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For those who want more "fun" adult fiction, I'd highly recommend any of the novels by Kevin Wilson! His books are filled with bizarre humor that makes you cackle out loud, while also exploring themes of isolation, found family, queerness, trauma, and reconciliation. He's also written one of the most realistic depictions of the teenage girl experience that I've ever read, and his writing and characters always manage to speak to me with where I'm at in life. Another great book is called The End We Start From- it's about a world-ending flood, motherhood, and survival. It's a short book with bite sized chapters and could easily be read in one sitting. The prose is almost addictive to read honestly.

This was too funny😂 I love u❤

omg i just discovered ur channel and i love it alr 🙈 i could listen to u for hours & can’t wait to read these!

so...toni morrison. i am in the middle of the bluest eye and i feel like i am too stupid to understand it. like firstly, there are too many characters for me to understand them all and i do not get the story and find it quite boring, what is my problem?? it's not that i don't read classics, like i've read 'harder' books, everyone loves it and i wanna know wyy

This may be my favorite video of yours I’ve watched and i essentially stalk your channel so that says much 📖 🪱 💔 🤍 💙

ok i need to know if you used a pattern for the bigfoot hat, and what pattern it was if so, bc obviously i *need* to make that

I was looking for someone with similar feelings about This Thing Between Us because it holds such a special place in my heart and I have been blessed with so many more videos!! <3

perfect, now I have a book list for next year

About vegetarian, they have a live action of it. Korean movie. Kind of

6:53 Me, its Me! There is a whole Iron Age village and costumes you can rent out in Wexford Ireland National Park! I slept on a pallet of hay under sheepskins. You should check it out if you are ever in Ireland and liked Ghostwall.

I always gravitate towards essay collections because they’re so short and usually accessible. It’s awesome.

The Guest was soooo propulsive. And you're so right - SO STRESSFUL. I read it in 24 hours because each resolution was followed up IMMEDIATELY by the creation of a new problem. Such a fun read!

Ahhh Bret Easton Ellis!! I agree with you about the way he describes gore, I tried reading American Psycho and got halfway through before I couldn't stomach it anymore (and I'm not someone who's easily overwhelmed by this sort of thing). Tried picking it up again recently, two years later, and still couldn't handle it. Sucks because it's also such a funny book. Ellis has a way of making violence feel relentless and exponentially fast paced that almost doesn't leave you with any room to breathe... Idk if this was what "The Shards" was like but anyway he's just such a skilled writer

What is a reading slump? Is that when you're reading less than three books at any given point?

I love your vids please don’t get trapped in a painting for all eternity 😔😊

Ones company has possibly the best first page I've ever seen in a book I got sucked in immediately. Finished it in 2 sittings and then sent it to my sister so I could relive the experience through her 😂

I finally read this thing between us after seeing this yesterday, read it in like two sittings and i couldn’t put it down. Literally so chilling and disturbing. I’m a little lost by the ending, giving in and all, but i still think the author is simply brilliant. Grief and horror mixed together is such a fantastic combination, i think iv been looking for a book like it for like, forever. I don’t normally feel like i have to stumble back into a book and decipher something new because it’s left me completely shocked, so props to the author lol. thanks for the recs! iv had to make a collection on my kindle where it’s just ur book recs lmao

Not to overshare on the RUclips comments section, but This Thing Between Us helped me deal with my own grief more than anything else this year so please read it, it's so good

I just finished “ oranges are not the only fruit “ and I think you’d really enjoy it. It’s follows this catholic young girl with a really devoted mother and it’s about queerness and religion and growing up and it’s probably my new favourite book.

I read milk fed and as someone who is actively in a loving lesbian relationship, I absolutely hated it and I am very much not a prude 😌 I don’t have a problem at all with an unconventional depiction of lesbian sex and desire, and raunchiness. I think it’s rlly important for it to be depicted in media because lesbianism is NOT one size fits all, however, I cannot say I enjoyed the way Melissa did it. My main qualm with the book was the fatphobia of the protagonist in duality with her fetishization of Miriam for being fat. I believe that there are thoughtful ways to go about subjects such as these, but Melissa just did it carelessly for shock factor. It felt distasteful to me. Not to mention the fantasizing of literal sh*t eating, but to each their own! Just wanted to share my perspective

I read Ghost Wall because of your first ever video I think. Did you pick up on the spectrum of badness-“goodness” in men? Like the dad being the worst since he is actively abusive, the professor is a bystander to the abuse and the younger guys think they are good guys because they say the dad’s behavior sucks but don’t ever do anything about it.

