All of the Books that I Have Read So Far This Year!

[@Dinadoesyoga]

"Society invalidates the things that really interest young women." You nailed it! Oh, if you loved Never Let Me Go, then I 💯 recommend Remains of the Day. Different story, same execution style, all the feelings. ❤ it was my first by him, so I might be a tad biased, though.

[@mckenziekate]

Yes I have that on my shelves! Hopefully I’ll get to it before the end of the year ⭐️

[@HH-zb5ul]

Great 😊❤

[@ashley-fo5bg]

I’m so happy to hear that you loved My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I feel like that book is such a hit or miss with people, but I LOVED it. Also, my favorite read this year was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, the imagery in this book is insane! P.S: I’m happy to see you’ve been posting videos more often! I really appreciate you and the insights on the books that you read ❤

[@mckenziekate]

Thank you so much for your incredibly kind comment 💜 I TOO am glad I enjoyed my year of R&R haha and I HAVE to read more Murakami!! I just bought two in January! Maybe after those I’ll pick up the wind up bird chronicle, thank you for the recommendation! Hope you have a beautiful day/evening ☀️⭐️

[@helentriestodothings628]

I love Kurt Vonnegut too!

[@mckenziekate]

He’s awesome!

[@Shellyish]

“Politics, politics, romance, romance” 😂😂 Thank you for this wrap-up.

[@mckenziekate]

HAHA😂 no problem Shelly ⭐️💜

[@jahnavi_reads]

I want to read Kurt Vonnegut and Kazuo Ishiguro so bad and I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna Love their books.Thanks for posting a good video🦋

[@mckenziekate]

Thank you for this comment!! Yes you absolutely should read them!! Please let me know if you do and what you pick up ⭐️

[@jahnavi_reads]

@@mckenziekate oh yes 🙌🏽 I'll let you know 😊

[@BaileeWalsh]

oooof you were speaking the truth with "unfortunately, the world is so good at taking whatever young women like and making it a joke and invalidating it" 👏🏼👏🏼 the way I HATED girly things and hated on girls who were girly when I was growing up. thank god for personal growth and development! I really liked MYOR&R but I think I prefer Eileen. Lapvona is on deck to be my next read once I catch up and finish other books. honestly I'm so behind on reading but I'm in the middle of a couple books that are potential favs for this year: Matrix by Lauren Groff and Chocolat by Joanne Harris. also I just have to mention that I always love your energy when I watch your videos! not that you have to maintain it in every video, but I just realized it's something I notice and like every time :)

[@mckenziekate]

Haha thanks girlie for the kind comment 💜 and of course I have gone through my moments of hating on traditionally “feminine” things when I was younger, it is crazy what the world subliminally teaches us, but haha yes, personal growth for the win! Someone else mentioned Eileen and Lapvona to me so I absolutely have to read both now. Hope you’re doing well⭐️

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

I haven’t read a lot, I’m a very slow reader but I also need to be more ambitious about spending time reading, but so far I’ve read Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl The Trial by Franz Kafka La Repuesta and the poems of Sor Juana Inez de La Cruz I’m reading To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and then afterwards I’m going to read Dangerous Liaisons. I’m also reading Sylvia Plaths, Marianne Moore’s and John Donne’s poems. I will say, to me I tried to read Crime and Punishment at a time when I had a lack of the necessary philosophical knowledge to read it but also the Christian themes are strong and they come in HEAVY. I’m agnostic and it was a lot, like a lot a lot.

[@mckenziekate]

It sounds to me like you DO read a lot haha those all sound like heavier, dense reads too, which I think would take anyone longer to read than say a romance or thriller or fantasy (etc.) Keep on keeping on, all those books sound great! I would like to read dangerous liaisons as well ⭐️ and I LOVE Virginia Woolf ☀️ What has been your favorite read so far this year?

