Philip Roth's Plot Against America was absolutely brilliant. If you like stories about families of people battling against the harsh reality of life under big government you will like this.
"Middlegame" by Seanan McGuire. I just honestly couldn't stop thinking about it or the writing in it all year, and it also reminded me that I love McGuire's writing, and I started reading (and re-reading) her other books.
Night in Lisbon by Remarque. Anything by Remarque ist perfect, night in Lisbon will have a special place in my heart, right next to Arc de triomphe and Time to live and time to die.
I ended up the video crying with you 😢😢😢.Everything I have read by Octavia has been a joy and has immediately become favourite. I have purchased the duology and plan to read them very soon. When I saw in your book bracket video that it was your favourite of the year, this reinforced my will in reading them even sooner than I had planned 😂😂😂. Thanks again Elizabeth for yet another amazing bookish video. Take care!❤❤
Haha when I started crying talking about the first book I knew I was in trouble 😂 oh I hope you love the duology! It’s such a tough read but more than worth it ❤️
love love love!! I'm planning to do a reread of Parable of the Sower (since I haven't read it since high school) in preparation to read Parable of the Talents. A Day of Fallen Night ended up being my favorite read of 2024 ! So excited for the new faves series you'll be doing this year! Can't wait to add even more books to my tbr ☺
Oh wow, I feel like Sower would be a very intense read for a high schooler! I hope you find even more depth in it rereading as an adult. And A Day of Fallen Night really is such a special book ❤️
Parable of the Sower/Talents has been on my TBR for years. I'm going to finally get to it this year. Octavia is my favorite world builder. The Killing Moon is currently my favorite from her. I still need to read the sequel to that.
I read - finally - Ann of Green Gables recently. It was of course adorable but I had no idea if it made sense to continue on in the series. So, thanks very much for the shout out to the eighth in the series. It is too late for my 2025 tbr but likely they will be on the 2026!
I so enjoy your reviews! Even if the book doesn't necessarily interest me, it's still so interesting to hear your thoughts. And my TBR gets longer with every video. 😅
I read Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Nona the Ninth in 2024 and all three made my top 10 list. The character development, the relationships and dynamics among the characters, the plotting, the writing, the world building--it was all perfect and I'm obsessed. The best book I read in 2024 though was Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
I love all three of the Locked Tomb books but Harrow the Ninth is a book I wish I could wipe my memory of and read fresh again so badly. What an amazing experience.
Your top book is on my TBR! I’ve heard such good things about it. I’m trying to hold back on Nona until we know when the final book will be released as a way to tide myself over 😂
I know you are pivoting in your content but I just want to say that I am always happy to see you on my feed and I ADORE the videos that you do about books!
It’s great to see I Cheerfully Refuse get some much deserved praise on BookTube. I read it when it first came out because of how much I enjoyed the author’s previous work, but I have barely seen anyone online talk about it.
I hadn’t heard about it until I was looking at the first round of nominees for the Goodreads choice awards and fell in love with the cover! I’m so glad I read it because it was so sincere and moving ❤️
The fact that I haven't red all the books you actually considered as your best books of 2024 makes me sad. I cried with you as you share your experience reading these books. Thank you for sharing. I've added these books to my reading goal of the year. Keep doing this videos. I love you!
I have to thank you!!! I read I cheerfully refuse because of you, and its my absolute favorite book of last year. I could not put it down. I couldn't wait to come home from work every day to keep reading lol So yeah I'll definitely put more of your recommendations on my tbr list.
Thank you so much for reading through all the Goodreads sci fi so I didn’t have to. Will happily take I cheerfully Refuse and avoid most of the others lol. I’m currently making my way through the horror noms and I think you may have had a better time with them. Still a lot of middle of the road novels but at least nothing that would anger you as much as Annie Bot!
Thanks for sharing! Definitely adding all of these to my list. I just finished reading this phenomenal collection of fairy tales entitled ‘Sillies, Fancies and Trifles’ - it was just brilliant and perfect for the season. I think you would really love it. Keep up the great vids :)
Oh, I'm getting ready for work and listening to your video and I got so emotional when you mentioned LM Montgomery. Her books are so special and made me so sentimental. Many, many years ago I was making a poster and preparing for an English competition because I wanted to go to the better grammar school and I was talking about LM books in English! I struggled with the language because it's actually my second language, but guess what, I came 6th and got into the better school. Anyway, I think it's my sign to read the books again now. Also - thank you for all the work you've done here. Your way of talking about books is so warm, honest and inspiring.
