I READ BOOKS YOU THOUGHT I'D HATE
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- Today I share my experience reading three books some of you thought I'd hate! ...things did not turn out the way I expected them to.
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Alternative title: Jesse falling in love with the books we thought he'll hate 😂❤
The best thing about THE MEMORY POLICE is that it was published back in 1994, and not translated into English until 2019 or 2020. I still think of that to this day. For an author to have written this book so long ago.
Japan's lost decade was a heck of a thing.
I’ve listened to the 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle at least 30 times. I still don’t thoroughly understand the story, BUT I LOVE IT! The storyline is indeed confusing, but each time I listen I understand a bit more. I honestly think the MAIN reason I like it is because of the British accents! The actors were wonderful! For me, 5 out of 5 stars! ❤️😃
This exemplifies exactly why I find it hard to grapple with and 'know' people's taste. A story can have all the elements someone loves but if it's not executed well they may not end up liking it or if the characters are dull/undeveloped they may not end up liking it. Or a story sounds so up someone's alley but then there's *one* aspect that completely ruins it for them. Not to mention how timing and one's own personal development and place in life can be such an influence!
i'm not sure if there's one near to you, but for books i annotate and don't end up liking i give them to little free libraries! i just think it could be cool for some random person to pick up my annotations and "read with me" in a weird sense ha
Enjoyed this video. Great concept and comments about each book. I love how somehow you are able to describe the books you discuss in detail without giving anything away. It is really helpful for anyone who might want to read the books you discussed without feeling like they already know what to expect.
Book I think you'd like: Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson.
It's kind of "Knives Out" vibes with an murder mystery that's interesting.
It's written in a way that you feel you are being told all these events after the fact and sometimes the main character kind of breaks the fourth wall.
I really enjoyed it so even if you don't someone else might see this and enjoy it! 😊
Im happy to see someone talk about Memory Police. It was one of my faves a few years ago and I still think about it. If you enjoyed 7 deaths (we drop the 1/2 in Canada too!) you may want to try the authors other book - its set on a ship!
I really want to read The Memory Police - I love another book by the same author called The Housekeeper and The Professor. It’s beautiful! I think you’ve convinced me to read TMP, so thank you!
I second on The Housekeeper and the Professor. I read it recently and I fell in love with the bond the housekeeper, her son and the professor had.
The Memory Police has been on my TBR for quite a while. Hearing that you enjoyed it inspired me to finally pick it up, since we tend to have similar reading tastes.
A book I would love to recommend: The Son by Jo Nesbo
I loved the use of pov. If it had followed the main character's pov, the book would have become a straight forward revenge story. Instead it followed several random people's povs and some regulars to heighten the sense of MC's mystery for the read.
I think you’d love Inkheart by Cornelia Funke and A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard. I know you love middle grade and books about books, and I do as well, so that’s why I recommend Inkheart. You’ve also talked about your experience with anxiety, which I have as well, and A Quiet Kind of Thunder has an incredible depiction of it. Plus, I know you want to read more romance novels, and this one is one of my all-time favorites!
You should totally read Long live the Pumpkin Queen, by Shea Ernshaw. The events take place right after the Nightmare Before Christmas, and it is one of the cutest books that I have ever read. Definitely worth checking out.
Oooh I love these kinds of videos! Isn't it always a nice surprise when you actually like a book you are expecting to hate! 😂 Love your videos❤
1:14 The seven and a half deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
6:06 Hide by Kirsten White
9:32 The memory police by Yoko Ogawa
my recommendation is The Hemlock Cure by Joanne Burn, i don't know if you like historical fiction BUT it's very character driven and we just get a deep dive into each of the mc. there is also some queer characters and not much romance (like it's kind of there but it's not focused on that so i think it's fine)
The Memory Police was amazing I read The Housekeeper and The Professor by her and I really like her writing and I have two books that I think that you might like one is Burning Roses by S. L. Huang it's a Red Ridding Hood retelling and two is Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap it's a short story collection about myths and urban legends.
I love all the titles you share that I haven’t heard of before. I really enjoy seeing some different recommendations and reviews. So fresh!
so glad u love The Memory Police, it's truly kind of devastating but it's a book that still makes me think about it from time to time!!
If you like a good thriller, you may love "The Only One Left" by Riley Sager! It's very Lizzie Borden, and it literally had me questioning everything until the very last page! I read it in two days and couldn't put it down. Highly HIGHLY recommend!!
If you haven’t read The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson I think you’d REALLY enjoy it. There’s political intrigue, plot twists, and while it’s marketed as a romantic fantasy, the characters never lose their own dreams or goals for the sake of love, it’s a read I plan to go back to soon but it was WONDERFUL.
Ooo all these books sound kind of interesting! I might have to read them myself now… anyways AWESOME VIDEOOOOO JESSIE!
Does anyone else sing along “bye-oooooooo” at the end of every video
I think you'd love "The Cat Who Saved Books" by Sosuke Natsukawa. It's a beautiful story about a young boy, grief, books and friendship, all tied together through magical realism.
