Reading the Literary Fiction GoodReads Choice Nominees📚🌟💫

[@Amy1437]

not me tearing up watching yall open your gifts 😭 so happy you loved them!!!💓

[@BookReviewsWithBecky]

It was sooo cute! You have a very nice Etsy shop! Love it!

[@SydBookWorrom]

@@Amy1437 Amy I’ve cried like 7 times about it😭🥹💓💓💓💓 so thankful for you!!!!!

[@Amy1437]

@@BookReviewsWithBecky thank you!! 💖

[@Amy1437]

@@SydBookWorrom 💞💞💞

[@wayardnerd67]

Not me tearing up watching the two most wholesome people open their birthday gifts 🥹 What a time to be alive ❤

[@SydBookWorrom]

@@wayardnerd67 WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE INDEED🥹🥹🥹🥹

[@GavinReadsItAll]

I was literally refreshing my sub feed waiting for this since your instagram story 👏🏼

[@SydBookWorrom]

Omg ily🥹💓

[@kwoot07]

I love that you put Caleb in your videos sometimes. It’s so fun to watch you too, especially since you’re so happy!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

Your little giggles when you’re opening the packages is so cute 🥹

[@Booksandheather]

Absolutely love your longer vlogs. They are such comfort watches. I’m taking some of these recs to my book club next week - you sold me on them!

[@SydBookWorrom]

@@Booksandheather omg thank you so much!!! 🥹💓

[@kirstendickinson1361]

Syd crying over her gift had me tearing up lol

[@daryanreads]

omg i'm crying with you, you deserve to feel so loved!

[@kaesinfinitelibrary]

Oh my gosh your gifts are the sweetest!!! Awww you and Caleb opening the stained glass gifts have me crying 😭😭😭 Happy belated birthday to both of you!!!!

[@kayyylahhhh]

You are the most adorable person in the world you deserve all the goodness that comes your way! ✨

[@taylorlmoore]

Okay but literally why was the mallard duck giving Caleb?? 😂

[@Allena_inwonderland]

Happy belated to you and Caleb!! 🖤 the stained glass pieces are literally stunning 😍

[@iliana_noory]

I am finally catching up with your videos and I am so glad your crochet friends arrived!!!!!!

[@LCSelf510]

☕️ love the stained glass pieces and the snow! ☕️

[@maggiemacgirr8238]

I love your videos! I hope you had a great birthday and I cant wait to see more of your TBRs and reading vlogs. Definitely added a few books to my tbr after watching.

[@kimberlyschroeder7409]

I love Caleb in the videos!! You guys are the cutest! I love how supportive he is of your endeavours and community

[@LauraPricefitness]

I cried too 😭. That stained glass gift is beautiful and well deserved for a wonderful booktuber!

[@michelleizoco]

Blue Sisters messed me up in a great way. I also really loved it and as someone who lost a sibling, it hurt but was also so cathartic. I adore that there's no clean ending - some of them get "better", some don't and I'm so glad I read it when it came out. I rated it five stars too. I'm going to read Hyunam-dong before the year is out.

[@SydBookWorrom]

@@michelleizoco ugh exactly! Coco really is a phenomenal writer🥹 I hope you love hyunam-dong bookshop🥹💓

[@Botanicbooknest]

This was such a cozy vlog and I loved the gift opening parts of the video! You guys are so sweet and deserve the love so much ❤🥰 Your review of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong bookstore is making me very tempted to pick it up - especially since I'm in Seoul right now so the timing is perfect ✨️

[@saalexanderson699]

Loved this video! So many of these are on my tbr. Loved seeing you open your gifts; the stained glass is beautiful! ☕️☕️

[@moniquebaham]

I loved the long blog! You and Caleb are such warm and fun people to watch…especially when I’m chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. ☕️

[@VeraFran]

I loved this video! And my birthday was one day after yours (November 19th).

[@rebeccamarsden2128]

☕️Blue Sisters is one of the best books I’ve read this year!💙

[@kasjo78]

Amazing video! And happy belated birthday to you both! 🎉📚☕️

[@lovekatie3528]

I don't even LIKE literary fiction and you have made me want to read all these books

[@Hillary429]

Hear me out, video idea Read with me: Workout Tutorial.. a beginner’s workout routine with just music overlayed so people could either follow along with your workout or just read.

[@KimberlyMcCraw-i3r]

I haven't read a single book in this category yet but I'm excited for a few, especially after hearing your reviews!

[@ffiontill5924]

I voted for blue sisters. I think it might be my favourite book but I’ll definitely read welcome to the Hyunam-Dong bookshop ☕️☕️ I loved this vlog and that you had such great reads.

[@GoldenHourWhimsy]

I’m not a huge lit fic reader (here for the fantasy recs) but still love watching your vlogs and reviews no matter the genre!!

[@christinah3332]

Happy birthday to you and Caleb! ☕️☕️

[@BookReviewsWithBecky]

I love the UFO!! You two are so cute together!

[@RoseArnoldd]

A lot of these are on my tbr too! So glad you enjoyed ☺️ Please share your thoughts on martyr! after you’ve read it, that’s one I’m really excited about 🥹

[@_ashleylh]

My vote was for Blue Sisters! I have only read Intermezzo and Good Material besides that one. They were both strong, but Blue Sisters was just so beautiful to me. I have purchased or put so many of the nominees on hold on Libby/at the library - fiction is definitely the strongest category this year. I'm super interested in some science ficiton and horror, too this year. I am especially super excited to read "A Sky Full ot Elephants". Its too bad that it didn't make the top 10. Fantasy was disappointing for me this year. The two I liked best weren't even top 10!