Oh wow, what a lovely memory to have associated with her work! There’s so much depth to her work to unpack reading as an adult, it’s just lovely. And thank you so much, that’s so kind of you to say 🥹❤️
I bought Parable of the Sower recently and I’m so excited to get to it. Also, Against the Loveless World was also one of my favorite books of 2024. It was so moving, unforgettable.
I read Sower and it was so hard (but great). I'm still trying to recharge so I can handle Talents. Thanks for sharing your reviews and emotions. So glad I'm not the only one weeping and having a therapy session with my readings 😅
I needed about a year before I could read Talents, so I completely understand! You’re definitely not alone 😂 to be fair I cry a lot haha but books often make me cry and process my emotions ❤️
New subscriber- I got There There from the library yesterday, hearing so many good things about it, your bracket vid reminded me to put it on the list. Adding the rest of your top 3 as well - excited for your best of all time series!
I have some of these on my TBR. I've been wanting to read Parable of the Sower for ages, but i keep prioritizing other things. Maybe i should stop doing that. Picking one favorite of the year is hard, but the one in my favorites that i would recommend to you the most is Orpheus Builds a Girl by Heather Perry. It's a literary, historical, psychological thriller, sci-fi retelling of the myth of Orpheus meets Frankenstein. It has some horror elements too and it is so heartbreaking! The first third(-ish) is quite different from the rest of the book, so know that going in, but i loved the whole thing and this is the book that came the closest to making me cry this year
Hi! Thank you for the great video - I’ve found some really valuable tips here to get me reading more ❤ Could I please ask how you set up your iphone home screen to look so minimalist? Thank you so much!
There, There by Tommy Orange has become my 2nd favorite Native American novel. I have Wandering Stars sitting on the shelf, the Sand Creek Massacre, at the start makes me unable to start to book so soon after There, There. You are the first BookTuber to even cover this novel. Most seem to shy away from colonialism and the results of it. Thank you for covering the book, from an Urban Indian.
I would love to know which book is your favourite-if it’s even better than There There, it must be very special ❤️ as a white Canadian, I feel it’s important to educate myself on the experiences of the people directly harmed by my ancestors' coming to this land. I may not have had a hand in that choice, but I can certainly try to become a more well-informed and compassionate person today. It doesn't hurt that some of the best books I've ever read are the ones written by Indigenous authors!
@@PlantBasedBride I have a list of authors, starting with fiction: There is Indian Horse by Richard Waganese a Canadian author; Ceremony by Leslie Mormon Silko, a penguin modern classic: Fools Crow by James Welch, right prior to the reservation era. History books or bibliographies: Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog, Native American women during the 50s and up to 70s, basically American Indian Movement and trying to take/live where the Wounded Knee Massacre took place; Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk and John Nielhardt; The People are Dancing Again, a history of the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, of which I am a member, by Charles Wilkinson; Warrior Nation, history of the Red Lake Ojibwe, by Anton Treuer. There are detective fiction/mystery novels by Hillerman, Tony and Louise Erdrich. There is online oral stories of Jumping Mouse which is my favorite besides stories of coyotes. You can find these in Seven Arrows by H. Storm, but have an open mind that you are reading about another cultures spirituality, else it may get too weird for you towards the end of the book. If that does not sound like your cup of tea, there are several books about stories from the pacific NW, or other Native American lore books.
@@PlantBasedBride As for my favorite of all the ones I listed, it is hands down Fools Crow, A close 2nd is Indian Horse but it is a tear jerker. I would put There, There in that top 3, either 2 or 3. I have yet to read wandering stars.
Read Erdrich if you want contemporary Native American books. She’s wonderful and her writing is lyrical. I recommend the Round House if you only read one of her books
I recently picked up The Sentence by Erdrich at a used bookstore in Saskatoon and am hoping to read it soon! I’ll have to see if I can get my hands on Round House, too. Thank you for the suggestion ❤️
I read "Parable of the Sower" last year (appropriate, since it opens in 2024) and my jaw basically dropped multiple times with how close we actually are to what was depicted. It was amazing, and that's coming from someone who doesn't usually read scifi or dystopian stories. I plan to re-read it, and then follow up with the sequel, in February for my "Black Authors Month" reading.
