Less "MASSIVE HAUL! I SPEANT $10000 ON BOOKS TODAY!" And more of this!! And I think it's so cute and lovely that your brother curated some books he thought you would really love. I feel that pressure though - the second someone says "I thought you'd like this book" and lends me the book, I'm going to walk through any distraction, dissociation, executive dysfunction that my brain can cook up and read that book!
Can i both second and third how much i dislike Book Hauls. Viewers are being encouraged to buy books, but the Content Creator has no idea if they are any good, or not. The whole reason i began watching booktube was to watch reviews of books in an effort to avoid buying books i dislike!
Agreed, I only seek out used book hauls at this point because at least it’s slightly better than hauls of brand new books every week because that’s not normal at all.
The only "hauls" I enjoy are library hauls (because I am able to look up books I have never heard of or seen before) or vintage shop "hauls" (more because people are looking for a specific book and I love the vlog of people specifically hunting down that one book. hits those dopamine receptors to watch a 32 part series looking for that white whale until they FIND THE ONE BOOK!)
I love the library because 1. I don’t waste money on books I might end up not liking/ finishing 2. I don’t have room for books in my house after I read them and 3. The due date of the library books encourages me to read them in a shorter time span
Frankie I'm invested in you and your brother's relationship ! Glad he liked the books you chose for him. Books might kick start your siblings bond stronger haha
I appreciate you as a creator going out of your way to help by especially giving time, space, energy and influence to speak about educating yourself on the current conflict and I hope it encourages more than a few to pick up books and information on the truth about the current and ( for the last almost century ) genocide. Thank you so much, coming from someone who feels isolated, disheartened and enraged by the news and lack of truthful journalism and lack of information being spread
I really appreciated you adding your opinion on book hauls in the beginning of the video, because it's something I needed to be reminded of. I grew up on booktube and you're right, the overconsumerism has slowly and steadily gotten worse and I've been noticing the affect on my book buying habits.
Heavy on finding out parents haven’t read what they talk about. Last year I read It by SK for Mother’s Day and left little annotation sticky notes of my thoughts during it because my mom said she loved that book and I gave it to her and she said she hadn’t read it 😔
I can’t even watch book hauls anymore because it just reeks of overconsumption! I can’t be hypocritical because i used to haul a bunch of books at one time because of sales… but never as much as some of these hauls LIKE 40 books?!? Insanity! Mine would’ve been like 5-6 at most every so often 🥲 but regardless now i love just going to the library and only buying my absolute favorite reads after educating myself more about sustainability ! Awesome video! Sorry for yapping ! 😅
Also I really love how conscious you are about sustainability and waste in money and paper etc. or just the general waste of buying a million books only to unhaul them. I mean, you use libraries most of the time in your videos 😊 you're lovely.
literally checked your channel an hour ago to watch something and there was nothing yet :( ... I had breakfast and came back to my computer and then saw (posted 4 minutes ago) thank you for posting today!
this is from an old video but i read Ghost Wall finally and it blew my mind. i recently lost the job i had as a historical reenactor and was heartbroken. my boss was exactly the kind of person to get off on the power dynamics of how he would be treated as "above lesser people" back then. anyways it resonated with me in so many ways due to my own several experiences as a black, female, and queer historian and reenactor. can't thank you enough for recommending it to us! 🖤
I love 'The Old Man and the Sea', it's one of my top reads this year! The writing is surprisingly approachable and the story was so gripping that I had to read it in one sitting.
i read mick harte was here as a kid and i reread it this year when trying to recall books that were relevant in my childhood. i’m so stoked to see someone else talking about it! i’ve never come across anyone else who was also changed by that book as a kid. rereading it i was like damn kid were you okay back then?? that book will always live with me!
thank you for the excellent take about book haul culture, you are so correct....also i started going to the library again because of your videos!! i took out the shards and i'm SO excited to read it :)
A history of my brief body had such a strong impact on me, Bill-Ray Belcourt’s words are so potent and beautiful. I recommend him to whoever I can haha
I think it’s beautiful you and your family swap books 😊 I can’t see myself lending my books to anyone as it makes me physically uncomfortable but it’s nice to see others do it 😂😅
I'm laughing at being semi-called out in the beginning of the video with book hauls (for one my library sucks but also I'm an intense mood reader and having a selection on my shelves helps) but also even though I buy lots of books I will agree that I recently had an epiphany that I was viewing reading books as productivity instead of just... a hobby? like, as if reading was morally superior to a video game or tv show or something. But no. Reading is my hobby and for me viewing it as something productive to do was definitely the wrong lens.
