The Book Leo
How To Read Critically and Engage More With Books
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welcome to the ultimate fall reading vlog! let's go book shopping, find the perfect fall books and do lots of reading!
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
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edited by: femke jezebel
00:00 intro
1:58 the dating problem
7:36 how men talk vs women
17:54 questioners vs open sharers
sources:
Why aren’t men asking women questions on dates anymore?, Juno Kelly. The Independent (2024) independent.co.uk/life-style/dating-men-questions-conversation-b2533925.html
Men Aren’t Asking Women Questions on Dates. It’s a Problem, Logan Mahan. Insidehook (2024) insidehook.com/sex-and-dating/men-arent-asking-women-questions-dates
Why Don’t Men Ask Me More Questions On Dates?, Sophia Benoit. Bustle (2023) bustle.com/wellness/i-ask-him-questions-but-he-doesnt-ask-me-any-on-dates
Question Askers and Open Sharers, Nicole Gravagna. Huffington Post (2017) huffpost.com/entry/question-askers-and-open-sharers-how-different-conversation_b_59c5e5d7e4b08d66155042ad
How to connect more to someone with a different conversational style, Metafilter (2020) ask.metafilter.com/350831/How-to-connect-more-to-someone-with-a-different-conversational-style
Wordslut, Amanda Montell (2020)
Linguistics, a graphic guide, RL Trask & Bill Mayblin (2009)
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
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today we do a deep dive into tiktok's new favourite genre: romantasy! aka romance fantasy books. where did it come from? why is it so popular all of a sudden? and is it really as feminist as people think?
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00:00 intro
1:09 romantasy's sudden popularity
6:56 why can no one agree on a definition?
12:42 ACOTAR
20:00 romantasy & Young Adult fantasy
25:33 romantasy & spice
30:07 is romantasy more feminist fantasy?
sources:
What is romantasy? The best-selling book trend, explained, Sarah Wendell. The Washinton Post (2024)
Romantasy was 2023’s hottest book genre, Eli Cucini. Dazed (2024)
A genre of swords and soulmates: the rise and rise of ‘romantasy’ novels, Ella Creamer. The Guardian (2024)
Dragons and Sex Are Now a $610 Million Business Sweeping Publishing, Ella Ceron. Bloomberg (2024)
What is romantasy? Our experts explain the bestselling book trend, Jodi McAlister & Kate Cuthbert. The Conversation (2024)
Audited Preliminary Results for the year ended 29 February 2024. Bloomsbury Publishing (2024)
The Mortal Queen of Faerie Smut, Kathryn VanArdendonk. Vulture (2024)
Who’s Reading Romantasy?, Joanne O’Sullivan. Publishers Weekly (2024)
How ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ broke the romance lit taboo, Financial Times Podcast (2024)
Romantasy - The biggest genre you’re not aware of?, The Rest is Entertainment with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde (2024)
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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my dark academia book deep dive: youtube.com/watch?v=MC88ehQ14c4
00:00 intro
2:47 atmospheric books
7:13 gothic novels
9:47 dark fantasy
13:52 spooky books
16:04 horror
20:59 romance
23:19 classics
27:50 dark academia
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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so happy to back!!! in this vlog i take you on the journey of me moving to a different city, while reading 3 popular books about love!
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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book reviews for:
a psalm for the wild built
this is how you lose the time war
rouge
crudo
the tao of pooh
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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today i'm judging your, psycho analysing you and roasting your bookshelves!! hopefully you enjoyed these little tips on how you to improve your bookshelf organisation!
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 26 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
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quick reviews for every book i read so far in 2024, ranked from worst to best! for my doing, i've read a lot of books the past 6 months, most of them mediocre, but i'm still very excited to share my thoughts with you :)
Room Tour on my second channel: youtu.be/5peQhEyOV9c?si=wctxFIzxXIGTx5Tv
Reading the most popular short stories: youtu.be/R75KmrqkFGw?si=9CTaozYutjSRORpX
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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today i am reading negative reviews of my favourite books, just to feel something!
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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welcome to another reading wrap up!
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book reviews for:
00:00 intro
1:00 graphic guides
3:05 the age of magical overthinking
8:48 you're already enough
11:20 the woman who scammed the world
13:34 emily wilde
15:40 powerless
17:40 bride
20:12 perfume
22:12 white nights
23:35 a dowry of blood
26:05 the familiar
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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▸twitter.com/jokabibeats
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Twilight, The Hunger Games, every Young Adult book ever...what do they have in common? The notorious love triangle! With the popularity of love triangle film Challengers, I thought that it's about time we revisit this lovely trope.
