reading horror because FALL IS HERE

[@carovais]

god i love spoilers for books i will never read. it feels like we're having a lil chitchat

[@fairyfarms]

that’s me with way too many books 😭 i need to start reading

[@nothere_cora]

Yess I want morreee, I'll binge this whole channel, this is so cozy I even made myself tea because I was reminded that I do have tea when they said "I like autumn because I can drink tea all the time" in another video lol

[@CherryPyrrha]

I could listen to you talk about books for hours

[@jordancasterline]

i found ur channel like 4 days ago and ive already watched every video 😭

[@ashantiemily1067]

SAME

[@mitalishinde4714]

Me as well

[@frankiesshelf]

omg thank you so much for being here ❤️

[@csh.enthusiast1]

ME TOO LMAO

[@QuestionsIAskMyself]

SO REAL

[@jhufffamily7920]

i can’t get enough of how you relay plots. the way you describe them is so perfect. i could listen to you summarize books for hours!!

[@danielsong6096]

I know they are all different times but i like to imagine it's movie magic and you are just changing clothes for each section in the same sitting

[@frankiesshelf]

you’re on to me …

[@danielsong6096]

@@frankiesshelf also the don't stop believin' line is pretty peak "i'm young and don't understand popular old media" and was horrible to hear you read but also i think that's an important feeling to have

[@jackiemoffitt6780]

The Shards blew my mind, I stayed up til 6am finishing it! Great mix of decadence, horror, and emotion where the dialogue gets super tense. I can see why some people think Bret was the Trawler, since he was also obsessed with following Robert around.

[@Nagchampa765]

I loved chlorine so much and I didn’t really dislike the mc but I related to her thinking in a lot of ways.., and seeing everyone hating her so much has me self assessing 😭

[@206glacier]

Thanks for recommending This Thing Between Us. I'm on my second reading of it now.

[@frankiesshelf]

i’m so happy to hear that

[@ashschmitt1501]

I started reading with the recommendation and couldn't like it yet. I already read 85%, not sure it will come around hahaha

[@cpycatkiller]

you always upload at the perfect time for me to crawl into bed and listen to your videos, absolutely my favourite channel

[@mckennatimm3024]

i am so happy you read the shards !!!! that chapter of the casette of Matt Kellner actually gives me chills everytime... and that book had me checking the closet in my apartment to genuinely make sure no one was there lmao. such a unique book and so compelling

[@frankiesshelf]

the cassette of matt kellner made me feel like i was going to actually die i was holding my partners hand lmaoo

[@mckennatimm3024]

and i do think that the trawler (although it may have been many people) was bret. the way he describes robert when he sees him at the movie theater as like of other-worldly beauty, as if he was a god, and his obsessive drug use and "long drives" all points to me that bret was basically having blackouts and making these sacrifices to robert. also the fact that the first victim was robert's girlfriend... which clearly would have made bret (who was uncomfortable with his sexuality and not openly bisexual) jealous. that's the theory i believe anyway :)

[@mckennatimm3024]

@@frankiesshelf i listened to it on audio and BRET'S NARRATION of that chapter ctually made me want to crawl out of my skin. scarred lol

[@tifrobinette]

Your vibe, crisp and soothing, your thoughts, insightful

[@300yen8]

I recently stumbled onto your yt channel and I love how you explain the synopsis of each book without spoiling it. You make the books sound so intriguing!

[@csh.enthusiast1]

I’ve been in a huge reading slump the last year, and ur recommendations have been getting me back in LOL I’m reading The Need right now! It’s so good

[@frankiesshelf]

i’m so happy to hear this!!

[@365_PARTYBOY]

ur videos literally reignite my passion for reading every single time i watch them im so obsessed ^_^

[@diomargy]

I Who Have Never Known Men was an instant favorite of mine! Definitely gonna re-read it for years to come ✨✨

[@brambleberry_png]

I like the spoilers personally, especially because you added chapters. That way I can easily skip a section and come back to it later on ✨️ Your videos are so cozy, perfect for Autumn

[@mabelgonzalez6766]

I loooved this video so much! Please keep doing this format of videos, it feels like i’m talking to a friend about good books

[@wheredoducksgo]

So American Pyscho is 100x more visceral and grotesque and also 100x more detailed with the descriptions of what everyone is wearing like down to the brand of moisturiser and the brand of their spectacles. Every time it's a new scene every single item of clothing is listed. I enjoyed the listing of street names in The Shards. I remember having to take breaks with American Pyscho whereas The Shards is much more readable. Would love to see what you make of AP if you read it.

