That shirt bro! ...love, love, love!!!

hey you! I just finished Razorblade Tears off your recommendation and it.. was.. amazing! Love, love, love. I’m talkin Boom kaboom kaboom! Ha! You are right about the movie too. It’s totally set up for that and it’s going to happen and I can't wait! *wishful thinking*

The teacher who stole the student book idea sounds like YellowFace (which I haven’t read yet)

The karaoke had me turnt ❤

So with you on 300-350 being my page limit for books! If it’s not a fantasy where there’s world building/magic system explanations, why does a fiction book need to be longer than 350 pages?!

The Girl with the Louding voice and Black Cake are two of my favorites❤️❤️❤️

Claudia was a young black girl with a learning disability, raised in church with strict parents . I was raised the same way. Was naive for a long time. So I understood why she was the way she was. All the before the before was a little annoying tho

The Fury gets terrible towards the end. I thought the beginning was okay. Be glad you DNF’d it.

New subscriber I love it here

I love this channel so much. Every recommendation I’ve gotten here has been a joy to read.

The books that made me cry was Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan and The Love Songs By W.E.B Du Bois. What happened to Lydia in the book had me emotional 🥹

Not the summer jam screen!! I hollered!! Love your videos!

The Girl With the Louding Voice is also catching my attention.

It is so incredible to find a fellow reader with such similar taste! The girl with the louding voice was such an amazing read that I finally got to this month. Hold my hand which is the background was another amazing read and I just bought a copy of Guncle. Thank you for sharing! I look forward to your reviews and videos.

Looking forward to more of your videos! I’ve added a few to my TBR.

I've heard nothing but good things about The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, too. I just got it not too long ago. Maybe a month ago, but haven't read it yet.

Come on Beautiful singing break 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 12 million pages has me cackling 😂!!! And yes, clock me tf out at 350.

Dezmond- I’m glad you had time off, but I missed you! Loved your commentary, singing, and humor per usual! Looking forward to “The..Louding Voice” sequel!!! Funny thing about book length- I got a book (The Bee Sting) through Libby for my Kindle, and I’ve been reading and reading. I had it on percentage that had been read along with the page number, and it seemed that no matter how many pages I read, the percentage never changed. Finally I decided to check the length, and it has 656 pages….656 PAGES!!! Luckily it’s an intriguing read with an interesting writing style, so I will keep going. It’s a good thing I didn’t know the length when I started it, or I might not have checked it out. 😊

Whew long books make me antsy. Wrap this book up please

Is “The Sequel” an adaption of the movie “The Words” with Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana? The way you explained that book, was bringing The Words vibe 😮. If you loved that book and haven’t seen the movie, You will Love the movie as well!!! 😍📚🎬📖🫡

you are the best,fun and make videos exciting for me...thank you for the reviews and recs!!!!😊

desmond,loving your t shirt!!!!!! 😊

I read The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store so you don't have to. It doesn't get any better....sigh

I've read only 7 so far 😂 can't wait to add 10 more of your recs to the tbr 😌

love your videos dezmond! thank you for gracing us with your presence and opinions and singing

Desmond I feel you when it comes to long books. Lord have mercy 😊😊

That's the perfect memo for reading: Quality over Quantity every time Sometimes I find if I don't force reading, I end up finding good reads

Love your channel! These 5-star videos were great - I now have a totally unmanageable TBR, that's OK! Your recommendations are awesome! Thanks

I have yet to read a Fredrik Backman book. Thanks for sharing Buki Papillon, Gillian McAllister.

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You should check out Soulmates . Its a series and is similar to the one, but it depicts everything you mentioned. a soulmate being dead, ppl being married prior, even a soulmate being a serial killer

“Stay with Me” took me on such an emotional roller coaster. It was good though but something about it was unrealistic.

Do you have any dark romance book recommendations?

"The Measure" was mind opening! Def made me think!!

I’m still kind of iffy about the Silent Patient. I have seen mixed reviews. I am curious but I don’t want to go into a reading slump again from reading a bad book

I gave the Silent Patient 5 stars as well! Fantastic book!

I love your videos! I enjoy your personality coming through in each review! Keep doing you! 🙏 😊

Great video! I see you have "Wellness" on your shelf! Do you like Nathan Hill? Have you read his previous book, "The Nix"? It's my all time favorite.

I think I need an intervention. I just HAVE to click and watch your videos. I promise myself that I WILL NOT add a new book to my already insanely long TBR list no matter what you say, but then, I just do. I just add and add….. Thankfully I had already read The Girl With the Louding Voice (loved it), so it didn’t need to be added. 💜

I love that your bookshelf is color coordinated

I hear you! I recently saw someone give a bad review of a book that I absolutely loved and I just felt so unnecessarily hurt by it (haha) Like, HOW DARE THEY not LOVE these characters as much as I do. But of course I would never argue with them about in comments or otherwise. That’s silly business and who’s got time for that? Not me. I’ve got more books to read, okay? Thanks for the book recs! These are on my TBR!

I haven’t heard of Perfect Peace until your review today and I can’t wait to read it! Great 5 star books.

The Silent Patient is difficult.Theo story is two timelines. 7:23

Listen to transcendent Kingdom. I read first and was not sure about it. It definitely needed a reread.

I agree with your review of Transcendent Kingdom. It isn’t an exciting plot, but I keep thinking about it. It sticks with you hard!

Im just finding you and we are book besties in my head now. ❤

Same!!! I listened to the audio for Silent Patient.

This is also my sign to read The Silent Patient…

Omg! 😂 I love love love this video!

LOVED the silent patient! There is another book coming out soon that's a sequel to The Girl With the Loading voice!