I'm going through so much of a slump that when I hold a book I want to cry so im just watching KZread and doing other hobbies until I'm ready to read again.....thanks for another great video

@ViviCoaster

7 ай бұрын

Have you tried audiobooks? I went through the worst reading slump back in 2020 and listening to the book A Man Called Ove as my first audiobook ever really helped get me out of the slump as I felt accomplished by finally getting through a book, even via audio, and also happy that I realized I enjoyed audiobooks too! Just a suggestion! Good luck :)

@beautifulmama862

7 ай бұрын

@@ViviCoaster thank you so much 😀 I'm definitely going to try a audio book I never thought to try that i have a few saved from last year......again thank you so much ❤

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

i love this approach! that's typically what i do when i'm slumpy and it works every time💖 agree with vivi too, that audios can be a great way to get back into it, if you're looking for that! anytime i audiobook while diamond painting, it does the trick🏋🏻

@beautifulmama862

7 ай бұрын

@@MelReads I started an audiobook last night and it relaxed me and I was able to do some gluebook crafts and so it's definitely doing the trick thank you also for being amazing

@chelsey8737

6 ай бұрын

​@@beautifulmama862I hope your feeling better now!

Wuthering Heights was my favorite book of 2022 ❤ completely blew me away I couldn’t believe how long ago it was written

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

wuthering heights supremacy🏋🏻

Red Rising completely blew me away with how much I loved it and couldn’t put it down! Just finished the first trilogy and I’m totally obsessed 😍

YES! Front Desk is an absolutely amazing book series and I’ve loved it for a while! Soo good to see it finally getting the recognition it deserves ❤❤

Red Rising is one of my favorite book series - so glad that you like it!

I'm in such a reading slump at the moment, which feels like a horrid way to begin the year, but I'm trying to be kind to myself and remind myself that I still have the rest of the year to read, and I can give myself a break right now

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

listen, sometimes our brains need a break from reading, and listening to that need is fantastic! just because we don't read a ton one month, doesn't mean we're not readers still- take your time💖

@chelsey8737

6 ай бұрын

December and January are usually such busy times for people and ots entirely logical and normal to feel slow or unproductive for those months. Don't feel bad! And don't feel bad for not hitting goals or milestones at any point in the year bc you do you best and know what you need best

I really loved A River Enchanted and Daisy Jones and the six ☎️

My daughter’s favorite book series is Front Desk! She’s going to be so excited it’s featured on your channel 😊

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

i love that🥹 kiddos got some great taste!!

I loved Seven Days in June when I read it a couple years ago. I really need to re-read it. I really loved Becoming by Michelle Obama; the Brown Sisters Trilogy by Talia Hibbert; and Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco in 2023.

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

i only see supreme taste in this list, jalyn!! i also want to reread seven days in june so i can annotate it😭

1) you’re adorable ❤ 2) I love your thoughts on these books! So thorough! 3) I also loved Red Rising ❤

☎Check and Mate was my no.2 of 2023 :D But girl.... Butcher and Blackbird is hands down my favourite! 😍😍😍I was NOT expecting to love that book that much! I was in a little reading slump at that moment and saw Butcher and Blackbird cover somewhere and thought I'll give it a try. That book is NOT for everyone, that's for sure. But I have really twisted sense of humor so it hit the spot! I've read ebook and now I also own paperback copy and I squealed when I saw that there's a bonus scene! 🤩😍

☎️ Favorite books read in 2023: '84, Charing Cross Road', 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' and 'In Memoriam'

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

got to love miss addie making the list, she deserves it!!!🧚🏻‍♂✨

☎️📱 I'm in a bit of a reading slump but I'm almost finished with the second book of the year. Here's to a wonderful new year 🥂

Currently reading Hell Bent and agree that its definitely steering more towards the fantasy. I love me some dark academia but Alex getting into the magic side of things is great. oh the Front Desk series sounds so good! I can see younger me totally getting this. Good thing reading is for all ages so I'll put this in my TBR! 📱

I hit a reading slump towards the end of the year as well. I only read 38 of 50 books but I’m okay with that. I still felt I had a great reading year and that’s all that matters 😊📱☎️

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

quality over quantity, always!! 38 books is a total WIN🧚🏻‍♂✨

Daugther of No worlds trilogy was a highlight in my 2023 favorites and I just want to quote my favorite line because every time I see this book, that’s the first thing I remember: “You were the one who wanted to save the world,” he said, quietly. “I just wanted to save you.” ❤

📞 My favorite book of 2023 was definitely The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (amazing, I can’t recommend it enough), but tied for second we’re The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams and Persuasion by Jane Austen.

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

oooo i own the reading list!!! can't wait to give it a read hehehe🧚🏻‍♂✨

@sirgnome

7 ай бұрын

It’s sooo good! Found community, POC characters, characters growing as people through the act of reading… 😘👌🏼

My top 5 fave books of 2023 includes: the lost apothecary by sarah penner, the one by john marrs, confessions by kanae minato, throttled by lauren asher and house of hollows by krystal sutherland

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

omg i own several of these and they're still unread👀👀👀

@chapterexplorer5803

7 ай бұрын

Sooo happy to be noticed.. i hope you will enjoy these books when you'll read them like i did .. .

