Love the Jackaby series. Have them in hardcover. Starting off, it's a lot like The Raven Boys as the author sets the scene and introduces you to the characters. Then, the rest of the books remind me of Lockwood and Co. book series or tv show.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is SO good!! Really wish Holly Black would write a sequel for that, because it's such a great story. She writes vampires the same way she writes fae-wicked and deadly. Cannot believe you have the hardcover for that and haven't read it yet haha. Read it! 🖤

I’m interested in buying both ouabh hardbacks if your going to sell them!

Amazing looking books! Hurts my soul to see the covers bent completely flat to show the design though! I’m a crazy and refuse to open my books past 90 degrees. I’m too scared I’ll hurt the spine lol

PLEEEESE please please read GOBLIN EMPEROR FIRST! The sequel is just in the same world so better to say a companion novel. I have not read it. But I find GOBLIN EMPEROR a MUST READ and fear that the sequrl will ruin you wish to try the first book. It is my 7✨️ out of 5. I love that book. It is sooo unique in its own way. [You know how no book is Night Circus not even close...that way this book is its own work. But othereise no comparation ]

I really enjoyed Immortal Longings, personally.

I get through big books by reading them for 15 minutes a day before reading anything else! If I read more than that, great, but if I hit 15 minutes, then that’s all I need to do that day. Means it takes me about two months to finish, but prevents me from getting burnt out. Currently halfway through Empire of the Vampire!

I really enjoyed The Familiar and The Tainted Cup, hope you can get to those soon! Totally agree about Emily and Wendell, love them both separately and together ❤️ And I couldn’t pick just one book for my answers either, too hard 😂😂

Love your videos❤! Can you share book recs for T. Kingfisher and V.E. Schwab? I’ve never read books from either one of them but really want to.

Let me know your favorite and least favorite reads of the year so far!

Nice!

So excited for this video from your perspective!! T. Kingfisher is also one of my new favorite authors from this year and I love hearing other people talk about her. I've read 5 of her books so far this year and can't wait to get through all of them. You've quickly become my absolute favorite booktuber. Thank you for all of the amazing content 😊

How long have you been waiting before receiving an invite from the Broken Binding? Absolutely my favourite book box sub!

I've had The Helm of Midnight on my tbr since Reagan mentioned it as well! Excited to hear what you think!

Tainted Cup feels very much like a stand alone, sorta of like watching a show and finishing a self contain episode.. it’s a great read. I rated it 4.5 stars on my review. 8)

Deleted my Goodreads account (which I had had since 2016) in January. Two main reasons being that not only did the competitiveness (and in fairness, other factors of my life) send me into my first ever hardcore reading slump (a little over a year long) but I also realised, whilst scrolling through my old reading challenges, that this weird competitive bibliophile train I had jumped onto was like yeah, I did read more books per year, BUT I didn't actually *remember* any of the details of the books I had read --synopses, nothing. In my adolescence I would read approx. 15-20 books per annum and journal those books I had read into a notebook (reviewing and rating), and I remember those books. I am in my 30s and I still remember the books I read as a teen and the profound impact they had made on me. But compare that to when I chose to hop onto the GR Social-Media competitive train (more intensely around 2019 onward), like, I had read some INCREDIBLE books between 2016-2023 but unless that book was a reread (or would be reread in that period), I truly do not remember independent details. I did not slow down my reading enough to savour any of the detail, or allow my brain to submerge into the story or etc. And so now, 2024, I am back to my journaling and after not touching my GR in over a year (then deleting it), and breaking away from BookTube in that time, I even have the capacity to read books I haven't read yet again (rather than sticking to rereads).

The Honey witch looks stunning! I've just gotten it as audiobook, can't wait to get to it.

Never heard of competitive reading. But then I've never had any kind of social media account. Things like Twitter/X, Facebook, Reddit, MySpace or whatever seem like a pain in the ass to me. I don't even give a shit enough about what I had for lunch, let alone expect anyone else to care about it 🤣People who document their entire lives online are bizarre to me.

I'm reading A Day of Fallen Night, the standalone prequel to Priory of the Orange Tree rn!! absolutely loving it im going on a trip soon and I'm probably gonna buy House in Cerulean Sea bc everyone has read it and i also have not yet lol happy summer reading✨🌻

I was also planning on reading The house in the cerulean sea! I haven't read anything by T. J Klune, and I wanted to start this summer with that book😍

What books are you planning to read this summer? 📚☀️

The Tainted Cup is my favorite book of 2024 so far, and I also have that special edition!! Such a gorgeous addition to a library. I would say that it can be read as a standalone, since it wraps up the core mystery, but I am DYING for the next book. It has a lot of hints to even bigger world building in a series.

