“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
-C. S. Lewis
Hi! I'm Kier, I like books.
I venture into various genres as the mood fits.
Review Policy: I will accept both indie and traditionally published books in physical or audiobook form, I generally do not accept ebooks.
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Headshot and Orbital sound so interesting, I'm excited to try them! I'm like fourth on hold for James at my library, might take a while lol Tommy Orange and Hisham Matar are on my tbr too like you :)
Ahhh the anticipation is always so hard. There seems to be a heavier US slant this year (which I don't know how I feel about) but I am lucky that my library has the greatest number I've seen. Orbital is going to be one of my first reads
Ooooh yeah I totally forgot that How to be Both was ordered differently depending on the copy! I also have a copy on my shelf to be read! I'd never heard of Jesmyn Ward until this list, but I'm intrigued now! The Labatut book was very interesting, but it didn't stick with me. I also hated The Fraud and worried because I do own White Teeth and On Beauty... I found this list so weird, and adding fiction and NF together is a bizarre choice. I applaud you putting up ALL the covers of the books in this video though haha For me Homegoing was a big miss from the list! And didn't realise that The Kite Runner was published in the 21st century! Definitely missing! A History of Burning is totally on my TBR!
It took me soooo long to edit this. Putting all the covers was a task so thanks for noticing😊 Yes, it's so weird when you are sure you'll love an author and then you finally read one if their novels and it disapppoints you.
Stoneyard is the only one ive read so far, and to me it has Study for Obedience vibes (though there is a bit more overt plot in Stoneyard). Im excited to read a few more from the list - i got Orbital so will give that a go first (it's short but omg the writing in the paperback is tiny)
Ohh font makes such a difference. I am interested in reading Stoneyard, I really liked Study for Obedience even though it was so dicisive last year.
I felt like you over Powers esp re the ASD rep in his last book. I am pleased James made it too. Good to see your reaction lovely❤
Yeahhh, it was not good. I sm excited for James
I was delighted to see Orbital get on the list. I thought it might be excluded because it is so short.
I wasn't sure if they would shy away from space topics but I am excited to read it!
Nee subscriber! From southern Ontario.
Yay! So exciting
I don't know if I have read my favourite book yet but a new release I am looking forward to is The Eternal Ones 😊
Oh amazing!!
My best book so far was a new author to me - The Bodyguard by Katherine Center. I Have since read several of her other books and really enjoyed them also. The other new to me author I loved is Abby Jimenez. I read all of the books in her Part of Your World trilogy.
I love when we find a new favourite book and then go through the whole backlist and it's so good. It's so satisfying.
Great to hear your thoughts on these! Transcendent Kingdom should definitely be as well known as Homegoing. I'm glad The Hunger Games holds up - I've been wanting to reread it too. Yes, Klara - brilliant!
I am always glad to see some love for Klara! Yes they are so good!
The Known World is also one of my favourite books.
What are your favourite elements of it? It's not a book I'm familar with
I loved Never Let Me Go
I think knowing the twist before I read it really made it harder to get through as it's such a slow unfolding of the mystery I already knew. I wonder if I would have felt different if I was going in fresh because I love Klara and The Sun.
I loved Outline.
I liked elements of it but I didn't over all like it
How is audiobook reading, though? It's listening, not reading
In my mind reading doesn't just pretain to the action of scanning the page with your eyes but ingesting a story. Listening aloud has always been a popular way of learning stories, from the oral traditions of the Greek, to the Victorian era most people gathered together and read communally. And when we learn to read as kids we hear parents or others read to us, I don't think someone gets more or less from a story whether they take in the information with their eyes or ears. Especially me, I have pretty severe dyslexia so I couldn't read at all until age 10 and I fell in love with stories through listening to books read aloud. Even now, I'm a very slow physical reader and learn and remember auditory things really easily so it makes sense to utilize audiobooks.
The Line of Beauty is one of my favourite books. You should read it.
I've neber heard of it or the author. I would love to hear what you really love of it?
