ASMR Booky Book Haul (Soft Spoken)

Books bookbooks boo here are all the books I've bought so far this year! Lmk what you're reading or about to pick up -- it's always fun to see everyone's diverse tastes and interests! ♥♥ M
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[@mrodriguez377]

Before I watch, I wanted to ask: have you done a lip product tour video? Because the colors I’ve seen on you look gorgeous but I wouldn’t know how to guess what brands or shades they are lol

[@elliott787]

She did but it may not be up to date, it’s 2 years old, it’s called asmr lipstick collection something or other

[@MauveASMR]

Oh thank you!! Elliott's right, there's one here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epzaaml7qrVprNk It's from two years ago but honestly all the colors/brands are still the same, I replace them as I run out. Black Honey by Clinique might be the only one that's not included. I don't think much about makeup so when I find something I like I just stick with it 🤷🏻‍♀️💜

[@superheartattack7498]

I recommend the book “S.” It’s meant to appear like an old library book called the “Ship of Theseus.” But, within the margins characters are communicating with each other with penned comments. It’s also one big puzzle with tools in there to solve the hidden meanings within. Highly recommend, it’s super fun. Also, I have “Man and His Symbols too” haha. Great choice.

[@MauveASMR]

Oo I LOVE a puzzle -- thanks for the rec! Sounds like a super fun read

[@turbodestiny]

Respect the anonymity but know in my heart your Goodreads account is ❤️‍🔥

[@wordswordswords8203]

Wow, so happy to see a book video. Will have to check some of those out. I just finished Second Place by Rachel Cusk. Wow, very talented writer. I liked the first half of the book a lot. She really built the suspense of the artist coming and did such a nice job with introducing all the interesting characters, setting the beautiful scene, and the story just pulled me right along. Towards the middle, she got a little more in her head and a little overly philosophical for me, but then it picked up again and the ending was quite a surprise. She really got that quality of life not doing what you expect it to do and unfolding itself to you at its own pace and in its own time. My dad was actually a painter and a fairly successful one. The artist L reminded me a lot of him. My dad was very talented in his art but quite lacking in relationship skills and was often mean. He also had a very troubled childhood. Interesting to see the similarities there. Thank you for recommending this book. I'm really glad I read it and am looking forward to reading more of your recs! Love your earrings!

[@MauveASMR]

So glad you liked it! Also yes yes yes: "She really got that quality of life not doing what you expect it to do and unfolding itself to you at its own pace and in its own time." I love the way you phrased this, and I see this in the book too! A subject I find endlessly fascinating

[@wordswordswords8203]

@@MauveASMR Yes, life has a way of disrupting out plans. Fun chatting about books. 💗

[@confetticottage]

LOVE this as always! I'm so curious to hear your thoughts on All Above Love :) Hope you enjoy!

[@nita0507]

A book i picked up recently is ‘lie with me’ by Philippe Besson. Its translated from French (i believe) and is gay literature that’s supposed to be about ‘passionate youth and the regrets of age’. Pretty sure it about Philippe’s first love so I’m incredibly excited to read it! Thanks again for a lovely video xx 🤍

[@MauveASMR]

Ooo that sounds very good

[@Caseman984]

Rest in Power bell hooks, that book is incredible. Based my wedding vows partially on it.

[@MauveASMR]

I may have to do the same!

[@luckygitane]

thank you for helping keep me in the loop 🙌🙌

[@jensenwainwright2969]

Just picked up "The Trouble with Being Born" by EM Cioran (lol), a huge old field guide to the birds of eastern African, and "She Came to Stay" by Simone de Beauvoir. Also about to finish Ottessa Moshfegh's newest book "Lapvona" and still slogging through "Infinite Jest" ...

[@MauveASMR]

What are your thoughts on Lapvona? I haven't picked it up yet but keep thinking I just might

[@jensenwainwright2969]

@@MauveASMR I like it! The first 100 pages were a little slow for me but after that I was totally into it. I had the same experience when I read Eileen by Moshfegh, so maybe it just takes me a while to acclimate to how visceral her writing can be

[@annie1779]

You and Soft ASMR always post on the same day at the exact same time and it always trips me out 😅

[@MauveASMR]

I've noticed! I love her videos, and I think our audience watches around the same time 😊

[@glitternpain]