Loved A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and really looking forward to reading Check &Mate! Xxx

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Check and Mate. I think it's her best book so far.

I LOVED the Bridge Kingdom! It is now one of my favorite series of all time. Also, I read the Hunger Games for the first time in 2023 and absolutely loved it!

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

i've heard amazing things about bridge kingdom!!! so glad you enjoyed it💖✨

My favorite book of 2023 was Everything I know about Love (and yes, I kind of screamed out loud when you did not chose it even though it was an option for your january tbr in your tbr jar video)

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

LMAO i'm cackling🤣it'll be read soon!!!

I didn't have the best reading year in 2023 so I couldn't actually tell you which book was my favorite but I did really enjoy Foxglove by Adalyn Grace 😊

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

hoping for a better reading year in 2024, martina!! foxglove is a win though, so i love that for you💁🏻‍♀

🕊 🐍 I loved the Ballad of S&S too! Much more detail and aspects to analyse in the book compared to the movie 🍿 Thanks for sharing books I’ve never heard of either! I think BookTube can be quite insular with the books that get reviewed and popular so it was nice to see books like Front Desk in here which I haven’t seen before 😊

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

very much this! the movie didn't capture the characters true intentions or the full extent of their backstories, so the book remains superior for me💖

Loved seven days in June!!!!!!!! One of my fav romances😭

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

LITERALLY!!! i need more😭

Amazing video as always!! ☎️

📞 my fav book I've read that had stuck with me still was a ship of bones of teeth. its like a dark romance with a siren and pirate. Its like the little mermaid meets pirates of the Caribbean. And as someone who heavily likes both, it was so good for me.

hard agree with your top pick, i read Check & Mate in a single day because it was so compelling and i was obsessed with it! i didn't even expect to like it because i don't enjoy YA anymore and never read Ali Hazelwood after DNFing The Love Hypothesis, but holy shit this book slapped so hard 🔥

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

YES TO THIS! i was super scared cause it was her YA debut, but doctor hazelwood smashed it🏋🏻

I really want to read Will book and My Roommate is A Vampire but I had so many good reads last year and two of them that I loved was Before I Let Go & Mad Honey. 📞

☎ Several of these boks sound interesting. Will save this video as a reference

I love your glasses lovely where are they from ❤

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

they're from glasses usa!! ottoto bellona model💖

12:28 my brain is made the exact same way because I always want to say Pierce Brosnan😂❤☎️

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

LMAO pierce brosnan stays in our heads🤣

My best books of 2023 were Crescent city 2, Babel and Yellowface.

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

elite choices right here!!!

☎️ thnx for the recs:)

Great video 📚☕

Faves from 23 that I rec to everyone: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow Once and Future Witches Circe Project Hail Mary

Front Desk was a 2023 read?? I could’ve sworn you’ve loved it for years. Guess that just shows how much you loved it!

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

it was!!! and it feels that way to me too🤣

Here's my list Spare by prince harry Reminders of him by colleen hoover Delilah green doesn't care Tell me everything by minka Kelly memoir What my bones know by Stephenie foo memoir Someday maybe The fiancee farce by Alexandra belfour The woman in me by britney spears memoir The mind series by s.t abby Any man by amber tamblyn Blood sugar by sacha Rothschild

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

DELILAH GREEN🥹

My top book of 2023 was, hands down, "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao. The creativity, the messy grey characters, the LITERAL love triangle, the feminist themes...all of it just sucked me in and I haven't been able to shut up about this book since I read it. Up in my top five I also have "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries," "Sorcery of Thorns," "Amari and the Night Brothers," and "Spells for Forgetting."

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

i still haven't read iron widow, but i keep hearing amazing things about it!! and YES to amari making the list- such a good book🥹🧚🏻‍♂💖

Just a random question… how many of these recs were books from “book of the month”?

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

i think 3?? i'm not too sure!

I love that you loved My roommate is a vampire 😂 I loved it because it was so much fun and I had a great time reading it

I also call pierce brown, pierce brosnan... My favorite of the year is a historical romance, We could be so good, by Cat Sebastian. ☎️📞

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

glad to know i'm not alone on that pierce brosnan train🤣

I feel like I'm the only person who really disliked the ballad of songbirds and snakes. I thought the idea was cool but the execution was so drawn out, slow, boring. One of my fave books that I read in 2023 was we are all so good as smiling by Amber McBride. Check trigger warnings but it made me cry and resonated with me so much as someone who struggles with mental health. I also read me(moth) by the same author last year and it was also so good.

Seven days in June🥹🥹💓💓

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

SO good!!!🥹💖

Will Smiths memoir is one of my favorite memoirs I have read!

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

hard agree!!! such a good one🥹

I still haven’t read red rising 😭

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

hopefully one day🏋🏻

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7 ай бұрын

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Not the 69 🤣 📞 now I must read check n mate this year 👀

@MelReads

7 ай бұрын

all the 69's🤣YES, you need to, steph!!!

@stephsfeelinbookish

7 ай бұрын

@@MelReads I’m putting it in my February tbr hehe 🤭

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7 ай бұрын

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7 ай бұрын

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7 ай бұрын

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7 ай бұрын

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7 ай бұрын

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7 ай бұрын

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