As someone who is a mix of " You are in your 20s and very lost in life " and "You had no friends in middle school" I can tell you that this is the most accurate analysis I've seen😂
Sad I couldn’t send in my goodreads but the analysis on the fact that as we grow up our brains are more critical and nothing will affect us the same as when we read hunger games and Percy Jackson for the first time…really hit close to home (tho I think reading Frankenstein last year ignited the spark again for me)
Yes I agree haha back then I read the hunger games trilogy when the movies were just coming out and I really only read them just to get thru in school suspensions😅 only read em once as well but I would watch the movies over and over again
Things Leonie guessed right about me: 1. I have a relatively niche taste (sorry not sorry lol) 2. I am very socially engaged 3. I adore feminist literature 4. Sally Rooney and I are besties
My brain was so adapted to English, watching this video. Then your page came across and seeing the Turkish books hit me for a second. I don't know why i was even shocked but here i am😅
"Seeing that you have four star books in your favorites tells me you can understand something's imperfections and still find it's value. Now if you can just extend that to yourself, that would be healthy" If you've been personally victimized by The Book Leo, raise your hand ✋😭
8:34 I think that person’s bookshelf with the manga & Russian lit is the kind of person who’s used to seeing effed up things (that also includes depression). Berserk and Goodnight Punpun have some of the most depressing scenes.
As someone that takes more than 30 minutes reading the back cover of books until i find one that seems satisfying i understand that person that gave high notes to everything they had.
The look on Leonie's face when she saw my extensive shelves 😂 Do I like sad existential books? Yes I do but I also read a lot of fantasy, romance and thriller but I only put books that transcend genre on my favorite shelf. Currently it's mostly literary fiction, a few years back my shelf was Throne of Glass, The Infernal Devices, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Colleen Hoover. Thank you for featuring me in the video!
I’m that girl who reads anything and doesn’t care about other people’s reviews. What matters to me is that I like it. But I enjoy watching Leonnie’s take on these things lol.
"it's clear that you loved reading as a child and you know there's a reason we were all reading so much as children....because clearly you were not busy being invited to birthday parties and ever since then you just really care a lot about all kinds of injustices". Miss...we're gonna need a published unabridged book of all your thoughts because this was spot on.
as someone who reads colleen hoover, salley rooney, and sometimes some classics, i can agree we really just read what we want and enjoy anything we can get.
18:13 - This one made me laugh, because I don't have a "favorites" shelf exactly because I think it would be too long a list to be useful! This is also making me curious about Sally Rooney. I've never tried one, because the blurbs don't make them sound like they are my style, but...
the person at 8:21 going from manga to russian lit makes perfect sense just alone because of asano inio and miura kentaro LOL (same taste here op, same here)
As a thirty something year old that just started reading for pleasure…. I enjoyed the “roasting” so much 😅 thanks for welcoming me to the reading community
Ur analysis of me would be: in 2022 u read the night circus, poppy war trilogy, broken earth trilogy, & priory of the orange tree: therefore u clearly watch The Book Leo on TH-cam & she is ur Sunday comfort TH-camr 😂
13:58 "It means that they are not afraid to read outside what is deemed popular among the reader communities, and it also mean you like pain." Oof that last one hit especially close to home. 😅
I lol'ed at the Tender Is the Flesh landmine waiting for that romance lover, and I'm as jolly as a Terminator. That's the most ****ed up book I've ever read. Me. A guy who started reading Stephen King in 5th grade.
"The only thing that get's your heart racing nowadays, are modern pictures of Logan Lerman." i amin this picture but honestly I do like it! Have you seen him!
