Choosing My Next Read | Scavenger Hunt Decides My TBR

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  • Опубликовано: 13 июн 2023
  • 1. Grab your favourite book. Go to the acknowledgements, and the first name you see, find a book by an author with the same name.
    2. Pick something on that cover and find another book with the thing in the title.
    3. Go to page 50, line 5. Pick a word from that line and find a title with that word.
    4. Find a 5-star read with the same colours on the cover.
    5. Find a book with the same number of pages. (hint hint, goodreads is your friend)
    6. Flip open to any page. The first name you see, find a book by an author with who shares that name.
    7. Find another title with the same number of letters.
    8. Find a book with a similar cover.
    9. Flip to a random page. Point at a word, and find that word in a book title on your TBR shelf.
    10. Read!
    This video was inspired by Peter's original scavenger hunt video 6 years ago • BOOK SCAVENGER HUNT!
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Комментарии • 226

  • @iamgroot2495
    @iamgroot2495 11 месяцев назад +35

    "I was going for it but I got distracted by joy" best sentence I've heard someone say this year 💜

  • @jacsYT
    @jacsYT 11 месяцев назад +130

    video series idea: read books with the same word in the title and the same genre, same as just did horror books with the word house 😂

    • @moonbook12
      @moonbook12 11 месяцев назад +8

      This idea if buzz world readathon

  • @rainshadow605
    @rainshadow605 11 месяцев назад +56

    It's always a fun time hanging out with you, whether you like the books or not.

  • @SallaKanerva
    @SallaKanerva 11 месяцев назад +94

    When you mentioned you were doing this again I went back to rewatch your previous hunt and tried to do my own and it went worse than you could possibly imagine 😂 for the prompt about counting letters in book titles I landed on a book with THIRTY-EIGHT LETTERS. So you can imagine how fun that was. And for the one about finding a name on a page and finding an author with that name I landed on a fantasy book with only fully made-up names. And I did the final word search legit like 25 times and did not find a SINGLE WORD that existed in a book title 💀 safe to say I did not find a book to read lmao.

    • @ComeUndun.
      @ComeUndun. 11 месяцев назад +2

      😂 what an adventure.

    • @beckyduff
      @beckyduff 11 месяцев назад

      oh wow!

  • @hannahjosmithheart
    @hannahjosmithheart 11 месяцев назад +28

    I’m sorry that you didn’t love the books! I do think it would be really interesting to see the stats on how many of your 10 out of 10 first chapters end up as 5⭐️ or just their range of rating in general!

  • @bujobooks
    @bujobooks 11 месяцев назад +51

    Hi I'm a Julie! My next reading vlog is reading from authors that have my name and I've had to expand it to Julias as well because there are so few of us lol

    • @BooksandLala
      @BooksandLala  11 месяцев назад +13

      Omg I love it!!

    • @blandface9957
      @blandface9957 11 месяцев назад +2

      You just convinced me to subscribe to you 🙏 I'm too curious about how your vlog turns out

  • @nicolecarta5983
    @nicolecarta5983 11 месяцев назад +6

    OMG- you HAVE to do more of these Kayla. I scavenged right alongside you today and had a BLAST! I'm addicted to this lol

  • @andreabootsma8478
    @andreabootsma8478 11 месяцев назад +4

    In a moment of pure drama I was watching this video during a thunder storm and the power flicked and my tv turned out right at the moment Kayla said "ready" and pointed at the book my tv turned off. I had to wait a moment and see if that was a dramatic editing thing or just the tech malfunctioning - what spontaneous fun!

  • @everythinglit9099
    @everythinglit9099 11 месяцев назад +10

    This is so fun! If you want an excuse to read some of the new books you just bought there's a readathon the last two weeks of June called New Book Knockout
    😎💖

  • @WandasBestLife
    @WandasBestLife 11 месяцев назад +11

    So much fun to watch and participate in 😊
    1. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano ❤
    2. Hendrix - so The Final Book Support Group by Grady Hendrix
    3. Chair on cover so... The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kid
    4. "Brother" - Brother by Ania Ahlborn
    5. 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
    6. 262 pages - Crispin : The Cross of Lead by Avi
    7. After lots of new pages due to the unusual character names I landed on John - A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
    8. 19 letters!!! So difficult! Robopocalypse : A Novel by Daniel Wilson (written on the spine so that's what I went with.)
    9. Similar cover - Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor (A perfect cover match!!!)
    10. "Of"!!! So many choices 😮 I'm thinking about picking one of my big book or intimidating reads. A Column of Fire by Ken Follett or way outside my comfort zone - an adult fantasy- The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty.

