To me it's so weird that English and American books often are ALL BLURBS on the back and you have to open the book and look inside for the plot. Insanity.
I always ignore them cause ofc people are gonna rave about the book in them. Even more so, after I discovered just this month that more often than not the blurbers don't even read the book! They get a brief description of the book, so they know what to write for the blurb.
Honestly, that's me as a book reviewer 😂 I don't write reviews or vlog, but my loved ones WILL be made aware if I had a bad time while reading a book. My partner doesn't even read that much and they still had to empathize with how badly my last read was written. They will be subjected to me reading terrible lines to them, I need to vent about it 😂
I'm glad you loved The last tale of the flower bride. I adored it and it shouldn't have worked for me because I dislike magical realism, vibes only and flowery writing but for some reason I loved it so much.
Okay, absolutely PRESSING question first and foremost! Where do you get your clothes? Because I'm love with your fits and I'm dying to know where you shop. I've been very much in love with your videos lately. They're so much fun and my TBR has grown exponentially because of you. Which is wonderful because I was in a bit of a slump due to depression and you reawakened my passion for reading. I've been tearing through books again like the menace I'm used to being and I couldn't be happier. So thank you for always being a source of inspriation and joy!
I literally clicked on this video while procrastinating reading the world gives way (I haven't started it yet but I need to).. I feel like this video is calling me out...
I did not like The Wolf and the Woodsman and although I didn't hate it, I really don't understand why it was so popular lol. But I absolutely loved The Last Tale so, so much. I've described it as a mix between Bunny and The Picture of Dorian Grey. I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Always down for a new fun and analytical/experimental series from your incredible brain! Thank you for doing what you do ❤ always so much confort and enjoyment in your videos!
LOVED Stay Awake! and I had no idea Chlorine was horror until recently so I'm super excited for that one. I was obsessed with Flower Bride for the first 50 pages but I hated Azure's perspectives lol
I loved The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow. I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about it. I love the bed and breakfast mysteries! Definitely cozies. Good idea to start at the beginning.
Kayla.. you will probably judge me so much but I was in dublin Ireland last June and dermont Kennedy was there for a hometown concert and the city was NUTS. So many people! And I had no idea who he was 😂 googled him and listened to a few songs to familiarize myself with him.
Another vlog idea: reading books from prizes, like the women's prize but maybe something else? I was looking at the 'Kitschies' prize (which I'd never heard of) and saw some books I thought might be your jam!
I loved FEED THEM SILENCE, but I love wolf stories, so I had to read it. I really want to read THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE. I’ve heard such good things! You may have convinced me! 😂
Oooo I agree on your thoughts on The Wolf and the Woodsman. I don’t think it should have been a standalone and an actual series would have really added a lot to the dynamics of this one.
I would be very interested to see if you thought through the authors blurbs, who disliked the books and who possibly enjoyed them😀 At the end of the day it’s part of their jobs isn’t it, so it doesn’t mean they had to enjoy the book; they just had to find something to say about it. I’ve never thought about this before your video but now I’m fascinated by it😂
Yes they get sent books from the publisher to blurb. It benefits them to keep their name front and center for people. But it’s not uncommon for the authors to be given a pre-written paragraph to just sign off on!
@@Financiallyfreeauthor I never knew that😀 That’s interesting, is that because they think the blurb author won’t like the book or because they think they’re too lazy to write one themselves 🤔 It’s funny how something I’ve never thought of before has me totally interested now😂
Oh gosh, I am seeing books that I'm convinced you will give 5 stars and ones I'm certain you'll hate 😂 I am dying for you to read The Witch's Heart. I cannot freaking wait. I, personally, DNF'd For the Wolf but I'm super curious to see what you think.
I actively disliked The Wolf and The Woodsman by the end of it and most of it was due to what you've pointed out, what I wanted to be drawn out was rushed and what I wanted rushed was drawn out. It was in my least favourite reads from last year. My library hold of Road of Bones comes through in 9 days and now I'm nervous about it.
