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Why didn't you like "I'm glad my mom died" by Jeanette Mccurdy? Or did you actually like it but didn't want everyone mentioning it because it went viral? I'm just curious.

Just completed this book and I loved it

Yay I'm glad you liked Doppelganger too! Best thing I've read all year, still. 💛

I just finished A Fine Balance, I am still in shock of how miserable life could be. A great book, a masterpiece…

Earthlings 📚 😊

i think the part where richard is sleeping in the cold for so many days over christmas break was important because it showed what he was willing to put himself through instead of face his real core issues with his family.

am i the only one who was still upset they murdered bunny? lolz i mean obviously from the letter that was later discovered it’s clear there are other ways people could have found out! they were being a *little* dramatic

I loved Earthlings! It was WILD. I'm tempted to do what you did and scrap the rest of my list and make a new one. I'm feeling very mood reader-y this year so its been making it harder to stick to my TBR. I never got to my book last month because I just never was in the mood for fantasy...

Earthlings....

I have to read Wifedom and Doppelganger for the current Booktube Prize round so I'm glad to hear you enjoyed both so much. Biography of X - what a feat of writing (even if I thought some of the alternative history was shaky at times)! -Becks

Definitely Year of Wonders. It is such a fantastic book. The book I most want to read from my stack is The Sisters Brothers so choosing that one. Also have Remnants on my TBR but not in my stack. 🙂

I really liked Convenience Store Woman but Earthlings was a bit too disturbing for me.

A Handful of Dust. Ann Patchett said her next book is being inspired by this novel.

Year of Wonders is great....also Annabel from your discarded stack was enjoyable too.

I loved Year of Wonders, but think you should go with Earthlings... why, you say? 🤷‍♀️

I did not read my book from last month (Contact). Oops. Maybe I can play some catch up in June. I think what I most want to read is The Remains of the Day. This prompt is tricky!

I really enjoyed Annabel that is in your discarded "for now" stack. I have Earthlings in my TBR and hope to read it this year.

Year of Wonders. I read Earthlings, it is very thought-provoking and great but I wouldn't wish it on anyone 😱🧡💛

Great prompt. I’m going to be reading ‘Notes on a Scandal’. I’m currently reading ‘Pet’ by Catherine Chidgey. Seems I’m going through a weird teacher phase. Enjoy your book, whichever you choose.

Enjoy your June reading, maybe I could ask ChatGPT to pick out a book for me to read.

My vote is for Earthlings. I really enjoyed Convenience Store Woman and I definitely want to read Earthlings so I'd be curious to hear your review :) I'm not participating in the spin, but I'm finally going to read Dune next. You may have to see a doctor about the book store blackouts😵‍💫😆

Best book I’ve read so far this year is the new release Everest Inc about the genesis and rise of the whole guiding industry in regard to Mt Everest. Really fascinating!

I've yet to read my copy of Norm's book and keep putting it off because my hopes are subterranean at this point :P Have never heard of the Goblin Emperor but colour me intrigued

Thank you for your honesty! I was wondering about Prophet Song and now I know to give it a pass.

Thank you for validating my conflicting feelings I had after reading Norm MacDonald’s book. I didn’t even finished it I hated it so much. But then I felt like a bad comedy nerd for not giving it a chance. 🥴

I’m listening to Sociopath now and really enjoying it so far. I’m only 6 chapters in so we’ll see how it goes. You’ve read some interesting books! Hoping to get to Biography of X, Doppelgänger and In Memoriam this year.

Poisonwood Bible is where i learned about the Apocrypha for the first time! I also remember laughing out loud about a scene regarding a parrot and one of the daughters going to the bathroom outside?? Anyway, I really want to read The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Also, I am listening to Doppelgänger on audiobook and really like it so far!

I love this video! I am always looking for good reviews. I completely agree with your thoughts on My Year of Meats. I also really enjoyed Thursday Murder Club. Butter sounds really interesting! I am adding it to my TBR right now. Doppelganger and The Talented Mr. Ripley are going on the list as well. I just finished In Memoriam last week!

I've been loving the Women's Prize for Nonfiction this year too. Definitely the best longlist for any book prize from the last few years. I got lots of great recommendations from this video - thanks Jill ❤

Love you friend!! 💛 I think even for me that came to BookTube late , I miss the period where you, Rick and several others were making all this great content. I felt apart of the community even though I dont make videos.

Great video! My TBR is a little bigger for it 😊

this was a delight!!!

Great video :) Benny is such a gorgeous cat! I’m making my way through the women’s non-fic prize, but sadly had to dnf Wifedom. I really liked the historical parts, but didn’t enjoy the author’s stories. She lost me when she had a short chapter about some run-in with a rock star boyfriend of a friend of hers-something like that anyway. I haven’t gotten to Doppelganger yet, but am looking forward to it. Cheers!

