Found you again 👍 after having phone trouble yet again. Remember your name but takes "Shelf-relections" forever to come back to me 😆😸 You are typically unafraid to find some fault with popular books like "Yellowface." 👍

I keep having phone problems and losing previous subscriptions, but always look for and find you again. I remember your name but can never remember "Shelf-reflections." This time it popped back in my head as I searched for your "Blonde" review😆😸 You handled "Sgt. Pepper" very readily 👍, but I can't wait to see what you'll do with "The White Album." 😸😆

Also im.curious how would you have made yellowface better it being my favorite book of 2023 I'm really curious on what other people didn't like about it

I always rated middle grade books on a curve because I feel like and this is just me as A 27 year old I feel like a Billy criticizing a book no where intended for my age range also do you spell the first letter of your name with the Letter S

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I also loved La fiesta del chivo, but I hadn't known all that much about Dominican history going in; good to hear feedback from someone who knows more! I wanted to get to Nuestra parte del noche this spooky season, but am not going to manage it. Next year, I hope! I loved The Sympathizer, for the story but also the language. Elevated snark, lol. I dnf'd Yellowface. To on-the-nose for me - snark that was not elevated at all...

Thank goodness for Goodreads, because it appears I read HUSH by Laura Lippman and rated it 4/5 stars. I listened to the audio and I said it was my first Lippman but it wouldn't be my last. She's probably worth your time.

The book/movie that doesn't obey the "book is always better" rule to me is Never Let Me Go. The book was just kind of meh to me, but the movie? I was emotionally DESTROYED. I was so ripped apart (no pun intended). Have you read/seen that one?

OH! I did the audio of Sanatorium and I still think it was too long. Don't waste your time with the print version. Make sure you read it while doing something else like cleaning, driving, gardening.

Hey there. I like your recs. They're different from the usual recs. I read the Sanatorium and to me it was about 100 pages too long. I posted a very short review of it at Goodreads. I read it 3+ years ago, but I was surprised to see that I didn't DNF it.

I didn't like the show, but I might give the book a chance

State of paradise is definitely going on the tbr. I need to read more nonfiction!

Not bad for someone whose concentration isn’t all together. I’d say you did well!

loved it ! loved 1 and 2 but never botherd to watch anything else from the series but this new one was incredibly fun to watch

such a cool idea

Excellent video this year we got so many great detective TV shows especially female lead ones

Wow, you are seriously commuting. I loved taking the train but I could always read.

I love these recommendations AAAA!!

I wish I could get you s ringlight

That sound didn't even bother Me I just enjoy hearing your opinions on books

I love coming of age story’s what is your favorite one

I haven't read this book in so long but I remember things being too easy for me character like if the president of Texas if her sons were gay and the public found out it would be insanely hateful towards them and it felt so unrealistic

Are you american ? Sucess ☀

I love your curls. Nice haircut. I am going to check out Real Americans because it sounds pretty trashy story-wise, and who doesn't love a good trashy book for summer?

Pushkin was writing a character in Onegin who ended up resembling the real poet Mikhail Lermontov, not to mention Pushkin himself, if that makes any sense 😁😸 Lermontov ended up dying in a duel the same as Pushkin!

Its videos like these that make me want to read more

Awesome video these heat waves were not meant for my body

Hot here in Chicago too. I’m on the waitlist for a number of things at my library, but I’m afraid that when it’s my turn I won’t be able to fit the book (whichever it is) in, because I’ve fallen behind in other reading. Man, absolutely everybody seems to be talking about _The God of the Woods._ I hope your turn comes up soon.

Well when it comes to Yoko Ogawa her "The Memory Police" features a winter that for some reason does not end and just keeps going year round 😸😆 so she may not be the best summer author. This one must be her much-awaited new book they said was coming out in August. Same as you I aim to reserve it at the library 👍 I couldn't stand Ali Smith's "Spring" (which seemed to have little to do with spring) and I don't think her "Summer" will heat things up for me 😆😸

Hello! I just discovered your channel. Looks like I have a lot of great videos to explore. If you do manage to read Berlin Alexanderplatz, I highly recommend the audiobook version narrated by Julian Elfer. It's excellent! The book is sometimes funny, yes, but also pretty pretty grim.

