i totally love your themed vlogs obviously, but if you ever wanted to put out a video just full of books you wanted to read but couldn’t fit anywhere, i’d totally still watch!
all i want for you is to have an entire month where you do everything in your power to get as many 5 stars as possible 😭 lol idk what that would look like but i need you to have a good reading year bestie ❤😂
Can you do a video on your organization system? I'm so intrigued how you plan and set goals/schedule/record multiple videos at a same time and sort footage. I so admire your organization and would love to know!
If you're looking for non-fiction, I'm 50% through Without Children and LOVING it. It's a great take on how both mothers and those without children benefit when we don't expect motherhood from everyone and when we build a society that supports mothers. As someone who has chosen not to have children but loves my mom friends and their littles, I love reading the history of the expectations foisted upon us all.
I have 2 favorites because I can’t choose!! Favorites: James by Percival Everett & There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib Least Favorite: Gothikana by RuNyx - it was so bad it genuinely made me question if it had actually been read by anyone at the publisher
I've also been having a Meh reading year so far! Favorite was probably A Restless Truth by Freya Markse and least favorite was Schrader's Chord by Scott Leeds, which I'm probably not being totally fair to, because it was one of my most anticipated books so I think the Disappointment Factor is making me be harder on it than I could be
So far this year, my favorite has been In The Shadow of the Mountain (memior) and least favorite has been a tie between Nettle and Bone or Ninth House.
I really want your reading year to get better, bestie! Please do whatever you need to make that happen 🥰 Favorite so far is Heart of Stone by Johannes T. Evans (please y'all read it if you're into romance, the gays, pining, and sad boy vamps) Least favorite: The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston. It made me unreasonably angry and I'd like to never talk about it again 😂
I love these videos. It scratches an itch. I wish I could be as organised. Love you Kayla! Also love the idea of creature reading vlogs for each season, I was wondering if you could plan a creature reading vlog for winter centred around mythical creatures related to the holidays like reading about Krampus and other beings? x
My favorite so far this quarter was The Green Bone Saga (i read all three consecutively without stopping so i can’t really separate them). i also reread the Percy Jackson series and loved them- most of them originally had five stars and i didn’t change the rating because i wanted it to be reflective of how i felt when reading it at the age of the intended audience. my least favorite was Defending Jacob byWilliam Landry. i’ve also had two DNFs 😢
I liveee for these stats videos!! My favorite books this year so far have been What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo and The Women by Kristin Hannah. Bright Young Women is also really high up there for me I hope the next quarter is filled of five stars and new favs!
5 favourites of the season: 1. The Reformatory 2. The Man Who Died Twice 3. The Cabin at the End of the World 4. Bright Young Women 5. Out There Least favourite: Forth Wing 💀😆
My favourite book I read last season was I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. It was already on my TBR and my friend chose it as our book club pick before your video came out! I had been um-ing and ah-ing about reading it because I could only get the eBook, but your review pushed me to start reading it. I found it so emotional and eerie, I loved it.
My only 2 2024 releases I read have both been DNFs so I feel this 😭 I had 30+ DNFs this year already, but of what I did finish about 1/3 were 5 stars and 1/3 were 1 stars...
I read Knock Knock, Open Wide after seeing you talk about it and it was a good time! Not what I was expecting, but not in a bad way. As for favorite and least favorite so far this year… favorite was probably the Villains & Virtues trilogy by AK Caggiano because I honestly don’t remember the last time I had SO much fun with a book or series. Flawed books but my gosh did I have the biggest smile on my face at the end. Least favorite I think was Lock Every Door by Riley Sager, but honestly I knew what I was getting into with that so that’s on me. Either that or Night Film by Marisha Pessl, which had much better writing but was SOOOO long and SO frustrating.
I have The Memory Police on my physical TBR. I'm really looking forward to reading it. Even more so now I know it's one of your favourites of the year so far. I definitely want to read something by Octavia E. Butler this year. And I've just added The Centre to my list of books to read ☺
i read 2 chevy Steven's books that were 5 stars, That Night and Dark Roads. last year I read those girls by chevy Steven's and it was also 5 stars I love her writing and she's western Canadian like us ❤
Kaylaaaaa!!! Oh this was a rough quarter. You'll bounce back, I know you will. Anyways, my top book this year so far is What You're Looking For Is At The Library by Michiko Aoyama. It's just such a beautiful set of short stories of people feeling lost in life, and they visit this community center and in it, is a library. They go to this library, meet this librarian who gives them a list of books for what they specifically are looking for... and books that they aren't. It's just beautiful and it made me tear up. I have not had any flops, I am not in my flop era yet, but I have to read two young adult books for work so I fear I am about to enter it.
