The 31 books that made me who I am turning 31 🎂 (childhood to present day)

[@lanyia333]

Happy Birthday 🎂 Hope you have a great day and an even better year ♥️

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you so much 🩷

[@sophieh.2533]

The Berenstein Bears books to sad girls lit fic pipeline is REAL. I was obsessed with those as well. I loved this analysis and reflection on your path as a reader!

[@ReadingWithMeg]

The Bears turned us into sad girls 🩷

[@LandonOakley-d9c]

Is it Berenstein or Berenstain?? Mandela effect 😮

[@sheramelton3583]

For me, it was the Little Critter books to Horror pipeline. Lol. Especially the Halloween Little Critter book.

[@madsconnor6468]

i’m 29 in a couple of months and i was OBSESSED with Ellen Hopkins and all the other slightly problematic YA coded books when i was like 14 too omg

[@madsconnor6468]

also reading 13 reasons why from the school library when i was like 15 lmao

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Omg 13 seasons why 💀💀💀 I loved that one also

[@the_eerie_faerie_tales]

22:42 kitty's contemplating which shelf is best to jump on while mama ain't lookin' 😹

[@ReadingWithMeg]

She was definitely up to no good 😂

[@muriel6843]

Happy birthday! I’m a year older than you, so I was reading the same childhood books. I identified heavily with The Very Hungry Caterpillar, because as a child I enjoyed few things as much as I enjoyed food lol.

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you! Hahah I am still that way as an adult

[@gillian32]

Happy birthday! 🎂

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!!

[@charlottemossy]

Have a happy birthday!! I feel so seen by this video i love it. I turned 31 in September, so definitely had similar childhood books. I also liked reading about drug addicts when i was like 11 wtf lol. I read Go Ask Alice like three times (why) I have borderline personality disorder and PTSD and I can relate to the reading-as-escapism feeling so much, but now I'm just getting back into my reading era and I really love the idea of exploring characters to learn how to process my own thoughts and feelings. (because therapy is expensive and the library is free) I've made notes of those last few lit fic books you mentioned and I'm going to check them out. (sorry this is a long ass comment but i ALSO loved American Psycho)

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Yes yes yes to all the above!!! So glad you get me 🩷

[@britalyson7180]

Happy birthday! Great idea for a video and your cat was adorable! I also had a big Ellen Hopkins/addiction themes phase in high school too. I decluttered all her books except Crank. Go Ask Alice was a big one for me too.

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!! Yes I actually wish I still had Crank just to look at it again lol Go Ask Alice I also loved

[@josephcossey1811]

Already looking forward to the next 31 years (great cameo appearance from your cat by the way!)

[@ReadingWithMeg]

lol thank you!

[@corychristy156]

Happy Birthday 📚🍷

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!!

[@literarylove123]

Happy birthday!

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!

[@alwaysreadingem]

This is such a fun video idea!

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!!

[@mutatedsilverunicorn]

Happy early birthday!!! ^_^ 💜🎂🎉🎈🎊 I hope you have the spookiest of birthdays and all your wishes come true!! Also, I grew up reading a lot of the same books as you! Esp Ellen Hopkins! (I am 34). ^_^ Two books that I still love to this day is Animal Farm by George Orwell and Dante's Inferno. I have re-read Animal Farm so many times my physical copy is held together with tape and rubber bands. Thankfully, Kindle came around and now I can read it on there when I have the craving to do so.

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!!! Omg I loved Animal Farm also!

[@SoCrazyInLove13]

Scorpio Queen, yes! I’m Oct 27th, but I will be 42 😅 I was so into thrillers a year ago and now I’m very into romance. Such a difference a year can make.

