"I went to walmart for groceries and came out with a book haul, tell me how that happens" the real question is whether or not you ended up getting your groceries
Nah most definitely read the Harry Potter books before the movies. They offer so much more than what the movies actually put on screen. I recommend reading the first book, then watching the first movie, then the second book and the second movie and so on
@@LitVibesWithFive The Harry Potter books are really fantastic--creative, clever, funny. They definitely get darker as the kids age. But DO read the books first. So much better! I read the series as an adult--and they're great fun.
Nah read all the books before the movies because otherwise they kind of ruin the imagery and characters you create in your head . My Cedric diggory was way hotter than Robert pattinson
@@LitVibesWithFiveI just read the Harry Potter series for the first time in 2023 and i adoooored it!! It’s not overhyped. I still havent seen all the movies, but, so far, the books are better. The movies are just a nice little addition imo
I didn't read Harry Potter for the first time until I was like, 36 years old and I LOVED it. Each book gets more 'grown up' in step with how the characters are growing up and getting older so the books get more mature and darker as you go. Its a serious addiction and worthy of the term 'classic'. I hope you get hooked from the first page!
The only thing I’ll say is… you do NOT need twilight in your bookshelf. And, if your girlfriend reads, invite her to make a video with you! It will be fun to see you both book swapping, or reading the same book and giving reviews with different POV’s!! Sending some warm caribbean love to your channel!
I had the ACOTAR series on my shelves for months before I read them. They are so hyped I was afraid I'd be disappointed. But when my great-aunt came to visit, she was reading the series. So i caught up and we finished reading it together. I loved it! I finished it months ago and still think about it almost daily.
@@delphvine89 That's so surprising to hear, I feel like most people's favorite is the 2nd book. My personal favorite is book 3, so to me it definitely gets better! :)
I can’t believe you picked up ACOTAR!! You keep surprising me. I would love to see a reaction video. Also, I didn’t realize you were from Pontiac. I grew up just outside of Flint and spent some summers in Pontiac as a child. Small world!! Congrats and good luck with your new job! 🎉
The Cosmere books by Brandon Sanderson are a must! It got me back into reading and enjoying stories since I was in elementary and middle school reading Percy Jackson. There are several reading orders since all of the books under the Cosmere are different series but it's like Phase 1 and 2 of MCU. I'm still reading the books but started with The Way of Kings. The books are massive and seems daunting to get through but once you start you will not one to stop. I also haven't audibly gasped from reading like ever. Primo fantasy right there with The Way if Kings
“imma cut that” 😂 you crack me up. so excited you got Harry Potter and you’re giving fantasy a try. (btw definitely read the HP books before watching the movies). Tender Beasts cover goes so hard 🔥 I think that This Could Be Us is the second book to Before I Let Go…just a heads up if you haven’t read the first one yet.
Hey! I don’t really comment on videos, idk man I guess it’s just not me. But I wanted to say that I really like your channel and your videos. I feel like we just bumped into each other out in the word and started talking about books. I’m not that far into this video as of writing this comment; but when you said that you went in for groceries and came out with a book haul … Books just get you like that man. I FEEL you.
ACOTAR is good! Hope you like it. It's really good for someone new to fantasy. Also, excited to see your review of the HP books! Love your videos, keep it up 👍
Hey Five, I hope you're doing well!!! I definitely can't wait to hear your thoughts on ACOTAR and Harry Potter!!! I think you'll definitely love both of them!!!
Kennedy Ryan is that girl, read before I let go and went into this could be us without even liking the Soledad character in the first book, no regrets whatsoever.
Where the Crawdads Sing is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES!! And I read a ridiculous amount of books. Other favorites are War & Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre and Pride & Prejudice. Plus a bunch of Adult Fantasy Fiction and Science Fiction. So when I say Where the Crawdads Sing is up there - believe it! 😂 It hits hard and deeply. I just cannot say enough good things about it!!! I love your fearless attitude to reading all genres of books. It’s one reason I love your channel. You’re hilarious and so fun to watch and listen to. Thank you!! And what excellent variety of a haul!! ✌🏻
Lol'd at the "drizzle drizzle" and "Azkaban" comment 🤣💀😂 I read Bride and loved it! I have ACOTAR on my tbr. I also read Where the Crawdads Sing and loved it! So happy to see you grabbed book 2, This Could Be Us. That is on my tbr too! **btw I am going through my Harry Potter vibes too 🤓 *it is so cool how I find another person who has such a wide variety in genre
A court of thorns and roses is the doorway to the rest of the series! The second and thirds book are the meat of the story! I love that series and it’s part of a bigger picture: Throne of glass And crescent City. These 3 series overlap but A court of thrones and roses is an amazing book to start out with! ♥️
When it comes to Twilight… don’t discount anything, there’s the classic Dracula and then Tanarive Due my soul to keep an African immortal series … twilight was also fun😊🎉
I hadn’t seen Tender Beasts. Thanks for all the great recommendations. Enjoy your new space and take us on some book adventures / shop with me, when you get settled in. -Faith
You see books, you buy them. It shouldn't be like that... but it do be. Nice haul! You pulled the glasses out for HP it was so hype. Dead. You seem much more comfortable on camera! Seein more goofy and it makes me happy! Someone said if you're girlfriend was comfortable, yall should do a vid together!! I agreeeee!!!
