Just in the past 24 hours my friends have asked if I've read If We Were Villains, All's Well, and This Thing Between Us, and to all of them I said "yes I sure have because Frankie recommended it" ✨
I got back into reading with "I Who Have Never Known Men", which you recommended on another video. I'm so grateful to you, because I love it soo much, to the point of seeing it as a little personal bible. I heard all your spoilers and that didn't ruin anything for me, I still felt the story very intensely and cried a lot. Watching your videos made me feel like the things that used to entertain me were so boring. So thanks! :)
The Guest by Emma Cline is my fav I’ve read this year. Really a rec for the sims peeps who adore the "from rags to riches"challenge in the sims 3/4 and use the "infiltrate other people's homes and dating the rich in game" tactic to get what they want
The Guest was soooo propulsive. And you're so right - SO STRESSFUL. I read it in 24 hours because each resolution was followed up IMMEDIATELY by the creation of a new problem. Such a fun read!
I appreciate part 2 because trying to get back into reading I was just not enjoying anything. I gravitated towards classics now because even if I end up not enjoying it, I can say I have read it lol. Jane Eyre I specifically listened to because I read Oranges are Not The Only Fruit in college (loved it) and wanted to be able to fully understand how that text plays with Jane Eyre. I am now listening to Anna Karenina and it's the most engaged with a text I have been in so long. It took a lot of false starts to find what's working for me.
Finally got a library card after years of not having one and I’m ready to binge read. Videos like this are so helpful for getting started bc I get so easily overwhelmed by choice. Thank you for helping me in my journey of reading again!
I finally read this thing between us after seeing this yesterday, read it in like two sittings and i couldn’t put it down. Literally so chilling and disturbing. I’m a little lost by the ending, giving in and all, but i still think the author is simply brilliant. Grief and horror mixed together is such a fantastic combination, i think iv been looking for a book like it for like, forever. I don’t normally feel like i have to stumble back into a book and decipher something new because it’s left me completely shocked, so props to the author lol. thanks for the recs! iv had to make a collection on my kindle where it’s just ur book recs lmao
I was looking for someone with similar feelings about This Thing Between Us because it holds such a special place in my heart and I have been blessed with so many more videos!!
I read "this thing between us" because of you and it's a book I still think about!! I also love books that talk about grief.. thank you for the recs, I just added more to my tbr :)
Ahhh Bret Easton Ellis!! I agree with you about the way he describes gore, I tried reading American Psycho and got halfway through before I couldn't stomach it anymore (and I'm not someone who's easily overwhelmed by this sort of thing). Tried picking it up again recently, two years later, and still couldn't handle it. Sucks because it's also such a funny book. Ellis has a way of making violence feel relentless and exponentially fast paced that almost doesn't leave you with any room to breathe... Idk if this was what "The Shards" was like but anyway he's just such a skilled writer
okay this timing is perfect u are my hero. ive been in suchhh a slump toward the end of the year and i want to get some momentum back before the year is up, cant wait to check some of these out :)
also totally agree + understand about long books sometimes being the most effective if they're well paced. i felt that way about cloud cuckoo land by anthony doerr when i read it earlier this year-i was expecting it to take sooo long to get through but something abt the momentum in that book just catapulted me into it and i read it in maybe two days. highly recommend if u haven't read it!!
I just finished “ oranges are not the only fruit “ and I think you’d really enjoy it. It’s follows this catholic young girl with a really devoted mother and it’s about queerness and religion and growing up and it’s probably my new favourite book.
