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The difference is the same made me laugh. Thank you so much for the review, I am a very avid manga reader but it's becoming impossible to handle screens because of my eyesight. It was super helpful to get feedback from someone with similar needs and preferences.

Love the mug!

Very good start of a series :) have you thought of comparin The Ritual (2017 movie) with the book? I loved the movie (watched it a couple of times in fact) but never got down to readin the book -- maybe you could tell me if it's even better! :) cheers!

Quality content, as always 👌

thank you for the video, however, I think you're overexplaining each and every book's plot. I've read all of them so I was just interested to hear your take on this, but if I were new I would say most introductions are a little overelaborated. I however agree with your pick, all your mentioned books are magnificent and worthy of mention

Oh I need to read Human Kind immediately, you've really sold it!!! Also the way you described it reminded me a lot of another non-fiction book I really enjoyed called 'How Compassion Made Us Human: the Evolutionary Origins of Tenderness, Trust and Morality' by Penny Spikins. It looks at very early prehistory with what sounds like a similarly heartwarming outlook to Human Kind! (I read it for class while studying archaeology, but found it so much more readable/accessible and enjoyable than most more "academic" texts so would recommend to anyone interested more casually :))

Bring your miserable eyesore of an existence to its' conclusion.

Such a great list! Even if you are not in a reading slump.

1:07 Interesting choice to describe her as "very angry" when she said in an interview "I am like a human laboratory where the feeling of anger is broken. I have never really felt anger." 🤔

I have read the book, I am kind of confused regarding those structures. What are they? A Cenotaph? Whatever those structures are what purpose do they serve? Why is that Planet's biology keen on building it?

"A translator is a writer", good shot! The same thing was said when julio cortázar translated edgar allan poe's complete tales into spanish: a writer is the best translator of another writer.

Please check out the film version of her wonderful book Foster. It's called The Quiet girl and it's a remarkable film mainly told in Gaelic.

you articulate your thoughts so well! i just finished this book and loved hearing your thoughts on it! also i love snowy :)

Wonderful suggestions. I’ve read all but two of these (which I’ve now added to my list) and these are great, fun books

Have you read John Dollar? It's based on the Australian case you mentioned.

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones is my favorite horror novel. 💙 Love your channel!

Harry Potter forever, Hogwarts forever. I’ll support the franchise extra for you.

Lots to add to my tbr. So thank you 🎉

I think it started with these old ones in stories. English classes in the Seventh grade in my school's syllabus books on a sheet of paper is given by a teacher whose instructor stated this is your lack of knowledge. Am so glad thee women created a movement for a non - ...

An interesting list of book recommendations. However, I have to disagree with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, I had to read this book as part of a uni crime fiction course and did not like it at all. Some say it’s Christie’s weakest book. I have other Christies and really should read some more of her work. But TMRA left me very grumpy about why it had been selected for the course when there are much better written books What other books by Christie would you recommend? I am eager to try her again despite not liking Roger Ackroyd.

I absolutely love Piranesi. The only thing that I regret after reading it is that I don't know more people who have done the same. Especially right after I finished it, I was so eager to talk about my interpretation with others, but didn't know anyone in person who'd also read it.

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FFor some reason. they think a person growling a sentence is sexy somehow. But you know, I have seen a word 'ejactulated' in a sentence. When characters are talking

I wish I could read the entire Hitchhikers Guide series again for the first time.

I usually grab an Agatha Christie book and they all do wonders. Happy to see I'm not the only one.

Humans, kind? Now that's science fiction. Jk! 😅 Imma check it out.

I would recommend the Murderbot Diaries for a reading slump ❤ They're funny, relatable, short and fast paced. They're great. (Unless you don't like Murderbot as a character or narrator then... yeah they won't be for you 😅) Murderbot seems to be similar recommendation to Monk and robot, if you've already read that one. I think I will be picking the Monk and Robot books because I've been in such a reading slump this year 😢 I already had heard about them but this video put them higher in my tbr for sure. Thank youA

You should really read El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges or The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. I think those two are more successful iterations than Piranesi of a book with a laberyhtian and philosophical setting!

