this is such a fun overview of what you've read so far! i love LOVE your more in-depth reviews & discussions, but a video like this is a great way to quickly update my tbr & remind me of all the great things i still want to read. so thank you for that! (also omg your french book/review!! 💖) here's to more 5 stars for the rest of the year ✨📚✨
Aw thanks! I love more in depth reviews but I agree that sometimes an overview like this is a great way to hear about a bunch of books in a short time 🥰 I’m glad you enjoy these! Et merci ☺️ I was nervous to review it in French but I did read it in French so it felt appropriate lol 😅
If you like Agatha Christie type books but want to have them in French, you could read some Maurice Leblanc. Arsène Lupin is a “gentleman cambrioleur”.
I had to go back a few minutes in the video when Yoda jumped in the screen, I noticed I had only focused on the kitty for a while 😅 I love this concept! Reading through long reviews in one sitting can be tedious sometimes for multiple books so this format really helps!
I love your one sentence reviews! I really hope you're planning on reading Fourth Wing because I'd love to see your thoughts on it. It pulled me out of a rough reading slump so I'm hopeful that you'll enjoy it 📚
I feel like I forgot some of em bc ya went so fast but I too loved Parable Of The Sower, Tomorrow ^3, and Lessons in Chemistry, and felt Collected Regrets really hit the mark addressing the problematic tendency to put a time stamp & measure on grief….. and read all of these about same time you did . Eloquent summaries! 📖 🪱 💚
I loved listening to you speak French :) I do not speak French but I can pick up most from it since I am a Catalan native speaker and they are very close languages
Our tastes differ to the extreme! Of the 10 books we overlap our ratings couldn't have been more different. There are also 5 books that I DNF'D which were highly rated by you but I couldn't get through. For some reason our tastes seem to be on the other ends of the spectrum...
Bravo pour la critique en frrançais :) I just can't keep with the amount of books you read but Legends and Latte is definitely in my to read soon list!
As some who also has ADHD I love one sentence reviews! Also if you’re looking for more ADHD related non fiction I really liked the disorganized mind by Nancy A Radey… and I guess I’ll have to give the one you liked another try bc I think the narration was making me mad time 😅 Also sorry if this is already on your the but Crying in H Mart was amazing!
My absolute favourite reads so far this year: - The T in LGBT+ by Jamie Raines An incredibly valuable guide to being trans or non-binary. Whether you're trans or enby yourself, are gender questioning, have a trans or enby loved one, are a trans ally or just curious, I absolutely recommend it. - A Witch's Guide To Fake Dating A Demon by Sarah Hawley Hilariously fun and easy paranormal romance between a witch and the demon that wants to bargain her soul... But really doesn't. I stayed up the entire night to read this in one go, because I was so entranced. Absolutely loved it. - Girl, Goddess, Queen by Bea Fitzgerald Very feminist take on the Hades and Persephone myth, which is basically badass girl falls in love with soft artsy boy with hilarious banter and the best supporting characters. Also a great take on rape culture, dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship and the growth of an adolescent into a woman embracing all of her power.
I love this concept so much! I'm reading Legends and Lattes. Haven't finished it yet, but im already wishing I could read it again for the first time. ❤📚
Currently on a Stuart MacBride binge reading roll. Will add a few of these to my -longer than I'll be able to read in this lifetime and possibly the next- TBR
Great reviews, Elizabeth! Could use each and every one to learn some new words as an ESL-speaker ! 😄 And Yoda's cameo is so cute, what a pampered little baby. 🥰🥰
your frensh is excelent :). may i sugest to you 2 books, older ones, but very nice mystèries by gaston leroux: le mystère de la chambre jaune and le parfum de la dame en noir? i haven't read any of the books in this video, but some are going te be on my tbr. i've been finisching some fantasy series that i started.
Aw, merci ! J'étais un peu nerveux de parler en français dans une vidéo parce que je n'ai pas beaucoup d'occasions de m'entraîner à parler ces jours-ci. Mais je pense que c'est logique vu que j'ai lu le livre en français ❤️ merci pour les recommandations ! J'espère que vous aimerez les livres que vous avez placés sur votre TBR à cause de cette vidéo 🥰
📚📖👓🤓 This is always fun to watch! I love it! I feel like you have a lot of 5 star reads this year! It may be tough! I have read Lessons in Chemistry and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and I am currently listening to Legends and Lattes!
