Re: trigger warnings for books, the website The StoryGraph (an alternative to Amazon-owned Goodreads that has decently launched) gives the possibility to users to add trigger warnings to books to help and warn others. So if you want easy to access TW on a book you want to read it could be a good place to check out! (Also the functionalities are so much better than what Goodreads offers, I hope it keeps on getting better 🙏)
I just moved over there to try to get a feel for it while continuing with goodreads and I’m liking it so far! I LOVE the way they’ve handled trigger warnings ❤️
I really wasn't expecting you to pronounce my name correctly, because no one ever does when they haven't heard me say it out loud, but YOU DID! That made me so happy, thank you 🥰🥰📚
I was inspired by you to start a reading journal :D Couple days into the new year and I am using my bujo and I have used my reading journal for the first book I finished as well as poetry. Thank you for inspiring me to be more well-read.
I just wanted to thank you in this comment! I really loved reading but I did not read as much in 2020 as I did before. Then I watched a few of your videos on reading and it really inspired me to read again and be a book worm again. So thank you so much for making me get into reading again!! ❤️❤️
I cannot express how much I appreciate that you include trigger warnings. More creators should be like you. Also you're beautiful and I love your videos 📚
I appreciate you so much for your trigger and content warnings and how seriously you take them. I agree, it saddens me how little care some people and publishers give.
I have struggled to find trigger warnings for my own personal media consumption (both books and film/tv) for years so it’s very important to me to take the time to share them along with my recommendations ❤️ StoryGraph has crowd sourced trigger warnings for books and I am loving the feature!
I love watching these videos, I'm so glad you started doing them! They always inspire me to read more, plus a lot of the books you've read have ended up in my tbr list!
Your voice is simply beautiful : it is so soothing that I could listen to you talk about books for days on end. I watch these bookish videos the way I would listen to a podcast, it is always the highlight of the beginning of the month. Thank you
can we just give a moment to admire Elizabeth? Both her expression and also the way she explains the incidents we can expect in books are amazing. Thanks for making wonderful videos!
🎉🎉🎉 I'm so happy for you for finishing that French book. Every month when I'd see you post your TBR, I would think "This time? Finally?" 🤣 The pain of reading something in your second language is a unique and deep one. "Why am I so slow? Wait, what's happening? None of this makes sense. Wait, does this word mean something totally different in this context? Is this literal or abstract?"
i just wanted to comment on how much i appreciated what you said about trigger warnings. i've never heard it articulated in such a clear and sensical way and i think that if more people heard the argument the way that you phrased it, they would be amenable to the idea. if you ever wanted to, i'd love to watch a whole video on the topic! i just wanted to take the time to thank you because it makes me feel very supported when you include trigger and content warnings in your videos, even when they aren't applicable to me ☺️
I am so glad I can make you feel supported by including them! When I say I shed a tear when Sia Martinez... had trigger warnings at the start 😭 it means so much and is so long overdue ❤️
I'm currently trying to just get in the habit of reading and having such a hard time with it, but watching your bookish videos gives me so much motivation
I always note down so many books you recommend while watching these videos but I'm also a slow reader so my tbr just keeps growing! I've been reading the lord of the rings since november and I'm still nowhere close to the end but I'm getting a round of shorter books to start as soon as I'm done with that, and they're all from your bookish videos!
for january i'm reading a mixture of books i couldn't finish last year, news books i just got and books i've had for a while. the second book in the Farseer Trilogy, Royal Assassin, has been a delight to read, I'm loving it. And Arsène Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes is hilarious.
I’m glad you liked Pet! I also read that last year and felt the same - still had some really hard and dark content, but was a lot more palatable than Freshwater (maybe because of the younger audience, maybe the more hopeful message). I really enjoyed it! And I’m reading Elatsoe this month so your review made me even more excited to get to it! 📚
I really wish content warnings were included for books! I don't understand why there is such resistance at all. I've actually started a book journal after seeing your video and it's generally given me the push to get back into using my bullet journal after a horrid second half of 2020 saw it abandoned, so thank you! Currently reading/listening to Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (scifi/ afrofuturism) and Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (Fantasy YA) (I don't know how to do a book emoji!)
