I don't know what it is. But when you put two white people together, I'm like,
Man, I don't care about this vanilla ass couple, but when you put two white people together in WW1
Imma cry seven times on an airplane
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Okay on to the video
You might notice that I am gonna be all over the place in the videos
I post this month. Last video, I was at an Airbnb. This video, I'm at a hotel. Next video
I'll be at two different hotels. So if you care enough, you're probably wondering, where the hell am I going?
I'm currently in the process of moving. I know I just moved to my new apartment like three months ago
but listen
My neighbors are hearing me talk about faerie porn whenever I read A Court of Thorns and Roses
The wings are very sensitive, and if they get stroked during sex, then that faerie cums
Also, pretty much all of my old co-workers know about my videos now, so I also had to move jobs and move states
It's a lot of moving because I have a lot of shame. In the midst of me moving around the country
I will also share... ohh
Wearing this bathrobe is dangerous. That's the price I pay for trying to look bougie in front of you guys
I will share all of the books I read in the month of November. Instead of reviewing them in chronological order
I will be talking about them from one star all the way up to five stars.
The worst book that I read is You by Caroline Kepnes.
I picked up this book because I was doing a buddy read with Angela and Chanel (?) and they both gave it five stars.
They loved it so much. They thought it was so exciting and I was like
can't relate. This is a thriller novel about a girl named Beck who has a lot of problems and that's a lot coming from me.
She meets a bookstore worker named Joe. Joe is the type of person who I think if everyone on reddit came together
to do an orgy and had a child that would be him. They meet at the bookstore and they hit it off really well.
He ends up stalking her for the rest of the book and gets really really horny.
He does stuff like following her around the city, going through her emails, breaking into her apartment to smell her clothes.
He is the quintessential panty sniffer.
She makes it so conveniently easy too because she just has her windows wide open and chooses to
masturbate right in front of it. You could argue that she likes the voyeuristic aspect of it
It's like the hotel I'm staying at right now. It's facing the street. I have a big-ass window.
I'm just waiting for my Joe to come watch me and see if there's a nip slip through my bathrobe.
Just me and my pillow, waiting for Joe.
This dude is so obsessed with the main girl because she happens to like the same books like him
and she also happens to be the same pretentious hipster as him. Honestly. This book is just propaganda against supporting your local bookshop
I mean, yeah Amazon kills bookstores
but also bookstores have guys that will kill me if we have the same quirky interest, god forbid. The story ended up being a
Nonsensical string of events, but the worst part of it was that the writing style was so clunky
It's like a stream of consciousness mixed with crude language in order to appear edgy or different which is exactly like my YouTube videos. Disgusting.
And I'm not trying to be a prude because obviously I don't mind vulgar stuff but looking back at this book
I really don't understand the point of it
I feel like the author just wanted to write a creepy story using the second person perspective
and put a bunch of profanity in order to make it edgy but really, it's just gimmicky.
To prove to you that the writing is terrible
I'm gonna read out loud some parts that I thought were especially bad
Your bra is pink, hot pink so that I don't forget about your tits under your sweater
Not for one second. When I hug you
I smell flowers and laundry detergent and
pussy juice and I wonder how hard you had to go at your pillow and I'm proud of myself for not checking your email for
Two solid hours so that I could give us all the suspense we need
and you're about to tell me fuck this date, come upstairs and I pull away.
Sir this is a Wendy's.
If you could smell her vagina, but also smell laundry detergent at the same time
She has a yeast infection. You need to stop and help a girl out. It's specific
But at the same time it's not specific enough. What does this juice smell like? Every woman has a different diet
So no pussy juice is ever gonna smell the same. If a woman eats a lot of pineapples
She's gonna smell really sweet and fruity
But if a girl only eats hot cheetos for a diet like I do that pussy be stinky. It's on fire
Your lips are gonna burn. No offence to Beck, but I'm different. Next quote,
I kiss you and you kiss me and this is well worth the wait. And your Magnolia
is gonna take me in, won't be long now. You're sopping wet ready.
Magnolia?? Georgia O'Keeffe who?
And you have to describe a girl's vagina as a Magnolia
You gotta take her to a doctor because she has too many folds.
At this point I'm concerned for Beck's hygiene.
There's this one scene where Joe visits Beck's friend's house. Beck's friend is super attached to her and so he goes snooping around
This friend's room and he finds photos of Beck that she kept. He realizes that the friend is not just codependent on Beck
She's also obsessed with her sexually. Now, I realize that these pictures are smeared, loved and sticky. Some of them have fingerprints
I look closely and see streaking layers of lady juice and that's why they all have this filtered look.
