Merphy, since your so intent in making us add so many books to our TBR list, why don't you make a video explaining how you choose the next book after you've just finished an amazing one (or rather any book in general), or what you do if you're in a reading slump and want to get back up? Idk, just a suggestion
THE SEVEN HUSBAND OF EVELYN HUGO!!! YES I want full thoughts on the book by Merphy!! Evelyn is the most human character I ever read everything on that book is so real
Animal Farm was one of the few books we had to read for school that I quite happily picked up again after I finished. It got across exactly what it wanted to without a word wasted, and was thoroughly engaging throughout.
What is amazing is I never had to read this book or catcher in the rye. The irony is some teachers had their students read the picture of dorian gray, but I bought at the book sale at school for fun, did not not get the chance to read it, and read it for British Lit 7 years later. Books I had to read: (Don’t have to read the list) The Great Gatsby Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night The Bean Trees To kill a mockingbird The Lord if the Flies The Alchemist: my favorite on this list Of mice and men East of Eden You get the idea. Curious if anyone has read this far, did you read any of these. Never hear about Steinbeck. Not a fan, personally, but never hear about him on book tube.
@William Morrison i tried rereading Frankenstein and did not know why I enjoyed it the first tome. Maybe I read a different version that was bot filled with never ending monologues. I just wanted to get to the part where the monster is self aware and wanted his wife. I could not stand Frankenstein’s internal monologues.
Our Shakespeare was Othello and after that, R&J. Othello was a good shout, as our teacher got us past the intimidating phase by having us imagine the plot as something like out of Hollyoaks (a popular UK teen soap opera). The basic plot of "arsehole feels a grudge against person, tries to ruin their life by making their spouse out to be a cheater" is exactly the sort of thing you'd get on a soap like that and it got the kids on board with this as a story they could find themselves invested in.
I loved that book more than the original. It's been decades and I still think about those little kid gangs with their little bait kids. So unrealistic but at the time I was like 'genius!'.
@@amandaday313 i recently read that packs of stray dogs tend to have “cuter” members who are often the ones who approach humans for food. Reminded me of this.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I felt that same connection... I even went out and bought Anna Karenina afterwards because I wanted to know more even if it was just the plot of one of her movies
You should read Ender’s Shadow. It’s not a sequel, it takes place at the same time as Ender’s Game but from a different perspective. It’s the best of the other books in that universe.
*Just finisihed watching a booktuber recommend The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo on the description* *Sees it in Merphy's description* Me: Hmmm is this a sign?
"Which is WEIRD and I don't like it... except that I love it." Haha you're so funny, thank you for the adds to my never ending TBR. I'm also so happy you read North and South
I swear to god I'm so glad I found this channel because we have very similar reading tastes and I haven't not loved any of the books I've read because of you
I’ve recently started watching your vids, and I’ve been binging them. I’ve just got back into reading and I found fantasy intimidating and not for me. But you make it seem so fun and I’m definitely going to try fantasy.!! 😇😇
YASS WONDERSTRUCK! I love that book so MUCH! it makes me so happy that you loved it too, Merphy! I love how Brian Selznick managed to portray deafness and make you pay visual attention by telling the story of a deaf girl through illustrations only - it works so brilliantly well and I highly recommend it to everyone!
I fangirl screamed at Ender’s Game! Its the book that got me into reading again. Thank you to the people who made that book a requirement in high school.
I am FINALLY reading The Fifth Season next month! It’s my first time reading Jemisin’s work too, really looking forward to it. :) I have Bird Box on my shelf to read sometime this year - haven’t seen the movie yet, so hopefully it’ll be a great time. I am going to nope right out on the worms of The Troop.
Hey Merphy! I’ve just finished my first Frederick Backman book, My grandmother sends her regards and apologises (which has a slightly different title in the American translation) and I’m definitely going to read more of his stuff. I had bought it ages ago when I saw it in a shop and thought it looked interesting but I never got around to it and kind of forgot it was on the shelf till I heard you praising him and recommending his books in general. So thanks for reminding me of him and I’ll definitely be getting hold of a copy of A Man called Ove, since it’s the one you seem to mention most!! Thanks for your great content!!
