i read 60+ books so far: the midyear freakout tag
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best book 0:19-1:18
best sequel 1:19-2:52
new release tbr 2:53-3:41
most anticipated release 3:42-4:08
biggest disappointment(s) 4:09-5:51
biggest surprise 5:52-7:28
favorite new author 7:29-7:41
newest crush 7:42-7:50
favorite character 7:51-8:56
book that made you cry 8:57-9:11
book that made you happy 9:12-10:05
most beautiful cover(s) 10:06-10:28
books ya gotta read before year ends (kinda) 10:29-11:56
ending/bookclub! 11:57-13:01 - Zábava
the only book ever to make me like really cry was the perks of being a wallflower. i sobbed during multiple parts. but i recently read the seven husbands of evelyn hugo and while i didn’t cry my eyes teared up and my heart felt heavy and i have not stopped thinking about it.
oh dear lord the kite runner, extremely loud and incredibly near and the shadow of the wind had me in tears even the second time i read them... i love the power of books
The most recent book that made me cry was the end of East of Eden! One of my new favorite classics. So agreed on John Green really shining in Anthropocene Reviewed. I grew up watching him and Hank and then post-YA fame, I was always explaining why I was a John Green fan without liking his YA novels 😅He's a darn genius
I read East of Eden in middle school and it completely changed my life -- more than a decade later it's still one of my favorites!
Ocean Vuong is a great contemporary poet- I consider his work fairly accessible, if you’re on the fence about poetry, and his background in poetry is likely the reason why his fiction is so beautiful! If you love his writing, it’s worth checking out.
i personally forgave some of that kind of simplistic writing in aristotle and dante because it’s told from the perspective of a 15 year old, so if anything it felt accurate to that time of life for me & that kind of childlike view of the world? but i understand how they seem cheesy & unforgivable out of context. i would encourage a cursory read, but if you don’t enjoy YA then i’m not about to force you to read something you won’t like!!
I personally really didn't enjoy Aristotle and Dante, I'm not sure why it resonated with so many people. Was it just the representation?
@@Hungarycloud I read it two yrs ago as a 16 yr old closeted Hispanic teen so I personally really loved it at the time bc it felt as if my thoughts and feeling at the time were being written in the book
@@Hungarycloud me too. I think that’s it. But I wasn’t able to finish the book. So I ended up dnfing it.
@@Hungarycloud I really related to the main character and I really enjoyed the atmosphere
I UGLY cried when I read No One Is Talking About this. Likely because I thought the whole thing was about social media and I was vibing so hard with the main character's twitter/meme experience, her emotions were my emotions by the end. RIP.
okay wait excuse me, you can't just speed past how Albus is a STRIKING cat. like I know some want to say "oh he's just a black cat"... but no, there is genuinely something ethereal about that guy
Watch Over Me made me sob for like a solid 30 minutes afterwards, but it wasn’t a sad cry. More like a cathartic cry. I cry anytime I think about my inner child so I guess that just did it for me lol.
Also I checked out The House in the Cerulean Sea from my library because of you and I’m so excited to read it!
I'm truly excited for you to read The Anthropocene Reviewed. It has taken it's place as not only my favorite book this year, but my favorite book of all time. John Green does an amazing job of embodying the adage of "it's not the destination, but the journey that matters." He uses words to take you for a pleasant stroll through his mind. I believe that every bibliophile will fall in love immediately as they experience John Green's masterpiece.
you really should give Circe a second chance because it's so good!! the writer's style of story telling is so magical and you get into it once you sit down and read like 100 pages. yes there're many characters -especially in the beginning- but i don't think you have to take notes to keep up with it because many of them will not be significant for the story
I read Flowers for Algernon when I was in grade school. I don’t remember what it was about but I do remember sobbing for all of recess when I finished it. But that’s the only time I’ve ever CRIED cried while reading a book.
omg wait i didn’t cry when i originally read this but legit i read it maybe in middle school for the first time and it moved me SO MUCH. like to this day i always tell people that flowers for algernon was the book that completely changed my reading life for me.
I’ll never forget my entire 4th grade class sobbing when we read Bridge to Terebithia 😅
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is definitely my best read of this year too!!!
Book that made me cry: the 7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo
i know albus is blind but i like to think he knows what he’s doing to get screen time and i, for one, absolutely adore it (and him)
Circe is a slow one but it’s beautifully and definitely worth finishing - keep going with it! Thanks for the other recommendations!!
