taking you on a bookish date in seoul, korea vlog ❄️ book haul, christmas decor, bookstores

[@mifigue.miraisin]

I finally read six of crows thanks to you and Oh.. my god. Its so good I havent read a book that made me feel this much since childhood!!

[@caricanread]

YESSS omg i am due for a reread, its been so long :')

[@mifigue.miraisin]

@@caricanread have you also read the language of thorns? Leigh Bardugo is slowly becoming my favorite author

[@aslynmoore268]

I did the same thing life changing book even better on audio

[@FabledFajar]

I am SO excited for you to read under the oak tree. The character development is slow but so good and the art is beautiful

[@tj2375]

Errr... Reading the novelization, no art.

[@jackiewertan3074]

Cari, I finished my masters tonight and this is the perfect way to end my night!!

[@haute03]

Congrats!!

[@jayleebe]

This is the perfect chilled wintery day 😍 those Christmas lights while you’re reading… just perfect

[@caricanread]

the perfect ambiance if it were only a little less crowded hahaa

[@by_emilymarie]

ally carter is my favorite author for completely biased reasons i don't care she's wonderful honestly and her middle grade books were my entire personality as a kid, i get really excited when i see her pop up because i don't feel like she's super well known.

[@scribblesandscrawls]

Fairy lights are also a good way to decorate 😊 they don’t take up too much space, they come in different themes and can change the vibe of a room / make it more cozy :)

[@hazelleyu8402]

under the oak tree was a web novel first! so it was a (web) book > webtoon > physical book > translated book! isn’t it bonkers

[@pendragon2012]

Bookish dates are the best! 😍Hope you and Kurt are safe in all the craziness.

[@AnimeLover36902]

Yes! A new video!!! Thank you so much. I had such a bad day today but seeing that you uploaded is the perfect break I needed to rest, get my energy back and then get back to it!!

[@caricanread]

oh no :''''( hope tomorrow is much better!

[@Lillyjoy]

That Under the Oak Tree book & cover is sooo stunning

[@dark.and.planty]

Oh wow, that pop-ups idea for decorations is GENIUS! I also live in a small apartment and although I can have a little bit of decorations to store, I’m super limited in what I can get and always look for the smallest volume with the biggest impact, if that makes sense 😂 Thanks for the idea!

[@2youstories]

Just snowed here in Canada and it made me immediately want to go visit a few cafes and bookstores too! The vibes in this book vlog are 💯

[@ayragon]

I hope you’re safe. Good to see a post.

[@caricanread]

I think the western media is telling a very different story because what happened only last about 2 hours in the middle of the night 😅

[@uarmyvibe]

i just found your channel and somehow watching/hearing you talking about book's and stuff here and there is so comforting🍂

[@BarbaraBoholm]

Cari i love when you take us along on bookish dates,love em!!!! Bookstores,cafes,bookhauls and getting ideas for my growing to be read pile😉Heaven!!! Sending you warm hugs your way

[@bmoforever5562]

A balm for the heart these videos 💖♥️💖

[@caricanread]

[@thaisgastaldi1180]

ooohh i really needed a Cari's vlog today! a thousand times thank you 💖💖💖

[@caricanread]

no, thank YOU!!!

[@Rene_33]

Under the Oak Tree is so good! I was shocked when I saw the two books released for it. I never finished reading the web novel. Didn't even know it was completed. I might get them for Christmas for myself

[@Itsbaberuthless_]

I love your cari cakes vlogs so much. Thank you for taking us on a little adventure on your book channel. Each time you go out I’m so happy to see how walkable Seoul is. Seems so so lovely.

[@Artemis_dreams]

I watched this while having my morning coffee. Such a peaceful bookish start to the day. ❤

[@BrittaMartinique]

Chill video to watch, thanks for taking us along! ❤

[@Penelopelu_333]

OMGG!!! I love Under The Oak Tree! It’s very good, although might be a little questionable in novel format from what I’ve heard. The front cover is so gorgeous though.

[@Lillyjoy]

Was it originally a comic? I was confused about that

[@Penelopelu_333]

@@Lillyjoy I believe it was originally a novel, but it had a different cover. It was also split into different books. Then when it was created into a comic; it becomes more popular. They redesigned the cover and/or perhaps changed the actual novel to make it clearer.

[@jessicaallard9453]

Those holiday pop-ups are SO freaking adorable!!!