  • @lanej.6458
    @lanej.6458 11 месяцев назад +7

    Woo I love these! 😌 I’m barely awake post nap so my own hunt is going to have to wait a second haha. 😅

  • @bobbinwithbrittany
    @bobbinwithbrittany 11 месяцев назад

    Tripping over the table book haha! The stars really had to align for that. Maybe in good fortune for the local beet farmer! 👩‍🌾 ✨

  • @kirbur
    @kirbur 11 месяцев назад +24

    This was so much fun to follow along with! My books were
    - The Mask of Mirrors by MA Carrick- The first name I saw was Kyle and I couldn't find anything but the next name was Emily
    - Happy Place by Emily Henry - people swimming on the cover
    - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry - pg 50 line 5 is "What's you problem with it? It's a great place to grow up."
    - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah - Orange cover with mountains
    - Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly - 384 pages
    - The Fool, The Lovers, The Devil by Riley Quinn - 24 letters in title (💀)
    - The Priory of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - Colorful dragon cover
    - A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon - The first word I saw was Love.
    All of that work to find a book with the word love in the title, I have so many options lol. I might pick one of these next:
    - The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
    - A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young
    - The Love Wager by Lynn Painter

    • @katecollins2471
      @katecollins2471 11 месяцев назад +1

      Obviously I don’t know your taste but the true love experiment was a 5 for me!!

  • @ramen8760
    @ramen8760 11 месяцев назад +5

    * Favourite Book jar of hearts: alice
    * Alice feeny Daisy darker:home on cover
    * Home before dark: a (it was a short line and I didn’t own a book with any of the other words lol)
    * A good marriage: same colours as the island
    * The island: 369 pages (same as the house across the lake)
    * Katherine: no one will miss her by kat (katherine) rosenfield
    * 16 letters: The last time I lied
    * Similar cover: things we do in the dark
    * Have: Never Have I ever by Joshilyn Jackson
    I’m gonna choose to ignore that because I don’t wanna read it😃. This was super fun!

    • @BooksandLala
      @BooksandLala  11 месяцев назад

      I haaaated that book, but I'm so happy you played along 🙊💕

    • @ramen8760
      @ramen8760 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@BooksandLala 😂I remember watching you read it and being so sad when u hated it lmfao. I think the butcher by that author has much more mass appeal (I feel like everyone loves it including me). Jar of hearts is decently controversial but personally I loved it. Plus it’s fun to support a Canadian author since I live in Vancouver!

  • @heabooktubes
    @heabooktubes 11 месяцев назад

    I kinda love the thick, layered necklace look with the casual tee. ♥️

  • @shannon7608
    @shannon7608 11 месяцев назад

    I love the look of the thick gold necklace with your hair color. Its giving book goddess.

  • @CheyeW13
    @CheyeW13 11 месяцев назад +3

    as someone who gets 95% of their books from the library, this was quite a feat of contortion 😅 but i ended up with "I Who Have Never Known Men" so i suppose i'll request *that* from the library and read it when it comes in. doesn't do anything for my physical tbr tho whoops

  • @notaraventoolate
    @notaraventoolate 10 месяцев назад

    Enjoyed the vlog, as always! You don’t feel the need to apologize for sharing about other parts of your life and family :) it’s comforting and fun to hear you talk

  • @deathbylawschooldebt
    @deathbylawschooldebt 11 месяцев назад +1

    Twelve Nights in Rotter House is so good with the most amazing twist!

  • @espionagecommitment3440
    @espionagecommitment3440 11 месяцев назад +1

    It was a lot of fun going through my shelves!
    1. Favorite book of the year: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
    2. "Arthur" in acknowledgements: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
    3. A man on the cover: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
    4. Word "one" found: The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    5. Same color scheme on cover: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    6. 376 pages: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
    7. "Martin" found on random page: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
    8. 14 letters in title: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
    9. Similar cover: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
    10. "There" found randomly: There There by Tommy Orange

  • @alaska7086
    @alaska7086 11 месяцев назад +3

    Favourite book: Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
    1. Comfort me With Apples by *Catherynne* M. Valente
    2. The *Woman* in the Window by A.J. Finn
    3. *My* Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
    4. Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (I only have one 5 star/favourite!)
    5. Paper Towns by John Green
    6. Maus by Art *Spiegelman*
    7. Circe by Madeline Miller (close enough)
    8. Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
    9. Mrs *Death* Misses *Death* by Salena Godden

  • @jacforswear18
    @jacforswear18 11 месяцев назад

    That thick necklace would look so nice on its own as a statement piece that is still subtle!

  • @astarreads4214
    @astarreads4214 11 месяцев назад +7

    This is fun :)
    - Fool’s Errand by Robin Hobb - doesn’t have acknowledgements…so I’ll go with Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
    - First name was Elsa (definitely no Elsas) second one I saw was Rose, so I am going with Camp by Lev AC Rosen
    - Stories of Trees, Woods and the Forest edited by Fiona Stafford
    - What Girls Learn by Karin Cook
    - Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
    - Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon Sanderson
    - A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
    - Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
    - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    - It Happened ONE Summer by Tessa Bailey.