04:20. Actually there is one really good book that everyone compares to Narnia. It is "WildWood" (Cartoon Production "Laika" is now working on a cartoon based on this book. This is that famous production, that made a Coraline). Though I like the later much more than former.
i’m not the person who you said is afraid to give low ratings i feel like at this point i know my book taste so well so i mostly give 4 and 5 stars because i read books i know i’ll like
On the person who had loads of favourites: personally, I've read 334 books on Goodreads - 130 of those are on my favourites shelf. HOWEVER, I add every single book in a series to my favourites shelf because I rank my favourites by series, not really by individual books. So overall there's actually only 40 unconnected stories on my favourites shelf.
I love these videos and thank you for including my shelf too (the last one)! I didn't know you can leave your shelves unordered but you did guess correct! 😁❤️
I did not expect to LOL so much. Also, I wonder if people like the one who had the Rory Gilmore profile pic are aware of some conflict between what they "should" be reading vs what they actually like to read. Hence why they have a bunch of classics five stars (aspiring to the Rory Gilmore image) and then read so many Colleen Hoover books and rate them lower (bc they don't have the same academic reputation boost). Just a theory
Leonie, the part about rating every book high and not being able to say “no” to people… hit too close to home omg, have you ever considered psychoanalysis as a career?
I'm having a really bad day, and this video makes me laugh so hard, I felt so attacked about the birthdays comment, I cried laughing. Thank you for being mean in a very perfect and balanced way, you're queen!!
Oh my god this video made me laugh so much😂😂😂the way you describe these people based on the books they've read and just trying to understand how they liked and didn't like the book is just so funny! Love this so much!
I did have friends, but I also wanted that tatoo soo badly, and is true, nothing brings me more joy than re reading the classics that I grew up with, no many new releases fill my heart with the old joy of reading some good Uncle Riordan book or the Narnia saga...and yes, the only time I feel alive is when I see photos of Logan Lerman, our favorite white boy of the month in those old times in twitter and tumblr. So pretty accurate, I felt seen, and judged, and this is why this is my favorite booktube channel
The last person you analyzed sounds like my soulmate! I love their book choices and your psychoanalysis of them. Disappointed that no one had The Locked Tomb in their shelves, though (Or, I missed it). I wanted to hear your thoughts on The Locked Tomb series.
I have the same shelf as ‘ thought that reading was not fun and boring and you discovered TikTok’ NO I JUST REALISED IT WAS BETTER TO READ ON THE ORANGE APP’ but because they made it paid and books have gotten bad on the app so we switched to published romance and miss the original books on the orange app! ORANGE APP>>>>>> TikTok books! The writing was better, the story was better! We weren’t just traumatised because of the backstory of the mc! All we had to deal with was the ‘messy bun with blue eyes’ I MISS THAT TIME OF BOOKSSS! 😭😭😭
I don't keep reading Riley Sager because I feel superior for not liking it. I just get sucked in by the hype and keep thinking "maybe this one will be different." However, after the most recent one I read, I promised myself I would never allow myself to get sucked in again. Two more have been released since, and I haven't picked them up. I assume the same could be said for at least some of the people you were referencing reading a tonne of Colleen Hoover and hating it lol
oh man, the Logan Lerman comment hit a little too close to home....but also I feel not too bad about my Goodreads and Storygraph...I think 😆 seriously, great video Leonie!
You guessed almost right but close: I didn't have a tiktok account until recently but I got the recommendation from booktube so very close I didn't get into reading until 2020 so I started reading the books I always wanted to read like Harry Potter and Agatha Christie🥰💘but your are very accurate about my reading taste I know what I like but Like to be adventurous sometimes💕 hope you have a wonderful day🫶
I didn't realise I was such a cliché until you said, for every single bookshelf I thought was interesting or I had read a lot of books from too, "How much do you wanna bet they're a Sally Rooney stan"
My favorite books - Circe - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - The Song of Achillies - Crooked Kingdoms - Daisy Jones and the Six - If We Were Villans Judge me as you will
This was such a fun video! The voice definitely helped sell it as a psychoanalist hahaha Since you are also dutch, do you remember the lenticular covers for Deltora? They had the monsters on them and they were so cool. Definitely one of my favourite series of all time!
