I love the folk of the air. I think the reason why everyone was disappointed with it is because they had high expectations and followed everyone who hyped it but you didn't, you didn't expect it to be like that and that's why you really liked it. I'm glad you gave it a chance and enjoyed it
I really liked it too. I particularly remember people saying the third book was disappointing, can't remember why now, but I thought it was good, the characters stayed true to themselves. I also really liked How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories.
I loved it as well. I went in expecting to hate it because I’m a new YA reader, like last year was my first year looking at booktok and everything and I wasn’t really sure what go be expecting, and I’d heard some bad reviews too. Like I had for six of crows where some ppl were like “it’s awesome” but some were like “oh my gods what is this, why do ppl like it, too hyped” but I ended up picking it up and loving it so much and it was the same for folk of the air for me
Honestly it’s my comfort read. I read them before getting into bookstagram and I wasn’t on Twitter, so I enjoyed the story SOOOO MUCH! Seriously Jude is my favorite FMC of all time!
literally, im still reading the series rn and im loving it so much i dont understand the complaints, the series became one of my top 5 favorite books ever
I really like it tho, especially the politic. You can also understand why all the characters do what they done.. i think i cry several time not because its sad but due to shock
I think it's important to mention that these violent delights contains self-harm. I didn't know that before i read the book and if i had known, i probably wouldn't have. So heads up for everyone considering to read it!
The Secret History is definitely a book where its aesthetic doesnt match the tone which is funny because the whole novel is so miserable [and funny but still] yet the edits are all happy, pretty, comforting. I love it.
I only started getting into reading in 2022. My reading goal for the year was 15, and I ended up reading 37!! these were my only 5 stars: The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller All my rage by Sabaa Tahir Beautiful broken things by Sara Barnard Happy New Year!!!
My favorites of the year out of 105 : -If we were villains -Alone With You in the ether -Beartown (actually everything by Frederick Backman) -Malibu rising -The starless sea!!! -people we meet on vacation -The history of Love! -in my dreams I hold a knife
Hi, was wondering if you have to know Shakespeare to understand and like We Were Villains. I wanted to read it but I got scared off because I heard that there was a bunch of nods to Shakespeare.
@@teestab143 i found a few booktokers and booktubers who like the book but when i mention the book outside of the book community, people get immediately turned off at the fact there’s no romance 😭.
My favorite books of 2022 are 1. memory of souls - Jenn Lyons (the third in the series. It's high fantasy at its core and I couldn't love it more) 2. his dark materials 3 - Philip Pullman (so so good!) 3. lost boy - Christina Henry (I read it with a constant fear, which is great) 4. the moon - K. Tolnø 5. to kill a kingdom - Alexandra Christo 6. Lügendiebin - Saskia Louis 7. they both die at the end - Adam Silvera (I finished it yesterday and I cried so so much) 8. she's too pretty to burn - Wendy Heard
@@GUNI_KUN I gave it 4,5 stars so yeah I like the book very much. The beginning makes you anxious because you think about the fact that you could die any moment, but the rest of the book makes you realize how important it is to actually live and appreciate little moments. You can read the book very fast because the writing style is pretty simple a bit too simple for my taste). And I cried a lot because this book feels so realistic. I hope this helped you. I'd really recommend the book :)
@@8makes1team81 I rate it 5 stars mostly because I love strong and sarcastic characters. The world-building is a bit weak but character-driven stories are the best. I listened to the audiobook which was great
I love that u recommend based on everyone’s taste! That makes you one of a kind! Usually people just give their rating without much more depth! This video made me happy
Love the video! Mine were: 1. The House in The Cerulean Sea by Tj Klune 2. I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson 3. The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun is one of my all-time favorite YA/fiction books. It's incandescent. I almost feel like I'm in a trance when I read it! Thanks for reminding me.
I love what you had to say about The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas! Such a haunting and thought provoking read. It's the first short story I read since a long time and it inspired me to pick up more short stories.
Usually I also don't read biographies. Usually. But then I read/listened to Michelle Zauners 'Crying in H Mart" and it's so magnificent; the way Zauner manages to channel the abstract literature of music into an immeasurably emotional journey from child to adult and back again. The narration by the author herself really creates an intimacy rarely achieved. This along with a bravely exposed heart, makes 'Crying in H Mart' stand out as an autobiography worthy of in depth reading Cheers from Denmark 🇩🇰
My fave of the year was definitely Fellowship of the Ring. I’m an avid Tolkein fan, and after putting off reading the books again for 15+ years (for similar reasons to your Jane Eyre story) I am more in love with LOTR than I ever have been. I’m thinking of turning it into a tradition to read all 3 once a year because I’m truly sad that I’ve allowed myself to miss out on so much nuance from the books for so long.
I picked up Bunny this year, because it intrigued so much on various social media platforms and inspired by your videos, and it just... blew my mind. It was such a wild ride but it is definitely in my Top 3 Books of the Year because it was an amazing experience, the book compares to nothing else I read, just... wow
I got back into reading this year and omg so many good books 1. Definitely The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I even got another copy for Christmas because this book is juste chef kiss 2. The Six of Crows duology which I read in a few days because of how captivated I was 3. Murder mystery french book called "Dans les brumes de Capellan". The plot twists are unmatched holy I still think about the end 4. All the young dudes, I read this massive fanfiction even though I'm usually not a fan but OMG now I've fallen into the abyss that is the Marauders fandom 5. Folk of the air trilogy of course, I'm in love with Jude 5. Circe, I dnf The Song of Achilles but Circe gave me a feeling of confort when I read it. I hold it close to my heart 6. The first to die at the end which made me cry way too much and was even better than the first one 7. Vicious, now I'm stuck in Dark Academia and reading The Secret History. It's exactly what I like, morally grey characters and you don't know who the worst is 8. This is how you lose the time war, very weird I didn't understand everything but it's lesbian romance and it's beautiful so I'm in.
Vicious is amazing! I also loved Vengeful! I do think that that this series is quite underrated nowadays...but is it really considered to be dark academia? Im into dark academia but I've never considered putting Vicious in there.
you are so right about the goodreads ratings! i too found out this year that many of my favorite books have a rating under 4.00 on goodreads. so honestly, so many more possibilities have opened up for me now that i've ditched putting importance of the goodreads rating. i prefer checking out some critics reviews now
Whenever you post I click, not just for the aesthetics, but because I love your personality, and keep up the good work, also have you every read Coraline I want you to make a video about it. I hope you have an amazing 2023 and I hope have days full of warm tea and reading in candlelight.
