crochet with me | how i got back into reading as an adult (unraveled ep. 4)

[@amazingishgrace]

I NEED TO PICK A 1 MIN SOUNDBITE FOR IG/TIKTOK - what part did you think was most ~interesting~

[@stephth]

the summer i turned pretty when ur talking abt reading the series on pdf to the cast

[@Sarah-qt7wc]

I really like the part of recommendation for the audio book where you described how differently the author had spoken during her therapy sessions verse her recording of the book.

[@barijade]

I'd use the quote you wrote down from What my Bones Know! I think that quote is powerful as well and think it would really grab some of our attentions

[@ren952]

the review of 'three women' rly got me

[@maggzmakez]

omg the hiding under the cover to pretend you weren't reading as a kid is so real - my sister and I did the same thing! I relate so heavy with this video

[@amazingishgrace]

NERD CHILDREN 🫂🫂

[@phos5990]

girl, in the most gentle and respectful way, this is all very much giving gifted adhder

[@amazingishgrace]

oh we been known LOL

[@HulloItsBrit]

I literally just got Libby 3 days ago. They make holders for e-readers with remotes. So you can have the e-reader in a stand and turn the page with a button. Then I'm able to crochet and read at the same time.

[@amazingishgrace]

omg

[@amazingishgrace]

you overestimate my abilities i still don't think i could do it HAHA

[@HulloItsBrit]

@amazingishgrace haha that's totally understandable. I can only really do it with something that's very repetitive, like a scarf. Otherwise, I'm looking down too much.

[@juliettealexander8537]

I have been pondering the stand/remote combo for crocheting for a while. Good to know you are successful! I may just go ahead and do it!

[@barijade]

I grabbed my project and was ready to sit and listen! As an adult, I've been wanting to get back into reading for years but I, too, have an attention span issue where I need to be doing multiple things so I've been recommended audiobooks but i'm rather hesitant. I was able to read 6 chapters of a book I read in high school on a plane a few weeks ago and that felt really nice, but just like you mentioned, I wanna be crocheting while I do it and I Just can't do that lol

[@SpacyMidnight]

I have a recommendations that I never talk about. It shaped me as a teenager. And it let me into a different story of motherhood and how hard it’s to be a teen. I had a very hard time in my teens and I swear this book kept me on my toes. Fiona’s Story by Irene Ivison. It’s a true story.

[@TheSimplydar]

Libby is the best! I'm glad I'm not alone when I hear a narrator doing all the voices lol. If you're looking for recs my all-time favorite audiobook is a three-way tie between Daisy Jones and the Six (full cast it was incredible), Night Circus, and the whole The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy because Lisbeth Salander is an icon. The My Brilliant Friend series is also great!

[@amazingishgrace]

write that down write that down ✍️

[@eegk]

I just saw Gabrielle Zevin talk about Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow the other day! I hadn’t liked the book very much at first, but after hearing what she had to say about it, I think I appreciated it more, I’m glad I went.

[@victoriaveeart]

No because trying not to get caught reading late at night is SO REAL GROWING UP😂😂😂 and books were def and STILL is the reason for my addictive personality cause I can barely put it down when I find a good book!! But I mostly read manhuas now

[@gratiazion2968]

Read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow in January and loved it!!! very excited to see that you read it and loved it. i now kinda want to read the Paris Apartment, i've been really liking mysteries recently. Thank you for the videos and crocheting content, it keeps me motivated to crochet more regularly!

[@amazingishgrace]

READ IT FSSS lmk if u have more mystery recs

[@angelinabvby]

a true crochet girlie is also a reader girlie ♥️

[@lilywwww]

Really agree with your thoughts on Stay True! It's so interesting reading perspectives of older Asian American writers since I didn't know any Asian American people outside of my age bracket growing up lol Seconding someone else's recommendation for the Thursday Murder Club! They're so fun!! Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is also a cute lil mystery read Not light-hearted, but also throwing in a rec for A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki! So many thoughts with this one Now I feel like I should try reading Severance again bc I also couldn't get past the first chapter even though I own a copy 😅😅

[@nathansnook]

ahhh if you didn't enjoy Severance, i definitely recommend her short story collection Bliss Montage! such a lovely video. so happy to hear how you got back into reading and how your habits have changed :)

[@JulieCreatesArt]

I might just have to get into audiobooks as I love podcasts so much and have dyslexia so it’s hard for me to read. So thank you for this awesome podcast.

