Recently found your channel, and I thoroughly enjoyed all your videos! I love how you present. It feels like a conversation. A lot of other book tubers begin to sound gimmicky and like salespeople. Thank you for the refreshing and relaxing videos.
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green is such a good one, too. It's non-fiction but retains a lot of the charm and beauty of his other works. Some of the essays hit harder than others for me, but overall I really loved it.
Another super crushable book is Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. It's a novella so around 100 pages depending on the edition. It's a cool introduction to Tolstoy. Absolutely devastating but so real and raw. 100% recommend
Excited to have found your channel! I’d recommend Mort by Terry Pratchett. Funny, deeply thought provoking, warm cozy hug of a book where Death is personified into a lovable character. Super crushable.
Short read recommendation Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. YA book Scythe by Neal Shusterman (first of trilogy). I am now retired age 66 and will still read a good YA. Liked Patrick Ness's trilogy Chaos Walking. Pity the film wasn't great. Love your chats about books (as that is what it feels like). I do watch other booktubers but find your's particularly good. Hope all is well with you and keep up the good chats .
I just got the John Green box set and am so stoked! One of my favorite books I flew through was I'm thinking of ending things by Iain Reid, who's now one of my favorite authors. His ability to create this uncomfortable ominous feeling in his books reels me in and I'm in love with everything he's written. Id love to hear what you think sometime!
Home sick today, so I read the Yellow Wallpaper from a recommendation in another of your videos. WOW!! And I read 3 Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer today. Also WOW!
The Rosie Project is about a man who has autism and falls in love with a woman but doesn't know it. I took the writer quite a few years actually do write it and get it published which I really admire. There's a sequel, too, The Rosie Effect. Great list. The Yellow Wallpaper is also one of my favourite short stories right after A&P and Bullet Through The Brain. I love your lists.
If you’re looking for short books you can crush, I highly recommend a short stay in hell! It is about 100 or so pages and I kept thinking about this book weeks afterward, and if you like Fantasy or Urban Fantasy, the Dresden Files are about 200-250 ish page books about a wizard in Chicago working with the Chicago PD, gives me Supernatural vibes and not so heavy! Love your content so much ❤
For me, among the best "weekend," books are the books from "The Tales of The City," series by Armistead Maupin. I remember watching the T.V. Dramatization of the 1st book, and loving it, many years ago, so decided to read the books. I think that there are about 10, in all. I never got round to reading them all, but have just started again, as I noticed that he has added a new one. They're great fun, short books, quirky with all sorts of "coincidences" and many of the characters appear in many of the books, as their lives develop. As the original book was "serialized" in The San Francisco Chronicle (I believe) the chapters are all really short, so you can read it/them in bursts and finish chapters in minutes, which, I love.
Love the videos and will absolutely be picking up a few of these. I took your Looking For Alaska recommendation a while back on TikTok. Loved it! Side note: I used to be a band director, and whenever I stepped to the mic to say a few things to the audience during concerts, my wife would sweat. Because I never planned out my speeches… specifically the ends of them. I constant found myself just stammering and ending a speech much like the way you end your videos 😂. Keep up the great content Nick!
You may or may not be interested to know that Rita Hayworth…,The Body, Apt Pupil & The Breathing Method were previously bound together in one book called, ‘Different Seasons’. I personally don’t know whether I prefer the single story binds or the multiple binds. I do remember reading the first three and based on the Breathing Method’s synopsis, I’m pretty sure I would have remembered reading that as it sounds crazy.
The Body and Shawshank are from short story collections “Different Seasons.” Highly recommend the short story/novella books by King. Short but powerful books: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinthe and Between the World and Me by Te’Nehisi Coates
I have to share my own "weekend read" recommendation. The Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. They are all fairly short in length and wonderful stories. Great for fans of portal fantasies, found family and adventure stories.
Thank you so much for this list!! And I love Stephen King's books so much but how did I never read Shawshank? I've seen the movie a million times and now, thanks to you, I will finally read that book!
