This Is Chaos | Reading Vlog

[@autumnquinns9261]

Merph: *opens mouth* *dog barks, child screams, bird calls, car backs up, son sneezes, different dog barks, train blows horn* Merph: *leaves*

[@britneynicole8903]

Oh my word 🤣

[@OleBrr]

The talk with Philip was great. Never heard of him before, but I'm getting into books and he seems great. So glad that you got him to start Vinland saga, my favorite manga of all time!

[@Dougeb7]

There is no way I could put my bookshelf back in order and talk fluidly to a camera at the same time and make any sense. I'm impressed! 👍

[@madelinebull4788]

The amount of chaos was amazing! I laughed so much it was refreshing

[@billyalarie929]

I love that you were filming with your family in the same space as you but not on camera like y’all were just organically in the same place. Very charming :3

[@nandrirandri4439]

Yayii, the ending of the first arc of Vinland saga was absolutely thrilling, emotional, shocking, well thought, and amazing all at the same time! It was soo good! definitely one of the best arc in manga. And just like Meruem in HxH, Askladd is one of the greatest antagonist in fiction imo. I am so looking forward for your spoiler video review.

[@jamesduggan7200]

Those diagrams can be really interesting, not only because they didn't really have a lot of things on which to store plans, nor tools and flat surfaces to work on, but conceptually to imagine how certain ideas occurred to them, like the center boards, or the way wood expands in the water, or even sails.

[@moonstonepearl21]

Welcome back after your hectic week :) I hope your daughter and your husband are feeling better.

[@youcaughtmecrafting]

I'm LOVING the googly eyes on the spines of your books as someone who just loved the movie "Everything Everywhere All At Once". If you haven't seen it googly eyes are placed on random objects and it's a great film. I hope everyone is feeling better. :)

[@JAKEBB]

It's a fun story lol you crack me up, merphy hope the family is doing better, and you,yourself are well.

[@thejustinwestra]

I just reread Beartown and I started rereading Us Against You. I cried even more during my reread, it absolutely broke me. It’s so good.

[@kbsjrk9640]

I’m surprised I really liked the book, yeah it was a little slower paced, maybe not as much magic as you would want but how everything builds up all the way to book two and things connect was pretty nice. I mean it makes sense more of a manga person then a book person

[@onfaerystories]

You had already convinced me to pick up Vinland Saga the manga, but now reminded me I need to find a copy of the original saga! 💗 And Beartown sounds interesting, but I don't know if I could handle such a sensitive topic, and I really didn't love A Man Called Ove personally. 😬 But thank you for reading us that quote, it was truly powerful to listen to. For having gone through quite a lot, I know how much we live in a cruel world, and I don't even have children yet but can't help thinking about the ones I'll hopefully have in a few years. It truly is terrifying. (Also, I watched your whole conversation with Philip and absolutely loved that interaction 😍)

[@litlbucky]

Very noisy vlog but love the chaos!! A siren, train, dogs, kids… but still an amazing vlog

[@andrewbasicsciencetutor3067]

Sounds of a reading vlog Lol Hope your family feels better. Also I smiled seeing Avatar Kyoshi novels in the background

[@proto_carl8404]

I really liked the talk with Philip, I didn’t know him before hand but he seems very smart and interesting, going with him on the Vinland saga journey will probably be very interesting and insightful. From what I’ve gathered you picked the perfect choice for a manga for him.

[@gatosyperros373]

I missed your blogs so much so I'm really happy and I'm glad that you are enjoying fruits basket again, I hope your daughter is healthy, God bless you.

[@britneynicole8903]

Okay, I am trying to pace myself to start Vinland Saga in December and I am thinking about just starting it sooner because I am way too excited to wait!

[@christinamasters4687]

I started reading Backman because of you and Beartown has become one of my favorite books of all time. I recommend it to everyone. You talk about crying during the book and I am not sure I did that but boy did I burst out sobbing at the end of the book. You are so right that the man has such a way with words and how he conveys emotion. I just love it so much. So, thank you so much for introducing me to this author.

