Hahaha that sigh and ‘am I boring you?’ made me giggle. As did ‘bless you baby’. I bought a fantasy short story collection the other day thanks to your Instagram stories. I may have to get Akatawitch now too. And Forest of a Thousand Lanterns. They both sound goooooooood. My top three. Flames by Robbie Arnott, From The Wreck by Jane Rawson and When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy.

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

Oooh let me know what you think of NK Jemisin's new short story collection! And Akata Witch would be perfect on a rainy day. Big hugs to you Simon!

My Top 3 books are: An American Marriage - Tayari Jones, Stay With Me - Ayobami Adebayo and The Perfect Find - Tia Williams.

Love your reflections on the difference of how we consume movies vs books. I also feel novels need to do interesting things with structure to take advantage of how innovative the form can be (as well as telling a great story - obviously). I love origin stories for "villans" so I'd be really interested in reading Forest of a Thousand Lanterns. If I had to pick my top 3 books of last year they'd be Women Talking by Miriam Toews, Washington Black by Esi Edugyan & Sight by Jessie Greengrass. I'd love in particular to know your reaction to Sight because it focuses on motherhood - but even though I'm a man and don't have children I could still really relate and connect to it. :)

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

So happy you enjoyed Washington Black! I plan to read it within the next couple of weeks or so. ^-^

Every time I see an upload from you, it makes my day! 🙌🏾❤️

River is the perfect entertaining special guest. Lol. So excited to see what you read and love this year. I get great recommendations from you.

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

hee hee! And thank you!

Happy New Year Amerie! Looking forward to watching you this year. You motivate me to read more every time I watch this.

How do you choose your books? Do you get recommendations? You tube?

Hello Ameriie 👋good to see you again. Great review. Glad that all is well with you. Keep the videos coming and happy reading 🤓.

It’s so adorable to hear the little one in the background helping you talk about your faves of the year❤️!!!!! I have Akata Witch and Akata Warrior to read this year and I’m reading Binti this weekend. My top 3 (I will cheat liberally here...): 1. Circe / The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. 2. Nevermoor 3. Reservoir 13/Picnic at Hanging Rock. I had some ties...😂😂

Your top 3 books sound great. I’ll be adding them to the list, especially looking forward to Akata Witch. My top 3 reads this year were Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, The Hating Game by Sally Thorne and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Enjoy your commentaries, especially the manner in which you describe the genres, text features, craft & structure, and levels of enjoyment of each text. During 2018 I read and thoroughly enjoyed Yann Martel's (1993) The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and some short stories in Ursula K. LeGuin's (1975) The Wind's Twelve Quarters aside from reading about 25-30 books, 100 articles, and lots of dissertations (boring stuff). Thank you for promoting reading. I agree with Dulce Candy. Reading does make you an independent thinker.

I too loved Akata Witch ... I think it was just a fantastic read! Loved it and the characters. I have had the Matt Haig book on my radar for ever! Need to get ! Have you heard of Girls of Paper and Fire? I think you’d really like it. Ps love your sweater

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

I've heard great things about Girls of Paper and Fire, and plan to check it out. And thank you for the sweater luv lol! Pls let me know of Haig's latest once you get to it!

Hi A!! Definitely gonna check those out, especially How to Stop Time. That sounds right up my alley. Mine were Crooked Kingdom, The Girls and The Sun Is Also a Star. Didn't read very many last year, but those were my favorites. Happy (belated) Birthday!! Hope you and your family are doing well 😊🤗🤓 P.S Still listening to (and loving) 4AMM/A4AM. I go back and forth between which songs are my favorites 😂 Currently: Amnesia/A Heart's for the Breaking😁🤩 ❤️- Angie

Great review! Love your channel 💗😁

Good review I like seeing your videos I've been binge watching your channel thanks amerie for posting this morning

Top 3 were Praise Songs for the Butterflies by Bernice McFadden, Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones and A Blade So Black by L. L. McKinney. I'll check out the books you mentioned, they all sound great :)

I picked up How to Stop Time because your your description and it did NOT disappoint! I couldn't put it down! Lovely book!

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

YAY! This makes me so happy!☺️

I just have 1 favorite from this past year, The Butterfly Garden. Excited to find some more gems this year.

My top 3 of 2018 were Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero,The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi and The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay

@nateboy8370

5 жыл бұрын

skijumpnose omg! I can’t wait to read The Oyster Thief

Dang! I think I only read (listened to) 5 or 6 books last year. Gonna step my game up this year. Already on my third book and January’s not even over. Americanah (I didn’t want it to end. The audiobook is really impressive) Little Fires Everywhere The Nest Bonus: Morning Star: book 3 in the Red Rising trilogy.

this made my morning! xo yayy

I read the Joe Ide's IQ series of 3 books which was great, and The Tragedy PlusTime by Adam Cayton-Holland great reads. I added your 1st and 3rd reviews to my Amazon cart thanks for sharing

I gotta check this Akata Witch out!

