How do you experience reading?jenniferlovesbooks2024-05-27 | Talking about how I experience reading - visualization and subvocalization. Let me know how you experience reading!
(1) EXTINCTION: Are there things you used to do on your channel that you no longer do? (2) ADAPTATION: What things have you done on your channel or as a result of being on booktube that you never thought you would do? (3) EVOLUTION: how has booktube changed you and what do you aspire to do on your channel in future? (4) BONUS PROMPT: Impart your words of wisdom to all of the fledgling booktubers out there!
Books mentioned: Fear Stalks The Village, Ethel Lina White The Disappearance of Signora Giulia, Piero Chiara A Death in Tokyo, Keigo Higashino The War of the Worlds, HG Wells Face, Benjamin Zephaniah Mina's Matchbox, Yoko Ogawa The Husbands, Holly Gramazio The Seat of the Scornful, John Dickson Carr There There, Tommy Orange Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange The Persian Boy, Mary Renault Mort, Terry Pratchett The Noh Mask Murder, Akimitsu Takagi Death at the Sanatorium, Ragnar Jonasson Horrorstor, Grady Hendrix
Books mentioned: Bored Gay Werewolf, Tony Santorella The Cabin At The End of The World, Paul Tremblay Foe, Iain Reid Dead Relatives, Lucie McKnight Hardy Night Side of the River, Jeanette Winterson Rouge, Mona Awad Whisper, Yu-Ko Chang Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson The Taking of Annie Thorne, CJ Tudor Resin, Ane Riel The Fog, James Herbert Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M Valente How To Sell A Haunted House, Grady Hendrix
Books mentioned: Little Women, Louisa May Alcott The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak Dr Jekyll and My Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens In A Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales, Edgar Allen Poe The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall Absolution, Jeff Vandermeer The Anomaly, Michael Rutger My Best Friend's Exorcism, Grady Hendrix Death at the Sanatorium, Ragnar Jonasson In My Dreams I Hold A Knife, Ashley Winstead A Helping Hand, Celia Dale The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, Soji Shimada The Noh Mask Murder, Akimitsu Takagi My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk The Tumbling Girl, Bridget Walsh The Burial Plot, Elizabeth Macneal Seeing, Jose Saramago Mort, Terry Pratchett Gideon The Ninth, Tamsin Muir Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Books mentioned: Private Rites, Julia Armfield Cecilia, K-Min Chang All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Bored Gay Werewolf, Tony Santorella Breakdown, Cathy Sweeney Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay Death and the Conjuror, Tom Mead James, Percival Everett Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder He, She, They, Us, ed. Charlie Castelleti The Last Passenger, Will Dean My Friends, Hisham Matar Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Ashley Herring Blake The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson Lucky Day, Beth Morrey The Company, JM Varese The Damages, Genevieve Scott The Sleep Watcher, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Orbital, Samantha Harvey How To Sell A Haunted House, Grady Hendrix
Books hauled: The Silent Cry, Kenzaburo Oe Everything You Ever Wanted, Luiza Saima The Sleep Watcher, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan The Husbands, Holly Gramazio Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë Bats in the Belfry, ECR Lorac The Penguin Book Quiz, James Walton Brief Lives, Anita Brookner Murder in Midsummer, various The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin Rebecca, Daphne du Maurice Trumpet, Jackie Kay Death at Intervals, Jose Saramago The Double, Jose Saramago A Maggot, John Fowler Nevada, Imogen Binnie Chlorine, Jade Song The Noh Mask Murder, Akimitsu Takagi Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Olga Tokarczuk How To Gut A Fish, Sheila Armstrong Lost In The Garden, Adam S Leslie The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
Editor's note: I say in this video that I've never seen a little free library but we do have the equivalent at my workplace which I totally forgot about until after filming! I have taken a book without leaving one but I have donated far more than I have taken overall 😊📚
Prompts: 1. Do you dog-ear your books? 2. Do you annotate your books? 3. Do you roll covers or break spines when you read? 4. Do you listen to something while you read? 5. Do you read in the bathroom? 6. Do you read in water (such as in the bathtub, in a pool, etc)? 7. Do you DNF? 8. Do you ever read ahead or skip to the end of a book? 9. Are you book-polygamous (i.e., read more than one book at a time)? 10. Do you own more books than bookshelf space? BONUS: Do you ever take a book without leaving a book at a Little Free Library?