I felt the same way about Where the Crawdads Sing. Really enjoyed it when I didn't expect to!

Just wanted to listen. Thank you.

I’m nearly finished with Doppelgänger. It does breach a number of topics but it’s tied together so perfectly just reflecting on the shadow. It’s like dipping into alternate reality without discussing A.I. I also agree the Nonfiction Women’s Prize list was top-notch and I’d like to focus on it more next year. The fiction list feels like it’s set up to span a number of reading tastes and genres, but the nonfiction list is just one fascinating read after another. I am bummed that Eve didn’t make the shortlist. It’s my current top read of the year.

I remembered in a previous video when you mentioned how much you enjoyed The Thursday Murder club. The next day I was in a thrift store and found a copy for a couple of bucks and bought it but I've yet to read it. Someone told me there are a lot of characters and you have to really concentrate to keep it all straight so my executive dysfunction has kept me from starting it so far, but I really want to! I also have Where the Crawdads Sing on my shelf that I have yet to read. I'm such a mood reader that unless a book grabs me fairly quickly, I put it down and look for a new one. Right now I've started Giovanni's Room thinking if I read some short books to get my literary juices flowing better I met get on a roll again, but there it sits, next to me on my table while I'm on UA-cam...thanks for another great video, Jill!

very diverse favourites! i love it!

Completely agree with you about Sociopath. I disliked that book so much. The repetitiveness, the contradictions, the gaps in her life was all too much. Also her constantly bragging about being a sociopath got on my nerves. Throw in the fact that she took no accountability for her actions and always claimed no one understood her, accepted her, supported her, made this a very long book to finish. I only did so because I was buddy reading it and hoping things would change. The only parts I liked was when herresearch and discussing sociopathy in comparison to psychopathy and the relationship with anxiety disorders.

Added a couple of those to my tbr. I've read 32 books so far this year. Kicked off 2024 with two 5-star reads: Book 9 of the Wayward Children series and The Adversary by Michael Crummey. Other 5 star reads for me: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott, Braiding Sweetgrass, Island Witch by Amanda Jayatissa, Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele, Mockingjay, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Spring by Ali Smith, Yellowface, Moon of the Crusted Snow and its sequel Moon of the Turning Leaves, and Gender Queer. I'm currently reading Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina and Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel.

I have a similar reaction to Naomi Klein's Doppelganger. The politics in the book doesn't bother me especially when I find Klein's point of view very empathetic. It changes the way I look at "us and them", and how to confront my own opinions. Caste is on bedside table pile - happy to hear your endorsement and excited to read it soon. Thanks for the reviews.

I'm with you on Biography of X. You are so good at pinpointing the things and reasons this and other books end up 4* instead of 5* for me.

Funny enough Judy Poovy was my favorite character

You are beautiful. Thank you for the video.

I love your voice. You should narrate audio books. Thank you for the video and the book recommendations.

Thank you! I just picked up Untamed and started reading it tonight. Well-written and engaging so far.

Boy did I tear up while watching this! Grateful for your vulnerability and so happy to see your beautiful face pop up in my subscriptions! You put into words some big things I have been feeling lately and haven’t been able to clarify, and they just clicked watching this. Your words are powerful, my friend ♥

What I absolutey love about this book is how at the behining we fall in love with all the characters and by the and of the book we absolutely hate them. I don't like the books where the characters are too good to be true. I prefer books with moraly gray characters. Also the way the plot unfolds... It is briliant! We descover things alongside Richard but looking back the clues are sooo obvious. Plus the fact that we can never know what happened because we only get Richard's VERY biased point of view.... This book is just a *chef's kiss

I love seeing these types of videos! Thank you for sharing your experience with us. The pandemic was in some ways a great time for me (fortunately, I know many were suffering immensely during that time) I was in school, falling in love, it was wonderful. 2019 was probably one of the best years of my life so I was riding that high. Things started to go downhill 2021 and in 2022 I went through the worst event of my life, a terrible breakup. I’m honestly still recovering from that and what lead to it and how I did actually lose some of myself during the pandemic. I’m not where I’d like to be and with 30 on the horizon it’s been hard to accept that. I did meet a group of internet friends during and because of my breakup that were so important to me just getting through that. Now many of them have found new relationships and we don’t talk much, so I find myself nostalgic for that time when we did. Don’t really know what the point of that rambling was lol but I guess just.. relating in roundabout ways to your story and having connections online is such a blessing even if the don’t last forever

Interesting take on prophet song, I absolutely loved it.