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i read 5 dark academia books and now i’m more pretentious than ever 🍂🖤📖
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2024
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intro: 0:00
if we were villains: 3:53
catherine house: 17:26
simple retro: 22:08
these violent delights: 24:07
babel: 30:45
ace of spades: 50:21
outro: 55:01
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- ninth house
- the atlas six
- the picture of dorian gray
- vicious
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thank you so much for watching 🌻
"I'm so sad now, it's good, this is good" might be my new quote to use at all times
Do we need know history before reading Babel?
@@aarohichoudhary1191nope
Hannah : crying over babel and incoherently saying "that was so heartbreaking."
Me through the screen : "I KNOW"
Hannah : still crying "but its so good"
Me : "I KNOW RIGHT" 😭😭😭
Same!
I immediately ordered the book to pick up ASAPPPPPPPPPP
Do we need know history before reading Babel?
@@aarohichoudhary1191 No, not really. It helps I'm sure. I just knew basic stuff but I still literally enjoyed it.
The fact Babel didn't win Book of the year by Barnes and Noble kills me. It's beautiful and heart ripping.
@Buddha’s Advocate Honestly another one book on my list that should have won. It's the best Nonfiction book of the year in my opinion. Babel is just my favorite fiction book.
There's a fanfic on ao3 called "what is woven into the lives of other", which is about what happens after the end of If We Were Villains. Ever since I read it, I think of it as canon. You might like it!
omg….i need to read that 👀
@@AClockworkReader Oh it made me bawl in like a good way and it was surprisingly compliant with M.L. Rio's writing style and the story's progression in general.
thanks for the rec, it's been years since I read the book but it just needs a bonus chapter set maybe years later sooo bad
Who’s the author? I can’t find it 😢
@@mintthemuffin thank yoou
Babel made me feel so SEEN in a way that no other fantasy book has. I’m so glad you loved this!
who’s it by ? i cant find it on goodreads:((
@@s0ur-pineapplez r.f kuang!
تو یک حقه باز هستی..
Do we need know history before reading Babel?
@@aarohichoudhary1191 i would say no but knowing some would definitely add to the story
The thing I loved most about Babel, among all the other things I loved about it, was how it articulated a grief I never knew I had. Throughout the book, Robin was mourning a version of himself that he had lost, because he had “chose” to leave his motherland when he was ten and didn’t know what leaving meant. We never learn his Chinese name! The name his mother gave him! The person that would’ve grown into that name died when Robin set sail for England. And as someone who hasn’t used her Chinese name since she was ten, I really felt that.
Absolutely agree with what you said about Babel making anti-colonialist research accessible to mainstream audiences and it hit me that this is probably why i've seen some reviews finding issue with the fact that RF Kuang lays things bare and doesn't leave space for the reader to reach their own conclusions. But that's exactly the point, she doesn't leave space for people to brush away the experiences of Robin, Ramy, Victoire, and Letty, and the effects of colonialism and capitalism.
another thing i loved abt babel was the very subtle exploration of queerness, the way the love between those two characters was like an unspoken agreement. there was no need for them to say it out loud bc they simply knew
I am so with you on“If we were villains“ . It‘s one of my most favourite books. It makes me feel all kind of emotions, it‘s so beautifully written, the characters unlocked something deep inside my soul and heart.
And I absolutely love how the author explores the main themes: friendship, love & obsession. I loved it when I first read it and •the truth is that I‘m in love with it still•. No book could live up to it since …
“and the truth is that i’m in love with it still” that was a good one
It broke me, THAT LINE
Not read many Shakespeare's Novels(only 2), should i read it? Or it has many Shakespeare references which probably i won't get
@@thedarkknight095 Well, I also don‘t read a lot of Shakespeare, so I also didn‘t get all the references. But it’s basically just used as an instrument to show the character‘s obsession with Shakespeare. Just in the end I had to look sth up to get the twist at the ending, what actually just made it more surprising, because I didn’t know the quote before. So I don’t think it will really stand in your way :)
@@pallyk4891 so basically you needed some shakespearean knowledge to get the twist?
So i have to look up the internet to get the ending twist?