How do you have lady juice streaked all over the picture? Does she have a vagina down there?
Or does she have a sprinkler? Like how does this work? Does she just like go to town?
And then the juice comes out in spurts. Why is this so messy? Again, I feel like they all need to see a doctor
Here's a piece of conversation that I tap
So the good news is I know exactly
what I want. "You do?", I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbucks. This is the
Definition of That escalated quickly. First of all, why Starbucks? I guess because you want some coffee beans while you flick the bean
Looks like he wanted the pink drink 140 calories 24 grams of sugar
He then talks about how he doesn't want to rush into anything and they both value their independence
So they're taking it nice and slow. I don't know because I don't value my independence. I value your pussy
Sir this is a Starbucks. There's this one scene where the main character Joe gets mugged by a bunch of guys
My machete is in the basement and I am upstairs and I hear them charging me whoever they are
There are three of them faceless dudes in Barack Obama masks two big one smaller
This wasn't a vulgar scene, but I was just confused at how random it was. Why, Becoming who, Michelle, sweetie?
I am so sorry. I splash cold water and I go on just like Celine Dion's heart did back in Bridgeport
That was literally the worst metaphor I have ever read. Here's the last conversation I've tabbed
Joe says nobody's perfect, and I get a little OCD. This other character replies
Yeah, you are OCD dot dot dot on my pussy
Who makes comments like that? Nobody just talks that vulgar in real life.
PTSD more like PT pussy.
Okay, yeah, I do
But that's different because I'm a dumbass and this is an actual book. If I had to use post-it tabs for every time Joe talks
About pussy juice, I would kill a whole tree
I hope you get a sense of what I mean that not only is the content of the writing completely ridiculous
There's also so many stream-of-consciousness and run-on sentences in order to be a stylistic attempt
It's kind of like Catcher in the Rye as erotica. All in all, garbage.
Garbage. The other book that I rated one star is Wool by Hugh Howey
This is a sci-fi
dystopian novel about thousands of people who live underground. They've lived there for so long and they have
Operated under this really strict role
You have to never go outside and you have to never mention that you might like going outside
This is a 500 page novel
But originally it used to be a novella and maybe it should have stayed as a novella because holy shit
I was so bored while reading this. I found this to be such a generic sci-fi
Apocalyptic story with no standout character. No thought-provoking themes. Just nothing
That would really make it any different from any other sci-fi novel
The main guy is the super angsty brooding guy who's still grieving over the death of his wife
But before she died, she knew these secrets about their society. For a while
she went a little cuckoo
because she knew things but she kept on saying them in very cryptic words and then she died and he'll never know
what was the actual secret. You know, it just felt so cliche.
There's other characters too, but I found all of them to be flat. Absolutely nothing stood out to me.
However, once again
I did tab some of the parts where I thought the writing was especially bad
One of the characters is named Juliette and there's a scene where her parents are talking. Apparently when they were expecting their child
They said, "We were going to name our first child either Romeus or Juliette"
You know at this point, I don't even feel bad about them dying
You were gonna name your kid Romeus or Juliette, depending on the gender? The caucacity!
Here's a conversation between two characters Lukas and Bernard. Lukas says, "Sabotage? Who came up with all this stuff?"
Bernard says, "People who experienced many bad things."
Lukas says, "Like the people before the uprising?"
Then Bernard replies, "The people before those people. The one people." See this is the kind of cryptic bullshit that I hate
Nobody talks like that. Just say what you mean. Why is this guy's communication skills so poor
Did he grow up from book twitter? This is an excerpt from a monologue from one of the other characters
You can't leave seeds this long, not in the dark like this. Nope. Seeds don't go crazy,
they don't. They have bad days and lots of good ones, but it doesn't matter. You leave them and leave them,
however many you bury, and they do what seeds do when they're left alone too long
We rot. All of us. we go bad down here and we rot so deep that we won't grow anymore. We'll never grow again
I don't know which metaphor is worse. The forest dialogue that compares seeds to humans or that Celine Dion metaphor
One of the characters is on the phone with Bernard
She says, "shut up and listen Bernard just shut the fuck up and listen to me very carefully"
Bernard waited. He could taste the copper of his own blood in its mouth. "I'm coming for you.
I'm coming home, and I'm coming to clean."
