You're definitely my favorite "booktube-er" because you are actually educated in literature so your analyses are so thoughtful and you communicate the premises and your thoughts so well. I've read many books because of these videos and I appreciate your time you put in.
@@jessicalemke4571 I like Books with Emily Fox. She's also closer to my age and reads quite a variety but mainly sci-fi. it's hard to find solid book tubers who read a variety and are a bit older. I can't do the younger tubers who do mainly YA. I'm 28 so I can't relate lol Jess is so far the most "professional" I've found, if that makes sense.
I honestly just come to listen to you articulate what you liked or disliked about these books. You have such a beautiful understanding of literature. Every video, I learn new vocabulary to add to my lexicon and what to look for when I’m analyzing novels. Please keep making these videos I always look forward to these so so much thank you. I also feel you on that reading slump, such an intense time to just sit and focus on one thing. Have a great day.🙏🏼🤗🙌🏼
Love that you post more often now!! Anyways, love the diverse books. I'm contemplating to get a kindle sometime in the future because the books you read are not ready stock here in my country, and with covid it's more difficult to get the physical books delivered from outside of the country. But for now I'm reading the books you pick on google play books so I'm still a bit safe!!
This might sound dramatic but I’d like to say thank you for restoring my love of books. I’ve bought 8 of your recommendations and I’m enjoying them all throughly
This is the first video of yours that I've seen and I'm very pleased that your 'short' wrap up is so detailed and thoughtful, I've definitely got to check out your longer videos now.
I know you’re not going out too much these days, but I’ve been really missing you week in outfits videos!!! Maybe like a “what I’d be wearing if we could go outside” vibe!
I am always happy to watch whatever length of book video you put out each month! These are my favorite types of videos that you do and I could listen to you talk about books forever
This may be a weird thing to say, but your eyebrows look so pretty! And I love Ursula Leguin, I would never be sick of you rambling on about her. It's a challenge finding booktubers to enjoy speculative fiction, so your videos are such a treat Taylor! Anne Taylor books are my cozy reads, not necessarily award winning material but brings a smile to my face :)
I would love a video about your thoughts on what makes a great book review and how to build one! You're the most eloquent booktuber that I follow and I always love how well constructed your opinions and critics are 😊
Btw, I’d HIGHLY recommend watching Kdbooks and Freshlyreadbooks reviews of Burnt Sugar. Feel like I understood especially a lot of the symbolism in it a lot better from those reviews. I did love it though, but I listened to it and I think it made it easier to get into it.
Love your book videos, Jess! I've added the Le Guin books to my tbr, it's not the type of literature I usually read but your love for it really makes me want to give the series a go. Also, I wanted to read Real Life but I've been seeing mixed reviews, so I don't know...
Oh no... I almost cried when you started reading the book blurb. Smog in a metropolis and the alternative is the wilderness.... I live in Oregon (in the forest) and so many neighboring areas are being consumed by enormous fires. We are thankfully ok but our air has been on hazardous levels for a week! It's so sad :....( Wish my tears would turn into rain that would put the fires out!
I love your wrap ups, specially because you talk about them so in depth and give your honest opinion! I always get a lot of book recs from you ❤️ your conent is always exceptional
I've been in a reading slump too. I find myself daydreaming or thinking of school when I try to sit down and read but I'm pushing through it. I am referring to pleasure reading not assigned reading that I have to do for my class.
Recommend watching bell hooks’ critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” published by the new school. Watched it here on UA-cam. I’m also a fan of the book, but I found her critiques to be extremely valid.
I am so excited to pick the other le guin books up after I finish the quartet! Definitely looking forward to those little corrections to certain perspectives 😅
I read Tales of Neveryon this summer. I had not heard of Delaney before your channel. I VERY much enjoyed the first book and tore through it super quickly. It was was unlike anything I'd ever read, and I was reading all sorts of genres this summer. I'm excited to read the other books when I get a bit more time. I'll be looking into some of Delaney's other fiction. Thanks, as always, for the recommendation!
I read the Earthsea quartet many years ago and I loved it, but never read the next two. I already ordered them before finishing this video xD I love your book wrap ups!