Visit from the Goon Squad is speculative fiction
I'm very excited to get to it
I love Tenth of December
How similar is it to Lincoln in The Bardo? I got it missed up with Liberation Day that was his newest release that was not well loved. I really didn't get along with Lincoln but if Tenth of December was quite different I might give him another try.
“The Warmth of Other Suns” is not only a very important book, but it’s well written and very readable!
I'm so glad to hear it! I am so excited to read it!
“Because of sciencey things that I do not understand” - how I explain this book too 😂
Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one
So many great recs in this video! I also am bad at reading non fiction but Kiese Laymon is definitely worth it
Oh good to know! Thank you!
Great Review. I thought the book lost its way a bit as Demon got older.
@@BookishTexan yeah, I felt that too. It lost its way
Wait, you didn't love Demon Copperhead? I thought I was the only one. Going to watch your review now. Can't believe I missed it.
I am so salty about it all the time to the annoyance of all the Copperheads
I have to say quickly, if you're intimidated by Pachinko's size, don't be, it reads really quickly as soon as you're into it. In 2020 I read it over 2 days because it felt addictive and I couldn't put it down!
Ohh thank you! The encouragement I need!
@@KierTheScrivener Have fun with it! It really doesn't read as long, you got through Demon Copperhead and that one felt even longer than it was and reads as long. For me this one really didn't
@Emmareads15 that is a good comparison! I feel like Pachinko will be a hundres times more enjoyable for me to read
100% agree with your thoughts about including Tove Ditlevsen just because she was translated into English in the 21st century - i was genuinely shocked by that, maybe i shouldn't have been tho... Runaway sounded interesting, been wondering where the best place to start with Alice Munro is, think that'd be a good one? Lincoln in the Bardo was a big miss for me too - i was so confused because i'm like graveyard setting? check. experimental writing with funny characters? check. historical fiction blended with ghosts and buddhism? check. how could this go wrong, and yet... super intrigued by your thoughts on Outline, always meant to pick it up but now more so =) thanks for doing all that video editing, end result is first-class!!
Runaway was where I started. It's really great. I finished and immediately went on to more of her writing. It won the Giller Prize in Canada (our Booker/Pulitzer) and is generally her best known book. Right? I was expecting to love Lincoln in the Bardo too. I hope you like Outline more than me, it was several years ago I read it and I liked the ideas of it. I have a more indepth review on my goodreads. Thanks, it started over an hour and I felt happy that I whittled it down to under half an hour.
@@KierTheScrivener i'll start with Runaway too then, cheers! =)
Watching this before seeing your update, and it's a great TBR! Sophie Irwin and Vanessa Riley are both on my TBR! I just finished The Austen Girls by Lucy Worsley as my pick for this month and I enjoyed it! It's great to hear you speaking well of Booth, I feel like at the time people weren't saying great things about it, but I bought it from a charity shop last month! I've never watched the 2020 Persuasion adaptation...or any Persuasion adaptation for that matter. It's my favourite Austen, and I need to get on that haha I do love an adaptation! Yes Katie's book just came out today, meant to go to the launch in London but couldn't manage! I might get the audiobook as the audio for her first novel was lovely!!
I hope you like Booth. I don't really understand why it isn't loved. I think part of it is Booker syndrome of a good book not being what someone wanted or expected so getting lambasted. I don't think all my picks are going to materialize but it's been so fun! Evelina (my contemporary to Jane Austen) has been my favourite part so far
Thank you for sharing your comments! I just finished reading the book and there will be a sequel called Isaac’s Song!
I heard about the sequel I feel trepidatious because I love this book so much. BUT I hope it's so good!
i have the same problem with that "21st-century woman time-travelled to the past" version of feminism when it comes to modern greek myth retellings... espesh coz women of diff times and places can be so inspiring if written convincingly! sometimes i can forgive it if the mc's anachronistic awakening isn't the whole point of the book, but sometimes, alas, it is...
