A Dowry of Blood is also on my October tbr! We’ll have to discuss 😎 I read My Heart is a Chainsaw last year(?) and wasn’t a fan, but I’ve heard you either love it or hate it it sooo… hopefully you’re in the other camp!
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I read Chlorine earlier this year and really enjoyed it! I’d recommend not going into it thinking it’s a horror book because it’s not really. It’s more so an exploration of girlhood. I also read The Housemaid earlier this year…. reeeaaaalllyyy did not enjoyed it. I imagine you might not either because the writing is extremely juvenile buuuuut… maybe if you just need a quick book to read! I really want to check out Annie Bot, excited to hear your thoughts 🎉
good to know about chlorine!! and i’ve heard really bad things about The Housemaid lol but there’s also so much hype around the author and her books that i just want to check it out myself!
i knew that when u looked on gdreads for cerulean sea that’s you’d be agog 😭 v much same (in law school and have worked in the aboriginal legal space in east coast aus - literally would not be able to stomach a cutesy take on child removal)
Fantastic video 👏 so impressed you read 4 in one day. I’ve heard great things about Evil Eye-glad to hear you enjoyed it. Thanks for encouraging me (and hopefully others) to pick up Palestinian books 🇵🇸
I’ve been wanting to read House of Leaves for so long and you already convinced me to read The Stepford Wives 👀 can’t wait to see what you read in the second half of the year!
I LOVED If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English, one of my fave books ever, I hope you'll love it just as much!!! I always comment when I see it in a video hahah but I would say that it's more about power dynamics in relationships.
against the loveless world is on my tbr ! this was a rly great video ty. have u read the book interviews with radical palestinian women ? I think it’s a rly fantastic book abt Palestine & especially women’s experiences and involvement in resistance movements and stuff.
Happy birthday !!! And I hope your exam went well! Alsooo, the hair?!? Amazing. Also, I feel like Lauren Groff has a lot of nice sounding books but I have not heard great things about her work over the years :((
i don’t know how entertaining of a story it is lmao but essentially i was going to my friends house to sled so me and my sister were walking there taking turns carrying a big toboggan and a truck kept coming past us over and over. so then we got to my friends house and she couldn’t sled, so we left and right after we got out of her driveway the truck came by again and stopped right next to me and the door opened. i dropped the sled and ran and me and my sister hid in the woods while she called my dad to come get us LOL and then my sister yelled at me for dropping the sled
I'd like to hear your almost kidnapped story. Never happened to me but I did got lost in the forest for a couple of hours with my cousin when I was a kid, didn't find any fae tho.
just shared it in a previous comment! and omg that sounds terrifying, just like that stephen king book called the girl who loved tom gordon (or something like that lol)
Let's hope that bookshelf doesn't collapse 😅. I love Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, very fun, sad and beautiful, also probably not what you'd expect from the blurb. Btw have you read the Annihilation book? totally recomend it, and for a fantasy rec, Clive Barker's Imajica, that books is as beautiful as it's massive and unhinged.
I have read Annihilation! Absolutely loved it. I have never read anything by Clive Barker but I do have something by him on my shelf, I’ll have to pick it up sometime soon!!
This is such a good haul 👏 The Virgin Suicides is my all time favorite book-I hope you enjoy!! Howl’s Moving Castle and Our Wives Under the Sea have been on my tbr for a minute
I am an All the Light We Cannot See & Big Swiss lover and an enjoyer of The Guest and Yellowface 🙈 but I respect you for actually cleaning up your shelf… I need to do that so bad but I’m in denial
I feel like Kate being scared of thunderstorms makes more sense in the tv show because they changed her ethnicity. India is in monsoon season area, so thunderstorms are a lot more threatening there than in England. That’s just my take, though.
Loved this SO MUCH!! I’ve been wanting to read this series but I was nervous bc it’s so long 😵💫 but seeing you read some of them in a day 👀 downloading on my kindle rn
So impressed that you read 18 books and I’m soooo excited to watch your Bridgerton video 👀 I’ve been wanting to read them I feel like Stephen King is always putting some weird pervy shit in his books that everyone collectively chooses to skip over but like… it’s every book 😭😭😭 can’t stop reading them tho bc other than that they’re usually good!!! 🤦♀️ Cell has always sounded so silly to me haha
Actually geeked at this video because 1) you’re so pretty and I’m obsessed with your eyeliner 2) there are so many books in here I haven’t heard of that I’m thrilled to add to my tbr! I’m super interested in The Stepford Wives and Notes on Heartbreak. I actually did my senior capstone on heartbreak grief so I love reading about it sm 👀 I can’t wait to explore the rest of your channel and get even more recs… really feeling like we need to be booktube besties <3
Those are some great picks! Northanger Abbey is actually a satire of the Gothic genre, so its technically just her having fun with the tropes😅 Im currently tackling The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann for my summer reading, its a doorstopper fr
Thanks for sharing about the book on the Congo. I've been trying to find good sources to learn more about the DRC and its historical context. So, I'll be adding Cobalt Red to my TBR!
