Reading Until I Get a 5⭐ || 1994 Books Vlog
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As the person who (accidentally) made this series happen AND a 1994 baby, I feel like this video was literally made for me!!
ahhh yayyyyyy!! 🎉
GO THROUGH HER OTHER SERIES OF READING HER CHILDHOOD BOOKS GRADE BY GRADE IT IS ABSOLUTE INTERNET GOLD!!!!!!!
I was 16 in 1994 and was definitely reading a lot of Anne Rice, LJ Smith, VC Andrews, and the meager paranormal/horror YA offerings available at the time while jamming out to Nirvana (still my top 3 favorite) and Green Day. I wore so much plaid and was working my first job at AMC Theatres, where I watched Interview With the Vampire (also still a top favorite) on all my breaks and begged for the poster when it left the theaters. Man, now I'm all nostalgic -- where's my DeLorean? 😂
You just unlocked a childhood memory I’ve been searching for for YEARS! I always try to describe my favorite cereal as a kid but had forgotten the name. It’s small yellow/orange ovals that are hard but sweet??? I could never figure it out. Just now, when you said Sugar Crisps it came back to me. The American equivalent of that cereal is HONEY SMACKS! Look it up. It’s the exact same thing but with a frog as the mascot. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Honey smacks are still my favorite cereal lol. They're pure sugar and so bad for me but they're so good.
The Memory Police is my favorite book of all time but it is sooooo mis-marketed. It's not really that similar to 1984 or other classic dystopia that it's compared to in the blurbs imo, it's a completely different thing. I 100% agree with you that it's a conceptual novel. It made me cry so hard at the end. Glad you enjoyed it, I thought you might after you talked about liking stories within stories in your 5 star audit video! And omg Out is sooo good, so I'm really looking forward to your 1997 video :)
Ikr most of the people that read it here in Russian were underwhelmed because they thought it's some high action fantasy while it's very heartbreaking and even claustrophobic to me. I'm almost finished it, but I am still scared and loving it at the same time. 5 star for sure.
"Gorilla Glue, also probably would make me sick if I ate it" 😆 I love your humour so much!! your personality is so fun, loving books is just an extra plus of being subscribed to your channel!! :)
For some reason, I follow a lot of flight attendants. None of the Beis "carry on" bags actually meet standard measurements for almost all major airlines. Even the new mini one is too big. Makes no sense
Okay you’ve completely sold me on The Memory Police!! I thought it would be more sci-fi/government procedural heavy, but knowing it’s more conceptual and weird has piqued my curiosity! 😆 I love knowing what music & foods were coming out in each year too!
Little Giants is one of my favourite movies from when I was a kid. For someone who hates sports irl, I was OBSESSED with the kid-centred sports movies of the early 90s; The Sandlot, Little Big League, Big Green, Rookie of the Year… 😂 But Little Giants had Devin Sawa so it was, of course, my favourite despite me knowing zip about football.
I know it didn't get five stars, but when I saw you hold up Notes on a Crocodile, I audibly said to myself "that was a good book!" (I gave it a four myself).
oh I have to recommend brokeback mountain by annie proulx from 1997! I’ve also heard good things about enduring love by ian mcewan from 97 but never read it.
I’m so thrilled you loved The Memory Police! Yoko Ogawa wrote my favourite short story collection ever called Revenge if you were interested in reading more from her AND it was published in 1998 which you need a 5* from!
I absolutely love The Memory Police too! The ending had me sobbing like a baby. such a gorgeous story.
I've only actively participated in life the last 9 years. 😂😂
A film adaptation of the memory police is coming out this year! Starring Lilly Gladstone!
Love this series! ❤
I disagree that adults wouldn't connect with Walk Two Moons unless it was for nostalgia because i read it for the first time as an adult and adored it. It was a 5 star, and i even reread it and still gave it 5 stars 2 years later. It was the first time I'd experienced a middle grade story that impacted me as strongly as an adult book, and began my love for middle grade! Perhaps if you'd grown up reading books like that, it wouldn't hit as hard. But I never had an opportunity to read well-written middle grade stories as a child, so experiencing the whole "genre" of middle grade books as an adult has been an awesome experience.