I'm so impressed by you! I read 76 books last year and that felt HUUUGE. You've almost blown my big goal out of the water halfway through the year. Way to go Ally 👏
the best book of the year is your jacket!!
HELL FKN YEAAAAH 😎
I’ve cried during almost every book i’ve read that has a shred of emotion in the plot. i have big feelings and my eyes love to cry lol
we have a few overlapping favorites which makes me want to pick up anything you love, especially the way you discuss books you love! i didn't cry through most of a little life and then WHAM i was nasty sobbing, which was a first for me!
Explainning Ari and Dante quotes: The book is about 2 kids that literally are discovering the world, thats why the quotes sound basic is because you are with them when they learn that lesson for the first time
yeah! i looked into what the book was which is why i decided it wasn’t for me.
i know there’s other books that have made me tear up but the only one that comes to mind is mockingjay by suzanne collins when i re-read it last year but it usually takes a lot for a book to make me cry
also, you’re absolutely right about the anthropocene reviewed, it was exquisite and i really hope he publishes more non fiction in the future
congrats on surpassing 10k subs!! :’-) so proud
The dante & ari quotes vibe with the tumblr quotes from 2013 such as, “they tell you to be yourself, and then they judge you for it” with a selfie in the background and written in big block letters 😔🤌
I don’t mean to come for this authors neck tho
Hi, Allyyy!!
Just wanted to tell you that your videos make my day better☺️
God, I love this channel. Going into the backlog because I can’t get enough!
circe was also my disappointing book of the year!! i gave it four stars but i literally thought it would be life-changing and it was just.. good. it had such a detached style for me, where the song of achilles was soooooo raw and whatever the exact opposite of detached is. so glad i’m not alone in being disappointed by circe bc it was just nowhere near on the level of her debut for me!
Ooooh 🥰 so excited you're reading the poppy wars! I read the trilogy earlier this year and it pulled me in so quick that I had whiplash. Hope you enjoy it!
I love your editing style! Your videos are so enjoyable and your book reviews are so inviting. New sub 💯
I cried hard at Florence Adler Swims Forever. It’s a very subtle book so it might not have the same effect for everyone but damn I started crying towards the ending and BAWLING when the afterword rolled around. You must read the afterword!
yo! i never cry at books eitherrrr (sometimes i feel like a sociopath) but holy wow "before the coffee gets cold" had me crying (and this is not an exaggeration, i swear to you) more than i have ever cried about anything else ever. i was a wreck
7:48 i will never be over this fictional character i loved him and that adventure for eggs✨💕
I can't wait to see how much you love the poppy wars trilogy when your done! I am getting a tattoo of Rin 😊
Reading the house in the cerulean sea and It is AMAZING! Can't wait for his new book...
I love your editing and personality , you my second favorite booktuber after the goblin.:)
Misery is pretty good! I'm making my way through Stephen King books and that was one of the first ones I read.
Also house in the cerulean sea made me cry A LOT. Some happy tears some sad tears thinking things were over. I definitely wanna get one of the characters as a tattoo, that's how much I loved that book!
Also thanks for reminding me to pre-order under the whispering door!!
I read "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" fresh off a breakup, and the relationship was a LOT like the one in the book, and re-reading it years later, I was doing an eyeroll or two for sure
saaaaame feelings about circe! it felt like homework 😭
you're the first person to agree w me on six of crows !!! honestly thought i would get lynched if i told the internet i did not find that book spectacular (also picking up OEWBG asap!!!)
I cry at basically every book, I sobbed at the Notebook and didn’t even like it. Wonder what this says about me 🤔
i am so excited for this video cause at the moment my mental health isn't cooperating with the whole "reading" thing. watching other people's book videos has made me happy when i can't really participate.
istg watching your videos makes this covid thing a lot lot bearable for me :")
and i think you did good for dnf-ing "circe", because even though that good part comes after 100 pages, it's not thaaaaaat good tbh (or maybe it was just me). overall circe was just eh for me. but you HAVE to read "song of achilles". it's suuuuper good and i'm pretty sure you will love it as well as i did. it is be one of my fav read of the year along with "on earth we're briefly gorgeous"
Severance and Circe also fell flat for me, glad I'm not the only one, haha! They were not my faves and I fell way short of the crazy hype. And yesss! Someone's talking about City of Thieves. My fave book from last year. It's so good.
I very recently found your channel and I have to say, I loooove your videos. They make me feel like calling up my bookworm friends and gushing over our latest reads.
