OMG would love a video where you pick an authour with like 5 books or so out and read all of them! It would be so cool and the way you do your reading experiment vlogs would fit that concept so well. I want that so bad now
These videos are the single greatest cure to the book slump! I am serious every time I watch one of your videos I walk away with a list of recommendations. Sometimes it's the books you are talking about, sometimes it's the books behind you or even just your enthusiasm being contagious!
Omg when I first saw the Dallergut Dream Department Store, RV was the first thing I thought about as well lol. And then I read the blurb and I loved it so it’s also one of my most anticipated reads!!
I also had problems with reading „TheGrandmaster of Demonic Cultivation“. I found it really helpful to start watching the TV Show at the same time. The actors really bring the characters to live❤
I have two non fiction recommendations - 1. The Booksellers Tale by Martin Latham, the author is a bookseller and it's a book about reading itself, the history of reading in society, book stores and booksellers and their history, how books become comfort books, library histories, and a lot more! It's so comforting and fascinating and would highly recommend! The second one is The Gifts of Reading, a collection of essays on the joys of reading, giving and receiving books 😊📖
For the grandmaster an advice I can give you is to go watch some edits from the drama, the actors brings those characters to life so much that it can really help to get into the story when you know the chemistry 🤭🤭 and edits are short enough to not get too spoiled 😏
Hello fellow manga lover here 🤚😊 I am always happy to hear the book community talk about manga, and you always give such good recommendations Jesse (you're the reason I read and loved Bakuman so much!) Thank you for sharing your creativity ✨✨✨
I finally, finally read Six of Crows this year and just generally got into Leigh Bardugos work (yes, i'm aware i'm very late to the party) and I don't think I will ever stop talking about these books ever
I don't wanna think about 'Our story ends here' ever again. 'Good me Bad me' will always be a book I mention if I talk with anyone about psychological thrillers.
I randomly picked up The Wishing Game from my library in October having never heard of it and not knowing that it was popular or a goodreads choice awards nominee or anything. It was just available so I got the audiobook and it was so good. I gave it 4.5 stars and it made me cry more than once. The ending is so perfectly sweet
Love Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation! I'm currently on Book 3 and let me tell you, I am invested! But I also get where you're coming from because, despite absolutely loving the books, the chapters are very episodic, so it's easy to put down and pick up a different book in between. The comic version is great as well --- the art is incredible! Edit: Looking forward the the manga project! I've read quite a bit of manga and manhwa this year trying to beat reading slumps; current favourite is Apothecary Diaries.
I was watching this video while I was working on my Tgcf diamond painting and I gasped when I heard the grand master of demonic cultivation. I am so happy right now. I hope you finish it and enjoy it.
OMG Grandmaster of demonic cultivation!!!! I was just watching, very chill... then you picked it up! It's my favorite book of the last few years (read it first in 2019) and this year I read all the 5 ones in the series in the English editions, DAMN the story is so good!
The dream department store book looks so good! I look forward to your December wrap up 😊 I’m a manga lover also! You should read The Saviors Book Cafe in Another World! It’s one of my favorite mangas. One book I read this year I will never stop talking about is The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, it’s such a magical story and has such a sweet romance in it!
I don’t really have any that I want to leave behind. If I don’t like a book then it helps me find books that I will like. But I have alot of books I want to bring with me. Like the Red Rising series, Divine Rivals, Silver Under Nightfall and the House Witch series. These were my stand outs this year, and I want these to help my reading tastes in the future.
12:42 I'd recommend A Taste for Poison by Neil Bradbury, or Quackery by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen, both deal with macabre topics and are very interesting :)
I never want to think about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin or Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare ever again. I was literally raging when I finished those books.
OMG the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation!! The book (and the rest of the series) is Amazing!!! and I'm really excited to see what you think of it! There's also a show (which had gotten me into the book actually) and it's really good too!
A book I'm definitely taking on into 2024 is The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. I read a lot of fantasy, but most of it is western-oriented. This book however is set among the vibrant cultures on the Indian ocean - a true delight. For non-fiction I highly recommend The Heroine's Journey by Gail Carriger, it helped me a lot to develop as a writer.
For sci fi, I personally really like Wool, which is the first book in the Silo series. It's not necessary to read the second and third books if you don't want to.
