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Komentáře • 92

  • @Zuzannasbooks
    @Zuzannasbooks Před 16 dny +50

    46 MINS OF PURE ELLEN TBR CONTENT

  • @ollieanders34
    @ollieanders34 Před 16 dny +23

    “and who says romance is dead” LISTEN-
    you got me good miss ellen 🤣

  • @AmeliaLaingFilms
    @AmeliaLaingFilms Před 16 dny +23

    i 100% agree about whos afraid of little old me gives me fantasy vibes 🙂

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 16 dny +4

      feels so throne of glass to me!!!

    • @AmeliaLaingFilms
      @AmeliaLaingFilms Před 16 dny

      @@bookswithellen I’ve not read that yet but need to read very soon but I’ve heard loads of people say that which is making me want to read it so much x

  • @rue.h05
    @rue.h05 Před 16 dny +14

    Favourite TTPD songs;
    1.Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me
    2. The Alchemy
    3. So Long, London
    2. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart
    4. I Hate It Here
    5. The Prophecy: her writing is my favourite in this one - that bridge!!

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny +4

      omg you have TASTE!!!

    • @rue.h05
      @rue.h05 Před 15 dny +2

      @@bookswithellen omg thank you so much!! you have one idea how big of a compliment that it for me 🤍🤍

  • @chelsearobichaud4365
    @chelsearobichaud4365 Před 16 dny +14

    With TTPD I think the more you listen the better it is. My first impression was not good but I’ve been nonstop listening and I’ve liked it more and more

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 16 dny +1

      agree 100000%!!! i defo liked it upon first listen but it’s grown and grown on me. think the fact that it was a double release also overwhelmed me a tad🤣 so once i was able to properly listen and digest i understood it more!!

    • @BetweenThePagesWithLouLou
      @BetweenThePagesWithLouLou Před 8 dny

      Same😊

  • @SamChristine
    @SamChristine Před 14 dny +6

    I’m glad you ended up enjoying Pucking Around! Next there is another novella (Pucking ever after) which is just bonus chapters/an extended epilogue. And then Pucking Wild follows different characters which I think I liked more than Pucking around

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 14 dny +3

      oooh i didn’t know about the other novella!! i defo need to check that out

  • @squidwardtentacles7144
    @squidwardtentacles7144 Před 16 dny +10

    Sara and Ellen posting today! Ah, what a treat!

  • @BetweenThePagesWithLouLou

    Swifty girly over here. So do as much Taylor as you want. It’s your channel 😊

  • @Schokihonig
    @Schokihonig Před 16 dny +10

    I think you're really going to like these hollow vows! I recently read it and it was very similar to ACOTAR, as far as your jumpers tell me you're a big fan of that series, so i think that's going to be your piece of pie!

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 16 dny +1

      i’m SO excited to get to it!! everyone has said i’m gonna love it🤭 makes me even more eager to pick it up

    • @jessicajessica4392
      @jessicajessica4392 Před 16 dny

      @@bookswithellen I saw the ACOTAR vibes but it reads VERY YA. I personally was not a fan because of that, but as YA books are usually not your cup of tea, it would be good to get into it knowing it reads super YA.

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 16 dny

      @@jessicajessica4392 ooooh thank you for letting me know!!

  • @olipakerranvanamo
    @olipakerranvanamo Před 16 dny +6

    Wednesdays and Sundays are my favourite days of the week because you’re uploading! ❤ Again I love you and your vids so much Ellen 🫶🏼

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 16 dny +1

      thank you for being here!! love u loads🥹♥️

    • @olipakerranvanamo
      @olipakerranvanamo Před 16 dny

      you’re like my bookish big sister, I’m 19 and you’re literally the big sister I always wanted 🥺🩷

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 16 dny +1

      @@olipakerranvanamo stop it that makes me so happy🥹😭 sending you love always!!!!

  • @daphnenm
    @daphnenm Před 16 dny +2

    Totally agree with you on Pucking Around 😂 It was just so much fun!!

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny

      literally so fun!! really excited to get to the second one🤭🤭

  • @Sof_rha
    @Sof_rha Před 14 dny +1

    Your vids are super comforting, sending you lots of love!❤

  • @xtayerx
    @xtayerx Před 14 dny +2

    Your vids bring me sm joy, been absolutely loving the long vids!!