Great recommendations! The Yellow Wallpaper especially, it deserves so much more recognition in the 'mainstream' than it gets! Even in horror circles there are so many people who've never even heard of it, such a shame. Last year I did a 'book a day' challenge for a week, and I think those titles would also work well in this context. The books I read then were: - And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer, by Fredrik Backman - This Is Where We Live, by Katie Hardie - Snow, Dog, Foot, by Claudio Morandini - Earthlings, by Sayaka Murata - White Is for Witching, by Helen Oyeyemi - The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yōko Ogawa - Gamayun Tales 1, by Alexander Utkin (graphic novel)
Some more weekendable books: - What you are looking for is in the library (Michiko Aoyama) - The five people you meet in heaven (Mitch Albom) - A wizard's guide to defensive baking (T.Kingfisher) - The wishing game (Meg Shaffer) - Before the coffee gets cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi) - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louise Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov) - I Robot (Isaac Asimov) - And every morning the way home gets longer and longer (Fredrik Backman) - The queen's gambit (Walter Tevis) - The haunting of hill house (Shirley Jackson) - Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keys) - The giver (Louis Lowry) - The picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde) - Klara and the sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
If you haven't read Psalm for the Wild Built yet, PLEASE check it out! Its a beautiful, easy, comforting read. Psalm is solarpunk. I'd say its science fiction, but feels like fantasy and scifi had a kid. Its so good!
Not gonna lie…I was feeling super anxious about how close you put your books to the edge of your table 😂 other than that, great video! I wanna read looking for Alaska🎉
Readable in a weekend recs: Later by Stephin King or Joyland by Stephen King - both a lot of fun Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn
Some more recommendations: Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin 38 pages, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 144 pages, All Systems Red by Martha Wells 144 pages, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 180 pages, 2.00 a day by Kathryn J. Edin ~210 pages. This is a really eye opening nonfiction about the poorest of poor in the US, the audiobook is 7 hours (If you like this read Evicted or Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond)
Small things like these by Claire Keegan is only 112 pages, I read it twice last year. Prosper's Demon and the sequel Inside Man by K. J. Parker are also both very short (my new favourites! :D ) I also really like to read graphic novels, I would recommend Diosamante by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Fredrick Backman's And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is suuuper short, but it will crush your heart and soul. Bonus: The Egg by Andy Weir is only about 3 pages long, but it changed my life :D
The Storied Life of AJ Fikrey was one i blew through, totally loved. The Shatter Me series is a YA dystopia series with a little romance. The books are written in a way that makes them super bingable and theres lots of novellas to read too
I just discovered your channel about 6 hours ago & it’s already one of my favorites, I have a couple books that I’m wondering if you’ve read or not. I’m not trying to convince you to read them, but just curious if you happen to have. If you haven’t read them, just say you haven’t read them but if you HAVE, I would love to hear your opinions on them. I am the only avid reader and my group of friends so this channel is a nice escape for me. The first one (these couple of books are in no particular order), is The Devil All The Time by Donald Ray Pollock. The second one is Cherry by Nico Walker, the third one is The Night Manager by arguably the best espionage writer in modern history, John Le Carr’e. And lastly, I just watched your American psycho review, and I was wondering if you’ve read Requiem For A Dream. They aren’t really similar, but they are both equally dark, and would love to hear your opinion on them. So anyways, if you have read any of these books, I would like to hear your thoughts. My last one is Lovecraft Country, it’s a superb family, racist, sci-fi, black humor adventure set in the 1950s. It takes many themes from Lovecraft, but ultimately in my opinion, the point is that racism and intolerance are far more egregious than any fictional monster or entity. No pressure to respond but if you do, that would be lovely, have a good day, sir and thank you for your entertaining content. ❤💯
I was just looking for 1 day reads because im taking sometime off work and it would be great to CRUSH a book in one of the days. Will probabilidade get Tender Is The Flesh because it relates a lot to one of my favorite reads - which I dont believe has been translated yet. Anyway, love your channel, never stop rambling ❤
Legends and Lattes is fun. I'm reading the sequel at the moment, and am kind of confused, because the main character seems to be the same person, but there's no hint that she is in any way connected to the main character of the first one.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by the Nobel Prize winning Alexander Solzhenitsyn is absolutely the most impactful book I have read in my life. I think of it often when tempted to complain about my own circumstances, and it always returns me to an appreciation of all that I have to be grateful for.