In other news, the last book that made me cry was, oddly enough, Never Let Me Go. And it all comes down to the very freaking last sentence of the book. That being said, I'm a crier. Like, big time massive sobs kinda crier, haha.
And yes, Neil Gaiman! (Also Coraline, all the yes).
Circe is very much a different vibe from song of Achilles, so I think people hyped it but expected it to be of the same calibre but they are so different. Like the fact there is some magic is song of Achilles but it can be seen as poetic whereas magic is central to Circe and sometimes it’s is metaphorical but most of the times it is practical. I think of Circe like a stand alone fantasy and Song of Achilles as literary fiction or new adult. Also, a classical perspective Circe has to be weaved into other stories by Miller because she doesn’t do that in the epics where as the relationships in Song of Achilles seem more organic because they always existed and Miller just adds a bit of romance and spice. Don’t get me wrong Circe is a cool character but I think readers would have more fun following another classical woman like Clytemnestra. Circe isn’t a bad book but it just isn’t Song of Achilles.
Only two books that ever made me cry 1. "The memory police" by Yoko Ogawa and "How we disappeared" by Jing Jing Lee (This book took a while to get into but the ending when it all ties together...it just broke me).
oh i felt the same way about severance!!! thought i had a new favorite in my hands but just wasn’t my cup of tea
I'm currently reading The Only Good Indians and enjoying it, looking forward to hearing what you think about it in a couple of months lol
ari and dante was so important to me when i read it for the first time like six years ago in high school bc it was the first time i ever got to read about gay hispanic boys being the main characters and it was just the first time i ever got to see myself in a book. i reread it last year and like i probs still would have appreciated it for the gay & hispanic rep but man this book is untouchable to me like all you have to do is say the beginning of the title and i’m already sobbing ;-;;
When I finished the final Harry Potter book I cried. I cried because it was an integral part of my growing up and finishing it meant I had to say good bye to the characters. I read it from about 10/11 years old to 21 so yeah, it hit hard.
I also cried reading The 7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo because it was so bad. lol
Also I just finished Falling is Like Flying by Manon Uphoff a couple weeks ago. I wouldn’t say it’s a book for everyone, but if you’re into the themes common to a lot of the books Ally reviews, I would give it a go. I haven’t seen really any buzz about it and it deserves more recognition.
def start with song of achillies, much easier to get into and understand the characters.
I think listening to Madeline Miller’s writing is a bit more enjoyable, I would try audio for Circe! Also so happy to see your responses to On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and My Dark Vanessa because I get the exact same way.
Joy land by Stephen king made me cry my eyes out so so much i was wailing!! And the green Mile by Stephen king got me emotional. I recommend those two☺️
I read Circe and it does get a lot better in the middle but it’s still not a fav for me. You have convinced me to read Ocean Vuong and the Poppy War!!
Ok never mind I’ve now watched to the end of the video and IIHYF is literally right there 🤦🏻♀️
bestie im so glad ur giving circe a fighting chance pleaaaaaase read it :(
✨someday✨
I have an ARC of Under The Whispering Door and idk how I haven’t read it yet. Will definitely be reading it soon.
you are the chosen one
books that i read this year and that made me cry were definitely the song of achilles, the ocean at the end of the lane (i really like books that look back on childhood), death of a salesman, and the great gatsby (for some reason, the ending made me tear up, and it was my second time reading the book).
thank you for the recommendations! ocean at the end of the lane is an absolute favorite so i’m excited to try the others.
@@allisonpaiges yes!! death of a salesman is a depressing play but a good, quick read nonetheless. i was about to recommend persepolis but i see that you mentioned it in your favorites video, i love that book so much !
hi thanks for making me want to read again I feel like I'm regaining a part of me that I didn't even know when it left (also, I'm native in spanish, so sorry if I butchered the sentence) anyway, thanks thanks thanks! your videos are really inspiring and entertaining to watch!
Did you see the video about the cover of 'The Anthropocene Reviewed'? It was amazing, and I'm totally here for the book. I'm waiting until I bump into a hardcover version though (I really want to buy it in a physical store, I'm weird, I know)
i did! so good! i also bought mine in person and it hits different. i get it ☺️
They do hit the same! Re-read some John Green!
p.s. i also don't really enjoy YA anymore but his are an exception
The book that made me cry most recently was Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
I loved this video, but I loved your jacked even more lol where did you get it?
i got it second hand 🌞
do you have a video about your bookshelf and how it's organized? i absolutely love it and i'd love to learn more about it :) mines kinda boring lmao
in the making!