Just finished reading "Glasstown" by Isabel Greenburg, which is this amazing graphic novel about the Brontë sisters and this shared fantasy fiction city they all started writing together when they were kids and it was really great! Other highlights for 2022: "Crying in H Mart" by Michelle Zauner, "Babel" by R.F. Kuang, "A Woman of No Importance" by Sonia Purnell, "Legends and Lattes" by Travis Baldree, "Mornings in Jenin" by Susan Abulhawa, "The Heart Principle" by Helen Hoang, and "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel. I guess I was in the mood for melancholy, overall.
I started reading Emily Henry this year and binged all of her books. They were definitely among my favorite books that I've read this year. Right up there with The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, The House in the Cerulean Sea by Tj Klune and Well met by Jen DeLuca
I read Jane Eyre for the first time this year as well and it was so so good! I haven’t read a book like that in so long where you really believe how much two characters are in love 🖤
Only recently I got back to reading and the book responsible was The Lies of Locke Lamora. It was exactly what I wanted to read and way more. Huuuge love.
Happy new year, Leonie! I feel like I went through 2022 with you, both finishing up our STEM thesis and degrees, just going through similar cycles of life. I hope 2023 brings you some new ans fun experiences and a bit of calm now that uni is over!
My favorites I read this year. - A thousand heartbeats - Kiera Cass - One last stop - Casey Mcquiston - Red, White and Royal blue - Casey Mcquiston - The love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood - Radio Silence - Alice Oseman - Heartstopper series - Alice Oseman - Solitaire - Alice Oseman - Where the crawdads sing - Delia Owens - Anne of green gables - L. M. Montgomery - The Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid I'm glad my mom died - Jennette McCurdy - Unfiltered: No Shame, no regrets, just me - Lily Collins
YAY for Jane Eyre!!! It is my favorite book. Luckily you have finally (LOL) read it, I was nearly twice your age when I read it, so you are very alright with reading it at your age ;-) Thanks for all your wonderful videos. Have a happy and wonderful and very bookish year 2023!!!
I love how unapologetic you are about loving what you (we) love, even tho you’re still mindful about it, so just thank you for being you and doing videos 💙💙
I had no idea Cruel Prince and Wicked King were insanely popular. I just picked them up because I love Holly Black as a children's author, especially her previous faerie works. She has an uncanny ability to capture the dark essence of old faerie folklore while delivering her stories in a suitable palette for children. And I fall in love with that kind of thing.
I read Jane Eyre for the first time this year as well and it completely changed my life! It was the first classic novel that one, intrigued me, two, shocked me with plot twists, and three, was accessible to my own ability to process it (I am a native English speaker lol). I don’t think it’s the greatest romance of all time. However, i think It’s an exemplary novel of what marriage had to be during its time. I wrote an essay on Jane Eyre’s character and why I believe her to be an invisible bisexual and my professor is helping me get it published in an academic journal. Needless to say, I have so much to say about this book! I’ll be reading the rest of the Brontë sisters this year 😊
Always love your recommendations, you definitely have the strongest influence on my reading lmao. 5 star reads this year ( I have rating restraint, so there was a lot more 4 stars): - Howl's Moving Castle -Mindfulness -Piranesi -Humankind -Book Lovers -Intuitive Eating
My favorites in 2022 were: A Man Called Ove, Everything I Never Told You, Beach Read and Normal People! Also your recommendations of Jane Eyre have convinced me to conquer my own fears and insecurities and read it next fall.
I reread Jane Eyre in 2022 along with Wide Sargasso Sea on a friend’s recommendation. Highly recommend reading them together! Other favorites for the year were Born a Crime, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Song of Achilles, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Poet X and a YA called Snow and Rose. Loved them all for completely different reasons!
I think you would like An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson, Leonie! It's a fae story with a dark cottagecore feel. The characters aren't that deep but the vibes are great; poison, mushrooms, rotten forest, mean fair folk etc. My 5 star reads were before the coffee gets cold, a man called Ove, and Vespertine. They were all great and I highly recommend them!
I loved An Enchantment of Ravens and Vespertine, and Sorcery of Thorns was one of my top reads of 2022!! I could have read An Enchantment of Ravens in one sitting with it's fast-paced yet immersive storytelling, but I just didn't want it to end. Margaret Rogerson is now an auto-read author of mine (CANT WAIT FOR MYSTERIES OF THORN MANOR 🤍🤍🤍)
Usually, I would look at a book like bunny and be completely daunted by the content but I got bunny as a Christmas present last year and reading it has completely changed my perspective on everything!
The Secret History was my favourite book of 2020 and then the following year 2021 I read the Goldfinch and it became my all time favourite book. I also read her third book but it was drivel. Donna Tartt is my all time favourite book author. She writes one book every ten years. She is 59 now and I patiently wait for her next book.
Next year you should try Exhalation by Ted Chiang for your short stories! Also I think you finally convinced me to read the folk of the air series... I hate when enemies to lovers is used to describe books that Ara actually like misunderstanding to lovers or like vague dislike to lovers
before reading the cruel prince I had the same opinion about it as you. I was like: I will probably don’t like it. a friend was reading it and she talked to me about it but still I was not entirely interesting because normally she reads heavy romance fantasy books and it’s not my thing. BUT THEN! I saw one of your videos where you talked about it and had to buy it. I loved the cruel prince and I‘m currently in the middle of the wicked king. Thank you so much for the recommendation! So far one of my new favourite series!
I just wanted to say, that this video was the perfect one for me today I was so stressed out but now I'm a lot better. I think you found the perfect balance between describing the plot and your reasons for loving the book... I haven't read any of these books but now I will! My favourite reads: Piransi and Never, ever, ever by Linn Strømsborg
I've only read 13 books this year - 3 of which were re-reads - but I enjoyed all of them so much that it's almost impossible to choose favorites. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Handmaids Tale are up there though.