I don’t really like Dark Academia, but I read Babel because I’m a fan of Rebecca so I wanted to give it a chance and by the end of it I was sobbing. I loved it and I think it should be required reading in schools
If Hannah loves a book, I must buy it. I don’t have a choice.
The main criticism about Babel that I've seen (at least of those that aren't rooted in racism...) is that Kuang "tells instead of showing". As an autistic person who misses meaning and nuance in books and films and daily life...I found her writing style refreshing and all-encompassing. It felt rounded and complete, yet I still found it intriguing and ended it with so many thoughts and questions in the best way possible. Also, as someone whose ancestors chose to assimilate to the country they fled to, refusing to ever again speak their mother-tongue or engage in much of their culture...it really hit home. All those stories, lives, all that language...lost forever. Because they would only be accepted in ways that benefitted their new homeland.
As a muslim and as asian belonging to the same place Ramy was from. I cannot tell you what this book made me go through ... i am still going through this i am literally dreaming about it.
same. i'm hindu but from kolkata. and reading about bangla stuff in such a popular fantasy book was beyond my wildest dreams truly.
omg as muslim indian i felt ramy on an EXTREMELY personal level, he was definitely my favourite character. the way rf kuang represented muslims was AMAZING, better than many muslim authors
my favorite dark academia-esque book will always be bunny. it is such a mind twisting novel that satirizes the pretentiousness of grad students, hannah you have to read it
Can I just say how much I love Victoire in Babel bc I think she was the perfect subversion of one of the branches of the mammy trope. There's a great video by The Take on this topic but essentially everyone knows the archetype of the mammy and how she evolved into black nannies, which evolved into the understanding, constantly serving black woman to be likable. Victoire's character was clearly playing along this stereotype to make herself acceptable to the teachers and her friends so they wouldn't wrongfully assume something of her and not want her anymore, especially in her friendship with Letty. I love that her drive was that she wanted to be selfish. Victoire wasn't willing to sacrifice herself or give up her dignity anymore because she knew she deserved her future, and I think it was perfect
SO TRUE! She did deserve to live and i'm so glad she did.
I took a gap year to prepare for my med school entrance exam. I was almost under house arrest in my room. Books you suggested were the only thing that kept me sane. Thank you so much hannah... 😊😊😊
Yo NEET aspirant haha
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All the best on ur journey of medicine🤗💜
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I finished Babel earlier this week, and even though it was one of my most anticipated books of the year, I didn’t expect it to become my favorite book ever. Thank you for explaining why this book is a masterpiece. It’s truly so hard to put into words how special it is.
I think one of the reasons why Babel felt less 'dense' in terms of the academic themes is because it's very much a classic bildungsroman text. RF Kuang said that she was inspired by Dickens' novels, particularly Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and I think it really shows. It's honestly quite a clever move considering how victorian novels like Great Expectations often mention colonization and imperialism in the background but never address them head on.
I loved These Violent Delights!! This book needs more attention. The very last line alone is worth reading it.
the last line was SO good!! but the middle of the book needed to be pared down imo
I live for these videos! I want to see you read the 5 books with “the best plot twist.”
I would like to recommend The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (by Agatha Christie) for that!
Also the 7.5 deaths of Evelyn hard castle!
I finished Babel today and put off this video until i finished and im so glad i had this video to come back to. Because that book wrecked me. And it felt really good to listen to someone else talk about it and the experience of being a person of colour reading it because it HURT. BUT ALSO FELT SO GOOD.
I just sat and stared into space for 45 minutes after finishing Babel. It just shook me. Amazing
Babel has been getting so much hype since it came out. I see it everytime on Booktube and Bookstagram 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Beautiful comment and share! +TBR Happy Bookish Saturday Friends ✌🏾🖤
The hype is well deserved. It's my favorite book of the year. I related so much to the main character especially since I am Chinese and come from a family of immigrants.
I literally finished If We Were Villains, cried a bit, and promptly restarted it.
Babel made my colonized history feel so visible 😭 It truly is one of the best books of the year!
If we were villains has been a favourite of mine for years and i'm so happy you enjoyed it. I really agree with what you said about the ending really giving it what it was missing, that was exactly what i thought when i first read it as well! i also think it's a book that grows with each reread. everytime i read it i get more impressed by ml rios craft!!