The Monnk & Robot series is so good and really begs you to be read in the shortest amount of time! 😍 I feel like YA is so looked down upon because of *some* very bad apples in the bunch but there are actually some incredible books that are "marketed" for that age target that are absolutely incredible and deserve so much love! Ps. New sub, love your vibe and energy! Virtual hugs :D
My favorite John Green book is always my first too which is Paper Towns. I've been getting into Hank's books recently which are fascinating sci fi books about the dangers of social media and aliens.
I really want to read looking for Alaska but I ended up buying a massive nonfiction travel book with the same title. When I tell you I was DISAPPOINTED! I'm sure the book is phenonmenal but I can't read nonfic that big.😁
I’ve really been wanting to read A Psalm for the Wild Built! I am not much for horror but great suggestions! I would also add Animal Farm to the crushable list and Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Both very crushable and very enjoyable!
I recommend G K Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. You can easily knock it out in a session, and it's a fun story. I rank it in my top 5 books in general.
Great crushable reccomendations, nothing better than avoiding the outside world and chilling with a good book for a weekend. Also drink everytime you say crushable 😂
Body horror is something I'm trying as I read some Junji Ito that touched on it and I kind of loved it.. Will have to give Tender of the Flesh a go for sure
Some of my favorite weekend-able books are pretty much any horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, but especially The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, and the Cask of Amontillado, Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw is just over 100 pages and I thought that was pretty good. But I recently read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson which is a little less than 200 pages and I fell in love with that book. Easily five out of five stars for me. Like the Yellow Wallpaper, when you read about the background of that book and of Shirley Jackson's life it makes the book make even more sense and is a bit heartbreaking. I would say my favorite short fiction of Stephen King at least so far is The Langoliers. So fucking good. You should go into that one as blind as you can IMO.
For any romance/erotica readers, Katee Roberts' Dark Olympus books are consistently my fastest reads. The ebooks are 300-400 pages, but the dual POV chapters fly by.
great recommendations!! I'd like to add Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (the audio is so well done). it's 128 pages. Also, Confessions by Kanae Minato. I literally couldn't put this book down all weekend. It's 234 but it moves really fast.
An Abundance of Katherine's and Paper Towns by John Green is so good too. Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan is really good as well. All YA... But I think YA gets a bad rap because in truth it is one of the most honest genres.
Kind of unrelated, but I have the craziest farts rn. They are coming in hot tonight. Hhhwwoooweeee, so spice. Also….books are pretty cool (crushing toilet books right and left)
I died laughing at "Books you can crush on the toilet... because that's what I did." 🤣😂
that video needs to happen
I’d like to see the bathroom library
That's the kind of quotes we should start seeing on book covers 🤣
The ‘I’m a ramblin man’ with the silent stare was genuinely funny👌
Kurt Vonnegut is a super crushable author. Both Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five are both short, but incredibly sweet books.
Super sick call on that one!
I read slapstick in an afternoon when I called in sick, so I 10/10 agree
“I’m a ramblin’ man………” 😂 new follower and thoroughly delighted!
Recently found your channel, and I thoroughly enjoyed all your videos! I love how you present. It feels like a conversation. A lot of other book tubers begin to sound gimmicky and like salespeople. Thank you for the refreshing and relaxing videos.
Happy to hear that and thank you!
Totally agree!
Great video, I agree I love like books like that as well. I would say for me it would be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fahrenheit 451 and The Road.
