can nostalgia save my 2014 book faves?? let's find out
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◈ Where do you put your dust jackets?! - they're in a storage container in my closet
◈ Where are your bookshelves from? - ikea billy bookcases with trim pieces added to the front
◈ What's your skincare routine? - current faves are linked in my amazon shop
◈ What do you use to film on? - canon r8 or sony zv1 mark 2
◈ Where do you get your audiobooks - library, libro.fm, audible plus
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The Chandler Ainsley/Vlogbrothers crossover that I did not see coming but is exactly what I needed! DFTBA ❤️
they've inspired a fair amount on my channel! my choose ur own adventure vids are thanks to them :)
@@chandlerainsley that makes sense. 😊 Their channel crosses the line of being interesting and intellectually engaging but also pure comfort, and so does yours!
The “The Fault in Our Stars” movie came out right after one of my closest friends died of cancer. Gus reminded me so much of John, that it both healed and broke my heart all at once, and I watched it multiple times over the months that followed and sobbed the entire time.
I have the “hanklerfish” version of TFIOS as well and it’s a prized possession. I did jump on the “hate john green” bandwagon and i regret it, because his books were so formative to me as a pretentious tumblr teen
This was a cool video, loved the gushing over The Fault in Our Stars. I think that this book even means a little more to John himself, considering his brother's cancer diagnosis.
This video seemed more “real” Chandler than in a long time- I hope your life changes are making you happy- You seemed to enjoy this video!
Delighted with your thoughts on The Fault in Our Stars. I am a long time champion of John Green's books (though Paper Towns is the one I will go to bat for TIL I DIE), and also, defender of teenagers.John called me and proposed to me for my husband on the Vlogbrothers channel waaaay back in 2009, and now I HAVE an almost teenager, and they do say some WILD stuff you'd never believe a teen would say seeing it written in text form. They do, though.
Clicked so fast. Can’t wait to watch. I always thinks it’s interesting to look back on old favourites at the time and kind of see how much you’ve grown/ in a different stage of your life and if books are still relevant and as impactful as they were back then. Love the red lip ❤
WOAH IB MENTION, I teach IB history actually and you’re SO right.
This wasn’t a program I had at my school in the 2010’s but I hung out with those nihilistic smart kids and now that I teach them I see them still. It’s crazy how that hit me just now as you said that
I wasn’t really online back in 2014 ( I was a 30 year old working mom so that time was a bit of a blur) so I didn’t know John Green got backlash over this book. That makes me sad. This book is really important to me. Even though I was an adult when I read it I remember crying my eyes out to the point I couldn’t see my Kindle lol. It’s very sentimental for me.
Also, my husband died of cancer in 2017 so I think that has made it mean even more to me now.
This was a really pleasant video, and I agree on your commentary about TFIOS and the way teenagers are portrayed/perceived. I was also that sort of pretentious "trying to sound smarter than I was" teenager (autistic to boot), so the bashing of John Green's characterization sounds hilarious at best. Teenage solipsism is rarely well portrayed, and when it is, it's rarely appreciated as such! Thank you for bringing this food for thought to the table
Thank you about your comments about not making kids feel embarassed of their interests. For some reason, something in my upbringing taught me that I should be embarassed of my interests, and so now I'm always embarassed. Anything I watch or enjoy, I keep to myself. I even hide my interests from my wife, even though I met my wife through one of my silly interests (watching a twitch streamer playing minecraft and writing fanfiction).
I never understood the hate that TFIOS got. As a former gifted kid and weird kid it perfectly captured the kind of teenager I was/the people I hung out with. I was a senior in HS when it came out.
I don't personally remember TFIOS getting any hate, until a few years belatedly, once there started to be some pushback against sick-lit in general and such.🤔 At least, aside from just the usual hate that anything popular tends to get literally just for being popular or whatever-plus the general hate that YA gets, as well as the general hate that Romance gets, in general; and the fact that it became 'cool' to also hate on Divergent for supposedly 'just being "ripoff"/"knockoff" Hunger Games' or such and thus also hate on anything remotely adjacent to it or any of the cast from the Divergent movies too.