Happy New Year ! I had a wonderful reading year. Some of my favorite readings are : The parabol of the sower by Octavia E.Butler, Our part of Night by Mariana Enriquez, Ring Shout by P. Djèli Clark, Rain by Ng Kim Chew, Kim Kim Jiyoung oung, born in 1982. I'm happy I read more comics and mangas that are one of the best boik I read this year Thanks for this video ❤️
My fave books of 2022: I am death - Chris Carter (AWSOME detective story writer! He actually studied criminal psychology so this book was great! Very gory) A Deadly education - Naomi novic (Awsome school, with SOOOO many crazy classes and rules, and deadly battles) The traitor prince - C.J Redwine (She is such a great fantasy author, but THIS ONE WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! I mean look at the title) Truly Devious - Maureen Johnson (I have not read the enitre series yet, but LOVE books with schools with secrets)
@@GUNI_KUN i had read the entire triology a year and a half back and honestly i don't remember much but i definitely remember liking it :D. Certain things in the books didn't exactly go well for me but other than that i was very hooked
@@guiltypleasure2087 i guess it's a book which keeps you hooked when you read but the plot is not that sensational that you forget about it after a year or two 😆💜
Books mentioned : Book lovers The secret history I am glad my mom died Beautiful world where are you Folk of the air series The ones who walk away from omelas These violent delights Jane eyre Bunny
I have been binging your channel for the past 2 days now and you're officially my favorite Book Tuber! I also listened to Jennette McCurdy's book last year; it was the quickest I bought and finished! I'm currently reading "The Secret History", my first mystery/psychological thriller ever and I'm enjoying every page. I bought "Bunny" last summer and it's the next book I plan to read right after TSH!
My top 5 were: 1. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 2. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy 3. Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro 4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 5. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
I dont think our tastes synchronize BUT i absolutely love the way you talk about books and your take on books i would probably find too overwhelming. I love how aesthetic your set up u is and the motivation you give me to pick up a book (even those I wouldn't usually touch) I really like your content
my favorite book of the year was definitely The Chronicles of Narnia ❤ and i'm shocked that you're not a native english speaker because you speak so fluently and your channel is the only one i watch just because that's the one i can understand the most
This year in my major "The one's who walk away from Omelas" was in the course as a Sci-fi book, and it was so good, specially with the satire of it being a Utopian world.
im currently reading bunny right now and I LOVE IT. it is probably the first book to genuinely make me laugh and pull me in to the story and i cant wait to read more of mona awads work.
I'm also not a native english speaker and I really want to read classic english books but EVERYTIME I pick an english book I just put it back cause the english is too heavy for me. Guess I have to wait until I can read an english book . But FORTUNATELY in my school library I found The Great Gatsby but with french annotations to help the French readers so I'm really happy.
I also agree with what you said praising Jeanette’s biography. I didn’t realize the audiobook was in her voice! Now I’m inclined to hear her tell it- but either way, I have so much appreciation for her as a person after finishing reading the book.
My fav has to be Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tommorrow - amazing conversations about cultural appropriation andpeople of different ethnicities, great gamedev representation (need more of those in fiction please) and the writing style was so smooth. Got me out of my reading slump for sure and the audiobook is great as well
here are my favourites from 2022: 1. Kristin Hannah - The Great Alone 2. Elina Pitkäkangas - Sang 3. Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere 4. Meri Valkama - Sinun, Margot 5. Akwaeke Emezi - The Death of Vivek Oji 6. Marie Aubert - Grown Ups 7. Carmen Maria Machado - Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Loved listening to your favorite 2022 books. My favorites were 1. Plainsong by Kent Haruf 2. Eventide by Kent Haruf 3. The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey 4. The Star Rover by Jack London
You are one of the few people I trust when it comes to book reviews. I feel like a lot of people who are hyping a bunch of books on tik tok etc. are exaggerating or lying.
My favourite books of 2022 - a) A Fraction Of The Whole by Steve Toltz b) Project Hail Mary by A Weir c) Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller d) The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne e) The Courage To Be Disliked f) The Daily Laws by Robert Greene g) Penpal by Dan Auerbach I read 32 books in 2023. Others dont deserve to be in my top ten or arent remarkable enough to mention.
Happy New Year! Here are my top books of the year: 1. IQ84 - Murakami 2. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Paolini 3. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart 4. The Binding - Bridgit Collins 5. Uprooted - Naomi Novak (thanks for recommendation!) 6. Crying in Hmart - Michelle Zauner 7. And honorable mentions: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Son of a Trickster, Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone, and Hamnet and Judith
I have just finished Jane Eyre on my kindle, such beautiful writing! Modern writers couldn't even compare. This book still sits on the shelf untouched in my childhood home, but I daren't touch it for fear of being accused of marring its pages. It was a leather bound copy in a collection and I was often chastised for incorrectly turning pages wrong in paperbacks.
My favorite book of 2022 is called under the udal trees by chinelo oparanta it is written by a Nigerian American author and it is a beautiful heartbreaking historical fiction novel about a young woman growing up in Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War and while l dealing with the hardships of the war and her father's death she comes to the realization that she is a lesbian. Basically it's about a young Nigerian woman trying to blend in to Nigerian society well trying to gain acceptance from her mother and except her self for who she truly is and love openly as a lesbian in Nigeria.
my experience with Jane Eyre was similar! i bought a copy in english, read the first page and went "nope". ended up reading it a couple years later, in my first language, and i loved it. actually reread it in 2022, and double loved it
NO WAY!! You read "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" I haven't heard of anyone who has read it and it was one of the short stories I had to read for my Fantasy Lit class last January and I absolutely loved it! I used it my final essay as well. :)
I read a lot of amazing books in 2022 so it's hard to narrow it down to my absolute favourites but here are some that I can't stop thinking about: 1. The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley 2. Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow 3. A Psalm for the Wild Built (and a Prayer for the crown shy) by Becky Chambers 4. Delilah Green doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake 5. Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson 6. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 7. Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour
My favourite novels I read in 2022 were probably 1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 2. The Night Circus by Erin Morgernstern 3. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell Honourable mentions: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
I’m seriously thankful u talked about these violent delights because me being me being stupid did not realise they were different books. I thought they were different covers but I’ll have to get this one instead of the Chloe gong one for sure.
A great video, Leonie! If you want to read more short stories, I definitely recommend these (they are both speculative fiction): 1. All the Fabulous Beasts (Priya Sharma) - sinister, dark stories that were on th BBC list of Most Overlooked Books in 2019 2. Exhilation (Ted Chiang) - SciFi short stories that ask big questions about humanity, very elegant and thought-provoking.