  • @Elix90
    @Elix90 11 месяцев назад +1

    I love this video concept and am very happy that it's apparently an annual thing!
    My hunt went as follows:
    I'll Give You the Sun - gave me Carol (in the dedication, my edition didn't have acknowledgements)
    Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt - gave me (from my edition of the cover)
    Here's Looking at You - I had to pick "the"
    The Gracekeepers - same blue-ish cover
    The Brothers Lionheart (Bröderna Lejonhjärta) - at 228 pages
    Lord of Flies - (I didn't have either Roger or Jack, but I went for a John)
    Lilla Stjärna (Little Star) by John Ajvide Lindquist - 12 letters
    American Gods - My edition is red with a tree on the cover
    The Magician King - after six tries (including, "some" "vibrations" and "plain") in ended up on "space" -
    The Space Between the Stars by Anne Corlette!!

  • @laurencreaghe5812
    @laurencreaghe5812 11 месяцев назад +2

    Your hair is so stunning 🤩

  • @natalieharroch-harper7247
    @natalieharroch-harper7247 11 месяцев назад

    Flowers for face - haunting of alejandra!

  • @elizalovestoread
    @elizalovestoread 11 месяцев назад +5

    what a fun video concept 😄 so excited to enjoy this while i eat my dinner 💗

  • @louise5493
    @louise5493 11 месяцев назад

    Ninth House➡️AMY
    For Her Consideration-AMY Spalding➡️Her Body & Other Parties
    “an island off the coast of Georgia. We drifted in water as warm as”➡️ Warm Up by V.E Schwab (gold/red/black)
    House of Hunger(304pgs)➡️ Half Baked Murder (Chloe)
    Chloe Liese- Always Only You(13)➡️ The Spite House
    House on cover➡️ The House in the Cerulean Sea
    My bf picked out the words ‘Look’ and ‘Her’ and I’ve chosen Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward & The End Of Her by Shari Lapena! This was so much fun and took longer than I expected, highlighting even more the amount of effort you put into your content!🥹 Thank you for the fun TBR challenge!🩷

  • @shaundarae4507
    @shaundarae4507 11 месяцев назад +1

    From Autumn to Ashes is an old love that I started listening to again ❤

    • @BooksandLala
      @BooksandLala  11 месяцев назад +1

      Yessss I *just* added Sugar Wolf and Streamline back into my daily playlist and it brings me such joy !!

  • @calamitywindpetal
    @calamitywindpetal 11 месяцев назад

    This was so fun! This is my first time doing one of the Scavenger hunt tbrs, and I don't have a huge physical library so I did a little stretching, but I ended up getting there!
    1. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (I have many favorite books, that one was the closest)
    2. Christopher, so I grabbed Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
    3. London on the cover, but I stretched it and looked for a city. I got the City of Thirst by Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis
    4. Real, but I stretched it a bit and grabbed Really Truly Ruthie by Valerie Tripp
    5. Awkward by Svletana Chmakova because the two main characters are wearing pink and green on the cover, just like on Really Truly Ruthie.
    6. 224 pages, the same as the Clueless Girl's Guide to being a Genius by Janice Repka
    7. The first two names on the page were Miss Snipal and Mr. DeGuy, neither of which I had. But using the third name, Adam, I got to Sierra Summer from the Annette series, illustrated by Adam Szwejkowski
    8. Sierra Summer is twelve letters, so is Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
    9. The cover has two people facing away from each other looking kinda scared with someone spooky in the background, and so does the cover for Iron Tide Rising
    10. I pointed at the word Water, so the book from my physical tbr I'll be reading is Water Song by Suzanne Weyn!

  • @lisek9052
    @lisek9052 Месяц назад

    I tried to follow your prompts,
    1. I started at Nettles by Adam Scovell since thats my most recent favorite book
    2. from the acknowledgements I went with Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
    3. From the cover I picked found Fire and ice from Erin Hunter (yes thats a warrior cats book lol)
    4. from the sentence I got I picked they cause thats an easy one lol and then decided on They both die at the end by Adam Silvera
    5. The cover that I have of that books is orange and blue and while not an exact match i went with mr penumbra's 24 hour bookstore
    6. that has 288 pages and i was really struggling so i took it quite liberally and picked something around 300 pages and went with geekerella
    7. The name I got was Catherine and I don't have anything by an author with the name Catherine so I went to goodreads and just picked Snowed In by Catherine Walsh
    8. The title has 8 letters so I picked Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff
    9. Next was to pick something with a similar cover and perhaps this is cheating but I just picked Godsgrave from the same series
    10. and then my hand landed on ministry at first which I don't have anything with so I tried again and got rising, I thought I didnt have anything with this on my TBR but I do actually, it was Rising storm by Erin Hunter which is yet again a warrior cats book except this is the fourth one and i have not even read the third one. I guess it might finally be time to continue reading warrior cats lol.

  • @sweeteliz
    @sweeteliz 11 месяцев назад

    This was SO fun! I followed along via my Kindle and Goodreads ... just lost my text trail by clicking the wrong darn key. I went from Demon Copperhead ... landed on the final book: The Sleeping Car Porter. (word: "sleep").

