Have you read "The Trio" by Johanna Hardman, I think you'll really like it

I love sad girl summer! Last week I decided it was finally time to pick up A little life! I still have 200 pages to go, which are probably gonna wreck me, wish me luck haha

omg!! you should try watching a taiwanese movie called “your name engraved herein”. It’s about friendship, first love, right person wrong time (with bittersweet ending) it’s set in 1980s taiwan 😄

Crying in H Mart is on my TBR list.

I've had My Brilliant Friend on my shelf for about 2 years now! I'm planning to take it with me on vacation next month. Can't wait to see if I will like it haha.

I would like to play devils advocate. The love hypothesis is awful but I have enjoyed all of Ali Hazelwood’s other books. So don’t write her off just yet 😊

Hey! I’m new to your channel. I’ve only watched a handful of videos and I appreciate your literary recommendations and takes. Is there an intro/get to know you vid I can watch to learn more about you?

Hi! I’m new to your channel. Thanks for the recommendation, I’m currently reading I who have never known men and All the lovers in the night is still on my TBR🤣 (which I’ll read it next bc thanks to your video) also my favorite book from Q2(and probably one of my favorite books in my life) is My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante.

Sounds like you had a great Q2 of reading! Loved the way you described I Who Have Never Known Men- have heard loads of love for this book, so may finally need to give it a go! Worried it may make me cry 😅

Hello Katerina, just found your channel. Really enjoyed your insights. Cheers

New to your channel but love how you talk about books. Glad you are having a good reading year!

I love the way you talk about books, I’ve noted down half of the ones you mentioned! My favourite book so far this year has been girl interrupted. I read it back in January and it was perfect as the book is set in the winter. To anyone who sees this I recommend the book just as much as the film!

check out the Less Than Zero movie with RDJ, I just watched it recently and it’s a great adaptation

I stumbled across your videos today and have already binged three videos already! We have very similar taste and you are so hilarious!!

Great books

Jacqueline Harpman is Belgian, not French!

Did you learn anything from the reads?

I recently read I who have never known men and I still think about it every day. It took me some time to get into it, but then i was obsessed. I also cried 4 times i think and I told everyone I know about it. I just want to talk about this book because it was so incredibly sad and calm at the same time and aaaaaaaaaaa. Glad you liked it as well😌

love your recs, i’ve only heard of like two of the books that you mentioned and i’m excited to check out the rest!

I'm really loving your channel!! I was wondering if you've ever checked out 'Billy-Ray Belcourt'. He's a Cree, Canadian, queer author and I recently read 'A minor chorus' and 'codependance'. Maybe you'd enjoy his work

Katerina, I really love your channel 🥺 it just feels so cozy and like a safe space and it’s always a pleasure to watch. Really appreciate all the effort that goes into your videos ❤ I’ve read all the lovers in the night after your recommendation and i absolutely loved it, I’m currently reading I Who Have Never Known Men can’t wait to see how it goes 😊

I’m so happy you mentioned Less than zero! I never see it mention anywhere but I loved it. I read it a long time ago and I’m due for a reread 😊

read All the Lovers In The Night a month ago and it was so good, instantly a new favorite. got into a huge reading slump after that cause nothing was filling the void.

I came across your videos yesterday and now binging all of them❤

I've missed a lot of those wrap ups, I was having the worst reading slump😔for the first time in my life I've read only two books a month and liked none of them lol. but at least I got lot to binge watch!! also the background is so beautiful!!!

I experienced the exact same thing with ACOTAR and ACOMAF. Didn’t really like the first one but couldn’t put down the second one. It really grabs you by the throat 😂

The court of mist and fury is the only good one in that series. Its downhill from there.

