn't be if you have read Carrie and what I thought this book did so well was just showing the different levels of racism that exist because I think I think something that people often say I mean in this book there's like outright terrible racists like evil human beings but there's also people a lot of people in this book that like would just say oh I have unconscious bias oh it's unconscious bias but unconscious bias is still racism right it's still racist it's still rooted in racist beliefs unconscious bias oh I have unconscious bias it's still racism right and I think this book did a good job of showing that and unpacking I guess the beliefs that people can have especially when they grow up in a small town like this it doesn't question biases and just allows them to fester and rot kind of the assumptions that people can have and I think I had a good job of having characters who were kind of like villains that we could just hate and then having other characters that like I feel like Tiffany D Jackson was kind of trying to get you to sympathize with or to connect to in a way but like I didn't want to I was kind of resisting that and I think that was an interesting play for her to kind of use but I really loved the way that this hopped between like perspectives like we'd be in a chapter but there'd be lots of different scenes in a chapter and lots of different perspectives I loved the podcast element I loved the full cast audiobook I thought it was incredibly well written I loved it I loved it I knew me and Tiffany D Jackson would be besties one day I kept trying this is my third guy and we've finally got a five star and also this was the first I think YA like set at high school like YA high school book that I've really loved in a while like at the last one I can think of it maybe cracked up to be by Courtney Summers like I haven't been having the best luck with like you know YA books set at high school I felt like the characters were really realistic for that kind of age Maddie our main character was a very interesting character because she's grown up so sheltered and given so much misinformation and I just thought I don't know I just really loved seeing her character develop so yeah I loved this the audiobook was perfect unpacking was great to play with it so yeah I'm so glad that I finally got around well it hasn't been out that long but I really wanted to get to this last year so I'm really glad that I finally got around to this I think next we will read The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey I don't know if I'm gonna start it today I do have some patron reading sprints later it is Saturday today but I don't know if I might read other stuff I've got some like patron events I need to read so this will be the next book I'm starting for this vlog but I don't know if it'll be the next book I start in general but yeah I don't know what to think of this I know it's gonna be weird but um I've already really heard good things and it's pretty short and pictures big little eyes meets black mirror so it's made for me so hopefully we'll have good luck we are gonna go head out on a new walk today that we've never been on that's nearby so I'm very excited I love a new walk and I just got the audio book for The Echo Wife to try and make myself read it quicker because I'm not feeling super motivated I'm hoping the audiobook will help me because it usually does when I am like struggling to get into a book so I'm gonna try and read some of that in the car and I'll see you later I always am way more chaotic when I feel on my phone I'm like whoa halfway through The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey you better f***ing take that back right now you better f***ing stop right now okay um I don't think you should know much going into this I didn't know much I don't think you should go know much just know her husband is left of this other woman who looks just like her and our girlie is perhaps a scientist who is renowned for cloning basically and I'm just bored I don't want to spoil much for you but like I don't think I'm really enjoying the narrative voice she's very like cold and hard and scientific but I feel like that I mean that's sort of a perspective I've enjoyed reading from before but it's without much like when I've read from it before it's like oh I'm this but I'm something else and I feel like we're not getting much nuance or variety to her character and here's the thing a lot of this book is she's reflecting on the way that our husband her ex-husband viewed her and the kind of perception he had on her and why that meant that he has this new wife and I just don't I don't like throwing us about husbands and wives it's pitched us big little lies and I liked big little lies because it was it was why it was like that mother's but I think I like reading about that more than like always talking about how she was perceived through his eyes and like bringing the male gaze into this yeah I want women I want women enough of this man women's stories matter yeah yeah they just matter I liked big little lies because it can't the husbands were kind of like irrelevant like it was all about the women and their relationships and like their interactions with each other and yes this is about the two wives kind of I don't want to spoil anything but like you know interactions I want to say but it's there's a lot about her through her ex-husband's eyes and how he viewed her and how that's left her here or like her her dad's eyes like the the way that he perceived her and I'm just not into the male gaze I don't want to hear about these men I don't want to hear about what they thought I don't hear that effect I'm bored I'm really bored I had to get the audiobook to make myself get through it I'm gonna edit what I've got in this video so far and then I'm gonna go ahead and finish this today and just like speed read it I'm really not enjoying it I don't know what to say I just think it's so boring and I also think you know it's about cloning her as a scientist she's known for cloning we're not really questioning whether cloning is a good idea I don't know perhaps subliminally we are but I think there's more nuance and conversation that we could open up about like cloning isn't the best and I feel like we're not questioning certain aspects of it or like what kind of person is that and like we are but I feel like it's surface level even it's if it's subliminal it's surface level we're not getting into the nitty gritty and it just makes me a bit like I'm just bored I don't want to say to you I'm really not enjoying it it's a short book so like it shouldn't have the time to leave me bored we should just go go go I feel like nothing's happened I'm really bored so I'm having to like make myself read it you know I have no inclination to read this I have to read it in order to get this