The therapist in I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki also kinda sucked. They literally tell the mc that her anxiety is a burden on others and a lot of times their advice boiled down to “don’t feel that way.” Girl I’d have depression too if that was my therapist
It's so validating that a bad book gets you into a reading slump too. I tracked my books last year and my worst slumps were after a bad book or a really bad DNF and it sucked. I wanted to read but pushing past the slump is so hard.
I somehow got the exact oppoosite. after DNFing a book Im always immediately on the search for another book to sorta fill that craving of actually reading something good. but when Ive just finished a good book it's like 'well, nothing will ever be as good as this. everything else seems unappealing now' so I just stop reading for a while
Real. I'm not even American and when Eli Whitney was mentioned my mind immediately went to "cotton gin". I learned that factoid from a flashcard set titled "The Greatest Inventors" or scientists or whatever from my childhood (whoever curated that list and included Eli Whitney in it... ☠☠☠).
Im new to cari's channel and i just realized her subtitles are transcribed, not auto generated! Thanks for looking out for us ppl with audio/video processing troubles 😂
i read 80 books and I was STRUGGLING for my life to pick a top 5. most of them were meh, nothing truly awesome. what a sad realization that was. lets’s hope for a better 2024!
I think 2023 forced us to not to be completionists anymore... there were so many terrible books that if everytime I went through hell to finish a book just for said book to put me in a reading slump I would probably end up not reading anymore. Before 2023 I used to finish every series I started no matter how bad they were, now I struggle to finish a book? I already get like 3 or 4 "spares" books if I'm in a reading mood just in case the first try is dnf'ed and that's a first in all my life
i especially had so many books with a great first half and then the author clearly didnt know how to end it so the last half was horrible. what an odd year!
i honestly kind of wonder how much of i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki's tone came from the (imo not great) translation choices. i've read quite a few pieces from this translator, and i've always found he makes the english copy seem super abstracted and distant. even if the advice presented isn't that great, maybe at least the characters' voices are a little better when in their original korean?? haven't gotten around to getting a korean copy yet so can't say for sure though.
This is very true for a lot of media. I live in Brazil, and we had some cases of poorly translated works becoming worse versions of the original. It's a shame, I truly believe translating and adapting is an awesome feat, but I wish more work was put into understanding what is being translated.
I definitely feel you on trying to DNF more books this year that I don’t have a good time with. I feel like I tried to make the excuse it was just the wrong time, but looking back it just wasn’t my cup of tea. What also baffles me is for some books, people say oh don’t worry it gets better after the 4th book…
yeah i can understand a first book in a series being a little rickety but FOUR?! the author needs to get their act together by the second book or its over hahahah
yeah the only other person i've heard have a similar experience is a clockwork reader and when she said that she was confused and dnfed it i was like, thank GOD
You made your book reviews of the bad books very engaging. I liked Hello Stranger though because the face blindness is relatable for me so I didn't find it that unrealistic how she didn't connect two separate concepts of people at different locations as one (and she recovered from brain damage too). Plus it was interesting to find out how people apparently are supposed to recognise others. There are many changeable things about people, conversation clues and names are the best hints. Btw. good tip for DNFing books.
i just couldnt get over how her best friend knew that she had facial blindness and constantly kept forgetting or not announcing herself or helping her in any way? like if my friend had an accident and had brain damage from it i would be more aware and concerned. that was so unrealistic to me!
Yeah, I get what you mean. It's not a perfect book so I get it when people dislike it. Though it's the first book I've seen that deals with face blindness with relatable moments without it being magical or more depressing.
the first 2 zodiac academy were my first books of 2023 as well 😭 on the bright side, starting at rock bottom means that every subsequent book was an significant improvement in quality!
I thought I would love “I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” because I am both in grad school to become a therapist and also very interested in Korean culture. I expected it to be full of insight on life and humanity and such, but no. By the end I was wondering what exactly was the point of the book and also why does this therapist kinda suck at their job? Lol I don’t understand why so many people have raved about that book, but I feel validated that Cari didn’t like it either 😂
I think I’ve just realized this year that I’m not as big of a fan of romance as I thought I was because all the books that I thought were really mediocre and bad were just romance books, especially the really tropey ones that don’t have a lot of substance to them I just can’t do it 😂😂
Cari, I need you to finish the Crave series! Please give us more horrible book content!! Not the worst book, but It’s a Date Again by Jeneva Rose. By the end of the prologue or the first chapter, I immediately knew the ending. I actually liked The Perfect Marriage also by, but It’s a Date was so predictable.
I agree. I read so many books and I just kept thinking? Where are the editors? Hun- that doesn’t make sense? Wait how are they here now? There were so many books that started of amazing and crashed and burned.
I've found myself going back to older fantasy series like robin hobb or the lies of locke lamora. it's cliché but they're definitely a breath of fresh air
@@Amber-Jasmin_LeFay A few old faves of mine : Daughter Of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, Truthwitch by Susan Dennard, The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty, The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree... Just a few oldies but goodies! A mix of YA and adult, high fantasy and cozy, hope you find something you like! I also find a lot of new stuff very mediocre :(
@@Amber-Jasmin_LeFayNo problem ! I understand the struggle, I go back to old releases and watch fantasy youtubers so that helps for good recommandations !