[@alexb2563]

Starting off so cozy! So excited to watch 🩷

[@caricanread]

hope you enjoy^^

[@dianananzhu1007]

Seoul is already so beautiful 🥲. This is the first time in a long time that I'm really looking forward to Christmas decorations and staff ~ So excited for the new vlog. 💙

[@biancavisagie1934]

I just moved to Seoul and I’ve been using your videos as my guide😁 I can’t wait to go on a book date with myself this weekend 🎉

[@pagesinked]

Stay safe out there Cari! Sending love to all of you in Seoul right now. 🫂

[@avahsnart99]

LEGALLY I have to let you know I finally read the raven cycle when I saw you actually bought the special editions, and can I just say……… my whole life just changed 😭 I was still skeptical when I started book 1 but by the end I knew it was the beginning of the end for me LOL! thank you carrie for having impeccable taste as always.

[@drum1801]

I love your vlogs, the soundtrack is always so good.

[@blackcatreliquiae]

Oh my goodness, I literally got Under the Oak Tree in the mail Yesterday!! I can’t wait to finish it and then get to see what you thought of it too! Btw a wonderful video, it’s so fun to see what different seasons look like on the other side of the world 😊 Y’all’s bookstores are the cutest!

[@lanimartinez3910]

Looooove BOTM! Homeseeking is on my TBR also. The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year has a 23 week wait list at my library

[@daysofPhilia]

omg that under the oak tree cover so stunning!!! I read the manhwa and loving the story. I think the novel should be even better!

[@benbrelje1918]

Happy to be back here watching your content again I had to be strict with myself I was feeling like I was spending way too much time on my phone so I just had to cut out KZbin and all social media for a while and a hot minute

[@caricanread]

ugh i know the feeling :''''')

[@JehnReads]

Wow. The decorations in the mall are amazing!!! Thanks for the cozy video

[@pleasedtoreadyou]

such a lovely, cozy vlog. and so much excitement for you doing the lord's work again and reading all the christmas rom-coms 😬 dogspeed, soldier!

[@Ravencycle21]

Love your videos as always! I just bought a kindle paperwhite signature because of you ❤

[@caricanread]

oh hope your ebook journey is amazing hahaha literally changed my life!

[@Ravencycle21]

@ thank you! I think it will be amazing!

[@maru99999]

the physical book of Under the oak tree is beautiful wow

[@floriia1096]

Hi Cari! I love your vlogs! Those christmas decorations are the cutest! I hope you have a lovely day! Sending you love! ✨

[@kaylab.6361]

I absolutely LOVE that you found such a creative way to still fit in some holiday decor ❤

[@mariluuu17]

I absolutely LOVE the cards as decorations!! they're sooo cute and perfect for Christmas. Thank you always for this reading vlogs, I truly enjoy them and all your videos are just a safe space and moment. Just like you, I don't think I'll have too much time to read in December, but hopefully it will be a great month either way. Have a lovely weekend, Cari ✨️🫶🏻

[@Burlesquemushroom]

This is perfect, thank you for taking all of us with you

[@rachaels742]

i’m sure you’ve thought about it already (or have already been asked), but would you consider starting an online book club? i love your taste in books and it could be such a fun thing to do as a community!!

[@Irulan-j7z]

Love your book vlogs❤! Can’t wait to see the next one! Keep up the amazing work✨

[@poppycalliope]

Omg i used to read under the oak tree, didn't know it has a novel now! Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it ✨️ thank u for the cozy vibes Cari 💌

[@carolineblueskies]

Been patiently awaiting snow content since I saw the news about it snowing in Seoul! So cozy

[@annaivashchenko5423]

This video is just so cozy!!! Thank you ✨

[@ephemariel]

OMG OMG CARI READING UNDER THE OAK TREE??? HELL YESSSSS

[@bookbrain1557]

Yay🎉 I love bookish vlogs!!!

[@caricanread]

and i love making them :''')

[@thepoetspace]

I really needed some company thank you Cari❤

[@caricanread]

❤❤❤❤

[@christinabarker1453]

I loved this vlog! Thank you! I just put Under the Oak Tree on my wishlist

[@bec9888]

you remind me so much of pam from the office! love your videos :)

[@lisa5878]

I was so surprised you pulled out Under the Oak Tree. I for sure thought it was going to be Lore Olympus!

[@mattkean1128]

The Christmas decorations! 🎄💕 The newest Emma Lion book just came out. They're so charming 🥹.

[@carmenvic6294]

Honestly Cari I can’t say it enough, your videos are such a safe space for me and they always make me smile and feel so calm. 🫶 It’s one of the few times in my day to day life that I can actually relax and treat myself to a pause. 🙏 Please keep doing what you’re doing, there are people out here who appreciate and support you from the bottom of our hearts.❤️

[@probablyanotherescape7496]

great video as always! Thank you for this cozy vlog!