This is random but for library books what is your libraries loan period? 3weeks? Do you take that into consideration for when you check out library books. I love seeing library books in your wrap ups just curious how you make it happen.
It's 3 weeks! I re-reserve as many as I can when it's time for a quarterly wrap up 💕 I do plan ahead though and put in my reservations like a month ahead haha
My favorite of this quarter was Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender and my least favorite was probably You Again by Kate Goldbeck. I also gave Minor Detail five stars, though. It was so beautifully and expertly writte . I also read and really liked Knock Knock Open Wide late last year. It wasn't a perfect five star, but it has stuck with me. I'm excited to see what the author writes next. I hope next quarter is even better for you!
April is stocked with so many new releases I cannot wait! New Emily Henry, Abby Jiminez and a lot of other romances that are lighter reads but still great and I think these two authors write deeper books than a typical romance 💘
Favourite books of this quarter are Braiding Sweetgrass and Carter & Lovecraft. Least favourite book is Vampires Never Get Old, so disappointed in this collection.
I've had a kind of similar quarter. Not *no* 5 stars, but fewer than usual, and nothing that felt like all-time-favorite material. Fav was System Collapse by Martha Wells; least fav was Twelve Nights at Rotter House by JW Ocker
here's hoping the next quarter is so much better than the first one! I got through 29 books in the first quarter, and 5 of them were 5 stars - but all 5 of those were fairly deep into series I've been reading and loving for years. I hope for a first in a series or standalone to make it up to the top sometime soon
This quarter, my favorite book is Two Twisted Crowns, or consider the Shepherd King duology in that spot. Least fave is Fourth Wing but I'm glad your husband liked the book lol
i think i’m maybe too cynical or something because i don’t expect almost anything to be a 5 star. i’m totally content with something in the 4 star range. with that being said, my rating criteria basically means nothing so maybe my 4 stars would be 5 stars by other people’s criteria? 😂
I feel so similarly about my first quarter reads :( some 5 stars in january, but nothing since 😭😭😭 I also haven't been having many wins with 2024 releases, especially romances - but i wasnt having many wins with 2023 romances either 😅 i just want to read a book that i love the whole time so bad, hoping it comes along soon!
I've read considerably less than you this year but I've only had 2 five star books this year 😭 my favorites of the season were Chain-Gang All-Stars and This is How You Lose the Time War. My least favorites were Out There Screaming and No One Can Know.
a great anthology rec: never whistle at night, edited by shane hawk, is a short story collection by indigenous authors!! i think you might love that one
I have basically been in a reading slump since the start of 2024 💀 So I'm with you on the disappointing quarter. But I have managed to find two 5 star books! Notes on an Execution was the first, and the second I literally finished yesterday, Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender. I am typically not at all a romance fan, but I love Kacen Callender, so I gave it a shot, and I'm glad I did! I would say it's not the typical happily-ever-after romance, and that's what I liked about it. As for my worst book, it has got to be The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry. I gave it a generous 3 star right after I finished it because I thought I was being too hard on it, but the longer I sit on it, the more I think it deserves a 2.
My favorite read of the year so far is easily The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, which was an unexpected surprise because I picked it up on a whim (the audiobook narrator is amazing) 😁 On the flip side... I didn't have any 2 star reads so far, which is good!, but looking at my Goodreads stats, a great majority of my reading so far this year has been really meh, 3 starts reads 🥺
I just want you to read my romcom Written in the Cards. Is that tacky to ask? Maybe? 😬 And I know you're not a huge fan of romance. You've said it many times. But I swear I think you'd like it. Say the word and I'll send you a free copy. It's also on KU 💜💜💜
My faves of 2024 so far : Mrs.S ( 5 stars ) Elena Knows ( 4.5 stars ) Big Swiss ( 5 stars ) I had pretty bad start of the reading year too most books were 3 starts for me
I feel the same way about Q1: I had 6 books that I gave 5 stars but idk if I'd consider any of them like new all time favorites. I Who Have Never Known Men was one of those, as well as the 3rd book in the Indian Lake Trilogy by SJG. Otherwise it was just an okay reading quarter for me.
