My best reading month of 2024 so far!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
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books mentioned in order
the magician's assistant - ann patchett
the spear cuts through water- simon jimenez
icarus - k. ancrum
goddess of the river- vaishnavi patel
they can't kill us until they kill us- hanif abdurraqib
how to become a dark lord and die trying- django wexler
the emperor and the endless palace- justinian huang
the brides of high hill- nghi vo
the husbands- holly gramazio
spin a black yarn- josh malerman
in the miso soup- rayu murakami
a dangerous collaboration- deanna raybourn
except for palestine- marc lamont hill & mitchell plitnick
nothing but the rain- naomi salman
girls in love- jacqueline wilson
out- natsuo kirino
the haunting of velkwood- gwendolyn kiste
the sisters of the lost nation- nick medina
my soul to keep- tananarive due
ripe- sarah rose etter
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First?!? I know wrap ups aren’t your favorite but we love seeing them!
OMG I FINALLY INSPIRED A WRAP UP ORDER!!! ive won at life tysm kayla ily (as a friend)
Thanks so much for the idea!! 💐💞
So happy you loved How to Become a Dark Lord and Die Trying. I love Django Wexler!
I LOVED Ripe.. but yes, exhausting is a great word for it.
100% agree with you about ‘The Husbands’! I LOVED that book and would not want it any shorter! It is one of my favorite books so far in 2024.
New sit down video idea that I saw someone else do: first book and favorite book you've read by authors, it might be interesting to compare
I loved The Spear Cuts Through Water. An intricately woven tapestry of a story. One of my favorite books of the year!
Yes! How to Become a Dark Lord and Die Trying was a five star for me as well. It was fantastic.
Kayla, there is the sweetest, most sincere love story! "The Bluelite message: 12th Anniversary Edition." The cover just blew me away. Perfect.
What a month!
Love how we have so many different five stars too, like the Ann Patchett as a rather unexpected one, a random weird one with the Dark Lord - love it!
The title and cover of The Haunting of Velkwood keeps catching my eye at the library, I keep pulling it halfway off the shelf and then sliding it back because my brain says "You read the synopsis and weren't interested". But from how you described it, now I AM interested. Thank you!
The Husbands was so good! Totally agree with your thoughts! 💯
also had 5 5-stars this month! Parable of the Talents, Our Share of Night, my re-read of Parable of the Sower, The Vanished Birds, and the 4th Earthsea book by Ursula LeGuin 😂😹
I’ve been so intrigued by Ripe!! Now I definitely want to pick it up! 👀
omg i'm so happy you gave ripe 5 stars and exhausting is the best way to describe it lol
The concept of The Husbands is so fascinating! Totally get what you mean about the "extra" word count being needed
You are definitely making me rethink my review of The Husbands. I gave it a four mostly due to the repetitive nature, but as I hear you explaining it, it makes me realize how I maybe focused too much on that aspect.
U are soooooo right Husbands is a 5!!!! Too long? Too repetitive. I think it is just the right link. It makes you feel so much what the character is feeling. So glad you liked it.
I started reading Ann Patchett this year and she's my new favorite! Tom Lake and The Dutch House are my favorites so far.
I recommend Bel Canto by Ann Patchet. It’s a beautiful story about people, but has more plot because it is set at a hostage negotiation.
I’m so happy you found so many new books that you love. I really hope I find a new 5 star read soon. I haven’t had a 5 star read since 2020. 🙃😅
2020 😲 you are going *through* it omg
I read Husbands because of you and absolutely loved it
Our reading this year is weirdly aligned. It was my best reading month this year too so far!
Oooh what were your favourites??
@@BooksandLala milk fed and the traitor baru cormorant series 🫡
Out is my favourite book of all time. I read it 2 years ago and I think about it to this day.. there’s just something about the writing and the ending
Oh my god, I felt like I was the only person on Instagram talking about Dark Lord. It's definitely not for everyone, by yeah, I LOVED that one. I have a very crude sense of humor and love fantasy so that's probably it 😆 I'm so glad you enjoyed it 😁
So happy it was a great reading month for you! I listened to The Haunting of Velkwood on your recommendation and when I finished, I immediately went back and listened to the whole thing again. I've never had any desire to do that. It was so good 😭
Ahhhh I'm so glad!!!! 🙌🏻💐
I only read 3 books in May but it was finals season for me and 2 of the 3 were branderson books so I am still feeling accomplished! Thank you for the recs for upcoming months :)
Thank you for doing these wrap-up videos 🥰 I was very curious to see what you would say about the Dark Lord book
Yay!! So excited to wind down with a Kayla video🙌🙌
may was also my best month of the year! i had a slump of no five stars but i had THREE in may (out of 13, thats a great track record). haunting of alejandra (off your reccommendation), dead silence, and the will of the many!
I just read The Brides of High Hill & I think it was my favorite of them so far. It was kind of gothic & twisty which I wasn’t expecting & I really enjoyed. I gave it 4.5
I was just watching a wrap-up of yours from ages ago as I waited for this one 😹
If you want another Ann Patchett, I would recommend Tom Lake. I really enjoyed it and it focuses on productions of Our Town. 📖
Glad you picked up and shared Except for Palestine! I listened to it on audio and also recommend it that way if anyone was wondering
Omg I've never heard of Husbands but now I'm super intrigued.
Really want to pick up the Dark Lord book and The Husbands! They both sound so intriguing and I’m curious if they’d work for me. Might try and get my hands on one of them for Lalathon 😁
Marketing office girl here feeling you nailed that job description.
I read Ripe earlier this year and I loved it but had no idea how to recommend it to other people because it's just so ... out there, but still, so good
a new lala video! i’m sat and prepared to
I'm 50% into My Soul to Keep, and the choices David makes just seem off the wall to me every time. Hopefully, it will come together though.