[@paulinen.8286]

Hey Cari! I hope youre being safe with what is going on in S.Korea right now

[@lm4757]

I would love to hear your opinion on The Last Hour Between Worlds! I think it might be a polarizing read but I personally had sooo much fun with it, really recommend

[@_rayafterhours]

❤🫧just beautiful hope one day i get to visit cause its soo beautiful but now gonna live through cari!

[@caricanread]

yessss seoul is waiting!!

[@mackenzies.g.9862]

Not gonna lie, I really love Under the Oak Tree. I'm reading the web comic, and I bought the physical and ebook to read it again ❤ I feel like it's romantasy, but I actually care about these characters and their growth

[@alelivex]

23:19 Rummo pasta?? girl, you've got excellent taste, you couldn't have chosen better! (source: me, an Italian)

[@aerisnaomi8057]

omg good morning to me! 😁

[@caricanread]

heheheh yes happy friday!!

[@aslynmoore268]

Omg I did not know that under the oak tree became a novel I have to get it !!

[@morganm71]

Can you please link your kindle case?! Thank you!! 😊

[@lemonpop6251]

Your video is the first to talk about the library in another country. I'm sure others have and I just miss it. So I'm curious how the libraries in South Korea are. I live in a small town in the US and our library is also the community center of our town. So you can get books, community events, and support services like food pantry, lunch for kids, different games and class for people to enjoy. I thought it was interesting that the library was in the mall. It was beautifully decorated for Christmas.

[@012Luci]

OMG YOU GOT UNDER THE OAK TREE!!! Pls pls let me know if it's good

[@caricanread]

yesss i had to get in online because korea didnt have it lol the irony :'''')

[@shoesinpairs]

"Grumpy and hot" that's exactly me in a mall!

[@yeonjaekim3669]

Hey Cari, I always enjoy your videos and this is my first time commenting! As a Korean, I really enjoy reading Korean books and I think it's really interesting to see the difference between Korean novels and American novels/English books. Could you maybe read a translated version of Korean books (Especially because a Korean author has just won this year's Nobel Prize) and review them?

[@caricanread]

I have many videos about Korean translated work and Han Gang!! Just search my name + korean books or Han Gang 🙏

[@Meowlo]

I just read Under the Oak Tree last month and I am very curious to hear your thoughts when you get to it. It's a beautiful book, that's for sure, but I definitely had some thoughts, particularly relating to a lack of content warnings.

[@carladiaz8399]

During collage my room was all I have so my Christmas decorations were photographs and images I printed 😂😂 my mom used to said they were pieces of paper to not go insane and seasonal depressed

[@suoulux4215]

OMG OMG OMG 😍 I bought Under the Oak Tree during my visit to Krakow last week. I was lost in a bookstore, and I asked my boyfriend to help me decide, and he randomly pointed at this book and said, This looks like something you would read. I opened a random page, and it was smut.... 😂😂😂 So yeah, I have it now.

[@MidEri.]

oh cool i also got Homeseeking from BOTM. Looking forward to it... :,D

[@sbyg4586]

I’m earlyyyy 🥰

[@caricanread]

yeee thanks for being here^^

[@Sthemingway]

High-five sister-friend on account of the not being that into graphic novels because you want to enjoy words or art but doing both to fully experience a narrative is hard b/c of impatience! Even when I used to "read" super hero comics (Alpha Flight, Wonder Woman) or cartoons in the newspaper (Garfield, Brenda K Starr, Cathy), I looked at the pictures and didn't bother reading the thought bubbles. There are two graphic novels that I *have* been able to enjoy very slowly by allowing myself to look at the images first and then read the text: The Harlem Hellfighters [Max Brooks (writing), Caanan White (art)] and It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (Zoe Thorogood).

[@mariapaulariverareyes9020]

Oh my god I hope you read i wish it could be christmas everyday is a very different christmas book and I think you will like it!!!!

[@goddessnix444]

oh noooo you got the novel version of under the oak tree. i am so curious what you think....

[@kaylabosman7189]

Immediately ordered Under the Oak Tree from Aladin 🤭🤭🤭

[@joanne798]

I was not expecting to see you pull out Under the Oak Tree. I'm very interested to hear your thoughts. I may be one of the few who eventually dnf'd this webtoon. Despite that, I'm curious to hear your review of it.

[@JayFernandes-b8c]

You referred to Rachel as a source of book recommendations, could you give link please? Love your journey and how you film it 🌈

[@summerg.2934]

That's funny I just put Under The Oak Tree novel version on hold, it just dropped at my library and everyone wants it lol. I saw the manhwa floating around digitally and everyone was going nuts for it, but I'm knee deep in like 5 different manga series so I put it off, the novel version works perfectly because I go back and forth between graphic and regular novels. Hopefully it lives up to the hype.