I read Sower last year, as well, and it blew me away. Talents takes it further and has even more jaw dropping moments! Butler really saw everything coming.
I red My Life. Spiritual Experiences of Sensory Planes. It is a really life changing book. The writer is a man with spiritual habilities. The book really shows another point of view for the everyday life. 😊😊
I listened to "There There" on Audible, and I was driving on a long trip when the Pow Wow finally started. I almost had to pull over on the Interstate because I was sobbing. If you haven't read "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich, it is similar in the way that so many perspectives make up the story.
I have the same feelings with the works of Terry Pratchett that you do with Octavia E. Butler, especially with the Discworld Series, it was a journey, but one that I never wanted to end, but then I had to know what happened in the last book, so I ended up completing the journey. Although, there is always re-reads.
@@PlantBasedBrideStrata is probably my favourite book, but if you're thinking of reading Discworld, I would read it by story arc instead of publication order. I recommend starting with The Witches Arc with Equal Rites.
If you are putting There There and Parable of the Talents on the same level as I Cheerfully Refuse then they are immediately being added to my TBR because that was easily my number 1 book of 2024 and I need more books that can murder my spirit and then bring it back to life like that
Octavia Butler made me read a trilogy 😅 I avoid series because I'm not a sci-fi/fantasy reader and if I don't like a book, there's no way I'm going through the series, but at the same time, I feel I must finish it, so in order to avoid that feeling, I just don't start them. BUT Octavia Butler is such great writer that I started reading an ebook without noticing it was a trilogy (Lilith's Brood) and by the time I realized, I just finished it because it was still great. Almost one thousand pages, though 😅
Haha I’m also not usually much of a series person, but I’ll happily read everything she wrote! That series is one I’ve been considering picking up next.
@PlantBasedBride me too! It was so hard to read Fledgling because you could feel the buildup for more, but she died so soon after its release. And I can't think of a modern author who writes at her caliber to do a ghost finish 😭
Rilla of Ingleside needs it's flowers!!! It's my most reread book of the series, and the old I get the better the book is. Almost all of that series is 10 out of 10, but this book goes to 11 💐🌷🌹🌺🌸💐💐🌼
I couldn’t believe I’d forgotten all the details after my initial read - I think so much of it went over my head when I was a child. It’s so beautiful and I’m very glad I gave the series another chance! Reading the books as an adult has such a different feel ❤️
@PlantBasedBride I can't think about Walter or Dog Monday without tearing up. It's just stuffed full of deeply moving moments. And the last word in the whole book. All I can say is, "Yeth."
It seems to me that you really enjoy a good emotional book, so it would be an honor to recommend you three of my favorites in 2024! 1. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. This is a classic following Paul Baumer, a young and naive German soldier as he and his friends are put in the trenches during WWll. Complete devastation follows. 2. Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky. Sixteen year old Margaret Murphy's life has been a struggle against guilt ever since a tragic accident occurred when she was four years old - an accident that is her first memory. Now a manifestation named Poor Deer plagues Margaret, waiting for her to admit the truth of what really happened when she was a little girl, and atone for her past. 3. Cathedral by Ben Hopkins. In a medieval German city called Hagenburg, a cathedral is being constructed. The building of this religious monument will alter and influence the lives of several characters, and change the course of the city forever.
I assume (knowing what that can mean) that the tabs are annotations. It has been along time since I would have used annotations. Can you share how, why, when etc. you use them? Thank you.
If we took a drink every time she says 'devastated' I don't think we would survive. 😂😂 Love the video but half (maybe more) sound super sad and all the trigger warnings let me know these are not the stories for me.
That’s fair! I am drawn to character driven and emotionally charged stories more often than not, and I also lean towards books that explore the darker/more difficult aspects of the human condition. They’re not always easy to get through but they often feel worth it, to me ❤️
@@PlantBasedBride I do love hearing you talk about them! And the fact that you get emotional about them while talking about it, it's something I am jealous off. 😊😊 Keep up the great work!
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What was the best book you read in 2024?