BOOKS was the theme of 2022. I read 52 books in 52 weeks. My very best year in reading that I can remember. The books I read in 2022 1) "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope 2) "Can You Forgive Her?" by Anthony Trollope 3) "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro 4) "Mark Twain: A Life" by Rom Powers 5) "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain 6) "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain 7) "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene 8) "Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady" by Samuel Richardson 9) "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark 10) "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote 11) "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver 12) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy 13) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy 14) "Master and Man" by Leo Tolstoy 15) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy 16) "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy 17) "The Raid" by Leo Tolstoy 18) "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs 19) “In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 20) "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo 21) "Clara Militch" by Ivan Turgenev 22) "Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev 23) "Kassyan of Fair Springs" by Ivan Turgenev 24) "The Portrait Game" Ivan Turgenev 25) " Punin and Baburin" by Ivan Turgenev 26) "The Inn" by Ivan Turgenev 27) "The Watch" by Ivan Turgenev 28) "Acia" by Ivan Turgenev 29) "Home of the Gentry" by Ivan Turgenev 30) "On the Eve" by Ivan Turgenev 31) "Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev 32) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev 33) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev 34) "The Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev 35) "How Russians Meet Death" by Ivan Turgenev 36) "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" by Ivan Turgenev 37) "Volodya" by Anton Chekhov 38) "Ward No. 6" by Anton Chekhov 39) "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekov 40) "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Alexander Pushkin 41) "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin 42) “Le Grand Meaulnes, or the Lost Domain” by Alain-Fournier 43) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 44) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 45) "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen 46) "Kolyma Tales" by Varlam Shalamov 47) "An Island Hell" by S. A. Malsagoff 48) "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy 49) "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy 50) “Strait is the Gate” by André Gide 51) “And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer” by Fredrik Backman 52) “Middlemarch” by George Eliot Twenty (20) of my top one hundred (100) books of all time I read this year. This is the year I found out Ivan Turgenev from Russia is my favorite author of all time and will never be surpassed. I plan on reading more of him next year too.
I decided to read 23 books in 2023, and feel an update is required. In January, I read too much for this goal. 1) "Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded" by Samuel Richardson 2) "The Moon Is Down" by John Steinbeck 3) "The Last 100 Days: the Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe" by John Toland 4) "Agnes Grey" by Anne Brontë 5) "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë I, also, have read four short stories, already this year. 6) "The Princess" by Anton Chekhov 7) "What Men Live by" by Leo Tolstoy 8) "How Much Land does a Man Need" by Leo Tolstoy 9) "The Life and Ministry of Rev. Ivan Voronaev" by Dony K. Donev I, also, read some of the books of the Holy Bible. About 2,000 pages total from the above, read this month.
i've been waiting for this video!! Also, i started reading memoirs in 2022 and it was a good way to start a non-fiction book. anyway, these are my favorite books of 2022: • Man's search for meaning • When breath becomes air • The Poppy War • The strength in our scars Also leonie, which one would you choose? the folk air trilogy or six of crows duology?
Jane Eyre is my all-time, hands-down, FAVORITE book ever!! I'm so happy you read it this year and enjoyed it! I relate to Jane so much, I just love her 💖
First of all that quote from Jane Eyre PLEASE. So romantic. Also my favorite book of the year, The Learning Curve by Mandy Berman has a 3.36 on Goodreads. So while that pains me it did finally free me from the chokehold of those average ratings lol
i have an awful migraine and every sound is so grating, but i need a distraction and tbh your voice is so soothing and watching your videos when i have a headache is always my go to👌 💕
I heard so many bad things from fantasy booktubers about Holly Black, I never picked it up. Interesting. My own fave was Lincoln in the Bardo in the audio version. I had borrowed it from the library, listened to the first half-hour and returned it with confusion bordering on incomprehension. It’s a difficult start tbh. Then, go figure, I picked it again and that’s all she wrote. I lived for that book even though I still didn’t understand all. I’ll probably do a joint paper and audio reread this year to deepen my understanding. It’s pure magic. And heartbreak.
I love the folk of the air. I think the reason why everyone was disappointed with it is because they had high expectations and followed everyone who hyped it but you didn't, you didn't expect it to be like that and that's why you really liked it. I'm glad you gave it a chance and enjoyed it
I really liked it too. I particularly remember people saying the third book was disappointing, can't remember why now, but I thought it was good, the characters stayed true to themselves. I also really liked How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories.
I loved it as well. I went in expecting to hate it because I’m a new YA reader, like last year was my first year looking at booktok and everything and I wasn’t really sure what go be expecting, and I’d heard some bad reviews too. Like I had for six of crows where some ppl were like “it’s awesome” but some were like “oh my gods what is this, why do ppl like it, too hyped” but I ended up picking it up and loving it so much and it was the same for folk of the air for me
Honestly it’s my comfort read. I read them before getting into bookstagram and I wasn’t on Twitter, so I enjoyed the story SOOOO MUCH! Seriously Jude is my favorite FMC of all time!
literally, im still reading the series rn and im loving it so much i dont understand the complaints, the series became one of my top 5 favorite books ever
I really like it tho, especially the politic. You can also understand why all the characters do what they done.. i think i cry several time not because its sad but due to shock
Only one 5 star book?! That's some serious rating restraint!
Fr, now I feel like I'm too light with my ratings because if the book is entertaining enough I automatically give it 4 or 5 stars, lol
Out of 148 books in 2022, I ended up with 35 five stars so...I think my rating style would give Leonie a heart attack 🤔 🤣
I think I had 15/62, lol. In my defense, my average rating is around 3.9 but if a book is turning out to be a 1,2, or almost 3 I DNF it!
I had zero 5 stars lol
@@silverplim Who hurt you? 🥲
I think it's important to mention that these violent delights contains self-harm. I didn't know that before i read the book and if i had known, i probably wouldn't have. So heads up for everyone considering to read it!
ty for telling us that. strong pass for me
Thank you so much! While overall that's something I can handle I know I need to be in the right headspace for it. So this is an immense help
On story graph readers can leave trigger warnings for books, so you can check there before read them. Stay safe folks
The Secret History is definitely a book where its aesthetic doesnt match the tone which is funny because the whole novel is so miserable [and funny but still] yet the edits are all happy, pretty, comforting. I love it.
I only started getting into reading in 2022. My reading goal for the year was 15, and I ended up reading 37!!
these were my only 5 stars:
The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
All my rage by Sabaa Tahir
Beautiful broken things by Sara Barnard
Happy New Year!!!
Song of Achilles was really good!
thats so good! hope 2023 bring more good books for u
@@jessicalesko9393 thank you!! Hope you find more good books too
All My Rage was my favorite book of the year!
I absolutely loved All my rage!
McCurdy's book was a revelation. She is such a talented writer and storyteller. I was blown away too. What a talent!
Yup same here🎉🎉
My favorites of the year out of 105 :
-If we were villains
-Alone With You in the ether
-Beartown (actually everything by Frederick Backman)
-Malibu rising
-The starless sea!!!
-people we meet on vacation
-The history of Love!
-in my dreams I hold a knife
beartown is SUCH a good book but it’s so incredibly sad, i’m lucky if i can make it three chapters at a time without crying
A reader of fine taste :) Fredrik Backman supremacy 🫡 I agree with all of these.
