You opened the YA section and i was immediately flashed back to being 13 finding booktube for the first time while all those books were popular (I am both nostalgic and horrified)
Hey Kayla. Long term subscriber but quiet lurker here. I’ve been watching your videos since the first closet unhaul & love your content. I’ve been a big reader my entire life & worked in the book industry for over 20 years, so have read a wide variety of genres. However, my favourite genre is romance. And I’ve been debating for quite some time whether I should comment about the romance books you have been reading and finding lacking. I personally find that so much of the modern romance genre today is not really “romance”. I began reading romances during the height of the romance boom of the 1990s to early 2000s. The romance books now are what we called “chick lit fiction” & I found very uninspiring. During this video, there was a romance book called Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh who is a New Zealander writer. That romance book series “The Psy-Changling” series is one of my favourites. It has a combination of romance & fantasy that you may just love. If you are ever interested in trying the series, the first book is Slave to Sensation. I reread this one at least once a year. It’s one of my comfort reads. I hope that someday, not even for a video, you may pick it up & try it. Singh also writes very good mystery/thrillers if you don’t fancy her romance. Just wanted to see if you may like to try a different slant on romance. Keep up the great content!
A few notes about Angela Liddon/Oh She Glows: She released at least two more books after the first one. If she has release any in the last few years, I’m unaware of it. The second book was probably my favourite. During COVID she came out as pro Trucker Convoy because she “wanted to see her children smile in public” or some shit. I unfollowed her after that. Part of the “dryness” of 2014 vegan food was the fact that the no oil/no salt version of veganism was going HARD. Went along with the high raw/raw till 4 movement. Thanks Freelee. The savoury oatmeal recipe in the first book is still a go-to recipe for me.
This is a fun idea! I clicked through a few months ago and had a chuckle at the books that were popular then that have disappeared, and other ones that were not even in the top 3 that have had some staying power over the years. It's also neat to see books on these lists boomerang back thanks to tiktok reviving some old books.
i took asl in college and spent a lot of time around the deaf community. as soon as i read the synopsis i thought “this is major icky and borderline ableist?” i haven’t read the book but from what ive heard, i was right.
Re: the missing book. I just experienced this for 5 MONTHS! I could not find a book for the life of me and I’d completely given up ever finding it. The other day, while updating my library spreadsheet, I was cataloging my shelves and found it! For whatever reason, I thought I had bought a paperback so I was only checking the paperback section of my shelves. It ended up being a hardcover 🤦🏼♀️
I love the idea of going back to check into popular releases from years past. I read a ton in high school but was in college from 2011-2015. I read almost nothing for pleasure during those years. I imagine there are releases in the timeframe I would enjoy that aren't getting 2024 buzz
I meant to write on your recent celebratory video but didn’t have time so I’ll do it now: thanks for all your hard work on making amazing videos. Not only do I really enjoy them but you’ve brought me A LOT of comfort through some super tough times (two long term break ups! That’s how long I’ve been watching 😂) So thank you. Even this morning you’re exactly what I needed to wind down and relax because I’ve got a lot going on and can’t stop overthinking. You’re the best!
I'm planning to tackle reading all the books on my tbr that were nominated on goodreads awards since 2011 next year. This looked liked a fun video to do and happy reading!
Well, this was so so enjoyable! I think it's really interesting how we went from the almost naked people on the cover to illustrated, cutesy when it comes to romance, when the smuttiness level of them stayed the same. The idea for Horrostör is really cool, reminded me of an event that ikea did years ago where they invited influencers to sleep in a store for a night, The sorry girls vlogged it.
Oh my gosh haha what a throwback! I read Archers Voice sooooo many years ago and I barely remember it 😅 but hearing you talk about it, I feel like I’d hate it if I tried to read it now 😂
53:00 the narrator for dark house has a pseudonym who did the echo wife (i don’t remember if you read that on audio) but that might be why they sound familiar
I have not read archers voice, I had no idea what it was about, but I knew as soon as you mentioned it that you weren’t going to like it 😂 same goes for me, I have given that book a wide berth bc I knew I would hate it 😅
I also had to DNF Red Rising! I got through 50% but I really don't get the hype I haven't read Archer's Voice but I've always been put off by it and I feel like your review has cemented that for me!
I just read the Martian for the first time this year - 2024 - even though it won its category 10 years ago!! No idea why I waited so long.... I did see the movie though when that came out.
