BIRTHDAY BOOK TAG PART 2

all right good on my end hi everybody welcome back to world hoppers this is a channel where all the adsense revenue goes to charity as well as profits from merch sales and we are doing part two of the birthday book tag because we actually have a lot of world hoppers that have march birthdays but mine in particular in this video it's my birthday in march so and uh we have only three questions but one all of us are giggly and chatty and are pretty sure that we're gonna take up at least an hour to get through these last three questions of the birthday book tag and also one of them has to do a lot with quotes so we're probably going to be reading a lot of quotes off but we're actually going to do that at the end so we're going to skip to question six of the birthday tag and we'll have part one linked down below but this question is about getting older a book that you read a long time ago but you think that you would appreciate it more if you read it as a more mature reader so jade do you wanna go first don't go around skip me because i'm thinking okay um i'm gonna go with i mean i wasn't that young when i read it it was a few years ago and i want to reread it this year actually um it's a series not just one book but the cemetery of forgotten books um i and i haven't read the fourth one that i just it just got translated to english last year and i bought it um so i need to read that labyrinth of spirits but yeah by carlos ruiz stefan um because it's very literary and whatnot and i remember loving the writing style but also being very confused i also they're all kind of standalones that you can sort of read alone but there are two agreed-upon like best ways to read them like orders in which to read them and i read it in an entirely different order that nobody suggests so i think that might have also contributed to my confusion um but yeah i think that i will probably like appreciate the themes a lot more uh reading it now and especially having read a lot more adult fantasy and things like that whereas when i read that at the time i was much more into young adult and whatnot and contemporary and stuff so that one what about you bessie yeah this is hard because i kind of stopped reading in middle school and high school um and i feel like that would have been the age where i i should have read and then i could readdress as an older adult so i'm gonna go with like childhood here and say something that i don't remember at all but i remember reading anne of green gables and heidi as a child and like loving them and i don't remember why i don't remember the stories and i've seen a lot of people recently in the community reading anne of green gables and like loving it like i saw like is it because of christina allen's wife okay i think that it was because also because there was a new adaptation that netflix did and with an e so i think that'll be yeah so i've been seeing like all these awesome reviews of netflix or christina probably yeah um so i i'm really excited to reread those as an adult to see if i appreciate just like like the themes and the messages like just what i was saying um as an adult more i didn't i was like i thought you were going to keep going [Music] um for me uh jane eyre because i read it when i was probably like 12 or 13 and i was mainly at that age in general well me at that age anyway i shouldn't presume um you i feel like you read things more for plot um and so i i mean i liked it i didn't dislike it but it's kind of slow and i remember at the time like very vocally complaining i was like she says she's ugly she said he's old and ugly like why why would i want to be living vicariously through this unfortunate situation like watch like i'm pretty sure i pictured them just as attractive people and ignored the parts where they said they were not and were that was where i was like ah whatever like we're going to hollywood it up in my head they cast michael raspinder as every time i watch that version when he's like um he's like do you find me handsome and she's like no and i'm like you liar yeah person i don't know who this is i don't either he plays magnum x-men movies yeah what's his name michael fassbender oh what yeah okay that is where's it's like he's not your taste you know yeah he's pretty objectively attractive conventional you know beauty standards or like society's views of attract like what's attractive we're saying michael fassbender i like i hate talking about people's looks because i never want people to compare and then like feel bad or you know whatever but like okay you gotta look at him like come on like interview or story whatever that like keira knightley when she was originally like in talks to be playing uh lizzie bennet and that like the director joe wright was worried that she would be too pretty and then it was like oh no it's actually fine if i was here nightly i'd be like excuse me i guess this is my confusion so in the book you're talking about the person is described as being ugly right so if we're saying michael fassbender is ugly it's like mindy kaling in the office when they're talking about is hillary's swing caught and she's like that whole thing like if michael fassbender is old and ugly like i'm sorry i hope to the rest of myself i mean it's basically like the equivalent of like the those like high school makeover movies where like you took the glasses off her and let her ponytail out and she's i do think michael fassbender like plays the role well as an actor like i think he does a good job he can't help how beautiful he is it's not his fault he can't help it i have a very random like nothing to do with books but when we were in ireland and we one time while we were in ireland went on a bus tour because we rented a a van like a to sleep in and stuff right but the roads are tiny and everybody said i'm totally spacing on the road it's like in killarney but the ring of carry i think is the one and we're like we are going to be miserable if we drive this ourselves because we're just gonna be terrified the whole time let's go on a bus tour and we had the most charming bus driver he like sang danny boy to the whole bus he was lovely and he like stopped to point out a house and he was like that's michael fassbender's parents house and it's like wow for random it was a mom oh it would be kind of cool if like if i cared i don't i need to look up who this person is the whole time i don't know i don't either i feel like we will come to him yeah i feel like i'm trying to think i mean he was in the assassin's creed movie i know y'all play video games man no have you seen prometheus no i've seen x-men but who was he an x-men magneto in the new x-men movies like young magneto yeah like not the old guy not patrick stewart yeah okay let me see he'll be like oh yeah right there okay i see what you guys are saying you know oh [Music] to like make him look uglier and like all they did was make him scruffy like he's got some like scruffy beige right like that that doesn't make anyone look i like that yes yeah like that speed is so funny to me it made him more attractive to a lot of people by giving him some stuff like come on we like okay anyway back to the question yeah i like how the questions about being a more mature reader and then we just like we're flabbergasted about that so again like because like that was me when i read it at 12 i was just like i'm scared and like now i feel like i will appreciate like the representation of this independent female at a time because also i like vaguely knew that historical times were not kind to women but like i mainly watched you know pretty cleaned up versions of history at that age like you're not watching really things that go deep at least i wasn't so like your idea of the historical times like oh they didn't have cars and technology but you know wasn't it fun when they wore dresses and things and mr darcy's were the thing like yeah historical times were great unless you were with the old ugly guy but i'm just going to picture michael fassbender so it's fine so like now as a mature reader and someone who like knows more about what it was like as a woman back then what it would have been like for charlotte bronte writing it at the time like the audacity to write this heroine who's like saying no to conventional paths who's not conventionally attractive who like has an independent spirit but like may or may not find her happy ending and then like the gothic mystery of it like even though i know it now like i would just appreciate so much more about like the context in which this was written to as opposed to just being like i wish they were pretty and i wish this was shorter but it's fine that's a pretty good answer i love the first half of that book i just the romance does not do it for me in that book well