Favorites from Q1 • Gothikana by RuNyx • The Women by Kristin Hannah • Shark Heart by Emily Habeck Least Favorites • Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle • The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard • Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
The best anthology I’ve read in years is a new release called Green Frog by Gina Chung! It is a mix of speculative, mundane, and Korean fantastical stories all with a central theme of child-parent relationships. Highly highly suggest! There wasn’t a single story I didn’t give over a 4.5 ⭐️
Your 4 stars are some of my fave 5 star books - We Sold Our Souls, The Wonder State, and Hawk Mountain 😆I've hardly had any 5 stars this year but my faves are The Last One (bonkers thriller) and Chlorine. My least fave I didn't dnf was Bring Me Back, woof.
If you’re looking for nonfiction please, Please, PLEASE check out Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson. I know it sounds a little weird, a little niche but you would love it, especially if you read Go Ask Alice as a tween/teen/young adult. It’s nonfiction but it reads like a thriller. 💜
If I can recommend something light-hearted that will offer a good time, I can really recommend Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood. I KNOW she has a certain reputation but this is her least ridiculous/most competent work imo and it really brightened my days while reading it 🥰 (also I'm not a romance reader so this is really saying something)
Have you read the anthology Someone in Time? I’m reading and enjoying it right now. But I’m not halfway through yet… but it has a lot of authors that I tend to love.
For the first time ever my favourite and least favourite of the year is easy; The Women by Kristen Hannah is easily my favourite, and Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott is my least (caveat it’s not bad writing, but too confusing for my tastes and the pay off at the end wasn’t worth the slog through 400 pages)
looove book stats my favorites for the quarter: 1. only when it's us by chloe liese 2. nightwatching by tracy sierra 3. lonely castle in the mirror by mizuki tsujimura 4. emily wilde's map of the otherlands by heather fawcett 5. no one can know by kate alice marshall least favorite: the navigating fox by christopher rowe
Favourites of the quarter have to be The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden, Green Dot by Madeleine Gray and Penance by Eliza Clark - would love to hear your thoughts on Warm Hands of Ghosts if that's a book that you're interested in!
Have you thought about asking your most compatible people from past booktuber favorites videos to recommend you a book for a vlog? Maybe you’ll align again
My favorite for Q1 was Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutano and my least favorite was Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez! 📖
I had 2 5-star reads this quarter: Foster by Clair Keegan and Galatea by Madeline Miller - both below 100 pages. My least favorite book was The Fall of the King by Johannes W. Jensen - he is one of only three Danes who have won the Nobel prize for fiction, but boy that book has not aged well!
Having so many 4 stars is still okay to me! Are you at least enjoying your reading even if they aren’t the best ever? I know I always rate thrillers 2-3 stars, but still have a good time.
I read books all the time knowing they won’t b 5 stars but wanting fun enjoyable popcorn reads. My favorite books often are more heavy and impactful butttt that doesn’t mean I don’t need the fun easy stuff. Basically I’m saying, maybe your average rating doesn’t mean it’s actually a disappointing quarter? Maybe you’re just prioritizing popcorn n that’s ok?
If you are looking to read more nonfiction, maybe start a series where you pair a fictional read that focuses on a topic with a nonfiction read. I’m read Warrior Girl Unearthed and I want to find a nonfiction book that talks about returning ancestral remains and sacred items to Native tribes
favorites from the first quarter: 1. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab 2. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry 3. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 4. Chlorine by Jade Song Least favorite of the first quarter: 1. House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski 🥲 this was so disappointing I was so sad to give it 1 star
Last year I read 79 books, my goal was 70. This year my goal is 12 books, and so far I've read 4. Everyone is different, like they said this is her job, she makes money to read. If this wasn't her job she'd probably read less.