Not to overshare on the RUclips comments section, but This Thing Between Us helped me deal with my own grief more than anything else this year so please read it, it's so good
Spot on review of This Thing Between Us. The last section had me kinda wtf. Now I must read it again. You suggested levels of understanding I might have missed. Thank you.
the bluest eye is so so good . you should definitely check out beloved if you haven’t !! it was my first morrison and it has such a special place in my heart. it’s good it made me reconsider my taste in books lol
Ones company has possibly the best first page I've ever seen in a book I got sucked in immediately. Finished it in 2 sittings and then sent it to my sister so I could relive the experience through her 😂
i feel like weirdly enough the best thing for me when i was trying to navigate moving from young adult to adult was reading memoirs and nonfiction. i think i had really high standards for adult fiction but just hadn't found my niche yet so everything felt so lackluster compared to what young adult fiction used to make me feel
that’s exactly what i started with when i got back into reading as an adult!! and then i read so much extremely informative and extremely BORING nonfic that when i started on fiction again it felt like heaven . i lowered my own standards lol
@@frankiesshelf yep! same story. there are some really good nonfictions out there though but i'm probably going to need to finish my degree before i have the desire to read nonfiction for fun again, since i have to read so many dense books full of theory and facts it's not what i want to turn to when i have time to myself lol
Funnily enough, recently my book club did a sort of double-feature with This Thing Between us and One's Company. They both had some interesting parallels about grief and isolation. Loved them both!
6:53 Me, its Me! There is a whole Iron Age village and costumes you can rent out in Wexford Ireland National Park! I slept on a pallet of hay under sheepskins. You should check it out if you are ever in Ireland and liked Ghostwall.
If y’all are into fantasy, check out Terry Pratchett! He writes fantasy with jokes in it, but I wouldn’t say it’s comedy, more like humorous! You can literally start anywhere you want in his massive library of Discworld books and you’ll find an instantly accessible place of familiar races turned a little to the left, and familiar plots turned more progressive and modern then you might expect! Your local library probably has a dozen of ‘em, give ‘em a try! Don’t let 200-300 pages phase you, they really breeze along!
I read part 1 of our share of night and was hooked. But I was buddy reading with my brother and he kept bailing on me so I set it aside. You’ve just inspired me to finish it.
it’s SO GOOD!!! i just randomly pulled it off the shelf at the library and i fell completely in love with it . i could even look past her name being sunday
@@frankiesshelf Ha! Truly one of its main flaws! I have an affection for Joey Comeau's work that's probably a little misplaced (nostalgia for reading A Softer World as a queer kid, idk), but Malagash is easily his most well-realized book. Your recs are always solid, by the way. I appreciate you putting them out there.
@@thatjessjohnson I came here to squeel about A Softer World (which is still available) and all ofJoey Comeau's other books. Thank you for beating me to the punch on this.
booktok and booktube have been overrun by one specific genre and as someone who actually wants to read i had trouble finding book recommendations that actually sound like something id read!!!
Big Swiss has such negative reviews for no reason at all! I loved it, read it on one go. Why the hell were they living in a house with a beehive, still makes me smile
The first book I recommended to my boyfriend when he wanted to start reading with me was Dracula. It's a good thing he loved it because if he hadn't, that might have been the end of reading for him. 😂
I have been watching your channel for a while now and adore it, I’m not sure if this book would be your exact taste but it is a super short and traumatising lit fic so maybe it will? 😭 “the girl at the door” written by Veronica Raimo, it was originally written in Italian and I do find the translation to be a little choppy, just as a fair warning. Would love to hear your thoughts! 😊
I haven’t read The Shards yet, but I read Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis last year and totally agree with what you said abt the way he writes gore. I felt seriously off for a while throughout and after reading that book haha
I read milk fed and as someone who is actively in a loving lesbian relationship, I absolutely hated it and I am very much not a prude 😌 I don’t have a problem at all with an unconventional depiction of lesbian sex and desire, and raunchiness. I think it’s rlly important for it to be depicted in media because lesbianism is NOT one size fits all, however, I cannot say I enjoyed the way Melissa did it. My main qualm with the book was the fatphobia of the protagonist in duality with her fetishization of Miriam for being fat. I believe that there are thoughtful ways to go about subjects such as these, but Melissa just did it carelessly for shock factor. It felt distasteful to me. Not to mention the fantasizing of literal sh*t eating, but to each their own! Just wanted to share my perspective
ooh thank you !! i think i might’ve been a little blind to the fat phobia here because i’d just finished reading death in her hands by otessa moshfegh which is one of the most wildly and uselessly fatphobic books ever written . the main character in that book goes on endless rants about how much she hates fat people and for no reason at all?? so i think i was comparing milk fed to that and in that sense it didn’t feel like broder’s intention was to be vicious towards fat people in the way moshfegh’s was. i might have to reread it with a more critical eye because my opinion was definitely rooted in the context in which i read it
I read Ghost Wall because of your first ever video I think. Did you pick up on the spectrum of badness-“goodness” in men? Like the dad being the worst since he is actively abusive, the professor is a bystander to the abuse and the younger guys think they are good guys because they say the dad’s behavior sucks but don’t ever do anything about it.