i actually saw someone talking about this recently because they re-read it and they felt like it i mean i don't know how much back then they would have done that but there's like when you're pressured to change your book because of the market and like she felt that the ending was so tacked on that she sincerely doubted that charlotte bronte wanted to end it like that that she just like threw in the ending because it's this abrupt little like tag basically where you're like did hollywood make you end it like the charlotte bronte like this is not in keeping with the rest of the book oh that's interesting yeah interesting so for my aunt i did this not that long ago and it was it was a mistake so i wanted i loved my english um class in like 8th grade or something like that and we read the odyssey and i just remembered loving it like i loved reading it in class so like i don't know two years ago i was like i'm gonna reread it because it's gonna be so much better this time because i'm older and i'm smarter and i know more and i was like i need a teacher i don't know man allen you need to like walk me through you know it was tempting when because i think i think andy did a reread or something recently and i was like i genuinely don't have a desire to pick that book ever um back up again but i guess um my actual answer would be i did i read these books for the first time maybe three years ago um the lord of the rings trilogy when i was in like finals and just really hard pointing um when i went back to u of m and the writing style i just i i was so thrown off so i'm rereading them right now i just i'm like i just finished two towers this morning video so i'm already i can already say like i'm loving my reread just because it's not as shocking to me like the writing style and i've seen the movies since i read them for the first time um so definitely with like more experience of reading fantasy and having a better idea of what to expect i think that the entire reread will be a lot more meaningful and i will just enjoy it a lot more i remember when i first started reading them i was like i seriously couldn't care less about the 150 names that you're listing in this chapter right now and i'm like how are we still like there's fireworks okay cool like whatever and then now i'm like the fireworks scandals fire you know what i mean i'm like this is so precious and so i just have like a different perspective this morning when i was finishing two towers like because i've seen the movies more times than humans should and like oh at the end of two hours i was like what do you mean she lob is in this book she's in the return of the king she does this does not happen in two showers j.r tolkien you're wrong i uh so funny enough i feel like i'm scared to reread certain books for exactly what brittany was talking about because i'm like am i i'm probably too stupid um i'd like to think i mean you know like you're saying we all believe like i'm older now and i'm wiser but i'm like i was like a really good student in high school i feel like maybe i'm still i don't know but um a lot of those ones that i read in high school like the scarlet letter animal farm i would love to reread a lot of those and i i so i just feel like everybody always complained in english class like nobody wanted to read anything right and so i feel like a lot of it was the teacher being like guys like just like i remember so vividly my english teachers being frustrated because no one cared basically and they're like listen and they would read it to us i had a english teacher that would read the books aloud and he would try to do all the voices and stuff and i felt bad because nobody cared i'm like i care but like prior to you know when kids are like not paying attention it's like hard to be invested in it you know but um i would like to reread a lot of those and then to kind of hop on what jesse was saying about a childhood book i really want to reread the this blew my mind i guess it's actually tamara pierce and not tamara pierce but i would really like to reread the lioness quartet so that's one that i would love because i read that as a little kid with a sister who was five years older i always wanted to like be connected to my sister and like read what she was reading or play what she was playing or whatever and she wasn't a huge reader and i liked books so when she would read something i'm like i have to read what sissy's reading and she really likes that series and so i remember really loving it but then i'm like i wonder how i would feel reading it as not only an adult but without the well my sister likes this aspect in there so probably those those ones nice okay i have answers you guys gave me lots of ideas um definitely a few childhood favorites that i would want to see if they live up to my memories i mean it makes me nervous but um i one of my first like fantasy books that i read when i was younger like fourth to sixth grade i think um were the red wall books and there's a new adaptation coming out and i'm very excited yes there's going to be anime on netflix why are you like lyanna's face is it going to be like a weird cgi thing though because they did an animated tv show when i was like yeah they did an animated tv show um i don't worry about they just like this vgi hyper realistic mice situation i don't think it's gonna be cgi but i don't think we know very much about it um so and i've seen people say that it does like hold up as an adult so i would love to reread those especially because i only there's like 24 of them or something and i out aged them by like the 12th one so i've only read like half of what there is so i think that would be really fun and some other like um when i was around the same age books that i read were i'm a huge diana wynne jones fan and one of the first series of hers that i read was the dale mark quartet i'd love to like revisit that um one thing that i but those are just like for nostalgia i'd like to see if they would like live up but one that i think i might have a different perspective on now is um the philip pullman books i'm totally blanking on the name of the series this is dark materials yeah his work materials i have i haven't watched the new tv show i want to i love them as a kid but i remember um i was i went to church a lot when i was a kid and now i'm atheist and so i remember when i was reading them being like really scandalized by like the questioning of religion and like all of the religion stuff in it um and so i'm curious what i would think of that now if i i feel like i would have a totally different perspective well in particular that series does more to like villainize like organized religion less like less faith more specifically the institution of the church is kind of what it's going after so like i read it when i was very young and i just remember thinking by the end of the series that they were like trying to kill god or something and being like that's like crazy so i don't remember that much about it but i remember like being really uncomfortable with what they were doing with religion so i'm curious what i would think of it now well i will finish the second book and you've made me very intrigued for the finale yeah i think that like it's more in that direction spoilers god dies i don't know i don't even know that's accurate that's kind of what i remember was like i'm not trying to kill you date i remember also in like religious circles people being like those books are bad because they're trying this exact idea i probably wasn't allowed to read them then people were so scared by harry potter having witchcraft and i feel like they were like you know don't worry about harry potter worry about philip pullman because he's like literally going after god he's like anti-cs lewis right hasn't even said that he was kind of i i don't quote me on this but i'm pretty sure he said something about writing almost the opposite of the chronicles of narnia in a sense um but i mean i heard that too he wanted to but it's basically what he didn't do i uh i have a reversal and i i know we've talked about this a little bit before but a reversal jade of what you're talking about of being scandalized then then being curious now as opposed to when i was a kid watching sailor moon and then watching it now being like oh my gosh like there's some of this material it's like a middle schooler in love with a grown man and i'm like what's happening like that's so bad i i just have to say i never watched it as a kid and i started reading the manga and i was like what is happening like i was like yeah okay literally i'm not even talking about usagi uh and like her thing i'm talking about there's like her friend randomly out of nowhere is in love with like a full-on grown man and i'm like aren't you like 12 to 14 and