I Read & Ranked the First Chapter of Every Book on My TBR
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This is Kayla’s version of self care. Future Kayla is totally set up for an awesome reading year and less decision fatigue. Way to go 🥳
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I never thought about it like this actually. Good point!
The queen has blessed us with another movie length video 👑
If you wanted a challenge type video based off of this then you could read one book from each rating of 6-10 and then compare their original score your final rating of the book? I have no idea how you would choose which ones to read though.
omg fun!!
that's a great idea!
Love this idea!
Maybe wrap them and write/put a sticky note with the rating and have Robbie and Liam choose?
This video was a 10/10 for intrigue 💗
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24:44 my only editing error after 15 hours of reading, 3 hours of footage, and 5 hours of editing *would* come right before the clip talking about how tired I am. hahahahah
I think I like this way of being introduced to books better than I do reading a synopsis because it feels less... spoilery? I usually barely read what a book is about because I just want to know about the vibes and writing before I go in (almost) completely blind. I hope you do more of these in the future !
I truly mean this in the most complimentary, awestruck way possible…. but what the actual fuck
HOW are you this good at BookTube?!???!
I seriously love this. Currently Reading Podcast suggests a “reading flight” - like a beer flight, to pick a new book. They do like 5 books and read the first chapter to pick their next book. I think this might be considered the ultimate reading flight. Loved watching it and now I want to read my own TBR even more.
I absolutely love this concept! I'm tempted to do it for my own shelf.
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No pressure but I think it might be fun to try this with a handful of closet books at a time just to see if there are any 10s or duds.
Uhhh I would love a series where Kayla picks 10 or so books from her closet, reads the first chapter and then reads the 3 with the highest intrigue.
Ahhh Darius the Great is Not Okay is one of my favessss, one I feel like I’ll be rereading no matter how old I get. It starts slow but once you’re in Iran it gets REAL good
You NEVER STOP surprising me with your innovative ideas!!💕
Every single video I see "Such A Fun Age" sitting on your TBR shelf and I'm like KAYLA PLEASE READ IT OMG! ❤ I added several books to my tbr because of this!
This is such a smart way to do TBR: sharing your initial thoughts while they’re still completely fresh. I might borrow the idea!
❤❤ Omg!! Kayla!! How?! What?! Why?! Yaass!! You are a freaking work horse!! Your dedication to your viewers and your love for reading is seriously top tier 😍😍
Omg Kayla, I am so excited for this! Almost an hour and a half and this is such an incredibly creative concept!! Yay!
Looked so satisfying at the end to have a TBR shelf sorted by that ranking! 💕
This is such an interesting concept! You keep making conceptual videos that make me want to approach my own reading differently! Seeing how you categorize and organize your books and reading is always just so fascinating.
This is such a fun idea 💖
Gives you a feel of the books you want to read, but without actually spoiling anything even if you decide to not read it immediately.
We are so weirdly synchronized sometimes. I just read the first paragraph of all of my unread books to choose my March TBR based on which ones intrigued me the most!
I did this in Feb! But with only about 5 books and just to pick my first read... because I don't have the patience for anymore than that and I'm a mood reader and wouldn't stick to a TBR anyway 🙃 mine ended up leading me to two 5*s in a row so I hope your March reading goes just as well!!
@@bethmw28 That’s awesome that you got two 5 stars, I guess the first impressions of those books were bang-on! Really hoping mine will be too, I have yet to have a 5 star read this year. 😑
@@TheThreeBookshelves these were my first 5 stars too! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you 😂🤞📚
Aw I love the idea of reading first paragraphs!
I’m still working my way through this video. 😅 And I have to LOL at how many of your books start with an ominous running-away scene, because SO MANY of mine do too! I never realized how much of a cliche that was until now. I will never start one of my own books that that!
i was so excited when i saw the title, this is such a fun project!
Darius the Great is MY Dress Codes for Small Towns (in that, it's everything to me, the YA contemporary I saw myself in). It’s hard to see you part with it but I also gotta respect you have to do what's right for you 😭 hope it strikes a chord with whoever gets it next!
Got some really sad and shocking news today, so an almost 1.5 hours of Kayla is much appreciated. Genuinely, you don't know how much you mean to me. 😭💓
Hope you're ok ❤
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Lala!!! I use to watch you religiously through my other channel! so happy you popped up on my recommended! I feel like you're aging backwards, you look so great.
