The Way Way Back is such an incredible film that I feel not enough people know so I'm stoked that you mention it as one of your favorites!!

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I like it more and more every time I watch it 😊

I'm just watching this no, after a couple of weeks of posting and this is the reminder for the video about getting out of reading slumps. I want the video 😅

Was fun to watch you blush. I am so glad I found you. Your new fan from North Dakota☃️❄️☃️❄️☃️

Congrats Rick!

Full-time lurker but just want to say I appreciate your insight and book discussions

This was so enjoyable, Rick. Congrats on the 5K - so well-deserved. Can’t wait to watch Spider-Man now!!!!😉

Wonderful video.. congrats on 5K!!... Happy New Year from Nova Scotia!!

Yaay, congrats, Rick! 🙌 Can't wait to get free and hop on my couch to watch the whole thing🥃Cheers!

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks in advance 😊

Congrats! My husband has been telling me for years that I should read Tailchaser's Song. I just checked and my library has it available! So I am adding that to my plans for 2022.

Love your channel. Shorter videos---Yea. I subscribe to many, many booktubes. Can't watch all--often choose the shorter and/or content but shorter often wins. Great video. some wonderful questions--especially about the bands. Always looking for good recommendations

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

I always wish my videos were shorter for this very reason. It’s hard for people to watch all of these! I keep trying 😂 thanks for watching, Kerry

yes Spiderman No Way Home! WOW!!!! Also, Edith Wharton is going on my list. Happy 2021

You are always such a joy to watch and listen to! Congrats on your success, Rick! I am old enough to remember you in the shower crying while drinking wine LOL! EDIT: Where should I start with Edith Wharton, Rick?

Gerard Way is an actual underappreciated genius! Also totally agree on Rob Bells books, really he's writing it on the page as if he would be delivering it as a sermon I think.

and congrats

I haven’t heard someone mention Relient K in ages. They were my band back in the day.

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

I’m still pining for one more album at least 🥺

I've never heard of anyone else saying 500 Days of Summer is one of their favourite movies and this fact definitely makes me like you even more, Rick! Its soundtrack is amazinggg. Also, if spoiling GoT for your brother is one of the worst things you've ever done, I think you're a pretty good person LOL Really looking forward to the video on the reading slump :) happy holidays!

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

500 Days seems to have been somewhat forgotten about. It’s kinda niche at this point. Sad 😞 It’s a perfect movie. Thanks for watching, Sarah!

Hey man, so good to learn more about you. I have the exact same job title lol. It caught me off guard!

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, nice! Marketing buds, unite!

@BrandonsBookshelf

2 жыл бұрын

@@RickMacDonnell Ha indeed! Great video, very inspiring to see how you've grown. just started a few months ago and love your style man!

I'm not even gonna make a joke. I loved every single moment of this video. And oh my god the quality of these questions!

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

But who even are we anymore if we’re not mocking each other to cover the sexual tension

@WillowTalksBooks

2 жыл бұрын

@@RickMacDonnell We are tension... personified

I’m new here, but you should totally read Becky Chambers. She’s amazing. I’d start with The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet for delightful found family tropes and cozy sci fi.

'Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel...' William Shakespeare, from Hamlet.

You make me finally feel that it’s OK if I never read Ready Player One. It’s always held up as a landmark YA book, but I despise the author and felt I should remain open minded enough to get beyond that, but you saying how awful it is gives me permission to never read it, thank you.

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

Michael, it is so bad you’d be doing yourself a disservice by reading it LOL. Happy to help

Ditto re: Becky Chambers! Her books sound so good that I'm almost scared to read them in case I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't like her, lol

😂😂 Congratulations

Rick, the 1-2 punch between your super emo music tastes and choosing Dorothy as your Golden Girl: be still my heart. 😅

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

LOL! We contain multitudes 😂

Please read Tales of When by N.Dahir I would love to hear your thoughts

Just so you know I would watch like hour long videos of yours, just sayin’! 😂🥰

I know very little about basketball but as an aussie I go for the utah jazz as they have my fav joe ingles.