  • @lvlup17
    @lvlup17 Před 11 dny +2

    hey ellen!! my friend and i are doing a book challenge and one of my little “challenges” is asking a booktuber for a book rec and reading it, could you give me one? i mainly read romance, summer-like, fantasy, or fantasy. thank you so much!! i love your content🫶🏽

  • @jasminejones2159
    @jasminejones2159 Před 16 dny +1

    I’m so excited to watch this while reading ❤

  • @eri_reads8262
    @eri_reads8262 Před 16 dny

    YAY a break video from my finals work!!!! God I love this!

  • @madhuk9135
    @madhuk9135 Před 15 dny

    Ahhhh you are feeding us with these long videos. I enjoyed watching these last two vids so much!

  • @AnnaRak423
    @AnnaRak423 Před 16 dny

    Hey Ellen! Thanks for another great video! My TBR is always growing after I watch. I am currently reading Delilah Green Doesn't Care and really enjoying it so far. After that will be ACOMAF, which I know is one of your favourites. I have so many waiting to be read but that's a great challenge to have. Happy Sunday to you and Pep! 🥰

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny +1

      ooh i read delilah green a few years ago and loved it!! i have my fingers firmly crossed that you’ll like ACOMAF as well, my fave book of all time!! hope you have a great week🤍

  • @ajjj222
    @ajjj222 Před 16 dny +1

    my opinions on books are always similar to yours so seeing you enjoying yourself reading pucking around and knowing i'll have that book (and Happy Medium) on tuesday hits different! as someone who doesn't read analyzing the book i know i'll have a great time either way ahahahah

  • @dancesbyk251
    @dancesbyk251 Před 16 dny +2

    i love how consistent you are with your uploads

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny +1

      it’s so so so close now!!! feeling very grateful🥹🥹

  • @ecr.7695
    @ecr.7695 Před 16 dny

    One's reading experience/mood is an important part in rating a book, even if one doesn't recognize it. Thus, if one rated a book higher than someone else, that's okay. The most important/key point is one's own experience and that's it.
    Have a great end to this month, Ellen 🙏💛!

  • @gemreads99
    @gemreads99 Před 16 dny

    Adored this video Ellen, as always. Just ordered 2 new sweatshirts (OUABH and Powerless), could have bought the whole store they’re so pretty 😍 thank you for sharing & for the discount code 💓

  • @leoniesliberi
    @leoniesliberi Před 16 dny

    my top two fav TTPD songs are My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived (THAT BRIDGE IS INSANE).
    I do love the album, it‘s not my new fav (I fear that will always be folklore and 1989) but it‘s really good 🖤

  • @sierra2922
    @sierra2922 Před 16 dny +3

    Queen is feeding us and HOWW😭😭😭

  • @A-nr6ix
    @A-nr6ix Před 16 dny +1

    I never comment on anything but since i‘ve discovered you, youre my comfort youtuber🫶🏻 I love how consistent you are and always look forward to your videos!!

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny

      this makes me so happy🥹 thank you for being here!!!

  • @nicolewalton8786
    @nicolewalton8786 Před 15 dny

    Love down bad and daddy I love him ❤

  • @BooksCriticism
    @BooksCriticism Před 16 dny

    I love your videos, always.
    I have never read a Mariana Zapata book but because of you I bought two. Luckily not Under Locke XD.
    I also have these hollow vows on my tbr, need to read it at some point as well

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny +1

      and i love you for being here, always!!!
      i hope you end up loving them!! i’ve loved all of them other than under locke so i have high hopes🤣

  • @melodiev9253
    @melodiev9253 Před 16 dny

    I love your videos! I was literally crying laughing when you described the farting scene.

  • @blimeyifancyreading
    @blimeyifancyreading Před 16 dny

    Pretty bag, indeed and what a perfect gift it would make! Sadly, I am not a TS fan LOL Happy reading!

  • @justynaley
    @justynaley Před 16 dny

    Your makeup is always looking so flawless 😍 what blush you use because it is stunning ❤

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny +1

      thank you so much!! i use the elf camo liquid blush and just put LOADS on !!!

    • @justynaley
      @justynaley Před 15 dny

      What shade do you use coral crush or more of the pink shades 😉

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny +1

      @@justynaley i use ‘dusty rose’ i think it’s called!!