[@mahika5236]

PLEASE NEVER STOP POSTING!!!

[@Amystudio]

I who have never known man is a one of a kind book, I absolutely love it!

[@CorgiInc]

the way ive been waiting for a day to sit down and watch this! none of my friends in my bookclub have read i have who have never known man nor chlorine and ive been just dying to chat or literally just listen to other's interpretations and thoughts on the books! loved loved love your content!

[@roberthostetler2982]

Absolutely obsessed with the shards. The “empty house on Mulholland” is forever seared in my psyche.

[@frankiesshelf]

it permanently altered my brain . i don’t think i’ve ever had another reading experience like it

[@ashantiemily1067]

i feel like you played trumpet 🫣

[@frankiesshelf]

i did lol

[@megnix10]

This was my guess too! (I also played trumpet. we know our kind)

[@JustanOrdinaryTomatoKay]

I love the books you find, they’re always so interesting and right up my alley! Thank you for putting me on so many good books :)

[@goose.3085]

On the edge of me seat the whole video, jaw dropped truly

[@supernaturalaesthetic6295]

Just found your channel and love it! I Who Have Never Known Men is holding my #3 of all time favorites ( competing for the same spot is Tell Me I'm Worthless ) and I was completely blown away by the story. I am a huge fan of feminist, nihilistic, gritty books that manage to tackle critical thinking topics AND still manage to have beautiful prose and storytelling!

[@Mostly_Horror]

New subscriber here!! Your channel has literally revived my enjoyment of booktube. Love that you’re talking about horror books but I love all of your book talk. One’s Company is now on my immediate TBR. Thank you for your great insight and wonderful content.

[@frankiesshelf]

thank you!! let me know what you think of one’s company it’s such a fascinating read

[@digyoman]

bye i just started the video and what you said about modernist classics is so true. i’m also taking a class on literary modernism this semester and i am SUFFERING.

[@kendallwiseman8840]

Your videos make me excited to read again.

[@1russodog]

Luv your videos. Narration is pitch perfect. You give the exact amount of information that just whets my interest. Thank you

[@DrewpyPlats]

Dude, you are good at this.

[@mitalishinde4714]

I'm doing marathon watching of your videos. My tbr is overflowing ah.

[@ohcanitbe]

I listened to I who have never known men because of your last video and it was so good

[@crimsonyclover4563]

i was in such a reading slump last year and Severance saved me!!!!! one of my absolute favorite books now…eek i cannot wait for whatever ling ma writes next!

[@frankiesshelf]

i can totally see that it’s so good and so digestible !! i love love love her collection bliss montage as well

[@betweenthedash]

Completely agreed with your take on chlorine. “I didn’t like her, and I didn’t like not liking her.” That was not a fun character to hate

[@karsyleigh]

I found your channel a week ago, and I’ve read of a couple of the books you’ve featured on your channel! I’m Thinking of Ending Things was so good, and I just finished Bunny- definitely a bit of a rollercoaster, but an enjoyable one! The way you describe books makes me excited to read again, thank you for that!

[@ChanelChapters]

Sweater weather spellcasting - love it I also loved I who have never known men although I wish I had been given more answers I found chlorine mid & didn’t care for the main character

[@frankiesshelf]

i totally agree even just ONE answer would’ve been sooo satisfying

[@cat-yp1gk]

I love the way you talk about books! I think you might really enjoy some of Shirley Jackson's horror, The Haunting of Hill House and my comparatively underrated fave, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

[@frankiesshelf]

i’ve read i have always lived in the castle !! i thought it was good but quite wordy

[@cat-yp1gk]

@@frankiesshelf nice! it is wordy i'll give you that, but good wordy for me at least. i was in it for merricat's autistic swag

[@matilda5501]

these have been so wonderful and fill me with all the thoughts I am consumed by upon reading. making me want to read ever so much more!! my to read list is rapidly growing out of control but feeling very inspired! :,]]

[@EllaCarlson-zb9lj]

the cat popping out at 9:30 loll

[@abbyanderson55]

Wendy Williams would hate The Shards 😵‍💫The killer

[@lydialuvs]

I love spoiler vlogs!

[@DaydreamAllday]

I caught one of your videos 2 weeks ago & immediately went out and bought This Thing Between us. Read that book so fast! I usually have adhd & get distracted easily but i couldnt put that book down. Im putting more of your book recs on my tbr list. 😊🎉💜

[@AyezasAfterword]

love your reviews so much!! definitely going to pick up some of your recommendations for fall

[@PsichoPirate]

Ah! New video from Fern! Im happy now. Pd: New recomndation Satanas by Mario Mendoza. A real case about a psychopath in colombia but written as a novel with a sprinkle magical realism. I hope you enjoy my country's (Colombia) literature!