video up that's the only reason I'm reading it so yeah I'm gonna go edit for a bit and then I'm gonna finish this book and hopefully I'll like it a bit more but I don't know if that's gonna happen hey so I just finished The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey and I'm actually gonna end up giving us a three star I much preferred the second half particularly I would say oh am I gonna give it a three star it is teetering on 2.5 I'm not gonna lie to you but I'm feeling generous I feel like it the last 50-ish pages kind of got it a three I did like the ending of this I thought that we got into some more interesting questions I thought that particularly like the ending ending I thought where it left our main character was very interesting but I I doesn't check the fact I felt bored the whole time really it's the truth maybe not that last 50 pages but like other than that I was so bored I was thinking about it and I was thinking about how this felt to me like a book that was published in like 2018 it wasn't it was 2021 but it felt like a book that was published in 2018 and if I had read it in 2018 I would have loved it I would have thought oh my god this is the most like crazy thing amazing premise ever but I feel like you know a with the times you have to keep innovating and keep doing something new keep doing something fresh but also like I've become much more well read you know and particularly in like thrillers and stuff that it just felt about commonplace do you know I mean I never felt like I was doing something particularly exciting also don't think it helps that so much the book is in our protagonist head with her thinking over things and talking us through her inner feelings and just got a bit repetitive I just got a bit bored of it okay I also think it's a difficult book to discuss without spoilers like to discuss in depth without spoiler spoiling but I liked that left certain questions unanswered I do appreciate that um I'm trying to think and I think so say I don't know if I would rush to pick up another Sarah Gailey the writing just I don't know if it was my flavour and that's fine you know like not every book has to be for everyone as we know in this life I'm glad that I've read it but it was a slog for a 250 page book I'm probably not gonna think of this book much but that last 30 50 pages did enough to push it over into a three star so it is about six o'clock I think I'm gonna try and rouse myself to do yoga I've just been reading this in bed and I've gone way too comfy cozy so I'm gonna try and rouse myself I've been doing I've been doing yoga every day in January and I know I'm like tired now but I know I'll thank myself for it later because I'll fill so I love yoga particularly yoga with Adrian I've been doing yoga with Adrian on and off since I was probably 14 and I love her I think my mental health is like entirely dependent on Adrian I'm kidding but yeah I've got two instalments to do tonight because I missed yesterday's so I need to do that and have a bath and have dinner but then I'm gonna start the cartographers and I would really like to I'd like to finish this by tomorrow that's not happening all right so I would like to get at least a hundred pages in tonight and have a little little chat with you but we'll see we'll see how it goes one thing that's exciting me that I've noticed already is that there's like logs throughout and let me find a let me see if I can find an example yeah there's pictures of maps throughout which really excites me that's different I'm there's a cat hair in my eye the cats have been cuddling me a lot today which I'm very lucky for but oh my god they're fat I feel like I am I don't know if you can see I'm probably covered in it I didn't change my top before coming and speaking to you ah okay I'm gonna go I'm gonna try and rouse myself to do some yoga have my dinner have a bath and then I might see this evening or I might see you in the morning a hundred pages in I've also got the audiobook for this one and it looks like it is full cast in some way or does have multiple voice actors or the maps makes me excited okay I know this is gonna be iffy because it has been controversial but I'm excited to get into it I am a hundred pages into the cartographers I wanted to finish this today it is only half eight so I can get some good reading done this evening but I am not feeling super motivated to read it so so so so so our protagonist and her father are both cartographers they both love maps they both love looking into maps learning about maps but her dad and her had this massive argument about seven years ago where he like got her fired from the library that all the big cartographers worked at and she's been kind of blacklisted because of that and they've never spoken and then he dies he dies and in when she goes to the library to kind of go to see the police and stuff she finds in his briefcase the map that caused him to have this big argument that she found one day amongst other maps and that's why he like blew up at her and got her fired over this map it becomes clear that perhaps there's some people who want this map it is a very ordering map it's like a map of like some old gas station highway in america like it has it we can't understand yet why it's so important but it becomes clear that people are willing to kill for this map too much drama for me I do want to say a hundred pages in we don't yet like people have been listening this is fantasy magical realism that hasn't come into play yet it's all very much our world our world's rules at the moment and I'm just like where's this gonna go it's not bad I'm enjoying it but I don't feel connected to it I don't feel like inspired to read you know I'm just it's fine if I had to rate it now I'd say 3.5 you know that's my current enjoyment where when I'm reading it I'm like oh yeah good fun you know but but when I'm not I don't feel particularly yeah excited to read it I guess so I just I don't know I think what some people have not liked about this is the ending it doesn't really succeed with what it wants to do and I think this is gonna go off the rails a bit and go get a bit weird I'm excited that I'm finally reading it I just don't know if it's not what I necessarily want to be reading at the moment or if I'm making myself read because I really want to get this video done and move on with my life because this video for some reason has been really delayed I don't really understand why or if it's just not grabbing me you know I don't know and the audiobook is fine the audiobook isn't making me get through it any quicker so anyway I'm gonna try and chill out this evening and I guess we'll just see what happens we'll just see how it goes hello hello apologies if I look a bit rough it's the end of the day if you're a One Direction fan back in the day that it's gonna give