Manga reader here ahahaha i havent read one manga this year and i want to get back to that and webcomics. My big goal is catching up with One Piece (no spoilers, i left somewhere in Wano). Lovely vid ❤❤
I have Shiny Book Syndrome too--I'm reading a good book but then see a Shiny New One and run off after that one. Then it takes four times as long to finish either one of them! 🤦♀
Love seeing that you had such a great reading year in 2023. I hope the same will be said of 2024. I personally did not have a great reading year and I am hoping for a better one. I want to leave two books behind in 2023. I didn't hate either one though. Both though were recent reads. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher in which a strange lake and forest are featured with a dying woman who is an old friend of our main character. This was not a bad novella, and quite fun to read at times (the gleeful cackle I gave off when I read the first paragraph description was something). But this book really made me question if the author is for me because something is distinctly lacking in her books that makes them continuously fall flat for me. She has such a range in books that it feels weird to say she is not for me which is why I am giving her one last chance. I want to read something that isn't a horror from her or a short story collection. But I feel like that book is just somewhat forgettable. The other book that I will be leaving behind is The Poetry of Edward Lear. Simply not for me. There was one limerick that I liked that was about enchanting a city with a lyre, but that was it. As for 2024 I will be bringing Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic which is a new favourite even though it is not the favourite of the year. I will also be bringing a short story called The Apple Tree by Daphne Du Maurier. If you want a non fiction to look into, consider Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, And Shape Our Futures.
4:17 omg you read mo dao zu shi and you like it😭 it's my alltime fav shsbwn but yea, i absolutely know what you mean, i have this problem too and it's just hard🥲
I am also not typically a sci-fi reader and found Counterweight a little confusing but I will literally read anything that Anton Hur translates though so I went into it braced and ended up liking it way more than expected
For non fiction, The Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate or Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert are great! BIG trigger Warning for RoHG though, talks about addiction and multiple accounts of trauma (including all forms of child abuse) and addiction.
my reading goal this year was around 350 and i've read 385 books so far. i hope that i can reach 400 before the end of the year. I also would like to read more memoirs next year cause the ones I have read this year i really enjoyed.
I finished the Dreamer Trilogy back in January and loved it I never knew what was coming. I even reread the books over the summer as audio books. I'm definitely taking those with me alone with the Raven Cycle. A book I'm good with leaving behind is We Were Liars, I went into It thinking I wasn't going to like it. Most of it I liked alright and then the twist at the end kinda of gave me the ick. It's not the books fault I think the thriller? type of books are not for me. In some ways it made me think of Neverworld Wake I read last which I also didn't liking very much. Something about those just didn't vibe with me!!
I definitely want to leave "City of Bones" in 2023 and take the Thraxas series by Martin Scott, "Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead" by Emily Austin, the Ivory Carver series by Sue Harrison, the Joan Sands series by Brittany N. Williams, and the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger into 2024 with me
Controversial opinion ahead: I'm leaving Fourth Wing behind in 2023 (don't hurt me). And I'm bringing Grandmaster of Demomic Cultivation with me into my future, probably forever 🥰 also manga lover? HERE 🙋🏻♀️
you NEED to read Vagina Obscura by Rachel E Gross!!! It's a non fiction about a very specific topic, the history of the vagina and all the mest up reaserch that has been done on women troughout the ages. It's so good. It's funny and horryfying and talks about trans women in such a beautiful way. I really loved it.
This was the year I fell out of love with romance novels. They haven't been hitting the same :( From the tropes to overused clichés, I am done with them! I will take all the historical fiction and fun fantasy series instead. Also nonfiction books they are truly underrated, teach a lot, and never fail to blow my mind
I love manga my hero academia fire force i still think you would love that time I got reincarnated as a slime for books that I want to bring into 24 is a good girl's guide to murder and DR .stone
Number 1 the school of good and evil / twilight book 3 Number 2 I don’t know Number 3 The school of good and evil / Twilight Number 4 Warrior cats season 8 book 2 Number 5 book that I want to leave in 2023 Twilight book1 Book I want to take in 2024 many but most importantly Danny Phantom a glitch in time Question 5: no
OMG would love a video where you pick an authour with like 5 books or so out and read all of them! It would be so cool and the way you do your reading experiment vlogs would fit that concept so well. I want that so bad now
This sweater is cozy goals. ✨🫶🏻
These videos are the single greatest cure to the book slump! I am serious every time I watch one of your videos I walk away with a list of recommendations. Sometimes it's the books you are talking about, sometimes it's the books behind you or even just your enthusiasm being contagious!