Honestly, we have similar taste and I always rely on your recommendations but the thing is turns out we kinda read the same books so it's hard to find something that I've read and you didn't😅 maybe Lockwood & Co? It's fantasy, dystopia, mystery, London and ghosts. I also think For the Wolf (high fantasy Red Riding Hood retelling) and A Curse So Dark and Lonely (beauty and the beast retelling) might be good
One of my favorite books this year has been Glass by Ellen Hopkins. It was really brutal and really eye opening when it comes to meth addiction. It was just so gripping. It is the sequel to Crank and it was also brutal as well. I am about to start the last one of the trilogy Fallout tonight.
I have a recommendation!! My favorite book of all time is “The Stories of Ibis” by Hiroshi Yamamoto. I read it for a science fiction class in college and I’ve never heard anyone else talk about it but it’s just so beautiful and unique. It’s definitely got a huge focus on stories which is really illustrated in the way it is told but it’s definitely something I have always wondered if you would like. I feel like if anyone would appreciate it that I watch or know, it would be you!
I know you've read The Raven Boys, but if you went through the rest of the series I really think it would be a top fav for you! That's my favorite series.
I know, I recommend this book to everyone, but honestly this book and book series deserves more recognition and credit for being so dang good, but not well know. And I may have recommended this years ago😅 and so here I go!
"I am Number Four" from the Lorien Legacies Series by Pittacus Lore. The character development, and the action will leave you processing what just happened 😂 you will cry, and love, and hate a bunch of the characters but you'll also understand their POVs (especially if you read the novellas). Downside, there are like 10 books, and a ton of novellas, so I suggest starting with one, the very first, just to dip your toes a little. Fair warning, it suffers from what PJO experienced with their movies. Good books, iffy movies😅 plus, I am Number Four is my PJO ❤ plus, Jessie, this is one of the books you said you haven't read yet in the bookish games video with the guess the book with badly written description, you'll see how accurate that description is😁
”The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” is added to my TBR pile! 📚✨
ultimately, I haven't read my favorites in a long, long, long while all because I haven't had my own place in three years now... a series that I would love to read again is Hush Hush by Nastaha Preston! I love her writing and the world that she created is all dark; in a way more like a crumy dark cloudy day.
I don't want to say much more about it if anyone here has read it, I would totally recommend this series and let me know on your thoughts on the books!
I love watching your bookish content!
Hey Jesse, great video a book that I loved that you might love is The New Girl by Jesse Q Sutanto I loved it from beginning to end and could not stop thinking about it ❤
you just an internet full of book lovers for lists of books we love...
I recommend the Simon Snow trilogy by Rainbow Rowell and The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert.
I fell deeply in love with the Simon Snow trilogy (Probably my favorite series rn) even though I usually don't like romance, and The Hazel Wood has wonderful dark fairytale vibes
i'm currently reading 'if cats disappeared from the world' by genki kawamura which i'm really liking! i'd definitely recommend if you liked the memory police, because it has a similar concept to the plot but a completely different tone (more funny and light while still being a bit melancholy) and was much more focused on the main character's internal turmoil. would be curious to hear your thoughts on it!
I just finished this one! Hope you continue to enjoy it :)
Dragonrider by Cornelia Funke has been one of my favourite books since I was ten years old, I think you might enjoy it as well
Cornelia Funke is still one of my favourite authors as an adult! The Thief Lord rocked my world as a kid and I still love to read the Inkworld trilogy. ❤
Love the fact that the way that Jesse could read some books from his tbr was by anti-recommendations that he asked for 🤣
It makes no sense if we say it like that and I adore it 🤣🤣🤣✨
With you enjoying The Memory Police, I think you'd like Never Let Me Go. It's another translated Japanese Dystopia that's not YA and another with a gut wrenching ending
Here's a recommendation - I would love to know what you think of Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy. I read it last year and it was an easy 5 stars. The audio version is fantastic! It was a nominee for Goodreads Best Fiction in 2020, but somehow it doesn't seem to ever come up in reviews.
So fun! I'm so glad you liked them all!
I loved everything about 7 1/2 Deaths, except for the end! It felt very “here’s the moral” which I didn’t feel like the book really warranted or needed. It was sort of shoehorned in for-what felt to me-no reason. When I’ve recommended it I just told people to read the book and pretend the end didn’t happen haha.
So how about a recommendation of books I think you'll love?
Would you PLEASE read and review the An Unbelievable Truth series by Joshua Ryan Erwin? I've never heard anyone review these books, and they're fantastic! There are currently 3 books out.
Book I- An Unbelievable Truth *Author's Edition by Joshua Ryan Erwin
Book II- A New Beginning *Author's Edition by Joshua Ryan Erwin
Book III- Elijah the Great by Joshua Ryan Erwin
It's a bit dark and gritty, definitely graphic at times. But at the same time, the story has tremendous heart, many twists and turns, relatable characters, takes you thru all the feels, and is just a great read! I hope you check them out! Happy reading!
jesse i’m BEGGING you to read Where Our Oceans Meet i think you’d love it 🤌🏻
Idea for your marked up books that you don't want to keep: Hold a giveaway! :D I'm sure your viewers, me included, would love to get something like that.