Thank you for this! I loved listening to you more than most book commentators I've encountered. Quirky and good suggestions, I've read 2 of those

You should read we used to live here! Just finished it and I’m curious to hear your thoughts

Finally got a library card after years of not having one and I’m ready to binge read. Videos like this are so helpful for getting started bc I get so easily overwhelmed by choice. Thank you for helping me in my journey of reading again!

I wonder if the reason you don’t hear much about Hurricane Girl is because it isn’t widely accessible? I couldn’t find it on the UK kindle store…

love your channel

I have accidentally watched all of your videos

I'm actually a huge queer horror fan as well! tbh i did not like tell me i'm worthless much at all, but its been a while and i can't quite remember my specific gripes (other than the transphobe being trans, which is also a trope i hate) I have a few recommendations for gay horror as well Camp Damascus (Chuck Tingle) - the author is well known for writing super weird gay porn, but this book isn't like that and also SO good Her Body and Other Parties (Carmen Maria Machado) - I'll be surprised if you haven't read this one! I haven't read A Sunny Place for Shady People, but it sounds similar Sister, Maiden, Monster (Lucy A. Snyder) - weird, horrifying, kinky

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Thank you for recommending Assembly, I've added it to my TBR.

I read The Shards because of your recs and WHAT A BOOK, it's just so good and makes you want to keep reading it. Thanks for the rec !

Big Swiss is one of my favorite books. Every time I tell someone I love it they judge it by the cover but it deserves more love 😕

Appreciate your perspective. You freshen my tbr list. Articulation is Michelin 3 star. I’m so glad we crossed paths

Malagash tore me open. If anyone has sat next to a loved one‘s hospital bed helpless to change anything will understand this book.

If y’all are into fantasy, check out Terry Pratchett! He writes fantasy with jokes in it, but I wouldn’t say it’s comedy, more like humorous! You can literally start anywhere you want in his massive library of Discworld books and you’ll find an instantly accessible place of familiar races turned a little to the left, and familiar plots turned more progressive and modern then you might expect! Your local library probably has a dozen of ‘em, give ‘em a try! Don’t let 200-300 pages phase you, they really breeze along!

as someone who probably has brain damage from a botched birth lol i really want to read hurricane girl so bad!!!

I read "this thing between us" because of you and it's a book I still think about!! I also love books that talk about grief.. thank you for the recs, I just added more to my tbr :)

Your hair looks really good !

i needed a video like this, thank you Frankie 🙂‍↕️✨

i love how long your videos are and everything you’re saying in them thank you for this delightful content 🙏

Milk fed was the first literary fiction book I read that got me into reading! It was soooo good

Saw Toni Morrison in the thumbnail so I'm already sold. I read The Bluest Eye recently and it destroyed me but also had me completely rapt.

how do you find books like these? i dont have a lot of bookstores in my area so its all like really popular fiction.

I have been watching your channel for a while now and adore it, I’m not sure if this book would be your exact taste but it is a super short and traumatising lit fic so maybe it will? 😭 “the girl at the door” written by Veronica Raimo, it was originally written in Italian and I do find the translation to be a little choppy, just as a fair warning. Would love to hear your thoughts! 😊

The Guest by Emma Cline is my fav I’ve read this year. Really a rec for the sims peeps who adore the "from rags to riches"challenge in the sims 3/4 and use the "infiltrate other people's homes and dating the rich in game" tactic to get what they want

booktok and booktube have been overrun by one specific genre and as someone who actually wants to read i had trouble finding book recommendations that actually sound like something id read!!!

I read part 1 of our share of night and was hooked. But I was buddy reading with my brother and he kept bailing on me so I set it aside. You’ve just inspired me to finish it.

the guest gave me a lot to think about, but the ending left me feeling so unfinished. I think about it more than a lot of other books I read so I suppose that's the point? I hated and loved it. it's complicated 😭

Big Swiss has such negative reviews for no reason at all! I loved it, read it on one go. Why the hell were they living in a house with a beehive, still makes me smile

I haven’t read The Shards yet, but I read Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis last year and totally agree with what you said abt the way he writes gore. I felt seriously off for a while throughout and after reading that book haha