Wait how could you make reading/ listening to a book without knowing the author and guessing who it is as a challenge? Because that would be fantastic!
When you decided to pick up that Karina Halle series I literally screamed GIRL NO 😆 I read the first 3 books and Dex is absolute trash. Good to know he has not changed one bit by book 9. How romantic.
Yes, it's extremely annoying. If you've marked the paperback as read and they show the hardcover in one of their lists, it doesn't show as read. But if you click the book, the book page is in the format you've chosen and shows as read.
Just started the video but did you chance your hair color to give us a trip down memory lane? Right when it started playing I thought cool, Kayla started the video with some past footage and then you go "... it's been ten years..." and I'm like WHAT??? ETA: Oh yeah, I've seen the beginning before. My memory is s*it😂😂😂
I read archer’s voice this year and was pretty disappointed by it. I was looking for a book with good disability rep but idk I’ve read so many better books
When I saw in Discord that you were gonna read Archer's Voice, I wanted to try and stop you so badly 😅 I read this book in 2020 and disliked it _with a passion_ 😤 So, if nothing else, I hope that that would make you feel less lonely in your dislike of the book 😅
Also haha why is the grown ass woman booksplaining Harry Potter to a literal child?? I'm sure he knows what Harry Potter's about! Noooo you should have picked The Winter people 🤣 It's so good and there are no random men making biological assumptions about nuns, I promise!
Something random, but I read Brown Girl Dreaming back in 2019 after hearing about it and I thought it was on your recommendation, maybe you just mentioned it in a haul or another video!
Started reading books published/popular 2014 books on my tbr at the start of this year as my own type of 10 years later challenege. So excited to hear your thoughts on things. 🩶
Omg you should redesign some 2014 covers in an updated “2024 style” 😍
That's such a cool idea!
yes! great idea!!
iiiiinteresting 🤔
I LOVE this idea!
Yes, please! This is such a fun idea!!
You opened the YA section and i was immediately flashed back to being 13 finding booktube for the first time while all those books were popular (I am both nostalgic and horrified)
If Archer’s Voice has no haters then I am dead. I rage DNFed that book and I’m so glad hater Kayla came out for it too 😂
I pushed through, but I shouldn't have, should have dnf-ed like you did
I don't hate it but it was definitely overhyped
Now you gotta do this video for all the years that Goodreads has been around. I think since 2006!
Oh yes that’s an awesome idea
the first goodreads awards were on 2011 actually, but yeah this should become a series!!
"Some boorks are good, some boorks are bad." Amen to that.
‘Green and pink are my favorite colors’ (inserts Pantone Cosmo and Wanda)
Hey Kayla. Long term subscriber but quiet lurker here. I’ve been watching your videos since the first closet unhaul & love your content. I’ve been a big reader my entire life & worked in the book industry for over 20 years, so have read a wide variety of genres. However, my favourite genre is romance. And I’ve been debating for quite some time whether I should comment about the romance books you have been reading and finding lacking. I personally find that so much of the modern romance genre today is not really “romance”. I began reading romances during the height of the romance boom of the 1990s to early 2000s. The romance books now are what we called “chick lit fiction” & I found very uninspiring. During this video, there was a romance book called Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh who is a New Zealander writer. That romance book series “The Psy-Changling” series is one of my favourites. It has a combination of romance & fantasy that you may just love. If you are ever interested in trying the series, the first book is Slave to Sensation. I reread this one at least once a year. It’s one of my comfort reads. I hope that someday, not even for a video, you may pick it up & try it. Singh also writes very good mystery/thrillers if you don’t fancy her romance. Just wanted to see if you may like to try a different slant on romance. Keep up the great content!
I love the 10 year themed video idea! And this one is so interesting, popular books have changed so much in 10 years!
I think reading debut novels from author’s you’ve liked would be a really cool video idea!
I will forever admire your ability to come up with such brilliant concepts for videos.
I’m losing it at the 2014 themed pinterest board, it’s perfect
“I picked this book because…well you were the.” 😂😂😂
Not the chevron transition slide 😂
Your hair is ALWAYS just so nice. Healthiest hair I’ve ever seen and always styled.
A few notes about Angela Liddon/Oh She Glows:
She released at least two more books after the first one. If she has release any in the last few years, I’m unaware of it. The second book was probably my favourite.