Personally I can no longer deal with the politics of these things. I read and review and that's it, I'll only address "race" as far as the book or film itself makes an issue of it. Unfortunately I agree more with your opponent - these things are about money and who has enough of it and who doesn't (would be in the latter category myself 😸😆). Race and other such issues are largely created by the rich and their media as a distraction and division. People will not unite en masse to demand proper wages and health care if they are divided by "race" before they even get started. Thus a society run by the rich will make sure that there are constant "racial issues" to fight over. Hey have meant to ask for a while what is that outro music that you have been using? It sounds Middle Eastern or Indian, or is it East European? Or is it something else altogether and I just made a fool of myself LOL 😆😸

I have read Disorientation and I did enjoy it. Have you ever read Yellowface by RF Kuang? If so, do you feel as though you could compare one to the other?

Loved this video! Thank you, so many recommendations for literary fiction. I enjoyed The Makioka sisters as well, hope to find and watch the adaption soon.

Maybe it would be easier on yourself if you didn't assign a month for each book. Just tell us what you want to get done in the year and then you will have some choice on which to pick up next. Just a suggestion. 🤔😊

Will you watch the reportedly very strange 1980s movie version of "Dune" by David Lynch?!

Great review - the reason for the black & white scenes is that the Harkonnen planet (Geidi Prime) has a black sun.

Hey Shanice. I’m a first-time watcher… 3mins in and enjoying it 🙂

I didn't know "Revolver" was that heavy with "drug inspiration!" So...........next is "Sgt. Pepper -" 😏😺 You already have the right idea that it must be done in summertime! I don't know how you will handle the psychedelia of that, "The White Album" and so on when you've already used Kesey and Wolfe in this one! 😸😀

I can recommend "Hadji Murad" by Leo Tolstoy and "Death and the Dervish" by Mese Selimovic.

Where do you get the motivation/time to read?

I just found your channel and I really love your vibe!!

I never read Self Help, but I did read the first half of The Gate At The Stairs, and I have to chuckle about your astute observation about Moore’s heavy pun use and word play. I had finally had enough when the main character, in a plane, reading about luggage contents shifting during flight, ponders about the ‘discontents’.

The difference between Hitler and Stalin is that Hitler cared who he killed whereas Stalin didnt care at all who he killed.

I also read If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English in May and I loved it! That third section was genius and bumped it to a favorite of the year. I read Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza right after and I felt so lucky to read two amazing books back to back.

I definitely need to check out Chlorine. In May I read my favorite book of the year so far: You Dream Of Empires by Alvaro Enrique. It's about the day Cortes arrived in Tenoxtitlan. It's a comedy of errors/fish out of water/political intrigue/psychedelic romp.

I want to read middle of March someday

I love foods I read it a while ago I would love to read it again but I'm not sure when I will be able to

Nobody can beat Thomas Chatterton when it comes to tortured poets going all the way with it, he remains the reigning "champion" in my view, not that Taylor Swift is likely to know of him 😺😀

Imagine if Taylor swift has a booktube that would be huge

I saw _Kiss_ when it first came out. As part of the generation it was speaking to, I found it moving and eye-opening. However now, with the passage of time, it may - as you say with the book - have become more commonplace. (I doubt I’d see it again.) William Hurt was so big, and he won an acting award for his performance. But a friend pointed out, correctly I think, that he won it for the role. “Raul Julia was just as good, if not better,” she said, “but he didn’t win.” “I gave it four stars instead of five just because my brain is too small…” Don’t say that! I want to read _Bloodlands_ too but am afraid it will be too information-laden. I tend to retain minimally. These were great reviews!