uh and like they don't really question it they're more of like no he's not a good guy though i'm like also he's a grown man but that and like i know i've said it before but there's an episode a whole episode uh early one where she is soggy the main character is freaking out because she's gained some weight and already you're like uh uh-oh like this is and then i i know i use for you what so that's the 90s for you she goes from school and like clearly the one little girl in their group like because they're all telling her like usagi you just need to eat less usagi like you know whatever and then this one little girl who's like clearly drawn bigger than the other ones is just like i don't ever have to worry about that and like the other girls are kind of looking at her like yes you do and i'm just like oh my gosh this joke in this show and this like anyway it's terrible it's kind of funny going back one more for that stephen taylor moon i never thought of it as a kid never like noticed you know what's funny to me is the thing that i was wait i was like wait what this was in this show because we've talked about before we're pretty sure they changed it is the fact that there were definitely gay characters in that show and i'm pretty sure in america like they would change it to make like because the way they're drawn they look like they could be you know instead of two dudes one of the dudes kind of looks feminine and so they just changed the character name so you're like is that a girl and then like as a kid you just you're like i guess it's a girl and it's funny that on one hand i don't think americans cared at all about the like basically fat shaming in and then but then like the gay couple they're like no no so that's kind of uh of that like this is when you need ron to be like they need to sold out their priorities anyway i still love sailor moon is that bad um it was a product of his time uh a book that kept you so the next question a book that kept you incredibly happy during a sad or demanding period of your life this is where the questions get to be like do you want to cry today everyone well um so the one that immediately comes to mind is just i went through um something really tough last year uh in addition to it just being 20 20 um a couple things that were tough i had a rough year last year and i read all of the stormlight archives um and those definitely made me really happy and will always have a special place in my heart because they were a big distraction for me when i was going through some rough stuff so i'm sure i have more answers but off top of my head that's what i remember because it was so recent [Music] um honestly i don't really have one because like i'm trying first of all i was like was like a really sad or demanding period of my life and i mean like going through a divorce was you know a sort of tough time for sure and like going through a really uh toxic traumatic uh breakup after that um but like when i'm in that type of a place in my life i just check out and i watch tv i re-watch crap like true blood or the vampire diaries uh when i went through my divorce i watched how i met your mother for the first time and now that's like just my comfort show when like anything is difficult i'm like let me put i just want to re-watch stuff that i know i like and that i don't have to think that much about and then i can just kind of zone out and like be doing this so i don't really read very much when i'm going through the fair yeah that this is part of why there's sometimes discussions about like it's fine if you like that kind of stuff but you just need to admit that you're really not bettering yourself and like it's lesser and it's uh and i'm just like okay but we're not talking it's not like you're poisoning yourself by consuming i never understand people incapable of recognizing that sometimes when you are going through things some even if you're not but sometimes like you're saying to shauna you were going through things and part of what allowed you to still be a functioning human being who did not take out your difficulties on other people was to have these likes kind of just silly happy like because you're not getting that in your everyday life at that time and so you kind of take care of yourself knowing that this these things can give that to you and so i just that's part of why i'm never about the snobbery yeah it's like i want a lot like i don't like being sad i mean who likes being sad no one like likes it but like i specifically i don't list i like like ballad sad music as far as like it sounds nice but then i'm like i don't want to be sad and this music makes me feel sad so i'm not going to listen to it and oh the opposite and so like tv shows when i'm going through something like that i'm like if i sit here and like just i'm at work and i'm thinking i'm sad because i'm like this sucks right now so i just want to watch something that's going to make me laugh they're going to make me be like oh my god this is ridiculous and yeah happy and be in a better mood yeah better mood until i feel actually better right yeah now that i think about it too like last year what i was going through when i was like really in it i definitely wasn't reading at that point i was doing a lot of tv and a lot of video games because i feel like video games are very like mindless and distracting it was more as i was like coming out of it that i was able to start reading and that's when i was reading stormlight but yeah i'm with you when you're like really like in it for me it's also hard to read um i think it's easier to like zone out with tv and video games i'll uh jump the line for just a sec here sorry but uh i just i i when i said i was opposite i meant like with music because i love sad music but very similar to what both jade and shauna are saying and it's really sad and it's dark but like the video game goes to sushima uh i would play that like i'd put my headphones on and i would play that like all night basically after my dad died because sleeping would not go well first off falling asleep is hard and a lot of people know when you go to fall asleep and your mind wonders and then you're just sad because you're thinking about this difficult thing and then on top of that i've told these lovely people here but when i would fall asleep a lot of times i would have dreams where he was still alive and then at the end of the dream he would die again like he would be back and in the dream there was one in particular where i've told like i said i've told these people before but uh when he died my sister was in town and it was the day that she had just gotten into town and she wanted to make him some food and so we were making him tacos and then he died while we were cooking for him and uh so i had a dream where he was just he just happened to have gone to the hospital which is where they took him obviously and then um he was fine and he was like let's go get those tacos and so we were at a restaurant he went to get we were getting food and then and then like eventually it spirals into him dying again and i don't necessarily want to read super dense or like things that require a lot of concentration i just want to zone out like exactly what we're talking about here so i would play that game like all night until i could hardly keep my eyes open because i when i went to sleep i wanted to fall asleep quick but i also didn't want to go to sleep because i didn't want to have to experience that you don't want to wake up and be like well if there was a chance of me not thinking about this today not going to happen because i'm waking up thinking about it and those kinds of dreams are also super vivid and it's not like the usual dream where well first off that's a whole other conversation about vivid dreams versus ones you don't remember but these are the kind that are very vivid and you wake up and you're like gosh darn it you're like really upset you just start your day mad so um that's why i was like you know what i just i i would start books and then not finish them and i'd start a book and not finish it and i felt bad because you know publicly i'm like here's my tbr and then be like i didn't read like any of these but um so yeah goes to sushima was a big one which is a video game and it's fantastic and i want everybody to play it but um when i was a kid and i had not an easy childhood once again it was a video game it was final fantasy 10 that was just like my my jam i love and jessie said we can play it when i go to visit her and i'm so excited she just helped me date it because she's made my year but also you are gonna cry at the end of that game and it like ready i was talking to alex allen about it because they are also well alex more so than alan but they're fans of that game and i was like i really