7 Books That Changed My Life
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Hey friends! Today we are talking about some books and stories that changed my life (dramatic lol). There's some non-fiction, some fiction, and I hope you find some new recommendations for books to pick up this year!
Books mentioned:
• The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
• Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
• The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace Wells
• Humankind - Rutger Bregman
• Vicious - V.E. Schwab
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 23 year old girl who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave). I live in the Netherlands and go to university, but make booktube videos in my spare time :)
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It's not about ignoring climate change. The problem is thinking we can control it. And in the process may in the end be more harmful than anything else. Climate change has been happening in cycles long before humans ever walked the earth. If it wasn't humans.. it would be another part of earth's eco system causing it. That's life.. period. We are humans trying to play God. The planet has warming phases which are always followed by cooling phases.. that continue in cyclic periods. The scientists plan to implement a type of cooling process... just means when the planet does cool it will be that much more difficult for it to warm again. Remember what the last ice age did to life on earth.. now just imagine if we had never come out of that last ice age. CO2 reduction.. doesn't harm on its own. But we have no business playing with these things.. in terms of implementation and introducing particles into the atmosphere that reflect solar energy back out to space. In an attempt to hault warming. But these particles can't be removed once integrated. As some scientists are pushing congress towards affirmative action on.
“The little prince” is a book that every time i read i get something different out of. These types of books are truly meaningful 💗
Hi! Is the book you are talking about by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?
@@sristighosh3446 yes!
@@ines6358 thank you I’ll read it soon :)
@@sristighosh3446 i hope you like it!
Ive read it twice (qnd am currently trying to reread it in french which is not going too great as my couple years og school knowledge isnt the best) and both times i jave gotten a different meaning. Each beautiful. Such a pure and thought-provoking story
Sapiens is good but it’s important to remember a lot of the “facts” in the book are just the authors opinions... I wouldn’t taken everything in it as gospel. It’s important to think critically when reading non fiction.
Yes, she mentioned this in another video awhile back!
Yeah, I had this misconception that every single thing mentioned in that book is a fact. But there were few things which I then googled on internet to find more them, and I found that they are just a fragment of author's opinion. I literally laughed so hard😂😂😂😂😂
Whenever I see another critical thinker in any comment section, I rejoice. It happens so rarely but when it does, it’s a great day.
yeah my philosophy teacher always says this. he says that with these types of books we have to think the same way we do about the philosophers we study in class, they all had different ideas and we can think for ourselves and figure out what we believe in or not, it's not all facts.
Your description of 'Humankind' reminded me of what Mr Rogers said about when you see a tragedy on the news you should always look for the helpers. There are always helpers, who display such heart and generosity.
one of the main books that changed my life was Sofia's World, which sparked my interest in philosophy when I read it at 17 and made me pursue a career in it :) then also The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, which made me look at the topic of mental health much more carefully and beautifully (even though the book is a bit sad, as well as the author's life story, which I hold dear in my heart), The Book of the Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa and At the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran, both which re-sparked my love for writing and helped me find my own voice
I can't believe you made me wanna read a book about taoism and winnie the pooh
I LOVE VICIOUS SO MUCH!! It brought me back to reading after 3 years and now it has a special place in my heart
I always find your voice soothing (especially rn since I'm sick.) Can't wait to read some of these books especially radio silence! ✨
Human Kind: A Hopeful History seems like a unique take on human history. The exploration of reality TV and the Golem Effect points that you mentioned are so interesting!
hey does she have a podcast? cuz i think her voice in a podcast would be so nice
I picked up a copy of The Tao of Pooh (and the Te of Piglet) from a charity shop a little over a year ago, and I love it! It’s so wonderfully written 💛
Top 3 Mysteries of the Universe:
1. How were the Pyramids built?
2. What's inside a Black Hole?
3. How did Leonie get an Australian Accent?
2. Black holes don't have insides. It is absolutely impossible for anyone outside a black hole to measure anything "inside" a black hole, or to receive reports of such measurements. It is impossible to see anything enter a black hole, both due to time dilation near the event horizon, and because light from something near the horizon gets infinitely red-shifted. The mass and charge inside the hole appear smeared out over the surface of the event horizon. Note also that the information inside a black hole is proportional to the surface area, not the volume.
I love how all the smart people in the comment section immediately start talking about black holes ;) I've always been fascinated by them, thanks for sharing all your knowledge!
@Najawin My view is that if you can not, in principle, perform any experiment that can distinguish between X existing and X not existing, whatever X may be, then it makes no sense to talk about X. Given that, then the fact that the inside of a black hole is totally unaccessible, in principle, does indeed imply it does not exist.