So many great reads coming up for you. And fab job on your first ever unboxing - this was so smooth! I just got the fairyloot edition of Ruthless Vows and posted my unboxing too😀

someone else who owns the Edge Chronicles 🤝🏻✨ i think i only ever got thru book 1 as a kid and i need to reread. i have book 1, 2, and 7 for some reason lmao i keep looking for them at half price books but never find em

I’m so jealous of your TBB Tainted Cup edition!! I want to read it so badly 👀 I think you can read Lies as a stand alone! I agree with everyone else that you will love it! It’s one of my all time favorites 🤩

Yes, you can read The Tainted Cup without waiting for the second book as the specific case in this book gets solved at the end. Just subscribed to your channel!❤

wow all these book editions look incredible! I really love the end page / reverse dust jacket art on the Honey Witch. so fun!! 😍

All these books were awesome! This month will be my first Fairyloot YA edition and I'm so excited because they make such pretty editions. Need to choose between my current Illumicrate and the Fairyloot, but I don't want to choose🥲 major life struggles hahaha

Which one was your favorite? 👀

peruse project mention and then you mention the raven cycle and I'm sold. I'm here now, hi !! I read the raven cycle in high school and it changed my life and I made it my personality, and I've always been a Maggie fan, she's my favorite author of forever and ever since I read Shiver in middle school 🥺 I will say the dreamer trilogy brings in new characters but really focuses on the brothers Lynch. so if you're a Ronan stan like me, you'll have a good time 💖

You have to read bear otter and the kid by tj klune! My all time favourite books ever!

In school they test your reading comprehension and the faster you were and higher you scored made you feel smarter than the other kids, and i think thats where the competition started

I will offer you a challenge to read and compare 2 books. They are classified as science fiction but I think that they are socially relevant to economics today. *The Dispossessed* by Ursula K Le Guin and: *Voyage from Yesteryear* by James P Hogan I do not doubt that LeGuin is a better writer but I strongly suspect that Hogan knew more about economics and technology. They both present economic dichotomies but LeGuin offers no resolution to the situation.

It is not. Some people just choose to be competitive. I suspect much of it is psychological conditioning from school. Since l started reading science fiction voluntarily in 4th grade it means nothing to me. I just want to find books that I regard as good.

I'm in a few online book spaces, and I've seen *most* of the time if someone says they're reading 200+ books a year, most people are skeptical that it's even true, and many others assume those people have no life, or are reading trashy, formulaic novels or comics. It's unfortunate that people are hateful that way =/ but I don't think the praise/applause exponentially goes up forever.

ive always used bookshelf to track my books and i love it! it has basically no ads, is very sleek and most importantly is totaly private, unless you decide to follow your friends. totaly reccoment

I think it’s entirely the fault of goodreads and other book tracking apps. people stopped reading for pleasure or learning and began to do it as a means of showing off to other people that they read intellectual books or read 10 books in a week. this has ruined the whole purpose of reading for yourself similar to how letterboxd ruined how people watch movies

Love this! ❤

When you mentioned the generation reading decrease, it reminded me of the english teachers on tiktok saying that their kids' reading comprehension is extremely low and that they are performing at lower grades.

I no longer track by books, but by time spent reading. I now have no concern whether a book is too long or too sort. It's all about making it a daily habit. I also find that no matter the year, there will be times when I am reading a lot, and reading hiatuses, but I don't sweat it.

I’ve read 8 books in the last year and a half. I’m reading wheel of time. I’m enjoying the journey. And I’m excited about the destination. I’m in no rush!

Haha I love reading but even watching a movie you can't even do it mindlessly. I struggle with attention and sometimes when I'm not super into the movie I have to go back and rewatch a scene because I realized my mind wondered off and now I don't know what's going on in the story lol

Reading used to be my only hobby, but now im trying to get into cooking and gardening and crocheting. It feels good to have other hobbies but like i feel like if i dont meet my goals i let everyone down

Not to be nitpicky but, I have never felt like I could zone out of a video game haha. My favorite narratives / fictional experiences have been approximately one third books, one third games, and one third movies / shows. I always try to actively consume all media I consume.

I don’t think reading should be applauded in the first place, it just shows how it’s quickly becoming something rare in society. Reading is romanticized by those who think of it as some sort of performance art or indicative of social status and/or intelligence. We should remember why we started reading when we were young in the first place…

Ain't no fucking way a person with a day job or study can read 30+ books in a year. The only way I see that possible is if the reading is REALLY easy or if you are counting audiobooks

i think it's weird to keep track of reading on a social media platform, personally. i gave up on goodreads and can't be bothered to keep up with my storygraph. i use notion to keep track of my library holds, the few books i own, and all the series i'm working on. it's my own business and no one else's bc i don't want to show off to strangers online.

I set my Goodreads goal to 1 for 2024 too

This is why i got off both goodreads and storygraph. Nobody i know enjoys the same things i read so its not like reading more is gonna get me a community. Now i read much less but only read what i enjoy.