I *just* finished The Conductors, which I read thanks to this post, and I’ve preordered Book 2 of the series. I love the development of the characters and all of the relationships. Hetty is one of my favourite difficult people. Thank you for the recommendation!
I love how you talk about triggers and mention them! I also like how you discuss what parts didn't work for you. I read To Be Taught, If Fortunate I really liked it too for all of the same reasons! I'm thinking about reading more by Becky Chambers but I need to finish The Expanse series before I start another series.
Thank you! I sometimes worry I’m not expressing myself well in these videos so it’s very reassuring ❤️ and you definitely should! Chambers’ books are just wonderful.
I checked your reading TBR and I love a promised land so far, its such a raw representation of him and the government and the choices he had to face, I'm still not finished but i love it so far. Also cant wait to read blood and ash and cresent city
Watched to the end, thanks for doing these book reviews. Just Started The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1, JR.R. Tolkien and The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker.
I’m currently reading Rebel Rose by Emma Theriault. It is the first book in The Queen’s Council series where each Disney princess is a ruler in her own right. The book takes place after Belle has broken the curse and her kingdom is restored, but it also takes place during the French Revolution. So there is some historical parts throughout. I’m loving it so far. I definitely recommend you check this book out if you are a lover of Disney and have always wondered, “What if happily ever after was just the beginning?”
📚 I wrote down a lot of the books you mentioned in this vide to read or at least do some digging on. There were a few I already had on my TBR for the year as well.
Recently I've read Swimming Lessons, a poetry collection by Lili Reinhart which I loved, and I'm currently reading Lock Every Door and I am really into it! Thanks for the amazing wrap up as always ❤
📕! Currently reading Girls with Sharp Sticks (after one of your TBR videos a few months back) - gotta say, I'm loving it! Thanks for these great reccomendations although it takes me a good long while to get through them, lol :)
As usual, amazing job. 2020 was not a great year for my attention spam, but I have high hopes for 2021. I've started reading again and I couldn't be happier about it 📚🔖
Mine too. I cried at the end. Cant believe it's the last one in the series. There are some great reads in the Rick Riordan Presents collection, if you're looking for similar ones. My current favourite is the Aru Shah series. ☺️
Oh yeah, definitely putting Pet on my TBR, and To Be Taught If Fortunate is already there! Best of luck with the Goodreads stuff! (Although I won't lie, I'm just a tiiiiny bit salty that Harrow the Ninth came second to Paolini, heh!) 📚
I red all 4 books of les fiance de l'hiver series in italian and I absolutely loved it, although the first one isn't as good as the following ones. the characters grow so much and the story evolves in such unexpected ways
📙! very much seconding Kmi's comment about The StoryGraph! i got a google nest for xmas and have used it to try audiobooks again and oh my GOSH i love them so much!!! my adhd brain is so happy!! i'm currently reading 'unapologetic' by charlene carruthers on audiobook, and 'the catcher in the rye' physically! love ur content
📚 Some of these look like a great way for me to expand my horizons, adding so many of these to good reads. December and January are about finishing up books I started.... Got through Gideon the Ninth at last and the last "court of" book. My good reads review makes me look so grumpy right now, I'm struggling to get past 3 stars 😂
I'm currently reading I am Malala, the Definitive Collection of Sherlock Holmes and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and I'm enjoying them all so far!
One of my favorites that I read in 2020 is Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts. It’s a story of how the wizard of oz was written and the movie being made. I thought it was excellent!!
I read City of girls last october and surprisingly quite liked it ! Not the kind of book i usually enjoy. I agree with you about the first half that is quite like an introduction, but still it was the part i enjoyed the most. I didn't like that the father of the girl who write the letter at the beginning of the book appear only at the end of the book... About music-hall, i plan to read "Broadway limited" by Malika Ferdjouk this winter :)
📚💛 I loved The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and another book by the same author The Starless Sea; story told by different points of view, fantasy 🥰 Happy New Year!