Might only be me, but chains of synonyms make me question an author's professionality: "They were sad, morose and grieved." Do your job and choose one! And yes, it is overused, mainly in award-winning literary fiction. Of course, the other end of that spectrum (constantly using the same word) is just as annoying. Yes, Mrs. Meyer, we by now know that that vampire dude has "smoldering eyes", no need to tell us twice per page.

Well, I don't love Piranesi 🖐😅 I don't hate it but I found the discussions shallow and not very compelling. The ideas of where the story was going in my mind were so much more interesting than what we got in the end. That might just be on me, but I have heard at least someone else agree (a booktuber, Elliot Brooks). We both thought it was going to be deeper and delve even more on mental health, academia, identity, etc. But it was all very ...meh. I don't think is badly written either, the prose was great. The mystery kept me reading too. I didn't love the characters, and did not enjoy the protagonist's thinking patterns, but I can appreciate it as a character study. I didn't hate the book it just wasn't a favourite. Sadly. I was really excited for this book 😢 Now you know two people who disliked Piranesi 😂

I started getting out my last reading slump by reading Agatha Christie books. I then came across your wonderful channel and I got Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society which I loved! Old Man's War came next and then on to Stuart Turton. Just like that I'm out of my reading slump and trying out different genres and authors. Thank you so much for your recommendations, Willow!

I'm really happy that i found someone that loves reading as much as i do... My bank account on the other hand screams for help... hahaha . I have bought almost all the books that i hadn't and you recommend it. But i'm not complaining, im a book eater... hahaha 😛😛😛

Every time a character bites into a piece of fruit and juice runs down their chin. How can this possibly be a positive thing? It sounds like a nightmare

And the author is from my city Minneapolis! I didn’t know that until today ❤

For me it wuld usually be either something light and funny or a crime novel. As I read in two foreig language if I have a blockage I go back to reading in Polish. It already takes a burden of my brain and helps me enjoy my reading process more. There are some nice slavic fantasy novels and short story collection written by female authors right now, I use them as a relaxing brake.

I find "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman helps me out of a reading slump--- short, magic, dark, with some wonderful characters. I loved "Piranesi", exploring the world, but without giving spoilers, the ending really hit me hard, what it suggests. In many ways, I found it profoundly sad--- which is not a bad thing at all, and is not meant to keep anyone from reading this brilliant book...

just the kind of list I needed, thank youu!

Great recommendations, thanks! I subbed as soon as you recommended T Kingfisher. I just discovered her and fell in love with her prose and humour. I am chewing through her backlist as fast as I can. Have you read anything she has published under her birth name?

The silent patient, The girl on the train and The psichoanalyst are page turners

Really liked this concept and idea! Added 3 of these books to my TBR. Great video as always! 👍🏻📚

Thanks! ❤

I would like to recommend Starter Villain by John Scalzi as well. 264 pages with lots of humour and a mystery. I loved it!

I’ve got into the habit of watching your videos with a notebook and a pen nearby. I always, always end up with a long list of books to look for! And they’re usually spot on….thank you

I am a new subscriber and I am bingeing on all your recent videos. I love the diversity of your literary recommendations and how the description of each book is so concise but informative. Thank you Willow. ❤

First, thank you for reminding me about Pinaresi, i really need to finally get to this book it's been on my tbr for a while. For me, what usually gets me out of a readind slump is either reading a manga or switching the language in which i'm reading. I primarly read in english (both for pleasure and for my uni classes), so when i'm feeling like i'm about to get into major reading slump I would switch back to my native polish or try to read manga in japanese (it usually takes a while to read a full volume but still give my brain a good reset).

Willow, Willow, Willow. Why, why do you pop up at the right time with all the good stuff?! Oh cause: Seshat, Thoth, Mnemosyne, Athena, Apollo, Hermes, Ganesha, Saraswati, Bragi, Wen Chang, sent you. Off I go to find these books

Humankind is such a lovely book.

Interesting set of books. I have Piranesi to read. I need to get Human Kind! - looks very important as well as interesting. Nice to see Scalzi mentioned, I recently did a video on Scalzi, if you're curious. Nice one Willow.

I might just give " a psalm for the wilds built " a go your suggestion are usually spot on

"she parted her lips" ... I don't know WHY this appears so much or why it bothers me so much, but it seems like such an umecessary description on what the character is doing... I do not need that visual.. it adds nothing and it grosses me out for some reason.