I usually play your videos in the background as I do household tasks, but the Eli Whitney thing was so baffling I had to stop and comment. Like.. *whaaaat..?!*
Im using my data to see this video, that's how much I love you talking about books you didn't like 😅 (it's five days without WiFi and the Internet people won't fix it 😢)
omg, I had some issues with the plight before Christmas but I had no idea about the American history tidbit, I feel like theres so much I didn't pick up on 💀 (but I'm also not American) I'm glad you mentioned it!
bahahahaha its so funny to hear facial blindness being in a book. I have been told I may have it. Im sure it comes out differently in everyone who experiences it but for me its more like not being able to register a familiar face to a stranger's unless there was some impression. for example, i can recognize someone i met with only when he wears a hat because thats how i was introduced to him. its a struggle because people have taken it offensively and i understand why. also... Go off sis
i DNF'd 4 books in '23, one of which was the WORST thing (The Witch & The City by Jake Burnett) the MC was so insufferable i hated her so much. DNF byyye. Of the ones i finished? Rebecca Yarros was my only 1star, had a few 2star, but it was a decent enough year. Biggest disappointment is a toss up between The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher, Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt, Shadow Coven by S. Isabelle, or Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare (i was promised Adult and was given toddler puts on mommy's makeup and high heels and stomps around the house havin' a tanty!).
I was also very disappointed in I Want To Die But I Also Want To Eat Tteokbokki because the advice from the therapist was so run of the mill, general life advice than I could give....like, it was advertised as this deep dive into depression and such but mostly they adjusted her dosis and never got actually deep into anything....and I understand not wanting to share everything because as I understand the author shares her own story in the book but with that title I had different expectations.
The power of DNF-ing a book is so important. There are so many books out there to explore - so if you're not feeling it, just put it down. Maybe it's not for you and not worth your time, or maybe it's just not the right time to read it, so maybe sometime later.
OK, if you are gonna read a fanfiction, then I must recommend you read Alphabet Soup by CoffeeIncluded. It's basically a rewrite of a Pokemon game (Black and White) you don't really need to know much about Pokemon or the game, or read it for the video, just read to see how good fanfiction can be.
The period thing is weird😂😅 but also I actually read something recently that talked about how girls nowadays go into puberty into puberty between 8 and 13?! And that the age has been dropping about 3 months every decade.. that seems crazy to me because like with 8-9 you’re like literally a kid!
This year was my lowest average rating of any year, it was a struggle. I think of books that made me mad, Iron Flame was the worst. If I hadn't loved Fourth Wing as much as I did, I would've DNF'd it. I'm going to be much better about that this year.
still stuck on the eli whitney bit. i will never understand authors having complete control to do whatever they want and you just put a cute lil reference to the dude who reinvigorated slavery in the united states??? straight to jail
Think for continuing series in 2023, they've been a disappointment *cough cough "a curse for true love". Surprisingly belladonna's second book Foxglove was a good read and better than the first book.
I have been loving watching your content this last year! One of my favorite books of 2023 was "The Guilded Ones" by Namina Forna, it's a trilogy, and the third book comes out in February. I know you get tons of recommendations every day, but after a year of misses, I think its worthy of your TBR
WHY does no one talk about the fact that the best part of the summer I turned pretty show is a storyline that absolutely does not exist in the books??? I feel like no one addresses this difference and to me it almost makes the show a totally different story from the books.
@@caricanread oh wonderful! I stopped watching the show summer 2022 because I was liking it, so I wanted to read the books first (I do not understand this logic now) so imagine my surprise when essentially all they shared were the characters
Just a warning, I tried to use the sponsor and sign up for their services, but I think I was just scammed out of my credit card information. They took my credit card info, but wouldn't create an account. I have no proof of anything. I just want to give a warning incase anyone else was thinking about trying their services.
So happy to vent, the frustration was real this past year!! My down votes go to Wilderness of Stars, Vespertine, Iron Flame (ugh!), and.... don't hate me, Cari, The Raven Boys (it was just ok). I am tempted to put Tress of the Emerald Sea in here but I think it was just bad timing so I may try it again. 2024 has started well with Serpent & Dove, currently reading House of Roots & Ruin 👍
Getting your period at 9 is not out of the ordinary, but the obsession with a 9 year old girl's period when it has nothing to do with the plot and that's basically her whole characterisation - that is just super creepy.
