It's so interesting how our individual use of the star rating systems can vary so much. The way you described severance for example, for me would be a low 3 lol. 4 for me is 'I really liked it'.
I just love the way you talk about books. Very precise haha. I am one of the people that absolutely loves Bunny - I first read it when it came out when I was 19 and it influenced my reading taste IMMENSLY.
This channel has all the vibes i long for, cozy, cozy, cozy. I'm drinking so much liters of tea but this + the vidoes; i feel like im constantly surrounded by a blanket
Just found your channel yesterday AND I LOVE YOUR VIBES listening to you talk about Bunny makes me want to reread it despite already loving it the first time
Bunny was 5⭐ on the first read and 5⭐ upon re-read. I annotated during the re-read too.. I caught things I missed the first time. Highly recommend a re-read! I am actually planning on doing a 3rd read this year.. making it a Springtime tradition 🐰
i found ur channel about a week ago and i love the way you talk about books! i used to be such a huge reader and over the years lost the passion but you inspire me to get back into it 🥲
i just discovered your channel and i’ve inhaled everything you’ve posted the way you talk about books is so lovely and joyful and thoughtful, obsessed! 🫶🏻🧡
SEVERANCE….. my book club pick of the month it was soo funny when she referenced bits of chinese culture 😭😭 the poem she receives from bartholomews email is super famous and schoolchildren have contests on their recitation abilities!!
I just got news that my afternoon classes got cancelled and now you drop a video??? Should I mark today as my second birthday?! Edit: Yes we can hear your cat meowing and it's super cute
I was so interested in your thoughts about severance! I was so excited to read and love all post-apocalyptic media. So many missed opportunities plot-wise though. Not that it was bad like you said, but I completely agree with you, it sort of flat lined for me. Which is so annoying because conceptually, it could have been so much more ugh
I just found your channel by coincidence, and I love your voice, keep doing this please my AuDHD brain needs ambience and very rare voice tones, or speech pacing is nice enough to keep feeding info to my brain and calm it. Your voices sooth my brain so immediately I subbed. Thank you for your interesting contents as well
I’ve just discovered your channel (it was literally yesterday) and I love how you talk about books. It just so happens that you don’t love my favourite books and it breaks my heart 😭 like hello?? Bunny?? My all time favourite book 😭😭 but I read it before its current hype (in 2020) so I went into it without knowing it was supposed to be weird. I think going into it with expectations that it will be the weirdest book you’ve ever read might be setting this book up to be a flop. I’m so glad you still enjoyed it. It just breaks my heart you didn’t absolutely love it. And that you didn’t love Chlorine either, another favourite of mine 😅 but at the same time it makes me very curious as to what books you consider to be „weird” if these two weren’t weird enough. Because I love weird horror too
I felt the same way about Severance. The ending was anticlimactic to me, but more interesting if it's interpreted the way you did. I'm excited to read Shards now!
I was one of the one's that said Severance is my favorite book of all time! I really loved your review on it and still agree with everything you said. My taste and preferences in books literally all converge in Severance. For some reason, my favorite genre is 'mundane but something unsettling' workplaces, so I loved the bible storyline. I love post apocalyptic books like "The Road" and "Wanderers", so I loved the fever element. But I'm glad you finally got to read Severance! I'd also be so sad if I lost a library book!
i stopped when you started describing bunny because i still want to read it but otherwise ugh i enjoyed this a ton. weirdly now that i know what happens in severance i want to read it lol
omg just talked to a friend abt starting the audiobook for bliss montage bc i found it in the online library for my library and that i remember the (striking? beautiful? amazing?) cover from it from one of your videos and they were like "omg that from the same author as severance👀" and then i open your video and u mention severance in the first minute shshsh😂😍
don't know if you've read this or not, but you should try our wives under the sea. it's a sapphic read that feels nostalgic and painful but also so tender with this haunting and otherworldly undertone
yay new upload! i finally got Ghost Wall! got some stuff to finish before i start it but im so excited. especially cause im going back to my own job as a historical reenactor soon 👀👀 im a fan of Bunny I'm glad to hear your opinions on it, and i totally agree about the interesting critique of the elite arts/literary arts world. i just found the book fun and interesting
omg ! starting to get back into youtube and reading and making friends and like ! you seem truly lovely and so i am def going to subscribe, catch up, and keep an eye out on your content !