  • @kdonaldson7308
    @kdonaldson7308 11 месяцев назад

    Great video - I ended up with Triflers Need Not Apply (Need) being the word. I got there via I’m glad my mom died, Less, The good neighbours, Small things like these, Under the whispering door, Hamnet, Frankenstein, The Secretary, What Lies Between Us.

  • @barbarashireman6822
    @barbarashireman6822 11 месяцев назад +1

    I just read Twelve Nights at Rotten House last month and enjoyed it quite a bit.

  • @booksaftercollege6714
    @booksaftercollege6714 11 месяцев назад

    - Doughnut Econmics
    - The Noonday Demon
    - A Farewell to Arms
    - A Court of Silver Flames
    - Dark Age (had to flip through so many pages here to find a non ancient greek name)
    - Parable of the Sower
    - Gathering Darkness
    - The Assasin's Blade
    - HER Soul for Revenge

  • @RavenDevils
    @RavenDevils 11 месяцев назад

    The necklace looks good, but it’ll probably look better with a dress or something more dressed up.

  • @paperback_cat
    @paperback_cat 11 месяцев назад

    "my friend and enemy goodreads" relatable 😅

  • @racquelmp4783
    @racquelmp4783 11 месяцев назад

    started with Love from A to Z and ended up with The Three-Body Problem, passed by books such as peter pan, Mistborn hahaha it was fun to follow along

  • @Erin-rp3sy
    @Erin-rp3sy 11 месяцев назад +1

    I’m a new book tube community member as I’ve been getting more and more into reading and I love your channel! I have been binging older videos and taking so many recommendations from you! We have such similar taste

    • @BooksandLala
      @BooksandLala  11 месяцев назад +1

      Hey thanks so much for being here !! 🤗💕

  • @tiffinyvann9723
    @tiffinyvann9723 11 месяцев назад +2

    You should do the Villain series. Evil queen, beast, and Ursula

  • @connorjames8807
    @connorjames8807 11 месяцев назад

    Prompt 9 took me an unfathomable amount of time!! Flipped to a random word like 30-40 times before I got a book!!! 😂

  • @shiannebowlin2736
    @shiannebowlin2736 11 месяцев назад +3

    I did the scavenger hunt and it looks like my next book will be "Eyes Guts Throat Bones" by Moira Fowley. This was so much fun!

  • @janelbuckingham6292
    @janelbuckingham6292 11 месяцев назад

    I had fun playing along!
    Fav book in 2023: The Bitter Twins by J Williams
    Name in acknowledgements: Frankie … Frank Herbert, Dune
    The cover has sand … Empire of Sand by T Suri
    P50 ln 5 has “smoke” … Hall of Smoke by H Long
    Same colors as Black Sun by R Roanhorse
    Same page count as The Hate U Give by A Thomas
    Flipped to first name: Lisa… Lisa Jewel, None of This is True
    Title with 16 letters: The Curse of Saints by K Dramis
    Similar cover: Kingdom of Souls by R Barronk
    Select a word: “tongue” … (really?) … oh heck ya! I just picked up The Blacktongue Thief by C buehlman a couple of months ago!

  • @eliotopian
    @eliotopian 11 месяцев назад

    the way you described house of cotton makes me glad I put it back three times on shopping trips

  • @BrebearMckae
    @BrebearMckae 11 месяцев назад

    I love your energy in this video💕😝
    And you gasping after every word you got 🤣

  • @musicandloveismylive
    @musicandloveismylive 11 месяцев назад

    This was my journey:P We will see if I will actually read this book soon-ish.
    Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
    How to Make Friends with the Dark - Kathleen Glasgow
    The Sun is also a Star - Nicola Yoon (her)
    Eliza and her Monsters - Francesca Zappia
    The Land of Stories: the Wishing spell - Chris Colfer
    Me, my Dad and the End of the Rainbow - Benjamin Dean (Dean)
    The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta
    Blue Lily Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater
    Felix Ever After - Kacen Callender
    What - feet (hehehe) - concentrate - so
    So this is Ever After - F.T. Lukens

  • @kyravanessaso
    @kyravanessaso 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hi Kayla! Thank you for making my day better 💕

  • @sh36
    @sh36 11 месяцев назад +1

    Love the scavenger hunt! You crafted such great prompts. I had to give it a go myself:
    Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins -> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams -> Stargrave by Joseph A. McCullough -> The Last Duel by Eric Jager -> Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb -> Sojourn by R.A. Salvatore -> Smashed by Junji Ito -> Doomed Queens by Kris Waldherr -> The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

  • @tosh_leef
    @tosh_leef 11 месяцев назад

    Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles -> Kate
    My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell -> Woman
    Woman First: First Woman by Selina Meyer -> Don't
    Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones -> Red & Black
    The Final Revival of Opal & Nev -> 368 pgs
    The Fishermen and the Dragon by Kirk W. Johnson -> David
    Status and Culture by David W. Marx -> 16 letters
    Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman -> two men
    Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart -> Last
    The Last Word by Taylor Adams

