December & January reading wrap up 🍓🫧🧸 I think I found my new FAVORITE author!

[@Divya_Singh.23]

The thing about u I like the most is u be yourself and doesn't fake yourself 😌🩷

[@khalilahd.]

🥹🫶🏽

[@lauraa07777]

This is definitely my comfort channel! Ily 🫶🩷🎧

[@Hiyaeuju]

Exactly!!

[@marigoldkim]

same ngl😭

[@TheDigitalReader]

it' pretty amazing how a book over 100 years old can spark a feeling like a movie we saw this weekend. Books are very cool :)

[@khalilahd.]

Right?!

[@Nicki13Lover]

The Yellow Wallpaper really showcases postpartum and how women's health and wellness because those in power didn't experience those experiences...I read it really young and it left such an impression, I'm glad you loved it!

[@valerieramirez6446]

Yes, I also read it years ago. Completely loved it

[@Arii_h]

I haven't read anything by Sayaka Murata but after watching this I'm so intrigued to read all her books, books with protagonists that break societal norms are my favorite

[@bunishpome7266]

your channel is literally my comfort channel

[@AryaSharma-y6p]

You explain so well! I'm imagining the story as you speak

[@lupitaochoa9529]

"My imaginary pearls" I LOVE IT!!!

[@suppleleo]

I love that you read books that interest you and not just what is popular. ❤ it helps give more variety of recommendations. Also I read the yellow wallpaper when I was 18 or so and not to be dramatic but it probably changed me for life. 🤯

[@hadiyaali9037]

I know I might sound weird but the way you explain everything I feel like I'm listening to my best friend talk, she talks the exact same way and literally she made me read 90% of the books I've read 😂 and I love listening to you ❤ it makes me feel like I'm listening to my best friend and I love it ❤️

[@cielrombouts]

Girl you talking about The Yellow Wallpaper had me on the edge of my seat!!

[@dianaisme]

I really enjoyed the start of Convenience Store Woman. I'm not taking the "usual" route people my age am, I have always been different. So I really resonated with that feeling of having to try and fit in, but also I've never been able to. I loved that Keiko was herself and loved what she did. I want to get to that point, because atleast then I can be happy truly, even if people think I am weird

[@Faye_L]

The "hysterical woman" thing is definitely still alive and well - when I was a kid, my doctor labelled me a hypochondriac and never listened to anything I said, and yeeeeears later I found out I had an autoimmune disease all along. Now I'm stuck being chronically ill for life when it could've been nipped in the bud, and a lot of my family and friends still kneejerk react to my health problems as being in my head. 🤷‍♀️ I mean, maybe that happens to boys/men too........ I loved Yellowface! (And oh dear, I think you've made me want to read Earthlings.)

[@krux3759]

The same thing happened to me omg

[@ravent3016]

Right, like it was just this past September that they came up with a blood test for chronic fatigue to show it isn't a mental problem!

[@lucyinchrist]

I can’t describe how much I love to watch your videos. It’s really motivated me to become a book reader like you! ❤️

[@ella-hope-222]

you’re GLOWING

[@khalilahd.]

🫣🩷🩷🩷🩷

[@michalinapietrzak4175]

I have just discovered your channel, and I have been binge-watching your videos for the past few days. Your energy and charisma are unmatched, and your videos help me expand my TBR (within the frames of my country's publishing market). Whenever I am unmotivated, your videos are enough for me to genuinely wish to reach for a book! I hope your channel grows!

[@chocolateoreo6489]

You are such a lovely human being❤ I’m sending you love!

[@ericad3397]

I love your enthusiasm when talking about book! 😊 I can’t wait to read yellow wall paper ☕️🕯️📚

[@unclejaifilm]

Found this channel looking for a kindle review and now im hooked. Feels good to have a place to go for books and i love the energy you got 💯

[@JesseRodder]

This is random but I literally bought Eleanor oliphant is completely fine because of you. It’s outside of my usual genre but I’m convinced lol

[@JMichelle014]

I look forward to Sundays knowing that you'll be coming thru with content!! Love everything about you!!