📚 I thoroughly enjoy hearing your thoughts on what you’re reading! Currently I’m reading The Death if Mrs. Westaway, Atomic Habits, and Zealot which is a look at the historical figure of Jesus. As a former Christian, this one is particularly enlightening. Mrs. Westaway is moody in a cozy way and has an element of tarot reading that for me really elevates the story. ☺️ I had no idea other reviewers don’t include trigger warnings. How ableist and shortsighted. 😒
📚 currently reading count of monte Cristo, going to start Ben Hur Soon, also reading epic of Eden and Sitting at the feet of Rabbi Jesus. In 2021 I want to focus on finishing up books I started in 2020 and make sure to read the Abolition of man and City of God.
📖 Just finished "Wizard's First rule" by Terry Goodnight. I'm going to try doing a monthly TBR this year, usually I just do one for the year and don't always get through it because I get pulled away by other books. Monthly sounds much more useful. ☺️
I love to watch your books review on this channel, even if I don´t like any of the genres you read 🤣 You are so interesting to hear and watch, so I enjoy these videos ❤ By the way, instead of reading e-books on your smartphone, you should use a reader. I read on my Kindle, which has digital ink so it looks like the page of a printed book 😉
@@PlantBasedBride I have changed through my life the genres I read. Now I enjoy romance, especially historical, sci-fi and shifters romance, and police thrillers or mystery 😉
I know I’ve said this before - you are *not* helping my TBR at all. 🤣🤣🤣 Decisions, decisions… as much as I love my print books, they are my slowest reads. Audiobooks and ebooks go with me wherever I have my phone or tablet. So do I pre-order The Conductors in print, digital, or audio format??? I absolutely adore The Broken Earth trilogy. It’s amazing. I also love how you cater to your fur person. Such a loving cat mom. 🐈⬛ I have no reading plans for this. I set an arbitrary goal on GoodReads because it amuses me when I exceed the target. (Unfortunately, it a,so stresses me if I’m behind schedule on the rare occasions I check it.) I just started a new job last month that is definitely going to cut into my reading time. The commute is shorter and as nice as that is, i won’t have as much time for audiobooks on my commute. I also have a sinking suspicion that this is going to turn into a 50-hour per week kind of job. 📚📖
Originally Addie Larue didn't sound interesting, but all my fav booktubers have loved it though they have vastly different taste, so I think I'm going to try it.
I wonder if you would like "he" by John Connolly. John Connolly wrote my favorite book of all time, "The Book of Lost Things" (I would highly recommend that as well!) but the way you discussed City of Girls and what you had hoped for reminds me of that book. It is a historical fiction about the vaudeville era and early Hollywood in the 20s and 30s. It focuses more on character development than performance but the balance is really good because the character development is informed by the performance aspects. It's written very poetically (similar-ish to The Great Gatsby?) But yea, I would love to know what you think of that book, and of course The Book of Lost Things :D
Question about your French book ... do you know what your French reading comprehension level is? I’m a C1, but I’d rather read something a little too easy than too hard (as I am sure you could understand!). 2021 Reading Goal to read at least 3-4 French novels, so looking for some level appropriate reads! Love your videos, as always ... Thanks so much.
I don’t! We didn’t do the standardized tests at my school, but I was in French immersion from first to 11th grade. I’ve been interested in finding out, but I also don’t want to be reminded how much I’ve forgotten in the past decade 😅
@@PlantBasedBride you can do an online “preview” test via your local Alliance Francaise in Toronto to see where you might roughly be. It’s not perfect, but seems to be fairly accurate based on the ones I did before I took the TEF last year. www.alliance-francaise.ca/en/exams/tests. Also, you could try Duolingo for a cheap and convenient refresher. I was surprised how much my French improved just by blazing through the course (testing out of as much as I could). I remembered so much that had long lain dormant and forgotten! Good luck!