I honestly do not believe I’ll ever read a book like Babel ever again. It’s so amazing
if you haven't already, read the poppy war trilogy by r.f. kuang (the entire trilogy)! it's not the same setting or anything (tpw is a political fantasy inspired by chinese history), but has similar writing and genius bc it's by the same author.
This is in my opinion the best dark academia book review video on booktube! Your reviews are not pretentious at all (i think people in social media tend to sometimes be kinda pretentious when talking about DA and overcomplicate things 😅) but you explain everything so well and with such scrutiny! Yours videos in general are so entertaining and you seem so down to earth 🤎
I had to pause the video because I still had 50 pages left to finish Babel but now that I have finished the book and your video I want to say YES EVERYTHING YOU SAID ABOUT BABEL WAS EXACTLY MY FEELINGS!!!
Especially everything about Letty. It is so relatable to all of us POC. And no one ever said it so perfectly as R.F Kuang
Your comments about how accessible Babel is and the way it deals with intersectionality are so perfect and you completely articulated why I loved the book so much. Thank you for putting into words!
MILD SPOILERS!!
Honestly, after finishing it I felt a little angry because there were was so much unfinished but the reality is we hardly get that luxury. The Lettys of the world rarely give us the satisfaction of telling us the truth, even if we know, and it feels exhausting to try to reason with them or demand consequences to their actions.
Babel shook me to my core. I cannot and will not get over the book. I read it over a month ago and am still in a mourning stage
U basically summed up how i felt reading iwwv, it was love, then fascination, then PAIN and utterly shock
It hit me in the face and i loved it
I ABSOLUTELY adored If we were villains. Haven't seen such beautiful writing and storytelling recently
I love These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever. My hardbound book just arrived and I had already read the ebook, so I'm excited to read it again. Genuinely, I love the atmosphere and the psyche of the characters (and, yes, I am aware that they were inspired by real people).
Wait how'd you know that they were inspired by real people?
@@elizabethbennet6656 the author disclosed it himself. He was inspired by Leopold and Loeb.
I literally just finished Babel this morning. Stayed up until 4 just to finish it bc I knew I’d put off reading it if I stopped last night. I can’t express how much I love Robin, and the many ways RFK explored his grief and how many of those forms of grief were in turn affected by the many forms of violence coming from imperialism. RFK is so heavy handed with her writing, so much that it became tedious and unbearable and lacking nuance in the latter half, but I didn’t mind too much as I’m kind of used to it from her. But this book was so heartbreaking and so memorable and still somehow so grounded in reality. I am so glad RFK has made this book so accessible, especially to people who are unfamiliar with or just starting out with decolonization theory and approaching history through that lens. Letty and Prof. Lovell were also such compelling agents of the imperialist mindset; I’ve read some of the most horrifying lines from them-Lovell especially. I’m obsessed and I’m so glad you loved it too! I didn’t know where to put all these feelings so watching you talk about this book was a bit cathartic.
im literally crying as you review Babel because the wayyy that book affected me OMG. Letty LETTY LETTYYYYYYY. Rf Kuang put into words what I never couldddddd. i cant i just cant. I feel like this book was a special sort of secret that only pocs will be able deeply understand. This was a love story to every person of colour !
All these books are on my TBR! Gotta love when the stars align.
My fav Hannah with my fav genre....my day has been fulfilled.....🤎🤎🤎
"this feels like the secret history but better" that's it, that's literally the book.
I don’t understand 😩 I did not have the same feelings toward TSH as I did w If We Were Villians! I still loved it and its still in my favs piled but no where near as good as TSH imo
I think its bc I really do not understand or enjoy Shakespeare and it was a lot more including into the story than the greek studies were in TSH imo
definitely not better than tsh though
I think you absolutely nailed the attraction of a glamorous but reprehensible lifestyle though. And the glamour is so much a combination of not only being the sort of person who quoted shakespeare to express a feeling but also having a coterie of like minded people around you one could have interactive conversations with, all of you being aspirationally fluent. (Though from the little I remember the conversations weren't about the context only the text).
I wanted to love it and hearing how utterly enthused you are makes me a little sad at missing out.