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

Ingles is the best! What a guy 😂 I truly adore that man. Thanks for watching!

Omg I freaking love The Way Way Back. And A Wizard of Earthsea is trashhh. Congrats on 5k my friend 🎉

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this validated 😭 thank youuuuu

So half of the people are subscribed to your channel, because of the A Little Life review? The one book we ever did as a buddy read? So does some of the fame belongs to me too? 😉😂 Well, actually you never mentioned the buddy read in the video, as far as I remember and I never sued you so far. And now that I know that you don't monetise your channel, I most likely never will. 🤣 Congratulations to the 5k, Rick!

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

Feel free to sue me: you'll get exactly half of no money 😂 Thanks for watching, Amelia :)

I couldn't find a little book life on Instagram. Looking for your buddy Leo.

@RickMacDonnell

Жыл бұрын

He now goes by leoslittlebooklife ✌🏻

I've gotten off the bucket list bandwagon. I am a listmaker so of course I made one years ago and I am no longer interested in most of the items I put on the list. I thought wassail meant caroling??? 🤯

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

The word is old English for a toast to good health, I believe. So I think that’s where the word crossover happens 😂

😳 what about ready player one didn't you like? I listened to it as an audio book over covid while going for walks and it was such a warm blanket of neostalgia. Ready player 2 sucked...

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

Hey friend :) If you go to goodreads for that book, and filter the 1-star reviews, mine is the third one that shows up LOL. Easier to explain with that.

Truly a top notch thumbnail, Richard. I genuinely do not believe you were ever any age other than 37. The lies are unbearable.

Wait, hi! I know I’m late… but Columbus bluejackets?! Why?? I live in Columbus! But you’re Canadian??

@katecollins2471

2 жыл бұрын

Wow also early-mid 2000s pop punk IS the best.

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a long story, Kate 😂 Long story short … I love underdog teams and chose to follow them early on when they were a scrappy rag tag bunch. Been almost 20 years of intense fandom now 😊

@katecollins2471

2 жыл бұрын

@@RickMacDonnell Wow! Well, so glad to have someone representing Columbus from afar. Please come visit our city sometime!! 😊

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

@@katecollins2471 Heartbreakingly, I finally visited in march 2020. Went for my first game there ever. Could not have been more excited. And while we were in the air, Covid officially struck and by the time we landed everything was locked down. My 9 day trip lasted 36 hours before I had to fly home. It makes me so sad, still. The city seemed so lovely!

@katecollins2471

2 жыл бұрын

@@RickMacDonnell Omg you're kidding me! Wowww, what awful timing! I've lived here for almost 10 years and would be OVERJOYED to send over some suggestions for things to see/things to eat and drink, etc. for if you ever return. I absolutely love it here. Midwest charm, but lots of good food and art. I actually work in the Arena District, directly across the street from the CBJ arena and walk past every day to park and get coffee.

Not Everton! You must have lead a tortured life. I am a Liverpool fan so...

@RickMacDonnell

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! I’m a recent convert to football actually, just the last few years. But yeah I tend to cheer for tortured franchises. I mean, I’m also a Cleveland Browns fan. I’m a sports masochist.

I don't understand how booktubers can do all the trigger warnings for the least, tiniest things in books .... then not consider such things, when it comes to the children of alcoholics and what they had to go through, when it comes to doing videos half-drunk or smashed or just sporting drinking while doing the video as a fun thing. So yeah, am out, enjoy the booze. I stay away from younger booktubers partially because of stuff like this, figured older/more mature ones would be past the drinking on-camera stage by now, but I get it - and get I am overly sensitive to the topic. Yet those trigger warnings for books, like "discussons of divorce" and other incredibly trivial things, go on. Thanks for the warning upfront by showing your drink, I guess. Take care.