Hi, was wondering if you have to know Shakespeare to understand and like We Were Villains. I wanted to read it but I got scared off because I heard that there was a bunch of nods to Shakespeare.
@@seal2697 not who u asked but not really. they do have the plays within the book but understanding the context isnt necessary.
@@urrockstargf111 Oh okay I feel sm better about it then. I really wanted to read it! Tysm :)
My favorite read by far in 2022 was Babel by Rf Kuang. You can tell she put tons of research and time and care into this book.
YESSS OMG i loved that book! idk anyone else who likes it! you have great taste 😁
@@teestab143 i found a few booktokers and booktubers who like the book but when i mention the book outside of the book community, people get immediately turned off at the fact there’s no romance 😭.
@@tealeaftae oh, I love romance but some of the best books I've read don't have it, "Dandelion wine" for example
I can’t wait to read Babel
@@tealeaftae It sucks that people only put value on books if they have (arguably badly written and forced) romance.
The cruel prince suddenly appearing on your best books list is the most surprising plot twist these end of year book videos have ever seen 😂😂
right!? 🤣🤣 I honestly expect it she would hate the series!!!
My favorite books of 2022 are
1. memory of souls - Jenn Lyons (the third in the series. It's high fantasy at its core and I couldn't love it more)
2. his dark materials 3 - Philip Pullman (so so good!)
3. lost boy - Christina Henry (I read it with a constant fear, which is great)
4. the moon - K. Tolnø
5. to kill a kingdom - Alexandra Christo
6. Lügendiebin - Saskia Louis
7. they both die at the end - Adam Silvera (I finished it yesterday and I cried so so much)
8. she's too pretty to burn - Wendy Heard
Is they both die at the end good ? Like how was your experience with it...i wanna read too so I'm asking 🙃
@@GUNI_KUN I gave it 4,5 stars so yeah I like the book very much. The beginning makes you anxious because you think about the fact that you could die any moment, but the rest of the book makes you realize how important it is to actually live and appreciate little moments. You can read the book very fast because the writing style is pretty simple a bit too simple for my taste). And I cried a lot because this book feels so realistic.
I hope this helped you. I'd really recommend the book :)
I’ve been looking at to kill a kingdom for a bit now, what did you rate it?
@@8makes1team81 I rate it 5 stars mostly because I love strong and sarcastic characters. The world-building is a bit weak but character-driven stories are the best. I listened to the audiobook which was great
As someone who grew up with His Dark Materials, I'm always so happy to see people enjoy this trilogy! We need more people talking about it
I love that u recommend based on everyone’s taste! That makes you one of a kind! Usually people just give their rating without much more depth! This video made me happy
Love the video! Mine were:
1. The House in The Cerulean Sea by Tj Klune
2. I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
3. The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun is one of my all-time favorite YA/fiction books. It's incandescent. I almost feel like I'm in a trance when I read it! Thanks for reminding me.
@@christinafrei7776 Aw I love hearing that other people love that book too! It was so good, I loved the characters and the writing so much.
I love what you had to say about The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas! Such a haunting and thought provoking read.
It's the first short story I read since a long time and it inspired me to pick up more short stories.
I love the cruel prince because the romance is a subplot and their relationship is so authentic and imperfect that I love it wholeheartedly
Usually I also don't read biographies. Usually. But then I read/listened to Michelle Zauners 'Crying in H Mart" and it's so magnificent; the way Zauner manages to channel the abstract literature of music into an immeasurably emotional journey from child to adult and back again.
The narration by the author herself really creates an intimacy rarely achieved. This along with a bravely exposed heart, makes 'Crying in H Mart' stand out as an autobiography worthy of in depth reading
Cheers from Denmark 🇩🇰
I Loved Crying in H Mart.
My fave of the year was definitely Fellowship of the Ring. I’m an avid Tolkein fan, and after putting off reading the books again for 15+ years (for similar reasons to your Jane Eyre story) I am more in love with LOTR than I ever have been. I’m thinking of turning it into a tradition to read all 3 once a year because I’m truly sad that I’ve allowed myself to miss out on so much nuance from the books for so long.
I loooove the way you do your recommendations with telling us who will like it and who will not.
I picked up Bunny this year, because it intrigued so much on various social media platforms and inspired by your videos, and it just... blew my mind. It was such a wild ride but it is definitely in my Top 3 Books of the Year because it was an amazing experience, the book compares to nothing else I read, just... wow
I discovered Emily Henry this year and read three of her books. I am looking forward to her new book Happy Place this year.
I got back into reading this year and omg so many good books
1. Definitely The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I even got another copy for Christmas because this book is juste chef kiss
2. The Six of Crows duology which I read in a few days because of how captivated I was
3. Murder mystery french book called "Dans les brumes de Capellan". The plot twists are unmatched holy I still think about the end
4. All the young dudes, I read this massive fanfiction even though I'm usually not a fan but OMG now I've fallen into the abyss that is the Marauders fandom
5. Folk of the air trilogy of course, I'm in love with Jude
5. Circe, I dnf The Song of Achilles but Circe gave me a feeling of confort when I read it. I hold it close to my heart
6. The first to die at the end which made me cry way too much and was even better than the first one
7. Vicious, now I'm stuck in Dark Academia and reading The Secret History. It's exactly what I like, morally grey characters and you don't know who the worst is
8. This is how you lose the time war, very weird I didn't understand everything but it's lesbian romance and it's beautiful so I'm in.
mmmm the amount of happiness i got from this comment i love all of these
Could you please recommended what to read about the Marauders? Like what's really worth it? Thank you.
this reminded me to have my annual all the young dudes re-read, which is basically internal sobbing for three days straight
Vicious is amazing! I also loved Vengeful! I do think that that this series is quite underrated nowadays...but is it really considered to be dark academia? Im into dark academia but I've never considered putting Vicious in there.
Ikrrrr seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo is 💫 💫 💫 💫 💫
you are so right about the goodreads ratings! i too found out this year that many of my favorite books have a rating under 4.00 on goodreads. so honestly, so many more possibilities have opened up for me now that i've ditched putting importance of the goodreads rating. i prefer checking out some critics reviews now
Whenever you post I click, not just for the aesthetics, but because I love your personality, and keep up the good work, also have you every read Coraline I want you to make a video about it. I hope you have an amazing 2023 and I hope have days full of warm tea and reading in candlelight.
Just finished reading "Glasstown" by Isabel Greenburg, which is this amazing graphic novel about the Brontë sisters and this shared fantasy fiction city they all started writing together when they were kids and it was really great!
