26 books who made me who I am at 26 years old 🎂 fantasy, biographies & childhood faves
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
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00:00 intro
00:38 todays video was brought to you by... book of the month!
02:47 more yapping
04:08 Alone In The World/Nobody's Boy, Hector Malot
07:05 Molly Moon's Incredible Book Of Hypnotism, Georgia Byng
08:29 Horrible Science/Histories, Nick Arnold
10:08 De Griezelbus, Paul van Loon
10:45 Cuckoo Clock of Doom, R.L Stine
11:47 Numbers, Rachel Ward
12:56 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
14:39 Hoe Overleef ik mezelf, Francine Oomen
15:45 City Of Bones, Cassandra Clare
16:32 Ruby Red, Kerstin Gier
17:49 Wither, Lauren DeStefano
18:36 The Hungergames, Suzanne Collins
19:43 The Dragon Keeper, Robin Hobb
20:23 We Were Liars, E. Lockhart
21:19 The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet
22:10 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, T. Jenkins Reid
23:07 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
24:14 Nevermoor, Jessica Townsend
25:04 Radio Silence, Alice Oseman
26:52 My Lady Jane, Cynthia hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
28:13 Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom, Sylvia Plath
29:43 Know My Name, Chanel Miller
31:09 Whale Day, Billy Collins
31:59 Letters to a young poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
33:05 Everything I know about love, dolly alderton
34:42 The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
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Happy birthday queen! ❤
Daughter of Smoke and Bone quite literally saved my life when I was 17.
ahh I loved that one too! I think I read it when I was around 20 and I adored it
when you said "holographic cover" I KNEW it was going to be Molly Moon! I looooved the series as a child!
You inspired me to make my own list of books, which in my case would be 67 books. I got to somewhere around 50 books last night and decided to give it some more thought before I finished the list with more recently read books , because I was certain I had left out some older books.
The hunger games is what started my obsession for reading and I haven’t stopped since 😊 I think I read it when I was 13
Omgg!! I also just turned 26 but on the 1st of April 😊 Happy birthday!! 🎉
omg ✨almost birthday twins✨
During primary school I was obsessed with Robert L. Stine books too!!! I'm italian and here the series was called "Piccoli brividi" (literally means "little shivers"). I had a blast reading them! Then I discovered Harry Potter and he stole my heart forever 💖
OMG the Molly Moon book I remember from when I was little (I think one teacher read it in class) and I work in a library and saw it recently so it’s still going around with kids borrowing it 😊
And yes for We Were Liars I remember she says her dad shot her in the chest when he left but it was a metaphor and it shook me too 😂
@@eliza.the.earthling hahaha happy to know both these things made such an impact on us 🥹
This was unexpectedly nostalgic - I‘m German and apparently the we read the same books (Molly Moon and Numbers are such classics 😅) Great video 🎉
I had a huge pile of Waanzinnig om te weten books. I remember reading about space, the weather, computer tech, egyptian stuff, the romans. I was obsessed because they were so funny! with the cartoony puns 😂I think I still have them at my parents house. I should get them and re-read them 🤩
hahaha incredible! I still just have one left at home
we started with the exact same young adult books, im from germany and i never hear people talking about „ruby red“. This series was everything to me and city of bones really changed my reading taste completely🎀💗
Harry Potter was also an important book for the little me! Thanks for taking it into consideration even the polemic around her author! ❤
I think I’ve commented on this before but I’m so hyped to see Ruby Red mentioned! Def one of my all time favorites too ☺️
sameeee! it just such a funny and lovely series
omg Molly Moon!
I forgot about those, you mentioning that really scratched an itch in my nostalgic brain.
Happy bdayyy! Gefeliciteerd! ❤🥳
De shadowhunters reeks (serie en boek serie) heeft mij zo enorme steun gegeven! Ik was helemaal de weg kwijt en clary haar verhaal en avonturen gaven mij zo enorm veel steun! De shadowhunters reeks was ook direct de eerste reeks waar ik oprecht emotioneel over werd😊
Happy Birthday!!!
I love this video idea, you can see how your tase changed, and how you grow up, and how different books impacted you!
