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Maybe you should reflect on your own biases. As if a "literary" work (whatever that is) stands in opposition to a work that is "fun".

As a fellow the witch and the beast fan, I think you’re gonna like A kingdom of Quartz and Chainsaw man

i saw juniper and thorn and immediately clicked

Ahah I loved your cat's interjections 😂💛 So cute! Gee, I can relate so much to the "I don't know what I'm doing, I'm just trying to find something that works" feeling... I'm very much in that same mode, albeit at a different stage of the writing process (first draft). I love seeing other writer's process ^^ Thank you for sharing it with us! And best of luck with the revisions.

This was so interesting to hear your thoughts while writing your book and reviewing feedback. Thank you so much for sharing 💕

That bit at the start of Lady MacBeth where she says it’s period accurate spelling is nonsense, I checked every language I could think of, plus I’m Scottish so they just looked off. The spellings of the time would’ve used Gaelic language conventions, so Duncan, for example, would be Donnchadh. He was called Donnchadh mac Crìonain, Duncan, son of Crinan. The audiobook drove me up the wall. She kept pronouncing things wrongly, she said Glamm-is all the way through, it’s pronounced Glams (you not knowing that is understandable, a professional narrator is not). Also the entire book made me beyond furious, I only listened to it because I had to write about it. It was xenophobic, misogynistic and the history and geography was so bad I couldn’t tell you when or where it’s set. I found the witches to be the one of the most insulting parts of the book. One of them is called Gruoch. In real life Macbeth’s queen was called Gruoch. So she took a real queen of Scotland and made her into a witch.

Hey wanna cry? Read Toilet bound hanako-kun, (HUGE WARNING: it made me depressed ; )

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Oooh that spreadsheet looks so useful! I might steal that for my next outline 👀

Someone else recommended it but I'll second it-check out a series called Frieren! It's a fairly standard fantasy setting on the surface that gains complexity as you go along, but the unique twist is that the story takes place DECADES AFTER the epic journey.

Attack on Titan is so good. You should read the Colossal Editions

Love the cover for Guest in the House!! 😍

I have been waiting for Lady Macbeth ALL YEAR!! I will hopefully be reading it in September so ill lyk my spoilery thought for sure. I loooooove the cover you have! 💙 Miss Carroll stays confusing me with her graphic novels. Buut she does always bring the ✨vibes✨

A guest in the house has lovely illustrations

I really like this video here are you talking about the silver kiss? It’s so funny. I have a book like that as well. I’ve been doing something sort of similar on my channel where I’m really analyzing get into the nitty-gritty really what it is specifically that I connect to in my favorite books- and going by genre. I feel like maybe my primordial book is a book called stonewords by Pam Conrad. I reread it this year and it was really interesting to make those connections the similarities in books I like now.

The Ancestor sounds so interesting 🤔 I’m glad I got your thoughts on Lady Macbeth. I feel like Ava Reid is fantastic at atmospheres, but her stories themselves are good not great. But damnit that cover is gorgeous

You should only read One Piece

Let's go new video! All those covers are gorgeous ngl.

My Brilliant Friend as number one, really. I've read serval other books on this list that are way better. I would’t even put the Neopolitan novels on this list at all and two of the four on on it. Its a very bias list.

so happy that patrick radden keefe made it onto both lists!! he’s a brilliant writer and empire of pain is the best non-fiction book i’ve ever read!

pls read berserk, best art and atmosphere in all manga

For the eyes thing why sometimes there is only one or none, I think it depends on the distance the character is drawn like they are far away so its hard to make out their eyes, But also when close up I've always just thought it was due to lighting in the world of the manga/anime so it hides the eyes if its really dark or what not, And sometimes its just done for artistic sake to make a moment more dramatic especially if the character is wearing glasses.

If you catch a manga early enough, it won't have a manga. One of my favorite series going on right now is called "Dragon and Chameleon". It doesn't have an anime but I hope it gets one soon.

Thanks for sharing these! I'll definitely be checking out some of the podcasts.

Where did the cat go? I wanted to see the cat! 😻 I love Christie's channel too 💕 And I'll recommend Susan Dennard's website to a couple of friends who are at the editing stage, thanks for sharing!

Bless you for this!! I am trying to get into my creative writing bag and was wondering where I could start!! 🖤📝

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Your theory can also be applied to playing role-playing games like dungeons and dragons or Baldur’s Gate 3. There is even a term some role players use called “synthetic memories”. It describes the vividly imagined scenarios you envision for your character and his past, his time with his parents for example, his hometown, core memories he might have. Those synthetic memories are not real and the role-play knows this but nevertheless they create real emotion. The more you play your character in game, interacting with other players, the more real and significant those memories become. You grief for your imaginary mother, and you rage against the thought of your imaginary sister being kidnapped. It is quite a strange experience when you feel that for the first time. 😅

If you liked Junji Ito, I really recommend Uzumaki and Tomie, they’re the rare instances where the whole book is one, finished story (unlike most of his works which are story collections), with Tomie you can still feel how they’re seperate stories with each chapter but the main character and the overall plot is still pretty consistent (also I believe Tomie is one of his earlier works so the beginning chapters, while still looking pretty good, are nowhere near the quality of later chapters and works)

I'm so glad to hear good things about White as Snow! My library has a copy, so I'll be picking it up sometime soon. Love the mermaid cup!