Hi, Jess. I would highly recommend Breathe:A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry. It’s a great read after Between the World and Me as it touches on similar themes. I loved it and devoured it in one night!
Hi! Could someone explain to me how the book club works? Do we all read the book and then discuss it in the comments of her next book video? btw love your videos!
I've saved up watching this until i finished Between the World and Me and I share your opinion completely, I would definitely recommend anyone read this!
I just adore your wrap-ups whether they are long or short!!! Please look into The Summer That Melted Everything and Betty both by Tiffany McDaniel and The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollack. I read all three in August and they completely brought me out of my slump and all three are new favorites. I would love to hear your thoughts on them.
If you're interested in reading more Anne Tyler, I'm almost finished If Morning Ever Comes by her and I'm loving it. It was published in the 1960s and its a really quiet novel but I find the characters very interesting. Perhaps you'd enjoy that one a bit more than the newer one you've read (I'd recommend it at least) :)
very excited for this month's book club picks, i have been meaning to dip into the booker prize lists! i also need to expand my le guin collection, like now...
First of all your vids are amazing and I loooove following your reading! And about Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle, I have very mixed up feelings. In my French edition, there are original prefaces that she wrote specifically for this edition and I really like the fact that she gives a fresh look on her own work. She admits that her writing was following a very patriarchal tradition (only males have access to power and females are like... non-existent...) and she tries to improve that point. I also like the fact that even if the first book is all about men, there is no war, violence or show of strength. The first book is all about balance, knowing itself through an internal battle (plus the hero is black which is like WOO at this time). I also appreciate the lightness of her style, it is deep and profound but not heavy. However, (I'm reading The Tombs of Atuan at te moment) I still find some things that disturb my reading about the way she describes women or men... I know that the books were not written with the background that we have today and maybe my reader's eye is biased. But I have hope for the next volumes as you said it's amazing and I often agree with your taste in books! (thanks to you I read The Broken Earth by N. K. Jemisin and it was so so so great! A treasure in the science fiction/fantasy world). Oh and I will try to read with you one (or both) book of the Book Club this month, exciteeed!
As to Earthsea books: everyone (who i've talked to) who 1. didn't read them as a kid and 2. primarily reads fantasy as an adult doesn't like them at ALL. I think those who read them as a kid have a natural tendency towards nostalgia for them, and then people who don't usually read fantasy and like classics and lit fic enjoy them more for those elements that they contain.
i've been following you for so much i don't know why i've never commented your vids but i love you sooo much ! You have been such an inspiration for me in a lot of subjects (books, fashion, state of mind, etc.. ) ❤❤❤
Did anyone else physically cringe when Jess pronounced Pune?? Jess, PLEASE learn how to pronounce foreign cities before butchering them, dear god. No shade, I still appreciate and enjoy your videos but is it that hard for white booktubers to look up how to pronounce words in non-Western languages? If you guys can pronounce Dostoevsky, you can pronounce Pune.
This was so unnecessarily aggressive 😂. Especially towards Jess - she clearly tries her best to be an ally towards minority communities and be educated/respectful about pronunciation - even apologizes when she might butcher their names. You’re over here crucifying her over pronunciation lol - it’s not like you even commented the proper pronunciation you just came to berate her
And also, many western people can pronounce Dostoevsky because his books are required reading for a LOT of schools in the western world. It’s not an excuse to not look up how to pronounce Pune but goddamn. Lol you’re comparing apples and oranges
@@allmybookshit1965 I literally said I still appreciate and enjoy her videos but pronunciations are the bare minimum that white and western people with a platform can do when talking about non-western, non-white people/places/things. I can pronounce Dostoevsky as someone from a Global South country because of the global knowledge supremacy of the West. It is a privilege to be able to excuse your shitty pronunciations of non-western languages. No one is saying that Jess doesn't do her best to be an ally to minorities, but understanding language and pronunciation within the context of global power dynamics is important. Especially as Jess spends so much time talking about her love for theory and analysis. Being an ally MEANS that she is able to take what I'm saying on board without a defensive response.
honeymella half of the people can’t even pronounce van gogh. Your points were fair, your tone is just overly aggressive. She didn’t insult your mother, she pronounced a city wrong.
