every book i read in 2020 and fun statistics abt them!

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  • @eerieisnotfromhere
    @eerieisnotfromhere 3 года назад +88

    ashton saying wlw and mlm make serotonin brrr

  • @declanacton1359
    @declanacton1359 3 года назад +87

    "I like gay people" - Ashton, 2021

  • @magicaljellycomix8131
    @magicaljellycomix8131 3 года назад +96

    yer 100 % audiobooks are real books. they are way more accessible for me as a dyslexic and people equating reading fluency to intelligence is really upsetting

    • @theelectricant98
      @theelectricant98 3 года назад +5

      I agree with you even though I cannot pay attention for the life of me in that format. I enjoy it but I personally rely too heavily on my in text notes and underlining to be as adept at listening to books as I'd like to be

    • @reggieshmeggie4219
      @reggieshmeggie4219 3 года назад +3

      Reading is much better for the brain than listening to the book. Look it up on the internet

    • @haleymeerdink8718
      @haleymeerdink8718 3 года назад +6

      @@reggieshmeggie4219 is the only reason you read to get smarter?

  • @axogothl
    @axogothl 3 года назад +46

    Subscribed for the trans/nonbinary discussions and politics, stayed for the book reviews and rambles :)

  • @moonbased7796
    @moonbased7796 3 года назад +56

    Not going to lie,
    I misread the title and I thought the word “statistic” was “autistic” and all though I am autistic and would love to read more books with an autistic character or autism but I will take the L for misreading the title 🤣

  • @jortslesbian
    @jortslesbian 3 года назад +29

    wait so joe hill’s name is joe-king? wow really says something abt both his dad and his writing

  • @martymcflown3707
    @martymcflown3707 3 года назад +80

    I also have trouble reading horror by cishet white men. It always feels like they're grasping for the type of intrinsic fear that exists in every person that isn't cishet and white, but have such a limited understanding of what that fear is like that they fail miserably.

  • @anab.5536
    @anab.5536 3 года назад +27

    Could you make a video about how you find the motivation to read so much? I love reading but I'm a slow reader so I find it hard to start a book:(
    Btw I love your videos, you're rlly cool

    • @itsabirditsaplaneitsaclown7394
      @itsabirditsaplaneitsaclown7394 3 года назад +2

      yes i totally agree

    • @reggieshmeggie4219
      @reggieshmeggie4219 3 года назад +2

      Just choose books that you find interesting. That's it. Too much internet also effects attention span so limit it.

    • @cosmo_junk
      @cosmo_junk 5 месяцев назад +1

      hi ik this is old but just make it as aesthetic as possible. read on your commute, carry a book with you everywhere, annotate and journal about it, and never pressure yourself into finishing something you don't like. that's all

  • @Sophia-ld3lm
    @Sophia-ld3lm 3 года назад +10

    you should check out the storygraph, they have stats built in to the website, you can use half and quarter stars and its ran by a black woman :)

  • @janeh9962
    @janeh9962 3 года назад +14

    this video is SO creative, i absolutely adore getting to see the graphs/statistics you had. this is making me want to make my own spreadsheet so bad omg

  • @gachawaterfalls4921
    @gachawaterfalls4921 3 года назад +11

    You have the best timing ever!! I just finished my last (online) class of the day for today. :)

  • @absudjj
    @absudjj 3 года назад +9

    I'm not that much of a book person but oh my God I love statistics and I watched all of this

  • @hunterm8516
    @hunterm8516 3 года назад +10

    How do you read so much??? I can’t focus like that anymore someone help me I want to :((((

    • @evilpansy
      @evilpansy 3 года назад +7

      I’ve gotten back into reading a bit just by getting stuff on kindle/libby from my library, it’s so much easier for me to pay attention on my phone. Plus I’m reading stuff I’m actually interested in (super hyperfixated on Star Wars and luckily there are tons of novels and comics)

  • @eerieisnotfromhere
    @eerieisnotfromhere 3 года назад +12

    red white and royal blue was so widely recommended but people forgot to mention ITS A YOUNG ADULT like the characters are in their twenties and i didn't realize until several chapters in i was like this idiots mother is literally the president why are they letting him drink hard liquor.