the guest gave me a lot to think about, but the ending left me feeling so unfinished. I think about it more than a lot of other books I read so I suppose that's the point? I hated and loved it. it's complicated 😭
i’m lucky enough to have a really great library system in my city !! and i think once you have a couple books you like it’s a bit easier to find more, you can use goodreads to look at the “people also liked” section or even just look up “books similar to ____”
I commented it on an older video but Frankie if you haven’t yet you should check out The Hike by Drew Magary!! We have similar tastes (there’s a few books I’ve loved that you haven’t tho so idk!) but I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on it and I genuinely do think you might enjoy it.
@@frankiesshelf It means that I don't believe in such things. If you're a reader you read. There are no slumps. A reader has multiple books, magazine articles and such on their table at any one time. And when they finish their main read they have a stack more that they can't wait to get to.
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I watch so many people who make book related content but I will always appreciate your book recommendations because it's not just whatever is popular
Frankie, just talk for hours, idk. I love your voice
The initial jump from YA to adult fiction is brutal
i remember looking at what my mom was reading and thinking i’ll never be able to move on from ya lol now i go to her for recommendations
this has to be divine timing, i JUST had the thought that i wanted to read again but i had no clue what to pick up
Just in the past 24 hours my friends have asked if I've read If We Were Villains, All's Well, and This Thing Between Us, and to all of them I said "yes I sure have because Frankie recommended it" ✨
I got back into reading with "I Who Have Never Known Men", which you recommended on another video. I'm so grateful to you, because I love it soo much, to the point of seeing it as a little personal bible. I heard all your spoilers and that didn't ruin anything for me, I still felt the story very intensely and cried a lot. Watching your videos made me feel like the things that used to entertain me were so boring. So thanks! :)
i’m so happy to hear i got someone to read i who have never known men!! it’s genuinely a masterpiece
The Guest by Emma Cline is my fav I’ve read this year. Really a rec for the sims peeps who adore the "from rags to riches"challenge in the sims 3/4 and use the "infiltrate other people's homes and dating the rich in game" tactic to get what they want
i clocked Milk Fed at my library and immediately read it, loved every second. wasn’t expecting the palestine/ jew conflict topics but loved that
The Guest was soooo propulsive. And you're so right - SO STRESSFUL. I read it in 24 hours because each resolution was followed up IMMEDIATELY by the creation of a new problem. Such a fun read!
my tbr list has 100 books but that don’t matter. i’m tuned in regardless!
I always gravitate towards essay collections because they’re so short and usually accessible. It’s awesome.
You made every book sound SO interesting I'm saving this video and coming back to it whenever I don't know what to pick up
just started reading Big Swiss right after watching this and I absolutely agree it's so hard to put down!
I appreciate part 2 because trying to get back into reading I was just not enjoying anything. I gravitated towards classics now because even if I end up not enjoying it, I can say I have read it lol. Jane Eyre I specifically listened to because I read Oranges are Not The Only Fruit in college (loved it) and wanted to be able to fully understand how that text plays with Jane Eyre. I am now listening to Anna Karenina and it's the most engaged with a text I have been in so long. It took a lot of false starts to find what's working for me.
Also the candle subplot of this video lol
Finally got a library card after years of not having one and I’m ready to binge read. Videos like this are so helpful for getting started bc I get so easily overwhelmed by choice. Thank you for helping me in my journey of reading again!
