My Lost Reading Years 😭

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I had a big gap in my memory when it came to the books I read as a teenager. In this video I try to piece some of the clues together and document what I do remember from before I started documenting my reading online. Do you have any similar experiences?
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@LucindaGarza 5 лет назад

Oh, I'll never forget what I read during my middle school years: it was Twilight lol

@MattChapple 5 лет назад

You’re not alone...my parents tell me I was rarely without a book when I was a teenager but who knows what I was reading then!

@TheYellowcrush 5 лет назад

Loved this! I have often wondered about my lost reading years myself. My partner (who is also a voracious reader) and I started a Goodreads acct for our baby so we could document all the books we read to her/she reads in her early years so that someday she can look back and see what books formed her childhood.

@Larissa_KD 5 лет назад

Laura L Fox that’s so cool!

@JCallaghan88 5 лет назад

Amazing idea!

@BaReader 5 лет назад

That's such a cute idea!

@jarrahcummings3621 5 лет назад

I wish I could remember the books I read from the local library when I was younger, I remember some vaguely but it would be amazing to reread them! Love your videos 😊

@commonpoppy 5 лет назад

man, Dutch books for kids are hardcore

@isabbygabbyorcrabby 5 лет назад

I know a read a lot of Jacqueline Wilson as a kid but that is all I remember, yet I was constantly reading at that age!! So I completely understand what you mean! I wish I could go back and get 8 year old me to keep a reading journal!

@Katelyn3666 5 лет назад

I can remember when I was younger my grandma telling me that she wished she had kept track of what she had read because she had a habit of picking up a book only to find she had already read it. This idea stuck with me and to this day I keep a written list of every book I've read and when since I was 10. I feel so grateful to have this now and would recommend doing this for your children.

@anka8754 5 лет назад

After your video I couldn’t get two books I read in my teenage years out of my head. I remembered reading them, some details about the plot, but could not remember the names. This struck me so hard, that I went to the library, I booked them from, and they actually were able to give me the data! I’ve found them, and now I’m rereading them. It’s surreal, they are completely different from what I remember them to be)) This all happened thanks to your video. Thank you 💙

@BorichaConsumer 5 лет назад

I read every day from around age 8-14, but read almost nothing from 15-18 for some reason. Not sure why i stopped, I think I was just more into TV and videogames at the time. I got back into it around the start of university.

@thebugbear 5 лет назад

Same! For me I think it was because there isn't much YA in my language and I didn't have access to a lot of new English books. But maybe also because reading wasn't as cool in high school?

@BorichaConsumer 5 лет назад

@@thebugbear I remember the book that got me back into reading was The Hunger Games. I was late to the party, around mid-2012 when I had just turned 18. And yeah reading for fun was very uncommon and uncool at my high school, I'm sure that played a part. I remember me and a couple friends being obsessed with the Eragon books near the end of middle school, but then we just stopped suddenly.

@LisaZoe86 5 лет назад

I think, something we forget can't have been very memorable. Ergo can't be that important to us.

@casualcascade 5 лет назад

oh my god same, from the ages of like 7-14 I would check out 20-30 books from the library every couple weeks and just go through all of them. All I know is 1. I was absolutely indiscriminate 2. I didn't always start at book 1 in a series 3. I probably read mostly in English with some French thrown in. Before age 7 I know mostly what I read because it was child classics that I still have a lot of on my shelf, and around age 14 I got a goodreads. It bugs me so much I'll never know every book I read in my life. Sometimes I'll have a vivid memory of a book or series and spend like an hour googling to try and find it.

@MarianaCreme 5 лет назад

omg I have this exact issue, I can seem to remember all the books I’ve read from 5-12 years but my teen years seem to be a mystery in terms of what exact books I was reading. I had a bit of a hiatus during my uni years but picked it right back up where I left it when I graduated.

@GabyGabsBooks16 5 лет назад

I remember reading Holes in middle school. It was one of the first books I had to read for school that I actually enjoyed!

@JCallaghan88 5 лет назад

Growing up I Loved LOTR and the Hobbit. Ella Enchanted, The Thief Lord, The Princess Diaries Series we’re big for me. I read a lot of Mary Kate and Ashley books and loved The BabySitters Club. I did not even think about this until this video! Thanks for the awesome content!

@lemonlemonster 5 лет назад

That first dutch book about the post-apocalyptic Greenland sounds AMAZING. Would totally read.