  • @TheBeansters
    @TheBeansters 3 года назад +8

    Hi I’m a new commenter but long time viewer tee hee

  • @praalgraf
    @praalgraf 3 года назад +11

    i feel like there is a difference between audiobooks and 'regular' books, as audiobooks allow you to do other stuff while listening, whereas w a book you need to sit down and Read. they're 2 different experiences but def still count as consuming a story and learning things? i do count them as 'books read'

    • @Melted-Kuchi-kopi
      @Melted-Kuchi-kopi 3 года назад +1

      I'm not accusing you of this at all but saying that listening to audiobooks isn't reading is ableist because by that logic then blind people would never read a book

    • @praalgraf
      @praalgraf 3 года назад +4

      @@Melted-Kuchi-kopi i said that i do count audiobooks as books read? in my head audiobooks and 'regular' books are merely two different activities with the same goal (of finishing the book)

    • @saggguy7
      @saggguy7 3 года назад +2

      @@praalgraf and they said they’re not accusing you of anything hehehe

  • @luigigiovanni5785
    @luigigiovanni5785 3 года назад +6

    thank you editing ashton for stopping to explain what stephen king meant by "jahoobies" bc i legitimately would never have figured it out out of context. it sounds like a scooby doo catchphrase oml.

  • @kelmp
    @kelmp 3 года назад +8

    Watching this while going off on my classmate about why jkr is terrible and specifically why she's worse than rahl dahl, and I kinda feel bad because I just dropped 3 paragraphs on her

  • @HoneyBee-qf8kn
    @HoneyBee-qf8kn 3 года назад +7

    I... I.. got an ad for the drag queen of the year pageant just now and I mean.. isn’t that just the right vibe

  • @itsabirditsaplaneitsaclown7394
    @itsabirditsaplaneitsaclown7394 3 года назад +6

    I loved the stats they were so interesting!! Also, I don't count audiobooks for me personally as books. This is because I want to get better at concentrating while reading physical books. However, I totally understand why other people count them as books.

  • @werebeastworks
    @werebeastworks 3 года назад +2

    dude im taking a course about autobiographical comics rn and fun home is next on the list. i am so fucking excited. if u want more autobiographical comics id highly recommend persepolis by marjane satrapi and blankets by craig thompson!!!
    edit: also if you want "theory" or whatever on comics in general id also really really recommend "understanding comics (the invisible art)" by scott mccloud, which can be found on archive.org!! even though its informative its still in comic format so it's more accessible and easy to understand, even as an artist who knew a fair amount of what was covered i still found it incredibly interesting
    archive.org/details/UnderstandingComicsTheInvisibleArtByScottMcCloud

  • @autisticfrog290
    @autisticfrog290 3 года назад +4

    Ok like a week ago my ELA teacher went through a power point about many different books, AND CEMETERY BOYS WAS ON IT SHE SAID THE MAIN CHARACTER IS TRANS I COULDN'T BELIEVE THE SCHOOL WJDKSKFKSJDJKASKLD I COULDN'T NOT GET IT THIS IS AMAZING
    I got it and started reading yesterday. I'm enjoying it so far, but the chapters are long T-T

  • @internetperson8638
    @internetperson8638 3 года назад +1

    Hello ashton, I had a video idea, you should take the github political compass test called SapplyValues. It's like the other political compass but more advanced and instead of only showing you how libertarian, authoritarian, left, and right you are, it also shows how progressive and conservative you are. Check it out, but if you don't wanna make a video on it but wanna take it personally, that's ok too!
    thank you for the good content

  • @richardcleveland6091
    @richardcleveland6091 3 года назад +3

    So glad to hear that you enjoyed ‘Dune!’ It’s always been one of my favorite books, and I reread every fews years. This year was the one where I pushed to read all of the sequels that Frank Herbert wrote. Still haven’t finished them; I’m only on ‘God Emperor of Dune,’ If you want some more horror, (because let’s face it, who doesn’t) I can’t recommend ‘The Terror’ by Dan Simmons enough.