[@layalialsudairy9992]

I think you played the cello! Tell us your instrument😀😀 Thank you for the review. I read I who have never known men this year and it is one of my favorite books. You have summarized it beautifuly.

[@frankiesshelf]

ooh deep cut i had a brief love affair with the cello but i mainly played trumpet

[@miaarndt9501]

I feel so validated - I’ve tried to read Dubliners twice and both times I couldn’t get more than 15-20 pages in because it was literally putting me to sleep 😂

[@ihaverabies]

i've been wandering if bret easton ellis' works would be something i enjoy, since im basically in love with donna tartt, and now that im watching this video the shards has definitely been added to my tbr !

[@marilynlee9676]

you look like a trumpet kid but for your sake i hope im wrong (this coming from a flute player) and you actually did like clarinet or violin or something

[@frankiesshelf]

a flute player would say that… trumpet all the way baby

[@marilynlee9676]

@@frankiesshelf knew it

[@SciFiFinds]

Discovered your channel recently and have been enjoying your videos. Cheers!

[@stanloona000]

babe wake up, frankie posted a new video!

[@bingobongo26]

omg i love your channel!! ive been reserving books you recommend at my local library

[@cj1986x]

"Then I started reading Dubliners and it was so boring I almost fell into a coma" Welcome to the James Joyce Haters Club! You are not alone!

[@stanloona000]

I'm torn between liking your full recaps of the books and wanting to save certain things to myself for when I read some of them

[@LunovaLabs]

I just finished The Shards. As a queer guy I found it to be ALOT. So scary and tense, I had to stop reading it before bed. It made me jealous of how he actually had other queer guys in his school to hook up with. I was the only gay guy at my school. I found the closet interrogations to be more tense than the satanic stalking part.

[@isha3563]

i who have never known men was one of the best books i read in a long time tbh

[@katesherrod3498]

I just finished it two days ago and it was extraordinary! I found it scarier than anything traditionally regarded as horror.

[@bailagringacovers]

Love the long videos from u

[@frankiesshelf]

thank you!! i really like making them

[@rileyroseinabox6754]

12:42 clarinet for sure

[@wordstogetherwell]

Chlorine was one of my least favorite books of 2023. It reads like a ya. I rolled my eyes so hard so many times. Also: American Pyscho is like reading a catalog interspersed with crime scene photos. It's the grossest book I've ever read, but so well done. Like, so smart. So stomach-turning. I want to read The Shards real bad. "So much has happened but also nothing has happened" is my plot speed sweet spot.

[@user-luciddream]

lol i started chlorine yesterday and dnf-ed it 50 pages in because the writing was just bad. it was disappointing because i also got done reading "gideon the ninth" which i also hated so it was back to back disappointments. im now reading "House of Hunger" by Alexis Henderson to satisfy my need to read some lesbian horror and so far im enjoying it a lot more.

[@p1nkyypromise]

pls do more vids like this !!

[@matthewvaughn7142]

If you enjoy BEE's writing, you should read Glamorama. It's a wild book but doesn't have the gruesomeness of The Shards. They are my two favorite books by him!

[@peytonc6368]

Your recommendations are truly unmatched…no one is doing it like you babes!! Also clarinet? (Former flutist here)

[@frankiesshelf]

thank you so much !! and why is everyone saying clarinet 😭

[@pigeonriot]

chlorine reminds me (probably mostly because i *just* read it lol) of a short story in the Irish literary journal 'Banshee' #5, "The Souring of Milk" by Sophie van Llewyn where *SPOILER* this traditional housewife in a very traditional marriage can't perform her house tasks like miking the sheep or watching the souring of milk, anymore bevause she is heavily pregnant and overdue at that so all she ends up being able to do is lie in the bathtub ans she even tries to get out but she cant anymore so she watched her husband have an affair and while she is basically bound to the bathtub and she feels helpless while first the neighbors help her but then she feels like they start to resent her and the baby does not want to come she seems to go through some kind of transformation of first eating a fish whole and then slowly developing a tail, even a veterarien not a human doctor inspecting her, until at the end she "sings the baby out" and her daughter gets born as a mermaid and they both, as mermaids, escape through the drain

[@abbycarvermusic]

I'm on the last 30 pages of the shards and it took me awhile to get into it and now its gripping me

[@tomatobooksentertainment8376]

The only horror I’ve read this year is Dreamcatcher.Which I oddly liked the movie more than?

