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Happy b day mom. Celebrating with books is always fun

Congrats on your baby!!! My youngest turns 2 in a couple of weeks. :D

Ugh! I had a comment all written out but then lost it. Basically it said, you are my people. I do not get on booktube to see super edited videos. They are often very nice & sometimes entertaining but I'm interested in hearing people's views of reading, not 20 mins of montage of reading in different places. LOL I'm not going to make those kind & have no expectations of ever making any kind of real money here, just hopefully a few like-minded book nerd friends. :)

I need to read this book. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. William T. Vollmann has a two-volume set called Carbon Ideologies-Volume 1, No Immediate Danger; Volume 2, No Good Alternative-that struggles with precisely what you communicate in this video. He strives to understand the causes of climate change as best he can, and then he reaches a similarly horrifying conclusion: the math for how to deal with it doesn't add up, and many solutions come at a great cost to massive amounts of people throughout the world. It's not a book that connects to the Congo; instead it's another road that leads to the same position you express here, one that leaves the author himself quite forlorn and fatalistic (it's written as a letter to future generations explaining why we did not solve the problem).

Hoopla and libby are great ways to start! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Lol that part

Love this!

I love these type of videos. It's cool to hear your thoughts and advice

Sounds interesting

Ooh a new (to me) tag! I’m so excited to do this soon. Thank you for tagging me!

What a great tag! And some great books you mention! Thanks for tagging me!

congrats on one year of youtube! I just found your channel 😊 You are so right about the YA fantasy. It took me many fairyloot boxes to realize this lol

I definitely want to read both but agree that leaving some time between them makes sense. I appreciate your take on this

So glad to have found you through this tag! I read Mansfield Park for Jane Austen July, but PnP is still my favorite.

Awesome!!! This is a great video with some very sound and encouraging content. Thank you for sharing this with our community.

Yes to bulk recording!! I’m glad I did this for my vacation. I also just use my smart phone and my tripod. I don’t care to have more than that. Loved these tips!

I've been considering doing youtube as a hobby as well, so hearing your perspective and experience doing this was awesome! 🤗

I’m also working towards a zero TBR!! Good luck to us both! 💕

I feel you :D I'm slowly working through my TBR, I don't really want to keep buying and buying and not actually read what I have

As a collector of books, I have no intention of reading all of them. I do read, but every time I get a new batch, I put aside one to read. I am developing a library. With my collection of over thousands of books, I could never read them all even if I wanted to.

We are on this journey together 🫡 I’m doing the exact same thing atm

Good luck! You can do this!!!

Good luck! I'm sure you'll do great.

I'm right there with you!

Mr Mercedes has some pretty graphic descriptions, just as a warning. It's the first book in a trilogy and is also linked to Holly Gibney series. I really enjoyed it and I can't wait to see what you think of it 😊

This is a great list! And thanks for the tag, I’m definitely going to do this for my next video! Also I love Zora Neale Hurston and I have not been able to find her books apart from Their Eyes… at my favourite bookstore. I may need to just special order them because her writing style is just wonderful! Also, Blood at the Root is a ton of fun!

I just finished reading James, and as someone who never read the original, I definitely think it stands well on its own. I had debated about reading Huckleberry first, but my requested library copy of James came in before I had the chance. I love how intelligent James was depicted in the book - it was a great read and I’ll be thinking about it for a long time. Definitely want to read more of Percival Everett.

The "Personal Librarian" is a true story. Historical Fiction.

Great buys!! I LOVE Cloud Cuckoo Land, an amazing book that should have won him the Pulitzer Prize again! The opening of If on a Winter's Night was amazing but then the book lost me. I recently hauled Passage to India as well. Fun stuff! Happy reading!

Just a suggestion, when you like a cover on a book, give the artist recognition.

One of the interesting articles in "The Black Book" is Alexander Dumas stating that he wanted to come to the United States but he feared he would be captured and held as a slave.

11/22/63 is a good book, much better than the adaptation imo.This is a good variety of books from different genres, love it 🙂 Thanks for another great video 😊

So great! I love the range of books people have been selecting. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows sounds especially beautiful! Thank you for including such essential history in the second half, and you've introduced me to a work of Toni Morrison's that I hadn't heard of before. Thank you!

11/22/63 is so interesting! Very complex with details that were really well thought out. I switched back and forth between physical and audio when I read it, which helped me get through it a little faster.

Love this!!! ❤

I'm so glad to hear your thoughts about this. I remembered absolutely nothing about Huckleberry Finn from reading it as a kid, so I read it recently to have the story fresh in my mind. I think I've had enough of a break in between and I'll probably start James later this week. Great video!

I have read quite a few of those. Great answers. Yes. I will do the tag. Thanks for tagging me.

Great answers thanks for the Tag

Cool video, and I agree. 😊

Love it!

Yes same❤!

Oh my goodness, you've got me really wanting to read this book!

I haven't read either of these, I'll be adding them to my tbr now that you've piqued my interest 🙂 I can relate to reading sequels or a series too close together, it can become too much especially if you're not liking or not interested in some of the characters.

I hate ignorant portrayal of enslaved blacks. I can understand dumbing down language for protection. May need to checkout James. Percival Everett knows how to pin a good story.

Yayy you did the tag! I feel the same way with Les Miserables! A few of the books you mentioned I had never heard of but they look amazing! I also featured House of Leaves and The Tale of Genji in my version of this video. Great answers to the tag! 😊

Welcome back! Interesting choices in books.😊

I can't wait to see what you think of House of Leaves, I loved it 😊

Hey would I be able to find the black book at the library? I would love to share this with my grandson

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is a great book. But I think you should read it for yourself because everybody has different tastes. My videos are short, but I might do a TAG video. You did a great job.