Aofie is such an amazing friend and awesome booktuber! I enjoyed seeing your take on these. They are exactly what I think of when I think of Aoife!

Ah! I LOVE Cackle!

U Hauls are very satisfying 👌🏻

I just read My Murder this week and really enjoyed it so much! A lot of things it was exploring kept reminding me of Any Man by Amber Tamblyn, so you might check that out if you havent.

Fab concept!

These 📚 sound great. Thanks! Added to my TBR list. Especially interested in All the Wicked Girls. Loved Chris Whitaker's We Begin at the End.

What a lovely vlog!! I adore Legends and Lattes. Maybe not an all time favorite but a good reread for comfort.

I'm super intrigued by The Night of the Storm.

I LOVE that edition of The Tainted Cup. Sunbringer will be off your list soon! I need to get My Murder for my collection. And Yay! Tress!!! You are doing swimmingly. 🥳33% read prior to purchase!!

My favorite that i would reread every year was called Summer of Yesterday by Gaby Triana.

I haven't heard of these, definitely looking into it

You’re doing better than a lot of us, you got this ❤

I really enjoyed A Study of Scarlet women❤ I should continue that series as well🧐

Loved this!! Added 3 to my TBR.

Ok I'm commenting so I can remember to come back and list some books!

I'd love to see what you think of The Trouble With Goats and Sheep, by Joanna Cannon; Simple Prayers, by Michael Golding; Clockwork Angels, by Kevin J. Anderson; Beyond the Sky and the Earth, by Jamie Zeppa, The Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie; Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu; Hazards of Time Travel, by Joyce Carol Oates; What Came Before He Shot Her, by Elizabeth George; and Of Things Gone Astray, by Janina Matthewson. Those are among my most recommended books pre-booktube. I LOVED If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, by Calvino. I enjoyed his The Baron in the Trees too. I liked Nickle Boys, so I'll have to watch for a copy of The Institutionist. That sounds fun. I also like books set in Ireland, so Milkman sounds great. I'll be hopefully starting Entangled Life this weekend during Dewey's Readathon, and if I don't get to it then it is on my TBR for next week.

These all sound so intriguing! 💜

I might need to try Tell the Machine Goodnight to read from Katie Williams again. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Intuitionist, Orion, and Milkman are all on my TBR bc of you. The Half Drowned King sounds interesting.

Love Hala Alyan’s poetry I’ve been meaning to try out her fiction🍉 A backlist nonfiction I highly recommend is Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha💚

Great idea for a video, I’m 100% stealing it 😁 I’ve only read one of these, Milkman, which I loved. Just thinking about it again all those names and the wonderful language came flooding back. The Colson Whitehead one and All The Wicked Girls both sound great (in fact you make them all sound great, but those two are lost in my wheelhouse)

I just bought The Half Drowned King and Tell The Machine Goodnight. Let's see if I can trust ur recommendations 🤔😂

I love this, ❤❤❤ and my list just grew again lol 😂

Omg what a great weekend! There aren't many Aussie booktubers that i've come across but something like this would be so fun!

I need to start doing this 😅 keep me accountable for what I buy. Adding Magery Allingham to my list of authors to try, can't go wrong with a mystery

This is making me think about rereading some of my favourites . .. sometime - too many great books to read 😀

I just finished Diavola and loved it!

It was me that sent you The Z Word! I am so glad you got it because I was worried! They don't provide tracking for wishlist books but they were supposed to send my gift note! Lol. I basically just said how much I enjoyed being on Team Spooky with you! And that you're awesome!

I need to catch up on the Buffy series!!

I love this video concept and your analysis is so interesting! I’m incredibly bad at reading new releases so the only reason I’m somewhat keeping up this year is through buddy reads and book clubs.

may i was so not foucsed so i feel you on the up and down reads. i had such a fun time with tar and need to get around to my copy of station eternity!!

I love that you guys got to spend this time together! So fun to meet fellow booktubers in person!

This was so fun to watch!! I’ve never done a booktube meetup, but I did a bookstagram weekend in pigeon forge a few years back with a few of my book besties, and it was so fun!!!

Something that's really helped me DNF more is allowing myself to rate books I DNF. I feel like not letting yourself rate those books is only pushing yourself to read more of what you're not liking, so that you "deserve" to rate it

Oooh I love these questions!

I appreciate this video! In a romance that is not labelled as dark or kink in anyway, we do not need more representation of what's not healthy. Romance writers have a responsibility to their readers to not only call out this behaviour but to model healthy, equal relationships. I'm not saying there's no place for this kind of content generally, it's got its place in dark romance where the reader is going in not being duped.

This is fantastic! I hope to do something like this next year after I finish reading all the unread fiction books on my shelves.

You got this!! ❤❤🦾🦾

You're doing great!! I've never been someone who buys a lot of books. I'm more a library person. So far i've only bought 2 books this year. I haven't read either of them yet, but i have a buddy read planned for one of them. The other one is the second book in a dense adult high fantasy and as i've been in a fantasy slump for the past few months, i didn't feel like i could give it the brain it needed. So i hope the right headspace comes back soon

I've had good success so far with CJ Archer too, though I'm reading their Glass Library series this month. Not 5-star amazing, but all reliably fun and easy to read even when you're on the verge of slumping. I'll have to try more of their series.

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You’re doing amazing Leandra totally think you can get those read before the end of the year💜 I have a similar goal but going easier on myself and just trying to make sure I at least get all my preorders read. I’m actually adding books to my spreadsheet right now so I have it handy and I’m at 45% books I’ve read before, 40% still unread, and 15% percent read after I bought them🌻

well dani brown is still on my tbr :)

The way I see it, you have 14 books to look forward to! 😊 I realized in my mid year freakout that I had bought 69 books in the first 6 months! And that has increased since then sssshhh... I've read 22 in total ^^ Well maybe a couple more since then. But those were an audiobook and a library loan! I mostly buy second hand though, so I think there are special rules for that! :D Anyway, I hope you enjoy them all!

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