Circe is one of the only books I’ve crushed in a weekend. You are right about Madeline Millers writing. So beautiful.
Love the ramble....don't stop 😂
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green is such a good one, too. It's non-fiction but retains a lot of the charm and beauty of his other works. Some of the essays hit harder than others for me, but overall I really loved it.
Awesome!! Loved this vid, totally cool to get some quick “crushable” reads 😂
Another super crushable book is Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. It's a novella so around 100 pages depending on the edition. It's a cool introduction to Tolstoy. Absolutely devastating but so real and raw. 100% recommend
The yellow wallpaper was so so good. So unsettling in the best way.💛
So, so unsettling. I really loved it.
Yellow wallpaper is amazing, love it, you'll never look at your walls the same again.
Excited to have found your channel! I’d recommend Mort by Terry Pratchett. Funny, deeply thought provoking, warm cozy hug of a book where Death is personified into a lovable character. Super crushable.
I get stoked when I see you post! Love the cozy intro 👌 thanks for the recs, keep em coming 👍
Short read recommendation Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. YA book Scythe by Neal Shusterman (first of trilogy). I am now retired age 66 and will still read a good YA. Liked Patrick Ness's trilogy Chaos Walking. Pity the film wasn't great. Love your chats about books (as that is what it feels like). I do watch other booktubers but find your's particularly good. Hope all is well with you and keep up the good chats .
"Stand By Me" is my favourite movie, love to hear a shoutout for "The Body". Wild that Different Seasons contained so many bangers.
Loved this! And we love the ramble so please don’t stop! Haha 📚🤟🏻
Such good picks and you can never go wrong with of John Green books. Love the entro 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I just got the John Green box set and am so stoked! One of my favorite books I flew through was I'm thinking of ending things by Iain Reid, who's now one of my favorite authors. His ability to create this uncomfortable ominous feeling in his books reels me in and I'm in love with everything he's written. Id love to hear what you think sometime!
Home sick today, so I read the Yellow Wallpaper from a recommendation in another of your videos. WOW!! And I read 3 Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer today. Also WOW!
The Rosie Project is about a man who has autism and falls in love with a woman but doesn't know it. I took the writer quite a few years actually do write it and get it published which I really admire. There's a sequel, too, The Rosie Effect. Great list. The Yellow Wallpaper is also one of my favourite short stories right after A&P and Bullet Through The Brain. I love your lists.
If you’re looking for short books you can crush, I highly recommend a short stay in hell! It is about 100 or so pages and I kept thinking about this book weeks afterward, and if you like Fantasy or Urban Fantasy, the Dresden Files are about 200-250 ish page books about a wizard in Chicago working with the Chicago PD, gives me Supernatural vibes and not so heavy! Love your content so much ❤
I agree! Finished that one in about a day
For me, among the best "weekend," books are the books from "The Tales of The City," series by Armistead Maupin. I remember watching the T.V. Dramatization of the 1st book, and loving it, many years ago, so decided to read the books.
I think that there are about 10, in all. I never got round to reading them all, but have just started again, as I noticed that he has added a new one.
They're great fun, short books, quirky with all sorts of "coincidences" and many of the characters appear in many of the books, as their lives develop.
As the original book was "serialized" in The San Francisco Chronicle (I believe) the chapters are all really short, so you can read it/them in bursts and finish chapters in minutes, which, I love.
This is How You Lose The Time War is definitely readable in a weekend! Did I know what was happening for most of the book? No. But did I love it? Yes!
Love the videos and will absolutely be picking up a few of these. I took your Looking For Alaska recommendation a while back on TikTok. Loved it!
Side note: I used to be a band director, and whenever I stepped to the mic to say a few things to the audience during concerts, my wife would sweat. Because I never planned out my speeches… specifically the ends of them. I constant found myself just stammering and ending a speech much like the way you end your videos 😂. Keep up the great content Nick!