@KeepCalmwithBooksandCoffee 5 лет назад

That was me as a teen too. I was rereading things that I could get from the library. I didn’t have money to buy new books but I loved the things I had.

@riphro6784 5 лет назад

I started a reading journal when I was in first grade, so I have everything together, you can even see my writing change over the years. I browse through it a lot, to see how many books I read per year or in total and so on

@r33mickey 5 лет назад

Oh and also I'm like a purger and I got rid of so many of the books I read growing up, for no reason, and now I'm kicking myself. I can totally relate to this video!

@GreenBitterfly 5 лет назад

Yes!!, I've also got rid of a number of books from my childhood and teenage years and there's a number of books which I cannot remember the title of. It's bugged me for years that I can't remember them!

@_liddybee3908 5 лет назад

I'm learning Dutch at the moment and one of my goals is to get good enough to be able to read Thea Beckman's books, they all sound really cool!

@lizlaz350 5 лет назад

I love this, I have the same problems. I remember reading a LOT as a teenager, I'd go to the library and get piles of books out but I remember very few of them. I'd re-read a lot (mostly Harry Potter, Enid Blyton or Jacqueline Wilson books) so maybe I wasn't reading that many new books. I would end up buying my favourites so I can remember those, but there must have been loads more. I did try to get my library records as they show you some online but they don't show you very far back at all. I wish I'd kept some kind of record when I was younger.

@kirimarukochan 5 лет назад

Darren Shan! What a throwback! As a teen I went through a lengthy high fantasy phase, including the infamously hefty Robert Jordans, and can now recall precisely none of the characters/plot... One of my most vivid adolescent memories was reading Tamora Pierce’s Alanna series at 11 and seeing menstrual bleeding and sex being openly discussed for the first time

@booksandquills 5 лет назад

+Lin ahhhh I need to read the Alanna series. I’ve heard so many great things.

@kirimarukochan 5 лет назад

booksandquills the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C Wrede is also fantastic! Really powerful heroine and clever humor, kind of Terry Pratchett-esque

@GreenBitterfly 5 лет назад

I'm someone who likes to record the books they've read on Goodreads, as I've not been able to remember the books I read as a child/teenager and don't want that to be the case for my adult books. There was a series of books about a group of schoolgirls that I borrowed from the school library that I've never been able to remember. There was another series of books that I read the first in the series, which I think I bought from the Scholastic book fair, and have tried desperately to find the name of. Through working with second hand books, I've come across a couple of books I read as a child/teenager and had forgotten the name of, which I am really pleased about. I also found my old school reading record and so have been able to find some titles from that.

@jillc2700 5 лет назад

Okay now I know I need those last books translated into English. (cries a bit.) The things one misses as a monolinguist.

@tuehanhhan5271 5 лет назад

Always a pleasure to watch all your videos !

@SuzannaDerynioski 5 лет назад

I remember when I was 9 or 10 I read holes in one day on my swing set in my yard. I remember being so proud and impressed that I read that long book in one day. I also tried so hard to read the 1st Harry Potter around that same time. I carried it in my backpack everyday to school but I just couldn’t get into it. It was a paperback and got so wrecked from all the traveling.

@alenemarie1726 5 лет назад

I actually remember a lot of what I read as a teen and a kid. I read The Mortal Instruments and got really into that fantasy world. I read a lot of contemporary fiction. I borrowed so many books from my cousin, like almost all my books that I read during the summer were from her. I read all of John Greens books. I had to read very specific classics for my english classes and I remember liking Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton the most. As a kid I read The Box Car Children, Nancy Drew, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and The Bailey School Kids.

@whichonespink7 5 лет назад

When I first started using Goodreads I tried to think of as many as I could. I've remembered a lot but I know there are so many I'll never think of. Sometimes just snatches of details that aren't enough to google. If you can remember enough details, there is a really good thread on Goodreads called What's the name of that book?? where people try to help each other out. I also read Gary Paulson and R L stein -- it's super fun to hear some of those old titles!

@CendaquentaBooks 5 лет назад

It's kind of amazing how scary and gory "children's" horror books can be. The Demonata books, right from the first few chapters of "Lord Loss" are 😱😱😱 How was there not a massive outcry about them?! (And I loved them as a kid! But WOWZA.)

@afternoonliterature9098 5 лет назад

I definitely have lost reading years! And now I desperately want to spend the summer trying to remember everything I have read! This is wonderful.