I loved the first one of this! I'm way too nervous to submit my own storygraph page (I don't even let my viewers see that one) because I have some very controversial opinions about books...
Omg I used to have a dnf shelf but the books kept getting removed… and I would add them again and they would get removed again.. so maybe that also happened to that one person??
alternative title: leo projecting for 22 minutes straight
🤣
Controversial recommendation but read some of lovecraft's stuff
Yep, basically, but you roast people like a savage! + I also adored The Quest of Deltora, it was the best thing ever when I was a kid
I have realized these videos say more about Leonie than they do about the people she judges hahahahahaha
Our thoughts about others are a projection of ourselves.
@@24studiosbrm so people are just hypocrites?
@@Itzezyyyy A deep question that makes you think. Hypocrites are those who ascribe sublime motives to their immoral deeds.
It's funny how self-aware she was from the start. Alternative title: Leonie roasting herself. On another note, I really enjoyed the video.
"you read a poem on instagram once and since that moment you've decided you are into poetry"
crying😭
As someone who is a mix of " You are in your 20s and very lost in life " and "You had no friends in middle school" I can tell you that this is the most accurate analysis I've seen😂
Same😂
I'm surprised. She got me first. I was like "It's me"
The manga to russian classics one 😭😂😂
puberty!!
ME
@@lesbiangoddess290 legend
average bsd reader 😭
They have given up and soon time will mean nothing to them
Hide away your Goodreads, sound the alarm in the belfry, run for cover! The Book Leo is coming for us all 🦁
Fun satire. ...The Book Leo is coming for us all - sounds epic
« Our brains have been poisoned by maturity »
Love it
Sad I couldn’t send in my goodreads but the analysis on the fact that as we grow up our brains are more critical and nothing will affect us the same as when we read hunger games and Percy Jackson for the first time…really hit close to home (tho I think reading Frankenstein last year ignited the spark again for me)
I related so much with this analysis 😂.
Yes I agree haha back then I read the hunger games trilogy when the movies were just coming out and I really only read them just to get thru in school suspensions😅 only read em once as well but I would watch the movies over and over again
Now im gonna try Frankenstein. Ty
“Self help books are not a replacement for therapy” 😂
i was waiting for the Better Help sponsorship
"Too bad fictional characters cannot replace reallife friends" I feel that :D
Leonie: So, how's your relationship with your dad?
me: 👁👄👁
sameeeee i was like “ope 🥹😭”
Hahahahhaahah I was like 😮
Things Leonie guessed right about me:
1. I have a relatively niche taste (sorry not sorry lol)
2. I am very socially engaged
3. I adore feminist literature
4. Sally Rooney and I are besties
My brain was so adapted to English, watching this video. Then your page came across and seeing the Turkish books hit me for a second. I don't know why i was even shocked but here i am😅
"Seeing that you have four star books in your favorites tells me you can understand something's imperfections and still find it's value. Now if you can just extend that to yourself, that would be healthy"
If you've been personally victimized by The Book Leo, raise your hand ✋😭
8:34 I think that person’s bookshelf with the manga & Russian lit is the kind of person who’s used to seeing effed up things (that also includes depression). Berserk and Goodnight Punpun have some of the most depressing scenes.
I was expecting a flowery overview and instead found pointed sass.
And I am absolutely here for it👏👏
As someone that takes more than 30 minutes reading the back cover of books until i find one that seems satisfying i understand that person that gave high notes to everything they had.
My storygraph would make Leonie's head spin. I guarantee she's never seen a reading life like mine 😂
omg!!! i love storygraph i deleted my goodreads
Now I want to see your storygraph lol
8:40 i know that person's definetly a bungo stray dogs fan and probably started reading those books because of it and i love that for them
you are SO FUNNY and this is all 100% accurate
"So how's your relationship with your dad?" I did a literal spit take.