Merphy, as a fellow fan of Ender's Game and fairy tale retellings, may I suggest Enchantment. It's a sleeping beauty retelling written by the author of Ender's Game. It follows a grad student who goes to Ukraine for research where he finds a damsel in the woods in an unending sleep. He knows he has to kiss her to wake her and when he does, he immediately regrets it. She wakes up wondering how the "knight" who rescued her is such a skinny boy with no sword fighting skills. It follows their adventures and relationship as they are trying to escape the one who put her in the sleeping curse.
Just want to say, thanks for complicating my life. Because of you and Daniel I picked up way of kings....I can't stop. I might be forever hooked to this genre now. Thanks.
You know what’s funny is most of these books I recognized from back when I was able to watch all your videos regularly (Still love your vids, just busy). Most of these was like “oh yeah didn’t you just talk about that one? I remember that video!” 😂 I still vote you read Ender’s Shadow because it’s a companion book and not a true sequel (and totally worth it even if you don’t read any of the others). You reminded me of several I’ve been meaning to pick up that you recommend though, lol.
I "buddy-read" Into the Drowning Deep with one of my best friends last summer as a way to connect with her long distance, and I have to say it is one of my favorite books of 2020, even though I read over 50 books! Mira Grant is one of my favorite adult sci fi writers. As a scientist, I really appreciate the depth of her research and truly awesome settings. Would love to know how you organize your tbr and pick which book to read next, that's my biggest issue right now. Too many books, I can't choose!
I think I Capture the Castle was the first book we buddy read together! I need to reread it because I remember really enjoying it. Plus, I love that edition.
Jemisin's prose aren't bleautiful in a flowery way. For the sake of metaphor, hers are like gemstones. Highly polished, and manage to be harsh and beautiful at the same time.
I know a book that's quite a bit like how you're describing "The 7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo"! Nine perfect strangers. Its characters feel so real, they r not heros, but so wonderful. Some really serious topics are explored. Like trauma, mental health, substance abuse. And it's told from several perspectives. The plot n the exploring of the characters are balances out n in the end I really wanted to keep following these characters ☺️☺️☺️🤍
All nonfiction books are soooo under rated I have loved all the nonfiction I have read because real people go through real struggles to the backdrop of actual historical events nothing is made up or sugar coated. I don’t understand how people think nonfiction is boring. Don’t get me wrong fiction can rip my heart out too.
I just started Into the Drowning Deep earlier today! I’m only one chapter in, and I’m already intrigued by the setup, and now you’ve made me super excited to get into it. It will be interesting to see if I have similar thoughts about the ending. 🖤❤️
For a long time, you didn't mention Skyward at all. And then recently you've started talking about it everywhere! I think I'm gonna read Wonder Struck, if I get the money.
I was just curious if you have read any L. M. Montgomery books? (Anne of Green Gables, the blue castle, Emily of new moon, etc.) Also I love your videos:)
PLEASE read The Queen's Thief series!!!! They are genius! They start out younger/ya-ish but as the characters grow up, so does the audience. Please please please
Treasure Island is, in my opinion, the second best classic novel ever (next to LOTR/Hobbit). It was SO FUN. I have never had that much reading a book in my life. Love love love
I finally read 'The Troop' because you've mentioned it a few times, and it sounded like something I'd like. It was really good, but that turtle scene broke me 🥺😖😭😭😭.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of my favourite books. I got my friend to read her Daisy Jones and the Six, and she told me that at some stage while reading the book she had to accept that this band wasn't real. She didn't know what to do after because there wasn't actual songs to listen to that the band made so she just had to sit there and suffer. She is releasing another book this year and I am definitely reading it.
The Troop sounds similar to The Ruins, and I’m honestly kind of here for it. Sign me up, but please don’t pay attention to me when I’m sleeping with the lights on. 🤣
I feel like you repped Into the Drowning Deep and The Fifth Season enough before... Did you like the rest of the latter's trilogy? I loved book 1 but quit at the start of book 3.
I think you would love The Secret History by Donna Tartt, it's a literary fiction and it centers around a group of students who kill a fellow classmate (not a spoiler, it tells you in the prologue). It's very well written and sounds like something thatd be right up your alley
I don’t know if you know this because I haven’t heard you talk about it, but Mira Grant who wrote Into the Drowning Deep is a pen name for Seanan McGuire who also wrote the Wayward Children series (Every Heart a Doorway, etc.)
Read Speaker for the Dead it is the book he wrote first and Enders game was just a short story till the publishers said he couldn’t have a short story before a book. Otherwise all the others are shit. My dad actually met Orison Scott Card and he thought they were shit. He wrote them to please the publishers.