Probably The Wager for me. I know you didn't rate it highly but I listened on audible and it was amazing!!
Philip Roth's Plot Against America was absolutely brilliant. If you like stories about families of people battling against the harsh reality of life under big government you will like this.
"Middlegame" by Seanan McGuire. I just honestly couldn't stop thinking about it or the writing in it all year, and it also reminded me that I love McGuire's writing, and I started reading (and re-reading) her other books.
Night in Lisbon by Remarque. Anything by Remarque ist perfect, night in Lisbon will have a special place in my heart, right next to Arc de triomphe and Time to live and time to die.
The Touch by Keyes, idk why this’s not popular
I ended up the video crying with you 😢😢😢.Everything I have read by Octavia has been a joy and has immediately become favourite. I have purchased the duology and plan to read them very soon. When I saw in your book bracket video that it was your favourite of the year, this reinforced my will in reading them even sooner than I had planned 😂😂😂. Thanks again Elizabeth for yet another amazing bookish video. Take care!❤❤
Haha when I started crying talking about the first book I knew I was in trouble 😂 oh I hope you love the duology! It’s such a tough read but more than worth it ❤️
I highly recommend Parable of the Sower ❤ and Octavia Butler in general ❤
Anyone else here obsessed with Whispers of Astrology by Ethan Parker? It's like discovering a secret's of the signs that nobody knows
love love love!! I'm planning to do a reread of Parable of the Sower (since I haven't read it since high school) in preparation to read Parable of the Talents. A Day of Fallen Night ended up being my favorite read of 2024 ! So excited for the new faves series you'll be doing this year! Can't wait to add even more books to my tbr ☺
Oh wow, I feel like Sower would be a very intense read for a high schooler! I hope you find even more depth in it rereading as an adult. And A Day of Fallen Night really is such a special book ❤️
Parable of the Sower/Talents has been on my TBR for years. I'm going to finally get to it this year. Octavia is my favorite world builder. The Killing Moon is currently my favorite from her. I still need to read the sequel to that.
I hope you love them as much as I do ❤️ I can see myself rereading them many times in the years to come!
So looking forward to the series on your all-time favorites!!
I’m excited to create and share them! It’s so hard to choose 😅
I read - finally - Ann of Green Gables recently. It was of course adorable but I had no idea if it made sense to continue on in the series. So, thanks very much for the shout out to the eighth in the series. It is too late for my 2025 tbr but likely they will be on the 2026!
I also love book two and three! I would highly recommend ❤️
I read I cheerfully refuse because of your review and devoured it in 2 days! amazing
I so enjoy your reviews! Even if the book doesn't necessarily interest me, it's still so interesting to hear your thoughts. And my TBR gets longer with every video. 😅
Oh that’s awesome to hear! I hope you love the books you read thanks to my recommendation 🥰
I read Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Nona the Ninth in 2024 and all three made my top 10 list. The character development, the relationships and dynamics among the characters, the plotting, the writing, the world building--it was all perfect and I'm obsessed. The best book I read in 2024 though was Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
I love all three of the Locked Tomb books but Harrow the Ninth is a book I wish I could wipe my memory of and read fresh again so badly. What an amazing experience.
Your top book is on my TBR! I’ve heard such good things about it. I’m trying to hold back on Nona until we know when the final book will be released as a way to tide myself over 😂
I know you are pivoting in your content but I just want to say that I am always happy to see you on my feed and I ADORE the videos that you do about books!
It’s great to see I Cheerfully Refuse get some much deserved praise on BookTube. I read it when it first came out because of how much I enjoyed the author’s previous work, but I have barely seen anyone online talk about it.
I hadn’t heard about it until I was looking at the first round of nominees for the Goodreads choice awards and fell in love with the cover! I’m so glad I read it because it was so sincere and moving ❤️
The fact that I haven't red all the books you actually considered as your best books of 2024 makes me sad. I cried with you as you share your experience reading these books. Thank you for sharing. I've added these books to my reading goal of the year. Keep doing this videos. I love you!
Oh boy! You always end up adding SO many books to my TBR haha. Can't wait to read some of these!
Ooh - very excited for the favourites series!
I have to thank you!!! I read I cheerfully refuse because of you, and its my absolute favorite book of last year. I could not put it down. I couldn't wait to come home from work every day to keep reading lol
So yeah I'll definitely put more of your recommendations on my tbr list.