want jessie to play it and i want to get a reaction of her like at the end because like she's probably gonna cry it'll be so funny and they're like what's wrong with you but like my heart is ready yeah i haven't finished that game either i've played like seventy percent of it i'm i'm bad at it you also jade because both of you a little bit are kind of criers you know 100 percent i know you've been a little bit like a lie yeah well like i was showing jashana reaction videos to people watching the end of that game and it was pretty i was like i was getting emotional again watching the ending of that game but then also laughing at these people this one guy was so red and he just like had his head in his hands he was having a rough time it felt so bad for him but i kind of want to play it oh my gosh britney okay you know we've talked about deshawn and i coming to visit you in michigan sometime and if we do i like well deshawna would probably be bored but like i really want to just like watch you guys play it yeah and oh my gosh i like watching people play video games to actually answer the question as far as a book um i feel like the spin the dawn and unravel the dusk duology was just like the perfect cozy kind of familiar slightly trophy why fantasy and i read that you know last year while all this sad stuff was happening um and just like i don't know just hit the spot like it just made me happy and i'm like i really want this this girl to find love and be happy you know and it i it was it was what i wanted you know i was it was what i was hoping for so i guess that one for a book oh my goodness i i really i don't have a great answer because i'm i agree with you guys like shit's creek is my go-to show for feel good like if i am in with the worst mood or just having a really tough day i just turned on shit's creek and it instant instantly puts me in a good mood um yes her book is hard i think i would if if i was looking for a book to pull me out of a bad mood i actually have it right here because spoiler alert i might quote it uh i'll give you the sign is one of them that would like instantly probably pull me out of a bad mood um honestly city of girls just shot it's like all yes no i was thinking that one too i'm like ooh that would be a comfort book for yeah like those types of books where it you can just kind of laugh it's very like uh whimsical like a very whimsical kind of writing um it is very much a type of escape and it's interesting because i typically don't like whimsical flowery writing styles or more poetic writing styles but thinking about something that would pull me out of a bad mood it's actually i would gravitate towards that writing style more it's interesting because it's it's it's more of escapist maybe like the metaphors like maybe hit differently when you're just feeling when you're in your field emotion that's why i read it much because i just escaped life yeah that's actually i've i've literally just had this epiphany as we're talking that is because i know you also i know quite a few of us in this group like it except for just shawna but strange the dreamer duo would be so good for that one too yeah yeah so uh um jade and i were doing a reading sprint with alan last night and he ended up loving fireborn right and we were like yes and and uh like he loved it he said you know he obviously really likes long price quartet because he read books three and four this year and he's like other than those this might be my favorite thing i've read so far this year and so jaden are like what else like what other and we were thinking she mentioned strange the dreamer because it also has really deep themes and i'm like we might need to hold back on that one for alan like this is a little like the romance is a little more prevalent yeah yeah but he was talking about how he was really appreciating like the themes of like trauma and grief and all of that six of [Music] and i crows like you know you're reminding me so much of strange the dreamer but it's so flowery and the romance is a little heavier i don't know so maybe one day yeah so yeah i think those types of books um and and actually you know i know brittany you love the starless c and i was like putting it off for so long because i was like i don't know if i'd like the writing style maybe that's what i'll reach for if i'm in a bad mood maybe that that is what it takes it's melancholy it's not a cheerful book just keep that in mind but it's very it's everything i was trying to think i mean yeah i mean if i'm upset about something i'm a wallower so i'll just like put on music that i know will make me more sad just wallow i can give you some recommendations like my roommates in college used to make fun of me because i mean honestly i just like sad music just when i'm happy and like whatever they're like don't let lyanna choose the music she only listens to single to your music because they're like it always sounds like some maiden is standing on a hill with a single glistening for anybody that watched watches parks and rec where um oh my gosh what chris is sad and they're supposed to be having some valentine's dance for couples and he's playing this like it almost sounds like old monks like humming and like very dark and like because he's sad because he's single anyway that's that would be you leanna it was just happening yeah possibly so like i don't have an answer for a book that i would that pulled me out because i just wouldn't read anything if i was sad i would just be too busy wallowing full schedule um but um i when i was like i don't know if we can call it a tough time but like a time when i was like purposeless and what i thought was gonna be my purpose was not now going to be my purpose and like didn't feel like i had control over anything so like honestly not reading but writing like for the first time feeling like well i don't have anything else to do so i may as well start putting some of these thoughts on paper and like i had like brainstormed stories in my head for years and years because i've always been a vivid daydreamer it just never occurred to me that like you could write that down like these are full plot lines so like i was like all right let's try writing that down and just like the feeling like you have you're like the god of your own little world and so like having control over that and like being able to like i mean i still do this because like i hate when characters are illogical like we talked about in like the grisha books we're like just talk about it just explain it don't be like this so like i still do this where like i'll write a scene where it's like perfectly the way that they should go if everybody just said the thing that they should say because like it'll if i bottle up my frustration i won't be able to keep writing and i know that the plot needs them to not necessarily communicate well but i'll write it first time where everyone communicates perfectly everything is said that needs to be said and then i'll go back and rewrite it where they miscommunicate like i have to get it out of my system the first time they do it right yeah it's just it's not realistic for everybody to actually say what they mean like i know that this will like stretch out like it'll be better like if they're confused like if they say it in a way where it's like ambiguous and like they make assumptions but i'm like but we write it clearly the first time please excuse luna she wants to be in it she agrees with me she just passed gas so she does that she'll like sometimes when she stands up i i don't think the microphone picked it up but it's like weirdly adorable because she'll stand up and you just hear this like little little noise hello luna please don't burp in my face look at ready see these like clumps of fur this is oh my gosh for the people that have seen my instagram stories poor girl sorry britney go ahead no you're fine i'm not a wallower i'm a death metal angry music listener and let's like scream until my ears bleed i literally have hearing loss from it um but no i think i'm sort of with you guys like if anything i'd rather pick up like maybe manga because it's just uh less words on the page for me to like focus on um so like a sad time at the beginning of the year for some reason now like what will forever be a comfort show for me is castlevania like it's just like it just made me so happy so funny so violent every day i'm just like i never watch this again or like my hair academia yeah i'm like i'm so i miss the characters so i do we need to do some kind of like way where we can both watch it at the same time yeah because every night i would like boxer you and i'm like so i'm on this episode i miss trevor and he's like nah i was like i don't like trevor that much do i i'm like maybe i do because i miss him it's just like