Evelyn Hugo was based on actress Elizabeth Taylor (married eight times to seven different men, she has an awesome biography) and also on Ava Gardner who actually did talk to a journalist about her life, and a book about their conversations was published, both amazing women, I would definitely recommend checking them out if you liked Evelyn
7:15 Another book I think does 2nd-person really well is Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (sequel to Gideon the Ninth). It has a reason for it and once you find it out its really satisfying.
I remember putting The Troop in my TBR at one point. Then for some reason I took it off, but I couldn’t remember why. I was thinking about picking it up again because I’m in a slump and wanted to read some horror to get me out of it. Thank you for reminding me about the animal abuse. That was why. How easy was it to skim over that?
It was a good book, but the animal stuff really bothered me. Here are the animal parts that you can skip, while still enjoying the book: - Whenever it's a Shel point-of-view and he plays with bugs - Shel remembers a terrible story with a kitten - THE TURTLE. OMG Skip the whole scene with the turtle.
@@rachaeladamczyk9322 Thank you! I think I probably know the inspiration for this turtle scene, and if I’m right I definitely could not read that and be okay. :(
The Fifth Season is intriguing me, I placed a hold at my library. Only 10 weeks away! Edit: Thanks for almost filling up my holds list *again* gah! Stop recommending books (but pls keep recommending books)
I have the same problem with recommends. My Libby holds list keeps growing, even though I have many books on my shelf I also want to read. I'm lucky though that my wait for The Fifth Season is only 4 weeks 😁
Have you read Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid? If not yet, I highly recommend the audio book, since the book is also constructed as a non-fiction biography of a band, so every member has their own voice actor. I haven't read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but from what you told, it sounds as though people who enjoy one would enjoy the other.
I’m on chapter 4 of the troop and those small chapters we get from the unidentified man of him eating is so disgusting but I am loving it even though I’m barely into it.
I recently started Into the Drowning Deep and I love how creepy it is 😍 its giving me the same vibes Jurassic Park did but with mermaids. And G!! Love her channel. It would be so much fun if you guys collabed for a video 😍
Why am I the outsider! I want to love fifth season as much as you and apparently everyone else. I just finished it last week and have no desire to go on. I’m so sad.
Speaking of illustrations and prose combined, I wonder what you'd think of Malice and Havoc? They're by the same author of the Ember Blade, and they're really great books. Middle grade/young Young Adult, but they were so good!
I heard that Into the Drowning Deep featured killer mermaids and that was all I had to know. Borrowed it from the library, loved it and eventually bought my own copy. The only problem I had with the ending is that nobody will fund a sequel so it feels unfinished. Oh and the prequel novela goes for ridiculous prices online and there's no digital copy which sucks.
Any thoughts on Sara j mass, I’ve gotten a lot of mixed opinions as to whether I should read throne series or court series. As I would like to not waste my time with them and you, for the most part, share my opinions on book recommendations I would very much like to know your thoughts if any on those series. Much love from Texas
I tried listening to The Fifth Season and dnf'd halfway through because I was HAAATING it. The tone, the weirdness... maybe if I had read it instead of listening? I don't know.
Dear Merphy, There's a book I listened to a while ago that I can't remember the name of and was hoping either you or someone in your bibliophile community could help me find the title. It's about a girl who has to go around in a US postal service truck assassinating people because of some small prints in a contract that she signed not knowing that that was in there and now she has to be a contract killer for this big corp. She is joined at some point by a guy who just comes along for the ride. Thanks!
What happen to Shogun? One of the best historical fiction books ever written. I was looking forward to a review of it. No one ever talks about it on youtube
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Merphy, have you heard of a book named The Lies of Locke Lamora? I think you'd like it.
Good recommendation. I think she’d like it too
I'll check it out but idk, doesn't sound like my taste
😂😂😂
Ahahaha the Sarcasm 😂🙈
I love this haha
Is merphy somehow going to mention Locke and Lamora even in this video😂
If not I will be upset 🤣
Merphy: "I wanted to study her more, because I felt like I knew her. But she's FICTIONAL!!!!
I felt that.
Samee
We have a joke in my country for readers: "There are two kinds of fools, the ones who lend books to someone else, and the ones who return it"
Wait are you from Mexico?