    • @justynaley
      @justynaley Před 15 dny

      @@bookswithellen Thank you so much lovely I will definitely look on this blush 🥰🥰

  • @bxllapovey
    @bxllapovey Před 16 dny +1

    IM LATE!!! Anyways love your content precious and always waiting for your uploads you brighten my day!! Love u lots

  • @sylwiaoles8686
    @sylwiaoles8686 Před 16 dny

    it's not my fav album too, but i love a lot of songs! those are mine fav:
    - The smallest man who eve lived
    - Who's afraid of little old me?
    - But daddy i love him
    - Clara bow
    - The black dog
    - The prophecy
    - Florida
    - I hate it here

  • @louisejames9064
    @louisejames9064 Před 16 dny

    We are spoilt, 46 minutes! I love long videos so this is perfect 🤩
    I feel 2014 romance was a different era 😅
    I feel like I have never found a book that does repetition well, I recently read Slaughterhouse 5 and in 177 pages "so it goes" is mentioned 106 times 🥴

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny

      omg that would drive me INSANE🤯🤯 did you like it overall? it’s my dads favourite book so i’ve always been intrigued!!

    • @louisejames9064
      @louisejames9064 Před 15 dny

      @@bookswithellen oh no I found it one of my worst reads so far this year, I did settle on a 2.25 I think there are better anti war books out there like all quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque. I just found it disjointed and not well written 🙈

  • @KiraKiera
    @KiraKiera Před 15 dny

    I was wheezing at your description of the farting scene 😂

  • @lo3896
    @lo3896 Před 16 dny

    no because reading under locke right after reading luna and the lie which i enjoyed sm… to day i was disappointed is an understatement 😭😭😭 i was so sad i gave it a 2 stars i literally love marianna zapata :((

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny +1

      i was so shocked how much i disliked it, was SO different to all of her others that i’ve read!!😭😭

  • @iveuteen
    @iveuteen Před 16 dny

    idk why but i haven’t been the biggest fan of taylor’s new music, i liked some midnights song but for ttpd its not my favorite 😢 im a big fearless, reputation and speak now fan so i think that kinda speaks for itself

  • @ninijournal2878
    @ninijournal2878 Před 16 dny

    I did read "that one night" and gave it 3.5⭐️ was actually really good but "Pucking around" was so bad I hated the writing style 😭😭 gave it 2⭐️

  • @insanebutterfly3439
    @insanebutterfly3439 Před 15 dny

    Sending love from Newfoundland. Canada.

  • @agohl85
    @agohl85 Před 16 dny +1

    I didn't love "The Simple Wild" either. It was a 3 stars for me. And I actually thought it was the best book of the series.

    • @CallMeNains
      @CallMeNains Před 16 dny

      For some reason the premise reminds me of that Lifetime movie with Leann Rimes lol

  • @readingtillnight4604
    @readingtillnight4604 Před 16 dny

    I would have definitely dnf under lock, I am starting to being more critical towards my books because the time wasted on a 2.5 book I would have read something better 😊

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny

      i was SO close to giving up on it but thought i’d power through for the video!!

  • @zeenatpatel1650
    @zeenatpatel1650 Před 15 dny

    MZ's earlier works were not good at all. I recommend reading them in publishing order as characters and places appear in other books as you go along.

  • @naomiking7518
    @naomiking7518 Před 16 dny

    ❤❤❤

  • @CallMeNains
    @CallMeNains Před 16 dny

    That's exactly why I have never done a TBR, I would change my mind and end up not reading any of them. lol

    • @bilhawere7720
      @bilhawere7720 Před 16 dny +1

      This is me every month, I make a tbr for the books I was in the mood for that time I made it, then later I'm in a totally different mood, but yk as long as you read and enjoy what you want !!!

  • @sophiejanec
    @sophiejanec Před 16 dny

    Not me quickly taking under locke off my tbr😂😂😂

  • @crypticgembooks
    @crypticgembooks Před 11 dny

    i would've dnf under locke at tge part where he calls her a bïtch.. i hate that and the farting scene ugh i couldn't

  • @syranoemi5679
    @syranoemi5679 Před 16 dny

    I considered reading Simple Wild because they say many good things about the book but the plot of a city girl going to a small town is not for me. I've read the third book in the series Running Wild and I really like it, there are glimpses of the MCs in Simple Wild there and they're not my cup of tea so I won't read there book. Sorry✌

    • @bookswithellen
      @bookswithellen  Před 15 dny +1

      oooh maybe i’ll check out running wild then!! something about the ‘privileged’ city girl in a small town trope just irks me!! glad it’s not just me🤣

  • @coffeeeandskies
    @coffeeeandskies Před 11 dny

    omg you got a sponsor 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 so happy for you