During COVID she came out as pro Trucker Convoy because she “wanted to see her children smile in public” or some shit. I unfollowed her after that.
Part of the “dryness” of 2014 vegan food was the fact that the no oil/no salt version of veganism was going HARD. Went along with the high raw/raw till 4 movement. Thanks Freelee.
The savoury oatmeal recipe in the first book is still a go-to recipe for me.
this is why we read the comments 🫡
I am HERE for the reviews of the first and the last books in a series you have not read. I would watch all of them! 😂
I can’t imagine listening to Horrorstor. The visual of the physical book seemed so necessary to the story for me.
This is a fun idea! I clicked through a few months ago and had a chuckle at the books that were popular then that have disappeared, and other ones that were not even in the top 3 that have had some staying power over the years. It's also neat to see books on these lists boomerang back thanks to tiktok reviving some old books.
Ahh I was so hoping you'd pick up the Goblin Emperor from the fantasy category. I love that book. Great video anyways!
Every time we cut to you wearing the teal & white jumper you spilled. Maybe the jumper needs to stay & you can drag the bookish world regularly 😭🤣
i can't believe after i waited so long to hear your thoughts on darkfever you brought it up again! what a treat
“2014 has Black Lies…2024 has Black representation” HELP 💀💀💀
I DNF'd Archer's Voice with a swiftness! It felt SOOOO icky. Archer is a grown man, why was she treating him like that???
i took asl in college and spent a lot of time around the deaf community. as soon as i read the synopsis i thought “this is major icky and borderline ableist?” i haven’t read the book but from what ive heard, i was right.
Re: the missing book. I just experienced this for 5 MONTHS! I could not find a book for the life of me and I’d completely given up ever finding it.
The other day, while updating my library spreadsheet, I was cataloging my shelves and found it! For whatever reason, I thought I had bought a paperback so I was only checking the paperback section of my shelves. It ended up being a hardcover 🤦🏼♀️
I love the idea of going back to check into popular releases from years past. I read a ton in high school but was in college from 2011-2015. I read almost nothing for pleasure during those years. I imagine there are releases in the timeframe I would enjoy that aren't getting 2024 buzz
I meant to write on your recent celebratory video but didn’t have time so I’ll do it now: thanks for all your hard work on making amazing videos. Not only do I really enjoy them but you’ve brought me A LOT of comfort through some super tough times (two long term break ups! That’s how long I’ve been watching 😂)
So thank you. Even this morning you’re exactly what I needed to wind down and relax because I’ve got a lot going on and can’t stop overthinking.
You’re the best!
Kayla I’m screaming cuz I read Archer’s Voice yesterday solely because I knew you owned it! Can’t wait to watch your reaction to Bree and Archer 😅
I'm planning to tackle reading all the books on my tbr that were nominated on goodreads awards since 2011 next year. This looked liked a fun video to do and happy reading!
this is such a cool idea! brb on my way to investigate this idea.
The Opposite of Loneliness. On the shelf forever. She was hit by a car and killed before these short stories were published. Crying!
Well, this was so so enjoyable! I think it's really interesting how we went from the almost naked people on the cover to illustrated, cutesy when it comes to romance, when the smuttiness level of them stayed the same. The idea for Horrostör is really cool, reminded me of an event that ikea did years ago where they invited influencers to sleep in a store for a night, The sorry girls vlogged it.
In 5 years I’ve never been this early
Yay! I’m very excited for this new series of celebration 😊
Yes baby!!!!
i actually laughed out loud at the teal chevron transition 😂
Veronica mars is a book 😅 I gasped
Oh my gosh haha what a throwback! I read Archers Voice sooooo many years ago and I barely remember it 😅 but hearing you talk about it, I feel like I’d hate it if I tried to read it now 😂
oh my god that 9 book series sound like a fever dream
Listen!! The tension about the lost copy of Horrorstör is the real horror here!
This floral top/ dress is GORGEOUS 😍
The review of the last book. Amazing.
53:00 the narrator for dark house has a pseudonym who did the echo wife (i don’t remember if you read that on audio) but that might be why they sound familiar
The dynamic audiobook for Red Rising was so good! Idk if you tried that out or not!
Horrorstör is my favorite Grady Hendrix book so far. He's a cheeky bastard and I love him for it. 😆
Another amazing video! I had very similar feelings about archers voice back when I read it in 2016. I have never understood the hype around it.