I also watch movies besides reading and I've noticed the quality of movies and books this year is terrible (except Dune 2), don't know what is happening and I hope things will pick up.
i totally love your themed vlogs obviously, but if you ever wanted to put out a video just full of books you wanted to read but couldn’t fit anywhere, i’d totally still watch!
Agree with this
Second this. I watch the content for your wit and commentary not for the theme!
I agree!
all i want for you is to have an entire month where you do everything in your power to get as many 5 stars as possible 😭 lol idk what that would look like but i need you to have a good reading year bestie ❤😂
Can you do a video on your organization system? I'm so intrigued how you plan and set goals/schedule/record multiple videos at a same time and sort footage. I so admire your organization and would love to know!
If you're looking for non-fiction, I'm 50% through Without Children and LOVING it. It's a great take on how both mothers and those without children benefit when we don't expect motherhood from everyone and when we build a society that supports mothers. As someone who has chosen not to have children but loves my mom friends and their littles, I love reading the history of the expectations foisted upon us all.
couldn't agree more with Minor Detail! such a tough read, but the writing and how it was crafted was just so beautiful.
Me: watches all of Kayla’s videos
Also me: wow she read so much
I have 2 favorites because I can’t choose!!
Favorites: James by Percival Everett & There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Least Favorite: Gothikana by RuNyx - it was so bad it genuinely made me question if it had actually been read by anyone at the publisher
I feel like Blood over Bright Haven has a potential to be your first 5✨ fantasy!!!
Yes! M. L. Wang deserves so much more love and attention.
I've also been having a Meh reading year so far! Favorite was probably A Restless Truth by Freya Markse and least favorite was Schrader's Chord by Scott Leeds, which I'm probably not being totally fair to, because it was one of my most anticipated books so I think the Disappointment Factor is making me be harder on it than I could be
So far this year, my favorite has been In The Shadow of the Mountain (memior) and least favorite has been a tie between Nettle and Bone or Ninth House.
I really want your reading year to get better, bestie! Please do whatever you need to make that happen 🥰
Favorite so far is Heart of Stone by Johannes T. Evans (please y'all read it if you're into romance, the gays, pining, and sad boy vamps)
Least favorite: The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston. It made me unreasonably angry and I'd like to never talk about it again 😂
I love these videos. It scratches an itch. I wish I could be as organised. Love you Kayla! Also love the idea of creature reading vlogs for each season, I was wondering if you could plan a creature reading vlog for winter centred around mythical creatures related to the holidays like reading about Krampus and other beings? x
My favorite so far this quarter was The Green Bone Saga (i read all three consecutively without stopping so i can’t really separate them). i also reread the Percy Jackson series and loved them- most of them originally had five stars and i didn’t change the rating because i wanted it to be reflective of how i felt when reading it at the age of the intended audience.
my least favorite was Defending Jacob byWilliam Landry. i’ve also had two DNFs 😢
I liveee for these stats videos!!
My favorite books this year so far have been What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo and The Women by Kristin Hannah. Bright Young Women is also really high up there for me I hope the next quarter is filled of five stars and new favs!
The Women is my favourite of the year so far too, and it will absolutely still be in my faves by the end of the year
Leaving some love💕and some good reading energy for the rest of the year✨
5 favourites of the season:
1. The Reformatory
2. The Man Who Died Twice
3. The Cabin at the End of the World
4. Bright Young Women
5. Out There
Least favourite: Forth Wing 💀😆
The Reformatory is a masterpiece!! Probably my favorite from the season too.
As someone who has also had a not very good start to the year in terms of reading, it does make me feel better that it’s not just me. 😂
You read so much! It’s a good thing it’s your full time job lol
If you haven't yet, try The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi. It's got the dystopian fantasy vibe. It's very short. Less than 100 pages.
My favourite book I read last season was I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. It was already on my TBR and my friend chose it as our book club pick before your video came out! I had been um-ing and ah-ing about reading it because I could only get the eBook, but your review pushed me to start reading it. I found it so emotional and eerie, I loved it.
I also read and sat with Minor Detail for a while and thought it was very well crafted and impactful. I also finally read Persepolis.
My favorite from the quarter was the women by Kristin Hannah and my least favorite was the last time I lied by Riley sager
My only 2 2024 releases I read have both been DNFs so I feel this 😭 I had 30+ DNFs this year already, but of what I did finish about 1/3 were 5 stars and 1/3 were 1 stars...
