Illustrator of the #HiddenBooksGame here - it was so lovely watching this and seeing you figure out all the clues! So glad you enjoyed it, it's always so much fun to illustrate and seeing this makes it doubly worth it! 😊📚
i was so proud of myself for guessing the bookseller of kabul. i never would’ve got it if it wasn’t for the åsne name tag & that i’ve just recent read another of her books
I was literally screaming the secret history and ace of spades and it ends with us and i was like okay how is Jack not getting these? Especially, it ends with us🤣🤣
I know this isn’t a video where he is actually reviewing book but since he’s excited I’m going to say this. I love seeing him so excited about books and get so much joy out of books. And how excited he is in every video to tell us about books. I will listen attentively to everyone that’s excited for telling me something they like so much, and that thing gives them so much joy and they smile all the time. Firstly that thing has to be amazing to give you so much joy which causes you to smile so much because You deserve the smile on your face and second I have to listen to you, it gives me so so much joy to see people find happiness and joy in small things in life and live and not just survive
I squealed at Rivers of London! One of my favorite book series! I understand why someone wouldn't get it if they don't know the book(s), but on the other hand, it's very literal as well, so should be easy 😂
The apple clue made me so happy because I LOVE THAT BOOK SO MUCH- the appeal is a cosy mystery told through emails around an amateur dramatic society. You read through it as 2 law interns trying to put together a defence for the lead defence barrister on this case as someone has confessed to the murder but the barrister believes them to be innocent. One of the best books I have read this year.
A flatmate and I spent a solid 2 hours the day it was released going through and guessing them all - the way we shouted at realising the classic novels in this list!
You should read 'the bookseller of Kabul', its really good, very well written. Åsne Seierstad went to Kabul and stayed with a family to observe what happened in Kabul with the people, the regime, etc. She has also written a book called 'Two Sisters' about two sisters who leave Norway to join the Taliban. Both books I highly recommend!!
Pretty sure the man in the tie dye is The Man Who Died Twice 🤔 oooh yes you got it! This was so fun. I thought the lady on the ladder was A Ladder to the Sky 😅
hahahah I love how for the Iotopia one he immediately put the secret library and the midnight library which is exactly what I did. I must say guessing that one was the proudest moment i had in the entire quiz. even better than when I finished it.
I guessed like two before you, but I wouldn't have gotten any of the other ones. And I knew immediately it was an Afghan hound, but that would have gotten me absolutely nowhere. Never even heard of that book.
spoilers if you want to do the game i totally did research, but the two books you missed were Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Ah, you got it. It's very good. By the way, she just released another book called "The Afghans" (Afghanerne). At least in Norwegian. I'm reading it as we speak. Still not translated.
honestly the life after life one took me forever I kept searching up things like double life, afterlife, two lives, another life and then last minute just as I was about to give up I was like ill just try life after life, to be honest I didn't even know it was a book haha
I got 10 completely on my own, and 3 with googling clues. I really wasn't expecting to do as well as I did! (Some of them were just total guesses for books I'd never heard of tho)
Watching this, some of them that I couldn't get just seeing you work through them my brain some how clicked and I got it!! The tie dye man and the apple BUGGED me.
I followed along; and was indeed screaming at the TV 'its an afghan hound Jack!' I came straight to the comments to see if I could complete the last two images.
Soooo, look away if you don’t want answer spoilers but… The books about rivers are Rivers of London, and the two life books are Life after Life. Honestly those life books had me stumped for forever. 😅😂