I read 12 BOOKS (2,083 pages) in 24 HOURS 😮‍💨

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i read 12 books in 24 hours, someone give me my million dollars! for this theme i decided to read the books under 300 pages on my shelves.....the journey coming out of this was WORTH IT!!!!!
night sky with exit wounds by ocean vuong
time is a mother by ocean vuong
lie with me by philippe besson
kitchen by banana yoshimoto
the vegetarian by han kang
human acts by han kang
swimming in the dark by tomasz jedwrowksi
the cat who saved books by sosuke natsukawa
tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica
heaven by mikeo kawakami
this is how you lose the time war by amal el mohtar & max gladstone
convenience store woman by sayaka murata
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@sarawithoutanH Год назад

next video should be 24 hours of footage of pira

@ellias Год назад

bet

@linalikesreading Год назад

The fact that reading poetry made you want to go and create something yourself🥺 it made me appreciate yet again how meaningful literature can be

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

just a few lines and its more beautiful than half the books ive read tbh

@laureads7387 Год назад

I read Human Acts after J-Hope kept mentioning the date of the uprising in his lyrics and I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The final point of view broke me for good. I have no words to describe Han Kang's writing style... I wish more people took the time to read this...

@ellias Год назад

definitely emotionally heartbreaking :/

@earnestlanguage4242 28 дней назад

same. i will never forget it. really glad I read it, but definitely traumatic. it did encourage me to take action in kindness whenever I can and to speak up against cruelty when I see it.

@Viviele1290 Год назад

If you loved ocean vyoung, then I highly highly recommend reading “the lost Arabs” by Omar sakb. His writing is similar to oceans, it’s queer too with family and religious trauma, friends and lovers, and Pretty abstract but direct and is very reminiscent of Arab culture in a way that’s accessible and beautiful. It’s a really touching book and you’ll probably feel kinda the same way you read it as you do with ocean vyuong bc that’s how I felt!

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

ohhh definitely, thanks!

@Almondpies Год назад

Oh, I haven't read in so long.... The moment you said "The Cat Who Saved Books" was very Ghibli-esque got to me!! I'm definitely thinking of reading it this year!

@ellias Год назад

YES IT'S ALSO VERY SHORT

@wickerlibrary Год назад

when you held up swimming in the dark for something "lighter and happier" asdfghjk i was very much like good luck (LOVED that one though, so glad you're giving it more attention!)

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

LMAOOO YOU KNEWWWW

@muttmania Год назад

you should pick up some Billy-Ray Belcourt, his poetry/essay collection 'A History of My Brief Body' was beautiful - he actually mentions Ocean Voung and references his work multiple times in this book!

@wordstowordlessthings Год назад

just finished his NDN coping mechanisms, and it was so good! a touch more academic/philosophical than expected but in a great way

@hannahandherstories Год назад

You got me hyped to read Swimming in the Dark!

@ellias Год назад

YOU WILL LOVE IT

@stace_d Год назад

Oooh yes! I LOVE short books! So satisfying

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

sweet spot is under 200 pages!!

@wickerlibrary Год назад

all the food you made in this video UGH it all looked so delicious oml i wanna see more cooking from you it makes me actually wanna cook too!

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

hehe

@wiktoria5992 Год назад

and then there's me - a total of 12 books this /year/ also: my cat meowed back at Pira

@ellias Год назад

hello kitty

@DimitrisLian Год назад

I knew you'd adore Swimming in the Dark! It's my favorite as well.

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

LITERALLY ITS SUMMER GOLDEN LOVE FOR ME

@shubhraagarwal9250 Год назад

Lie With Me is short but so gut-wrenching, one of my favs

@user-qu8zs7vs1x Год назад

That final letter.. heartbreaking!

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

IM SO MIFFED ABOUT THE ENDING BUT I UNDERSTAND.

@ipshitajee Год назад

I can relate so bad with the agressive kissing your cat 🤌🏻 Also YESSSSSS to Swimming in the dark!❤

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

he's so desensitized now hahaha

@ipshitajee 8 месяцев назад

True😂@@ellias

@pratt28 Год назад

Lie with Me is a semi-autobiographical novel from the author himself. All the characters were real there except that the author gave them fictional names, but the story is a personal one. His writing in this book felt like a confession if you know what I mean.