@Nikitaa66 5 лет назад

Your reading history is very similar to mine! I also went to the Dutch library and read sooo many books that I cant recall. But I clearly remember the serie 'Fear Street' by RL Stine. Did you read that? Now that I look back im a bit shocked that I was reading such gruesome stuff at that age haha. Also, Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek! Loved it. And of course Wiebe Buddingh's amazing HP translations😍. Groetjes!

@Larissa_KD 5 лет назад

I’m currently reading sci-fi, but this video really sparked the need to read Thea Beckman or other historical fiction soon!

@quirkydee45 5 лет назад

All of those Dutch books sound AMAZING!! I hope they get translated!! (insert Stephen Colbert ‘give it to me NOW’ gif here! :D ). The most popular R.L. Stine series in the U.S. was called “Goosebumps”. I was never into scary books, so I didn’t read them, but I remember when we did the big “write a letter to the author of your favorite book” project when I was maybe ~10, most of the kids in my class wrote to R.L. Stine (and got the same form letter back. I wrote to Roald Dahl and was crushed to find out he had passed away-ah, the days pre-internet, whereas now it’d take milliseconds on Wikipedia to find that out… or it’d be in the back of the book!--, but whoever handled his stuff sent me a gorgeous letter with illustrations of his characters). You know who were popular authors in the U.S. in childhood? Beverly Cleary (Ramona books like Ramona and Beezus, Ramona the Pest, etc.), lots of series of historical fiction like the Dear America books(and the spinoff version of young royals around the world like Cleopatra and Anastasia and Marie Antoinette before she was Marie Antoinette), and series you could pick up at library book sales for 25 cents each like The Babysitters Club by Ann M. Martin (I think they’ve since relaunched them as graphic novels illustrated by Raina Telgemeier). Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants… (I remember how I asked for one of those for Christmas one year and got Divine Secrets of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood from an aunt instead. VERY different book; They must’ve just remembered the ‘sisterhood’ part :). Louise Rennison’s Georgia Nicholson series….Meg Cabot books…. Oh so many more. Thanks for the memory jog.

@BookBreak 5 лет назад

I get frustrated by this too! I've kept a reading diary since I was about 13 - but what did I read before that?!! There must be hundreds that I'll never remember - I used to speed through library books on a weekly basis. I also stopped my reading diary for a bit in 2013 and I'm still not convinced I've remembered them all...

@Rachelw 5 лет назад

Omg. That's so funny. As soon as you said you read a lot of horror books I just remembered I read all the R.L. Stine Fear Street books I could get my hands on but i completely forgot about them.

@AFrolicThroughFiction 5 лет назад

I'm the same - I've always been a reader but I couldn't tell you much about what what books I chose to read through my teenage years. I remember that I used to do reading challenges all the time that my library would set up and would get through so many books, but no idea what they were. The only ones I can really remember is Horrible Histories and Jacqueline Wilson. This was such an interesting video, hearing about how you tried finding those books again!

@anyawillowfan 5 лет назад

My teen years I know I read hundreds of books as I spent so much time reading, reading through things super fast, and rarely rereading so there are only a few books that stick out in my mind when I particularly disliked them. But I collected Sweet Valley books and read most of them, and I believe I read a lot of 'chick lit' but they've all melded into the idea of strong business women meets man she hates and somehow they fall in love. I didn't really get into non-fiction til I was at university, so think it was a mix of teen and adult romance and 'literary' as I didn't think like to try many new genres.

@samanthascherps7362 5 лет назад

Ik hou mijn gelezen boeken al bij sinds ik 13-14 ben. Ik kreeg op school een lijst die we heel onze carrière moesten bijhouden, daarop moesten we schrijven welke boeken we hadden gelezen. Op die manier konden de leerkrachten controleren of je niet stiekem elk jaar hetzelfde boek ging lezen voor de literatuuropdrachten. Ik ben uiteindelijk met 1 lijst niet toegekomen omdat ik zoveel las! Die lijst was later de basis voor mijn excel-lijst die ik bijhoud en voor Goodreads en hebban :)

@biancavictoria8746 5 лет назад

Omg Darren Shan is such a throwback. The Demonata books were my jam (and totally gave 12 year old me nightmares hahahaha)

@My.Curiosities 5 лет назад

I remember pretty much everything I've ever read, and for the ones when I was a teenager it would be easy to check because I didn't go to the library and only had the books at my parents', so they're still there. Also I started to write down what I read when I was 15, so I have 14 years of reading data at my fingertips now :)

@littlemissblackbird7249 5 лет назад

I remember that I wanted to read the night circus for english class, but it took longer then expected for the book to arrive at my house. Even though I went through a reading marathon I couldn't finish it before the scheduled talk I was suppose to have with my teacher and I really didn't want to google how it ended so I begged my teacher to only discuss the 3/4 of the book. Luckily she thought it was funny and even gave me a 9 in the end.