Milk fed was the first literary fiction book I read that got me into reading! It was soooo good
Thank you for this! I loved listening to you more than most book commentators I've encountered. Quirky and good suggestions, I've read 2 of those
omg i just discovered ur channel and i love it alr 🙈 i could listen to u for hours & can’t wait to read these!
I finally read this thing between us after seeing this yesterday, read it in like two sittings and i couldn’t put it down. Literally so chilling and disturbing. I’m a little lost by the ending, giving in and all, but i still think the author is simply brilliant. Grief and horror mixed together is such a fantastic combination, i think iv been looking for a book like it for like, forever. I don’t normally feel like i have to stumble back into a book and decipher something new because it’s left me completely shocked, so props to the author lol.
thanks for the recs! iv had to make a collection on my kindle where it’s just ur book recs lmao
I was looking for someone with similar feelings about This Thing Between Us because it holds such a special place in my heart and I have been blessed with so many more videos!!
I read "this thing between us" because of you and it's a book I still think about!! I also love books that talk about grief.. thank you for the recs, I just added more to my tbr :)
perfect, now I have a book list for next year
i love how long your videos are and everything you’re saying in them thank you for this delightful content 🙏
I wonder if the reason you don’t hear much about Hurricane Girl is because it isn’t widely accessible? I couldn’t find it on the UK kindle store…
you're my new favorite booktuber!
❤❤
I read The Shards because of your recs and WHAT A BOOK, it's just so good and makes you want to keep reading it. Thanks for the rec !
i’m so glad you liked it !! still don’t think there’s a book that made me feel more visceral emotions than the shards
Thank you for recommending Assembly, I've added it to my TBR.
Malagash wrecked me!!!! What a believable and grounded book about grief and loss! ughhhh! I can’t recommend it enough
i’m so happy i stumbled into it! beautiful little book
Big Swiss is one of my favorite books. Every time I tell someone I love it they judge it by the cover but it deserves more love 😕
the cover is INSANE lmao i got it for my mom for xmas and i fear her reaction to opening it
Ahhh Bret Easton Ellis!! I agree with you about the way he describes gore, I tried reading American Psycho and got halfway through before I couldn't stomach it anymore (and I'm not someone who's easily overwhelmed by this sort of thing). Tried picking it up again recently, two years later, and still couldn't handle it. Sucks because it's also such a funny book. Ellis has a way of making violence feel relentless and exponentially fast paced that almost doesn't leave you with any room to breathe... Idk if this was what "The Shards" was like but anyway he's just such a skilled writer
okay this timing is perfect u are my hero. ive been in suchhh a slump toward the end of the year and i want to get some momentum back before the year is up, cant wait to check some of these out :)
also totally agree + understand about long books sometimes being the most effective if they're well paced. i felt that way about cloud cuckoo land by anthony doerr when i read it earlier this year-i was expecting it to take sooo long to get through but something abt the momentum in that book just catapulted me into it and i read it in maybe two days. highly recommend if u haven't read it!!
I just finished “ oranges are not the only fruit “ and I think you’d really enjoy it. It’s follows this catholic young girl with a really devoted mother and it’s about queerness and religion and growing up and it’s probably my new favourite book.
Appreciate your perspective. You freshen my tbr list. Articulation is Michelin 3 star. I’m so glad we crossed paths
Not to overshare on the RUclips comments section, but This Thing Between Us helped me deal with my own grief more than anything else this year so please read it, it's so good
Your hair looks really good
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Spot on review of This Thing Between Us. The last section had me kinda wtf. Now I must read it again. You suggested levels of understanding I might have missed. Thank you.
love the pictures on your walls 🥹
Thank you for recommending one’s company!!! I’ve been thinking about that book for MONTHS but couldn’t remember the title
Saving this for when I inevitably fall into my next slump 😂 (also it's embarrassing how fast I tapped on the notification for this video)
Malagash tore me open. If anyone has sat next to a loved one‘s hospital bed helpless to change anything will understand this book.
