all 164 books i read in 2021, reviewed in one sentence each
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one thing about me is i have never been relaxed ever... and in 2021 i read 164 books. i wrote a one-sentence review (more or less) of each book i read, so that i can share the ultimate reading guide for 2022!!
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*ALSO SORRY I MADE AN EDITING MISTAKE AND A LITTLE LIFE SHOULD BE 5 STARS*
Was A Little Life supposed to be 2 stars? Your sentence about the book was v positive...
@@harryclark8029 it was a mistake -- i meant to put 5 stars but when i made the next book 2 stars it accidentally changed both!
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@@ana-6991 I meant “countries and territories” :)
the book trolley carried this
I hate this joke but I guess I just have to roll with it.
@@lenakimura3195 i wheel try to do the same
I think I have seen you before
Bravo sir, you’re wheel-y on the roll with that pun, you certainly don’t need any shelf help books!
Jack: “Anything from the trolley, dears.”
The Audience: “We’ll take the lot.”
jack: topics of conversation has the longest sentences you would ever read
also jack: makes the *longest* sentences so he can describe a book in one line
learned from the best
@@jack_edwards Oh my, I love this!😂😂
@@jack_edwards ROMEO AND JULIET (RECOMPOSED)
by Jason Rudge
THE PROLOGUE
The CHORUS enters.
Our scene is set in an enticing city
Where two rival households swap stinging scars,
Uglifying the air two teens make pretty
When true love blows their hearts across the stars,…
Which rouse a prickly sun imparting heat
To twisting blades that twist the plot on stage
For the benefit of worms seeking meat
From fools who rashly court despair and rage.
Youth can make fools of all the greatest lovers,
But sometimes outside forces play a part
And in this tale a foolish youth discovers
His love can’t keep old hatreds from his heart-
Nor halt hearts taking trips to heaven’s gate,
Which fast becomes the lovers’ tragic fate.
The CHORUS exits.
@@jack_edwards 😂😂😂
there were a lot of semicolons in those sentences
time stamps:
1:13 cloud cuckoo land
2:30 open water
2:43 how to kill your family
2:56 a boy called christmas
3:00 the phone box at the edge of the world
3:05 topics of conversation
3:13 a passage north
3:26 seven days in june
3:42 empress and aniya
3:47 my body
4:03 piranesi
4:14 daisy jones and the six
4:23 love again
4:39 you‘ll be the death of me
4:44 and then the end will come
4:42 the high window
4:59 curtain: poirot‘s last case
5:05 dreaming in cuban
5:14 lost girls and love hotels
5:27 shakespeare
5:31 the complete nonsense of edward lear
5:37 the curious case of benjamin button
5:50 untamed
5:55 the master and margarita
6:08 lonely castle in the mirror
6:26 the other black girl
6:39 love in colour
6:49 clap when you land
6:56 the beekeeper of Aleppo
7:05 crime and punishment
7:18 this is how you lose the time war
7:36 call me by your name
7:42 things have gotten worse since we last spoke
7:58 play it as it lays
8:10 self help
8:21 bluets
8:27 the outsider
8:41 dune
9:00 no one is talking about this
9:21 the only study guide you will ever need
9:29 empowered
9:41 middlemarch
9:45 Silas marner
9:59 the hungover games
10:07 lady susan
10:15 Hamnet
10:29 small pleasures
10:48 slouching towards Bethlehem
10:53 the night in question
10:55 when we talk about love
11:02 beautiful world where are you
11:19 the dangers of smoking in bed
11:29 misery
11:37 many lives many masters
11:46 only love is real
11:52 the four agreements
12:07 the girls
12:13 the sandman preludes and nocturnes
12:18 a little life
12:36 the Underground Railroad
12:49 queenie
13:01 luster
13:17 burnt sugar
13:29 the house in the cerulean sea
13:51 trick mirror
14:06 rodham
14:15 Malibu rising
14:28 loveless
14:49 exciting times
15:06 I have more souls than one
15:16 diary of an oxygen thief
15:27 before the coffee gets cold
15:39 convenience store woman
15:51 such a fun age
16:10 the housekeeper and the professor
16:19 the marvels
16:28 malgudi days