the harry potter series gets WILD as you progress through the series, i'm soing my first reread of it since childhood and it's incredible to read as an adult! i hope you love it!
I think you will like ACOTAR since it's a romance+fantasy. I'm reading the series now and on book 3 and it's addicting. Can't wait to hear what you have to say about it ❤
I did a reread of harry potter recently and every time I finished a book i would watch the movie for that book before going to the next book in the series and I really enjoyed it that way. I'm 29 and harry potter is still my favorite series after all this time
Tender beasts was really good! It’s definitely a book you have to pay more attention to, for me it was a bit difficult to finish because it had so much going on! But THE PLOT TWISTSS you will be so shocked. I hope the book is good for you too! Stay blessed 🙏🏾🙌🏾
Can't wait to hear your thoughts on the Harry Potter books! I'm currently re reading them, but in English this time since I want to get better at English, and I thought it would be a good idea to start with my favorite childhood series😄
Walmart really DOES have the books! I always go there to get gift books for nieces and nephews. I appreciate the value paperback versions of famous books!
Fantasy is a pretty good genre it has it’s hit and misses. but what I would recommend is the Red Rising series it’s like a dystopian/scifi. Similar to a Hunger Games with lower class fighting against upper class.
Loving your channel and how open you are to trying all different types of books. It’s not often you see a guy reading fantasy romance and I think that’s freaking awesome lol. I live in flint!
I loooove Twighlight but the books to me no matter the movie I feel like should always be read first because then you understand the depth of the characters and like see it brought to life it’s just a whole other experience
I haven't read any Harry Potter books either. I'm also not into horror but the last book sounds interesting. Where The Crawdads Sing is one of my favorite books.
ooo love that you're exploring a new genre! some fantasy romance recommendations for getting more into the genre! - faebound by saara el-arifi - the mead mishaps series by kimberly lemming (book #1 is that time i got drunk and saved a demon) - bride by ali hazelwood - the wolf creek series by t.j. klune (book #1 is wolfsong)
lmaoooo i literally typed this comment after you were talking about the sarah j. maas book and literally the next book you pulled up is bride. v in sync cause i'm literally about to start it tonight. i've loved all her romance books and am v excited to get into her first fantasy!
I'm Happy for you with the book haul. My favorite genre is Westerns and Walmart gets one...One! Louis L'Amour western a shipment. By one I mean one title. Unacceptable! Nice video friend, thanks for sharing -James
I must admit that is one nice Harry Potter collection!! I adore the series [definitely read the books before the movies, it will make more sense since a lot of stuff is unable to be adapted into the movie],..it is was got me really REALLY into reading. Love it so much I read it multiple times in different languages. One thing though....I don't really buy "new books" anymore. Most of the physical books I buy are secondhand or from flea markets...I spend less...i often get more and local shops are happy to see me....everybody wins!!
You are going to enjoy reading Harry Potter. The series came out when I was in my 20s and I could not understand the hype. Fast forward 20 years later when I finally read them, I then understood. I enjoyed the first few movies better than the later years but I think it’s because it reminds me of being a child and believing in magic without the heaviness.
I'd watch the movies first and then read the books. It's like extended editions of the movies, and you can picture the perfectly casted people and have their voices in your head when reading their dialogue. OH and read the red rising series !
Harry Potter is awesome , read it as an adult and was hooked. Also I just bought A Court of Thorn and Roses , FOMO , as I been hearing so much about it. Awesome book haul!
I hope you enjoy Kennedy Ryan’s This Could Be Us….. it is GOOD!!! You may want to read Before I Let Go if you haven’t already. It is the first book in that series and it’s GOOD!!
