One day the algorithm put me on to this channel, and I am grateful for this discovery. As a Black man who has been an English professor for nearly 20 years, I am heartened to see your passion for reading and discovering new books. Keep up the great work! You are making a difference.
Great job of not only promoting literacy and the fun of reading, but you probably also will motivate people to got get their eyes checked! The frames really suit you, good job!
This channel is becoming such a comfort at this point, seriously. The new frames look so good! I'm SCREAMING you got Get a Life, Chloe Brown!!!! Let's go, Brown sisters!!! So excited for you to read it! I read Dorian Gray when I was younger, remember I really liked, but not in details, so I plan t reread it this year. Simon vs the Homo sapiens agenda is lovely, and also has an adaptation that I highly recommend! Kindred, oh boy. Kindred. Still pops in my mind and leaves me speechless from time to time. And a bunch of great recommendations again, thank you!
@@ElleStuart I got it for Christmas so I'll do it for sure! I'm so excited cause I know there's so much nuance that I was probably too young to pick up and I'll understand it better now
Your vibe is creating a fun place to be! I love your humour, eclectic tastes, and happy outlook. I’m loving being part of the family and tagging along on your adventures. I’m looking forward to your reviews of these books! See you next time!❤🇨🇦
Yay new upload 🎉 been loving your content 📚 Some NYC Bookstores I love: The Ripped Bodice, Sweet Pickle Books, Books are Magic and The Mysterious Book Shop
Okayyyyy nowww love the new set of eyes. And thank you for taking us along on your bookstore trip with your beautiful gf and your family. What books did your brother buy? And thank you for making my TBR list even longer loll. Enjoy your books and I cant wait to see your reviews.👏🏾
I'm putting this one on my list. It sounds great. It reminds me the teeniest bit of BLINDNESS by Jose Saramago, which won a Nobel Prize for Literature. In that book (if you don't know it), large swaths of the human population suddenly go blind. Then they are rounded up by the government and put into camps--for "their own protection," if I remember correctly. The premise of the story is really interesting, and the writing is marvelous and raw. Lots of smells, as you can imagine in a world where very few can see. Too bad I can't read Spanish. I bet it's even better in its native tongue.
I will always recommend Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It’s the original of the monster everyone knows but the media changed it and kind of lost the point of what Frankenstein was about. It’s my favorite book and it’s a classic! It created the genre of science fiction and makes you question the dilemma of who the actual monster in the book is. Also, random fact: the original gothic english vampires that we know today was originated by a story called The Vampyre (what Dracula is based on) which was written at the same time and in the same room as Frankenstein. If you’re curious, you should do some fun research on how the two most prolific monsters (Frankenstein and English Vampires) were created in the same room! Happy reading!
Loved Nickel Boys. Remember get you a Library Card (s) for free books. The book We by Yevgeny Zamytin . Is 1984 like. Look for the book Educated. Happy Reading
Love your vibe cousin ❤❤❤❤ truly one of my favorite booktubers out here. Your taste and love for books is amazing and fun. You definitely have a great personality that promotes reading. Keep being different and yourself without apology. Good seeing a black man promote his love of books. We need more of that. You rock cousin. Ayeeee ayeeeee books 📚📚📚📚📚
Ahhh. I’ve read all but 2 of these books and you chose some really great ones. The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my top 5 books of all time. If you enjoy Animal Farm and you enjoyed 1984 I think you’d really like Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (and it’s about books). Kindred was really good. It’s one of the books that I recommend if someone asks me in a bookstore for recommendations.
Another banger. Thanks, Five! I love seeing you enjoy my city and its great bookstores. Can’t wait to see what you (and your girl!) think of Normal People. And Simon is so good!! I hope you have a great reading month!