[@art3mis013]

I’m obsessed with this podcast and am currently binging everything that’s out

[@jureumi8025]

oh my godd was hiding under the covers reading a shared experience btwn all of us?? i agree with using libby for audiobooks, some of the smut is laugh out loud funny when read out loud !!

[@allanaguercia3650]

The Bodyguard is literally my go to when people ask for a lighthearted read. I’m so glad you read it!

[@Alieombaba]

Heck yea this totally makes me want to get back into listening to books. I had the libby app shortly but I think I was listening more to books that weren’t entertaining enough for me. Love how you mentioned how almost anyone could get into the mystery books ❤ thanks for sharing!

[@shibasandshelves]

I love a sad memoir, especially on audiobook. My number one favourite memoir is In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (who is one of my favourite authors of fiction) but I’ve actually only read it physically so I can’t vouch for the audiobook experience. Each chapter is told in a different literary style so I don’t know if it loses some of that in the audiobook, I remember there being a choose your own adventure style chapter, but it’s beautiful, also very dark as it’s the story of an abusive relationship the author had with her ex-girlfriend. I think that you might vibe with some of Akwaeke Emezi’s stuff and while it’s not my fave of theirs a lot of my friends love You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty. It’s a really good combo of introspective sad girl and kinda smutty romance. I read a lot, I’m having kind of slow year so I’ve only finished 59 books so far so my head just immediately started to fill with recommendations watching this video, sorry if they’re unwanted. 😅

[@pomegranatepeach446]

Was listening to this while working. Loved it!

[@kaynicole6564]

A book I read that I really liked was The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams, it’s very wholesome but I wouldn’t say it’s a light read. It is about a character learning about how they actually kind of love reading even though they never thought they would/their loved one loved it so it was their love one’s “thing” not theirs. There’s some things in it that make be a trigger for some people so of course look up trigger warnings before you read, but if this causes anyone to pick it up I hope you enjoy!

[@zjdj09]

if you still want another depressing memoir, read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. i just read it last week and DEAR GODDD that made me cry. i had heard about it briefly a long time ago but hadn't realized how popular it was. i really liked the writing and getting to hear all of the details of every story Jeannette told. i know you literally asked for non-depressing memoirs at some point in the video but i'm still going to recommend this book. it was the first memoir i've read but i loved itttt. oh also, about The Hunger Games, i just reread them for the first time in about 5ish years in november...i fell right back in love with them. i think they're just so beautifully written and so gut-wrenching 💔 i just went to barnes&noble today and bought Ballad of the Songbirds and Snakes and i'm so excited to read it (funnily enough, i'm reading it right after reading a silly little enemies-to-lovers romance book - it's called The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren and it's so silly, i adore it)

[@ashakeise7729]

Started yesterday and now I’ve finished all your videos. Love your vibe, style and voice. 😌

[@sometimessomee3535]

I love your new outro!!!

[@_frijol]

Here are some recommendations: For Mystery/Thriller Riley Sager is v popular, his most recent book, The Only One Left is pretty good. The Decagon House Murders is a Japanese mystery that's been translated in recent years. (This is next on my list of books to read!) Yellowface is also along the lines of a thriller, but it's mostly satire/commentary on publishing. Mona Awad is also an author that writes, not...mystery books but definitely adjacent. (Such as Rouge and Bunny). For historical romance you can't go wrong with Courtney Milan (victorian era, mostly) and Tessa Dare (regency, very light hearted.) I will say I haven't listened to their audiobooks, so cavet. For more general fiction Daisy Jones and the Six has a great audiobook (an interview with a fictional band from the 60s/70s). 📚

[@legumejpg]

my mom would get so pissed that I would sneak flashlights into bed to illicitly read past midnight as a 12 yo. yes plural, one was the decoy flashlight 😅 idk what the rules are in ny but most california librarys just want a state id to get a card and I literally apply for cards whenever I visit friends in other countys. I have 7 cards on libby, highly recommend especially since your library is the first ive heard of having a 5 book hold limit??? 👀 perhaps a family member would be willing to let you add their card on your libby 👀. as for audiobook recommendations, I agree the daisy jones audiobook is that girl. I also really enjoyed the dual narrators in How to Sell a Haunted House, which was terrifying! For something more lighthearted, the narrator for Percy Jackson and the Chalise of the Gods did a great job with capturing the vibes of different characters although idk if you've kept up with the series. this was a delightful podcast ep, I've been reading thru audiobooks recently so I could knit 😂

