Bruh I'm here after seeing your Goodreads review about Magical Overthinking and FUCKIN YEAH, I love your rant about it. I read Cultish and got like 80% through and I couldn't deal with it anymore, and it was so cathartic and hilarious watching you express all the same annoyances I had so emphatically xD
I read Cultish with my book club where we're all women with Master's degrees, some of whom work in research-heavy roles, and we were pretty unilaterally disappointed with the depth of the research as well. If it had been pitched as a book of essays/anecdotes, or as a memoir, I think we would have been way less disappointed by it.
@@JessOwens I looked her up and when I found out she was a columnist for a zine along the lines of Medium and a podcaster, it all kind of came together as to why the writing was the way it was for me 😅
on Amanda Montell -- if she wanted to write autobiographical essays with a theme she should just do that, idk why she's trying to market her books as more intellectual than they are (not derogatory!!!!)
Ok so I also read The Age of Magical Overthinking and it solidified why the author annoys me. Her writing makes me think she believes she has something *profound* to say about anything and everything.
Ok last comment about this book (probably...). I completely agree, her privilege seeps into every chapter of this book. This book will appeal to a certain audience (upper middle class "girly" who doesn't understand their experiences and the opportunities they had over the years aren't the norm..who is used to getting high grades and accolades in high school and undergrad).
@@marshmallow864 I read some of the reviews for her podcast which made me decide not to listen to it. Many reviewers mentioned that she would talk about the negative issues with different products, but then she would have those same types of products she had just mentioned how problematic they were as sponsors for the podcast. I can’t confirm if that’s true, but if it is, that’s really hypocritical. I agree with you about The Age of Magical Overthinking. I wasn’t a fan of this or of Cultish.
Thank you fr. You just saved me quite a bit of money. 🙌🏽 The fact that you are one of the only real ones out here on booktube while everyone else is giving us fake🍑 reviews means a lot to me!! I appreciate you!!!
I loved your rant about The Age of Magical Overthinking! I also recently listened to Cultish and although some points were interesting I was mostly underwhelmed and bored. I obviously haven’t read this book so I don’t know her exact points, but I’m actually a therapist & I’m soooo tired of other therapists, random people, & apparently this book just pointing a finger at the internet and calling it the root of all our problems. I feel like this argument often comes from a privileged place & fails to recognize that while being online a lot can obviously cause mental health problems, it can also provide incredible community for people who are not seen and validated by the people in their actual physical community. I would love to see a more nuanced conversation about the relationship between mental health and the internet for once, and sadly I’m not surprised that this does not seem to have provided that. Thank you for another great review!
I read James in March and enjoyed it, for lack of a better word to describe liking books with heavy topics. I discovered Percival Everett when I heard about the film American Fiction and rushed to read Erasure before that film came out. To me, his writing is brutally clever and I love the way he can make me laugh during the darkest moments. I'm working through his backlist on Hoopla, mostly on audiobook.
JESS I am so glad to hear your opinion on Montell’s books. I, too, was deeply disappointed by Cultish- that book pissed me tf OFF. It was confusing to hear the widespread effusive praise, so I’m glad to hear you had a similar reading experience. Not for your suffering lol but to know my hating is validated haha. I thought about giving her newest release a shot, but sounds like it’s more of the same, so thank you for saving me from that 😅
He took the name from his riverboat days. A mark twain is a unit of measure for water depth. River crewman would yell it out when the water depth was 2 fathoms.
I just started reading Percival Everett in the last 3 years and he has become one of my favorite authors. The Trees is the best one out of the 4 books I've read so far.
Yaaaas! Just for the summer was a BOP!!! Say it a little louder for the people in the back: please read Part of your world and Yours truly FIRST! It makes the book that much more meaningful! I’m so glad that you loved it! 😍 ❤
Here's what I read in April Divine rivals by rebecca ross Stars in your eyes by kacen callender Pack up the moon by kristan Higgins Miss memory lane by colton Haynes memoir Out of shape by gracie gold memoir The witching hour by Anne rice book 1 in the mayfair series Her too by bonnie kistler Lizzie Blake's best mistake by mazey eddings One summer in Savannah by terah shelton Harris This could be us by Kennedy Ryan The way I am now by amber Smith Saving 6 by chloe Walsh Happy place by Emily Henry
Yes! You did a great job putting into words my issues with Cultish! I’m so glad to hear someone else didn’t love her books. Ooh! I have been wanting to pick up Fake It Til You Bake It! And you are pushing it higher on my list. I think I might be having a romance reading summer. 😃
I read most of The Age of Magical Overthinking a couple days ago while waiting in line for merchandise at a Sleep Token concert. I agree with everything you said! I also was annoyed by how many times she would randomly bring up another fallacy in the middle of a chapter and didn't explain it well. Sleep token was amazing though lol
I just finished New People by Danzy Senna and started googling her and found out that she and Percival Everett are married. Such interesting work between the two of them!
I'm slowly getting back into Romance. xD But for now I'm starting off with Monster Romances and slowly back into the historical romances because I grew up with mom reading those and enjoyed it when she would tell me the story without the raunchy parts (cus I was a kid at the time). So, I'm glad that you, Reads with Rachel, and Bookish Realms are getting into romances as I don't feel as corny in reading the romances as much (Though I recently picked up a few.... Mafia romances through the Romance "Stuff your Kindle Day" for research for a writing project.... I hope I don't regret it. And I picked up a few slightly more modern romances for future buddy reads. Also kinda amused I found a Monster romance in the Historical section called "Plucked by the Orc" as it's set during the regency era.) Next buddy read I'm doing is going to be another Monster Romance. Being between "A Soul to Keep" by Opal Reyne and "Ensnared" by Tiffany Roberts though looks like Ensnared is going to win since the third person who's doing the buddy read wants something more light hearted after reading Haunting Adaline. (It is a spider alien romance, so be forwarned if you don't like spiders and decide to look it up.) Beastly and Bookish was a really good, sweet, and not a long read. More of a holiday story, but I enjoyed it even during the time I was reading it out of season. The Magical Age of Overthinking sounds like all the issues I had of Lilly Singh's book "How to Be a Bawse" when I was listening to epserts while someone was doing an essay on it. It feels.... condesending while not being very deep. I don't recommend the book since Magical Age of Overthinking got under your skin because "How to be a Bawse" kiiinnndddaa does that exactly one to one. Instead of actually teaching you how to make it like "a bawse" it's mostly ancedotes with a sprinkling of google search research to fill out the spots to be just a tad bit out of the "memoire" territory.
I discovered Percival Everette a couple of years ago. I read Not Sidney Poitier. It was humorous because many of the events in the story were based on Sidney Poitier movies. Most recently, the movie American Fiction was based on his book Erasure. I am going to check out James in the near future. I'm currently reading Memphis by Tara Stringfellow.
🤣 I'm so not looking forward to it, but it may make for interesting conversation (it's a buddy read). Maybe I'll get the audiobook if there is one, so I don't drag through the read.
FINALLY! Someone else who isn't blinded by the Butcher & Blackbird hype. If you're writing a contemporary fantasy then it should be plausible in the real world. No way they don't get caught and thrown in prison on page 5.
I know Israel Keys got away with it for a long time because he didn’t live near his kills. The idea works when executed correctly (pun intended). I’ve heard mixed things about Blackbird though so that’s probably not it.
I read one chapter of the age of magical overthinking and thought it was so odd. She said charli xcx fans are more nuts because gay men are more in need of a mother figure?? And she mentioned her signing the poppers bottle as if poppers are hard drugs and the things she mentioned are things charli herself has said “it’s fine I’m an adult I can take care of myself” but didn’t talk about the guy who literally broke into her house to chill in her hot tub???
Idk it was giving homophobia to me. Also really infantilizing to the celebrities basically saying not to expect more from Taylor swift like girlies carbon emissions might be the reason I won’t be able to have kids in my lifetime I’m allowed to be mad at her
I sadly did buy The Age of Magical Thinking and like you I was super disappointed. It was extremely surface level with absolutely nothing actionable for the reader like there were some mildly interesting tidbits but at the end I was like ok what do I do with this information? 🙈😂
I loved your rant about The Age of Magical Overthinking! I also recently listened to Cultish and although some points were interesting I was mostly underwhelmed and bored. I obviously haven’t read this book so I don’t know her exact points, but I’m actually a therapist & I’m soooo tired of other therapists, random people, & apparently this book just pointing a finger at the internet and calling it the root of all our problems. I feel like this argument often comes from a privileged place & fails to recognize that while being online a lot can obviously cause mental health problems, it can also provide incredible community for people who are not seen and validated by the people in their actual physical community. I would love to see a more nuanced conversation about the relationship between mental health and the internet for once, and sadly I’m not surprised that this does not seem to have provided that. Thank you for another great review!