I'm not familiar with the works you mention.. Do you have citations?
I think the accent has to do with the English media she consumes. Often I notice that when watching or listening to media with an accent not native to me, I tend to adopt that accent. Like when I was a kid, I watched a ton of English TV like Doctor Who and Downton Abbey, and would emulate how the characters spoke and their vocabularies.
When Leonie speaks I hear a Dutch accent but sometimes she switches to something more Australian or British. Often it's just one word out of the sentence.
I don't know any definitive science behind it, it's just something I've noticed.
(And the pyramids were most likely built using simple machines like pullies and ramps by slaves or indentured workers. If my memory serves there's a particularly interesting documentary about it from NOVA.)
@@michaelsommers2356 speculation =/= actuality
I love re-reading 'The Sorrows of Love" by School of Life because not only is it super short and full of ideas, I always take something new out of it or I find myself seeing one of the "sorrows" through a different perspective. Anyway, great video! I like that you mentioned non-ficiton books :)
Alice Oseman is a genius. The way they write is so beautiful and unique and I don’t think I’ve ever loved an author more
love this video concept!! some books that have changed my life are In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan (changed my approach/outlook on writing especially but also just helped me appreciate whimsy and strangeness in the world alongside sadness and melancholia) and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (for its reflections on memory, grief, and transience). they're two books that i feel almost possessive over lol like talking about them to anyone else is scary because they're... mine...
Brautigan is very good. I remember that one he wrote about the dropping of the sombrero.
Until It Hurts To Stop by Jennifer R. Hubbard is a book that really resonated with me. It's a YA contemporary about a teenage girl that was bullied, and her coming to accept what happened to her and moving past it. If you've recently been bullied, make sure you've worked through your emotions first. But once you have, I highly recommend it!
The Tao of Pooh sounds so interesting, I've never heard of it before and I love Winnie the Pooh 💛 I'll have to check it out!
Te of Piglet is also great
sorry. i found both of them trite and the writing was annoyingly simplistic (the point, i know, but still )
I've been working my way through a book series that I often think back to in my everyday life. It's the Anne of Green Gables series. A lot of people have read the first book as it's a children's classic and it's great, the netflix adaptation is also really good. But Anne grows up in each book and the second book onwards are more adult books. We see Anne go through lots of different situations and even though the book is set quite a while ago I can still relate to it. There's also lots of funny characters and Anne has a really positive outlook on life which is always uplifting to read. The aesthetic of your videos really reminds me of the vibe I've been getting from the Anne books. A very long recommendation but I'm really enjoying the books and hope you give them a go. Keep up the great videos I always look forward to the next one.
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is my "i get something new each time I read it" book and I LOVE VICIOUS FOR EVERY REASON YOU SAID AND MORE
I really like Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson because he gives people that society doesn’t care about a voice and shows that their stories are worth telling :)
the book that makes me feel better every time I reread it and is like the first book you mentioned is the little prince it really changed my life in so many ways and I cannot stress it enough how much it means to me
One of the only books I reread every year & always learn something new is called Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. I acquired this copy that was a favorite of my deceased MIL. & as a nod to her I gifted this book to those who were with me when I eloped. Absolutely is one of the books I treasure THE most in my collection & I recommend it as a summer read, preferably annually 🥰
yes! a beautiful classic. i love that book
this was so relaxing to watch, I always love learning about the books that influenced other people, it's such a good way to find books I otherwise probably would never have considered reading!
Thinking about the books that changed my life, I realised that it's not actually books I think are objectively good. In fact, there's often pretty big parts of them that I don't like! For example, Looking for Alaska definitely changed my life but I am 100% certain that I wouldn't enjoy it now and I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak which is the book I always recommend to everyone has an ending I don't like 😂
Love the Tao of Pooh as well as its companion The Te of Piglet. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams is a book I reread every summer but still see new things in it all the time.
I think Radio Silence is gonna be one of my next reads, the way you talk about it makes me really want to read it 💕
Did you read it? How is it?
Is it like something that changes you or like changes the way you view your life?
Your videos always make me feel like I've had a cosy time with a friend 💕
Omg yess finally! Ahh Leonie you are so beautiful!