Yes! Yes! There's so much too mine there and it's completely jumped over.
one of my fav puns was a photo that went round of a sign outside a sports shop reading "now is the discount of our winter tents". i saw Richard III once and the whole thing was set inside a mental asylum, which adds a whole new layer of problematicness lol
Ahhh yeah, that does not sound good. That is some good marketing 😂
seeing it in august with meeeeee
Yesssss
Glad you're feeling better. Ah you read sing if you can't dance! I am glad you liked it as well, and found it to be very relatable 😇 Interesting to hear part of your world was your least favourite of the series. I have that one and yours truly. Practice makes perfect is one I want to try. I liked book lovers but I actually didn't like the sister relationship as much as people seem too. I was mostly here for the publishing world representation as someone who works in publishing. I need to read the encyclopedia of faeries, it's one I have waiting for me on my shelf. I LOVE if we were villains and I'm glad you finally got around to it and really loved it too.
The publishing world rep made me sooo happy. I kept smiling
Thanks for your review, especially your comments on this perhaps being more about the humans around Klara and their world, and the way they negotiate it - rather than Klara herself, Klara being our window on their world. That's really interesting, I think. Fairly sure it's set in America. The American English really stands out. (But I think it would work to set it in almost any advanced and dystopian modern economy.) Thanks again 🙏
Happy Jane Austen July! I’m reading The School of Scandal this year.
Ahh! I hope we both love it
Good luck with all the books you get to. I’m reading evalina on top of loads of books 😂
I've started it and I'm loving it!
we don't any library or books in Libya 😢😢
I am really sorry. Many of these are accessible through Project Gutenberg or LibroFM for free. I hope those could be good resources if you'd like to read some classics
I started Jane Austen July with Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen. It is academic but very accessible. I am really enjoying it. Have fun with your TBR!
Ohh that sounds amazing! I'll have to add it to my future tbr
They look the same but mirabel is 15 and snow white is 14 ❤❤❤❤❤❤
haha I had such a similar reaction, excitement for the fiction winner (well deserved!) and like 'ah yeah' for the non-fiction winner. Even though Doppelganger never really interested me, my library did get the audio so I'm going to give it a try when I get to it!
oh my god, i came for Klara...but that book, Being mortal is my current read and i like it a lot!!
I am so glad!!
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Yay!! I`m so happy you are feeling better and back! < 3 You are the first one I hear saying that The Inheritance Games is not your cup of tea. But I think I will give it a shot eventually :) This rain at the end is crazy:O
Thank you!! I know, I know I just kept qanting sometging supernatural to happen. I think yoy would love it!
@@KierTheScrivener You think so? Well, then it will probably be in one of my next book orders :)
Amazing!
Henry IV, Part 1 is great. It’s funny! Richard II is amazing. The writing is just gorgeous!
I am excited to finally start tackling the History Plays.
@@KierTheScrivener I'm excited for you!
I just found a copy of Henry IV Part 1 at the thrift store so now I'm very prepared
loved the video. im a video editor and can edit for free (loved the video hated the camera shaking hehehe)
Thank you
Thank you ma'am your books are very beautiful I love to read books I am sharing your videos to my friends
Thank you!
Hi Kier! Sorry it's taken me so long to check your video, I've been a been absent lately! Great to see your thoughts on some of the books. I was so pleased to see Elliott's book on the list and getting some hype - although I do feel that after reading the book, I thought it wasn't weaved together as well as I would have liked it, but I really appreciated what it was trying to do! I want to see what's next for Elliott! I'm so happy that you gave In Defence of the Act!! I'm finally getting back to it to finish it now :) I did love 8 Lives! Like you said the framing device was well done! Like And then she fell I thought the way it was weaved was something weird, but it made me want to keep going to figure things out.
The merchant of venice was one of my early Shakespeare plays I read and I really liked (and memorised!) a passage from Portia in there. A tale for the time being is fantastic and such a good read. It's emotionally intense but Ruth Ozeki handles the subject matter so well. Enjoy all your new book :)
Very nice video thank you I always watch your video I am subscribed to your youtube channel I love to read books
Thank you!!
okay, going on my list!
Yay!! I think you'll love analyzing it!