16:40 night sky with exit wounds
16:50 notes of a crocodile
17:02 first person singular
17:15 helium
17:19 the memory police
17:33 Working hard, hardly working
18:09 The midnight library
18:52 Reef
19:01 Two weeks notice
19:04 The bench
19:14 Jane eyre laid bare
19:45 They both die at the end
20:01 No one belongs here more than you
20:03 The houseguest
20:04 Tonight I'm someone else
20:06 Sea of strangers
20:11 So sad today
20:20 Literally show me a healthy person
20:27 How to cure a ghost
20:38 Can't and won't
20:46 We were liars
21:06 Rebels: City of Indra
21:11 An artist of the floating world
21:19 Metamorphosis
21:33 Fly on the wall
21:49 A tale of two cities
22:03 Red White and Royal Blue
22:29 Letter to my daughter
22:41 What I talk about when I talk about writing
22:51 Men without women
23:09 Star girl
23:24 Frog Music
23:29 Eat, Pray, Love
23:41 Charlotte's Web
23:44 Klara and the sun
23:59 Furious love
24:06 Another time
24:08 The growing pains of adrian mole
24:11 Northhanger abbey
24:20 Heroes
24:25 Winter in sokcho
24:43 Dead poets society
24:47 My year of rest and relaxation
25:01 My sister, the serial killer
25:13 On earth we're briefly gorgeous
25:23 The secret history
25:29 The seven husbands of evelyn hugo
25:44 (Celebrity poetry)
26:05 The vanishing half
26:09 Passing
26:19 So good they can't ignore you
27:03 The life-changing magic of tidying up
27:10 Think like a monk
27:24 The wizard of oz
27:26 The complete short stories of edgar allan poe
27:31 Love in the night
27:35 twenty thousand leagues under the sea
27:45 How to do nothing
27:59 Rich dad, poor dad
28:04 The 4-hour work week
28:22 Five am club
28:32 The secret
28:39 Kafka on the shore
28:48 Demian
28:52 The ones who walk away from Omelas
28:57 The Stranger
29:03 Me before You
29:14 Educated
29:47 Time of white horses
29:57 Celestial bodies
30:10 Season of migration to the north
30:24 A river dies of thirst
30:31 Living and loving in the age of AIDS
30:43 A moveable feast
30:51 The duke and I
31:11 Coversations with friends
31:24 Gold Dust
31:30 The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
31:38 Kim Jiyoung, born 1982
31:54 The song of achilles
Omg, thank you so much! I really need it rn! 🙆🏻♀🙇🏻♀
You're super coool! Thank u so much!!!
wow the dedication😭💕 tyy
@@luvmunawhh ;D
@@vivienne1904 Glad it was helpful 💗
I jumped on the bandwagon and read “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”. I’m speechless. Agree with you, it deserves the hype. Evelyn is so human yet amazing and loving.
I read 0 books this year, no joke 0. However, after discovering your channel, I have set a goal of at least 10 books for this year!!...
Yay. Go for it ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
go for it! kick that reading slumps ass :)
You got this !!! 💪also a little tip, when you're in a hardcore reading slump, try changing up the genres of books. Graphic novel , collection of essays or poetry books are the way I do it. I can finish them faster and they make me fall in love with reading again
Good luck, you got this!! I went from years of barely reading to finishing over twenty books in 2020. Find books and genres that you're genuinely interested and don't worry too much about what's popular or what everyone else is reading. Pro-tip is to also check out audiobooks!! It took me awhile to get into but was a game changer when I finally did. If you're in the US, most libraries will give you free access to Libby (kind of like a Spotify for audiobooks).
Happy Reading ! I found joining book clubs helped get me excited about reading books I wouldn’t normally consider.
I wonder whose hand hurts more, Jack’s after having to overlay all these bookish pics… or mine from taking all these screenshots for this year’s TBR 👀
omg it took HOURS
i just followed along with his storygraph profile and added stuff to the 'to read' pile directly. It was better than what i did last year lol so definitely my plan for future videos as well
@@anusreeashit5548 how did you find his profile on storygraph? I want to add his 5 star books to my to-read pile.