But maybe that was just me, missing something. idekk.😅🙃🤔😁😁 👀 Lolll
I love hearing someone give love to the fault in our stars - it was the book that got me into reading in a rapid way, and i think about Hazel and Gus every day even after all these years
Thank you for having such nice captions!! I really appreciate the inclusivity it adds and it also just helps me (a person who barely watches tv without subtitles atm)
I remember the chaos of the signed copies of TFIOS and now when you go to GoodWill, they are everywhere! I still treasure my John Green novels, honestly.
I will also die on the Fault in Our Stars hill. One of my male friends had the nerve to say that a "man writing from the perspective of a teenage girl is creepy" then proceeded to immediately talk about how he LOVED "It" by Stephen King. And I'm like "OH YOU MEAN THE BOOK WITH THE CHILD ORGY. THAT ONE'S OKAY BUT THIS ONE FOR OLDER TEENS THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE WRITTEN FOR GIRLS IS NOT" Thankfully he said I had a point and we could move on.
But deadass, no one will convince me that it's the fact that girls were supposed to read it and not anything else about the book that made it so easy to hate.
Also deadass, as a gifted emo kid who HAD experienced true grief by the time I read this book AND is girl, this was deadass right for a lot of kids with underrepresented experiences at the time. Not all teens for sure, but enough to make it true.
Say "deadass" one more time girl lol
somehow you being an IB kid makes so much sense (as said from a current IB kid)!! i never read any john green books, probably because i was too young for it at the time, but i might pick it up after hearing your thoughts. teenagers are a lot, lot more pretentious than people realise a lot of the time.
also, hard agree with the tatbilb--that was my comfort book for most of quarantine and i've probably read it over 15 times and yet, the narration is so mediocre it kind of kills the rest of the good parts of the book (the romance, the sister relationship, etc). i remember jenny han saying in an interview that she rarely outlined or revised her books, and it kind of shows imo.
loved this video a lot xx
I remember reading The Fault in Our Stars back in the day. I thought it was good but it didn't blow me away. I was aware of the hate he got and always thought it was over-blown and unfair. But I still wasn't interested enough to read anything of his again. Until last year, when I read The Anthropocene Reviewed, which I enjoyed a lot.
And it made me realize that I really enjoy John Green's essayist work as opposed to his fiction. Given my enjoyment of the vlogbrothers content years ago, that seems a bit obvious now, but I remember thinking several times while listening to that audiobook, "Wow, the internet really owes John Green an apology."
Edit: Oh my God, the hanklerfish! I forgot about that. A bolt of nostalgia just went through my brain.
This was so nostalgic! I've got a signed copy of TFIOS too (sent all the way to Scotland) I cried so much reading this book for the first time back in the day, DFTBA
This made me really want to re-read both Gone Girl and Fault in Our Stars. I gave them both 4 stars on GR, but honestly I think a re-read might boost both of them. It's really interesting to re-read books in a different stage of life or even just a different mood. It totally changes the experience ❤
İ am SO EXCİTED for this video. Amazing ideaaa, 2024 is of to a great start
I'm jealous of how perfectly your makeup matches your skin tone, wow!
it's just the lighting haha
AM is still one of my favourite albums, and I will not apologize for it 😂 I was 22 in 2014, it’s okay, I’m more ancient
SAME. it's like 50% of the inspiration for my first book lol
@@chandlerainsleyI LOVE that
arctic monkeys is still my favorite band, I've watched them live twice and I absolutely SOBBED the first time they got on stage, what a band. I was 15 tho xD very formative for me for sure, they made me love rock music and now i'm a full on metalhead which is obv very different from arctic monkeys but they were the beginning
I started my book blog in 2014 and was planning to reread some of the books I loved back then. Reading my old reviews is a bit cringe lmao everything was the best thing I’d ever read and 10 years and 600 books later I’m like- suuuuure. 👀📚
Re: what you said about tfios and people that have had some experience with cancer...I read the book soon-ish after it came out I think, by a friend's recommendation. I was 14 years old and my dad had died 3 months earlier from cancer, and let me tell you, it WRECKED ME. I remember reading it in the computer lab, right before a final exam I was exempt from, and I don't remember how I came down from the lab to my classroom but I remember crying in my friends arms, desperately, for what seems like a long long time, to the point one of my classmates asked "gosh why is she crying so much?" and I just snapped at him "BECAUSE ITS ABOUT CANCER AND MY DAD DIED" (I don'tblame my friend for her recommendation btw, we had both just turned 14, and neither of us had the sligthest thought that it might not be such a smart idea to read a book about cancer so soon). I also cried through the whole movie on cinemas, the whole (probably) two hours. I think those cries were probably very therapeutic for little 14 y/o me who thought she didn't need therapy to cope (and was wrong, even tho it's been 10 years and I haven't been able to get it yet)
And I'm not proud to say I jumped on the hate John Green badwagon later on, to the point where I unhauled all my John Green books, and your video made me regret it (I don't remember ever posting anything directly bashing John Green, but I do remember feeling shame/cringe at having his books bc of the internet). The idea of maybe rereading it crossed my mind briefly while you were talking such nice things about it, but tbh I'm not sure how much of a good idea it would be
Thumbnail is SOOO good!! Can’t wait to watch 😌
Lipstick looks great!