Everything about you is just so beautiful and amazing! Thank you for brightening everyone’s day! 💖
Oke ik heb ook de meeste mensen deugen gelezen, maar de Pygmalion studie heeft veel kritiek gekregen. Ik heb er een verslag over geschreven voor mijn studie sociologie. De self-fulfilling prophecy is een soort trend geweest in de sociale wetenschappen in de tijd van veel mensenrechten bewegingen, die nu niet vaak meer gebruikt wordt als theorie. De resultaten waren erg overdreven in de pygmalion studie, omdat de theorie populair was; kijk maar naar het artikel. Bijvoorbeeld bij eerste klassers was het effect groot, maar bij 4e, 5e en 6e klassers is het verschil insignificant. Wat een zeer belangrijk verschil is als je wilt zeggen dat bepaalde groepen kinderen daarom achtegehouden worden, terwijl dit effect met de jaren op de basisschool verdwijnt. Dit wordt niet genuanceerd in het bericht naar de wereld van de Pygmalion studie.
Ook werden de kinderen alleen aan het begin en het einde van het schooljaar gemeten, en werden er geen observaties tussendoor gedaan. Ze kunnen daardoor niet met zekerheid zeggen dat de verwachtingen van de leraren de kinderen beter liet presteren.
Elke andere replica heeft niet meer hetzelfde effect kunnen meten, behalve die van Brophy en Good (1970) waar hooguit uit geconcludeerd kan worden dat een differentiële behandeling van leerlingen door leraren verschil geeft in prestatie. Dat kan samenhangen met verwachtingen, maar ook met gedrag van de kinderen, geslacht, etc. Het bewijst daardoor zeker niet de selffulfilling prophecy.
Als laatste zijn lerarenverwachtingen over het algemeen accuraat (Jussim & Harber, 2005), en zelfs als ze inaccuraat zijn, is het effect hiervan door middel van een selffulfilling prophecy op de prestatie van een kind erg klein.
Dus het effect van verwachtingen positief of negatief moet niet te veel opgeblazen worden als een denivellerende fenomeen.
oh dankjewel voor de opheldering! ik ga t onthouden
okay, but what was the book you were flipping through? that looked really cool.
How can I LOVE the aesthetics of turning pages so much
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Kawaguchi! By the time I reread it, my grandma had unfortunately passed away and it hit different than the last time. It really helped me during the healing process
This is also my favorite type of video! There are two major books that I can put under this category and that is Atlas Shrugged and House of Leaves.
ahh love your videos Leoni. Started watching you a while ago and you have resparked my love for reading. ❤
The book that changed my life for ever was The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruíz Zafón... I read it when I was a teenager almost 10 years ago and it changed my life forever, I also read it in the original language and it was perfect
I read a book last year called A Ghost in the Throat - it's a mix of personal memoir and historical study as the author alternates between her current life as a mother and a brief look into her past, and also she is studying a woman in history called Eibhlin Dubh who wrote the Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire. It's a look at how women are remembered in history and also her own experiences as a woman and as a mother. It has so much beautiful writing in it, and I know at different stages of my life as a woman I will read this and identify with different things. Highly recommend!
I don't know if it has been translated to English, but "Allemaal willen we de hemel" by Els Beerten is a really special book to me.
So excited about this video!! I clicked so fast lol Radio silence was definitely one of my best reads of january and honestly... it's such a great book. Alice Oseman can truly create a new world & characters and give you such a great perspective on things. Vicious by V.E Schwab as well.. that book was intense.
Love love loved this! Now I really want to pick up Humankune because it’s been on my shelf for ages now
yess do it! nederlands audioboek staat ook in de online bieb geloof ik
Hi Leonie, could you share some of your favourite Dutch books? It would be great if it has translated ver. :)
Rutger Bregman's books are always great, unfortunately not a lot of Dutch work gets translated. I've heard great things about The Secret Life of Hendrik Groen
I’ve been curious about sapiens and after hearing so many people talk about it I’ve decided I’m gonna take the dive and go for it ☺️
I’ve been wanting to get more into audiobooks but I never know where to start 😅
Try...' The Last Lecture ' - Randy Pausch & ' What I talk about when I talk about running ' - Murakami
I don't think there's a book that's changed my life in a drastic way, but Arthur c Clarke has been a huge part of my life
His work has always resonated with me the most and there's things from his book that have stuck with me ever since I first read them
I’ve never been this early holy shit. I still need to get my hands on Sapiens, and the uninhabitable earth sounds like something I’d really like to read! Amazing recommendations ❤️
also the “most of the time people are pretty ok with each other” finished me, that’s actually so true
The fact that Leonie mentions Naruto make feel quite nostalgic all-of-sudden 😂
Yes to ‘Wings’ by Aprilynne Pike! That book got me into reading as well :D First time I heard it mentioned on a booktube channel!
