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I believe and respect you. It is enraging to hear how you have been treated, and I hope you get the treatment you need ❤

I loved your review and thoughts. I also liked the complexities in River East River West. Lescure did a great job with the writing and fleshing out these unlikable characters. As the story unfolds I did begin to care about them even if I did not like them, especially Sloan and Lu Fang and the despicable Daniel. The author took the immigration story and flipped it to show both sides of the coin. Such a solid novel with many aspects to ponder. It really makes one think about race, ethnicity, culture, immigration, coming of age, addiction and family dynamics. Lots of feels in this story. Alva's character made my heart heavy.

Also Gaslight is an excellent play, definitely recommend. But it’s one of the cases where I actually prefer the movie! (The one with Ingrid Bergman)

This is such an amazing project!!! I’m so behind on posting my favorites 😭 I can’t remember if I sent you some fantasy recs already but either way I’ll send some more your way! ❤️

The Great Divide is a wonderful novel!

Why has this dismissive culture when there are obvious serious issues seemingly increased in the last 5-10 years? It's government driven for money reasons. Women are constantly told the route of their symptoms are anxiety and / or depression. You just feel like the medical profession is taking a deep dive south.

I love this ! <3 I can 100% understand your thoughts on How Not To Drown in a Glass of Water. It is mostly dialogue. Ill need to check out The God of Good Looks and Someday Maybe !

What a fun project. Charlie really is the sweetest. All the Little Bird Hearts is one I have been interested in.

This is such a great idea! I think I'm going to check out The God of Good Looks and All the little bird hearts :)

You are just the sweetest Kier. Thank you for your kind words. 😘❤️ So pleased you loved Someday Maybe. Onyi Nwabineli’s new one is also good but quite different in its subject matter although it does discuss some relevant and interesting topics. Great to hear about the other books you read too and the booktubers that inspired them ☺️

Headshot and Orbital sound so interesting, I'm excited to try them! I'm like fourth on hold for James at my library, might take a while lol Tommy Orange and Hisham Matar are on my tbr too like you :)

Ooooh yeah I totally forgot that How to be Both was ordered differently depending on the copy! I also have a copy on my shelf to be read! I'd never heard of Jesmyn Ward until this list, but I'm intrigued now! The Labatut book was very interesting, but it didn't stick with me. I also hated The Fraud and worried because I do own White Teeth and On Beauty... I found this list so weird, and adding fiction and NF together is a bizarre choice. I applaud you putting up ALL the covers of the books in this video though haha For me Homegoing was a big miss from the list! And didn't realise that The Kite Runner was published in the 21st century! Definitely missing! A History of Burning is totally on my TBR!

Stoneyard is the only one ive read so far, and to me it has Study for Obedience vibes (though there is a bit more overt plot in Stoneyard). Im excited to read a few more from the list - i got Orbital so will give that a go first (it's short but omg the writing in the paperback is tiny)

I felt like you over Powers esp re the ASD rep in his last book. I am pleased James made it too. Good to see your reaction lovely❤

I was delighted to see Orbital get on the list. I thought it might be excluded because it is so short.

Nee subscriber! From southern Ontario.

I don't know if I have read my favourite book yet but a new release I am looking forward to is The Eternal Ones 😊

My best book so far was a new author to me - The Bodyguard by Katherine Center. I Have since read several of her other books and really enjoyed them also. The other new to me author I loved is Abby Jimenez. I read all of the books in her Part of Your World trilogy.

Great to hear your thoughts on these! Transcendent Kingdom should definitely be as well known as Homegoing. I'm glad The Hunger Games holds up - I've been wanting to reread it too. Yes, Klara - brilliant!

The Known World is also one of my favourite books.

I loved Never Let Me Go

I loved Outline.

How is audiobook reading, though? It's listening, not reading

The Line of Beauty is one of my favourite books. You should read it.

Visit from the Goon Squad is speculative fiction

I love Tenth of December

“The Warmth of Other Suns” is not only a very important book, but it’s well written and very readable!

