My Dark Vanessa is in the same category for me. That book is Everything to me.

"Fire can't go through doors, stupid, it's not a ghost!" -Chang, from the TV show Community

I've already read PJO and Heartstopper is in my tbr (the only reason i haven't read it yet is because I didn't get it yet)

The audacity of these men who ditched her for 10 months to expect her to wait around. "You moved on? Why? We just dumped you!"

"What kind of 25 year old man hates money and time?" Girl, take a philosophy 101 class and you will meet at least seven dudes like this good god

i like the video but really i’m just here to say i love that scrungly old man cat with his huge fingered mitts

i think im at the point where i watch your videos just for outfit inspo because how do u get the most perfect outfits

you should read the field party series its so good and my fav series and no smut!

Hi Lexi, i see that you're super busy but if someday you consider putting ur content in podcast format i would totally be there 😎

Has she read Phantasma?

at least disaster part of the title is correct

idk if anyone's said this yet but the whole "female lead with divorced parents who has a close-but-parentified relationship with their mom and then later moves to a mysterious town to live with their dad after their mom starts dating someone" is the exact premise of twilight

Listening to you yapp is oddly comforting, I really like you includes different types of love stories also

Isn't the plot to the Wall of Winnipeg and Me just the plot of The Proposal?

This is trippy, I hope you check out Bella Di Corte. Not all her books are great but compared to the others she's on top.

42:27 "Some advice: If there's ever two wolves living inside of you, and they're these two wolves [...], one of those wolves deserves to be SHOT" 🤣

Random comment lol but, The movie American Psycho was directed by a woman.

y/n sounds like chuck palahniuk for all the girlies who spent too much of their adolescence scrolling on ao3 at 2 in the morning

I read "Just Mercy" for a foreign language course for my law degree and our lecturer, who did not have a law degree, was constantly outraged by how the things happening could happen, while everyone else sat there like "yeah, procedural law, judges and prosecutors are anything but perfect, which is why the death penalty is asinine." I had some mixed feelings about the book overall though. I didn't like how it glorified the swedish stundents for example. Also the book could have gone into a little bit more detail on the research of punishment imo. They could have fleshed out more why the death penalty isn't an effective deterrent and why doesn't really help the victims families.

I've been avoiding this video since it first appeared on my home page almost a year ago because of the subject matter and now that I've finally clicked on it and seen Ronald Regan amongst the cast of characters I need some kind of hotline I can call

Anybody else wondering where lexi is??

gonna start second hand crying from the ending of the winners because i still think about that book and those characters

i think i have a crush on you

Hope you’re doing alright! Miss your videos but no pressure ❤️ live life

Alex definetly only listens to Monster by Skrillex on repeat because he believes it fits him.

I was maintaining a stoic face through this entire thing until "[...] by offering himself up as friends with benefits [...] interesting negotiation tactic, and Tiernan just whips out a KNIFE" broke me

your My Immortal references SENT ME. i took one for the team way back when and recorded myself reading it to send to my friends group chat. it mostly has been repressed but every once in a awhile it creeps back into my memories.

3:26 the bar is in hell. When you said COLLEGE senior I breathed a sigh of relief.

Can someone explain the Angel & Buffy problematicness? Edit: Nvm, I thought on it more lol. I would still be curious about thoughts on the topic though.

oh yeah i see the top of that three mice boygenius tee lexi 😜😜

As someone severe dyslexia who’s entire life changed when audio books became popular and widely available I appreciate your take so much. People who have the purist discussion always ignore disabilities and even when it finally brought up they’re oh well for you it’s okay that counts blah blah but my experience and love of the story is the same and any one else who listened to the audio or who read a physical copy of it.

this video felt like an unhinged videocall with a friend. honestly 10/10, thank you for keeping me company:)

12:26 Okay, this prompt.... , not a book, but a fictional supernatural horror podcast. The magnus archives, specifically season 4, fit this so well, aswell as the short form stories based around the 12 fears and the plot being strung along outside of the stories read by the main character, Jonathan sim. This prompt goes especially well with season 4 specifically with... funnily enough, the character as my pfp, my drawing of Martin Blackwood. The fog is tied to the fear of "the lonely: in it, and features many doomed characters! Including a bunch of casual queer rep that isn't too in your face like a coming out story if that type of lgbtq media isn't our thing. I very much recomend it.

Bunny definitely felt like a fever dream. It reminded me of me and my best friends friendship throughout high school and our early twenties.