@@douloureux. look up 'tone policing'. I don't need to sugarcoat my points about western/white supremacy. I said what I said. Part of reading diversely is understanding where one stands within global structural politics. It's the absolute bare minimum that white allies make an extra bit of effort to pronounce the few foreign words/names in their videos right, or at least try. Don't say the word if you can't pronounce it. It's very simple.
You're definitely my favorite "booktube-er" because you are actually educated in literature so your analyses are so thoughtful and you communicate the premises and your thoughts so well. I've read many books because of these videos and I appreciate your time you put in.
Can you recommended some other book UA-camrs? It’s hard to get into others when you’re just used to jess but I’d love to see some others
@@jessicalemke4571 What genres are you interested in? I watch quite a lot of booktubers but I find most of them focus heavily on one particular genre
@@jessicalemke4571 I like Books with Emily Fox. She's also closer to my age and reads quite a variety but mainly sci-fi. it's hard to find solid book tubers who read a variety and are a bit older. I can't do the younger tubers who do mainly YA. I'm 28 so I can't relate lol Jess is so far the most "professional" I've found, if that makes sense.
Jessica Lemke I like Ariel Bissett, she runs the yearly readathon, discusses different topics and also studied literarure as far as I know
Jessica Lemke have a look at Savidge Reads or Jen Campbell 😊
I honestly just come to listen to you articulate what you liked or disliked about these books. You have such a beautiful understanding of literature. Every video, I learn new vocabulary to add to my lexicon and what to look for when I’m analyzing novels. Please keep making these videos I always look forward to these so so much thank you. I also feel you on that reading slump, such an intense time to just sit and focus on one thing. Have a great day.🙏🏼🤗🙌🏼
Saaaame xx
Love that you post more often now!! Anyways, love the diverse books. I'm contemplating to get a kindle sometime in the future because the books you read are not ready stock here in my country, and with covid it's more difficult to get the physical books delivered from outside of the country. But for now I'm reading the books you pick on google play books so I'm still a bit safe!!
I love that lavender jumper, so comfy and cute.
I think your hair looks gorgeous, triangular shape and all 😍
I had just made a cup of tea and come back to this notification 🥰
Same, bliss
Perfect combination
This might sound dramatic but I’d like to say thank you for restoring my love of books. I’ve bought 8 of your recommendations and I’m enjoying them all throughly
This is the first video of yours that I've seen and I'm very pleased that your 'short' wrap up is so detailed and thoughtful, I've definitely got to check out your longer videos now.
I know you’re not going out too much these days, but I’ve been really missing you week in outfits videos!!! Maybe like a “what I’d be wearing if we could go outside” vibe!
I am always happy to watch whatever length of book video you put out each month! These are my favorite types of videos that you do and I could listen to you talk about books forever
I love Tove Jansson I grew up reading The Moomins books and read The Summer Book and The Winter Book (which I'd really recommend) a few years ago
This may be a weird thing to say, but your eyebrows look so pretty! And I love Ursula Leguin, I would never be sick of you rambling on about her. It's a challenge finding booktubers to enjoy speculative fiction, so your videos are such a treat Taylor! Anne Taylor books are my cozy reads, not necessarily award winning material but brings a smile to my face :)
I would love a video about your thoughts on what makes a great book review and how to build one! You're the most eloquent booktuber that I follow and I always love how well constructed your opinions and critics are 😊
Btw, I’d HIGHLY recommend watching Kdbooks and Freshlyreadbooks reviews of Burnt Sugar. Feel like I understood especially a lot of the symbolism in it a lot better from those reviews. I did love it though, but I listened to it and I think it made it easier to get into it.
I love your wrap up videos, you introduce me to books that I never knew I needed to read. 💕
Love your book videos, Jess! I've added the Le Guin books to my tbr, it's not the type of literature I usually read but your love for it really makes me want to give the series a go. Also, I wanted to read Real Life but I've been seeing mixed reviews, so I don't know...