My average rating so far was a 3,19
My favorite was All that's left in the world. Least favorite was The sky blues.
Just picked up Knock Knock Open Wide, I cannot wait to read it!!
I read Knock Knock, Open Wide after seeing you talk about it and it was a good time! Not what I was expecting, but not in a bad way.
As for favorite and least favorite so far this year… favorite was probably the Villains & Virtues trilogy by AK Caggiano because I honestly don’t remember the last time I had SO much fun with a book or series. Flawed books but my gosh did I have the biggest smile on my face at the end. Least favorite I think was Lock Every Door by Riley Sager, but honestly I knew what I was getting into with that so that’s on me. Either that or Night Film by Marisha Pessl, which had much better writing but was SOOOO long and SO frustrating.
I have The Memory Police on my physical TBR. I'm really looking forward to reading it. Even more so now I know it's one of your favourites of the year so far. I definitely want to read something by Octavia E. Butler this year. And I've just added The Centre to my list of books to read ☺
I read Parable of a Sower and LOVED it, so thanks for letting us know how much you liked it!
i read 2 chevy Steven's books that were 5 stars, That Night and Dark Roads. last year I read those girls by chevy Steven's and it was also 5 stars I love her writing and she's western Canadian like us ❤
I just picked up The Memory Police today after your review! I’m so excited to read it! 😊
Kaylaaaaa!!! Oh this was a rough quarter. You'll bounce back, I know you will.
Anyways, my top book this year so far is What You're Looking For Is At The Library by Michiko Aoyama. It's just such a beautiful set of short stories of people feeling lost in life, and they visit this community center and in it, is a library. They go to this library, meet this librarian who gives them a list of books for what they specifically are looking for... and books that they aren't. It's just beautiful and it made me tear up. I have not had any flops, I am not in my flop era yet, but I have to read two young adult books for work so I fear I am about to enter it.
Did you see that the The Indian Lakes Trilogy third installment released? I didn’t hear anything and then boom. I saw it on Amazon.
This is random but for library books what is your libraries loan period? 3weeks? Do you take that into consideration for when you check out library books. I love seeing library books in your wrap ups just curious how you make it happen.
It's 3 weeks! I re-reserve as many as I can when it's time for a quarterly wrap up 💕 I do plan ahead though and put in my reservations like a month ahead haha
That makes sense!! Thanks for answering ❤️
your quarterly wrap-ups inspired me to make my own (privately, in my reading journal). would you ever consider using storygraph alongside goodreads?
“I can’t remember…I don’t care” made me laugh so hard 😂
Omg finally, someone else who rated 5 stars Mamory Police!
Check out the book called Steven Demogorgon.
My favorite of this quarter was Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender and my least favorite was probably You Again by Kate Goldbeck.
I also gave Minor Detail five stars, though. It was so beautifully and expertly writte .
I also read and really liked Knock Knock Open Wide late last year. It wasn't a perfect five star, but it has stuck with me. I'm excited to see what the author writes next.
I hope next quarter is even better for you!
April is stocked with so many new releases I cannot wait! New Emily Henry, Abby Jiminez and a lot of other romances that are lighter reads but still great and I think these two authors write deeper books than a typical romance 💘
Favourite books of this quarter are Braiding Sweetgrass and Carter & Lovecraft. Least favourite book is Vampires Never Get Old, so disappointed in this collection.
Love these videos heres my season wrap up. Favourite: Queen of Shadows
Least favourite: Mr Wrong nunber
Favorite: Slewfoot
Least favorite: Before We Were Strangers
Slewfoot is wild!
I've had a kind of similar quarter. Not *no* 5 stars, but fewer than usual, and nothing that felt like all-time-favorite material. Fav was System Collapse by Martha Wells; least fav was Twelve Nights at Rotter House by JW Ocker
here's hoping the next quarter is so much better than the first one!
