what i read in september (yes, including midnight sun) | reading wrap up
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- Hi everyone! Somehow, it's already time for another monthly reading wrap up. I didn't read as much this month as I have been in the past, but I think that's me subconsciously getting reading for my October and November reading list!!! Hope you're all doing well!
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The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (tidd.ly/2GlXkMa)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (tidd.ly/3cLs70K)
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones (tidd.ly/2GtO9ZR)
Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer (tidd.ly/2EMCV2b)
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (tidd.ly/30nc9VX)
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo (tidd.ly/2Gm0Xlh)
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Fortnight Frights - bit.ly/2HGjZTP
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (tidd.ly/30lHcRZ)
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There is nothing like getting cozy and reading a book during the fall/ winter with a cup of hot chocolate ❤
agreed^^
fun fact actually really really sad fact (i can't swim) no but seriously: rebecca is actually a bit of a controversial novel because it had the exact same story and premise as a book by a brazilian author released 4 years prior. it's also about a woman who moves to this mansion in rio de janeiro and starts feeling the presence of the ex-wife around the house. it's called "a sucessora", by carolina nabuco. it's a shame this one doesn't have as much recognition worldwide as rebecca does ):
Actually it goes a layer deeper and apparently the book by the brazilian author was also plagiarized by a book written even before that! I think that’s why charges were never pressed 🥺
Huh. I had a complete different time with midnight sun 😅 but I was also a HUGE fan of twilight and still enjoy the books and movies to this day. I always wanted to see more of the twilight universe so I was enjoying those little peeks of the cullen-household so much! I loved edwards POV in the book and time just flew by reading it. Loved it and would've loved the rest of the books in the different POV as well, even if none of the story would've changed. But I'm also a sucker for these kinds of things. I always wonder how things played out in the other POV and I'm always really excited to actually read it ^^
When this book came out, I took my Twilight copy and everytime Edward and Bella weren't together (because as cari said, dialogue was the same) I would switch books just to see what he and she were doing when the other wasn't around. Yeah, pretty obsessive of me, but I got to say it really brought the story (and my teen years) together :')
RE: Rebecca. The "paid companion" job is still alive and well, it's just evolved a bit. Nowadays it tends to be a celebrity or rich person's "entourage". People who are on the payroll to assist, run errands, go with them to events or the salon or shopping. But whom they also treat as pretend sort of friends? Confide in and joke with in a one sided friendship since the employee has to be more careful what they can say (but pretend they don't). I've worked in hotels and you see this a lot when you have vips in house for long periods of time. You absolutely clearly see and get to know the "paid companions". The HBO series Entourage made it seem more like real friendships, cause in that show it was pre fame and fortune childhood friends but that's not usually the case.
how weird!!!!! thank you for this omg im intriguied!
omg I wanna read midnight sun just for childhood kicks hahaha
It was definitely a strange throwback 😂
I love the way you talk and describe books omg I love when I get a notification of your new videos
I suffer from insomnia, so a couple months ago I had a night where even with my sleeping meds I could not get to sleep. I read all three truly devious books (in audiobook form cuz my eyes were too tired) during that night and early morning. I had a really good time, they were creepy and there's a bunch of death, but it still reads very very quickly and it just sucks you in.
I honestly don't know why i want to put myself through Midnight Sun but like here I am lmao. I feel like I owe it to my teenage self ahhh
😂😂 exactly how i felt
I just reread all the twilight books to prepare to read midnight sun. It had been at least 10 years since I last read them and I always refer to the last book as 'hot garbage' and I stand by that. Rereading them as an adult also made me remember how frustrated I got with them ahahaha, that being said I'll still read midnight sun
😂😂 especially new moon or whichever one she’s just riding a motorcycle around for the entire book hahhahaha
I must say even before watching this video that your latest reading vlog was so incredible! It belongs to my favorites list and I will be going back to it again and again! ❤
Thank you for your time and effort and this beautiful content you're giving us ❤
🤧🤧🤧 thank you so much! I will try to make some more like it in the future 😍
@@caricanread ❤❤❤
omfg i love the artisan geek it’s so cool to see my favourite booktubers interacting 😭😭
She’s amazing 🤧🤧🤧
Why am I awake at 12am on a school night? Yep you guessed it. It's Caricanread's video 🙊
oh noooooo! hahaha sleep well!!
