TBR RE-DO // reading books from my past tbrs that i didn't finish EP. 3

[@RileyMarie_]

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[@drelikestoread9119]

This might sound weird but I feel like you’re the kind of human that heals you by just being around them. You have such a calming energy 💗

[@ashleyjoyes4425]

Yes she is!!!💓

[@pumpkinjennilynn]

Love a turn a round where a book you didn’t like turns out to be enjoyable later.

[@smdirksen28]

“My Best Friend’s Exorcism” is like reading an 80’s Horror Movie and one of the best covers ever!!!

[@cindiadkins9510]

it’s also becoming an amazon movie with the actress from the movie eighth grade

[@angeladuckett1531]

I agree! I really enjoyed “My Best Friend’s Exorcism”

[@monicamerle1417]

Can't believe you Dnf'd The southern book club's guide to slaying vampires the first time. That book had me hooked for 2 days straight 😆

[@jenniferhagler1606]

The brother and the sister both have their own books now and are just as amazing! Definitely finish the series so you can pick those up, you won’t be disappointed!

[@Ananenina]

The surviving trace series is absolutely amaziiiiing! book 2 is super angsty and the 3rd is everything I needed. So please read them Riley! You'll enjoy them :)

[@basicbechreader1742]

I love these videos it's such a great idea to go back to old videos and read the books you didn't get to. Can't wait for your next one

[@AlyssaReids]

I'm loving this series! I already can't wait for the next episode. 😁

[@andrewannotates]

It’s so nice watching people love books

[@jamieepf9806]

This is my favorite series on booktube! I absolutely love this series and I look forward to it every month🥰

[@alidathebooks806]

My Best Friend's Exorcism is a really fun read by Grady Hendrix. I love watching your TBR Re-Do series!

[@CloudMariam]

You convinced me to buy The Surviving Trace on Kindle. I love time travel stories as well, and I love Outlander. This might be a book I enjoy as well. 😇

[@adrafinnie855]

I love 💕 these redos I find them amusing/entertaining Your energy is very energetic it makes me want to read all these books I can relate I just recently moved and most of my books are still packed only a handful of my books are out. Two books ain’t that bad now if it were your entire tbr. Great 👍 video

[@losermillie]

How you felt about the southern book clubs guide or whatever it’s called is exactly how I felt with The Hate You Give! I gave up half way the first time, forced myself to re-read to finish it and loved it 😬

[@whatalicesaw]

Grady Hendrix’s My Best Friend’s Exorcism is great. It’s not scary, but it’s an amazing story about 2 best friends and what they’ll do to save one of them.

[@Angela41541]

i think you'll like the "My Best Friend's Exorcism" by Hendrix. it seems like your vibe. but also, the "save our souls" one is about music and since you like daisy jones i think you'll like this one too

[@k9qtea]

*we sold our souls :)

[@Angela41541]

@@k9qtea right. hi, i'm a dumb-dumb xD thanks for correcting

[@k9qtea]

@@Angela41541 haha no problem. sorry if that was rude for me to correct the typo. It's such a great book though.

[@Angela41541]

@@k9qtea no-no. i was genuine. thank you for correcting it xD

[@k9qtea]

Grady Hendrix just has a way with writing, I think it helps that he's also a screenwriter. If you enjoy B-grade campy horror movies, I HIGHLY suggest reading Horrorstor by him. It's fairly short and has wide margins (at least my copy does) and it's set up like an IKEA catalog. My favorite part is that the products at the chapter headings slowly get more and more sinister as it progresses. It's also going to be a movie someday, super excited about that!

[@LorisBookTrials]

Grady Hendrix has a new book coming out July 13th. Its called The Final Girl support group. I know Heather from bookables read an advance copy and I believe she gave it 4 stars. And she said it was scary. I know I am looking forward to it. I probably won't read it until October because that's when I read the one you just read. I haven't read any of his other works thou. So glad you gave it other chance and it paid off. Love this series.

