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[@totakluska]

"His name is Icarus" oh, I wonder what will be the metaphor for him flying too close to the sun "He meats this guy called Helios" there it is! 😂

[@anjalibhat14]

I’ve been thinking about you! Sincerely hope you’re on the mend, you deserve lots of rest and care ❤️‍🩹

[@BooksandLala]

Thanks bestie!!

[@JojoJojo-bd6dz]

What's wrong is she ok??

[@mushroomc0re]

Thank you for demonstrating how to properly fold towels. I didn't realize this was a life skill i wasn't aware i lacked

[@BooksandLala]

lol I have no idea what the "right" way is, but that's how I was taught to do it when I was working as a housekeeper!! Next time I'll show you the pocket fold for hand towels 🤯 hahahahaha

[@robyn8221]

The towel folding!!! 🧐

[@nikkireigns]

Omg towel folding intermission next video please 😂

[@kendraaan]

"But it's whatever I'm in the mood for in the moment" okay Miss Mood Reader 😌💅

[@ArielAntenna]

you totally called me out for not crossing my fingers 💀 i learned my lesson, i will always actually do it from now on i’m so sorry

[@tawniethetiger]

Oh my gosh!! A new Lala video!! I’ve honestly been kinda worried. I must admit, I’ve gone back to your channel a few times to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Happy to have a new book video to watch!!

[@Akellerman]

I positively lost my shit when I checked my subscriptions page and saw this!! I hope you’re feeling better

[@taeanna1644]

I'm so sorry I didn't cross my fingers the first time 😭. I was distracted 😔. Glad your pressure to make sure I crossed the second time worked out well. ✊️

[@pagesandprose]

Your comment about how Icarus is written in less of a way how teenagers sound and more of a way of how teenagers feel and experience everything in such a grandiose and dramatic way is exactly why I loved John Green’s books growing up. I haven’t read anything by K. Ancrum, but your description of their writing reminds me how I typically describe John Green’s writing and it was great to hear somebody echo those thoughts about certain YA authors.

[@lorenamunguia-cortez9368]

Your beachball selfie 😂 love that you can have a sense of humor in such an uncomfortable time, glad you're feeling bette. Your Sunday video was def missed

[@amylouise7289]

So glad you’re feeling more like yourself!! I’ve missed you, glad to have you back!

[@youwillneverknow7165]

I love how we're all so used to you uploading consistently that everybody was incredibly worried when you missed a week for once Haven't watched the video yet, but hope you're feeling better and that the allergies are sorted out!

[@BooksandLala]

🤗💞

[@foreverpumpkin7776]

the lipstick/sweater combo you wore for the last clip of Goddess of The River was so beautiful!

[@katecollins2471]

Another day, another Hanif slay 💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼 so exciting to see you pick up another hanif book, Kayla! Also so crazy and fun to see you show the pages of the book and I see “two dollar radio” on the camera. That’s an independent publisher just down the road from my house in Columbus Ohio and they were hanifs first publisher before he was picked up by penguin random house 🖤🖤

[@katecollins2471]

Also hanif is a touch older than us! You and I are the same age. I believe hanif is 40.

[@krisprepolec5616]

That bike trail was amazing! Your allergy attack decidedly less so. Hopefully you can get real help for that soon. ❤ So glad you got to experience the hot dog fingers!

[@shreyabooked9309]

So good to have you back, and I'm glad you're feeling better! It's so interesting to see people read about Kaikeyi and Ganga as fantasy characters in novels instead of mythological characters in Hindu epics. I'm not sure if I can explain what I mean by that? It's like...well, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana are the two big epics of Hindu mythology, just like the Iliad and Odyssey in Greek mythology. So, because Indian kids have grown up knowing these stories, it's hard to be triggered by the characters' actions (just like we don't get shocked by Medea's actions or Zeus' scandals). I think Vaishnavi Patel is attempting to do something similar to Madeline Miller - trying to portray these female characters as living, breathing beings with hopes and desires, and not just pawns in a larger epic story. I'm definitely interested in reading both her books.

[@Bonbookreviews]

Love this idea! Also what a beautiful place to ride. I noticed we hadn't had a vid from you as I usually have you keep me company on my drive to work on the days I go into the office. Im glad you are feeling better and so sorry you have been going through the allergies (good luck with your allergy appt!!!)