UGH, I love your mind!! TFIOS discourse is something i’ve felt for years but never knew how to articulate. Another great video as always 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Oh man, I was fighting for life in grad school in 2014, I don’t even think I read any books for fun that year 😭
Love that you mentioned twilight and their relationship. I was a HUGE twihard. They were literally in my senior pictures IN MY YEARBOOK. But I remember getting so much shit for saying Jacob would be a much better choice for Bella because their relationship is healthier than her and Edward’s.
I was also 18 in 2014 and I remember reading every single one of these 😂 what a fun video thank you for this nostalgic trip lol
I was so obsessed with bared to you when I read it back in the day 😂😂
i went to the TFIOS launch tour in DC when it came out and i have my copy personalized by John and Hank and it's one of my greatest treasures :') i should really reread it
Ahhhh I loved this! On my re-read of Gone Girl I couldn't remember the start of it and on re-read I hated it! That being said, after the initial struggle I ended up loving again, just as much second time around. I think it still holds up as one of the more unique thrillers even after all the books that came after that have been inspired by GG.
Love this video/concept, so much!!🥰💖💖💜
I have been wanting to reread Gone Girl for the last year or so and I think this is the video that will push me to do it after hearing it holds up
I loved Bared to You, by Sylvia Day and I would say I still think about this book every other day😅
2014 romance reads? Sarah Dessen has entered the chat.
loved sarah back in the day. but was pre-2014 for me personally lol
@@chandlerainsley fair enough!! I'm about 2 or 3 years younger than you, so I was 15 in 2014, jumping into romance through the vehicle of Miss Dessen
Lol I forgot about the Hankler Fish lolol. I'm not a true nerdfighter, but I visit nerdfighteria. Visit enough to know about the Hankler, but not enough to have remembered it. I wonder if he still signs stuff that way now.
Your make up is beautiful, your opinions amazing, I love everything ❤❤
Fair points about the ways that teens think and speak and act and such, especially within certain niches and/or at certain points of time, too.😂👍🏻👍🏻
I so agree that the writing in this one was VERY juvenile- but I finished it. I agree with your comments on this, spot on
2014 is the year I got into reading 🤭
Another entertaining video from Chandler. If you read this Chandler, how’s the writing going? Can we expect any writing vlogs in the future? (I’m a sucker for a writer vlogs; I’ll watch every single one 😁).
outlining a book rn. will probably discuss on my vlog channel :)
What a cool idea and such a fun video to watch! All your updated thoughts on these books were interesting to hear! And I love it whenever you push back against the idea that young women can't read romance/fiction books with darker themes or else they'll immediately want that kind of relationship in real life🙄🙄🙄
That's true too though-writers got so much flak back in the day for writing characters of genders that differed from the writer's own gender! I think it definitely had a lot to do with certain genres being extremely gendered in the public eye, so "Romance" was supposedly exclusively for Female readers while pretty much everything else but especially things like action / adventure / crime dramas / thrillers / political intrigue / espionage and such were supposedly for Male readers, and it's the same reasons I think why men expected to have male doctors treating them medically in reality too and so on-because it was considered "improper" to keep mixed company[ especially if unmarried], as if it was literally impossible for anyone of opposite genders to ever be alone together without something untoward ever happening, so then it was also considered somehow "weird" or "untoward" for authors to openly write characters of genders other than their own and/or for authors to openly write in certain genres without writing under an "appropriately gendered" penname or whatever for that particular genre[, like on the same level in people's minds somehow as a gal walking into the guy's restroom or a guy walking into the gal's restroom]. It's hella stupid and lame/broken//messed-up!
this was fantastic and fun. Also- i don’t believe that the stories you read in books impact your romantic relationship- at least not to me.