Now I want a book about readers battling in intense games for special editions...😂
HYPE for the return of manga jesse
the wishing game was my favorite read this year! just whimsical and heartfelt enough for me
The wishing game was one of my FAVORITE books this year it’s so beautiful
Grandmaster of demonic cultivation is soooo good! Also would love more manga content - looking forward to it!
A video yesterday from you and then another one today! Yes!!!❤❤❤❤📚
I love when you talk about manga! It makes me happy to see you treat them with respect!
The Wishing Game is my favorite book of 2023! I absolutely loved it! 😍 ❤
Sending that manga love! ❤
Love Manga!!! Glad to see you getting back into it! ❤
I have so many books that I'm 40-70% through and I need to finish them but I keep wanting to start new ones 😅
The Wishing Game legitimately made me cry
After you read Grandmaster you have to watch the TV show based off it 🫢🫢🫢
I just love your vibes so much
Cute jumper with flappy sleeves is the best ❤
Watching your videos with a cup of tea is a must in these cozy evenings😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
awww glad i can be apart of your cozy evening!
That sweater is IT!
Omg when I first saw the Dallergut Dream Department Store, RV was the first thing I thought about as well lol. And then I read the blurb and I loved it so it’s also one of my most anticipated reads!!
Jessie! I love your sweater!
Manga lover here!!! Love you content, so anything involving manga is definitely a yes from me 😊
I also had problems with reading „TheGrandmaster of Demonic Cultivation“. I found it really helpful to start watching the TV Show at the same time. The actors really bring the characters to live❤
The wishing game is amazing!!! ❤
Can't take my eyes of your sweater. I LOVEEE it😍
I have two non fiction recommendations -
1. The Booksellers Tale by Martin Latham, the author is a bookseller and it's a book about reading itself, the history of reading in society, book stores and booksellers and their history, how books become comfort books, library histories, and a lot more! It's so comforting and fascinating and would highly recommend!
The second one is The Gifts of Reading, a collection of essays on the joys of reading, giving and receiving books 😊📖
For the grandmaster an advice I can give you is to go watch some edits from the drama, the actors brings those characters to life so much that it can really help to get into the story when you know the chemistry 🤭🤭 and edits are short enough to not get too spoiled 😏
Hello fellow manga lover here 🤚😊 I am always happy to hear the book community talk about manga, and you always give such good recommendations Jesse (you're the reason I read and loved Bakuman so much!) Thank you for sharing your creativity ✨✨✨
I'm a huge manga lover.
Also, Ender's Game and The Martian are 2 easy beginner scifi 5 star reads. The Martian is funny so maybe start there.
I finally, finally read Six of Crows this year and just generally got into Leigh Bardugos work (yes, i'm aware i'm very late to the party) and I don't think I will ever stop talking about these books ever
4:21 This is me and i keep doing that with The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan 😩
I don't wanna think about 'Our story ends here' ever again. 'Good me Bad me' will always be a book I mention if I talk with anyone about psychological thrillers.
Love manga! Also second someone's comment that The Martian is pretty good gateway sci-fi if you aren't used to the genre or don't read it much.
I randomly picked up The Wishing Game from my library in October having never heard of it and not knowing that it was popular or a goodreads choice awards nominee or anything. It was just available so I got the audiobook and it was so good. I gave it 4.5 stars and it made me cry more than once. The ending is so perfectly sweet
i'm looking forward to you talking about manga more, especially bc i'm trying to get back into reading manga 😊
2023 was my best reading year too! Started it pretty late though (midway through July).
Love Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation! I'm currently on Book 3 and let me tell you, I am invested! But I also get where you're coming from because, despite absolutely loving the books, the chapters are very episodic, so it's easy to put down and pick up a different book in between.
The comic version is great as well --- the art is incredible!
Edit: Looking forward the the manga project! I've read quite a bit of manga and manhwa this year trying to beat reading slumps; current favourite is Apothecary Diaries.
Love manga! Looking forward to seeing what you read. :)
For nonfiction rec: All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell.
I was watching this video while I was working on my Tgcf diamond painting and I gasped when I heard the grand master of demonic cultivation. I am so happy right now. I hope you finish it and enjoy it.
OMG Grandmaster of demonic cultivation!!!! I was just watching, very chill... then you picked it up! It's my favorite book of the last few years (read it first in 2019) and this year I read all the 5 ones in the series in the English editions, DAMN the story is so good!