*book emoji** One of my favorite reads was The Paper Wife by Laila Ibrahim. Sooo good! Talks about American history around immigration, adoption, found family but does hint at prostitution as a theme the family goes through. I loved it! Summary: Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife-a paper wife.
I love how you have trigger warnings, genre, rating and all it makes it so much better / easier to choose whether to read or not
I hoped it would help y’all figure out if a book was for you! I’m glad it’s working ❤️
Re: trigger warnings for books, the website The StoryGraph (an alternative to Amazon-owned Goodreads that has decently launched) gives the possibility to users to add trigger warnings to books to help and warn others. So if you want easy to access TW on a book you want to read it could be a good place to check out! (Also the functionalities are so much better than what Goodreads offers, I hope it keeps on getting better 🙏)
I just moved over there to try to get a feel for it while continuing with goodreads and I’m liking it so far! I LOVE the way they’ve handled trigger warnings ❤️
I really wasn't expecting you to pronounce my name correctly, because no one ever does when they haven't heard me say it out loud, but YOU DID! That made me so happy, thank you 🥰🥰📚
Aw I’m so glad I got it right! Welcome to the squad ❤️
I was inspired by you to start a reading journal :D Couple days into the new year and I am using my bujo and I have used my reading journal for the first book I finished as well as poetry. Thank you for inspiring me to be more well-read.
I am so glad to hear that! ❤️
I just wanted to thank you in this comment! I really loved reading but I did not read as much in 2020 as I did before. Then I watched a few of your videos on reading and it really inspired me to read again and be a book worm again. So thank you so much for making me get into reading again!! ❤️❤️
Aw I am so happy to read this!! ❤️
I cannot express how much I appreciate that you include trigger warnings. More creators should be like you. Also you're beautiful and I love your videos 📚
thanks for your honest and thoughtful reviews! I'm super excited to try "Ring Shout" and the "Broken Earth" series.
I hope you get as much out of them as I did ❤️
I appreciate you so much for your trigger and content warnings and how seriously you take them. I agree, it saddens me how little care some people and publishers give.
I have struggled to find trigger warnings for my own personal media consumption (both books and film/tv) for years so it’s very important to me to take the time to share them along with my recommendations ❤️ StoryGraph has crowd sourced trigger warnings for books and I am loving the feature!
I'm so glad you liked the Obelisk Gate! I need to start my reread of that and the final book soon.
I’m trying to hold off on starting the third to read some other things but it’s so hard to wait 😭
I love watching these videos, I'm so glad you started doing them! They always inspire me to read more, plus a lot of the books you've read have ended up in my tbr list!
Your voice is simply beautiful : it is so soothing that I could listen to you talk about books for days on end. I watch these bookish videos the way I would listen to a podcast, it is always the highlight of the beginning of the month. Thank you
can we just give a moment to admire Elizabeth? Both her expression and also the way she explains the incidents we can expect in books are amazing. Thanks for making wonderful videos!
Thank you! 🥺😭❤️
🎉🎉🎉 I'm so happy for you for finishing that French book. Every month when I'd see you post your TBR, I would think "This time? Finally?" 🤣 The pain of reading something in your second language is a unique and deep one. "Why am I so slow? Wait, what's happening? None of this makes sense. Wait, does this word mean something totally different in this context? Is this literal or abstract?"
Lol yes exactly! It takes a lot of focus and motivation ❤️
So many new patrons!! I’m so happy for you💕
Thank you!
i just wanted to comment on how much i appreciated what you said about trigger warnings. i've never heard it articulated in such a clear and sensical way and i think that if more people heard the argument the way that you phrased it, they would be amenable to the idea. if you ever wanted to, i'd love to watch a whole video on the topic! i just wanted to take the time to thank you because it makes me feel very supported when you include trigger and content warnings in your videos, even when they aren't applicable to me ☺️
I am so glad I can make you feel supported by including them! When I say I shed a tear when Sia Martinez... had trigger warnings at the start 😭 it means so much and is so long overdue ❤️
Watched it til the end 📚 added several to my TBR list! Thank you for sharing this, I really enjoyed it!