I love all the little stories you shared, especially the ones with your dad, I wish I could have bond like this with parent❤
One of the Books that shaped me would be “Percy Jackson” I discovered my love for reading with it. Also like in your case “7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo” because I was able to see myself there. There is many more, but I would probably have to share my whole favorite list 😅 Happy Birthday again, you are lovely person💖🌸
I'll always love radio silence 💗 it has a special place in my heart
I feel the same way 💞
Happy birthday Leroa !🎉
Happy Birthday 🥳 🎂🥂🍾
This is such a cool video concept! And thanks for putting me on to that Sylvia Plath story, I’ve never heard of that one
thanks!! 💗
Happy Birthday!!🥳
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🌳🌺☕
Happy birthday 🌬🎂 All the very best and magical!
Happiest birthday, Leora!!!
happy birthday 🎂!!!! this has made me think about books that shaped me and books i think about a lot, genuinely The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater changed my life and opened my eyes to writing i felt at home with and literally it sounds so dumb but i was in my highschool library and that book was sitting on a stand and i literally would ALWAYS look at it. that thing was staring at me waiting to change me (i had read Shiver previously, idr if i knew it was the same author at the time) and i finally picked it up and the rest is history
so many other integral series tho like Warrior Cats and Rangers Apprentice 😌💖🌸
loved this 🤍 happy birthday!! i'm also turning 26 later this year
thank you!
Happy Birthday! This is such a fun video idea, glad you finally did it. ❤
Happy Birthday! And all the best in your path! One book that stayed with me for...forever, is The Magus by John Fowles. And another few - Miss Christina and Bengal Nights, both by Mircea Eliade.
thank you!
I love how dark your childhood book taste was :D I remember watching this really sad anime film as a kid and just cry but still loving it. :D Ah I love Billy Collins poems.
aaah happy bday💖 🎂
if i had to choose one book that changed my brain chemistry as a 16yr old lol would prbly be The Maze Runner i dunno it just rly has a special place in my heart and now i can't rly seem to get over it 😆
Omg Molly Moon was EVERYTHING 💫🌀
Such a lovely idea and such a great video! Making one of my own for my next birthday! :)
Happy birthday!! ❤💐
I was obsessed with the Paul van Loon bus books when I was a kid, I read them in the italian translation and they kickstarted my love for horror too 🙌
omg I did not know they were translated! love to hear that!
Happy birthday!!~ 🎉 Hope your birthday was great as well as today and always
thank you!
Happy birthday! I hope you had a great day 💕 I 100% agree with your view of Harry Potter. I heavily disagree with Jkr, but HP really cemented my love for fantasy when I was a kid and it’s still a comfort book.
Happy birthday! The goosebumps books are absolutely the reason I am who I am today but Frankenstein is what saved me
Happy birthday ❤✨
Your recommandations are always perfectly done. Wish to discover some of them (always want to read everything). Know my name & Radio silence are in my digital TBR. Need to read them 🙃
I would have to name Jane Eyre. It is my favorite book of all time. I read it first in middle grade, and related so much to Jane as a child. As a teen, I responded to the difficulty she had starting a new life as a governess. In my twenties, I related to the end part where she meets St. John and works out what she wants to do with her life. And of course as a newlywed, I related to the romance.
LOL girl ik had dat waanzinnig on te weten boek ooi en was literally obsessed
I'm reading The Hidden Guardian by J.D.L Rosell and it acame out on your birthday, it was an anticipated release that I'm enjoying.
I'll be reading The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston this month too!
I've just finished the seven year slip!
Happy birthday 🎂🎈🎁🍰🎉🎊💐
I loved Harry Potter, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and The Dead Romantics. Radio Silence and An Absolutely Remarkable Thing are on my TBR list.
thank you
Based on a comment you made in this video I *highly* recommend The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
💚🖤🎉🎂🥳Happy Belated birthday!
Hi Leora, when you were talking about Dead Romantics I remembered a song from Mother Mother - Ghosting. Maybe you would enjoy it. 🙂
Hey Leora!
Happy birthday 🎉🎉🎉 (lil late)
I don't know my full list, but I also have the "Hoe overleef ik..." series, the hunger games, the long way to a small angry planet and basically anything from Alice Oseman on the list. Ironically I also read Nobody's boy when I was like 10, but it did not impress me at all.