What joy to watch your vlogs. I truly appreciate the passion and care you put in to taking us to bookstores and hearing why you chose the books. I love the diversity of your reading taste. I can totally relate to your curiosity and hunger to read widely. I've been an avid reader for more than 30 years and those feelings are still there. I honestly don't know who I'd be without books as my constant companion during so many stages of my life. Thank you for another beautiful post
Today i had one of the best days I've had in a while, went book shopping with a friend, ate a crepe and ended the day with a hockey match! I'm writing this as if it was my diary haha anyway thank you for yet another video!
YAY! I’m so happy you picked up Chloe Brown :) I was one of the people that recommended that one. I also love that you watch Jack Edwards, I love him too! A cousin and Jack collab someday would SLAY me.
I'm so glad you picked up Kindred and I can't wait to see your review. All of your choices look good. The bookstore tour was great and those new glasses look wonderful on you. It's all good. Have fun!
Animal Farm was definitely a book I loved reading in middle school! I wrote a paper on it and you are right about the symbolism in it. 1984 is also another good book by him too!
You quickly became one of my fav booktubers. I like that you watch Jack Edwards too! Thanks for posting and for the great book recs. You are appreciated 😊
This is ABSOLUTELY the BookTube channel I didn't know I needed, but I am overjoyed it showed up in my feed. #cousin, you have a new subscriber here! Thanks for sharing your content.
I've been reading "The Grace of Kings" for a while now. This book is a journey for sure. It's very vivid and full of action. But also very foreboding. Definitely a recommended read.
We like diversity in the authors and genres we read!! If you like that Blake Crouch Book, try Wayward Pines and Dark Matter!! If you're ever in New Mexico, try Page 1 Books and Under Charlie's Covers. ❤
As a mom of three grown sons (who love books too) it is so awesome to see a young man on booktube who shares his time and love of books ❤ I so love bookstore and bookhaul vlogs ❤ I had a mini bookhaul today too 😉 and I added some from your new books to my TBR 🥰
I love your channel! I love finding accounts of people with broad reading taste, and people reading both new and old books. I'm a big fan, can't wait for more videos.
Honey and Spice is sooo good! The audiobook narrator is amazing as well. You have to try Kennedy Ryan too! Before I Let Go is a good place to start with her books.
Hey! If you end up really liking Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda, I highly, HIGHLY recommend you check out The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian next. They're both YA books centering around a young boy who doesn't fit in with the rest of their school peers (although for different reasons). It's a book that been banned in several states highschools/libraries for graphic content but the story that it has to tell is truly one of a kind and worth the read. At least for me, it was one of the most influential books I have ever read. Love the vid! Was super excited to see you upload today :D
Love your glasses! This was such a good haul and you got me so excited for “A Love Song For Ricki Wilde”! I’m not up on new releases usually but that one sounds amazing and I’m definitely picking it up. 🙌📚
Love the variety of choices you picked up. Awesome frames. Beautiful bookstore. Some of these titles are new to me, so my TBR list just grew (again, always). I read Kindred in February and absolutely loved it. I hope you enjoy it-I’ll be curious what you think. Thanks for another fun video!
I really enjoyed Get a Life Chloe Brown! It’s great disability representation and an overall enjoyable story! I also want to recommend one of my favourite authors, Thomas King. He writes mystery, fiction, and non-fiction, and is an extraordinary author. I suggest his DreadfulWater mystery series. They keep you guessing during a slow, but addiction burn, and the humour of the main character is just amazing!
I LOVE that bookstore. It was the first bookstore my then-boyfriend, now-husband took me to. I would love to see you read Deacon King Kong. It’s a funny, ironic, heartwarming story! Also, if your girlfriend and you are comfortable with it, you all should do a video about you reading a book together and talking about it.
@@LitVibesWithFive John K King Books (main location downtown Detroit, offsite location Ferndale) Coreanders Children's Book Shoppe (Grosse Pointe Park) Pages Bookshop (Detroit, black owned) 27th Letter Books (Detroit, black owned) The Sidetrack Book Shop (Royal Oak) Just to name a few, lol
I love that you read classics! You summarize them so well! I may have to pick up “The Portrait of Dorian Gray”. I’m always on the fence with classics but I think you sold me on it!