I've been getting into poetry lately, I would love to hear your recommendations in the next book video! Xx
The perfect birthday treat! A book video from Jess ^^
Oh no... I almost cried when you started reading the book blurb. Smog in a metropolis and the alternative is the wilderness.... I live in Oregon (in the forest) and so many neighboring areas are being consumed by enormous fires. We are thankfully ok but our air has been on hazardous levels for a week! It's so sad :....( Wish my tears would turn into rain that would put the fires out!
I love your wrap ups, specially because you talk about them so in depth and give your honest opinion! I always get a lot of book recs from you ❤️ your conent is always exceptional
I've been in a reading slump too. I find myself daydreaming or thinking of school when I try to sit down and read but I'm pushing through it. I am referring to pleasure reading not assigned reading that I have to do for my class.
You inspire me to read :)
I'm so happy you read "Between the World and Me"! It is such an important book and such a good read. Definitely required reading imo. Lots of love Xx
love love love these videos!! fav UA-camr, always so calming
Burnt Sugar sounds super interesting... I am always looking for books that explore mother relationships.
Recommend watching bell hooks’ critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” published by the new school. Watched it here on UA-cam. I’m also a fan of the book, but I found her critiques to be extremely valid.
Listening to your book recommendations is basically life
I love the way that you explain and analyse books!
So glad to follow your progress reading the Booker longlist. I was disappointed and put off by Real Life - definitely not for me either.
You’re looking especially beautiful today! Great reviews, I always look forward to your book videos 💗💗💗
I am so excited to pick the other le guin books up after I finish the quartet! Definitely looking forward to those little corrections to certain perspectives 😅
Love your reviews of the man booker list! Thank you for the book recs xx
I read Tales of Neveryon this summer. I had not heard of Delaney before your channel. I VERY much enjoyed the first book and tore through it super quickly. It was was unlike anything I'd ever read, and I was reading all sorts of genres this summer. I'm excited to read the other books when I get a bit more time. I'll be looking into some of Delaney's other fiction. Thanks, as always, for the recommendation!
I read the Earthsea quartet many years ago and I loved it, but never read the next two. I already ordered them before finishing this video xD I love your book wrap ups!
Omg Jessie you look so good! Lavender looks gorgeous on you xx
Hi, Jess. I would highly recommend Breathe:A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry. It’s a great read after Between the World and Me as it touches on similar themes. I loved it and devoured it in one night!
I definitely agree about Redhead by the Side of the Road!
Hi! Could someone explain to me how the book club works? Do we all read the book and then discuss it in the comments of her next book video? btw love your videos!
could you please do a piercing tour? you have so many and would love to hear about the process of accumulating them all
👏👏👏 favorite UA-camr, no doubt about it!
I wish I was clever enough to read Delany they sound amazing !
I've saved up watching this until i finished Between the World and Me and I share your opinion completely, I would definitely recommend anyone read this!
I just adore your wrap-ups whether they are long or short!!! Please look into The Summer That Melted Everything and Betty both by Tiffany McDaniel and The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollack. I read all three in August and they completely brought me out of my slump and all three are new favorites. I would love to hear your thoughts on them.
If you're interested in reading more Anne Tyler, I'm almost finished If Morning Ever Comes by her and I'm loving it. It was published in the 1960s and its a really quiet novel but I find the characters very interesting. Perhaps you'd enjoy that one a bit more than the newer one you've read (I'd recommend it at least) :)
ALSO IN A SLUMP, can relate. best of luck to us all this next month! haha
very excited for this month's book club picks, i have been meaning to dip into the booker prize lists! i also need to expand my le guin collection, like now...
Loved this video!! 💛 just bought my first Le Guin book thanks to you 🥰
I was waiting for this video!! Thank you Jess💜
I also was in a huge reading slump in August. Sucks so much.