  • @pennyspreferences561
    @pennyspreferences561 11 месяцев назад +2

    1. Furiously Happy - Rory
    2. Wilder Girls by Rory Power- Eye
    3. The Bluest Eye- Love
    4. Eat, Pray, Love-
    5. The Personal Librarian
    6. Our Crooked Hearts- Dana
    7. Dana Schwartz Anatomy of a Love Story-17
    8. Forgotten Citizens
    9. Secret Garden- gone
    I will be reading Local Gone Missing

  • @fridahultgren8865
    @fridahultgren8865 11 месяцев назад

    1. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune - Taylor (and Hugo lol)
    2. Evelyn Hugos sju Äkta Män by Taylor Jenkins Reid (the color green)
    3. Across the Green Grass Field by Seanan McGuire - the word with
    4. Folk med ångest by Fredrick Backman - (med = with, the English title is "Anxious People", but the original title in Swedish, which I own, is "People WITH Anxiety")
    5. Sailor Moon vol 4. ( the cover of last book is not the same as in English, just saying lol)
    6. Bokea - Inredning till döds by Grady Hendrix (243 vs 244 pages) (English title, Horrorstör, I prefer the Swedish one ;))
    7. How to stop time by MATT Haig
    8. Blood For Blood by Ryan Graudin (13 letters, 5+3+5 easy!)
    9. This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab (same red, black and white) The Word was IN
    10. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. So fun that it started and ended with the same author!! :D I have wanted to read this book forever.

  • @MilenaReads
    @MilenaReads 11 месяцев назад

    This is so fun!

  • @viihbelinot
    @viihbelinot 11 месяцев назад

    Great video as always ❤

  • @emilyj401
    @emilyj401 11 месяцев назад

    1. Babel - found Bennet in the dedication
    2. The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett - women on the cover
    3. A Lady for a Duke - “better than my own soul” was the line but “my” was the word I used lol
    4. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife - Babel had the most similar cover (w black and gold) but I didn’t want to repeat so I just went w black
    5. Gideon the Ninth - 492 pages, closest I could find was 496
    6. The Invention of Nature - John Muir in the authors note
    7. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (again didn’t want to repeat) - 14 letters
    8. Spinning Silver - only similar cover I know is uprooted but haven’t read that yet so went with blue covers
    9. The Two Towers - “wind”
    10. Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri 🎉

  • @awildernessofbooks
    @awildernessofbooks 11 месяцев назад

    1. The Collected Regrets of Clover
    2. The Lake House by Kate Morton
    3. In The Shadow Garden
    4. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
    5. I Miss You When I Blink
    6. The Golden Spoon
    7. The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
    8. One True Loves
    9. Live and Let Chai
    10. Final book: The Secret Book of Flora Lea!

  • @literarlo
    @literarlo 11 месяцев назад

    Definitely going to try this out later!

  • @stefanienordstrom6750
    @stefanienordstrom6750 11 месяцев назад

    Well that was a fun time!
    1. Fav of Year Fahrenheit 451 had no acknowledgements, Fav ever A Tale of Two Cities, the edition editor had acknowledged Ian
    2. Atonement by Ian McEwan movie edition had 3 people on cover
    3. Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend accept, open, arms, real
    4. Real Murders by Charlene Harris dark blue
    5. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray 549
    6. Scarlet Feather by Mauve Binchy Kenneth, Sara, Sally, Simon, Maude
    7. Early Candlelight by Maude Hart Lovelace 16
    8. The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb window, doors, wind, winter
    9. The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan every
    TBR: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
    Funny enough Lauren Graham's Talking as Fast as I Can ALSO came up on my word search for 'every' but I already read that one!

  • @brandymyers7797
    @brandymyers7797 11 месяцев назад

    I had to stop everything I was doing in my work morning to do this with you! Here's my journey:
    1-Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree took me to....
    2- Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo...which took me to...
    3- The Girl Who Smile Beads by Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil - which took me too....
    4- One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf - which took me to....
    5 - The House in the Cerulean Sean by TJ Klune - which took me to....
    6- Knit One Pearl One by Gil McNeil - which took me to....
    7- The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin - which took me to...
    8- Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater - which took me to...
    9- The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater - which took me to....
    10- Like No Other by Una LaMarche!
    I'm currently reading Finlay Donovan is Killing It, and I tried really hard to end there. But I don't think I'm going to read Like No Other right now, but this was super fun!

  • @george-vk8ke
    @george-vk8ke 11 месяцев назад +1

    i always love the scavenger hunt!!! it's always so entertaining to sort of kind of follow along with YOUR prompts (because i'm too lazy to get up and look at my books, i just do the thought experiment of like 'hm i probably also have a 16 letter title somewhere')

  • @KristinKravesBooks
    @KristinKravesBooks 11 месяцев назад

    I'm reading a book with "from" in the title right now! It's From Below and I'm having a good time.

