0:03 intro 1:05 okay days 2:50 the sleepy watcher 4:15 bonjour tristesse 5:24 blue horses 6:33 mrs. s 8:26 against interpretation 9:58 outline 12:44 haruko/love poems 13:58 the girls 16:04 a horse at night: on writing 18:03 call me by your name 19:00 we were liars 20:51 outro p.s. loved the video, lady dakota

@coolbluecarpet491

Күн бұрын

She shoulve don’t this herself but thank you😭

@spalanai

23 сағат бұрын

@@coolbluecarpet491 most welcome, love 💙

ah dakota how lovely are you even? can't tell you how much it means that you liked my silly little novel. much love darling x

The inseparables by Simone De Beauvoir is a gorgeous book on an obsessive female friendship that borders on sapphic love which takes place during the summer heat

@vitoriar8753

11 ай бұрын

thanks for recommending this!!! sounds like my jam, will pick it up :)))

@hadriankun

11 ай бұрын

Agree! I have not stop thinking abt that book since finishing it

@frerardenthusiasm

Ай бұрын

THE USERNAME😭😭😭😭

@Lesbians4blade

Ай бұрын

@@frerardenthusiasm ok uh um I like blade from star rail a normal amount

I read we were liars when I was 14 too, and it definitely made me fall in love with reading again. I sobbed for probably an hour at the end

no other youtuber shares my taste like you dakota omg 😭😭😭 there's never a recommendation from you that i don't like or didn't intend to read it already it's crazy

I was desperate for a Dakota upload and then I refreshed and there you were ❤

@Butterfly-ue1ph

10 ай бұрын

Dude you legit manifested her into your KZread feed! That’s powerful!

I’m so glad you mentioned We Were Liars! Even though most people dislike it, I love it sm💓

i’m in love with ur hair lenght rn!!

it’s videos like these that made me fall head over heals in love with reading when i first started watching your videos a few years ago. thank you

loved the book recs per usual, also the beethoven piece playing in the background. i’m currently playing it with my sister and it’s a lot of fun xx

You have great recommendations. We all look forward to see what else you have in store.

always my go-to for book recs, thank you

thank you for this video! i really needed it. you’re truly such a beautiful soul and you radiate comfort 🫶

okay i reaallly enjoyed we were liars…it was just so full of privilege and horrendous people lol which were just fascinating in a weird and maybe macabre way?? AND YES THE DOGS MADE ME SOB. i can understand why people didn’t like it but i thought it was soo fun and interesting

I just read Call Me By Your Name and We Were Liars, actually! (we were liars was because you mentioned it, yes I cried) I read them on holiday along with Mythos by Stephen Fry which was a Greek mythology retelling, and obviously I brought my copy of On Sun Swallowing! I'm home now, and I've just read Carmilla because you mention it so often, and I loved living in that little world for a while, and now I'm onto Frankenstein :) Now I've watched this I definitely want to read Mrs. S and The Girls and Blue Horses this summer.. thank you for reawakening my love of reading, I needed it lots of love

I truly could listen to Dakota praysing books for hours. ❤

Exactly the reading list I needed for this summer! Will definitely be reading

I recently read Bonjour tristesse due to your recommendation and fell in love with it

Definitely adding the Sleep Watcher to my list!

Dakota i was wondering if you would do a outfits video like you had done in the past ! I loved watching it

i knew you'd say we were liars the second you said it was controversial. when you mentioned it in your first ever video it was the book that made me know I can trust your taste, it's still one of my all time favourites, it changed my life and opened up a whole new writing style to me! love love love

i recently got okay days i'm hoping to read it soon but it sounds so good! a horse at night is amazing and bonjour tristesse is MUST read for the summertime if you haven't read it i recommend reading august blue by deborah levy, i just finished it and reviewed it and overall it was really good :)

I read bonjour tristesse at the ile-de-re in France after seeing it in this video. I loved it. And it was true that you are transported there and the best bit was when I looked up and realised I WAS there. It was a brilliant book and the vibes were immaculate. Thank you xx

i was just watching ur old vlogs because i'm missing u and suddenly u dropped this.... oh my god

I just finished Family of Liars in July. I couldn’t put it down. I can’t wait to read We Were Liars this month!

My all time favourite summer read by a French author is Le Blé en Herbe by Colette. It’s a short and bittersweet coming of age/love story set in Bretagne.

I met Jenny Mustard at her waterstones! She's lovely and Okay Days is a great book❤ much love!

i love the girls and bonjour tristesse !!!! such good summer reads

every time you upload i feel like having a party, i love ur channel

✨Based on this, I think we have quite different taste in books, but I COMPLETELY AGREE with you about We We’re Liars ✨ I was shocked with the ending and it really made me think deeply about attachment to stuff when Cadence gives away her belongings. And man, the dogs 😢😭

omg i read we were liars as a teenager too and i LOVED it too lmao, i feel like people hate on it because they weren't the target audience and already knew about the plot twist

What book would you suggest after a breakup? Like the breakup has put me in a book slump cos I used to enjoy reading and sharing with someone else ❤

Hey, Dakota! I also love Susan Sontag, Mary Oliver and Elena Ferrante! 🤎 Greetings from Brazil!

