Just the Percy Jackson series in general. It 1) is what made me the avid reader I am and 2) is what connected me and who I now consider one of my best friends.
Miranda Rodriguez My memories with that is my entire family read the whole series together. I can remember we all started cheering when we found out Tyson was alive, and when Percy and Annabeth kissed and so many more.
The book I have the best memories for is Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, which I buddy read with Sam from Thoughts on Tomes. We read the book together years ago and it really solidified our friendship. The beautiful thing is that when Sam met Leigh, she told her this - and then when I met Leigh I told her too and she remembered Sam and it was so wonderful, and she said “it’s like the two of you have met through me, I’ve met you both” and it was so special. Flash forward to now and we still haven’t met but one day!
I have a specific like nostalgia for the first classic I ever read which was the secret garden and I remember reading it to my mum when she was ill and lying on the sofa. I mean the memory is kinds sad but still.
A book that I have an attachment to is "The School for Good and evil" by Soman chainani. Though I couldn't get into the second book I really loved the first book. This book is very memorable because it was one of the first novels I've read, I'm dyslexic and could never really get myself to read anything the size of a brick but this book was so good(even though I'm never going to read the rest because I was happy with the end of the first one).
I don't think I'll EVER get over Borders shutting down. There was one in my town and it was glorious. Borders hands down wins for bookstores. Fun fact: there is a borders in Dubai. I had a layover there over the summer and I'm so sad it wasn't long enough to actually go to it. I read The Kite Runner in one of my courses at college too and I really loved reading and discussing it in class too! Some great discussions had in that class about the books read.
My most cherished memory is actually a memory of a box of books. It was last year, early December, I decided to give the box to myself as a Christmas present to trick myself into being exicited for the holidays. All John Green's book in one big set, I payed a lot of money but I don't regret it. These were the very first books I have ever read in English. They've sparked my love for books and broken the language barrier in my mind - although my English is still terrible, I can read books in it - authors like George Orwell, Stephen King and many more. And it all started in that bleak December with a cup of coffee and a book. /sorry for my grammar mistakes/
That's pretty awesome :) Not a native English speaker either,I know how weird it is at the beggining of reading books in English,but indeed,it's totally worth it after you get used to focus more on the context and stop translating with your phone every single word you don't get(that may be just me tho who used to do that,lol). Btw,your English seems really good.
After the Paper Towns movie premiere, me and my friends were inspired to go on a spontaneous road trip! We drove all night to Lake Michigan and got there just in time to watch the sun rise. I’ll never forget that ☺️
Paper towns for sure because I actually live in the area the book is set in! and it was so odd and exciting because I kept thinking to myself I KNOW WHERE THAT IS. so weird tbh haha
The first full book I can remember reading on my own is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. My parents and I went to Florida for a week. We went to Disney and Universal Studios. This was the book I brought with me to read. The memory that really sticks out is how mad I was that MGM, in my opinion, didn't do the book justice. I fell in love with the book. Its still my favorite to this day.
4:42 I know right! But for me, it's just a branch of a bookstore in a mall. It was a nice place to buy books then they suddenly close it down and replaced it with H&M.
I have a well-loved tattered set of The Chronicles of Narnia on my shelf. They're the copies my dad used to read to us every night when we were kids, and even now when I reread the books I still can hear all the voices the way he read it. They weren't the first chapter books I personally read, but they were the first read to me. I can't point to this and say that that was the moment my love of books was sparked, because my parents were always reading to us so that love was more like a long term nurture lol, but it's true that after Narnia I couldn't get enough of magical worlds and adventures. I'm always going to be super fond of that series.
They had Borders in the UK as well and I swear I cried when it closed down. I used to love that store so much and would spend ages in there as a small child browsing the shelves!
My most prized book is Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín. I actually haven't read it yet. My brother gave it to me last year for Christmas. He found it at Walmart and said that the book description reminded him of me. It's especially sweet since he's not really a reader. He wrote a letter to me in the inside of the book that made me bawl my eyes out when I read it. This book is priceless to me. ❤ It's especially bittersweet looking at it because my brother is not able to come home for Christmas this year, though we are going to Facetime him on Christmas day.
Borders being shut down still upsets me just as much as blockbuster being shut down still upsets me 😭 I don’t think I have any specific memories tied to books, but I will always love my seventh grade English class. That class is what really sparked my love of reading as we read the hunger games, percy jackson, and twilight (though this was an independent novel and not an assigned one like the other two) and eventually led to the discovery that I wanted to be an author.
a book I have a good memory with is Matched by Ally Condie because I read it on a beach so now when I look at it I think about the ocean and it's great. Matched is also just one of my favorite books, too.
