Reading Booktuber Recommendations 🔪 mystery, horror & thriller books from book club cohosts
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2024
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aaron @BookedandBusy
bre @LocDBooktician
megan @megwithbooks
chanelle @chanelletime
jesse @JesseOnRUclips
stef @perksofstef
ellias @ellias
all other cohosts and liveshows can be found in this playlist
• Literally Dead Book Club
0:00 The books
2:55 Never let me go
11:58 Liveshow footage
17:12 Nana
20:54 The devil and the dark water
30:35 Small favors
36:24 Whisper network
43:10 The cutting season
50:15 November book club pick
52:51 Theme music
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An idea for a vlog… go into a few libraries, ask the librarians their fave books and read them 😊
I hope she sees this comment!!! Such a good idea
I love this idea!
YES PLEASE!!
OMG YES‼️
This is a great idea 🙌🏼
Clearly Reese Witherspoon thinks you should do an investigation of her book club with a jar for movies.
Never having seen a Keira Knightley movie is in and of itself not a travesty, but then I realized that means that you’ve never seen: Pride and Prejudice, Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean or Bend it like Beckham. And now I’m just shook.
Pride & Prejudice?!?!?! Please what can I do to get you to watch this??
Love Actually will definitely be happening during one of my members movie nights, so there's that! 💕 Pride & Prejudice the book was 3⭐ for me so I just never found the motivation to watch the movie! Honestly I don't think I can name a single historical romance movie I've seen except...Titanic? haha
@@BooksandLala Time we start a petition for Kayla to watch pride and prejudice! 😅
@@BooksandLala watch it for Matthew MacFadyen, he's such a foooorce in that film - i'm convinced he can get anyone to like Mr. Darcy with his portrayal (and I didn't like the book all that much lol)
@@BooksandLala would Little Women count as romance?
@@beckyduff I wouldn't personally say Little Women is a romance, no. It has various love stories throughout it of course though! To me a romance is one where the one (and often only) real plot to follow is a singular romantic relationship that you are rooting for.
An idea for a reading challenge.. read the number one bestsellers for the years you and Rob and Liam were born, or important years in your life. 😊
Video idea: Reading other people’s cover biases. You have bunnies and hands and it would be interesting to see other peoples’ oddly specific cover weaknesses.
Kayla I would love to see a reading vlog where you just read books at YOU want to read and that you have been waiting to fit into a video... but they can be all random! "Reading 5 books I'm excited/hopeful about" or something :)
I think she did it last year with five stars prediction
Never Let Me Go seems to be pretty divisive as a book. I remember the first time I saw the goodreads rating and reviews. I was shook 😂 honestly, it’s my favourite book of all time. A lot of people’s majn criticism is that it seems detached and lacking in emotional impact, but for me that’s always what made it what it is. It’s so subtle and it’s these big emotional things hidden in all these smaller, day to day, ‘insignificant’ moments. These extraordinary circumstances surrounded by such ordinary/banal things and issues and lives. I also always love how Ishiguro writes about memory and perspective.
I so agree with this! A lot of the time when people don't like Never Let Me Go they mention not connecting with Kathy as a character, and I think that's very intentional on the author's part.
Same! And I just loved the tone, found it to be quite melancholy.
Never Let Me Go is also one of my favorite books, so I knew Kayla would hate it lol. I love all of Ishiguro’s books except The Buried Giant so she will probably like that one.
I read it in highschool, when I hated every book I was told to read, and I LOVED it. I've thought about it frequently ever since. I have it on my list to reread it now that I read regularly again and see if I agree with my past self!
It’s my favorite book as well. Once I figured out what was going on, it has such a profound emotional impact. It was like a punch in the gut and I haven’t stopped thinking about it.
The Devil and the Dark Water is one of my faves! But I have that same issue with getting into a book if I haven't picked up the genre in a while. And Stuart Turton's ending are always... a choice 😂
THATS ME! Thanks so much for doing my idea 🎉🎉🎉
I cannot read the same genre back to back. I find when I do that I can’t help but compare the books and it lessens my enjoyment of reading on the whole. I need to have variety , always making sure my next book is any genre but the one I just read. It’s like a palate cleanser. Interesting to see someone do the opposite, especially when we have such similar taste in books!
