@@maditales OMFG YOU PINNED MY COMMENT, this has gotta be the highlight of my whole 2023, ilysmmmm❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ And yes lol I can confirm that it’s a lifestyle, considering that I keep buying books when I have like a million to read 🤣🤣
Just to clear some things up, POWERLESS: I am extremely stupid and don’t know why I confused the main character’s name with the name of the kingdom. So sorry for confusing everyone idk what was going on with me that day. I read Percy Jackson when I was younger and loved the books. I mentioned that scene from the movie because of what Medusa says to Percy about Poseidon because when you think about the different versions of the myth, what she says can be understood differently. I know it’s not what the author meant but when you look at that scene in comparison to Medusa’s darker tale, it can feel different. Sorry for the confusion
I'm a little confused. The only scene I remember from the movie is Medusa saying she dated Poseidon, which is the version Rick Riordan used in Percy Jackson (that the two had been a consensual couple).
@@kittymagica6408yes Medusa didn’t say that Poseidon sa’d her but I was just saying that whenever I watch the movie I can only think about Ovid and her backstory. Not that it’s said in Percy. Just how Medusa is represented in the movie in comparison to how she’s represented in Ovid.
OMG I am so sorry!! In all seriousness this was a joke that was more aimed at people who ACTUALLY havent read the books! I was pretty sure you had! I was just trying to make a joke and the undertone when i said it in my brain was haha hehe sarcastic witty comment 😝Again though so sorry didnt mean to offend!! I love you!! @maditales
litterally!!! i saw a video recommending one of these books some weeks ago and i added it to my tbr but everytime i look at it it looks so boring... now after watching this video it sounds like the best book ever
11:56 actually in the Greek myths Poseidon never SA’d Medusa, that’s actually Neptune in Roman mythology. And she was born a gorgon along with two sisters, so she’d always been a gorgon. This was what earlier Greek poets described her as like Hesiod, but for some reason later writers changed it.
technically yes, Ovid wrote that Neptune did that but I've also read some greek translations where medusa not willingly had an affair with poseidon, in school. maybe they were translated wrong but i have definitely read translations that said Poseidon (the greek name) and not Neptune
I'm late but Powerless is my Favorite book, and Lauren is making a Novella called Powerful that is Adenas point of view. The second book is called Reckless. Powerful: April 30 Reckless: July 4th
The Medusa book!!!! That sounds so good and I'm literally obsessed with books about Medusa that portray Medusa as a victim and not a villain. I have a semi-traumatic moment about how once in 6th grade my history teacher assigned us a project where we had to write a limerick about the Greek gods. So I wrote a limerick about Medusa and I don't really remember the limerick but it was basically about how Poseidon ignored her vow of celibacy and defiled her and she asked Athena for help (another alternate interpretation). The keywords I used here were celibacy and enticed. My other teacher had thought it was fine so I went to ask my history teacher, and she responded with a big speech about how I was supposedly infatuated with the gods' sex lives, how "did I want first graders asking their parents what celibacy and enticed meant". So I changed my poem and wrote one about Athena that was deemed "acceptable". THIS POEM WAS LITERALLY NEVER SEEN BY ANYONE BUT THE HISTORY TEACHER. WHAT "'FIRST GRADER" SAW MY POEM. Also, I had written the Medusa poem in a very respectful, pg, and vague way to keep it "appropriate". What is so inappropriate about celibacy and "being enticed". Sure enticed *can* have a "sexual" meaning to it, but if a parent were to describe it to a kid *should a kid ask*, they could just say its to be swayed into wanting something with promises. It's not like I had written a graphic poem about how Medusa got raped and killed.
Just FYI the Medusa being the victim is a Roman myth rather than a Greek one. In Greek mythology, she is born as a gorgon and has two gorgon sisters rather than cursed to be one. The reworked myth is by Ovid purposely to frame Athena in a bad light. I read the book and it was good, but as a greek mythology fiend I would to make it clear that its based on Roman myth.
1. I AM SO FREAKING HAPPPYYY THAT YOU FINALLY UPLOADED THIS VIDEO! PLS DO IT MORE OFTEN! 2. I LOOOVEEEE U!!! 3. Pls recommend us some german books (& I can‘t find the mentioned books) 4. I feel like you are going to be very sad in the next months 🙌🏼😂 (because of these books)
One dark window and Stone blind was two of my favorite books last year. I definitely recommend listening to the audiobook for Stone blind. Natalie Haynes reads all her books herself and is amazing.
Madita, you are my comfort RUclipsr and one of the few people I trust for book recommendations haha. I hope you know how amazing you are. Happy holidays! ❤
i just recently purchased Final Offer to complete The Fine Print series by Lauren Asher. I also got The Lord of the Flies by William Golding as well as Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes :)) 35:30
we NEED a magnolia parks read along ( btw the old covers are still going to be acessible in the uk and aus ( i think for aus ) and the 5th one will have an og style cover so yayyy )
Hi! I'm glad to see that people abroad are into russian classics, so as a russian myself, i highly recommend to read "The Master and Margarita" by M. Bulgakov and "White nights" by F. Dostoyevsky c:
My friend and I saw the Moulin Rouge musical in Melbourne, Australia after going to dymocks bookstore right across the theatre, and I picked up Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, because it looked interesting. But I didn't want to read it anymore once I found All the Lights We Cannot See, so my friend bought me the book she helped me decide on and then I bought her the book she chose (the one I initially mentioned and picked up) after I put the book down. She finished it in the airport and said it was very different to what she was expecting and it was more weird than horror 😂 enjoy though! Love your videos.
Omg if you like that book about Medusa then you should read the book called Medusa! Every time I read a book about her I fall even more in love with her.. She is in fact the definition of feminine rage
my most recent book purchase was Song of silver, flame like night by Amelie Wen Zhao and I haven't read it yet but its supposed to be a Chinese historical romance with Chinese mythology (THE COVERS ARE SO PRETTY OML)
I read House of Roots and Ruin last month! It was good, a little slow paced compared to House of Salt and Sorrows but still loved it! I rated it 3.75 stars.
I'm currently on a book buying ban because I just bought 7 more books (but they were all second hand) And Madita you're so gorgeous today (and as you always are)
I didn’t realize authors change names of characters in different countries/editions until you started talking about someone named Ilya in Powerless 😂 In the US she’s Paedyn & I was so confused
Have you ever read The Stalking Jack the Ripper series of books by Kerry Maniscalco. I thing you should read it. I just recently came across your RUclips channel and after listening to you I thought that you would absolutely fall in love with this series of books
You look so pretty in this video! Buying books after being on a book buying ban is the only way Also I think in Powerless Ileyea (not sure how to spell it) and the MC name is Paedyn
Hi! My last book purchase was actually „a curse for true love“ (i am crying and sobbing and arghhhhhh) and „caraval“. (both of them from stephanie Garber) i don‘t know about caraval but I WANT TO READ IT OMG anyways liebe Grüsse an MANFRED 💅🏼😌
Madi, book buying bans are meant to be broken! 🤷🏻♀️
It’s a lifestyle
@@maditales OMFG YOU PINNED MY COMMENT, this has gotta be the highlight of my whole 2023, ilysmmmm❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
And yes lol I can confirm that it’s a lifestyle, considering that I keep buying books when I have like a million to read 🤣🤣
The fact I can't go a month without breaking my book buying ban😩
@@Akari_reads I can’t go two days, so that’s reasonable.
@@bookloverrrr I guess I'll never stop adding books to my never ending tbr
Madita has to be the prettiest booktuber there is 😭
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Literally agreed she's so so pretty
Guys we’ve been looking at book buying bans all wrong! Ban stands for “buy amazing novels” so we need to follow the rules!
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OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SEEING MY COMMENT, YOU MADE MY WHOLE YEAR!
lol big brain activated 🧐
Just to clear some things up,
POWERLESS: I am extremely stupid and don’t know why I confused the main character’s name with the name of the kingdom. So sorry for confusing everyone idk what was going on with me that day.
I read Percy Jackson when I was younger and loved the books. I mentioned that scene from the movie because of what Medusa says to Percy about Poseidon because when you think about the different versions of the myth, what she says can be understood differently. I know it’s not what the author meant but when you look at that scene in comparison to Medusa’s darker tale, it can feel different.
Sorry for the confusion
I'm a little confused. The only scene I remember from the movie is Medusa saying she dated Poseidon, which is the version Rick Riordan used in Percy Jackson (that the two had been a consensual couple).
@@kittymagica6408yes Medusa didn’t say that Poseidon sa’d her but I was just saying that whenever I watch the movie I can only think about Ovid and her backstory. Not that it’s said in Percy. Just how Medusa is represented in the movie in comparison to how she’s represented in Ovid.
Ah, ok
OMG I am so sorry!! In all seriousness this was a joke that was more aimed at people who ACTUALLY havent read the books! I was pretty sure you had! I was just trying to make a joke and the undertone when i said it in my brain was haha hehe sarcastic witty comment 😝Again though so sorry didnt mean to offend!! I love you!! @maditales
i was just about to comment to say the characters name is Paedyn lol. Easy mistake
she just makes every single book sound so interesting that i have to add it to my tbr as soon as i see her with it
that is the biggest compliment ever thank you so much!!!
litterally!!! i saw a video recommending one of these books some weeks ago and i added it to my tbr but everytime i look at it it looks so boring... now after watching this video it sounds like the best book ever
Buying books while on a book buying ban is such a mood lmao. Happy holidays❤
I've only read 3 of the books in the video but it feels so rewarding that I've read something that madita hasn't 😭😭 idk why
girl i absolutely adore your videos it's so fun to watch them
11:56 actually in the Greek myths Poseidon never SA’d Medusa, that’s actually Neptune in Roman mythology. And she was born a gorgon along with two sisters, so she’d always been a gorgon. This was what earlier Greek poets described her as like Hesiod, but for some reason later writers changed it.
technically yes, Ovid wrote that Neptune did that but I've also read some greek translations where medusa not willingly had an affair with poseidon, in school. maybe they were translated wrong but i have definitely read translations that said Poseidon (the greek name) and not Neptune
@@maditales it definitely gets confusing with so many translations that all say different things😭
i love book hauls so i can discover new book recs✨🤝
one dark window is EASYLY one of the best books i have ever read and now that the second book just came out as well it is even better
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I'm late but Powerless is my Favorite book, and Lauren is making a Novella called Powerful that is Adenas point of view. The second book is called Reckless.
Powerful: April 30
Reckless: July 4th
The Medusa book!!!! That sounds so good and I'm literally obsessed with books about Medusa that portray Medusa as a victim and not a villain. I have a semi-traumatic moment about how once in 6th grade my history teacher assigned us a project where we had to write a limerick about the Greek gods. So I wrote a limerick about Medusa and I don't really remember the limerick but it was basically about how Poseidon ignored her vow of celibacy and defiled her and she asked Athena for help (another alternate interpretation). The keywords I used here were celibacy and enticed. My other teacher had thought it was fine so I went to ask my history teacher, and she responded with a big speech about how I was supposedly infatuated with the gods' sex lives, how "did I want first graders asking their parents what celibacy and enticed meant". So I changed my poem and wrote one about Athena that was deemed "acceptable". THIS POEM WAS LITERALLY NEVER SEEN BY ANYONE BUT THE HISTORY TEACHER. WHAT "'FIRST GRADER" SAW MY POEM. Also, I had written the Medusa poem in a very respectful, pg, and vague way to keep it "appropriate". What is so inappropriate about celibacy and "being enticed". Sure enticed *can* have a "sexual" meaning to it, but if a parent were to describe it to a kid *should a kid ask*, they could just say its to be swayed into wanting something with promises. It's not like I had written a graphic poem about how Medusa got raped and killed.
I listen to your videos when I’m cooking or cleaning my room. Your voice is just so motivating and calming 😭❤️
I recommend "They Both Die at the End" from Adam Silvera. Great heartbreak. :D
the cheerleaders by kara thomas is such a great book!! i love the lead up to the solving of the mysteries! so glad you are going to be reading it
I just started reading A Study in Drowning and I absolutely love it!
love redesigned and powerless are my favouriteee! ive also read the cheerleaders and it was so good
Girl I'm not even lying I ordered powerless and love redesigned as u were talking about it. You're so convincing
girl literally stop! not only am i obsessed with you and your channel, your making me want to buy books that i dont have the money for!
You’re so pretty omg you’re glowinggg❤️❤️
ouabh is my favorite trilogy and honestly you are so INCREDIBLY right medita.
Mood instantly higher now that you posted ❤
SHE POSTED AHHHH
madita is literally such a comfort booktuber
Just FYI the Medusa being the victim is a Roman myth rather than a Greek one. In Greek mythology, she is born as a gorgon and has two gorgon sisters rather than cursed to be one. The reworked myth is by Ovid purposely to frame Athena in a bad light. I read the book and it was good, but as a greek mythology fiend I would to make it clear that its based on Roman myth.
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I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! Thank you for making them. All the effort that you put into them is appreciated.
Love you 🔅🩵
11:55 why did you hit the book so hard HAHHAHAHAH ITS SO RANDOM AND IDK WHY I FIND IT SO FUNNY
1. I AM SO FREAKING HAPPPYYY THAT YOU FINALLY UPLOADED THIS VIDEO!
PLS DO IT MORE OFTEN!
2. I LOOOVEEEE U!!!
3. Pls recommend us some german books (& I can‘t find the mentioned books)
4. I feel like you are going to be very sad in the next months 🙌🏼😂 (because of these books)
I swear, every time I watch your videos, I piss myself laughing at the way you express yourself.
Thanks for making my day happier❤😘😘
Madita you're not stupid for making some simple mistakes everyone makes them and learns from them, ily
One dark window and Stone blind was two of my favorite books last year. I definitely recommend listening to the audiobook for Stone blind. Natalie Haynes reads all her books herself and is amazing.
Madita has my love and support ❤️😭 i am new here but just in love with all her videos 😭
Madita, you are my comfort RUclipsr and one of the few people I trust for book recommendations haha. I hope you know how amazing you are. Happy holidays! ❤
madita you're literally SHINING😭🫶🏼
feeding us with an almost 40 minute video is amazing😭 Thank you Madita 🤧🤧
I love watching your bookhauls!! A friend of mine has lend me her hunger games books and im so excited to read them :D
OMG ONE DARK WINDOW IS EEVVERYYTHINGGGGG !!!!! I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT 😭😭😭
I’m on a book buying ban but people keep asking me what I want for Christmas so I keep saying books 😭
Technically I’m not buying them tho
Smart tbf😂
i just recently purchased Final Offer to complete The Fine Print series by Lauren Asher. I also got The Lord of the Flies by William Golding as well as Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes :)) 35:30
we NEED a magnolia parks read along ( btw the old covers are still going to be acessible in the uk and aus ( i think for aus ) and the 5th one will have an og style cover so yayyy )
crime and punishment is one of my fav books ever i hope you love it!
Hi! I'm glad to see that people abroad are into russian classics, so as a russian myself, i highly recommend to read "The Master and Margarita" by M. Bulgakov and "White nights" by F. Dostoyevsky c:
Always a good day when you upload a video ❤
madita we NEED another 24 hour read-a-thon!!!
My friend and I saw the Moulin Rouge musical in Melbourne, Australia after going to dymocks bookstore right across the theatre, and I picked up Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, because it looked interesting. But I didn't want to read it anymore once I found All the Lights We Cannot See, so my friend bought me the book she helped me decide on and then I bought her the book she chose (the one I initially mentioned and picked up) after I put the book down. She finished it in the airport and said it was very different to what she was expecting and it was more weird than horror 😂 enjoy though! Love your videos.
I alwaaaays love your book talking vidsss💕
Omg if you like that book about Medusa then you should read the book called Medusa! Every time I read a book about her I fall even more in love with her.. She is in fact the definition of feminine rage
Recently I have acquired the Once Upon the Broken Heart series!!! Im sooo excited to read them
Dreamland billionairs series is one of my fav book series (most fav one :Final offer)❤❤❤
21:42 angrboða is a VERY misunderstood and villainized deity so I’m curious as to how the reimagining works out
madi and me 🤝🏻 buying books non stop :)
comfort person 🤍
my most recent book purchase was Song of silver, flame like night by Amelie Wen Zhao and I haven't read it yet but its supposed to be a Chinese historical romance with Chinese mythology (THE COVERS ARE SO PRETTY OML)
Madita, I’m 13 and my sister CANNOT keep buying me books 😭 why did you have to both bless and torture me with this video
random question have you read all the young dudes? i feel like you’d love it
my latest book haul was The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid and The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith:)
the way I used to be is so good but sooo sad
This makes me feel better about the massive amount of books I have bought recently 😂❤
I read House of Roots and Ruin last month! It was good, a little slow paced compared to House of Salt and Sorrows but still loved it! I rated it 3.75 stars.
Man i loved house of salt and sorrows too ❤❤ soon will read the sequel too
madita posted everyone drop what ure doing and await the chaos
I'm currently on a book buying ban because I just bought 7 more books (but they were all second hand)
And Madita you're so gorgeous today (and as you always are)
The cheerleader is one of my favorite thrillers.
Can you make a video on CLEAN book recommendations for middle graders (Gr.7&8) that are slightly more mature, but aren’t too gruesome? Thanks!❤
I recently buy a shadow in the ember, I love romantasy
Not me always hoping that maditas has posted a new video when I open RUclips… love ya pookie
I didn’t realize authors change names of characters in different countries/editions until you started talking about someone named Ilya in Powerless 😂 In the US she’s Paedyn & I was so confused
No I’m dumb I am sooo dumb. HER NAME IS MOT ILYA WHY DID I DO THAT
@@maditales hahaha happens to the best of us
i was gonna say the same thing but then i saw her comment lolll
Your videos make my entire day 🎉❤
I can only dream of having this many books 😭
Nevertheless I will continue to dream 👍
you and me princess 😭💀
"and I am very sad all the time" Same girl Same
crime and punishment is actually fairly funny about 200 pages in
so much lit fic!!! and han kang and toni morrison!!!!!
Omdssssss powerless is so good
PLEASE DO A READING VLOG ON A CURSE FOR TRUE LOVE, i finished it todayyy
I'm watching this video to make my book wish list and now it's HUGE
I recently bought Heartstopper vol 5!
defo read her dark wings and medusa by jessie burton if you like medusa as it explores mythology in interesting perspectives
Me being on a book buying ban: 😇
Thalia and their sales: 😈
My book buying ban and my bank account: 🫠
Me with new books: 🥳
Any book recs ( anyone)? I don’t like romance of fantasy but I like sad books and thrillers and somethings dystopian like divergent soo
Meditaaaaa weeee neeeeeedddd a 24h readinggg vidddddd
do you keep track of your physical tbr? i can’t imagine having that many books to read😅💀
11:57 why did she spank the book like that LMAOO
i’m dying for the love redesigned voice memos
a reading vlog about reading this disturbing books is a Need 🖐️😭
petition for a Christmas vlog from madita
Have you ever read The Stalking Jack the Ripper series of books by Kerry Maniscalco. I thing you should read it. I just recently came across your RUclips channel and after listening to you I thought that you would absolutely fall in love with this series of books
i WISH i could afford to buy that many books
MADIIITAAAA WE NEED 24H READING CHALENGE :))))
my friend is currently reading “the cheerleaders” and she keeps telling me it’s traumatizing, now I want to read it even more.
My day is complete ❤🎉
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madita hi you’re gorgeous i love you so much i need a new 24h readathon i miss them and i hope you’re okay love you 💓💓💓
I love watching your videos so much, i am wanting to start booktube but i dont know how, do you have any tips?
You look so pretty in this video!
Buying books after being on a book buying ban is the only way
Also I think in Powerless Ileyea (not sure how to spell it) and the MC name is Paedyn
Oh my god. I just realized I AM SO DUMH
Things have gotten worse since we lost spoke is one of my favorite books .. i always think about it
Where do you get that cover for the Once Upon a Broken Heart series? All the one I see online are the ones with the fancy editions
Madita: I’m trying to get into the Christmas mood. Me: it doesn’t feel like Christmas at all 😭
31:09 meeee!!!!
Hi! My last book purchase was actually „a curse for true love“ (i am crying and sobbing and arghhhhhh) and „caraval“. (both of them from stephanie Garber)
i don‘t know about caraval but I WANT TO READ IT OMG
anyways liebe Grüsse an MANFRED 💅🏼😌
You gave yourself a Christmas gift 🎁 ❤️