I haven’t read my dark Vanessa and holy shit even reading it summarized by you that’s hard to read

my self help is not reading self help loll

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I subscribe to idea put forth by Alice Cappelle that fiction can be used as self-help

why would it be self help lol

@AFL Rookie my issue with self help books mostly lies in that it’s not interesting watching people read and review them. I have no issue with anyone reading a self help book and enjoying it. To be fair, I don’t read them due to finding a lot of them engage in too many generalisations and suffer from pressures of the publisher in requiring page quantity over content quality, though I am sure there are much better ones than I have found. In any sense, due to the intimacy relating to the nature of one’s engagement with a self help book, watching someone engage with it is not wildly interesting.

Agreed. I loved it.

Loved this book. Top 10 for me

Yes. Author was so smart to narrate a story using victim’s POV then made it seems romanticized while actually portraying how horrifying it is

totally agree!! want to reread it soon :)

@@daisyfruity3040 I have not read my dark Vanessa, but I did read a book when I was younger called Treacherous Love and it sounds pretty similar!

I second this!

Yess this would be amazing!

agreed!!

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I just finished "The Perfect Marriage" by Jeneva Rose over 3 days ago, and I'm still thinking about that book....I'm reading "My Dark Vanesssa" now

me for the past 3 days editing this video nonstop

@@AClockworkReader we love the pointlessness of life woohoooo

@@kirbysnap *yes we do :D*

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Dude I wish because even when I’m deeply depressed I just physically have to pace around hysterically 💀

I’m thinking I should maybe pick it up now. I’m only 18 though I feel it might be too fresh and recent

@@katiefield3396 potentially still sensitive!

at one point, I thought she said ‘fat girl reading list’ I felt attacked lmaoo

@@io2255 lol

@@io2255 I heard that too!

I did not have subtitles on. So thank you for informing me about this! I’m so happy now

ohhh I love that!!

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I love this idea, feel like doing it myself. Just got to get myself motivated!!

There’s too many countries to choose from to represent a continent, after all, different areas of a continent can be VERY different to other areas. Unless, you choose to read multiple books from each continent (If you were to read a book from the north, east, south, and west of that continent), even then, the more popular countries will always get their literature chosen.

I mean maybe they do that to plunge themselves in stuff that they really don’t understand? Realistically, I know that for most people being that girl is extremely tiring and “burning-out” if I may so reading about a horrible privileged prick being hella depressed is probably cathartic to them. But, in an attempt to be positive I’m just going to say that they are trying to experience something just so far from their own personal experience, like how I enjoy reading about absolutely horrible people because I just can’t understand how they perceive the world.

I think Urban Dictionary is wrong or Booktok has it wrong. Because all the "that girl" books are about depression and sadness and bad mental health choices. P.s. I reread The Bell Jar every time in a depressive episode. I feel like we could be sad girl soulmates lol.

im honestly surprised that these are the books recommendations to be "that girl", coz in bookstagram these selections are recognized as "sad girls" recommendations instead of promoted as the latter. since mostly the recommendations for "that girl" selections are mostly... well, booktok recommendations, aka the classic coleen hoover stuff, and lots of romance books.

That girl is definetly not a"wealthy lifestyle" or at least not neccesarily. I'd define "that girl" as a sad hot girl, and also a girl who is hard to reach if you are jst like everyone else

@Trinity M Talk about projecting… As my comment made it pretty clear, it was an hypothesis of why people would enjoy the book based on what the video told me about it. I have absolutely not an ounce of interest in my body to read it and I haven’t. Where do you see me claiming to have read it ? Like the comment I’m replying to is curious about how girls focused of health and productivity enjoy something at the antithesis of their own motto and lifestyle, so I offered guesses based on context clues because I thought it was an interesting question. How do you have the nerve to go around telling people that intellect “has died on this platform” (as if early youtube was ever the intellectual sanctuary 💀) meanwhile you can’t even pick up on basic context clues I-

Lolita is my all-time favorite too. 💕 I first read it many years ago when I was 16 and it defined and formed both my taste in literature and my sense of aesthetics like nothing else. Pale Fire is brain-meltingly brilliant as well. No one can do it like Nabokov.

Have you read Being Lolita by Alisson Wood? It's a memoir about her story of a teacher grooming her using Lolita as the basis of their "love story". Highly recommend it.

@@carolandrews Cool! Thanks for the recommendation:)

100%. books are flying off of the shelves these days due to tik tok. Honestly kinda proud of gen z lol

The fact Vanessa wanted to wear her mom’s lingerie while he bought her cute pajamas showed that she wanted to appear mature bc that’s what he told her he thought of her, but him buying her those pajamas is a clear indication that he never liked Vanessa bc of her “maturity”, he knew she was a child and wanted to emphasize that.