  • @nessalossehelim5026
    @nessalossehelim5026 11 месяцев назад

    Ohh I've wanted to do one of these for a while! Here we go:
    1) Alone in Space - Tillie Walden (no acknowledgements)
    1) Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers (Anne Perry)
    2) Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories - Sarah Perry (House)
    3) The House of One Hundred Clocks - A.M. Howell (The book's been a big help since Mr Westcott's cook left to take up a new position.)
    4) Book Love - Debbie Tung (white)
    5) Little - Edward Carey (464 pages)
    6) Horizons - James Poskett (Hantaro Nagaoka/ Tanakadate Aikitsu/Joseph John Thomson)
    7) The Natural History Museum - John C. Thackray (23 letters)
    8) The Signature of all Things - Elizabeth Gilbert (woman in a pink dress surrounded by plants)
    9) Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen (wire, watching, door, hold, here, space)
    10) Empty Smiles (Small Spaces series) - Katherine Arden
    The paperback for this book is a pre-order, will read it as soon as it gets here!
    This took me so much longer than expected😂 Good times!

  • @monkeyheadbonkers9303
    @monkeyheadbonkers9303 11 месяцев назад

    these videos are so fun!

  • @jenseereads
    @jenseereads 11 месяцев назад

    Ahh this is so fun!! I know what I'm doing tomorrow! lol ☺📚✨

  • @Secret413
    @Secret413 11 месяцев назад +3

    You should do an audiobook version.😊

  • @megwithbooks
    @megwithbooks 11 месяцев назад

    ok i HAVE to do this soon it looks so fun!!!

  • @isirlasplace91
    @isirlasplace91 11 месяцев назад

    This was so much fun!! I want to try it 😄

  • @ReaderRae
    @ReaderRae 11 месяцев назад

    I love the scavenger hunt videos🥰

  • @LRoosa
    @LRoosa 11 месяцев назад +2

    I guess I'll add my list here as well =D
    1. Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, found a 'Lucy' in the acknowledgments
    2. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, the cover has orange light shining from a door way
    3. Bit of a stretch, but Punainen huone ('The Red Room') by Kaj Korkea-Aho, the only viable words in the page 50 sentence were 'was' and 'and' ^^'
    4. Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris, chose a book with similar colour scheme
    5. Windup Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami, had 800+ pages so I just went with a closest number
    6. The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, found a 'John'
    7. Star of the North by D. B. John (Finnish title 'Pohjoisen tähti', 14 letters)
    8. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Finnish title 'Kärpästen herra', 14 letters, although the English titles have the same number as well apparently) Cover had a pair of glasses
    9. Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman, cover had an eye (Closest thing to glasses) Word I found was 'Voicelessly'
    Aaand the book I'll be reading next is The Assistant by S. K. Tremayne. The Finnish title 'Äänet' translates to 'voices'
    That was a ride

  • @sarahjanefrost
    @sarahjanefrost 6 месяцев назад

    Hi Kayla, doing the scavenger hunt along with you. So my favourite book of the year so far has been The Deal by Elle Kennedy, the acknowledgements took me to 'Jen', which lead me to April Enchantment by Jennifer Blake, the cover of which had a pair of kissing faces, a house and trees, I chose 'house' and that lead me to The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, page 50 line five gave me 'rain fell sadly on the flowers of the dead', I chose 'rain' and that lead me to Desert Rain by Elizabeth Lowell the cover of which is red, orange, yellow, green, and gold, those colours lead me to The Dead of the Night by John Marsden which has 271 pages and t4hat number lead me to Light on Snow by Anita Shreve, which lead me to the name Clara and the author Clara Elroy and her book Kiss of War, which has nine letters in the title, which lead me to Ghost Lake by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, the cover of which has the sun setting behind trees while a person camps in the snow beside a lake which has some kind of monster in it, which lead me to Hyperion by Dan Simmons, the random page was 408 the random word was 'bright' and that lead me to All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. I won't actually be reading that as I just picked Yellowface up from the library and I'm really excited to start that. This was so much fun, I hope you keep doing this every year.

  • @bihter3201
    @bihter3201 11 месяцев назад

    I wasn’t expecting the vlog portion i am so happy

  • @rachelsydd
    @rachelsydd 11 месяцев назад +1

    #1 Favourite book (so far this year): A River Enchanted --> Elizabeth
    #2 The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert --> Bones on cover
    #3 The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller --> Name
    #4 The Name of the Wind --> Blue and black swirling
    #5 The Raven Boys --> 409 pages
    #6 The Scorpio Races --> George
    #7 A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin --> 14 letters
    #8 Once Upon A River --> River with plants around it
    #9 A River Enchanted (Too perfect not pick, sorry if it's cheating!) -- > garden
    #10 In A Garden Burning Gold! ☺

  • @marshalmallow7192
    @marshalmallow7192 11 месяцев назад

    It’s crazy. I accidentally skipped the find a book with the same page number prompt so I had to do it twice. Both times the book the prompts told me to read off my TBR ended up being Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister and then you pulled it hoping to read it…. I guess I’m reading it now lol

  • @seaskies1502
    @seaskies1502 11 месяцев назад +1

    Ended up with The, sooo, just picked the first one I saw which was The Lost Apothecary. Looks like that's next for me !