“I forgot to vlog with my face frozen for the lols.” Lala is committed to the art. 😂😂😂😂
I can totally understand someone giving the devil and the dark water 1 star because of the ending lmao I still don’t know how I feel about it
I had to DNF the book because the narrator but I am thinking to pick it back up on ebook.
I was enjoying it so much and then it went so off the rails lollllllll
Watching this on my lunch break is the best mental health decision I’ve made all day
Aaron giving it one star made me CACKLE
Same here 😌
We seriously need a regular day in the week vlog from you. I NEED to see what you cook, everything you make in reading vlogs looks delicious!
I love Kayla’s unique reading vlogs like this 🙌 she is the queen of booktube 👑
House of Salt and Sorrows surprised me when I read it because of how much horror imagery there was, and seeing how much you enjoyed Small Favors has me wanting to pick up now!
The Cutting Season and Small Favors are two of my favorite books so I’m so happy you liked them! I think you might also like House of Salt and Sorrows!
I love my literally dead book club shirt, it's so comfy, and I always get compliments!
Yay for The Cutting Season. I just added that one to my Blackoween TBR, so I am excited to pick it up soon 🎃
Omg I'm so excited that House of Hunger won!! I read it a couple weeks ago and absolutely loved it! It's gonna be such a good book to discuss in a live show 😍😍
I'm not sure if you have read this already but Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce is one of my favourites, which was published in 2019. The main character is a criminal barrister and her job features a lot in this book too as the author is an ex barrister herself. It's very gritty, with morally grey characters and has a great twist. 😍 Her latest book (It Ends at Midnight) also has similar themes, but I didn't think it was as good.
so excited to hear your thoughts on whisper network- it wasn't even a huge fav of mine, i just always thought you would have interesting thoughts on it!
YES! so glad you both loved ready or not ❤️
Ah never let me go is one of my most favorite books, i wish it would have been as mindblowing to you, but well, so cool that you finally read it!! Was waiting for your opinion for so long :))
So excited for this!!
This was so fun! It's always interesting to see what people recommend when it comes to books similar to other books
both never let me go and catherine house are all time favorites for me! so interesting!
Love having this to watch to start my day! I just DNF'D The Devil and the Dark Water, and I'm disappointed because I usually love mysteries but it is really dragging for me. Nana sounds so interesting, I've added that to my TBR!
uhh love that selection of books! so excited!
BLESSED with an hour long video 😭
Not u calling me out for not reading Never Let Me Go yet🫣
Thank you for helping kind of guessing this Video theme
Hahahahaa I couldn't help it. We both showed *such* interest in it in the liveshow, to the point we semi agreed to buddy read it. 🤭 You're lucky I didn't DM you this week and force you to complete it with me hahahaha
@@BooksandLala listen this was two years ago I cannot be held responsible for anything I said, I’m a different woman now 🏃🏻♀️
Oooh House of Hunger is on my October Blackoweenathon TBR!
I could die of happiness. An hour long video?!?! ❤️❤️
I’ve always not been able to explain why I’m a mood reader, but you saying you need to read the same sort of genre back to back sums it up, it’s too jarring to swap between them, it also explains why I always have about 18 books on the go at once with chunks of them being from the same genres, you’ve cracked the code for me!
I think you can put plastic wrap over your paint to keep it from drying.
When I worked at an Art Therapy non-profit, we would use ziplocks to keep our small 6-pan palettes fresh. It was especially important if we had mixed a specific color we wanted to save but couldn't use it for a few days.
we read never let me go in 11th grade english class! 5 stars. so many good memories.
Ahhhhhh I’m so excited about this video!
I enjoy all of your vlogs but this theme was especially fun.🙂
I loved the writing in Evelyn Hardcastle so much that I immediately bought his next book. That was two years ago and I have yet to read it, so I'm excited to see what you think.
Yay, another person loving The Cutting Season!
Cannot wait to read Morris’s next book. :)
Evelyn Hardcastle was a book that was so hard to pick up, but so intriguing once I could get back into it, and I feel that way about mysteries in general. However I gave Hardcastle 5 stars because I felt like it was so special and unique. I wanted to immediately start it over to see if I could catch anything I missed or forgot. I’m excited to get to Devil and the Dark Water and feel like I’ll try anything he writes.
