every book i'm reading this may (and june)

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[@tpanakota]

Watching this instead of studying. I have my priorities straight I promise

[@yomylee]

Literally me, I have an exam tomorrow and here I am 💀

[@owondrousmachine]

same and i have gcses 💀

[@isabellathiessen]

Agreed lol

[@Sara-kf4gb]

frfr

[@aimeelykinslawson1693]

Same lol 😂

[@boyboss3322]

“I’m trying not to buy so many books” me watching this to get ideas on what books to buy to bring me out of a reading slump

[@karissaridge8145]

these 9 minute videos are truly the only thing keeping me going rn

[@RocketRoketto]

Books mentioned for my fellow ADHD Besties! 1. Mater 2-10 by: Hwang Sok-You. 2. Walking through clear water in a pool painted black by: Cookie Mueller 3. Better by far by: hazel hayes 4. Pyre by PERUMAN MARUGAN 5. APPLE AND KNIFE BY: Intan P (just type the name of the book you’ll find it) 6. When haru was here by Dustin Thao He mentions a few others that intrigue him, but he since he didn’t pull them out, I didn’t include them.

[@_haru007_]

The sixth one got my name in it so imma read it, thx for recommendations 🎉

[@vishalkarthikeyan49]

*perumal murugan.

[@RocketRoketto]

@@vishalkarthikeyan49 autocorrect changed it.

[@procaffeinate_withbooks]

I don't know how you manage to do it, but every glimpse at your tbr that we get, I get to see new books that I find interesting but haven't heard of before. You are like our encyclopedia of favourites 😅

[@hydrosphere8447]

Hes definitely to blame for mine being 200 books or so now 🙈

[@AO2437.]

Overwhelming life, a a uni student I totally feel you Jack

[@jaycebradley8404]

i’m not american, but i’ve been kinda observing aapi month in my reading this may, with a few random books thrown in between. it dragged me right out of a 3 month reading slump lmao and also allowed me to finish several books i started LAST YEAR 😭 it’s been great, as a pacific islander in aotearoa nz, reading a bunch of books from homegrown authors

[@mishripettinger6242]

omg hi from nz! do you have any recommendations that came from aapi month?

[@jaycebradley8404]

hi! i’ll just give you my may read-list and some other recs lol 🫶🏼 - zachary ying and the dragon emperor, xiran jay zhao (middle grade fantasy, author is canadian not american) - ayesha at last, uzma jalaluddin (contemporary romance, author also canadian) - the dawnhounds, sascha stronach (fantasy) - straight up, ruby tui (memoir) - a venom dark and sweet, judy i. lin (ya fantasy, second in a duology) - stardust thief, chelsea abdullah (fantasy, first in an incomplete series) - overkill | the ringmaster, vanda symon (first two in a mystery crime series set in nz) - the bone tree, airana ngarewa (contemporary fiction set in nz: look up content/trigger warnings) - lei and the fire goddess, malia maunakea (middle grade fantasy, hawaiian mythology) - the empress of salt and fortune, nghi vo (historical fantasy novella, first in a series) if you’re looking for specifically PI books, there’s a #pasifikareadathonchallenge tag on ig with lots of book recs, authors, and creators. on tiktok i specifically follow @shanreadsbooks and @isabellas.library1 who’re both PI creators 🤗 my tbr is also long af lol so if you’re after a specific genre jlmk!

[@BookishObsessions]

Hi Jack! I love your channel! Another two books you should read is All the Light We Cannot See and the Book Thief, they both are WWII novels but are powerfully told and gracefully written.

[@titirchatterjee1114]

I started watching your video and stopped at better by far, went to read it, then came back Today just to let you know I am just loving the book. I am loving each and every sentence of that book . I am in awe.❤

[@kennedy0097]

this video made me want to buy more books but also buy whatever you’re using on your skin because your it looks amazing!

[@teneshaanderson4761]

I want that hazel Hayes book so bad, out of love was brilliant

[@guidoguido2245]

That’s awesome Jack, here’s mine: 1. Ulysses (I might be deranged)

[@usertheuser]

wanted to let you know that this comment made me laugh

[@angelinabvby]

loving the unshelf 📚

[@pariakabiri]

9:02 I totally get it! In the last couple of months, I've only managed to read three books: "Beautiful World, Where Are You," "Hamnet," and "The Great Gatsby." I've been taking forever to finish them even though they're all amazing. It's kinda weird actually.

[@spookylittlebooknerd]

Better by Far sounds so good! Adding it to my TBR. Apple & Knife too! Great list of books as always.