00:00 intro
1:57 historical love triangles
8:39 young adult love triangles
21:08 messy love triangles & challengers
24:48 touching corners
sources:
George Sand and the nineteenth-century russian love-triangle novels, Dawn Eidelman (1994)
LOVE TRIANGLE IN SERBIAN NARRATIVE PROSE OF THE 19TH AND FIRST DECADE OF THE 20TH CENTURY, Tatjana Ivanović (2011)
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brönte (1847)
Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer (2007)
Challengers is a killer love triangle romance that hates love, Jackson Weaver, CBC News (2024)
‘Challengers’ Stars Put New Spins (and Slices and Volleys) on the Love Triangle, Kyle Buchanan, The New York Times (2024)
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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▸twitter.com/jokabibeats
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Nina's video: youtube.com/watch?v=4vMTWso4PXA
Leora's video: youtube.com/watch?v=ymcB4HHL5S8
Books mentioned:
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevski
A Graphic Guide to Chaos Theory
Against Interpretation & other essays by Susan Sontag
Emily Wildes Map to the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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▸twitter.com/jokabibeats
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another episode of me testing books that are popular on tiktok! this time i read and review Powerless by Lauren Roberts, Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett and Bride by Ali Hazelwood. This one truuuly a ride.
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00:00 cozy fae fantasy
11:00 the new hunger games?
31:13 weird werewolf fanfic
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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▸twitter.com/jokabibeats
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i wanted to make a video about all those book tropes on tiktok and ended up talking about fairytales, fanfiction and post-structuralism.
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00:00 intro
5:35 is originality dead?
17:18 fanfiction
28:18 beyond structure
35:51 the alternative
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sources
essays:
Mackenzie A Parsons, "Once Upon a Time, Again: Exploring the Function of Fairy Tale Retellings" (2023). Theses and Dissertations. 10198.
Vladimir Propp, "Morphology of the folktale" (1928, revised and translated to english 1968)
Claude Levi- Strauss, Structures and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp (1958)
Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)
books:
Catherine Belsey, "Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction" (2002)
online articles:
Booktoks tropeification of literature is problematic: bupipedream.com/opinions/booktoks-trope-ification-of-literature-is-problematic/133023
Are tropes ruining books? michigandaily.com/arts/books/are-tropes-ruining-books
Marketing books through tropes and how it affects the publishing industry: bookish-delights.com/marketing-books-through-tropes-and-how-it-affects-the-publishing-industry
Controversial book lover opinions: buzzfeed.com/isabeldaly/controversial-book-lover-opinions
Harvard Library Research Guide for Folklore and Mythology: https://guides.library.harvard.edu/folk_and_myth/indices#:~:text=A%20motif%20is%20the%20smallest,plot%20or%20group%20of%20motifs
Cinderella: Aarne-Thompson-Uther folktale type 510A and related stories of persecuted heroines: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510a.html
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).
🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi
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the video idea is even older than i thought (so not what i said in the video), check out the original video here: youtu.be/nKTIFpsyWbA?si=B1UAo4kKrYxp3VTy
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00:00 jeff bezos x exploited employee fanfiction
26:33 rowan reaches peak creep
39:48 my analysis
45:07 the bizarre ending
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let's discuss all the books i read in the recent months!
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book reviews for:
one dark window - rachel gillig
two twisted crowns - rachel gillig
the prisoner’s throne - holly black
the starless sea - erin morgenstern
the fine print - lauren asher
word slut - amanda montell
against interpretation - susan sontag
eigen welzijn eerst - roxane van iperen
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today we discuss that time that every young adult fantasy book was a fairytale retelling!
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sources:
New heroines in old skins: Fairy tale revisions in young adult dystopian literature, Jill Coste (2020)
Once Upon a Time, Again: Exploring the Function of Fairy Tale Retellings, Mackenzie A. Parsons (2023)
A gazillion different fairytales who's names I have shown on screen - I will spare you the long list here.
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this video chronicles my first ever solo trip, to Edinburgh, Scotland. i overcome all my anxieties (sort of), visit beautiful book shops and natural parcs, and do a lot of reading in coffeeshops :) hope you enjoy!