Im so happy I found your channel!!...I wanted to name my daughter after you I was set on naming her Amerie but I also always liked Amber after someone I went to school with and just absolutely loved, she was really smart and had an old soul (As I see so do you)...Anyways I thought why not do both so I named her "Ambrie".... she is 15 now and people always ask me where I got her name from and this is my story.. ❤️

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

Aw, I am so humbled, thank you. God bless you and your sweet Ambrie!❤️💖❤️ And welcome to the channel!

@Ettyka81

5 жыл бұрын

Amerie Thank you for responding, Excited to be a new subscriber!...Sending love your way from Houston, Tx

I’m here because Dulce Candy mentioned you in her channel. Subscribed!!

I need to add Dark Eden to my reading list. My top 3 reads of 2018 include Dracula, Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Mistborn the Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. I love vampires so I needed to try one of the original vampire lore and I was not disappointed. I loved the mystery and detective like flow of Dracula. Also learned a few things about Vampires. Sleeping Beauties was a story I could not put down. It was a beautiful feminist nightmare. Mistborn was a fun, fast past heist /rebellion story with an interesting magic system.

Have you read lovely bones? Love

Amerie, your such a nerd, which is beautiful! Good book review. Top 3 books in last year. The Apocalypse of Elijah • The KJV Apocrypha & The bible. Now, I'm going to listen to "1 thing" peace!

@josephinewinter

4 жыл бұрын

i usually end up hear after needing to listen to 'one thing' at some time

My top 3 of 2018 was head of the colored people by nafissa spire-Thompson, if Beale street could talk by James Baldwin and fresh water by Akwaeke Emezi. Earlier this month I read “there, there” by Tommy Orange and “heavy” by Kiese Laymon and they are already favorites of mine.

QQ, How long does it take you to read one book. My average is about 20 books a year. last year i only read 12 :(. I know you're a moody reader, but how long for a book that you're very in to?

Thanks for sharing....great list

Your so beautiful.😍 I'm doing a 1 month social media fast & want to occupy my time with reading. Thanks for sharing.💕

My top three are, Monday’s not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson. Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo, and Dear Martin by Nic Stone.

@Niatate

5 жыл бұрын

Burneeka Tindale Stay with me was so good! I thought about it for a long time after I read it.

My top 3 books and highly recommended The Poppy War by R. F Kuang, Year One-Nora Roberts, and Red Sister by Mark Lawrence.. I’m pretty sure that all 3 would be your favorites

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

I just picked up Red Sister and hope to get to it soon!

Love your channel!

That cute little sigh 😭💖 my ovaries can’t handle the cooing

My Top 3 books of 2018 1: Origin Dan Brown 2: Kindred Octavia Butler(finally read it) 3: The Sexy Part Of The Bible Kola Boof

My top 3 of 2018 would be Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain and Rust & Stardust by T. Greenwood!!

Dulce sent me!

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

My TOP 3 - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds - Someone I use to kNOw by Patty Blout - My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukah My life changers are: -The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey -I am Number 8 by John Gray III - Living and Dying in Brick City by Dr. Sampson Davis My bonus book is...The Asylum series by Madeleine Roux

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

Ooh I recently purchased Long Way Down. Glad you liked it! Thanks for sharing your list!

@kymbrajohnson4135

5 жыл бұрын

@@Amerie. I can just pass out with joy! I didn't expect you to respond to me. May I say you're one of my favorite artists? 😊 thank you so much. This has made my year.

Love the baby River noises!

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

lol thank you!

My top three books: Baracoon by Zora Neale Hurston, Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, and The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton ☺️ Thanks for the recommendations! I’m adding The Dark Eden series, Akata Witch, and Forest of a Thousand Lanterns to my list

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

I so enjoyed The Belles! And yeeesss definitely been looking forward to Dread Nation--glad you loved it!

@julianaalinesilva4937

5 жыл бұрын

@@Amerie. ola eu sou brasileira acabei de chegar no seu canal,e desde ja quero dizer a você que estou curtindo muito conhecer um pouco sobre você,adoro sua voz e a maneira como vc se expressa nos seus videos,tenha uma boa tarde Amerie,você e sua familia!

Ooh thats cute. The ways you asked him "i am boring you?" 😚

The book I loved this year was The Shoemakers wife By Adriana Trigini. Beautifully written, a romance but so much more. it keeps you the entire book. Thank you for all your videos... especially about books, I definitely have to read Akata Witch next!

You are a brilliant person .

This is a beautiful video 👋👋👋🌟🌟🌟

My top 5 books for 2018: 1. Dark Emu 2. Blueprint for Black Power 3. Caribbean History 4. The Healers 5. Two Thousand Seasons

@Snakeeyes757

5 жыл бұрын

Check out my book 7.burst it's about the unknown unknown

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Doesn’t akata mean slave?

@Amerie.

5 жыл бұрын

In the context of the book, the ppl who called her that were using it derogatorily, bc she’s African but moved to and grew up in America. So when she came back, some of the people in town shunned her.

Never seen or heard Harry Potter but I will Akata out.

Hiya! I love your video, you inspired me to post a similar erosion of this video on my channel 💛💕

I’ll join you but maybe start at 50 lol

Feeling like reading Rainbow vibe make me want to cancel my. Cable and just read