You may or may not be interested to know that Rita Hayworth…,The Body, Apt Pupil & The Breathing Method were previously bound together in one book called, ‘Different Seasons’. I personally don’t know whether I prefer the single story binds or the multiple binds. I do remember reading the first three and based on the Breathing Method’s synopsis, I’m pretty sure I would have remembered reading that as it sounds crazy.
‘The Old Man and the Sea’ was one of the most crushable books ever, I really don’t like fishing but I was gripped.
Ooh ‘White Nights’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and ‘The Sea Raiders’ by H.G. Wells were so short I crushed both in a day (I read slow too)
Love your content, I find it inspiring keep it up :)
The Body and Shawshank are from short story collections “Different Seasons.” Highly recommend the short story/novella books by King.
Short but powerful books: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinthe and Between the World and Me by Te’Nehisi Coates
I have to share my own "weekend read" recommendation. The Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. They are all fairly short in length and wonderful stories. Great for fans of portal fantasies, found family and adventure stories.
Thank you so much for this list!! And I love Stephen King's books so much but how did I never read Shawshank? I've seen the movie a million times and now, thanks to you, I will finally read that book!
I am afraid to read The Yellow Wallpaper! Frequently recommended, maybe buy, put on my tbr, wait for a day when I feel strong and read.
Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" and Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" Both quick reads, not easy reads, but both super rewarding.
Keep a reading journal. Just a couple of sentences for each book. You’ll enjoy flipping through it in the years to come.
Great recommendations! The Yellow Wallpaper especially, it deserves so much more recognition in the 'mainstream' than it gets! Even in horror circles there are so many people who've never even heard of it, such a shame. Last year I did a 'book a day' challenge for a week, and I think those titles would also work well in this context. The books I read then were:
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer, by Fredrik Backman
- This Is Where We Live, by Katie Hardie
- Snow, Dog, Foot, by Claudio Morandini
- Earthlings, by Sayaka Murata
- White Is for Witching, by Helen Oyeyemi
- The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yōko Ogawa
- Gamayun Tales 1, by Alexander Utkin (graphic novel)
Some more weekendable books:
- What you are looking for is in the library (Michiko Aoyama)
- The five people you meet in heaven (Mitch Albom)
- A wizard's guide to defensive baking (T.Kingfisher)
- The wishing game (Meg Shaffer)
- Before the coffee gets cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louise Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov)
- I Robot (Isaac Asimov)
- And every morning the way home gets longer and longer (Fredrik Backman)
- The queen's gambit (Walter Tevis)
- The haunting of hill house (Shirley Jackson)
- Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keys)
- The giver (Louis Lowry)
- The picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde)
- Klara and the sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
loving your channel' happy to subscribe - please stay real, love the rambling
If you haven't read Psalm for the Wild Built yet, PLEASE check it out! Its a beautiful, easy, comforting read. Psalm is solarpunk. I'd say its science fiction, but feels like fantasy and scifi had a kid. Its so good!
Not gonna lie…I was feeling super anxious about how close you put your books to the edge of your table 😂 other than that, great video! I wanna read looking for Alaska🎉
You’re a rambling man. We are here for it.
Readable in a weekend recs:
Later by Stephin King or Joyland by Stephen King - both a lot of fun
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn
Some more recommendations: Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin 38 pages, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 144 pages, All Systems Red by Martha Wells 144 pages, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 180 pages, 2.00 a day by Kathryn J. Edin ~210 pages. This is a really eye opening nonfiction about the poorest of poor in the US, the audiobook is 7 hours (If you like this read Evicted or Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond)
Small things like these by Claire Keegan is only 112 pages, I read it twice last year.
Prosper's Demon and the sequel Inside Man by K. J. Parker are also both very short (my new favourites! :D )
I also really like to read graphic novels, I would recommend Diosamante by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Fredrick Backman's And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is suuuper short, but it will crush your heart and soul.