I always go into videos like these thinking I'll be fine and chill and am then almost immediately reminded of the fact that I have Opinions(TM). Your takes, as always, are god-tier. I especially like how you included the conversation on accessibility when addressing the "what counts as *real* reading." That entire section was really interesting. i did have a couple of thoughts i wanted to share, mostly stemming from my perspective as a writer and not just a reader. *1. "hiss/growl/snarl" in romance and fantasy* from a writer's perspective: i disagree with this, but maybe not in the way you would think. in the end, it all comes down to the same guiding principle: what makes writing bad is not the content itself, but rather, the way it is written. how an author handles a topic matters just as much, if not more, than the topic at hand. this applies not only to larger ideas in writing, but also the much smaller, technical aspects of writing. such as in this case. i've seen a lot of discussions about this by now, but honestly, it comes off to me the same as the overuse of the word "smirk" did circa. 2010s YA/NA writing trends. like, yes, you can and will see examples of people doing this in ways that are clunky and terrible. however! that is less indicative of the overall usage of the phrase(s), and more so the fault of the author. that's all to say: i do not believe that any one aspect of writing is inherently bad or cringe. context matters, in every sense, and for every cringey "he snarled in hot-blooded rage," there are going to be examples of authors using "animal sounds" in ways that fit into the narrative. _tangent time! here's some examples of word usage in ways that i find to be perfectly acceptable, when written with competency. this list is non-exhaustive (!!)._ _--- you can only use "shout" and "yell" so may times when writing an argument, and the word "scream"'s emotional connotation is often too much for your run-of-the-mill verbal conflict. "snarl" is a nice middle-ground that connotes both harshness and aggressive anger. as long as it is not overused, i find it perfectly fine to add to the occasional disagreement._ _--- "hiss" is one word i don't really get the hatred for. it's honestly really chill and is applicable to a lot of situations. even things like "he hissed in frustration" or whatever just come off to me as somebody sighing very harshly or through their teeth. it's not an actual hiss; that's just the closest onomatopoeia equivalent to that idea that allows you to not have to write the word "sigh" any more hundreds of times than you already would. it also encompasses a very specific sentiment that other similar words can't always convey. like an angry, stage-whispery tone of voice that still conveys a very certain meaning._ _--- i'm less forgiving of "growl," because it's easy to misuse. whenever a character "growls in frustration" or whatever, i have to look away. that being said, while this is probably the most offensive of these three examples, it is not a lost cause. context matters, and when relating it to a low, harsh, and/or rough timbre (maybe even a sonorous one), there are absolutely ways you can pull this off._ _anyway, tangent over; i need to stop myself before i start making up too-specific people to get mad at._ from an entirely art-driven perspective, too, i think it's dangerous to discourage people from taking part in any aspect of art, whether it be a specific trope you hate or an overall trend or movement that you find obnoxious and overdone. ultimately, it is not helpful to critique things based only on their content. it is much better to explain _why_ a particular aspect fails in the way that it does so that one can actually improve on it. especially for young authors in the writing space who are trying to improve their craft by factoring in opinions of the public, this kind of more in-depth criticism is more valuable to improving one's skill than implying using a certain aspect of writing is bad evil and will ruin your work forever. it's just more complicated than that. of course there will be people who cannot get over this in any form, even if it's pulled off naturally. but i do not believe those people are the majority, and even if they were, who cares? do what you want. write how you want to. it's your work, and that's what makes it so important! you are the only person who can do it like you, and there is value in that. on a more personal/subjective note. i may or may not care more about this than i should, given how it's really not that serious, but i promise you: i would rather authors branch out in their different speech tags (and, even more than that, breaking out of stereotypical ways of writing conversations on a broader level) than only sticking to the regular old "said" and "reply." you do not know pain until you are three hours deep into a revision session stuck on a single conversation because of too much repetition in speech tags. *2. present tense is weird* for me, from a reader's standpoint, this is a very silly thing to care about. ofc, if you don't like/can't get behind the way a book is written, you don't have to read it. that's fine. yada yada, discouraging artists from the different ways of creating is detrimental to the creation of art at large. we just had this conversation. the only real rule in writing is that if you can justify your choices in one way or another, you can do whatever you want and it'll probably be fine. there are no real rules, just guidelines, and hard-and-fast ideas about what you should and shouldn't do when writing aren't always applicable. especially when it comes to creative writing. from a writer's perspective: when going into a project, i might choose a different perspective/tense to better suit the project i am working on. different perspectives have different benefits and drawbacks, and to me, it really depends on what i am going for. factors like "is this a more plot- or character-driven narrative?" "what is the best way to approach writing [genre]?" and "how do i want the audience to perceive the world/characters?" can all play a major part in deciding to use a different perspective/tense. it can even affect the flow and clarity of the way i decide to reveal information. another note: it may just be me, but i find it much easier to write out an action sequences that readers will actually want to read when it's in first-person. i can do it in other perspectives, but first-person action scenes flow so much easier in the first draft than (think of the percy jackson books, for example). (note: sorry for bad grammar/if this doesn't make sense in some places; i'm beating back my perfectionist tendencies with a broken bat and failing)

I thought about hero loses powers but at the beginning of a book/series and for me that could kinda eat

I absolutely adore vicious I'm so happy you covered it !!

we need a spin off where tiernan goes to therapy and recognizes this was wrong because what.

Lexi from today onwards imma buy your favs cuz its finally proved that you and i have same taste... Really CARAVAL!I Hate it with a Passion!!! I cannot understand what people find so interesting in them! Like there's so much more and much better fantasy books than these. The plot in caraval was so bland. I can literally guess with my eyes closed.

7:00 cut the crap (/ light-hearted). A book is a bunch of pages with text on it that are usually connected with a thread or some glue. It is not difficult

Jesus LoveCraft Christ, Why is my algo suggesting this to me? To the TVA, please fix my time line. Please.

I realize this is old so maybe you already have learned this but Im watching your vids in no particular order and I think about it every time you mention it. The study that determined brains are fully developed at whatever age only came to that conclusion because that's when they stopped the study. Your brain is always developing. Your frontal lobe will never be "complete"

You neeeeeed to read the last time i lied by riley segar😳 final girls is his worst book dont judge him on that one

I just love you. You’re funny, kind and I love listening to all your thoughts! In my head we are besties!

Thanks for reminding me to go to the library 💕

I like "I hate everyone but you" way more than "grumpy/sunshine"

I think you just described exactly why The Spell Shop didn't work for me -- it felt like a Set Up Spell Shop Management Sim.. !

The best I've seen the miscommunication trope is in the movie North & South. They keep walking into scenes and seeing their future love interest in the worst possible light. Then later context is revealed that shows they aren't horrible people. But it's not a cliche "well why didn't they just ask for an explanation at the time?" Because the situations really don't allow a simple "It's not what it looks like. This is the truth. Idk if I'm explaining this well but it's incredible storytelling.

Set it Up is a perfect-to-me off ice romance

the thug dialogue is sending me into orbit