Warrior Cats was a big part of my life in my early teens that and Dracula - two very different books 😅
De griezelbus ❤❤ ik had zelfs het cassette bandje 😂 childhood memory unlocked, my god hahaha
hahaha omg het cassette bandje hahahahahahhahaha
Hoi Leora, ik heb alleen op de wereld voorgelezen aan mijn kinderen. Eén hoofdstuk per dag. Maar toen ik het hoofdstuk van de mijn had voorgelezen zeiden ze wanhopig:"Maar mama, je kunt nu niet stoppen met voorlezen!!!" Dus ben ik blijven voorlezen tot Remi weer veilig uit de mijn was. 🙂 Bedankt voor je leuke video's! Ik kijk ze graag.
omg geweldig, zo leuk om te horen dat mensen dit nog steeds aan hun kinderen voorlezen 😭 het was bij mij inderdaad ook de mijn scene die er flink ingehakt heeft hahahaha
your accent is so interesting because it's like blended english and dutch?? ur so cool
Happy birthday beautiful princess blue eyes what a pretty woman may all dreams come true congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
It's so interesting how everyone needs to give a little disclaimer whenever they bring up J.K. Rowling, but no one ever bothers to even think about what male authors like Stephen King say and do. Wonder what the difference between them is 🤔
Anyway, do you even know what J.K. Rowling actually said about transgenderism? Did you read her essay? Did you read even one single twitter thread in its entirety? Have you looked into feminists' arguments against transgenderism? Have you thought about it for longer than it takes to conclude that men should be free to say they're women if they want to? Would you also agree that white people can call themselves black if they feel like they're black? Have you questioned what "feeling like a woman" means?
I understand the desire to be nice to everyone, but there's nothing unkind about acknowledging reality, especially when it's a reality that oppresses a set group of people. And it's ridiculous how many people will just refuse to even listen to ANYTHING feminists (including Rowling) might have said against transgenderism, yet still be bold enough to claim they disagree. With what exactly? Even if you still decide you disagree at the end, at least know enough about it that you actually know what you're disagreeing with.
Interesting that somebody would feel compelled to write such a lengthy statement on her behalf.
OR is it actually you in disguise, JKR? 🤔
Pretty sure more people than you'd think have read the tweets and also the statement on her website from June 2020, where she wrote: "When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman - and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones - then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside."
That is such an incredibly harmful myth to repeat when you have her kind of reach and that's just not okay. I don't get why some feminists refuse to move ahead into intersectionality. It doesn't take away from the "original" feminism at all. Trans women are women. Why put "born womanhood" on some kind of pedestal, saying trans women don't experience the same kind of oppression? Why say it at all, when all it does is to further alienate trans people? Should we not stand as one against all kinds of oppression?
Yes we do know the facts.
Trans women are women.
Consider how you want to deny rights and healthcare to people before calling us intolerant.
Hi, thank you for watching my vid! First up, I am not able to keep up to date with every single thing every single author says, and so yes, it's bound to happen that I sometimes don't talk about certain situations/things that authors might have been involved in. That being said, I have talked (at length) in previous videos about Stephen King and his writing, and things he has done/written I disagree with. As I was not talking about his books specifically in this video but more so mentioning him, I did not go into it this time. If I like a certain work of fiction, it does not always mean I agree with its author's personal views, but if I think supporting them financially directly supports politics or a worldview I view as harmful, I will try to disclaimer, as long as I am aware of their views.
Now, I have read both Rowlings' essay and several twitter threads in full, and have read several books by transgender authors, next to having conversations with trans folk in my life, and diving into academic research on both "sides" whilst I was still in filmschool and making feminist films and documentaries. I love reading feminist literature and do see myself as a feminist, and I still disagree with Rowling and with the idea that transwomen are "men who are calling themselves women because they feel like it". And so I will share this worldview and my disagreeing with J.K Rowling on my channel as I see fit. As my channel is not actually about this subject, I do not feel like diving into why I disagree any further, but I have in several other video's with books about being transgender/where this is a theme.