a weirdly comforting show to me now which is strange um but for books i don't read really happy books i usually read like depressing books about like i don't know heavy heavy topics um but this year i at the beginning of the year i read the house in the cerulean sea and it just to me lived up to every second of the hype um it made me so happy every single time it was like um something reassuring that i i was listening to it so i just knew like whether i was getting ready for the day or getting unready for the day or showering or whatever i would be happy when i was listening to this book and it would just like bring this little bit of joy to my day um and it was i didn't end up doing it because like too many books too little time but as soon as i finished the book i was like i need to listen to this immediately again because i like just didn't want to leave these characters and it was just so sweet at so many times um and then too like gives you like hope for like people are good and kind yeah and and it has like so much discussion of finding beauty in like the little things in like the day-to-day like it's not the big moments it's the little moments the quiet moments that make your life happy so i love anything about that but also at the end of the year i reread the starlet c um which was my first time rereading it and it was like the most comforting thing i i did not i didn't want the book to end and like i know i can reread it but like i'm already ready to reread it because i love it so so so much it's um probably like the most comforting thing to me in a strange way because it's not like a happy comforting story whatsoever um so i would say those two yay uh before we start this video we're like it probably will take us not much time at all to get through those two questions and now it's i know but this is the one that we were especially saving this video for which was the quotes because some people in this group really love their quotes so does anybody want to start because i know some of us have the question i'll read it off is happy music because of birthday book tag a book with some very beautiful and truly memorable quotes so is there anybody that wants to start first i gotta plug in my computer before it dies okay um i i'm not someone who like collects quotes so i thought i would have a hard time with this but luckily people put quotes on goodreads and so i just went to some books that i remembered had quotes in them that i liked and kind of like looked through some of the popular ones so i looked through three books um i looked through strange the dreamer music nightmares because i love lainey taylor and i think that she always has really good quotes uh but the one that i want to start with is actually maybe you should talk to someone which i read last year and i just think is it's a nonfiction book um written by a therapist and i just think everybody should read it because it's like about why everybody needs therapy basically but it just had some really good like just like quotes that really hit the spot for me that i was just like wow she is speaking some truth you know so um there's a bunch of them but i'll read off some of my favorites uh okay this one we can't have change without loss which is why so often people say they want to change but nonetheless stay exactly the same because it's hard to lose things like you don't even if you want to change like it you know it's hard um oh i remember this one a lot relationships in life don't really end even if you never see that person again every person you've been close to lives on somewhere inside you your past lovers your parents your friends people both alive and dead symbolically or literally all of them evoke memories conscious or not and that one meant a lot to me um not too long after i read it because i had lost someone in my life um peace it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise trouble or hard work it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart people often mistake numbness for nothingness but numbness isn't the absence of feeling it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings when i read that i was like oh mind blown man that is very accurate i can like vividly think of a moment in my life where i felt totally numb like totally numb but it was that exact thing yeah yeah yesterday another day just another thing okay a couple more from this book many people come to therapy seeking closure help me to not feel what they really what they eventually discover is that you can't mute one emotion without muting the others you want to mute the pain you also will have to mute the joy which is really interesting and then the last one from this book happiness equals reality minus expectations i thought that was a pretty good one i have a question about um since you've read obviously the book the numbness uh one if they're saying um if that's like uh what's the context i guess for that quote is it saying that that's something that's just like a reaction in people or that you shouldn't strive for that or it's totally natural and you should accept that that's going to happen sometimes or do you remember i don't remember but i mean the i'm i'm imagining it was probably someone who was feeling numb talking to her and like complaining about it and her saying that it's okay as what i imagined but i can't really remember but yeah a lot of so in that book she she's a therapist and then she's going through a hard time and is seeing a therapist so it's a little bit about her relationship with her therapist but also some of the stories of the people who are seeing her and they go through all different like a bunch of different people who go through different things and just like really eye-opening and like i remember ending that book thinking like it just reminds you that like you never know what someone's going through like there's some characters that when you first meet them and they're not characters they're you know based on real people when you first meet them you're like man that guy's an but by the end of the book you're like okay but he had stuff happening like there's a reason why he's like that um so it's just it was a really good book and i think everybody should read it and then a few that are a little more fun strange the dreamer um i just i think lainey taylor does a really good job of also kind of pointing out some like really like poignant truth uh one that i wrote down was good people good people do all the things that bad people do laszlo it's just it's just that when they do them they call it justice that sounds like something joe abercrombie would write yeah that's like i was like that's kind of actually dark yeah another one that's also um kind of dark is here is a great man and also a good one though few men are ever both boom uh okay one about books without his books his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out uh deshawn is over here like no no she knows what i didn't know i'm teasing because like strange because we're over here like oh scream's a dreamer yeah i have a quote from stranger dreamer in my quote notebook from the first 50 percent that i've read before i know you can people say you can be a fake fan can you be a fake hater because clearly you secretly like it i was just bored i didn't think the writing was just has anyone seen the joy create new editions of strangers because i'm yes yeah i need that lying i'm dying for my birthday which is full circle i mean i'm afraid they're gonna sell out me too i became a lunacorn so that i could get that's what my sister jessica's like here just just join and then but i have a patient at 12 p.m or whenever they release so i'm worried about the timing anyway sorry um yeah okay i have just one more from use of nightmares um once upon a time there was a silence that dreamed of becoming a song and then i found you and now everything is music that's cute okay i'm done um okay i have a couple i'm trying to cut it down most of my credit time so go for it most of mine so the books that like stick out to me are i'll give you the sun i have so many quotes from i'll give you the sun in here city of girls 1 000 like all the quotes from that and then some of the random ones um some from i'll give you the sun one of my favorites is just this one is there's some that are just like silly ones that just made me like what who's like who says that desperate times call for ostrich measures i just this makes me laugh so much cracks me up um oh this one from actually catching fire one of my favorite quotes i think of all time it must be very fragile if a handful of berries can bring it down like just so great good one such a great line uh city of girls hush she said i'm thinking at the top of my lungs um this is like probably my favorite one from