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

THAT'S WHYYY! So beautifull

@wickerlibrary Год назад

time is a mother is PHENOMENAL!!! i'm not a big poetry person but ocean vuong is an author i will always drop everything to read

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

SAME

@-Bente- Год назад

4:05 HOLD ON, THAT'S NOT PIRA!!! WHO IS THIS NEW CAT!!!

@ellias Год назад

HAHA that is my friend's cat that i was babysitting for a bit!

@Bachiraaaaaaaaah24 Год назад

Speaking of Studio Ghibli books “Emily Wild’s Encyclopedia Of Faeries” is very “Howls Moving Castle” and is my new favorite Faerie thing since Holly Black. Just a good old Calcifer chefs kiss 🔥✨

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

thats definitely on my radar!

@user-qu8zs7vs1x Год назад

A lot of my faves on this list! Swimming in the Dark and Lie with me (which is a fictionalized autobiography!) are absolutely fantastic. I also love Vuong's work, specifically On Earth We're briefly gorgeous but also his poetry books. What is it about short books that makes them so impactful?

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

i think the serotonin that we've accomplished something done and also bc it's so impactful due to its length just does it haha

@viktoriabazyk8193 Год назад

lie with me reads like a memoir bc it IS a memoir😅 it's the first book in the author's autobiographical trilogy that just gets progressively better with each book. unfortunately the other two haven't been translated to english as far as i know

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

oohhhh dang please molly ringwald translate the other two books nowww!!

@ruffoloreads Год назад

Love how the cat NEVER gets sick of it lmao

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

he literally is used to all of my shenanigan's now haha

@lisajenny9 Год назад

Loved this vlog Ellias. Especially the cooking bits. And Pira of course!

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

@ChanelChapters Год назад

Kitty kisses! I think choosing short books is a brilliant way to do a readathon

@PistachioGold 11 месяцев назад

I love Banana Yoshimoto, 'Goodbye Tsugumi' is my fave work ❤❤❤ happy to see this in a reading vlog 🎉

@oewins53666 Год назад

Should you be entering your poetry era now, I'll subtly put Danez Smith right here for your consideration 👀 Their work is... the stuff that shakes your world and puts it back together a little more brilliant than it was before - I truly, truly love their poetry

@cntygaming Год назад

Don't Call Us Dead is really incredible

@oewins53666 Год назад

@@cntygaming exactly! That one is my favorite collection of theirs

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

ohhh you're the second person to recommend danez smith so ill def look into them

@md1111md Год назад

I highly recommend Devotions by Mary Oliver and Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy for poetry :)

@user-qu8zs7vs1x Год назад

Devotions is SO good

@earnestlanguage4242 28 дней назад

love the art over your couch!

@ellias 26 дней назад

thanks we painted it!!

@earnestlanguage4242 26 дней назад

@@elliaswhoa! gorgeous!

@iJustWannaBeNameless Год назад

if you want a sayaka murata book where things turn dark and weird, you should read earthlings 😁

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

omg ive heard so many interesting things about that one lol

@booksdevourd Год назад

Now I HAVE to read The Cat Who Saved Books, this is the first time I’ve heard of it!! Thank youuuuu 😊

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

just doing my job ;)

@ReadingNymph Год назад

100% adding The Cat Who Saved Books to my tbr

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

PLEASE!! IT IS SOO GOOD!!

@seolylee Год назад

For poetry please try Jason Bayani, a Filipino American poet. His poems are so raw and emotional. I would love to see what you think! ❤❤❤

@bex262 Год назад

i read np by banana yoshimoto and felt exactly the same way about the writing style,, i also thought it might be because of the translation but it seems it's just her way of writing

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

you know what i dig it bc its def unique!

@calebthomas7227 Год назад

Ummmmmmm who is Pira's friend!?! I love that you posted a longer vlog! ❤❤

@ellias Год назад

that is rumi!! his older brother and my friend's cat i was babysitting hehe

@calebthomas7227 Год назад

@@ellias so cute watching them play!

@rissasaki Год назад

If you thought that Tender is the flesh is one of the most disturbing books you've ever read I highly advise you to NEVER read the other Sayaka Murata book called Earthlings. That book gave twisted and disgusting a whole new meaning 😅😂

@heatherbocks Год назад

Oh no Earthlings is high on my TBR 😅😅

@rissasaki Год назад

@@heatherbocks there's a lot of cannibalism and there's even child assault/abuse. If you can handle those kind of things go ahead, but I wanted to puke most of the time 😅

@heatherbocks Год назад

@@rissasakiyiiiiikes. Good to know!