🌸time stamps/ratings🌸
1:13 cloud cuckoo land
2:30 open water (5)🌟
2:43 how to kill your family(4.3)
2:56 a boy called christmas (3)
3:00 the phone box at the edge of the world (2.6)
3:05 topics of conversation (2)
3:13 a passage north (3.6)
3:26 seven days in june (4.3)
3:42 empress and aniya (3)
3:47 my body (3.6)
4:03 piranesi (5) 🌟
4:14 daisy jones and the six (4.4)
4:23 love again (1.6)
4:39 you‘ll be the death of me (3.75)
4:44 and then the end will come (2.6)
4:42 the high window (3)
4:59 curtain: poirot‘s last case (3.5)
5:05 dreaming in cuban (4.5)
5:14 lost girls and love hotels (3.75)
5:27 shakespeare (4.1)
5:31 the complete nonsense of edward lear (3.3)
5:37 the curious case of benjamin button (4.1)
5:50 untamed (3.5)
5:55 the master and margarita (4.1)
6:08 lonely castle in the mirror (3.5)
6:26 the other black girl (3)
6:39 love in colour (4.6)
6:49 clap when you land (3)
6:56 the beekeeper of Aleppo (4.5)
7:05 crime and punishment (4.1)
7:18 this is how you lose the time war (3.6)
7:36 call me by your name ✨ (5)
7:42 things have gotten worse since we last spoke (4.5)
7:58 play it as it lays (3.6)
8:10 self help (3.8)
8:21 bluets (3.5)
8:27 the outsider (2.5)
8:41 dune (2)
9:00 no one is talking about this (4) 🌟
9:21 the only study guide you will ever need (5)
9:29 empowered (5)
9:41 middlemarch (3.5)
9:45 Silas marner (4)
9:59 the hungover games (3.8)
10:07 lady susan (3)
10:15 Hamnet🌟 (5)
10:29 small pleasures (3.8)
10:48 slouching towards Bethlehem (3.5)
10:53 the night in question (4)
10:55 when we talk about love (3.4)
11:02 beautiful world where are you (5)🌟
11:19 the dangers of smoking in bed (3.5)
11:29 misery (4)
11:37 many lives many masters (1) ❌
11:46 only love is real (.5) ❌
11:52 the four agreements (2.1) ❌
12:07 the girls (2.7)
12:13 the sandman preludes and nocturnes (3)
12:18 a little life (5)
12:36 the Underground Railroad (2)
12:49 queenie (4)
13:01 luster (4.5) ✨
13:17 burnt sugar (2.5)
13:29 the house in the cerulean sea (3.5)
13:51 trick mirror (2.5)
14:06 rodham (2)
14:15 Malibu rising (4.5)
14:28 loveless 🌟(5)
14:49 exciting times (5)
15:06 I have more souls than one (4)
15:16 diary of an oxygen thief (1)
15:27 before the coffee gets cold (5)🌟
15:39 convenience store woman (4)✨
15:51 such a fun age (4)
15:51 the housekeeper and the professor (5)
16:19 the marvels (4)
16:28 malgudi days (~4)
16:40 night sky with exit wounds (4)
16:50 notes of a crocodile (~4)
17:02 first person singular (~3)
17:15 helium (3.5)
17:19 the memory police (~3.5)
17:33 Working hard, hardly working (2.5)
18:09 The midnight library (~3)
18:52 Reef (4)
19:01 Two weeks notice (2)
19:04 The bench (3.6)
19:14 Jane eyre laid bare (1)❌
19:45 They both die at the end (2.5)
20:01 No one belongs here more than you (4)
20:03 The houseguest (4.5) ✨
20:04 Tonight I'm someone else (3)
20:06 Sea of strangers (3)
20:11 So sad today (1.5)
20:20 Literally show me a healthy person (1)
20:27 How to cure a ghost (3.8)
20:38 Can't and won't (2)
20:46 We were liars (4.5)
21:06 Rebels: City of Indra (1)
21:11 An artist of the floating world (3)
21:19 Metamorphosis (3.6)
21:33 Fly on the wall (1.5)
21:49 A tale of two cities (2)
22:03 Red White and Royal Blue (3.5)
22:29 Letter to my daughter (4)
22:41 What I talk about when I talk about writing (2.5)
22:51 Men without women (3.5)
23:09 Star girl (1.5)
23:24 Frog Music (1.75)
23:29 Eat, Pray, Love (3)
23:41 Charlotte's Web (4)
23:44 Klara and the sun (3.5)
23:59 Furious love (3)
24:06 Another time (3.5)
24:08 The growing pains of adrian mole (4.5)
24:11 Northhanger abbey (4.2)
24:20 Heroes (4)
24:25 Winter in sokcho (3.5)
24:43 Dead poets society (3)
24:47 My year of rest and relaxation (4)
25:01 My sister, the serial killer (3.5)
25:13 On earth we're briefly gorgeous (4.5)
25:23 The secret history (3.8)
25:29 The seven husbands of evelyn hugo🌟(5)
25:44 (Celebrity poetry)…..yeah
26:05 The vanishing half🌟(5)
26:09 Passing (4.3)
26:19 So good they can't ignore you (1.5)
27:03 The life-changing magic of tidying up (3)
27:10 Think like a monk (2)
27:24 The wizard of oz (5)
27:26 The complete short stories of edgar allan poe (4)
27:31 Love in the night (3.5)
27:35 twenty thousand leagues under the sea (3)
27:45 How to do nothing (2.5)
27:59 Rich dad, poor dad (3.1)
28:04 The 4-hour work week (3)
28:22 Five am club (2.5)
28:32 The secret (1.5)
28:39 Kafka on the shore✨(5)
28:48 Demian (3)
28:52 The ones who walk away from Omelas (3.5)
28:57 The Stranger ~4)
29:03 Me before You (4.2)
29:14 Educated (2.8)
29:47 Time of white horses (4)
29:57 Celestial bodies (2.5)
30:10 Season of migration to the north (4.5)