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

@@mckenziekate definitely The Trial and To The Lighthouse, it’s really the dinner chapter in the latter when it all started coming together for me. I also just revisit Daddy a lot by Sylvia Plath, it’s one of those poems which sticks with you through the years for me at least. I try to read a Woolf at least once a year but I couldn’t read anything by her in the summer because I was too ambitious about other things I want to read (a lot of Latin American and Southern Literature)

[@mckenziekate]

@@cassiopeiathew7406 the lighthouse is a stunning read for sure, I haven’t yet read the trial, only the metamorphosis by Kafka but that was great so Im sure I’d love the trial as well. The bridge period in to the lighthouse was my particular favorite part haha but yes I do agree that Virginia Woolf can feel very ambitious, especially the waves, I’m nervous to read the waves haha

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

@@mckenziekate this is my third book by her and I feel like it doesn’t feel difficult to read her but it feels difficult to try to understand her work because she writes in a way that you can tell there’s a lot to get but she makes it very impenetrable as opposed to completely writing over your head. I’m very captivated by difficult things though, it’s very satisfying forming an understanding about something when it makes itself difficult to lol. Orlando is still my favorite by her and i think it’s going to be very difficult for it to be dethroned, but I eventually want to read everything she wrote because she’s one of my favorite writers. I want to read A Room of One’s Own by her next.

[@mckenziekate]

@@cassiopeiathew7406 I totally understand that feeling of satisfaction you can get from feeling like you’ve “unlocked” or understood something designed to be challenging haha it is very very satisfying, I can empathize with the addiction lol I still need to read Orlando! Haha hopefully this year And I hope you love a room of ones own! I don’t think it would beat her novels but please let me know if it does for you! Haha

[@mattkean1128]

After it sunk in, I enjoyed My Year of R&R. She has a style that's really about sticking her tongue out at the world, and how ridiculous it all really is. I enjoyed her Eileen and Lapvona too. They all share an absurd quality. Congrats on Crime and Punishment. I'm not sure I completely agree with D's moral conclusions, but I always love seeing his inner processes. He can play devil's advocate well. I read Demons last year, and how it handles balancing views is really interesting.

[@mckenziekate]

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! I am absolutely so interested in reading more of Dostoyevsky’s work, I have demons on my shelves and would love to get to it (probably after the brothers k) I’m so glad you read and enjoyed my year of rest and relaxation ⭐️ would you recommend Eileen or lapvona more?

[@mattkean1128]

@@mckenziekate Lapvona is much more graphic. It reads like a farce of a fable, a dark fairytale. Very different setting than her previous work. Eileen has the trappings of a crime thriller, and you're in the head of a character similar to MYORAR. It's the more relatable of the two. There's a cathartic optimism in an odd way.

[@mckenziekate]

@@mattkean1128 this is all so good to know, thank you thank you. They honestly both sound so interesting

[@kidmarine7329]

You have very good taste in books.

[@mckenziekate]

Thank you!

[@jessicafoster8738]

It's funny how everyone says that Moshfegh book is about depression or really particularly women specifically, I remember reading that she said she was worried everyone would find it too obviously, in your face, about 9/11 as she was thinking of it -- or rather the lead up to it of course.

[@mckenziekate]

I did read a lot of reviews after I finished the book that mentioned that and I found it funny that that is not what I picked up on at all haha Maybe upon a second reading I would..??

[@abbyartisanat]

Do you have a Goodreads? Love your content 🥰

[@mckenziekate]

www.goodreads.com/user/show/51542076-mckenzie Hello! Yes this is my goodreads 💜 Thank you so much for the kind comment! I hope you have a beautiful day 🤩

[@ChanelChapters]

Abby Jimenez always kills it

[@mckenziekate]

Period

[@ChanelChapters]

Just found your channel and subbed

[@mckenziekate]

Wow! Thank you so much! ⭐️ I hope you have a beautiful day!

[@sarochaspicy]

whats ur goodreads? ❤