[@lindasakseide282]

I so agree, - I also found listening to books from "Storytel" while crocheting made me read an insanely amount of books. It is really great 😀

[@cy1429]

please keep us updated on the books you're reading and your thoughts! this episode was so interesting and i left with so many recs :D

[@amazingishgrace]

i'm ngl bestie...i'm losing pace...but i will try to keep you posted

[@MochiBMakes]

I have never hopped on a video so fast 💕💕

[@amazingishgrace]

🫂🫂

[@hannan5581]

you should get a goodreads!! it lets you keep track of the books you've read, get recs and write reviews. book recs: the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid and eleanor oliphant is completely fine by gail honeyman

[@victoriaveeart]

OMG kinda scary I had the same experience at 8:25 but it lasted for 2 years and now I get social anxiety even though I’m a social butterfly😂😂

[@BTNSTR]

watching the ads all the way thru to support you in ur full time content creator era

[@BTNSTR]

also so funny I read I’m Glad My Mom Died and Crying in H Mart back to back too

[@amazingishgrace]

omg why do we do this to ourselves and THANK YOU SO SWEET 😭😭

[@HannahlovesStories]

I love your story about Percy Jackson! I had a very similar experience when I discovered it 😂

[@denisebriese6414]

I loved this so much. Thank you for all the recommendations. I did read the hunger games that’s all I’ve read that you read and I read them because my friend read them for her child and I thoroughly enjoyed them. I thought they were excellent but I’ve been writing down a lot of the books you said, I was afraid to read the one by Jenny mcCurdy I was kind of afraid I’ve seen her on all the Disney I was afraid it would change the way I feel about her😂 I cannot wait to see what your crocheting and what is coming up next!!! You are the best I simply love listening to you. You are so so smart.

[@amazingishgrace]

omg no i def get that i didnt watch nickelodeon as a kid so it wasn't as much of an issue - it kinda ruins the show but it made me love her more as a person!!

[@khumomokoko7893]

I stopped reading when I was young too because ✨chronic depression and anxiety ✨and I loved it so much and miss it a lot but I can’t for the life of me get into audio books. Feels less authentic to me 😭😭😭 but I will give them a second chance because I also can’t crochet and read 😅 wish me luck Love love love the podcast by the way ❤❤❤

[@rebeccakazdoy3198]

I hear you on audiobooks feeling less authentic. Try listening to any book read by Marin Ireland my top recs are The Push and Nothing to See Here. She just is so good at it and gives something extra special

[@amazingishgrace]

no i def get it audiobooks don't hit the same - maybe try some memoirs!! or the paris apartment bc it's more voice acting-esque

[@YvonneMolden]

the stuff you said about audio books is so true though! i'm halfway through the ballad of songbirds and snakes audio book and it's super weird whenever the narrator makes his voice higher for the female characters or when he speaks the song lyrics

[@teacheraprilrogers]

I am a book addicted. I love audio books because they allow me to read while I knit, crochet, sew, cragt, clean, you name. I have been an audio book addicted cor years.b still love a good book in my hands. I love having my books with he everywhere I go. I also have library cards cor three libraries. I have a recommendation. Deborah Harkness is the author. It is the All Souls Trillogy there is a 4th book is amazing and the 5th bok in the All Souls World comes out in July. This series is full of history. Dr. Harkness is a history professor and her ability to wrote fiction with true history thrown n is amazing.

[@Free.To.Go.]

I think you would really like the two books from Osamu Dazaï (prob writting is name wrong sry) ; The setting sun, a daughter's perspective about life in japan with her mother. And No Longer Human, really known for it's deep history. It's about a guy that never felt right in the social standarts. I can say no more for any spoilers... good book but hard to read. Both of them made me cry so much. Really my ❤ author.

[@hopelockwood4052]

I highly recommend the trauma cleaner! It’s about a murder scene cleaner !