You should read Song of Achilles!!!!! I really truly hated Circe but LOVED Song of Achilles -- it instantly became one of my all time favorites. Honestly Circe never got better, more and more characters show up and each season of her life is disconnected from the last. I think it's because the author rounded up a bunch of myths and tried to build a story out of it, while Song of Achilles just retells The Illiad (and we all know that story slaps). it also made me sob so maybe it'll be your first crying book
I read a short little book called Only Child by Rhiannon Navin about a school shooting and that made me cry. Not normally someone who cries at books. Currently reading a Little Life so we will see how that goes
At the young age of 23 I have been inspired to read the Percy Jackson saga for the first time, I am waiting for it in the mail lol as for my most outstanding read of this year it is definitely Medea by Krista Wolf, which I highly suggest especially since you haven't liked Circe. My most surprising reading was instead The miseducation of Cameron Post because I do not read young adults like ever but this book ripped by heart into tiny tiny pieces while still being so not sensationalistic in the story is telling
Um excuse me, I love your denim jacket
Hold out for Circe!
books that made me cry this year: just kids by patti smith, her body and other parties by carmen maria machado (specifically the story eight bites), crying in h mart by michelle zauner, and the death of vivek oji by akwaeke emezi 🤧🤧🤧
oooooh the only one i’ve read here is, “the death of vivek oji.”
i read carmen maria machados, “in the dream house” earlier this year and put her other on my tbr!
crying in h mart is on my tbr tooooo!
gotta look into “just kids” thank you!
Love just kids. One of my favorite books. Crying in H mart also made me cry!
Your first video of mine.. I subscribed as soon as a I saw a cat.
I cried while reading ‘smoke gets in your eyes:(rest of title) by Caitlyn d (how do you spell her name?). I can cry at anything. I cried at both Celeste Ng’s novels. I cried at They Both Die at the End. There is nothing I can’t cry at. Although I don’t remember the last time I actually teared up. Maybe Recursion by Blake Crouch? Or Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, that one hit me during some scenes.
I've read The Song of Achilles and gave it two stars. It left me kind of angry. So I don't feel the need to read anything else by this author. I would recommend not reading it.
I actually dnf'd My dark Vanessa. It could have done with some editing in my opinion. Too wordy for me, it drove me nuts.
the maze runner's scorch trials was the best second book in a series for me and better than the first
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Talking about Stephen King. I’m currently reading a novel of his for the first time and yeah 🥲opinions✨
Which one?
@@Hungarycloud The Stand
i'd like for a book to make me cry too
i think it's law that if you read THICS this year you have to use it as an answer for book that made you happy
I cried reading the emancipation proclamation once so i don’t think my advice on sad books should be taken
is that luigis mansion?? hell ye
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If your are thinking about reading The house in the cerulean sea I suggest learning about the history that inspired the book, here is a video I watched and reading the comments below it has also been helpful. czcams.com/video/TnsaWNW7G0Q/video.html . It is still a lovely book and I do think TJ Klune is a great author with no ill intentions.
thanks for bringing this up and getting me to look further into one of my favorite books and understanding history even a little more:
(one of the) tj klune interview(s) in question: whatever.scalzi.com/2020/03/17/the-big-idea-tj-klune/
the sixties scoop in canada - where he said his inspiration began on foster care injustices: indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/sixties_scoop/
(from the article)
"In the 1960s, the child welfare system did not require, nor did it expect, social workers to have specific training in dealing with children in Aboriginal communities. Many of these social workers were completely unfamiliar with the culture or history of the Aboriginal communities they entered. What they believed constituted proper care was generally based on middle-class Euro-Canadian values. For example, when social workers entered the homes of families subsisting on a traditional Aboriginal diet of dried game, fish, and berries, and didn’t see fridges or cupboards stocked in typical Euro-Canadian fashion, they assumed that the adults in the home were not providing for their children. Additionally, upon seeing the social problems reserve communities faced, such as poverty, unemployment, and addiction, some social workers felt a duty to protect the local children. In many cases, Aboriginal parents who were living in poverty but otherwise providing caring homes had their children taken from them with little or no warning and absolutely no consent.4 In fact, it was not until 1980 that the Child, Family and Community Services Act required social workers to notify the band council if an Aboriginal child were removed from the community.5"
Okay but did you not cry reading The Fault In Our Stars?! Because I was like 19, so maybe I'm misremembering, but it RUINED ME.
it made me sad for sure! but i wanna UGLY SOB
Not Circeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!