I glad someone else is STILL pressed about Borders closing. I liked it because I could see over the shelves. (And I totally dragged my baby brother along with me to see Paper Towns because I didn't want to go alone. 😂)
I was really depressed my freshman year of college and was trying to make myself feel better through reading. I ended up picking up Six of Crows at Target and when I got home I opened the book. Some kind soul had put a heart shaped note in the book that said, "Stay positive, work hard, and make it happen". While it wasn't a complete fix, the note made me feel immensely better and reminded me that no matter what you're going through, there's always someone in your corner (even if in some cases that person is a stranger).
This is such a cool idea, just reliving book memories. My favorite memory with a book is when I read the book Nevermore by Kelley Creagh. I took that everywhere: school, bus, on social outings. One of the greatest books. Just found out it is a trilogy, so the horror of not having read them all is real. Great Video.
The Fault in Our Stars was the first ever book I read in English (this was when I was about thirteen and right now the vast majority of the books I read are in English). This was the first time I ever visited London and I brought that book all over the city with me, reading it in cafes and parks but mostly on the tube. I finished it in two days and loved it. TIFIOS will now always be connected to that wonderful trip for me.
To Kill a Mockingbird. I read it in 8th grade, and had such a fun time discussing it with my class. I got my copy to keep from my teacher because I loved it so much.
The Hunger Games and City of Bones remind me of when I started high school and first became really depressed, those series have helped me through so much!
I have a memory tied to the Middle School Magic trilogy by Braden Bell. I remember I started reading it in the 6th grade and finished it about halfway through the summer before I started junior high. When I started, I met this girl in my French class who was really into reading and writing like I was. We discussed some books, and she started reading the first book in the trilogy. We later became best friends.
My best book memory happened with Harry Potter and the prizoner of Azkaban. We were visiting London (and Harry Potter studios) with my mom and I bought the prizoner of Azkaban from a little shop there. And I remember reading it on a train with my fancy Potter glasses on. And I actually kept the glasses on until we left back to Finland.
I have 2 books that are very important to me. One is the chronicles of Narnia bind up with the movie poster as it’s cover. The second is A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ominous Omnibus. It’s a bind up of the first 3 books. It also has the movie cover but I took it off. I can’t remember which I read first. They are both important to me because they were the first books that really got me into reading in 4th grade and defined who I was as a reader.
I think most books that stick with you have a memory associated with them, Bridget Jones's Diary was when I rediscovered my love of reading in high school but right now the best bookish memories are coming from Wonder. I went to see the movie & it made me think of all the pupils I have shared this book with over he years and their reactions to it & made me hope that they are still as in love with this book & movie as I am!
“Exit Point” by Laura Langston. It was the first and the only book, that I read in one sitting. I was in about 9th grade I believe... My dad had herd of Laura through “BC Book World” which is a Book newspaper that comes out at different points in the year. It show cases British Columbia authors. “Exit Point” was in the YA section of the newspaper. He got it through inter library loan and I read it after he finished it. I stayed on the couch in our living room from whatever time I started reading it. Until I was finishing the last page, just as my Dad was getting up to go to work at 5:30am. So he sat in our rocking chair waiting for me to finish it. And we had a quick discussion about it before he left for work. That’s my best and favourite bookish memory! There are a lot more of course but that’s my #1! Hahaha!!! That was a long comment sorry! Also sorry for the grammar and spelling, I’m really not that good at English...
The Borders in my town had a cafe in it, but when it closed down and Dymocks was put in it's place, they didn't put a cafe in! It makes me so sad thinking about it
Amanda is the best! I dont think she has tumblr anymore but she has a twitter and instagram. Second book, Witch Doesnt Burn in This One, and her husband's debut poetry book, DROPKICKrromance, are both coming out in March! I am super excited!
Leviathan wakes (which you should totally read btw), the first book of the expanse series. It will always be connected to my best friend who lent it to me. I just moved abroad ten weeks ago to study in Germany, and through a series of coincidences that would make a good story on their own, we became friends ridiculously fast. We're both ultra geeks and into metal, writing and drawing, so it really felt like meeting someone I have always known. She borrowed me leviathan wakes, and I loved it soo much!!! So that'll always be attached to that particular book😀
One book that I have a LOT of memories about is ACOMAF The book was released in August here in Brazil, so I had to wait a lot of time I remember when the publisher announced the cover and that August was the month. Since that day, almost every day, I asked them the release date. I remember they not saying it. I remember going on a date with this guy on August 26th, and after the date I went to this HUGE bookish event in my city, where most books have discounts. I remember going to the "Saraiva" (this brazilian bookstore) part of the event to look at the books and seeint it there at full price. IT WAS THE RELEASE DATE, AUGUST 26TH. I remeber not buying it at that exact moment, and then going to this booktube pannel on the event and staying there for HOURS. I remember looking at what time was it. It was 9:49 PM (ish). The event closed at 10PM. I remember RUNNING to Saraiva again to buy it and then coming back to the end of the pannel. Also I remember finishing it at the hallway in my school and CRYING A LOT Sorry for this huge text, I just wanted to tell this story :v
This is very late, but I’m just gonna say it because I love this memory. My favorite book is actually The Fault In Our Stars, and yes, I know, I’m a hopeless romantic. It was during spring break when I read it, and I remember the last night I was reading it it was midnight and I was reading in bed wearing a onesie. It was when the huge heartbreak happened (fans know what I’m talking about) and I was sobbing, but the thing about this that sticks with me the most is that my step brother was going to spend the night for the first time, and I was terrified he was gonna walk into my room on accident and just see me sobbing. That memory, and that feeling and love for that book will always stay with me. I knew about the sad part, and I knew what had happened before I read it, but yet it still managed to make me cry, and it is still the only book I’ve ever cried during reading. So obviously, like I’ve said, this book will always hold a dear place in my heart.
