I definitely don't but I checked Goodreads and I remembered a really good thriller I read that year, "The Other Side Of The Wall" by Andrea Mara. I remember that I found it mind blowing at the time but who knows what I would think now :D
Going back and checking my Goodreads Challenge from 2017, the only ones I still think about are The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, which is great if you've ever been a comic book or superhero movie fan and hate the trope of the death of female characters to motivate the male characters, and Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen, which is the first in a mystery series that has become a comfort series for me. I think I've read 13 in the series so far.
It would be really cool if at the end of this series you did a reading challenge by re-reading the best books from every year to see if you still find them just as good.
I love these walk down memory lane videos, because with each new book you put on the screen, I can remember the first time you talked about them on your channel. It doesn't seem like these are from seven years ago!
I think I subscribed to your channel in 2017! Today you are the only book channel I watch, thank you for your content 😻 Also recently I adopted 2 female kittens and we all enjoy the cat cameos (who are we kidding, we are enjoying the cat channel with Emily cameos)
Almost an hour long, love that!! And I agree with the person who said that it'd be interesting if you eventually re-read those best books in a vlog to see if you find them just as good as you remember! That'd be fun
I have been putting off getting into Sanderson for so long because his books/series all feel like such a commitment. But 2025 is the year, I am finally going to give him a shot!
commit to just a standalone ! especially nice that warbreaker is free on his website, i think it's included in audible membership as well if i remember correctly. started there based on emily's rec and haven't looked back since- was a great way to get an idea of his work and see him pull it off before a trilogy, plus can't say enough good things either bc it's still one of my favs of his
I also liked Silo the tv series better than I liked Wool (which was fine, I thought). For anyone watching the show, season 2 begins Nov 15th, Friday (since Apple is terrible about promoting their own shows).
3:30 Calling _The Thief_ forgettable was a stab in my heart, oh my god. This is my single favorite series of my life. 😭😭 (I do warn people that book one is MG, though, and 2/3 are YA-ish, then more typically adult fantasy by the end.)
I have only read the first 4. I really liked them. But there is scene in book four which is my Roman empire. ~~~ Spoiler warning ~~~ I'll keep it vague, but still: The scene when Gen was in bed after being poisoned. Idk holy shit. I just randomly think about it once a week 😂
This is extremely nostalgic to me... I have been watching your videos since I was 12-13 years old and just seeing how both our reading tastes have changed. Wow
Your response to The Hobbit was so funny. I have fond memories of reading it as a kid, but when I reread as an adult, I thought it wasn’t as good. I love The Lord of the Rings movies, but am just reading the books now and … so much singing …
I just recently read Warbreaker and I agree that it’s a great starting place for Sanderson newbies! Loved it 😍 Also just read Beartown for the second time and yes it is quite heavy and triggering, but so good!! Totally understand why you put it down though.
Omg the nostalgia! I've read so many of those books on your recommendation 😅 Looking back at my stats my favorite books of that year was I am Pilgrim which was a big surprise (not sure if I would love it now but I remember being amazed by it at the time). I thought it would have been a Brandon Sanderson's one but turns out I read my first of his book the next year! I love those long videos of yours, this series of videos is a fantastic idea, looking forward to the next one ❤
I’m so glad to see that I’m not the only one who couldn’t finish Uprooted! I wanted to like it, but it just didn’t grab me. I also learned my lesson about popular books - tant pis!
For those who don't know (and are intrigued), Behind Her Eyes [mentioned 48:08] was released as a mini-TV series a few years ago. I thought it was a typical drama and found it a bit meh at first, but continued out of curiosity and the eerie undertone. I absolutely did not expect it to go where it did, and the ending left me... shaken :)
Elantris was my first Brandon Sanderson read, and I loved it. I want to read Warbreaker now. It will be my third, as The Emperor's Soul was my second. I have The Red Queen Trilogy, The Kiss of Deception books, Scythe Trilogy and Shadow and Bone Trilogy, not read yet. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed those. I will be getting rid of my copy of Artemis. 😅
June or july 2017 is when i found the channel! A little disappointed Snowglobe Emily didn't get a shoutout, pretty sure the 2017 holiday season was when she showed up.