UPDATE: characters that are awful rec- i'm notably not done with this yet but so far Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman, if you don't mind like heavy on the erotica, is one i've been enjoying and eve (pov character) does seem pretty vaguely shitty
frankie!! you have quickly become one of my favorite book creators! you have superb taste and i LOVEEEEEEEE how you get so many books from the library!!! 🫶
Oh, read Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky! Marie is one of the worst characters ever, but you can't help but love her.... and hate her.... and love her.... and hate her.... and.... 😱 I can't wait for next week's video -- that's right up my alley! I'll post a few more recs as I can remember them....
@frankiesshelf omg, she's one of my favorite authors! Everything I've read from her is amazing. I haven't yet read Twins -- her debut -- but I have read all the rest of them. We're kinda book twins, so I'm not surprised by this!
@frankiesshelf Pet by Catherine Chidgey; I agree with others who have suggested The Guest by Emma Cline; also agree with others about Ottessa Moshfegh's books; Open Throat by Henry Hoke. If you can possibly find it, try Ghosts of You by Cathy Ulrich. It's a book of flash fiction, told in 2nd person, which is unusual, and which I love but some people hate. The small stories are lists of why women (or, rather, their absences) are at the center of all murder stories, because they start the story. Ulrich digs deep and never flinches explaining why women are disposable. Of course, the murderers are the shadowy bad characters but this book is so damn unique, I bet you would like it.
Bad Marie is a book I pretty much recommend to everybody. Just got her new one from Netgalley and gonna start it this week as soon as I'm done with Dear Dickhead (Virginie Despentes- someone I think Frankie and their fans would definitely love).
for the next video, i recently read these violent delights by micah nemerever and yk i need to know which one the two mc’s was a terrible person because i think theyre both screwed up… but THIS WAS GREAT THANK YOU!
I didn't like the ending of severance and then the pointless timeline back and forth for no reason. I feel like she did what she did at the end when he already caught thedisease. She could have stayed in a community and helped each other. Have u read blindness I wanna say by Santiago something or monsterio? And I totally agree with u I came into this with people saying it's one of their favorites and I'm like why oh why? I wonder if we travel thru the same recommendations lol. I realize now that watching your video I need a book buddy someone to share book conversations with. I was hooked on the writing thinking it was going get really good but it didn't go where I thought it would.
I just wanted to say I’m reading the spirit bares it teeth and it’s so fucking good I’m so glad I decided to try another book from the author after Reading his debut book bc this one is miles ahead as far as quality and story!!! Definitely check out the tw’s but it’s my first time reading any sort of story with a T4T relationship and it’s just amazing. Definitely painful and horrible but amazing
these violent delights by micah nemerever, is a good pick for books with a horrible mc. it's about 2 sociopaths who form this disturbing, all consuming relationship and end up committing murder together, its really beautifully written and i think youll really like it
I found Bunny a slog for about the first 2/3 when it got good and weird... and then it felt to me like Awad had chickened out on the weird so I really didn't dig the ending. I liked how it ended -- I wanted her to end up in some way with [REDACTED] and I got my wish, so I was fine with how it ended, but not with the mundane interpretation the ending was trying to impose on the story. So yeah, it was competent and had satisfying bits but ultimately kind of a disappointment. The best thing was the charge in narrative voice that Frankie highlighted. I'll give Awad another try sometime maybe, but I'm not going to drop everything when her next book is out. And if that one, too, is meh, well, I still have Marcy Dermansky and Virginie Despentes and Marie Ndaye and many, many others.