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today we are discussing the topic of romance books being considered 'cringe'. As someone who loves romance books, but also often criticises them, i thought it would be interesting to go over some common reasons why people dislike romance books, and discuss them! at the end i will recommend to you my favourite romance novels :)
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welcome to another review roundup of the books i recently read!
review for:
• belladonna by adalyn grace
• stories of your life and others by ted chiang
• wuthering heights by emily bronte
• angela carter's book of fairytales
• the erl king by angela carter
• the bloody chamber by angela carter
• slaying the vampire conquerer by carissa broadbent
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today we are ranking and rapid fire reviewing every book i read in 2023! the worst books, the best books, it's all here!
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In this video I am planning my tbr for 2024 and setting some reading related goals (although no number goals or goodreads challenge).
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hello everyone! today we are rounding up 2023 with the very best books i read this year. let my know what your favourite books was!
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today we are looking back at all the dystopian young adult books from the hunger games era, and rank them based on how ridiculous their dystopian societies were! im also exposing my horrible teenage writing projects
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time for a deep dive into coriolanus snow from the ballad of songbirds and snakes and the hunger games and a review of his character! i have infinitely more thoughts that i could not possibly fit into this video, so i decided to just focus on how the state of nature debate influences snow's decent into villainy. hope you enjoy and let my know all of your theories!
00:00 intro
4:50 the importance of the opening scene
7:03 TBOSAS plot summary
10:31 sejanus plinth
14:50 dr gaul
22:07 snow forms his ideas
27:57 lucy gray baird
35:01 snow's nature
40:28 the final scene
sources
on veneer theory: https://shorturl.at/IY368
on veneer theory: https://shorturl.at/wCJZ1
Suzanne collins interview: https://shorturl.at/cwCI0
on the social contract: britannica.com/topic/social-contract
on the state of nature: britannica.com/topic/state-of-nature-political-theory
on Hobbes: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/
on Rousseau: theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/15/rousseau-shows-us-way-break-chains
on Rousseau: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/#Educ
on Locke: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/#HumaNatuGodsPurp
on Locke: https://shorturl.at/atzJS
on political philosophy: History of Political Philosophy, 2018-2019, Leiden University
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00:00 intro
1:37 the hunger games retrospective
6:57 TBOSBAS introduction
11:31 TBOSBAS vs The Hunger Games
15:06 the book vs the movie
22:50 was this just a cash grab?
24:32 sympathy for the devil
28:06 is snow too hot? lol
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today i have a new video essay for you guys ! this one is a deep dive into witchy characters: evil witches, empowered witches, cozy witches - all of them!
my deep dive playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgKswbo9NMjsm30JOLxO79tD2jyk8focb&si=XqNWO8nBAhk0cLbF
00:00: intro
3:46: witch hunts & woman hate
14:58 the empowered witch
19:53: the witch as a victim
30:12 the "witch paradox"
38:27 conclusion
sources:
Witch, BBC Radio 4
Mary E. Corey. Matilda Joslyn Gage: A Nineteenth Century Women’s Rights Historian Looks at Witchcraft. OAH Magazine of History, 2003.
Sempruch, Justyna. Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature. Purdue University Press, 2008.
Matilda Joslyn Gage. Woman, Church and State, The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex. 1893
theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/07/witchcraft-economics-reformation-catholic-protestant-market-share
https://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Phil%20281b/Philosophy%20of%20Magic/Arcana/Witchcraft%20and%20Grimoires/case_witchhunts.html
scrippsnews.com/stories/how-witches-went-from-folklore-to-feminist-icons
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/24/why-the-witch-hunt-victims-of-early-modern-britain-have-come-back-to-haunt-us
huffpost.com/entry/witches-are-feminist-icons_n_5616c9dfe4b0dbb8000dad40
https://theclassicjournal.uga.edu/index.php/2021/04/07/troubling-the-witch/
english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/eight-witchcraft-myths
The Podcast Episode on Midwives: digpodcast.org/2020/09/06/doctor-healer-midwife-witch-how-the-the-womens-health-movement-created-the-myth-of-the-midwife-witch
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books mentioned in this video:
art matters - neil gaiman
the love hypothesis - ali hazelwood
assistant to the villain - hannah nicole maehrer
nettle and bone - t kingfisher
slewfoot - brom
a study in drowning - ava reid
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Join me during the past few weeks, looking for my next fantastic read! It's been too long since I've read a book that I gave 5 stars, and I am determined to find one before the end of the year!