@Rougeimaginaire 5 лет назад

Loved Jan Terlouw when I was growing up, especially “De Kloof”. I also went through a phase where I tried to reconstruct what I read as a child, going through old book reports on my computer. I found this writing assignment we had to do for Dutch class called my reading autobiography, where we had to describe what we’d been reading in our life so far, and that was really helpful :)

@HerenuiC 5 лет назад

This video made me really nostalgic, I think I'm the same, I basically reread Harry Potter and Eragon & a lot of books about french history as a teenager. I read so much, I miss that. Thank you for sharing !

@lenadai5755 5 лет назад

I read a lot of books from my school library, for example i read all the Junie B Jones books when i was in third grade! Also, i buy almost all the books i read, so i have my bookshelves to see what I've read, if they were lended to me, i would write them down. Now i just track everything on goodreads

@KieraJo 5 лет назад

I wish every book was available in every language--it would open up SO MANY possibilities! :)

@GothGoneWrong 5 лет назад

Were the teen horror books all by R L Stine? As someone mentioned below, sounds like Fear Street!If there were a mix of authors, sounds like Point Horror!I've actually been reading a lot of Point Horror as 2 of my fav authors do a podcast on them called 'Teenage Scream'. I read 1 as a teen but didn't realise it was part of a wider collection (and tbh was probably too much of a wuss to pursue them!) There was also Nightmare Hall which were all by Diane Hoh. There was a Terror Academy series by Nicholas Pine and if you felt like graduating on to more wtf plots with sex and drugs references, there was Christopher Pike. I have a similar gap in my reading memory but it actually coincides with a general memory gap which I presumed was because I was pretty solidly depressed from ages 12-18.

@skyecooper9273 5 лет назад

i relate to this so much and probably for the same age range..... i have no idea what i read for most of my teenage years

@noor-zk4bp 5 лет назад

Dit is zo lastig :o Wel heel interessant om hier achter te komen en zo weer opnieuw boeken te ontdekken! Ik haalde vroeger veel leestips uit tijdschriften (hitkrant!!). Op Goodreads staan heel veel Nederlandse YA boeken met "bekende" covers, zo heb ik er in ieder geval veel uitgepuzzeld (Carry Slee, Francine Oomen, de hele Nederlandse club) :)

@KittyAndTheBooks 5 лет назад

I devoured R. L. Stine's Goosebumps and Fear Street books as a child. :D I always got them from the library as well and can remember slowly understanding what translated fiction is. :D

@TussenDeBoeken 5 лет назад

I read so many books as a kid, but I only remember a few of them. I kept track of how many books I read but I wish I kept a reading journal back then haha

@hylabrookbooks 5 лет назад

i share the same sentiment. I too was an avid reader, I would read books back to back. And then I remember after my first year in college, (i had a very hard year due to a #metoo incident) and the last novel I remember reading was "A Complicated Kindness" where I remember I started to develop ADHD, and I kept having to reread paragraphs in a way I never needed before. I ended up not finishing college (35% of women that are raped or sexually assualted in college drop out, at the time I thought I was all alone in it) and for the next several years until I was 26, only reading journalism, nonfiction, editorials, and blogs. In 2017 i decided I wanted to get back into reading again, and I picked up Jurassic Park. I reread my favorite writer, Alice Hoffman, and i was just very easy on myself. Childrens Literature helped me so much, books like the Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz, and my new favorite book The Last of the Great Wangdoodles. (highly highly highly recommend since you love Dahl!)

@vanessalaughtland4417 5 лет назад

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of supernatural and horror. I loved the Darren Shan series especially, as well as the Wicca (or Sweep) series by Cate Tiernan

@ElleEverhart 5 лет назад

Omg my lost reading years are also my early to late teens! I can only remember a few - you’ve inspired me, though, and I’m giving those books a re-read. I wonder what it was about those years (if anything) that made us forget what we’d been reading.