💫 t i m e s t a m p s 💫 1:00 - Bliss Montage Stories by Ling Ma 3:13 - all about love by bell hooks 6:37 - Let's Talk About Love. A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson 9:57 - Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett 12:33 - My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley 14:49 - The Unreality Of Memory by Elisa Gabbert 17:31 - Man And His Symbols by Carl Jung 18:27 - Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

[@unicornpower]

Let's Talk About Love! One of the highlights of that whole series, although I admit I haven't kept up with it recently. It's such a thoughtful case study. The author would like to put the book in perspective though, recently tweeting (after her omission in Rolling Stone's greatest singers list) "It's not 1999 or even 2009 any more, and I think there is very very little remaining *active hostility to Céline among culturati, including 90% of professional critics. I'm not denying that her general aesthetic zone still can tend to be neglected, forgotten, or patronized. But let's not turn back the clock - in the past five or six years she's much more been a media *darling, not an object of scorn."

[@MauveASMR]

Thanks for the update! I'm ready to talk about Celine no matter what year it is 😎

[@catherines6800]

I’m finally reading Donna Tartt’s the secret history, would love to know your thoughts on it!

[@MauveASMR]

I've never read it but I know many people love it! I think her style isn't really for me but one day plan to sit down and really give something a try. Lmk if you love it!

[@mila-lj7xx]

Your earrings are so pretty! Happy to see a new video from you 💘

[@MauveASMR]

Thank you! Got them from Mejuri on Black Friday if you're interested!

[@Bosque1993]

Me encantan tus videos de libros! Siempre tomo nota para añadir nuevos a mi lista🌺 Felicidades por tu engagement!😊🥰

[@MauveASMR]

Muchas gracias!! 💜🤗

[@MsJankz]

I loooove your book videos 🥹💖

[@glitternpain]

"Not my ex boyfriend, the story collection" ahahahah 😆

[@taylights]

I hope when I die, along with an explanation of the universe, The Higher Power will reveal to me Mauve’s face

[@MauveASMR]

Okay I actually did laugh

[@justrichelle]

Great little stash here! I really enjoyed Let's Talk About Love, although I found the critic's takes/casual remarks on certain things like race felt outdated. Could use some light edits for our time. But I think about it a lot! I would love to do a book/film club pairing it with the Kenny G doc you've also recommended on this channel. Oh, and speaking of which, I wanted to thank you for recommending Mrs. March back in the fall. My partner and I had a blast reading it and added it to our book club lineup (where the vibe is "at least slightly weird and woman-authored").

[@MauveASMR]

Oh that's a great note to add about Let's Talk About Love -- I haven't read it since 2012 or so but I'll have to reread it soon! ALSO you're a genius pairing that with the Kenny G doc 🙌

[@MauveASMR]

Forgot to say your book club sounds absolutely amazing. I love its parameters (basically the same as mine, but I'm reading by myself 😅). Very glad Mrs. March fit the bill and that you liked it! 💜

[@aridassa7458]

Books! Checkout 19 sounds good. I found an old copy of War & Peace in my collection. I might try it now 😄

[@MauveASMR]

Do it do it do ittt

[@joanaduarte3634]

OHHH i was literally craving a new book video from you earlier today i won!! thank you 😁

[@MauveASMR]

🥳📚

[@flipflapmcpap-sb1ks]

What books would you recommend to a person who is very open minded to any genre, but hasn’t read a book outside of school since they were like 10?

[@MauveASMR]

Good question!! I think I'll do a video on this soonish, lemme think about it :)

[@jennasherriton7389]

I've discovered some of my fav books and authors through you! thanks as always for sharing. I recommend Mieko Kawakami's books if you haven't read her already. Would love to hear what you think of them!

[@MauveASMR]

Aw I'm so happy to hear that! Which one of Mieko Kawakami's books do you think I should start with? I was thinking Breasts & Eggs

[@jennasherriton7389]

​@@MauveASMR I started with B&E then all the lovers in the night and then heaven but i think you can start with any of them tbh

[@tsirooooo]

Wow, The Unreality of Memory sounds very interesting! And I'd never heard of the 33 1/3 series, but I'm super curious now. And wow I keep hearing about Homesick for Another World. Gonna have to get to that one sooooon. I just finished a comic that I got for the holidays (truly I do not know and maybe don't want to know why this made them think of me), "Buddy Does Jersey", which is extremely a Fantagraphics comic from the 90s (kind of derogatory). A really interesting historical artifact though, even if it was a bit of a yikes at times (90s alt-comics!!). I'm stillllll slowly making my way through The Savage Detectives. And about to pick up (and see if I can handle) Cartas de Amor by Pablo Neruda, which a dear friend of mine got me while abroad.