The dream department store book looks so good! I look forward to your December wrap up 😊 I’m a manga lover also! You should read The Saviors Book Cafe in Another World! It’s one of my favorite mangas. One book I read this year I will never stop talking about is The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, it’s such a magical story and has such a sweet romance in it!
I'm currently reading The soul of an octopus 🐙 and enjoying it!!!! ❤
I don’t really have any that I want to leave behind. If I don’t like a book then it helps me find books that I will like. But I have alot of books I want to bring with me. Like the Red Rising series, Divine Rivals, Silver Under Nightfall and the House Witch series. These were my stand outs this year, and I want these to help my reading tastes in the future.
12:42 I'd recommend A Taste for Poison by Neil Bradbury, or Quackery by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen, both deal with macabre topics and are very interesting :)
I never want to think about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin or Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare ever again. I was literally raging when I finished those books.
That sweater, those sleeves, absolute perfection. For nonfiction recommendations! Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer and Rabid by Bill Wasik
Just found your channel and I loveee your energy and personality! Excited to check out your other videos :)
Thank you!!
I’ve gotten into manga this year! Been reading One Piece for months and loving it ❤!
DUDE I wish I had book friends like Jesse lol
OMG the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation!! The book (and the rest of the series) is Amazing!!! and I'm really excited to see what you think of it!
There's also a show (which had gotten me into the book actually) and it's really good too!
I wouldn’t say I’m a manga lover but I have close to 400 volumes 😂
OMG JESSE READING CHINESE ROMANTASY?! YOU'RE GONNA LOVE WEI WUXIAN!!! ❤
my favourite book by the author is definitely her first one though, the scum villain's self-saving system
MDZS has so many forms and yeah all been read and watched more than 10 times lol
A book I'm definitely taking on into 2024 is The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. I read a lot of fantasy, but most of it is western-oriented. This book however is set among the vibrant cultures on the Indian ocean - a true delight.
For non-fiction I highly recommend The Heroine's Journey by Gail Carriger, it helped me a lot to develop as a writer.
i love manga so much!! sometimes i'll only read manga for weeks while all my novels lie forgotten and abandoned T-T
I really want to read more fantasy. It always intimidates me but I usually enjoy it once I finally read it.
For sci fi, I personally really like Wool, which is the first book in the Silo series. It's not necessary to read the second and third books if you don't want to.
For nonfiction, I recommend Born a Crime by Trevor Noah and Disfigured by Amanda Leduc!
Jesse got the same BOTM books are Sara Carrillo!! Watched both of their videos today. 😂
Manga reader here ahahaha i havent read one manga this year and i want to get back to that and webcomics. My big goal is catching up with One Piece (no spoilers, i left somewhere in Wano).
Lovely vid ❤❤
I think would like leave rhapsodic in 2023. And I’m taking Mr villains day off manga with me to 2024😁😁☺️☺️ it’s so adorable
I have Shiny Book Syndrome too--I'm reading a good book but then see a Shiny New One and run off after that one. Then it takes four times as long to finish either one of them! 🤦♀
A book I want to carry in 2024: Project Heil Mary by Andy Weir. Best sci-fi book ever, my top favourite of the year for sure! 😍😍😍
Love seeing that you had such a great reading year in 2023. I hope the same will be said of 2024. I personally did not have a great reading year and I am hoping for a better one. I want to leave two books behind in 2023. I didn't hate either one though. Both though were recent reads. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher in which a strange lake and forest are featured with a dying woman who is an old friend of our main character. This was not a bad novella, and quite fun to read at times (the gleeful cackle I gave off when I read the first paragraph description was something). But this book really made me question if the author is for me because something is distinctly lacking in her books that makes them continuously fall flat for me. She has such a range in books that it feels weird to say she is not for me which is why I am giving her one last chance. I want to read something that isn't a horror from her or a short story collection. But I feel like that book is just somewhat forgettable. The other book that I will be leaving behind is The Poetry of Edward Lear. Simply not for me. There was one limerick that I liked that was about enchanting a city with a lyre, but that was it. As for 2024 I will be bringing Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic which is a new favourite even though it is not the favourite of the year. I will also be bringing a short story called The Apple Tree by Daphne Du Maurier.
If you want a non fiction to look into, consider Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, And Shape Our Futures.