@blissclair9743 5 лет назад

This is very weird but I remember when I was around 12 to 14, I used to secretly read my parents' books. So full-on adult, heavy novels! I read a lot of big classics then and I only really got into young adult genre when I was older! OMG! I love Wuthering Heights too!

@Emmareads15 5 лет назад

I was thinking of similar things recently. I had forgotten I used to used my secondary school library. There were these horror books that a lot of us were reading at that time, a step up from Goosebumps. I got into Maeve Binchy hard. I was thinking of junior school reads like The Babysitters Club, Goosebumps, The Cafe Club. And I used to read the stories of the ballets, like Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Coppelia and from little I loved to read my big books of Wind in the Willows and Aesops Fables. I was also really into my mum's old copies of Enid Blyton stories, the one's where there's a mix of all different ones. I then fell in love with The Faraway Tree. Oh, and What Katy Did. Oooooh, this is fun!

@jumpincows 5 лет назад

I have this exact experience, with basically the same years. Being a teenager was a blur, apparently.

@amusicalbookworm 5 лет назад

This is so interesting! I think in my early youth I read a ton, but when I became a teenager I shifted from reading for fun to reading only primarily for school. During the teenage years, I don’t remember reading anything for fun, except maybe Harry Potter. But I also think, I must’ve read more books than that! But maybe not?! And then in college I read a tiny bit for fun, but didn’t really start to make time for reading regularly until post-grad. And then I discovered BookTube! And everything changed 😆

@nataliaco_ 5 лет назад

I also have these periods and doubts regarding what I used to read when I as younger aside and mainly before Harry Potter. There's a Brazilian book called O Guarani that I don't even remember if I really read it or if I just dreamed of doing it Haha I also have this feeling of not quite remembering much of the content I read. Now I have a reading journal besides Skoob (Brazilian Good Reads-type of website) and I use post-its during my reading and that's been helpful

@pontmercyingthroughlife150 5 лет назад

I WISH I'd documented all the books I got from the library. My mum would take me there as soon as I could read and I still think about some books that I have very blurred memories of that I won't probably ever find again. However, Crusade in Jeans just stirred the strongest memory. Oh my gosh, I loved that book and completely forgot about it until now!! xx

@serenity8910 5 лет назад

I remember the type of books (mainly La Courte échelle and J'aime Lire books) I read as kid, but nothing specific. Although I recognize book covers, I don't remember the stories. I also remember going from children's book to popular adult fiction without going through a YA phase. YA came during The Hunger Games days, but it didn't last long! lol. I didn't read that much during secondary school. Maybe that's why I didn't discover YA back then!

@1book1review 5 лет назад

I never logged books before I discovered goodreads in 2011, and all the books I borrowed from my school library are mostly lost. I know I spent every day in there but I have little memory of the books I read then. The books I remember from those years are mostly books I read and reread all the time. But the most I can track is from when I moved out and started buying my own books and not giving them away again.

@kristina_rr 5 лет назад

I have the exact same experience. I can remember some books - the obvious ones e.g. Harry Potter, Twilight, a book series for younger girls in Germany called “Freche Mädchen” and the required reading in school but besides that.... it’s a blank space in my head.

@evewithwonder 5 лет назад

I remember every book I read from Harry Potter on, but there are many before Harry Potter that I don't remember anymore... When I was very little my mom used to take me to the library, but then she bought Harry Potter for me and I never went to the library again, I would just wait until mom got me a new book.

@DeeDeeCatMom 5 лет назад

I reread A LOT too! I grew up before this big YA boom, so the YA section at the bookstore was just a shelf or two in the kids section, marked '11 and up'. I would have read in this section up until the age of 16 or so, when chunkier YA books started coming out, like Harry Potter. I read a lot of Carolyn B. Cooney (Face on the Milk Carton, and the time travel series), historical fiction like The Nine Day Queen (which is probably a title I've reread the most), Point Fantasy like Calling all Dragons, and many many more mass market 200 page YA books. I read lots of babysitter's club, goosebumps, Sweet Valley High, and Fear Street (RL Stine's older YA series). I also read Fear Street in French, Frissons :) None of the story lines are memorable, unfortunately, but I remember the classics like all of the Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon books. I still love those :)

@LaiaIsReading 5 лет назад

I also have a few years lost in memory. But I think it was at the time I discovered fanfiction... so, I suppose there's everything. Thanks for your recommendations of Dutch books, I search a few (just for curiosity) and it turns out there are translations in Spanish. So, I'll definitely be reading some. Amazing video!