First of all your vids are amazing and I loooove following your reading! And about Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle, I have very mixed up feelings. In my French edition, there are original prefaces that she wrote specifically for this edition and I really like the fact that she gives a fresh look on her own work. She admits that her writing was following a very patriarchal tradition (only males have access to power and females are like... non-existent...) and she tries to improve that point. I also like the fact that even if the first book is all about men, there is no war, violence or show of strength. The first book is all about balance, knowing itself through an internal battle (plus the hero is black which is like WOO at this time). I also appreciate the lightness of her style, it is deep and profound but not heavy. However, (I'm reading The Tombs of Atuan at te moment) I still find some things that disturb my reading about the way she describes women or men... I know that the books were not written with the background that we have today and maybe my reader's eye is biased. But I have hope for the next volumes as you said it's amazing and I often agree with your taste in books! (thanks to you I read The Broken Earth by N. K. Jemisin and it was so so so great! A treasure in the science fiction/fantasy world). Oh and I will try to read with you one (or both) book of the Book Club this month, exciteeed!
love this, thank you for the recommendations
love the triangle hair
As to Earthsea books: everyone (who i've talked to) who 1. didn't read them as a kid and 2. primarily reads fantasy as an adult doesn't like them at ALL. I think those who read them as a kid have a natural tendency towards nostalgia for them, and then people who don't usually read fantasy and like classics and lit fic enjoy them more for those elements that they contain.
Do you ever read romance novels?
Loved this as always Jess ☺️
So ready for this ♥
I finished The New Wilderness this month, it wasn't a huge succes 😅 hoping you'll get along with it better than I did
I live for your book videos!
have you read The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi? I really enjoyed it, and i think you might too x
I think she has read it and reviewed it in one of her videos.
Love your reviews always! I just finished Journey by moonlight by Antal Szerb, and I am so curious what you would say about it. :)
i've been following you for so much i don't know why i've never commented your vids but i love you sooo much ! You have been such an inspiration for me in a lot of subjects (books, fashion, state of mind, etc.. )
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exactly the same opinions about the 2 august reading club books
youre so amiable i was drawn in didnt wanna acknowledge the video was gonna end..... eventually... : (
Couldn’t agree more about redhead by the side of the road! I listened to it, but found it so incredibly boring and unmemorable.
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Did anyone else physically cringe when Jess pronounced Pune?? Jess, PLEASE learn how to pronounce foreign cities before butchering them, dear god. No shade, I still appreciate and enjoy your videos but is it that hard for white booktubers to look up how to pronounce words in non-Western languages? If you guys can pronounce Dostoevsky, you can pronounce Pune.
This was so unnecessarily aggressive 😂. Especially towards Jess - she clearly tries her best to be an ally towards minority communities and be educated/respectful about pronunciation - even apologizes when she might butcher their names. You’re over here crucifying her over pronunciation lol - it’s not like you even commented the proper pronunciation you just came to berate her
And also, many western people can pronounce Dostoevsky because his books are required reading for a LOT of schools in the western world. It’s not an excuse to not look up how to pronounce Pune but goddamn. Lol you’re comparing apples and oranges
@@allmybookshit1965 I literally said I still appreciate and enjoy her videos but pronunciations are the bare minimum that white and western people with a platform can do when talking about non-western, non-white people/places/things. I can pronounce Dostoevsky as someone from a Global South country because of the global knowledge supremacy of the West. It is a privilege to be able to excuse your shitty pronunciations of non-western languages. No one is saying that Jess doesn't do her best to be an ally to minorities, but understanding language and pronunciation within the context of global power dynamics is important. Especially as Jess spends so much time talking about her love for theory and analysis. Being an ally MEANS that she is able to take what I'm saying on board without a defensive response.
honeymella half of the people can’t even pronounce van gogh. Your points were fair, your tone is just overly aggressive. She didn’t insult your mother, she pronounced a city wrong.
@@douloureux. look up 'tone policing'. I don't need to sugarcoat my points about western/white supremacy. I said what I said. Part of reading diversely is understanding where one stands within global structural politics. It's the absolute bare minimum that white allies make an extra bit of effort to pronounce the few foreign words/names in their videos right, or at least try. Don't say the word if you can't pronounce it. It's very simple.