Other highlights for 2022: "Crying in H Mart" by Michelle Zauner, "Babel" by R.F. Kuang, "A Woman of No Importance" by Sonia Purnell, "Legends and Lattes" by Travis Baldree, "Mornings in Jenin" by Susan Abulhawa, "The Heart Principle" by Helen Hoang, and "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel.
I guess I was in the mood for melancholy, overall.
I started reading Emily Henry this year and binged all of her books. They were definitely among my favorite books that I've read this year. Right up there with The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, The House in the Cerulean Sea by Tj Klune and Well met by Jen DeLuca
The way I just get so excited seeing a new video of yours being uploaded>>>
I read Jane Eyre for the first time this year as well and it was so so good! I haven’t read a book like that in so long where you really believe how much two characters are in love 🖤
Read Jane Eyre. We had to read a classic during that time period. I liked it a lot. Glad you liked it.
My favourite book of all time ♥️
I selected Jane Eyre when I'm high school English class. Loved it!
Only recently I got back to reading and the book responsible was The Lies of Locke Lamora. It was exactly what I wanted to read and way more. Huuuge love.
Happy new year, Leonie! I feel like I went through 2022 with you, both finishing up our STEM thesis and degrees, just going through similar cycles of life. I hope 2023 brings you some new ans fun experiences and a bit of calm now that uni is over!
My favorites I read this year.
- A thousand heartbeats - Kiera Cass
- One last stop - Casey Mcquiston
- Red, White and Royal blue - Casey Mcquiston
- The love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
- Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
- Heartstopper series - Alice Oseman
- Solitaire - Alice Oseman
- Where the crawdads sing - Delia Owens
- Anne of green gables - L. M. Montgomery
- The Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
I'm glad my mom died - Jennette McCurdy
- Unfiltered: No Shame, no regrets, just me - Lily Collins
I absolutely love radio silence! And practically every other Alice Oseman books
@@guiltypleasure2087 Alice Oseman is a great author.
YAY for Jane Eyre!!! It is my favorite book. Luckily you have finally (LOL) read it, I was nearly twice your age when I read it, so you are very alright with reading it at your age ;-) Thanks for all your wonderful videos. Have a happy and wonderful and very bookish year 2023!!!
I love how unapologetic you are about loving what you (we) love, even tho you’re still mindful about it, so just thank you for being you and doing videos 💙💙
I had no idea Cruel Prince and Wicked King were insanely popular. I just picked them up because I love Holly Black as a children's author, especially her previous faerie works. She has an uncanny ability to capture the dark essence of old faerie folklore while delivering her stories in a suitable palette for children. And I fall in love with that kind of thing.
Same! The Spiderwick Chronicles were my lifeblood when I was younger.
I read Jane Eyre for the first time this year as well and it completely changed my life! It was the first classic novel that one, intrigued me, two, shocked me with plot twists, and three, was accessible to my own ability to process it (I am a native English speaker lol). I don’t think it’s the greatest romance of all time. However, i think It’s an exemplary novel of what marriage had to be during its time. I wrote an essay on Jane Eyre’s character and why I believe her to be an invisible bisexual and my professor is helping me get it published in an academic journal. Needless to say, I have so much to say about this book! I’ll be reading the rest of the Brontë sisters this year 😊
20:23 YOU PLAY GENSHIN???? You just became 100000x better. New favorite BookTuber. ❤❤❤
Always love your recommendations, you definitely have the strongest influence on my reading lmao. 5 star reads this year ( I have rating restraint, so there was a lot more 4 stars):
- Howl's Moving Castle
-Mindfulness
-Piranesi
-Humankind
-Book Lovers
-Intuitive Eating
My favorites in 2022 were: A Man Called Ove, Everything I Never Told You, Beach Read and Normal People! Also your recommendations of Jane Eyre have convinced me to conquer my own fears and insecurities and read it next fall.
Beautiful World Where Are You is my top book of 2022, I absolutely adored it. I know a lot of people didn't, but man it hit so hard for me
I reread Jane Eyre in 2022 along with Wide Sargasso Sea on a friend’s recommendation. Highly recommend reading them together! Other favorites for the year were Born a Crime, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Song of Achilles, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Poet X and a YA called Snow and Rose. Loved them all for completely different reasons!
I think you would like An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson, Leonie! It's a fae story with a dark cottagecore feel. The characters aren't that deep but the vibes are great; poison, mushrooms, rotten forest, mean fair folk etc.
My 5 star reads were before the coffee gets cold, a man called Ove, and Vespertine. They were all great and I highly recommend them!
I loved An Enchantment of Ravens and Vespertine, and Sorcery of Thorns was one of my top reads of 2022!! I could have read An Enchantment of Ravens in one sitting with it's fast-paced yet immersive storytelling, but I just didn't want it to end. Margaret Rogerson is now an auto-read author of mine (CANT WAIT FOR MYSTERIES OF THORN MANOR 🤍🤍🤍)
That tea is holding on for dear life! 😀
seeing you talk about "these violent delights" makes me wonder if you would enjoy "things have gotten worse since we last spoke"
Usually, I would look at a book like bunny and be completely daunted by the content but I got bunny as a Christmas present last year and reading it has completely changed my perspective on everything!
My favourites
1. The Fifth season- N.K Jemison
2. The lies of Locke Lamora- Scott Lynch
3. Red seas under red skies- Scott Lynch
The Secret History was my favourite book of 2020 and then the following year 2021 I read the Goldfinch and it became my all time favourite book. I also read her third book but it was drivel. Donna Tartt is my all time favourite book author. She writes one book every ten years. She is 59 now and I patiently wait for her next book.
Considering the goldfinch was published in 2014, I’d say we’re due something soon!
Next year you should try Exhalation by Ted Chiang for your short stories! Also I think you finally convinced me to read the folk of the air series... I hate when enemies to lovers is used to describe books that Ara actually like misunderstanding to lovers or like vague dislike to lovers
before reading the cruel prince I had the same opinion about it as you. I was like: I will probably don’t like it. a friend was reading it and she talked to me about it but still I was not entirely interesting because normally she reads heavy romance fantasy books and it’s not my thing. BUT THEN! I saw one of your videos where you talked about it and had to buy it. I loved the cruel prince and I‘m currently in the middle of the wicked king. Thank you so much for the recommendation! So far one of my new favourite series!
I've bought it because of Leonie! :D I'm right about to start the series and really hope it has something to it, not just the tiktok hype
I just wanted to say, that this video was the perfect one for me today I was so stressed out but now I'm a lot better. I think you found the perfect balance between describing the plot and your reasons for loving the book... I haven't read any of these books but now I will!
