WHAT I READ IN APRIL (feat. a rant about THE MAGICAL AGE OF OVERTHINKING) [CC]
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Hey hey! I made sure not to procrastinate and filmed my April wrap up in a timely fashion LOL. What did you read in April? Any 5 star reads? Do you have any thoughts on Amanda Montell? Thanks for watching!
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Girl when you said "no thank you Marcus Twain" I literally hollered!
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I read Cultish with my book club where we're all women with Master's degrees, some of whom work in research-heavy roles, and we were pretty unilaterally disappointed with the depth of the research as well. If it had been pitched as a book of essays/anecdotes, or as a memoir, I think we would have been way less disappointed by it.
Yes! Essays and anecdotes is what it is. The lack of research is so disappointing
@@JessOwens I looked her up and when I found out she was a columnist for a zine along the lines of Medium and a podcaster, it all kind of came together as to why the writing was the way it was for me 😅
I read James in March and enjoyed it, for lack of a better word to describe liking books with heavy topics. I discovered Percival Everett when I heard about the film American Fiction and rushed to read Erasure before that film came out. To me, his writing is brutally clever and I love the way he can make me laugh during the darkest moments. I'm working through his backlist on Hoopla, mostly on audiobook.
Not me waiting until almost June to watch your April wrap-up.
Thank you fr. You just saved me quite a bit of money. 🙌🏽 The fact that you are one of the only real ones out here on booktube while everyone else is giving us fake🍑 reviews means a lot to me!! I appreciate you!!!
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Ok so I also read The Age of Magical Overthinking and it solidified why the author annoys me. Her writing makes me think she believes she has something *profound* to say about anything and everything.
I DO NOT recommend her podcast, I listened to it for a few months a year or so ago and she was so obnoxious.
Ok last comment about this book (probably...). I completely agree, her privilege seeps into every chapter of this book. This book will appeal to a certain audience (upper middle class "girly" who doesn't understand their experiences and the opportunities they had over the years aren't the norm..who is used to getting high grades and accolades in high school and undergrad).
YES. She is giving us ✨ nothing✨ but really thinks she is delivering life altering information
@@marshmallow864 I read some of the reviews for her podcast which made me decide not to listen to it. Many reviewers mentioned that she would talk about the negative issues with different products, but then she would have those same types of products she had just mentioned how problematic they were as sponsors for the podcast. I can’t confirm if that’s true, but if it is, that’s really hypocritical.
I agree with you about The Age of Magical Overthinking. I wasn’t a fan of this or of Cultish.
@@amytheshihtzumom she did an episode on the cult of the kardashians and since then has had skims as a sponsor in a lot of the episodes
on Amanda Montell -- if she wanted to write autobiographical essays with a theme she should just do that, idk why she's trying to market her books as more intellectual than they are (not derogatory!!!!)
JESS I am so glad to hear your opinion on Montell’s books. I, too, was deeply disappointed by Cultish- that book pissed me tf OFF. It was confusing to hear the widespread effusive praise, so I’m glad to hear you had a similar reading experience. Not for your suffering lol but to know my hating is validated haha. I thought about giving her newest release a shot, but sounds like it’s more of the same, so thank you for saving me from that 😅
I just don’t get the hype! There’s nothing impressive about Cultush
Bruh I'm here after seeing your Goodreads review about Magical Overthinking and FUCKIN YEAH, I love your rant about it. I read Cultish and got like 80% through and I couldn't deal with it anymore, and it was so cathartic and hilarious watching you express all the same annoyances I had so emphatically xD
I only learned about Percival Everett because of American Fiction the movie and I got the book (Erasure) because the movie was so good..
Love that you mentioned masking at the end when talking about “Do Nothing” ❤
I just started reading Percival Everett in the last 3 years and he has become one of my favorite authors. The Trees is the best one out of the 4 books I've read so far.
Love to hear that 🎉
Yaaaas! Just for the summer was a BOP!!! Say it a little louder for the people in the back: please read Part of your world and Yours truly FIRST! It makes the book that much more meaningful! I’m so glad that you loved it! 😍 ❤
YASSSS. IT WAS SO GOOD
Here's what I read in April
Divine rivals by rebecca ross
Stars in your eyes by kacen callender
Pack up the moon by kristan Higgins
Miss memory lane by colton Haynes memoir
Out of shape by gracie gold memoir
The witching hour by Anne rice book 1 in the mayfair series
Her too by bonnie kistler
Lizzie Blake's best mistake by mazey eddings
One summer in Savannah by terah shelton Harris
This could be us by Kennedy Ryan
The way I am now by amber Smith
Saving 6 by chloe Walsh
Happy place by Emily Henry
Bahahaha I’ve considered butcher and blackbird because of all the hype so thank you so much for saving me 😂
15:36 not me googling Mark Twain only to remember his name is actually Samuel Clemens. So Mark is just the pen name. 😂
😂😂😂😂 I totally forgot that
He took the name from his riverboat days. A mark twain is a unit of measure for water depth. River crewman would yell it out when the water depth was 2 fathoms.
I really enjoyed Just for the Summer, so you've inspired me to read the rest of the series!
Omg two long videos from you...we are truely blessed!
I am trying to feed the people 😂
if you want more of the 'ppl takin take of kids that aren't their own' but in a fantasy setting, highly recommend godkiller by hannah kaner!
Ok I already wanted to read this but now I want to read it NOWWW
@@JessOwens I think you’ll enjoy it a lot!! will also recommend traitors blade in the greatcoats series for more of that trope lol 🫶🏾
Yes! You did a great job putting into words my issues with Cultish! I’m so glad to hear someone else didn’t love her books.