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. I was at YALLFest in 2015 and was currently reading the book. I was in line for something else and I saw her still signing. So I walked up and she signed my book. Sadly I didn’t have a phone with a good camera. Fast forward a week, I was at my grandmothers house and I read that one part (if you have read it, you know what I am talking about) and I got into my first book slump after that book. It was great. That book has such an connection with me that I will hopefully have again.
Your experience with a screening of Paper Towns sounds very similar to an experience I had going to a screening of The 5th Wave, there was like a woman and her daughter, two parents and then their teenage son and before the movie began a woman with her two daughters came in, although it was like in early February last year
We had a Borders a town over from me and I lived in it! But I was really young and never got to enjoy the young adult selections, AND the luxury of having a local book store. Now its like a winery and I'm so mad cause the closest Barnes n Noble is not even that close.
When I lived in Portsmouth a couple of years ago I was best friends with this girl called Ella and at this point I hadn’t picked up a book that wasn’t a mr men in years... I was like 11 and then she introduced me to the series the mortal instruments and I fell in love with books and thanks to her I read TMI and divergent and then I was moved back to where I had lived before birmingham away from my best friend but we kept in touch and talked about books and I never stopped reading and now my aspirations in life are to have a personal library in my house... and I can honestly say books have saved my life😊😊 I’m 16 now and in college... I live in the UK and I know it’s expected that most book lovers take English at college but I’m doing animal management at a safari park and it’s a great life😊😊
I remember preparing for a presentation at school, for one of my all time favourite books. I emailed the publisher, requesting some promotional material. They sent a couple of posters and were delighted to hear of my enthusiasm for the book, so they also gave me another book of the same author, which I absolutely loved! Later on, I also got my favourite one signed :)
I wasn't much if a reader back in middle school. But the summer before high school, I picked up Throne of Glass by Sarah J Mass and read it and now I have a pretty big amount of books. I'm still following the series too
Mine is the mortal instruments series and while the memory is sad it is also makes me smile (makes no sense and contradicts ones self 😂👍🏼🤔). At the time of reading this series I was being severely bullied and I picked up this series and it was like an escape for me. I didn’t think about the comments being said to me or the other things going on I just got to be immersed in the story and in the world
A am a newly turned reader and I am connected to "HP and the socerer's stone" It was last year's dec when my birthday was gonna come in two days when I fell sick of chicken pox ( mind you ,I live in a place where people rarely read story books,and a student like me has to study 24×7....and I was prohibited of reading any novels) so my brother wanted my tab to work something on it and in return gave me his tab in which there was a pdf of HP part 1 ..so to pass time I started reading it and finished it in one day while my brother could only manage 62 pages..so that was how I was introduces to the book world. The habit of reading is vanishing from this place and people still get shocked when they hear that I read novels all the time and still manage to score highest in my class . I real want people around me to open their mind to books.
The outsiders. My school was moving location and the library was going to be much smaller so they had to get rid of books. My piano teacher was also the librarian so she told me during my lesson that when I was finished I could pick out I book. I picked out this coby of the outsiders that was printed in 1992. It was so small it could fit in my back pocket. And I read that book. Over and over. I read that book til the hardcover started to crack. 2009 was the year I picked that book up. January 22, 2009. I wrote it down on the card pocket. And I will forever thank that book for being the one that got me into reading.
I had this book gifted to me when I was around 8. I couldn't read English properly was so frustrated with the book because I couldn't read past paragraph one. I left the book to collect dust on my shelf for a few years. Fast forward when I was 12-13. I was in a huge reading marathon and decided to pick it up again and I got sooo into it. I finished it within 5 days. I kept picking it up, re reading my favourite paragraphs. Now to this day is my favourite book. (The book was called The circus of laughter)
I feel your pain. My favorite bookstore is closing down in early 2018 and there has been no news on whether it's permanent or a relocation. It's the only location in my city and it's breaking my heart.