I really identify with you on feeling like I need to read more classics but often don't enjoy. Unless I make an emotional connection like with to kill a mockingbird I don't enjoy much. I am glad I read books like 1984 and handmaids tale because it does make me think however I am not necessarily entertained. I couldn't get through the portrait of dorian grey it was to boring.
I love this series! It’s so inter to look back in time. I’m surprised when I thought I loved a book but now I realize it wasn’t good or didn’t like a book but realize I never stoped thinking about it. Even worse are ones I swear I didnt read but it shows up as read on my GR. I hope that’s not an error on GR part. Gunslinger! Omg I just literally picked up a copy at my library book store 🤣 it was like 50 cents but still. Who knows maybe it will work for me.
It's been a while but I loved Replay when I read it! Looking back at my Good Reads 2017 was not the best reading year lol nothing that stands out this many years later but I guess my favorite would be Dark Matter. The TV show they just did for it was pretty good in my opinion!
I love this series! It’s so inter to look back in time. I’m surprised when I thought I loved a book but now I realize it wasn’t good or didn’t like a book but realize I never stoped thinking about it. Even worse are ones I swear I didnt read but it shows up as read on my GR. I hope that’s not an error on GR part. Gunslinger! Omg I just literally picked up a copy at my library book store 🤣 it was like 50 cents but still. Who knows maybe it will work for me. This video has also helped me decide to Unhaul a bunch of books. 🤣 dimple met rishi, world war z, i dont think i will like them either.
I read "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" last year and I do think it holds up and is probably even more important than ever! I don't think enough people act with empathy on the intent and it's a necessary read for many.
It is curious how long i followed your channel, my Accounts changed through years but i followed you throughout. I remember all this books/reviews. I read because of you Elantris, Warbreaker, Pines
Can I please have the spoiler for I See You haha everytime you mention a book has a trope you can’t stand I feel like I need to know to stay far away from those books😂
just last year I read the whole heart on betrayal trilogy and it was actually good. i wasn’t a big fan of the love triangle but honestly i think it holds up until now 😊
I just checked, I read 200 books in 2017. That doesn't even feel real to me now.😂 They were almost all YA though, and I read many-many short story books that year, but still... I had way too much free time in high school.
While it is valid to say that a lot of what happens to the women in the Handmaiden Tales has been experienced by women of colour, saying that none if it has happened to million of white women is erasing history. White slavery has been going on throughout history and just because the American slave trade of black people is the best known version of slavery doesn't mean they are the only ones who ever experienced it. At the time slavery was happening in the US, million of white people were sold or taken as slaves in the middle East and the African continent.
I never said it never happened to white women. I do think it should be fine to say these events the authors used as inspiration disproportionally happened (and are still happening) to woc without feeling the need to center ww.
My unpopular opinion is that I don't really like Margaret Atwood books.... I want to! I've tried! Just not for me apparently. I can admire the ideas behind her work, but you bring up a very valid point about the experiences being represented in the Handmaid's Tale.
I loved Do androids dream of electric sheep and it led me to other Phillip K. Dick books, I also really liked The gunslinger and Picture of Dorian Gray. I'm noticing how I really liked books that you didn't. 😅 I would make We should all be feminists mandatory to read and I liked 1984 overall, but it was kinda boring in some parts. I liked the Illuminae and Gemina and I'm planning to reread it so I can read Obsidio. I'm curious to see if I would like it now, after all the years. People in Serbia are RAVING over Ove for years now. To me it was just ok, nothing special. I liked the Swedish movie adaptation better than the book. I've also heared not so great things about Grisha trilogy, but I really enjoyed it. Pet Samatary is my favourite Tephen King book and one off my favourite books of all time. I really loved the way that it brought fear to me, which sounds weird, but I usually don't get emotionaly invested in books. And The Hobbit is also one of my facourite books of all time. 😅 I didn't really like the movies.
I felt the exact same when I read the Black Prism! It was so misogynistic! I was also annoyed when the book stopped to make fat jokes about the main character. It would be in the middle of a scene and then something dumb happened to embarrass the MC bc he's chubby. I ended up reading book 2 because I thought/hoped it would get better but no, it didn't.
Omg it was relentless! The main female character feeling self conscious about her muscular shoulders… while being the captain of the guard 🙄 it was a whole mess Spoiler book 2 The whole “winning the slave contract of my female classmate and seriously considering raping her now” made me dnf book 2. The author is on my shit list.