Omg random and possibly triggering (warnings, my apologies), but the jello brain story reminded me of this one my dad told me about when he was in highschool. A classmate of his was in a fatal car accident involving alcohol and the principal of the school had the totaled car towed to campus and put on display in front of the school, then had the students attend a drunk driving assembly. One of the most crazy and traumatizing things I've ever heard, but I doubt it wasn't effective.
A history of my brief body was an immediate five star from me! His poetry is great too. (Also thank you for the updates from thanksgiving book gifting, I so wanted to know how it all went over after your last video)
@@frankiesshelfif you like his writing you might also like Bad Cree by Jessica Johns - a trifecta of queer, Indigenous, and horror which might be up your alley? Also anything by Joshua Whitehead or Ivan Coyote (apparently sad prairie queer is my genre of choice…)
frankie enjoying this content v much ALSO using the topic of gender studies content in the video to ask ur pronouns. let the girls talk about u in third person pls
I also think it's super weird to do a haul of like, 50 books, just because it's exciting to buy new books or something, and then... that's the video. Are you planning on reading them? Did you read them before the next 50+ book haul? Idk. The excitement for me is reading the book, not buying it.
The Lightning Thief thing feels like how The Incredibles movie is lowkey has Randian themes in it. Like I doubt it was on purpose but its undeniably there.
Everytime i go to my moms house i steal books, dvds, cans of tuna and corn XD The Essentials i promise. (i stole and read Grace and Grit by Ken Wilbur which was really good!)
If you ever feel compelled to get into nonfiction I highly recommend Jon Krakauer I lovedddd into the wild and under the banner of heaven his books are soooo juicy has me gasping and clutching my pearls
I really like Hemingway but not OMATS. People think Hemingway write in a simple, sparse style but he is also a master of descriptive writing. It can seem beautiful if you read it as a study in descriptive writing.
Franki i know it’s not related to the vid but I really would love to see you read originally Arabic book obviously translated to English oh my god that would be the bast and going to Gaza i wanna read it to I love that you care I love when people learn ♥️♥️ much love
definitely agree on the haul/unhualing trends, it's like slow dowwwwwn. i mean at some points this year, if it weren't for the library, i probably wouln't have been able to afford to read the books that i did this year. or i would have been limited to the free libraries near my house, but hey maybe i missed out on reading that literal *tome* about different baseball players and teams statistics over the past couple of decades from the free library (also not a knock to free libraries, love those guys)
One booktuber I watch does hauls in a different sort of way. He looks at all his purchases in a certain month and the same month in other years. (Yeah, I don't really understand the details 🤔) He feels like it's a way to keep himself accountable and his buying more intentional. He's trying to make sure he's actually reading most of the books he buys and only buying books he really wants to read. It must work, though, because you can see his progress through the years. Anyway.... hope you like The Old Man and the Sea and Hemingway's style. Don't be afraid of his non-fiction; he seems to use the same storytelling style as in his fiction.
Hemingway's prose is pretty accessible. He is who made "muscular" prose a thing, so it's lean and very straight-forward. That said, it's Hemingway. He was a jerk, but sometimes he was an interesting jerk. And I'm fine with hating on the consumerist vibes of Booktok/Booktube. I don't like it either, especially since for me it's a real privilege to have the space, money and energy for a massive physical book collection. I'm doing fine with my digital loans from the library and ebooks I get on sale and I don't connect to people who just want to show off the latest special edition hardback they got.
I love your content so much and I’ve been watching all your videos 🤗 I just wanted to jump in the comments section to say that perhaps we shouldn’t critize or judge who buys a lot of books? Personally I haven’t been buying books lately because I’m not in a financial place to do so BUT those who do that are the ones who support the “normal” authors who earn their living through royalties - and, therefore, books sold. So if we only used library or used books, they probably wouldn’t be able to write part time or full time. Books are different from other consumers’ goods because the publishing industry works differently and it is really not as lucrative as one might think - especially in every other country that is not US/Canada. So let’s just be nice: if someone is happy buying many books, no harm done right? :)
I NEVER watch book hauls... tell me about them AFTER you've read them. We all can read a blurb or a Goodreads summary-I want legitimized recommendations!