[@wywrd_mtnt]

youtube algorithm brought me here fir the second time in a few days so i need to stay here. i have no choice now

[@hmray26]

nothing i could have wanted more than this video as a break from my study grind 🫠

[@determinators]

you talked about band kid and the first two instruments that jumped to mind were clarinet and tuba 💀 close third was flute. otherwise oboe or sax

[@tkh22]

Anxiously awaiting your Bunny review because I feel like so many people love that book and I found it a bit disappointing

[@rhyst124]

It's so fucking hot here and I am in Wales. It's like.. I am buddy reading Fourth Wing with my niece. fml.

[@sallybanner]

instrument guess: clarinet

[@frankiesshelf]

take it back

[@allfantasticthings21]

Queer relationships, body horror, mermaids, retrospective narrator...Despite your (totally fair) critiques, I have to check out Chlorine, it's right up my alley!

[@frankiesshelf]

if you like short story collections i’d recommend her body and other parties by carmen maria machado as well as salt slow by julia armfield!! there’s no mermaids but they’re very very good queer horror collections

[@allfantasticthings21]

@@frankiesshelf LOVE short stories! Adding these to my TBR list, thank you for the recs!!!

[@sophieeee_____a]

trumpet

[@snailflowers]

i am guessing you played saxophone (mostly just because every band kid i’ve ever been friends with played the alto sax)

[@kendraaan]

I finally figured out who you remind me of! Maisie Williams! It's kind of uncanny

[@jsal7666]

i have dubliners on my bookshelf rn someone pls tell me its not that boring 😭😭

[@arianarosass]

You played flute for sure

[@frankiesshelf]

hurtful

[@arianarosass]

💀💀

[@candyhyojung1860]

as a clarinet, i think you are also a clarinet you just have the vibe 😙 (if you are a trumpet im gonna be mad at u srry.. if you're a string instrument like ..unsubscribing. might be ok if you're a horn or saxophone /lh)

[@frankiesshelf]

you’re gonna be mad…

[@kate7820]

whats your spotify!?

[@araara23]

Did you play trombone? Maybe flute? Idk any other instruments lol

[@sunglasses2130]

Chlorine was sooooooo visceral I had to skip that One Scene

[@lucia-dw5fo]

the writing in chlorine pissed me OFF! it was suuuuuch a disappointment.

[@lucia-dw5fo]

can’t wait to read the shards omg

[@frankiesshelf]

it just was not good to the point of being corny

[@joekratman1872]

Well the comments have spoiled the fact that you played trumpet but my genuine guess before finding out was clarinet so.... sorry to this man

[@frankiesshelf]

i’m so wounded by the clarinet guesses

[@joekratman1872]

@frankiesshelf I truly can't explain it you just give strong woodwind energy 🤷‍♂️

[@patrickcroteau3928]

Go read American Psycho and then Lunar Park by Ellis. Lunar Park should be a must read world wide.

[@PsichoPirate]

@@patrickcroteau3928 Loved American Psycho. Really messed up book, but so interesting being in the mind of Bateman.

[@frankiesshelf]

i almost cried when i saw that lunar park wasn’t at my library

[@patrickcroteau3928]

@@frankiesshelf its fan effing tastic. Loved every pages of it.

[@radhikaepps6680]

the last like 200 pages of the shards genuinely infuriated me so much I got my library card reactivated. the plot was so strong for the first 300 or so pages, but it really just started to drag for me after that. the ending was meh; i think it just didn’t live up to the hype the first half seemed to promise for me.

[@HalfBloodOtter]

Dubliners boring????????

[@tkh22]

18:06 was like a war flashback

[@haleydarko2989]

I just read Brainwyrms and I need to put it out there that you'll read it and talk about it. Manifesting if you will.

[@osiris676]

I recently discovered your channel and I really like your videos. I was surprised that you did not like "Crime and punishment". But I mean... I get it. It is a long and convoluted book. BUT DUBLINERS ? 🥲 So well written. So lively. Such a good and accurate portrait of Dublin.

[@frankiesshelf]

it’s literally sooo boring 😭 i agree that it’s well written though

[@osiris676]

@@frankiesshelf I get it... I am a big fan of Irish culture and maybe this is why I liked it so much. Sometimes you should make a video about Canadian authors specifically by the way ! It could be so interesting !!