[@Abbe1133]

I feel like I kinda fell off the reading train as it were too…cuz of crafting 😅 I used to read ALL the time it was actually insane, currently I’m re-reading true grit by that one guy, and my all time favorite audiobook is the howls moving castle series. I kid you not I have listened to the whole thing at least 20 times, I LOVE the narrator. I heard someone say she made the characters sound snooty and that made me so sad because I love how she narrates them lol. Anyway great video as always 🤍

[@candace3841]

I read the hunger games series and the divergent series regularly. I love dystopian end of world society books. I enjoyed your take on these books. Dont try to make it a collegiate review of writing styles. I just want to know what you took from it what you liked about it. I have been thinking about reading jeanettes book "I am glad my mother died" but I can't take on anyone else's trauma. I haven't had much but if its not fiction it will haunt me. I intend to read the end of world book you mentioned and the tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I also have libby in dayton oh. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@brianavaldez1967]

The multi-task comment was so real

[@juliettealexander8537]

Has anyone recommended Yellowface to you yet? I found it fascinating to follow a protagonist I didn't much care for. Also, if you like period smut, the big YA trend seems to be fantasy smut. A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Maas is really popular with adults now. A lot of these memoirs I have been meaning to get to, but the depressing aspect of them has me constantly picking up something more light and fluffy.

[@erilyda]

Murder in the Family by cara hunter is an incredible audiobook. I also loved The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman was also really good.

[@amazingishgrace]

WRITING THAT DOWN

[@SpacyMidnight]

The HG movie’s were brutal. I cried so much. I crochet so I see and listen. I can’t “read” and not do some crafts atst 😌🖤☕️

[@erilyda]

1. It’s weird to say I loved I’m Glad my Mom Died but I also agree that the audiobook was great and it was really well written. 2.the Paris apartment was great BUT I think her book The Guest List was better and I really recommend it since you liked the Paris apartment.

[@amazingishgrace]

omg literally gonna read that next

[@victoriaveeart]

Just to let you know the blue yeti mic is a condenser mic so your supposed to speak into it from the side and not the top cause the 3 mics inside don’t face the top part at all so It’ll make you less clear

[@SpacyMidnight]

A convo between you and Moist Critical. Would be fresh. Love your rants 😊💕 Edit: you dont need him but the cadence and voice is very interesting to me🤓 I’ll watch out for that video 👻hehehe

[@ArtleyDraws]

Roses in the Mouth of a Lion and Disorientation! First is a POC queer coming of age in NYC and the second is a Asian woman in academia dealing with fetishization, Asian fishing, and other layers of being an Asian woman (but it still remains funny and light hearted)

[@ArtleyDraws]

Also loved tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow and i don’t think i would have appreciated it as much if i didn’t start getting into gaming through my boyfriend and reALLY getting into it during the pandemic.

[@_vassilian]

Real question though, do you have a goodreads or do you plan to make one ?

[@LeoniMichael-oz6xj]

Such an interesting video. I love the hungergames series. Can I ask where is the pink top your wearing from? ❤

[@amazingishgrace]

tagged in the products!!

[@amazingishgrace]

I LIED IT WASNT NOW ITS TAGGED HAHA

[@ShalakaSitre]

What crochet pattern is this? Love it❤

[@onethiirdcrochet]

I have too many things to say 1. Who’s your f1 team (scuderia 4eva) 2. I just bought crying in hmart I’m excited about it 3. I’m a big fantasy hoe so if u ever want recs two of my favs are the greenbone saga and the poppy war series, both amazing written by Asian female authors

[@amazingishgrace]

i don't have team allegiances so much as driver allegiances but love carlos and leclerc and hamilton so scuderia 4eva

[@swftiee_2.0]

omg a crochet girl AND a reading girl???

[@amazingishgrace]

what doesn't she do!!

[@thenocturnalherb]

If you want alittle more spicy/fantacy easy read like Bridgerton try an author called Lindsey Sands❤

[@rory2393]

Your library is robbing youuuuuu, I get 10 loans and 20 holds on Libby at a time!

[@leoelimichael5600]

Where is your top from?

[@amazingishgrace]

linked in the products!!

[@leoelimichael5600]

Is it in the description I’m not able to find it!

[@amazingishgrace]

@@leoelimichael5600 tagged products from youtube! at the top of the description box

[@amazingishgrace]

IM SORRY THE TAG DIDNT WORK BEFORE HAHAHA NOW ITS TAGGED

[@rosistamp2308]

a couple of recs for you: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang and continuing the theme of dark memoirs Know My Name by Chanel Miller Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was A Girl by Jeannie Vanasco

[@nadiajkim]

First

[@nadiajkim]

Wait I do rave about things

[@amazingishgrace]

yeah but it's like perella oil or reality tv