Bonus: The Egg by Andy Weir is only about 3 pages long, but it changed my life :D
Great choices. You must read 'Address unknown'
Another 30 minute read but ever more impactful than The Yellow Wallpaper
First time veiwer and I'm loving the vibe. You seem to read a broad range of genres and so do I 👍
The Storied Life of AJ Fikrey was one i blew through, totally loved. The Shatter Me series is a YA dystopia series with a little romance. The books are written in a way that makes them super bingable and theres lots of novellas to read too
I just discovered your channel about 6 hours ago & it’s already one of my favorites, I have a couple books that I’m wondering if you’ve read or not. I’m not trying to convince you to read them, but just curious if you happen to have. If you haven’t read them, just say you haven’t read them but if you HAVE, I would love to hear your opinions on them. I am the only avid reader and my group of friends so this channel is a nice escape for me. The first one (these couple of books are in no particular order), is The Devil All The Time by Donald Ray Pollock. The second one is Cherry by Nico Walker, the third one is The Night Manager by arguably the best espionage writer in modern history, John Le Carr’e. And lastly, I just watched your American psycho review, and I was wondering if you’ve read Requiem For A Dream. They aren’t really similar, but they are both equally dark, and would love to hear your opinion on them. So anyways, if you have read any of these books, I would like to hear your thoughts. My last one is Lovecraft Country, it’s a superb family, racist, sci-fi, black humor adventure set in the 1950s. It takes many themes from Lovecraft, but ultimately in my opinion, the point is that racism and intolerance are far more egregious than any fictional monster or entity. No pressure to respond but if you do, that would be lovely, have a good day, sir and thank you for your entertaining content. ❤💯
Just finished Legends and Lates. Can’t wait to see your Bookshops and Bonedust review!
I sooo recommend the audiobook of Circe (Sir-see). The narrator was incredible!
Ramble away... it's your platform 😎 we're just along for the ride
I was just looking for 1 day reads because im taking sometime off work and it would be great to CRUSH a book in one of the days. Will probabilidade get Tender Is The Flesh because it relates a lot to one of my favorite reads - which I dont believe has been translated yet. Anyway, love your channel, never stop rambling ❤
Keep crushing it man , appreciate you
Legends and Lattes is fun. I'm reading the sequel at the moment, and am kind of confused, because the main character seems to be the same person, but there's no hint that she is in any way connected to the main character of the first one.
Loving this channel so far bro!
hi from a fellow rambler😅 never thought to crush books on the toilet 😂😂 interesting challenge
I recommend “The End We Start From” by Megan Hunter. A great little book you can crush in an afternoon.
Love your content! Keep it coming!
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by the Nobel Prize winning Alexander Solzhenitsyn is absolutely the most impactful book I have read in my life. I think of it often when tempted to complain about my own circumstances, and it always returns me to an appreciation of all that I have to be grateful for.
The Monnk & Robot series is so good and really begs you to be read in the shortest amount of time! 😍
I feel like YA is so looked down upon because of *some* very bad apples in the bunch but there are actually some incredible books that are "marketed" for that age target that are absolutely incredible and deserve so much love!
Ps. New sub, love your vibe and energy! Virtual hugs :D
My favorite John Green book is always my first too which is Paper Towns. I've been getting into Hank's books recently which are fascinating sci fi books about the dangers of social media and aliens.
I think about Tender is the Flesh on a daily basis.. Deff a good and quick read!
As do I. It's a hard one to forget - haha
Where Men Win Glory is the other Krakauer book about Patrick Tillman. It’s so good! A really interesting and moving story I highly recommend!
I really want to read looking for Alaska but I ended up buying a massive nonfiction travel book with the same title. When I tell you I was DISAPPOINTED! I'm sure the book is phenonmenal but I can't read nonfic that big.😁
I’ve really been wanting to read A Psalm for the Wild Built! I am not much for horror but great suggestions! I would also add Animal Farm to the crushable list and Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Both very crushable and very enjoyable!
Psalm is such a lovely, hopeful book. 😍
I came up to the end the vid and peeked at the subs, sooo loww wtff, i expected a minimum of 100K tbh, gonna sub and excited for whats coming!