the devil bookmark: leoraileen.com/product-page/tarot-the-devil-and-the-world-gold-foil-bookmarks
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00:00 the books that shaped my taste
13:07 my current favourites
17:40 the best 3
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today we discuss a popular and beloved trope: the death tournament or battle royale. popularized by the hunger games, started by 'battle royale', now a trope that is common in books and tv. let's analyse its history, why we love it so much and why i personally think it so often misses the mark
sources:
• https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2014/may.htm
• cagesideseats.com/2013/3/9/4028970/battle-royal-WWE-Boxing-wrestling-with-past-origins-history-combat-sports-part-one
• cagesideseats.com/2013/3/10/4070146/wrestling-with-past-battle-royal-WWE-Boxing-part-two
• badancient.com/claims/gladiator-deaths
00:00 intro
1:55 history of the battle royale trope
17:42 why is the trope so popular?
20:35 how battle royale stories fail
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today we are discussing this book that caught my eye because i love villain romances!
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00:00 first impressions
3:56 why villain romance is so popular
11:26 should you read this book?
17:05 my major gripe
18:35 analysing the tiktoks
21:24 what i would have changed
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today i'm listening to your very specific autumnal book requests and recommending a book based on all the very niche vibes your sent in!
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in order to find the perfect books for my autumn tbr, we're going book shopping, going through my shelves and checking out fall new releases :)
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time for another reading wrap up!
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book review for:
the bridge kingdom - danielle l jensen
immortal longings - chloe gong
all for the game (the foxhole court, the raven king & the king's men) - nora sakavic
the left hand of darkness - ursula k leguin
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00:00 intro
2:33 the foxhole court
40:01 the raven king
1:18:39 the king's men
1:52:39 my thoughts
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today we are decluttering and reorganising my bookshelves, and turning my entire room into a mini-library
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00:00 my unconventional plan
5:18 decluttering the shelves
8:24 decluttering the books scattered throughout my room
18:16 styling the books
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let's take a nostalgia pill and look back on the time the fantasy genre became highly popular within the young adult demographic! i remember this time as the moment i discovered fantasy as a genre so i look back on it very fondly. hopefully this video brought up some fun memories for you too!
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let's do a quick review on every book i read so far this year, and rank them from worst to best!
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my Romance Fantasy video: youtu.be/ne4jU3zBx0k
Elliot Brooks video about Fourth Wing: youtu.be/v2CggSG6Nmw
review for:
• fourth wing (kind of) - rebecca yarros
• heroes and villains - angela carter
• juniper and thorn - ava reid
• the adventures of amina al-sirafi - shannon chakraborty
• the serpent and the wings of night - carissa broadbent
• bitterthorn - katt dunn
• divine rivals - rebecca ross
• the bell jar - sylvia plath
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The model I'm wearing in this video: Native - Black mesh strap - Gun metal - 36mm
today we are reading the romance fantasy genre that ive been seeing all over tiktok!
review for:
- The serpent and the wings of night by Carissa Broadbent
- Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn
- Divine rivals by Rebecca Ross
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a little deep dive in the how the appearance of fae has changed over time in the english world. let me know if there are other topics you would like me to explore!
00:00 intro
3:41 fae worldbuilding is chaos
11:06 history of the fae appearance
18:17 fae sensuality
25:40 ACOTAR fae vs Cruel Prince fae
sources used:
writinginmargins.weebly.com/home/summer-and-winter-courts-of-faerie
britishfairies.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/the-fairest-of-the-fair-fae-beauty
britishfairies.wordpress.com/tag/painting
britishfairies.wordpress.com/2019/05/05/little-they-slept-that-night-fairy-love-and-fairy-passion
theguardian.com/mythical-creatures/ng-interactive/2019/aug/26/most-legendary-mythical-creatures-history
terriwindling.com/anthologies/fantasy-magic-fairyland-in-19th-century-england.html
http://www.romtext.org.uk/the-evolution-of-the-romantic-fairy
artincontext.org/fairy-paintings
http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Th-W/Victorian-Art.html
eu.usatoday.com/story/happyeverafter/2014/12/23/vilma-gonzalez-sarah-maas-heather-lyons-interview/20769125
shewrites.com/blog/view/2894320/holly-black-on-fantasy-faeries-advice
(fan)artists are mentioned on screen
art used in thumbnail is from Cecily Mary Barker (left) and Charlie Bowater (right)
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