Saw Toni Morrison in the thumbnail so I'm already sold. I read The Bluest Eye recently and it destroyed me but also had me completely rapt.
the bluest eye is so so good . you should definitely check out beloved if you haven’t !! it was my first morrison and it has such a special place in my heart. it’s good it made me reconsider my taste in books lol
@@frankiesshelf Beloved was my first Morrison too!! I 100% agree, it's a phenomenal undertaking
Ones company has possibly the best first page I've ever seen in a book I got sucked in immediately. Finished it in 2 sittings and then sent it to my sister so I could relive the experience through her 😂
i feel like weirdly enough the best thing for me when i was trying to navigate moving from young adult to adult was reading memoirs and nonfiction. i think i had really high standards for adult fiction but just hadn't found my niche yet so everything felt so lackluster compared to what young adult fiction used to make me feel
that’s exactly what i started with when i got back into reading as an adult!! and then i read so much extremely informative and extremely BORING nonfic that when i started on fiction again it felt like heaven . i lowered my own standards lol
@@frankiesshelf yep! same story. there are some really good nonfictions out there though but i'm probably going to need to finish my degree before i have the desire to read nonfiction for fun again, since i have to read so many dense books full of theory and facts it's not what i want to turn to when i have time to myself lol
Funnily enough, recently my book club did a sort of double-feature with This Thing Between us and One's Company. They both had some interesting parallels about grief and isolation. Loved them both!
book club of my dreams omg
I just finished The Shards last night and I literally had trouble getting to sleep after. There's just so much to think about...
6:53 Me, its Me! There is a whole Iron Age village and costumes you can rent out in Wexford Ireland National Park! I slept on a pallet of hay under sheepskins. You should check it out if you are ever in Ireland and liked Ghostwall.
My hero 🙌 posted this at just the right time for me lol
If y’all are into fantasy, check out Terry Pratchett! He writes fantasy with jokes in it, but I wouldn’t say it’s comedy, more like humorous!
You can literally start anywhere you want in his massive library of Discworld books and you’ll find an instantly accessible place of familiar races turned a little to the left, and familiar plots turned more progressive and modern then you might expect!
Your local library probably has a dozen of ‘em, give ‘em a try! Don’t let 200-300 pages phase you, they really breeze along!
i needed a video like this, thank you Frankie 🙂↕️✨
I read part 1 of our share of night and was hooked. But I was buddy reading with my brother and he kept bailing on me so I set it aside. You’ve just inspired me to finish it.
let me know what you think if you get back into it !! i’m sure you’ll find it worthwhile it’s so fantastic
@ will do!
Ah man, I GASPED when Malagash came up. I love that little book and I've never seen anyone talk about it.
it’s SO GOOD!!! i just randomly pulled it off the shelf at the library and i fell completely in love with it . i could even look past her name being sunday
@@frankiesshelf Ha! Truly one of its main flaws! I have an affection for Joey Comeau's work that's probably a little misplaced (nostalgia for reading A Softer World as a queer kid, idk), but Malagash is easily his most well-realized book.
Your recs are always solid, by the way. I appreciate you putting them out there.
@@thatjessjohnson I came here to squeel about A Softer World (which is still available) and all ofJoey Comeau's other books. Thank you for beating me to the punch on this.
@@toddwonders4054 Ayyyy! I need to revisit his earlier books, but man, his work was SO important to me and has informed my taste in books to this day.
booktok and booktube have been overrun by one specific genre and as someone who actually wants to read i had trouble finding book recommendations that actually sound like something id read!!!
