Why I Read What I Read

Hi guys welcome to my channel. I am aware this is a bit of a rough first video. I need to figure out a better filming setup and settle on a good editing program. Regardless... thank y'all for being so patient with me; I am sorry it took me so long to finally upload this video. Now that I have a better hang of this I will try to post at least once a month maybe twice, we will see. I have a few video ideas already but would love to hear anything y'all would want me to make a video about.

[@natasha-lyonne-enthusiast8098]

I don’t have tik tok, I clicked on this video randomly but you’ve definitely got me subscribed!!

[@ibftvcap]

brady!!!! soso excited about you making this channel!!!! your tiktok is one of my favorites, but long-form content for books specifically is gonna be so great! loved this video + super excited for anything to come

[@BradysBookshelf]

Thank you so much!!

[@RandomReadingPathways]

Hi Brady, looking forward to following along with your videos. Your channel helped inspire me to start up my channel as well. All the best.

[@curtjarrell9710]

You've already read some good stuff. In a future vid maybe share some titles of books you're looking forward to reading. I, too enjoyed The Goldfinch, The Picture of Dorian Grey and Dune, among many others. Happy reading.

[@BradysBookshelf]

Haha will do, however the list is nearly infinite at this point

[@BarbaraCutrera]

Congratulations on your new channel! I'm looking forward to seeing in which direction you choose to go in the future.

[@whatpageareyouon]

So glad you made the plunge to booktube! I love your booktok, excited for the long form content here and getting to know you better ✨ good luck with grad school!

[@joegilbody4878]

Good to be here at start. I'm an older guy, mid 70s. I read with my Dad and Mom. I learned bro read sitting in my Dad's lap as he read westerns. It just clicked for me. I was a nerd jock. Swimmer and math major BS and MS. I'd be at a swim meet with a book, reading in between events. Good luck in grad school.

[@jamgart6880]

Yay. A channel that mainly deals in classics!!! 😊 They are truly few and far between. Subscribed.

[@MindiYuspeh]

Your mom is the BEST person I know too! Love this and love you!

[@pequadcob2009]

I always love when twenty-somethings say "back in the day" lol. Love your take on these books though!

[@gpeaches]

I only had a tiktok account for a few months last year, but I remember writing down many of your recommendations after seeing you on my FYP. So glad your video popped up!

[@TheSafxoxo]

Great to see you on KZbin Brady! So excited for these longer videos, you have one of the most interesting perspectives on booktok!

[@SavidgeReads]

Welcome to KZbin/BookTube! Great bookish chat. Looking forward to seeing what videos you bring to us all in the future.

[@leslieserpas7670]

My husband will love your BREAKING BAD painting too! Leslie S

[@TheActiveMind1]

Welcome to BookTube Brady! Looking forward to more of your content!

[@BradysBookshelf]

Thanks I’ve been watching you for a while!

[@wedop3]

the goat is on youtube omg yess!! so excited

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Best wishes with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories.

[@gonaye1]

Welcome to Booktube! Looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts about the books you’re reading!

[@chaoticstargirlx]

i could literally listen to you talk about books for hoursss

[@NicholasOfAutrecourt]

Hi, Brady! I'm looking forward to hearing about all bookish things you want to share with us. From an oldie content creator to a newbie, welcome aboard. We're so glad to have you here!

[@MarkoPopovic-jh8so]

So glad you made this channel! Your videos always popped up on my for you/following page, but there's something rotten in my brain that won't let me watch a tiktok for longer than 45 seconds :') so having the longer videos of yours on yt is amazing

[@joniheisenberg]

You got me with the”Breaking Bad” canvas ! I am currently reading “All The King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren. It is the best book I have ever read. I highly recommend.

[@johnwesley2242]

excited to find a booktuber who’s a fellow Louisianan!! 💚💚

[@bencia6111]

Love this and loved hearing your reading journey!!

[@em1l144]

I'm so glad someone knows 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' it's one of my favs of all time ❤

[@lorenzofrancis9169]

Looking forward to the content💕

[@susanbilliot4333]

Loved this video! Thank you for broadening my reading choices. In addition to my bookclub’s 10 books a year am adding lots of your recs and really enjoying them. Love you ❤️

[@thehoneyreads]

So happy to see you’re finally on KZbin! Can’t wait to see what you post next ☺️

[@susanbilliot4333]

I too really liked the Goldfinch. Plan on reading again.

[@HannahsBooks]

Welcome to Booktube! How exciting that you are interested in reading classic books from various periods! Victober is my favorite Booktube event, where many of us commit to reading Victorian literature during October. Oscar Wilde is quite a frequent choice by Victober participants!

[@jasonhodge9321]

Just came across your channel. I like how you tie your experiences into the books that you talk about. Looking forward to watching more of your videos in the future!

[@franchesca2866]

Your video showed up on my home page and I recognized you from tiktok! Glad to see you on booktube! I love the way you talk about books ☺

[@tommygreen2573]

We’ve had very similar experiences with reading it seems, except in high school I just stopped altogether. Dune and Dorian Grey were foundational to me getting back into reading too.