The look on Leonie's face when she saw my extensive shelves 😂 Do I like sad existential books? Yes I do but I also read a lot of fantasy, romance and thriller but I only put books that transcend genre on my favorite shelf. Currently it's mostly literary fiction, a few years back my shelf was Throne of Glass, The Infernal Devices, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Colleen Hoover.
Thank you for featuring me in the video!
hi, would you mind me asking for your goodreads link? i love your shelfs and i’d like to follow you :)
I’m that girl who reads anything and doesn’t care about other people’s reviews. What matters to me is that I like it. But I enjoy watching Leonnie’s take on these things lol.
"it's clear that you loved reading as a child and you know there's a reason we were all reading so much as children....because clearly you were not busy being invited to birthday parties and ever since then you just really care a lot about all kinds of injustices". Miss...we're gonna need a published unabridged book of all your thoughts because this was spot on.
You are genuinely hilarious Leo
as someone who reads colleen hoover, salley rooney, and sometimes some classics, i can agree we really just read what we want and enjoy anything we can get.
Oh my goodness loved this just as much as last time! 😂Please do another one, so sad I missed sending in mine both times lol
18:13 - This one made me laugh, because I don't have a "favorites" shelf exactly because I think it would be too long a list to be useful!
This is also making me curious about Sally Rooney. I've never tried one, because the blurbs don't make them sound like they are my style, but...
"please stop investing into crypto" 💀🤡
Most crypto are just pump and dumps
yeah crypto is so freaking dumb
Leonie on her way to expose herself more than the people whose book tastes she's judging
Okay now I need Leonie to roast my reading list 😂
the person at 8:21 going from manga to russian lit makes perfect sense just alone because of asano inio and miura kentaro LOL (same taste here op, same here)
Saaaame! When she said manga and I saw WHICH ones I was like “ooohhh it makes perfect sense”😆 the ones that know.. hah 🥲🖤❤️🩹
As a thirty something year old that just started reading for pleasure…. I enjoyed the “roasting” so much 😅 thanks for welcoming me to the reading community
Ur analysis of me would be: in 2022 u read the night circus, poppy war trilogy, broken earth trilogy, & priory of the orange tree: therefore u clearly watch The Book Leo on TH-cam & she is ur Sunday comfort TH-camr 😂
13:58 "It means that they are not afraid to read outside what is deemed popular among the reader communities, and it also mean you like pain." Oof that last one hit especially close to home. 😅
“So...How’s your relationship with your dad?”
-Leonie 2022
I lol'ed at the Tender Is the Flesh landmine waiting for that romance lover, and I'm as jolly as a Terminator. That's the most ****ed up book I've ever read. Me. A guy who started reading Stephen King in 5th grade.
"The only thing that get's your heart racing nowadays, are modern pictures of Logan Lerman."
i amin this picture but honestly I do like it! Have you seen him!
04:20. Actually there is one really good book that everyone compares to Narnia. It is "WildWood" (Cartoon Production "Laika" is now working on a cartoon based on this book. This is that famous production, that made a Coraline). Though I like the later much more than former.
To the person that has Anxious people and Beartown as favorite books on their shelves I love you
🙈😂😂
@@nadaamr2779 hehe
Any book recs for me for books with good writing like Backman's?
@@Sarah-ss6fr Celeste Ng and Anthony Doerr
I was like, "haha shes not gonna get me" BUT YOU DID 😭 AND IM NOT GONNA STOP REREADING HARRY POTTER
She got me a minute in 😭
NEVERRRR
It's very funny, I love Jane Eyre, The Yellow Wallpaper etc but absolutely LOATHE Sally Rooney🤣 It was very funny to see that conclusion
a person with manga and classic literature on their bookshelf is, to me, automatically a bungou stray dogs fan.
One of my favourite books is Of Mice and Men, and I only give it 3*. Like it has loads of issues, but I still love it.
Loved this video!