Do we need know history before reading Babel?
Yes please make the required reading list. The world needs it😍 I am currently reading the Diviners but Babel will be the next one😊
We are with a book club choosing our next book on tuesday and we chose the "Dark Academia" theme. We all watch your videos so you literally could not have chosen a better time for this 😍
I just finished If we were villains. And let me tell you - I cried in the end. I sobbed. I'm with you on this book 100%. 10000/5.
I came back to comment on this because I finished reading If We Were Villains. Cried, sobbed, and gasped. These characters felt everything so deeply and I think that's what makes this book so powerful.
I’m literally obsessed with If We Were Villains, I cannot get those guys out of my head and I’m continuosly looking around for a Meredith in real life. Jeez
I loved these violent delights so much it's inexplicable 😭👍
I read Babel in September and my reaction to it was exactly the same as yours Hannah. This is the best, the most brilliant and the most beautiful book I’ve ever read. I’ll have to reread it.
oooh I cried just listening to you talk about Babel, kinda scared how I'll be actually reading it! I LOVE the idea of getting a "required reading" list from you -- and all booktubers tbh!
i just finished "if we were villains" and i think it broke me a little. round about three weeks ago a friend of mine said i'd enjoy this book and then i watched this video and could not resist any longer ... and well, i did enjoy it, i think. it just also made me sob and broke my heart. and i feel every word said about it in this video :D - looking forward to reading babel now, i guess.
this lineup of books is entirely too perfect!!
I read If We Were Villians last month and it was the best book of the year for me, its so so good! I was lying on my bed staring into space just trying to process the ending 😅
an hour of hannah???? on the weekend when i just got done with my finals???? BLISS I LOVE U
I literally bought babel in the middle of you talking about it and then immediately after my purchase went through you got to the end like GREAT. GOOD. A GOOD BOOK.
So happy that you read these violent delights! And u explained it exactly the way I felt while reading that book damn!! its one of my favourite books i read this year ❤️so excited to read Babel//
I loved Babel so much. When you were halfway through giving your review I was thinking "oh, just wait until the end!". I totally agree it's the true dark academia! So, so many layers.
If We Were Villains is also one of my fave books!
I was on the fence about Babel, so I'm so glad that I watched this!
omg hannah i just got your reading journal as a birthday present & i am sooooo happy with it! it is simply beautiful & it makes me so excited to read new books 📖🥰 tysm for all that you do for readers
Babel absolutely ruined my life and I loved every single millisecond.
I am SO glad that you read If We Were Villains! Literally nobody I know has read it and it's so great to hear that someone else loved it!
I'm so excited to read Babel now! I added it to my cart immediately after watching your video. My dark academia recommendation is Bunny by Mona Awad. I'm not sure if it's very similar to babel or if we were villains, but I'd love to see your opinion on it! Also, I love your longer videos!
Oh my god Babel is SO GOOD!! I got to read an arc and I was not disappointed!!
If we were villains put me through a rollercoaster of emotions MY GOD. I was so sad when I finished it but also couldn't wait to get to the end? My poor heart was feeling one emotion and then I got to like the last 2 pages and it flipped my emotions so fast, I did a full 360. A masterpiece, and that's coming from someone who isnt a massive fan of dark academia. And yeah the highlight was of course our romance my god it was soooo good
Really love your emotional and candid response to Babel! Looking forward to reading your other recommendations
I had the EXACT same reaction to the end of If We Were Villains. It’s such a great book, and it will forever be one of my favorites.
Can't wait to see the "Required Reading Video" soon. I knew a bunch of titles that will surely be there, but I want The List, the official one.
Sending love from the Philippines 💕
It is so interesting how different people can have such vastly different opinions about a book… it’s even more interesting when two BookTubers who I think are each pretty similar in tastes, and VERY similar in their intellectual critiques of literature, are on opposite ends of the spectrum with a book review. Books and Lala regards Catherine House as an all time favorite!
Can't wait to read Babel! If We Were Villians was a lesser version of The Secret History for me.
Same for me, I guess it's because I have more of a connection to ancient Greek stuff than Shakespearean stuff.