30:24 A river dies of thirst (4.5)
30:31 Living and loving in the age of AIDS (1.5)
30:43 A moveable feast (5)
30:51 The duke and I (1.5)
31:11 Coversations with friends (4.5)
31:24 Gold Dust (4)
31:30 The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (~4)
31:38 Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 (5)
31:54 The song of achilles 🌟(5)
A GODSEND!! OMG HOW DID U WRITE ALL OF THIS?? TYSM LOVE
Thankyouu omg 🤍
This helped so much thank you
I love you. Thanks so much 💕👏💕
thank you so much !!!!! :3
"it's a little too cheesy for me.. because i'm lactose intolerant" brilliant one-liners as always jack
Happy book day book worms...checkout here for more books
Being brutally honest I started reading again bc of you, you have such a charming and interesting way to make me curious about all of this books. You’re great, looking forward to your book recommendations this year!
Ur profile pic is well funny! 😂😂
Also happy u got back into reading!
Same, I brought 9 books, I’m finishing the song of Achilles before I move onto Kim jinyoung born 1982.
Most of the books 📚 I brought were books he read.
@@omo8150 I want to buy born in 1982, I wanna see how was it back then. I heard it’s good.
@@moonya6754 haha. A cute kitty. I’m also happy, social media is something I’m trying to get away from.
However corny it may sound, I wanted to let you know that you're by far the most brilliant and lovely person that I've ever encountered on TH-cam! Your videos have really prompted me to get back into reading this past year :) thank you for being you 🌹
Same!
same!
Song of Achilles was one of the best books I've ever read until I read Circe, which was even better. Wow. Madeline Miller has written exactly two books in her life, and both of them are amazing.
Her writing is absolutely stunning. I need her to write more 😫
I want to read Circe but I’m scared it’ll change the perception of Achilles’ and Patroclus’ relationship that I have engrained in my mind?? I don’t wanna ruin it, will it do this?? 😬
@@thomasbramwell8752 i doubt it will, she hardly ever talks about achilles or patroclus, only fleeting moments as she thinks about the far away war
i cant wait for her next book, persephone!!
@@thomasbramwell8752 Circe doesn't touch on them (I don't remember if they were even mentioned in the course of the book).
I swear, this dude should start a fricking podcast already. I would listen to him 24/7, LITERALLY!!
Your recommendation of The Song Of Achilles made me buy the book, read it in two days and rediscover my love for reading. Thank you, truly. I didn't even realise how much I had missed the feeling of not being able to stop reading.
I relate to this a lot. Also read it in 2 days and loved it sooooo much that I kept thinking about it the next day. It made me so excited to read again and now I want to spend all my days reading.
@@margauxannebicque6711 same, I still think about Patroclus and Achilles every day
Happy book day book worms...checkout here for more books
Jack Edwards: A man who is so well spoken and intellectual, yet also an underrated comedic genius. His one liners never get old!
I read "Convenience store woman" because of Jack's recommendation in both English and Polish translation and I regret nothing, the book was good and it was interesting to see the subtle differences the translators made and how it affected the mood and the flow of the story. So, thank You Jack.
I love hearing other perspectives about books I've also read. I loved the Midnight Library. As someone who consistently worries about making life altering choices, and fearing that I'll choose the wrong path, it shifted my perspective to understand that not all regrets are worth the heartache we feel.
Definitely agree. I think people give it a bad review because they think it was going to be a full on self help book masked as a novel when it's just a light heartfelt story that makes your see your past regrets/decisions differently which in turn helps your future.
"aggressively average" and "more clauses than Santa's family" - I am DYING 🤣 Best book wrap up I have seen.
My TBR list is basically full of book recommendations from Jack Edwards and I have already made use of my Reading Log this year, my New Years Resolution is to read 50 books this year because its been a while and I’ve already read 3 thanks to Jack. Any time Jack makes a video my anxiety goes, weather it’s building a book trolly or writing an essay (which I should be doing now), its supper calming and allows my brain to escape for a while
Little did he know, Jack was in fact famous for his beauty.