Yoda is so cute 😍
how did you watch 50 minutes worth of content in 5 minutes?
@@valchester2571 watched it early on Patreon! 😜
Haha she and her brother got my full attention for a week and they weren’t excited for me to be back filming 😂
@@PlantBasedBride you filming = they aren't the centre of your attention haha
I'm currently trying to just get in the habit of reading and having such a hard time with it, but watching your bookish videos gives me so much motivation
📚 watched this while making my reading journal spreads ☺️
Love this so much ❤️
I always note down so many books you recommend while watching these videos but I'm also a slow reader so my tbr just keeps growing! I've been reading the lord of the rings since november and I'm still nowhere close to the end but I'm getting a round of shorter books to start as soon as I'm done with that, and they're all from your bookish videos!
Haha I watch way too much booktube and have added more books to my TBR than I’d be able to read in a decade, probably 😂 it’s a problem 😅
I really love how you describe the books you’ve read. You make me want to add every single one to my TBR!📚
Aw thanks! I’m sorry for adding so much to your TBR but I hope you love the ones you pick up ☺️
I loooove your long bookish videos. I look forward to them every month. Take as long as you need sis and keep em coming 📚
I LOVE your book reviews! I've found a lot of gems through watching these!
Watched the entire video. It was interesting hearing your perspective on some of the books I had already read and some that I hope to read!
📚 made it to the end! I love these videos. So excited for another year of books and reading.
📚 one of my favorite series of all time is The Broken Earth Trilogy, it’s just perfection!
📚binging on your book reviews...so inspired....can’t wait to start reading your 5 star books.
I'm such a book nerd and I love your monthly wrap ups!
Reading Addie LaRue right now and I looooove it! I’m a fan of the slow pace and love hearing about all her of her and Henry’s experiences ☺️📚
for january i'm reading a mixture of books i couldn't finish last year, news books i just got and books i've had for a while. the second book in the Farseer Trilogy, Royal Assassin, has been a delight to read, I'm loving it. And Arsène Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes is hilarious.
i just love your reviews so much, i always get new recommendations and a bigger wishlist 📕
im watching on my laptop but I watched to the end and really loved listening to you talk about books so... *book emojiiii* :)
I’m glad you liked Pet! I also read that last year and felt the same - still had some really hard and dark content, but was a lot more palatable than Freshwater (maybe because of the younger audience, maybe the more hopeful message). I really enjoyed it! And I’m reading Elatsoe this month so your review made me even more excited to get to it! 📚
Ughh so many to add to my never ending list. Can't wait to dive into them though
Haha I have the same problem!! 😅
📔 looking forward to reading a couple of these suggestions! 🤞🏼
I really wish content warnings were included for books! I don't understand why there is such resistance at all. I've actually started a book journal after seeing your video and it's generally given me the push to get back into using my bullet journal after a horrid second half of 2020 saw it abandoned, so thank you!
Currently reading/listening to Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (scifi/ afrofuturism) and Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (Fantasy YA) (I don't know how to do a book emoji!)
Ageed. Oh, that’s wonderful! I’m glad I could give you that push 🤗
Lovded the recommendations this month I put 3 or 4 on my TBR this month and am so excited to read them all📕📘📗📖📓📚📒📔📜📙
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad you loved Addie LaRue! 📚
I found it so thought provoking!
I *just* finished The Conductors, which I read thanks to this post, and I’ve preordered Book 2 of the series. I love the development of the characters and all of the relationships. Hetty is one of my favourite difficult people. Thank you for the recommendation!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! It was definitely a favourite ❤️
I always love your book content! 📚
And my TBR list grew again! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 thanks for another wonderful bookish video! 🤗🙏
📚 you’ve inspired me to make a goal of reading more this year!