  • @snarkandspark
    @snarkandspark 10 месяцев назад

    It was a process for sure but eventually led me to The Devil Takes You Home!

  • @heathersbooks816
    @heathersbooks816 11 месяцев назад +1

    I played along with you and I got:
    Tress of the Emerald Sea (Emily)
    Emily Henry - Happy Place (lake)
    The House Across the Lake (is)
    Who Is Maud Dixon? (Blue with gold)
    The Will of the Many (630 pages)
    The Sword of Kaigen (Robin)
    Robin Hobb - Ship of Magic (11 letters)
    Fevered Star (black & gold with a face)
    Black Sun (enchanting)
    I didn’t have a book with enchanting, so I’m reading Enchanted Hacienda instead.

  • @joytsai8050
    @joytsai8050 11 месяцев назад

    Loved this, Lala! I was able to go through the entire hunt digitally.
    Bunny > (Ken)
    Pillars of the Earth by Ken Fellett > (window)
    The Woman in the Window > (open)
    Open Water >
    The Fires of Vengeance >
    Middlegame > (Roger)
    Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson >
    Einstein's Dreams >
    A Deadly Education > (people)
    People We Meet on Vacation

  • @PurpleKya
    @PurpleKya 11 месяцев назад +1

    I played along and ended up with "Breathe the Sky" by Michelle Hazen, a 5 star that I already read but have on my TBR to reread soon! I just might pick it up after I finish my current read :)

  • @dlindapearson4575
    @dlindapearson4575 11 месяцев назад

    Lol this was fun!! Will attempt to read The Ivory Key at some point🥴

  • @maggiemacgirr8238
    @maggiemacgirr8238 11 месяцев назад

    I did the challenge for the first time:
    1. Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn
    2. The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan
    3. Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
    4. Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
    5. The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
    6. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
    7. Hideaway by Nora Roberts
    8. The Stand by Stephen King
    9. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
    10: MY READ IS: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

  • @chelseakerns7058
    @chelseakerns7058 11 месяцев назад +1

    -Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    -John Dies at the End by David Wong
    -Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    -Hungry Hearts edited by Elsie Chapman & Caroline Tung Richmond
    -Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
    -Tex by S.E. Hinton
    -Sadie by Courtney Summers
    -Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
    -Jackal by Erin E. Adams
    The word I got was "shadow". I have a few options but I think I want to choose Our Shadows Have Claws edited by Yamile Saied Mendez & Amparo Ortiz

  • @elisereadsandwrites
    @elisereadsandwrites 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is such a fun idea! I might have to do this for one book next month

  • @maebooks
    @maebooks 11 месяцев назад

    I need to do this scavenger hunt but every time I play with my TBR I always end up with a book I can’t get into 🙃

  • @astellus
    @astellus 11 месяцев назад

    When I saw you pull Wrong Place, Wrong Time I got super excited because I'm currently half way through the audiobook and am really enjoying it!

  • @taravincent9699
    @taravincent9699 11 месяцев назад

    You are so creative with your videos. And your personality is so fun. I was so anxious by the time you finally successfully picked your book! 😩 😂

  • @KarenAndPaisley
    @KarenAndPaisley 11 месяцев назад

    Not me trying to figure out the recipe for the braised beets... I love everything you mentioned in it.

  • @xxlipstickandlyricsx
    @xxlipstickandlyricsx 11 месяцев назад

    Super interesting to me that St. Ambrose is YA in Canada because it's being pushed out as adult in the US.

    • @BooksandLala
      @BooksandLala  11 месяцев назад

      Oh now that's interesting!!

  • @dobetterwithchristian4472
    @dobetterwithchristian4472 11 месяцев назад

    This concept was fun! I wish you had enjoyed the books better, but I loved watching you choose.

  • @gabbyreads
    @gabbyreads 11 месяцев назад

    I love these scavenger hunt videos so much 😍 when you were looking for a Julie I was screaming at the screen “Julia Bartz!!!!” the author of The Writing Retreat hahaha 😂

  • @ainwena7595
    @ainwena7595 11 месяцев назад +1

    I did the scavenger hunt with you and my next book will be She Come By It Natural (Natural was my final word from prompt 9) -it is a book about Dolly Parton by Sarah Smarsh. The scavenger hunt was entertaining for sure.

  • @jessicaward5777
    @jessicaward5777 11 месяцев назад

    I was not prepared to hear my full name. Thanks for letting me know there's a Jessica Ward to check out books from!

    • @jessicaward5777
      @jessicaward5777 11 месяцев назад

      Even though I wish that it didn't sound like something I would want to put down too, lol.