Jack, I had a really bad experience with the sponsor you are promoting - University of the People.
I tried to request more general information using their general enquiry form, and then they tried to charge me £60 for a "processing fee" at the end, even though I wasn't enrolling in their university, just asking for information! They then kept emailing me talking about my "application" and saying I had been assigned an academic advisor??
I have asked them 3 times to stop contacting me but they won't and keep sending emails like with the subject "Reconsider your decision". The phrasing of their messages was really shady and cold-calling business like and really didn't sit well with me. I've still not gotten confirmation they have cancelled this supposed "application".
Cruciallly, their degrees are also NOT recognised in the UK, if you read deep in their terms and conditions it says, which considering you're from the UK and a lot of your viewers are I feel is irresponsible of you not to mention that.
Side note - I hate to leave criticism as I enjoy your channel but just need to warn others about this. Please choose your sponsors carefully because we trust in you.
Damn that's a shame, it sounded like a good concept. Thanks for sharing!
He won't reply to this internet shills would sell their souls for sponsor money
They seem like a fishy leads-to-nothing start up
Thanks for saying this/gen
✨time stamps✨
1:13 cloud cuckoo land
2:30 open water
2:43 how to kill your family
2:56 a boy called christmas
3:00 the phone box at the edge of the world
3:05 topics of conversation
3:13 a passage north
3:26 seven days in june
3:42 empress and aniya
3:47 my body
4:03 piranesi
4:14 daisy jones and the six
4:23 love again
4:39 you‘ll be the death of me
4:44 and then the end will come
4:42 the high window
4:59 curtain: poirot‘s last case
5:05 dreaming in cuban
5:14 lost girls and love hotels
5:27 shakespeare
5:31 the complete nonsense of edward lear
5:37 the curious case of benjamin button
5:50 untamed
5:55 the master and margarita
6:08 lonely castle in the mirror
ok sorry i dont want to finish this lol
😂😂
Could you add his ratings too? 😜
6:26 the other black girl
6:39 love in colour
6:49 clap when you land
6:56 the beekeeper of Aleppo
7:05 crime and punishment
7:18 this is how you lose the time war
7:36 call me by your name
7:42 things have gotten worse since we last spoke
7:58 play it as it lays
8:10 self help
8:21 bluets
8:27 the outsider
8:41 dune
9:00 no one is talking about this
9:21 the only study guide you will ever need
9:29 empowered
9:41 middlemarch
9:45 Silas marner
9:59 the hungover games
10:07 lady susan
10:15 Hamnet
10:29 small pleasures
10:48 slouching towards Bethlehem
10:53 the night in question
10:55 when we talk about love
11:02 beautiful world where are you
11:19 the dangers of smoking in bed
11:29 misery
11:37 many lives many masters
11:46 only love is real
11:52 the four agreements
12:07 the girls
12:13 the sandman preludes and nocturnes
12:18 a little life
12:36 the Underground Railroad
12:49 queenie
13:01 luster
13:17 burnt sugar
13:29 the house in the cerulean sea
13:51 trick mirror
14:06 rodham
14:15 Malibu rising
14:28 loveless
14:49 exciting times
15:06 I have more souls than one
Hahaha thank you for doing it this far!
@@irenekatona7856 Thank you so much!!
Somehow I just realized that The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle are two different books.
I always mix up the titles and have been doing it for years now. At this point, I just go with it.
I read them both, they are definitely very different books
"The Master and Margarita" is an incredibly difficult book to understand, especially if you read it for the first time. My mother and I have a tradition of rereading it once every 1,5 or 2 years (we are Russian). Growing up, you notice more details, more understanding comes, but each time it's a completely new story!
Love your videos😍
The same, I mean it's my mother's favorite book but when I read it the first time I was like: what the hell had just happend? But I absolutely loved it
Happy book day book worms...checkout here for more books
Me: absolutely LOVES to read
Also me: takes forever to finish a book for so many reasons
Idk how you can get through 164 books, I barely got through 10 books last year. Enjoyed your reviews though, they seemed genuine and honest. Looking forward to reading some of these books, especially since it'll make my bookshelf more diverse.
Take as much time as you need to read. If you rush because you think you need to be quicker you won’t enjoy it as much, and might miss important things. I imagine this is his full time job, so technically could be reading 8 hours a day which is a lot of reading time!
I read 120 a year and it is pretty easy...
