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Haven't watched a video from you in a while. Great vlog! And good luck with grad school! I may or may not be learning Latin, the decision ultimately falls on me and what it is I hope to achieve. Still waiting for that philosophy vlog, haha!

Best wishes with your reading choices. I hope you get some great stories. I'm deep into the Count of Monte Cristo. I might be a while! Happy reading to you.

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I just finished this phenomenal new book of fairy tales entitled Sillies, Fancies, and Trifles - it was phenomenal and I think you'd love it. It would go with the lovely recommendations here. Keep up the beautiful videos :)

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Best wishes with your reading choices.

Hi from Puerto Rico!! Just stumbled upon your channel and it was a definite subscribe!! lol Enjoyed the video. I'm currently on the FairyLoot waiting list, how long did you have to wait? I can't wait to start receiving those beautiful books!

I totally feel you about not being able to finish a book before bed for fear of being too worked up!

I will check out the ones you liked because we have similar taste in books ❤ btw here in Italy we have an app called “storytel” that for 10euros lets us listen to their entire catalogue (it has books in english/spanish/italian), I definitely recommend it if you want to listen to more audiobooks, hopefully it’s available in your country too!

Enjoyed the vlog like usual. Don't have much to say on this one (mostly to avoid repeating myself, lol). Look forward to the next one!

Yeah, long books can take a while to get going - I know this from the Russian classics I've read. Of course, what draws me to long classics is the connection they have to things like philosophy and history. Like, Les Miserables - people complain about the digressions, but that's the thing for me: I don't necessarily read just for the stories and characters. This is why I like Dostoevsky, his characters are meant to be representatives of the ideas culminating in Russia at the time; they approach a fundamental saying: "people embody ideas." And those ideas can be from lifetimes ago or the ones right now presently. That's why I read fiction: to encapsulate ideas through means of drama and themes; but even then we must be careful to not let poetry blind us to the truth of the matter. That is where philosophy comes into play. Enjoyed the video!

Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan is the answer to your question.

Seemed like an interesting line up of books - well, other than the one about the pornstar. That makes me squirm in my seat to think about that premise; but I won't go off on a tangent, lol. And hopefully the liberal mass media won't come knocking on my door. The holier-than-thou attitude can get annoying, but we have to keep in mind where it comes from: a place of virtue, or the want for virtue. And so I respect the likes of those people more than those who are amoral - like whoever wrote the book previously mentioned. But that's just my two cents. Lol. Enjoyed the video.

I'm still waiting for a philosophy book review!!! Lol. Jk. I need to start working out again. Last year I got down to 170 lbs, but now I'm at about 220 - which could be worse at 6'0. I want to shoot for 190-200 again. I think that'll be a good sustainable weight. My biggest goal is to finish my writing project for Plato around October. If I do about 400 words a day, I should. Reading-wise I plan to keep my current system going. I do about 150 pages a day, 13 books, and have an embedded note-taking and journaling practice for 4 of those books. Given that my pages are spread throughout so many books, I never really read one in a single month. I just focus on daily pages read rather than books read.

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Books I got this month? Not many. Let's see... (off the top of my head, lol), I got a book about George Berkeley, the famous idealist philosopher, which serves as my introduction to his thought . . . that's the only one I can think of right now, lol, but I know I got some others. I've been reading it for a few days. I'm an idealist, I think in terms of universals, abstracts - modes of general thought - and so Berekely's Immaterialism really interests me. Been going steady with my writing project for Plato's Symposium - at 22,000 words out of 100. I haven't hit too many obstacles. Yet. I'm just waiting for the ball to drop, when the ideas don't flow like they should. And if I could escape this cloudy headedness that would be great. I don't blame you for putting down that one book about the cheating wife. Terrible thing to think about. I sometimes wonder about why someone may cheat. One of the biggest reasons, and it has to do with our current culture, is the casualization of sex. It teaches men and women to view it as a form of indulgence and pleasure that lacks all emotion, logic, and beauty. It detaches them from real intimacy and so the bonds of loyalty snap in two. It's a coldness. That's the thing: this so called "progressive" culture is trying to remove real love and replace it with some knock-off. A love that hasn't the grace and purity to last. Lol. That's why I'm an ascetic. Forgive me for going off. It just kinda struck a little bit of a nerve. 😅 Enjoyed the video!