Reese’s puffs is my favorite cereal too!
I had no clue The Memory Place was published in 1994 😯 I see it on Instagram all the time so I thought it was a new release
It was originally published in 1994 but didn't get translated to English until a few years ago, so it's kind of both old and new!! 💕
Two 1997 books I would recomment checking out: The God of Small Things, which is a modern classic and one of the first novels I read by an Indian author, and Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, a very ambitious non fiction on world inequalities. I don't think it's perfect, but it's well written and it brings out big topics in an interesting way.
I might not be remembering correctly, but I think the Beis carry on bags only fit on like 2 airlines worldwide! Even the mini is slightly too large for most airlines, even American and European companies. I really don’t know why they advertise them as carry on bags when you always run the risk of having to check it in if you actually travel with it 🧐
This is a fun series. I am about your age, end of 1986, and I probably have missed out on a lot of good books from the 90’s.
My 1997 rec (if it's not too late!) is Little Miss Strange by Joanna Rose. It's a coming of age set in 1970s Denver in the "free love" scene. This was such a hidden gem for me!
1997 recs: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due & Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley. All these have held up well! There were some big books that came out in 1997, but these were lesser known.
Oooh Rose Daughter is such a good pick! The prose is so beautiful and immersive, it is so much more...abstract than Beauty, McKinley's other Beauty and the Beast retelling, but that's part of what makes it so absorbing. I think I've read Rose Daughter a half-dozen times in my life 🥰
The Red Tent is sooo good!! One of my favorites from last year
I really loved the Red Tent!
That playlist was the end of my high school experience.
I love Walk Two Moons. But Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech is one of my favorite books from my childhood. It came out in 1997 if you need a book for that year! It also kind of ties into Walk Two Moons
Kayla learned from the previous year video and tried to stuff an extra few books before the 5 star instead of ending after 2 books 🤭
That is a huge bag.If you can stuff it in the bin it fits. love all the 90s references
Omg I loved walked two moons so much as a kid 🥹🥹🥹
Walk Two Moons was my first favourite book as a kid! I reread it as an adult and my enjoyment was definitely down to the nostalgia.
Omg I love that you tried to read pale blue dot. Sad you didn't love it but still glad you gave it a shot
1997: I feel pretty certain you'll find Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts to be a 5 star read. Excellent work, akin to Angela Davis' Women, Race, and Class.
For 1997, you should check out The God of Small Things and Into Thin Air! I have also heard that The Red Tent is worth a read.
1997 recs: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman, To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (time travel, companion to her Doomsday Book), Paradise by Toni Morrison.
Our book club read The Memory Police years ago. The room was split between people who liked/loved it and people who went "Huh???". I loved it. I still think about that book.
Omg, I just finished reading The Memory Police last week so it feels very serendipitous that it ends up in this vlog. Rather than 1984, I'd say this book reminded me of The Giver. Where you have to answer a lot of the questions yourself and everything feels a little surreal and unexplained in both. I loved hearing your thoughts on it.
This inspired me to go through all my 5 star reads and I have one for every year I’ve been alive except 2024 so looks like I’d better get to reading some new releases!
as a Neuro ICU nurse, and our shared love for the weird books....the memory police sounds like it could be an absolute win for me👀
Oh my god, Walk Two Moons was my absolute favorite book from childhood. I reread it so many times throughout elementary/middle school. It’s actually on my tbr for the year. I’m curious, but also nervous, to see if it will mean as much to me now as it did then
I agree, The Memory Police is a good one 👍🏽 😉
I love how your blouse in the final part matches the cover and also how one of the covers of I who have never known men is similar!
As soon as you mentioned The Memory Police, i knew we were done. Lol. You and Olivia from storiesforcoffee have such similar reading tastes.