[@svgftw351]

The fact that it was all just the prologue that it set the stage for thorfinn’s journey I can’t wait for you to read more

[@lollol9236]

Picked up Beartown and Us Against You because they were the audiobooks that my library had and you had recommended Backman so much, and man, were they good. The audiobook experience is amazing and the story is so emotional!

[@heather9130]

I've known the Fruits Basket story for so long now that I don't think it ever occurred to me how wide the focus is for the first half of the series. I can see that the pacing is probably not the best for someone just coming into the series. It'll be interesting when I read it with fresh eyes. I hope your little one is feeling better!

[@dapper7264]

If you love Hitchhiker's and Don Quixote you might also like Catch-22! Some of my favorites

[@nikgokuhil]

I caught upto all of Vinland Saga myself and looking forward to your reviews I hope your family feels well soon and that you get to watch Mushishi

[@AndrewWatson401]

I hope everyone is feeling better, and that you are staying healthy.

[@notrixamoris3318]

Happy your fam is okay Merphy...you are quite hectic in this vid more so than usual and the calm interludes fits really well.

[@sharoncastle2177]

The skyward eyes on the cover caught me off guard lol 😆 (saw it during the cardle book 4)

[@tunesmelodia]

Yay, I'm early :) I love watching your blogs. Edited to add that I'm very jealous of your ability to DNF books. I just can't. I rage read them all the way to the end. 😂

[@adrija9600]

Here to hear Merphy talk about Backman coz that's the only good thing in my life rn :")❤️

[@ellenonoda]

Now to add Vinland Saga to my never ending TBR 🤣 I’m half Japanese but haven’t read much manga, sadly. But I am going back to Japan end of this month so I’ll try to pick up something!

[@ramseyhassan9941]

You should watch the finale of the anime - its brilliant. the moral complexity, high drama and WFT plot turns remind me of Attack on Titan

[@litlbucky]

Korey’s laugh!!!!

[@cindywitte5052]

Merphy, Loved "Bear Town" and " Us Against You" I will have to reread the before reading "The Winners" Loved "Netttle and Bone:

[@newturn77]

Hi Merphy, loved ur discussion with ur friend Philip, I have recently picked up Malazan after ur reviews and I m really looking forward to catch up with both of ur videos, and btw I also have some manga recommendations which might suit ur taste, 1) NANA a story rich with characters who feel so layered and charming but who r also humanly flawed with their own ambitions and reasons for their actions. It is possibly one of the best stories not only in shoujo but also in all of manga. Netflix may be adding Nana to it’s anime catalog. 2) xxxHolic a student troubled by spirits stumbles upon a mysterious shop that grants wishes to people in exchange for a price that is equal in value, he offers to work part time in exchange for his wish.

[@Amanda-qt6lc]

You talked me into reading Backman. He's now my favorite author and I've read everything he's written to date. He's coming to Dallas this fall. I hate going into Dallas, but I might have to go.

[@KnifeOfK]

Not sure if you know this, but Beartown has a tv-series based on it as well! It’s in Swedish though, I haven’t read the book but heard the series was quite good!

[@thekjellar]

Askeladd is my favorite too:)

[@KongFuzii]

Yes we can hear him 😂

[@moonstonepearl21]

All the background noise that you could not escape had me cracking up.

[@user-zh8bc7jo6l]

Can't wait for your Vinland Saga review!! It's my favourite manga ever and trust me, prologue truly is amazing, but in my opinion the next arc and even the ones after that are even better because, while Askeladd really does his thing and is a very interesting character to watch, without him story and message that it's trying to convey trough our main character Thorfinn really come through. Askeladd might have been an amazing antihero / villain but in my opinion Thorfinn goes on the journey to surpass him in how good and original he is as a protagonist. And obviously there are a lot more very well written characters on the journey ahead.

[@joxerrrrr]

Don't know if i agree about the last few arcs , the tone and character interactions its like reading a different manga but Farmland arc is god tier, as good as the prologue but in a different way.

[@rebelmalfunction]

If you like dragon riding and alternate history, I recomend "Temeraire " by Naomi Novik

[@BibiixMusic]

I'm waiting until after my vacation in September to reread Beartown and I'm both excited and scared, tbh

[@thatsci-firogue]

Chaos ensued

[@smuckfuzzer]

The 4th Hitchhikers book was different but I didn’t hate it. The 5th one on the other hand, I had a hard time getting through.