  • @clearlyreading2366
    @clearlyreading2366 3 года назад +2

    ngl i had goodreads open while watching to add a bunch of things to my tbr. ive started branching out into reading more nonfiction but ive only read a few so far (including the new jim crow which i also bring up all the time in discussions)
    i do want to say that RWRB isn't a YA book, it's an Adult Romance, but I think that's on the publishers for marketing it like YA but labeling it Adult. they clearly wanted the hype YA often gets which has been happening with a ton of adult books. mcquiston calls it new adult which is a category between YA and adult only rly seen in the indie romance world

    • @graveyardpansy
      @graveyardpansy  3 года назад +1

      i'm glad you're branching out, that's awesome !! & thanks for letting me know abt RWRB, that's rly interesting. i've for sure read quite a number of books where the marketing rly dampered the reading experience lol

    • @clearlyreading2366
      @clearlyreading2366 3 года назад +1

      @@graveyardpansy for sure! especially when it comes to adult romance which usually has explicit content not everyone is game for. it's a weird thing where they try to target the adults who like YA but it leads to a lot of lower reviews bc it's not what people expected

  • @shouldacomewithawarninh4974
    @shouldacomewithawarninh4974 3 года назад +4

    Your outfit looks nice Ashton:)

  • @clairemckinley691
    @clairemckinley691 3 года назад +2

    Woo love this video! Thank so for the lovely beautiful in depth statistics and info about all the books you read. I’m still in the middle of making spreadsheets for the demographics of the books I read last year. I read 50 books which was my reading goal but I usually like to really overshoot my goal so it was a bit disappointing that I only just made it. In the dream house was also one of my favourite books in 2020, it’s incredible. I really enjoy all of your book videos, can’t wait to see what you read in the year ahead
    -Cal

  • @Pompo5
    @Pompo5 3 года назад +1

    just wanted to tell you youve inspired me to try to push myself and read more. Theres so much i want to expose myself to but i cant manage to make space for it. Seeing your reading list has given me lots of ideas for what to read

  • @lesserman3928
    @lesserman3928 3 года назад +1

    The videos you make on the books you read really inspired me to start reading again! I've been in a bit of a lul on reading anything not for school for a while, but now I feel like I could definitely manage to repair my love for reading this year.

  • @charliet.3062
    @charliet.3062 3 года назад +2

    The way I had no idea that Joe Hill was related to Stephen King when I started Nos4a2 but figured it out around the same time you did 💀
    I’ve pretty much given up on ever reading either of them again lmao

  • @ace.of.space.
    @ace.of.space. 3 года назад +1

    a spreadsheet about books?? now that's sexy

  • @griffinnguyen945
    @griffinnguyen945 3 года назад +1

    BOOKS!!! ST A T S!!!!!

  • @praalgraf
    @praalgraf 3 года назад +2

    oohhhh an hour of book talk? sign me up!!!

  • @aroseh
    @aroseh 3 года назад

    omgggg i watched your videos very casually a few years ago (like 3-4 years ago probably?) but today your channel randomly stumbled into my recommended again!! ‘twas like a warm hug :)

  • @mr.trashcan1707
    @mr.trashcan1707 3 года назад

    I'm very much part of the "I'm running out of mlm romances or even books with mlm rep to read and I'm so fucking tired of reading mlm written by straight women because over 90% of the time you can just TELL they have some weird internalized homophobic and/or fetishistic shit they've never confronted in themselves and it's unbearably uncomfortable and cringey to read but I've gone through so many mlm authors I literally struggle to find more so I'm desperate for content that reflects my life experiences enough to be relatable and for me to form a connection to" club

  • @punkpointstheshow4356
    @punkpointstheshow4356 3 года назад

    Steven King made fun of a goth friend of mine.reading graveyard shift at work(haha,pay me).have not read any other of his books.should I?