[@crystalb6289]

I started reading again after a long pause ( work,kids,busy) ... You have given me some really good books to start off with. :)

[@AmandaBrown-ft5mr]

I have to finish Yellowface. I had to put it down. I was so mad! Excellent book choices! Adding a few to my TBR!

[@mwahnaomi]

Your videos are what I look forward to at the end of every week

[@lovedbyall]

I wish you were around when I was trying to understand The Yellow Wallpaper in high school because I was LOST lol but now I really appreciate the story! Also...that 🧢 slowly falling as you spoke about Yellowface had me rollliinnggg

[@juliaziemann5140]

i’m completely in love with all the recommendations 🤍

[@TeSZa945]

Love this video! I've wrapped up my reading really good this month and my goal is just to read all the books on my TBR and to read at least 100 this year ✊

[@khalilahd.]

You can do it!

[@melissaaugust7016]

If you liked the Yellow Wallpaper you should read A ROSE FOR EMILY by Faulkner so good

[@BookinItWithAhtiya]

Yes, finally! Yellowface ain't for "us" - that's the beauty in it. That's one of the reasons I loved it.

[@erikamaeracho636]

I really love how you do your reviews. Like, how you brought us to the depth of the stories and the way you explain your reading experience, makes me wanna read all of them too. 🥲

[@heyitsme-tx9fe]

I love your videos ❤️❤️. You made me start reading .Can you make more challenges.wating for your next video.

[@lifeoflesavage]

Ahhh! Sis is spittinnn lmao I love that you love Yellowface! 💛 I also just read it and feel the same exact way! I too was very heated lol

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

I loved earthlings but yeah it is WILD and gets wilder and wilder when you think it is done with escalating?! It's never done. I need to read convenience store woman now. The yellow wallpaper is one of my favourite short stories of all time.

[@latashamoore5007]

I look forward to these videos every Sunday... I swear sometimes it doesn't come fast enough. I love the content 😊

[@khalilahd.]

Yay! Thank you! 🫶🏽

[@latashamoore5007]

@@khalilahd. ohhh, no. THANK YOU! 😊💐

[@kelseadenney]

I WHEEZED "oh no" when you said you needed something easy and not so traumatic before choosing "The Yellow Wallpaper," that thing is terrifying (I love it, it's genius).

[@isirlasplace91]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman also wrote Herland💛 You could have talked about RF Kuang and/or Yellowface all day!! You're so passionate about it, I want to toss out my whole February TBR and immerse myself in Yellowface now!!!

[@xanthippikipou2531]

It looks like "yellow" was your favourite colour in January💛 💛 💛 Amazing videos again❤❤

[@Bookmagic23]

Great book choices! ❤amazing video as always keep up the good work!!🧡🧡🧡

[@khalilahd.]

Thank you so much!!

[@supersol3937]

Hii! I just started the video, and will watch it throughout the day, but wanted to say Hi!!! It’s so much fun to watch your videos, I love your personality (and taste in books, like girl??? Sameee) Okay now I will continue. Adding all to my goodreads, probably 🎉

[@vshyperfixations]

i’ve been wanting to read earthlings !! definitely will read it now ! your book shelf looks beautiful btw ! 🫶🏼

[@vshyperfixations]

wait, i just finished your review idk if i want to read it anymore 😭

[@nissasbookcorner]

i bought an edition of The Yellow Wallpaper that also includes another one of her stories, Herland! i haven’t read it yet but i think it’s about like this jungle land with only women?? sounds super interesting

[@itsamina]

okay i've been officially convinced to read yellowface! i just gotta pick a day when i'm in the mood to get mad lol also iris in terms and conditions has dyslexia not autism :) but i loved reading that book so i'm glad you enjoyed it

[@reivenna]

hi!! thank you for your recommendations!! i recently found your channel and i just love everything about it! You have become my comfort blogger so far! also this month I read the book When women were dragons and it was just amazing. I recommend it to everyone for reading! 🤲❤️

[@dustbuster9615]

Started watching a couple months ago, the sweetest channel ever! :) also, highly recommend reading Brendan Slocumb, especially A Symphony of Secrets. I think you’d love it, couldn’t put it down!

