There is something comforting knowing that Dan Brown stands more popular over a Harry Potter book! Such good memories reading my moms copy of Confessions of a Shopaholic in 2000! I wish I had read House of Leaves in 2000 when it blew up (I remember the mystery/intrigue of the novel spreading through the early-ages of the Internet) - At 18, I would have thought it was bad ass. Reading it at 34... No so much. Read Chabon!

@LauraFreyReadinginBed

4 жыл бұрын

Just what I need, another literary dude bro in my life.... yes yes I'll read him!

@SamuelDaram

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Adam! Were you really reading Sophie Kinsella nineteen years ago? Was it in the same year you started to read Philip Roth? :)

This was super fascinating and I like that despite reading such serious books you enjoy Shopaholic. Sidenote- I found your blogpost on Counte of Monte Cristo readalong from a year ago, but I used it as a template this summer and it helped me finish that beast of a book. So just wanted to say thank you!

Yup, I still haven't read any of those...was maybe not on top reading form in 2000. The only contemporary book I remember from that year was Pastoralia by George Saunders, which I remember really liking.

In 2000, I was 21. It was a rocky year for me! I remember seeing all those books around at the time. I read White Teeth that year and it blew my mind. I lent it out and never got it back. I also read the Michael Chabon novel, Atonement, and The Blind Assassin, but only a few years later. I did 1989.

@LauraFreyReadinginBed

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't watched yet but I saw your video and wondered if that was the year you were born 😂 I did think "that seems too young" lol

@JuanReads

4 жыл бұрын

Laura Frey I was born in the very late 1970s! I remember 1989 quite well although I wasn’t much of a reader yet.

This is a fascinating read, especially in the hands of someone as well read as you

In the year 2000 I was in kindergarten/ grade one, and so was not reading any of these haha. I had not progressed far beyond picture books.

@LauraFreyReadinginBed

4 жыл бұрын

Shhhh that makes me feel old 😁

Hi Laura! This is the first time watching a video from my channel. I do remember reading Anthony Bourdain's 'Kitchen Confidential' in the year 2000. 7:03 And 'The Heartbreaking Work of a Genius' was the most talked about memoir of that year. And what a stunning career Dave Eggers is having! 7:31 And yes, Margaret Atwood won the Booker Prize in 2000 for 'The Blind Assassin.' 11:45 (Laura, I just subscribed to your channel. )

So fun! I read all of the Princess Diaries! 😂 And A Heartbreaking Work was huge for me! I loved Dave Eggers so much (kinda over that now 😂 tho still interested in his writing) . I binge read a lot of Marian Keyes as well.... I liked shopgirl too and the movie... Read House of Leaves around this time too - and then leant it to someone and never saw it again..

@LauraFreyReadinginBed

4 жыл бұрын

I'm reading Marian Keyes now, did you read The Woman Who Stole My Life? Having some trouble getting into it but I will persevere...

Absolutely LOVED this video! So interesting to look through 2000 in this this way. So many of the books I thought were published much later, I guess they just clung on to popularity for a good decade 😊 Also interesting that there's a lack of diversity of authors that you just wouldn't see today at all. I love that you couldn't remember reading some of them exactly - I'm the same! It freaks me out that I've dedicated a lot of time to some books and they've fallen out of my head 😂 Anyhoo, great video x x x

@LauraFreyReadinginBed

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah that happens to me a lot, and the early years of the aughts are all kind of a blur, like 2000-2005 was all just kind of "young adulthood" lol. For example, I thought He's Just Not That Into You (which I read, hah) would have been 2000 or around there, but it's 2004?? It sounds so dated now.

Thanks for doing this! I liked Swing Time better than White Teeth as well. 😉

@LauraFreyReadinginBed

4 жыл бұрын

I think Swing Time is really underrated! Can't wait for this story collection coming out soon...

lol "fuck you, Dave Eggers!" This was such a great year to look at because it's very interesting to see how some of these books feel so current and relevant and some have not fared so well.

I think I read White Teeth in 2000, but maybe a bit later?

I’m surprised how many of these I’ve read in the past decade and how many are still pretty relevant today. The girlfriend of a sex god one is a late one in a diary novel series, a kind of teen Bridget Jones called Georgia Nicholson. I loved those when I was 13/14. You should definitely read The Last Samurai, it looks daunting but you can kinda take what you want from it, I read it in about a week. Always happy to hear a bit of reader fact checking on journalists’ unfounded presumptions like the one you mentioned.

@pastorytime2683

4 жыл бұрын

I also loved the Georgia Nicholson books - they were so funny. If it's cold out and someone says it's nippy noodles I know I've found a kindred spirit.

@LauraFreyReadinginBed

4 жыл бұрын

@@pastorytime2683 OH you know, now that you say the author's name, I think I did read the first book (the Angus one). Maybe? I should double check that!

Oh yeah... Those teenage relationships. (lol, say no more chica!) I think we all dated and have one of "those" guys on our lists of ex's. My son likes the illustrated Harry P books too. Those suckers are pricey!~ I read confessions of a shopaholic too.. I was so broke at the time, I could not relate, it wasn't that funny when you're a broke college kid eating peanut butter three meals a day. Maybe now it would be funnier. You've read a lot from this year. I bet I would have read.. maybe.. 10. or less. Anyways, cool video!

not a great year for books, House Of Leaves & Atonement excepted. I did 1978

@LauraFreyReadinginBed

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I missed that, I think. My husband's birth year!

@MarcNash

4 жыл бұрын

@@LauraFreyReadinginBed Last year of me as a non-reader, plus the last year of decent music!

This was super fascinating and I like that despite reading such serious books you enjoy Shopaholic. Sidenote- I found your blogpost on Counte of Monte Cristo readalong from a year ago, but I used it as a template this summer and it helped me finish that beast of a book. So just wanted to say thank you!

This was super fascinating and I like that despite reading such serious books you enjoy Shopaholic. Sidenote- I found your blogpost on Counte of Monte Cristo readalong from a year ago, but I used it as a template this summer and it helped me finish that beast of a book. So just wanted to say thank you!

@LauraFreyReadinginBed

4 жыл бұрын

Really? How cool! How did you like The Count?