I got through 29 books in the first quarter, and 5 of them were 5 stars - but all 5 of those were fairly deep into series I've been reading and loving for years. I hope for a first in a series or standalone to make it up to the top sometime soon
This quarter, my favorite book is Two Twisted Crowns, or consider the Shepherd King duology in that spot. Least fave is Fourth Wing but I'm glad your husband liked the book lol
i think i’m maybe too cynical or something because i don’t expect almost anything to be a 5 star. i’m totally content with something in the 4 star range. with that being said, my rating criteria basically means nothing so maybe my 4 stars would be 5 stars by other people’s criteria? 😂
I feel so similarly about my first quarter reads :( some 5 stars in january, but nothing since 😭😭😭 I also haven't been having many wins with 2024 releases, especially romances - but i wasnt having many wins with 2023 romances either 😅 i just want to read a book that i love the whole time so bad, hoping it comes along soon!
I've read considerably less than you this year but I've only had 2 five star books this year 😭 my favorites of the season were Chain-Gang All-Stars and This is How You Lose the Time War. My least favorites were Out There Screaming and No One Can Know.
You might like Tye Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang. The audio experience was great!
a great anthology rec: never whistle at night, edited by shane hawk, is a short story collection by indigenous authors!! i think you might love that one
I have basically been in a reading slump since the start of 2024 💀 So I'm with you on the disappointing quarter. But I have managed to find two 5 star books! Notes on an Execution was the first, and the second I literally finished yesterday, Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender. I am typically not at all a romance fan, but I love Kacen Callender, so I gave it a shot, and I'm glad I did! I would say it's not the typical happily-ever-after romance, and that's what I liked about it.
As for my worst book, it has got to be The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry. I gave it a generous 3 star right after I finished it because I thought I was being too hard on it, but the longer I sit on it, the more I think it deserves a 2.
I only just got my 2nd five star this year but let me tell you it was amazing. It was The Employees by Olga Ravn. Check it out 🤭
My favorite read of the year so far is easily The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, which was an unexpected surprise because I picked it up on a whim (the audiobook narrator is amazing) 😁
On the flip side... I didn't have any 2 star reads so far, which is good!, but looking at my Goodreads stats, a great majority of my reading so far this year has been really meh, 3 starts reads 🥺
If I have a wacky concept for a wrap up video for you, where do I leave that comment? This video? Your last wrap up video? 😁
I just want you to read my romcom Written in the Cards. Is that tacky to ask? Maybe? 😬 And I know you're not a huge fan of romance. You've said it many times. But I swear I think you'd like it. Say the word and I'll send you a free copy. It's also on KU 💜💜💜
I feel like you should read the strange the dreamer duology. It could be your first 5 star fantasy this year 🤔
“There’s different parts of this video for different people”
Me getting ready to watch the whole video 😂
I'm laughing at how many pages you've read so far this year as its my pages goal on Storygraph for the whole year!
My favourites were The Appeal, SLAY, and A Taste of Magic
Least favourite (that I finished, I dnf’d a lottt) was Shark Heart 😢
Most fav read of the season: Warrior Girl Unearthed. Least fav of the season: Pandora.
WOOOO
My faves of 2024 so far :
Mrs.S ( 5 stars )
Elena Knows ( 4.5 stars )
Big Swiss ( 5 stars )
I had pretty bad start of the reading year too most books were 3 starts for me
I feel the same way about Q1: I had 6 books that I gave 5 stars but idk if I'd consider any of them like new all time favorites. I Who Have Never Known Men was one of those, as well as the 3rd book in the Indian Lake Trilogy by SJG. Otherwise it was just an okay reading quarter for me.
Favorites from Q1
• Gothikana by RuNyx
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Least Favorites
• Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
• The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard
• Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
I really think you should do some Octavia eat Butler. the second one to parable of a sower is also really good
The best anthology I’ve read in years is a new release called Green Frog by Gina Chung! It is a mix of speculative, mundane, and Korean fantastical stories all with a central theme of child-parent relationships. Highly highly suggest! There wasn’t a single story I didn’t give over a 4.5 ⭐️
oh that cancelled video is such a cool concept! but I'm glad you chose joy
Your 4 stars are some of my fave 5 star books - We Sold Our Souls, The Wonder State, and Hawk Mountain 😆I've hardly had any 5 stars this year but my faves are The Last One (bonkers thriller) and Chlorine. My least fave I didn't dnf was Bring Me Back, woof.
hey bestie! my favorites were the phoenix king by aparna verma and honey & spice!! my least fav was land of milk and honey ….