My favourite reads: Piransi and Never, ever, ever by Linn Strømsborg
Your enthusiasm about these books is very joyous 😊
I've only read 13 books this year - 3 of which were re-reads - but I enjoyed all of them so much that it's almost impossible to choose favorites. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Handmaids Tale are up there though.
I love Jane Eyre. It's one of my all time favourites, in fact! I'm sure you'll end up in love. Happy New Year!
That’s it, I’m ordering that book right now!🎉❤
Happy New Year ! I had a wonderful reading year. Some of my favorite readings are : The parabol of the sower by Octavia E.Butler, Our part of Night by Mariana Enriquez, Ring Shout by P. Djèli Clark, Rain by Ng Kim Chew, Kim Kim Jiyoung oung, born in 1982.
I'm happy I read more comics and mangas that are one of the best boik I read this year
Thanks for this video ❤️
Just adding in all these books to my tbr list in 2023, thank you very much.
My fave books of 2022:
I am death - Chris Carter (AWSOME detective story writer! He actually studied criminal psychology so this book was great! Very gory)
A Deadly education - Naomi novic (Awsome school, with SOOOO many crazy classes and rules, and deadly battles)
The traitor prince - C.J Redwine (She is such a great fantasy author, but THIS ONE WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! I mean look at the title)
Truly Devious - Maureen Johnson (I have not read the enitre series yet, but LOVE books with schools with secrets)
I'm planning to buy Truly Devious Series...is it really worth it?
@@GUNI_KUN i had read the entire triology a year and a half back and honestly i don't remember much but i definitely remember liking it :D.
Certain things in the books didn't exactly go well for me but other than that i was very hooked
@@guiltypleasure2087 i guess it's a book which keeps you hooked when you read but the plot is not that sensational that you forget about it after a year or two 😆💜
@@GUNI_KUN i do remember the plot and all the major happenings but ig u can say i don't remember the exact details 😂 but it was a good read tho
@@guiltypleasure2087 ok 😂💜
i'm so happy to see these violent delights get recognition!!! it was my favorite book of the year, it's so underrated
Thank you for getting me obsessed with all that is dark academia. Currently reading The Secret History. I loved Bunny too!
Bunny was definitely one of my favorites this year, and I'm hoping to finally read Jane Eyre. Thank you for the recommendation!
Books mentioned :
Book lovers
The secret history
I am glad my mom died
Beautiful world where are you
Folk of the air series
The ones who walk away from omelas
These violent delights
Jane eyre
Bunny
I have been binging your channel for the past 2 days now and you're officially my favorite Book Tuber! I also listened to Jennette McCurdy's book last year; it was the quickest I bought and finished! I'm currently reading "The Secret History", my first mystery/psychological thriller ever and I'm enjoying every page. I bought "Bunny" last summer and it's the next book I plan to read right after TSH!
My top 5 were:
1. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
2. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy
3. Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
I dont think our tastes synchronize BUT i absolutely love the way you talk about books and your take on books i would probably find too overwhelming. I love how aesthetic your set up u is and the motivation you give me to pick up a book (even those I wouldn't usually touch) I really like your content
my favorite book of the year was definitely The Chronicles of Narnia ❤
and i'm shocked that you're not a native english speaker because you speak so fluently and your channel is the only one i watch just because that's the one i can understand the most
This year in my major "The one's who walk away from Omelas" was in the course as a Sci-fi book, and it was so good, specially with the satire of it being a Utopian world.
im currently reading bunny right now and I LOVE IT. it is probably the first book to genuinely make me laugh and pull me in to the story and i cant wait to read more of mona awads work.
Same! I genuinely belly laughed at that book. It’s so smart and funny. Ugh nothing I’ve read since has measured up.
OMG love The Folk of Air series. I loved Queen of Nothing more than the others. Can't wait to read The Stolen Heir
I'm also not a native english speaker and I really want to read classic english books but EVERYTIME I pick an english book I just put it back cause the english is too heavy for me. Guess I have to wait until I can read an english book .
But FORTUNATELY in my school library I found The Great Gatsby but with french annotations to help the French readers so I'm really happy.
I also agree with what you said praising Jeanette’s biography. I didn’t realize the audiobook was in her voice! Now I’m inclined to hear her tell it- but either way, I have so much appreciation for her as a person after finishing reading the book.
My fav has to be Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tommorrow - amazing conversations about cultural appropriation andpeople of different ethnicities, great gamedev representation (need more of those in fiction please) and the writing style was so smooth. Got me out of my reading slump for sure and the audiobook is great as well
I’m definitely going to have to get this one to read!
I read both Bunny and All's Well by Mona Awad this year and I love them so much. Mona Awad easily becomes one of my favorite authors.
Ahh I’m going to have to read them!!
Have a happy 2023. Bunny intrigues me - maybe one to add to my reading list for this year.
here are my favourites from 2022:
1. Kristin Hannah - The Great Alone
2. Elina Pitkäkangas - Sang
3. Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere
4. Meri Valkama - Sinun, Margot
5. Akwaeke Emezi - The Death of Vivek Oji
6. Marie Aubert - Grown Ups
7. Carmen Maria Machado - Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Your english is outstanding for it not being your first language. Very interesting video. Keep up all the great work!
Loved listening to your favorite 2022 books. My favorites were 1. Plainsong by Kent Haruf 2. Eventide by Kent Haruf 3. The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey 4. The Star Rover by Jack London
You are one of the few people I trust when it comes to book reviews. I feel like a lot of people who are hyping a bunch of books on tik tok etc. are exaggerating or lying.
Subscribed the second you said Bunny was your only 5 star! It’s truly my favorite book I’ve ever read
My favourite books of 2022 -
a) A Fraction Of The Whole by Steve Toltz
b) Project Hail Mary by A Weir
c) Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
d) The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
e) The Courage To Be Disliked
f) The Daily Laws by Robert Greene
g) Penpal by Dan Auerbach
I read 32 books in 2023. Others dont deserve to be in my top ten or arent remarkable enough to mention.
Thank you for adding the music used in the description, I was just about to ask in the comments haha
Happy New Year! Here are my top books of the year:
1. IQ84 - Murakami
2. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Paolini
3. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
4. The Binding - Bridgit Collins
5. Uprooted - Naomi Novak (thanks for recommendation!)
6. Crying in Hmart - Michelle Zauner
7. And honorable mentions: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Son of a Trickster, Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone, and Hamnet and Judith
I have just finished Jane Eyre on my kindle, such beautiful writing! Modern writers couldn't even compare.
This book still sits on the shelf untouched in my childhood home, but I daren't touch it for fear of being accused of marring its pages. It was a leather bound copy in a collection and I was often chastised for incorrectly turning pages wrong in paperbacks.