It makes me want to set up a bunch of shelves on my goodreads
I literally love it so much when you make these videos, they're always just so funny!
i’m not the person who you said is afraid to give low ratings i feel like at this point i know my book taste so well so i mostly give 4 and 5 stars because i read books i know i’ll like
Absolutely devastated you didn't psychoanalyse me 😂
On the person who had loads of favourites: personally, I've read 334 books on Goodreads - 130 of those are on my favourites shelf. HOWEVER, I add every single book in a series to my favourites shelf because I rank my favourites by series, not really by individual books. So overall there's actually only 40 unconnected stories on my favourites shelf.
I love these videos and thank you for including my shelf too (the last one)! I didn't know you can leave your shelves unordered but you did guess correct! 😁❤️
I NEED YOU TO PSYCHOANALYZE MY GOODREADS SO BADLY LEONIE!!! THIS VIDEO IS A SLAY
I did not expect to LOL so much. Also, I wonder if people like the one who had the Rory Gilmore profile pic are aware of some conflict between what they "should" be reading vs what they actually like to read. Hence why they have a bunch of classics five stars (aspiring to the Rory Gilmore image) and then read so many Colleen Hoover books and rate them lower (bc they don't have the same academic reputation boost). Just a theory
this is my favourite past time! judging people's shelf
This was hilarious to a very very niche sense of humor! Loved it
“you read a poem on instagram once, and since then you decided you are into poetry” i know she didn’t aim that at me but i still felt it
Leonie, the part about rating every book high and not being able to say “no” to people… hit too close to home omg, have you ever considered psychoanalysis as a career?
I'm having a really bad day, and this video makes me laugh so hard, I felt so attacked about the birthdays comment, I cried laughing. Thank you for being mean in a very perfect and balanced way, you're queen!!
Oh my god this video made me laugh so much😂😂😂the way you describe these people based on the books they've read and just trying to understand how they liked and didn't like the book is just so funny! Love this so much!
Leonie, I love your videos and they make me so happy. You're the absolute best
Just discovered her channel and I'm in love.
these videos are my absolute favorites please keep them coming!!
16:39 "you like to cry...probably' 😭 shes so funny in this vid
Leonie please, I feel seen and attacked in the best way possible 😂
no reason for you to come for my THROAT with having hunger games in my favorites
This isnt a free therapy consult, it's a fucking roast lmao I love it
I forget about good reads and then like randomly upload whatever I can remember I read in the last 5 years.... I'm not alone in that right?
I love how "are they a Sally Rooney fan" is always your first question 😂
I did have friends, but I also wanted that tatoo soo badly, and is true, nothing brings me more joy than re reading the classics that I grew up with, no many new releases fill my heart with the old joy of reading some good Uncle Riordan book or the Narnia saga...and yes, the only time I feel alive is when I see photos of Logan Lerman, our favorite white boy of the month in those old times in twitter and tumblr. So pretty accurate, I felt seen, and judged, and this is why this is my favorite booktube channel
damn-the hunger games persons roast. that hit way too close to home 😭
I feel so called out... Yes, I desperately want that Percy Jackson tattoo
oh, it was you lol
@@whosminou no I'm not the person in the video, but I still want one, because Percy Jackson just means so much to me
@@obiwan13kenobi62 ah okay. but yeah, percy jackson was one of the best memories of reading books hahah
The last person you analyzed sounds like my soulmate! I love their book choices and your psychoanalysis of them. Disappointed that no one had The Locked Tomb in their shelves, though (Or, I missed it). I wanted to hear your thoughts on The Locked Tomb series.
4:06 ok damn that hurts you got me again
I have the same shelf as ‘ thought that reading was not fun and boring and you discovered TikTok’ NO I JUST REALISED IT WAS BETTER TO READ ON THE ORANGE APP’ but because they made it paid and books have gotten bad on the app so we switched to published romance and miss the original books on the orange app! ORANGE APP>>>>>> TikTok books! The writing was better, the story was better! We weren’t just traumatised because of the backstory of the mc! All we had to deal with was the ‘messy bun with blue eyes’ I MISS THAT TIME OF BOOKSSS! 😭😭😭
I don't keep reading Riley Sager because I feel superior for not liking it.