Love your book recommendations Dakota ❤

few summers ago I read a book by Saverio Strati and every summer since when I get heat-induced migraines I remember reading about madness and ingenuity and the human condition

SO EXCITED!! ❤

I'm almost done with "the girls" which I picked up because of this video. I love it, I can't believe how many people don't like that book on Goodreads!

wake up babe, a new dakota video has dropped

Thank you, Dakota. I needed that.

Call me by my name sounds epic romance and can’t wait to read it 😊

I always love the recommendations, but this time I'm also dying to know where your top is from!

I also love Elena Ferrante and Susan Sontag! 🤎

babe wake up dakota posted ❤️❤️

i finally finished call me by your name a few weeks ago and i LOVED IT i saw so much of myself in elio it changed my life it’s so beautifully written oh my god i was devastated by the last paragraph i stayed up till 6 AM to finish it i literally saw the sunrise and i was SOBBING on my bed i couldn’t fall asleep after. it took me a year to read i won’t lie i started it last august and stopped half way through but i’m a mood reader so i do what ever feels right to me then i picked it back up in early july and holy shit. THE BEST summer novel ever. i haven’t stopped thinking abt it since. way better than the movie

I still have yet to read bonjour tristesse but I haven’t read any books since my breakup and I hate that cos I love books

Adore the passion you have towards the content you consume... I cannot wait to pick some of these up. ❤

Hope you write more books you are amazing author 😊

The girls sounds and fun and love that definitely going to read it ❤

I missed you!💗

mrs. s is one of my new favourite books !

i also read we were liars at 14 and it changed my summer

pablo neruda!! i hope u've read him!!! he's goated

Read Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore if you enjoy Mary Oliver ❤

Dakota, you look well!

Ich habe von bislang keinem der Bücher jemals etwas gehört😅🤔 trotz dessen ein interessantes Video, bei dem man inspiriert wird ☺️📚

new viewer here, & ur energy is like a breath of fresh air :)

What I did notice in the girls was how many times the author used to describe “fat/chubby” characters and paint them as losers/awkward people or showed them in a bad light. Idk if it should’ve portrayed the way teenage girls think or if the author is kinda fatphobic🤷

@hollyjayde6796

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for pointing this out! I'm waiting for my copy to arrive, so it's nice to have a heads-up. I'd like to think the author isn't fatphobic but in this society it almost feels like asking too much

@laura2301100

11 ай бұрын

you're welcome!! and indeed :/

I loved We Were Liars! Lol

i LOVE we were liars!

another fellow Rachel cusk enjoyer!!!

Oh Dakota, you don't have to mention the dogs 😢

please talk about your love life, I would listen to you narate your phone book

My favorite human ever ❤

me when dakota keeps bring up okay days LOLOL

i understand why some people don't like we were liars but i do lol

not me casually adding all 12 to my cart 💀

me 🤝 dakota loving elena ferrante

Was kinda waiting for Eve Babitz to be recommended at some point, but you didn't so I will do it for you. She's perfect for summer

i was in the hospital the past week, this is the most perfect timing 🖤

@user-zy4ii8cd2f

11 ай бұрын

Why

@sovaylove

11 ай бұрын

@@user-zy4ii8cd2f epilepsy 🥲

Someone tell me if the dogs are harmed in we were liars cause if yes i aint reading that shit

Book recommendation for you! "I who have never known men" by Jacqueline Harpman♡♡

I would highly recommend La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc! A relatively lesser known author, it seems, at least among English speakers.. though she was friend and mentee of Simone de Beauvoir and entrenched in the French literary scene of the time. La Bâtarde is her autiobiography, an extremely intimate self-portrait, and it is absolutely dazzling. She carries the shame of having been born out of wedlock-a 'bastard'-as well as being conventionally unattractive. Her portrayal of girlhood is raw and unyielding, and we see her relationships with both men and women. She has such a unique voice.. her prose electrifies. Here is a small excerpt: "Oh God how I longed for a change, oh God how I longed to love Hermine more than myself, oh God how I was beginning to love her, oh God how I longed for a kind of saintliness within our reach: an everyday and never-ending smile."

@petrichorpse

11 ай бұрын

So much amazing writing in La Bâtarde but I would also like to highlight the first paragraph specifically it is so.....: "My case is not unique: I am afraid of dying and distressed at being in this world. I haven't worked, I haven't studied. I have wept, I have cried out in protest. These tears and cries have taken up a great deal of my time. I am tortured by all that time lost whenever I think about it. I cannot think about things for long, but I can find pleasure in a withered lettuce leaf offering me nothing but regrets to chew over. There is no sustenance in the past. I shall depart as I arrived. Intact, loaded down with the defects that have tormented me. I wish I had been born a statue; I am a slug under my dunghill. Virtues, good qualities, courage, meditation, culture. With arms crossed on my breast I have broken myself against those words."

Mrs S destroyed me.

urghh Dakota you are so incredibly beautiful

Sorry who hates we were liars? Let's have a conversation lmao

Do you also face up and down

You have some of THE best book recommendations! I love how you introduce me to books I‘ve never heard of before and they always end up being incredible. 🫶🏻

Your recommendations are very interesting and I love the quite music in the background. 💕📚🎻🥰 But I don’t get why so many people like call me by your name; I found it so boring. 👀🥱

Ha- I take the covers off for the opposite reason- I love them and will destroy them if I leave them on while reading . Blahdiggityblah, appreciate the video 📖🪱💚