@GreenBitterfly 5 лет назад

Those horror books were called Point Horror in the UK, I had a load of them of course I don't own them now!

@juliette7674 5 лет назад

would you ever consider making a video about your book journal? I started one this year and I'm really curious to see what yours look like and what you write down about each book.

@yodrew16 5 лет назад

I don't have the same experience with reading, because I've always been an extremely slow reader, and didn't really because an avid reader until booktube/goodread area (I remember all the books I was assigned in school, and the handful of others I read), but I absolutely feel this way about films! I would love to have a list of all the films I've seen :(:(

@barbielash3260 5 лет назад

I have always wished I kept a log. I know I’ve read thousands of books over the years but other than a few stand out and series I got into I don’t remember what it was. Terry Pratchett, Garth Nix, Lois Duncan, Jk Rowling those are the ones I remember.

@GhostsOfThings 5 лет назад

My younger years were mostly full of going to second hand shops and just grabbing $1 books that looked interesting. I did read a lot of Stephen King growing up because I could recognise his name and there was always some of his stuff in the second hand shop. I also definitely read RL Stine stuff too! Fear Street books and one called Twisted. I also definitely read the Eragon books (because I still own them) and I too was APPALLED by the film. I enjoy walking through second hand shops now and seeing books and being like "oh yeah I used to love that one!" with a wave of nostalgia.

@funfuz 5 лет назад

Koning Van Katoren, Vadertje Langbeen, Harry Potter, Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants + gelijkaardige boeken, Twilight, The Help, The Time Traveler's Wife, Adrian Mole + andere boeken van Sue Townsend, Roald Dahl, Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek, Het Ei van Oom Trotter + andere boeken van Marc De Bel en vanalles van Patrick Lagrou.

@billvado79 5 лет назад

I had forgotten how long you had been doing these. So I went back and checked out some of your first few videos. They were fun to watch! I had forgotten how long your hair was. Ha. Anyway. Great video as always.

@ChristyLou 5 лет назад

I read all the time in elementary school. After Harry Potter came out I tried to read as much fantasy as I could. Before that I read a lot of mystery books (but I've never read Nancy Drew??). I remember one series I read was about a girl detective and she had a photographic memory and I was really jealous (?) of that and wanted it too. There is another book that I read that I remember so many details from but can't remember the name of the book at all.

@ClipsByLaura 5 лет назад

"I never quite made it to the adult section" Here is me at 26 and I still head for the YA section. Perhaps that will change after uni when I'm not tired of reading complicated academic texts...

@FairyLizzie 5 лет назад

I'm lucky because most of the books I read when I was a teenager I still have in my parents' library (I rarely went to the public library). Besides, I joined Anobii (an Italian social network based on books and readings, very similar to GoodReads) in 2008 and in these early days I added all my previous readings in my online list. But I feel you :) it's a a bad feeling, I know.

@ninac.5921 5 лет назад

This was so much fun watching!

@BellatrixVanDettaZwarts 5 лет назад

Thanks for this. Suddenly, I remember reading 'Bloedzusters' by Tais Teng and 'De foto in mijn hoofd' by Yennik Meert multiple times as a kid.

@thiadesg 5 лет назад

I also don't remember most of what I read when I was younger. I used to go to the library every week and borrow more than one book at a time, but I don't remember them. I might steal your video idea and make a spread in my reading journal about the books I do remember (to name a few Life of Pi, Anne Rice, Animorphs, Fahrenheit 451, Goosebumps, Harry Potter, The Perfume).

@thebugbear 5 лет назад

I read so many books in middle school but then I stopped reading in high school and didn't pick it up again until I moved to the US! I think it was because there isn't much YA in my language and, while I was really getting into booktube, most of the books that kept being mentioned were not getting translated into my language and also weren't available in English in my city but I didn't get enough pocket money to buy books online.

@lenadai5755 5 лет назад

I lost my shit when you started talking about the Fear Street books by R.L Stine, i used to LOVE them!