  • @EclecticMind
    @EclecticMind 11 месяцев назад

    Perfect timing, couldn’t figure out what to read next. I ended up with…
    📖 In my Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
    on my TBR from a previous video!👍🏻

  • @cameronaustin4843
    @cameronaustin4843 11 месяцев назад

    when i got to the last prompt, i opened to a page that just said “Part 2”. luckily i have a book on my shelf that’s called Boy Parts on my shelf, so i’m going to give that a go. but since i felt like that was too cheap, i went again and found the word ‘of’ and chose Portrait of a Thief as well. and i’m also going to attempt to read The Shadow Glass since I picked it up for the second prompt and i haven’t read it and it’s the only book i picked up in the entire scavenger hunt that i haven’t read

  • @themagpiem
    @themagpiem 11 месяцев назад

    I played along and used Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour as the last prompt, and remembered in the process that it was the book I ended up choosing the LAST time you did one of these videos! the book I got on my TBR is Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon 😊

  • @DecemberMagpie
    @DecemberMagpie 11 месяцев назад

    1) The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke. In The Acknowledgements, the first name you see _(Sue Manion)_ , find a book by an author with the same name: *Sue* Lynn Tan - Daughter of the Moon Goddess.
    2) *Moon* Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch.
    3) How *Far* the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler.
    4) The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern. 5⭐'s
    5) Settling Saskatchewan by Alan B. Anderson. _(485 pg)_
    6) The Second Sleep by *Robert* Harris.
    7) Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans. _(14 Letters)_
    8) NPCs by Drew Hays.
    9) When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of *Animals* by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  • @ChemicalPenguinn
    @ChemicalPenguinn 11 месяцев назад

    was going to sleep but kayla uploaded 💜

  • @carcajouse
    @carcajouse 11 месяцев назад

    Ahh this is fun!!
    - Favorite book this year was the 9th and final book of The Expanse, Leviathan Falls > First name I saw was Danny.
    - I haven't read any books by a Danny apparently, but I HAVE read a book by Dani Bennett (Master of One)
    - There was a leaf on the cover of Master of One > Leaf Peepers (short horror comic by Mark Bouchard).
    - Page 50 was the very last page, and the fifth line was a song in the author's playlist : "Burning Desire To Draw Last Breath" Gulch > I chose Last > One Last Stop (Casey McQuiston)
    - One Last Stop is very pink, so I chose a very pink comic I loved called Don't Go Without Me (Rosemary Valero-O'Connell)
    - Don't Go Without Me is 116 pages > I haven't read anything else that's 116 pages but A Spindle Splintered (Alix E. Harrow) is 119 pages
    - Opened A Spindle Splintered and the first name I saw was Charm > Couldn't find anything I had read by someone called Charm, but Charmaine yes so I bent it a bit > Charmaine Wilkerson > Black Cake
    - Black Cake is 9 letters > Mooncakes (comic by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker)
    - The cover of Mooncakes features multiple people, food, a simple abstract yellow background > Similar to Meal (Blue Deliquanti)
    - Flipped to a random page and pointed the word Street > The Last House on Needless Street has a short wait at the library and is on my TBR, so we're going with that!!
    Thank you for the game, it was so fun

  • @michellewilson6210
    @michellewilson6210 11 месяцев назад

    I started with Dead Witch Walking which gave me Diana, this led me to Outlander which gave me a thistle, I couldn't find a book with thistle in title so I cheated a bit and went with series name which was The Witches of Thistle Grove (payback's a witch). The line was at All, this gave me Turtles All ths Way Down which meant orange cover, this led to A Court of Silver Flames with 757 pages, the only book with that number was Dracula and other Horror Stories with had Jonathan, turns out Jonathan isn't an author name so shortened to John which went to Giant Days with 9. Allegiant was my result with a feather on cover, End of Days was next which gave me the word 'see' which is also hard to find. Soooooo I'm reading Demon Seed by Dean Koontz

  • @laurawinter3523
    @laurawinter3523 11 месяцев назад

    I went from:
    1. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao to
    2. Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (this promt was HARD) to
    3. I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi to
    4. When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole to
    5. Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs (255 p)
    6. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty (Mike)
    7. Hellboy by Mike Mignola (7)
    8. Revelle by Lyssa Mia Smith (woman-performer on a chandelier like structure)
    9. Where Dreams Descent by Janella Angeles -> dark
    10. so my next read is Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake

  • @ztoa9759
    @ztoa9759 11 месяцев назад

    What fun! Here’s my adventure:
    1. Iron widow -> Rebecca
    2. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse -> mouth
    3. Death in the Mouth: Original Horror by People of Color -> dark
    4. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein -> pink
    5. The Future of Another Timeline -> 340 pages
    6. Wild Beauty -> Dahlia
    7. It’s a Whole Spiel (Dahlia Adler’s a contributor, it’s the best I could do) -> 14
    8. Catherine House -> blue/purple with abstract floral motifs
    9. Sorrowland -> of
    10. A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions!
    - Z

  • @nicoleroles2018
    @nicoleroles2018 11 месяцев назад

    Love and other words- lauren
    Christina lauren- soulmate equation(heart)
    Every heart a doorway- one
    One italian summer- orange
    Hacienda- 336 without acknowledgments
    Such sharp teeth- scarlette
    Scarlett st clair- a touch of darkness (16)
    The river has teeth- once upon a river(story)
    Ghost story by Peter Straub