reading like I'm 16 again | Re-Reading Favourite Books from 11th Grade

[@KatieColson]

You have had such an interesting life. Especially to be so put together as an adult. I love when adults go “here’s a little photo of me drunk in a ditch” that’s the childhood stories we’re all looking for, ha

[@IamtheFluffyUnicorn]

Baby Kayla's life was WILD. All I did at 16 was go to practice and hours of stumbleupon...

[@aliciafaithreads]

Stumbleupon!!!

[@Jeffrey.e]

Omg stumbleupon 🤣🤣🤣

[@EssentiallyBooked]

I forgot about stumble upon!

[@ComeUndun.]

Oh man. I'm a teacher, and your stories remind me of the students I've worried the most about. THE STRESS! It's reassuring that things have turned out well for you hahaha

[@katreadsandstitches233]

My terrible memory could *never*. The way you’re able to remember so many details about your life is so fun! I half wish I could do the same, but on the other hand am very glad I don’t have to constantly cringe thinking about my pothead/unabashed ho years that were the end of high school.

[@megwithbooks]

im constantly astounded by your ability to REMEMBER STUFF!!! like what songs u liked in what years i could neverrr lmao

[@mjswan8492]

“Parked cars present no danger” made me laugh out loud

[@shaylynmakenzi3355]

I was just about to come comment this 😂

[@venusv8268]

Then Kayla’s like ‘well…’ 😂 I see she too played a lot of bumper cars in her childhood

[@marybell2897]

But people could be getting in and out of them, so it's worth noting their presence.

[@jillianprice6279]

LIVING for the dramatic scary reading 😩

[@taylorgayhart9497]

We are the same age so these videos are extra nostalgic for me lol but so much of this reminded me of high school!! Especially the party locations “go to this spot, and you’ll find a path, then walk for 45 minutes west and follow the sounds of Usher and and The Plan White Ts!” 🤣🤣🤣

[@MoJordanReads]

I'm always fascinated about how much you remember and have saved from your childhood, haha. Love these! I found myself thinking about those videos you did of predicting cover designs and I'm hoping there will be another one of those soon? 😍😁

[@aliciafaithreads]

This vlog brought up so many memories. I remember my stepmom always commenting on my size and how big my butt was and her gifting me “the world, my butt, and other big round things” for my birthday because it was such a joke and I was an avid reader. Like, wow this vlog helps me remember why I cut all those people out of my life. Thank you ❤️

[@octover6567]

when you make these videos it always blows my mind how much you remember

[@hfollman98]

Lord of the Flies is going to be the first book I teach this year (It's my first year teaching)! :)

[@BooksandLala]

oh funn I hope that kids enjoy it! good luck with teaching haley!!

[@Niratuer]

These are literally my fave videos, it makes me so nostalgic for my teenagehood 😂😂

[@LovelyWords18]

This one brought back a lot of memories of me and my best friend checking every Sunday for the new batch of post secrets to be posted. And she definitely got her mom or grandma to buy the post secret book full price for us to read through with them not knowing anything about what’s inside the book lol. The level of trust we all had back then to share our passwords with our best friends, but really it was a mutual threat/ implied blackmail that went along with the password.

[@daniellejade4805]

i love your content so much but you wearing your sweater both inside out AND the wrong way around is my personal highlight of the video and is also somehow very relatable

[@thoughtsofkatie5592]

Just unlocked a memory that I’M PRETTY SURE I SENT IN A SECRET TO POSTSECRET BUT I CAN’T REMEMBER FOR THE LIFE OF ME WHAT IT WAS. Edit: I think I wrote secrets on notecards and stuck them in library copies of the post secret books 💀💀💀💀

[@rebekahmenn2118]

Wow. Your high school experience was vastly different from mine. 😳

[@chriscze6153]

Strange that Lord of the Flies was their 11th grade choice - my class read Lord of the Flies in 4th grade I think (was raised in South Carolina). We did Lion, Witch, Wardrobe and Charlotte's Web the year before...pretty quick upgrade in terms of content if you ask me.