[@blooodytwins]

I was so engrossed in The Goldfinch that I read it in 2 days. Which is crazy considering how long it is.

[@brookfeleke9629]

The fact that you can be this concise without cuts its impressive.

[@alizeep2721]

Omg thanks for starting this channel! I am so addicted to your booktok channel and was so excited for this video!❤️😊 Your recomendations about and view of books is so cool and inspiring and I love your calm voice and energy🥰Great video and I'm so looking forward for all your future content wether here in longer and more in depth or on booktok🤗❤️

[@BradysBookshelf]

Thank you!

[@JocelynBaker-b7m]

Loved this Brady! I’m going to pick oneofthe books you talked about and read it.

[@antiperspirant]

I heard you mention towards the end you've read some Dostoevsky, I really recommend Crime and Punishment, great book.

[@dqan7372]

Great start! Welcome!

[@adel-ub2op]

That's so funny, asoiaf was also the first adult book series I read but it was the secret history (and my college philosophy teacher) that changed things for me. such good books. I love that you're a self admitted letterboxd nerd as well as an avid reader, and I think it would be interesting to see what you think of some adaptations in depth :)

[@themusicsnob]

Excited to find your channel! I also love Dune and I am excited to continue on this month with Dune: Messiah. I read a bunch of David Foster Wallace books with his essays in high school and really liked his voice, but I have never had the gumption to try Infinite Jest.

[@BradysBookshelf]

I love his essays. I’m planning to read consider the lobster soon

[@nathansnook]

welcome to booktube!!! on the topic of adaptations, was so sad that The Goldfinch as a movie was absolute poopoo, but Spielberg's adaptations of Hugo and even TinTin are actually quite charming! can't wait to see what you cook up for your new home here on the tubes!

[@sonderexpeditions]

We're reading similar books. I have infinite jest and Dune on my to read

[@dellh86]

Greetings from Houma Louisiana. I also love Infinite Jest. Didn't know anyone else from Louisiana has read and enjoyed it lol

[@JETinthesky1]

Very insane but I also graduated Bioengineering at LSU in the past 4 years and love to read! Great to stumble across your channel and can’t wait to see more content!

[@BradysBookshelf]

Oh cool I wonder if I would recognize you

[@JETinthesky1]

@@BradysBookshelf I graduated May 2020 so probably not but just loved the coincidence of it all!

[@onceuponafrittata4164]

Hey Brady, I heard about your KZbin channel from your mom on my Facebook page. I love to read and always looking for new suggestions. I’m not big on fantasy novels or sci-fi but other than that I’ll look forward to hearing what you think about books that you’ve come across. My all-time favorite list includes cutting for stone by Abraham Verghese, love in the time of Cholera by Gabrielle Garcia Marques, memoirs of a geisha by Arthur golden and pretty much anything by Hemmingway , but mostly the sun also rises. I recently read the women by Kristen Hannah, which is super popular right now and everybody should read it. I also read a book in preparation for a trip to Nicaragua That was extremely interesting because it was written by the perspective of a woman who participated in the revolution to overthrow the dictator Back in the 70s. It was called the country under my skin by gioconda belli. I totally get not having too many people to talk to about books so looking forward to watching your channel

[@august4114]

I tried reading the Goldfinch a while ago but didn't get into it. I really loved the secret history though, so I think I'll have to give it another shot.

[@kirawasadiver]

you are so cute. And good luck with your masters, my 2 years completing my masters in structural engineering were my favourite years of my life! I’m excited for u 🎉

[@kirawasadiver]

also I’ve been meaning to read DUNE foreverrrr, you raving about it is such a sign lol. That Childish vinyl is one of my favourites in my own collection… and breaking bad is my favourite TV show. Feel like I was meant to stumble across your channel 🤨

[@kirawasadiver]

I love classics im so glad u came across Dorian, such a great one 🤓

[@kirawasadiver]

YES I’m also currently going down the Dostoyevsky hole lately hahaha damn this is crazy. Keeping up with posting regularly while doing University is so difficult i feel ya but I hope you post regularly !

[@psalmsfaerie]

oooooo you’re in youtube

[@jasongartside1160]

Already a huge fan!!! Keep it goin 😁

[@stanbrown32]

If you want to read some Dickens, I recommend Bleak House immensely. There are several mysteries in the book, eventually a detective appears--it's really great.

[@marcos-ll2yr]

What a beautiful voice 😍

[@linhktran7131]

pleaseeee keep on posting long form videos

[@InfiniteText]

Welcome to Booktube! Long-form is more fun when it comes to talking about books!

[@richarddelanet]

Dune got you back into reading so that's pretty cool patently.

[@prcy_jcksn9614]

I hope your next vlog you will share your favorite books

[@thomasceneri867]

You have to read The Secret History by Tartt. You’ll love it!

[@nenyeo6090]

Welcome to Booktube! I hope you liked Arc of a Scythe, I certainly did. Def need to re-read those books. Also, love Dune. Do you think I should tackle Infinite Jest? Kinda scared of it lol. Again, welcome. First time viewing your content.