city of girls i think it's on the back of the book it's like the blurb quote thing anyway at some point in a woman's life she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time after that she is free to become whoever she truly is it's just i love it so much i love that um and then this one is like there's a moment in the book and no spoilers or anything but it's a moment that i think most of us have probably been through on some level uh these women are in a room partying with some men and then it suddenly becomes a sketchy situation right and the way she describes this like yes that's exactly it the only way i can describe the change in the room was you're having a delightful picnic and then suddenly there's a tornado the barometric pressure drops the sky goes black the birds go silent the thing is coming straight for you and when i read that i was like i know that feeling like oh my god like whatever the end result is or is not i think probably all of us have been in a situation like that where you're just like i'm suddenly a bit scared and need to be out of this situation and i just love how she wrote that uh from house in the cerulean sea you're too precious to put into words i think it's like one of theodore's buttons if you asked him why he cared about them so he would tell you it's because they exist at all um city of girls again just a silly one girls i could watch you effervesce for hours who says stuff that way you know i just i love it i love it so much um and then from pride this is probably one of my all-time favorite quotes also pride by eb zaboy she's describing if i remember correctly she's describing her sister whom she loves and adores and she says she is the warm space between mama and poppy while they sleep and the bills are paid and the fridge is full i just love that like because she feels such like love and comfort and cozy feelings about her sister and like describing it that way i'm just like oops excuse me i was like that's just so beautiful i love it so much so there's mine i'll stop there i love them yeah all the city of girls ones just oh they're so great there's so many ways i feel the need to read it at this point it's a good book um okay well i have to uh represent for imaginary friend [Music] because you're the only one look what is this okay i just have i just have one for imaginary friend adults are bad at remembering how powerful they can be because somewhere along the line they were shamed for their imagination i just love that stuff like the young at heart hey um i have a bunch from stormlight but i like can't say some of them um but i think the biggest moment no context but if you've read it you know it you cannot have my pain is like the the biggest moment it's funny because i have a video where i rank scenes in the store my archive and i'm like i know everybody else loves this moment i'm like it's a good moment but it's not my favorite moment i love it i love it i do have some of these dabby scenes on that list too though so yeah the other one from stormlight that i love i think it was spoken to shalon um was accept the pain but don't accept that you deserved it so i just i love that um and then i have a couple from i'll give you the sun because i love i'll give you the sun as well uh i love that when people fall in love they burst into flames yes although that's just like it's a good one it's so cute um his soul might be a son i've never met anyone who had the sun for a soul i have like a book too and um miracles for there to be miracles i like that you started you were talking about remaining young at heart and i feel like you embody that like all of mine really i just love that at that like message and then um i like the i did not know i was lonely oh this is from the girl in the tower by katherine arden the winter night trilogy that i love um i did not know i was lonely she thought until i was no longer alone which speaks yeah those those were mine so thank you that i also like remember thinking like oh that's a really good quote but i don't have any of them written down there's that one like the i don't i don't think this is too spoiler because there's no context but the whole like honor is dead one like that one's really good too yeah of course that's so good it's so good and then i i um actually was editing uh a book diary for rhythm of war and there was one in there that i like read out loud in my video that i i can't like repeat because i don't remember it but it was also really good so sperm white definitely has some good ones yeah rhythm of war has a lot of really good remember a lot of them like like a lot it's like she flips open i know i had a i'm like i don't know how many of these were going to do so i bookmarked one of them but i mean i have broken up spoiler chats into five parts so if you want to see more you know i mean how much time you guys got exactly leanna do you have any yeah i'm very on brand i bet all of you can guess what did i ever copy no no actually no name of the wind yeah when i first picked up strange the dreamer like my thought for the like when i first read like the first page was for the first time since reading name of the wind that i was like this is that level of like poetry and so like but it's still it was like very nearly but i've literally never read anything that i felt was like every line is a quotable quote like i think a lot of great i mean i think abercrombie is great i think taylor's great i think leigh bardugo's great lots of great quotes but rothfuss i'm just like the sheer poetry like i don't i've never read anybody that matches that so did you have you read the star lucy no oh okay like uh have you read the one that's like actual poetry though i limited it to four quotes um and the first one i think is really in keeping with the question that we answered earlier that was like a book that you read when you're going through a tough time i think this quote speaks to that um which is there are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity while this may not seem beneficial it is there are times when reality is nothing but pain and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind and that's what we're literally describing yeah exactly um and then i've always loved this one uh words are pale shadows of forgotten names as names have power words have power words can light fires in the minds of men words can ring tears from the hardest hearts there are seven words that will make a person love you there are ten words that will break a strong man's will but a word is nothing but a painting of a fire a name is the fire itself i'm just like it sounds like rothfuss using words to describe the magic of his own words you know why i love books because like i do not feel the same like the reactions you know i'm saying like before we started jessie and i were laughing at like i love kingdom of back and what you were describing lyanna about when you start a book and you're like this is it and then jesse was like i i was okay [Laughter] um this is a super short one and it's just you do not know the first note of the music that moves me i just feel like like this one is the one that i referenced the most that like on a pretty regular basis like literally copy paste it into like replies to comments on my channel and that is hang on it is [Music] anyone can love a thing because that's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket but to love something despite to know the flaws and love them too that is rare and pure and perfect i do like that one too you're making me want to read the name of the wind oh no geez now i want to pick that i'm over here like i've read it no good not my favorite i'm excited to reread it i haven't read it in a long time that was all from me um i have four as well but me and mine are long so i'm gonna try not to like stumble over my words a whole bunch i did i i was like the anxiety reader in class i would like count ahead like practice in in like what what passage am i going to read um the first one from dark dawn jay kristoff i am the war you cannot win that i have tattooed is one of my favorite quotes ever so i have it tattooed that's a pretty awesome one yeah i just it it means a ton to me so um from the magicians there's two so that book deals with like destination happiness a lot i suppose and like people just choosing to be miserable and so the one says um for just one second look at your life and see how perfect it is stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead to your real life stop waiting this is it there's nothing else it's here and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go for the rest of your life forever i just like that's so simple and like so obvious but i don't know it's like the theme of that whole book and i feel like that quote