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I don't like spice at all; in fact I disagree with its production and the swarming mass of people who read it - but that's just me. Moreover, it gets into my ideal of morally based aesthetic quality . . . I digress. Enjoyed the vlog!

Let's see... the best fiction book I read in November was Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman; some others were Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, and Typhoon by Joseph Conrad. My favorite philosophical works were Kant's Metaphysics of Morals and Rousseau's Social Contract. I've also been enjoying Emerson's essays (so might, the transcendentalists) as well as St. Augustine - his Confessions and his City of God. A few more will go unnamed. Had a good, somewhat tiresome and stressful reading month in November, lol. But pretty good overall.

These are such good ideas I wouldn’t have thought of! Thank you 😊

I really enjoyed Christmas by the book as well last year. Skipping Christmas by John Grisham is really fun as well especially if you like Christmas with the Cranks.

I love reading A Christmas Carol every year with my family (I'm usually the one doing the reading, lol.) Other than that I don't really do seasonal reading. I just stick to things like Aristotle and Dante. Not a big fan of contemporary stuff (mostly because I disagree with their sentiments). Still, it's enjoyable to hear people's opinion.

I swore to myself I will not spend more than 50$ a month on books, lol. It sucks, but I gotta order a lot of mine from Amazon, because I live in a small town and there are barely any bookstores. And the bookstores that are here do not have what I'm looking for. Sometimes I'll find something worthwhile; but I am pretty particular with what I read (philosophy and classics) - and maybe that's more a negative than a positive, lol.

Love all the the books in this haul 😍 congratulations in your upcoming wedding 💖

I can't wait to see what you pick to read for December! I recommend Slewfoot by Bram for a witchy read. Love your channel!

TESA BAILEY!! I CANNOT WAIT FOR MORE WINTER BOOKS <3

I loved Sterling House but I wouldn't call it a thriller, I haven't heard much negative about it... But if people are expecting thriller that's not it, its labelled as gothic magical realism and that is about righf

Babel is on my radar as well. I recently finished reading Kuang's novel 'Yellowface' and that absolutely cemented her in my mind as an author to keep an eye on. 👀 So I suspect you're in for a treat!

Im starting Assistant to the Villain today. Im glad you liked it, but Im a little bummed that its a series. I had no idea.

I recommend "Shattered: The Story of Hillary's Failed Campaign".

If I found out Iron Flame came out the Tuesday before my wedding, I’d move my wedding. 🙈

Thanks for sharing Celestine Martin, Katy Hays. I read 2 books in the Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson and I finished 2nd Chance (Book 2) in 2022.

Hi, congratulations on your video! This summer, I read four thriller books, but the one I liked the most was "Motion Detection," which I stumbled upon on Amz. It's a fantastic book. But I don't understand why nobody talks about it. Have you read it? I highly recommend it!

Wow that's awesome wish I could get free book I love books and I give them ❤

Good video, lighting and sound are really good. That rock on your hand is as big as the books.

I’m so excited about a bunch of these! Assistant to the villain, cruel prince, Babel…. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts!!!!

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife is a great starting place for Dark Academia. I forget details about books easily but I read it two Falls ago and still know everything.

it’s so funny that you described the daedalus bookshop as a labyrinth because daedalus is a figure from greek mythology who created the labyrinth that trapped the minotaur !!

this is so cute!! i love book vlogs :)

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All Rhodes Lead Here was really good. The start was a little slow for me but I ended up loving it ❤

Omg I love Lisa Jewell

In your thumbnail is a spelling mistake, Brooke. Thank you for your recommendations. ❤

I hope you LOVE The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches it is definitely one of my favourites of the year so far!! Also absolutely love The Folk of the Air trilogy, can't wait to see your reading vlog on it!!

Hoarding books is not a personality. Get a talent. Do something. I know that you know how being bland and papercut copy of a white girl is horrible. So do something different....

I just finished The Nanny, I liked it, but also agree it was a bit too long. Congrats on getting married soon!!!

Just found your channel and subscribed!! You have so many good books here, looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the Poppy War, I read it in april and loved it (still haven't read the other two though), hope you end up loving it too!!

Came here for the book reviews, stayed for Scooter’s antics 🥺

you are doing it great ♥ amazing person