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Bruh I'm here after seeing your Goodreads review about Magical Overthinking and FUCKIN YEAH, I love your rant about it. I read Cultish and got like 80% through and I couldn't deal with it anymore, and it was so cathartic and hilarious watching you express all the same annoyances I had so emphatically xD
Girl when you said "no thank you Marcus Twain" I literally hollered!
😂😂😂
I read Cultish with my book club where we're all women with Master's degrees, some of whom work in research-heavy roles, and we were pretty unilaterally disappointed with the depth of the research as well. If it had been pitched as a book of essays/anecdotes, or as a memoir, I think we would have been way less disappointed by it.
Yes! Essays and anecdotes is what it is. The lack of research is so disappointing
@@JessOwens I looked her up and when I found out she was a columnist for a zine along the lines of Medium and a podcaster, it all kind of came together as to why the writing was the way it was for me 😅
on Amanda Montell -- if she wanted to write autobiographical essays with a theme she should just do that, idk why she's trying to market her books as more intellectual than they are (not derogatory!!!!)
Ok so I also read The Age of Magical Overthinking and it solidified why the author annoys me. Her writing makes me think she believes she has something *profound* to say about anything and everything.
I DO NOT recommend her podcast, I listened to it for a few months a year or so ago and she was so obnoxious.
Ok last comment about this book (probably...). I completely agree, her privilege seeps into every chapter of this book. This book will appeal to a certain audience (upper middle class "girly" who doesn't understand their experiences and the opportunities they had over the years aren't the norm..who is used to getting high grades and accolades in high school and undergrad).
YES. She is giving us ✨ nothing✨ but really thinks she is delivering life altering information
@@marshmallow864 I read some of the reviews for her podcast which made me decide not to listen to it. Many reviewers mentioned that she would talk about the negative issues with different products, but then she would have those same types of products she had just mentioned how problematic they were as sponsors for the podcast. I can’t confirm if that’s true, but if it is, that’s really hypocritical.
I agree with you about The Age of Magical Overthinking. I wasn’t a fan of this or of Cultish.
@@amytheshihtzumom she did an episode on the cult of the kardashians and since then has had skims as a sponsor in a lot of the episodes
Thank you fr. You just saved me quite a bit of money. 🙌🏽 The fact that you are one of the only real ones out here on booktube while everyone else is giving us fake🍑 reviews means a lot to me!! I appreciate you!!!
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I loved your rant about The Age of Magical Overthinking! I also recently listened to Cultish and although some points were interesting I was mostly underwhelmed and bored. I obviously haven’t read this book so I don’t know her exact points, but I’m actually a therapist & I’m soooo tired of other therapists, random people, & apparently this book just pointing a finger at the internet and calling it the root of all our problems. I feel like this argument often comes from a privileged place & fails to recognize that while being online a lot can obviously cause mental health problems, it can also provide incredible community for people who are not seen and validated by the people in their actual physical community. I would love to see a more nuanced conversation about the relationship between mental health and the internet for once, and sadly I’m not surprised that this does not seem to have provided that. Thank you for another great review!
I read James in March and enjoyed it, for lack of a better word to describe liking books with heavy topics. I discovered Percival Everett when I heard about the film American Fiction and rushed to read Erasure before that film came out. To me, his writing is brutally clever and I love the way he can make me laugh during the darkest moments. I'm working through his backlist on Hoopla, mostly on audiobook.
Not me waiting until almost June to watch your April wrap-up.
Love that you mentioned masking at the end when talking about “Do Nothing” ❤
JESS I am so glad to hear your opinion on Montell’s books. I, too, was deeply disappointed by Cultish- that book pissed me tf OFF. It was confusing to hear the widespread effusive praise, so I’m glad to hear you had a similar reading experience. Not for your suffering lol but to know my hating is validated haha. I thought about giving her newest release a shot, but sounds like it’s more of the same, so thank you for saving me from that 😅
I just don’t get the hype! There’s nothing impressive about Cultush
I only learned about Percival Everett because of American Fiction the movie and I got the book (Erasure) because the movie was so good..
if you want more of the 'ppl takin take of kids that aren't their own' but in a fantasy setting, highly recommend godkiller by hannah kaner!
