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Ahem Jack Edwards ahem

@@CaptainThugRdx oh fr??????

@litwithleigh to some extent yeah I'm sure he skims them and does read a few books buy his reviews of books oddly just focus on the blurb and not more.. his review of crime and punishment felt a bit off.. still like his videos tho.. but not really for someone that wants a meaningful reviews

Fair. Which one was the cringiest lol

@@litwithleigh There was one I read last year called Oh Love Come Close which was a mess.

I see both sides. My star rating scale for memoirs is 3-5 stars. They automatically get 3 stars just for putting their life story out in the world to be judged. But if I didn't really like it because of poor writing style or my propensity to wonder: "What was the point of the 300 pages I just read? 🤔", it's probably gonna get 3 stars from me. If I loved it, my 5 star ratings are bit more generous for memoirs. For other books 3 stars to me usually means, it was alright or fine. And ones I didn't like, definitely not for me are 2 stars. Books that I think are objectively bad are 1 star. Objectively bad memoirs though, still get 3. *coughcoughgreenlightscough*

LMAO right it's giving "florals in spring? How groundbreaking" 💀

I honestly don’t understand how she’s popular, though, because I have yet to see more than a handful of people who actually like her. I see waaay more people hating on her. I think there’s a lot of artificial inflation of her popularity going on here.

@@bluecannibaleyes are you not in a lot of online book spaces ? Because they are drowning in her and her fans will absolutely tear you apart if you do anything but worship her, especially over on bookstagram. Every book group I was in on Facebook was oversaturated with her and her stans go for blood any time someone dares to say they don't like her. I had to reset my TikTok to get away from booktok and all the coho recommendations.

@@bluecannibaleyes I think the algorithm pushes the haters aggressively. Anytime I post about coho, my vids get a lot more views than usual. Given how many positive ratings her books have, home girl has faaaaaannnssss

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Ooohh this is a good way of looking at it that I never considered. Great point.

rightttt like what do you mean there’s sister betrayal???

Oh LAWD when you see multiple big creators talking about some random self published KU book but not marking it as paid promo it's the most bombastic of side eyes. Just be honest!!!

@@litwithleigh it was a KU book! lol.

@@KieranLikesCake lmao whats the title.... For research purposes 😜

@@litwithleigh The Silent Bride by Shalini Boland.

@@KieranLikesCake omg I heard this book was incredibly terrible lol

Thank youuu!!!💖 Exactly. Imagine someone having different tastes than you 😂😂😂 foreign concept to some ppl

i can assure you that normal fans do not care whether you like or dislike her music. but it's incredibly annoying when people that dislike her music have to shout it from every corner and spew hate relentlessly and unprovoked and i can understand why fans have a problem with that (btw i'm just generally speaking obviously, not talking about you personally)

@@_dayliqht I haven't met a die hard fan who doesn't judge or criticise. I certainly don't spew hate about her (and know not targeted comment to me, just confirming), I don't care enough about her or her music to give my time to it (save for feeling seen by this video and discussing :)! ) but if someone asks me if I like her music and I say no, I cop it. I don't think it's a "me" problem, it's a T Swift fan problem - they can't accept she isn't to everyone's taste and that people do not like her music or the genre isn't their preferred taste. It is unbelievable. I also don't understand why anyone would spend time shouting about what they dislike otherwise, unless prompted or thrown in their face.

@@_dayliqhtexactly! Like idc if you don’t care or like her or her music, I can respect that. But like…going out of your way to actively hate on her, or even ME for liking her? Like no. It pisses me off more when people hate on the people who listen (like normal fans who like her music) to her because like…I could easily do the same so let’s not lol

Out of curiosity, do you feel like it's an attack on you that you have to explain yourself to this length? Do you think you'll change this person's opinion? You can tell someone the sky is blue until you're literally blue in the face and they'll still insist it's purple LOL. Sorry I know this msg sounds rude but unfortunately I feel like some ppl cannot fathom reading that many books no matter what. I read 230+ books in 2022 with my eyeballs so I know it's possible. However I think we can both agree no one is reading 400 pgs with their eyes in 120 mins lmao (unless they're a Spencer Reid type which is extremely rare)

@litwithleigh I have ADHD so I over explain all the time. I was speaking in general as a discussion to add to conversation. Not trying to convert or persuade, just speaking on personal consumption. Sorry. Spencer Reid is awesome. I wish I had an iededic memory. Have a good day!