I love how you talk about triggers and mention them! I also like how you discuss what parts didn't work for you. I read To Be Taught, If Fortunate I really liked it too for all of the same reasons! I'm thinking about reading more by Becky Chambers but I need to finish The Expanse series before I start another series.
Thank you! I sometimes worry I’m not expressing myself well in these videos so it’s very reassuring ❤️ and you definitely should! Chambers’ books are just wonderful.
Just picked up the first in the Broken Earth series, The Fifth Season, based on your last video including it, and I can't wait to start it! 📚📚📚
I did the same and just finished it - it was so good!
I hope you love it, Vee! And I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Riley ❤️❤️❤️
I always add so many books to my "want to read" list on GoodReads after watching these videos!
Haha sorry (not sorry 😂)
📖. I really enjoy your videos. Very relaxing. Thanks!
📚 love your bookish videos 🥰
I checked your reading TBR and I love a promised land so far, its such a raw representation of him and the government and the choices he had to face, I'm still not finished but i love it so far. Also cant wait to read blood and ash and cresent city
📖 You said 'joy of discovery' at some point and I thought it was so beautiful that's how I want to feel about life every day
I would love to feel that way too ❤️ Approaching life with open heart and mind and an abundance of curiosity!
Hey Yoda! Scriches to your sweet kitty. ❤
Watched to the end, thanks for doing these book reviews. Just Started The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1, JR.R. Tolkien and The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker.
Pet was one of my favourite reads of last year 📚
i love the orange/red aesthetic going on in this video!!
Thank you!
So early !! I've not even watched the amazing vid but I know most of them will be in my reading list !
I hope you enjoy any of them that you pick up!
One by One by Ruth Ware. Thank you for taking the time to do this video.
you've inspired me to start reading again!
Aw yay! I’m so glad ☺️
Love hearing your thoughts 📖
i recently finished reading And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini and i'm quite certain that it's my new favorite
It's been so long since I've read Khaled Hosseini's work. I've added this one to my TBR!
@@PlantBasedBride yay! i'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it. (:
I’ve added a few of your December to my Goodreads Want to Read list
I hope you enjoy them!
I’m currently reading Rebel Rose by Emma Theriault. It is the first book in The Queen’s Council series where each Disney princess is a ruler in her own right. The book takes place after Belle has broken the curse and her kingdom is restored, but it also takes place during the French Revolution. So there is some historical parts throughout. I’m loving it so far. I definitely recommend you check this book out if you are a lover of Disney and have always wondered, “What if happily ever after was just the beginning?”
📚 I wrote down a lot of the books you mentioned in this vide to read or at least do some digging on. There were a few I already had on my TBR for the year as well.
I adore your book reviews. I am currently reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. 📚
Omgoshhh You are Back I AM SO HAPPYYY🤩🤩🤩
Btw U r so close to 100k✨✨✨
Aw thank you! 🥺❤️
Recently I've read Swimming Lessons, a poetry collection by Lili Reinhart which I loved, and I'm currently reading Lock Every Door and I am really into it! Thanks for the amazing wrap up as always ❤
Oh, I heart about Reinhart’s book! I may need to check it out ❤️
📕! Currently reading Girls with Sharp Sticks (after one of your TBR videos a few months back) - gotta say, I'm loving it! Thanks for these great reccomendations although it takes me a good long while to get through them, lol :)
I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!
As usual, amazing job. 2020 was not a great year for my attention spam, but I have high hopes for 2021. I've started reading again and I couldn't be happier about it 📚🔖
Just started reading The Rook and I and LOVING it so far! Read about a third in one sitting and pushed off all other responsibilities 😉 📚
📚One of my favourite books of 2020 was The Tower of Nero by RIck Riordan and it's also a goodreads choice awards winner!
I’m hoping I can get to it this month! I’m waiting to get it from my library ❤️
Mine too. I cried at the end. Cant believe it's the last one in the series.
