end of year book tag + reading reflection for 2023
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- here is my reading tag for 2023 (created by @whatsdesreading) and a reflection on my reading year in 2023, as well as my plans for 2024!! can't wait to post more bookish content in 2024!!!
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Its so stange how much a single video can change your whole view and path in life. I found your channel through your No buy year video and since then ive gone back and watched all your minimalism videos. Ive just done my first minimalism declutter, ive got my no buy year plan up on my fridge and youve inspired me to get back into reading.
Thank you so much for your content its been a wonderful watch so far and im excited to see where you go in 2024!
this makes my heart SINGGG😭💗💗 I'm so happy
I loved Red, White and Royal Blue!
Audiobooks are also reading, it activates the same parts of your brain and you have still consumed the story 🥰So definitely count them! (I assume you wouldn't tell a blind person they didn't read if they listened to audiobooks!)
Thank you for listening and Happy place were two of my faves too! So excited to see someone else talk about Thank you for listening as I think it is not very well known and I want to make everyone read it 😂
very true!!!I will say, I am very fortunate to be able to read without issue, so I mainly wanted to count the longest/shortest books I read as "actual pages read" bc I listened to iron flame on like 1.75x speed😂 also YES!!! thank you for listening is SUCH a good book!!
Found your channel through the no-buy videos, (which are helping me stay motivated in my own efforts - thank you!), but learning that you love reading is such a bonus! Reading is my favorite hobby. 😊 I hope you do some reading vlogs in the future! Also - Tomorrow, & Tomorrow, & Tomorrow was my FAVORITE book that I read in 2023. 🤍
Beginning video thoughts : Hoping this cured my book slump
Yay!!! I love your sweater! I’m so happy to see you incorporate book content into your channel. Although it hurts my soul you didn’t enjoy fourth wing 🥲🤣 You’ve inspired me to declutter/ do a no spend challenge in 2024 and I can’t wait! ❤
I'm SO happy for the people that enjoy those books, but sadly I'm just not one of them 😭 but anyways, I am also superrrr excited to be adding in more book content!!!
I didn’t love Fourth Wing myself-it’s not my cup if tea. But I wouldn’t call the writing “cringy.” I think it’s popular for a reason and I get why my friends love it. It represents the genre well, and I respect that.
Okay so I started this video yesterday (Jan 1st) and coming back to finish watching today because you helped me discover I can borrow audio books from my local library! So spent the day yesterday listening, thank you Grace. I was about to renew my Audible sub but then watched your video, so glad I did. My local library in Scotland has lots of books that were on my Audible Wishlist, so that helps with my 2024 Low Buy too! Yay 🎉💜😊
omg yay!!!!! that's awesome!!!
discovered you today and i love your content! your channel is such a comfortable space to be in. i'm also scared that you might have inspired me to do a low buy year hahaha but it's all good you're teaching me new things :)) hope you have the best end of the year and happy 2024!!
omg thank you! welcome to the channel!! 🥰 and yessss join the challenge!!!! 💪🏼
Love all your videos! Happy new year 🎉
I've given myself permission to stop reading cringy books and move onto something I'll actually enjoy ;) Life is too short to waste time on crappy books. lol.
so true LOL the ONLY way I rationalized it was that I listened to Fourth Wing + Iron Flame as audiobooks and did chores while listening. The Perfect Marriage on the other hand..... should have DNF'd it LOL
I listened to all the Poirot books by Agatha Christie on Libby this year, looking forward to trying the Miss Marple books in 2024 📚
Loved this video, Grace. Your format was terrific and a great way to talk about the books quickly. I have always been an avid reader and books have taught me so much in my life. I tend to go through phases where I will read on particular themes or genres these days whereas in my younger days I read very widely. Lately, I have wanted to expand my interests and, consequently, I am grateful to hear about the ones you have enjoyed and I have added them to my wish list (which is rather lengthy). Libby has some excellent books and I have stumbled on some that I would never have read if not for the app. How fantastic to be able to read these books for free! See you in 2024.