The Series of Unfortunate Events was the first series I read after I struggled to read until I was 7. I particularly remember buying the thirteenth book first, and I started it. I was totally confused and I did not finish it until after I read the other twelve. :'D
i remember reading the book My Friend Leonard by James Frey and crying my heart out through out the whole book ... that book was super sad every page had me in feels and i remember putting the book down and thinkin to my self ...i cant read anything for a while so i can properly recover. it was the first time a book broke and build me and it hurt.
The book that I have a memory of was actually the first book I ever bought with my own money and that is Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan. It's pretty beat up now cause I bought it in 2nd grade, so I plan to buy a new copy of it soon.
My favorite book memory is probably with Pendragon: The Merchant of Death by DJ Machale! So I bought that book in elementary school when we still had those awesome book fairs! Oh the good old days lol. But after getting it, I never read it. Then years later, it was Thanksgiving day and we were all stuffed and I wanted something to read, so I picked it up and blew through it!! I thought it was a standalone, and then I FOUND THE YOUNG ADULT SECTION at my library (even though this is a middle grade series) and there were 8 more books in the series, and the 10th one was coming out that year! I think it was like, May 2007, so I was in like, seventh grade and I marathoned the entire series and got to experience the release of the last book lol. It was so great. This series means the world to me because it made me the reader I am today 💙 That was so long haha.
i love your bookshelf, is just so amazing. I WANT MORE BOOKS P.D: "Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda" is my favorite book and brings me a lot of good memories😍😍
1. The spider wick chronicles. it got me into reading when I was like 8 2. The Percy Jackson series. I read it with my brother and I remember having so much fun reading it with him
I'm with you Jesse, Borders was my favorite book store too. It was so sad when it closed down, I still go past where it used to be and then I get hit with a wave of sadness and anger lol
Bookish Memories: before I even knew I was into reading fiction and fantasy, I got my first of many hunches about a particular book, in a foreign city, suddenly saw the cover, read the blurb and was like Yes! But didn't buy it. Years later bought the paper back and is the only book I own thats damaged by SO much re-reading. (long rambles aside the book is A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness)
Hey Jesse did you finish "the princess save her self in this one" I aredy finish it this week and is so deep I don't know but it make me cry but still I really love the book.
Jesse "looking" for his bookshelves reminding me of Dora the Explorer lol
XD
Except he doesn't stare at you for 5 minutes, asking you where his bookshelves are.
jessethereader XD
"Can we find shelf two? I don't know, it's pretty hard to find bookshelves around here."
When you “find” the bookshelves it reminds me so much of “Dora the Explorer”😂
Sarah McCullough I was going to say seasame street because of the counting! 😂
freeleigh, oh yeah!! That too!😂
How does that remind you of Dora the explorer?
Just the Percy Jackson series in general. It 1) is what made me the avid reader I am and 2) is what connected me and who I now consider one of my best friends.
Miranda Rodriguez My memories with that is my entire family read the whole series together. I can remember we all started cheering when we found out Tyson was alive, and when Percy and Annabeth kissed and so many more.
Oh my gosh it's fate, Emma's numbers led you to her book! Naaawwww
The book I have the best memories for is Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, which I buddy read with Sam from Thoughts on Tomes. We read the book together years ago and it really solidified our friendship. The beautiful thing is that when Sam met Leigh, she told her this - and then when I met Leigh I told her too and she remembered Sam and it was so wonderful, and she said “it’s like the two of you have met through me, I’ve met you both” and it was so special. Flash forward to now and we still haven’t met but one day!
I have a specific like nostalgia for the first classic I ever read which was the secret garden and I remember reading it to my mum when she was ill and lying on the sofa. I mean the memory is kinds sad but still.
Your personality is amazing. I love the way you twist typical videos to make them unique and so much fun!
A book that I have an attachment to is "The School for Good and evil" by Soman chainani. Though I couldn't get into the second book I really loved the first book. This book is very memorable because it was one of the first novels I've read, I'm dyslexic and could never really get myself to read anything the size of a brick but this book was so good(even though I'm never going to read the rest because I was happy with the end of the first one).
I don't think I'll EVER get over Borders shutting down. There was one in my town and it was glorious. Borders hands down wins for bookstores. Fun fact: there is a borders in Dubai. I had a layover there over the summer and I'm so sad it wasn't long enough to actually go to it.
I read The Kite Runner in one of my courses at college too and I really loved reading and discussing it in class too! Some great discussions had in that class about the books read.