Great bookish video as usual. I read many years ago One hundred years of solitude in Spanish and I loved it. García Márquez is one of my favourite writers in Spanish. I am reading right now Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow because of your recommendation and I am loving it so far. I am afraid I will cry at the end…🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
The "Earthseed" duology is brilliant. I think you will love "Parable of the Talents" as well. Another stellar book by Octavia E Butler is "Kindred". Highly recommended!
So many good books and now MY TBR is in trouble. I am so impressed by these one sentence summaries- you have an amazing command of language. My favorite books of 2023 thus far have been Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth (an exquisitely beautiful sapphic coming of age story set in Rural Ireland in the 90s!) and The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle! I feel like you may enjoy both, but especially the first!
Elizabeth, I read Scorched Grace. No, I made myself finish reading it. I found the characters and the situations unbelievable and unlikeable. I honestly don't know why I finished it. I always enjoy your book reviews, however brief!
I have a book recommendation. I think you would quite like it! This book got me back into reading in 2020 The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir by maude Julien Description from Amazon: Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity.
I just read a book in which the main character is a book writer and had written a succesful first book about "the Davenport twins" trying solve a murder. She way this main character refers to them in a "What would they do" way, annoyed me SO much. All those feelings came bubbling up when I heard you say "The Davenports". Oof.. - Nevertheless, nice video once again, and also once again perfect timing (as I was hoping for a new dose of inspiration by you) (and oh my, I do not hope this comes across as creepy as it might.. haha)
Parable of the Sower-- one of the very few sci-fi book I read last year and the one I've enjoyed the most so far, even though it is eearily realistic... One Hundred Years of Solitude-- my favorite book from my favorite writer ❤ if you want recommendations, continue with Gabo's Chronicle of a Death Foretold or Strange Pilgrims ❤ Thanks to your recommendations I reconnected with my love for fiction during the pandemic, started a reading journal last year, and learned about amazing writers like Octavia Butler. Thank you! ❤📚
I know it’s on your TBR but I highly, highly recommend How High We Go in the Dark. It has great world building, it has great representation across many areas, the writing is excellent and it has plenty of strangeness in it without it being absurd. I cried, and I laughed and overall it’s just a really amazing book packed in such a few amount of pages. I am extremely curious on what your thoughts would be on this book after reading it.
I highly recommend both books by Suzy Krause: Sorry I Missed You and Valencia and Valentine. They are set in Canada and are both completely different but really beautiful stories of love and friendships
I just finished the audiobook of The Collected regrets of clover. It was a lovely book but I cried when Leo passed after he told her he loved her. Wow the book was filled with so many good quotes. I might have to purchase a hard copy to highlight them.
This stressed me out 😣 I don't know why but it feels like a race against time, maybe that's why... Anyhow, I love hearing you talk about books, but in a calm, lengthy way 😝 so I hope you make more of the traditional kind of book review videos in the future 😉
I have read Legends and Lattes and The Martian, both of which I enjoyed. I just skimmed over the juvenile humor and excess science talk in The Martian. I also very much enjoyed The City We Become and am currently listening to The World We Make. 📚
You need to read “Rapture Force” by Jaeden Tremblay. It’s very short and…. Interesting to say the least. It’s his/her debut novel so of course it has its problems. Interesting, nonetheless.
📖 I recommend Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler, the second in earthseed duology. Also, beyond its time in an eerie way. Loved this video & will be checking out Monstrilio. Thanks ❤😮
I would love your take on the ACOTAR series since they are trending so much and I get such mixed reviews on it. Have you already done one that I might have missed?
I read the first few when they were first coming out but don’t remember most of the details. They were around a 3 star read for me at the time, but my taste in books has changed quite a bit since then!
Funny I hated tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow :D maybe it was the translation but the characters were so annoying in my eyes, definitely gonna read legends and lattes this sounds really cozy
Haha you're spot on! I'm sometimes influenced by Quebecois French because of my brother in law, but I learned Parisian French in school (French immersion) growing up ❤
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Lol sorry, I’ve been on top of Duolingo trying to get my French immersion level back so I thought I’d challenge myself to speak in French on camera (a bit insecurity of mine!) ❤️❤️❤️