What baffles me are the people who buy cheaply made special editions of hundreds of books they've never read. "Stealing" from family and friends is much better.
I don't watch hauls because they are pointless ...like I dont wanna watch 40m is someone showing of books they bought!!!!....also I only read fiction currently because my brain is fried here are some of my favorites -eileen ottesa moshfegh -a room of ones own -boulder Eva Balthasar -Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson the last one is a memoir but its so easy to read!!!
Less "MASSIVE HAUL! I SPEANT $10000 ON BOOKS TODAY!" And more of this!! And I think it's so cute and lovely that your brother curated some books he thought you would really love. I feel that pressure though - the second someone says "I thought you'd like this book" and lends me the book, I'm going to walk through any distraction, dissociation, executive dysfunction that my brain can cook up and read that book!
Can i both second and third how much i dislike Book Hauls. Viewers are being encouraged to buy books, but the Content Creator has no idea if they are any good, or not. The whole reason i began watching booktube was to watch reviews of books in an effort to avoid buying books i dislike!
Agreed, I only seek out used book hauls at this point because at least it’s slightly better than hauls of brand new books every week because that’s not normal at all.
The only "hauls" I enjoy are library hauls (because I am able to look up books I have never heard of or seen before) or vintage shop "hauls" (more because people are looking for a specific book and I love the vlog of people specifically hunting down that one book. hits those dopamine receptors to watch a 32 part series looking for that white whale until they FIND THE ONE BOOK!)
I love the library because 1. I don’t waste money on books I might end up not liking/ finishing 2. I don’t have room for books in my house after I read them and 3. The due date of the library books encourages me to read them in a shorter time span
i love due dates so much once a book is on my shelf it’s there forever
I agree I love using the library for books I'm not sure I will like, or books I don't think I will reread like a romcom or something.
The jab at your sibling made me cackle you're so real for that
Your voice gets me through my day literallyyyyy it's so soothing
I loved the Oprah book club mom story 😂
so accurate hahaha
Frankie I'm invested in you and your brother's relationship ! Glad he liked the books you chose for him. Books might kick start your siblings bond stronger haha
I appreciate you as a creator going out of your way to help by especially giving time, space, energy and influence to speak about educating yourself on the current conflict and I hope it encourages more than a few to pick up books and information on the truth about the current and ( for the last almost century ) genocide. Thank you so much, coming from someone who feels isolated, disheartened and enraged by the news and lack of truthful journalism and lack of information being spread
Seeing this notification made me happy!
I really appreciated you adding your opinion on book hauls in the beginning of the video, because it's something I needed to be reminded of. I grew up on booktube and you're right, the overconsumerism has slowly and steadily gotten worse and I've been noticing the affect on my book buying habits.
Heavy on finding out parents haven’t read what they talk about. Last year I read It by SK for Mother’s Day and left little annotation sticky notes of my thoughts during it because my mom said she loved that book and I gave it to her and she said she hadn’t read it 😔
it’s like they think their kids aren’t gonna call their bluff lol
Thanks for giving us an update about the family book gifts! I needed that.
I can’t even watch book hauls anymore because it just reeks of overconsumption! I can’t be hypocritical because i used to haul a bunch of books at one time because of sales… but never as much as some of these hauls LIKE 40 books?!? Insanity! Mine would’ve been like 5-6 at most every so often 🥲 but regardless now i love just going to the library and only buying my absolute favorite reads after educating myself more about sustainability ! Awesome video! Sorry for yapping ! 😅
Frankie - 10 consumerism - 0 with tears
Also yay to your brother liking Frankenstein!
Also I really love how conscious you are about sustainability and waste in money and paper etc. or just the general waste of buying a million books only to unhaul them. I mean, you use libraries most of the time in your videos 😊 you're lovely.
Stealing stuff from yourself is the greatest heist - no one will know!