There are some great reads in the Rick Riordan Presents collection, if you're looking for similar ones. My current favourite is the Aru Shah series. ☺️
Oh yeah, definitely putting Pet on my TBR, and To Be Taught If Fortunate is already there! Best of luck with the Goodreads stuff! (Although I won't lie, I'm just a tiiiiny bit salty that Harrow the Ninth came second to Paolini, heh!) 📚
The midnight library was one of my Christmas gifts and I'm hoping to read The midnight library this month 📚📖
I just finished it and I really enjoyed it ❤️
I'm here for good book suggestions. The Obelisk Gate seems interesting. 📕
I red all 4 books of les fiance de l'hiver series in italian and I absolutely loved it, although the first one isn't as good as the following ones. the characters grow so much and the story evolves in such unexpected ways
Oh that’s great to hear! I was so intrigued by the magic and the world so I’d love the characters to be developed more ❤️
Amen on your view of trigger warnings.
📙! very much seconding Kmi's comment about The StoryGraph! i got a google nest for xmas and have used it to try audiobooks again and oh my GOSH i love them so much!!! my adhd brain is so happy!! i'm currently reading 'unapologetic' by charlene carruthers on audiobook, and 'the catcher in the rye' physically! love ur content
📚 Some of these look like a great way for me to expand my horizons, adding so many of these to good reads.
December and January are about finishing up books I started.... Got through Gideon the Ninth at last and the last "court of" book. My good reads review makes me look so grumpy right now, I'm struggling to get past 3 stars 😂
I'm currently reading I am Malala, the Definitive Collection of Sherlock Holmes and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and I'm enjoying them all so far!
One of my favorites that I read in 2020 is Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts. It’s a story of how the wizard of oz was written and the movie being made. I thought it was excellent!!
I read City of girls last october and surprisingly quite liked it ! Not the kind of book i usually enjoy. I agree with you about the first half that is quite like an introduction, but still it was the part i enjoyed the most. I didn't like that the father of the girl who write the letter at the beginning of the book appear only at the end of the book...
About music-hall, i plan to read "Broadway limited" by Malika Ferdjouk this winter :)
📚💛 I loved The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and another book by the same author The Starless Sea; story told by different points of view, fantasy 🥰 Happy New Year!
📚 I thoroughly enjoy hearing your thoughts on what you’re reading! Currently I’m reading The Death if Mrs. Westaway, Atomic Habits, and Zealot which is a look at the historical figure of Jesus. As a former Christian, this one is particularly enlightening. Mrs. Westaway is moody in a cozy way and has an element of tarot reading that for me really elevates the story. ☺️
I had no idea other reviewers don’t include trigger warnings. How ableist and shortsighted. 😒
📚 currently reading count of monte Cristo, going to start Ben Hur Soon, also reading epic of Eden and Sitting at the feet of Rabbi Jesus. In 2021 I want to focus on finishing up books I started in 2020 and make sure to read the Abolition of man and City of God.
📖 Just finished "Wizard's First rule" by Terry Goodnight. I'm going to try doing a monthly TBR this year, usually I just do one for the year and don't always get through it because I get pulled away by other books. Monthly sounds much more useful. ☺️
I love to watch your books review on this channel, even if I don´t like any of the genres you read 🤣 You are so interesting to hear and watch, so I enjoy these videos ❤ By the way, instead of reading e-books on your smartphone, you should use a reader. I read on my Kindle, which has digital ink so it looks like the page of a printed book 😉
I keep getting that recommendation so Im looking into it! Haha well I’m glad you enjoyed them regardless 😂 What genres do you gravitate towards?
@@PlantBasedBride I have changed through my life the genres I read. Now I enjoy romance, especially historical, sci-fi and shifters romance, and police thrillers or mystery 😉
Thanks for the video! I would reccomend reading Valeria Luiselli's Tell Me How it Ends📚
📚 Loved this video!
Where did you get your hair dye from and what shade do you use?💛
It’s Herbatint 8R!