@@BookswithEmilyFox YES!! It was disgusting. I'm done with him too. I originally bought all of the books on audible but luckily was able to return them and get my credits back. Definitely not going to support him in the future either.
When people call Jane Eyre a Romance I think they mean it with capital r from the Romantic period 😊 (unless they mean lower r romance then idk there 😅) it technically could be general fiction, gothic, or bildungsroman
I totally agree with you on finding it weird when people call Jane Eyre a romance! I've always viewed that novel as more of a feminist coming-of-age story with a very questionable love interest. There's so much more to the story than just the romance: it's about Jane and her growth, not about her relationship with Mr Rochester.
I havent even finished watching but i had to say it: the reckoners trilogy would've been waaay better as an adult trilogy/series. I feel like the idea had so much potential & they stunted it by making it a YA trilogy
Omg im embarrased to say i fell for attachments & fangirl like... fangirl was a very "that's me!" Moment ( you know, when beeing weird was weird) and attachments i have no excuse really... also my goodreads review of the selection read sth like" was it good? Not really, nothing happens. Did it keep me on my seat during a 13h flight? Yeah" We were liars was so underwhelming for me too, i was like... does everyone really not see that one coming or...? Kinda the same with And then there were none but i was willing to forgive that bc everyone seems to have spoilt that ending but i didn't care much. I havent read LoTR yet and someone mentioned wood elves beeing really silly and now im side eyeing Legolas... i sooo wanna love those books but idk Everytime i think of It i just think...why. of all the things... whay that??? Ps: theres definitely a bias, i've purposefully gone out of my way to get more saphic recs but its easier now
I remember being in a bookstore with a friend and she asked the employee there for a thriller recommendation. He gave her Pines, which was popular at the times because of the TV Show. He have gave it to her and I gave it back to him because I read the trilogy and knew she hated the second genre of the books. 😂 ETA: I HATED Behind her eyes ending, not because of the twist but because of the stupidity and naivety of a certain character.
Spoiler alert ACOTAR So the relationship in book 1 is ABSOLUTELY a red flag! That’s kinda the point! In book two you get a new male lead who is better. When people say they like the relationship I’m assuming they mean the one from book 2 not book 1
Yeah I read Jane Eyre but am still kinda traumatized and have never re read. It was quite gothic and scary for me and the MMC was def not attractive for the reasons you said too. I understand why it is a classic tho and popular but just not my cup of tea.
Listening to THAT scene in IT on audio was 10/10 the worst reading experience of my life. I have a visceral hate for SK because of that book😂 Esp when people excuse that scene and other things as “well he was on coke” How…. How is that a defense😂
I liked the beginning with Jane but the romance is just…. 😬 People calling him hot in the comments of my goodreads review are making me want to bash my head on the wall.
SPOILERS Basically he’s taken in by them and realizes that the way we would perceive vampires (old scary legend) is what he is to them. A monster that kills them. They’ve build their own society and he’s the legend now.
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Do you remember which book was your #1 in 2017?
Anything on this list that you still think about?
No, but I will be reading most of these in 2025 :)
😂 no! And I didn't keep stats either back then. 🙆♀️
I definitely don't but I checked Goodreads and I remembered a really good thriller I read that year, "The Other Side Of The Wall" by Andrea Mara. I remember that I found it mind blowing at the time but who knows what I would think now :D
I read The Martian in 2017 so that'd have to be my pick as it's one of my all time favourites.
Runner ups would be Hidden Figures and Illuminae
Going back and checking my Goodreads Challenge from 2017, the only ones I still think about are The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, which is great if you've ever been a comic book or superhero movie fan and hate the trope of the death of female characters to motivate the male characters, and Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen, which is the first in a mystery series that has become a comfort series for me. I think I've read 13 in the series so far.
It would be really cool if at the end of this series you did a reading challenge by re-reading the best books from every year to see if you still find them just as good.
I’m planning to eventually reread some older favorites. It won’t be 100% the number one of each year but close enough!
Like this comment if you want Emily to post more LONG videos 😊‼️
I don’t mind making long videos… but I do mind doing long videos with 119 books on the screen 😂💀
I love these walk down memory lane videos, because with each new book you put on the screen, I can remember the first time you talked about them on your channel. It doesn't seem like these are from seven years ago!