Kayla you are my favorite person on here
I have not read archers voice, I had no idea what it was about, but I knew as soon as you mentioned it that you weren’t going to like it 😂 same goes for me, I have given that book a wide berth bc I knew I would hate it 😅
“I just want to love a romance book”
“Oh.” - my family anytime I ramble at them about books 😂
Teal, coral and orange 🍊 will always have a hold on me 😂
I also had to DNF Red Rising! I got through 50% but I really don't get the hype
I haven't read Archer's Voice but I've always been put off by it and I feel like your review has cemented that for me!
happy 10 years on book tube!!
Nalini Singh (Shield of Winter) is an author of color! But also, yeah, not the best representation in the romance category. Really then or now.
Red Rising is my enemy #1 I swear. And I DID push through it. Absolutely not. I feel validated by you DNFing it lol
I have read Archers voice in 2015. and it was amazing :)) but still funny that it is so popular now
When you said 2024 actually had black rep in the romance category!! 😂😂😂
I watch your channel BECAUSE your opinion is your own and doesn't always line up with what everyone likes.
I just read the Martian for the first time this year - 2024 - even though it won its category 10 years ago!! No idea why I waited so long.... I did see the movie though when that came out.
I wish you read The Wayward Pines series by Blake Crouch. I was shocked to see it there 😂 I forgot how old the books are 😮😅
So excited for this omgggg
your favorite colors are cosmo and wanda
Woooo! Booktube birthday video! ❤
😮 I’m reading the book of unknown Americans now!
I loved Archers voice, but I was twenty when I read it. Lmao
I haven’t read a Grady Hendrix book yet and I’m so curious to know where I should start?
I loved Best friend’s exorcism and didn’t like Final girls support group but those there the only 2 I read
“Have I got a 5 star read from the goodreads nominees every year since 2014?” Could be an ideas
Look at me excited!
HEY! PERFECT TIMING!
OMG YES BOOKS HAVE BEEN DISSAPEARING FROM GOODREADS LATELY!!
Wait how could you make reading/ listening to a book without knowing the author and guessing who it is as a challenge? Because that would be fantastic!
When you decided to pick up that Karina Halle series I literally screamed GIRL NO 😆 I read the first 3 books and Dex is absolute trash. Good to know he has not changed one bit by book 9. How romantic.
You dnf Half Bad? I loved that one!
So excited
I DNF’d archers voice earlier this year
I think Goodreads gets confused with formats when marking things as read
Yes, it's extremely annoying. If you've marked the paperback as read and they show the hardcover in one of their lists, it doesn't show as read. But if you click the book, the book page is in the format you've chosen and shows as read.
Just started the video but did you chance your hair color to give us a trip down memory lane? Right when it started playing I thought cool, Kayla started the video with some past footage and then you go "... it's been ten years..." and I'm like WHAT???
ETA: Oh yeah, I've seen the beginning before. My memory is s*it😂😂😂
I read archer’s voice this year and was pretty disappointed by it. I was looking for a book with good disability rep but idk I’ve read so many better books
stepbrother WHAT
I joined in 2018 bring a subscriber and this is the earliest ever lol
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Wooooo 🎉👏🏻
When I saw in Discord that you were gonna read Archer's Voice, I wanted to try and stop you so badly 😅
I read this book in 2020 and disliked it _with a passion_ 😤
So, if nothing else, I hope that that would make you feel less lonely in your dislike of the book 😅
I’ve never been here this early 😮
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You gave a late night update but you weren't wearing glasses 🤔
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lol he died at some point and then he came back 😂
im so early!!!!! HELL YEAH
Also haha why is the grown ass woman booksplaining Harry Potter to a literal child?? I'm sure he knows what Harry Potter's about!
Noooo you should have picked The Winter people 🤣 It's so good and there are no random men making biological assumptions about nuns, I promise!
I’m a romance girly and Archers Voice was not it.. you only spoke facts!
First babyyyyyy
Something random, but I read Brown Girl Dreaming back in 2019 after hearing about it and I thought it was on your recommendation, maybe you just mentioned it in a haul or another video!
Yeah! Perfect timing to put away laundry! 🧺
Started reading books published/popular 2014 books on my tbr at the start of this year as my own type of 10 years later challenege. So excited to hear your thoughts on things. 🩶