Haha the annotating thing: I used to do pen- now I do pencil first if I’m not sure so I don’t have to worry if I don’t love it! Then go back with ink for the ones I know I wanna keep:p or
Hey!!!! Thanks for posting!!!! Hope you’re doing well ❤️❤️
Why am I so glad to have come across this channel?
Your thumbnails are the funniest!!!!
Hey man, I was wondering if you could ever do a review of the underland cronicles by Suzanne Collins, its one of my most memorable books I read when I was younger and when i recently reread them, I found them surprisngly Good and intruiging. I hope you could give them a try!
I think you will love Days at the Morisaki Bookshop since it has the feel good vibes of the Miracles of the Namiya General Store.
Awww how incredible that he could find a 5/5 stars read 🥰
Read tastes can change and that’s also great :3
the only thing i really didn't love with evelyn hardcastle was (*semi spoiler ahead*)
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the reveal regarding the larger environment aiden was in. i go back and forth and i've decided i don't dislike the twist itself, but it's placement coming *before* the answer to the evelyn murder really takes the wind out of the sails of the mystery you've been puzzling over for most of the book.
I think you would love Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins. It's a really fun middle grade and kinda gives me the same vibes as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
OMG! Yes! It’s a amazing series!!!! 😊
Ah it's so nice to see you enjoy the books you're reviewing!
I love this video idea it was so fun to watch!
I love this kind of video, Jesse! Keep it up!
I don’t know how you’d feel about it but can you read and review Fourth Wing?? I read it a week ago and it lived up to the hype oh my god. (It’s hunger games + ender’s game + divergent + dragons + spicy) I didn’t even know any of that when I started and I’m not even a huge dragon reader. And I got my less bookish friend into it. Please please please 😬🤓🥹 if not you’re awesome and your videos make me happy and sorry for the rant 💜
Great vlog I definitely wanna check out Hyde 📚🔖☕
I think you've read this one already BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T I'd like to reccommend "Lost Boy" by Christina Henry! ALSO if Ursula Poznanski's "Cryptos" will ever be translated into English PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read it!
Yay for actually loving the books 🎉
Hey! So glad you posted another video! The 7th deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle was recommended by a friend of mine and I’m not sure how I felt about it still. I might return it and get a different book. 😅 I think she hyped it too much honestly. 😂
A book that I had read and not really expected to hate it so much till I felt a lot more uncomfortable with romance in a whole different perspective and I would recommend it. Hocus Pocus by Teresa Roblin. Unless as if some people like sexual content in writing while reading, just let me know on your thoughts.
Omg I hated Hide 😅 So by that logic I would guess you would like it. We don't have similar reading tastes at all but I still love you!!
Have you read Beartown by Fredrik Backman? Think you will love that. Or A man called Ove by him
I found "Monster" by A. Lee Martinez to be confusing, but I enjoyed it and would recommend it to fans of Douglas Adams.
Love this!!!!
I think you would love Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. I know you enjoy portal fantasy like Every Heart a Doorway, and this is also a book about storytelling. It's very whimsical and has a great sense of humor. Picture Alice in Wonderland but set in India.
I think you would like Letters To The Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
If you're still taking book recommendations, I'd love to hear your thoughts on All the Bad Apples by Moira Fowley-Doyle. LGBTQ/magical realism with twists that some would find weird while others really like the book as a whole.
I want to read Hardcastle 👀
Haven’t finished 7 Deaths yet but enjoyed what I did read so far. No pun intended but I literally forgot what I’d read after finishing Memory Police despite desperately wanting to read it. I can’t comment on Hide as I haven’t read it yet.
Not me taking the opportunity to read my current read while watching Jesse's video 😅
I went looking for Hide, and see that there's a graphic novel version... and I'm kinda thinking I will go for that one.
I thought The Memory Police was kind of meh. I feel like the premise of the story was very different from how it was advertised, and I ended up unable to enjoy the story for what it was, because I was disappointed by what it was not. Hide sounds interesting though, I might check that one out!
Please read At Night I Become A Monster by Yoru Sumino
The book that I will always recommend to people is The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith. Great for fantasy lovers; a library in hell where all unfinished works go and the characters sometimes escape their books?! Who wouldn't love that? Definitely one that I think you'd love.
Yes! I have this and need to start soon!
Try Final Girls by Riley Sager ❤
Jade City!!!
Loving this ❤❤
I bet you wouldn’t read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury or Brave new world by Aldus Huxley
I hated Hide so much 😂 but I did like the vibes in the beginning, with the competition and concept
I remember when you made the post!
In another world with my smartphone light novel you been wanting to read more light novels right it's about a 15 year old kid who gets killed by lightning thrown by God he felt bad so he gave the kid another chance in a new world with his Smart phone also that time I got reincarnated as a slime light novel both books are the characters get killed / sent to another world and now they have to figure out how to live in a new world
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Lol I hated Hide
I think I commented on the post but don’t remember what I said lol
I DNF’d the first 2 books..
Haha to each their own! 🖤
I love 7 1/2 deaths! It would've been a perfect book for me if the fatphobia wasn't there :/