[@krystinareads]

Omg Hi! Happy 11th grade video! I can't believe how close we are to the end of this series 🥺 I've been having so much fun with these and hearing all your stories 💛✨

[@allgirlreview433]

The Long Walk was probably the first true dystopian book I ever read. It had a lasting effect on me. I didn't read Lord of the Flies until adulthood and was absolutely blown away.

[@carlee3958]

As I'm watching this series I am just in awe...I have zero memories like this with friends...then I remember that I'm a late diagnosed autistic lol!! My eleventh grade year I was obsessed with The Crow and anything by Anne Rice. That was also my entry year into black metal. Oh, and jackass and viva la bam were huge among my friend group. I read paranormal romance books lol.

[@makenziehofacker8378]

So far, this is the most entertaining year of Kayla in the series!! I love seeing all of the items, photos, and videos you have kept throughout the years!

[@seawitch8219]

That post secrets that is in braille is in uncontracted braille and the translation below it is correct.

[@kaytlinhenderson9206]

Love this whole series and am always impressed by what you’ve kept and what you remember! The friend contacting you about the blog post was incredible!

[@callielafleur4673]

Just As Long As We're Together was a favorite that I read many many times. Fun story, our grocery stores have used book tables at the entrances and I always poke around. A few years ago, there was a copy of JaLaWT, I went to grab it, and someone GRABBED IT BEFORE I COULD. And she left with it. I will never forget this. I hope she's enjoying MY BOOK. 😂

[@Jillybeanzxo]

I love this series so so much!!! I was born in 1990 and the relatability and nostalgia is crazy to me 😊 I’m convinced we were the same person 😄 I still have that very postsecret book as decor! 😅

[@anaisf8588]

I love that you’re going through a Taylor’s version arc and revisiting your previous reading eras

[@Jennikreads]

"Parked cars present no danger." "Well." 💀

[@iana.2973]

Oh Postsecret! I was obsessed with that site and would make documents with all my favorite secrets. Im from Quebec and no one else knew about it so I introduced it to some people. I would feel sulky when they did not take it very seriously 😂 I also really wanted the book but never ended up buying it

[@sdg3639]

Cheese and peanut butter is definitely a thing. I can’t remember the name of the brand, but I remember these bright orange cheese crackers with peanut butter between them . Ate them all the time as a kid.

[@cricketreads4654]

My favorite book from my childhood was from the Taffy Sinclair series. The spin-off series Fabulous Five was popular as well. The book was called Taffy Sinclair and the Romance Machine Disaster. Man that brings back memories!

[@faithbigelow1857]

I was dying when your sweater inside out and backwards and I was wondering how long it would take you to notice 😂

[@TheTailoredChoice]

The leaves changing color in your background is so beautiful!

[@chryssee]

Love this! I had peanut butter and honey sandwiches all the time after school. I also loved Oreos with peanut butter, which a lot of my friends thought was weird lol.

[@LaurianeDamara]

Omg! The Haunting! I was OBSESSED with it when I was younger. 😮 That scared me of opened stairs and my bedroom was in the basement, next to an opened stair. 🤣

[@tansjord]

Omg my most awaited sequel of the year just dropped 🤩🥰 this blog was so good!!! I think after your grade 12 video, you should make a video of just rereading Stephen King books that you didn’t get to 👀

[@Chelsea2023K]

So excited to watch this. These childhood favourites videos are so comforting 💗

[@WeathersWorldOfBooks]

I love this series! They always make me feel so nostalgic 😂 now I wish I had kept more little things like name tags and such.

[@tellsoftales]

Ahh post secrets!! The nostalgia. Also not going to lie, the fact that you said ewww to pb&j but were out here eating peanut butter and cheese wiz sandwiches is really sending me 😂 lol

[@lesliepowell-mccarty7067]

I love this video so much! I graduated from high school in 1984 and I am forever grateful we had no cell phones nor social media. Oh and PB and honey on oatnut bread is fantastic. PB and honey was always my hangover remedy. 😎✌️

[@bayleem8071]

You posting literally just made my day

[@behniwal08]

It amazes me how much you remember. Everything from school years just completely blends together for me. I also totally remember and loved those hot smoothies! The orange was definitely my favourite and I would dip a vanilla dip in it. Thinking of how sweet that must have been 😆

[@jessgignac8426]

Post secret brings back so many memories. I have all of the books they published, I need to go dig them out!