My most cherished memory is actually a memory of a box of books. It was last year, early December, I decided to give the box to myself as a Christmas present to trick myself into being exicited for the holidays. All John Green's book in one big set, I payed a lot of money but I don't regret it. These were the very first books I have ever read in English. They've sparked my love for books and broken the language barrier in my mind - although my English is still terrible, I can read books in it - authors like George Orwell, Stephen King and many more. And it all started in that bleak December with a cup of coffee and a book.
/sorry for my grammar mistakes/
Benika Krůželová your English is probably better than mine, and English is my first (and only) language! Might I ask what is your first?
Haven Lovegood Czech! :)
A beautiful slavic language with complex grammar...
Benika Krůželová it’s ok I’m Ukrainian sooo English books were a problem until recently. Also hello to my Slavic sister :)
You’re grammar was pretty spot on. Don’t apologize. I love that that’s how you got into reading.
That's pretty awesome :)
Not a native English speaker either,I know how weird it is at the beggining of reading books in English,but indeed,it's totally worth it after you get used to focus more on the context and stop translating with your phone every single word you don't get(that may be just me tho who used to do that,lol).
Btw,your English seems really good.
Notification squad, I'm at a loud family party, and I'm sitting in a quit room away from the loudness, thanks for making my night jesse
ah! no problem!
Britt Loos I literally live in quiet rooms at parties
After the Paper Towns movie premiere, me and my friends were inspired to go on a spontaneous road trip! We drove all night to Lake Michigan and got there just in time to watch the sun rise. I’ll never forget that ☺️
For the second book you could have gone backwards 11 books from The Little Prince instead of counting to 74 again. Math wins!
Paper towns for sure because I actually live in the area the book is set in! and it was so odd and exciting because I kept thinking to myself I KNOW WHERE THAT IS. so weird tbh haha
The amount of energy coming from this video just has my finals-exhausted/drained self like :-0
This is one of my favorite book tags ever, I find it so lovely to hear people's memories of stories.
it's weird seeing a Jesse video without the Mortal Instruments behind him.
The first full book I can remember reading on my own is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. My parents and I went to Florida for a week. We went to Disney and Universal Studios. This was the book I brought with me to read. The memory that really sticks out is how mad I was that MGM, in my opinion, didn't do the book justice. I fell in love with the book. Its still my favorite to this day.
4:42 I know right! But for me, it's just a branch of a bookstore in a mall. It was a nice place to buy books then they suddenly close it down and replaced it with H&M.
I have a well-loved tattered set of The Chronicles of Narnia on my shelf. They're the copies my dad used to read to us every night when we were kids, and even now when I reread the books I still can hear all the voices the way he read it. They weren't the first chapter books I personally read, but they were the first read to me. I can't point to this and say that that was the moment my love of books was sparked, because my parents were always reading to us so that love was more like a long term nurture lol, but it's true that after Narnia I couldn't get enough of magical worlds and adventures. I'm always going to be super fond of that series.
They had Borders in the UK as well and I swear I cried when it closed down. I used to love that store so much and would spend ages in there as a small child browsing the shelves!
My most prized book is Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín. I actually haven't read it yet. My brother gave it to me last year for Christmas. He found it at Walmart and said that the book description reminded him of me. It's especially sweet since he's not really a reader. He wrote a letter to me in the inside of the book that made me bawl my eyes out when I read it. This book is priceless to me. ❤ It's especially bittersweet looking at it because my brother is not able to come home for Christmas this year, though we are going to Facetime him on Christmas day.
Omg BOARDERS WAS MY JAM!!!!! And btw, this is such a unique and fun video idea. You go Jesse. 💛
Borders being shut down still upsets me just as much as blockbuster being shut down still upsets me 😭 I don’t think I have any specific memories tied to books, but I will always love my seventh grade English class. That class is what really sparked my love of reading as we read the hunger games, percy jackson, and twilight (though this was an independent novel and not an assigned one like the other two) and eventually led to the discovery that I wanted to be an author.
a book I have a good memory with is Matched by Ally Condie because I read it on a beach so now when I look at it I think about the ocean and it's great. Matched is also just one of my favorite books, too.
I glad someone else is STILL pressed about Borders closing. I liked it because I could see over the shelves. (And I totally dragged my baby brother along with me to see Paper Towns because I didn't want to go alone. 😂)
they always had such a good selection! my b&n can't relate. lol
I was really depressed my freshman year of college and was trying to make myself feel better through reading. I ended up picking up Six of Crows at Target and when I got home I opened the book. Some kind soul had put a heart shaped note in the book that said, "Stay positive, work hard, and make it happen". While it wasn't a complete fix, the note made me feel immensely better and reminded me that no matter what you're going through, there's always someone in your corner (even if in some cases that person is a stranger).
This is such a cool idea, just reliving book memories. My favorite memory with a book is when I read the book Nevermore by Kelley Creagh. I took that everywhere: school, bus, on social outings. One of the greatest books. Just found out it is a trilogy, so the horror of not having read them all is real. Great Video.