💜 I'm planning to pick up The Last Tale of the Flower Bride this week and I'm super excited! A cool challenge could be something like picking pairs to read - like you have to pick one 6 or 7 and then you can pick one 8-10 and maybe do a mini series throughout the year where you do a few videos picking 2 to 3 pairs per week/month/whatever!
your creativity, dedication and originality know no bounds. as always, I loved this 💞
The end was so satisfying, to see you classify the books as per your interest. 💜
What a project! I would never attempt this! All those books calling even louder than before. 💛💚
Went out to my birthday dinner with my husband and spent a decent amount of time explaining how creative you are. 😂 amazing
❤ this was a great idea. Love how you set up the shelves!
💙 starting books is my least favorite part of almost every reading experience so this looks like a nightmare but i love watching you do it lol, also now that it's done you are set up for an awesome reading year!
We Have Always Been Here and Two Trees Make a Forest are two of my favourite memoirs. Some of Habib's memoir is hard to read but there's also a lot of growth and as I remember it defiant joy as she discovers herself (notably as an adult). Two Trees is just a beautiful nature/family history memoir - I was equally taken by her family's history and the stunning description's of Taiwan.
This is probably one of my favourite videos you’ve done. Love the format!
💜 I don't know if this is something you'd even want to do, but I think it could be really fun if you did a spoiler filled vlog rereading the Raven Cycle and finishing the Dreamer Trilogy, like you did with the Wayward Children series. Either way, this was a great video as always! Lots of books that I hadn't heard of that I'm interested in now.
I loved the length of this video! And it was fun to see you go through your books and get reccies for my own reading goals. Thanks for sharing! 💜
I haven't finished the video yet, but as soon as I saw the title, I was like "Why haven't I done this??" I have 60 books on my TBR shelf, and I'm on a book no-buy until I clear this shelf, and it's been so overwhelming trying to figure out what to read. Thank you for the inspiration, Kayla, I'm going to try this out!
I’m so impressed by this. I can barely manage sitting through the trailers before a movie - without wanting to switch what movie I’m supposed to watch. I’d definitely have given up and just kept reading once one of them caught my attention ! 😅
I did this to pick my first February read! 😂 picked a few I was excited to get to and read first chapters until there was one I just had to continue on with and refused to put down to try any others! I got 2 5* reads in a row because of it 👌
You're a 1,000 out of 10 for doing this entire video! Loved it so much!❤
this is the first time i’ve clicked on one of your videos but i’m gonna like it before i start watching just bc i’m impressed of the amount of effort u had to put in to this video👏🏽
I’ve been watching your videos for a long time and those shelves have been there through it all. It was very satisfying to watch them slowly empty and for you to read every book and decide where it goes next! Totally something I would do 😊
58:28 I've been watching this video for 3 days, but yes, I'm still here
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I’ve been meaning to whittle down my physical tbr and I feel like this is a great way to get rid of some books that just don’t interest me anymore! But also after watching this I’ve added some more books to my tbr… 😂💗
Adore your videos. They are keeping me company for a round of sick days off from work. Now I know how I'll be spending a bit of that time -- reading the first chapter of the 10-12 books I have on my physical TBR! Thanks for the great idea :)
Love this idea! Makes me want to do the same with all my TBR books ❤
❤ this is so exciting and I can’t wait to see how you use this concept going forward
💙💙 What an epic undertaking! Love a feature length vlog!
Whatever what some may say, there is a place for long videos. Thank you Kayla. ❤
I watch you on half of my ten hour shift and have to say, you always entertain and inspire fun challenges.
i hope we get like a part 2 where you read the top books and see if they are 5 stars 🙏🙏🙏🙏
💚 i'm honestly tempted to do this with my bookshelf. probably not all at once lol because that looked exhausting but maybe a little chunk at a time
I always enjoy hearing your thoughts on books! Plus I love the longer videos! ❤️
I’ve done this before, but on a much smaller scale. I call it a speed date with a book. So far it’s been really fun to do, but not as fun as watching you do it. I also love the new recs, thank you!!
This is such a fun idea-I often do read a chapter for anywhere from 5-7 books when I can’t decide what I want to read next and see which one intrigued me most.
It was a lot of work doing the 100 books but now you are set up super well k owing which ones already intrigue you! 💛 📚
You AMAZE me. As always. I adore your brain.
❤❤❤ - Kayla, You Are The Best! Love what you did here, cannot wait to hear more about this project XO
❤ wow, what a great concept for a video and what a great way to find out what your most interest in reading the most!
❤ clever idea and an inspiration for me to read the first chapters of my TBR!
This is such a great idea! Totally inspired to do this with my unread shelf as well!