Thank you thays what i meant!! It would be weird if it was a 13 year old too but it felt EXTRA weird that the focus was on her being 9 and menstruating 🙃
Hi Cari, I’m wondering if you read Trudi Canavan’s The Black Magician Triology? The first book was published in 2001 and it’s been so long but I remember absolutely eating it up and loving it. I don’t own the books but I plan to get them from the library to reread 😊 Also, if you read Manga I have a recommendation for a series. It’s quite long but so good imo. Akatsuki No Yona/Yona of the Dawn (adventure, historical fantasy, romance, action). The first few volumes were turned into a pretty faithful anime adaptation, so if you’re interested you can check it out in that format too 😊 (the main character is very sheltered and in various ways immature in the beginning, but she undergoes a lot of great character development and growth ❤)
10:09 This is bothering me so much but I'm pretty sure facial blindness wouldn't be an obstacle to being a portrait artist. I'm not 100% sure because I don't have facial blindness, but I am a painter. And the thing about painting portraits is you mostly don't do it from memory, you're probably painting from a reference like having the person as a live model or referencing from a photo. As far as I can tell from what I've heard, people with face blindness can see faces just as well as someone without facial blindness, it's just a problem with recognition of who the face belongs to. The best description I've heard for prosopagnosia, which I heard from a video game so take it with a large grain of salt, is like how each chimpanzee has its own distinct face, but people who aren't familiar with chimpanzees still won't be able to tell them apart. People with facial blindness can't differentiate human faces in the same way the average person couldn't differentiate chimpanzee faces. But although I can't tell chimpanzees' faces apart, I could still do a pretty accurate portrait of a chimpanzee if I had a photo reference of it. Another thing that makes that book really bothersome if its premise was based on a misinterpretation of facial blindness and portrait painting lol
the way it was described is that she wouldnt be able to capture the emotion of the face that she would want, and that is what makes her portraits so strong and moving. So she can technically draw a face and all the shapes and shading that goes into it but not capturing the essence of her subject (the sparkle in the eye, etc) - but i agree that its not a 100% sell haha
For me the worst book I read this year was The Guest List by Lucy Foley. A murder mystery which from the blurb had great promise , but boy was it bad! Such a terrible disappointment.
off topic but not really, the first book where the 9 year old gets a period.. LOL! my sister got hers at 9 only due to a medical condition but im gagged that they just threw that in the book for no reason
I read tteokbokki in the Mandarin ver. before the English translation is out. I don't understand the hype either 🤷♀️ it's depressing and suffocating from start to end
same with I want to die but I want to eat tteokboki! I also bought it despite me being more of a kindle girl because the cover was pretty and i loved the title, and people were talking so highly of it I had great expectations for it. It was just plain boring, specially if you've gone to therapy you're not going to get anything from this book at all. I didn't see any growth in the author through the conversations, I didn't like how the the therapist talked to her either... I don't know, it was just awful haha also i always tried to finish books as well and that always put me in reading slumps that would last me weeks and months at the time. until a friend told me "life is too short and there's too many books to read to waste our time forcing to finish books we don't like" and since then i've been allowing myself to dnginf books. it was hard at firsts but now i give it a chance until 30% more or less and if i'm not feeling it i just stop reading.
I’m sorry..when you were explaining the plight before Christmas I was expecting it to have terrible ratings on Goodreads but NOPE. How do people like that book? HOW
The only books I finished last year was the Witcher and I very much enjoyed it so I’d say this year was a great year for me! Each book got better to so it ended on a high note to
i feel like maybe the lists from traditional media outlets are either paid for by major publishers? or they are best sellers but kinda like blockbuster movies those books can end up being really empty and as appealing to the lowest hanging fruit.... idk. i generally agree with you on those.... i am always really hestitant when books become hugely popular with the "masses" or traditional media...o god and now i sound so snobby! sorry
Hi cari. I'm a silent Person Who love tour vid and work. I'm italian, it's likes really a "u should sleep" hour. But i can not sleep likes always. Thank u for your vid, always in right time to help me.
This year for me wasn't full with bad books, probably because I didn't read much at all and I DNF most of them. This year so far I have yet to read ANY book so I don't think it's gonna get better
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki was one of my most disappointing reads of the year too. Not that it was so awful but it wasn’t terribly compelling and didn’t offer much in the way of insights. It got so many good reviews that I was expecting to be wowed and it just fell flat for me. Fortunately, I did get my copy from the library instead of a bookstore.😅
I totally agree with what you said about I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki. I had so much expectation for this book but finished it and felt numb, wondering what I just read. Really disappointing, even more as I bought the book too 🤦♀️
In Hello Stranger the main character goes to great lengths to not tell anyone about her face blindness, she doesn’t tell any of her friends except her best friend who is out of town for the majority of the book.
yeah agree i remember this detail too. hence the plot both of them not realizing until later when it dawn to her that the vet and her neighbor might be the same person... with regards with the voice (which is same opinions with cari the whole time lol) until the end, when FL and ML were having conversation about him using a professional voice while at work as Vet (i guess the cadence and the tone?) due to not being taken seriously on his experience..
I was listening to this and thought you said “I want to die but I want to eat the bookie” and I thought it was about cannibalism and sports betting lol
I finally finished the Throne of Glass series- 7 books! 😵💫I was soo done by the last book so I flew through it even though it should've been an intense battle book. 🤭Now my list of books I want to read is so huge that it's hard to know where to begin. Started Lightlark- pretty basic for now (18% in) but it will help me get back on my list.
Hey Cari! I love both of your channels!!I’m starting to learn to listen to myself more when it comes to DNFing books too. I hope one day you’ll read the duology, Daughter of the Moon Goddess. The epilogue comes out next month! I read them last year and LOVED them. I feel like they could be something you might like as well! Happy belated birthday and 2024!
I actually started watching the series after I saw your video where you read The Summer I Turned Pretty books and get angry, and I really enjoyed it 😂 So even though I know the book ending, it was entertaining My favorite show is based on a very bad book series so perhaps season three won't be terrible
@@caricanread You can do it! If it doesn't feel good while reading, or and you dread picking it up, then you put it down. Even if it's a temporary dnf, sometimes it's just not the right time.