The struggle was real in this one. Don't worry about not getting into poetry, I also try and mostly fail. Maybe I'll love one out of twenty poems I read, it's often a lucky mix of being in the right mindset, getting the references, metaphors, etc. Probably the worst mistake is force reading poetry books and forcing yourself to enjoy it. Keep searching and I'm sure you'll find poems that speak to you.
Whew! You had quite a nice book haul. I would say that you should follow your heart's desires, but I have had to cut back on buying books, simply because of space. I have some book hauls coming up, but I have only been visiting bookstores when I am going with a friend or on a special occasion, like when I was in Asbury Park for a Silent Book Club. On one hand, I wish that you shared the bookstores that you visited, but if you did not want to do so because of location purposes, I understand completely. I love being able to chronicle visits to particular bookstores in my videos, especially those that are independently owned. I love many of the books that you selected or at least they fulfill my tastes. I did not get into poetry until college, but then it started to grow on me. Keep in mind that poetry should hold no boundaries and it is an ability to delve into the psyche of whomever it is that is writing any given poem. You learn more about who they are, what they are thinking, what interests them, sometimes their political thinking, and you can even get a direct reference or reflection to their culture and where it is they lived. I own books from quite a few Polish poets and one that is a collection of Polish poetry from the last two decades of Communist rule. I have heard of Olga Tokarczuk and would like to read one or more of the works she has written. I will often times have to look up how they pronounce their names. Mary Oliver's poetry is brilliant! Wild Geese is one of my all-time favorite poems, because it gives me an ecstatic feeling. Mark Kurlansky is such a good writer and has done a fine job with microhistory. I read Cod five years ago and was impressed! He also wrote about Paper, Salmon, 1968, and the song "Dancing in the Street" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. He has written plenty of other books, too. Vampires have come and gone in popularity, I have noticed. I like good vampire literature, but I prefer when they are more horrifying, like Vlad the Impaler, Nosferatu, or sometimes even zombie-like as they are depicted in I Am Legend. I read Bunny by Mona Awad and did not like it! It feels like it has become the Repo: The Genetic Opera of books with its cult enthusiasm, but I was incredibly turned off. I read it for the Booktube Prize. I own quite a quite books from New York Review Books. I read their editions of Jakob von Gunten and Stoner. I would like to read more! Thank you for sharing and I am eager to hear about your thoughts to each of these! -Josh
i read the entire Devil's Night series and let me tell you that despite my problems with the last two books (i liked Corrupt and Hideaway the most), it's among the least problematic dark romance series 🤣 another good dark romance series is the Dark Verse by RuNyx, but this one is thankfully underrated. if you still want to try to read more dark romance books, stay away from the ones popular on BookTok and also Penelope Douglas' other books like Credence and Tryst Syx Venom or something (Devil's Night is her only good series). they're all really bad
good to know!! tbh i’m a little bit scarred by some of these so idk if i’ll be picking up any more dark romance any time soon hahaha but maybe in the future ill give it another go!
The problem with dark romance is that they try to justify the toxic traits wit the ML and their relationship in general. I would like to read a DR where everyone else in the story scream at the face of the FL that she is in a horrible hole of abuse and toxic romance, but the FL just ignore them by any reason, I mean, everyone and the reader can see the FL is neck deep in unhappiness. I guess the charm of DR is that is in the line of Romance and Horror. (Sorry for the rant! And english is not my first languague, so sorry for any mistake!)
Ok, hear me out, what if the playlists aren't just a sample of the author's cool taste in music, but instead have been interwoven with the writing to carry the reader into the deepest levels of these dark aesthetic experiences. So, maybe, just maybe, the reason you didn't enjoyed these dark romances, was that you didn't listened to My Chemical Romance while reading those questionable sex scenes.
Ab Urbe Condita by Titus Livius, Machiavelli's Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy, Guicciardini's Considerations on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy, as well as his Histories of Florence and Italy.
It's like I always justify it with: could be worse, at least it's not crack (though thats probably less taxing on the wallet) 🤣Hope all will be well with you, I really like how you read such varied stuff. Thanks to your channel I picked up how Europe Underdeveloped Africa and it changed my life! x
honestly thats a great way of thinking about it! hahaha. and i love to hear that!! I still need to pick it up, its definitely at the top of my nonfiction tbr!