  • @cosmo_junk
    @cosmo_junk 3 года назад

    ive never heard of half these titles but bc you and i are both autistic i thouroughly enjoyed this video (just, the STATS dude go off!)

  • @emstert8665
    @emstert8665 3 года назад

    if your trying to read 113 books, i reccomend wondla, its not about vampires, politics or lgbt stuff, but its a really easy read. its set far into the future and i really liked the world building and characters :)

  • @ghostditective8466
    @ghostditective8466 3 года назад

    Have you ever played Vampire: The Masquerade? Whether it the Table Top RPG or the RPG game

  • @alextuohy861
    @alextuohy861 3 года назад +2

    i also burst into flames when i have too much emotion

  • @mdc47
    @mdc47 3 года назад

    Ashton, have you read Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg yet? Would love your thoughts.

  • @MaiFrenchfry
    @MaiFrenchfry 3 года назад

    He looks like what the male version of Mavis from Hotel Transylvania 🥺

  • @dementedfairy7373
    @dementedfairy7373 2 года назад

    did you specifically choose only to read liberal theory on race? communist and anarchist authors have covered it much better and don't take such a non radical approach as many of your books listed did. I recommend franz fanon's wretched of the earth.

  • @nico-we7bp
    @nico-we7bp 3 года назад

    i’m curious if you’ve gotten into adam silvera at all? he writes like. pretty much only mlm books

  • @victorrou8905
    @victorrou8905 3 года назад +1

    your voice is so calming i could listen to you talk for hours. this is such a good video

  • @ZombieFighter95
    @ZombieFighter95 3 года назад

    28:50 that's totally not fair, he also sometimes gives them the personality trait of "having an abusive father"! /s

  • @warrenmaverickp4750
    @warrenmaverickp4750 3 года назад +1

    unlike you, i dont tend to read nonfiction so whenever you LOVE a fiction book, i'm like, "shit, i gotta check this one out"

  • @micky2708
    @micky2708 3 года назад +1

    love this video, Ashton! I follow you on Goodreads and I always get good recs through seeing what you're reading

  • @vivalapluto_
    @vivalapluto_ 3 года назад

    You should read Felix Ever After! I really liked the book and would probably rate it a 4/5 :)

    • @graveyardpansy
      @graveyardpansy  3 года назад

      I’ve read it !! talked about it around 33:45 :)

  • @romancarlise4738
    @romancarlise4738 3 года назад +1

    i love your book content :))

  • @Sammie_Sorrelly
    @Sammie_Sorrelly 3 года назад +1

    My main takeaway from all this is that I want the Shakespeare takes.

  • @aronhensley8355
    @aronhensley8355 3 года назад

    gorgeous and smart lol 😍

  • @S5S5066
    @S5S5066 3 года назад +1

    23minutes early

  • @Red-zh3ef
    @Red-zh3ef 3 года назад

    I can't tell if by 'borrowed' they meant borrowed (someone lent them a book and they gave it back after they finished it), or 'borrowed' (taken from a store without paying for it) lol

    • @graveyardpansy
      @graveyardpansy  3 года назад

      lmaooo no borrowed from a friend!! books are generally too big to ‘borrow’ plus i prefer getting books at smaller stores and i only borrow from corporations 💜

    • @Red-zh3ef
      @Red-zh3ef 3 года назад

      @@graveyardpansy Fair enough, and I agree with the only stealing from big brands and supporting small/ family owned businesses. Thanks for telling me, I really appreciate it. Also, I hope you are having a wonderful day!

  • @howdyhoward
    @howdyhoward 3 года назад

    you should really read Zami by Audre Lorde its kind of an auto-bio-memoir but with some magical/fantastic elements and it's just so wonderful as is all of her writing

    • @graveyardpansy
      @graveyardpansy  3 года назад

      It was one of the first books I read this year!!! Absolutely loved it :)

    • @howdyhoward
      @howdyhoward 3 года назад

      @@graveyardpansy oh yay!

