My biggest issue with Colleen Hoover is her books are NOT romance… they romanticize abusive relationships as if they are all the rage and normal

We all already knew Colleen hoover was going to be in this video before opening it 😂

I work at a bookstore and the amount of colleen hoover books sold each day is despicable.

"How can a book that is entirely set on the ocean be this dry?" I absolutely lost it there 🤣

I feel like The Great Gatsby gets such a bad rep because in the states they often give it out as high school required reading material in grade 9 or 10, when people aren't really ready to digest something like it, so its boring and awful and hard to get through for them.

[TW: mentions of unaliving] The depiction of mental health in The Midnight Library isn't bad, it is A depiction. Not everyone struggling with mental illness/depression and suicidal tendencies have the same experience and there is something very weird about proudly saying "that's a bad depiction of mental health" because there's probably some people who felt really seen by the way the main characters deals with her issues. We have to remember that media cannot represent everyone and everything all at once. The people who could not relate to the issues of the main character are totally valid but there's a lot of people who did and by discrediting the work and themes Matt Haig puts forward, we are also dismissing the real-life struggles that the people who did relate are currently facing. The book has its issues but the depiction of mental health is probably not what people should be criticizing.

I can't wait to hear what you think about catcher in the rye. Tons of its fans are insufferable, but the book itself is actually super beautiful. I think a lot of people read this for the first time as teenagers and don't realize that Holden Caulfield is unlikable on purpose. Reading it as an adult, it breaks my heart. Such a sad story about a deeply, deeply lonely teenager who is dealing in all the wrong ways with grief and alienation.

I saw SO much hype about Colleen Hoover being so awesome. I finally read It Ends With Us, well tried to read it. I couldn't force myself to read it all. She writes like a high school student. The sentences and dialogue are SO simplistic. I felt actually dumber for having read what I did. This video made me feel better!

I'm a Catcher in the Rye apologist! I read that one when I was an angry teenager myself and boy, did I feel understood. Idk how I will feel abt it now, but I think I'll still love it. Holden has a special place in my heart.

it’s crazy how fast hoover went downhill, she was a trend in the booktok community and now all of a sudden EVERYONE dislikes her 💀

"I was never Team Edward or Team Jacob. I was Team Carlisle."

The Great Gatsby took me 3 reads to fall in love with it. We read it in high school - hated it. I tried it again a few years later - still hated it. Then tried it again last year and omg I loved it.

Donna Tartt's The Secret History is one of my all time favorite books. Tartt's way of drawing character in this book was so authentic, I felt like I was at the university with those group of people. So good. For those of us who went to college in the 1980s, this book is a way to immerse ourselves in that time while following a really compelling story.

I'm such a Lord of the Flies apologist, i cant even- I LOVE survival horror stuff, speeecially when it takes on peer pressure and rising stakes. it all turns into ABSOLUTE chaos, and the ending is like having a bucket of cold water thown at you, yet it feels warm at the same time

“What was more culturally significant, the renaissance or…”

I really liked Lord Of The Flies : it was so interesting to see how the boys would survive and what would happen. But yes, sometimes it was a bit long

I'm about the same on Twilight... The series kept me very entertained for like a week in college. Then I realized how, uh, terrible the relationship was. But my sister, who had struggled with severe dyslexia her whole life, read Twilight and loved it. It started her interest in reading. I can't hate Twilight for that.

I am a Moby Dick apologist!! It can be technical at times but I think the gorgeous writing and overall vibes make up for it. I especially think you would like it, Emmie, so don't let this deter you!

I don’t really know why Paulo Coelho’s Alchemist is so popular in North America. Nobody in Brazil even takes the author seriously 😂

Not Lord of the Flies!