reading books I SHOULD have picked for videos 

IMAGINE if you would have cancelled this video and THEN talked about it in a cancelled videos video and read the book from this video that was from the cancelled videos video, we would have been so deep into the lala lore haha

You liking normal people is the plot twist of the century for me right now and I am shook lol

The Gargoyle has a cult following considering it a masterpiece. This author only wrote this book and lives in Canada. I was intrigued so I bought it. It is not about a gargoyle but a haunting story about a burn victim who is cared for by a stranger who claims she has gone through many past lives with him for 700 years! It is a great read so give it a try.

Kayla, the way you analyze things is amazing. I love watching you talk about how you come up with concepts. Also it was so fascinating to hear about how booktube has evolved over the years.

I can’t believe that so many guesses were right at the same time 😂 🤯 reading books based on your DNA test, cancelled videos, and booktuber favorites?! Plus more?!! My mind is simply blown

I loved your Wordle video and it would be fun if you did it again! Maybe giving yourself more time to pick the books like you said? 💛 loved this video!!

I loved watching you read books by Irish authors/ about Ireland and I’m from Ireland myself! I’ve been wanting to recommend All The Bad Apples by Moira Fowley Doyle for years now. It’s a little dark and has a family curse, a little mystery, Irish history, it’s feminist. It’s fantastic and I think you could really like it so I’d love for you to check it out!!

The ideal exemplary "Irish reading experience" would be, in my own opinion, Milkman by Anna Burns. The book is a hectic feminist stream of consciousness set during the troubles filled with the typical Irish bleak dark humour and I think you might actually love it. The Water Cure was objectively a bad book made worse by misleading marketing. I read loads of lit fiction and this book failed on every level from writing to characterisation, and I urge you not to belittle your insight as a voracious reader who has been reading across genres for a long time xx

You don't know how excited I was to see my comment shown on screen during the Irish books part! 😂 Funny that you mentioned Love Rosie/Where Rainbows End because Cecelia Ahern is also Irish!

Can confirm, middle grade fantasy (I think Liam would enjoy) written by an Irish author - Skulduggery Pleasant - definitely has speech marks!

You know what could be really fun? If you let the hunger games simulator pick your tbr:) Also I loved this video!

Your video concepts are my absolute favorite ones out there. 💖 I’m instantly pulled in every time!

Absolutely loved this video as always! Just love the way you talk about your reading experiences and how your channel has grown over the years (also your hair journey!! I always loved your hair but your hair now is so gorgeous!)

This is SO exciting, just did a huge library haul and now there’s an hour long Kayla video for me to relax with. Thank you as always for the amazing videos!

Those beach chairs are great! I bought one last year and it holds so many books lol awesome video! I love listening to your thoughts on your past videos.

Kayla I really appreciate your content ☺️ I rarely comment on your videos but I watch every one and am always happy when I see that you have uploaded something. So glad that you are on RU-vid 🥰

Wonderful video as always. Your dedication to finding new and interesting things to discuss is impressive. Also, you always look so gorgeous!

Always a good time for a feature length booksandlala video 💜

I'm pretty sure that Senecal books don't translate good. Quebec writing style and conversation in french are so different than english. I read most of his books, My favorite being: ''Aliss'', ''Sur le seuil'' and ''5150 rue des ormes'' and I'm pretty sure none of them would be great in english. I don't know why they chose Seven days to be translated first... it's far away from the best one. Some of his books have also been made into movies. But, most of his stories are dark and can be gore. Sometimes I'm wondering about his sanity, lol!

omg! The Chain was the only book from the 2019 video that I actually read so I remember hoping that you would pick it! This is so fun seeing it back!

omg love the little conglomerate of bunny books on the shelf

Such a fun video! I love the idea of righting your wrongs! I agree The Chain was so fun, but the ending let me down a bit

another iconic addition to the books and lala cinematic universe

You seriously have the most creative ideas, I loved this video! Also, your hair looks amazing 🤩

I’m so excited for your rabbit TBR!!! Seeing a few titles on the shelf behind you 👀

The pronunciation of Irish names and places made me chuckle hahaha some can be hard to pronounce 😅

I’m so glad you read the water cure because I always see it and it sounds right up my alley & I always almost pick it up but never do. Now I’m glad lol 😝

Amazing concept as always! I'm happy you said that you don't mind people taking your video ideas and making their own (with credit of course!) because I've definitely considered doing a zodiac sign one. That is if I ever make booktube videos lol.

Honestly, if I had seen that cover of "The Man in the Maze," I would've picked it up too!