Orwell - Animal Farm and Bukowski - Post Office are other nice books (maybe life changing) that come to mind.
Thanks for the recommendations!
I recommend G K Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. You can easily knock it out in a session, and it's a fun story. I rank it in my top 5 books in general.
Great crushable reccomendations, nothing better than avoiding the outside world and chilling with a good book for a weekend. Also drink everytime you say crushable 😂
I would highly recommend waiting until you have the following morning off to do that lol
Body horror is something I'm trying as I read some Junji Ito that touched on it and I kind of loved it.. Will have to give Tender of the Flesh a go for sure
Tender is the Flesh**
Good list! You really *crushed* it 😆
Some of my favorite weekend-able books are pretty much any horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, but especially The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, and the Cask of Amontillado, Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw is just over 100 pages and I thought that was pretty good. But I recently read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson which is a little less than 200 pages and I fell in love with that book. Easily five out of five stars for me. Like the Yellow Wallpaper, when you read about the background of that book and of Shirley Jackson's life it makes the book make even more sense and is a bit heartbreaking. I would say my favorite short fiction of Stephen King at least so far is The Langoliers. So fucking good. You should go into that one as blind as you can IMO.
Oh, and how can I forget, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson is like 150 pages or so and that's a phenomenal vampire book. I adore Matheson's prose.
I love how much you love John Green 🥰
For any romance/erotica readers, Katee Roberts' Dark Olympus books are consistently my fastest reads. The ebooks are 300-400 pages, but the dual POV chapters fly by.
She's actually someone I keep meaning to read! Thanks for the reminder!
Man your videos are really good love'em 😊
very much here for the dog content 😍
“I’m crushing your head.” Ha 😊
I would put Eric LaRocca in the crushable category. Short but hella impactful horror.
great recommendations!! I'd like to add Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (the audio is so well done). it's 128 pages. Also, Confessions by Kanae Minato. I literally couldn't put this book down all weekend. It's 234 but it moves really fast.
I was going to say The Salt Grows Heavy by Khaw. I still don't know how to feel about it, but I think about the book often. Also weekendable.
Here for the rambling!
“reads like a car crash” was my exact goodreads review for tender is the flesh in january of last year lol
What camera do you film with? I love your tonal range and the soft focus. Plus killer lighting. Thank you. Great content.
oh yes The Yellow Wallpaper!
Another Stephen King rec: Elevation. About 145 pages, smaller book size in general - super crushable.
Oooo nice call. Thats one you don't hear mentioned too often.
I started reading Lonesome Dove because of you! Loving it so far :)
Read the book by "Into the Wild's" sister.
dude, that flannel is rad. wheredya get that thing?
An Abundance of Katherine's and Paper Towns by John Green is so good too. Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan is really good as well. All YA... But I think YA gets a bad rap because in truth it is one of the most honest genres.
I really enjoyed Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.
i'd recommend franny and zooey by salinger
I wonder how you would like The God Of Endings by Jacqueline Holland
NOOO NICK, not the anxiety juice!
I know! I don't know why I'm doing this! I feel awful! hahah
Have you not tried decaff?? Tastes the same .
What a cozy little neighborhood you have. Are you in the States?
immaculate vibes
War & Peace and Crime & Punishment are definitely toilet crushable… if you pile them on the toilet 😂
My Friend Dahmer is a super interesting graphic novel that took me about an hour to read. Written by a guy who knew Jeffrey Dahmer in high school.
Not book related.. but curious what your camera setup is.
if I can add one- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Kind of unrelated, but I have the craziest farts rn. They are coming in hot tonight. Hhhwwoooweeee, so spice. Also….books are pretty cool (crushing toilet books right and left)
i cant pay attention to what i read. takes me like 8 minutes a page
Trojan Horse (brain bubble?)
why did I think the title was "books that can crush you in a weekend"...and why did I click on it lol