[@dawoodilyas8093]

Merphy i'd like to recommend a manga called Pandora hearts . It's a dark fantasy, confusing in the beginning but gets really better later. Great and loveable cast, amazing antagonists, one of the best plot twists ever and an amazing ending. Do ask your patreons about it. Also so happy that you're gonna be starting the next vinland arc. Without spoiling, it's an arc i can read a hundred times without getting bored.

[@keravnos2231]

That montage of frightened faces 😂😂

[@yasaminhastam]

do I want to know about those two eyeballs stuck on the skyward?

[@silentwillgames]

The googly eyes KILLEED me!

[@Thatdutchfellow]

Merphy thank you so much for reading Vinland Saga, its a fantastic story thats very close to my heart. Also It would be fun on this second channel to do a discussion video with Tekking101, ReallifeRyan and Jackeybacon.. For good Vinland Saga discussion video, all three of them are well articulated and have great thoughts about the series. So yeah I love the Vinland Saga content, and I hope to see a whole lot more. Keep doing what you love Merphy.

[@lixogram]

Askeladd is really interesting indeed

[@Clearwood2023]

I would have recommended watching the Beartown tv show, It's really good, but HBO seems to have made it disappear.

[@eaptan]

Cradle book 5 is maybe my 2nd favorite with book 7 and 8 being my favorite (I consider those two one book haha).

[@ikariiprince]

If this is how you feel about the 4th hitchhikers book I’m dreading you reading the 5th….just know that if you’re not in the right mental state it’s perfectly okay to put that one down. Adam’s went through a very apparent depressive episode during the writing of that one and it shows

[@matthewahearn5448]

I read the first two Cradle books. I am meh about reading more of the series. It was good, but not great. I have other things I want to read.

[@aliciasorenson3807]

Fireborne is definitely the dragon rider book you need to read!

[@noshei21]

was it fun?

[@mrleereads]

your life is beautifully chaotic.

[@alishaplasker]

I haven't read manga before. Would the Vinland saga be an ideal place to begin?

[@merphynapierreviews]

I think it's a great place to start!

[@aronnemcsik]

Depends on whaty you like. if you like Vikings? absolutely. if you like comedy I'd rather go for something else.

[@iwrath2196]

Please read the Riftwar saga by Raymond Feist

[@wallaceiseasy3459]

I really hope you end up watching the first season of the vinland saga anime. It's a phenomenal adaptation

[@Colaman112]

Reading Vlog: Noises of the Neighborhood Edition :D

[@AdamFishkin]

At last!!! Hitchhikers book 4!! I'm sorry you were let down by the plot and the setting. I vehemently disagree with you, however, about the romance just as I have with the way other fans nitpick about it. I honestly believe that how Arthur and Fenchurch developed together was a fascinating and at times necessary road for Douglas Adams to take us down, even if it departs from the usual tone of the series. It deepens the emotions, which is aided by the slower pace that wouldn't have worked for books 1 - 3. Adams still manages to be funny, just not in the breakneck doses of his cynical period of the late 70s / early 80s when the other books were written. Book 5 is the one that REALLY disappointed me. For context: book 5 was written at the lowest point of the author's life, driving him to cynicism that was a little too extreme. To say book 4 would've been a better conclusion is an understatement. (Especially now that you've witnessed the sendoff of one particular character that you gushed about in previous vlogs. Won't spoil it here for anyone.)

[@tinagarcia3571]

real life and booktubing lol!

[@sethhale235]

And I remain in the small camp of people who still like books 4 and 5 of Hitchhiker's. Given, I've not read it in a very long time so I might dislike it now. Really makes me want to reread to see if I still like it.

[@user-zj9rr6yc4u]

I fear Cradle always stays ultra fast paced, I like it quite a bit but would likely like it much more with more downtime so that the characters can spend more times just interacting. Because I like the characters and want more of them outside action.