I just get sucked in by the hype and keep thinking "maybe this one will be different." However, after the most recent one I read, I promised myself I would never allow myself to get sucked in again. Two more have been released since, and I haven't picked them up.
I assume the same could be said for at least some of the people you were referencing reading a tonne of Colleen Hoover and hating it lol
Please do more of these they are so fun to watch
This exposed me and I’m here for it, also your reaction to the self help books has me rolling
i just got home from work and the first thing i did is check my youtube notifications....and there you are THE BOOK OF LEO new video 😃❤️
YOU READ ME FOR FILTH. I am on the internet too much (and also am bad at organising my Goodreads 😅)
oh man, the Logan Lerman comment hit a little too close to home....but also I feel not too bad about my Goodreads and Storygraph...I think 😆 seriously, great video Leonie!
If I could put a video in the favourite shelf, it'd be this
I recommend The StoryGraph over Goodreads! No Amazon, started by a young Black British woman, interface so much better, so good!!
oh no I missed the opportunity to send my storygraph for judging yet again :( maybe next time, I hope you make more of these! they're so fun to watch
This has to be my favourite premise for a video
Its the way the John Green call out had me literally gasping out loud 🤣🤣🤣 fwiw I still love John dftba
remember to be awesome💕
you hit hard with the middle school/old favorites…
7:30 At this point this is just straight up MURDER 😭
You guessed almost right but close:
I didn't have a tiktok account until recently but I got the recommendation from booktube so very close
I didn't get into reading until 2020 so I started reading the books I always wanted to read like Harry Potter and Agatha Christie🥰💘but your are very accurate about my reading taste I know what I like but Like to be adventurous sometimes💕 hope you have a wonderful day🫶
I didn't realise I was such a cliché until you said, for every single bookshelf I thought was interesting or I had read a lot of books from too, "How much do you wanna bet they're a Sally Rooney stan"
My favorite books
- Circe
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- The Song of Achillies
- Crooked Kingdoms
- Daisy Jones and the Six
- If We Were Villans
Judge me as you will
do you have tiktok? 🤭 cause your bookish opinions are definitely trendy
(but tbh who doesn't like crooked kingdom? it's literally impossible imo)
You don’t ever experience nostalgia
@@ellieskouros2174I watch booktok so I have some knowledge of trendy books
@@faithers2908 yk what there's nothing wrong with that
You enjoy crying at a good book and you like booktok recomendations
“no one will hate you or leave you if you say no sometimes” ouch lol
1:20 I just wanted to enjoy an innocent TH-cam video… nobody told me this would be a therapy session👀😂
I have not read The Fault in our stars, so I guess that explains why I stan the unhinged women trope, yet reading Normal People made me wanna die 😅
This was such a fun video! The voice definitely helped sell it as a psychoanalist hahaha
Since you are also dutch, do you remember the lenticular covers for Deltora? They had the monsters on them and they were so cool. Definitely one of my favourite series of all time!
yes those covers blew my mind as a kid
You should do these at least once a year!
I loved the first one of this! I'm way too nervous to submit my own storygraph page (I don't even let my viewers see that one) because I have some very controversial opinions about books...
I love her videos! Had an exceptionally good time procrastinating today!! Just kindling, I really love her content and humour
“How’s your relationship with your dad” absolutely SENT me
My goodreads seems so unorganised all of a sudden.
Omg I used to have a dnf shelf but the books kept getting removed… and I would add them again and they would get removed again.. so maybe that also happened to that one person??
This was really fabulous. Now I’m off to organize my goodreads 😂
This is the video I never thought I needed. You brought me so much endorphins with this video.