“Because of sciencey things that I do not understand” - how I explain this book too 😂

So many great recs in this video! I also am bad at reading non fiction but Kiese Laymon is definitely worth it

Great Review. I thought the book lost its way a bit as Demon got older.

Wait, you didn't love Demon Copperhead? I thought I was the only one. Going to watch your review now. Can't believe I missed it.

I have to say quickly, if you're intimidated by Pachinko's size, don't be, it reads really quickly as soon as you're into it. In 2020 I read it over 2 days because it felt addictive and I couldn't put it down!

100% agree with your thoughts about including Tove Ditlevsen just because she was translated into English in the 21st century - i was genuinely shocked by that, maybe i shouldn't have been tho... Runaway sounded interesting, been wondering where the best place to start with Alice Munro is, think that'd be a good one? Lincoln in the Bardo was a big miss for me too - i was so confused because i'm like graveyard setting? check. experimental writing with funny characters? check. historical fiction blended with ghosts and buddhism? check. how could this go wrong, and yet... super intrigued by your thoughts on Outline, always meant to pick it up but now more so =) thanks for doing all that video editing, end result is first-class!!

Watching this before seeing your update, and it's a great TBR! Sophie Irwin and Vanessa Riley are both on my TBR! I just finished The Austen Girls by Lucy Worsley as my pick for this month and I enjoyed it! It's great to hear you speaking well of Booth, I feel like at the time people weren't saying great things about it, but I bought it from a charity shop last month! I've never watched the 2020 Persuasion adaptation...or any Persuasion adaptation for that matter. It's my favourite Austen, and I need to get on that haha I do love an adaptation! Yes Katie's book just came out today, meant to go to the launch in London but couldn't manage! I might get the audiobook as the audio for her first novel was lovely!!

Thank you for sharing your comments! I just finished reading the book and there will be a sequel called Isaac’s Song!

i have the same problem with that "21st-century woman time-travelled to the past" version of feminism when it comes to modern greek myth retellings... espesh coz women of diff times and places can be so inspiring if written convincingly! sometimes i can forgive it if the mc's anachronistic awakening isn't the whole point of the book, but sometimes, alas, it is...

one of my fav puns was a photo that went round of a sign outside a sports shop reading "now is the discount of our winter tents". i saw Richard III once and the whole thing was set inside a mental asylum, which adds a whole new layer of problematicness lol

seeing it in august with meeeeee

Glad you're feeling better. Ah you read sing if you can't dance! I am glad you liked it as well, and found it to be very relatable 😇 Interesting to hear part of your world was your least favourite of the series. I have that one and yours truly. Practice makes perfect is one I want to try. I liked book lovers but I actually didn't like the sister relationship as much as people seem too. I was mostly here for the publishing world representation as someone who works in publishing. I need to read the encyclopedia of faeries, it's one I have waiting for me on my shelf. I LOVE if we were villains and I'm glad you finally got around to it and really loved it too.

Thanks for your review, especially your comments on this perhaps being more about the humans around Klara and their world, and the way they negotiate it - rather than Klara herself, Klara being our window on their world. That's really interesting, I think. Fairly sure it's set in America. The American English really stands out. (But I think it would work to set it in almost any advanced and dystopian modern economy.) Thanks again 🙏

Happy Jane Austen July! I’m reading The School of Scandal this year.

Good luck with all the books you get to. I’m reading evalina on top of loads of books 😂

we don't any library or books in Libya 😢😢

I started Jane Austen July with Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen. It is academic but very accessible. I am really enjoying it. Have fun with your TBR!

They look the same but mirabel is 15 and snow white is 14 ❤❤❤❤❤❤

haha I had such a similar reaction, excitement for the fiction winner (well deserved!) and like 'ah yeah' for the non-fiction winner. Even though Doppelganger never really interested me, my library did get the audio so I'm going to give it a try when I get to it!

oh my god, i came for Klara...but that book, Being mortal is my current read and i like it a lot!!

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Yay!! I`m so happy you are feeling better and back! < 3 You are the first one I hear saying that The Inheritance Games is not your cup of tea. But I think I will give it a shot eventually :) This rain at the end is crazy:O