The Ghost Bride actually got adapted into a Netflix show and I thought it was great I absolutely recommend it although I don’t know how it would compare to the book. I didn’t know it was a book at first but the show made me want to check it out to learn more about the characters!
I will devote my weekend to it hahaha
I loved the show! Didn't know it was a book!
What is is called?
Wait wait wait I found it lol
This was so relaxing to watch, looking forward to October’s wrap up :))
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I wanted to read a modern classic, and a lot of people recommended Rebecca and seemed to absolutely loved it. So I got to reading it, and oh my god. I was so bored by it in the beginning. I felt it was too descriptive sometimes. But I had just started reading again after a huuuuuge slump, so I was determined to get through it.
And boy, was I absolutely NOT disappointed! Once I reached "that" part, there was no putting down the book.
I read the second half of the book at a stretch, throughout the night. I was so invested in it, I didn't even see it was already morning lol!
Absolutely loved this book. Please do read it if you love books with amazing backdrops, beautifully described, and love yourself a good twist lol!
Right?! Its hard to get into but then it gets so intense!!!
@@caricanread absolutely!
I've been wanting to read Rebecca for years because theres a musical for it in Germany that i absolutly LOVE! I would actually recommend checking the music out even though its in german, its just beautiful. I hope i can get to the book soon!
Omg!! I will look this up!
Welcome back Cari.👋
It's 00.45 a.m. right now and I got school tomorrow but who cares?
I actually just today started to read The Hobbit and I am really excited about it. I really like Lord of the Rings movies a lot and I wanted to get into Tolkien's world. The language is stunning and I'm loving it so far. I also started to read Life 0.3 and it goes pretty well too. (Yes, I am reading two books at the same time.) I have also been reading books by the authors from my country recently so these two will be a difference.
I love watching movies so I added Rebecca to my list.
This was a beautiful video, thank you.😊
sweet dreams!! and i actually really enjoyed the hobbit but never read any other lotr books hhaha i read it in middle school and loved the language too :)
I've tried reading Rebecca a couple months ago because so many people say she's so creepy but found the same slowness you talked about in this video, therefore I abandoned it: it was actually putting me into a reading slump. Might as well give it a try again!
maybe skip to the last 100 pages hehehe
Thank you Cari! You got me into reading again :)
😭🤧👏 yesssss that is music to my EARS 🥺
I think in your reading vlog you mentioned how Rebecca was a little challenging to read because the language forced you to read slower, and here you mentioned that it takes awhile for the plot to kick in and I Felt That! I read Tender is The Night this summer and oh boy that 1920s-1930s language is so dense. It was a nice read, but it was just really confusing the whole way through. It took me so long to read that it kinda put me in a reading slump :/. Anyway good luck with your readathon!!
yes!! i feel like a lot of these writers were paid by the word hahahah
cari can read definitely!!
Yay! I’m joining her read-a-thon too. Happy October 🎃
Yay!!!! Happy happy October!!
I'm so thankful to you, Cari, for reigniting my passion to read! Love your book recommendations and always look forward to them!
I just finished The Hidden Life of Trees and I am so mind-blown!! It's pretty amazing! Haha! ❤
Omg right?!!! And thank you 🥰🙏
I love Seji so much! So happy you found her too
She’s the best 🤧
Cari saying São Paulo is so adorable 🥰
I’m Brazilian btw
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just finished reading the grisha trilogy and it wAS SO GOOD. I WAS SO HAPPY TO KNOW THAT U LOVE THAT AS WELL. URE MY FAVE BOOKTUBER ILYSM THANK U FOR UR VIDS ❤️❤️❤️❤️
OMG BUT HAVE YOU STARTED SIX OF CROWS YET???? prepare your heart for so much pain and happiness hahahaha
@@caricanread MY FRIEND TOLD ME TO READ THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS FIRST AND THEN IM GOING TO READ SIX OF CROWS NEXT
The City We Became looks soooo good, i just wanna read it ❤️
Give it a goooo 😍
I HAVE to get to Rebecca soon. I love how you described it.
Yessss!!!!!
I love the Artisan Geek! I love hearing her talk about the plots and textures of different works also her fashion dance at the beginning of each video is 🥰. I recently started reading Normal People by Sally Rooney.
She is the best ahhhhh!
Beacause of you and The Artisan Geek I'm going to read Rebecca this month and I'm super duper excited about that!!
Currently reading Dracula, Blue Lily, Lily Blue and Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking.