[@billyclabough9835]

I have no confidence in that shelf. 🙂

[@michaelloya3071]

I think you would like Fullmetal Alchemist if you haven’t read it already

[@shelliingle571]

Do you means the book version of How to Train a Dragon? I thought the movie adaptation is so much better.

[@marshwiggle8364]

Hitchhiker 4: Vlog entry 1: "it's lovely" - my brain begins to meltdown. Vlog entry 2: "I didn't like it" - crisis averted Just savor the good times from the series.... Until we all die because we don't have anyone to clean payphones.

[@evrosidwa2801]

I thought Ailments in the Family was the name of a book first. Lol.

[@merphynapierreviews]

😂

[@jalapenoofjustice4682]

Douglas Adams actually never stopped referring to Hitchhikers Guide as a trilogy, so you get taglines like "the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers' Trilogy"

[@nikkisweezea2388]

Girl, fix that shelf. It's giving me anxiety LOL

[@michaelburke4048]

Who's been putting googly eyes on your books?

[@Adhokshaja]

Murphy Read ascendence of Bookworm ( light Novel) Plz😣😣😣😣

[@Rowan_A_Boat]

Personally, Hitchhiker's book 4 is my favorite book of all time, let alone, best in the series... But then, I also always hated Marvin, because he's a lazy, confused stereotype, so maybe we just have different tastes.

[@D__634]

Have you watched The House of Dragons? I know it's a tv series but maybe you can have a discussion about it.

[@merphynapierreviews]

I haven't and I probably won't unfortunately. It seems like everyone is loving it but I don't have a lot of interest personally

[@D__634]

@@merphynapierreviews Gotcha. I kinda thought you're not into that series since I haven't seen you talking about game of thrones. Love your discussions btw :)

[@wiebsche]

nooo what did you do to Spensa on the spine of Skyward? 😂

[@merphynapierreviews]

I was on a podcast and fidgety so I started putting googly eyes on a lot of things 😅

[@TheHomieInder]

For fruit baskets without saying much what made you fall out of love and what made you fall back in love? Brrr enjoy the vlogs and reviews of all the books

[@Florfilm]

I like Hitchhikers Guide 4 much more than book 3.

[@AmpNRG]

Yay cradle. Hopefully you like 5 :)

[@davidgribble6313]

This comment is to help this channel in the algorithm.

[@crisnice1]

why the creepy eyes in Skyward? I need answers

[@merphynapierreviews]

I was on a podcast and fidgety so I started putting googly eyes on a lot of things 😅

[@crisnice1]

@@merphynapierreviews thank you! i'm so much better now 😂

[@rachelspencer9456]

🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡

[@Bangax2]

My golly 😂

[@bryanrodrigues2916]

Merphy the next arc (Farm land saga) of vinland saga will make thorfinn one of your favourite character and with VINLAND SAGA will CEMENT itself IN YOUR TOP 10.

[@Fawkes1978]

You can skip book 4 of HGTTG but you'll also skip God's final message to his creation...

[@QuantumtestGaming]

I would have appreciated Vinland saga more if i haven't read berserk before it , reading Vinland saga after berserk make me realize how much Vinland saga ripped off berserk in its characterisation and panels

[@anitthakurchakraborty6646]

Please read berserk i know that you dnfd it after reading 1st delux volume please start with 2nd delux volume i KNOW you're gonna love it , just like you Daniel greene also really got a very bad first impression like you after reading the first volume but he becomes a fanboy after reading the 2nd delux volume, the first delux volume DOES NOT represent what berserk is all about, you can even watch the playlist of Daniel greene berserk review series to get an idea , in terms of characters and themes Berserk is the best manga I have ever read ( yes i have read one piece , hunter hunter, attack on Titan , none of them is as good as berserk in terms of depth and nuance imo), just give the 2nd delux volume a chance if its not not for you by then you can drop it no problem

[@redemption7704]

One can’t go wrong whit the golden age arc honestly, but she should start on Guts birth chapter that’s actually on the end of deluxe 1

[@iwrath2196]

life is too short to ready crappy books

[@umairkhalid2222]

Please stop moving when u talk about a book god it's giving me a headache

[@cosmicflare_]

Nah she should keep moving, the setting change is interesting. :p