This made me feel sooo nostalgic! 2017 is the year I found your channel in! These books are so definitive for the year.
The Selection was seriously so entertaining and I'm not going to apologize for loving it lol
I think I subscribed to your channel in 2017! Today you are the only book channel I watch, thank you for your content 😻
Also recently I adopted 2 female kittens and we all enjoy the cat cameos (who are we kidding, we are enjoying the cat channel with Emily cameos)
Almost an hour long, love that!! And I agree with the person who said that it'd be interesting if you eventually re-read those best books in a vlog to see if you find them just as good as you remember! That'd be fun
I have been putting off getting into Sanderson for so long because his books/series all feel like such a commitment. But 2025 is the year, I am finally going to give him a shot!
Do it!!
lol same. I’ve had Mistborn on my TBR shelf for like 2 years because I’m not sure I’m ready to commit😂😂😂
commit to just a standalone ! especially nice that warbreaker is free on his website, i think it's included in audible membership as well if i remember correctly. started there based on emily's rec and haven't looked back since- was a great way to get an idea of his work and see him pull it off before a trilogy, plus can't say enough good things either bc it's still one of my favs of his
I felt similar and now I am 6 books in and I have no life anymore because I just want to read all day 😂
I'm glad you are doing this series. Always fun to see how your reading tastes have changed.
I also liked Silo the tv series better than I liked Wool (which was fine, I thought). For anyone watching the show, season 2 begins Nov 15th, Friday (since Apple is terrible about promoting their own shows).
Hour long favorites video?? 😍
Is this my lucky day??? Thank you Emily! 💕
3:30 Calling _The Thief_ forgettable was a stab in my heart, oh my god. This is my single favorite series of my life. 😭😭 (I do warn people that book one is MG, though, and 2/3 are YA-ish, then more typically adult fantasy by the end.)
Sorry haha I did try though since I gave book 2 a shot but... wasn't for me!
@@BookswithEmilyFox Fair enough--I must make peace that my favorite are not everyone's favorites... but still.. 🔪❤
I have only read the first 4. I really liked them. But there is scene in book four which is my Roman empire.
~~~ Spoiler warning ~~~
I'll keep it vague, but still:
The scene when Gen was in bed after being poisoned. Idk holy shit. I just randomly think about it once a week 😂
These videos are so fun because it's a blast from the past seeing what books were popular back then
These videos really show me how long ive been watching you and how many recommendations i took from you ❤
Yay, I've been excited for the next video in this series. Watching now :)
I underestimated how long it would take me to edit them 😅
This list is so inspiring, and your take on them made me want to dive right in. Going to read them ASAP. Thank you for sharing!
Loving this format, always good to see you talking about your year end books
The TV show adaptation of Little Fire Everywhere was really good! I read Replay and the Pines trilogy because of you and loves them!! :D
I LOVE long videos by Emily! 😝 and loving this series btw
It's so hilarious when you get to HP series, you just say, "Oh, more Harry Potter stuff" and that's it lol.
No support for JK Rowling lol
This is extremely nostalgic to me... I have been watching your videos since I was 12-13 years old and just seeing how both our reading tastes have changed. Wow
Your response to The Hobbit was so funny. I have fond memories of reading it as a kid, but when I reread as an adult, I thought it wasn’t as good. I love The Lord of the Rings movies, but am just reading the books now and … so much singing …
I could not have been happier to see this video is 56 minutes! 😍
It got a lil long lol But lots of reviews so hopefully it's worth it 💜
the longer the video the better!
@@BookswithEmilyFoxyou're spoiling us Emily! 💜
Please, please, please keep doing these! Appreciate it takes a lot of time and effort to make and edit, but soooooo good!! Love it!
This is the short film I didn’t know I wanted but I’m readyyy 😂😂😂
“Attachments” walked so “You” could run (idk which came first)
I love this series. I like hearing what you think about books that I read long after you originally reviewed them
Made a little short for fun: th-cam.com/users/shortsVag4_PTa0oA
(hopefully you've seen this trend! lol)
I just recently read Warbreaker and I agree that it’s a great starting place for Sanderson newbies! Loved it 😍 Also just read Beartown for the second time and yes it is quite heavy and triggering, but so good!! Totally understand why you put it down though.