[@MauveASMR]

Those sound great! I know next to nothing about comics but I do love a good graphic novel from time to time. Just read Acting Class by Nick Drnaso and really enjoyed it

[@tsirooooo]

@@MauveASMR I've never been a *huge* graphic novel & comics person, but I've been reading them a long time. In college I took a lit class on Graphic Novels that I *loved* that really affected the way I read and think about them. The first book in the course was McCloud's Understanding Comics which lowkey blew my mind and I still think about regularly to this day. Over the holidays I gave it to my mom to read and she thought it was so interesting that she immediately gave it to someone else to read. (I *super* recommend it if you're interested in the way media works!)

[@thebookishgirlie5279]

Do you track your books in any way or keep a book journal?

[@MauveASMR]

I track them on my Evernote :)

[@debsllewelyn230]

'Profusely illustrated.'

[@ZackyASMR]

Happy Monday ❤❤

[@MauveASMR]

Happy Monday to you too! 💜

[@MeikelLohse]

😊

[@sapien01777]

Just started Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier

[@unfairweather]

funny story, i remember when you did your assumptions vídeo like 2 yrs ago my assumption was that you’ve read severance by ling ma, i don’t think that you had read it at the time but i guess you have now haha! also im always spamming u with book recs but if you liked severance i feel like you’d also like long live the post horn! from verso books which is a leftist publisher that also has some excellent fiction, it also has elements of young woman identity crisis and commentary on nature of work under capitalism

[@MauveASMR]

Omg PLEASE spam me with book recs. Read up on Long Live and officially added it to my to-buy list -- thanks!! As for Severance, yeah I finally got to it! Bought it second hand, read it last year around January I think, mentioned it on Patreon but probably not here. I didn't love it but I did like it, enough to buy something new from Ling Ma and feel pretty excited about it 🤞

[@ouli4586]

Checkout 19 rules! As good as Pond

[@MauveASMR]

Just read some more last night! I love that any time I try to explain a CLB book to my partner it's like... and then she draws her teacher's face, and then she scribbles it out, and then she looks out the window and thinks, but it's really good, really good

[@ouli4586]

The connections she makes are so unexpected!

[@amandadevore4364]

I’m just getting to watch this, so it may be too late to help, but I’ll try anyway. I understand why you might not like the title of The Unreality of Memory, but as someone whose research focus is in human memory, I love that the author seems to be bringing attention to the fallibility of it. Though, I haven’t read the book, so maybe I’m giving too much credit. However, the description you gave sounds as though the focus is on the malleability of our memories, which makes the title frustratingly accurate. Memory does not necessarily equal reality.

[@MauveASMR]

It's a bit about fallibility but really more about, quite literally, the lack of reality of memories, the inability to put them in place and time or return to them-- so the title is accurate but conceptually/sonically totally fails to grab me. But it sounds like it grabs you a bit, based on your research background at least, and that's great! Other people other tastes :)

[@amandadevore4364]

@@MauveASMR Ah, I see. That's fair :) we all have our own perspectives and interpretations. It makes life far more interesting than if we didn't. Regardless, I've added quite a few books to my list thanks to you, and I'm always impressed with how you handle synopses without getting bogged down in details or spoiling the story. So, thanks for all the great content (and for making grading papers a more pleasant experience 😅).

[@MauveASMR]

@@amandadevore4364 Aw thank you! Glad to keep you company! 🤗

[@SalemPhiladelphia]

Greetings, madam, This is the first time I come across your channel. I’m not trying to sound rude, or anything of the sort, but why do you cover your face?

[@MauveASMR]

Privacy :)

[@SalemPhiladelphia]

@Mauve ASMR understandable. Have a great day!

[@frogeater8659]

So, Mauve, when will we see your beautiful face?

[@Bosque1993]

She has said a loooot of times that she doesn't feel comfy doing it, I think we should respect that 😊

[@vickyb9918]

She could do what summer ASMR did which once she reached a certain milestone of number of subscribers, she did a video showing her face but then went back to not showing it for future videos.

[@Bosque1993]

@@vickyb9918 I understand, but she has said before she wants to remain annonimus and keep the face for herself. So, I think it would be nice of us to respect her decision! We don't need to see her in order to enjoy the content 😊