if you liked these books...read these next!! | a little round of 'this or that' | book recs

hi guys welcome back to another video let's play a little round of this or that today shall we more specifically i mean by that if you like this book please accept my recommendation of that book okay let's get started round one in the one corner we have normal people by sally rooney or realistically if you like anything by sally rooney in general what i can recommend to you is exciting times by nisha dolan thank you to my dear subscriber valeria for telling me how to pronounce that i did not fact check if that's actually true so i hope you're not trying to screw me over girl i'm just gonna trust you on that one okay so i recently talked about this in my september reading wrap up quite extensively but just to compare to sally rooney's work um first of all i found the writing styles of these two authors to be quite similar like this it read like a sally rinney book plus also like the topic this author talks about is also quite sally rooney adjacent as like we have um a young protagonist in her early twenties and her toxic relationships to other people and to herself as the main focus of this narrative plus outside of this discussion of her relationships there's not a lot of external plotline happening and that as well feels very sadly rooney to me now this more specifically is about 22 year old ada moving to hong kong after she finished her degree in ireland and in hong kong she starts working as an english teacher but that's not really what this book is about this book is about two relationships she's thoughts in hong kong and how they kind of take up her entire life basically personally i would call them toxic relationships that she has with these two people toxic in the sense that they kind of like take over her entire life because she lets them basically because she doesn't have a lot life outside of these relationships in hong kong now um i also find that that is mostly what sally rooney talks about of we do get to know her protagonists on some level of course we get to know something about their past etc but mostly sally rooney's work is about the relationships her protagonists have with themselves and with other people be that romantic relationships or like friendships and none of these relationships i guess i mean i guess that's the point no relationship ever is perfect but she makes a point of presenting relationships that are like really really really not perfect i think if you liked anything by sally rooney i could recommend to you exciting times by nisha dolan moving on to second round if you like kimchi young born wait what was it 1982 i want to say i hope that's correct i can recommend to you please look after mom by kyon sakshin or shin kyung suk um now kim jiang being this analysis of everyday misogynism and microaggressions that women have to face all throughout their lives and then also focusing on sacrifices women have to make when they decide to become mothers i can recommend this to you this also i mean look at the title yes this is also like a deep analysis of the protagonist's relationship to their mother because this book is about our protagonist's mom going missing and isn't there a proverb that goes like you only know to appreciate something once it's taken away from you kind of and it's similar in this situation only when their mom goes missing her children it's about each of them kind of like reflecting on their relationship with their mother and the things she did for them in in their past what she gave up for them how she sacrificed herself for them etc so if you especially liked about kim jiang that the aspect of motherhood and the sacrifices that includes have a look at please look after mom now moving on round three to my favorite author which is agatha christie if you particularly like agatha christie's and then they were none i can recommend to you the decagon house murders this is a japanese take on and then there were none it literally references this book quite a lot because in this book our protagonists are the members of like a criminal literature society at kyoto's university and they are also big agatha christie and like other criminal authors fans and they um if you know the plot of and then they were not you know that it takes place on a secluded island and the people who get invited to that island by an anonymous person start getting killed off one by one and we have a very similar scenario in this book as the members of this club they also visit a island in the bay of kyoto and well they start getting killed off one by one so we have this very parallel storyline but obviously it's it's still different but if you like that setting per se and also like if you like references to agatha christie and such i can recommend to you the decagon house matters now let's talk basically anything dark academia like specifically on the thumbnail i put if you liked ninth house um these are other fellow dark academia books that i can recommend to you now i took out one of them right here and that is if we were villains it has similar vibes to ninth house in the sense that both take place on university campuses which is like a quint essential dark academia setting right plus both involve murder murder plus academia that's basically everything you're looking for in dark academia now ninth house is obviously the like phantom adult fantasy take on that trope i would say this is like the shakespeare take on that trope as our protagonists in this book are all part they're all studying drama at this prestigious um university in well i would guess new england right they are all in new england basically and one of them gets killed and the narrative is then reiterated 10 years later once our protagonist who was convicted for the matter but who didn't actually do it tells the detective who investigated the case what actually happened other dark academia books you could definitely check out if you liked either one of these two are the mother of all dark academia novels and the secret history by donna tartt you could also check out um alex mckee leaders the maidens taking place in cambridge university so an english university campus both of those also involve murder of course again murder plus academia that is what dark academia is right if you're looking for something more y a i would say i can recommend to you either truly devious which is like the first part in the series personally i only read the first part um this is about again like it's prestigious not university but like a boarding school or something like that and our protagonist