i try to do that with the video chapters! everyone has different definitions of what a spoiler is so i just try and mark off when i’m talking about my thoughts and when i’m talking about the summary of the book
I have the exact same thoughts on Bunny like so close its almost scary 😅 The Grownup by Gillian Flynn is a fun one for unreliable/awful narrators, the narrator isnt like a super huge piece of shit or anything but shes a con artist who pretends to be psychic and meets her match lol. And its only like 50 or so pages i really liked it ^-^
Have to say I really enjoy your channel, and am so glad you showed up in my recommended videos recently. A couple of books with really awful characters for you: Lolita by Nabokov - beautiful prose, masterfully written and a true glimpse into the mind of evil and the awareness of the existence of true horror which exists in our world. The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway - I have read thousands of books in my 61 years of life and this one wins the worst award for me. I can see what Ernie was going for with this one but the characters are vapid, cynical, hedonistic assholes! lol
For awful characters literally any ottessa moshfegh book…my favorite is lapvona. Definitely her most gruesome and disgusting. A touch of Jen by Beth Morgan, truly the most insufferable whiny main character but in the best way, boy parts by Eliza Clark if u haven’t read it yet, the guest by Emma cline if u haven’t read that
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS OMF‼️‼️ suggestion for books with awful characters is the Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous. What a fucking ass. I think vicious by ve Shwab is also a good one!
BABE WAKE UP NEW FRANKIE'S SHELF UPLOAD
EXACTLY my thought hahahaa, this is cool
this one
i’ve found your channel recently and i’m obsesseddd!! you have just the right vibes and i love how you talk
thank you !!
It's so interesting how our individual use of the star rating systems can vary so much. The way you described severance for example, for me would be a low 3 lol. 4 for me is 'I really liked it'.
I love watching you talk about books you've read while I'm procrastinating reading my book
I just love the way you talk about books. Very precise haha. I am one of the people that absolutely loves Bunny - I first read it when it came out when I was 19 and it influenced my reading taste IMMENSLY.
This channel has all the vibes i long for, cozy, cozy, cozy. I'm drinking so much liters of tea but this + the vidoes; i feel like im constantly surrounded by a blanket
I found you yesterday and am really glad because I love how you talk about books & the way you summarize and analyze them
New Frankie upload? In this economy? Blessed
Just found your channel yesterday AND I LOVE YOUR VIBES listening to you talk about Bunny makes me want to reread it despite already loving it the first time
Bunny was 5⭐ on the first read and 5⭐ upon re-read. I annotated during the re-read too.. I caught things I missed the first time. Highly recommend a re-read! I am actually planning on doing a 3rd read this year.. making it a Springtime tradition 🐰
it’s 4 pm tue. 75 degrees. i ain’t got no homework but a frankie vid to watch.
i found ur channel about a week ago and i love the way you talk about books! i used to be such a huge reader and over the years lost the passion but you inspire me to get back into it 🥲
i just discovered your channel and i’ve inhaled everything you’ve posted the way you talk about books is so lovely and joyful and thoughtful, obsessed! 🫶🏻🧡
thank you so much ❤️❤️
Uploading while I’m walking home from my lit class is such a little treat
SEVERANCE….. my book club pick of the month it was soo funny when she referenced bits of chinese culture 😭😭 the poem she receives from bartholomews email is super famous and schoolchildren have contests on their recitation abilities!!
I just got news that my afternoon classes got cancelled and now you drop a video??? Should I mark today as my second birthday?!
Edit: Yes we can hear your cat meowing and it's super cute
god i hope this is a sign my classes will be cancelled tomorrow
I was so interested in your thoughts about severance! I was so excited to read and love all post-apocalyptic media. So many missed opportunities plot-wise though. Not that it was bad like you said, but I completely agree with you, it sort of flat lined for me. Which is so annoying because conceptually, it could have been so much more ugh
AHHH I get so excited when I see you upload!!!!!!!