@@fernydykeomg this is so dark its not even something that rlly dawned on me while reading But ouchie thats so sad

i’m trying my best 🥲💗

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I loved that scene too. I just finished reading the book a few days ago. I appreciate how I could get frustrated with Vanessa because she dismissed another person’s trauma but I also still sympathized with her

Oh my GOD yes!!! That little nuance was BRILLIANT. Bc I have actively thought that, I know in a moment of pain I’ve said it as well, but the thought still bubbles up sometimes & I don’t think it’s an emotion that gets addressed enough. And it’s crazy bc obviously, you feel guilty for feeling that way, but you also need your experience & your own pain to be valid, more so than someone else’s, like if anyone has the right to be hurt, it is me- so why are you making such a big deal about it when you experienced a fraction of what I did??And obviously it’s pent up anger & confusion, a lack of understanding & perspective. Like now I know that peoples thresholds for trauma are different, like some people who experienced things I did wouldn’t be able to go on & other people would be able to cope much better than I did. Or two people can go thru the same thing, one can come out traumatized & the other can just accept it & move on..sorry for the rant, but I’m just in awe of how well she captured these thoughts and feelings

‘hot girl books’ on tik tok are more supposed to be about dark things like depression, grooming, eating disorders, anxiety, etc…. Not self help and fitness. That’s more like the ‘clean girl’ aesthetic.

@@io2255 that is the most insane thing I’ve ever heard. One day this comment will be in a textbook

hope you enjoy it! 💖

Lol from Jeff Bezos 😂

thank u 💕💕

i just finished it yesterday actually! i unfortunately didn't like it 😅 i found it pretty boring apart from one chapter towards the end. overall it felt like it had some of my least favorite aspects of normal people but it was even more boring loll

​@@AClockworkReader Lol I had a feeling you might not like it! I feel like the characters were more unlikeable and not much of anything interesting happened. I did appreciate the conversations she tried to create with the letters between the friends, but it has been a few months since I read it and I honestly couldn't tell you anything else about it lol

hey could you recomend me some cottagecore books?

this made me so happy (no judgment or criticism from me) i'm so glad you're enjoying the journal 💖💖💖

that's definitely on the list!

@@AClockworkReader yayyy!! I can’t wait for it!!💖

@@AClockworkReader I’d love to see what you think of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, if you haven’t read it already. Definitely has some very creepy scenes. It was almost cathartic to me to read though, I love it :)

I was counting something and lost track when I heard that. I had to start over. Hahahaha

The pain I felt with that 😂

I had to look up at the screen to make sure I heard her right LOL Definite oof!

I’m replying late but real. I trust her opinions the most

lol I think you meant to say that there is such a thing as marxist feminism which white women can subscribe to? Which yes they can. But one cant be a feminist and a marxist separately coz you know that would make no sense. so not sure what you want to tell people at the back there.

@@TheAbyss..andyou people confuse definitions so much these days, I'm not even surprised anymore when I hear stuff like that

@@TheAbyss..andyou What (I assume) she means by white feminism is feminists who don't use intersectional feminism and only focus on issues that center or affect them (white women.) If you are a marxist you can still unknowingly or otherwise perpetuate these ideas if you don't consider the ways different types of oppression come together and create complex intersections where the oppression they face based on multiple marginalized identities interact and influence each other and so they may choose a different way to fight the patriarchy or a different issue to advocate for than you would (that doesn't affect you because you are white/more privileged than they are) I have known some people who are marxists who also did not look at the world in a very intersectional way. That's what I want to tell the people in the back lol

it's crazy to me there are people with such a misunderstanding of Marxism that they believe you can't be white or a feminist and also Marxist?! like WTF I don't even agree with Marxism and I know that. but sorry all Marxists out there you can't be white anymore and you MUST be a misogynist now. xD like WTF

Tea 👀👀

I approve. I've read both and they are both hard to read but so important

@noha lee me too, I did not like it :(

Normal people was the dullest, most boring, privileged and baffling thing I have ever suffered reading. And I read a lot of baffling sh-t

@@happyjellycatsquid Same here!!

@@happyjellycatsquid it was the first book i read after getting back into reading (i stopped for a couple yrs cause i was busy) and it made me contemplate quitting reading again lol

@@tehelea It made me contemplate quitting booktok because what??? This is what you bunch have been singing the praises of ??? Seriously?

Same, hugs to you!

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💖 thank you! don't worry, i'm not putting too much pressure on myself!

@@AClockworkReader ofc ;) thats good 😊

Bro the way this has been me this whole week. And it's literally finals season so my grades are holding on for dear life.

@@ggparadelo3588 I am done with mine!Actually scored pretty good All the best to you:)!!

@@ggparadelo3588 same here :( And all the best to u! U got this

Thank you😭

It’s very taboo, and I loved it, very eye opening especially how much she went in detail..

both thriller and horror are on my list to film! 😊

Yayyyyyy can't be more excited ❤️❤️😭😭

it's just so long it intimidates me hahah 😅