@@ReaderandWriter. no all good LOL I realize I sound super rude but I couldn't think of how to say it nicely without using a thousand smile emojis like a lunatic. I appreciate your insights :)

I hope the diehard dark romance girlies don't come for me LOL but I just can't get behind some of those plots like there must be another man for you that's not committing federal and international crimes 😂

😂😂😂 let them come! I’ll back you up. Haunting Adeline was👏🏽 a 👏🏽fucking👏🏽problem!

@@itsmattiebeckthe fans for that duet are scary… they sent me death threats bc i said it should’ve been banned again ☠️

@@manaspalaparti that’s wild! They’re just as problematic 😂

@@manaspalaparti I’m glad you’re okay though!

Omg thank you ❤️

Omg you're the best 💖 I'm sorry that you're gonna be so disappointed LMAO

Thank you so much 🥰

Omg this is the best compliment bc that's the vibe I'm going for 💝 tysm for giving this rando a chance!!

Oh shucks thank you 🥹💝

I found even more wild ones if I ever do a pt2 lol. Thanks for watching 🥰

Fr lol they needed to chill

Idk who this "girl" you're addressing is but it ain't me. I'm just reading comments from others.

I just realized that this sounds like I'm mocking you. Istg this isn't a hate comment and I'm not annoyed, I'm just in awe of my bf's ability to read so much and be able to recall most of it.

@@Kyra-fs4vq LOL no worries. Tbh I got super defensive there bc recently I've been getting some weird ass comments 😂 sorry about that!! Sometimes I can't remember a book I read last week, yet I'll remember every detail from a book I read in 2017.

@@litwithleigh It’s okay, I understand! Yeah, remembering the contents of books isn’t my specialty 🫡. Btw „girl“ was supposed to reference … the collective, I guess? Idk, I just use it all the time

My purpose for reading isn't to memorize every detail and recount it months later. Did I enjoy it while I was reading it? Did it help pass the time while I sat in my dentist's waiting room? Did it take my mind off a crappy day at work? Or did it give me something to share with my bbff? (my book BFF)

Omg thank youuuuu!!! I appreciate it. Also, if our tastes are opposite, you'll know whichever books I hate are guaranteed bangers for you so that's a plus 😁😜

Omg stooooopppp tysm 💝 this means a lot

I gotchu 🤝🤝🤝

Thanks for your thoughtful response. A couple people in the comments shared the same opinion about audiobooks with some interesting points to consider. Personally, I don't count my audiobooks as books read nor do I give them ratings (unless theyre truly atrocious) because I zone out and I need to see the sentence structure with my eyes to really judge the writing. A decent narrator can make the choppiest writing sound smooth.

Lmaooo thank you ❤️😊

Lmaoooo they're like oh so you think I deserve to be murdered in cold blood? Woooowwww!!!!

I hated Fourth Wing so much.

Appreciate the insights from an author! Thanks so much for watching. I try not to read reviews before reading bc it can definitely sway my opinion. If the blurb is too long, I'll just read the first couple lines bc I'm scared it'll give away too much 😂

Tbh if you're that lucky with choosing the books you read, you need to be buying lottery tickets LOL.

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Aww thank you so much!! Glad I could entertain you 😂🫡

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Omg THIS. Too much yappity yap

LMAO she does love to bang you over the head with the same thing again and again. I heard in the coworker she kept saying turtle

You're too kind 🥰🥺

LOL I think you can add a "book" to Goodreads or storygraph and then just mark it as read. I would add all those Nancy Drew games I played as a youth... Spent HOURS interviewing suspects and solving puzzles 😂

🤭🤭🤭 like I hope you're putting that big brain to use!

The mask was giving me pimples LOL I was just tired of it tbh and it felt like time to take it off.

@@litwithleigh ahh noo you should've taken it off sooner then!! i understand it was probably the comfort factor though... but anyway, i'm excited for your new journey ✨️

Right?! That was the day I blocked someone on bookstagram bc no way are you promoting this with your full chest lol

@@litwithleigh no that’s completely valid honestly, I block anyone who recommends haunting adeline as a romance book.

