This comment is just so amazing. Yes she shouldn't sell her self short. There isn't one way to be smart she may not academically smart but she's smart when she's talking about books.

I have immense love in my heart for you! And des as well and the whole booklovers community!! 🥺❤

YESSSS🙌🏻

Thank youu sooo much for your comment! It was meant for destiny, but i used to be like her. People always made me feel stupid for saying things they didn't agree on when they just could've corrected me instead of calling me "stupid' by "dumb" over it. I hope Destiny sees your comment cus girl really has so much to be proud of and being smart is one of them.

Amen to that! She absolutely needs to stop selling herself short. I love you so much Destiny.❤

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Yes

me as a Shakespearian historian when I heard that; "yeah that tracks"

a person into shakespeare will always let u know that they are

I am insufferable.

Yea that was pretty funny

Cool comment. :P

do you think i could read just the sequel, or do i have to read the first one to understand?

@@sallyroad7641 you have to read Ninth House first 😊 the second one is basically a continuation of the first book with the same characters and the same story line

@@janinaxxx ok thank youuu>> i was just wondering bc i accidentally bought the second book first haha

Shit I’ve read ninth house last year and the second book is still on my tbr

i was so confused when i heard everyone calling it a classic and then got it myself and found out it's from the 90's. I guess it's more considered a "modern classic" but it still feels so wrong that it's called a classic in any way lmao.

Generally to be considered a classic, books need to be at least 100 years old, or be impactful for several generations. At least that’s what I learned. So I don’t believe we can consider literature from the 90s as classics 😂 I feel old, but I’m not THAT old lmao.

We aren't classic, girls, don't worry, it's only a Tiktok Classic 😂

Hahahahah.

We have to read Shakespeare here in the Caribbean. It's required reading so some things are so far out of our understanding. I want to read If We Were Villains. I'll just look up the summaries of the plays. The plot in Shakespeare's plays are usually pretty interesting.

i have never once studied it

When I was in school, every year was a required Shakespeare play. I know Romeo and Juliet was freshman year. Othello was sophomore year, I think Hamlet was junior year and finally Macbeth for senior year. I also read Midsummer Night Dream. I know about Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing because of advanced English in school. But I've been out of high school for 10 years, and I know the curriculum has changed dramatically.

Thanks so much, I wanted to read it but because I'm not English native speaker I was scared to read it🥰 Now I'm going to see if I can find those editions

I've googled it but I swear I still don't get what unreliable narrator means or how he is one lol

@@odinlee4579 basically a narrator you can't trust. richard is unreliable because he has a very bias view on everyone in the greek class to the point where his narrating is being affected and therefore the reader isn't receiving all the information or truthful information on what's going on.

I know. I feel bad for book tubers because they feel like they need make themselves read overhyped books just for the clout.

whats dnf

@@KeyondraHarris do not finish

did not finish reading@@KeyondraHarris

Same and I read it like 2 years ago

YES I dearly hope she reads it I’m so curious for her review

I’ve been intrigued by that book but have no idea what the heavy topic is haha

@@katierucki276 it's about a student-teacher relationship following Vanessa the main character through the perspective of when she was 15-17 in the early 2000s to when she's older in 2017. there were a lot of critiques when it came out cause it was released right around the height of the MeToo movement and understanding SA victims was still a "newer" conversation and a lot of people critiqued this book for the main character not truly understanding the severity of what happened to her, but I personally felt it was extremely relatable. it's an intense book and I would honestly take your time with it if you do read it cause it can get graphic but I rated it 5/5 it was just amazing

@@agothbee thank you so much! I will put it on my tbr officially now!

that book is so good I think about it all the time

One of my favorites of all time!

It was a lil confusing at first with switching points of view but after that it has become one of my favorite books

It’s definitely confusing. But the second book is sooo good in my opinion, Leigh’s writing was much more clear and fluid in that one.

YESSSSS I was in a production of Macbeth in high school and just generally enjoy Shakespeare, and I would pay SOOOO much money to see their Macbeth Halloween production!!!

Me too! I still don’t really understand what defines something as dark academia except the clothing aesthetic. I know it’s normally set in a school of some kind but that’s literally it.

Firstly, there's a difference between the dark academia aesthetic and the dark academia genre. The dark academia aesthetic is really old buildings/schools/colleges, romantisicing studying, old books, dark academia clothing, brown colour tones, mostly about languages and classical studies, like greek, latin, literature, philosophy stuff like that. The dark academia genre is often combined with the aesthetic and it has to have an academic aspect/setting, but what's most important is that the media piece criticises the academic world in some way. (E.g. The secret history criticises when people do everything for the aesthetic, romantisicing and being pretentious and Babel criticizes racism in the academic world) But also the definition might change from person to person, that's just the definition I like and hear about the most and I feel like that it's the most accurate. For some people it might be enough if a book has the dark academia aesthetic to consider it dark academia.

@@astronomygirl3492 This actually made sense, thanks for explaining!

I really want to read it, but like i was having a ton of trouble understanding what was happening, any insight as to what I should do? I love leigh bardugo so I want to read this really bad

Which one should I read first? I want to try them but I don’t know where to start.

@@isabellag6220 i’ve read The Secret History first and than i’ve read If We Were Villians like a year later and in my opinion It’s best to read it in this order because they are very similar but for me The Secret History is unmatched so i recommend to read it first even though It’s a little bit harder to read

Wow really? Idk I hated tsh more than any other book I've read before lol and also found iwwv so much better. But then again, I don't like comparing them because to me, they're really different and comparing them makes no sense imo 😅

@@odinlee4579 i think The Secret History is meant to be read slowly to really appriciate the writing, the atmosphere and the aesthetics so i get why some people don’t enjoy it and that’s why i would recommend them to read If We Were Villians. Both of them are amazing and they are worth reading for sure. I love them

@@wiktoriawiktoria0912 Yeah I liked the moodiness of tsh and I liked maybe one or two parts of it but something abiut it just made me bored and I kept wanting to put it down. I loved iwwv though and I'm so glad I read it!

Also I love the Care Bears shirt 😍😍