  • @quinniewinniefr
    @quinniewinniefr 3 года назад

    I like ur makeup

  • @kanefarmer5255
    @kanefarmer5255 3 года назад

    YOU ARE REAL ONE FOR THE SPREADSHEET! thank you. Please continue making these book reviews!!!!

  • @spectrazone
    @spectrazone 3 года назад +1

    new video woo!!

  • @otherwords1375
    @otherwords1375 3 года назад

    If you liked The Stranger, you should read The Meursault Investigation. It's a postcolonial retelling of the novel from the perspective of the imagined brother of the murder victim (the nameless "Arab" in the original book).

  • @ezrahardyfry9586
    @ezrahardyfry9586 3 года назад

    I really rate your content Ashton. I'm reading 50 books this year, mostly political/ sociological stuff. You've definetly given me a few TBRs so I should thank you for that (:

  • @cecilross2848
    @cecilross2848 3 года назад

    Congrats on meeting your goal! I only read one book in 2020 (multiple webcomics, but I tend not to count those as I read them as they come out). I'm trying out audiobooks this year, so hopefully I'll get through some more! I definitely took a lot of reccomendations from this list, including Nothing to See Here, which from your description sounds like it could be an allegory (purposeful or not) for the way autistic/ neurodivergent people process emotions? I'll have to see if it reads that way in practice, but those were the vibes I got. I think I'm gonna put my goal for ten books this year, so good luck to you and anyone else on their reading goals :D

  • @ДаниилАмиров-ь5б
    @ДаниилАмиров-ь5б 3 года назад

    love WtNV soo much. maybe one day you would check this out. mystical, paronormal, weird, also have sweet-sweet gay couple)
    and other Night Vale book have one interesting character in it. its a teenager who can change their shapes and form and do so depends on their thoughts/mood/situations they in

  • @devonmunn5728
    @devonmunn5728 3 года назад

    All of Stephen Graham Jones works are on my TBR. I'm all for reading Indigenous literature and i research it all the time to see any books i can add

  • @serser3789
    @serser3789 3 года назад

    The moment you spoke I was hoping you did provide the spreadsheet. That's so good of you. I'm going to copy it and make the same thing for myself. Now I'm going to watch the rest of the video :)

  • @char9240
    @char9240 3 года назад

    red white and royal blue isn’t intended to be ya fiction. it’s fully an adult romance (or new adult more specifically) but booktube advertises it soooo wrong. casey describes themselves as an adult fiction writer. i totally understand why anyone who reads it thinking it’s supposed to be ya world be uncomfortable because yeah there’s a lot of sex.

  • @tasto7775
    @tasto7775 3 года назад

    Idk if you heard about storygraph as an alternative for goodreads. It gives you lots of interesting statistics about the books you read and it's not owned by amazon. And you can import your goodreads library

  • @abbykryeski2896
    @abbykryeski2896 3 года назад

    i was so fascinated my the charts for some reason lol. i watched this while doing my makeup and it was the perfect length! it was nice to have someone to “talk to” for an hour. also craving another body posi ashton video!!!

  • @Leo-et8mn
    @Leo-et8mn 3 года назад

    I love Classics Illustrated! At the same time, from the few of them that I've read, "It didn't need to be turned into a comic and I'm not sure why it was" is a pretty good description of most of those books.

  • @Psykie_is_stressed
    @Psykie_is_stressed 3 года назад

    i have had so many arguments over audiobooks being books. I rely on audiobooks as my main book reading at the moment as I can listen to them whilst working.

  • @lord_juri
    @lord_juri 3 года назад

    oh wow i would be reeeeally really interested in what you´ve learned/written on gender in pre-colonial india!! would be awesome if you would share it here

  • @Autoluminescentt
    @Autoluminescentt 3 года назад

    Oooo I'm really obsessed with a lot of music and art from 80s West Berlin so I should read that Gay Berlin book in case they mention it

  • @mirandaphinney6339
    @mirandaphinney6339 3 года назад

    i totally agree that the political aspect of red white and royal blue was completely mishandled. i understand that the author wanted to incorporate a political theme, but it didn’t sit right with me as it relates to actual real world politics. i really liked the romance in that book, but it would have been a much better book had the political element been handled better.