Ok I already wanted to read this but now I want to read it NOWWW
@@JessOwens I think you’ll enjoy it a lot!! will also recommend traitors blade in the greatcoats series for more of that trope lol 🫶🏾
15:36 not me googling Mark Twain only to remember his name is actually Samuel Clemens. So Mark is just the pen name. 😂
😂😂😂😂 I totally forgot that
He took the name from his riverboat days. A mark twain is a unit of measure for water depth. River crewman would yell it out when the water depth was 2 fathoms.
I just started reading Percival Everett in the last 3 years and he has become one of my favorite authors. The Trees is the best one out of the 4 books I've read so far.
Love to hear that 🎉
So now I’m considering re-reading huckleberry Finn and then James!
Yaaaas! Just for the summer was a BOP!!! Say it a little louder for the people in the back: please read Part of your world and Yours truly FIRST! It makes the book that much more meaningful! I’m so glad that you loved it! 😍 ❤
YASSSS. IT WAS SO GOOD
Here's what I read in April
Divine rivals by rebecca ross
Stars in your eyes by kacen callender
Pack up the moon by kristan Higgins
Miss memory lane by colton Haynes memoir
Out of shape by gracie gold memoir
The witching hour by Anne rice book 1 in the mayfair series
Her too by bonnie kistler
Lizzie Blake's best mistake by mazey eddings
One summer in Savannah by terah shelton Harris
This could be us by Kennedy Ryan
The way I am now by amber Smith
Saving 6 by chloe Walsh
Happy place by Emily Henry
Omg two long videos from you...we are truely blessed!
I am trying to feed the people 😂
I also read cultish, and felt the exact same way about it as you did! It def has its audience but I wanted a little more from it
I really enjoyed Just for the Summer, so you've inspired me to read the rest of the series!
Bahahaha I’ve considered butcher and blackbird because of all the hype so thank you so much for saving me 😂
Yes! You did a great job putting into words my issues with Cultish! I’m so glad to hear someone else didn’t love her books.
Ooh! I have been wanting to pick up Fake It Til You Bake It! And you are pushing it higher on my list. I think I might be having a romance reading summer. 😃
I LOVE Do Nothing!! Such an amazing book!!
Yessss, incredible!!!
Yessss! I love Fake It Till You Bake It! I have an eARC of the sequel and I need to get to it. Love all the baking!
The only downside is how hungry it makes me 😂
love your top!! i have a similar dad hat 🥀
I heard Brittany Cherry writes both black and other romance. I have the Mixtape on my TBR.
😂Accidental pregnancy is a trope I like. Not ashamed to own it
For some reason I love it in fanfic 😂 but not trad pubbed
I read most of The Age of Magical Overthinking a couple days ago while waiting in line for merchandise at a Sleep Token concert. I agree with everything you said! I also was annoyed by how many times she would randomly bring up another fallacy in the middle of a chapter and didn't explain it well. Sleep token was amazing though lol
She was just throwing phrases out there willy nilly
I have the same reaction at the accidental pregnancy trope! Agshsv NO, throw the book away. It ruins it for me every time
I get so mad 😂
I would suggest u to add gothic novel Voyagers of hell in your TBR. its awesome.
I just finished New People by Danzy Senna and started googling her and found out that she and Percival Everett are married. Such interesting work between the two of them!
I'm slowly getting back into Romance. xD But for now I'm starting off with Monster Romances and slowly back into the historical romances because I grew up with mom reading those and enjoyed it when she would tell me the story without the raunchy parts (cus I was a kid at the time). So, I'm glad that you, Reads with Rachel, and Bookish Realms are getting into romances as I don't feel as corny in reading the romances as much (Though I recently picked up a few.... Mafia romances through the Romance "Stuff your Kindle Day" for research for a writing project.... I hope I don't regret it. And I picked up a few slightly more modern romances for future buddy reads. Also kinda amused I found a Monster romance in the Historical section called "Plucked by the Orc" as it's set during the regency era.) Next buddy read I'm doing is going to be another Monster Romance. Being between "A Soul to Keep" by Opal Reyne and "Ensnared" by Tiffany Roberts though looks like Ensnared is going to win since the third person who's doing the buddy read wants something more light hearted after reading Haunting Adaline. (It is a spider alien romance, so be forwarned if you don't like spiders and decide to look it up.) Beastly and Bookish was a really good, sweet, and not a long read. More of a holiday story, but I enjoyed it even during the time I was reading it out of season.
