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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2024
- Here are books I removed from my TBR either on Goodreads or my Library waiting list! I wanted to read them but it's time for me to admit I probably won't! What books are you saying bye to?
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Honestly, the mental gymnastics we do to convince ourselves "I swear I'm gonna read these 850 books of my TBR" are beyond hilarious. No you won't, honey 🙄😂
Hey I just need to live until I'm 3000yo and a few clones... totally doable!!
@Crunchy Chicharrones 850 books, not 850 paged books.
Emily removing books from her Tbr like: "it's not you babe is me"
".... but really it's you"
The Bear and the Nightingale is 100% fantasy. People say the first half of the book is kinda slow for them but then love the second half. Idk, I love that series
I think at this point it's fair to say I categorize books I don't like as Magical Realism lol
💓One of my top 5 favorite books of all time! And I think Vasya might be the best female character I encountered in a fantasy book.
Yes, I was 10 minutes away from abandoning Bear and Nightingale - it was coming up for dinner time so I gave it that long to improve. It improved suddenly and I loved the final half. So I understand why some can't get through it. Half a book to get good is too long.
It bored me, coudn't finish it!
I see you're a Friends fan...
Loved that!
A Neil Gaiman book I will always recommend would be Coraline ☺ it's not magical realism. It's spooky with some supernatural elements. I think you'd like that one.
Exactly what I thought of! It's also a short book, I love the writing style, and the vibes seem to be something Emily would enjoy :3 imo it's a nice choice for autumn ^___^ it was one of those books I wish I had kept to myself, but I returned it for the sake of a friendship hahah
I think Stardust would be a good option too? Its more fantasy than magic realism and really really short.
These are still magical realism. But in a way that you are more likely to enjoy if you don't like magical realism if that makes sense.
I really loved what alice forgot by liane moriarty (which is a bit like big little lies) I think you'd like it
I tried listening to bear and the nightingale on audio and I didn't like it but then somebody gifted me the book, and I decided to give it one more shot, and I ended up loving it
I don’t like Neil Gaiman either. I was so “meh” towards Ocean at the end of the Lane. However, I did enjoy The Graveyard Book, so maybe you can give it a try and see what you think?
Grey Myers same here. I tried Good Omens so many times and I just can’t get through it. But I enjoyed The Graveyard Book, Stardust, and Neverwhere. He seems to have two kinds of books and I like one kind and not the other.
The husbands secret is really really good! And what alice forgot.
I agree i didnt really like nine perfect strangers .
Please give it a shot!
I never managed to finish a Neil Gaiman either and boy, I tried and that's okay. Too many other books and good authors.
I've never wanted to like an author's work as much as Gaiman's and I didn't connect with anything i picked up except for the Graveyard book which is quite sweet.
I loved catch 22! I thought it was really smart and the humour was really subtle - I was really shocked with how much I loved it!
I just finished catch 22. Loved it.
Hi Emily, I know Gaiman is really really difficult to get into, but The Graveyard Book and Coraline (both children's books) are so worth it. They're short and really easy to get through, and very different from his other books/writing style!
I can understand how daunting and torturing Shakespeare might seem to read, I've read a couple and I definitely think it's about finding the one you click with since there are so many! 😊 My favourite is Much Ado About Nothing: quite funny and with great characters, especially Beatrice. She's queen. So I really recommend that one if you ever change your mind and feel for some Shakespeare. 😇 Otherwise there's an awesome movie adaptation from 2012 by Joss Whedon I really recommend! 🙂💕
I love nevermore🙂 at the beginning I was like- this is stupid, I don't get it - but it sucked me in and I ended up loving it. I need sequel asap
I got so happy to see you uploaded a video for some reason😂. You made my day, thanks. Love you❤️
Thank you so much for posting this. I agreed with you on about 70% of these reads. It was such a relief to let these books and/or authors go without feeling guilty. Appreciate your help. I am entitled to my taste.
Have you managed to finish the second part of Le comte de Monte-Cristo ? It sure is slow-paced at times but I really enjoyed the overall story and I would like to hear your opinion on it :)
Not yet lol
One of my favourite reads of this year.