I'm totally with you on vicious! A recent read that blew my mind in this way is Pet Sematary by Stephen King, it left me such an unexpected positive message about life and the inevitable occurrence of death although it is still a thriller book. I highly recommend it to those who have a hard time coping with grief. And I'll probably read something more human-positive like you said because I do find myself having a very fatalistic, tragic view of our times and society and I admit I'm very influenced my the media, tv, the news etc
Raymond Feist Magician book had the tutor let the apprentice figure out how to let his student discover magic on their own..
(The first person to create a craft didnt have a guidelines to follow they had to create them)
Changed my outlook profoundly on being able to innovate new craft ideas.
Goes along with my favorite latin quote: i will find a way or i will make one.
This makes me think about all the books I used to read and re-read when I was much younger (something I stopped doing when I reached University level). Looking for Alaska by John Green held that special place in my heart for a long time, and now I would say it's Bloodchild by Octavia Butler!
I clicked this video so fast my fingers are burning😂 Currently binging all of your videos and I love them
Thank you for this video Leonie, it really made my day ♡
The Harry Potter books changed my entire brain chemistry when I was eight, but "Lord of the Rings" is what literally got me into English literature and now I'm set on getting my Master's degree lol
Tao of Pooh 😭😭😭😭 SAME
And Braiding Sweetgrass changed my life!!! And mushroom at the end of the world gave me pre-apocalypse hope
😍😍😍
The Tao of Po is great, also go watch the Russian Winnie the Po cartoon, its focused on teaching children how to think and to think about their acts
When it comes to Sapiens, the reduction of human constructs as just constructs doesn't remove their impact, value and reality. Honestly Sapiens seems like the poormans Schelers "Artefacts" and Heideggers "Sorge", just without any philosophical implication, wider context and explanation
Once I noticed that you always end your sentences on a high note, as if they were a question, I cannot unnotice it, I'm so sorry haha :D Lovely video! Love your recommendations.
Haha! I observed that too.
I loved this video, and I’m so interested in reading The Uninhabitable Earth. From the top of my mind I can think of 2 books that have made an impact on my life: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, and Everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by Jomnyy Sun. Vicious is such a great book! Oh also since I read Words in deep blue by Cath Crowley, I now write on my books which is something I never saw myself doing.
Twilight and the Hunger Games definitely changed my life. As a 20 year old adult, after loving Midnight Sun I reread Twilight and actually resonated with New Moon the 2nd time around. (The 1st time I thought her depression was dumb, I was 12 tho so). Twilight has also been very comforting during the pandemic, so it's changed my life for the better for sure. 😁🥰
the perks of being a wallflower is that book that means something different to me every time i read it
I guess I really should get around to reading sapiens hahaha
When you were talking about Humankind, it reminded me a bit of Factfulness! It shows that humanity isn't completely going to shit, but that there are a lot of things that already got better, because we, as humans, worked on it and made it better. I would really recommend it!
For me the most influential was Summerhill (A.S. Neil). Mainly because of what you mention with Humankind - it solidified my view that humans are good by default 😊 And I find the school's existance very inspirational!
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom changed my outlook on life. It reminded me how lucky I am to simply exist, and it showed me the beauty in day to day life. :) 10/10
I've recently discovered then and bought a bundle (more precisely I bought a bundle to my husband and he bought me one for our PhDs :D). Absolutely loooove them! :)
I hear so much about Radio Silence, I'm going to have to read it soon. After I get through my existing tbr.😅😅
Oh you should definitely read it. It's a beautiful story of friendship, self discovery with really cozy feels and @paperbackdreams once described it as a fluffy blanket of comfort and it feels like the perfect description. Aahh it's just reaaalllyy beautiful.
@@nidhimathew9848 yeah, it sounds so good. @paperbackdreams is where I heard about it at first and that description really sold me.
@@UnrealB Oh. Haha. Me too! Kat is the biggest unofficial ambassador for Radio Silence we have on booktube 😂💗
@@nidhimathew9848 haha definitely.😂💜
I know you're going to say the picture of dorian Gray. I KNOW
She didn’t lmao
@@diakhatwani4581 lol this is a scam
I got excited for a while.
You are a beautiful human being and you should be proud of yourself. Greetings from a Romanian listener.
The Chaos Walking trilogy changed my life because it helped me rediscover my love for reading and gave me hope that things will get better.
The Throne of Glass series by SJM. She got me back into reading long epic fantasy series as an adult. I'm now reading Malazan and Wheel of Time.