A new lala video! Its a good night
I loved the husbands, I didn't find it to be too repetitive or long though, I ended up giving it a pretty solid 4. I'm going to have to add How to become a dark lord to my TBR, it sounds pretty interesting!
As an office girlie… your thoughts on Ripe are so real and I was exhausted times 10,000 reading it 😂
I'm not sure if you had a fan going on but it kinda sounded like there were waves in the background. Not a nag! It added a kind of cool ambiance to the whole vid. I just finished Our Wives Under the Sea at the beach so it made me feel like I was still there
I weirdly knew you’d pick Icarus for your cover of your autobiography. I literally said it as you were reading the prompts 😂
I agree that Icarus is less blue than the Simon Jimenez book so don’t worry about the naysayers Kayla, I gotchoo
I felt the same way about Sisters of the Lost Nation. Nick Medina's short story in Never Whistle at Night was my absolute favorite and was the reason I picked up his novel, but it was a bit of a letdown after how incredible his short story was.
I'm so glad you finally had a great reading month! How to Become a Dark Lord sounds really fun, but 'it's very evident that it's a man writing a female main character' gives me pause. What did you mean by that?
hey kayla! I really think you could enjoy Out On A Limb by Hannnah Bonam-Young. it's a romance, really sweet and funny, following a woman with a limb difference. hope you give it a chance!
Thanks for the rec!! 💞
Yay!!!
LOL that was me asking about why Ripe wasn't five stars. I don't remember why I phrased it that way lol I read Ripe in May too and also gave it five stars, so I was probably just trying to pass on the five star love somehow.
Hahahahahahahhaa I love it
yay for a five star month!!
The husbands was a 5 star for me. I read it in one day.
The Husbands was 5 stars for me!
I think it is interesting that everyone has said How to Become A Dark Lord has a female protagonist you can tell was written by a man because I’ve only read Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler and I would have said he was one of the few male authors who could pull off female protagonists that felt real. So that is a bit disappointing even though I will still try the book.
Great to hear that tho about his other book!
Naw, I physically read The Spear Cuts Through Water and felt the same as you.
i really want you to read The Book of X by Sarah Etter!!!! That's been my member jar pick for you since the beginningggg
Oooooh maybe I'll pull it in my Summer TBR next week 👀 Imagine!!
I want the books ordered by which book premise you'd like to see written in a different genre the most, and which genre, and why.
I did laugh at how you still described your "outs"
I loved The Husbands and gave it 5 stars. I guess I’m in the minority like you. I didn’t find it long and it made sense that it was repetitive.
Glad you liked how to become dark lord because after i bought it i read that django can't wrote female characters and has weird fixation on lesbians, so now i have hope that i can like it nonetheless 🤞
i haven't had a 5 star since the start of march so pls pass your luck onto me for june tysmmmm🥹🥹
I usually have a few five stars a month, and now I've had like two months without one. It wasn't a nice experience 😅
Oh noooooo hoping it turns around for you soon 🤞🏻
I need to read Dark Lord so bad 👀
Hoping you love it !! 🤞🏻
I am going to give the author of Kaikeyi another chance if she writes something outside of retelling, because her debut novel traumatized me. If they promote it as: "what if the bad guy is actually the good one", I would not pick up the book. I wasnt prepared that Ravana turned into "misunderstood" villain and a friend of Kaikeyi, or Rama became unbearable mysoginistic character as a plot device, far from the original story that pass through generations in my family. A lot of people like her book and thats great to hear but its just not for me, sadly 😞
How to become the dark lord was a five star for me. I love disaster Dark lord Davi.
Friends I remember that Kayla pulled Mistborn in a previous TBR video… did I miss her update about that? Which video was it?
I'll be reading it later this Summer 💞
I just know lala would love isekai 😂
Husbands was a three for me. It needed some editing. The last quarter was way too long, but I loved the ending.
Next month do them in rainbow order for Pride
it's for fans of woman eating AND luster?? I need to read ripe asap 🤩 I've had it sitting on my e-reader for almost a year, the poor thing 🥺
Crossing my fingers that I pitched it well and you end up liking it 😅😅😅
I have Sisters of the Lost Nation 3 stars as well. I think the point and messsge of the book was important but the overall way the book was done was ehhh.
I’m in the minority but I hated The Husbands. I gave it 1 star. It was too long and repetitive and the end was lackluster.
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ps Chih is they/them*
I did use they/them. The "she" being referred to is the bride.
@@BooksandLala Ah, sorry I missed that. :) Thank you
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I just DNFd a book by Ann Patchett.. State of Wonder. Supposed to be set in the Amazon jungle but took half the book to finally get there. Boring/annoying characters, boring "plot", 30 page chapters, so many words to say so little, no captivating imagery, and not even beautiful writing. Once I got to a paragraph that was 2 & 1/4 pages long I got pissed off and DNFd. I'm sorry but what makes her think that's okay? Did she forget about spacing and indentations? Not worth it and 0/10 do not recommend.
plot being in quotations says everything i need to know ahahaha 😂😂
@@kyrasaturn all tea all shade 🤭
oh nooooo I've had this one on my physical tbr for forever 😅
@@AliDoisRead uh oh 😂 sorry!
The Husband’s is one of my favorite 2024 books! I don’t have any readers in my life that I think would love it as much as I did though. 🥲
the "being a marketing girly and everything task/ask is an emergency" is hitting a liiiiittle too close to home 🥲 haha I just picked up "The Book of X" by Sarah Rose Etter and also have "Ripe" sitting on the shelf!!!