Girl i just read the zodiac academy it's literally awful. The magic system is sooo over complicated like why are there elements, houses, and orders?? Also Diego pissed me off, i speak a decent bit of Spanish and that's just not how it sounds. Who tf is just inserting words people don't understand into their sentences? They also never tell us where in Solaris he's from, it's just a ~mirror realm~ so obviously there's spanish speakers 🙄
Zodiac Academy might be an absolute dumpster fire but at least your video on it + the podcast episode ended up being two of my favorite videos this year
I DNF'd 'You People' - Nikita Latwani, just struggled to finish it. It petered out for me 3/4 through. I suppose the next lowest with 2** was a Non-fiction audiobook called 'Millions like us: women's lives in the Second World War' - Virginia Nicholson. This wasn't bad, it was informative in regards to women's lives during this time but it was just long and slow to listen to. I'm glad I listened to the audiobook because I don't think I would have finished the book.
Can't believe the only book by an Armenian author you read you hated😭 I'd recommend Armenian classics instead of new authors, if you're interested 🇦🇲🫶✨
I felt the SAME about I want to die but I want to eat ddeokbokki! I was expecting so much more from it, but it felt so flat. Also glad I didn't buy it!
The idea itself is splendid how to be aware , and the best part you’re doing it Enjoy this beautiful video on a freezing day 😭😘💕thanks 😭👍you always nail it
The Book of Form and Emptiness. That book made me so MAD. I understand that (I think) the main character is autistic, and I don't know how difficult emotional regulation can be with people on the spectrum. Still, that kid was an ASSHOLE to his mom, who is also grieving (not a spoiler, it's on the back of the book). It's a soft dnf for me because I love Ruth Ozeki and I want to finish it to see if it's just a me problem but remembering how mean the kid is to his mom makes it hard to pick back up. I would love to hear from people who have read and liked it!
not me being excited because i saw Modern Divination in the thumbnail and that is one of my biggest dissappoitments too. like WHAT happened in this book? the aesthetic looked so good, i had *hopes*. same goes for Bunny also a terrible book with a great pitch: Her Majesty's Royal Coven. it's ripoff Klune and Pratchett, desperately trying to be "woke" but only succeeding in having insufferable heteronormative MCs. and it pains me to say it, but my biggest disappoitment (not a bad book, a disappointment) is Immortal Longings. because i LOVE the secret shanghai series and IL was just... okay? not even that good? predictable and boring? i wanted it to be *the* book and it just wasn't.
and dont forget my best books of the year!
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we love the content we get when you read a ridiculously horrible book😭
my specialty hahahha
@@caricanread more to come in the new year? 👀
The therapist in I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki also kinda sucked. They literally tell the mc that her anxiety is a burden on others and a lot of times their advice boiled down to “don’t feel that way.” Girl I’d have depression too if that was my therapist
right?! it felt like the therapist was either quoting a AP psych text book or just being lame?
Kinda sounds like the therapist shares the general public views of mental health issues
I literally gave this book 2 stars last year. Did not enjoy it at all!
Thank you! It was just a poor book and was generally not well written
I feel like almost that whole Christmas romcom video could be in here lmao
i had to hold myself back and only pick the very worst hahahhaa
It's so validating that a bad book gets you into a reading slump too. I tracked my books last year and my worst slumps were after a bad book or a really bad DNF and it sucked. I wanted to read but pushing past the slump is so hard.
its the worst!!!
I somehow got the exact oppoosite.
after DNFing a book Im always immediately on the search for another book to sorta fill that craving of actually reading something good.
but when Ive just finished a good book it's like 'well, nothing will ever be as good as this. everything else seems unappealing now' so I just stop reading for a while
I love this new camera setup/background, feels like we’re on FaceTime
yay!! im glad^_^
Half of my 2023 was school literature and then I graduated and the rest of the year I just read a bunch of manga. I don't regret it.
sounds perfect to me!
The bit about the cotton gin KILLED me lol Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin absolutely was drilled into all of our heads
of all the other things i forget lol
Real. I'm not even American and when Eli Whitney was mentioned my mind immediately went to "cotton gin". I learned that factoid from a flashcard set titled "The Greatest Inventors" or scientists or whatever from my childhood (whoever curated that list and included Eli Whitney in it... ☠☠☠).
straight up i didn't know that until this video. lol
@@rocioiribe5841 HOW lmao
@@rocioiribe5841same lol I don’t remember ever learning that in school
It’s simple, I see a Cari vid, I click… if I see a Cari ✨respectful✨ trash talk vid, I’m throwing myself at the phone
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Im new to cari's channel and i just realized her subtitles are transcribed, not auto generated! Thanks for looking out for us ppl with audio/video processing troubles 😂
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glad i wasn't the only one who had a mediocre as fuck 2023 reading year
truly the most 'meh' year of reading!
For real! Out of the 47 books I read last year. I GENUINELY enjoyed 5-7 😩
Yes this makes me feel so much better. My 2023 was also very meh. So far 2024 is much better 👍🏽
@@EleanorBlythemy favorite book came to me literally in December 😂 I hope your 2024 reading year is better
i read 80 books and I was STRUGGLING for my life to pick a top 5. most of them were meh, nothing truly awesome. what a sad realization that was.
lets’s hope for a better 2024!