I have a question hahaha.. With the blurb and the author's name often comes one of the titles of the book - do you think that the book (if the author has written more than one) is picked to fit the vibe of the book they blurbed? Does this question even make sense?😅
This was interesting! I always love your experimental videos - I actually have wondered whether or not I should be paying more attention to author blurbs but... now I won't bother :') Thanks for un-endorsing hahaha
I WILL get all my work done today before watching this video as a reward. I WILL. Yes I am typing this in a comment to hold myself accountable 😂 Appreciate you as always Kayla 💙
Maybe try the Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde for an adult book with characters from classics? It's genre bending being an alternative history, cozy mystery, and absurdist sci-fi/fantasy all in one. Think the humor of hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy but with characters who can enter books.
Your take on the fictional documentary making is exactly how I feel about fictional court hearings. I'll sit there hate-reading because nobody's talking about their exhibit list or hearsay exceptions or jury selection 😂
I was just chilling and watching this video, but I noticed and now I cannot unsee that your thermostat was set on 26.5 and oh my gosh why is it so hot in your house??? XDD That's the temp my grandfather kept the house at while I was growing up, but we lived in Florida and I ran around in short shorts and tank tops in my house because it was brutal. lol
Ok when you’re talking about road of bones I am realizing I need to read a book with a fantastically written winter storm because in my small town the past two years the first week of january has been like record wind and snowfall and people getting stuck in their houses and cars flipped upside down on the way to the grocery store kind of weather and I get so much reading done during these storms with no power and I just crave that experience of having something to relate to if this is going to be an every year kind of fun little thing
If you're liking that classic character in modern day thing, then try Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep! It's be a New Zealand author so it's also repping my country
In my mind (and given how many Canadian booktubers there are) I can imagine that the libraries there (in Canada) are huge and robustly attended by the populace. And youre allowed to check out hundreds of books and keep them a long time (because Winter is long and Canadian Winters must be the longest). Any truth to this imaginative scenario? :)
I dnf`d Wolf and the Woodsman. I didn't care for the MCs and felt like they had significant valid reasons to revile each other and i didn't care enough about either of them to watch their relationship evolve.
Random rec ahead! Kayla! You should read paradise rot by Jenny Hval! Vague house at the bottom of a lake and what moves the dead vibes where the setting is the focus point. Key words are sensual, rot, piss, desire, sound and smell Also it’s not as gross as it is sometimes pitched as, it’s really more lyrically descriptive than shocking
That Ava Reid book was recommended to me as an adult faitytale with creepy forest book, for the fans of Winternight trilogy. I didn't get to pick up for... reasons, but now I know I'm not gonna like it. You might like Winternight trilogy though, it's got your adult fairytale, dark themes, religious bigotry, feminist themes etc. and there are some horror elements too.
That don’t ask about the past reminds me of another myth, a story from The Mahabharata where a king’s wife is secretly a Goddess and she’ll only stay if he never questions her actions even when she starts killing their children
If you want to try some adult books that feature characters from fairytales you should try Christina Henry's books (author of the near the bone) she's done adult horror called Alice with Alice in Wonderland (Alice breaks out of the mental asylum she was sent to after telling people she went to wonderland I believe) and Red with little red riding hood. A couple others too I think.
Was literally just listening to another video of yours since I finished several people are typing this evening and wanted to hear your thoughts. Seemed like your kind of weird.
I haven't loved an Alix E Harrow and both of the books I think she blurbed in this I gave 1 stars... so maybe her blurbs are an anti-buzzword I should look out for!
Me: -sees Kayla keeps her house at 26.5 celcius- Me: -lives in the basement level of a house kept at 21 celcius by a menopausal mom- What's it like to be warm inside your own house? What's it like to be able to wear shorts?
To me it's so weird that English and American books often are ALL BLURBS on the back and you have to open the book and look inside for the plot. Insanity.
I feel like it’s a newly more common thing because I’ve noticed that lately and it always throws me off
@@theresaANDnicholas I started working with books in english like 10 years ago and noticed this immediately, but maybe it's gotten worse?
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The “I’m so versatile” at 9:27 made lol and feels so relatable and I cannot explain further 🤷🏼♂️😂
You’ve convinced me to pick up last tale of the flower bride, and to continue to largely ignore book blurbs lol
I always ignore them cause ofc people are gonna rave about the book in them. Even more so, after I discovered just this month that more often than not the blurbers don't even read the book! They get a brief description of the book, so they know what to write for the blurb.
I would literally just watch a video of you filling in spreadsheets like that organisation is everything 👌🏻 I loved this vid concept!
Last Tale of the Flower Bride sounds like it might be right up my alley, and I definitely still want to read Bad Cree.