@@ryanstardust_ I have no connection to any of these but I just felt it was way more flat and less cynical
Yes!! I always trust your taste and opinions Hannah, you're the reason I finally read Sorcery of Thorns. :D
I really appreciated your review on Babel. I've been so intimidated to pick it up because I thought it would be dense and that things would be too smart for me or go over my head. I can't wait to pick it up!
Your review of iwwv was so relatable haha idk how you managed to not bawl your eyes out at the end 😂
I love that every time hannah posts a video my amazon cart gets more and more impossible to afford.
So glad you enjoyed Babel. It is probably my favourite book of the year and it feels so nice to see people I follow appreciate it lol
I definitely cackled at your reactions over If We Were Villains and Babel, because SAME. The crying was real. Also I read Babel when I was quarantining from COVID and I gotta say I don't know if it necessarily enhanced the read but it sure as hell did SOMETHING to my experience.
Omg you made these violent delights sound so good
The fact that I read 3 out of the 5 books you chose for this video is great.
The way that BABEL emotionally wrecked you was the way how the book mentally wrecked me. It was a tour de force! I would love to watch your "a clockwork reader fan must read these books" kind of video.
As a former theatre kid who did a lot of Shakespeare I felt the exact same way as you reading If We Were Villans.
The audiobook for Catherine House is really great! I think it brings a lot of personality to the characters and recommend to anyone that couldn't get into the book physically.
I'M ALREADY LAUGHING ...... LOL 😂😂 That intro sneak peak was so funny!! 🖤
Just hearing you talk about Babel gets me emotional again. It's been a month and I still feel so emotionally vulnerable after it 😭
Adding Babel and If We Were Villains to the TBR. I don't read a lot of dark academia or fantasy, but you've definitely convinced me to give them a try!
Returned to this video after finishing Babel, now I can finally watch the spoiler-y part 🥰
If Hannah loves Babel that gives me the incentive to buy and read it ASAP! 😁
if we were villains is my all time favorite dark academia book! but it's also one of the only ones i have read. haha the last line sent CHILLS throughout my whole body and i didnt know what to do with myself!! i need to read Babel next!
Can’t wait for the A Clockwork Reader required reading list 😌✨
you literally articulated everything i think about if we were villains i was just yelling YES at the screen. i love vindication
Late to this party but I also read If We Were Villains this year and hands-down my favorite book this year and one of my all-time favorites. Watching you read this made me want to reread it!
I LOVE when you do longer videos ❤️
I swear our minds are aligned bc this was exactly what I was looking for, for the past 3 days😭😭luv ya
The way you sobbing to Babel at the end is how I cried 😭😭
I'm loving the experiment videos so much
i just came back from school absolutely exhausted and you can’t understand the relief i felt when i saw you uploaded a new video it always soothes me and relaxes my mind :) thank you
reading experiment videos are honestly such a dose of serotonin for me 💖
+ the way you described ace of spades had me rolling pls 😭😭
It’s all thanks to you that I started reading Babel, and now it is my favorite book. It’s a true masterpiece that everyone should read
so happy to see you again!!! v happy for the book recs and glad you enjoyed so many! 😊😊😊 thank you!!!!!
I love watching your videos and relating to your passion for books. I would love to see a similar video on historical fiction. That would be amazing.
The author started writing ace of spades when she was 18, no wonder you said it felt very young.
3 weeks ago I had absolutely no interest in reading If We Were Villains. Tonight, I'm sobbing over a group of theatre kids. Thank you (but also, damn you)
Yes I would love a required reading video!!! The perfect way to follow up after a dark academia video haha
Even though you said you couldn't articulate your thoughts on babel I thought you did a brilliant job!! This book is truly everything and absolutely everyone should read it
please, Hannah... you HAVE to read The poppy war series. I have a feeling you're gonna love it
i definitely will!!
@@AClockworkReader it’s really heavy and graphic, and it deals with really dark topics as well so look into it before reading it, very long list of trigger warnings
@@AClockworkReader oh my god yes. it killed me so good, my favorite series
I picked up Catherine House. Initially, I was excited, but it has gathered dust on the bookshelf as I couldn't bring myself to feel as excited as I did when I first started.
I really liked Ace of Spades. It was a good, fast read. It hooked me early and wouldn't let go. It does read younger.