I think 2023 forced us to not to be completionists anymore... there were so many terrible books that if everytime I went through hell to finish a book just for said book to put me in a reading slump I would probably end up not reading anymore. Before 2023 I used to finish every series I started no matter how bad they were, now I struggle to finish a book? I already get like 3 or 4 "spares" books if I'm in a reading mood just in case the first try is dnf'ed and that's a first in all my life
i especially had so many books with a great first half and then the author clearly didnt know how to end it so the last half was horrible. what an odd year!
i honestly kind of wonder how much of i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki's tone came from the (imo not great) translation choices. i've read quite a few pieces from this translator, and i've always found he makes the english copy seem super abstracted and distant. even if the advice presented isn't that great, maybe at least the characters' voices are a little better when in their original korean?? haven't gotten around to getting a korean copy yet so can't say for sure though.
This is very true for a lot of media. I live in Brazil, and we had some cases of poorly translated works becoming worse versions of the original. It's a shame, I truly believe translating and adapting is an awesome feat, but I wish more work was put into understanding what is being translated.
I definitely feel you on trying to DNF more books this year that I don’t have a good time with. I feel like I tried to make the excuse it was just the wrong time, but looking back it just wasn’t my cup of tea. What also baffles me is for some books, people say oh don’t worry it gets better after the 4th book…
yeah i can understand a first book in a series being a little rickety but FOUR?! the author needs to get their act together by the second book or its over hahahah
So validating to hear you talk about Modern Divination!! I felt insane reading it because it had such glowing reviews and I found it incomprehensible
yeah the only other person i've heard have a similar experience is a clockwork reader and when she said that she was confused and dnfed it i was like, thank GOD
Me watching Cari rant about "The Plight Before Xmas": Oh, so the name isn't about the story but about the book itself.
You made your book reviews of the bad books very engaging. I liked Hello Stranger though because the face blindness is relatable for me so I didn't find it that unrealistic how she didn't connect two separate concepts of people at different locations as one (and she recovered from brain damage too). Plus it was interesting to find out how people apparently are supposed to recognise others. There are many changeable things about people, conversation clues and names are the best hints.
Btw. good tip for DNFing books.
i just couldnt get over how her best friend knew that she had facial blindness and constantly kept forgetting or not announcing herself or helping her in any way? like if my friend had an accident and had brain damage from it i would be more aware and concerned. that was so unrealistic to me!
Yeah, I get what you mean. It's not a perfect book so I get it when people dislike it. Though it's the first book I've seen that deals with face blindness with relatable moments without it being magical or more depressing.
the first 2 zodiac academy were my first books of 2023 as well 😭 on the bright side, starting at rock bottom means that every subsequent book was an significant improvement in quality!
we love an optimist!
I thought I would love “I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” because I am both in grad school to become a therapist and also very interested in Korean culture. I expected it to be full of insight on life and humanity and such, but no. By the end I was wondering what exactly was the point of the book and also why does this therapist kinda suck at their job? Lol I don’t understand why so many people have raved about that book, but I feel validated that Cari didn’t like it either 😂
yeah what were we missing hahaha
I think I’ve just realized this year that I’m not as big of a fan of romance as I thought I was because all the books that I thought were really mediocre and bad were just romance books, especially the really tropey ones that don’t have a lot of substance to them I just can’t do it 😂😂
Cari, I need you to finish the Crave series! Please give us more horrible book content!! Not the worst book, but It’s a Date Again by Jeneva Rose. By the end of the prologue or the first chapter, I immediately knew the ending. I actually liked The Perfect Marriage also by, but It’s a Date was so predictable.
omg i didnt realize cherish came out ahahhaha
I agree. I read so many books and I just kept thinking? Where are the editors? Hun- that doesn’t make sense? Wait how are they here now? There were so many books that started of amazing and crashed and burned.
i partially blame the publishers for pushing authors to write so much in such a little time but yeah, it stinks for readers!
I can't help but feel a bit starved for well written literature and film lately. Does anyone else relate? 🤷🤭
I've found myself going back to older fantasy series like robin hobb or the lies of locke lamora. it's cliché but they're definitely a breath of fresh air
@@audrey7673 I absolutely agree 💖
Any recommendations on fantasy that's not so heavy on war and battle? I'm like where's the Magic? ✨
@@Amber-Jasmin_LeFay A few old faves of mine : Daughter Of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, Truthwitch by Susan Dennard, The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty, The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree... Just a few oldies but goodies! A mix of YA and adult, high fantasy and cozy, hope you find something you like! I also find a lot of new stuff very mediocre :(
@@rosaliemusicals wow! Thankyou soooo much! There's quite a few for my list. I really appreciate it! 😁🌈🧚🦄🍓💖
@@Amber-Jasmin_LeFayNo problem ! I understand the struggle, I go back to old releases and watch fantasy youtubers so that helps for good recommandations !
I usually play your videos in the background as I do household tasks, but the Eli Whitney thing was so baffling I had to stop and comment. Like.. *whaaaat..?!*
I love me some negative reviews, so thanks for tapping into that energy 😂
lol of course!!
Im using my data to see this video, that's how much I love you talking about books you didn't like 😅 (it's five days without WiFi and the Internet people won't fix it 😢)
omg nooo sending love and hope that the internet people get their act together!!