[@fierce9197]

how do you store and take care of books

[@FamKrohn24]

Best part of my week!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Great job with the GoodReads goal! 👏🏽

[@cassandrafortin4684]

Im reading The poppy war by RF Kuang and wan’t to reat all of her backlist!!! She’s really something else!

[@marianacruz0]

i still think about earthlings, i felt so crazy trying to explain the book to a friend I FEEL YOU

[@HunchoChuck]

another banger video!!!!!! Keep it upppp

[@Rosesbloomm]

Your videos are so good❤️

[@ShawnaciSchroeder]

omg now you’re making me want to read yellowface!!!! 😍😍

[@khalilahd.]

Do it!!! I loved it so much and I would love to hear what you think about it!

[@dianaisme]

I have non number reading goals. But I would be lying if I said I hadn't completely forgotten about them, untill you mentioned reading goals.

[@rachelb3565]

Omg I laughed when you said you read earthlings - I love your content, I love that book, I knew that wouldn’t be one for you 😂

[@savanniek]

If you are wearing blush please share! You are glowing

[@mwahnaomi]

Hearing you discuss Yellowface is making angry all over again. I've never disliked a character the way I disliked June I'm so excited to read another RF Kuang book though.... I'm still trying to decide between Babel and The Poppy War

[@WhitneyChakara]

Planning to read Earthlings soon so I had to skip that whole part 😂. That was a REcap for real. Very detailed. 😅

[@LaraJaynus]

I clicked so fast yr vids are soooo good!!!! 💖💖💖

[@chocolateoreo6489]

“Yellowface” by RF Kuang is such a important read!❤

[@chocolateoreo6489]

I’m sending you love and a great year❤

[@amberspade15]

i’m a little late to the upload but i’m so excited to watch!👏🏽💗

[@Κωνσταντινιά.Ν-Π]

You are nothing less than amazing💖😍

[@bqsux5018]

my comfort yter 🤍🌟

[@morraquelee]

AHHHHH I was wondering where you were ✨

[@Inesmessaoudene]

time go fast 😩🤣❤ KEEP GOING GIRL💗

[@LlamylisRoman]

Mannn seeing how excited you got for Yellowface, I’m BUZZING to see how you react to Babel. From what I’ve seen and even in my own opinion, Yellowface is weaker than her other works (altho I really enjoyed it tbh). You’re gonna be blown away when you read Babel. Also, patriarchal is pronounced pay-tree-ar-cal 😂 I had to break it down myself cos I got confused.

[@khalilahd.]

Omg now I can’t wait!!

[@booklady8888]

Do you still go to the book house store? Havent seen you go there in a long time. I also wanted to ask if you have read The Nightingale? It is amazing but very sad! Another good one kind of a prequel but not is the winter garden. I noticed in a few vlogs you like lucy score and in others you dont? What are your thoughts now i have read a lot of her books not a fan of the smut and language, but overall, i thought the characters and stories were good.

[@crystaIz]

where is your necklace from?

[@sabeekamajid]

I loved terms and conditions soooooooo much ❤❤and when I finished it I told the whole story to my best friend in the same way 😂❤

[@Hiyaeuju]

It's time to hang out with bestie~! Finallllly*~

[@khalilahd.]

😉🫶🏽

[@Muluue]

Your lighting is so good do you use a ring light? 🩷

[@tiffanyjanel_]

You have convinced me to read Yellowface!!! lol. p.s. I've read Eleanor Oliphant and WE NEED TO TALKKKKK lol 😭😭

[@LibrariesandLattes]

Yellowface was crazy!! It’s like seeing an accident on the highway, you should look away and continue on with your business but you can’t help but look and get invested 😳🙈

[@kaitlynkleven]

I love how you go on these book rants 😂

[@jenniespanda_]

Hey khalilah! i just wanted to know if you like fantasy books and if you do can you please give me some roccemendations💗

[@larrythelatypus]

I completely forgot about the yellow wallpaper until literally you said she was locked in a room with this ugly ass wallpaper and it clicked i definitely gotta read it and hearing you talk about these books makes me miss taking literature classes for my English degree,, I miss analyzing literature like someone please pay me to do that 🥺

[@emmaclare9066]