I love love love ACOTAR, but if you want something a little more definitely go for the throne of glass series too it’s amazing!
there's a good chance I'll end up reading that after!
my friend who read normal people thinks the show is overall better which surprised me. i haven't read it but i really enjoyed the show! on another note, recently subbed after seeing your low/no buy videos. i'm beginning to read again so i'm taking some notes from this video! love your stuff
I definitely want to watch the show!! the book was a mixed bag for me
#amreading 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow'. Loving it! The characters and the atmosphere reminded me of 'The Book of Form and Emptiness' by Ruth Ozeki, love her books.
so glad you're enjoying!! I'll check that book out
Yes to more book content
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Love the bookish content!
Daisy Jones and the six is so much better in audio book form. ✨F u l l c a s t✨
I've heard😩😩 I have regrets LOL
I have a fantasy rec for you in the form of Godkiller by Hannah Kraner, it’s fantasy but the characters are very different to the typical fae/vamp romantasy novels that are popular atm so it was really refreshing for me to read while making my way through SJM’s enormous catalogue 😂 based on some of the books you’ve liked in other genres it might be a good one for you!
omg thank you!!! 💗📚
You are precious ⭐Loved this book vlog format, will look into some of the titles.Happy New Year, Grace and followers. See you on the other side, in the year of our…. No Buy! 💜🕊
YESSS in the year of our no buy 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I just put a hold on Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow at my local library.. I keep seeing it on different videos, so I feel like I need to check it out :)
I really enjoyed it a lot!! it just feels like such an expansive book😭💗
If you’re planning to read more fantasy, I highly HIGHLY recommend reading the An Ember In The Ashes quartet by Sabaa Tahir. A+ storytelling. 👌🏻
oooh thank you!!
Uprooted is so good! I strongly strongly recommend Spinning Silver next from Naomi Novik. I also strongly recommend Oona Out of Order - it has a really unique time travel premise where the protagonist Oona jumps between different years of her life. That one has stuck in my head for a few years at this point.
OOO amazing!! Spinning Silver is def on my list but now I can't wait to read Oona Out of Order!!
Would love to hear your thoughts on the normal people show if you end up watching it in 2024!! I absolutely loved it
I read three of the ACOTAR books this year - the third was so good! Can’t wait to hear what you think!
I'll definitely update when I end up watching the show!! and I'll likely do an ACOTAR reading vlog
Also yay to ACOTAR! I actually really disliked the series at first (most of the first book) but I read the whole series so quickly. The final book was a home run for me. I loved it. But I know lots of others who didn’t.
Big yay for fantasy! ✨
As someone who has been reading almost exclusively fantasy for years, I am excited to hear about you dipping your toes into this genre. Fantasy has been my comfort zone genre for a long time. Yes, there are a lot of cringy books there (I personally would count acotar among those, I could only enjoy those when completely shutting my brain off and accepting that not all books I read have to be "quality" books and I can read books with problematic relationships because I am an adult that can see they are problematic 😅) But there are a lot of gems here too. Just beware of the overhyped books. YA Fantasy especially is a genre where some very ... odd books get hyped for some reason. (The reason is often thinly veiled smut by the way. Not my cup of tea, but apparently it sells really well 😂) If you want to avoid the worst hype inflation maybe start with adult fantasy books. My personal favourite at the moment is the Guild Codex Series by Annette Marie. I re-listen to them on audible about once a year and they are as far as I know also available with kindle unlimited. Also very high on my list is Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo but that book and its sequel need some serious trigger warnings so check up on those before you dive in.
Also yay for you using the story graph. I feel like hardly anyone uses it even though it is soooo much better than Goodreads and not owned by a corporation that would sell your soul if it could 😅
EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS!! YES!!! thank you!!! and YES my expectations are definitely slightly tempered for ACOTAR hahah but I'm super excited to get into adult fantasy after that!!!!