[@KristenReads]

Ooh, The Surviving Trace sounds right up my alley.

[@InLoveAndWords]

I loveeeee this series!

[@teaindecember]

I had such a hard time with Southern Book Club bc of all the gaslighting and the second-hand cringe haha, I had to put the book down so many times in the scene with the husbands. The horror elements were really great/effective but I just didn't love his characterization/character arcs, so it wasn't a favorite for me. I'm glad you really enjoyed it this time around! I'm interested to check out his new book coming out next month.

[@wildflower_moon_books]

Omg the scene with the husbands basically all ganging up on her made me so angry! I was literally shaking.

[@alistofsydneys]

I am so glad you read The Surviving Trace! It’s so good and you should definitely continue the series. I have not read Livingston’s book but books 2 and 3 are also amazing!

[@thecraftyveronicareads]

Just added Surviving Trace to my tbr 😊

[@alyssav177]

A lot of people are saying my best friends exorcism. But if gaslighting is something you’d rather avoid that book is just as bad lol. It’ was actually worse for me because it’s parents gaslighting kids and it was infuriating. So fair warning there!!

[@TheGoofy1932]

I'm completely a mood reader so I DNF books pretty quickly. I'm glad you gave Southern Book Club a second chance though. Living in the south for as long as I have now I saw so much of the culture reflected in the characters. As a Northerner originally I feel like this book would have been invaluable to me when I was younger and confused by many of the phrases, attitudes and such in the South. 😂

[@crystalsbookishlife]

Ohmygosh I hope you like The Surviving Trace I love that book 😍

[@crystalsbookishlife]

YESSSSSSSSSSSS 🙌😍

[@tanyatessier8887]

I am loving this series!! 💕🥰

[@ewokallie]

I love the sound effects

[@KittyAndTheBooks]

Last year I've read Horrostör by Grady Hendrix and it was real good fun. I really liked how it was super short but entertaining, reminded me of those horror films I watched in the 2000s.

[@KadyAz17]

My Best Friend's Exorcism is my absolute favorite Grady Hendrix book. Emotional, funny and gross - it's just like watching the best 80s horror movie you've ever seen. 💯🔥

[@lanej.6458]

This was a lovely video, I will forever love your Videos, Riley. Only ever wishing you the best! 💕

[@bouldermimi]

You might try A Murder in Time series. A time travel mystery / romance series. I love them!

[@micki_cam5740]

These videos are always fun

[@cindiadkins9510]

southern vampires is getting turned into an amazon series!!!

[@contrapasso5456]

I think about the whimsy of the reading experience ALL THE TIME. But instead of enabling me to dnf it makes me want to finish every book I read because of the "what if" 🙃

[@nikki9808]

I read Southern Book Club last month and felt the same way! the rats and the bugs especially…. ughhhhh (but in a good way). there’s a similar naaaasty bug scene in My Best Friend’s Exorcism, which is the only other Grady Hendrix book I’ve read (and also loved). plus, the paperback cover is absolutely to die for

[@listenwithprecious]

I really like this series!

[@addictedtofictionx]

I’m also currently rereading the souther book clubs guide after stopping halfway through and enjoying it way more why are we the same person?!😂 I’ve read my best friends exorcism and really enjoyed that too!!

[@abi_jean_reads]

my little completionist heart loves this series! lol

[@mandkips]

i've been eyeeing southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires - after your review im even more curious about it! Also took you talking about DNFing books as an opportunity to put down a book i started, but wasn't really gravitating towards. It's been hard persoally to train myself to DNF books im just not feeling, but i think the way you put it was really helpful to me. Thanks!

[@ryanng754]

i like the the book of two way novel when a married woman never talk gossip to husband and man co - worker never talk gossip.

[@amandap2579]

My best friends exorcism is also a great read, and, is currently being adapted!