@booknerdnova3151 5 лет назад

Als je onder "jeugdthrillers" en "rl stine" zoekt, krijg je bij afbeeldingen ook plaatjes van die boeken die van Cusick en Bates zijn. Heb je vroeger ook Patrick Lagrou boeken gelezen? En Paul van Loon en Het Griezel Genootschap? En de Animorphs serie? En boeken van de uitgeverij Lemniscaat? Zij geven nog steeds veel van de boeken uit die vroeger in de bieb stonden. Anthony Horowitz had ook een griezelserie.

@eshaquiche21 5 лет назад

I wish that I had a list of every single book I'd ever read from childhood because there are so many books that I know I loved but I cannot for the life of me remember them 😭😭 heartbreaking!!!

@JOJOMARIENO 5 лет назад

There was this book I remember reading when I was 10, about a girl who could run really quick and she would run around her high school and deliver notes to and from people for money. Can anyone help remember the title ?

@fictionalfears 5 лет назад

JOJOMARIENO unfortunately i don’t know the book, but that sounds wild

@TheEvanesarah 5 лет назад

I also don't remember specific books from my early teens except the goosebumps series by RL Stine which i enjoyed a lot and planning on rereading someday.

@nakymatonlapsiN 5 лет назад

i also used to read constantly in elementary/early middle school and barely remember any of the titles. i do know that i read a lot of enid blyton at the time.

@elizabethgranger21 5 лет назад

ah I also don't remember anything I read in late primary school and early highschool years! it's so sad :(

@estherroex4985 5 лет назад

OMG, I would read anything by Thea Beckman, all the other classics as well, of course, but especially hers. I read them quite young: 10 to 12 year perhaps and then had a hard time moving on to other books and genres. I never really enjoyed the adult section, to large and overwelming. Now I want to reread them all!

@r33mickey 5 лет назад

I also downloaded fan podcasts to my ipod - they were maximum ride lol. I had to try really hard to remember that that podcast existed at all, and I tried going back and finding it but I think it's gone!

@kelseyburke810 5 лет назад

I know for fact I read pet sematary at probably a too-young age, and I have a vivid memory of reading the sexy scene in the book while laying in my parents bed and not knowing what the heck was going on. I also recently ordered The Babysitter and Babysitter 2 from amazon for the nostalgia!

@moreorlessruth4449 5 лет назад

Are you talking about the "point horror" books? I used to read LOADS of them. In fact, I still have a trilogy book! Nice

@CorinneDemyanovich 5 лет назад

Elmhurst College shoutout! 😄

@rialightwood-bane6347 5 лет назад

i feel your pain because in 2016? i started a list of all the horror movies i've seen. i don't know why i want to keep track of all the movies i've seen but i know there are movies i haven't written down and i can't remember their names. so fucking annoying

4 года назад

I am learning English, and I would like to know some books to read which they aren't the typical on the English books. For a b1 level. Thank you. :)

@ambergetsbutterflies 5 лет назад

I have the same issue. I know I read Babysitters Club a lot. And I liked Lois Duncan. But I read 100+ books every school-year (I always got an “award” from the school.) LOTR. Harry Potter. Little Women. Secret Garden. BUT WHAT ELSE?! I read A LOT. I know I read a lot of classics but still. There might be as many as 1000 books that I just don’t remember which is crazy. Edit: A lot of the ones you are mentioning I’m like OOOOOOH YEAH I read that. Also, yes. The Eragon movie was atrocious. Probably the worst book to film every. I’m still upset about that.

@Applepopess 5 лет назад

Could the R L Stine series be Fear Street? I read that too as a teenager.

@booksandquills 5 лет назад

+Applepopess I thank that might be the one :D

@Nikitaa66 5 лет назад

Yes! I just commented and only just saw this. I loved Fear Street! And it had pages of the high school yearbook in the front with stamp marks of who had died. Looking back, it was quite something for a 10 year old 😂

@Wendyandthebooks 5 лет назад

Ik denk dat je Kippenvel bedoelt van Stine. En Paul van Loon, Griezelbus en Griezelklas? :)

@Wendyandthebooks 5 лет назад

Ik las trouwens enorm veel van de jongerenboeken van Simone van der Vlugt

@booksandquills 5 лет назад

+Wendy Reniers Kippenvel is even andere serie volgens mij, want die was voor iets jongere leeftijd bedoeld!

@Lystopia 5 лет назад

Quite funny that I have the same problem but for my kid years? I remember 99% of the books I read from when I was 12 years old to when I started using Goodreads, but before that... Blurry af.