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Happy book day book worms...checkout here for more books
@@therainbowplayers7299 maybe it’s because they have long school/work hours? Or just a slow reader overall lol
POV: Carley audibly gasping bc Jack said F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby when we all know Zelda lowkey did 👀
That’s exactly what I thought ❤️🤝
oh damn
I started crying like a baby when you talked about "Loveless". As a member of the AroAce spectrum, I get emotional everytime people learn more about my sexuality and I'm really glad that you could read the book and try to understand what it is like. Thanks, and amazing video as always Jack.
I'm nearly 30 and reading Loveless was such an "oh shit" moment for me because I recognized so much of myself in the character. Not all parts, but a lot of parts. Wonderful book
If you know about more asexual literature, please recommend.
I'm queer but not aro/ace and immediately put this book at the top of my TBR! Love reading LGBTQ+ and learning more about our community. Thank you Jack for being such a great ally 🏳️🌈❤️
I was about to comment the same!! I literally couldn't stop beaming :)
@@merin7286 you should check out Nick and Charlie by the same author. Everything written by Alice Oseman is a good read and time well spent, imo.
I enjoyed the format - giving your succinct up/down take on each. Sometimes you speak so fast I would miss the title/author, but showing the each cover solves it for me. I wish I had enough time to read everything that you really rave about - but I'm 77 now. I do read a lot, so appreciate your recommendations. There should be a literary prize for the most books read AND reviews given in a year - you are hereby nominated!
I had to pause this video so many times to add recommendations to my Goodreads, and this video successfully put me in a Mood to Read, so I’m pretty excited! Thank you, Jack!
Quote of the Day: “That’s right, baby! Words and numbers. Get yourself a boy who can do both.”
My bisexual ass just jumped when I heard this lmao
Imagine if Jack was a celebrity and Jack decided to read what celebrity-Jack reads
lmao too good.
I work at a bookshop and these videos help me so much with giving recommendations!! Thanks Jack x
Just finished reading seven husbands of evelyn hugo. Read it in one night until the early morning the next day... i totally agree its a must read. The pacing and the characters are intense and well crafted... i cried loads towards the end. This is what an emotional/sad but happy book should be like... wow! And now i wonder if i should read all the books of hers...
Happy book day book worms...checkout here for more books
I was just about to have a mental breakdown because of ✨exams anxiety ✨ and this popped up! I've never felt more relieved in my life🥰 everything became easier already~ thanks for being our free therapy Jack!! 😂❤️
How do you have exams at this time of the year? Didn't school just start? 💙
@@ose5226 i think either 1. they live in a different part of the world where their semester didn't just start, or 2. they're like me and their school didn't get the chance to have finals before lockdown and now that things are opening up all their exams are piled in the first 3 months of the year
Same, I was just about to take a break from studying, so a great way to do so 🥰
@@ose5226 well im a university student! And its the end of the semester so i have exams 🥰 school begins in September and ends in June~! 😁❣️
@@z1tkvn BEST WAY
I feel the exact same way about “the catcher in the rye” as you in “no one is talking about this”. Didn’t enjoy the reading process and still remember quotes and ideas from the book every single day.
Yes! I consider that to be my least favourit book and I still think about the whole thing with Holden wanting to be the catcher in the rye and what tha represents even though it has been almost 10 years since I read it
literally! at the end of the book I was like why is this still happening? this could have ended like 20 pages ago but I still love that book and annotated tf out of it 😂
You’re so great at summarising books and making me want to read them! Thankyou so much :)
These are my favorite videos!! I always find so many interesting books to ad to my to-be-read pile!
Piranesi was my favourite book this year! What a book, I spent hours after it trying to understand symbolism in it and unpick it and got nowhere and I just love that. It was its own maze and I know each time I’ll reread it I can go down a different interpretive route find a dead end and change my reading all over again.
!!!!!!! this !!!!!!!!
Yessss! Piranesi is stunning!
I'm reading this right now, good so far but I think the "Other" is hiding something from Piranesi.
I just want to tell you how much I absolutely love listening to you talk about books. You're a great TH-cam channel! Thanks for sharing your love of reading with us! : )
I found your channel through this video back in 2020 and I've been obsessed with it since then. Your recommendations, your opinions, your aesthetic, the way you communicate, the vibes... it's just immaculate and I just know I will be watching these types of videos as long as you keep making them! Keep up the great work, Jack. We love you, we support you and thank you so much for being the absolute best booktuber that ever existed! Lots of love from Portugal!
32 minutes of Jack and Books 😩❤️✨ what could be better than this?
