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

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[@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

[@lupitaochoa9529]

"My imaginary pearls" I LOVE IT!!!

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@user-wu7cj6pb3e]

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

[@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!!

[@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! ❤️

[@JMichelle014]

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

[@ella-hope-222]

you’re GLOWING

[@khalilahd.]

🫣🩷🩷🩷🩷

[@ericad3397]

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

[@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!

[@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. 🤯

[@chocolateoreo6489]

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

[@melissaaugust7016]

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

[@juliaziemann5140]

i’m completely in love with all the recommendations 🤍

[@dreamytulip]

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

[@bunishpome7266]

your channel is literally my comfort channel

[@JasperJaiMataruse]

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 💯

[@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!

[@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! 🤲❤️

[@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!

[@crystalb6289]

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

[@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

[@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

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Great job with the GoodReads goal! 👏🏽

[@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.

[@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 🎉

[@jesserodriguez9831]

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

[@amberspade15]

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

[@FamKrohn24]

Best part of my week!

[@vanessareyes2984]

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

[@vanessareyes2984]

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

[@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❤❤

[@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. 🥲

[@Bookmagic23]

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

[@khalilahd.]

Thank you so much!!

[@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

[@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! 😊💐

[@Chuckiie]

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

[@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

[@WhitneyChakara]

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

[@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.

[@BookinItWithAhtiya]

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

[@LaraJaynus]

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

[@marianacruz0]

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

[@heyitsme-tx9fe]

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

[@chocolateoreo6489]

I’m sending you love and a great year❤

[@Rosesbloomm]

Your videos are so good❤️

[@Inesmessaoudene]

time go fast 😩🤣❤ KEEP GOING GIRL💗

[@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 😂❤

[@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 😂

[@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!

[@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!

[@cassandrafortin4684]

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

[@morraquelee]

AHHHHH I was wondering where you were ✨

[@K.ST.28]

You are nothing less than amazing💖😍

[@kaitlynkleven]

I love how you go on these book rants 😂

[@bqsux5018]

my comfort yter 🤍🌟

[@dreamytulip]

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

[@jazminee3601]

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

[@savanniek]

If you are wearing blush please share! You are glowing

[@chocolateoreo6489]

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

[@Muluue]

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

[@fierce9197]

how do you store and take care of books

[@tiffanyjanel_]

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

[@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!!

[@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!!

[@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 😳🙈

[@Hiyaeuju]

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

[@khalilahd.]

😉🫶🏽

[@bookedbycourt]

i love how this is edited haha

[@samonec3566]

I love the long video

[@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 🥺

[@jenniespanda_]

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

[@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

[@lucyrose12345]

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😂

[@MonishaLatrice]

I love your videos

[@crystaIz]

where is your necklace from?

[@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!

[@KazueCh]

The Yellow Wallpaper is basically America's nonexistent healthcare. I suspect I have endometriosis because of so many of my symptoms pointing to it. Guess what happened multiple times when I told doctors? "It's normal." My extreme pain and sickness is normal. And it only got worse as I got older. So, it's crazy how that book still applies to modern times when it shouldn't. Like seriously society needs to do better.

[@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.

[@leafsonata]

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

[@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😭

[@wendyvilla2904]

🖤💚

[@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

[@latoyaw9102]

❤

[@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* 😂😂😂

[@sweatshirtwearingchaosbiscuit]

Time is just like peace out guys see you later XD

[@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 😬

[@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😊

[@lumilumi22]

Earthlings was BONKERS and I went in blind 🫠

[@marigoldkim]

not related but i loveeee your hair.

[@maryannevillanueva9510]

Girl got carried away talking about The Yellow Wallpaper and Yellowface 😅 still love how you gush books but might be helpful to put spoiler warnings on the screen

[@Bookreader008]

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

[@kaitlynkleven]

Did you read Babel yet?!?

[@khalilahd.]

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