I have never finished a Neil Gaiman book. You're not alone!
I really want to like them but... guess not!
I've finished two, but I'm not a fan, either.
You should read coraline then.
I agree with you re: magical realism. Started Beloved by Toni Morrison, maybe 20 pages in, too weird for me, done and donated.
I am here for all the reading vlogs 🙌🏽🙌🏽
Such a good idea! I literally was removing books from my goodreads tbr this morning 😅
I strongly agree with a lot of your choices
Turtles All the Way Down is Good! Good perspective on having an anxiety disorder. And Stardust by Gaiman is a great little story. I enjoyed the Graveyard Book too.
Definitely give Graveyard Book a try. I just finished listening to it on audiobook and Loved it. Gaiman performed the narration and does an excellent job. The book is a perfect fall read
I had no desire to watch/read Les Miserables but i ended up watching it and it was pretty good. I should really go thru my books!!
I have also never read a John Green book and have no intention to, so I'm with you there!
same, i will never read a book by john green, a friend of mine loves him and if she likes a book i already know i will hate them haha. They never soundet interesting to me
I didn't care for The Ocean at the End of the Lane either, and I read Good Omens so long ago that I don't really remember it, but I don't think I had strong feelings about it, BUT, Stardust is one of my favorite books. It's not magical realism, it's totally fantasy, and it uses a lot of fantasy tropes in dark, serious ways. I'd suggest at least trying Stardust before giving up on Gaiman.
I really enjoy Agatha Christie's books, I used to read my mom's collection when I started reading "bigger" books at 11 or 12 years old. Maybe its nostalgia, maybe the Brazilian translation was really good, maybe its just my style hahah. But they're definitely a "vacation" read for me. Like stuff to read to kill time.
About John Green - I think they're good books for young readers, I know I loved who are you Alaska when I first read it... but then I read turtles all the way down when I was older and thought the story was really predictable and the characters weren't very likeable.
Anyway I rarely comment on UA-cam, but I'm always waiting for your recommendations, we have a very similar taste in reading!
“quem é você alaska?” is actually called “looking for alaska” in the U.S./U.K.
@@alinastarkov I can never remember the original names versus the translated names oops
I totally agree with you on John Green books! I didn’t like The Fault in our Stars or Turtles all the way down! I also had to DNF Paper Towns halfway through because it was so boring 😫😫😴
About John Green: when he writes about mental health, the book is really good. If you decide to give it a shot, try reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Turtles All The Way Down. They are quick reads, not perfect but the mental health issues are very well done.
I'm off the Gaiman hype too. I might give Neverwhere a try, as it is old, but that's it.
If you do decide to read another, Coraline is fine and The Sandman is amazing.
I can 100% recommend the Graveyard Books by Neil Gaiman! Especially the art styles are so, so beautiful and it's a very curious, kinda sad story, but also comforting? I am also not so interested in his other books. I liked Good Omens well enough, but mostly for the christian mythology references and the humour.
I absolutely love your lipstick!! What shade is it?
Agree with you on Agatha Christie. Picked up The Burden by her and was one of my worst-reads of this year. Liane Moriarty I recommend you checking out Sisters. It's about 3 sister triplets and their drama. Was a wholesome read you should check it out ! xx
Thank you for this Emily! it made me review my TBR with new eyes... there were books there that I would definitely wouldn't read now xD Great exercise!
Hm.. I've never thought of checking my tbr on goodreads and 'refreshing' it but it seems like a good idea. TY :)
I had the exact same reaction to The Bear and the Nightingale. It was just SO slow. And I usually don’t mind a slow burn! But it felt like absolutely nothing was happening. DNF’ed about 2 hrs into the audiobook as well
I find it funny that you can literally be trashing my favorite books/authors and I still find your videos so entertaining!! I love when you do videos like this!
Yess read The Graveyard Book. I don't like Neil Gaiman's writing style as well but the graveyard book is one of my favorite books
The BBC dramatisation of Neverwhere on audible is so much better and a lot shorter
Completely agree!!!!
