Haha the downside is that only I know where everything is 🤓🤓

You all in the comments are always lengthening my TBR too! 😂😂

That's the sweet spot! I love when I find people like that too!

Thanks Naty! I'm so glad you enjoy these -- they're my favorites, too! I'll do an extended book shelf tour sometime soon 🤗

Do u have a goodreads account?

AHHHH that makes me so happy!! So glad you liked it so much! 👻

Thank you! 😊😊

It made me laugh out loud too! I love Selin so much it's hard to explain

AHHH I'm so glad you picked that one up! It changed the way I think about everything and offered me a lot of solace in a sad and confusing time

There are so many wonderful writers out there indeed! I don't read any fantasy, but I read a little sci-fi -- I have a sci-fi-specific shelf where I keep them, though, so I'll have to make sure to include that next time for you! I'm not well-read in that genre at all but I always really love it when I pick something up 💜

I felt the same with Things We Lost in the Fire! When she describes the place that little boy stays by the Constitucion station I was like -- !!!! I CAN SO IMAGINE IT. I used to live just three blocks from there

Book haul sometime next month for sure! 💜

Haha nooo you can never be too early!! 🤗

Sleep tight!

Omg you must! It's such a delightful surprise, and funny too

Thank you!! Also ahhhh if my pothos gets like that I'm gonna have to rent a room for it 😂

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No One is good but not great imo 🤷🏻‍♀️ whereas Never Let Me Go.... !!!!

Thank you so much for being here!! 🤗

@@MauveASMR thanks of you for do good asmr videos and brings me peace when i have anxiety 🙂💜

I KNOW isn't the cover so lush?! Lucky for you the writing is killer too

YES I know exactly what you mean by "stickier" -- love the way you put it! What was the thematically similar book you read, just out of curiosity? I also wonder if you'd like I Hold a Wolf By Its Ears, or maybe Florida (Groff). In comparison to CB they're definitely less weird but still spooky and, I think, ultimately stickier

@@MauveASMR ohhh these two books look great (especially, I think, I Hold a Wolf By Its Ears). Gonna throw these both on my list 👀They both sound like they might have some of the spark I want more of. The other book was Mexican Gothic! Obviously on the surface they're super different (Mexican Gothic being more of a (very) knowing gothic/lovecraftian pastiche, vs Cursed Bunny's collection of genre-hopping, more contemporary & somewhat experimental form), but they're both playing with ideas around families, legacies, social roles, women's issues, curses, etc. etc. I think everyone I've talked to enjoyed Mexican Gothic more than I did, so I'm willing to accept this as a me problem and not an it problem (hahaha), but I thought it was just *so* unsubtle and, honestly, after reading Cursed Bunny, not particularly creepy or chilling in the way I was hoping it would be. Made me appreciate more in retrospect Chung's range, and how comfortable she is with ambiguity. Had a difficult time really leaning into Mexican Gothic's creepy atmosphere because it was one of those books where like from the first 15 minutes of reading that ultimately everything was going to be okay for all of the good people in the book. (It's funny, I blew through it in like three days and overall mostly enjoyed my time with it, but trying to talk about it at all makes me sound like a huge hater lmao.)

I've never heard of Before the Coffee Gets Cold but what a great title! Just read the synopsis and am definitely adding it to my list -- thanks!

@@MauveASMR tbh i’d love a video where you go over your to be read list, i feel like you’d have some good titles on there!

I've been meaning to read it for ages!!

OH goodness you can't go wrong with Second Place or The Idiot! Let me know what you think! As for Middlemarch, I've picked it up but never finished it. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to like it (a similar thing happens to me with Orlando) but I never get into it, so I just keep trying, hoping eventually it will hit me right. So many people with similar taste to mine love Middlemarch, and someone I know even rereads it every year (!!!), and I adored Silas Marner when I read it... but Middlemarch hasn't clicked for me yet. One day!!

@@MauveASMR I know what you mean about Middlemarch. I'm liking it but not loving it. I'll have to add Silas Marner to my list. Thx. Someone reads Middlemarch every year? Wow. Yes, I'll absolutely let you know my thoughts after reading Second Place and the Idiot. So fun chatting about books. : ) W

@@wordswordswords8203 Yes the annual Middlemarch reader is very intense 😂

I actually JUST picked this up at the bookstore! I'll include it in my next haul -- I'm so looking forward to it!

I DID! It's in my living room bookshelf, so I'll have to show you that sometime! I had to read it very slowly, because of its density and structure, so I just chipped away at it, reading a section or two every morning. I didn't like the curio cabinet / body part sections but could more or less appreciate them, and everything else was very good, my favorite parts being the sections on travelers and also the AIRPORT SCENES eg presentations given there, musings on liminal spaces, etc. Olga just has the wackiest, brightest mind

@@MauveASMR thank you for the thoughtful response! i love the way you talk about books and i've been thinking about trying out flights since i loved drive your plow so much. this was the final push i needed

@@aiela YES then I'm glad to have had a hand in that!! She is simply amazing. Let me know what you think! 🤗

Oh I should!! Do you have any recommendations on where to start?

@@MauveASMR yes sure thanks for considering it. here is a small list of popular Arabic authors Naguib Mahfouz Khalil Gibran mahmoud darwish Tayeb Salih (Season of Migration to the North) is a highly recommended book, you can search and chose any book that interested you by any of them if you like.

Hi Zacky!! Hope the new year is treating you well!

I don't! :)

@@MauveASMR you should!

I say in the video that my nonfiction books are elsewhere but thanks for your concern :)

history is boring george

@@ivy-ys8or history is important and interesting once you have found the aspects of history you’re interested in, ivy