is something at least i i can only comment on american culture i suppose uh but it's something that speaks to i feel like american culture a lot is that like we're there's this chase there's always this chase for the next thing and yeah i don't know that quote that's a great quote actually i'm i cut in there was one that i didn't read but that one reminds me of this quote that's in maybe you should talk to someone we tend to think that the future happens later but we're creating it in our minds every day when the present falls apart so does the future we had associated with it and having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists yeah that's really that one makes me sad these are all so sad i know sorry no cry out so be prepared so this next one um he's speaking to the group in referring to them as magicians but i really think it like the word magicians when i read it could just be substituted for like a particular group of a type of people um so he's uh let's see sorry i have to find where it starts he's he's asking why they think they're magicians is it because you are brave and good is it because you're special maybe who knows but i'll tell you something i think you're magicians because you're unhappy a magician is strong because he feels pain he feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it or what did you think that stuff in your chest was a magician is strong because he hurts more than others his wound is his strength most people carry the pain around inside them their whole lives until they kill the pain by other means or until it kills them but you my friends you have found another way a way to use the pain to burn it as fuel for light and warmth you have learned to break the world that has tried to break you so obviously like you can put yourself in place of magicians i it's kind of reminiscent of the you cannot have my pain sort of thing like yeah these are so good do you have more yeah one more okay is that okay yeah please use as many as you want yeah because it's my it's my favorite one so this is this is literally how can i put this in all the pink are like everything i love there's so many tabs but i'll read my favorite one from the star with c um it says oh gosh how much of this can i read she is a small girl too small to be wandering alone to be wandering in the woods alone but she is not lost a girl lost in the woods is a different sort of creature than a girl who walks purposefully through the trees even though she does not know her way this girl in the woods is not lost she is exploring this girl is not scared she is not unnerved by the darkness of the clawing shadows cast by the trees in the late afternoon sun she is not bothered by the thorns and branches that tug at her clothes and scratch at her skin she is young enough to carry fear without with her without letting it into her heart without being scared she wears her fear lightly like a veil aware that there are dangers but letting the crackling awareness hover around her it does not sink in it buzzes in excitement like a swarm of invisible bees i won't read more because there's like two more paragraphs that i've highlighted and this is kind of lengthy but that's the first part of it so maybe you need to start the scene look i just like teared up a little bit like that just you know i wanted to surprise you but i did buy the starless c recently i wanted to wait and then surprise you about it but i feel like i had to say it now when are you reading it i don't know like when your birthday birthday's toward the end of the year right yeah december yeah yeah yeah maybe around december then yeah because it's right it's right around christmas right then 18th yeah okay so i'm like i just feel like everybody should read between the world and me like when i was reading this book slash listening because i did you know mix i was like i wanted to constantly stop and tab everything and i was like you know i can't like just it's a short book everybody should read it it's great it's very difficult i feel like i'm my quotes like we should have ended with happy ones because mine are gonna be like so freaking depressing but i'll i'll stick to uh two different books one being rhythm of four and then one being the kingdom of back and i'll explain why the kingdom of back for me is i feel like i have a connection to it in a way that's maybe a little different and that's because i majored in music and a big theme about this book is being forgotten and specifically this particular woman being forgotten because she was a woman in a time where that like women were not valued for what they wanted to do if that makes sense it's like what society tells them you are valued for that's what you can be remembered for and her being a musical genius is not what she was remembered for it's it's a based on a real person which was wolfgang amadeus mozart's sister who was equally if not more so talented than him and most people don't know it and majoring in music like it's all you know it's kind of like yeah also he had a sister and she was also musically inclined and that's about it so even majoring in music we don't spend time talking about her kind of a thing and so much of the books themes are about like being forgotten and her relationship with her father and the expectations that are placed on her and it's just like one of the quotes early on is um it just says i am afraid of being forgotten and then someone says forgotten what a fear for a little girl and they said someday i won't be little anymore because like once you get to basically being like time to be a wife that's when you're like you don't get to have any other purpose essentially so like that that one makes me sad um but this one too no matter how talented i was no matter how well i performed or how much i charmed i could never stand uh where her brother would and that one's a bummer but this one this is the one that i'm just like when i read this i was like ha so it's talking about how she like she's perfect she does everything she's supposed to do and it doesn't matter so it says she's thinking about her father here excuse me it says he tells you to play so you play he tells you to curtsy so you curtsy he tells you what you are meant to do and what you are meant not to do so you do and you do not do he tells you not to be angry so you smile you turn your eyes down you are quiet and do exactly as he says in the hopes that this is what he wants and then one night you realize that you have given him so much of yourself that you are nothing but the curtsy and the smile and the quiet that you are nothing it makes me so sad i don't know this stupid book jesse how dare you say this book i loved those stuff in real life i loved all of that i know the magical aspects of it are definitely like not everybody's favorite they're weird too i feel like i almost would like that do you think i would like it i yes i do and i think you would like the magical like i always say it's kind of like magical realism okay well the magical parts of it really reminded me of jonathan strange and mr norrell the way that it makes magic come into like a historical time period it really super reminded me of that i don't know if you've read that but if you like it i haven't i just read piranesi and it was like my favorite thing so i think you would like i think you would like it um there's also this quote where she's um she wants so badly to share her music with her father and so she's thinking i am composing my own music it is mine from my hand alone i wrote it for myself and i wanted to share it with you do you see me i'm like oh why can't you appreciate her like it makes me so sad i feel like i can't keep reading my stupid quotes because i'm gonna start finally did you not save a single happy one don't save happy quotes that's not true there's like there's a couple cute like quotes from like sill being silly or something but i think anybody who's read store my archive knows the part where a certain someone tells a story about a dragon and a dog and that whole chapter is amazing but also just this part and i'm gonna you know remove names and everything from this but also this is of course applicable if you get depressed but even if you if you don't have depression like everybody experiences difficult times so um the person who is sad is saying it won't be like that for me you told me it would get worse and then the other person says it will but then it will get better then it will get worse again than better this is life and i will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine but there will be sunshine again and that is a very different thing to say that is the truth i promise you you will be warm again my husband's brother is a storm archive fan too and he's like more into the kinds of