Needed all the book recommendations for 2022!
This is by far the most enjoyable book review video I have seen for 2021. So funny, and the quick reviews so spot on!
you've gotten me into reading again after school made me feel sick of it, and this has given me more books to put on my to-read list. thank you, as always!!
this is how I, someone with an English literature degree, found out the strange case of Benjamin button was written by F Scott Fitzgerald
I read the song of Achillies in the first week of this year! As in last week and my heart still hurts :( but ohhh myyyy goddddd what a read! I saw it well everywhere but finally picked up after your recommendation and all I want to say is THANK YOU!!!!!! Also, read The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo a week prior to the song of Achillies (also after your recommendation) so that was my last book of 2021 and now I can't stop praising these books and recommending them to everyone I know! I love your recommendations pls never stop! All the love from India! :)
We must be connected!! I also just read the song of Achilles the first week of this year, and then after that, the seven husbands the Evelyn Hugo, and I also thought they were both just wonderful!
@@naomionyeanakwe2903 waaait I also read the Song of Achilles in the first week of this year!!
@@sanaradissanayake5205 I guess it's a thing 😂😂
That’s sooo cool!!! Guess it is a thing 😂😂
hold on.
s o d i d i .
This is the best book review video I have ever seen. So much content, brief, and so many options. Thank you so much!
The way you describe books in your videos is so concise yet whole it actually is the reason why I never get tired of watching your videos. You don’t go off in weird tangents and really keep it short it’s very great for someone like me who has adhd and the attention span of a tiktok (like you)
I know that videos like this take soo much work, so thank you!!! 😊
I don't know if Jack has read it, but Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White nights" is a amazing short book, i really recommend.
It’s such a great short story, and the film adaptation is wonderful too! Four Nights of a Dreamer.
The Italian film adaptation is really lovely too! It's called Le Notti Bianche and it was made in 1957. It has the most beautiful studio set and the cinematography is absolutely dream-like. It's just **chef's kiss**
oh cool. interested.
Jack you have no idea how absolutely grateful i am for your book recommendations
Thank you so much for mentioning Loveless! I can't put into words just how much that book changed my life, loveless was really my first exposure to what it can mean to be aroace and seeing someone like myself on paper for the very first time helped me to feel like I wasn't alone or broken. I couldn't stop beaming just seeing you talk about it on your platform. It makes me incredibly happy knowing there are people like you who care enough to actually make an effort to understand us instead of just being dismissive which saddly still happens more often then not. It would mean the world to me if more people could to learn about aroace with a more in depth review of the book some time in the future even if it was only short or part of a queen book compilation video :)
(Remembering that being aromantic and/or asexual is a spectrum and one person's experience is not the default experience for everyone who also identifies the same way)
Honestly jacks videos are the best part of my day :)
“Aggressively average” is my favorite book review I’ve ever heard. 😂
Your literary taste is absolutely stunning 👏🏼 Adding so much to the TBR, thanks for sharing!
omg I can't believe I binge watched your videos all day today, and I can clearly admit, I'm obsessed. Day one of a fangirl finding her new favourite! ♥
omg no cos I get so excited for every video jack posts 😭 this man single handedly got me back into reading and I can only applaud him (with both hands) ((please excuse my weak ass pun))
jack complementing a little life and giving it 2 stars lmaoo
I noticed this too! I was so surprised since he gave it a 5 stars in his previous video
He gave it 5 stars on goodreads
it‘s a mistake, i looked it up on TSG and he gave it 5 stars
@@barb1642 yesss i just looked it up! its just a lil mistake it seems
Why are your videos always so good. I love your channel so so much. You made me start reading and also finding joy in it again. Every time I’m looking for a read I check out your recommendations and they never disappoint. Thank you so much!
I lovelove this, make more videos like this pleasee, it helps me a lot to choose what book i need to read without wasting my time 😂 thankyou jack!
I'm so excited every time I get a notification from Jack 📚
I’ve only read 24 but,,, ive been in a slump, only started reading again from September and have read 0 in 2020. So, im kinda proud.
This was incredibly well said I admire they way you worded everything if that makes sense 😭
I absolutely loved Song of Achilles and have recommended it to my serious reading friends. I'm glad to see it tops the list. Now, go read Circe by the same author and be blown away again.