[@legitimate-salvage]

that library is massive omg. this was such a cute video, jealous of the snow! what's the book at 23:25?

[@mariemadlenek]

Wasn’t under the oak tree not straight smut HAAHAHAH I need to pick it up again it was so slow with updating when it came out

[@irissu02]

So I think under the oak tree was a web novel first then a webtoon !!! 🤔 Because actually a very big number of webtoons are based on a web novel now ! (Usually you can see when it's an adaptation because it has a writer and an artist in the credits (not always sometimes it's original duo but yeah)) When I research about it I hear people saying the novel is more far ahead than the webtoon

[@peanutmabel]

UNDER THE OAK TREE GOT A NOVELIZATION??!!!! ! AND I DIDN’T KNOW

[@magicblue1192]

I've read " Under the Oak tree" in webtoon form on manta, but stopped somewhere down the line, because I grew a bit impatient^^*

[@bidaaahmed399]

❤❤❤

[@caricanread]

[@misuko1792]

Cari hi, I live in Korea, in Daegu, but I don't know where to find books in English, HELP please😊

[@emmapanvil]

Does anyone know the song in the intro?🌟

[@JuliaZimmermann-e3j]

How so you receive BOTM in Korea? I would live to sign up, but there are no Europe countries available in the sign up Area. 😢

[@aeolia80]

9:16 I'm the same way!!!! it's soooo annoying. I live in France, and other than Korea and Japan, France is like one of the major countries for comics and graphic novels (I've even been to the graphic novel museum in Angouleme, where at their university there it's one of the few places in the world where you can get a bachelors and masters in graphic novels and comics, design and writing, lol). But me, oh gawd no, I can't do it, I love looking at the pictures, but I've never been able to follow along with the dialogue in them, my eyes get all twisted, and I'm sure I have some deep seeding prejudice that I may not have acknowledged, maybe I'm acknowledging it now, lol, that only certain people read graphic novels and comics, I know that's not the case, especially with the younger generations, and having lived in both Korea and now France. I really feel like that form of art/literature was actively mocked when I was growing up in the States, especially in the 80s and 90s, as being childish and if you still did it as an adult there was something seriously wrong with you, so I stayed away from it and because of that I lost the eye training to follow it. But man, here in France, the amount of graphic novel and comic reading is on par and rivals Korea and Japan, and some of them here are sooooooo beautiful, like the novel retellings in graphic form or the history books in graphic form, I could just buy some for the art, but then I'm missing half the point.

[@aeolia80]

12:09 oh man!! I miss samgak kimbap, lol, miss it sooooo much. The "onigiri" they sell here near Paris is disgusting, because they use sweetened rice vinegar in the rice, and ugh, I hate that, I miss just the salt and sesame oil

[@mylenebelanger6981]

Why did I think you were gonna put the pop up things inside your books and gift them as pop up books for Christmas? 😂😭

[@Epicentera]

Hi! I haven't watched the video yet (I will!) but I wanted you to know that you are one of the reasons I participated in NaNoWriMo this year! And while I didn't finish 50k words my story seems to have legs and I have continued writing it, with enough ideas to make a second or even a third book. Maybe you will read it one day (one can only live in hope)

[@dark.and.planty]

It makes me so sad/mad that Book of The Month doesn’t ship to Quebec 😭😭😭 everywhere else in Canada… but oh… not gods damned QC 😠😢

[@soukaa409]

as a webtoon reader I never understood the popularity of this one.... Hopefully you'll like it but if you dont (which I think you won't lol) dont rule them out please :'(

[@tj2375]

I love novels but I also love graphic novels. But I dislike this trend of adapting graphic novels to "novels". Each art form has it's language. It's like taking a painting and saying you've now adapt it to furniture or something.

[@linatrina]

Wait you live in soul???

[@caricanread]

yes!

[@hannahloftus8385]

16:45 - "It was a good time! Well...I don't know if it's a good time or not" I hope it stays a good time 😭 I made that my BotM pick because I really want to read but didn't want to wait at the library and I thought it was maybe a liiiiiitle too expensive at the bookstore 🥹

[@bravenewchapter]

The most wonderful crime of the year was my absolute favorite Christmas romance 🥲 it’s a rare one where romance makes sense and we actually get to enjoy the plot. Highly recommend!

[@caricanread]

lol i fear you will not like my review hahahah

[@bravenewchapter]

@ oh no, i will brace myself then 🥹😅