Love these longer videos. You have inspired me to review my TBR too 💜
This was great. Thank you Kayla, listening to your comments has helped me to find new reads. I am in a real reading slump and have a 340 book TBR and think I will try reading the first chapter of each, set them up in a preference reading list. Thanks so much…hope you continue to do this
We love it when Kayla blesses us with a film! 💕
Fun fact related to Indians on Vacation:
Humpty Dumpty was first depicted as an egg in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass :)
I love your unique take on all your videos. Another great time. But what I really want to know is what is the TBR closet?
Loved this video, and you have me inspired to clean up my TBR by trying this. Always appreciate how much effort you put into all of your videos. 💓
Giiirl as usual I could never! Always amazed at your ideas! I hope you get to pick up some of those 10s soon. 💜
I could never do this I am too intrigued by books. I would just sit down and start reading the one and not want to go onto the next book through the next Chapter. Super fun video! 💜
My fave director back with another movie 👏🏻👏🏻
❤ Very impressive! I would start with the 10 stars and gradually work my way down. Hopefully the high rating continues throughout the book.
This time it is good that all my books are packed up because I'm moving, cause I would do this experiment without a doubt and just abandon my current reads. It was a great watch whilst packing boxes and working out. Just what I needed.
I bought Reluctant Immortals months ago, and those lines made me put it up way higher on my TBR 😍
LOVED A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES
This video was honestly so satisfying to watch. I don’t know what it was! I just really enjoyed watching it. 💙
💜 I enjoyed getting to see everything on your TBR shelf, I'm not as eagle-eyed as some viewers!
Your excitement for your TBR has made me excited for my own TBR 💜 I would have such a hard time doing this (I can't switch between the starts of plots in short succession like that - it's why I don't really vibe with short stories), so I am in awe.
i’m interested in doing something like this with my own shelf but i also think i would struggle to switch so quickly like that as well)
How about a reading vlog like “reading outdoorsy books outdoors”? Sounds fun and you definitely have enough books for it 😄
🏔️ Love this 🌲
💜 how could you not make it to the end!! Loved this!
❤ loved seeing you enjoy the beginning of Babel so much!! And as someone who’s read Winter Counts, I have to say I encourage the unhaul 😬
This was really helpful in terms of which books I might be inspired to pick up now! Not that my own TBR is particularly short... 💜
💜 wow this was a great experiment, I have about 50+ book in my TBR and I’m tempted to do this but I don’t know if I have the courage and energy to do so! Great video!
Very cool way to sort through your TBR shelf 💖
You don’t know how much I needed to have a LaLa video! Waiting for my surgery to begin!
Oh gosh, good luck with your surgery my friend!!
this was such a fun concept! ❤ definitely going to try this myself to find some reads i should prioritize 🤔
I know it was a ton of work but i loved this video! i have such a big tbr i don’t add to it very often these days and tend to steer clear of recommendation videos on booktube but this was fun bc the first chapters gave me more incentive to read than some synopses. It was also super exciting to see books im interested in get 10/10s.
🖤Challenge idea: read one bottom shelf TBR book for every 2 top shelf TBR books, that way you can keep it somewhat even
💙I love this way of prioritizing a TBR
I think this is the third time I’ve commented about Such A Fun Age in your videos. Everytime you mention it, I get so excited 😂 I really do believe you will love it
I love how I just have Goodreads up as your talking taking in all the recs.
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I loved this!! 💕 Will definitely be using this idea!!
I am soooo excited to see how you feel about Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead! I read it in January for my local bookstore's book club and it was a WILD discussion. 💜
❤ You are the best with the most original videos!
I was just watching Katie's sprints, but instead of reading, I'll be watching this💜💜
Omg yes, loved this. 2 of the books you gave a 10 to are on my TBR so they have obviously been instantly added to the march tbr! They were How Beautiful We Were and Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead!
What a way to alleviate my anxiety! Thank you, Kayla, and yeah, some of the books weren't worth further reading (Trust me). ❤❤❤
That mint sweater on day 3 is so cute and looks so cozy!
Ohhh this so inspires me to get out of my reading rut by doing this. Thanks Kayla. Love your dedication x 💗
this whole video was just so satisfying loved it 🧡
So excited to see what you'll do with this in future videos 💙
💛💛💛 the yellow heart is my favorite!! and I loved this video sm I think I always see ur tbr shelf behind u in videos and have been curious what’s on it
Love this video. I’ve added several and was moved to purchase some books to add to my own ever-growing physical TBR ❤
you've brought up the TBR closet™️ enough times recently that i'm starting to feel...tingly
Why do I spend more time listening to you talk about books than I do reading 😅😅 🫶🏼