My favorite book of 2022 is called under the udal trees by chinelo oparanta it is written by a Nigerian American author and it is a beautiful heartbreaking historical fiction novel about a young woman growing up in Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War and while l dealing with the hardships of the war and her father's death she comes to the realization that she is a lesbian. Basically it's about a young Nigerian woman trying to blend in to Nigerian society well trying to gain acceptance from her mother and except her self for who she truly is and love openly as a lesbian in Nigeria.
my experience with Jane Eyre was similar! i bought a copy in english, read the first page and went "nope". ended up reading it a couple years later, in my first language, and i loved it. actually reread it in 2022, and double loved it
i cant wait for your reading vlogs in 2023!!!
I swear I have been waiting for this since forever!!!!!!
NO WAY!! You read "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" I haven't heard of anyone who has read it and it was one of the short stories I had to read for my Fantasy Lit class last January and I absolutely loved it! I used it my final essay as well. :)
I'm so glad I found this channel--got lots of good ideas for this year and for last year! Happy New Year, Leonie, may it be your best ever! Read on! 🙂
I read a lot of amazing books in 2022 so it's hard to narrow it down to my absolute favourites but here are some that I can't stop thinking about:
1. The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
2. Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow
3. A Psalm for the Wild Built (and a Prayer for the crown shy) by Becky Chambers
4. Delilah Green doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
5. Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson
6. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7. Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour
My favourite novels I read in 2022 were probably
1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
2. The Night Circus by Erin Morgernstern
3. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Honourable mentions:
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
Beautiful World Where Are You is honestly one of my favourite books! I read it in 2021 and fell in love. I found it so strangely relatable
I’m seriously thankful u talked about these violent delights because me being me being stupid did not realise they were different books. I thought they were different covers but I’ll have to get this one instead of the Chloe gong one for sure.
I know the video is about books, but your makeup, and the video is so great, i fell cozy watching this
A great video, Leonie! If you want to read more short stories, I definitely recommend these (they are both speculative fiction):
1. All the Fabulous Beasts (Priya Sharma) - sinister, dark stories that were on th BBC list of Most Overlooked Books in 2019
2. Exhilation (Ted Chiang) - SciFi short stories that ask big questions about humanity, very elegant and thought-provoking.
BOOKS was the theme of 2022. I read 52 books in 52 weeks.
My very best year in reading that I can remember.
The books I read in 2022
1) "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope
2) "Can You Forgive Her?" by Anthony Trollope
3) "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
4) "Mark Twain: A Life" by Rom Powers
5) "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain
6) "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain
7) "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene
8) "Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady" by Samuel Richardson
9) "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark
10) "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
11) "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver
12) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
13) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
14) "Master and Man" by Leo Tolstoy
15) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy
16) "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy
17) "The Raid" by Leo Tolstoy
18) "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
19) “In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
20) "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo
21) "Clara Militch" by Ivan Turgenev
22) "Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev
23) "Kassyan of Fair Springs" by Ivan Turgenev
24) "The Portrait Game" Ivan Turgenev
25) " Punin and Baburin" by Ivan Turgenev
26) "The Inn" by Ivan Turgenev
27) "The Watch" by Ivan Turgenev
28) "Acia" by Ivan Turgenev
29) "Home of the Gentry" by Ivan Turgenev
30) "On the Eve" by Ivan Turgenev
31) "Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev
32) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
33) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev
34) "The Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev
35) "How Russians Meet Death" by Ivan Turgenev
36) "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" by Ivan Turgenev
37) "Volodya" by Anton Chekhov
38) "Ward No. 6" by Anton Chekhov
39) "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekov
40) "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Alexander Pushkin
41) "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin
42) “Le Grand Meaulnes, or the Lost Domain” by Alain-Fournier
43) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
44) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
45) "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen
46) "Kolyma Tales" by Varlam Shalamov
47) "An Island Hell" by S. A. Malsagoff
48) "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy
49) "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy
50) “Strait is the Gate” by André Gide
51) “And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer” by Fredrik Backman
52) “Middlemarch” by George Eliot
Twenty (20) of my top one hundred (100) books of all time I read this year.
This is the year I found out Ivan Turgenev from Russia is my favorite author of all time and will never be surpassed. I plan on reading more of him next year too.
I decided to read 23 books in 2023, and feel an update is required.
In January, I read too much for this goal.
1) "Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded" by Samuel Richardson
2) "The Moon Is Down" by John Steinbeck
3) "The Last 100 Days: the Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe" by John Toland
4) "Agnes Grey" by Anne Brontë
5) "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
I, also, have read four short stories, already this year.
6) "The Princess" by Anton Chekhov
7) "What Men Live by" by Leo Tolstoy
8) "How Much Land does a Man Need" by Leo Tolstoy
9) "The Life and Ministry of Rev. Ivan Voronaev" by Dony K. Donev
I, also, read some of the books of the Holy Bible. About 2,000 pages total from the above, read this month.
i've been waiting for this video!! Also, i started reading memoirs in 2022 and it was a good way to start a non-fiction book.
anyway, these are my favorite books of 2022:
• Man's search for meaning
• When breath becomes air
• The Poppy War
• The strength in our scars
Also leonie, which one would you choose? the folk air trilogy or six of crows duology?
I am so glad you loved Jane Eyre. It’s my all time favorite
Jane Eyre is my all-time, hands-down, FAVORITE book ever!! I'm so happy you read it this year and enjoyed it! I relate to Jane so much, I just love her 💖
First of all that quote from Jane Eyre PLEASE. So romantic. Also my favorite book of the year, The Learning Curve by Mandy Berman has a 3.36 on Goodreads. So while that pains me it did finally free me from the chokehold of those average ratings lol
the video I've been waiting for the whole year✨
Definitely going to check out Leonie's recommendations this spring. Happy New Year.
i have an awful migraine and every sound is so grating, but i need a distraction and tbh your voice is so soothing and watching your videos when i have a headache is always my go to👌 💕
I heard so many bad things from fantasy booktubers about Holly Black, I never picked it up. Interesting. My own fave was Lincoln in the Bardo in the audio version. I had borrowed it from the library, listened to the first half-hour and returned it with confusion bordering on incomprehension. It’s a difficult start tbh. Then, go figure, I picked it again and that’s all she wrote. I lived for that book even though I still didn’t understand all. I’ll probably do a joint paper and audio reread this year to deepen my understanding. It’s pure magic. And heartbreak.
I picked up Book Lovers as my first book (after a long slump) because of you and I loved it so much!! Thank you so much