[@kaylawheeler4756]

I am adding Better By Far to my tbr!!!! That sounds amazing!

[@graydonpanzica330]

Woahhhh. I haven't caught a Jack video this early in FOREVER.

[@Showtunediva]

Thank you for all your recommendations Jack! Stay tuned for my wrap up video! ❤

[@tomatobeams]

Jack, I am begging you to read The Idiot by Elif Bateman. I know that you have it, we have all seen your TBR video in October of 2022, I believe… The book is right there, on the top of the stack, waiting patiently for you. But really, if I’m being serious I think you’ll love it

[@starswnames]

i just finished the secret life of bees, was mourning over it, opened youtube in order to cope with me finishing this novel and there was jack 🤝

[@claudiaramirez9786]

love your content! i’m trying to finish infinite jest by the end of June :)

[@ninni8806]

My may/June current read is Unbranded by Herb Wharton. It’s about 3 men (one white, one murri and the main character related to both), that works as drovers in the Australian outback. It paints a vivid picture of the society and lifestyle, as well as touching on struggles of indigenous people. It’s really good so far!! I’m only a quarter through but I’d recommend it!

[@MartaMM82]

I loved Out of Love by Hazel Hayes… The concept of Better by Far reminds me Flat Share (I’ve not read either) 📚

[@laurenschenck5355]

Amazing May TBR Jack! ❤😊

[@SavidgeReads]

Apple & Knife is sooooooooo good. So good! Love the cover and premise of Better By Far.

[@abeerj.khavaripour8380]

I've been in my WORST reading slump since finishing A Little Life 2 weeks ago so this video came in perfect timing hahah!

[@kou_isthatyou]

Thanks for the recommendations

[@OSZKAR.4]

jack's channels are my roman empire tbh, i even bought myself a copy of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath yesterday

[@izzyeis5752]

i've seen that, uh, phrase around, what does this 'this is my roman empire' mean?

[@mirakikita2083]

⁠it’s something you think about often, maybe daily or hourly and can be a fixation

[@izzyeis5752]

@@mirakikita2083 oh is that it? i wonder where that comes from. thank you for telling me

[@ravent3016]

My May-June list: Convenience Store Woman, Silk & Steel anthology, The Apothecary, Foxcraft: The Elders, Spy x Family manga Vol 7, Honey and Clover manga Vols. 6 and 7, The Takedown, Persepolis 2, The Water Outlaws, and Comics Will Break Your Heart, and Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - plus others TBD. Some of these are being read before an unhaul/giving away to specific friends or their children. I am a new steward of a Little Free Library too, so I have to stock it. Good luck with your TBR - hope your reading mojo comes back.

[@luce8416]

I have also been reading at a slower rate lately. I am still reading and enjoying what I read, but it's taking me way longer than it normally would. But I'm thinking it might just be because I have a lot going on in my life rn, so hopefully my reading pace will be back to normal once life calms down a bit! I just finished The Ogress and the Orphans, Lolita, and Dragonfruit. Currently, I am reading Battle Royale (enjoying it so far! but 600+ pages is a lot). Next are The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi and Gwen & Art Are Not In Love. (I honestly don't think I'll finish my May TBR so it will probably bleed into June)

[@rainajoshi8038]

About time to read Perumal Murugan! He is one of my favorite Indian authors. If you like Pyre, definitely read “Story of a goat”.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

2:48 Like how we live vicariously through your bookish adventures and hosting events?

[@oneoftheghosts1620]

Have you ever read Bonjour Tristesse? I think you would enjoy that one a lot !

[@graydonpanzica330]

Buy the books, Jack. Buy the books.

[@caitlyn.m.t9618]

There is this First Knowledges series, in which it talks about the knowledge of the Aboriginal people in reference to various topics. So far I have read Plants: Past, Present, and Future and Astronomy: Sky Country. I am very much interested in reading Country: Future Fire, Future Farming and I hope to get to it this month.

[@TerryJ950]

May has been a good month for me. I finished A Gentleman in Moscow, Trust, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store and I’m almost finished Women and Children First. My next book is America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien, which I’m a little nervous about.

[@laurenschenck5355]

OMG! I loved secret life bees one of my favorite books ❤😊❤😊

[@sarahmuller9482]

What happened with 1984 Julia? I read it but didn't love it. Remember you were going to read it too and wondered if it got.bumped or if I'd missed a review.

[@Bruntonpete]

Can I recommend 'With Every Breath'? It will fill you with joy and pull on any heartstrings you have left to pluck... and it is currently free on kindle. A book that will stay with you long after you finish.