LMAOO I'm sorry!! Deep breaths!!😂 Also... I plead the fifth still but yes it seems to be common for ppl who read a shit ton of books to struggle with recalling significant details. I should've included it in this video, but I saw ppl debating whether it's actually "necessary" or "important" for a reader to remember what they read...... No comment.

@@litwithleigh​​⁠ from my experience (and from discussions with other bookish friends) not remembering shit is the normal thing here cause I can’t recall every second of every day either does that mean I’m not actually experiencing life? But I do know some pathological liars who can tell me a whole tale they made out of their ass with small specific details of every second of their lives if you’re catching my drift here 😅

​@@binarytrashyes how dare you be in a constant fugue state????😜

@@litwithleigh millennial generational trauma got me in that state so I’m just gonna put all the blame on that and pretend that I’m normal 😂

Thank you!!!💝💝💝 I'm glad you love the series too. Have you read the most recent one? Also, if you like Maeve Kerrigan you'll probably like Jo Spain's Tom Reynolds series (except #2... Didn't read it and I heard it was diabolically trash). There isn't a heavy romance subplot but the humor is great.

@@litwithleigh omg not yet, still saving for a physical copy cuz I was more engrossed that way! I've always notice Jo Spain books and haven't pick up on it but I'll definitely check on that! Thank youuu

@@Jin-ep8pb no problem!! Hope you enjoy the physical version 🥰 also I haven't read any Jo Spain standalones so I can't vouch for those haha

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I only read daisy Haites and that was enough BJ for me. Dude needed jail time lol.

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Lmaooo I hope no one finds this comment bc RIP to your notifications. You're about to be called ableist till the cows come home 😂 personally, I don't rate audiobooks or count them as books read. Y'all can do whatever you want, but I zone out half the time and a narrator can easily make bad writing palatable. Writing quality is important to me, which is why I need my eyeballs to take it in. AGAIN THO THIS IS JUST ME AND IM NOT TELLING ANYONE WHAT THEY CAN OR CAN'T DO SO DONT BOTHER SASSING ME 😂

@@litwithleigh yeah, that’s why I said it’s an unpopular opinion. 😅 It’s so stupid that it’s an unpopular opinion though, because it’s the correct opinion. It IS listening, not reading. People don’t seem to understand that when I say it’s not reading, I’m saying exactly that and nothing more. I don’t understand why it’s so controversial to call it listening rather than reading. I don’t care if people enjoy audiobooks. And I think it’s great that d!sabled people can still enjoy stories that way. I just don’t understand why people can’t just own it and say they listened to a story rather than read it. Seems to me like they’re just super insecure about it for some reason. I don’t like words being changed in order to accommodate including things that don’t fit the definition. If listening is reading now, then why draw the line at audiobooks? Why not include podcasts? When you keep expanding a word to include everything, it becomes meaningless. It just seems like it’s a ploy to try to make people feel better about themselves and to cover up the fact that literacy rates have been dropping lately. I don’t want to live in a world where kids aren’t actually taught to read, just taught to listen to recordings because it’s now deemed as the same reading. It’s not the same. It doesn’t help anyone to count people who can’t read as readers. It’s just a dümbing down of s0ciety.

I agree with you, and I’m a former special education teacher. Reading a book and listening to a book are 2 different ways of consuming a book. The book wasn’t read if it was listened to; the book was only consumed. People get so touchy over this and I don’t get it. My Granny can no longer hold a book bc her hands shake and she can no longer read a book bc her eyesight is basically gone, so she listens to audiobooks. Not once has my Granny ever said she read these books; she says she listened to these books. I didn’t read a television show when it was on in the background while I cooked in the kitchen for an hour. I didn’t read songs when I jammed out to the radio while in traffic. I listened to the tv show and I listened to the music. If you listened to the audiobook, then congrats, you consumed a book, but don’t tell me you read it and I won’t tell you I read a tv show and read a song on the radio. None of this is ableist; I’m not discriminating against people who cannot physically read a book (like my Granny) or who choose to not physically read the book. I’m just stating a fact that an audiobook means the book was listened to, and you didn’t read it. We have 5 senses. Which sense did you use to consume the book? Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

@@AliciaAnnReads Exactly! It’s not d!scriminating against people to say that they listened to it. I actually think it’s great that people like your Granny can still enjoy the stories through audiobooks! But yeah, it doesn’t make it reading just because people are offended and feel left out from being called readers. Reading is not defined as consuming a story (which is what these people are trying to redefine it as), it’s defined as decoding written words; audiobooks aren’t that. It’s not reading for the same reason that an adult reading a book aloud to a kid who can’t read isn’t the kid reading it. I don’t get why they can’t just call it listening. That’s what it is and there’s no shame in calling it that. People are just way too touchy and insecure nowadays.