I just thought this was so funny because I'm just imagining the character on the phone going just shut the fuck up Bernard
I'm about to wipe you the fuck out. Ma'am
This is a Wendy's if you're gonna clean something clean the Starbucks someone left their pussy juice there
I did tab this one part because I thought it hit close to home Lukas couldn't read anymore
He closed the book and leaned against the tall shelves
He smelled something foul, brought the spine of the old book to his nose and then sniffed. it was him
He finally decided. when was the last time he had showered?
This is the most I've related to a character
So at least I'll give the book that. Lukas flipped the page pretending to read.
It wasn't that he didn't want to be reading he just didn't want to be reading this. I changed my mind
This quote is the most I related to a character. next I'm gonna be talking about all of the books I rated 3 stars
I read The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
I'm not sure what genre to categorize this as it's kind of like a family drama
But there's still some sense of not magic but some weird mystical shit going on the book begins in
1969 there is this family that has four
Children and they hear about the psychic that can predict the day that you die. One of the older brothers thinks
It's a great idea to introduce the concept of mortality to his younger siblings and go see that fortune-teller
I don't know about you
But I think the best way to bond with your family is to learn when you're gonna die with them
They have to get their fortunes separately
but then they all come back and they're all kind of shook by it and the brother who originally
Suggested the idea in the first place is like man. This is bullshit. Let's get out of here
Supposedly they decide to forget about it. But really this prophecy affects them for the rest of their life
The book shows the next five decades of how each sibling grows up and how the prophecy has
Influenced some of the decisions that they've made throughout their life the two siblings that have much shorter
Time to live are a lot more reckless with their decisions
So they do stuff that the other siblings disapprove of but they're just like Yolo you only live once
Literally, but then because they live so recklessly you could argue that it was what also influenced their deaths
So it's kind of like was a prophecy actually a real or did they fulfill it themselves?
Because they thought it was real the same thing applies for the two siblings that end up living longer lives
They're aware of this, but then they're also super
Careful with their decision making they hold back a lot and towards the end of their lives
They have to confront whether it was worth it for them to live a longer life
But not truly live their lives as fully it's interesting
To toy with this idea between how much of it is destiny and how much of it is choice, unfortunately
I rated this book three stars because I think that is an intriguing concept
But I didn't feel attached to any of the characters and considering you are following these four characters for their entire lifetimes
You should be a little bit attached them to be invested in the story and I just wasn't to be offered try to
Rely on the emotional weight of a story being on familial bonds, but really the siblings are also
Separated from each other that you don't really get the sense of any bond between the four of them
I think instead the author should leans more towards that question of whether it was a prophecy or a self-fulfilling prophecy
there's lots of potential for it to get really trippy on whether they did this in themselves or the fortune-teller did it to them but
I don't think that was taken advantage of as much as I could. So I ended up rating at 3 stars
However, I do think this book is slightly better than wilder girls by Rory power
This book has been described as the female Lord of the Flies
But I would disagree I guess it is kind of similar for the basic premise of this being a group of schoolgirls that live in
An island and are separated from the rest of society, but I don't think that themes are really the same at all
The premise is that there was a stalks that hit them and kill the teachers one by one and then later started affecting the girls
but instead of them dying their bodies morphed into
Unnatural ways like the main character only has one eye there's an air character that grew a second spine
There's another character that grew scaly skin. They're pretty much quarantined inside the school because going outside would be too dangerous
They don't want to get infected by the stalks even more
So instead there's just chillin inside their school waiting for the cure
but then one day the main character his best friend goes missing she decides to break quarantine to find her even if that means
Discovering the horrors beyond the fence, but when she breaks out of it
She discovers that there is more to the story
Than she thought
who could have known who could have known that there was a secret plot to the talks all along who could have known that a
Group of people trapped and isolated from the rest of society could find out that there's actually another story man
It just it's really never been done before
If you ever read a book and the characters are being told that it's forbidden to go outside
bitches are hiding of something but the reason why I did like this more than
Wool is because there was a romance that happened here that both surprised and intrigued me
I was like
Oh Lord
The Flies who you put all these boys in an island and you're telling me that not one of them is gay Yeah
Right, this this one was more realistic with LGBT theme and the romance was sweet and it was tender
however
Not much happened after that I couldn't connect to any of the characters
Also that ending if you've read it, what the fuck was that?