I love this series. I think I might do it for myself just for fun! I'll have to take some reccs from you. I was born in 1998 (which i don't have a five star from) so maybe we'll have some overlapping years and I can steal some 5 stars!
I'm so glad you liked The Memory Police!! It was one of my first favorite books I read when I really got back into reading so it holds a special place in my heart.
Sugar Crisps!! That kind of cornflakes (so many different names for the same product heh) is the best.
I'm soooo glad you loved the Memory Police! I read it last year and was obsessed with it for a few months. Couldn't stop thinking about it.
The book I've enjoyed published in 1997 is All the names by José Saramago.
Books on my TBR from 1997 are: Owlflight by Mercedes Lackey, Threshold by Sara Douglass, Keeper of the King by Nigel Bennett, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden,
The Good Angel of Death by Andrey Kurkov, The Broken Crown by Michelle West, To Sift Through Bitter Ashes by David Niall Wilson, Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters by Violet Jessop
Am I helping?
I love The Memory Police and this is one of the rare occasions where our tastes match up so even more exciting! 😅
I totally didn’t realise The Memory Police was from the 90s! For some reason I thought it was newer haha
Okay but I love that cross body bag!!
I’ve been soooo curious about The Memory Police! 👀 I’m so glad it was a win for you!! 👏
Never knew the playstation was invented in my birth year, love it.
I loved the memory police when I read it a few years ago, you’re making me want to reread it! I gave it a 4.5 star then but feel like I might end up bumping it to a 5!
Omg this is my birth year can't wait to steal all these book recs 😂❤
So excited about you reading and loving some classics lately! Would love to hear your thoughts on some Nabokov, as well. I would recommend Laughter in the Dark, the Real Life of Sebastian Knight and of course Pale Fire 😊 many people compare it to House of Leaves too ❤
I just read Out.. wow! Interesting characters doing questionable things. A slow-burn crime thriller that starts spiraling.. hope you enjoy it!
This book has been on my TBR for a long time.
i never read via audiobook, so briefly when you mentioned the sound effects i thought the author was literally writing “bing!” “boop!” “crash!” in the actual text before the insertion of the character’s book… suffice to say i was extremely confused 😭😭
Yay so glad you read and enjoyed memory police! I thought it was your type of book when I read it! I loved Out also so hopefully you do to :)
So what if we have bird tattoos?? 👀 Did the book include mention of tattoos at all?
love switching over from one kayla video to another 😂
I love the product review!
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is always a win and it was a 1997 release 😄
I just got The Memory Police from my library ahhhh I’m so excited now!!
Glad I helped to remind you to post this during the liveshow. 😂Thank you for the update on the beis weekender bag....I'll need to seriously consider if I want one. The fact you can't fill it all the way is disappointing.
I've owned the memory police for a while, but having heard mixed reviews I didn't get around to it. Now I'm definitely going to!!
I didn't read the memory police but i recently read arabic book with the exact concept but very different,
The main protagonist was able to remember things and it was plot driven
I'm sorry Walk Two Moons didn't work out for you! I definitely know it's a nostalgia pick for me, since it was the first novel that I loved when I read it at 8 years old.
The movies released in 1994 are all SO GOOD like the year 1994 for media was insane
The covers of Girl and Dress Codes for Small Towns are sooo similar.. maybe there are other books you’ve loved/hated that have cover twins you could read for a video?? 🥾
I think she's actually done a video like this! Might be from a few years ago but I vaguely remember it 😂
I found it! Buying 5 Books That LOOK Like My Favourite Books ❤
My birth year!! 🤪🤣
The Seas by Samantha Hunt for 2004, and for 2006 Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones!
1997 books: Stardust by Neil Gaiman (I love the illustrated version) ❤ and Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
Best book I read from 1997, that you might like, was Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer.
It's nonfiction about a really disastrous climb up Mt Everest.
I only had that cookies and creme bar once in my life ( probably around the time it was released) and I will never forget how nauseous it made me, lol.