fantasy that are like uh swashbuckling type to it to a to a degree like he likes the second era i miss more books more than the first cause i eat up the doom and gloom and he's like i mean everybody's always like moping you know like so he said rhythm of war was his least favorite of the four and i'm just like how dare you start like because it's you know it's very emotional it is this one i almost like i almost feel like i need to put up a trigger warning for this one so just know if you get sad a lot to the point of like having some not great thoughts that this is a difficult quote but it says you just want to stop existing you don't want to actually kill yourself not on most days but you figure it should would be convenient if you weren't around anymore i thought there would be a part two to that quote that was like however what you need to remember is but you're like starting with your therapy in a fantasy plan so i guess in a way it's hopeful because they're talking like they're getting their feelings out you know so this is why everyone says i need to read rhythm of war yes anybody who tells you britney that it's not really like worth your time no every see everybody says it's going to be my favorite because of the type of quotes you're reading i think it was like the most emotional like i just i haven't cried in that series me neither kill this one and i cried like a baby i cried so many times i'm not a crier and i was like getting like ah don't start crying on camera it's the mental health in in that book is very impactful like i don't know it was just so many like i have so many other one of them that i didn't read off is basically like somebody asked them if they're happy and they're like they're not sad and that they would accept not sad today and you're just like i feel that so it just speaks it speaks to me you know but i i know it's not the easiest some of those quotes are not easy to read so but yeah i don't know there's so many times i'm like brandon sanderson what are you doing to me right now man i wish i could read the one that was in my video today how dare you i'm a little bit hopeful one it was like a hopeful one oh and better one to end on than killing yourself i never like i never tab anything and i never write quotes down i'm just like just generally i'm like oh this is a good writer like they've a lot of this has been probably quotable but like when i was reading probably the one of the darkest books i've ever read in my life i literally stopped and grabbed my bookmark and wrote it on the bookmark because i was like i want to get this tattooed on me and that was dark age by pierce brown and it's a really short which is why it's perfect for a tattoo and it's just valleys make the mountains oh that's cool i like that one i'm really bummed i didn't write down any males on quotes because he has some of the best quotes even not really one we can end on one i'm trying to look up the one but go for it one of my fave might probably one of my favorite because it's one that like i remember it i can quote it like without reading it a lot of the times like from uh adverbs by daniel handler which isn't a book i really love and he's lemony snicket who wrote a series of unfortunate events but love i think it's the intro line to the book i believe love was in the air so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner oh that's cute who there's a there's a quote i would have read but who all in here has read number night i read the first one there's a particular scene of mia describing what it's like to be called certain oh yeah though that's one of my favorite book quotes i actually have but i won't say the work done and i didn't like dark dawn and i unhauled the series but one that is fun is someone saying you know what they say what doesn't kill me had better effing run that was a good one yeah i have all kinds of quotes like i save sad ones touching ones ones that just make me laugh like that i really want to say like i tab and is it like super conceited if i share like my favorite quote from my own book is that like the stupidest one so like any because sometimes people ask for signed copies and i'll be like you know do you want anything written and sometimes people are like write your favorite quote from the book and i'm always i always feel like dumb like you know i especially liked this one but there's a part in the book where a character is um like basically saying like i know that you're just trying to like take power from me like that sort of a dynamic and the other character is basically giving them like a why would i even bother with you kind of reply and um they tell the other person like why would a lion eat what's already dead and rotting and i'm just like that's like that perfectly embodies that character too of just like the no i'm not like i don't know i like it that's a good one i found my stormlight quote yay or maybe not i don't know this one's like a little more hopeful than the other stormlight quotes uh so this person asks a character how how do you still fight and they respond the same way you do one day at a time always taking the next step don't get yourself killed but also don't give up hope that is also a great quote i feel like we could do a whole video for those of us that are star my fans at leanna uh just like my favorite store my quotes what's the one about i i'm gonna butcher it and just completely ruin it and it's in rhythm of war or yeah it's the dragon dog part and it's like the ending of that where it was like the the dog wants to be the dragon and then at the end of the story he's like why would i ever want to be a dragon like that being a dog is like just like oh it's something that reminds me of like in name in the in wise man's fear when ori has that whole conversation about a lettuce thinking that it's a lettuce and how sad that is do you know what i'm talking about no i don't know what that is oh waiting it's not spoilery it's just ori is it the are you sorry i want to make sure there's the part where i said i could not become a dragon i am an utter and complete failure and then like but that's like but in that paragraph the context is that the dog is happy and so it's like are you thinking that yeah it's it's like the the final like thing of that story and it's about just the dog realizing like i don't want to be a dragon like yeah so it says um that night it rained on the other dogs who slept outside in the cold barn which leaked but the little dog snuggled into a warm bed beside the fire hugged by the farmer's children his belly full and as he did the dog sadly thought to himself i could not become a dragon i am an utter and complete failure that's it and this and then the person says the end okay and then but then okay but then they keep talking and okay yes so then the two characters after are talking and then they're like well wait but like obviously this is the point of the story and then yeah okay you know what i have one um that i feel like is particularly relevant any meaning is for you to assign i merely tell the stories i'd be like maybe we can end on that yeah that's a good one i love that good times everybody yeah more like i feel like this videos should be titled like emotional traumatic quotes that the last prompt is happy music when we're like wallowing in sad music and i'm like let me bless my death metal and then everything like happy music i heard that nate like title of question didn't fit the question because beautiful and memorable quotes aren't usually happy yeah they're certainly not for me yeah either i mean yeah i was like shoot do i even share some of these they were good i really feel good yeah i feel like this was like a therapy session you know like just force strangers to talk about how they deal with trauma through stories and pretty quotes and stuff so thanks everybody for joining us today happy birthday to me i hope it's sunny where you are right now it's literally not it's i live in the desert and it's raining too super overcast it's like for sure dark out here yeah it's for sure sunny here as it has been shifting for the entirety of this video i did enjoy this video though sometimes you need the deeper stuff you know absolutely imagine if i had accidentally never hit to record oh my god oh my god like that would be the worst time for that to happen like we had this like bonding session and then it's like never mind whoops take it from the top guys let's do that again okay well anyway truly though thank you everybody for joining us i hope you enjoyed our like giggly slash almost saab fest and uh happy birthday to me have and great rest of their day bye

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Id: 5WGi_UGGP2A

Length: 78min 30sec (4710 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 17 2021