I just found your channel by coincidence, and I love your voice, keep doing this please my AuDHD brain needs ambience and very rare voice tones, or speech pacing is nice enough to keep feeding info to my brain and calm it. Your voices sooth my brain so immediately I subbed. Thank you for your interesting contents as well
I love your videos it's always a cozy hang out spot for me 😊 will you ever show us how your library? Or just how you store your books 📚 love you!
I’ve just discovered your channel (it was literally yesterday) and I love how you talk about books. It just so happens that you don’t love my favourite books and it breaks my heart 😭 like hello?? Bunny?? My all time favourite book 😭😭 but I read it before its current hype (in 2020) so I went into it without knowing it was supposed to be weird. I think going into it with expectations that it will be the weirdest book you’ve ever read might be setting this book up to be a flop. I’m so glad you still enjoyed it. It just breaks my heart you didn’t absolutely love it. And that you didn’t love Chlorine either, another favourite of mine 😅 but at the same time it makes me very curious as to what books you consider to be „weird” if these two weren’t weird enough. Because I love weird horror too
you summarized Bunny so well that by the end i was a little upset i didn’t stop the video and read it myself 😅
I read the shards in February and can confirm, it never really gets out of your head 😁
I felt the same way about Severance. The ending was anticlimactic to me, but more interesting if it's interpreted the way you did. I'm excited to read Shards now!
let me know what you think of it !! it truly feels like it’ll stay with me forever
HELL YEAH im so pumped for this
There's nothing better than coming home to a fresh Frankie's shelf video
- I hope you cannot hear my cat meowing right now....
- MEOOOOOW
I was one of the one's that said Severance is my favorite book of all time! I really loved your review on it and still agree with everything you said. My taste and preferences in books literally all converge in Severance. For some reason, my favorite genre is 'mundane but something unsettling' workplaces, so I loved the bible storyline. I love post apocalyptic books like "The Road" and "Wanderers", so I loved the fever element. But I'm glad you finally got to read Severance! I'd also be so sad if I lost a library book!
heck yea! ty for this lil treat to savor in my first day back in uni classes
You're my new favorite channel
❤❤
i stopped when you started describing bunny because i still want to read it but otherwise ugh i enjoyed this a ton. weirdly now that i know what happens in severance i want to read it lol
so happy to see this video after a long day at the long day factory
I read the shards last summer and it still will not leave my head.
I can relate to S.Mackey... sometimes an illusion is better than reality. 🐇
Frankie you are my comfort TH-camr!!
Books with insufferable characters!
Liars by Sarah Manguso
Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom
All of the Moshfegh books
Lapvona would fit great in this line up
I’m addicted to this channel! 😭😭😭
It wasn’t clear to me either regarding severance 😳
Aahhhh I love these keep up the amazing work!!!!
omg just talked to a friend abt starting the audiobook for bliss montage bc i found it in the online library for my library and that i remember the (striking? beautiful? amazing?) cover from it from one of your videos and they were like "omg that from the same author as severance👀" and then i open your video and u mention severance in the first minute shshsh😂😍
also i already love bliss montage!
the cover is so fcking gorgeous omg
i love everything about that collection
don't know if you've read this or not, but you should try our wives under the sea. it's a sapphic read that feels nostalgic and painful but also so tender with this haunting and otherworldly undertone
yay new upload! i finally got Ghost Wall! got some stuff to finish before i start it but im so excited. especially cause im going back to my own job as a historical reenactor soon 👀👀 im a fan of Bunny I'm glad to hear your opinions on it, and i totally agree about the interesting critique of the elite arts/literary arts world. i just found the book fun and interesting
can’t wait to hear your thoughts on ghost wall when you get to it !! especially from someone so close to the subject matter
@@frankiesshelf yes! im so excited!!
do you mind not meowing?
he’s literally so loud
can I get a time stamp for the cat meowing?