I don't mind an open ending but this was so open-ended that it almost felt like the author realized
She reached the end of her manuscript and she decided to like tie it up really quickly
She was like, oh shit. I gotta wrap this up. Here you go. It's all a mystery considering that
This is a standalone. I think that is super important for it to feel resolved towards the end of the book
You can still have things
Open-ended but there needs to be a little bit more closure for it to really feel like the ending of a book and for you
To feel like you properly invested yourself in this book. Fortunately. I didn't invest myself at all. So we're good
I also decided to read two books by David Sedaris dress your family in corduroy and denim
Which I rated three stars and Calypso, which I liked better and therefore I rated at four stars
David Sedaris is a very prolific writer who has written a bunch of books that are a
Collection of essays about his life. He has a very interesting upbringing and a very interesting family
He has a humorous approach to interpreting life even when dark stuff happens
He is able to make light of it in a way, but it's still poignant at the same time
Sometimes the stuff that happens isn't necessarily
Mind-blowing or crazy like sometimes they can just be very mundane events
but the way that he writes about them and reflects upon them is kind of like a funny way of looking at everyday life this
Was the first book I read by him
I kind of wish this wasn't my first one because I was left feeling underwhelmed
I was surprised that I chuckled out loud while reading this book because I usually don't laugh at all
I usually have like resting bitchface when I read but there were a couple lines that were actually really good
I enjoyed learning more about his
Dysfunctional family, but ultimately there wasn't anything that stood out to me that would warrants four stars
This also might be because this was my first book but I felt like a lot of it was supplemental information about his life
Which I knew nothing about as a first-time reader
it didn't feel like I was getting the complete picture and then when I read Calypso
I enjoyed it a lot better because I realized that the reason why this is stronger than his other book is
Because all the essays here are kind of like haha. Look at my quirky
Dysfunctional family whereas this book actually went into some serious stuff. He talks about his sister's suicide here
He talks about his father's did hating health
He talks about the strained relationships that he's had with his family
And I know it sounds like I just like books that are about fucked up families because my family's fucked up
Actually that might be true, but that's realistic though, right because not every family and not every life is perfect
This was super service-level because it was just having us look at his quirky little family
Whereas this was the right balance of funny stuff and also some sad stuff if you're gonna write about your life
It should feel human and authentic
There's this one essay where he talks about how there was this one tour that he did where he was dealing with
Troublesome bowel movements and he really needed to take a shit
So every time he was on a flight or giving a speech he was thinking oh my god
I really need to take a shit and he just imagined the horrors of what it would be like if everybody saw him shit his
Pants as he tried to suck that back in his asshole and then the next chapter. He talks about his sister's suicide. So, you know
There's a range you kind of need the humor with a bad stuff on a side note
I was waiting in line at the store when I read that chapter about him really needing to take a dump and then when I
Walked home. I realized that I too really suddenly needed to take a dump
His impact the reason why I did not read those five stars is because I still think the book could dive a lot deeper
Because there's clearly a lot of complicated family
Relationships and thoughts about mortality that he's dealing with now that he's getting older
It's almost like he planted the seeds of this topic and he moved on to the next essay before you could really think any further
Into it that might be just his style though
Where he likes to write very short form essays that kind of give you the start of an idea and then you can take what?
You will from it, but I personally find that if there is a thought-provoking subject
I would really love to dive deeper into it and experience this whole journey with the author, but maybe that's not David's style
But regardless I still think that he is a true author
I think if I ever got to meet him
I would totally love that experience because he just seems like a pretty chill dude the final book that I rated 5 stars was lovely
war by Julie Barry
I was on a plane to San Francisco because I am moving to California
permanently maybe which means that I
Couldn't bring any library books with me because I wouldn't be able to return them in person the way that I got out of this
Was I requested penguin teen to send me a copy of this book
They're not paying me to do this and I'm not expected to give a review if I did hate the book
I would be completely honest about it
I really just picked it up because we needed an actual book to read on the plane
That wasn't a library book, but holy shit
I was expecting it to be three stars or four stars
But the fact that I cried
seven separate times on the airplane while I read this shit warrants a five star read this book is a
Historical romance and funny enough last year around the same time
I read all the light we cannot see on the plane and I also cried like a little bitch while reading it
So I'm starting to see a trend here where if I read a historical romance that takes place during World War One on a plane
I'm not gonna survive but I didn't think that I would like it because there is like some kind of mythological
Tie to it and I'm not really into mythology. The premise is that there are these Greek gods that congregate together
Because Aphrodite is on trial Aphrodite is the goddess of love. She had an affair with the God of War
She has to explain to her husband. Why love and war keep on banging? Why are they internally drawn to each other?