You had me with the last tale of the flowe bride with "no plot, just vibes"
Kayla’s new career ‘UNendorsing books’ 😂😂
Honestly, that's me as a book reviewer 😂 I don't write reviews or vlog, but my loved ones WILL be made aware if I had a bad time while reading a book. My partner doesn't even read that much and they still had to empathize with how badly my last read was written. They will be subjected to me reading terrible lines to them, I need to vent about it 😂
It makes me happy that you liked Last Tale of the Flower Bride. I gave it 5 starts. It had me so engaged and immersed!
I'm glad you loved The last tale of the flower bride. I adored it and it shouldn't have worked for me because I dislike magical realism, vibes only and flowery writing but for some reason I loved it so much.
The best weekend gift ever having a video from our booktube queen! ❤
My freaking queen of top tier booktube content has posted😌 love your videos so much👑🤍🤍
You did convince me to try out the last book as well as a few others that you did compare your reading with. I'm looking forward to trying them out.
Okay, absolutely PRESSING question first and foremost! Where do you get your clothes? Because I'm love with your fits and I'm dying to know where you shop.
I've been very much in love with your videos lately. They're so much fun and my TBR has grown exponentially because of you. Which is wonderful because I was in a bit of a slump due to depression and you reawakened my passion for reading. I've been tearing through books again like the menace I'm used to being and I couldn't be happier. So thank you for always being a source of inspriation and joy!
Chlorine and Feed Them Silence were both phenomenal!!!
Feed Them Silence was wonderful! It really got to me. ❤️
You have THE BEST video ideas- they are always so creative and relatable!
I literally clicked on this video while procrastinating reading the world gives way (I haven't started it yet but I need to).. I feel like this video is calling me out...
I loved that book!!!
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE
Your reluctant immortals review is 100% exactly my review 😂 like I wanted it to be SO much better than it was. The beginning was soooo interesting
Oh my god! You posted just in time! I am so sick and can’t do anything, but I caught up on all other videos 😂. My favorite!
Oh I’m so excited I’ve been waiting all day and it’s time for my evening wind down, perfect timing!
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convinced me to read the last tale of the flower bride🙌🏽someone put me off of it a while ago but now i’m interested again
I did not like The Wolf and the Woodsman and although I didn't hate it, I really don't understand why it was so popular lol. But I absolutely loved The Last Tale so, so much. I've described it as a mix between Bunny and The Picture of Dorian Grey. I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
You've definitely convinced me to read The Last Tale of the Flower Bride. I love a good story that mixes mythology with reality.
YAY can’t wait to see how this goes hehe ☺️✨
Always down for a new fun and analytical/experimental series from your incredible brain! Thank you for doing what you do ❤ always so much confort and enjoyment in your videos!
I read an arc of Stay Awake and loved it cant wait to see you read it.
This was such a fun vlog. Loved this idea and it really worked 😁
I dnf'd Road of Bones. I feel vindicated by your experience 😅
I love that save the bees shirt so much!!
love the thumb nail for this video!!! extremely eye catching, I clicked on the video as soon as I saw it!
LOVED Stay Awake! and I had no idea Chlorine was horror until recently so I'm super excited for that one. I was obsessed with Flower Bride for the first 50 pages but I hated Azure's perspectives lol
Speaking of lime green I LOVE the green top you were wearing in the first clip of you chatting about Wolf and Woodsman
Ohhh I’m excited to hear ur opinions on the last tale of the flower bride! I LOVED it!
I loved The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow. I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about it.
I love the bed and breakfast mysteries! Definitely cozies. Good idea to start at the beginning.
Kayla.. you will probably judge me so much but I was in dublin Ireland last June and dermont Kennedy was there for a hometown concert and the city was NUTS. So many people! And I had no idea who he was 😂 googled him and listened to a few songs to familiarize myself with him.
This was very fun, but also interesting. Interesting to see that a vibe of a book can be seen from a blurb
You have the prettiest hair Kayla!!
Another vlog idea: reading books from prizes, like the women's prize but maybe something else? I was looking at the 'Kitschies' prize (which I'd never heard of) and saw some books I thought might be your jam!
I loved FEED THEM SILENCE, but I love wolf stories, so I had to read it. I really want to read THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE. I’ve heard such good things! You may have convinced me! 😂
your concert outfit was so cute!!
