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Damn, that's a good book haul. I would love to see a video about your favorite speculative fiction books. And I can't wait for the reviews of all these books 😊

Hello i found your CAWPILE rating through Jashi Corrin and Erin Smith. I am not using a spreadsheet. But i am interested in determining 1/2 stars. Do you have a guide as per your previous videos where you list 0-1 no stars etc?

Added several of these to my tbr 😊

Thank you for these recommendations. I’ve added pretty much all of them to my wish list and am looking forward to discovering some new authors. Favourite book of the year is a draw between Circe and The Eye of the World (which I’m only a quarter of the way through but loving so far). Worst book was Time Travellers Wife as it was such a let down and made me feel so uncomfortable in parts.

Bandit queens sounds like Finlay donnovan is killing it lol but ethnic

I really enjoyed The Bandit Queens I hope you like it!

Hi. Is there still a discord server?

Just started Wayfarers, loving it Best book so far: All that's left in the world. Disappointment: How to be autistic.

*stares into the distance because three of my series have more than 60 books and I don't want to deal with changing the spreadsheet*

Book Lovers is the only EH I have yet to read. I personally LOVED Happy Place but it's pretty polarizing. I thought it was really emotional and raw and I think it's best fitting for people who can relate maybe? If you've been through a dark time when you weren't necessarily being rational and communicating well, then you will understand where these characters are coming from. Otherwise, it might come off as a bad miscommunication trope. Hope that makes sense and helps some.

My favorites so far are One dark window and its sequel Two twisted crowns. My most disappointing is Yellowface, which I DNFed! I did not care for the storyline or main character at all!

This spreadsheet is unbelievably helpful! Really appreciate the addition of the nonfiction ranking categories, too. Thank you so, so much for all of the work you've put into this 🙏

My favourite was The Bookbinder of Oxford by Pip Williams. I simply love Pip Williams‘ characters and writing style. My disappointing book was When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro. I’m not sure if it’s an issue of me or the book, but I felt like it could have been an interesting „unreliable narrator“ type of story, but ended up just being absurd and nonsensical.

I‘m so excited to hear your thoughts after reading all of them, they sounded super intriguing!

Book Lovers is my favorite! And the newest one Funny Story was also amazing!

I want all of them!

Regarding Emily Henry: Liked Book Lovers. Really disliked Happy Place 😅 For the rest: Thanks for your haul! Found a few more books to add... like... more than a few... I like your taste

Not me silently panicking because of the special editions for The Expanse books. I only own the first but I’m so afraid they will sell out at some point. Love the series so much! Really enjoying learning about the books you choose. I’ll have to look into a few of them.

I loved Chlorine, gave it 5 stars! It's my best book of the year so far. It's definitely unhinged but also quite sad, yet beautiful. And I've instantly added almost everything else to my tbr list, they all sound so good! My favourite Emily Henry was Happy Place, closely followed by Book Lovers, so I hope you'll like both of them.

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Loved The Bandit Queens! The Centre and 10 minutes and 38 seconds are on my TBR, and i just requested Children of the New World from my library!

i haaaated happy place, it truly hurt me :D book lovers is my best book of the year, hope you'll enjoy it

Yay a new G video I've been hearing about Derry Girl so much and saying you like it was the last straw, I'm watching the show📺

„Humans” I absolutely love and hate that show, because it devastated me. And it’s unfortunate that it came „too soon” because I think if they’d released it now, with all that ai sh*t going on, it would have a much bigger audience.

Just bought Someone who will love you... Very excited to read it!

Yay for books no one is talking about it! What I built my channel around.

This is one of the best book hauls. I want to put every single one on my TBR.

Book Lovers for sure.

If you read more clifi and books with nature themes you can participate in the Climathon - it is a year long readathon about the environment 🥰

For real though this is the reason I originally subscribed, I like the see books I haven't heard of before!

Happy Place is my favourite mostly because it ruined my life. It absolutely scooped my insides out purely because it hit far too close to home for me, it opened up wounds I didn't realise we're still there from a situation I had from a previous relationship and friendships that got dredged up by the book and it just felt so raw. So I think it's more of a me thing than the book specifically 😅 but it was ultimately really healing. Book Lovers though I just loved for the sake of loving the characters and writing and plot. So make of that what you will... 😂

I loved A Magical Girl Retires! There's no connection with Alice in Wonderland. It's an original work inspired by Sailor Moon, but 'magical girl' is a whole sub-genre in itself. Expect themes you'd find in superhero books like hope, courage, justice, etc, It's also gently sapphic.💖

I recently read The Family Experiment, I think you'll like it! It's very Black Mirror-esque haha, very unhinged at times. I've also been on the lookout for more of these sorts of books so this video came in just at the right time 👀 so many books to check out and add to the TBR! ❤

Just finished ‘A Magical Girl Retires’. I really enjoyed it☺️ Loved the illustrations after every chapter.

I hated happy place, yet I did enjoy book lovers. It wasn’t mind blowing but definitely a good time while reading it.

I read Bandit Queens at the beginning of the year and really loved it. It covered some really important topics but had me laughing throughout at the same time. Definitely got some new additions to the TBR now as well. Circle sounds right up my street

g, do you know the game detroit: become human?

I LOVE hearing about books no one else talks about! It’s really refreshing!

I’ve still never read an Emily Henry book😢

Book Lovers was my favorite but I just read Happy Place and it’s a close second! I thought I wouldn’t like the tropes in it but they didn’t bother me at all.

Well, my dear long before black mirror was a thing we had shows like the Outer limits and the twilight zone for boomers and Gen Xers when it comes to you speculative fiction anthology series

I really loved the bandit queens. Geetas adventures where funny, little romance in it, miscomunication. And triggers for Atempt of rape. Cast differences,this book had everything.

who *doesn't* love weird books?!?

I love Derry Girls! We rewatched it last month 😍 all the books look very interesting, I hope you'll enjoy them ❤

Book Lovers was my favorite of the two, Happy Place was a close second! Chlorine is on my radar now…unhinged mermaids sounds interesting

Book Lovers is my favourite. It didn't hurt at all that the descriptions of the main characters gave me massive Elizabeth Moss & Max Minghella vibes (and as someone who was obsessed with their chemistry in The Handmaid's Tale & has a tough time imagining characters in my head, it worked out perfectly). I love that book so much that I wish I'd managed to get it in signed and in hardback when it was first out 🥲 I didn't really like Happy Place, but for some reason during an unhaul I couldn't seem to get rid of it so I might try to reread it, may grow on me

happy place is my favorite for the themes about friendship and finding yourself in your adult years! but def a less common fave among the masses haha I really loved the centre! Not a perfect book but I still think about it a lot & want to re-read someday

Happy place was a DNF for me, liked all her others though