Books mentioned: Little Rot, Akwaeke Emezi My Brother Michael, Mary Stewart Death of a Bookseller, Alice Slater The Safe Keep, Yael van der Wouden Queer, A Graphic History, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst, Katie Lumsden The House That Horror Built, Christina Henry Sunburn, Chloe Michelle Howarth Mayflies, Andrew O'Hagan Green Dot, Madeleine Gray Appointment with Yesterday, Celia Fremlin Iris Kelly Doesn't Date, Ashley Herring Blake The Tattoo Murder, Akimitsu Takagi Intimacies, Katie Kitamura Miss Buncle Married, DE Stevenson
Books mentioned: The Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Seierstad The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada The Gathering, CJ Tudor The Discomfort of Evening, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Sinister Spring, Agatha Christie The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Imogen Hermes Gower Exit West, Mohsin Hamid You Should Have Left, Daniel Kehlmann The Black Spectacles, John Dickson Carr Alex, Pierre Lemaitre Joy, Samantha Leigh Dead Relatives, Lucie McKnight Hardy The Doll's Alphabet, Camilla Grudova Detective Stories, ed. Philip Pullman The Idiot, Elif Batuman I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
Books mentioned: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir The Murder of My Aunt, Richard Hull The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett The Lighthouse, Alison Moore Never Mind, Edward St Aubyn Trial and Error, Anthony Berkeley The Virgin and the Gipsy, DH Lawrence Sarah Canary, Karen Joy Fowler The Double Shadow, Sally Gardner Murder Road, Simone St James The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney, Okechukwu Nzelu Hangman, Maya Binyam Close To Death, Anthony Horowitz How To Be Both, Ali Smith The Bad Girl, Mario Vargas Llosa The Fat Lady Sings, Jacqueline Roy
Books mentioned: Dead Relatives, Lucie McKnight Hardy Joy, Samantha Leigh In My Dreams I Hold A Knife, Ashley Winstead The Tumbling Girl, Bridget Walsh The Listeners, Jordan Tannahill A Helping Hand, Celia Dale Dark Tales, Shirley Jackson He Who Whisper, John Dickson Carr Paul, Daisy Lafarge Miss Buncle Married, DE Stevenson Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Books mentioned: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin Helle and Death, Oskar Jensen Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller The New Wife, JP Delaney In At The Deep End, Kate Davies The Maiden, Kate Foster In Defence of the Act, Effie Black Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff Vandermeer A Flat Place, Noreen Masud The Guest, Emma Cline The long way to a small angry planet, Becky Chambers The Locked Room Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler, featuring Blind Man's Hood by Carter Dickson Recitatif, Toni Morrison Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Thank you to questions from: (Can you find the proper links, a couple of these people may not have channels so I don't know if you can tag them) @BookTubewithAmy @actual-spinster @CharlieBrookReads @awebofstories @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf @zoemahon4749 @NYLeafy.V @benreadsgood @stalkingkafka @toweringtbr @ameliabarlowbooks
Find me on Story Graph at app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jenniferlovesbooksThe Reading Tastes Tagjenniferlovesbooks2024-03-24 | What kind of books do I like to read? This a fun tag all about reading tastes. I haven't tagged anyone but if you like this one, consider yourself tagged!
The prompts: 1. Describe your reading taste in one sentence 2. Describe your reading taste with categories (genre, age, length, etc) 3. Show us a few books that represent your reading taste 4. A book you didn't enjoy that seemed like it would be your taste 5. A book you enjoyed that didn't seem like it would be your taste 6. Show us some books on your TBR that seem like they will be exactly your taste 7. A booktuber you watch who has similar taste to you 8. Have you always had this taste in books or has it changed over time? 9. Tag some people!
Books mentioned: Falling Animals, Sheila Armstrong A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch The Woman In the Purple Skirt, Natsuko Imamura Girl Woman Other, Bernadine Evaristo Severance, Ling Ma Wordsworth Classics Short Stories from the 19th Century We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler Tender is the Flesh, Augustina Bazterrica Death Song, Jorgen Brekkie Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4 (2013) Four Days' Wonder, A A Milne An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good, Helene Tursten Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
My Ultimate Women's Prize Long List: Fingersmith, Sarah Waters Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver The Night Watch, Sarah Waters Life After Life, Kate Atkinson Burial Rites, Hannah Kent The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman The Pisces, Melissa Broder Girl Woman Other, Bernadine Evaristo Detransition Baby, Torrey Peters Consent, Annabel Lyon No-one is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood Piranesi, Susanna Clarke Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason I'm A Fan, Sheena Patel
Let me know what your favourite Women's Prize-nominated books are!
Find me on Story Graph at app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jenniferlovesbooks500 subs Q&A - call for questions!jenniferlovesbooks2024-02-18 | Please let me know any questions that you have for me. They can be book-related or non book-related. I am planning on filming the Q&A in around 3 weeks time so make sure you submit your questions!