The Magical Age of Overthinking sounds like all the issues I had of Lilly Singh's book "How to Be a Bawse" when I was listening to epserts while someone was doing an essay on it. It feels.... condesending while not being very deep. I don't recommend the book since Magical Age of Overthinking got under your skin because "How to be a Bawse" kiiinnndddaa does that exactly one to one. Instead of actually teaching you how to make it like "a bawse" it's mostly ancedotes with a sprinkling of google search research to fill out the spots to be just a tad bit out of the "memoire" territory.
I discovered Percival Everette a couple of years ago. I read Not Sidney Poitier. It was humorous because many of the events in the story were based on Sidney Poitier movies. Most recently, the movie American Fiction was based on his book Erasure. I am going to check out James in the near future. I'm currently reading Memphis by Tara Stringfellow.
Do Nothing sounds incredible ❤
TARGET HAD WHAT SALE?!?!?!????? Why does nobody tell me anything 😭😭😭😭 always with Barnes & noble sales too 😭
I have not read Cultish or The Age of Magical Overthinking, but I adored Wordslut by Amanda Montell
Please go read the authors note for Just for the Summer! I cackled
I have Butcher & Blackbird on my TBR this month 😬 so we'll see how that works out for me.
God speed, friend 😢😂
🤣 I'm so not looking forward to it, but it may make for interesting conversation (it's a buddy read). Maybe I'll get the audiobook if there is one, so I don't drag through the read.
FINALLY! Someone else who isn't blinded by the Butcher & Blackbird hype. If you're writing a contemporary fantasy then it should be plausible in the real world. No way they don't get caught and thrown in prison on page 5.
That cover is fire tho 😂
I know Israel Keys got away with it for a long time because he didn’t live near his kills. The idea works when executed correctly (pun intended). I’ve heard mixed things about Blackbird though so that’s probably not it.
I’m sending you love❤
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i'm currently reading butcher & blackbird lol
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I read one chapter of the age of magical overthinking and thought it was so odd. She said charli xcx fans are more nuts because gay men are more in need of a mother figure?? And she mentioned her signing the poppers bottle as if poppers are hard drugs and the things she mentioned are things charli herself has said “it’s fine I’m an adult I can take care of myself” but didn’t talk about the guy who literally broke into her house to chill in her hot tub???
Idk it was giving homophobia to me. Also really infantilizing to the celebrities basically saying not to expect more from Taylor swift like girlies carbon emissions might be the reason I won’t be able to have kids in my lifetime I’m allowed to be mad at her
The Charli XCX part was so odd!? Just no good basis for her theories at all
Lol I’ve been wanting to read something by Christina C Jones you gave away the recipe 😢
I sadly did buy The Age of Magical Thinking and like you I was super disappointed. It was extremely surface level with absolutely nothing actionable for the reader like there were some mildly interesting tidbits but at the end I was like ok what do I do with this information? 🙈😂
Exactly!! This subject needs actionable steps at the end but she doesn’t have the knowledge to give those
It sounds like Montell's biggest privilege is that she's being published.
I loved your rant about The Age of Magical Overthinking! I also recently listened to Cultish and although some points were interesting I was mostly underwhelmed and bored. I obviously haven’t read this book so I don’t know her exact points, but I’m actually a therapist & I’m soooo tired of other therapists, random people, & apparently this book just pointing a finger at the internet and calling it the root of all our problems. I feel like this argument often comes from a privileged place & fails to recognize that while being online a lot can obviously cause mental health problems, it can also provide incredible community for people who are not seen and validated by the people in their actual physical community. I would love to see a more nuanced conversation about the relationship between mental health and the internet for once, and sadly I’m not surprised that this does not seem to have provided that. Thank you for another great review!