Manga😍 Can't wait
4:17 omg you read mo dao zu shi and you like it😭 it's my alltime fav shsbwn but yea, i absolutely know what you mean, i have this problem too and it's just hard🥲
I am also not typically a sci-fi reader and found Counterweight a little confusing but I will literally read anything that Anton Hur translates though so I went into it braced and ended up liking it way more than expected
Take a shot everytime Jesse says demonic cultivation 😂
Im trying to finish Iron Flame and Murtagh by the end of the year so we’ll see how that goes 😅
i wish book of the month was a thing in the UK!
For non fiction, The Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate or Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert are great! BIG trigger Warning for RoHG though, talks about addiction and multiple accounts of trauma (including all forms of child abuse) and addiction.
my reading goal this year was around 350 and i've read 385 books so far. i hope that i can reach 400 before the end of the year. I also would like to read more memoirs next year cause the ones I have read this year i really enjoyed.
OMG I Love Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
I finished the Dreamer Trilogy back in January and loved it I never knew what was coming. I even reread the books over the summer as audio books. I'm definitely taking those with me alone with the Raven Cycle. A book I'm good with leaving behind is We Were Liars, I went into It thinking I wasn't going to like it. Most of it I liked alright and then the twist at the end kinda of gave me the ick. It's not the books fault I think the thriller? type of books are not for me. In some ways it made me think of Neverworld Wake I read last which I also didn't liking very much. Something about those just didn't vibe with me!!
A memoir I recommend is A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
Nonfiction recs: Stiff / rise and fall of dinosaurs / botany of desire
ALSO Manga sound off 🎉🎉🎉
I'll be leaving A Time to Stand in 2023, but I am bringing Six of Crows and Babel into 2024 and beyond!
I definitely want to leave "City of Bones" in 2023 and take the Thraxas series by Martin Scott, "Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead" by Emily Austin, the Ivory Carver series by Sue Harrison, the Joan Sands series by Brittany N. Williams, and the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger into 2024 with me
Controversial opinion ahead: I'm leaving Fourth Wing behind in 2023 (don't hurt me). And I'm bringing Grandmaster of Demomic Cultivation with me into my future, probably forever 🥰 also manga lover? HERE 🙋🏻♀️
Hiiii Jesse, how's your december going? 💚
A book I want to read in 2024 is House of Roots and Ruin by Erin Craig.
What’s that book called behind him, the one with the orange hand?
you NEED to read Vagina Obscura by Rachel E Gross!!! It's a non fiction about a very specific topic, the history of the vagina and all the mest up reaserch that has been done on women troughout the ages. It's so good. It's funny and horryfying and talks about trans women in such a beautiful way. I really loved it.
I love manga! I've spent way too much money on manga in 2023. . .
This was the year I fell out of love with romance novels. They haven't been hitting the same :( From the tropes to overused clichés, I am done with them! I will take all the historical fiction and fun fantasy series instead. Also nonfiction books they are truly underrated, teach a lot, and never fail to blow my mind
Is bppk of the month all over the world or USA and Canada?
i’m not a huge fan of nonfiction, but i really wanna read Britney Spears’ book
Nonfiction recommendation: Cultish
OMG HI!!! it's me, naomi from when you used to work at the after school thingy 😂 sorry this is weird but i just found your channel!!
hi naomi! i still remember you & your little brother. hope you guys are doing well!
@@jessethereader we are, i hope you're doing well, too 💚
Do I like manga? *looks up at me roughly 400 vol collection*.. maaaayyybbbeeee 😏😏😏😏🤪💜💜💜
To everyone out there you did better than me. Depression and school has given me a year long slump. Only read fiction within my curriculum
I love manga my hero academia fire force i still think you would love that time I got reincarnated as a slime for books that I want to bring into 24 is a good girl's guide to murder and DR .stone
Hi I just came across your page and im loving it already ❤.
Can a make a career outta it?
Number 1 the school of good and evil / twilight book 3
Number 2 I don’t know
Number 3 The school of good and evil / Twilight
Number 4 Warrior cats season 8 book 2
Number 5 book that I want to leave in 2023 Twilight book1
Book I want to take in 2024 many but most importantly Danny Phantom a glitch in time
Question 5: no
Jesse! Someone hacked your Goodreads account.
I'm not seeing that it is?
I DNFed the kingdom of little wounds in a period if my life where I never DNFed. Horrible book and I’m still scarred by it 🥲