@@HectorT52 Argentina
@@cecirapalini Oh genial, en ese caso utilizamos algunas de las mismas frases jaja
@@HectorT52 Debe ser algo común en Latinoamérica
I guess the lies of Locke Lamora won’t be on this list ;P
Evelyn Hugo was just the book that EVERYONE in my country ( Brazil) read last year, but I don't read yet, I think now is the time!
Merphy, since your so intent in making us add so many books to our TBR list, why don't you make a video explaining how you choose the next book after you've just finished an amazing one (or rather any book in general), or what you do if you're in a reading slump and want to get back up? Idk, just a suggestion
THE SEVEN HUSBAND OF EVELYN HUGO!!! YES
I want full thoughts on the book by Merphy!!
Evelyn is the most human character I ever read everything on that book is so real
Animal Farm was one of the few books we had to read for school that I quite happily picked up again after I finished. It got across exactly what it wanted to without a word wasted, and was thoroughly engaging throughout.
What is amazing is I never had to read this book or catcher in the rye.
The irony is some teachers had their students read the picture of dorian gray, but I bought at the book sale at school for fun, did not not get the chance to read it, and read it for British Lit 7 years later.
Books I had to read: (Don’t have to read the list)
The Great Gatsby
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night
The Bean Trees
To kill a mockingbird
The Lord if the Flies
The Alchemist: my favorite on this list
Of mice and men
East of Eden
You get the idea.
Curious if anyone has read this far, did you read any of these. Never hear about Steinbeck. Not a fan, personally, but never hear about him on book tube.
@William Morrison i agree with you on Steinback. I will check out your recommendation.
@William Morrison i tried rereading Frankenstein and did not know why I enjoyed it the first tome. Maybe I read a different version that was bot filled with never ending monologues. I just wanted to get to the part where the monster is self aware and wanted his wife. I could not stand Frankenstein’s internal monologues.
I read it and finished it in one night!! I literally couldn't put it down!!
Our Shakespeare was Othello and after that, R&J.
Othello was a good shout, as our teacher got us past the intimidating phase by having us imagine the plot as something like out of Hollyoaks (a popular UK teen soap opera). The basic plot of "arsehole feels a grudge against person, tries to ruin their life by making their spouse out to be a cheater" is exactly the sort of thing you'd get on a soap like that and it got the kids on board with this as a story they could find themselves invested in.
N.K. Jemsin's writing stlye is so refreshing and she's so talented. The fifth season is one of the best books I've ever read.
Agree, it is absolutely one of, if not the best book I've read.
Haven't read but it is on my tbr
If you liked Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow is basically a must-read.
I usually don’t use that term, but this is a specific situation.
I loved that book more than the original. It's been decades and I still think about those little kid gangs with their little bait kids. So unrealistic but at the time I was like 'genius!'.
@@amandaday313 i recently read that packs of stray dogs tend to have “cuter” members who are often the ones who approach humans for food.
Reminded me of this.
@@reaper2r OMG. I read about that too. Never made the connection. It's exactly that. Yes.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I felt that same connection... I even went out and bought Anna Karenina afterwards because I wanted to know more even if it was just the plot of one of her movies
You should read Ender’s Shadow. It’s not a sequel, it takes place at the same time as Ender’s Game but from a different perspective. It’s the best of the other books in that universe.
Bean fan for life
Thirded
*Just finisihed watching a booktuber recommend The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo on the description*
*Sees it in Merphy's description*
Me: Hmmm is this a sign?
OMG NORTH AND SOUTH!! That was the first classic book I was "forced" to read at school that I genuinely enjoyed!
"Which is WEIRD and I don't like it... except that I love it."
Haha you're so funny, thank you for the adds to my never ending TBR.
I'm also so happy you read North and South
I swear to god I'm so glad I found this channel because we have very similar reading tastes and I haven't not loved any of the books I've read because of you
I love Seven Husbands!! One of my favorites. Hugo is such a complex character and her ambition really resonated with me
I love this concept and it was great to hear your thoughts on Ender's Game and Animal Farm.
Lynn is the master of spreadsheets! I love her most recent spreadsheet posted in the Patreon Discord- very useful tracker.
Oh man, I hated Evelyn Hugo. I absolutely loved The City we Became and have a mission to read Jemisin's backlist because her writing blew me away.
Merph here’s an idea for a vid : best character arcs
The Wheel of Time had some great character arcs, as only a 14-book series can. The Malazan Book of the Fallen does too, as only a 10-book series can.