Pfftt that face at 9:13 is perfect
lol there’s just no way anybody liked divergent THAT much
I've been anxiously awaiting your next video. 1 for new book video 2 for an update on the brother. I'm so invested.
literally checked your channel an hour ago to watch something and there was nothing yet :( ... I had breakfast and came back to my computer and then saw (posted 4 minutes ago) thank you for posting today!
start the vids by being a "hater" if u want, it's ur channel and everything u said is true in the intro. love the channel bestie keep posting
this is from an old video but i read Ghost Wall finally and it blew my mind. i recently lost the job i had as a historical reenactor and was heartbroken. my boss was exactly the kind of person to get off on the power dynamics of how he would be treated as "above lesser people" back then. anyways it resonated with me in so many ways due to my own several experiences as a black, female, and queer historian and reenactor. can't thank you enough for recommending it to us! 🖤
I love 'The Old Man and the Sea', it's one of my top reads this year! The writing is surprisingly approachable and the story was so gripping that I had to read it in one sitting.
ooh this comment is moving it further up my tbr
Yesss my favorite klepto!!
im in the process of unlearning my book buying hobby and picking up my reading hobby :') this was very lovely i love that your family book swaps!!
God I LOVE your dry humor. Theres a snarky devil in my head and it sounds like you
i read mick harte was here as a kid and i reread it this year when trying to recall books that were relevant in my childhood. i’m so stoked to see someone else talking about it! i’ve never come across anyone else who was also changed by that book as a kid. rereading it i was like damn kid were you okay back then?? that book will always live with me!
THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS ABOUT BOOK HAULS!!! Also new subscriber hi 💖
You should do more videos. This is me pressuring to post even more. I literally start waiting as soon as one video ends, love you❤
holy crap the jello brain story KILLED me 😭😭
thank you for the excellent take about book haul culture, you are so correct....also i started going to the library again because of your videos!! i took out the shards and i'm SO excited to read it :)
Love that you’re bonding with your brother over reading. You’ve made me laugh out loud in this video. Thank you for filming goodbye ♥️
new frankie video i cheered !
You’re making me want to re-read some childhood books 😭 For me, it’d be Where the Red Fern Grows and Out of My Mind!!
I read Mick Harte Was Here as a kid too!!
your content is so refreshing and wonderful. thank you
I’m also surprised at how little booktubers use libraries - books are fkn expensive bro
A history of my brief body had such a strong impact on me, Bill-Ray Belcourt’s words are so potent and beautiful. I recommend him to whoever I can haha
I just found your channel and I can’t stop watching all your videos!
Merci pour la vidéo, un plaisir de t'écouter ❤
I think it’s beautiful you and your family swap books 😊
I can’t see myself lending my books to anyone as it makes me physically uncomfortable but it’s nice to see others do it 😂😅
I'm laughing at being semi-called out in the beginning of the video with book hauls (for one my library sucks but also I'm an intense mood reader and having a selection on my shelves helps) but also even though I buy lots of books I will agree that I recently had an epiphany that I was viewing reading books as productivity instead of just... a hobby? like, as if reading was morally superior to a video game or tv show or something. But no. Reading is my hobby and for me viewing it as something productive to do was definitely the wrong lens.
I like owning my books so I can make notes in it, but I just buy them thrifted. It takes longer to find them, but it’s worth it
Omg random and possibly triggering (warnings, my apologies), but the jello brain story reminded me of this one my dad told me about when he was in highschool. A classmate of his was in a fatal car accident involving alcohol and the principal of the school had the totaled car towed to campus and put on display in front of the school, then had the students attend a drunk driving assembly. One of the most crazy and traumatizing things I've ever heard, but I doubt it wasn't effective.
A history of my brief body was an immediate five star from me! His poetry is great too. (Also thank you for the updates from thanksgiving book gifting, I so wanted to know how it all went over after your last video)
truly no one else out there writes like billy-ray belcourt
@@frankiesshelfif you like his writing you might also like Bad Cree by Jessica Johns - a trifecta of queer, Indigenous, and horror which might be up your alley? Also anything by Joshua Whitehead or Ivan Coyote (apparently sad prairie queer is my genre of choice…)
frankie enjoying this content v much ALSO using the topic of gender studies content in the video to ask ur pronouns. let the girls talk about u in third person pls
i will remain elusive and mysterious
@@frankiesshelf so valid my monarch ty for the content
I also think it's super weird to do a haul of like, 50 books, just because it's exciting to buy new books or something, and then... that's the video. Are you planning on reading them? Did you read them before the next 50+ book haul? Idk. The excitement for me is reading the book, not buying it.
2:29 i say the same thing to myself all the time
The Lightning Thief thing feels like how The Incredibles movie is lowkey has Randian themes in it. Like I doubt it was on purpose but its undeniably there.