I love the fact that I'm not the only one who binged the entire selection while sick...
I love these videos 🎉 vampire academy is what got me back into reading in 2018!
I am fascinated by the fact that I have been following you for this long.
Omg the nostalgia! I've read so many of those books on your recommendation 😅 Looking back at my stats my favorite books of that year was I am Pilgrim which was a big surprise (not sure if I would love it now but I remember being amazed by it at the time). I thought it would have been a Brandon Sanderson's one but turns out I read my first of his book the next year!
I love those long videos of yours, this series of videos is a fantastic idea, looking forward to the next one ❤
I Am Pilgrim was a great book. Why do I think there might be some racism in it that would bother me now? Unsure
@cynthiafialka exactly! We might have to reread it some day 😅
I read Replay because of you and so underrated, def in my top 5 books!
I thought there was a cat in the hallway outside my condo, but it was Clawdia. Cute! Also, Emma is my favorite book by Jane Austen. Loved it. 😀
This throwback series is so fun!
In love with your sweater! It looks so cozy!
I love it too, but it gives a “Le bon roi Dagobert” vibe 😂
loving the long vlog emily 😂😂😂
Now I know where my old TBR came from. And I remember why I drop out of reading a lot os popular books 😂
I’m so glad to see that I’m not the only one who couldn’t finish Uprooted! I wanted to like it, but it just didn’t grab me.
I also learned my lesson about popular books - tant pis!
For those who don't know (and are intrigued), Behind Her Eyes [mentioned 48:08] was released as a mini-TV series a few years ago. I thought it was a typical drama and found it a bit meh at first, but continued out of curiosity and the eerie undertone. I absolutely did not expect it to go where it did, and the ending left me... shaken :)
Elantris was my first Brandon Sanderson read, and I loved it. I want to read Warbreaker now. It will be my third, as The Emperor's Soul was my second.
I have The Red Queen Trilogy, The Kiss of Deception books, Scythe Trilogy and Shadow and Bone Trilogy, not read yet. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed those.
I will be getting rid of my copy of Artemis. 😅
June or july 2017 is when i found the channel!
A little disappointed Snowglobe Emily didn't get a shoutout, pretty sure the 2017 holiday season was when she showed up.
The Illuminae audiobook is actually super amazing! But I 100% recommend if you listen to the audiobook, you follow along with the physical book!
I really identify with you on feeling like I need to read more classics but often don't enjoy. Unless I make an emotional connection like with to kill a mockingbird I don't enjoy much. I am glad I read books like 1984 and handmaids tale because it does make me think however I am not necessarily entertained. I couldn't get through the portrait of dorian grey it was to boring.
I love this series! It’s so inter to look back in time. I’m surprised when I thought I loved a book but now I realize it wasn’t good or didn’t like a book but realize I never stoped thinking about it. Even worse are ones I swear I didnt read but it shows up as read on my GR. I hope that’s not an error on GR part.
Gunslinger! Omg I just literally picked up a copy at my library book store 🤣 it was like 50 cents but still. Who knows maybe it will work for me.
This video made me realize how loooooong I have been watching your channel. I had a full-on quarter-life crisis lol
I still love "Kiss of Deception"!
It's been a while but I loved Replay when I read it! Looking back at my Good Reads 2017 was not the best reading year lol nothing that stands out this many years later but I guess my favorite would be Dark Matter. The TV show they just did for it was pretty good in my opinion!
The Thief is my ride or die. Love the series, so sad it didn’t vibe for you.
I love this series! It’s so inter to look back in time. I’m surprised when I thought I loved a book but now I realize it wasn’t good or didn’t like a book but realize I never stoped thinking about it. Even worse are ones I swear I didnt read but it shows up as read on my GR. I hope that’s not an error on GR part.
Gunslinger! Omg I just literally picked up a copy at my library book store 🤣 it was like 50 cents but still. Who knows maybe it will work for me.
This video has also helped me decide to Unhaul a bunch of books. 🤣 dimple met rishi, world war z, i dont think i will like them either.
I read "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" last year and I do think it holds up and is probably even more important than ever! I don't think enough people act with empathy on the intent and it's a necessary read for many.
It is curious how long i followed your channel, my Accounts changed through years but i followed you throughout. I remember all this books/reviews. I read because of you Elantris, Warbreaker, Pines
Love your videos! A really good multiple lives book is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I really enjoyed it.