I genuinely love your channel so much!💟

honestly cried happy tears seeing this I just got home from a horrible shift, really needed this I'm so excited 💕💕

First of all, as always, your videos are amazing. The concept, the editing, the content itself, this video was so good and I appreciate all the effort you put into it! Also, I LOVE A Heart in a Body in a World, it is one of my favorite books of all time, so I'm glad you have read it :)

I love your videos and the little clips we get of your family makes me so happy 🥰❤

honestly I get so inspired watching your videos because your concepts are so creative and it makes me want to do them too but I never want to feel like I'm stealing your ideas lol

I love watching people read when it’s sped up. The eyes just wiggle, it’s amusing

I swear you make the most creative content of all of booktube

yesss i was just looking for something to watch and you came through 🤩🙌

genuinely the creative queen of booktube ur the besttttt

That lake portion of the vlog looks so fun 🥺🌊

as an irish person watching you pronounce the place names was so funny sorry 😭 mayo is a gorgeous county from the short time i’ve spent time there!!

I didn’t even get close to guessing, but I liked the idea! And I love your reading vlogs 🥰

I have been curious to see how you would feel about Hollow Kingdom ever since I noticed it on your TBR shelf. Hollow Kingdom really didn't work for me. I read it as part of a book club and everyone else really enjoyed it and found it fun and funny and planned to read the sequel. I am glad you picked another book for that video selection that you did like, I've always thought of the Flatmate whenever you've talked about "righting your wrongs."

I also agree that your creative process is 5 stars. Noone is quite like you and that is a very beautiful thing that I will never tire of watching.

I had so much fun watching this video! Cool concept.

Organically, a reading goal emerged at the start of the year to read an Irish author or Irish history each month, mainly inspired by my love of Colm Toibin. Part of this was reading a Sally Rooney, although I had no interest, but you can’t deny her importance in contemporary Irish literature. So I started hate reading Normal People and shockingly I really liked it and was impressed. What I most enjoyed was having two protagonists who were smart, maybe brilliant and how despite that they didn’t know themselves. I will say one of the most important books I’ve read since as I wanted to understand Irish history was We Don’t Know Ourselves, which doubles as a memoir with his life paralleling what went on during the second half of 20th century in Ireland and how it was dragged into the modern world. Im also excited to read Say Nothing, which has nothing less then stellar reviewers and love by readers and is by the same author as Empire of Pain.

I really want you to read East Coast Girls. I read it because you’d mentioned it and now I just see it sitting on your TBR shelf in so many videos!

After receiving two lots of bad news this week this is just what I needed 💜 so thank you for posting this

I love this. Especially loved seeing that you read Sally Rooney. (I really want to read one of her books, but I have a hell of a time with the way authors from the UK and Ireland use one quotation mark instead of two.) I also LOVE that you read a Sabrina book! I used to have one, don't think I ever read it, but I literally rewatch the last episode sometimes just for the serotonin of that last scene.

Love this concept and the length of the content 😍 Out of curiosity, what is the lipstick you're using whilst getting ready before Olivia's sprint? Love the colour!

The first part of this is so interesting. I had to go back and see when I started doing reading vlogs because I honestly felt like yeah it was something relatively new for me too, but apparently my first reading vlog was in June of 2017, which is just WILD to me!

Your videos are the content version of a warm, fuzzy blanket

This got me interested to see how my DNA report had changed and it is amazing! Before it was Simply 80% British and 20% greater European. Now I've learned that I have a few ancestors from the same place that my own daughter ended up being born at. So cool!

I've been looking forward to this!

What a great video concept!

I was just thinking the other day about how older booktube barely had reading vlogs! I love them a lot that it's strange to remember a time when they weren't commonplace lol

I know that you've said you've lost interest in it, but I remember the series you did about reading your most anticipated books that you didn't get to, and I think you should pick up The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo. It's got that kind of atmospheric, claustrophobic writing and magical realism elements I think you would really enjoy despite the less than glowing reviews!

Lol i was in county Mayo, and we stayed in Ballina only like Feb '20! It was such a beautiful place and we made some really lovely mates who were still in contact with!

Amazing vlog! 🙂 Seven days sounds a bit like the movie Prisoners. Which was a very good movie, so maybe check that out, if you haven't watched it. Definitely going to check out The chain. Was reluctant to read it, but you have convinced me

I’m having the worst mental health right now, thank you for the distraction 💙

I’m so happy the chain showed up I was so bummed you didn’t get to read it in the Goodreads video

Super exciting!!! lol her iconic intros

Omg did you read The Gargoyle?? It’s one of my all time favourite books and I think you’d really like it

Im so happy i guessed it right ! I really wished you would of included the video where you bought 5 books you saw on instgram.

“Reading comprehension who” 🤣🤣 I feel that sometimes lolol

i was literally just rewatching "reading books from canceled videos" video so this timing is too wild but i love it

It would be cool in my opinion if you selected a set of your older videos that you would make changes to and re-create them with the changes you mentioned, for example, the video where Rob buys your books or the DNA video.

ZOMG. I love how you think about your videos in hindsight. I don’t even keep the footage… well loads was stolen when we burgled. I’m so haphazard. It’s made me want to both reflect and plot better. So thank you! I loved Normal People so much, the miscommunication was done brilliantly if that makes sense. I didn’t love The Water Cure either. It felt like a first draft. Ouch. I’ve always wanted to try Hollow Kingdom but somethings held me back.