The most anticipated video of 2022 is here ❤️
I didn’t know I needed this video as much as I did! Thank you Jack!! 🔥😜
I loved this! I was so excited when I saw this in my inbox! Love these videos every year
Hi JACK, happy new year! I discovered your channel last year. I used to love reading but these past years stopped because I couldn’t find any books I liked until your videos. I loved normal people. Currently reading small pleasures and next is Hamnet. Thank you so much for giving me back the love for books and reading. English is not my first language but it’s such a pleasure to read in the original language. Keep up the great work!
Can't wait to finish watching this and add so many books to my TBR
I'm so excited for this one!!
Love your videos, as always, Jacky! Continue being amazing!
People have been sleeping on Fitzgerald’s short stories. They’re utterly wonderful. Flapper and Philosophers is my favorite collection. Head and Shoulders, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Cut Glass Bowl. So many gems.
Literally they're so good! Diamonds as big as the ritz might be my favorite short story of all time!!
Torn between feeling woefully inadequate compared to Jack’s awesome 164 books, and also buzzing to hear all about them 😂 congrats tho Jack! 🎉
dont worry we're all doing our best! if you goal is to read 10 books and you read 11 that's still a great achievement!
Since im at uni i only read books i had to for studying... its so sad because i loved reading just for fun... i watched all your videos and made a list with 15 books you recommended and im really looking forward to it.. thank you!!!
feeling you on this one! thankfully, this year I have already started getting back into reading again.
I found some really REALLY great recommendations from your channel and am thankful to your diverse reading collection 🙏
This was such an amazing video! I appreciate the time and effort gone in to it :)
I fell in love with Alice Oseman’s books so much. It’s wholesome and each of them unique.
Agree, finding her was the best thing that happened to me this year
You should check out her webcomic Heartstopper. It's going to be a Netflix show soon
@@zara4leafclover i know! I have all the books of the comic!
@@adelavojtusova2584 right?!
I love your videos and recommendations so much, man! You are the one of the reasons my book wish list will never be empty, even if your opinion on Dune is wrong on so many levels.
I have been binge-watching your channel this last week and my TBR list just exploded. You have such a genuine and contagious joy when talking about books it makes me smile. And I decided to read more diverse litterature thanks to the arabic and asian authors you reccomended.
I love this! I love this kind of short review.
JACKKKK OMG YOU HAVE MADE MY NIGHT WITH YOUR VIDEO
OOP LEMME GO GRAB MY TBR LIST THAT I'LL NEVER FOLLOW-
Added a whole lot of books to my "to read" list thanks to this video!
Jack, your hard work is inspiring. Thank you.
i love your vids so much jack its making me love reading even more !! and also it fills in the quiet space in my room when i feel lonely .. so technically you are my best friend now .
As a Portuguese who studied Pessoa’s poetry in high school and fell in love with it this video makes me so happy! If you ever want to read more from Portuguese authors I rly recommend Blindness by Saramago (our only Nobel prize in literature)
when did he read Fernando Pessoa? I can't find the video
@@heytherealex9811 15:11
Demian and The ones who walk away from Omelas is definitely added to my reading list. Ohmygod Jack you're so greattt 😭✨️
Your enthusiasm is contagious 💖📚
Excellent job! 14 books on my TBR list. You are witty, funny, and intelligent! Looking forward to more from you.
ahhh, have i a worthless mortal been blessed by jack with a review of ALL the books he’s read this year? THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!!
I cannot even imagine how long it took you to make this, but I loved it!!
truly my fav book critic, thank you so much for such fun videos
Yes! I completely agree with what you said about Kafka on the Shore!!
I’m glad you liked Call Me By Your Name, a lot of people criticise it but it is one of my all-time favourite books!
Ive watched the movie and loved it should i still read the book?
I love this! Please do more series like this
this is so insightful! thank you for sharing your insights, this is a totally different genre of books than I am used to. I love that you read as much as I do, I only read 150 books in 2021 but I agree it was pretty relaxing.
Jack, I saw you read "I Have More Souls Than One" by Fernando Pessoa. He's a portuguese poet who wrote under hundreds of literary personas (heteronyms). He invented lives for all of the personas he created, made birth charts for each of them and each had a different way of writing and explored different themes. A lot of my favorite poems ever are written by him and I actually believe he is one of the best poets to ever exist. I recommend "The Book of Disquiet" by one of his heteronyms, Bernando Soares. It is an unedited fagmentary selection which he called a "factless autobiography".
I just listened to The Uni-Verse even though I’m not going to uni or live in the UK, and let me just say I loved it!
Hysterical! I keep pausing to go to my library app only to find I had to wait to borrow a lot of them. Thanks for your recommendations-enjoyed your video
Great reviews, the format is ideal to spark curiosity!
Loveeed. This! 💚