Hopefully I will finish these 3 books and Rebecca in october haha:")
Loved the bookish video as well, can't wait for the next one!! Have a wonderful october🍂🎃
No better time to read Dracula 🖤🖤🖤 happy October!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhh cari and books waaaaaaaahhhhhh I love your videos so much cari unnie❤💕
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OMG, I got into The Artisan Geek because of one of your stories at Insta and I'm planning to do the readathon too (and it'll be my first), but, for September, I read "The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo" and I think you might like it, and I'm reading Outlander since forever (quarantine feels), so... But I think I'm gonna grab Truly Devious, it got my attention. Can't wait for you spooky videooosss
Yessss first readathon buddies!! And i read the seven husbands but I totally forgot it hahah i think o read it at the same time as a book with a similar title so they all run together in my head 😂😂😂 need to reread!
Oh, I have the Truly Devious book series, that I've put off for this long. I got it because a lot of people loved it. Guess I should get to reading it right away! ❤️
Let me know what you think!!
@@caricanread sure cari! thank you❤️
Truly Devious has been recommended to me as a mystery series so I appreciate your perspective on it! Lol I used to LOVE Harriet the Spy as a kid. // I’m also trying to take part in Fortnight Fright!
Rebecca sounds so interesting! I will totally check it out. I've just finished Midnight Sun and you make me laguh so much because everything you said is so true 😂
right?! haha i read the book to hear edward not endless chapters of jessica and mike's thoughts haha
Just found your channel and I love it 😭
:') thank you!!
I like so much your videos, they make me so happy :)
Thank you 🤧🤧🤧
So many people have been talking about Rebecca in their September wrap ups, and it's so funny to me because that's the book that put me in a massive reading slump in September so I only read one book. And I'm still only like a third through Rebecca but I'm still determined to finish it before the Netflix adaptation comes out.
It took me soooo long to finish it too hahah but the twist at the end is worth it 😍
Happy Chuseok, Cari!
Happy happy chuseok!
*frantically takes notes of the books* Thank you, I'm reading at speed light and my biggest fear is to have a reading block :D
I am hoping to read Rebecca in October so it was interested to see you talk about it! I read the Truly Devious series and I still don't know how I feel about it either. I really enjoyed the first and second book but then I just don't know about how it ended? The third book to me was a question mark. They are such quick reads and I think I rated the first one the highest at a 5 stars because it sucked me in but then after that each book dropped a star for me on Goodreads. Long story short I agree with you on the point that after I finished the serious I am not at all sure how I feel.
Definitely!! Would love to go to that school tho (minus the murder bit 😳)
Listening to you explain Rebecca, I kept saying that sounds so familiar. I must have seen the movie at some point. Ha. Any who, I read Norwegian Wood, The Wicked Deep, The Sun and Her Flowers for September. I am currently reading Lisey's Story by Stephen King, P. S I love you by Cecilia Ahern, Twilight again for fun. Definitely think I would enjoy Edward's perspective so I'll be clicking buy on my cart. Great as always Cari! 💚
thank you always!! what a great september list!
the city we became sounds really interesting , I might give it a try as someone who only knows about New York from shows or like youtube I wonder how I'll find it. Just finished the poppy war and id recommend it (a bit of a dark book but really good , I need something YA before I read the next one lol) I'm super excited for this readathon , they're so entertaining to watch for some reason 🤷
i cant wait to read the poppy war! i got it in from the library a few months ago but didnt have time to read it and need to get it back hahah
@@caricanread I think you'll like it ! I didn't know much about it and it was a surprise how much I enjoyed it ,id say the plot is quite fast paced which helps considering that it can be a bit dark at times
I am reading this book right now, I’m halfway through, so I’m not watching this video until I’m finished... but I’m giving it a like anyway! 😉
Hehehe I appreciate the dedication to your book 🥰🙏
I read Midnight Sun and I was furious with myself for wasting time on it. Thankfully it took me two reading sessions and I was able to finish it, but I think it’s kind of shite of the author to have released the first 9 chapters online ten years ago for free, and then a decade later publish the same thing. She had 10 years to make it better and she didn’t change a thing. Midnight Sun dragged terribly as well, I felt like nothing happened for chapters at a time and now I think Edward is way more messed up than I thought before. The bits of Bella we see though his eyes are an improvement but they don’t fit at all with the version of Bella we know from Twilight. I felt like her character became disjointed between the two books a bit
I would feel the same way if i had read those chapters long ago im sure hahaa there just wasnt enough new stuff to qualify an entirely new book and at least twilight had a lot of different characters bella interacted with but this was just soooooooo much edward and maybe a lil carlisle hahaha
for what i remember some of Stephanie's close friends leaked the 10 chapters without her consent, it was not a sneak peak or anything.. but yeah it sucks that she didn't use that time to improve the book at least
Hi just started booktube and really loving your channel
thank you! good luck on your channel too!