Omg I'm from Mayo!! I live there still, it's the second biggest county in Ireland but one of the most sparsely populated. It's a gorgeous county, so many great historic sites, you should come visit!! The film The Quiet Man was filmed in Cong, and Westport is probably the most popular and well known town, everyone loves it. It was so weird to see you scrolling through all these towns I'm familiar with. I'm so sad you didn't read any Moira Fowley Doyle, as some of her books are set in Mayo and they're exactly the type of books you'd like I think!! I especially recommend The Spellbook of the Lost and Found by her

Yay for Ireland! Not from Mayo but we usually leave out the County. Also I would give your pronunciation of towns and names about 6/10 (Eimear is pronounced E-mer)

If you want to read more Patrick Senecal books, I recommend "Sur le Seuil" it's about a psychologist who gets assigned to an author who cut off his fingers and "Le Passager" about a literature professor who picks up a hitchhiker after driving home late and picks him up every time thereafter. Not sur if there's an English translation for either of these books, but I remember the twist endings being really good.

Did you ever read The Lost Causes of Bleek Creek by Rhett and Link , I remember it was on your tbr at some point, I feel like it would be a hit or miss for you but I think it would be intereting to hear your opinion.

My mom’s family is from county Mayo too! We went a few years ago to visit their dairy farm. I’ve never wanted to read sally rooney before but maybe now I have to.

got SO excited when the notification came, you have no idea

As soon as you said County Mayo, the first thing that came into my head was Sally Rooney. 😂 not gonna lie, I felt pretty chuffed 😆

THAT LAKE SPOT IS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS

im not sure if you've read it, but know it was definitely on your list for a video and not picked, but the foxhole court! i dont think you'll necessarily love it but i really would love to see your reaction and commentary on it.

Love this!! Why do I have false memories in my head that you already read The Chain and A Heart in a Body in a World? My brain says I've definitely watched review videos from you for those books haha

Winding down after work tonight with a Kayla video, nothing better :))

love your videos and I just want to recommend 2 more books for you: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier and Outlaw by Anna North!! I really think you would like them:))

I picked Normal People as my Book of the Month book back when it first came out. It was pitched as ‘an exquisite love story’. I ended up very disappointed by it, most likely because I’d had that expectation going into it. I do wonder if I were to reread it today knowing what it actually is if I would appreciate it more.

I’m so happy that you liked normal People!!! I think conversation with friends is not as good as NP but it still a good book!!

i was not expecting you to like normal people. i loved it but it know it’s not for everyone. i HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend watching the show it’s amazing and i loved it more than the book

For once I am not at work and am early!! I’m pretty sure I voted for this one, can’t wait to watch. ☺️

IM SO EXCITED

I DNF'd the Water Cure & you've validated that choice, ty 😅

i love how meta your videos have become

i was so worried when i saw you were reading the water cure.....i read it a few years ago i think because i'd seen it on your tbr and Hated it. i'm glad i'm validated!!! i recently read her other book the blue ticket and didn't like that either although it *was* better. such a bummer because her concepts are interesting but the follow through.....smh

Patrick Senecal is very big here in Québec. Many of my friends LOVED his books in high school, but I never could read more than a chapter because of how graphic and gore it gets. Just hearing my friends discuss some plot twists and topics made my stomach turn, but I also avoid depiction of violence in most of the media I consume cause I'm very sensitive to it. Sidenote: Could be fun for you to do a TBR based on the natural elements! I see you have a lot of books about water, so I don't think it would be difficult to find. And another criteria for rating could be how related to the element (in title or cover) the story actually is 😊

i love that we can see the aftermath of an Instagram photo on your bookshelves lol

The way you described your experience with Seven Days was exactly what I thought about A Cosmology of Monsters. Like WHY

I found it very interesting that you talked about the dialogue in Irish novels because James Joyce, who is one of the most influential writers of the XX century, invented the stream of consciousness (one of his novels, Ulysses, actually reads very much like A girl is an half-formed thing, because it's meant to mirror the way we think "unconsciously", without rules of any sort). So yeah, I think you might be right on the money!!

Wait! That book The Gargoyle is so so good! That is the book you should have read from that video!!!

"he's on a scooter, he's not just that fast!!" lmfaoooo

You should try Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle. Similar vibes to Breathing Below Water but adult.

AN hour long kayla video!??! best day ever

Please watch the Normal People Hulu series, it's so good!! I feel like it did a better job depicting the difference in wealth and class between Marianne and connel then on page

Your hair + this burnt orange shirt looks incredible

I did the 23 and Me a while back too. (It was probably inspired by your video) I am 90.2% British & Irish. My top British location is the greater London, and my top Irish location is County Cork, but County Mayo is number 4 on that list.

My family is from the county of Mayo!! (Many generations back) that's where we get our last name!

I enjoyed this blog. The books that ill read from it are: The Water Cure and The Chain