@caricanread thanks! I decided to change companies so many tomorrow I can watch your main channel video 😆
omg, I had some issues with the plight before Christmas but I had no idea about the American history tidbit, I feel like theres so much I didn't pick up on 💀 (but I'm also not American) I'm glad you mentioned it!
bahahahaha its so funny to hear facial blindness being in a book. I have been told I may have it. Im sure it comes out differently in everyone who experiences it but for me its more like not being able to register a familiar face to a stranger's unless there was some impression. for example, i can recognize someone i met with only when he wears a hat because thats how i was introduced to him. its a struggle because people have taken it offensively and i understand why.
also...
Go off sis
i DNF'd 4 books in '23, one of which was the WORST thing (The Witch & The City by Jake Burnett) the MC was so insufferable i hated her so much. DNF byyye. Of the ones i finished? Rebecca Yarros was my only 1star, had a few 2star, but it was a decent enough year. Biggest disappointment is a toss up between The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher, Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt, Shadow Coven by S. Isabelle, or Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare (i was promised Adult and was given toddler puts on mommy's makeup and high heels and stomps around the house havin' a tanty!).
I was also very disappointed in I Want To Die But I Also Want To Eat Tteokbokki because the advice from the therapist was so run of the mill, general life advice than I could give....like, it was advertised as this deep dive into depression and such but mostly they adjusted her dosis and never got actually deep into anything....and I understand not wanting to share everything because as I understand the author shares her own story in the book but with that title I had different expectations.
I got in such a bad reading slump after finishing the Summer I turned pretty trilogy because of how truly mad I was with everything about them 🤣🤣
it was a MESS!
LMAO I read hello stranger and I hated it. I was dumbfounded when she renamed the guy… just straight up renamed him.
The power of DNF-ing a book is so important. There are so many books out there to explore - so if you're not feeling it, just put it down. Maybe it's not for you and not worth your time, or maybe it's just not the right time to read it, so maybe sometime later.
OK, if you are gonna read a fanfiction, then I must recommend you read Alphabet Soup by CoffeeIncluded. It's basically a rewrite of a Pokemon game (Black and White) you don't really need to know much about Pokemon or the game, or read it for the video, just read to see how good fanfiction can be.
The period thing is weird😂😅 but also I actually read something recently that talked about how girls nowadays go into puberty into puberty between 8 and 13?! And that the age has been dropping about 3 months every decade.. that seems crazy to me because like with 8-9 you’re like literally a kid!
we always had sex ed starting in 4th grade so even when i was young ages 8-9 were pretty normal. usually 9-13!
This year was my lowest average rating of any year, it was a struggle. I think of books that made me mad, Iron Flame was the worst. If I hadn't loved Fourth Wing as much as I did, I would've DNF'd it. I'm going to be much better about that this year.
still stuck on the eli whitney bit. i will never understand authors having complete control to do whatever they want and you just put a cute lil reference to the dude who reinvigorated slavery in the united states??? straight to jail
Think for continuing series in 2023, they've been a disappointment *cough cough "a curse for true love". Surprisingly belladonna's second book Foxglove was a good read and better than the first book.
Fan fiction of what?
It’s very important the ones you pick😂😂😭
They’re either amazing or dreadful
I have been loving watching your content this last year! One of my favorite books of 2023 was "The Guilded Ones" by Namina Forna, it's a trilogy, and the third book comes out in February. I know you get tons of recommendations every day, but after a year of misses, I think its worthy of your TBR
ugly love and november 9. November 9 is actually maybe the worst book I’ve ever read and I can’t believe I wasted hours of my life reading it
Omg the plight before Christmas sounds so bad 😭😭😭😭 I’m salty just hearing about it 🫣
WHY does no one talk about the fact that the best part of the summer I turned pretty show is a storyline that absolutely does not exist in the books??? I feel like no one addresses this difference and to me it almost makes the show a totally different story from the books.
Watch my video on the books! haha
@@caricanread oh wonderful! I stopped watching the show summer 2022 because I was liking it, so I wanted to read the books first (I do not understand this logic now) so imagine my surprise when essentially all they shared were the characters
Just a warning, I tried to use the sponsor and sign up for their services, but I think I was just scammed out of my credit card information. They took my credit card info, but wouldn't create an account. I have no proof of anything. I just want to give a warning incase anyone else was thinking about trying their services.
So happy to vent, the frustration was real this past year!! My down votes go to Wilderness of Stars, Vespertine, Iron Flame (ugh!), and.... don't hate me, Cari, The Raven Boys (it was just ok). I am tempted to put Tress of the Emerald Sea in here but I think it was just bad timing so I may try it again. 2024 has started well with Serpent & Dove, currently reading House of Roots & Ruin 👍
Getting your period at 9 is not out of the ordinary, but the obsession with a 9 year old girl's period when it has nothing to do with the plot and that's basically her whole characterisation - that is just super creepy.