Would it have to be a character from a book? There’s a certain scarred prince I am thinking of...
I’ve recently started watching your vids, and I’ve been binging them. I’ve just got back into reading and I found fantasy intimidating and not for me. But you make it seem so fun and I’m definitely going to try fantasy.!! 😇😇
YASS WONDERSTRUCK! I love that book so MUCH! it makes me so happy that you loved it too, Merphy! I love how Brian Selznick managed to portray deafness and make you pay visual attention by telling the story of a deaf girl through illustrations only - it works so brilliantly well and I highly recommend it to everyone!
What I would love to see is when you do a book review read sections of the book and talk about why you loved/hated that section.
I fangirl screamed at Ender’s Game! Its the book that got me into reading again. Thank you to the people who made that book a requirement in high school.
Heard about N.K Jemisin for sooo long but the way you spoke about The Fifth Season makes me want to push it to the top of my TBR 😭
thank you for talking about Evelyn Hugo. that book. i still want to cry when i think about it.
I am FINALLY reading The Fifth Season next month! It’s my first time reading Jemisin’s work too, really looking forward to it. :) I have Bird Box on my shelf to read sometime this year - haven’t seen the movie yet, so hopefully it’ll be a great time. I am going to nope right out on the worms of The Troop.
The fact that i so religously watch your videos that I already know and love all of these books
Hey Merphy! I’ve just finished my first Frederick Backman book, My grandmother sends her regards and apologises (which has a slightly different title in the American translation) and I’m definitely going to read more of his stuff. I had bought it ages ago when I saw it in a shop and thought it looked interesting but I never got around to it and kind of forgot it was on the shelf till I heard you praising him and recommending his books in general. So thanks for reminding me of him and I’ll definitely be getting hold of a copy of A Man called Ove, since it’s the one you seem to mention most!! Thanks for your great content!!
You're a very enthusiastic person and I appreciate your videos because of that. Another good one!
Hanging out with Merphy every day. Thanks for all the work you're putting into your videos. I love your channel.
Merphy, as a fellow fan of Ender's Game and fairy tale retellings, may I suggest Enchantment. It's a sleeping beauty retelling written by the author of Ender's Game. It follows a grad student who goes to Ukraine for research where he finds a damsel in the woods in an unending sleep. He knows he has to kiss her to wake her and when he does, he immediately regrets it. She wakes up wondering how the "knight" who rescued her is such a skinny boy with no sword fighting skills. It follows their adventures and relationship as they are trying to escape the one who put her in the sleeping curse.
I second this. It's wonderfully done. The character development is worth your time.
Just want to say, thanks for complicating my life. Because of you and Daniel I picked up way of kings....I can't stop. I might be forever hooked to this genre now. Thanks.
You know what’s funny is most of these books I recognized from back when I was able to watch all your videos regularly (Still love your vids, just busy). Most of these was like “oh yeah didn’t you just talk about that one? I remember that video!” 😂 I still vote you read Ender’s Shadow because it’s a companion book and not a true sequel (and totally worth it even if you don’t read any of the others). You reminded me of several I’ve been meaning to pick up that you recommend though, lol.
I actually read Wonderstorm the last time you recommended it!! Such a sweet, heartfelt story. (The ending made me tear up, in the best way).
More books to add to my ever growing tbr... Thanks, Merphy!
I "buddy-read" Into the Drowning Deep with one of my best friends last summer as a way to connect with her long distance, and I have to say it is one of my favorite books of 2020, even though I read over 50 books! Mira Grant is one of my favorite adult sci fi writers. As a scientist, I really appreciate the depth of her research and truly awesome settings. Would love to know how you organize your tbr and pick which book to read next, that's my biggest issue right now. Too many books, I can't choose!
I think I Capture the Castle was the first book we buddy read together! I need to reread it because I remember really enjoying it. Plus, I love that edition.
Evelyn hugo was so goood! I want to read more books like it.. Some drama, some tension!💝 Any recommendations?
Yes, about Evelyn. Daisy Jones and the Six was the same. I was convinced The Six was a real band!
Jemisin's prose aren't bleautiful in a flowery way. For the sake of metaphor, hers are like gemstones. Highly polished, and manage to be harsh and beautiful at the same time.
OMG Evelyn Hugo is one of my favorite books EVER, I had no idea you have read it!