The Fault in Our Stars was the first ever book I read in English (this was when I was about thirteen and right now the vast majority of the books I read are in English). This was the first time I ever visited London and I brought that book all over the city with me, reading it in cafes and parks but mostly on the tube. I finished it in two days and loved it. TIFIOS will now always be connected to that wonderful trip for me.
To Kill a Mockingbird. I read it in 8th grade, and had such a fun time discussing it with my class. I got my copy to keep from my teacher because I loved it so much.
NEVER CLICKED SO FAST.
I LIKE FAST CLICKERS
This looks so fun. This is like a game you could play with friends and a way get to know them better based on how they talk about the book.
The Hunger Games and City of Bones remind me of when I started high school and first became really depressed, those series have helped me through so much!
One of the books with one of my biggest memories is Divergent. It's what got me into reading and made me a book lover.
I have a memory tied to the Middle School Magic trilogy by Braden Bell. I remember I started reading it in the 6th grade and finished it about halfway through the summer before I started junior high. When I started, I met this girl in my French class who was really into reading and writing like I was. We discussed some books, and she started reading the first book in the trilogy. We later became best friends.
My best book memory happened with Harry Potter and the prizoner of Azkaban. We were visiting London (and Harry Potter studios) with my mom and I bought the prizoner of Azkaban from a little shop there. And I remember reading it on a train with my fancy Potter glasses on. And I actually kept the glasses on until we left back to Finland.
One of my favorite book related memories is me and my mom reading Stargirl. I will always love that book
I have 2 books that are very important to me. One is the chronicles of Narnia bind up with the movie poster as it’s cover.
The second is A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ominous Omnibus. It’s a bind up of the first 3 books. It also has the movie cover but I took it off.
I can’t remember which I read first. They are both important to me because they were the first books that really got me into reading in 4th grade and defined who I was as a reader.
I think most books that stick with you have a memory associated with them, Bridget Jones's Diary was when I rediscovered my love of reading in high school but right now the best bookish memories are coming from Wonder. I went to see the movie & it made me think of all the pupils I have shared this book with over he years and their reactions to it & made me hope that they are still as in love with this book & movie as I am!
THE LITTLE PRINCE JUST GIVES ME MAJOR FEELS
Oh please do more of these videos!!! 😍 can’t stop rewatching
This is such a fun video idea! I still haven't read anything by Libba Bray except for the Gemma Doyle trilogy, but I might pick up The Diviners soon!
“Exit Point” by Laura Langston. It was the first and the only book, that I read in one sitting. I was in about 9th grade I believe...
My dad had herd of Laura through “BC Book World” which is a Book newspaper that comes out at different points in the year. It show cases British Columbia authors. “Exit Point” was in the YA section of the newspaper. He got it through inter library loan and I read it after he finished it. I stayed on the couch in our living room from whatever time I started reading it. Until I was finishing the last page, just as my Dad was getting up to go to work at 5:30am. So he sat in our rocking chair waiting for me to finish it. And we had a quick discussion about it before he left for work. That’s my best and favourite bookish memory! There are a lot more of course but that’s my #1! Hahaha!!! That was a long comment sorry! Also sorry for the grammar and spelling, I’m really not that good at English...
The Borders in my town had a cafe in it, but when it closed down and Dymocks was put in it's place, they didn't put a cafe in! It makes me so sad thinking about it
Amanda is the best! I dont think she has tumblr anymore but she has a twitter and instagram. Second book, Witch Doesnt Burn in This One, and her husband's debut poetry book, DROPKICKrromance, are both coming out in March! I am super excited!
Leviathan wakes (which you should totally read btw), the first book of the expanse series. It will always be connected to my best friend who lent it to me. I just moved abroad ten weeks ago to study in Germany, and through a series of coincidences that would make a good story on their own, we became friends ridiculously fast. We're both ultra geeks and into metal, writing and drawing, so it really felt like meeting someone I have always known. She borrowed me leviathan wakes, and I loved it soo much!!! So that'll always be attached to that particular book😀
One book that I have a LOT of memories about is ACOMAF
The book was released in August here in Brazil, so I had to wait a lot of time
I remember when the publisher announced the cover and that August was the month. Since that day, almost every day, I asked them the release date. I remember they not saying it. I remember going on a date with this guy on August 26th, and after the date I went to this HUGE bookish event in my city, where most books have discounts. I remember going to the "Saraiva" (this brazilian bookstore) part of the event to look at the books and seeint it there at full price. IT WAS THE RELEASE DATE, AUGUST 26TH.
I remeber not buying it at that exact moment, and then going to this booktube pannel on the event and staying there for HOURS. I remember looking at what time was it. It was 9:49 PM (ish). The event closed at 10PM. I remember RUNNING to Saraiva again to buy it and then coming back to the end of the pannel.
