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thanks so much! I will pass on the complement to Stella the husky!

I will make sure to let Stella know!

I get that! Honestly, I'd often rather be a character IN the dark academia books, doing the deep study with really close friends (minus the murder part, lol). But reading the books are the next best thing! I enjoyed Babel overall but I do wish I vibed more with the writing style.

thank you so much for the encouragement! I actually have another little vlog ready to go that I'm going to post on Friday. It took me over a month to edit it and get it ready, but it's something! 😅

I'm working on doing a 2024 new book recommendation video! stay tuned!

thank you! I somehow missed this comment when you left it, lol. I appreciate the support!

thanks for the feedback! Any suggestions on how? And what exactly is wrong with it? It sounds fine to me, lol, so I don't know how to fix it!

yes I have several planned! Since it's October, I'm going to do horror recommendations... my top 10 haunted house books, top 10 vampire books, top 10 monster/creature books... well, that is if I can get to 10 on each! I don't want to recommend something I hated just because it fits a category, haha!

although I guess the videos I described are more "recommendations" than "reviews" lol but I'm working my way through some new releases that I plan to review!

no worries at all! I usually describe dark academia at the beginning of videos where I talk about it buuuut I forgot this time... ADHD, lol. to put it simply, dark academia is an internet aesthetic mostly centered around learning, literature, and art, and particularly a sort of romanticized version of it. But it's also become a book genre, as in this video. Books that fit this category are usually set at a school, involve the romanticization of learning/education... and have a murder. That's the "dark" part, I guess! Donna Tartt's The Secret History is sort of *the* dark academia book... but of course, people have been romanticizing elite education long before she published the book in 1993, and definitely long before people were calling it "dark academia." So it's sort of a new name for a very old thing!

haha yes! It's sort of a newish genre, in a way. Like, the name is new but the concept is as old as time because people have been romanticizing elite education loooong before people were calling it "dark academia." I'm glad I introduced you to it!

@@haleylquinton yes indeed, you've earned a subscriber. Looking forward to more and to see you hit it big. Keep the videos coming, you've got talent.

Thank you so much for commenting! As a white person, I do sometimes worry about making videos like this because I don't want to "step outside my lane" and accidentally say something insensitive... but these are important, contemporary topics that I can't help but talk about. I found RF Kuang's comment about how being forced to only write about your own experiences actually harms marginalized communities the most eye-opening--in a way that honestly speaks to my own privilege that it isn't somethingI hadn't thought about. But yeah--maybe Asian immigrants want to write something other than an Asian immigrant story over and over again! My next video (that I'm taking forever to edit lol) is about SA Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed, which is a Southern Gothic (my favorite genre) thriller about the first Black sheriff in a small town. (I very much recommend this book if you haven't read it btw but check out the content warnings first). The protagonist Titus Crowne wants to change the system but is also limited by working within the system. He has to deal with racists who hate him, but also the Black and progressive community who feel like he isn't doing enough to further their cause. And of course there's also fantastic commentary about police brutality. It's another one that I'm worried about saying the wrong thing, but I love this book and I just want to talk about it! I am happy to say I have started writing again! I think just talking about how I want to do it again and putting that out there has led to me just doing it... slowly... painfully... but doing it!

Oh good! So many people love 7 1/2 Deaths so I don't want to make any enemies 😂

you know you're going places when your first grade teacher watches your videos! 😁

oh my gosh, thanks so much!

Thank you! I feel like I have to start early because fall always goes by SO FAST. And yes... Sage (the cat) is my favorite little halloween decoration!