you wall flashbacks I'm on page 270 of the cartographers Miko I just sat down can you don't wait like two minutes for me to let you out Miko Miko whenever the door shut he acts as if he's never gonna escape he's like let me out come say hi yeah me and Miko have been having so many cuddles lately but he doesn't like cuddles if he's not in the mood if he doesn't instigate them he says no way Jose right shall I let you out before I start talking come on then apologies if you hear noises from downstairs I've left a gap oh he's now rubbing up on the tripod oh yeah we love the tripod so much my dad's watching a video downstairs so apologies if you can hear the noise but he couldn't decide to leave or not and he loves the tripod so much yeah but you know unlike being on camera huh you say that's not a mad jab cut the cameras anyway yeah I'm on page 270 of the cartographers and I keep oscillating between being really interested and like interested in the concept and what's going on and what's happening and then being really bored I actually felt the last section hi I'm just gonna get distracted by your beauty I actually feel like the last section was pretty good I've really enjoyed I've just been making Shepard's pie and I've really been enjoying the last section oh we love the book yeah I keep going between the two I think the pacing hasn't been the best right I think the pacing the little work and I think it's waited too long to get into the fantastical element of the book I feel like I don't know I feel like there was a section a good maybe 80 pages where that needed to come into play for the book to be more interesting it just kind of has which it's quite a late stage in the book and this whole other storyline is kind of happening that wasn't happening at the start but you know I love I do love the kind of map studying setting like they're at the the public library this is described as like ornate and detailed and like it reminds me of how I loved babble and the study of linguistics I think I love reading about like people who are scholars who are passionate about their area of study like I just think that's something I do really enjoy I don't think the writing is incredible but I don't dislike it but I'm not I'm sitting here right now I'm not looking forward to reading it but when I'm reading it I'm like okay yeah fine you know but I'm not like oh I can't wait to read it I am gonna read it tonight I'm gonna finish it tonight because I'm a determined woman and this video has to finally go up I was supposed to go up on Sunday I'm not supposed to go up on Tuesday now it's hopefully going up on Thursday this cannot this vlog I don't know what's happened like my life has fallen apart a little bit in the past couple of days but that's kind of my prevailing feelings on it is that yeah it's enjoyable I have a lot of things like I think it's fairly obvious what's going on and all the reviews that are negative don't like the ending so I'm intrigued to see where I fall on that line but I would say I'm enjoying it like I'm not hating it yeah I think the ending is either going to be the kind of ending that I love and everyone else hates or I hate because everyone else hates I don't know but I will see you probably in the morning with my final thoughts do we want to do this or should we just like cut the video here and pretend that this hasn't happened no okay right let's talk about it I finished the cartographers I feel like you're very close in to me oh that's even closer I finished the cartographers and I'm giving it a 2.5 oh no this has now gone downhill and that's like a very conflicted 2.5 because there's a thing there's elements of this that I love like I keep saying this I kept going back and forth between loving it and being so incredibly bored I don't know what the next book I'm reading yet is I might be unwrapping it today and finding out wink wink for what's coming next week I need the next book I read to not be one that bores me like the last two books they haven't necessarily been bad but I have not felt excited to read that's all I ask for is I want to feel excited to read you know a book doesn't have to be good for me to be excited to read it I can be like hate reading a book survives nights always my top example but like at least get me feeling something the ending to this just wasn't it wasn't good so to be honest I have like almost zero understanding of what actually happened at the ending of this like what actually was the resolution I just feel like the book the pacing was not good right we'd go through moments where like oh great I'm finally so excited to read I have to not happen and then we'd like go on these long guess what dual timeline stories and it will be ruined the ending it was incredibly obvious once you got to a certain point you're like hang on I'm connecting the dots here and it's pretty obvious what's about to happen and who's going to be the bad person here you know and the like resolution just like makes the whole rest of the book feel pointless to me right and if you want me to care about the characters and like what all these different characters have gone through and the pain and the trauma and the tragedy tragedy tragedy yeah if you want me to care about that don't make the ending something that just makes that all a waste I also think it's forgettable I don't think I'm gonna remember much of it but like I said that it's a conflicting review it's a conflicting rating because there were elements that I loved I love the scholarly vibes there were moments where a plot twist happened or we were given some information I was so into it I was like yeah let's go and then I was like oh they're feeling quickly dissipated it was a rollercoaster me in this book in this vlog of what TBR Kudo picked we had one roaring success I am so happy that I finally got round two and then we had two pretty disappointing books I mean it was like a three star but I was bored these are boring these are boring I'm just really hoping whatever book I have to read next is always exciting it gets me going you know so that's it for the vlog this vlog has been going on forever for no reason by the way I've had the weirdest week in terms of like productivity and like getting some I don't even know what's happened to me it's been a weird week okay so thank you for watching it I'm glad it's done I'm gonna go edit these last few clips and then it's out of my life and I'm pretending this vlog never existed because for some reason it was very painful I feel like I'm getting ill and it's all this vlog's fault no um if you got into the end of the video what should we comment comment the map emoji or like the push pin like the location push pin emoji comment any of them down below thank you guys for watching we will see if we ever trust TBR Kudo again and I hope you have a good rest of your day bye