Also I remember finishing it at the hallway in my school and CRYING A LOT
Sorry for this huge text, I just wanted to tell this story :v
OMG BORDERS
YO SHELF LOOKING FINE DAWG
ha! thank you!
This idea is so great and creative!! I definitely have the most memories with the HP series as well as the Throne Of Glass series.
aaww the little prince is so cute i read it in french (le petit prince) in like grade 7 such a good story so true!
I love your enthusiasm for your channel
OH MY GOSH BORDERS WAS MY FAVORITE BOOK STORE TOO
sorry got a little excited
This is very late, but I’m just gonna say it because I love this memory. My favorite book is actually The Fault In Our Stars, and yes, I know, I’m a hopeless romantic. It was during spring break when I read it, and I remember the last night I was reading it it was midnight and I was reading in bed wearing a onesie. It was when the huge heartbreak happened (fans know what I’m talking about) and I was sobbing, but the thing about this that sticks with me the most is that my step brother was going to spend the night for the first time, and I was terrified he was gonna walk into my room on accident and just see me sobbing. That memory, and that feeling and love for that book will always stay with me. I knew about the sad part, and I knew what had happened before I read it, but yet it still managed to make me cry, and it is still the only book I’ve ever cried during reading. So obviously, like I’ve said, this book will always hold a dear place in my heart.
You did ur video like Clau Reads Books did in her channel!!!! I love it!!
Will never get bored of your videos
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. I was at YALLFest in 2015 and was currently reading the book. I was in line for something else and I saw her still signing. So I walked up and she signed my book. Sadly I didn’t have a phone with a good camera. Fast forward a week, I was at my grandmothers house and I read that one part (if you have read it, you know what I am talking about) and I got into my first book slump after that book. It was great. That book has such an connection with me that I will hopefully have again.
Your experience with a screening of Paper Towns sounds very similar to an experience I had going to a screening of The 5th Wave, there was like a woman and her daughter, two parents and then their teenage son and before the movie began a woman with her two daughters came in, although it was like in early February last year
Such a fun video Jesse!! You should do this again 😁
In 7th grade my English teacher made us read the book Cinder and that book really got me into reading
We had a Borders a town over from me and I lived in it! But I was really young and never got to enjoy the young adult selections, AND the luxury of having a local book store. Now its like a winery and I'm so mad cause the closest Barnes n Noble is not even that close.
When I lived in Portsmouth a couple of years ago I was best friends with this girl called Ella and at this point I hadn’t picked up a book that wasn’t a mr men in years... I was like 11 and then she introduced me to the series the mortal instruments and I fell in love with books and thanks to her I read TMI and divergent and then I was moved back to where I had lived before birmingham away from my best friend but we kept in touch and talked about books and I never stopped reading and now my aspirations in life are to have a personal library in my house... and I can honestly say books have saved my life😊😊 I’m 16 now and in college... I live in the UK and I know it’s expected that most book lovers take English at college but I’m doing animal management at a safari park and it’s a great life😊😊
The first ever BookTube video that I watched was your review of Crown Of Midnight
I remember preparing for a presentation at school, for one of my all time favourite books. I emailed the publisher, requesting some promotional material. They sent a couple of posters and were delighted to hear of my enthusiasm for the book, so they also gave me another book of the same author, which I absolutely loved! Later on, I also got my favourite one signed :)
Yes, I know what it felt like. Last year, one of my favorite Barnes & Noble stores closed down. NOOOOOOOO!!!
I wasn't much if a reader back in middle school. But the summer before high school, I picked up Throne of Glass by Sarah J Mass and read it and now I have a pretty big amount of books. I'm still following the series too
Mine is the mortal instruments series and while the memory is sad it is also makes me smile (makes no sense and contradicts ones self 😂👍🏼🤔). At the time of reading this series I was being severely bullied and I picked up this series and it was like an escape for me. I didn’t think about the comments being said to me or the other things going on I just got to be immersed in the story and in the world
You have so much cool energy!
OMG.. a notification from you're Channel .. a source of happiness 😍 god bless you
ah! glad it brings you happiness!
A am a newly turned reader and I am connected to "HP and the socerer's stone"
It was last year's dec when my birthday was gonna come in two days when I fell sick of chicken pox
( mind you ,I live in a place where people rarely read story books,and a student like me has to study 24×7....and I was prohibited of reading any novels) so my brother wanted my tab to work something on it and in return gave me his tab in which there was a pdf of HP part 1 ..so to pass time I started reading it and finished it in one day while my brother could only manage 62 pages..so that was how I was introduces to the book world. The habit of reading is vanishing from this place and people still get shocked when they hear that I read novels all the time and still manage to score highest in my class . I real want people around me to open their mind to books.