Oh my gosh this makes me so happy!! I’m very glad you loved it as much as I did ❤️ it’s such a special book!
I like hearing about these books with very serious topics. Thank you.
Thank you so much for reading through all the Goodreads sci fi so I didn’t have to. Will happily take I cheerfully Refuse and avoid most of the others lol. I’m currently making my way through the horror noms and I think you may have had a better time with them. Still a lot of middle of the road novels but at least nothing that would anger you as much as Annie Bot!
Thanks for sharing! Definitely adding all of these to my list. I just finished reading this phenomenal collection of fairy tales entitled ‘Sillies, Fancies and Trifles’ - it was just brilliant and perfect for the season. I think you would really love it. Keep up the great vids :)
Oh, I'm getting ready for work and listening to your video and I got so emotional when you mentioned LM Montgomery. Her books are so special and made me so sentimental. Many, many years ago I was making a poster and preparing for an English competition because I wanted to go to the better grammar school and I was talking about LM books in English! I struggled with the language because it's actually my second language, but guess what, I came 6th and got into the better school. Anyway, I think it's my sign to read the books again now.
Also - thank you for all the work you've done here. Your way of talking about books is so warm, honest and inspiring.
Oh wow, what a lovely memory to have associated with her work! There’s so much depth to her work to unpack reading as an adult, it’s just lovely. And thank you so much, that’s so kind of you to say 🥹❤️
Thank you for the wonderful list! Parable of the Talents is available for free on Audible… I can’t wait to dig in!
I hope you love it! Just make sure to read parable of the sower first for context ❤️
Your description of There There is so spot on. It was genuinely incredible. I was GUTTED.
Gutted is such a good word for it. I loved the characters so much by the end that I almost didn’t want to read those last few chapters 😭
@exactly!
I bought Parable of the Sower recently and I’m so excited to get to it. Also, Against the Loveless World was also one of my favorite books of 2024. It was so moving, unforgettable.
Unforgettable, truly ❤️
Wonderful video! Well done describing all of these books
Thank you! It’s always a challenge trying to be both thorough and concise 😅
Love your channel. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See and Recipe for a Good Life by Leslie Crewe were my top reads for 2024.
I got an arc of In tongues as well! And I loved it!! Glad to see it on someone’s list
Oh awesome! I haven’t seen it mentioned too many times so I keep trying to get people to read it 😂
I read Sower and it was so hard (but great). I'm still trying to recharge so I can handle Talents. Thanks for sharing your reviews and emotions. So glad I'm not the only one weeping and having a therapy session with my readings 😅
I needed about a year before I could read Talents, so I completely understand! You’re definitely not alone 😂 to be fair I cry a lot haha but books often make me cry and process my emotions ❤️
New subscriber- I got There There from the library yesterday, hearing so many good things about it, your bracket vid reminded me to put it on the list. Adding the rest of your top 3 as well - excited for your best of all time series!
I hope it moves you as much as it did me ❤️
Really love your video! Amazing as always 💚
I’m so glad you liked it!
I have some of these on my TBR. I've been wanting to read Parable of the Sower for ages, but i keep prioritizing other things. Maybe i should stop doing that.
Picking one favorite of the year is hard, but the one in my favorites that i would recommend to you the most is Orpheus Builds a Girl by Heather Perry. It's a literary, historical, psychological thriller, sci-fi retelling of the myth of Orpheus meets Frankenstein. It has some horror elements too and it is so heartbreaking! The first third(-ish) is quite different from the rest of the book, so know that going in, but i loved the whole thing and this is the book that came the closest to making me cry this year
Oh that book sounds so interesting! I actually just saw a production of Hadestown, so Orpheus is on the brain. I'll have to see if my library has it!
@@PlantBasedBride Ooh, what did you think of Hadestown? I'm gonna see it with a few friends in a couple of weeks. I'm really excited
I'm reading nona the ninth right now and i love this series so much!!!!!!!!
I’ve been waiting to read Nona until we know when the fourth book is coming but it’s hard to wait 😅
@@PlantBasedBride The Alectopause is deadly I understand
You have such a shining heart ❤️
Aw thank you 🥹❤️
Hi! Thank you for the great video - I’ve found some really valuable tips here to get me reading more ❤ Could I please ask how you set up your iphone home screen to look so minimalist? Thank you so much!