Ooh! I have been wanting to pick up Fake It Til You Bake It! And you are pushing it higher on my list. I think I might be having a romance reading summer. 😃
So now I’m considering re-reading huckleberry Finn and then James!
I also read cultish, and felt the exact same way about it as you did! It def has its audience but I wanted a little more from it
love your top!! i have a similar dad hat 🥀
Yessss! I love Fake It Till You Bake It! I have an eARC of the sequel and I need to get to it. Love all the baking!
The only downside is how hungry it makes me 😂
I LOVE Do Nothing!! Such an amazing book!!
Yessss, incredible!!!
I heard Brittany Cherry writes both black and other romance. I have the Mixtape on my TBR.
Do Nothing sounds incredible ❤
😂Accidental pregnancy is a trope I like. Not ashamed to own it
For some reason I love it in fanfic 😂 but not trad pubbed
I would suggest u to add gothic novel Voyagers of hell in your TBR. its awesome.
I'm slowly getting back into Romance. xD But for now I'm starting off with Monster Romances and slowly back into the historical romances because I grew up with mom reading those and enjoyed it when she would tell me the story without the raunchy parts (cus I was a kid at the time). So, I'm glad that you, Reads with Rachel, and Bookish Realms are getting into romances as I don't feel as corny in reading the romances as much (Though I recently picked up a few.... Mafia romances through the Romance "Stuff your Kindle Day" for research for a writing project.... I hope I don't regret it. And I picked up a few slightly more modern romances for future buddy reads. Also kinda amused I found a Monster romance in the Historical section called "Plucked by the Orc" as it's set during the regency era.) Next buddy read I'm doing is going to be another Monster Romance. Being between "A Soul to Keep" by Opal Reyne and "Ensnared" by Tiffany Roberts though looks like Ensnared is going to win since the third person who's doing the buddy read wants something more light hearted after reading Haunting Adaline. (It is a spider alien romance, so be forwarned if you don't like spiders and decide to look it up.) Beastly and Bookish was a really good, sweet, and not a long read. More of a holiday story, but I enjoyed it even during the time I was reading it out of season.
The Magical Age of Overthinking sounds like all the issues I had of Lilly Singh's book "How to Be a Bawse" when I was listening to epserts while someone was doing an essay on it. It feels.... condesending while not being very deep. I don't recommend the book since Magical Age of Overthinking got under your skin because "How to be a Bawse" kiiinnndddaa does that exactly one to one. Instead of actually teaching you how to make it like "a bawse" it's mostly ancedotes with a sprinkling of google search research to fill out the spots to be just a tad bit out of the "memoire" territory.
I discovered Percival Everette a couple of years ago. I read Not Sidney Poitier. It was humorous because many of the events in the story were based on Sidney Poitier movies. Most recently, the movie American Fiction was based on his book Erasure. I am going to check out James in the near future. I'm currently reading Memphis by Tara Stringfellow.
TARGET HAD WHAT SALE?!?!?!????? Why does nobody tell me anything 😭😭😭😭 always with Barnes & noble sales too 😭
I read most of The Age of Magical Overthinking a couple days ago while waiting in line for merchandise at a Sleep Token concert. I agree with everything you said! I also was annoyed by how many times she would randomly bring up another fallacy in the middle of a chapter and didn't explain it well. Sleep token was amazing though lol
She was just throwing phrases out there willy nilly
I have the same reaction at the accidental pregnancy trope! Agshsv NO, throw the book away. It ruins it for me every time
I get so mad 😂
FINALLY! Someone else who isn't blinded by the Butcher & Blackbird hype. If you're writing a contemporary fantasy then it should be plausible in the real world. No way they don't get caught and thrown in prison on page 5.
I have not read Cultish or The Age of Magical Overthinking, but I adored Wordslut by Amanda Montell
I have Butcher & Blackbird on my TBR this month 😬 so we'll see how that works out for me.
God speed, friend 😢😂
🤣 I'm so not looking forward to it, but it may make for interesting conversation (it's a buddy read). Maybe I'll get the audiobook if there is one, so I don't drag through the read.
I just finished New People by Danzy Senna and started googling her and found out that she and Percival Everett are married. Such interesting work between the two of them!
That cover is fire tho 😂
Please go read the authors note for Just for the Summer! I cackled
I’m sending you love❤
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I know Israel Keys got away with it for a long time because he didn’t live near his kills. The idea works when executed correctly (pun intended). I’ve heard mixed things about Blackbird though so that’s probably not it.
Lol I’ve been wanting to read something by Christina C Jones you gave away the recipe 😢
i'm currently reading butcher & blackbird lol
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@@JessOwens 😂
I sadly did buy The Age of Magical Thinking and like you I was super disappointed. It was extremely surface level with absolutely nothing actionable for the reader like there were some mildly interesting tidbits but at the end I was like ok what do I do with this information? 🙈😂
Exactly!! This subject needs actionable steps at the end but she doesn’t have the knowledge to give those
I read one chapter of the age of magical overthinking and thought it was so odd. She said charli xcx fans are more nuts because gay men are more in need of a mother figure?? And she mentioned her signing the poppers bottle as if poppers are hard drugs and the things she mentioned are things charli herself has said “it’s fine I’m an adult I can take care of myself” but didn’t talk about the guy who literally broke into her house to chill in her hot tub???
Idk it was giving homophobia to me. Also really infantilizing to the celebrities basically saying not to expect more from Taylor swift like girlies carbon emissions might be the reason I won’t be able to have kids in my lifetime I’m allowed to be mad at her
The Charli XCX part was so odd!? Just no good basis for her theories at all
It sounds like Montell's biggest privilege is that she's being published.