[@cryingaboutbooks]

okay I’m off to go put a hold @ the library on both these books ✌🏼

[@racheldida]

So glad you gave Southern Book Club's Guide a second change - I read it this year and loved it. Also, another spoonie with eye issues here -- audiobooks are the best!

[@katybizzle16]

Start with My Best Friends Exorcism - Grady Hendrix has said he sees it as a partner novel to Southern Bookclubs Guide to Slaying Vampires, but about the kids instead of the parents! Big Jennifer’s Body energy. Horrorstor is good as well would recommend but it’s one of his earlier works and a little gimmicky, the premise is it’s a haunted ikea so the book is laid out like and ikea catalog. Really fun but not as much substance as his novels.

[@bookshelfbard9873]

What a cool reading list idea! Such a cute video ♥️

[@scytherpunk6]

Glad to hear you ended up enjoying Southern Book Club, I highly recommend Horrorstor by him, I really liked it, and the layout of the physical book is really cool!

[@secret_badass]

You should read Polaris Rising! I think you’d really like it. It was one of my favorite reads of 2020.

[@KatieReads]

Grady Hendrix has a new book coming out in July called The Final Girls Support Group!

[@aless.andra9620]

Hey, Riley! I've recently watched this TV series which I think you would love! It's called *Katla* (currently on Netflix) and it's set in a remote settlement in Iceland where the nearby volcano makes people disappear and then brings them/ or clones of them back years later. The cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, and the tone is very much sci-fi/mythology/horror💕

[@sffbookrecs4268]

Very exciting that you loved both of these books. Lets hope their other books are just as good. Grady Hendrix just wrote one about last girls aka survivors of serial killers. I've really loved these re-do the TBR vlogs

[@pagesandprose1736]

Ok, I gotta read The Surviving Trace now!

[@pandora2658]

I absolutely hated Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. It seems to be either a big hit or a huge miss with people, and I was very much in the 'miss' category.

[@sunkissedbeautyxo]

I count DNFing as reading tbh. I won’t count it for my end year total, but if I tried and couldn’t get through it after a few weeks, then it’s off my TBR forever and I get rid of it!

[@martinaanne2709]

I’ve read My Best Friends Exorcism and Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix and I really enjoyed Horrorstor. I was pregnant when I read My Best Friends Exorcism and it made my nauseous ass even more nauseous so not great memories associated with it🤦🏼‍♀️

[@emilyseng400]

My Best Friends Exorcism by Grady Hendrix was GREAT!!

[@peyton07]

Ooh I'll have to recommend The Surviving Trace to my cousin who LOVES Outlander! And I hope you read Polaris Rising one day - it's one of my faves.

[@ScullyPop]

I'm glad you're revisiting some of these novels. They sound really good.

[@jennawar13]

This series is so fun to watch!!

[@jessicamll324]

The bug scene in southern book club makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. I am rereading the book right now and dreading getting to that scene lol!

[@kaliejohnson1061]

For your next Grady Hendrix I recommend My Best Friend’s Exorcism. It was a lot of fun!

[@speaking_bookish]

Slaying vampires gets really really dark- hope you like it

[@jadem2653]

The second book reminded me of a dorama I've recently watched, so I'm here to recommend it to all my dorama lovers. It's about a modern day chef (he is the boss of the kitchen in the blue house aka the presidential house) who is a womanizer and because of an incident he knocks out. When he wakes up he realizes he is in the Joseon era, better yet he's in an woman's body, and even better that woman happens to be the king's soon to be wife. He doesn't have any of her memories, all he knows is what they tell him, the queen also had been in an incident. So he starts trying to figure out what happened to the queen so he can go back to his time and his body. It's really funny him trying to go about all the "court's" relationships and the difference in communication between the eras, etc. It's called Mr. Queen and it's one of my new favorite kdramas. It's funny af, there's a little political intrigue, some romance and character's you either want to punch in the face or protect at all costs.

[@sorenkrane]

I loved the audiobok for Souther Bookclub!