I’m loving Blake Crouch’s writing. Recursion is next on my list since I’m currently reading Upgrade. Dark Matter was his first book I read and it legit got me excited about reading again. I read it in about 2-3 days because it was that good.
Yup them glasses look good! I love the diversity of your book haul and how you're keeping an open mind to exploring other people's perspectives. I'll def have to hit that bookstore up next time I'm in ATL!
Great choice for your new frames! And the bookstore looks amazing. I love your choices. The Nickel Boys is excellent and sad. Look at info about The Dozier School (I think it was just outside Tallahassee in Marianna FL. A newer release, The Reformatory by Tannarive Due, was also set there and has more supernatural elements to the story. I saw it on one of the tables in your bookstore footage! Enjoy your reading and let us know your thoughts. 😊
i saw that new Keith Haring book in the beginning! Dope, I am reading that and Jean Michel Basquiat King Pleasure ATM.... both are amazing! Nice vibes, nice video. Peace!
Another amazing book haul! I've always wanted to try Colson Whitehead's stuff, but the writing intimidates me. I hope you like it and can convince me to try it. 😅 I went to college in Tallaahassee so hearing that it's based in a true tragic time in history was so intriguing to me.
With those cute new glasses and Dorian Gray book I feel a dark academia video in the making 😆 p.s. Yes if you ever visit England I would be very happy to point you in the direction of some great book shops. There's one near where I live which used to be an old railway station - literally the entire space is a book shop now, it's very quirky!
It always excites me to see what book stores you are visiting and what you will purchase. You have some great picks that you will enjoy. Happy Reading!
Love that you travel to get your recommended books. Have you been to Medu Bookstore in Greenbriar Mall? Sister Nia has been in business for 33 years. She’s for the culture and her shop is filled with amazing books and gifts. She’s a 💎!!!
Your girl is so stinking cute with such a killer smile 😍 looked like a beautiful bookstore. In Adelaide, Australia most of our best bookstores are closing down- its awful.
omg great haul!! such an awesome variety of books! i actually just read the picture of dorian gray last month and absolutely loved it! the prose was beautiful
The only thing I've read in your haul is Animal Farm, and that was in high school- long, long ago! Everything you got sounds great. I need to get off my butt and up my reading game!
Hey man, I know you probably have plenty to read for now, but I'm gonna throw out Wool by Hugh Howey as a recommendation. It's a little different, kinda sci-fi apocalypse stuff, but it's awesome. Recently finished it, and you really feel for and connect with the characters
Great video cuzzin! I just bought Recursion myself. Plan to read it this month. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it when you read it. Read Kindred in February. One of the most thought-provoking books I read.
I'm an Atlanta bookstore expert!!! I have suggestions. These are a mix of new/used. Soooo many gems. Have FUNNNNNN More places for you to check out: Charis (Decatur) - feminist, new books Community Books (stone mountain) - rad books, used, collective owned a capella (Atlanta) - used + new, lovely eagle eye (north Decatur) - new and used for keeps (Auburn neighborhood)- Black, vintage, rare yes please (scottdale) - cute book house, new books, they have a library Bookish(east Atlanta)- small, curated, woman owned, new and used, lots of great stuff; a lot of newer releases Atlanta vintage books (clairmont ish) - huuuuuuge!!!!!!! A million books. You can lose your day in here. Amazing first editions and stuff too. book nook (n Decatur I think) - again, you'll lose hours. Packed to the depts w used books etc Have fun!!!!!!!!
I loved "Normal People" it really resonated with me but i can see how ot wouldnt for everyone so im interested to see what you think. Im prowling the aisles of the used bookstore sphere for Kindred! Excited to lay my hands on it 😀