I love all forms of Neverwhere and the BBC radio play is awesome.
Ohhh, I know I won’t change your mind but approaching Lolita from a literary perspective is fun, and it is an enjoyable story despite the subject matter. I thought I knew going in what it was all about because of what I’d heard about it, but experiencing the story in his writing was a whole other thing.
I understand your reasons, I just remembered saying the same thing before reading it.
100% agree with Nine Perfect Strangers... I really couldn’t understand why so many people loved it! I only managed about half of the book.
I agree about the Bear and the nightandgalr
I did the math and if you consider the rate at which I read and the rate at which I add new books to my TBR, I'm an optimist and never knew it!
On Goodreads my TBR is over 300 books full, and I only put the first book of a series, so it's probably a heck of a lot more.
I've same feelings for The Bear and the Nightingale! It put me in a severe reading slump.. I had to DNF it... 😏 but The Graveyard Book is adorable.. give it a try some day 😊
Love the jumper you're wearing
Thank you! It's from H&M... I have like 3 in different colours lol
Love Les Misérables the movie, read the book this year and loved it, now I just need to see the stage show.
Joining in with other comments here: "The Bear and the Nightingale" and the entire "Winternight Trilogy" is straight up fantasy. It's based on Russian folklore and some historical events, but it's DEFINITELY fantasy and not magical realism. That being said, the beginning is on a slower side of things, so I can understand the confusion. I did LOVE the trilogy though, and I think once you get past the first third of the first book you would be into it. Based on your taste, I would be surprised if you didn't like this series ))
if you want to give neil gaiman another go, coraline is a really awesome book, and it's pretty short. it's so awesome
My mother has all of Mary Higgins Clark books as well 😅. I watched a few adaptions of these book with my mom but until today I haven't read any MHC book 🙈
Rather than see you read things you know you’re going to hate, I’d love to see you read some of Matt Haig’s other books! I’ve read The Last Family in England & The Radleys and enjoyed both of them lots. Every time you bring him up, I’m reminded that I want to read more from him - especially The Humans!
Sydney Diane I read The Humans because of Emily’s review and went on to read How To Stop Time. Both are so good 😊
haha it’s funny that you mentioned lolita because i have to read it this week for school lol
YES give Gaiman another shot! The Graveyard Book is awesome!!! I hated The Ocean, one of my most disappointing read
I agree with your opinions on Neil Gaiman. I tried reading Stardust last year and I really just couldn’t get into it. I don’t know if it was his style or just the plot, it didn’t grab me at all. Although I just finished Good Omens a few weeks ago and that was good. I currently have Neverwhere and Ocean at the end of the lane on my TBR. Hopefully those can keep my interest. I think those are the last two I’ll read by him if not.
Ooooo the Bear and the Nightingale was a struggle to get through. I only finished it cause it was so popular and even then I didn't get anything out of it. No judgement here.
Honestly your taste/opinion matches mine so much out of all the Booktubers that I trust your recs and disses 🔮💖
Shakespeare was never meant to be read. I highly recommend seeing several of his plays done live. They can be quite amazing. I also recommend reading some of his sonnets.
The bear and the nightingale is suchhh a slow book. It's all about atmosphere so you have to be someone who really likes that style in order to like that book. It wasn't my favorite because the plot is basically non-existent until the last 20 pages, but I do really like atmosphere so I'm currently continuing the series. It's very similar for Neil Gaiman, his book are all atmosphere which I personally really enjoy but it's not for everyone! I just finished The Graveyard Book and loved it. It might work better for you because it's much more fantasy in a middle grade setting rather than magical realism. It's super whimsical and sweet.
I think the Bear and the Nightingale is totally worth it (even though it was a 3 star for me). It does have its faults, pacing being the biggest once in my opinion but it was Arden's debut so I was willing to overlook that. The trilogy in itself as well as the second and third books are amazing. I wouldn't say they're magical realism, I would describe them as historical fantasy.
Love your vids!