@@PlantBasedBride thank you so much, I’ve been looking for a good copper permanent colour for ages lmao
I know I’ve said this before - you are *not* helping my TBR at all. 🤣🤣🤣 Decisions, decisions… as much as I love my print books, they are my slowest reads. Audiobooks and ebooks go with me wherever I have my phone or tablet. So do I pre-order The Conductors in print, digital, or audio format???
I absolutely adore The Broken Earth trilogy. It’s amazing.
I also love how you cater to your fur person. Such a loving cat mom. 🐈⬛
I have no reading plans for this. I set an arbitrary goal on GoodReads because it amuses me when I exceed the target. (Unfortunately, it a,so stresses me if I’m behind schedule on the rare occasions I check it.) I just started a new job last month that is definitely going to cut into my reading time. The commute is shorter and as nice as that is, i won’t have as much time for audiobooks on my commute. I also have a sinking suspicion that this is going to turn into a 50-hour per week kind of job.
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Reading on your phone?! 😱😱 You need a kindle paper white ❤️
Haha everyone keeps recommending that! I just feel like I already have so many devices 😅
@@PlantBasedBride maybe you would hate ebooks a bit less 😉 it has definitely helped me!
Originally Addie Larue didn't sound interesting, but all my fav booktubers have loved it though they have vastly different taste, so I think I'm going to try it.
📚 I really enjoy your channel 😊💕
Aw thanks! ❤️
Hello, can I suggest the book "The three-body problem" by Cixin Liu. It is a trilogy and it is super good at twisting the persons mind!
I read it early last year!
I wonder if you would like "he" by John Connolly. John Connolly wrote my favorite book of all time, "The Book of Lost Things" (I would highly recommend that as well!) but the way you discussed City of Girls and what you had hoped for reminds me of that book. It is a historical fiction about the vaudeville era and early Hollywood in the 20s and 30s. It focuses more on character development than performance but the balance is really good because the character development is informed by the performance aspects. It's written very poetically (similar-ish to The Great Gatsby?) But yea, I would love to know what you think of that book, and of course The Book of Lost Things :D
I can't put a book emoji cuz I'm on my computer but I promise I watched the whole thing
Ohhhh that sounds so interesting! Off to add it to my TBR right now 🏃♀️
Question about your French book ... do you know what your French reading comprehension level is? I’m a C1, but I’d rather read something a little too easy than too hard (as I am sure you could understand!). 2021 Reading Goal to read at least 3-4 French novels, so looking for some level appropriate reads!
Love your videos, as always ...
Thanks so much.
I don’t! We didn’t do the standardized tests at my school, but I was in French immersion from first to 11th grade. I’ve been interested in finding out, but I also don’t want to be reminded how much I’ve forgotten in the past decade 😅
@@PlantBasedBride you can do an online “preview” test via your local Alliance Francaise in Toronto to see where you might roughly be. It’s not perfect, but seems to be fairly accurate based on the ones I did before I took the TEF last year. www.alliance-francaise.ca/en/exams/tests. Also, you could try Duolingo for a cheap and convenient refresher. I was surprised how much my French improved just by blazing through the course (testing out of as much as I could). I remembered so much that had long lain dormant and forgotten! Good luck!
Great video! Blessings.😶📖📖
I love ur vids soooooooo much!!!!!!!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
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📚highly enjoyed!
I’m so glad! ❤️❤️❤️
@@PlantBasedBride I finished The Midnight Library about a week ago, I really enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to hearing what you think of it. 📖👀
I'm currently reading My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite! 📚
Oh, I’ve had that one on my list for a while!
*book emoji** One of my favorite reads was The Paper Wife by Laila Ibrahim. Sooo good! Talks about American history around immigration, adoption, found family but does hint at prostitution as a theme the family goes through. I loved it!
Summary: Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife-a paper wife.
📖📚📖📚✍✍ great reviews
Have you read 'The Rook' by Dan O'Malley? Myfanwy the MC is absolutely the Queen of Admin!
📚📚📚 If you have not yet read the All Souls trilogy it’s very fun!