[@christinemartin8549]

I haven't started watching yet, but I read The Wedding People this week. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Totally my jam.

[@bookfairy62]

☕️ Happy belated birthday to you and Caleb. You two are such a cute couple. Thanks for the great recommendations. 💜

[@andrearodriguez62]

You make my days better❤

[@Emily-qx8yg]

Syd I just read Taking Care by Sarah DiGregorio, its a nonfiction about historical and current time nursing and I would love to hear your thoughts on it. The audiobook is on Everand.

[@sashamoons868]

Happyyy birthdayyy! 🎉❤

[@The_WriterVerse]

Another reason for lack of quotations is that if the story is told in past tense, it could reflect that the dialogue is not exactly being correctly remembered or honestly expressed. Memory is never perfect and we often tell the past to ourselves differently than it actually happened.

[@SydBookWorrom]

Interesting!!!!!!

[@hanaalfayez7150]

Happy birthday Syd 🎉🎉🎉 my husband’s birthday was on the 22nd of November and his sister’s was on the 25th 😊

[@bookinhand_]

Tearing up with you!! You deserve it ! ❤❤

[@lojcass]

i voted for Intermezzo. i’m a Sally Rooney stan lol but Martyr! was such a close second for me!! i think you’ll love it.

[@TheLiteraryLifeofBeans]

I voted for I Hope This Finds You Well. I absolutely love that book and I think you will too!

[@mandeepsian6857]

Yeahhh! Spin the bottle!

[@beckylovesbooks]

Yay scorpios!🎉

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

I gave Intermezzo two stars but I'm happy you liked it though!

[@dennismorrow4928]

☕I vote for you!❤

[@runreaderrun]

Syd, I've been reading the bright sword by lev Grossman and I think you'd really enjoy it! Great video ❤

[@JuliaC975]

This is weird but I couldn’t handle the amount of time The Wedding People mentioned Covid-it really took me out of it and I felt it wasn’t actually necessary.

[@stephaniebookish]

Not me crying with you hahaha

[@MikaelaShea]

Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe is even better and I LOVED Margo’s Got Money Problems.

[@ericaxoxo7440]

I love this video!!!! U should really read i hope this finds you well, it had dry humor and I found it to be very funny

[@stephaniebookish]

HELLO IM SO EXCITED

[@SydBookWorrom]

@@stephaniebookish 🤭💓

[@bethmetcalf3447]

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[@ayragon]

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[@user-qu8zs7vs1x]

Loved this vlog! Margo's got money troubles was one of my faves of the year, such a relatable and well-written character. I'm not a fan of Sally Rooney's work at all and I have seen Coco Mellors be compared to her, would you say Mellor's books have similar vibes-themes-characters as Rooney's work? I can't stand Rooney's passive female characters and the nonsense issues all her characters have just because they lack basic communication skills, but I very much am curious about Mellors work

[@SydBookWorrom]

@@user-qu8zs7vs1x I could see the comparison in how they explore flawed and real characters and themes, but their writing styles are very different in my opinion. I also see coco’s female characters as my FAVORITE parts. I think coco would be worth a try for you to be completely honest!

[@SamuelMcAuliff]

I have never read Sally Rooney, nor know anything about her other than the titles of her books. But what you describe sounds a lot like Virginia Woolf's writing style. Maybe she's a fan.

[@gabrielacunha5792]

Hello! I'm from Brazil, do you believe that I would be able to participate in Patreon acrivities? I'm worried mostly about time zones 😢

[@gabrielacunha5792]

Sorry about the random comment hahah

[@Mariareads97]

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[@JosieClemensChannel]

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[@AlyciaRunsandReads]

I gave normal people 2 stars but am liking intermezzo so it makes me wonder if I should reread normal people. Maybe I just didn’t read it at the right time.

[@SydBookWorrom]

@@AlyciaRunsandReads right place right time is such a real thing!!!

[@goddessnix444]

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[@emerkinsella470]

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[@Hannah-et3xk]

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[@kellymanfredini3835]

I will likely not vote since I onky read one of them and didn't really like it.

[@spiritedreviewexc]

im not crying you are....i dont read let fic, and the one book i did vote for in romance didn´t make it....so like yea good read is awful

[@Bella-pb6uk]

I am so so happy you liked Margo’s Got Money Troubles!! it was a bit unrealistic in some aspects but i was so happy to read a book in which a sex worker and an addict have a happy ending!! i’m probably never gonna read a sally rooney, nothing about her appeals to me, but i’m glad you enjoyed 🩷

[@yccmqb]

Unrelated to books - I started using OTC Lidocaine patches to my lower belly and back when the cramps are too much. It’s changed my life! 🩸😂

[@SydBookWorrom]

OH MY GOD!??? I’m a trauma nurse and I’ve never thought to use these for cramps!! You’re brilliant haha

[@davidness9775]

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[@lacysexton4669]

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[@Kittyzero13426]

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[@debiklotovich1933]

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[@jaziybabe]

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[@jeannacata6446]

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[@laviestbelle3760]

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[@sophiareagan6425]

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[@paigebatey7056]

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[@jevensg]

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