Thank you thays what i meant!! It would be weird if it was a 13 year old too but it felt EXTRA weird that the focus was on her being 9 and menstruating 🙃
Hi Cari, I’m wondering if you read Trudi Canavan’s The Black Magician Triology? The first book was published in 2001 and it’s been so long but I remember absolutely eating it up and loving it. I don’t own the books but I plan to get them from the library to reread 😊
Also, if you read Manga I have a recommendation for a series. It’s quite long but so good imo. Akatsuki No Yona/Yona of the Dawn (adventure, historical fantasy, romance, action). The first few volumes were turned into a pretty faithful anime adaptation, so if you’re interested you can check it out in that format too 😊 (the main character is very sheltered and in various ways immature in the beginning, but she undergoes a lot of great character development and growth ❤)
10:09 This is bothering me so much but I'm pretty sure facial blindness wouldn't be an obstacle to being a portrait artist. I'm not 100% sure because I don't have facial blindness, but I am a painter. And the thing about painting portraits is you mostly don't do it from memory, you're probably painting from a reference like having the person as a live model or referencing from a photo. As far as I can tell from what I've heard, people with face blindness can see faces just as well as someone without facial blindness, it's just a problem with recognition of who the face belongs to. The best description I've heard for prosopagnosia, which I heard from a video game so take it with a large grain of salt, is like how each chimpanzee has its own distinct face, but people who aren't familiar with chimpanzees still won't be able to tell them apart. People with facial blindness can't differentiate human faces in the same way the average person couldn't differentiate chimpanzee faces. But although I can't tell chimpanzees' faces apart, I could still do a pretty accurate portrait of a chimpanzee if I had a photo reference of it. Another thing that makes that book really bothersome if its premise was based on a misinterpretation of facial blindness and portrait painting lol
the way it was described is that she wouldnt be able to capture the emotion of the face that she would want, and that is what makes her portraits so strong and moving. So she can technically draw a face and all the shapes and shading that goes into it but not capturing the essence of her subject (the sparkle in the eye, etc) - but i agree that its not a 100% sell haha
For me the worst book I read this year was The Guest List by Lucy Foley. A murder mystery which from the blurb had great promise , but boy was it bad! Such a terrible disappointment.
someday you'll read all of Crescent City and I cant wait to hear how much you hate it
For real though, I think I could listen to you for DAYS in a row and not realize time is passing.
Go Cari🙌
So glad I’m not the only one who had an underwhelming reading year. Super intrigued by which fanfiction you may read though 👀
I think the worst one I read in 2023 was Girls Against God. Sounded interesting...wasn't. I do enjoy a good Cari rant though! 🙂
I really appreciate having the book's info on the screen for the whole review!
Yayyy, new Cari upload. Excited to watch it
thank you^^
off topic but not really, the first book where the 9 year old gets a period.. LOL! my sister got hers at 9 only due to a medical condition but im gagged that they just threw that in the book for no reason
I read tteokbokki in the Mandarin ver. before the English translation is out. I don't understand the hype either 🤷♀️ it's depressing and suffocating from start to end
same with I want to die but I want to eat tteokboki! I also bought it despite me being more of a kindle girl because the cover was pretty and i loved the title, and people were talking so highly of it I had great expectations for it. It was just plain boring, specially if you've gone to therapy you're not going to get anything from this book at all. I didn't see any growth in the author through the conversations, I didn't like how the the therapist talked to her either... I don't know, it was just awful haha
also i always tried to finish books as well and that always put me in reading slumps that would last me weeks and months at the time. until a friend told me "life is too short and there's too many books to read to waste our time forcing to finish books we don't like" and since then i've been allowing myself to dnginf books. it was hard at firsts but now i give it a chance until 30% more or less and if i'm not feeling it i just stop reading.
You deserve a nice cup of tea and a GOOD book after all this 😂🤗
I’m sorry..when you were explaining the plight before Christmas I was expecting it to have terrible ratings on Goodreads but NOPE. How do people like that book? HOW
Am I the only one that loves Hello Stranger??
The only books I finished last year was the Witcher and I very much enjoyed it so I’d say this year was a great year for me! Each book got better to so it ended on a high note to
i feel like maybe the lists from traditional media outlets are either paid for by major publishers? or they are best sellers but kinda like blockbuster movies those books can end up being really empty and as appealing to the lowest hanging fruit.... idk. i generally agree with you on those.... i am always really hestitant when books become hugely popular with the "masses" or traditional media...o god and now i sound so snobby! sorry
Kk defs going to take off the zodiac academy from my tbr I clearly didn’t look into what it was about 🙃
I read The Plight Before Christmas too. SOOOOO bad
I am with you 100%! This past year was just plain mid. Very much looking forward to reading along with you in 2024!!
Hi cari. I'm a silent Person Who love tour vid and work. I'm italian, it's likes really a "u should sleep" hour. But i can not sleep likes always. Thank u for your vid, always in right time to help me.
A Cari video on my birthday?! Day made 💚
omg happy birthday, hope its wonderful! ❤❤
Happy birthday!!!
@@caricanreadThank you!
@@orange_teaThank you!
😂 sometimes, I want to read a book that someone absolutely hates ( unless it's badly written), lol
This year for me wasn't full with bad books, probably because I didn't read much at all and I DNF most of them. This year so far I have yet to read ANY book so I don't think it's gonna get better
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki was one of my most disappointing reads of the year too. Not that it was so awful but it wasn’t terribly compelling and didn’t offer much in the way of insights. It got so many good reviews that I was expecting to be wowed and it just fell flat for me. Fortunately, I did get my copy from the library instead of a bookstore.😅
I totally agree with what you said about I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki. I had so much expectation for this book but finished it and felt numb, wondering what I just read. Really disappointing, even more as I bought the book too 🤦♀️
In Hello Stranger the main character goes to great lengths to not tell anyone about her face blindness, she doesn’t tell any of her friends except her best friend who is out of town for the majority of the book.
yeah agree i remember this detail too. hence the plot both of them not realizing until later when it dawn to her that the vet and her neighbor might be the same person... with regards with the voice (which is same opinions with cari the whole time lol) until the end, when FL and ML were having conversation about him using a professional voice while at work as Vet (i guess the cadence and the tone?) due to not being taken seriously on his experience..
not the russian lit name treatment 😭😭😭
I was listening to this and thought you said “I want to die but I want to eat the bookie” and I thought it was about cannibalism and sports betting lol
😂😂😂
I finally finished the Throne of Glass series- 7 books! 😵💫I was soo done by the last book so I flew through it even though it should've been an intense battle book. 🤭Now my list of books I want to read is so huge that it's hard to know where to begin. Started Lightlark- pretty basic for now (18% in) but it will help me get back on my list.