Best of luck to you in your new digs! I'll miss your ATL based content (GA resident checking in here). Love that you are a cover junkie. Can't wait to hear what you think of the Harry Potter series - as well as all the other books you picked up in your haul. Going to Walmart for groceries and leaving with books? Definitely a bookworm "issue"!
Been reading the books for the first time and watching the movies after each book. I never got into them before but I'm enjoying them a lot so far! Just finished book Goblet of Fire, it's my favorite so far!
Wow! Excellent choices! Definitely read the HP books before watching the movies. Loved Evelyn Hugo, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Where the Crawdads Sing. Would love to head your reaction.
Love your energy and great video. I primarily read fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and then some non-fiction. I've got some suggestions for fantasy for you though below if Dresdyou're looking for something. 1. Dresden Files by Jim Butcher - This is the one I recommend the most to people, its Urban Fantasy and just action packed. Its a wizard that's a private investigator, and there are currently 18 books out of the series and I think the plan is to have 25, but don't worry even though things carry through from book to book, each book is kind of an individual story around Harry Dresden so its not like you have to read all 18, you'd enjoy it from the beginning 2. Hellequin Chronicles by Steve McHugh - this is another Urban Fantasy about a Sorcerer that used to be Merlins Assassin, in this book Sorcerers live for hundreds of years. This is another great action packed series, highly recommend! 3. Brandon Sanderson all his books are great but I always tell people to start with the Mistborn Trilogy Era 1, first book is called The Final Empire or some editions are just called Mistborn. His books are probably more classic fantasy types. One thing cool about Sanderson is that he's building all his different series and single volume fantasy into a huge universe he calls The Cosmere. So think like how Marvel and the MCU works. Right now you can read everything separate and there are some minor crossovers that you might catch but eventually down the road everything will start to come together and there will be tons of crossovers. So if you get into Sanderson there are tons of things to read One more suggestion that's Sci-Fi, but is hands down one of my favorite series is Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown, first book is Red Rising, just check out the summary for it because this series is so incredibly good. I'd say the first 3 books, the original trilogy are possibly some of my favorite books ever. The second part of the series (books 4-7) is a bit different but still really good. Highly recommend this series! Keep the vids coming man, and I hope some of my suggestions help you find some new stuff to check out!
I LOVE HARRY POTTER!!! I was never interested in Harry Potter, but I watched the movies for the first time as an adult just for the fun of it and that turned into an obsession. Ended up getting all of the books cause everyone said the books are better. I also read bride and loved it
I also just started the Harry Potter series without seeing the movies. I've just finished the first book and I definitely recommend! And that box set is so cool!
Omg I started doing that as well! I've seen the movies but it was long enough ago that I've forgotten lmfaoo. Currently on goblet of fire and it's crazyyy. How did you find the first book?
@@Kaaaman I actually started reading and then listening to the audiobook for harry potter because I was going to visit universal studios and I wanted to be more immersed in Harry Potter world, and it was such a good experience! I really enjoyed the first book, especially as an audiobook, and plan on picking up the rest of the series over time. I'm glad to hear that the rest of the series is just as good!
@@Kaaaman I hope to watch them, I'm not sure if i want to watch each movie after I finish each book, or wait until I read the entire series and then watch all the movies at once. When I was reading the twilight series I'd watch the movie after I finished the book, and then go on to the next and do the same, and I really enjoyed that as it brought the book to life. I think i'd probably go with that method for Harry Potter as well
@@gingergarden SO LUCKYYYY!!! Universal studios seems amazing. I love the guy who does the audiobooks, he's quite good at distinct voices and sounds a hell of a lot like the actor who played Hagrid. If you enjoyed the first, they get better over time!!
I just finished the Harry Potter series, my first time ever reading them and I’m kinda sad I missed out as a kid, but as an adult it’s stuff I can see better. Your definitely gonna love it.
I just finished A court of thorns and roses. If it’s too slow for you, please continue to the second book- it really picks up! Really like the series and finished all of them in about a month!!
I love this book haul! I’m excited to see how you display your books in your new place. I’m with pretty much everyone in that you should definitely read the HP books before seeing the movies. There is so much more context you’ll have if you read them first. You’ll also pick out things the movies changed from the books. Please do a review once you’ve read Tender Beasts! I have that on my TBR and would love to hear your thoughts. Another book cover I think you’d like is Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
I have recently discovered Kennedy Ryan. I read the first in the Hoops Series called Long Shot. It was so good. I want to read This Could Be Us, but I have to read Before I Let Go First.