I add tons of books to my tbr, (229 in goodreads) just in case, for example: this books became available in my library, oh it's in my tbr, hello next read.
another example: library sale, this book sounds familiar, oh it's in my tbr! oh it's 50 cents, you're coming home!
I read The Husband’s Secret for book club...it was pretty good.
I hated the Bear and the Nightengale, too! I thought I was the only one!
I loved the few Shakespeare plays I studied at school but I would never pick up any to read for fun.
I am a big fan of Agatha Christie and her books are my go-to as a 'palette cleanser' between big books but I admit that Murder on the Orient Express was not one of my favourites. The modern films based on her works are pretty bad but the older Miss Marple movies and the Poirot series with Suchet ❤️
Yay, a new video!
I’m exactly the same with Neil Gaiman. I tried the Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods and DNF’d both of them. I just couldn’t get into them.
What I do with my TBR is that I go onto goodreads every once in a while and just look through my entire tbr-shelf. Then I delete every book I’m no longer 100% interested in. Makes it easier to focus on the books I really do wanna read lol
Don't give up on Shakespeare! His plays are so much better than you'd think plus they are really short (not like Victor not-being-able-to-focus-on-the-main-story Hugo).
Also the famous books of John Green like paper towns and tfios are in my opinion not his best works! I would recommend Looking for Alaska it's honestly a pretty good book that I think you'd like.
I didn't expect you giving up on some of my faves would actually hurt my heart but it definitely does 😂
I understand your feelings toward Neil Gaiman. I have a few problems with his novels as well. But I still love him because of his Sandman series. I don't remember if you read graphic novels or comics, but if you do you should give Sandman a chance. The first two issues were a 2-3 star read for me but the rest of the series was beyond amazing. He put so much work into it and it was a pleasure reading it.
I enjoyed Let Me Lie but it is rather like what you described in the other books you read by her, so if you weren't feeling those then you probably made the right decision. :)
Cleaning out your GoodReads TBR once in a while is a good thing. I do it too. Recently I've done it with my audiobook app as well. I stopped buying big quantities of books, so I don't buy a lot of them without reading them. I was already conscious of which book I bought, but now even more so.
The Bear and the Nightingale is a fantasy but just very environmental. I also didn't really care for it. It's ok and the writing is fine, just not my thing. I probably will not go for another John Green, just like you and more of the books on your TBR I probably won't read either. I've already a bunch of Dutch classics and lit-fic I've wanted to read for years and haven't gotten to yet because new, shiny things nicely override the old.
I tried some Neil Gaiman and the writing isn't my gem either, but I did really enjoy Neverwhere. The writing isn't as flowery and not what you encounter in books like Fairydust. Norse Mythology was so boring, I'd recommend reading the Edda (official myths) instead. I'll probably try the sequel to Neverwhere, but I'm no longer really interested in other books of Gaiman.
Like around 3 yo i wasnt much into reading and my friend rcmnded looking for alaska for me . And i tried and it took me 3 months it was my first book in long time . I thought reading was not for me . Then i met your channel and you recomanded a brandon sanderson book WARBREAKER and it is like huge my first ever fantasy book that huge and i read it in a week and since then i fell in love with reading and i only ever read what u like .. so thank you so much . If it was not for you . I would've never picked a book again
8:25 I bought The Complete Works of Shakespeare and some literary criticism books to accompany it a few months ago. They look great on my bookshelf.
Don't read the literary criticism before reading the plays. Make up your own mind first. Don't be intimidated by that tome. Pick one play and focus on it.
I bought the complete works of the brothers grimm. I read the up to the second or third stpry and haven't touched it since.
I totally agree with you on magical realism; I always struggle so hard with them! like... just make it (urban) fantasy and be done with it! Also as a quick help for reading shakespeare. don't actually read it. it's intended to be performed, not read, so just look up a random performance of the play you're wanting to read on youtube and watch that and follow along in the book, occassionally pausing to read scenes they skipped over - it's very efficient bc you get a sense of the staging (since shakespeare used 0 stage directions), cadence and everything, and it's also easier to follow along because visual context helps you understand words/sentences you don't know =) [also while I'm here, let me recommend to you my favorite billy shakes plays: Love's Labour's lost, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and [if you're wanting a slasher with cannibalism, infanticide, rape etc.: Titus Andronicus]
On Shakespeare, the only things I recommend are Much Ado About Nothing, the movie, with Emma Thompson. It is *so good*.