Fantasy reccs from me which are in a completely different vein than the romantasy of ACOTAR and Fourth Wing would include the Nevernight Chronicles and Priory of the Prange Tree. (Priory looks huge, but it's only like 800 pages, the formatting if huge margins and thick paper make it look like more of a beast than it is)
one of my friends just read Priory!!! it's definitely on my list
The Deadly Education series by Naomi Novik was my favorite thing I read this year, besides Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow! I definitely recommend it and I can't wait to check out Uprooted. Normally I don't like book content that much, but I think we have similar taste, so I'm excited to see what you read this year :)
Re: Emily Henry, I loved Book Lovers. I read her books kind of like mindless candy (like Fourth Wing lol) but Book Lovers was really good.
omg I just put the Deadly Education series on hold last night!! LOL also Book Lovers is 100% on my TBR in the very near future!!!!
omg I just put the Deadly Education series on hold last night!! LOL also Book Lovers is 100% on my TBR in the very near future!!!!
You've helped me get back into reading! And set up my no/low buy challenge for next year. Thank you for inspiring me and for starting the super fun and supportive Discord server❤
hi!!! i just discovered your channel, and i've been binge watching all of your videos. do you have a goodreads profile?
I use storygraph! :) my tag is @gracenevitt
I read a different Jeneva Rose book and it was also so, so bad. I guess i wont be trying anything else by her. If you loved Happy Place you will definitely love Book Lovers and Beach Read bu Emily Henry. The people you meet on vacation is so-so. My favorite book this year was Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen. The tag line is "knives out but make it gay."
I've heard MANY trusted people say Book Lovers is a great one to read and it's 100000% on my tbr for the near future!! (and you are now a trusted person bc you also didn't vibe with Jeneva Rose LOLOL) also THANK YOU for the rec, "knives out but make it gay" literally sounds like my dream book LMAO I'm so excited
i dnf the fourth wing and i thought i was the only one who didn't like it lol
Has anyone read Verity by Colleen Hoover? I’ve never read any books of hers except that one and it had me in a choke hold.. however!!!! I found out everyone hates it?
I've never read it!
I loved Verity!
unpopular opinion: happy place was my least fav Emily Henry book! so i think you will looove her others! people we meet on vacation is my fav!
also you should make a goodreads so we can follow you and see what you are reading!!
I have a storygraph!! I'm not a huge fan of how busy goodreads is tbh😭 I switched over a year or so ago and haven't looked back
It's nice to see someone who is more or less a booktuber/bookish person online that doesn't read 200+ books a year. I love reading and books and the online community but sometimes I feel like a "fraud" or less-than because I don't usually get to read so many books in total. This year I went through a couple of REALLY busy and hard months so I only finished 18 books. But it's nice to know you read less than 100 or fifty too 🥲🥰 Makes me feel less like a fraud 😂 (bc I very much think you're not one so that must mean I'm not either if that makes any sense, not accusing or hating on your number of books 😅😂🫢).
I'm excited to see what kind of books we get this year on the booktok radar. It's been a wild year this year. I often don't read the most popular books either bc I feel like I never like them as much as others. Anyways, happy new year !
I totally agree!
I used to have a bookish instagram but I haven't posted in ages because I hardly every read physical books these days. I only find the time for that when I am on vacation and saying that I only read like 5 books a year makes me feel like a "fake reader". I do breeze through about 50-60 audiobooks a year, but a lot of those are re-reads and I feel like most bookstagram people don't even count audiobooks as reading. It is really refreshing to see someone who reads a more managable amount of books and also mentions audiobooks.😊
we're all valid readers!!!! I felt like a frickin rockstar reading 30 books this year lemme tell ya LOL I'm very proud of all of us for any amount of books we can read!!! I felt like a reader last year at 15 books and the year before at 5!!! 💗📚