Oooo I agree on your thoughts on The Wolf and the Woodsman. I don’t think it should have been a standalone and an actual series would have really added a lot to the dynamics of this one.
💚🌹Now, I am really excited to get to The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, Bad Cree, and Feed Them Silence.
I loved The World Gives Way. It's one of my top reads so far this year.
You put exactly how I feel about Wolf and the Woodsman into words!! I wanted to love it so much, but third person would have been so much better.
if you want to try alix e. harrow again for your second video in this series, the six deaths of the saint is short story by her that's sooo good!
I would be very interested to see if you thought through the authors blurbs, who disliked the books and who possibly enjoyed them😀 At the end of the day it’s part of their jobs isn’t it, so it doesn’t mean they had to enjoy the book; they just had to find something to say about it. I’ve never thought about this before your video but now I’m fascinated by it😂
Yes they get sent books from the publisher to blurb. It benefits them to keep their name front and center for people. But it’s not uncommon for the authors to be given a pre-written paragraph to just sign off on!
@@Financiallyfreeauthor I never knew that😀 That’s interesting, is that because they think the blurb author won’t like the book or because they think they’re too lazy to write one themselves 🤔 It’s funny how something I’ve never thought of before has me totally interested now😂
I wrote a paper for school about Bad Cree! Loved it.
Oh gosh, I am seeing books that I'm convinced you will give 5 stars and ones I'm certain you'll hate 😂 I am dying for you to read The Witch's Heart. I cannot freaking wait. I, personally, DNF'd For the Wolf but I'm super curious to see what you think.
I actively disliked The Wolf and The Woodsman by the end of it and most of it was due to what you've pointed out, what I wanted to be drawn out was rushed and what I wanted rushed was drawn out. It was in my least favourite reads from last year. My library hold of Road of Bones comes through in 9 days and now I'm nervous about it.
I have a question hahaha..
With the blurb and the author's name often comes one of the titles of the book - do you think that the book (if the author has written more than one) is picked to fit the vibe of the book they blurbed? Does this question even make sense?😅
This was interesting! I always love your experimental videos - I actually have wondered whether or not I should be paying more attention to author blurbs but... now I won't bother :') Thanks for un-endorsing hahaha
Oh my gosh Kayla I was at the concert too!! I was on the floor!
Omg how fun!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
I'm so jealous of you getting Rouge 😂 I hope you love it!
Last Tale of the Flower Bride is my next read. Excited to start it! Also, where is your calendar from?
Rifle Paper Co. 💕
I am ready for this!!
I WILL get all my work done today before watching this video as a reward. I WILL. Yes I am typing this in a comment to hold myself accountable 😂 Appreciate you as always Kayla 💙
Road of Bones was my first book of the year and one of my favorites of 2023 still IM SCARED
I loved Road of Bones! I thought it was incredibly scary. Christopher Golden is one of my favorite authors. All Hallows, his newest is great! 🤗
Maybe try the Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde for an adult book with characters from classics? It's genre bending being an alternative history, cozy mystery, and absurdist sci-fi/fantasy all in one. Think the humor of hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy but with characters who can enter books.
Your take on the fictional documentary making is exactly how I feel about fictional court hearings. I'll sit there hate-reading because nobody's talking about their exhibit list or hearsay exceptions or jury selection 😂
I was just chilling and watching this video, but I noticed and now I cannot unsee that your thermostat was set on 26.5 and oh my gosh why is it so hot in your house??? XDD That's the temp my grandfather kept the house at while I was growing up, but we lived in Florida and I ran around in short shorts and tank tops in my house because it was brutal. lol
Alix E. Harrow has a novella series with fairytales retelling in a modern setting and it's adult. Doesn't it sound exactly your vibe ?
Ok when you’re talking about road of bones I am realizing I need to read a book with a fantastically written winter storm because in my small town the past two years the first week of january has been like record wind and snowfall and people getting stuck in their houses and cars flipped upside down on the way to the grocery store kind of weather and I get so much reading done during these storms with no power and I just crave that experience of having something to relate to if this is going to be an every year kind of fun little thing
The year before the first one we had a 7.0 earthquake that shut the schools down and I just cant wait to see what next year brings
Didn't know who Dermot Kennedy is, so thanks for introducing me to his music, he's great!