❤❤❤
If you’re looking for nonfiction please, Please, PLEASE check out Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson. I know it sounds a little weird, a little niche but you would love it, especially if you read Go Ask Alice as a tween/teen/young adult. It’s nonfiction but it reads like a thriller. 💜
If I can recommend something light-hearted that will offer a good time, I can really recommend Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood. I KNOW she has a certain reputation but this is her least ridiculous/most competent work imo and it really brightened my days while reading it 🥰 (also I'm not a romance reader so this is really saying something)
Have you read the anthology Someone in Time? I’m reading and enjoying it right now. But I’m not halfway through yet… but it has a lot of authors that I tend to love.
Omg I’m loving the creature series ok ok ok so maybe it’s aliens? Or maybe vampires? Werewolves? I’m excited 🤣
For the first time ever my favourite and least favourite of the year is easy; The Women by Kristen Hannah is easily my favourite, and Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott is my least (caveat it’s not bad writing, but too confusing for my tastes and the pay off at the end wasn’t worth the slog through 400 pages)
What kind of person loves every section of the video?
looove book stats
my favorites for the quarter:
1. only when it's us by chloe liese
2. nightwatching by tracy sierra
3. lonely castle in the mirror by mizuki tsujimura
4. emily wilde's map of the otherlands by heather fawcett
5. no one can know by kate alice marshall
least favorite: the navigating fox by christopher rowe
Favourites of the quarter have to be The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden, Green Dot by Madeleine Gray and Penance by Eliza Clark - would love to hear your thoughts on Warm Hands of Ghosts if that's a book that you're interested in!
If you’re looking for some excellent short stories + a new release, I would recommend Green Frog by Gina Chung ((: I gave it 4.25 stars
i don't think i have ever been so early to a video
I'm in a 5 star drought too and I don't understand 😭
Have you thought about asking your most compatible people from past booktuber favorites videos to recommend you a book for a vlog? Maybe you’ll align again
My favorite for Q1 was Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutano and my least favorite was Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez! 📖
I'm so sad the short story video got cancelled 😭
I had 2 5-star reads this quarter: Foster by Clair Keegan and Galatea by Madeline Miller - both below 100 pages.
My least favorite book was The Fall of the King by Johannes W. Jensen - he is one of only three Danes who have won the Nobel prize for fiction, but boy that book has not aged well!
Having so many 4 stars is still okay to me! Are you at least enjoying your reading even if they aren’t the best ever? I know I always rate thrillers 2-3 stars, but still have a good time.
I've read 29 book and zero 5 ✨ 😢
Favorite: Home Before Dark or The Measure.
Least: Quarterback Sneak
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Mermaid rec: The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
I read books all the time knowing they won’t b 5 stars but wanting fun enjoyable popcorn reads. My favorite books often are more heavy and impactful butttt that doesn’t mean I don’t need the fun easy stuff. Basically I’m saying, maybe your average rating doesn’t mean it’s actually a disappointing quarter? Maybe you’re just prioritizing popcorn n that’s ok?
Will of the Many was by far the best book I’ve read this season
If you are looking to read more nonfiction, maybe start a series where you pair a fictional read that focuses on a topic with a nonfiction read. I’m read Warrior Girl Unearthed and I want to find a nonfiction book that talks about returning ancestral remains and sacred items to Native tribes
favorites from the first quarter:
1. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
2. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
3. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
4. Chlorine by Jade Song
Least favorite of the first quarter:
1. House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski 🥲 this was so disappointing I was so sad to give it 1 star
“73 books in 90 days” …🤯 my yearly goal is 75 🥺
To be fair, this is her full time job. But also 🤯
Last year I read 79 books, my goal was 70. This year my goal is 12 books, and so far I've read 4. Everyone is different, like they said this is her job, she makes money to read. If this wasn't her job she'd probably read less.
Same😅
Have you read Shark Heart?.. I think it'll be my favourite book of the year!
Members should get the cancelled anthology vlog
So we've all been struggling this year with reading? Cool. I only have 2 five stars thus far but I'm optimistic. Lol
i would love to watch the 365 stories vlog...
I also watch movies besides reading and I've noticed the quality of movies and books this year is terrible (except Dune 2), don't know what is happening and I hope things will pick up.