I got to that one eventually lol
Ok, I loved everything about the video and put some books on my tbr too. But! Just one question......pleeeeease is your sweater backwards?😅😅😊😊😊
This video series is genius ✨👌🏻✨
an hour long video? oh blessed Friday
Can I please have the spoiler for I See You haha everytime you mention a book has a trope you can’t stand I feel like I need to know to stay far away from those books😂
SPOILERS
Basically the villain is the childfree woman because she can't have babies 🙄
The Outsiders!!! I'm from Tulsa 😊
just last year I read the whole heart on betrayal trilogy and it was actually good. i wasn’t a big fan of the love triangle but honestly i think it holds up until now 😊
I read the entire Scythe trilogy and I really enjoyed it despite being YA!
I just checked, I read 200 books in 2017. That doesn't even feel real to me now.😂 They were almost all YA though, and I read many-many short story books that year, but still... I had way too much free time in high school.
Can someone explain why Emily no longer supports SJM? I feel like something may have happened that I’m not aware of
While it is valid to say that a lot of what happens to the women in the Handmaiden Tales has been experienced by women of colour, saying that none if it has happened to million of white women is erasing history. White slavery has been going on throughout history and just because the American slave trade of black people is the best known version of slavery doesn't mean they are the only ones who ever experienced it. At the time slavery was happening in the US, million of white people were sold or taken as slaves in the middle East and the African continent.
I never said it never happened to white women. I do think it should be fine to say these events the authors used as inspiration disproportionally happened (and are still happening) to woc without feeling the need to center ww.
My unpopular opinion is that I don't really like Margaret Atwood books.... I want to! I've tried! Just not for me apparently. I can admire the ideas behind her work, but you bring up a very valid point about the experiences being represented in the Handmaid's Tale.
I've been meaning to try more but... it's been 7 years so you're not alone lol
I want to read Alias Grace. I didn't like The Handmaid's Tale, but I appreciated Cat's Eye.
@@oana-mariauliu5828 I actually loved the Alias Grace mini series. That one I would consider reading!
I didn’t love the reading experience with The Handmaid’s Tale, but I really enjoyed The Penelopiad.
Brain on Fire was made into an amazing film with Chloe Grace Moretz
Loved Scythe too.
I loved Do androids dream of electric sheep and it led me to other Phillip K. Dick books, I also really liked The gunslinger and Picture of Dorian Gray.
I'm noticing how I really liked books that you didn't. 😅
I would make We should all be feminists mandatory to read and I liked 1984 overall, but it was kinda boring in some parts.
I liked the Illuminae and Gemina and I'm planning to reread it so I can read Obsidio. I'm curious to see if I would like it now, after all the years.
People in Serbia are RAVING over Ove for years now. To me it was just ok, nothing special. I liked the Swedish movie adaptation better than the book.
I've also heared not so great things about Grisha trilogy, but I really enjoyed it.
Pet Samatary is my favourite Tephen King book and one off my favourite books of all time. I really loved the way that it brought fear to me, which sounds weird, but I usually don't get emotionaly invested in books. And The Hobbit is also one of my facourite books of all time. 😅 I didn't really like the movies.
I felt the exact same when I read the Black Prism! It was so misogynistic! I was also annoyed when the book stopped to make fat jokes about the main character. It would be in the middle of a scene and then something dumb happened to embarrass the MC bc he's chubby. I ended up reading book 2 because I thought/hoped it would get better but no, it didn't.
Omg it was relentless! The main female character feeling self conscious about her muscular shoulders… while being the captain of the guard 🙄 it was a whole mess
Spoiler book 2
The whole “winning the slave contract of my female classmate and seriously considering raping her now” made me dnf book 2. The author is on my shit list.
@@BookswithEmilyFox YES!! It was disgusting. I'm done with him too. I originally bought all of the books on audible but luckily was able to return them and get my credits back. Definitely not going to support him in the future either.
When people call Jane Eyre a Romance I think they mean it with capital r from the Romantic period 😊 (unless they mean lower r romance then idk there 😅) it technically could be general fiction, gothic, or bildungsroman
They definitely mean romantic but I agree with Romantic XD
What is the sub genre the pines by Blake crouch would fall in to??