If you're liking that classic character in modern day thing, then try Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep! It's be a New Zealand author so it's also repping my country
I’m so excited ❤
In my mind (and given how many Canadian booktubers there are) I can imagine that the libraries there (in Canada) are huge and robustly attended by the populace. And youre allowed to check out hundreds of books and keep them a long time (because Winter is long and Canadian Winters must be the longest). Any truth to this imaginative scenario? :)
I dnf`d Wolf and the Woodsman. I didn't care for the MCs and felt like they had significant valid reasons to revile each other and i didn't care enough about either of them to watch their relationship evolve.
I wish I was half as organized as you. 📚💻 Great video as always.
I really loved The World Gives way and keep pitching it to my friends as Space Titanic 😂 No one has given it a try yet haha.
Omg you went to a DK concert, I'm so jealous 😭💗
Random rec ahead!
Kayla! You should read paradise rot by Jenny Hval! Vague house at the bottom of a lake and what moves the dead vibes where the setting is the focus point. Key words are sensual, rot, piss, desire, sound and smell
Also it’s not as gross as it is sometimes pitched as, it’s really more lyrically descriptive than shocking
I’m soooooo jelly of your arc of Rouge ❤❤❤🥀🥀🥀🥀
Stephen Graham Jones’ blurbs are so extra and funny he just be saying stuff. I gotta read his books.
My May calendar is bananas lol 🍌
Feed Them Silence is amazing. I love both published books by lee Mandelo
To this day, my favourite author blurb is Gaiman's of Black Leopard Red Wolf
I did not need watch this because I’m too easily tempted. I’m over here trying to read my 40 book backlog of BOTM books 😂😂😂😂
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I wouldn’t have predicted any of this, and sometimes I actually feel like I “get” your taste.
I really should go through my clothes and purge them too… I’m just so lazy 👀
That Ava Reid book was recommended to me as an adult faitytale with creepy forest book, for the fans of Winternight trilogy. I didn't get to pick up for... reasons, but now I know I'm not gonna like it. You might like Winternight trilogy though, it's got your adult fairytale, dark themes, religious bigotry, feminist themes etc. and there are some horror elements too.
Fun idea!
i'm finally early!!!
thanks for being here emma!!!
Is he famous in Canada? Haven't heard of him. Will check him out
That don’t ask about the past reminds me of another myth, a story from The Mahabharata where a king’s wife is secretly a Goddess and she’ll only stay if he never questions her actions even when she starts killing their children
i am so tempted to read The wolf and the woodsman just because it's based in hungary and on hungarian culture. (Évike is pronounced ay-vi-ke)
Kérlek ne! Sajnos magyarként olvasni egyenesen fájdalmas volt, alig tudtam a végére érni, pedig egyébként nem lenne egy nagyon rossz könyv
@@lili7054 Köszi a figyelmezttésért! Pedig annyira megörültem mikor megtudtam hogy hol játszódik, kár érte mert ritka.
“Posted 8 minutes ago” 🎉😍
I’ve bought books based on a blurb even knowing that the whole system is sketchy :-/
If you want to try some adult books that feature characters from fairytales you should try Christina Henry's books (author of the near the bone) she's done adult horror called Alice with Alice in Wonderland (Alice breaks out of the mental asylum she was sent to after telling people she went to wonderland I believe) and Red with little red riding hood. A couple others too I think.
Have you read Abandon by Blake Crouch? All inhabitants of a mining village disappear .
Was literally just listening to another video of yours since I finished several people are typing this evening and wanted to hear your thoughts. Seemed like your kind of weird.
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i love content creators being ashamed of filming in public haha you are so cute
I’m in a reading slump made worse by the book House I’m the Pines (not good). Maybe watching vlogs will help
Oh nooo I think I just bought that one too 😅
I haven't loved an Alix E Harrow and both of the books I think she blurbed in this I gave 1 stars... so maybe her blurbs are an anti-buzzword I should look out for!
Me: -sees Kayla keeps her house at 26.5 celcius-
Me: -lives in the basement level of a house kept at 21 celcius by a menopausal mom-
What's it like to be warm inside your own house? What's it like to be able to wear shorts?
I don’t trust blurbs, I’ve been hurt too many times before
IS IT JUST ME OR DOES SHE LOOK LIKE DREW BARYMORE?
Feed Them Silence sounds so good, added to the tbr!