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

ADDS TO MY TBR BC WHAT! IT HAS A CUTE HEDGEHOG ON IT HAHA

@kaylabatista7154 Год назад

For poetry I recommend Crush by Richard Siken, Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith and Obit by Victoria Chang. All three of those collections are absolutely brilliant.

@vivianaolivia5332 Год назад

When you started tender is the flesh and you said it was about a woman dealing with cannibalism I knew you had a big storm coming LMAOOO

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

lol i was in for a wild WILD time haha

@MinaReads Год назад

Loved this vlog bestie!

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

ahh thanks bestie!! 💖

@LilTheLah Год назад

Great video! I love your humour! And it was so entertaining to watch you find out what Tender is the Flesh is actually about 😂 😂 The ending was so good and I never saw the twist coming. So clever.

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

EXACTLY THAT ENDING WTFFF SICKENING

@LilTheLah 11 месяцев назад

@@ellias 😂 😂

@biaa7278 Год назад

read in memoriam by alice winn !! I think u would love it

@user-qu8zs7vs1x Год назад

Does it have similar vibes to Swimming in the dark or On Earth We're briefly gorgeous?

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

thanks for rec!

@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm Год назад

Oh no, I would have cried if I cleared the countdown 😂

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

it happens to me all the time sighh

@lightwoodalec5037 Год назад

the fact that ellias reacted that way to Tender is the flesh is proof he did not hear cindy bitch about it and basically tell us the entire story in short on her video

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

literally i was just there for the plot hahaha

@Suzumiya_ Год назад

Your cat is adorable btw! ❤❤

@ellias Год назад

Pira says thank youu

@destiniev Год назад

I keep picking up and putting down the cat who saved books at my bookstore after hearing this i will now be picking it up for sure

@slenderhatesyou Год назад

the way all of these are in my tbr.. makes me want to do this challenge with the same books haha

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

DO ITTTT!!

@crystaIz Год назад

I also really enjoyed the cat who saved books! it was just so good

@ellias Год назад

pure wholesome best 10/10 5 stars kinetic divine

@curiositykilledthekat Год назад

absolutely LOVE han kang

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

i do too now

@pennyspreferences561 Год назад

Also, Minor Chours discusses the intersectionality of being gay and ingenious. It is poetry and short essays.

@chocolateoreo6489 Год назад

I’m sending you love ❤

@niyuktijain5990 Год назад

Ellias ..I know u r talking but pira has all of my attention 🥺❤️

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

its okay. its why he's there haha

@crystaIz Год назад

what breed is the cat?❤

@ellias Год назад

doll faced persian!!

@LaFille_13 Год назад

Poetry Recs- Crush by Richard Siken, The Hurting Kind & The Carrying by Ada Limon. You liked Ocean Vuong, so I think you'd like these too.

@Ariana.333 Год назад

I put "The cat who saved books" in my want to read list on goodreads. I'm trusting you. 😊

@ellias Год назад

EXACTLY

@Ariana.333 Год назад

@ellias I got the 🐈 book! I'm reading it and I'm loving it. I also picked up Piranesi because you recommended it. That's my next read. 😊

@ChemicalPenguinn Год назад

When you literally just did this challenge as well...

@blueowl07 Год назад

I had really expected to LOVE Lie with Me and it was really just okay. Amazed by Molly's translation though!

@ellias Год назад

likewise!! although i think i loved it a bit more haha

@ga75 Год назад

motivating me to read lmao

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

YES EXACTLY

@shivaniverma5521 Год назад

I will read your favourite books asap ❤

@tylapi Год назад

i dont believe you 😄

@ellias Год назад

🧍🏻🥲

@thewolfandherbooks Год назад

I thought Tender is the Flesh was about some edgy, feminist book like Woman Eating when I first started reading it 😭😭😭

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

lol the way we went into this masterpiece without knowing it!!!

@milkdlnosaur Год назад

First

@ellias Год назад

⭐

@availandco Год назад

I listened to Tender is the Flesh on audio and my jaw was on my keyboard for practically the entire book. A good review by @maybeillreadtoday explained the critique on capitalism in South America and that the main export is cattle…. digging into that really made me think this book was a bit genius although it won’t be palatable for everyone!

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

omg literally!!!!

@nissasbookcorner Год назад

i love hearing u talk about books u love 🥹 i also loved piranesi (read it in january) and it’s so close to my heart so i will for sureee read the cat who saved books

@ellias 11 месяцев назад

YES ABSOLUTELY PLEASE DO