[@hale311]

I read lord of the flies in 8th grade and definitely didn’t understand all of that book. We also read animal farm in 8th grade and didn’t understand that. I think of going back and re reading them to see if I would understand them more now that I am out of college

[@EssentiallyBooked]

Ah! I have two Jean blankets that my grandma made for all of her grandkids. They are so warm!

[@zachzackzak]

There are cheese flavored crackers with peanut butter filling as well, I think they're by Keebler. I ate a ton of them in high school because they had a basket of them for free in the nurse's office, lol. I read Lord of the Flies in seventh grade for school and it was awesome even when I didn't understand all of the historical context. I think as adults we can sometimes overstate how much things like that matter to kids and their enjoyment of media.

[@bookedonafeeling]

Omg I can’t believe all the random stuff you still have from that year! The perfume box and the name tag… if I did this I’d just have a yearbook lol

[@stephaniebookish]

Omg I was a house keeper in HS too! Always had music blasting or, you know, Laguna Beach 😂

[@BrebearMckae]

Omg the synopsis 🤣🤣 16:39

[@Cassandrareads]

Judy Blume! I loved that book

[@talkingtomyshelf]

this is my favourite series from you!! thank you so much for all the work you put into your videos xxx

[@Anna2187_]

Omg post secret! What a throwback 😯

[@riankoch9126]

When you put up the 11th grade photos I was transported back to high school with you 🤣

[@ncityna]

lord of the flies used to be one of my favourite books when i first started to read outside of school

[@jazz5856]

I love these so much, especially as someone around the same age and also from BC.

[@louisereads]

I read the book for Across the Universe and loved it but forgot there was a movie! Totally watching that soon

[@iamgroot2495]

Ahh just what I needed today! Received some food life changing news today so this is the PERFECT way to celebrate 💜

[@Anna2187_]

Another thing influenced by lord of the flies that was popular at the time - the show Lost!

[@pucksandpaperbacks]

Omg, Across The Universe is also a movie a watched in high school. I used to watch it so much haha What a flashback!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

ROB’S YEARBOOK SIGNOFFS HAHAHAH

[@CheyeW13]

nearly exactly 5 yrs younger than you and american, and i can confirm, i still did that password swap thing w the besties in high school lol

[@eringolive]

I’m glad you read the long walk. It was my first King and I’ve been wanting to re-read it.

[@nicholas7695]

(BF works at Starbucks) you should totally try a chai with oat milk and 2 pumps of pumpkin. It’s a game changer!!

[@themusicsnob]

These are always fun to watch, especially since we are close to the same age. Looking back at books I read in middle school and high school they were very much steeped in body image issues, eating disorder struggles, and general mental health issues that were kind of normalized at the time for young women especially…I am glad things seem to have changed some in terms of what gets published for teens these days

[@abbytaegusuga]

It’s really fun watching these childhood faves cuz we are *exactly* the same age so I know exactly what references you’re making and how I felt in those moments. Usually it doesn’t matter the age gap/range but in high school every year was “so different” since we’re all changing in our adolescence so someone’s experience in 10th grade in 2006 isn’t the same as my experience in 11th grade in 2006 because the age is different, if that makes sense 😅 so yeah I enjoy relating to this series so much 😊

[@DufortIsa]

Man I feel old... in 2006-2007, I was 30 and had 2 kids already. I grew up before the internet was an everyday/everybody thing and we had to have pictures developed somewhere, so we were carefull about what was on it. I read Sweet Valley High translated in French back then and had no idea how to pronounce some of their names (grew up in a French-Canadian only area). I read a lot on Stephen King too, mostly on the long bus rides we had living in the countryside of a very small town. The long walk was so good.

[@dgs788]

Omg. This was *such* a good challenge vlog. Now I want a denim blanket.

[@ohladysamantha]

Definitely had the post secret book. Maybe I still do somewhere. It’s so true that it led to HONY.

[@erinerinerinerinerinerinerin]

Omg I was just about to comment about Kayla's inside-out sweater when she finally noticed 🤣 thank god she fixed it in the vlog, it was causing me distress

[@Shellyish]

I loved this video so much! I want to of my own version. Whew, my 16-year-old self would be odd because I was such a different person.