Yeah, if you looked for "books like Fifty Shades", the Beautiful Bastard series (of which Beautiful Player is a part) was the very first thing that would have come up back then, since both were originally Twilight fanfics that later on got published.😅😂
everyone loved the fault in our stars by john green and to all the boys i loved before by jenny han but truly looking for alaska by john green and the summer i turned pretty were always my favs & i still think they stand the test of time😭😂
Fair point(s) about the appeals of messy/flawed characters though!
I was such a 50 shades stan and I was so hyped to read Bared to you and even at like 19 it gave me SO MUCH ICK
If anyone wants a decent BDSM book, I recently read For Real by Alexis Hall and thought it was pretty good. It’s m/m and not too cringe. The bigger, older guy is the sub which is a nice change up, but there is a pretty weird age gap.
I love that you mentioned the weird "adultification" of kids, back then! It was such a rampant problem, in general, not just in that particular book; especially with girls, because of the harmful stereotypes that girls must be super "maternal" and "nurturing" or whatever as well as that men[ even grown-ass dads] are somehow not expected to either be adult or parent as well as moms in general.
You in Ariel’s merch 🥰
DFTBA, chandler 💛
Great content
I definitely recommend watching the rest of the "To All The Boys..." movies, if only so that you can give the spin-off tv series about her little sister "XO, Kitty" a try!!!😊
Have you read the Anthropocene reviewed by John Green?? I’ll be honest, as teenager I didn’t find any of the teens in his books to be relatable for me personally (which is not to invalidate anybody who did find them to be relatable, I just didn’t), but i do love how John Green sees and writes about the world. I don’t even like nonfiction generally, but I loved the podcast and the book version of the Anthropocene Reviewed so much and found it so comforting to read / listen to even when he’s addressing heavier themes.
i haven't! i definitely need to give that one a go this year
Your copy of the fault in our stars is signed by BOTH JOHN AND HANK????????
i was greatly blessed lol
DFTBA!!
Gone Girl i always interpreted to be that when they met, she moulded herself into the kind of girl she thought he wanted. And then realised its not possible to keep up, both ended up unhappy. I loved her as a character but i think shes a terrible person (so is he).
I tried to read this a few years ago and I couldn't get passed the fifth chapter... the use of daddy was cringe and the way it was told I couldn't get into it... I could understand if our main character was the age of her younger sister but she's in high school... i just couldn't... yes everything you stated of this book! the movie to me was way better and how they told the story was way better then the book... I also have the whole bared to you series and I really need to unhaul this series, and I really freaking hated both our MC's so annoying.
DFTBA 🖤 I also own the signed copy lol
18 in 2014 is NOT ancient lol if it is, I’m withered! Lol
Is the “I’m thinking about books” sweater from your shop?💙
Ariel Bissett's!
What no one talks about in TFIOS is how problematic his use of Anne Frank is- that's not going to change over time. Much as I might feel sorry for him over some of the backlash for his writing, John Green's response to criticism also sucks (aka he just dismisses any criticism as invalid and wrong). As such, he has never responded to criticism of his appropriating the holocaust.
All The Boys I Loved Before premise feels stupid. I get writing the letters, but why were they actually addressed and postable?
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You are NOT ancient! LOL
i'm not surprised that john green's most ardent defenders are white folk, and make no mistake this isn't meant as a drag, rather that the experience of growing up as a white teen is vastly different in a lot of ways than growing up as a teen of colour. i think that's probably why john green's writing can come off as cringey and out of touch for some people, because it just simply wasn't their experience as a teenager. (okay so perhaps the conclusion here can be read as a bit of a drag lol but all teens represent their own special brand of cringe, it's not exclusive to white teens at all!)
I have a signed book by the vlog brothers as well 🩷 I went to a signing in Houston and it was the best!
You're absolutely right-there is protectiveness, and then there is possessiveness or being outright domineering; protectiveness can be good even excellent, but domineering possessiveness is not.🫣😶