Thank you to everyone who watches my videos, I am very grateful to you all.
Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong; spoiler-free book review
Find me on Story Graph at app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jenniferlovesbooksJanuary 2024 Wrap Up: #pastandfuturereadathon & finding a new book seriesjenniferlovesbooks2024-02-08 | January Wrap Up: featuring the #pastandfuturereadathon Hosts: Alice @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf Emily @novellenovels Gem @GemofBooks Jack @spreadbookjoy Dani @danisbookworld Charlie @CharlieBrookReads
Books mentioned: Heartstopper volume 5, Alice Osman Short stories from the 19th century, selected by David Stuart Davies The Stranding, Kate Sawyer Murdle, G T Karber The Mystery of Henri Pick, David Foenkinos Commonwealth, Ann Patchett Misery, Stephen King Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear Ghosts From The Library, selected by Tony Medawar Stoner, John Williams Girl Woman Other, Bernardine Evaristo The Pisces, Melissa Broder The Mill House Murders, Yukito Ayatsuji
Books mentioned: The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy Lie With Me, Philippe Besson, trans. Molly Ringwald None of the Above, Travis Alabanza Salt Slow, Julia Armfield Big Swiss, Jen Beagin Hercule Poirot's Silent Night, Sophie Hannah This Is Going To Hurt, Adam Kay Rouge, Mona Award The Man Who Could Not Shudder, John Dickson Carr I Have Some Questions For You, Rebecca Makkai Life After Life, Kate Atkinson Foe, Iain Reid Mrs S, K Patrick
Books mentioned: Night Side of the River, Jeanette Winterson The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood Kala, Colin Walsh The Sittaford Mystery, Agatha Christie My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier The White Priory Murders, Carter Dickson The Goodbye Cat, Hiro Arikawa Reflection, Diane Chamberlain The Woman In Me, Britney Spears Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Hosts: Alice @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf Emily @novellenovels Gem @GemofBooks Jack @spreadbookjoy Dani @danisbookworld Charlie @CharlieBrookReads
Prompts: Past: 1 Read the Oldest Book on your TBR 2 Old Favourite: Reread an old favourite or read a book by a favourite author 3 Bucket List : Read a book from your Bucket List or that you’ve always meant to get to!
Future 1 New Addition: Read a Recent addition to the TBR/your newest book 2 New Year’s Resolution: Read a book that gets you off to a good start with a reading goal. 3 Try Something New: Pick a Read Using a Colour Wheel
Either Past or Future (You choose) 1. Series Sort Out: Continue a series, or start a new one. 2. Book Buddy: Have a friend choose your book!
Moody Monday: A Mood read pick, any Monday of the month!
Books mentioned: The Fraud, Zadie Smith Between summer's longing and winter's end, Lief G W Person The Long Forgotten, David Whitehouse The Long Shadow, Celia Fremlin Sleep No More, P D James Necessary People, Anna Pitoniak Through A Glass, Darkly, Helen McCloy The Man Who Could Not Shudder, John Dickson Carr Ace, Angela Chen My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite Frankenstein, Mary Shelley The Night House, Jo Nesbo Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree Haven, Emma Donoghue Rouge, Mona Awad Hercule Poirot's Silent Night, Sophie Hannah
Questions: Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish? Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year? Is there a new release you're still waiting for? What are three books you want to read before the end of the year? Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favourite book of the year? Have you already started making reading plans for next year?
Books mentioned: The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters The Bee Sting, Paul Murray Study For Obedience, Sarah Bernstein Prime Suspect, Lynda La Plante The Haunting of Tyrese Walker, JP Rose The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa This Other Eden, Paul Harding The Last Word, Taylor Adams The Whistling, Rebecca Netley The Changing Man, Tomi Oyemakinde Foe, Iain Reid The Hole, Hye-Young Pyun The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez The Rats, James Herbert Nightbloom, Peace Adzo Medie Western Lane, Chetna Maroo
Prompts: 1. Are you in (or have you ever been in) a book club? Are you in more than one book club? (if you answer “no” to this, see the alternate questions below) 2. What is your book club or clubs like? How many people are in it? How often do you meet? Does your club have a specific focus? 3. What book generated the best book club discussion in your experience? 4. Has your club read a book that was great to read, but not great for conversation? 5. Is there a book you would like your book club to read and discuss? 6. If you could invite an author (dead or alive) to your book club to discuss their body of work, who would it be?