[@cristy8192]

Did you start having the allergic reactions after your recent Covid infection? I developed an allergy to some tree nuts post-Covid which was fun to discover 🙃

[@BooksandLala]

Oh my I never even considered COVID being a catalyst for my allergies. 🥲 yikes

[@JojoJojo-bd6dz]

​@@BooksandLalait can be

[@inkylabyrinth]

Yeah, I don't think there's been a study yet, but I've seen many people who suddenly have allergies after contracting Covid (myself included) so there is probably a link. We really don't know enough about the long-term effects of Covid.

[@anygivenmemory]

@@BooksandLala yes it can be! Definitely ask the allergist! I know someone dealing with something similar after her covid infection.

[@heatherbocks]

Oh I have a friend who got allergies after having mono! Fricken viruses, man.

[@SarahAtHeart]

So glad you're feeling better! ❤

[@kartik3719]

This came out just now but I'm planning to save it until my exam gets over in a few hours ❤

[@kyestrella]

best of luck!!! ✨

[@BooksandLala]

Good luck with your exam Kartik!!

[@emmaa.276]

Good luck!!

[@kartik3719]

Thank you everyone for the wishes, the exam went well :)

[@beccadoingstuff]

I’m so glad that you’re on the way to being better!! so glad you’re taking care of yourself and happy to see a new video too🫶🫶

[@isaacazmeelee9531]

I loveeeee Icarus, such a beautifully written book!!

[@Anna-dp8ee]

I‘m so relieved you are feeling better ❤️ take care Kayla

[@ReadingAce]

Ah new video! Hopefully this means you're feeling better!!! Going to bed now but I'll watch this tomorrow over breakfast!

[@cat.book.nook.]

I'm glad to see you back and hope you're feeling better. 💜

[@SabrinaMSabrinasStories]

So happy to see your smiling face again ❤ Glad you have been feeling a bit better and I hope it continues that way. I'm looking forward to reading Icarus myself soon!

[@taylajade666]

Hope you’re feeling better Kayla! Very excited to read Icarus 😍

[@hillarylevi6149]

Recently picked up There's Always This Year in no small part thanks to your love of A Little Devil in America, and it's a thing of beauty; can't wait for you to get to it. Thank you for another great video; it's always a joy.

[@giddingsa75]

I'm glad you're feeling better!

[@erica6317]

The way I was called out for not crossing my fingers 🤞😆 Glad you're feeling better!

[@evergrowingtbr]

I see Mary Shelley Club in the background. 👀 that’s one of my favorites can’t wait to see you read it

[@brandywinebooks]

Glad you’re feeling a bit better! As someone with allergies - I understand the struggle & I hope your allergy appointment goes well! ❤️‍🩹

[@viihbelinot]

I'm glad you're back! Hopefully you are healed!

[@michellenelson578]

Hope you’re feeling better! I’m currently under the weather and your video brightened my day. I’ve been waiting for you to finally read They Can’t Kill Us… and am so glad you mentioned the Serena Williams essay because it was one of my favorites!

[@ren.sparks]

I’ve been missing your videos!! I hope you feel better❤❤❤

[@liv_ia_]

this is exactly what i needed rn, love that i'm here so early!

[@inkylabyrinth]

I recently moved away from the PNW and your nature shots are exactly what I need right now for my homesickness. That bike trail was wild! I'm glad you're feeling better and I hope that continues!

[@niccc9476]

I'm glad you're feeling better! ❤ I just read Icarus a few weeks ago and it healed part of my inner child. It was my first book by K. Ancrum and it definitely won't be my last!

[@jacforswear18]

I haven’t read any K. Ancrum, but I always laugh when people critique YA for not being what teens or kids sound like… as if all teens and kids are the same! UnCarly just did a video on John Green where she addresses that critique, and it essentially boiled down to “sorry you weren’t a pretentious teenager, but SOME OF US WERE” haha. Some of us were reading Shakespeare for fun, privately researching theological deconstruction, and writing extra credit long-form creative fiction our teachers didn’t ask for 😂

[@BBG06301]

love this idea! i should do this with my tbr.

[@BooksandLala]

Yessss do it!!

[@elidhios]

Yess just in time to watch while I have dinner 🫶🏻

[@gogo_lopez]

Welcome back! Glad to see you well ❤

[@beccamiller1078]

KAYLA! I just got my nails done and we are matching!!! Yay bestie

[@hotla7]

Take care of yourself Kayla! Glad to have you back, can’t wait for Veronica speedwell spoilers!

[@peachykeenchy]

you poor lady 💔 i’ve been through some allergy stuff too, the exhaustion that comes along with it is so much. I’m happy to see that you’re feeling up to talking to the camera again, hopefully you will be able to get answers soon!

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

Yay, you're back! Hope you're feeling better!

[@Simplisticillustrations]

Love your shirt with oranges very cute.

[@kemunto_]

Missed you glad you're back

[@ohladysamantha]

Hope you're on the mend and that these allergies get figured out soon!! I loved They Can't Kill Us Till They Kill Us so much - 5 stars for real. I think the Fall Out Boy chapter hit me real hard and had me locked in. His writing is incredible.

[@stephaniebookish]

So glad you’re feeling better, friend!! 🫶🏻

[@arobinreads]

Glad you're feeling better

[@gabbyreads]

I’m glad you’re feeling better now 🫶🏻

[@samantharose1001]

Lmao I wasn’t fully watching the first time you told us to cross our fingers so I didn’t actually 😬 but I did the second time 😂 and I’m so glad it worked out !! This was such a fun video and I am glad you’re on the mend 💛💛💛

[@sallyolivia37]

Hope you are feeling better! Loving your videos, it has thrown me back into the reading world. Finished ‘Comfort me with Apples’ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and ‘Silent Patient’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ whilst on holiday. Downloaded ‘Bunny’ and ‘The Measure’ ready for an 11 hr flight next week!! Love your recommendations xx

[@BooksandLala]

What a great selection of reads!! 💞

[@PamsShenanigans]

i really need to get into K. Ancrum! Been on my TBR for ages

[@madisonemily4083]

Get better soon!!❤️

[@lealarue]

soo glad you are feeling better! i kinda wish icarus was an adult story because I stopped reading ya. just makes me feel old these days :D

[@elskabee]

return of the queen!!!

[@whitleyysuereads]

So glad to see you again! Hope you continue to feel better!! ❤ If you haven’t read Strange Weather by Joe Hill, I highly recommend it. It contains 4 strange horror short stories and they are phenomenal!

[@rachelmaybeidk]

oh my gosh i can't wait for the veronica spoiler vlog 😭🙌🏼

[@gabbyreads]

Also yessss açaí bowls and chipotle are superior 😍👏

[@louise5493]

Glad you’re feeling better Kayla💜!! I sadly DNFd Icarus! Not sure if it was the audiobook narrator or how it was written but I could not get into it at all😭 It was so jarring for some reason, I think it was a me issue! As a Hip-Hop, film & general pop culture fan I think I’m going to have to pick up Hanif Abdurraqib!!

[@katrinaandallthebooks7993]

I love the colour of your hair.

[@cloverkpop]

So excited to be here this early!!

[@moth.03]

So happy me crossing my fingers could help!! :)

[@FabulousFrostine]

You were right. I didn't cross my fingers... but I did for the second one. I have learned my lesson. ❤

[@isabellajohnson956]

BRB gonna binge Kayla videos while I wait to see if my sprained foot heals! I had a hellacious weekend. Friday night, I was throwing up, awake for 26 hours, got fitful sleep. I slept all day Saturday and then at 11pm I missed the last 3 stairs and landed on my toes. I spent Sunday in urgent care, and they say my foot in sprained but there’s so much swelling that it could be broken and the swelling could be hiding any breaks. My toes are purple. I get home Sunday, ready to sleep. I find an engorged tick on my leg with a bullseye around it. Spent Monday at my doctors office, got the antibiotics that will hopefully prevent Lyme disease but the tick could have been attached for too long so I just have to wait and see if the bite heals and if I’ll get sick. I had a terrible migraine for 2 days. It was a nightmare. Sorry for the book, but your videos make me so happy. Please ignore the random likes from older videos that may pop up😂

[@BooksandLala]

Isabella!! 🥲 I'm so sorry you're *going through it* right now. I hope things look up asap!

[@Tarasreadingnook]

I hope you're doing better.. happy to see a video today

[@myreadingisodd]

I don’t want to add to any medical advice however similar thing happened to my friend because we was biking through a trail and the city had just mowed a park nearby and mowed through poison oak or poison ivy and kicked all that shit into the air. Turns out a bunch of folks left that trail all ballooned out.

[@brianna3318]

welcome back icon!

[@andiecurlybooks]

I absolutely hate decked edges!!! Always on my nerves too!😂

[@PatchyTheFox]

I recommend the 90 page short story collection, The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim, an Iraqi man.

[@FaeryLaume]

How many gray towels to do you own!? LOL Hope your allergies were a one time thing, that did not look fun! I loved your thoughts on how reading an author you know makes you feel. I totally grokked what you said.

[@jaynalascaibar1564]

Oh no!!! Poor Kayla! I hope they find an answer soon.

[@maeverose2290]

I swear I was just thinking like 30 seconds before you uploaded ‘I wonder when Kayla will upload?’ … Am I psychic? Lol Happy you’re back!

[@neelanjananegi7821]

You should read a palace of illusions it is one of the most beautiful retellings of mahabharata and I think you will love it!!!

[@BetweenLinesAndLife]

The way I thought "how's Kayla feeling?" on an almost daily basis?! Glad you're feeling more like yourself again! Sooo glad I discovered Hanif Abdurragib because of you! 💜

[@BooksandLala]

🤗🤗🤗

[@Hannanoma]

The way I actually crossed my fingers when asked and felt responsible for the 5 star 👀

[@kayceek7]

Me sitting here really just crossed my fingers when you said that.... Haha 🤞🤞

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I love the cover of Icarus 😩

[@queenkim8631]

31:29 Why did i actually cross my fingers😂😂

[@readwithdrb]

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us sounds super interesting!!

[@jessnorton812]

Oh Kayla!!! My boyfriend is allergic to nuts and when he accidentally consumes a little bit he gets exactly like how you looked, allergies are scary! I’m sending you love and health and fingers crossed the cause is found out soon 🤞🏻 ❤🎉

[@TheNovelSanctuary]

I just read Opinions by Roxane Gay that is the same idea of They Can’t Kill Us

[@moiratuttle3981]

If you're looking for a good haunted horse short story you have to check out The House Where Death Lives. It's an anthology coming out later this year. I read it on netgalley. It is ya but it starts from the attic and goes down the floors to the grounds with each story being a different "location". Lots of LGBTQ+ rep too!

[@kartik3719]

Also not my previous comment of 'what are you going to do if none of the 5 star authors give you a 5 star book' coming true, I apologize for spreading that energy into the world😭😂

[@itsagoddam.pandamic]

Feel better! Hopefully you can figure out what's wrong

[@beckyduff]

Yay, crossing my fingers worked! Sorry I only pretended the first time.

[@nazhopkins5825]

Patience of a Dead Man. Great haunted house story!

[@theaudiobookaficionado]

Chipotle is so satisfying and delicious LIVE YOUR TRUTH

[@sarahelizabeth2750]

don't forget to wear your glasses at night!!

[@TheSunriseInside]

I’ve taken a lot more than one thing from this video but what I am focusing on is.. I’ve lived in vancouver for a decade & have never had chipotle before 😬 maybe I need to fix that

[@ashleyyeoman9872]

8 minutes ago?! i’m amazing

[@Hillary429]

Really thought that allergy photo 🐡 would never leave the bestie private chats haha hope you get some answers 🤞

[@BookedandBusy]

Yayyyyy

[@priscilla.t.a]

You're welcome 🤞🏽

[@ellenbosco-brennan7262]

I hope the allergist can figure out what’s going on! I had to go to one in March and they finally found out I was mildly allergic to propylene glycol, which is an ingredient found in a ton of my skincare/makeup! Since getting new propylene glycol free products my skin has improved. I’m the same age as you and I swear I become allergic to something new everyday, does it come with turning 34?!

[@avsambart]

Did you cry at Everything Everywhere All At Once? I absolutely bawled.

[@KittyxKult]

WOW I CROSSED MY FINGERS AND IT WORKED

[@BooksandLala]

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@elizabethbarnes3617]

I was also obsessed with the Doug and Judy story but the last story of Spin a Black Yarn ruined the whole collection for me