I have this duology I have it on my tbr . It’s on my list to read this year 💕☕️
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
There, There by Tommy Orange has become my 2nd favorite Native American novel. I have Wandering Stars sitting on the shelf, the Sand Creek Massacre, at the start makes me unable to start to book so soon after There, There. You are the first BookTuber to even cover this novel. Most seem to shy away from colonialism and the results of it. Thank you for covering the book, from an Urban Indian.
I would love to know which book is your favourite-if it’s even better than There There, it must be very special ❤️ as a white Canadian, I feel it’s important to educate myself on the experiences of the people directly harmed by my ancestors' coming to this land. I may not have had a hand in that choice, but I can certainly try to become a more well-informed and compassionate person today. It doesn't hurt that some of the best books I've ever read are the ones written by Indigenous authors!
@@PlantBasedBride I have a list of authors, starting with fiction: There is Indian Horse by Richard Waganese a Canadian author; Ceremony by Leslie Mormon Silko, a penguin modern classic: Fools Crow by James Welch, right prior to the reservation era. History books or bibliographies: Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog, Native American women during the 50s and up to 70s, basically American Indian Movement and trying to take/live where the Wounded Knee Massacre took place; Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk and John Nielhardt; The People are Dancing Again, a history of the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, of which I am a member, by Charles Wilkinson; Warrior Nation, history of the Red Lake Ojibwe, by Anton Treuer. There are detective fiction/mystery novels by Hillerman, Tony and Louise Erdrich. There is online oral stories of Jumping Mouse which is my favorite besides stories of coyotes. You can find these in Seven Arrows by H. Storm, but have an open mind that you are reading about another cultures spirituality, else it may get too weird for you towards the end of the book. If that does not sound like your cup of tea, there are several books about stories from the pacific NW, or other Native American lore books.
@@PlantBasedBride As for my favorite of all the ones I listed, it is hands down Fools Crow, A close 2nd is Indian Horse but it is a tear jerker. I would put There, There in that top 3, either 2 or 3. I have yet to read wandering stars.
Read Erdrich if you want contemporary Native American books. She’s wonderful and her writing is lyrical. I recommend the Round House if you only read one of her books
I recently picked up The Sentence by Erdrich at a used bookstore in Saskatoon and am hoping to read it soon! I’ll have to see if I can get my hands on Round House, too. Thank you for the suggestion ❤️
There There was so intense and wowowo that ending!!!!
The ending was so masterfully done but it also broke me 😭
I read "Parable of the Sower" last year (appropriate, since it opens in 2024) and my jaw basically dropped multiple times with how close we actually are to what was depicted. It was amazing, and that's coming from someone who doesn't usually read scifi or dystopian stories. I plan to re-read it, and then follow up with the sequel, in February for my "Black Authors Month" reading.
I read Sower last year, as well, and it blew me away. Talents takes it further and has even more jaw dropping moments! Butler really saw everything coming.
I red My Life. Spiritual Experiences of Sensory Planes. It is a really life changing book. The writer is a man with spiritual habilities. The book really shows another point of view for the everyday life. 😊😊
I listened to "There There" on Audible, and I was driving on a long trip when the Pow Wow finally started. I almost had to pull over on the Interstate because I was sobbing. If you haven't read "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich, it is similar in the way that so many perspectives make up the story.
I was crying so much at the end ❤️ I’ve been wanting to read Erdrich! I’ll have to see if I can get a copy of Love Medicine.
Can I be excited for your favourites videos coming up but at the same time dreading how long my TBR is going to be 😂
Haha I apologize in advance 😂
I have the same feelings with the works of Terry Pratchett that you do with Octavia E. Butler, especially with the Discworld Series, it was a journey, but one that I never wanted to end, but then I had to know what happened in the last book, so I ended up completing the journey. Although, there is always re-reads.
I’ve actually never read any Terry Pratchett! Where would you recommend starting with his work?
@@PlantBasedBrideStrata is probably my favourite book, but if you're thinking of reading Discworld, I would read it by story arc instead of publication order. I recommend starting with The Witches Arc with Equal Rites.