I’ve been meaning to read fifth season for SO LONG 🤡
I know a book that's quite a bit like how you're describing "The 7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo"! Nine perfect strangers. Its characters feel so real, they r not heros, but so wonderful. Some really serious topics are explored. Like trauma, mental health, substance abuse. And it's told from several perspectives. The plot n the exploring of the characters are balances out n in the end I really wanted to keep following these characters ☺️☺️☺️🤍
GAH!! You READ read North & South!! I love it so much and it’s sooo good and doesn’t get enough love!! It makes my heart happy that youve read it! :)
All nonfiction books are soooo under rated I have loved all the nonfiction I have read because real people go through real struggles to the backdrop of actual historical events nothing is made up or sugar coated. I don’t understand how people think nonfiction is boring. Don’t get me wrong fiction can rip my heart out too.
North And South. I thought it would be John Jakes' North And South...but it wasn't. The best Civil War novel ever!!!
I just started Into the Drowning Deep earlier today! I’m only one chapter in, and I’m already intrigued by the setup, and now you’ve made me super excited to get into it. It will be interesting to see if I have similar thoughts about the ending. 🖤❤️
For a long time, you didn't mention Skyward at all. And then recently you've started talking about it everywhere! I think I'm gonna read Wonder Struck, if I get the money.
I was just curious if you have read any L. M. Montgomery books? (Anne of Green Gables, the blue castle, Emily of new moon, etc.)
Also I love your videos:)
Oooo great list. I have been meaning to read Into the Deep for a while now.
PLEASE read The Queen's Thief series!!!! They are genius! They start out younger/ya-ish but as the characters grow up, so does the audience. Please please please
Treasure Island is, in my opinion, the second best classic novel ever (next to LOTR/Hobbit). It was SO FUN. I have never had that much reading a book in my life. Love love love
I finally read 'The Troop' because you've mentioned it a few times, and it sounded like something I'd like.
It was really good, but that turtle scene broke me 🥺😖😭😭😭.
I've been around long enough that I remember when you read almost all of these :P
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of my favourite books. I got my friend to read her Daisy Jones and the Six, and she told me that at some stage while reading the book she had to accept that this band wasn't real. She didn't know what to do after because there wasn't actual songs to listen to that the band made so she just had to sit there and suffer.
She is releasing another book this year and I am definitely reading it.
The Troop sounds similar to The Ruins, and I’m honestly kind of here for it. Sign me up, but please don’t pay attention to me when I’m sleeping with the lights on. 🤣
Ahhhhhh middle grade graphic novel 🥰
"Animal Farm!" Great book! Relevant to today! I live in New York State where our governor sent at least 15,000 old horses to the glue factory!
At this point, Merphy has more favorite books than I have read. And she adds to my TBR each day... I will never have enough time to read all of them.
I feel like you repped Into the Drowning Deep and The Fifth Season enough before... Did you like the rest of the latter's trilogy? I loved book 1 but quit at the start of book 3.
I think you would love The Secret History by Donna Tartt, it's a literary fiction and it centers around a group of students who kill a fellow classmate (not a spoiler, it tells you in the prologue). It's very well written and sounds like something thatd be right up your alley
I don’t know if you know this because I haven’t heard you talk about it, but Mira Grant who wrote Into the Drowning Deep is a pen name for Seanan McGuire who also wrote the Wayward Children series (Every Heart a Doorway, etc.)
Read Speaker for the Dead it is the book he wrote first and Enders game was just a short story till the publishers said he couldn’t have a short story before a book. Otherwise all the others are shit. My dad actually met Orison Scott Card and he thought they were shit. He wrote them to please the publishers.
Evelyn Hugo was based on actress Elizabeth Taylor (married eight times to seven different men, she has an awesome biography) and also on Ava Gardner who actually did talk to a journalist about her life, and a book about their conversations was published, both amazing women, I would definitely recommend checking them out if you liked Evelyn
7:15 Another book I think does 2nd-person really well is Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (sequel to Gideon the Ninth). It has a reason for it and once you find it out its really satisfying.
I LOVED Bird Box
the sequel Malorie was just as good during the first half of the book but then it went downhill and the ending was BAAAD
I remember putting The Troop in my TBR at one point. Then for some reason I took it off, but I couldn’t remember why. I was thinking about picking it up again because I’m in a slump and wanted to read some horror to get me out of it. Thank you for reminding me about the animal abuse. That was why. How easy was it to skim over that?