  • @jd-mp3uf
    @jd-mp3uf 3 года назад

    What is the purple colour you are wearing on your lids? It’s such a cool shade and I can never find royal violet colours for eye makeup

  • @thekingrah6882
    @thekingrah6882 3 года назад

    oh no, now i wanna try to read 50 books this year
    i did that last year too, but the reading challenge of good reads didn't work haha, so i stopped counting

  • @thekingrah6882
    @thekingrah6882 3 года назад

    i read if i was your girl two weeks ago and somebody told me that it was t4t, but it wasn't and so i was already disapppointed, but i also just hated the plot in general

  • @Ӝ̵̨̄-з6м
    @Ӝ̵̨̄-з6м 3 года назад

    I'm reading dracula rn I got it for like 20 cents in a thrift store I love it so much!!!

  • @slushie_shrew
    @slushie_shrew 3 года назад

    He's back guys
    They're back woooo

  • @upchuck975
    @upchuck975 3 года назад

    hello it's nice to see another trans leftist who also makes book videos
    Very cool wrap up for the year! also lmao vampire books are 100% lgbt books

    • @upchuck975
      @upchuck975 3 года назад

      okay literally i was gonna do a whole video dunking on the politics in rw&rb but then i ended up getting feelings for the romance cringe emoji

  • @hoeboy8502
    @hoeboy8502 3 года назад

    Could you do a video where you take the 8values test? I think that would be interesting.

  • @gaybowser3647
    @gaybowser3647 3 года назад

    This is very inspiring to me! My goal for the year is 25 books

  • @nothanniballecktor9633
    @nothanniballecktor9633 3 года назад

    My goal for this year is 52 and I've already done 8.

  • @BrightpurpleM0nk3y
    @BrightpurpleM0nk3y 3 года назад

    This eye look is making your eyes look very nicely blue/teal

  • @ezratlas
    @ezratlas 3 года назад

    I LOVE UR BOOK VIDEOS AND ALSO UR MAKEUP

  • @SELVESTiR
    @SELVESTiR 3 года назад

    Your makeup looks really clean and nice in this video

  • @fern-in-wild6919
    @fern-in-wild6919 3 года назад

    Your book content is my fave!

  • @binnes117
    @binnes117 3 года назад

    The link for the playlist! Because it didn't work for me and just in case this happened to other people:
    ruclips.net/p/PLRnz-UzDQAmIbV-zoLzGHwHKZ3Z9dBe4b

    • @graveyardpansy
      @graveyardpansy  3 года назад +1

      ah it might be bc i created the playlist so it’s like.. a diff link for me yknow? thank you, ill update the description !

    • @binnes117
      @binnes117 3 года назад

      @@graveyardpansy no worries!!! Loved the video, I listened to it while I practiced skating for the first time in forever haha

  • @cameroncurtis8168
    @cameroncurtis8168 3 года назад

    loving these bookish vids

  • @Felixjunojackson
    @Felixjunojackson 3 года назад

    Woah thats so many! I read 0

  • @emaileen
    @emaileen 3 года назад +4

    I LOOVE YOUR JACKET AND YOUR MAKE-UP IS SO PRETTY!!💕💕

  • @sp00kyr4t7
    @sp00kyr4t7 3 года назад

    Ill read the good reads✨🧸🌸

  • @vampire-riley
    @vampire-riley 3 года назад

    do u have any advice on focussing? im autistic n cannot focus bc i get so distracted

    • @evilpansy
      @evilpansy 3 года назад +4

      For me I try not to force myself to read too long, just read in short periods or when I’m tired and there won’t be many distractions. Could help to have music and/or a stim toy to keep your mind busy.

    • @keiramagee9523
      @keiramagee9523 3 года назад

      I read with classical music in the background! (any music could work i guess but i find lyrics too distracting) :)

  • @xxxWolFangxxx
    @xxxWolFangxxx 3 года назад

    It’s kind of crazy how many of the same books we read last year (even though I only read 50!)