Am I watching all of Cari's videos from latest to oldest?
Yes. Yes I am.
have you read the ballad of songbirds and snakes? also i have to get midnight sun, this month is just going to be me reliving middle school lol
i havent yet!! i really like the hunger games but the following books I didn't love as much...maybe i should give it a try!
Have you ever read Bleak House by Charles Dickens? It’s one of my favorites.
I actually havent but i need to give dickens a proper try haha
cari can read he’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I love his writing style.
i just finished rebecca today actually! i haven't seen the movie or the miniseries yet, but just from reading it, i honestly don't think maxim is in love with the protagonist. he just seemed very cold and only showed her affection at... opportune times. very manipulative in my opinion
Yeah the movies did him muuuuuch better!! He was 🥵 in the book!
Hi Cari, don't forget to read the Empire of Gold! You read Kingdom of Copper and City of Brass last year and Empire of Gold has been out for a while now but I haven't seen you mention it at all...
yes! i need some time because i honestly forgot so much of what happened and need to read the series all over again :'(
@@caricanread Definitely worth the rereading, I just finished the last book and so much happened 🤯 can't wait to hear your opinion on it.
I have the same opinion about the Twilight series. My friend and I would split the cost of the book in middle school and we would take turns reading it. She loved and I thought it wasn't all that great BUT still had more substance than the movies! I had a feeling this book wouldn't add too much to the story since the other books were released prior to this book. Disappointed, but probably going to still read it haha
yeah the movies are really something else all together hahahah and if you want a trip down memory lane with a sliiightly new feeling, this is the book hahah
Have you though of creating a book club? I love to read but mostly stick to what i know i like lol but I recently bought "Life as we knew it" because i was intrigued with the story after you talked about it. I do want to recommend a book, you might have heard of it since it was super popular on Instagram but its Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno- Garcia, it is a very slow burn but i found it interesting enough to continue reading it. although it did leave me wanting more.
I just read the plot twist online because I know Rebecca would be a very difficult read for me and I'm... 💀 I HAVE TO READ THIS IN THE FUTURE
Bahahah at least watch the films 😍😍😍
I found your channel through watching TheArtisanGeek!
cari, please help me with something hahahhah if you're reading a book and you're being really slow (although you were reading books very quickly before this one) and not enjoying as much as you thought you would, do you abandon it (or at least leave it for later) or do you keep reading it even tho it's kinda putting you into a reading slump? if anyone can help me with that too i'd be grateful lol
I usually dont force myself to finish a book if i dont love it! There have been many books that i didnt like, put down, and then read a few years later and LOVED! Sometimes books need the right time in our lives 🥰
cari can read thank you sooo much!
The Bone Houses was quite good! I thought the romance was one of the better developed ones I’ve read recently.
Agreed!! I like slow naturally growing relationships 🥺🙏
I did the same with midnight sun
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@@caricanread 😂😂😂
Trouble is a friend of mine is a great book by Stephanie Tromly. I recommend to anyone interested C:
Ohhhhh looking it up!!
I just love midnight sun, I have 27 now I still love Edward
heheh glad it wasn't just a phase^^
Would you ever consider reviewing stories online? Ao3 or wattpad etc?
unrelated but: your lip color!! what are you wearing? :o
Thank you! Its the burts bees tinted lip balm in zinnea 💕
Cari off the topic, i noticed your plant? What's it called? 😊
It’s a peace lily 🥰
@@caricanread thank you will look it up here in Philippines. (for my mom) stay safe. :)
Your book reading content always seem so cozy, I'd like to know your thoughts on the name of the wind. It's a long read but honestly I flew through it so fast. I RECOMMEND
Thank you 🥰 and i will look it up asap!
First xD
(This was a throwback comment like you’d make when twilight came out).
omg XD
cari can read this was a lot funnier in my head 🙃