And Romeo and Juliet with Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio. But only if you liked the style of Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman, that kind of extreme acid trip.
We were reading Othello in class when we had a string of suicides so that was a super dark time. And I can’t tell you if the movie is any better. MacBeth was a gory read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Ok. Yes. At least watch the movies if you can ☺️❤️
If you feel like giving Agatha Christie another chance, maybe Death on the Nile would be a good one.
I recently removed Star Wars: Lando's Luck from my TBR. It sounds like a fine middle grade adventure book, but I need a little more from my Star Wars books to make it worth the time.
I totally agree with you about Neil Gaiman- I don’t get the hype!
Neverwhere is so good!
I will say, the only Neil Gaiman books I’ve enjoyed are Stardust and Norse Mythology! But I wonder if I like both of those because of the movie (Stardust) and my pre-existing love for mythology.
Quand j'étais à l'école on nous avait fait lire les misérables en version compactée et j'en ai de bons souvenirs si jamais ça peut te motiver ça raccourcit beaucoup le livre
What books have you recently removed from your TBR?
Circe, Nevernight, and The Diviners. Sorry, you fans of those books, but just not my books.
Circe has too little conflict for my liking
Nevernight, I can't stand the writing style
The Diviners: I don't like the flip-flopping of Evie's character and the writing just didn't invoke the intended effect on me.
Origin, by Dan Brown, Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones, and Warbreaker, by Brandon Sanderson. I may give them another chance in the future, but right now I've got lots of books waiting, so they're not a priority.
Honestly if you feel you must consume Shakespeare watch one of the movies. It's so much easier to see why people love it. His work wasn't meant to be read it was meant to be watched and it's very very obvious if you have to sit in a room and read a play.
I disagree. Each movie shows the vision of the director, but we should be free to have our own vision.
Or go see it preformed somewhere, it’s definitely best consumed by seeing it performed and/or being in it.
I cried a little when you removed Les Misérables but I'm okay, I'm okay x) no, seriously, I can completely understand! I personally read it in five times (as there are five books) and it's really a quick read this way, and so so so beautiful (and it'll probably make you miserable, yes, but my, Jean Valjean is just
I wholeheartedly agree that Jean Valjean is amazing! I love him, too!
I read the abridged version and liked it 😉
I loved Neverwhere. Tho I listened to the James McAvoy radio version. I do have a bias towards him. The Hugh Jackman version of Les Miserable is worth a watch. The lovely thin about Shakespeare is if you watch a play or movie (Hamlet, Romeo & Juliette, etc) you have basically read his work. David Tennant and Catherine Tate did a brilliant Much Ado About Nothing (you can find it on UA-cam). As far as John Green, A Fault in our Stars is amazing. Some of his other stuff is so so but I enjoyed that one. -- Mary Higgins Clark is the name you are thinking of. Try the mini series Catch 22. That way you can watch the first episode and see if it's your style.
Oooo I've heard of Jeff vandermeer from UA-camr Thoughts on tomes. She said that his genre is called 'new weird'. So i guess that's why
Let Me Lie is one of my favorite books, and I say that as someone who has no interest in her other books lol so I don't know how it stacks up against everything after. It is about a mom, but it doesn't feel like a domestic thriller to me. I also had the same problem with Autonomous, I have no idea what I didn't like about it but I only got 20 pages in before I just gave up for good.
I also stopped forcing myself to read classics. Most of the time I don't enjoy myself and sometimes I feel like you need someone who talks you through the book so you get everything right. Also feel you on the John Green thing. Loved his books as a teenager but I just can't relate to them anymore and I have no desire to pick up one of his more recent books. And I have to admit to myself that I probably will never read the millennium trilogy.