OMG i’m so happy you posted again i love your monthly wrap up videos and of course your taste in literature!!! and the rest of my comment is what i read in june and i read 10 books what I read in the month of june: - the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald, i liked this but only gave it 3.5 stars just because i had higher expectations coming into the book, but i know you love this book but to each their own - she gets the girl by rachel lippincott and alyson derrick, it was a cute coming of age with a sweet love story but it was fine i’ve read better books like this for sure and i gave it 3.5 stars - talking at night by claire daverley, i gave this one 4.25 stars it was very good and a beautiful love story i honestly think you would like it for sure, the writing is similar to sally rooney and it’s the authors debut and the love story reminds me a lot of emma and dex from one day and connell and marianne from normal people and rosie and alex from love rosie (recommend all of these books and the tv adaptations of one day and normal people and the film adaptation of love rosie for sure) but i do recommend this one i think you would like it - men explain things to me by rebecca solnit, i gave this one 3 stars i’ve read a couple feminist non-fiction books this year but this one was my least fav i wasn’t that big fan of the authors style of writing but their were a couple interesting essays in them like Grandmother Spider but their wasn’t a concise theme throughout all the essays so it was meh but i read this because it’s been on my list for awhile and olivia rodrigo was spotted reading this so i thought to give it a try - i’m glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy, i gave this one 4.75 stars i was so late to the party but it was well-written and a powerful memoir but i deducted it .25 stars just because her talking about her ED was so descriptive it gave me an icky feeling throughout my entire body but yes it was very good obv - open water by caleb azumah nelson, i gave this one 5 stars, it was a beautiful love story and so excellently written i understand the hype and the second person writing did bother me at first but then i grew to love it i just loved the message of the book and it’s little themes that it had about life and love but an excellent read for sure - blackout by various authors, i gave this one 4.25 stars it was recommended by a teacher for me and it was very cute book with nice black love stories with including hetero and queer love stories i preferred some authors writing styles over others and it was boring at some parts but it was very cute book indeed - this is going to hurt by adam kay, i gave this book a 4.25 stars it was very good and i finished up the tv adaptation of it (which was so good OMG excellent acting and writing) but i think you will also like this one because it is a autobiography of his time working in the NHS and how they’re underpaid and under valued by the UK government but it was witty and heartbreaking book and it’s written in the form of diary entries - small things like these by claire keegan, i gave this one 4 stars it was a nice short read it was well written i don’t have much things to say about it besides it was good - americanah by chimamanda ngozi adichie, if you haven’t read this book you should for sure i gave this one 4.5 stars it’s a beautiful love story spanning over years but it’s mostly a non-fiction book pretending to be a fiction because it mostly making cultural criticism about America’s treatment of black people and specifically immigrants but a very powerful read with excellent writing and i really loved the first third of the book for sure and for july so far i’ve been currently reading: a love song for ricki Wilde by tia williams, i’m really loving this one it’s so well-written and i’m enjoying much more than her other book seven days in june

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Have you ever read What My Mother And I Dont Talk About? It’s soooii good. I highly recommend it, specially because of what you said that you thought that Conversations On Love would be on a collection of essays format…. I like non fiction when it’s written as essay or essays, just chefs kiss 🤌🏼

Sunburn sounds like an incredible story.... onto my list it goes. The past few months I've only managed to read one or two books, which is Ok... I found an old copy of Violin by Ann Rice and am almost finished it. I'd forgotten just how much I loved the story in Violin. Still working on Shakespeare's Loves' Labor Lost... and July's pick for Shakespeare is The Merchant of Venice... better get a move on it

yaaaayy!! the queen posted~

i liked the love hypotesis haha but i didn't take it seriously, it's a silly story and it made me cringe A LOT. MYORAR was one of my favourites books of the last year, it has something special and i think that not everybody realizes that the main character is insufferable on purpose, because that's the point btw sorry for my english :)

I think Hot Milk by Deborah Levy is a perfect summer read! Its a relatively short book, set in Spain with a hazy summery atmosphere...

Richard doesn’t go on “vacation”, he travels. He discovered early on that travel is the cure to almost any problem. For example, when his girlfriend back home dumps him for some other guy, he borrows money and hopes on a plane to a different country. Once there, not only is the pain of the breakup gone, but he also quickly forgets about the girl.

Rating Bunny 2.5 stars is a crime

This series is much needed. And i hope you do more of this. I learned my lesson a year ago when I bought Breast and Eggs and has been having a hard time finishing it. I'm almost 80% complete but im not sure if I'm able to complete it this year, especially if i have other many TBRs

Your voice is soooo soothing

I’m not a fan of Sally Rooney’s writing, but I did love the tv adaptation of normal people and conversations with friends

I truly love the way you talk about this books.You have such a unique character

Great video now I'm curious to know your favourite book adaptations and what made them great

Yeah, I don’t get the hype around Sally Rooney’s books. I was extremely bored reading Normal People 😵‍💫

I agree with you about bunny and daisy jones... very average books. I hated before the coffee gets cold though, I gave it 0.25 stars, I found it sooo horribly written and misogynistic!!

I also liked the Normal People show better than the book. I think the story didn't do well in book format, but the show's actors really made it shine.

I hated Normal People 😂 didn’t get the hype at all. I hated the characters, hated the miscommunication, hated their toxic romance. I did like the show a bit better tho

Thank God i am not alone with disliking Rooney, i don't understand the hype

Before the coffee gets cold is one of the most boring, see through and repetitive books in recent memory. If minus 3 stars was an option...

I adored Never Let Me Go! This book sat on my bookshelf for the longest time and finally read it. So beautiful but sad 😢

I hated cleopatra and frankenstein so much lolllll

I HATED normal people.. and it was worse 'cause i actually really enjoyed conversations with friends.. but this book was unbearable