SPOILERS
post apocalyptic
@ flipping awesome. Thank you
They say he wrote the Gunslinger when he was a teenager so it's not supposed to be good I've heard. I haven't read it yet I now have the whole series.
I felt the same way about Bear Town…I had to put it down.
I loved the outsiders 🥹
Am I the only one who found 1984 extremely misogynistic? 😅 Love the idea of re-capping your prior reading years ❤️
I totally agree with you on finding it weird when people call Jane Eyre a romance! I've always viewed that novel as more of a feminist coming-of-age story with a very questionable love interest. There's so much more to the story than just the romance: it's about Jane and her growth, not about her relationship with Mr Rochester.
I havent even finished watching but i had to say it: the reckoners trilogy would've been waaay better as an adult trilogy/series. I feel like the idea had so much potential & they stunted it by making it a YA trilogy
Omg im embarrased to say i fell for attachments & fangirl like... fangirl was a very "that's me!" Moment ( you know, when beeing weird was weird) and attachments i have no excuse really... also my goodreads review of the selection read sth like" was it good? Not really, nothing happens. Did it keep me on my seat during a 13h flight? Yeah"
We were liars was so underwhelming for me too, i was like... does everyone really not see that one coming or...? Kinda the same with And then there were none but i was willing to forgive that bc everyone seems to have spoilt that ending but i didn't care much.
I havent read LoTR yet and someone mentioned wood elves beeing really silly and now im side eyeing Legolas... i sooo wanna love those books but idk
Everytime i think of It i just think...why. of all the things... whay that???
Ps: theres definitely a bias, i've purposefully gone out of my way to get more saphic recs but its easier now
I need Emily's sweater collection
I remember being in a bookstore with a friend and she asked the employee there for a thriller recommendation. He gave her Pines, which was popular at the times because of the TV Show. He have gave it to her and I gave it back to him because I read the trilogy and knew she hated the second genre of the books. 😂
ETA: I HATED Behind her eyes ending, not because of the twist but because of the stupidity and naivety of a certain character.
Honestly didn’t love any of Tolkien. Enjoyed some parts of the trilogy, but had to force myself to finish The Hobbit
big little lies is still my only fave by that author too!
Have you tried her newest one? Here One Moment? The reviews are positive so far so I'm hoping I'll finally like something else by her lol
"Then I read HP 6" 😂😂😂
Wow I thought for sure you were going to pick The Selection. 😂😂
Spoiler alert ACOTAR
So the relationship in book 1 is ABSOLUTELY a red flag! That’s kinda the point! In book two you get a new male lead who is better. When people say they like the relationship I’m assuming they mean the one from book 2 not book 1
Yeah I read Jane Eyre but am still kinda traumatized and have never re read. It was quite gothic and scary for me and the MMC was def not attractive for the reasons you said too. I understand why it is a classic tho and popular but just not my cup of tea.
Ditto on The Selection series 😝
I really loved World war Z, I need to re-read it. And why nobody talks about that Max Brook is the son of Mel Brooks????
Can you please spoil Bear Town for me? I tend to dislike the same tropes you do. Thank you 😊
Don't worry i didn't like handmaid's tale or the gunslinger either
Listening to THAT scene in IT on audio was 10/10 the worst reading experience of my life. I have a visceral hate for SK because of that book😂
Esp when people excuse that scene and other things as “well he was on coke”
How…. How is that a defense😂
I am not a sarah j maas girlie, so I thought that series was far more recent than that 🤔🤔
Jane Eyre, thank you! I am also concerned about people that find it romantic
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Like, did you forget about his wife in the attic? Plus he only wants Jane at the end when he becomes blind. He needed a nurse 🙄
Whispering /freakonomics/
Seems like a lot of adaptations are better than the book these days lol
17:17 recently found out this author is a terf and jkr apologist.
sucks, esp as it’s such a well known accessible book
I’m reading jane eyre right now and I hate both rochester and jane with passion
I liked the beginning with Jane but the romance is just…. 😬
People calling him hot in the comments of my goodreads review are making me want to bash my head on the wall.
@@BookswithEmilyFox😂
Please spoil I am legend
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Basically he’s taken in by them and realizes that the way we would perceive vampires (old scary legend) is what he is to them. A monster that kills them. They’ve build their own society and he’s the legend now.