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John Robert Lennon catching strays 😂 mean !
omg ! starting to get back into youtube and reading and making friends and like ! you seem truly lovely and so i am def going to subscribe, catch up, and keep an eye out on your content !
UPDATE: characters that are awful rec- i'm notably not done with this yet but so far Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman, if you don't mind like heavy on the erotica, is one i've been enjoying and eve (pov character) does seem pretty vaguely shitty
Started severance, and it is totally fine, I am hoping I finish it and feel a bit “more” but after seeing your review I’ll keep my expectations low
i’m so excited to hear what you think about it
i wanted to read bunny i’m so glad you read it 😝😝
$40 to replace a library book is a crime!!
love the vibe ❤
frankie!! you have quickly become one of my favorite book creators! you have superb taste and i LOVEEEEEEEE how you get so many books from the library!!! 🫶
thank you so much for being here!!! i love the got damn library with my whole heart . i’m so lucky to have a good local one
I highly reccomend 'The Crimson Labyrinth' by Yusuke Kishi. My favorite horror book so far. Love your channel btw
I also thought Bunny was just fine.
I ADORE your channel
Oh, read Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky! Marie is one of the worst characters ever, but you can't help but love her.... and hate her.... and love her.... and hate her.... and.... 😱 I can't wait for next week's video -- that's right up my alley! I'll post a few more recs as I can remember them....
I FCKING LOVE MARCY DERMANKSY!!!! how have i never looked at her other work hurricane girl is one of my favourite books ever
@frankiesshelf omg, she's one of my favorite authors! Everything I've read from her is amazing. I haven't yet read Twins -- her debut -- but I have read all the rest of them. We're kinda book twins, so I'm not surprised by this!
She has a new one coming out in February (I think) or at least this coming spring. Can't freaking wait!
@frankiesshelf Pet by Catherine Chidgey; I agree with others who have suggested The Guest by Emma Cline; also agree with others about Ottessa Moshfegh's books; Open Throat by Henry Hoke.
If you can possibly find it, try Ghosts of You by Cathy Ulrich. It's a book of flash fiction, told in 2nd person, which is unusual, and which I love but some people hate. The small stories are lists of why women (or, rather, their absences) are at the center of all murder stories, because they start the story. Ulrich digs deep and never flinches explaining why women are disposable. Of course, the murderers are the shadowy bad characters but this book is so damn unique, I bet you would like it.
Bad Marie is a book I pretty much recommend to everybody. Just got her new one from Netgalley and gonna start it this week as soon as I'm done with Dear Dickhead (Virginie Despentes- someone I think Frankie and their fans would definitely love).
for the next video, i recently read these violent delights by micah nemerever and yk i need to know which one the two mc’s was a terrible person because i think theyre both screwed up… but THIS WAS GREAT THANK YOU!
I didn't like the ending of severance and then the pointless timeline back and forth for no reason. I feel like she did what she did at the end when he already caught thedisease. She could have stayed in a community and helped each other. Have u read blindness I wanna say by Santiago something or monsterio? And I totally agree with u I came into this with people saying it's one of their favorites and I'm like why oh why? I wonder if we travel thru the same recommendations lol. I realize now that watching your video I need a book buddy someone to share book conversations with. I was hooked on the writing thinking it was going get really good but it didn't go where I thought it would.
I just wanted to say I’m reading the spirit bares it teeth and it’s so fucking good I’m so glad I decided to try another book from the author after
Reading his debut book bc this one is miles ahead as far as quality and story!!! Definitely check out the tw’s but it’s my first time reading any sort of story with a T4T relationship and it’s just amazing. Definitely painful and horrible but amazing
these violent delights by micah nemerever, is a good pick for books with a horrible mc. it's about 2 sociopaths who form this disturbing, all consuming relationship and end up committing murder together, its really beautifully written and i think youll really like it
I finished reading The toy collector by James Gunn today and not much to say than it is a book by James Gunn.