If you are putting There There and Parable of the Talents on the same level as I Cheerfully Refuse then they are immediately being added to my TBR because that was easily my number 1 book of 2024 and I need more books that can murder my spirit and then bring it back to life like that
Yes yes yes please read them!!! They are incredible ❤️
Octavia Butler made me read a trilogy 😅 I avoid series because I'm not a sci-fi/fantasy reader and if I don't like a book, there's no way I'm going through the series, but at the same time, I feel I must finish it, so in order to avoid that feeling, I just don't start them. BUT Octavia Butler is such great writer that I started reading an ebook without noticing it was a trilogy (Lilith's Brood) and by the time I realized, I just finished it because it was still great. Almost one thousand pages, though 😅
Haha I’m also not usually much of a series person, but I’ll happily read everything she wrote! That series is one I’ve been considering picking up next.
I feel the same way about Octavia Butler. I have loved every one of her books.
I love her work so much that I feel stressed about reading more and slowly running out of her books to read 😭❤️
@PlantBasedBride me too! It was so hard to read Fledgling because you could feel the buildup for more, but she died so soon after its release. And I can't think of a modern author who writes at her caliber to do a ghost finish 😭
Rilla of Ingleside needs it's flowers!!! It's my most reread book of the series, and the old I get the better the book is. Almost all of that series is 10 out of 10, but this book goes to 11 💐🌷🌹🌺🌸💐💐🌼
I couldn’t believe I’d forgotten all the details after my initial read - I think so much of it went over my head when I was a child. It’s so beautiful and I’m very glad I gave the series another chance! Reading the books as an adult has such a different feel ❤️
@PlantBasedBride I can't think about Walter or Dog Monday without tearing up. It's just stuffed full of deeply moving moments. And the last word in the whole book. All I can say is, "Yeth."
I read There There in grad school and it absolutely broke me. It’s one of the few “textbooks” I kept and I’m in dire need of a reread
What class did you read it for? The way it all comes together in the end left me breathless ❤️
I’m always inspired by those who read this much😱
Btw, if you have a ‘non-reading mood’, what do you do?
I just don’t read if I don’t feel like it! I think that happens to everyone sometimes ❤️
It seems to me that you really enjoy a good emotional book, so it would be an honor to recommend you three of my favorites in 2024!
1. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. This is a classic following Paul Baumer, a young and naive German soldier as he and his friends are put in the trenches during WWll. Complete devastation follows.
2. Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky. Sixteen year old Margaret Murphy's life has been a struggle against guilt ever since a tragic accident occurred when she was four years old - an accident that is her first memory. Now a manifestation named Poor Deer plagues Margaret, waiting for her to admit the truth of what really happened when she was a little girl, and atone for her past.
3. Cathedral by Ben Hopkins. In a medieval German city called Hagenburg, a cathedral is being constructed. The building of this religious monument will alter and influence the lives of several characters, and change the course of the city forever.
I assume (knowing what that can mean) that the tabs are annotations. It has been along time since I would have used annotations. Can you share how, why, when etc. you use them? Thank you.
They are! I have a video all about how I annotate ❤️
Very excited about the upcoming videos with your favourites of all time! ♥
I’m so excited to share them! ❤️❤️
This year the best book ~ will be ~ Lead me ~ where the light is ours ~ by n.galilea!
Here saying long time no see since Tik Tok was banned..... Hey girl 👀😬🥳
You would be a wonderful friend.
Aw thank you 🥹 that’s so kind!
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If we took a drink every time she says 'devastated' I don't think we would survive. 😂😂
Love the video but half (maybe more) sound super sad and all the trigger warnings let me know these are not the stories for me.
That’s fair! I am drawn to character driven and emotionally charged stories more often than not, and I also lean towards books that explore the darker/more difficult aspects of the human condition. They’re not always easy to get through but they often feel worth it, to me ❤️
@@PlantBasedBride I do love hearing you talk about them! And the fact that you get emotional about them while talking about it, it's something I am jealous off. 😊😊 Keep up the great work!
HNY dear
Just as I was thinking “we need an all-time favorite books video”, you announced a WHOLE series.. neeed 🫶🏻
Haha if I tried to put all my favourites in one video it would likely be 10 hours long 😂❤️
@ hahaha I realize that now 😂 (we wouldn’t mind though 🦦)