Everytime i go to my moms house i steal books, dvds, cans of tuna and corn XD The Essentials i promise. (i stole and read Grace and Grit by Ken Wilbur which was really good!)
HEMINGWAY. I fell in love instantly. A man I will forever compare every other man to sadly enough.
If you ever feel compelled to get into nonfiction I highly recommend Jon Krakauer I lovedddd into the wild and under the banner of heaven his books are soooo juicy has me gasping and clutching my pearls
I really like Hemingway but not OMATS. People think Hemingway write in a simple, sparse style but he is also a master of descriptive writing. It can seem beautiful if you read it as a study in descriptive writing.
Franki i know it’s not related to the vid but I really would love to see you read originally Arabic book obviously translated to English oh my god that would be the bast and going to Gaza i wanna read it to I love that you care I love when people learn ♥️♥️ much love
i need to know ur opinion on music!! do u listen when u read? do u like ethel cain
literally watch frankie's videos more than I read oops
living vicariously through me
definitely agree on the haul/unhualing trends, it's like slow dowwwwwn. i mean at some points this year, if it weren't for the library, i probably wouln't have been able to afford to read the books that i did this year. or i would have been limited to the free libraries near my house, but hey maybe i missed out on reading that literal *tome* about different baseball players and teams statistics over the past couple of decades from the free library
(also not a knock to free libraries, love those guys)
One booktuber I watch does hauls in a different sort of way. He looks at all his purchases in a certain month and the same month in other years. (Yeah, I don't really understand the details 🤔) He feels like it's a way to keep himself accountable and his buying more intentional. He's trying to make sure he's actually reading most of the books he buys and only buying books he really wants to read. It must work, though, because you can see his progress through the years.
Anyway.... hope you like The Old Man and the Sea and Hemingway's style. Don't be afraid of his non-fiction; he seems to use the same storytelling style as in his fiction.
alberta mentioned !!
Hemingway's prose is pretty accessible. He is who made "muscular" prose a thing, so it's lean and very straight-forward. That said, it's Hemingway. He was a jerk, but sometimes he was an interesting jerk. And I'm fine with hating on the consumerist vibes of Booktok/Booktube. I don't like it either, especially since for me it's a real privilege to have the space, money and energy for a massive physical book collection. I'm doing fine with my digital loans from the library and ebooks I get on sale and I don't connect to people who just want to show off the latest special edition hardback they got.
Why do you have so many Jodi Picoult books? I thought better of you…😂😂😂😂😂 made my day
If you wanna read more about Gaza and Palestine in general I'm gladly recommend you ghasan kanafani writings. They are just perfect ❤
I love your content so much and I’ve been watching all your videos 🤗
I just wanted to jump in the comments section to say that perhaps we shouldn’t critize or judge who buys a lot of books?
Personally I haven’t been buying books lately because I’m not in a financial place to do so BUT those who do that are the ones who support the “normal” authors who earn their living through royalties - and, therefore, books sold. So if we only used library or used books, they probably wouldn’t be able to write part time or full time.
Books are different from other consumers’ goods because the publishing industry works differently and it is really not as lucrative as one might think - especially in every other country that is not US/Canada.
So let’s just be nice: if someone is happy buying many books, no harm done right? :)
You have 1990s winona ryder vibes
Frankie , you should be a voice actor ❤
I NEVER watch book hauls... tell me about them AFTER you've read them. We all can read a blurb or a Goodreads summary-I want legitimized recommendations!
want to read but don't have the brain power; watching Frankie's Shelf instead
What baffles me are the people who buy cheaply made special editions of hundreds of books they've never read.
"Stealing" from family and friends is much better.
I don't watch hauls because they are pointless ...like I dont wanna watch 40m is someone showing of books they bought!!!!....also I only read fiction currently because my brain is fried here are some of my favorites
-eileen ottesa moshfegh
-a room of ones own
-boulder Eva Balthasar
-Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson
the last one is a memoir but its so easy to read!!!
Uhh…I uhh…did a gender studies degree….
I hate Hemingway with a passion. Old Man and the Sea is awful.
Ok i’m describing 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
i love being a hater
The Old Man and The Sea is the worst classic I've ever read. Don't believe what people say is boring and shallow. His short stories are good though...
Book hauls are so unnecessary 😒
best of luck with old man and the sea 🫡🫡🫡 it's only 100 pages and it was still too long imo. LOVE billy-ray belcourt though!!!!