[@shystrangeandmanic]

The best thing about watching this video in late July is hearing you say you don’t want to buy too many new books then all your posts after being book hauls 😅

[@jbriaz]

a Jack video is the best way to distract myself during a boring work Zoom meeting!

[@calebjalas7359]

I just started The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and The Last Juror by John Grisham

[@_haru007_]

Idk but “when haru was here” is strangely similar to the manga name “the summer hikaru died” idk it might be coincidence but the premise of the book and the manga is same 🌚 idk may be author read the manga and got inspired

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Losing track of days in a month? I see you! It was the 4th of April yesterday lol

[@yanitatronic]

Our share of night by mariana enriquez is going to be my first read for June, I'm confronting my big book fear

[@nafsikaisbored]

The way I just have one 😭 Finals are killing me

[@jansayga1465]

Jack!!! a poem that’s really similar to ‘When Haru was here’ is called ‘The Romantic’ by Adam Mickiewicz please read it it’s available free on the internet :))

[@kskkkk4118]

Hope you’re doing okay Jack ❤

[@Free_gaza_ceasefire_now]

jackkkk i planning to read kafka and Dostoevsky... and a little bit of Japanese literature what do u think

[@yazziekismet3444]

Jack what did you think of Evil Eye by Etaf Rum ??

[@jil8091]

I also try to stop buying books and finally reading all of those books piled up in my room 😂😭

[@shaikmahek388]

Don't know you'll see this comment or not but i have started reading Sula and I'm at 94 th page I must say jackuuuu you define the word taste . 🤗

[@pebblespeak]

Jack, Please read "The Cellist of Sarajevo" by Steven Galloway. I feel as if this book is straight up your alley and that you would love it!. Rated 4.01 on goodreads. Set in 1990's, based on true events of the breakup in Yugoslavia and a real cellist. Story follows 3 people struggling to survive during the war. Depicts the mot raw emotions of the fears, horrors, helplessness, desensitization and despair of the war through the 3 different people and their own story.

[@melissaaugust7016]

have you ever read any joyce carol oats?

[@emmaberger3748]

Better by far would breaaaakk me further having just endured a painful breakup

[@drjayatikumar6838]

Hey Jack..I have a small query...This is the International booker prize..Do you know when the Man Booker Prize will be held? If you know, could you make a video on the listed books? Big fan!😊

[@paigebowen2031]

Jack - has about 6 billies. Also Jack - has a shelf stacked 20+ books tall and at least 10 books wide in his bedroom

[@my3moodsinmyprofilpicture374]

9 seconds early, cannot miss a jack video

[@ohlove0]

I know it has nothing to do with the video but did you already read Hopscotch by Cortazar? I remember that you said that you were going to make a video about it or at least a review

[@HMarie.99]

It’s not on his goodreads, so I don’t think he got to it yet.

[@fionasaunders4213]

Jack have you read "How to lose the TIme War' yet?

[@spiritedreviewexc]

its just the 20th of may we have plenty of time

[@user-zt9yk3zp1r]

WE WANT GASSAN KANAFANI BOOK HOUL

[@daytronplays7712]

I’m writing a book called Where The Green Hair Grows. Just thought I let the world know lol.

[@gulbunzaidi7057]

this felt like we were on face time

[@JP_-_]

OMG, Mater2-10 is originally written in my language! Hello from South Korea!

[@angelinabvby]

❤❤❤

[@user-14268]

HI JACK I LOVE YOU EARLY ‼️‼️‼️

[@snehapradhan5591]

❤

[@mandapuspi]

I've read Apple and Knife and it's so so good. Blending feminism with the horror within you. :)

[@belhypotheque6417]

You still haven’t read Circe? what?

[@PrarthanaJayaweera-qu3qk]

LOVE FROM SRI LANKA!!!!!!!! I'M EARLY!!!!!!!!

[@jyottea]

jack please find me a boy like you

[@vishalkarthikeyan49]

absolutely, butchering and killing the name of perumal murugan🤣 but it is funny to hear non tamil people, reading tamil names🤣

[@BrunaAraujo-st2is]

[@lisbethyulinglim]

Instead of sharing books you haul/ want to read, why not have read them and give book reviews, like what you were doing in the past. You are sliding. The former is not proof that you have read them. It’s like making a video with zero legitimate content. I could have easily gone to Goodreads or a book store to read the books’ blurb. Pls save yourself while you can, the high life is making you distracted. What drew me to your 2 channels were interesting book reviews and content. Now that’s gone. 🥲