This was a fun video idea!! 💕
Similar to your ‘hire a book recommendation’ (where you do an online quiz and it gives you a book). Can you do a video that’s like going into bookstores and either giving them a random brief and seeing what they recommend or just asking for their fave book and if it sounds like something you’d be into, reading it?
Or maybe give them a ‘Vibe’ to recommend. Eg ‘what can you recommend me that will make me feel unsettled’ and just read them.
You initial thoughts of Stuart's book. I am also happy that you could understand why I would like Nana.
Loved this video 🧡📚
Yaaaay 5:00 AM in Brazil, but It is the perfect time ❤️
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I’ve never been this early before, I’m excited to watch this 💗
Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks is an underrated horror novel I’d love to see you pick for the book club (or just read in general 😅)! It’s a very strange and unique ghost story that also surprised me with how hard-hitting it was when I read it a couple of years ago. At the time I loved it and thought that you could potentially really like it too, so I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on it 🙂
Break the Bodiea Haunt the Bones is a trip! What an experience
I'm so glad House of Hunger pulled ahead! I want to read both, but I House of Hunger sounds so good!
As a huge Thriller and horror book fan, I highly recommend you to Old Country. I read it in one sitting..it was so entertaining!
Someone once told me I reminded them of the main character in Never Let Me Go. I've never read it and honestly, now I'm worried. 😂😳
Definitely going to check out The Cutting Season, I'd never heard of it and it sounds great! A book I'd strongly recommend based on what I see you read is GOOD NEIGHBORS by Sarah Langan. It's not *exactly* thriller or horror, it's one of those weird books that doesn't really fit a genre, which is usually the best kind! It's not aggressively weird though, just the right amount. I don't know what I'd compare it to, but I read it in between "Bunny" and "So Happy for You" and that was just a whole good time!
Yes!!!! So excited
I’m so curious if you’d like “The first day of spring” by Nancy Tucker. I think either you’ll love it or hate it 😆 I’m not sure what category to put it in, but it’s definitely dark and psychological. I gave it five stars 😊
Never Let Me Go is arguably my favourite book of all time but I had a feeling it wouldn't quite work for you! I was happy to hear your thoughts on it though.
i just want to talk about your hair. it looks fantastic!
Perfect timing
I found that it took me a while to remember all the characters in the devil and the dark water. It also took me a while to get into but once I did I loved it.
Reading rec: read the rainbow. a white book, a yellow book, etc.
I love Stuart Turton. The 7 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Americans get an extra 1/2 a death) is one of my favourite books. I really enjoyed The Devil in the Dark Water, and the Sherlock Holmes similarities.
i feel like since youre in your vampire era and you also liked ready or not, you might enjoy watching the invitation, which just came out in theaters
Loved Never Let Me Go. Read it years ago.
I first read Never Let Me Go as an assigned book for my AP English class during my senior year of high school.
Great vlog! 😀
I watched Ready or Not a few months back and really enjoyed it! Actually, I just finished These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall and it kept reminding me of that movie. Actually, it’s kind of a mashup of Ready or Not, Knives Out, and the Haunting of Hill House. I ended up totally sucked into the story.
OMG I love The Companion and I haven’t seen anyone other than me talk about it🤩
let it be known I commented this during the intro😂
@@vampirekeeley for what it's worth, I really enjoyed The Companion and wish more people talked about it.
Ooo I loved the Ready or Not movie 😂
If you want a romance recommendation which features a bit of insight into their work without being a workplace romance you should check out the Written in the Stars trilogy by Alexandria Bellefleur, two of the books are sapphic as well.
In the first book one of the women works in Astrology and you get insight into her work, and in the second book the male lead owns a dating agency and you get loads of insight into his business!! Both really fun jobs and added an interesting element to the romance books.
You should read the book about the West Creston killer. Happened here in BC in a small town
Oooh, if you’re willing to give Ishiguro another shot PLUS the weird dream state feels, I HIGHLY recommend The Unconsoled.
Kayla reading Never let me go, yes!!! 💜 The synopsis spoils it though 😂
vlog idea - reading your favorite celebrities favorite books.