So she was like alright
Let me tell you a story the rest of the book dives into the stories of four central
characters that lives during World War one and World War two the main girl meets a
Handsome guy at a party in London
It was love at first sight, but unfortunately he gets drafted to go to the war on to the killing field
They try to sustain their relationship during a very dark time in history. I don't know what it is
But when you put two white people together, I'm like man
I don't care about this vanilla as couple, but when you put two white people together in World War one
I'ma cry seven times on an airplane the same thing
Happened and all the light we cannot see they clearly met only one time but still I cry like a bitch
I'm not even exaggerating when I say it was seven times. It was at least that amount because I started counting after a while
I will put a picture of me crying on the plane
This is when I got off from my feet and I went to the airplane bathroom and I took a selfie myself just to
Commemorate this moment for you all I don't know if it was because I was permanently
moving to a new place and I had to leave my
Adoptive father and I was feeling really sentimental when we said I love you to each other
But a bitch was really going through it, okay?
There's this one part where the two characters get to reunite only for two days in Paris
They spend their days doing the most cheesy ask couple shit ever like that goes to the Eiffel Tower
And then they kiss in front of the tower
they get a fancy meal together and share their pasta and exchange loving looks with each other and it's fucking cheesy and
Disgusting and you know what? I cried the entire time because I'm like bitch
this is the only time they have that context a bit being during World War one affects me so much more compared to if it
had been in present-day you really
Appreciate all of these cheesy things or these mundane things because those characters or those people that existed back then
Did not have the luxury of enjoying those things when you have the contrast of this real moment in time of such
Tragedy and death, but then pair it with the hope and humanity of pure love
Then it makes a bitch feel soft. Okay aside from that. There are these two other characters that fall in love?
I liked all of them honestly, all four essential characters are really endearing but I especially liked the
Portrayal of Audrey who is a black soldier not only did he joined the regiment, but he is also a really talented
Musician and he has like the best clips ever and he has so much personality to him that I loved reading about his character
He was so charismatic
You could tell that Julie really put in a lot of effort to researching what it was like for an african-american
Soldier being sent to Europe to help end the great war and what is the type of discrimination that they go through?
Among other soldiers that they're supposed to be fighting along with and a lot of times when you look back at these big
Historical events a lot of it is really whitewashed and so it's nice to see that
Perspective there's a really long historical note towards the end of the book where she details different hoppers about black servicemen in the Great War
Exporting Jim Crow women during World War one because the Great War also had a huge impact on women
It was very clear that she did a lot of thorough research and she put in a lot of thought and care into
Representing different groups that had survived the World War or maybe even didn't survive
I found the book to be so heartwarming and heart-wrenching
If you are a romantic at heart, you will probably cry alongside with me
Otherwise if you're not into romance
I don't know how you will receive the story because I do think that couples fall in love with each other pretty quickly
But you know, I really wasn't bothered by that. I feel like the circumstances that they went through really made the experiences
Feel more human and it was just it was just a good shit. Okay?
I love one of those make me cry because then I feel something for once in my
Goddamn life. So those are all the books. I read in November in the month of December
I plan on reading the dream Pheebs a weight of our sky a quart of frost and Starlight my lovely wife and
Little black book. I also owe some shoutouts every time I hit a milestone
I will shout out another small booktuber last time I did this I had 58 K. And now I have 60 K
What the fuck? How do we get here?
I don't know but I'm gonna divert attention by recommending other booktubers to you
The first book to birth I want to recommend is the psycho Nicks
she's really into books and
anime and art and gaming
she took a break from booktube for a while because the booktube community can be a
Bit much sometimes but I'm really glad that she's back even if you don't read books
She also has done a lot of bullet journal set of videos
And I think they are super Ceglie pleasing and relaxing to watch she is very very talented and it's not even her
Artistry in journals. It's also the arts history on her face because her makeup game
It's fucking on point. The next book super I want to shout out is a moonlight scroll
She is a Filipina booktuber and she is a huge fan of Harry Potter specifically the Marauders
I hope that's how you pronounce it. I don't know because I don't read Harry Potter yet more info on that later
She did this one video where it was called BTS as Harry Potter characters
which is like this weird merger of two huge fandoms together both of which I am NOT a part of so
I don't know anything about what went down in that video. But if you like it, you might want to check it out
She also did this cool one about her reading themes for your reading slump as well as a blog where she tried reading every morning
For a week, which I definitely could not do that's about it
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