What's the book called of which you keep turning pages from during clips?
Yess I was wondering the same!
Forget the book. What program is she using to record at that moment. It's incredible
The Famous Five got me into reading
The Horla by Maupassant got me into reading short stories
How I Live Now made me fall in love with YA and war stories
I bought “The Uninhabitable Earth” because of you and I’ve yet to read it but I’m very excited too! Also do you have a goodreads?
Her goodreads is Leonie Dams 💛
A book that recently changed my life is The Lord of the Rings - but in a way that would make me recommend that book. I hated the representation and lack of women so much, for the first time in my life I felt underrepresented because of my gender. Since then I'm veeery picky when it comes to sexism and female representation in the books I'm reading. And it has also become a topic that's been much more on my radar in general.
This video is so so good! It’s so nice to hear you talk ❤️❤️
Hello there, A New Earth, Facing Love Addictions, Women who Love too much, The Seat of the Soul, Thoughts from The Seat of the Soul and 20 Poemas de Amor y 1 Canción Desesperada (Neruda). :) 😀
Definitely going to buy that watch
hey gal are you doing a video for your reread of the Shadow and Bone series? 😊
yess!!
"Light a fire over my butt" this made me laugh lol. Also, I think that Sapiens is one of the best non-fiction books I've read too!💕
My favourite books all the time : the optimist creed by Christian de Larson, everything is fucked and the subtle art by mark Manson, the girl of dragon tattoo serie, fifty shades of grey made me know Thomas tallis chords music and teach me alot of things .
Great video! Cute watches!
I love your wibes, we will meet someday
I read but I read very less and selective content
Sam's speech from the two towers is what changed my life
Which apparently isn't in the books
Another really good book on climate change that’s both realistic about the destruction but also hopeful about a way forward is Jason Hickel’s “Less Is More”. Can’t recommend it enough.
Please do a room tour!
Okay but that watch is so nice o.O
The book that had the most impact on me in my personal life was becoming by Michelle Obama. I felt so empowered and reassured by it that it finally made me quite my job in an unhealthy environment (read black goo in nose and infertility and asmatic problems with lots of colleagues) where I was unhappy but earned a lot and getting my current job.
At 5:34, does anyone know the program she is using or can you tell me it please. Its like old vintage footage. I like that
I think Leonie would be the kind of person who can't be fooled by the Matrix.
I see Radio Silence, I click :)
I you like friends to enemys-storys i recommend you the movie "The Prestige" by Christopher Nolan, if you haven't watched it yet!
love that movie!
yes, radio silence made me realise what I actually want in life.
Could you make a content about sci-fi books recommendation
Twilight renaissance still going strong lmao
Dune and its anticlimax Dune Messias, by Frank Herbert, not for the prose but for the ideas , a winning combination of religion , ecology and politics
lmao ik herriner toen ik 9 was dat mijn vader mij mijn eerste warrior cats boek gaf als cadea en ook de wilde kippen club ik heb dan de hele reeks uitgelezen van de beide boeken ,en ik hou gewoon van fantasie boeken ,nu merk ik wel dat ik een specifieke stijl heb (komt ook doordat ik heel veeeeel fanfction las lol, ) en ik las vroeger superveel boeken ,en dat is gewoon helaas gestopt door school en thuissituaties daarom dat ik naar fanfiction onsnaptte ,ik merk dat ik themas zoals goeie personages of neutrale personages ,dat op 1 of ander manier evil worden(zoals stiles stilinksi bijv in teenwolf) ma dan evil met een doordacht geldig reden en niet eenvoudig geschreven , ik klink heel confusing maar ik wou er blijven over praten van wat ik leuk vind ,recent ben ik op de booktube kant van youtube geraakt waarmee ik blij ben want zo heb ik goodreads ontdekt door jullie hier ,en nu heb ik meer keuzes om uit te kiezen ,boeken die ik vorig jaar las zijn bijv van rainbow rowell , good omens, en waarschinlijk nog wat anderen maar ik herriner die niet meer bc brain bad,sorry for mijn rant om 1 uur snachts woops :')
Your face changed my life
Comparing Vicious slightly to Naruto just made me add it to my TBR oops
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. It was the first book to introduce me to real and lifelike lgbt characters.
Nice !
I smiled when you mentioned naruto🧡
I enjoy all your videos, tho tbh near the end I started harbouring silly thoughts, like a biography of the guy who wins the hot dog eating contest every year. Thx
Its pronounced dou-isim, I'm sorry if it's your accent and it's hard to adjust(I'm really sorry if so) but if it's not⬆️