i think her name was stevie she goes there uh to investigate a murder that took place at that school like a bunch of years ago like a few decades ago right um and she starts investigating that and and so forth right um i uh did i did not overly enjoy that i remember like i was surprised that even though this is like obviously a ya novel it was surprisingly violent i think i remember especially at the end i thought it was quite a bit of violence and like potentially traumatic instances that was kind of like shocked by i guess um but i mean i it was still okay but i think at the time the second and the third novel they were not out yet plus because i didn't love it i didn't feel like i wanted to continue this series but definitely now looking back on it it had these stock academia vibes going on and last but not least a recommendation is a lesson avengers now i have not yet read that it is on my tbr though this again takes place um in like a boarding school so we have like a ya setting as our protagonists are all quite young um and the main girl that is going back to school um she's investigating the murder of either like her best friend or her roommate who got killed last year that's basically all i know and it's supposed to be quite good so another dark academia recommendation for you now if you liked round five is at this point if you liked one of us is lying i can recommend to you um the inheritance games now i actually i have copies of these books of all of these books basically but i don't want to rip them out of my neatly organized bookshelf because i have the monica gala syndrome okay so you're just gonna have to make do with these digital pictures i'm gonna start right here so i'm recommending these books for people who liked either one because most people who talk about the inheritance games they always put it into the same sentence as knights out the movie but i actually don't think this is doing the movie justice because the movie is it's like this ingenious murder mystery that's taking place in the adult world though whereas i thought that the inheritance games very similar to one of us is lying is set in this like why a teenage setting and that's kind of like why i personally couldn't compare these two because personally i am well beyond my enjoying anything high school setting days so that's just like what struck me for both of these books um i enjoyed them but i couldn't enjoy them fully because i did not enjoy that high school aspect of them and both one of us one of us is lying at the inheritance games have that so if you're okay with that aspect of a novel i guess you could enjoy either one so um of course one of us is lying it's about again like a murder mystery taking place at a high school in our four suspects they are trying to solve what actually happened the inheritance games is about our main protagonist who becomes the heir of like a billionaire who she doesn't know and she's invited to his estate and like all the other family is gathered there and of course they all start to hate her because she's getting all the money and everything else but to actually get the money and the assets and all of that she has to live in that big mansion for an entire year and now our grandpa the belgana he was he was a puzzler he liked everything mysteries and puzzles and all of that and like he teached all his grandsons to well solve puzzles i guess so the house is not like a normal house they're like secret passages and all of that right but as i just mentioned there's her teenage girl and then there are these hot grandsons and all them fancy her of course and she fancies all of them and it's basically like especially like a love triangle between two of the grandsons and her and personally i am that's like also another trope i'm well behind i do not need another love triangle in the books i'm reading i did not really enjoy that aspect of the book and it's quite a big part of the book and also about the second book that just came out i heard so that's personally why i i liked what it was about in theory but then this entire like love high school setting came into play and that's where it kind of lost me but that's why i can recommend to you these two books if you liked either one i think now moving on to round six already if you're like son of achilles or um cersei by madeleine miller is it i can recommend to you ariatne simply because this is another greek mythology retelling and if you like these two novels by madeline miller because it introduced you to greek mythology and you really found yourself interested in that obviously you can check out another one of those and that would be for example ariadne and now last but not least kind of a honorary mention around seven if you like dolly alderton's ghost i cannot yet fully speak on this because i'm only can you see like 25 through but the vibes i got from this really reminded me of olive by emma gannon it reminded me of that other novel because of the the way the narrative flows the narration style in general plus both our protagonists are like women in their early 30s and about their lives basically the questions and decisions they are facing at that stage of um at that stage in their life olive mainly like solely focuses on the question like do you want children do you not want children and how olive decides that she personally does not want children and how she has to like um explain that to her friend who answered that question differently plus how how she basically has to explain herself to not only her friends her family but like society in general and it talks about those um i love the pressures and standards that revolve that question now um as far as i can tell ghost by jolly alderton does not focus on that question but it's also about our protagonist wait what's her name nina i'm still reading it and i don't already know the name anymore that's embarrassing anyway it's about nina's um dating life as well she just nearly started to date someone but it's also about like her career her friends her life in general but um the like narration styles of both books reminded me of each other so i could very well imagine if you enjoyed ghosts you would enjoy olive by emma gana now friends that was it these books and many more i recommend it to you today in this little game of this or that i hope you enjoyed it if you have any other recommendations for any of these books help leave them down below and help other people out and with that i thank you for watching i'm going to see you in the next one bye

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Published: Thu Oct 14 2021