If you enjoyed The Yellow Wallpaper you might like The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. (If you've seen the TV show, they're both great just VERY different stories and themes). Hill House was published in the late 50s and is ostensibly a story about a haunted house. However, I'd argue the story is more about the doubting of women and female repression in that era. IMO Hill House is a book where you get out of it what you put in. Common complaints are that its not scary, boring, nothing happened, etc. and to me that's because they go in expecting a typical horror but when you read between the lines it's more a feminist commentary like The Yellow Wallpaper. And since you enjoyed The Yellow Wallpaper you might really enjoy The Haunting Of Hill House and get invested in the character of Eleanor. It's another short read and there's some really great audiobooks for it out there!!

[@JohnSeney]

Your plot descriptions are always succinct and effective 👍 In an opposite situation of what I said about "American Psycho," consider that the conclusion of "Earthlings" might be literal 😏😼 Similar to Easton Ellis, Murata has never confirmed or denied this, so readers can draw our own conclusions. For example the body morphing of the three friends I think is apparent in the flabbergasted reaction of her sister and the "rescuers." I think it is a very happy ending, even her reliable alien toy Piyyut remains with her! Westerners have only just met Murata but she has been writing such novels in Japan for some time now, and has a large cult following there. Her short stories collected in "Life Ceremony" are even more bizarre and show a longtime great eccentric talent at work. She and the almost entirely unknown Missouri Williams are two women who write in the most underappreciated ways imaginable. But considering the mediocrity of the Western mainstream that rejects them, maybe this is best!

[@victoriakohler627]

10:25 did-did you just say cannibalism? Girl my jaw dropped. When you said a little bit of everything, you meant a little bit of *everything* 😂😂😂

[@samonec3566]

I love the long video

[@Alo.mygirl]

The way the author portrayed the girl in the Convenience store, seemed like she suffers from an autism spectrum but her family never know it they just assumed that she is weird. This is what I perceived

[@lucyrosekenney]

0:28 in like all of January I was 1-2 books behind my goal of 75 then February started and I’m like 3 books ahead😂

[@jazminee3601]

my goal for 2024 is 60... I've already read 11.. LOL i have never been this ahead, its insane!

[@nichoalkirkendall5296]

New subscriber and I just love your channel so much! I am still going through your back list videos, but PLEASE read The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams soon! You will love it!

[@its_naimahstackhouse]

❤❤

[@readwith_emma]

hello khaliah! i absoloutly love your videos. please please *please* read the Whisper duology by Lynette Noni (Whisper & Weapon). it's so good, and the plot twists are amazing! luv you, have an amazing day

[@leafsonata]

What was his energy again😂😂 thanks again for the recs😂😂😂

[@cnsforever]

Great video as always.. I would like to make a book recommendation to you: The Bound and the Broken Series by Ryan Cahill.

[@khalilahd.]

Looking it up now!

[@cnsforever]

@@khalilahd. Let me know if you decide to read them. My favorite Fantasy Series yet😊

[@TheLittleReadingLady]

I literally had to throw earthlings away after I read it because I didn't want to be responsible for someone else reading it😭

[@bookedbycourt]

i love how this is edited haha

[@wendyvilla2904]

🖤💚

[@MonishaLatrice]

I love your videos

[@latoyaw9102]

❤

[@kaitlynkleven]

Did you read Babel yet?!?

[@khalilahd.]

Not yet but I’ll be reading it this month!

[@lumilumi22]

Earthlings was BONKERS and I went in blind 🫠

[@Bookreader008]

MANIPULATED LIVES: Unmasking Social Media's Shadow by Harmander Singh please review this book

[@dianaisme]

I hated the guy in Convenience Store Woman!

[@fiekemooij4003]

I’m so happy she mentioned him because so many booktubers talked about the book and never mentioned him… and then I started reading and I was like😳

[@dianaisme]

@@fiekemooij4003 Yeah he's problematic. I had no idea he would be in it and I almost dnfed it because of him 😬

[@sweatshirtwearingchaosbiscuit]

Time is just like peace out guys see you later XD

[@marigoldkim]

not related but i loveeee your hair.

[@Kafia_]

❤🖤💚🤍🍉