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Ahhhh happy early birthday to you 🩷 Yes so true my reading taste is so different now

[@MattMilu]

Have a wonderful birthday 🎉 🎈

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you so much!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

Ong yes June B Jones was my FAVOURITE

[@ReadingWithMeg]

YESSSSSS LOVED HER

[@susanburgess820]

Happy birthday hon🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!! 🩷

[@syrritajones2538]

Oh yay! Happy early Birthday to you! We have the same book taste 🫶🏾📚 I’m 33 and I read a lot of these books as a kid 🥹 I hope the rest of the month leading up to your day is spooky and fun 🎃👻

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you so much! I hope you’re having a great month also 🩷

[@Horrorbabe4]

White Oleander by Janet Fitch was one that i read in my late teens that had a big impact on me. I read loved Junie B Jones as a kid [I'm turning 30 in November]

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Happy early birthday!

[@Horrorbabe4]

Right back at ya! 🥳​@@ReadingWithMeg

[@josephcossey1811]

Have the best birthday ever...until the next one of course!

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!!

[@susanburgess820]

I still love misery and thinner.

[@jeremiahmorrissette5967]

Wow i remember brown bear brown what do you see book i was kid and i love the silent patient I got super hook from your recommended and happy early birthday 🎂

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!!

[@sarahnibbs7562]

Great vid. Your cat is so cute 🥰

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!! 🩷🩷

[@KDBookDen]

I am glad I wasn’t the only weirdo obsessed with Elle Hopkins as a teen

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Hahaha why did she have us all in such a chokehold 😂

[@izzykaii]

OMG CRANK. i totally forgot about this book i loved it too when i was lkke 15. it was so quirky with the poem like prose and interesting shaped paragraphs

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Such a weird book but I was obsessed lol

[@danaepyle8003]

Happy early birthday 🎉🎉🎉 😊

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!!

[@kittyshiv]

did you ever read the R.L stine fear street books at all? I was obsessed haha happy birthday!

[@ReadingWithMeg]

I didn’t but I always hear all about them lol thank you!!

[@chriscze6153]

mother is entering her 🌟grandmother era 🌟 we love to see the old people rep 💞 and yes I am older than her, I am a great grandfather stfu.

[@ReadingWithMeg]

I love getting the senior citizens discounts

[@earthbender723]

Speaking about bleak and sad books, have you read Oyasumi PunPun? It's a manga and it's... sad. So sad, yet so beautiful and the characters, their traumas and the way they deal with them are so realistic (Btw the main character is depicted as a bird for a reason, but he's actually a human like everyone else), I think perhaps you might like it!

[@ReadingWithMeg]

I have not but I’m totally intrigued now!

[@bobcabot]

Schön! can i say that? i dont know, im an old "sad" man now and "your" books are so much out of the world of the books i read but make me curious in a fun way still, except for one book which is actually more a satire as you stated yourself correctly and i do love horror too since very early on maybe 8 when i saw "The Wasp Woman" for the first time ( she looked like my mother with the name of my father, so scary - the actress...

[@izzykaii]

I read alot of Chicken Soup For The Soul books in elementary school 😂

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Omg these too!! Lol

[@tamash.5291]

remember, age is just a number. can I call you grandma? 😆

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Absolutely not.

[@tamash.5291]

@@ReadingWithMeg 😁

[@susanburgess820]

Judy blume.

[@lloydmatthews8520]

Me to girl me to lol

[@tamash.5291]

the creepiest story about the mandela effect is here, on yt: "Forget Me Not" S2E07 💀 Horror Hill (Scary Stories Podcast)

[@susanburgess820]

Go ask alice.

[@ReadingWithMeg]

I loved this one also

[@BethR-vf8ne]

Love horror books, I can't watch horror movies.

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

This is false information as you are not 31 years old but only 25 years old happy 😃 birthday 🎁 beautiful lady hope you are feeling better soon love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤Bernstein Bears rule

[@ReadingWithMeg]

Thank you!!!

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

@@ReadingWithMeg you are welcome my friend you will be 26 years old on the 26th❤️❤️❤️

[@lloydmatthews8520]

Hol j k rolling sucks