It was a good book, but the animal stuff really bothered me. Here are the animal parts that you can skip, while still enjoying the book:
- Whenever it's a Shel point-of-view and he plays with bugs
- Shel remembers a terrible story with a kitten
- THE TURTLE. OMG Skip the whole scene with the turtle.
@@rachaeladamczyk9322 Thank you! I think I probably know the inspiration for this turtle scene, and if I’m right I definitely could not read that and be okay. :(
Merphy: *Mentions The Troop*
Me: Where have I heard that name before, why is my skin crawling, and why do I feel like I should close this tab?
Yes! Finally someone who gives City of Ghosts the love it deserves!
wonderstruck!!! It's so good, one of my favorites!
I've just finished The Troop and omg I am slightly traumatized but that was sooo good thank you for the recommendation
I was able to get my hands on the Wonderstruck ebook, read it in one sitting, and cried lol
The Fifth Season is intriguing me, I placed a hold at my library. Only 10 weeks away!
Edit: Thanks for almost filling up my holds list *again* gah! Stop recommending books (but pls keep recommending books)
I have the same problem with recommends. My Libby holds list keeps growing, even though I have many books on my shelf I also want to read. I'm lucky though that my wait for The Fifth Season is only 4 weeks 😁
Have you read Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid? If not yet, I highly recommend the audio book, since the book is also constructed as a non-fiction biography of a band, so every member has their own voice actor. I haven't read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but from what you told, it sounds as though people who enjoy one would enjoy the other.
I remember you talking about Evelyn forever ago in some video and you never talked about it again and I was like...did I imagine that? Lol
The city of ghosts sounds like it be a really good read.
I’m on chapter 4 of the troop and those small chapters we get from the unidentified man of him eating is so disgusting but I am loving it even though I’m barely into it.
I recently started Into the Drowning Deep and I love how creepy it is 😍 its giving me the same vibes Jurassic Park did but with mermaids.
And G!! Love her channel. It would be so much fun if you guys collabed for a video 😍
I loved "The Fifth Season" and need to read the rest of the trilogy.
Loved enders game, speaker of the dead is my favourite sequel..
AH, I'm reading Fifth Season right now! about 40% through it, took about 80 pgs to get into/used to NK's style
Why am I the outsider! I want to love fifth season as much as you and apparently everyone else. I just finished it last week and have no desire to go on. I’m so sad.
Merphy you should read Ender's Shadow. It's the story told from the perspective of Bean
i love wonder struck!! it's my sister's favourite book :)
ha, was half expecting to be click baited and hear about Peter Pan. good video.
Speaking of illustrations and prose combined, I wonder what you'd think of Malice and Havoc? They're by the same author of the Ember Blade, and they're really great books. Middle grade/young Young Adult, but they were so good!
After reading a couple of the Ender's game seguels.. I can say leaving Ender's Game as a stand alone is a pretty good decision.
I heard that Into the Drowning Deep featured killer mermaids and that was all I had to know. Borrowed it from the library, loved it and eventually bought my own copy. The only problem I had with the ending is that nobody will fund a sequel so it feels unfinished.
Oh and the prequel novela goes for ridiculous prices online and there's no digital copy which sucks.
Every time you talk about THE TROOP I take off my headphones.
Any thoughts on Sara j mass, I’ve gotten a lot of mixed opinions as to whether I should read throne series or court series. As I would like to not waste my time with them and you, for the most part, share my opinions on book recommendations I would very much like to know your thoughts if any on those series. Much love from Texas
I tried listening to The Fifth Season and dnf'd halfway through because I was HAAATING it. The tone, the weirdness... maybe if I had read it instead of listening? I don't know.
The legitimate squeal I let out when I heard Evelyn Hugo 😅😅It’s my Locke Lamora
Dear Merphy,
There's a book I listened to a while ago that I can't remember the name of and was hoping either you or someone in your bibliophile community could help me find the title. It's about a girl who has to go around in a US postal service truck assassinating people because of some small prints in a contract that she signed not knowing that that was in there and now she has to be a contract killer for this big corp. She is joined at some point by a guy who just comes along for the ride. Thanks!
What happen to Shogun? One of the best historical fiction books ever written. I was looking forward to a review of it. No one ever talks about it on youtube
Yay! North and South! My fave xxx
I love your videos!!
I'm very excited to get to The Troop.