Loved your breakdown of the list! I think there’s no perfect way to make this kind of list and I love the discourse that’s come out about it and hearing everyone’s top 10s 😊

I love Macleod’s! Any time I’ve been in there with a request, they know precisely where that book is. My little mind looks at piles of book and shelves and thinks ‘…just how’ :) Great video, so happy it came across my feed this morning!😊

Really happy to have found your channel, a fellow Canadian🇨🇦, a new sub, and must introduce you ( if you don’t know?) to Simon and his channel @Savidgereads who wrote a quote for Burial Plot. Equally, you both love Rebecca😊 Great reviews from your July reads!📚

oh that's right I wanted to read This Woven Kingdom! Just added the series to my Library TBR.

oou I just got To Sleep in a Sea of Stars for $2 from the library bookstore! A year or so I also got his other book Fractal Noise from the library bookstore. Hope to read both soon 😅

I LOVED Project Hail Mary!! I think that may have a bit more of what you are looking for.. still that humor but it is emotional. It made me happy and sad then happy again lol. I was entertained the whole way through and it's normally hard for me to fully focus on audiobooks.. so another reason why I loved it. And if you love physics/math/engineering/chemistry etc you should like the scientific breakdowns. I highly recommend the audio for PHM - you will get the most out of it that way especially in regards to a certain character... one of my all-time favorite characters. I won't say anymore than that because nobody should be spoiled for it 😊 I actually just got the audio and physical copy of The Martian, on my TBR this month so haven't read it yet but I did see the movie in theaters back when it first came out. From what I remember I would say I like PHM better but I'm still going to read The Martian because I want to know the original book version... and I absolutely adore SciFi! I say give the audible PHM a shot 😄

This video was actually really interesting. I knew about the list but not how it was made. I’m forever interested in authors picks for other books! I loved that you picked My Dark Vanessa as one of your favorites. I just read that one and it was so beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. 💔

Of course Stephen King would pick one of his own books! Legend. The lack of children/middle grade books over the entiring publishing industry this year is abismal. I know they don't sell millions but not having some of the biggest books in fantasy/scifi in the last 20 years on this list is WEIRD. You'd think at the very least they would put in the biggest and best selling books of each genre AT LEAST.

Anime usually is made as an promotion of the manga that's why they are so many, also right now we are having a lot of anime being made, so yeah if it is popular there's a high change it has an anime. Shonen jump as it name says is limited to the shonen demoragrafic which means it is directed to young men and boys if you want some recommendations on girls manga I recommend the channel Colleen's Manga Recs

Humm it pretty much nice pick up manga to read for beginners but for some who lover dark fantasy it would be nice if you read Berserk Which have some of best manga art and i will recommend to read junji ito Uzumaki.

Hey want a manga that’ll hurt you for years to come?! Read Berserk! I’m still in pain after catching up with the manga.

dang not me clicking on this video an getting immediately dragged (0:12) 🤣 LMAO at Stephen King putting his own book on his top 10. Why am I kind of living for that? period as the Hunger Games and Rouge should be on your list 👏 Bunny would be on my top 10 if not number 1 👀

Found your channel by chance. I've read 11 of those... I certainly need to work on my TBR. Hugs from Brazil!

ahah, that Buffy book! Reminds me of my teens when I was reading the whole series (and watching the TV show, obviously!) ^^ Is White as Snow grim... or Grimm? XD (sorry, I couldn't resist) Really enjoyed this short and sweet, very cozy vlog 💛

Getting old if you were born in the 90's? I'm from the late 80's!!! Ouch 😂 Super interesting video. I'd need to give more thought to my list, such a hard question! I think great books (I say great, because I don't think it's possible to get to an objective list of "best books", it's just to personal) are well-executed (intelligent writing - not necessarily beautiful, although I do love that, but the tone and style need to make sense for that particular story and maybe beautiful isn't it -, rich, believable characters, an engaging plot, strong world-building if relevant to the story), but it also needs to make the readers feel like reading that book changed them somehow, and it needs a type of quality that would make it pass the test of time, something that people would still be reading in 10, 40, 80 years... That last one is much harder to describe though!

Thanks for an excellent critique of this list Steph! It's funny to me that out of all these lists that come out, this NYT one got so much attention! Sadly, the bias on genre fiction is insane in the industry, especially in the big awards, look at the Booker Prize or the Women's Prize for Fiction... I am a strong believer that any book can be valuable, it is not bound by genre. So it is disappointing to continue seeing this from people who are meant to be experts in their field. I do appreciate some of the choices that were more original, even though already very appreciated by readers generally, like Piranesi or 1Q84. I'd define 'best' based on a scale that comprises: - Representative for the time period in terms of style of writing, style, themes - Impact on the reader - Contribution to popular culture at the time Some of my standouts from the 21st century so far (in no particular order, that is, as you say, 'an overwhelming exercise'!): Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn Babel - R.F. Kuang Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Pachinko - Min Jin Lee 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson Snow - Orhan Pamuk The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins I Am China - Xiaolu Guo A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

You’re not yet old if you were born in the 90s :) don’t worry too much about that. Just keep on keeping on. Also, great video

what books would you put on the list? 📚☺

Macleod's got to be my favorite but when i was there i heard someone got shot ouside. Vancouver moment