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

Ahh I’m so happy you loved The Surviving Trace 👏🏻👏🏻

[@tuula2734]

I just love these past tbrs videos! your are gorgeous!

[@elizabethc1832]

I absolutely love this series!!!!!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I really should do this with my old TBRs 🥴 I never finish them 😂

[@lanej.6458]

That would absolutely be me, I cannot even try with TBRs. I just finish a book and immediately think, “huh what am I in the mood for next” lmao

[@bookterror]

"if you have a fear of rats or bugs..." *looks at my pet rats in their playpen. "Yes, I fear you."

[@Hotelpastis]

The attic scene made me queasy! He wrote it so well!! Now I wanna re-read it!

[@KourttneyL]

What book?

[@Hotelpastis]

@@KourttneyL Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires

[@charlottesreadsthings211]

I love this series purely for how ever time a book you dnf comes up you just scrunch up your face 😂

[@Hannaleeah]

Love your videos, Riley! You are such a big inspiration to me and I hope I can create my channel to inspire others as well 😊

[@ByMadisonFox]

damn that went well

[@rebar351]

I also DNF’d Southern book club and was just bored and didn’t jive with the book! However horror is not my genre so that could be why!

[@lindsayjardine3376]

Just added not these to my wishlist x

[@AnaBooks]

I really want to read those books now😂

[@thetinyworldofme4609]

If you don't like gaslighting then I wouldn't recommend his other book, My Best Friend's Exorcism. That trope took up that entire book just like it does in SBCGTSV

[@Pookie515]

I LOVED "My Best Friend's Exorcism" by the Grady Hendrix super super funny with a lot less gross misogyny...honestly the Southern Book Club made me pissed tf off. The men are complete jerks, and it was so frustrating to see the main characters face such humiliation from the men that supposedly loved them! UGGH!

[@marcyreads]

Ok, I’m still in the middle of watching but I had to say that when I saw a year ago that you DNF’d this book it really surprised me especially with the super creepy scenes in it. The rat scene is one of my faves! Also, the husbandS were the FUCKING WORST in this book 😑 I’m so happy that you got to try it again and enjoyed it! 🥰

[@kellycook7519]

can someone spoil for me how the vampire feeds on people in southern book club's guide to slaying vampires?? i'm never gonna read it but the way she said it made me curious how it's disgusting lol

[@ryanng754]

all those bore novel is no gossip moment.

[@kyra8138]

Do you think the audiobook helped with trying to read the vampire book?

[@crystalsbookishlife]

BUGS CRAWLING IN EARS NOOOOOOOOPE

[@goloveyourself2]

Can you recommend some horror books for beginners? Im very interested in thid genre but don't know where to start especially because the most horror movies I can't stand 😂😢

[@surenderbeniwal8578]

Maybe checkout *Cassidy Blake series* (trilogy) by Victoria Schwab - *City of ghosts* being the #1. The main protagonist is in her pre-teens if I'm not mistaken. Her parents are ghost hunters. An imaginary frnd aspect. Check it out if any of this peaks ur interest. It's funny, lil spooky n' super enjoyable time! (At least was for me). It's spooky but doesn't get so much dark that it'll give u nightmares or anything. I read all three books back to back🤩. ...It took me less than a week to complete the whole trilogy n' remember the time so vividly, I had blast of a time then. I would also recommend *Coraline* by Neil Gaiman but I haven't read it yet (planning on doing so soon) so dunno the horror level. If none sounds good to u, I hope u find something good anyways :) Happy reading!🤗

[@readerssea]

i could never revisit my tbr videos 😂 i let the past be in the past AHAHAHA

[@readerssea]

interested to see your thoughts on The Southern Book Club bc I didn’t care much for it 😬

[@readerssea]

THE RAT AND BUGS SCENES LITERALLY MADE MY SKIN CRAAAAAWL

[@readerssea]

i’m glad you ended up loved The Southern Book Club!! i was pretty bored throughout lol

[@readerssea]

you had such a successful tbr re do 🙌🏼💗