Big Swiss has such negative reviews for no reason at all! I loved it, read it on one go. Why the hell were they living in a house with a beehive, still makes me smile
I just read this thing between us and it changed my life
you will never stop thinking about it
The first book I recommended to my boyfriend when he wanted to start reading with me was Dracula. It's a good thing he loved it because if he hadn't, that might have been the end of reading for him. 😂
I have been watching your channel for a while now and adore it, I’m not sure if this book would be your exact taste but it is a super short and traumatising lit fic so maybe it will? 😭
“the girl at the door” written by Veronica Raimo, it was originally written in Italian and I do find the translation to be a little choppy, just as a fair warning. Would love to hear your thoughts! 😊
ooh i’ll have to check it out!! my partner is reading raimos book “lost on me” right now and loving it
You should read we used to live here! Just finished it and I’m curious to hear your thoughts
I haven’t read The Shards yet, but I read Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis last year and totally agree with what you said abt the way he writes gore. I felt seriously off for a while throughout and after reading that book haha
i found glamorama used and i’m so so excited to start it . but also terrified i feel like i gotta be in the right headspace for another BEE
I read milk fed and as someone who is actively in a loving lesbian relationship, I absolutely hated it and I am very much not a prude 😌 I don’t have a problem at all with an unconventional depiction of lesbian sex and desire, and raunchiness. I think it’s rlly important for it to be depicted in media because lesbianism is NOT one size fits all, however, I cannot say I enjoyed the way Melissa did it. My main qualm with the book was the fatphobia of the protagonist in duality with her fetishization of Miriam for being fat. I believe that there are thoughtful ways to go about subjects such as these, but Melissa just did it carelessly for shock factor. It felt distasteful to me. Not to mention the fantasizing of literal sh*t eating, but to each their own! Just wanted to share my perspective
ooh thank you !! i think i might’ve been a little blind to the fat phobia here because i’d just finished reading death in her hands by otessa moshfegh which is one of the most wildly and uselessly fatphobic books ever written . the main character in that book goes on endless rants about how much she hates fat people and for no reason at all?? so i think i was comparing milk fed to that and in that sense it didn’t feel like broder’s intention was to be vicious towards fat people in the way moshfegh’s was. i might have to reread it with a more critical eye because my opinion was definitely rooted in the context in which i read it
I read Ghost Wall because of your first ever video I think. Did you pick up on the spectrum of badness-“goodness” in men? Like the dad being the worst since he is actively abusive, the professor is a bystander to the abuse and the younger guys think they are good guys because they say the dad’s behavior sucks but don’t ever do anything about it.
as someone who probably has brain damage from a botched birth lol i really want to read hurricane girl so bad!!!
I got into a reading slump in November and Worry by Alexandra Tanner just got me out of it! I was able to finish it in a few days!
ive been meaning to read worry forever
the guest gave me a lot to think about, but the ending left me feeling so unfinished. I think about it more than a lot of other books I read so I suppose that's the point? I hated and loved it. it's complicated 😭
i feel the exact same way like the ending being so unsatisfying and ambiguous made the book stick in my memory more somehow
I love your vids please don’t get trapped in a painting for all eternity 😔😊
how do you find books like these? i dont have a lot of bookstores in my area so its all like really popular fiction.
i’m lucky enough to have a really great library system in my city !! and i think once you have a couple books you like it’s a bit easier to find more, you can use goodreads to look at the “people also liked” section or even just look up “books similar to ____”
I commented it on an older video but Frankie if you haven’t yet you should check out The Hike by Drew Magary!! We have similar tastes (there’s a few books I’ve loved that you haven’t tho so idk!) but I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on it and I genuinely do think you might enjoy it.
yes!! i looked at it and it looks so weird i’m obsessed
What is a reading slump? Is that when you're reading less than three books at any given point?
what does this comment mean 😭
@@frankiesshelf It means that I don't believe in such things. If you're a reader you read. There are no slumps. A reader has multiple books, magazine articles and such on their table at any one time. And when they finish their main read they have a stack more that they can't wait to get to.
sean baby relax yourself . it’s not that serious
@@frankiesshelf Yawn
I have accidentally watched all of your videos
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thank you for suggesting this !! i couldn’t find your original comment but i’m glad you found your way here lol
@ ofc ! Thanks for making it a video ! I’ve got myself a list now !
First!!
This may be my favorite video of yours I’ve watched and i essentially stalk your channel so that says much 📖 🪱 💔 🤍 💙