The outsiders. My school was moving location and the library was going to be much smaller so they had to get rid of books. My piano teacher was also the librarian so she told me during my lesson that when I was finished I could pick out I book. I picked out this coby of the outsiders that was printed in 1992. It was so small it could fit in my back pocket. And I read that book. Over and over. I read that book til the hardcover started to crack. 2009 was the year I picked that book up. January 22, 2009. I wrote it down on the card pocket. And I will forever thank that book for being the one that got me into reading.
The Borders in my town is now a Ross. Jesse, do you have a favorite book you have read this year yet?
Ohmygosh!! Another fellow Borders fan!! I loved Borders so much!! My heart is still broken. 💔💔 I miss it terribly :(
I had this book gifted to me when I was around 8. I couldn't read English properly was so frustrated with the book because I couldn't read past paragraph one. I left the book to collect dust on my shelf for a few years. Fast forward when I was 12-13. I was in a huge reading marathon and decided to pick it up again and I got sooo into it. I finished it within 5 days. I kept picking it up, re reading my favourite paragraphs. Now to this day is my favourite book.
(The book was called The circus of laughter)
I feel your pain. My favorite bookstore is closing down in early 2018 and there has been no news on whether it's permanent or a relocation. It's the only location in my city and it's breaking my heart.
So happy to be back to internet after vacay and jesses videos
hope you had a good vacation!
Your videos are the friking highlight of my day. :3
The book A Walk to Remember made me love reading
I LOVED BORDERS TOO OMG I would always go with my grandad when he visited 😭😭
The Series of Unfortunate Events was the first series I read after I struggled to read until I was 7. I particularly remember buying the thirteenth book first, and I started it. I was totally confused and I did not finish it until after I read the other twelve. :'D
i remember reading the book My Friend Leonard by James Frey and crying my heart out through out the whole book ... that book was super sad every page had me in feels and i remember putting the book down and thinkin to my self ...i cant read anything for a while so i can properly recover. it was the first time a book broke and build me and it hurt.
The book that I have a memory of was actually the first book I ever bought with my own money and that is Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan. It's pretty beat up now cause I bought it in 2nd grade, so I plan to buy a new copy of it soon.
My favorite book memory is probably with Pendragon: The Merchant of Death by DJ Machale! So I bought that book in elementary school when we still had those awesome book fairs! Oh the good old days lol. But after getting it, I never read it. Then years later, it was Thanksgiving day and we were all stuffed and I wanted something to read, so I picked it up and blew through it!! I thought it was a standalone, and then I FOUND THE YOUNG ADULT SECTION at my library (even though this is a middle grade series) and there were 8 more books in the series, and the 10th one was coming out that year! I think it was like, May 2007, so I was in like, seventh grade and I marathoned the entire series and got to experience the release of the last book lol. It was so great. This series means the world to me because it made me the reader I am today 💙 That was so long haha.
Omg I’m glad someone is still as upset as I am about Borders! I loved that store!
i love your bookshelf, is just so amazing. I WANT MORE BOOKS
P.D: "Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda" is my favorite book and brings me a lot of good memories😍😍
Oh this is such a fun book tag! I might have to do this sometime :) Also I hate when series keep changing their covers lol
your shelf-finding skills put mine to shame ;) I really enjoyed this video :)
I love your haircut
1. The spider wick chronicles. it got me into reading when I was like 8
2. The Percy Jackson series. I read it with my brother and I remember having so much fun reading it with him
the spiderwick chronicles are great! did you ever read the spin off series?? i've always been curious about it.
jessethereader no I haven't but I may pick it up soon
Jesse: *mentions Emma*
Me: SHIP SHIP SHIP SHIP
same
jessethereader ooOOoOoOoOoOoooooOoOoOOoOo
Jesse please do another tag like this
Jessy do the buying blocks blindfolded challenge!please!
I'm with you Jesse, Borders was my favorite book store too. It was so sad when it closed down, I still go past where it used to be and then I get hit with a wave of sadness and anger lol
it was the best!!
This is such a cool tag :D Finding bookshelves are SOO hard! LOL
i feel ya on the cover changes for the diviners and i haven't read it either lol
I can just imagine my only bookstore closing down....... nooo
Bookish Memories: before I even knew I was into reading fiction and fantasy, I got my first of many hunches about a particular book, in a foreign city, suddenly saw the cover, read the blurb and was like Yes! But didn't buy it. Years later bought the paper back and is the only book I own thats damaged by SO much re-reading. (long rambles aside the book is A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness)
Hey Jesse did you finish "the princess save her self in this one" I aredy finish it this week and is so deep I don't know but it make me cry but still I really love the book.
The land of stories series it was the first book series i read from the beginning to the end it got me in to reading