If answer is “no” to #1 2. Is there a reason why you are not in a book club? (such as, it isn’t a format that appeals to you, there isn’t one in your area, etc). 3. Do you have some other avenue for discussing books? Do you have friends you buddy read with or do you do all your discussing on Book Tube? 4. Is there a book that you would be willing to “drop in” on a book club to discuss? 5. Is there an author (dead or alive) you would like to have a one-on-one discussion with to talk about their body of work?
Books mentioned: A Pocketful of Rye, Agatha Christie The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan Black Water Lilies, Michel Bussi A Spell of Good Things, Ayobami Adebayo This Is Going To Hurt, Adam Kay Death In Fancy Dress, Anthony Gilbert Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny Found In A Bookshop, Stephanie Butland Rainbow Rainbow, Lydia Conklin They Do It With Mirrors, Agatha Christie Lie With Me, Philippe Besson Prophet Song, Paul Lynch If I Survive You, Jonathan Escoffrey The Bee Sting, Paul Murray Locks, Ashleigh Nugent
Books mentioned: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters Foe, Iain Reid The Whistling, Rebecca Netley The Hole, Hye-Young Pyun The Anomaly, Michael Rutger The Rats, James Herbert The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez Ghost Stories, MR James The Haunting of Tyrese Walker, JP Rose The Changing Man, Tomi Oyemakinde
Books mentioned: The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante Yellowface, Rebecca F Kuang A House With Good Bones, T Kingfisher Biography of X, Catherine Lacey The Kraken Wakes, John Wyndham Such Small Hands, Andrés Barba The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis Old God's Time, Sebastian Barry Uncle Paul, Celia Fremlin Pearl, Sian Hughes Penance, Eliza Clark The Dos and Donuts of Love, Abida Jaigirdar In Ascension, Martin McInnes How To Build A Boat, Elaine Feeney Mrs S, K Patrick
Find me on Buy Me a Coffee buymeacoffee.com/jenniferlovesbooksWhy You Should Rereadjenniferlovesbooks2023-08-28 | All the reasons why I love to reread books and why you should reread too! My most reread books and the books on my soon-to-be-reread list.
Let me know if you like to reread and which book you have reread the most and why!
Channels mentioned: @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf The Biggest Books In My Life! (Read and To Be Read) | Do I Like Massive Mammoth Books? youtube.com/watch?v=CPM51wlUohs&t=17s
Books read: The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters Life After Life, Kate Atkinson The Magus, John Fowles House of Leaves, Mark Z Danielewski The Stand, Stephen King
Books on the TBR: The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk The Black Book, Orhan Pamuk The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Imogen Hermes Gowar Fatherland, Robert Harris Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End, Leif G W Person The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver Somersault, Kenzaburo Oe Gate of the Sun, Elias Khoury The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Books mentioned: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M Valente States of Passion, Nihad Sirees The Ice Lands, Steinar Bragi Cat Lady, Dawn O'Porter Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan A Brief Stay With The Living, Marie Darrieussecq We Begin At The End, Chris Whitaker The Chimes, Anna Small My Murder, Katie Williams Something I'm Not, Lucy Beresford Birnam Wood, Eleanor Carton A Table Near The Band, AA Milne Rilla of Ingleside, LM Montgomery Pageboy, Elliot Page The Locked Room Mysteries, ed. Otto Penzler
My ultimate Booker longlist: The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro Disgrace, JM Coetzee Fingersmith, Sarah Waters Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller The Night Watch, Sarah Waters The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh Girl Woman Other, Bernadine Evaristo Love And Other Thought Experiments, Sophie Ward A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood Trust, Hernan Diaz
Let me know which books would make your ultimate Booker longlist!
Let me know if you've read this book and what you thought of it!
Find me on Story Graph at app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jenniferlovesbooksBook Haul!jenniferlovesbooks2023-07-23 | Book haul of second hand and new books! Books mentioned: We Are All Birds Of Uganda, Hafsa Zayyan Yellow Crocus, Laila Ibrahim The Way Out, Luigi Pirandello Short Stories from the 19th Century, selected by David Stuart Davies Best British Short Stories 2018, ed. Nicholas Royle Ghost Stories, M R James The Mystery of Henri Pick, David Foenkinos Eight Detectives, Alex Pavesi Life After Life, Kate Atkinson Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi Severance, Ling Ma The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, Soji Shimada The Woman in the Purple Skirt, Natsuko Imamura The Doll's Alphabet, Camilla Grudova
Books mentioned: The Black Flamingo, Dean Atta The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters Outrageous, Paul Baker Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong I Have Some Questions For You, Rebecca Makkai The Wintringham Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Carol, Patricia Highsmith Her Body And Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado The Cabin At The End Of The World, Paul Tremblay Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor The No-Show, Beth O'Leary The Locked Room, Ellie Griffiths Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson