The passion in your voice and the energy...so refreshing in this season when everyone makes these kinds of lists. But this one is so obviously genuine. I love it 😊📚👍
The first video I ever watched of yours was your book wrap up for 2016. I’ve since then subscribed and have looked forward to all of your videos! My favorite thing about you is how you open up and explore very interesting topics about reading and guiding us through with your distinct voice. You make sure you engage the audience and encourage us to think hard about what we read & what we choose to consume. Your enthusiasm / passion for books is evident and infectious! Never stop creating, writing, and sharing to the world Ariel! I will be the first in line when your book finally gets published! Oh and my favorite books that I read this year are The Encyclopedia of Early Earth & Mostly Void, Partially Stars.
Thank YOU for 2017! This might be my first time commenting on your channel, but I was in a huge reading slump until your videos. High school and college assigned reading made me fall out of love with books. Then I found your channel in 2016, set a goal in 2017 to read more, and ended up reading 70 books this year! Not that the number matters at all (because reading isn’t a competitive sport!) but my point is only that your enthusiasm for reading and learning helped spark one of my long lost passions. Thank you so so much, Ariel!
My favourite book I read this year was Jane Eyre. It's quite a long book, and because I'm a slow reader, it took me the entire summer to get through, however, it was one of the best reading experiences I've had. It is also my mums favourite book, so in between chapters we would have these book club sessions where I would tell her what part I got up to and we would discuss the themes and imagery in the writing, it was so great!Because I took my time with it I became so immersed in the story and attached to the characters that I cried so much when I finished it, not just because I loved the story and the ending, but because it was over and there was no more Jane to read about. I learned so much from the story. I can't wait for 2018, and for the books I will read. All the best to you for 2018!!
Your videos are so refreshing. I started watching BookTube in 2016 and became completely obsessed, which reminds me of the video when you said that reading is not a sport. I have nearly burned myself out on reading. I've had to take a step back and ask myself why do I read? Your thoughts reinforced my conclusion that we read to find those gems that speak to us. It's not what everybody else is reading, it doesn't have to be what is considered a classic. It's those books that change the way we think, the way we view the world, or just gets us excited. I also love it, that I'm not alone in stumbling on a subject that I can't get enough of. I love your enthusiasm and look forward to your future videos.
My most awaiting and one of the favourite videos ever. A look back to 2017 with your journey to book tour to all your favourite books, authors, shortest,........ Like reviewing the year and reliving the memories. I loved this video so much. Happy new year Ariel.
I have been watching your videos for a few years now and you are definitely one of my favorite booktubers. Your videos are funny, entertaining, informative, real, honest and down to earth. One thing that I think really stands out for me is that most of the books you enjoy are not ones that I have read or really want to read however I still love watching your video, I think that says a lot about how well you do this! Happy New Year!
You should start stephen king with Misery! It's about a writer, and about writing fiction, and rather than weird horror its more of a psychological type deal
I love this review style with all of the different categories and how honest and open you are about what you like. Keep it up I love watching these videos!
The part where you talked about feeling excited to re-read a book while reading it is how I always feel when I read What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt. My favourite book by far. Had to share the love. Have a happy new year Ariel!
I too loved What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. I picked it up at random a few years ago, and enjoyed it so much. Happy New Year, I hope 2018 will be good to you!
Happy New Year Ariel.I agree with you about falling in love with a genre,this year I re-fall in love with poetry,so my favorite book this year was Milk&Honey by Rupi Kaur.
Oh I love this short and sweet review of your bookish year 2017! And I also bought a typewriter this year :) If you want to read more books on Frida Kahlo, definitely check out the adult picture book/graphic novel by Benjamin Lacombe - those colours, those paper cut-outs!
Ooh just the video I was in the mood for. Hooray. Loved the years achievements round up at the start. I might borrow that next year. Also love the categories that you break the year of your books down into. We Are Not Okay has been on my ‘must purchase list’ for too long. ‘No one wants this’ made me cackle. Melancholy and lovely sounds delightful. I’ll look Mooncop up. On Writing is brilliant as a writer or a reader. I wasn’t expecting that number one 😂
I'm not much of a commenter. However, I just want to say that I love you don't have the same books as everyone else on booktube! Your excitement for the books you read is contagious and makes me want to pick up books that aren't popular!
You have done so many things this year, you should be so proud!!! 🤩 This year has been my reading year, I found out about BookTube and after a year that I only read 3 books, this one I read 27 (for now)!! Your videos make me happy and excited about books and life 💛 thank you
Awesome video! I'm definitely tempted to pick some of these up now. My favorite book (although I didn't read that many) was definitely The Handmaids Tale. It's been a long time since a book has made me think that much and feel that much, both emotionally and physically.
I wish you a healthy, happy and amazing year, Ariel! Got one recommendation: Earthquakes in London by Mike Bartlett. It's a play that I've read for my Modern Drama class this year, and oh my God! It's phenomenal! I literally gave it 5 stars on Goodreads. It's a play about the environment which has a distopian vibe to it, and the stage directions are untraditional and very interesting.
ARIEL!! I came here from your instagram and I LOVE how extra and enthusiastic you are about books - it gives me life 😂😂😂 this video was so full of cheer and honestly has made my day. I need more book enthusiasts in my life! Happy new year! 💜
I also adored On Writing! After I read that I immediately picked up his novellas, which I think are a great start to King's writing! My favorite is Joyland, but The Colorado Kid and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon are also amazing!
Congrats on the acknowledgement in Turtles All the Way Down! And what a great set of books you've shown here. Definitely with you on the Frida love, she's fascinating. I'm coveting both the Journals and the Graphic Novel Bio. My favourites of the year are split between my reread of His Dark Materials and two new-to-me reads: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (which I already sort of predicted) and Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (what a great surprise! Didn't really expect it to love it as much as I did).
These are my absolute favourite videos of yours, I’ve rewatched the others SO many times!! This year has been an amazing reading year for me - I read Percy Jackson and the Olympians for the first time which is now my favourite series. I read Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman which is my now my all time favourite book. I read Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, entered the fandom, and have made many friends because of it. I FINALLY started reading Harry Potter this December and it has made me SO happy. I read my first classic this year (crazy, I know), and have started collecting them to continue reading in 2018. I’ve started exploring poetry. This year was a particularly bad one, and reading has helped me get through the rough patches countless amounts of times and I’m so thankful. Happy New Year everyone, I hope 2018 brings you all joy & good books
I just started reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running because of your recommendation and it is definitely a good book to start the new year. Thanks!
I recently started watching your channel and I was immediately drawn to it, I really love your unique perspective and thoughts on everything and I can’t wait for more next year :)
Is that the one with secret window in it? Not sure if that's the title, but it is the title of the movie. Been dying to read that short story! Heard it's really good.
I am also someone with insatiable curiosity and a lot of whims to follow. That's why I adore your channel! Love to hear what you're passionate about at any given time and where your curiosity is taking you. Your channel really stands out for me in the world of booktube for that reason. Keep it up AB
Oooh I was looking forward to this video!!! ❤ I really want to read Birds Art Life Death and Mooncop too. One of my favourites from 2017 was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? because I wasn't expecting to enjoy science fiction so much! A great (and short and easy to read) surprise
I am so excited for the new direction you are taking with your channel. I will say the reason I subscribed was because I loved your more conversational videos, I loved hearing your thoughts on bookish topics. I think my favourite videos were actually "books i want to read that nobody cares about". Maybe those videos are my favourite /because/ you are so passionate about something in them. Keep being you and share that passion
I read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running this year on your recommendation even though I’m not a runner (or writer!) and I adored it so much! I’m now making my way through Murakami’s novels (which are so good) thanks to you.
I just have to say, I really enjoy your content! I love your enthusiasm and unbiased opinions. And I love that you read similar stuff to myself, off-the-beaten-track type of books. Side note; this year I got to visit the graves of Orwell and Tolkien. Classics are so great! 💜
Holy smokes! I read Murakami at the begging of this year as well and I too fell in love with it!! It was the first book I ever read by him and it was such a great read that it made me pick up more books by him. You should read the book that inspired his tittle for that book ( What we talk about when we talk about love), it too was an interesting short book that was a delight to read. Interesting thing I too was blown away with a stephen king book this year, except my choice was Dr. Sleep! it was amazing and I highly recommend you start with the shinning and then move on to Dr. Sleep since they coincide. Happy readings for 2018!!! Thank you for dedicating so much of your time in 2017 with us subscribers! Cant wait to see what books fall in your lap next year cause I find my self reading many of your recommendations :D
My favorite book of the year is a tie between On Writing (read it for a fiction class and fell IN LOVE with it) and A History of Love because I think the story and writing style were just so beautiful. It was a great year of reading for me :)
I love this video so much. I'm really new to Booktube, and your enthusiasm about reading is just the best. I'm definitely going to read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. This year, my favorite books were The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, and Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann.
I loved this reading review instead of a list of favorites and least favorites. It really stood out to me. Each year is so different, heck I remember when I was a little kid most of the books I read for one year was about snakes because I was really interested in the topic. This year is all about the Booktube recommendations since I recently joined the community. It’s been fun. :)
Wait. What?! Ariel loves Frida Kahlo?!?! Who knew? I totally didn't see that coming...jk Goliath by Tom Gauld was one of my favorite books of 2017, and I hardly ever read graphic novels. Not trying to steal your spotlight but I also have my name in the acknowledgments of a book: In Search of the Christian Buddha by Peggy McCracken and Donald Lopez. I helped in research one summer. Seeing my name in the book never ceases to make me smile. Congratulations on getting your name in the acknowledgments of a John Green book!
Haruki Murakami is my favorite author. It makes me so happy that his books are starting to make more of an appearance in lots of booktube accounts!! ☺️ Love that you chose his book as your fav for 2017 !! 😁
Haruki Murakami is one of my favourite authors but I've never bothered to read his memoir because, like you, I have zero interest in running. I am absolutely going to give it a read after hearing your recommendation, so thank you! Your enthusiasm for the books you talk about is absolutely infectious! :)
I looked through so many of your videos just to find What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. I forgot the title and the author but I just remembered that it sounded to interesting. My hunt is complete.
Awesome list! Your enthusiasm is so infectious, I love it. I didn't read nearly as much as I wanted in 2017 but my favorite = Marlena by Julie Buntin. HIGHLY recommend it - it's breathtaking.
My favorite book this year was Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running has been on my tbr list for a while now I can’t wait to read it !
My two favourite books this year were A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki, and Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. I always love your videos and this was sooo much fun to watch! I'm glad you had a good reading year :)
love, love, loved this video! I was rewatching your old ones the other day so was really looking forward to this! I loved Jane Eyre and Dracula, both read for study, but I'd have to say Sabriel by Garth Nix would have to be my favourite book of the year. It was my last read but I fell in love with it so much, it was everything I love about Fantasy while still being new and different. I get excited just thinking about it!
I didn't read a many books not for class this year, but I did find one of my new all time favourite books (like just below Harry Potter favourite) in A Long Way To Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Much like you said, I can't stop thinking about it and I was two chapters in and already couldn't wait to reread it. It is brilliant scifi, but it's also so much more than that. It made such interesting observations on humans and our culture and that's really what mad em live it so much!
I love your energy in your videos, honestly makes me smile! Also, thanks to your recommendation I watched the film Frida and now definitely want to pick up biographies about her - she is so interesting! I hope you had a lovely New Year and thank you for your brilliant videos
I've only read 9 books this year but I loved so many of them! The ones that meant the most were probably Tender by Sofia Samatar (collection of short stories I had to read for my major & so excellent!) and The Shining. Both of these books make me so excited to be a writer!
Happy new year! Hard to pick a favourite from last year, although I actually haven't read that many books, since I really liked at least some aspects of all of them. I'd have to say I probably talked the most about East of Eden by J. Steinbeck, an absolutely gorgeous book about brutal, wonderful resilience of regular, faulty human beings.
This video was definitely my favorite of the year! I just love to watch you share some of your amazing thoughts with us. Thank you for an amazing year of videos, podcasts and overall stunning creativity. I was wondering if you have read any other books by Murakami, I have heard amazing things about him (someone close to me read a 900-paged book by him in two or three days!) Thank you Ariel!
That Classy Girl Thank you so much!! I’m so glad you like the stuff I make 💕 I’ve read most of the Wind Up Bird Chronicles and enjoyed it, but it was for school and I didn’t get a chance to finish it!!
oooommmmmggggg the second you pulled up murakami's book i smiled and teared up. MY FAVOROTE BOOK OF ALLLLLL TIME. i relate to everything you said. GOD it's such a good book.
loved the weird lighting in this video :) it was really pretty and it's so nice to be reminded that some youtube vids are filmed in the real world, where the sun can be annoying sometimes
This is why I love your videos, Ariel. You make any book (popular or not) interesting and I feel like reading them. I just love seeing your love for books because it reminds me why I love books. Also, You should read Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury if you haven't already. Cuz it's so good
When I received the notification I literally said out loud "I need this in my life!" and now i got a couple more books on my tbr. I feel happy now. Thanks :)). Btw, I love some of Murakami's works so I'm excited to read the one you mentioned.
This is the second video of yours that I’ve watched and I LOVE your energy and passion! You are very inspiring and I appreciate that you have diverse taste. I’ve just recently gotten into BookTube and I feel that there are a lot of one genre readers so you are a wonderful find for me. Best wishes for your 2018!
You are my favorite person who reviews books♥️ my favorite book of this year its tie between "Turtles all the way down" and "Aristotle and dante discover the secrets of universe" also followed by ocean at end of lane. Argh its difficult to choose one book with so much good out there in world. Keep reviewing. Much love from India
I hadn’t been reading much at all for the past few years so I really wanted to get back into it and I read 23 books this year as a result. Booktube helped with that and I only recently found your channel but it’s becoming a favourite very quickly! My two favourites this year were Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (yay, POC!)
I just subscribed to your channel and I think you should know...you have such beautiful energy and how you talk about all of these books is wonderful to see!!! Can’t wait to check some of these out! :D
Thanks! Living in the other side of the world, you still inspire me to read more and be better in English. Your feeeback about Frida forced my interest. Hope i'll read it. Sometimes i miss a friend with whom i can discusiscuss books that i have read. My best book of the year Rich man, poor man by Irvin Shaw. It's really touching. Try it.
I didn't do a lot of leisure reading a lot this year, but I read 2 books called Chicken with Plums wand Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and currently another book called So long a letter by Mariama Bâ. Persepolis inspired me to read more autobiographies/semi-autobiographies. So 2018 I will work on reading Assata Shakur's biography which I got for Christmas and the books in my room I've never read because lazy lol
I am like a little kid- love the colored pages and covers. This is why I loved The Asylum Series and Ms. Perrigen's series (spelling is wrong, but I love the series.) Hey at 53, I love YA books!
I absolutely love Haruki Murakami. His writing is beautiful. I need to read that book. Also, because of you, I actually bought Frida Kahlo’s diary, and now I’m buying that biography. Your excitement for her has gotten me very excited too. Especially since she is such an iconic hispanic figure
I enjoy your channel very much, you transmit your energy and enthusiasm in the love for reading to me. It´s great to see that one of your favorite books is of a courageous, intelligent woman with a very difficult life, though. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann is one of the books I loved reading this last year. Congrats on your name in the book!
i loved Turtles All the Way Down by John Green because as a person with very severe mental health issues, it made me feel so understood. John as a writer and just in general makes me feel less alone 💚 i also adored Everyone's an Aliebn When Ur an Aliebn, Too by Jonny Sun and i don't know when it was published but The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon was breathtaking
My Frida Kahlo for 2017 is the Jewish Artist Charlotte Salomon. I stumbled onto David Foenkinos novel "Charlotte" which I loved. It's written in a prose poem format. I also bought a biography on Charlotte Salomon, Mary Lowenthal Felstiner's "To Paint Her life". My favorite other novels for 2017 is Niall Williams' "History of the Rain". I loved the narrator, Ruth Swain's, quirky voice and lens through which she views the world and the fact that it is about love for literature and and and... I also loved Suri Hustveld's novel "The Blazing World" because it made me remember the reasons why I love literature and reading so much.
Loved the video. You are so enthusiastic about reading (and everything else you mention). I am not into horror, but I did read my first Stephen King book this year. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and I loved it. I can recommend it. It is also a small book. My top 3 favorite books of 2017: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (which are both non fiction books about books...) and (here I struggled to choose) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I had a really good reading year and there are many great books on my favorites list.
The colours in this video are so beautiful and you look so happy :):):). My favourite read this year was Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield. It was so beautiful and sad and it actually made my cry (I never cry whilst reading)
I literally get what you mean about focusing on certain topics. I just went through my Goodreads year in review and I started the year with books about Scientology (surprising for me) and ended with a focus on Scandinavian culture (hygge and lagome books). Also a surprising amount of memoirs. So strange where we choose to focus sometimes!
oh my goodness! I just found this video and my new years resolution is to read more books in 2018. I'm doing a bit of research on RUclipsrs that review books and you are fantastic!! I'm going to be binge watching your channel for the next few days to get some ideas on what i should start off with. :) I'm subscribing right now!!
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My body isn't ready for this. This is honestly my most anticipated video for all of December!
books by leynes I hope it lived up!! 🦔
The passion in your voice and the energy...so refreshing in this season when everyone makes these kinds of lists. But this one is so obviously genuine. I love it 😊📚👍
The first video I ever watched of yours was your book wrap up for 2016. I’ve since then subscribed and have looked forward to all of your videos! My favorite thing about you is how you open up and explore very interesting topics about reading and guiding us through with your distinct voice. You make sure you engage the audience and encourage us to think hard about what we read & what we choose to consume. Your enthusiasm / passion for books is evident and infectious! Never stop creating, writing, and sharing to the world Ariel! I will be the first in line when your book finally gets published!
Oh and my favorite books that I read this year are The Encyclopedia of Early Earth & Mostly Void, Partially Stars.
The first frame popped up and I gasped and said to myself "Such cute Hair!!"
Rachel A hahaha thank you!!
Stephanie Rodriquez Gosh why would you say that
calm down
Thank YOU for 2017! This might be my first time commenting on your channel, but I was in a huge reading slump until your videos. High school and college assigned reading made me fall out of love with books. Then I found your channel in 2016, set a goal in 2017 to read more, and ended up reading 70 books this year! Not that the number matters at all (because reading isn’t a competitive sport!) but my point is only that your enthusiasm for reading and learning helped spark one of my long lost passions. Thank you so so much, Ariel!
omg i love this comment so much!!!
My favourite book I read this year was Jane Eyre. It's quite a long book, and because I'm a slow reader, it took me the entire summer to get through, however, it was one of the best reading experiences I've had. It is also my mums favourite book, so in between chapters we would have these book club sessions where I would tell her what part I got up to and we would discuss the themes and imagery in the writing, it was so great!Because I took my time with it I became so immersed in the story and attached to the characters that I cried so much when I finished it, not just because I loved the story and the ending, but because it was over and there was no more Jane to read about. I learned so much from the story. I can't wait for 2018, and for the books I will read. All the best to you for 2018!!
Rebecca MacAskill This is such a wonderful story, Rebecca!! I’m so glad you found a new favourite, and that you got to share that with your mom! 😍
that's my favorite book, too!! i literally read several chapters on a bus and couldn't believe it was real life because it was so good!
Your videos are so refreshing. I started watching BookTube in 2016 and became completely obsessed, which reminds me of the video when you said that reading is not a sport. I have nearly burned myself out on reading. I've had to take a step back and ask myself why do I read? Your thoughts reinforced my conclusion that we read to find those gems that speak to us. It's not what everybody else is reading, it doesn't have to be what is considered a classic. It's those books that change the way we think, the way we view the world, or just gets us excited. I also love it, that I'm not alone in stumbling on a subject that I can't get enough of. I love your enthusiasm and look forward to your future videos.
My most awaiting and one of the favourite videos ever.
A look back to 2017 with your journey to book tour to all your favourite books, authors, shortest,........ Like reviewing the year and reliving the memories. I loved this video so much. Happy new year Ariel.
The energy and excitement in your voice and physical movements about books makes me want to read read read under a blanket with some coffee ☕️
Your laugh is absolutely contagious! And, of course, I always love hearing you talk about books/your reading!
You had an amazing year Ariel. I've had fun vicariously through all your adventures. I would love to travel someday!
I became obsessed with Haruki Murakami about 9 years ago, so I need to read that last book. NEED TO. thanks
I have been watching your videos for a few years now and you are definitely one of my favorite booktubers. Your videos are funny, entertaining, informative, real, honest and down to earth. One thing that I think really stands out for me is that most of the books you enjoy are not ones that I have read or really want to read however I still love watching your video, I think that says a lot about how well you do this! Happy New Year!
You should start stephen king with Misery! It's about a writer, and about writing fiction, and rather than weird horror its more of a psychological type deal
Katie B. Yes! I’ve seen the film so many times, I’d love to read the book!
I second this! King is one of my favourite authors of all-time and Misery was the novel I started with and has been my favourite ever since!!
I read this recently with my book club. It was so good!
I love this review style with all of the different categories and how honest and open you are about what you like. Keep it up I love watching these videos!
What a fantastic way to do a yearly roundup! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Ariel. Happy new year!
The part where you talked about feeling excited to re-read a book while reading it is how I always feel when I read What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt. My favourite book by far. Had to share the love. Have a happy new year Ariel!
I too loved What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. I picked it up at random a few years ago, and enjoyed it so much.
Happy New Year, I hope 2018 will be good to you!
Love seeing what you loved reading this year! My favourite book I read this year was the Color Purple 💜
Happy New Year Ariel.I agree with you about falling in love with a genre,this year I re-fall in love with poetry,so my favorite book this year was Milk&Honey by Rupi Kaur.
I love how excited you are in this video!! My favourite book I read this year was probably Fahrenheit 451.
Oh I love this short and sweet review of your bookish year 2017! And I also bought a typewriter this year :) If you want to read more books on Frida Kahlo, definitely check out the adult picture book/graphic novel by Benjamin Lacombe - those colours, those paper cut-outs!
Ooh just the video I was in the mood for. Hooray. Loved the years achievements round up at the start. I might borrow that next year. Also love the categories that you break the year of your books down into. We Are Not Okay has been on my ‘must purchase list’ for too long. ‘No one wants this’ made me cackle. Melancholy and lovely sounds delightful. I’ll look Mooncop up. On Writing is brilliant as a writer or a reader. I wasn’t expecting that number one 😂
Super interested to check out some of your favorites from this year - Birds Art Life Death sounds particularly great. Happy New Year!
Birds is so excellent!!! Happy New Year, Monica!
Yay Books Unbound podcast!
Great summary of your year - Happy New Year, Ariel!
I'm not much of a commenter. However, I just want to say that I love you don't have the same books as everyone else on booktube! Your excitement for the books you read is contagious and makes me want to pick up books that aren't popular!
You have done so many things this year, you should be so proud!!! 🤩 This year has been my reading year, I found out about BookTube and after a year that I only read 3 books, this one I read 27 (for now)!! Your videos make me happy and excited about books and life 💛 thank you
Awesome video! I'm definitely tempted to pick some of these up now. My favorite book (although I didn't read that many) was definitely The Handmaids Tale. It's been a long time since a book has made me think that much and feel that much, both emotionally and physically.
I wish you a healthy, happy and amazing year, Ariel! Got one recommendation: Earthquakes in London by Mike Bartlett. It's a play that I've read for my Modern Drama class this year, and oh my God! It's phenomenal! I literally gave it 5 stars on Goodreads. It's a play about the environment which has a distopian vibe to it, and the stage directions are untraditional and very interesting.
i love how you chose to wrap up the year (and omg yes we are okay is GORGEOUS)
ARIEL!! I came here from your instagram and I LOVE how extra and enthusiastic you are about books - it gives me life 😂😂😂 this video was so full of cheer and honestly has made my day. I need more book enthusiasts in my life! Happy new year! 💜
I also adored On Writing! After I read that I immediately picked up his novellas, which I think are a great start to King's writing! My favorite is Joyland, but The Colorado Kid and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon are also amazing!
Congrats on the acknowledgement in Turtles All the Way Down! And what a great set of books you've shown here. Definitely with you on the Frida love, she's fascinating. I'm coveting both the Journals and the Graphic Novel Bio. My favourites of the year are split between my reread of His Dark Materials and two new-to-me reads: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (which I already sort of predicted) and Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (what a great surprise! Didn't really expect it to love it as much as I did).
These are my absolute favourite videos of yours, I’ve rewatched the others SO many times!!
This year has been an amazing reading year for me - I read Percy Jackson and the Olympians for the first time which is now my favourite series. I read Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman which is my now my all time favourite book. I read Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, entered the fandom, and have made many friends because of it. I FINALLY started reading Harry Potter this December and it has made me SO happy. I read my first classic this year (crazy, I know), and have started collecting them to continue reading in 2018. I’ve started exploring poetry.
This year was a particularly bad one, and reading has helped me get through the rough patches countless amounts of times and I’m so thankful.
Happy New Year everyone, I hope 2018 brings you all joy & good books
I just started reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running because of your recommendation and it is definitely a good book to start the new year. Thanks!
I recently started watching your channel and I was immediately drawn to it, I really love your unique perspective and thoughts on everything and I can’t wait for more next year :)
It doesn’t matter what the video is about. If it’s yours, I will tap on it
P.S. this vid was amazing!
Jane Berry 🙈🙈🙈🙈🦔
Try reading Stephen King's "Four Past Midnight." It's a colection of short stories, and it is one of my favorites.
Is that the one with secret window in it? Not sure if that's the title, but it is the title of the movie. Been dying to read that short story! Heard it's really good.
I am also someone with insatiable curiosity and a lot of whims to follow. That's why I adore your channel! Love to hear what you're passionate about at any given time and where your curiosity is taking you. Your channel really stands out for me in the world of booktube for that reason. Keep it up AB
I LOVE HER HAIRSTYLE!!!!
Also I got a reading journal and it’s amazing! I HIGHLY suggest trying one out
Oooh I was looking forward to this video!!! ❤ I really want to read Birds Art Life Death and Mooncop too. One of my favourites from 2017 was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? because I wasn't expecting to enjoy science fiction so much! A great (and short and easy to read) surprise
I am so excited for the new direction you are taking with your channel. I will say the reason I subscribed was because I loved your more conversational videos, I loved hearing your thoughts on bookish topics. I think my favourite videos were actually "books i want to read that nobody cares about". Maybe those videos are my favourite /because/ you are so passionate about something in them. Keep being you and share that passion
I read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running this year on your recommendation even though I’m not a runner (or writer!) and I adored it so much! I’m now making my way through Murakami’s novels (which are so good) thanks to you.
I just have to say, I really enjoy your content! I love your enthusiasm and unbiased opinions. And I love that you read similar stuff to myself, off-the-beaten-track type of books.
Side note; this year I got to visit the graves of Orwell and Tolkien. Classics are so great! 💜
You seriously cheer me up with every thumbnail, thank you so much, I love how original and unique your videos are!
Holy smokes! I read Murakami at the begging of this year as well and I too fell in love with it!! It was the first book I ever read by him and it was such a great read that it made me pick up more books by him. You should read the book that inspired his tittle for that book ( What we talk about when we talk about love), it too was an interesting short book that was a delight to read. Interesting thing I too was blown away with a stephen king book this year, except my choice was Dr. Sleep! it was amazing and I highly recommend you start with the shinning and then move on to Dr. Sleep since they coincide. Happy readings for 2018!!! Thank you for dedicating so much of your time in 2017 with us subscribers! Cant wait to see what books fall in your lap next year cause I find my self reading many of your recommendations :D
Loved seeing your favorites of 2017!! Mine would be The shadow of the wind and Station Eleven, amazing books!!
My favorite book of the year is a tie between On Writing (read it for a fiction class and fell IN LOVE with it) and A History of Love because I think the story and writing style were just so beautiful. It was a great year of reading for me :)
I love this video so much. I'm really new to Booktube, and your enthusiasm about reading is just the best. I'm definitely going to read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. This year, my favorite books were The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, and Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann.
I absolutely loved this video!! Your passion is infectious! You are such a joy to watch! 💖
Thank you for pointing out how absolutely gorgeous We Are Okay is! The cover is probably my favorite period. Haha. Thanks for the great video, Ariel.
I loved this reading review instead of a list of favorites and least favorites. It really stood out to me. Each year is so different, heck I remember when I was a little kid most of the books I read for one year was about snakes because I was really interested in the topic. This year is all about the Booktube recommendations since I recently joined the community. It’s been fun. :)
Wait. What?! Ariel loves Frida Kahlo?!?! Who knew? I totally didn't see that coming...jk
Goliath by Tom Gauld was one of my favorite books of 2017, and I hardly ever read graphic novels. Not trying to steal your spotlight but I also have my name in the acknowledgments of a book: In Search of the Christian Buddha by Peggy McCracken and Donald Lopez. I helped in research one summer. Seeing my name in the book never ceases to make me smile. Congratulations on getting your name in the acknowledgments of a John Green book!
The Medieval Reader ....... I’ve become predictable 😭 haha! And congrats on your name in a book too!! Look at us go!! 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
Haruki Murakami is my favorite author. It makes me so happy that his books are starting to make more of an appearance in lots of booktube accounts!! ☺️ Love that you chose his book as your fav for 2017 !! 😁
This video was EVERYTHING!! Here's to more years of fun reading to ya! xx
Haruki Murakami is one of my favourite authors but I've never bothered to read his memoir because, like you, I have zero interest in running. I am absolutely going to give it a read after hearing your recommendation, so thank you! Your enthusiasm for the books you talk about is absolutely infectious! :)
I looked through so many of your videos just to find What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. I forgot the title and the author but I just remembered that it sounded to interesting. My hunt is complete.
Awesome list! Your enthusiasm is so infectious, I love it. I didn't read nearly as much as I wanted in 2017 but my favorite = Marlena by Julie Buntin. HIGHLY recommend it - it's breathtaking.
My favorite book this year was Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running has been on my tbr list for a while now I can’t wait to read it !
Patsy omg I loved Ari&Dante 😍
My two favourite books this year were A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki, and Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. I always love your videos and this was sooo much fun to watch! I'm glad you had a good reading year :)
On Writing and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: Probably two of my favorite memoirs EVER. So glad to see them here.
love, love, loved this video! I was rewatching your old ones the other day so was really looking forward to this!
I loved Jane Eyre and Dracula, both read for study, but I'd have to say Sabriel by Garth Nix would have to be my favourite book of the year. It was my last read but I fell in love with it so much, it was everything I love about Fantasy while still being new and different. I get excited just thinking about it!
I didn't read a many books not for class this year, but I did find one of my new all time favourite books (like just below Harry Potter favourite) in A Long Way To Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Much like you said, I can't stop thinking about it and I was two chapters in and already couldn't wait to reread it. It is brilliant scifi, but it's also so much more than that. It made such interesting observations on humans and our culture and that's really what mad em live it so much!
Hannah O oh man!! I own that book and have been meaning to read it! I hope I like it as much as you did!!
I just love your videos so very much ❤️ Life of Pi or A Gathering of Shadows were my two favorites this year.
Your hair is so cute in this video ♥
I love your energy in your videos, honestly makes me smile! Also, thanks to your recommendation I watched the film Frida and now definitely want to pick up biographies about her - she is so interesting!
I hope you had a lovely New Year and thank you for your brilliant videos
I've only read 9 books this year but I loved so many of them! The ones that meant the most were probably Tender by Sofia Samatar (collection of short stories I had to read for my major & so excellent!) and The Shining. Both of these books make me so excited to be a writer!
Happy new year! Hard to pick a favourite from last year, although I actually haven't read that many books, since I really liked at least some aspects of all of them. I'd have to say I probably talked the most about East of Eden by J. Steinbeck, an absolutely gorgeous book about brutal, wonderful resilience of regular, faulty human beings.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is one of my absolute favorite books and I am so happy you loved it so much!
This was such a lovely video. I’m glad you did so many good things this year and I hope your 2018 is even better for you!!
You're so inspiring! You go girlll!! Btw: Frida's journal is so good!! You'll love it
I'm glad you had some good reading experiences this year. Also Ariel your hair is so cute in this video!
Hi, Ariel,
Thanks so much for your videos. I really enjoy watching them. My favorite read of 2017 was The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict.
This video was definitely my favorite of the year! I just love to watch you share some of your amazing thoughts with us. Thank you for an amazing year of videos, podcasts and overall stunning creativity.
I was wondering if you have read any other books by Murakami, I have heard amazing things about him (someone close to me read a 900-paged book by him in two or three days!)
Thank you Ariel!
That Classy Girl Thank you so much!! I’m so glad you like the stuff I make 💕 I’ve read most of the Wind Up Bird Chronicles and enjoyed it, but it was for school and I didn’t get a chance to finish it!!
oooommmmmggggg the second you pulled up murakami's book i smiled and teared up. MY FAVOROTE BOOK OF ALLLLLL TIME. i relate to everything you said. GOD it's such a good book.
loved the weird lighting in this video :) it was really pretty and it's so nice to be reminded that some youtube vids are filmed in the real world, where the sun can be annoying sometimes
This is why I love your videos, Ariel. You make any book (popular or not) interesting and I feel like reading them. I just love seeing your love for books because it reminds me why I love books.
Also, You should read Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury if you haven't already. Cuz it's so good
When I received the notification I literally said out loud "I need this in my life!" and now i got a couple more books on my tbr. I feel happy now. Thanks :)).
Btw, I love some of Murakami's works so I'm excited to read the one you mentioned.
I loved this video so much. You are so genuinely enthusiastic. I think that’s so incredible. Hope you had a great year & an even better year ahead ♥️
I click on a new Ariel video so damn fast it makes my head spin lol
I love your hair 💛 Jon Ronson's "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" is excellent too!
This is the second video of yours that I’ve watched and I LOVE your energy and passion! You are very inspiring and I appreciate that you have diverse taste. I’ve just recently gotten into BookTube and I feel that there are a lot of one genre readers so you are a wonderful find for me. Best wishes for your 2018!
You are my favorite person who reviews books♥️ my favorite book of this year its tie between "Turtles all the way down" and "Aristotle and dante discover the secrets of universe" also followed by ocean at end of lane. Argh its difficult to choose one book with so much good out there in world. Keep reviewing. Much love from India
I hadn’t been reading much at all for the past few years so I really wanted to get back into it and I read 23 books this year as a result. Booktube helped with that and I only recently found your channel but it’s becoming a favourite very quickly!
My two favourites this year were Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (yay, POC!)
I just subscribed to your channel and I think you should know...you have such beautiful energy and how you talk about all of these books is wonderful to see!!! Can’t wait to check some of these out! :D
Thanks! Living in the other side of the world, you still inspire me to read more and be better in English. Your feeeback about Frida forced my interest. Hope i'll read it. Sometimes i miss a friend with whom i can discusiscuss books that i have read. My best book of the year Rich man, poor man by Irvin Shaw. It's really touching. Try it.
I didn't do a lot of leisure reading a lot this year, but I read 2 books called Chicken with Plums wand Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and currently another book called So long a letter by Mariama Bâ. Persepolis inspired me to read more autobiographies/semi-autobiographies. So 2018 I will work on reading Assata Shakur's biography which I got for Christmas and the books in my room I've never read because lazy lol
I am like a little kid- love the colored pages and covers. This is why I loved The Asylum Series and Ms. Perrigen's series (spelling is wrong, but I love the series.) Hey at 53, I love YA books!
I absolutely love Haruki Murakami. His writing is beautiful. I need to read that book. Also, because of you, I actually bought Frida Kahlo’s diary, and now I’m buying that biography. Your excitement for her has gotten me very excited too. Especially since she is such an iconic hispanic figure
I enjoy your channel very much, you transmit your energy and enthusiasm in the love for reading to me. It´s great to see that one of your favorite books is of a courageous, intelligent woman with a very difficult life, though. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann is one of the books I loved reading this last year. Congrats on your name in the book!
i loved Turtles All the Way Down by John Green because as a person with very severe mental health issues, it made me feel so understood. John as a writer and just in general makes me feel less alone 💚 i also adored Everyone's an Aliebn When Ur an Aliebn, Too by Jonny Sun and i don't know when it was published but The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon was breathtaking
My Frida Kahlo for 2017 is the Jewish Artist Charlotte Salomon. I stumbled onto David Foenkinos novel "Charlotte" which I loved. It's written in a prose poem format. I also bought a biography on Charlotte Salomon, Mary Lowenthal Felstiner's "To Paint Her life". My favorite other novels for 2017 is Niall Williams' "History of the Rain". I loved the narrator, Ruth Swain's, quirky voice and lens through which she views the world and the fact that it is about love for literature and and and... I also loved Suri Hustveld's novel "The Blazing World" because it made me remember the reasons why I love literature and reading so much.
Loved the video. You are so enthusiastic about reading (and everything else you mention). I am not into horror, but I did read my first Stephen King book this year. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and I loved it. I can recommend it. It is also a small book.
My top 3 favorite books of 2017: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (which are both non fiction books about books...) and (here I struggled to choose) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I had a really good reading year and there are many great books on my favorites list.
mrsdeWilde I just bought 84 Charing Cross Road, so that’s encouraging!
The colours in this video are so beautiful and you look so happy :):):).
My favourite read this year was Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield. It was so beautiful and sad and it actually made my cry (I never cry whilst reading)
I literally get what you mean about focusing on certain topics. I just went through my Goodreads year in review and I started the year with books about Scientology (surprising for me) and ended with a focus on Scandinavian culture (hygge and lagome books). Also a surprising amount of memoirs. So strange where we choose to focus sometimes!
You had such a good reading year! And I love your hair like that!
i’ve wanted to read Murakami for a while now, so thanks for helping me decide what to pick up first!
I think my favorite book this year was We Are Okay. It just pulled at my heart so much. It's just beautiful .. inside and out!
Christy Lou omg same
oh my goodness! I just found this video and my new years resolution is to read more books in 2018. I'm doing a bit of research on RUclipsrs that review books and you are fantastic!! I'm going to be binge watching your channel for the next few days to get some ideas on what i should start off with. :)
I'm subscribing right now!!
I loved your video. So happy!!! 😊
Happy New Year 🎆!