I found Bunny a slog for about the first 2/3 when it got good and weird... and then it felt to me like Awad had chickened out on the weird so I really didn't dig the ending. I liked how it ended -- I wanted her to end up in some way with [REDACTED] and I got my wish, so I was fine with how it ended, but not with the mundane interpretation the ending was trying to impose on the story. So yeah, it was competent and had satisfying bits but ultimately kind of a disappointment. The best thing was the charge in narrative voice that Frankie highlighted. I'll give Awad another try sometime maybe, but I'm not going to drop everything when her next book is out. And if that one, too, is meh, well, I still have Marcy Dermansky and Virginie Despentes and Marie Ndaye and many, many others.
YES ANOTHER VIDEO FOR ME TO COOK TO !!!
I love your videos so much. Can you please add when you’re going to spoil the books? I love watching these videos but I don’t want spoilers!! ❤
i try to do that with the video chapters! everyone has different definitions of what a spoiler is so i just try and mark off when i’m talking about my thoughts and when i’m talking about the summary of the book
have you read Tender is the Flesh? it is SO good
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang might be a good pick for awful characters! And Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov obvs 💀
A book with an awful/unlikeable main character could also be "The Death of Bunny Munro" by Nick Cave. I liked the book overall ^-^
I love you Frankie
Obsessed with your channel!!! Can you make a video on fall books that are not horror hahaha plssss???
I literally finished my annihilation today lmao
You might like Hawk Mountain (Conner Habib).
Oh, yes, that's a great one!
I have the exact same thoughts on Bunny like so close its almost scary 😅 The Grownup by Gillian Flynn is a fun one for unreliable/awful narrators, the narrator isnt like a super huge piece of shit or anything but shes a con artist who pretends to be psychic and meets her match lol. And its only like 50 or so pages i really liked it ^-^
Have you read The Between by Tananarive Due? It’s a psychological thriller not a horror but I think you might like it.
ooh i havent but the summary looks so good
You remind me so much of someone I used to follow on TikTok I miss them I think they deactivated their accounts
it was probably me lol
@@frankiesshelf HIIII I WAS SO SAD TO SEE YOU DEACTIVATED YOUR ACCOUNTS HIIIIII
Have to say I really enjoy your channel, and am so glad you showed up in my recommended videos recently. A couple of books with really awful characters for you: Lolita by Nabokov - beautiful prose, masterfully written and a true glimpse into the mind of evil and the awareness of the existence of true horror which exists in our world. The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway - I have read thousands of books in my 61 years of life and this one wins the worst award for me. I can see what Ernie was going for with this one but the characters are vapid, cynical, hedonistic assholes! lol
i’ve definitely gotta get to lolita soon also ernie lmaoo 😭
Books with insufferable characters? The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Cute pun. I have to subscribe just for that. 😂
For awful characters literally any ottessa moshfegh book…my favorite is lapvona. Definitely her most gruesome and disgusting. A touch of Jen by Beth Morgan, truly the most insufferable whiny main character but in the best way, boy parts by Eliza Clark if u haven’t read it yet, the guest by Emma cline if u haven’t read that
omg boy parts and a touch of jen are 2 of the 5 i’ve picked out that’s so funny
i’ve already read the guest LOVED it but that ending … cmon
@@frankiesshelf hahahaha I love an ambiguous ending
Do you color grade your videos or anything?
i don’t! i use a canon eos rebel t7 and whatever setting looks good lol i really don’t know anything about videography
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I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS OMF‼️‼️ suggestion for books with awful characters is the Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous. What a fucking ass. I think vicious by ve Shwab is also a good one!
Book with awful characters, When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill. There are two main characters and they're both awful.
Read the title. Now I want a s'more. I have none of the ingredients for a s'more. I guess I'll settle for more incomparable booktube content 🙄
if u pin this comment i will fly in with my fairy wings and put a tooth under your pillow 💖
Everybody needs a friend like Ava 🦢 .. 🤭