[@AmandaB09]

My grandmother loves pb and cheese sandwiches. How odd there is someone else out there. Also I too worked at Ramada in high school, started there at 15 since my mom also worked there.

[@courtney7288]

I'm here for the cupboard diaries!

[@averym7068]

Okay off topic but every outfit you are wearing in this video is adorable and cozy and I just love it Also yes to Starbucks chai, always

[@sapphirehealer]

peanut butter and cheese is an excellent sandwich, I don't know how good the cheese is in Canada but since I discovered peanut butter (I'm from Spain) I've made many pb and cheese sandwiches 😌

[@TheSmalyy]

"parked cars present no danger" iconic line

[@shandaboreson2998]

I can smell that magazine! Wow the memories!

[@lifeonabudget8513]

I tried reading those Louise Rennison books but nope🤣 The writing style was too all over the place for me. I did read the sweet valley high books and loved them.

[@addye.reads.]

OMG you just unlocked a memory, I used to always drink the raspberry hot smoothie and nobody remember them I thought I imagined that 🤣

[@jaimeerindy4573]

You're playing volleyball!! I'm a vball coach and I got so excited when I heard that lol

[@hazelhood7456]

I wish I still had my year books. Unfortunately they didn’t travel with me when I moved countries

[@jesswrites5185]

Another Lord of the Flies-ish book that you should read is Pigs by Johanna Stoberock. It's so weird and I really want to hear your take on it!

[@linatrina]

Been waiting for this one❤ hope you're doing good!

[@osteophagus]

My dad always puts Cheez Whiz on his pancakes, my mom and I heavily question his tastebuds.

[@taylorgayhart9497]

Yay I’m so excited for this!!!

[@fmarginalia]

“Parked cars present no danger.” “…Well-“

[@Kenziebeatty]

wow the hot smoothee was a throwback I don't I ever wanted 😂

[@BooksandLala]

hahahahahaha I remember this one guy who would get a combination of all 4 flavours in one cup. It hurts to think about.

[@taylorgayhart9497]

We had each other’s passwords too 🤣🤣🤣 but it was mostly MySpace and photobucket lol my friend became a *huge* beauty guru/influencer and her fans and haters found them and stole all our embarrassing photos and posted them all over their blogs and Reddit!! So embarrassing!!

[@BooksandLala]

omg noooooo that's awful!! Also I forgot about photobucket omg

[@WinterWind]

I love these videos. We're about the same age and younger us were very similar. The nostalgia factor is high 🥳

[@Neverrgreen]

My high school was attached to the community pool but sadly the schools didn't take advantage of that too much.

[@FMsukina]

Ohhh, I LOVED peanut butter AND Cheez Whiz . . . Until a family member told me that Cheez Whiz is one chemical process away from becoming plastic. I haven't eaten Cheez Whiz (or any non-natural PB) since I learned that, LOL!

[@margarethempleman5670]

I LOVE the MTV sweatshirt

[@andreabootsma8478]

okay, but I also loved a peanut butter and cheez whiz sandwhich as a kid

[@EssentiallyBooked]

Canadian peanut butter jars are cute. 😂

[@deerhead751]

This one is missing from your play list. I just watched through it and I had to search for this. Just wanted to let you know so you could add it. 😊

[@arobinreads]

Saying to an author "I can't publish more than one book from you each year" sounds so hilarious in this day and age. Publishers probably would love to have more books come out from authors Reading The long walk soon!

[@beaubooks7287]

I just went to check if any of my old blogs still exist… they do, and it’s not flattering content 😂

[@kate-ne]

I remember in college I told one of my advisors about my childhood website and told him the URL NOT EXPECTING IT TO STILL BE HOSTED and when he started reading some of my blog posts I nearly died of cringe. So I feel you on that blog comment lol

[@BooksandLala]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@monikaliane]

Jr high I believe I read . That cover gave me flashbacks

[@manon4778]

Cheese in a jar....? What did I just witness ? 😶😂

[@leilajaafari8436]

“I was horrifically uncool” me also in high school