Hey Cari! I love both of your channels!!I’m starting to learn to listen to myself more when it comes to DNFing books too. I hope one day you’ll read the duology, Daughter of the Moon Goddess. The epilogue comes out next month! I read them last year and LOVED them. I feel like they could be something you might like as well! Happy belated birthday and 2024!
i also do mostly portraits and i think i would have a full on mental breakdown if i ever developed facial blindness
Omg I dnf'd modern divination, it also had all the stuff that I love but it was so badly written!!
Cari is the queen of reviews. I love the fact that, thanks to you, I can save myself time from ending up tangled in reading some really bad books. 😂😅
I actually started watching the series after I saw your video where you read The Summer I Turned Pretty books and get angry, and I really enjoyed it 😂 So even though I know the book ending, it was entertaining
My favorite show is based on a very bad book series so perhaps season three won't be terrible
The fan fiction better be manacled!!
Dnfing is so freeing. I have done this already this year. It's so hard 😢
im really trying to get better!
@@caricanread You can do it! If it doesn't feel good while reading, or and you dread picking it up, then you put it down. Even if it's a temporary dnf, sometimes it's just not the right time.
After Ravenhood, I will never read another Kate Stewart.
I love your recs but I think I love your anti-recs even more! 😄
24:52 I need your thoughts on the novella announcement!? After fumbling ACFTL, I think there was a pivot in her publishing order. 😅
Girl i just read the zodiac academy it's literally awful. The magic system is sooo over complicated like why are there elements, houses, and orders?? Also Diego pissed me off, i speak a decent bit of Spanish and that's just not how it sounds. Who tf is just inserting words people don't understand into their sentences? They also never tell us where in Solaris he's from, it's just a ~mirror realm~ so obviously there's spanish speakers 🙄
DNFing books was the best decision I made this year to keep my sanity
Zodiac Academy might be an absolute dumpster fire but at least your video on it + the podcast episode ended up being two of my favorite videos this year
I feel like the premise for hello stranger could’ve worked if written by another author cuz I could not STAND the fmc or anybody else in the book lol
I DNF'd 'You People' - Nikita Latwani, just struggled to finish it. It petered out for me 3/4 through.
I suppose the next lowest with 2** was a Non-fiction audiobook called 'Millions like us: women's lives in the Second World War' - Virginia Nicholson. This wasn't bad, it was informative in regards to women's lives during this time but it was just long and slow to listen to. I'm glad I listened to the audiobook because I don't think I would have finished the book.
Can't believe the only book by an Armenian author you read you hated😭
I'd recommend Armenian classics instead of new authors, if you're interested 🇦🇲🫶✨
I felt the SAME about I want to die but I want to eat ddeokbokki! I was expecting so much more from it, but it felt so flat. Also glad I didn't buy it!
I’m so sorry but I love when you hate a book 😂 not that I love you having a bad reading experience, but your reactions are so goddamn funny
The idea itself is splendid how to be aware , and the best part you’re doing it
Enjoy this beautiful video on a freezing day 😭😘💕thanks
😭👍you always nail it
💕💕💕
The Book of Form and Emptiness. That book made me so MAD. I understand that (I think) the main character is autistic, and I don't know how difficult emotional regulation can be with people on the spectrum. Still, that kid was an ASSHOLE to his mom, who is also grieving (not a spoiler, it's on the back of the book). It's a soft dnf for me because I love Ruth Ozeki and I want to finish it to see if it's just a me problem but remembering how mean the kid is to his mom makes it hard to pick back up. I would love to hear from people who have read and liked it!
Oh no! I just picked up Hello Stranger form the library! Haha I was looking forward to it but now I don’t know if want to even read it, sounds silly
Finally someone else who was disappointed by Three Dark Crowns!! I was so excited by the premise but they did. Not. Deliver.
Oh my gosh one of the worst book's authors HAS MY SEMI-OBSCURE LAST NAME?? This explains so much.
not me being excited because i saw Modern Divination in the thumbnail and that is one of my biggest dissappoitments too. like WHAT happened in this book? the aesthetic looked so good, i had *hopes*. same goes for Bunny
also a terrible book with a great pitch: Her Majesty's Royal Coven. it's ripoff Klune and Pratchett, desperately trying to be "woke" but only succeeding in having insufferable heteronormative MCs.
and it pains me to say it, but my biggest disappoitment (not a bad book, a disappointment) is Immortal Longings. because i LOVE the secret shanghai series and IL was just... okay? not even that good? predictable and boring? i wanted it to be *the* book and it just wasn't.