OMG So happy to know I’m not the only one who feel that way about the Bear and The Nightingale!!! Just couldn’t stand the story & had to DNF when I was more than half way thru it! Life’s too short for something I don’t like >_
I found Paper Towns very boring, but the other John Greens are so good. Very very quick reads. The only ones of his I haven’t gotten to are the Alaska one and the Katherine’s one.
You’re thinking of Agatha Christie, not Mary Higgins Clark. I haven’t read her either, but I did love the recent movie so I plan to try her at some point. I believe they’re super short quick books so I’d say it’s worth a try. She’s the queen of smart mysteries.
I read the abridged version of Les Mis in college and adored it. I’d encourage you to try an abridged version. It’s still rather long, but not as long as the full version and more page-turner-y.
I never comment but we have similar book tastes and I loved the bear and the nightingale I tried the audio book and it didn’t go well but then I read it physically and loved it & I also can’t get into Neil Gaiman’s writing but I loved the graveyard book
Stardust is a pretty short Neil Gaiman book. Although it was the one time when I preferred the movie over the book. I also feel sad that you didn't like the second series of Big Little Lies. It had so much more of Zoe Kravitz, who is beautiful
You are missing out on Shakespeare 😭😭😭
I would give Shakespeare a chance. I am German, so I never I had to read it for school. As a teenager, I read a lot of his books. His tragedies were fine but I really enjoyed his comedies. Maybe you will give one of them a chance 😉
lol The Bear and the Nightingale got me out of a reading slump which is funny because i also hate magical realism. I think we have similar tastes too except for this one book lol
I'm not a Gaiman can either, but I really did love The Bear and the Nightingale! :)
Neverwhere is the only Gaiman book I've really enjoyed, it's one of all time my favorites. (Although I read it ten years ago, so I'd be interested to re-read it now) Because I loved it so much, I tried and wanted to love everything else by him, but in the end--I didn't care for much else. The concept of American Gods was so interesting to me, but I only got half way thought and I was so sad I didn't love it.
I think the only Gaiman works I've loved are the Sandman comics. The books haven't held my attention despite the premises of them being super interesting. I did enjoy the Stardust movie though.
Yeah, good choice for getting rid of bear & nightingale LOL
Ooo I tried to listen to let me lie on audio and just couldn’t do it
“Speaking of magic realism”
Don’t you say it!!
No, don’t!
No!
“Neil Gaiman”
Noooo!
Lol seriously try The Graveyard Book, it’s great. Also never where is one of my favs so mayyyybe you’d like that too. Maybe.
Reading Shakespeare is torture but watching Shakespeare is great. I love romeo + Juliet with Leo di Caprio, and I've seen one or two shows in theatre which were great. But I hated my life when I had to read Hamlet or The Tempest. (I actually fell asleep while reading the Tempest and it's supposed to be one of his funnier/profound plays).
I think it's a pity you won't read Les Miserables. I love that story. I don't particularly like the grown-up Cosette or Marius, but I am incredibly fond of Jean Valjean and there are a couple of other very complex and interesting characters in there. Don't watch any of the movies, but give the book a chance! It may be a brick, but it's not hard to read and I think it would be great when it's cold outside and you're in bed, wrapped up in a warm blanket.
About Shakespeare: I haven't read ALL his plays, but I have read about ten of them or so. I feel some of them are usually misunderstood. Therefore I don't trust any directors who might have staged them and I prefer reading them myself. There are certain aspects that I dislike, but all in all... + other fragments are amazing! Mindblowing wit and wisdom. And some bitter humour, to add some flavour to the mix. I will admit they are not very easy to read, which explains the "torture", but I'm Romanian and I can read them and appreciate them, so why shouldn't some native English speakers be able to? If it is their failure that scares you, let me reassure you that those plays are still interesting, catchy, and memorable.
I’ve read a bunch of John Green and tried to like them but they’re all sad and angsty.
I’d go for Stardust by Neil Gaiman. It’s definitely the most accessible. I did like Neverwhere but it’s super weird and not linear.