[@samuelossa6663]

Great video! What are you currently reading? Looking forward to more videos

[@BradysBookshelf]

Anna Karenina (for the 2nd time), project Hail Mary, the hours, the Bible, the emperor of all maladies

[@samuelossa6663]

@@BradysBookshelf What are the chances! I'm also currently rereading Anna for the second time. It definitely reads differently after one has grown a little. Happy reading!

[@lucycanread]

0:05 hhahah why did i think you were going to stop at "more specifically i really like to talk"

[@frankydclc]

Put this on to listen in my headphones while doing some cleaning and the belch startled me. Anyway. Very excited to have Louisiana represented in booktok/booktube.

[@BradysBookshelf]

Did I leave a clip of me burping in this 😅 ? I didn’t see that

[@Al33m240]

you should more do more broader content like this, just talking about a book or an author, because… lists are boring

[@tannerreilly5673]

i literally just followed you on tiktok like a day ago lol

[@JulieBeck1982]

My 14 year old and i were just discussing The Picture of Dorian Gray, yesterday, she’s really into classics. Did you manage to make it all the way through WOT? Ive read books 1-7 three times but always seem to fall of the wagon. If you havent read Brandan Sanderson i highly recommend!! -Mrs Beck

[@leslieserpas7670]

Hi Brady! Loved this entire video. My husband and I are avid readers. I love your typical Chick Lit, but my husband is more likely to read the things you mentioned. He is a lot smarter than I am! He loved Pillars of the Earth, and when you mentioned that a book “whipped you ass,” I thought of the one that whipped his! It is named Atlas Shrugged. Anyway, we love book reviews and will be following you. We know you through your family. Our daughter Cate and her husband Dustin are good friends with David and Heather and my husband and I are friends of Sue and Aubrey. Till next time, Take care…Leslie SERPAS

[@akathereader]

Welcome to booktube!

[@lucaspage9378]

I would be so curious to know your thoughts on N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy! I’m half way through the last book and it’s become a favorite series of mine.

[@BradysBookshelf]

It is one of the few fantasy series I’ve considered picking up that I don’t already own

[@emmah1837]

Seems like we have similar taste in books looks like i need to pick up dorian gray

[@nickl3377]

Always nice finding a new male booktube. I can’t read romance 🤣

[@nenyeo6090]

🥱🤦🏾‍♀️

[@nickl3377]

@@nenyeo6090 😋☺️

[@ChanelChapters]

Welcome to YT

[@billiot0530]

Yayyyyy!!!!!

[@ansk6850]

Good job. Engaging. Just subscribed. If you haven’t already, please acquaint yourself with Gordon Lightfoot, singer songwriter. Good job. Thanks.

[@leticiafuentes4312]

please read aqua viva by clarice lispector

[@BradysBookshelf]

I have and really enjoyed it. I plan to read all of her works

[@leticiafuentes4312]

@@BradysBookshelf yess

[@richarddelanet]

Dune is plain second-rate. It is written by a journalist - once a journalist always a journalist. It is an introduction to another potential human culture at best. There is the Bene Gesserit Way; paradise of the mind; mob, leaders, people; enlightenment; the individual vs hive unity; and the cosmic. "... it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman the situation is reversed." Which is plainly utter drivel. And from whence doth the fella derive such a thought, or is it an original thought. Well he is a journalist so it is unlikely to be an original thought - and it isn't...

[@nenyeo6090]

This comment will forever be stupid and people like you have to be an extra special type of slow😂 what is an original thought? Who’s out here thinking original thought in this day and age? Who’s out here being unique today? From clothes, shoes, accessories, thoughts, and more, there is no such thing as originality. This isn’t a difficult concept to grasp.

[@nenyeo6090]

This comment will forever be stupid and people like you have to be an extra special type of slow😂 what is an original thought? Who’s out here thinking original thought in this day and age? Who’s out here being unique today? From clothes, shoes, accessories, thoughts, and more, there is no such thing as originality. This isn’t a difficult concept to grasp.

[@nenyeo6090]

This comment will forever be weird and people like you have to be an extra special type of 🥱😂 what is an original thought? Who’s out here thinking original thought in this day and age? Who’s out here being unique today? From clothes, shoes, accessories, thoughts, and more, there is no such thing as originality. This isn’t a difficult concept to grasp.

[@richarddelanet]

@@nenyeo6090 I was drawn towards intelligent comment, rather than mere comment. And don't be condescending to people when they say something you happen not to like, it is beneath you/us. I would recommend reading _Red Memory_ by Tania Branigan.

[@bookdmb]

Taste

[@brendawood6712]

Who cares what you read

[@jackhemi1886]

a lot of people lol

[@sundaysareforreading]

I love the Goldfinch!! That was my first Donna Tartt. Funny enough, I actually started re-reading it this morning. That boook has such unforgettable characters. Theo🫶🏾Hobie🫶🏾Boris🫶🏾