He wants to be the main character so bad 😂

I laughed far too much at Nobu’s name maybe being Knob 😂😅 but I agree he’s a secret hero!!

LMAO yes it's Nobu. I may be deranged but not enough to name my dog Knob 😂

@@litwithleigh hahahaha the idea of that is so funny. You running down the street screaming KNOB COME BACK HERE!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 that sent me

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I'll take those views LMAOO

Wow this means so much!! 💞Seriously bc when I'm editing my vids I'm usually like omg you sound like a pretentious wanker 😂😂

In the case of the review I mentioned, it was for The Diary of a Young Girl. the reviewer's gripe was that Anne Frank was a bratty teenager. We didn't need that hot take.

@@litwithleigh wow! Agree - absolutely not needed

Thank you!!! I'm so glad you found me too ❤️

@@litwithleigh watching all your videos

Lol sorry if it wasn't clear but I meant standard novels

@@litwithleigh You were. I’m just being silly. :P

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Then we agree 😁

LMAO no sky daddies here

Don't worry about it! Omg that Cait thing was sooooo crazy lol

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What are some songs I should listen to? Tbh I don't care about lyrics oftentimes (hence why I enjoy rich baby daddy) but ppl keep saying she's a great lyricist, which is why I was paying attention lol. It's just not my genre of music overall. I like music that gets me pumped up.

​@@litwithleighI'm not a swiftie😅 Disliking something isn't the same as hate, maybe I should've spelled that out. My point was, it's ok to not like Taylor Swift but she definitely doesn't make art that is as obviously misogynistic as CoHo, so comparing them is a reach.

@@justwonder1404 OHHH LMFAOOOOOO I'm an idiot *deletes comment*

@@litwithleigh it's ok, I can be really bad at saying what I mean, it's not you it's me lol

Like good shook or wtf am I reading this is trash shook

LOL Alafair Burke. She's my Freida but without the blatant plagiarism

Freida has been my guilty pleasure source for a while now but after reading her ripoff of Psycho I need a break 😂 she really just be pulling these “twists” right out of her butt, and they are stinky 💩

@@kaylamarie-cg2we totally understand. Alafair Burke has a great value esque police procedural series and then some standard thrillers. Idk to me they're the same quality as McFraudulent, just not a blatant rip off lol. She's got a new one coming out in Jan 2025 called The Note. She's also written a few books with Mary Higgins Clark, but I've only read the most recent one with my earholes (audiobook). It was pretty over the top lol def a guilty pleasure read

@@litwithleigh okay I just listened to The Better Sister and I loved it. What a frick fracking relief to read something with logical twists for once, much better quality than Freida imo 😭

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Shocking!!!

LMAOOO to be fair this video came out before the beef got as wild as it did....

ohhhhh yea fair point lol i like drake too if i’m in the right mood because god’s plan is so chill

@@thefool8750 lmao my comments clearly didn't age well.

If you think this is shaming someone then.... Lol. I am the most unserious person ever. But in all seriousness, if you're knocking down 900wpm on a slow day, I hope you're working for the CIA or some shit instead of struggling to comprehend my KZfaq video.

@litwithleigh LOL and whatever... but it is, though. Is 900WPM the CIA mins? Cool. Cool cool cool. I fall a little short of evil mastermind/global super spy, then. Whew. That was going to keep me up at night.

I'm sorry you experienced this. I did as well, so I completely understand. And if you get onto the wrong side of tiktok you'll see the influence it has. I understand SOME people can separate fact from fiction, but just look at how the rise of hockey romances coincided with the rise of hockey fans amongst female readers.

Supporting the economy!! Love that 😍