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due is from 1997!
this definitely makes me wanna read the memory police next
1997 rec: Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh, a book about a historical maths problem and people's quest to solve it. Singh is incredible at writing about science and maths in an accessible way and this one is more about the quest and the mystery than the maths. It's super engrossing and interesting. (It was released in the US in 1998 so Goodreads says 1998 but first published in the UK in 1997.)
Fruitopia was so good, and it was also my first year of college, lol. I loved Airheads and dated/hooked up with guys like them (Live. Love. Learn, baby). I disagree about the songs, though. They are iconic. As for the books, I don't remember any of them. But, I was busy with school, so I didn't pay attention to them. I love the series and can't wait to see the next one (Rec: Memories of a Geisha).
I really enjoy this series!!
For 1997, To Say Nothing of the Dog is a fascinating novel using time travel by Connie Willis...and imo Ella Enchanted is not just a good book for middle-grade readers but a good book period. :D
18:24 you weren't supposed to remember that there were sound effects before Kayla.. the meta memory police have failed. 😜
I’m born in 2001 so this wouldnt be as interesting as the books from the 80’s and 90’s, but I still would love to try this idea❤
I think you would absolutely live Figuring by Maria Popova. It is a non fiction book about queer science literature and other historical figures. The audio book is amazing as well.
Ah, I almost culled The Memory Police from my goodreads want-to-read list the other day but now I'm glad I didn't :)
I think the only 1997 (the year of my birth, btw 😊) books I’ve read are Harry Potter (nostalgic but not a recommendation), The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier (a fave of mine but I don’t think you’d like it), and Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich (which is an interesting non-fiction about the disaster but I don’t know if it would be a 5 star).
Omg I got recently recommemded The Police Memory! I think it's also getting a movie adaptation with Lily Gladstone...? I'm even more curious to read it after watching your video!
Lala I cannot stress enough how much joy your 90s journeys bring me…please continue…truly internet gold!!!!!! I want to hang out so bad I just threw a 90s themed bowling bday bash for myself and was the only one who dressed up with my Aladdin t shirt baggy jeans and backwards neon pink hat 😆 I’m so here for nostalgia, truly embrace it daily!
Why did this take so long to show up on my feed?! I'm so aggravated that I'm seeing this a day late, when literally I pause reading to watch your videos. Ugh.
thank god 😭😭 i was having such a terrible day and was hoping you’d post
I liked Airheads enough to buy the dvd. Haven't watched it in awhile though.
Airheads!
This is such a fun sounding challenge I was born 1991
A Crime in the Neighbourhood by Suzanne Berne is a great coming of age story that came out in 1997, it isn‘t crime fiction, which a lot of people go in expecting and are dissatisfied with the actual story, but a crime has happened and has shattered the community.
I haven’t read either, but I would be interested to hear your thoughts on Memoirs of a Geisha or Into Thin Air for 1997.
How cute. I graduated in 1997. 😂
Too bad you didn't watch Muriel's Wedding for 1994. That movie is wild
I've never heard of it!! 🙈
hershey’s cookie and cream my beloved
1997 rec: Ella Enchanted
One of the books that made me a lifelong reader.
The year of The Crow❤
thank you for reading and introducing Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin and NOTES OF A CROCODILE to your audiences. here's a bit more about her and the book: ruclips.net/video/aFh2sxPLVZI/видео.html&ab_channel=BalmingTiger
(i was 20 in 1994...your videos are making me feel so old 😂😂)
Just finished watching the rest of the liveshow I didn't catch and now this, what a treat!
Cant wait for 1995 video my birth year i want to read your 5 stars from that one
If you look at the overview picture, there's already one for you to read for 1995 😊
@@BetweenLinesAndLife thank you!!
10:58 Airheads is such a nostalgic movie for my brother and I😂
Big same for my hubs and I! When she casually mentioned AirHeads at the end of that list, I literally squealed "Oh Kayla please!" Only to be kicked in the teeth 10 seconds later when she said she didn't like it 😂😂😂