I loved ready or not
So glad you liked Nana because it was just such a FUN read for me. I listened to the audiobook which was fantastic. It was specifically an audiobook recommendation from Rachel with The Shades of Orange. It's not a surprising book but it did not disappoint and I liked that it had horror elements but also domestic thriller moments. But this is a book that when I've told people about it I always say the cover is so misleading 😅
I also listened to The Devil in the Dark Water and I was sooooo lost with all the characters. I stuck to audio because it's all my library had available but I do think it detracted from my experience (which is unfortunate because I do think the narrator did a good JOB it was just toooo many POVs). Also I think I could just be dumb but I swear even after I finished the book the the book summary is SO CONFUSING because there is a sentence that says "Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Aren't Hayes, who is slaughtered" and I thought the entire first half of the book that Arent was supposed to die 💀🤦🏼♀️
Okaaaaay I will get pumped for House of Hunger, Woman in the Library was on my TBR already which is only why I was vying for it but guess I'll read both and that's totally fine! 😁
That mug is gourd-geous 😀
I really really really need you to read "The Couple at No.9" by Claire Douglas! It has so many moving parts and twists! Such an underrated book
The accuracy of Catherine House vs Never Let Me Go because I didn’t like Catherine House, but I loved Never Let Me Go, it made me cry lol
Perfect way to start the morning 👌
Perfect Days by Raphael Montes could be a cool pick for the book club! I don't know if you've read it (and if you'd like it 😅) but he's one of my favourite Brazilian authors! 😊
I'm still shocked that I kind guess theme by the first post just because I sew this book in the Chanel of Megwithbooks and I thought you might love this book
I think you might love The Confusion Of Frinne Langton
Have you ever considered reading Earthlings? If you haven't already? It's weird but one of my favorite books.💕
Definitely added some of these books to my TBR! Interesting that the voting was so close! I am so excited to read House of Hunger with the group! Do you know who will host yet? If you want a newb face 🙋♀️So excited for these vampire vibes 🧛♀️
You should read Tami Hoag Ashes to Ashes! Super good!! It’s an oldies but it’s what got me reading again!
Kayla, can I please get your recipe for the orzo dinner you made? Because I've been thinking about it since I watched this video!
the whiplash i got when you said 'i'm making my favourite dinner' and then said something other than asparagus pasta - i thought i knew you, kayla! 😂
Small Favors is one of my favorite books ever - please share your other folk-horror books you like!
lmao i loved both never let me go and catherine house
The Devil & The Dark Water is an excellent book! [ The 71/2 Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle, by the same author, is even better! ] If you enjoy historical / vampire / mystery, then I recommend an old novel: Slave Of My Thirst, by Tom Holland. The beginning is good, the middle is interesting, but the last 100 pages is great!
i think your theory about Stuart Turnton's books is the same as mine! i wish he'd come out with another book :(
I also read Never Let Me Go and gave it 3 stars but I will say the images and themes have stayed with me a long time and so it’s moved up in my ranking over time
I've seen the ending of The Devil and The Dark Water is polarizing. But imo it makes sense.
My mom literally just told me about the movie of Never Let Me Go, a few nights ago, & she LOVED it, she didn’t know it was originally a novel, so maybe the story comes across better as a screenplay than a novel
I can't imagine going into Never Let Me Go completely blind and liking it.
I read it after searching for dystopian fiction that wasn't YA. I think that was enough information to know what to expect, without knowing exactly what to expect.
It's been a long time since I read Never Let Me Go but I remember the tragedy of it all just knocking me flat. The emotional gut punch of the whole situation and the futility of fighting against it. Ugh. Just thinking about it hurts. Also - Andrew Garfield's performance in the film is so exceptionally raw. SEEING these kids be... well. Spoilers. But. I'm surprised to hear people don't feel the impact. It's one of the few stories where I think the book and movie are equally masterful.
Oh no, now I'm nervous. Never Let Me Go is up next on my September TBR. 😮😳🤞
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak could be fun for the bookclub
I gave Catherine House a 3 and Never Let Me Go a 4. Enjoyed them both.
I also enjoyed Catherine House but disliked Never Let Me Go. It wasn’t bad per say, but I didn’t feel like the book did anything special or really add to the conversations that the themes were getting at. Like maybe it did at the time it was written, but having read it a couple years ago, I felt like the book said what I expected it to say when I figured out the plot twist. Catherine House however felt like a fresh take on the themes it was dealing with!
Definitely haven’t read Theme Music BUT it sounds kinda similar to The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard. PLEASE check it out, it was one of my favorites that I read last year! I feel like it does those similar ideas and tropes but really really well