the 14 books i read this summer | reading wrapup

[@LilRadReading]

Honestly it's really nice to see a booktuber who isn't reading so many books a month. For a while I felt like I didn't read enough to have a booktube channel, but I finally started anyway and I'm glad I did! I really appreciate the welcoming environment of your videos

[@bluseadragon]

I read 4 books in August and had 3 DNFs. I just had other commitments. But sometimes the booktube channels where they read like 25+ books a month make me feel a bit inefficient. So I like seeing channels that don’t read too much in one month. But I do like discovering new books, lol, so it’s conflicting.

[@medhinareads]

Shout out to you for highlighting so many south asian authors. I am keeping all these books in my TBR. ❤❤❤

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The fact that I managed to read bits of a book in August means I’m on the right track baby I was born this way.

[@Ghamomn]

I love having my morning coffee and listening to you yap

[@thisstoryaintover]

🥺🫶🏾

[@hearthhobbit]

I love buddy reading with my partner! On vacation too? That sounds so nice! This is like the 3rd time The Bandit Queens has been brought up! I need to pick that up!

[@thisstoryaintover]

I hope you enjoy it!! ☺️

[@marvin5624]

people are missing out on the 5am vlog!! i really enjoyed that one

[@thisstoryaintover]

thank you for this validation 🥹💖

[@edwardsjarje]

You are such a contributor to my ever increasing TBR that I’ve since just decided that will just pick one book that you recommend per video. Otherwise, I will never get anywhere. 😅

[@thisstoryaintover]

Hahaha I am sorry and also not 😂

[@viva_.]

As my first year of reading consistently and reading two books at most per month, I rrly appreciate ur words💗

[@thisstoryaintover]

That's amazing, proud for you 💖

[@viva_.]

@@thisstoryaintover ahh thank you sm🥹

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’m so happy Charli XCX has a great impact on the Booktube community! Also, Miss Jananie is winning because she’s going from Brat Summer to a Fall Girlie who loves Spooky Season.

[@chocolateoreo6489]

I’m sending you love❤ I hope you have magnificent reads this fall (;

[@thisstoryaintover]

Thank you, you too!! 🫶🏾

[@chocolateoreo6489]

@@thisstoryaintover 🫶🫶

[@SomewhereInIndiana1816]

So many books, so little time!

[@badfaith4u]

Not in Love and How to End a Love Story are on my TBR list.

[@rladyleo3]

Releasing today is a great romance Sunshine and Spice by Aurora Palit. Love story, with the complexity of expectations in the Indian culture ( South Asian). It's really good!

[@stevies-readies]

Passage North has also been on my tbr for 1000000 years. i'll take this as a sign

[@LeafsNationJaffna]

Great 👍 ❤

[@AyezasAfterword]

I definitely need to pick up alone with you in the ether! Love all your recommendations❤

[@thornyrose1235]

Sometimes I go through periods where I read a LOT and am constantly craving the next read. Sometimes I go through periods where I read next to nothing. Both are fine and valid. It's important that reading fits into my life and not the other way around where I'm structuring my life around reading. Btw, it's perfectly fine if someone is structuring their life around reading but that's just not me. I love reading but I'm ok with it not taking over my life.

[@sannahrahman5665]

Love the video!

[@josieann4390]

💜💜

[@pauieeepau]

Can I read Goddess of the River and Kaikeyi without knowledge of the source material? I feel like that has put me off reading retellings coz I'm not well-read with classics.

[@thisstoryaintover]

Yes you definitely can!! They're both perfectly understandable and easy to read as their own thing even if you don't know the source material 🙂

[@pauieeepau]

@@thisstoryaintover thank you!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I want to read Not in Love so badly 😩

[@drew037]

loved this summer wrap up 🤠my genres were truly all over the place this summer, but a few faves were bad cree by jessica johns (horror), the thirty names of night by zeyn joukhadar (literary), and a body made of glass by caroline crampton (memoir). i'm DEF gonna checkout the bandit queens. i want to read some mysteries/thrillers this fall so it sounds absolutely perf for that! and i;ve gotta add ghosts to my tbr too cause i related so much to what you were saying when talking about that one. also, i know you're a big silvia moreno-garcia fan and i'm hoping to pick up one of her books this fall - do you have a favourite? :) thanks for the great reflections and recs as always!!

[@thisstoryaintover]

That sounds like a great summer of reading!! Oo okay then I think you'll definitely love Ghosts ☺️ I would say if you want something a bit gothic or spooky for the season I would do Mexican Gothic or Certain Dark Things. If you want something romantic/Jane Austen-ish I would do The Beautiful Ones (this is the first of her books I read as well!). Hope that helps!

[@drew037]

@@thisstoryaintover okay awesome!!! thank you so much:)

[@ashantidrew]

Jj McAvoy has a great regenecy era series that I highly recommend. I’ve read each book 2-3 times and have rated all 4-5 stars

[@thisstoryaintover]

Ooo yess!! I have one of their books that I definitely want to pick up soon!

[@MadoCar-n4s]

Thank you for the video

[@PokhrajRoy.]

‘A Passage North’? LFGGGGGGGGG

[@CatReads]

If someone hasnt read the bridgerton books, id recommend skipping the whole thing completely especially the first book because what the love interest did to the guy in the first was 100% SA/R and I feel people ignore that issue, maybe because its a woman doing it(?) I was so taken a back because no one acknowledges it in their reviews. And really it made me sick that we are suppose to see that relationship as a romance when both of them were awful, he was borderline, if not full on, abusive, she is a r-ist and manipulative. The fact that you are saying her other books continue having consent issues makes me glad I didn't continue.

[@MsJjp888]

❤your channel

[@thisstoryaintover]

🥺🥺💖💖

[@Mad.E]

To be honest, if I were to read 14 books in a month it would feel like way too much of a rush, no time to sit and live with a book, no chance I'd remember it later

[@thisstoryaintover]

That's totally fair! I think it really depends on the person and how much disposable time they have. But even with a regular work schedule I think it's pretty tough!

[@Mad.E]

@@thisstoryaintover everyone's different! I'm just saying I don't envy people who binge read constantly :) even if - like you mentioned - there's this unspoken notion floating around that a low book count is something to feel bad about