**A Haunting Experience: A Review of "The Deep"**

I must confess that I was thoroughly unsettled while listening to this audiobook, which is quite rare for me as an audiobook enthusiast. The narrator's performance and the author's skillful weaving of a sense of dread and scares left me feeling anxious and unable to continue with my daily activities. The story revolves around a crew of scientists who embark on a mission to explore the Mariana Trench in search of mythical creatures, only to discover that their sister had gone missing in this very ship seven years prior. This revelation sets off a chain of events that propels the main character, our protagonist, into a perilous journey to uncover the truth about her sister's disappearance and the unknown dangers lurking in the depths of the ocean.

As I sat listening to the audiobook, I found myself completely absorbed in the story, yet unable to put the earphones back on due to the intense fear that gripped me. The author's ability to craft a sense of tension and foreboding is masterful, making it impossible for me to look away from the horror unfolding before my ears. The narrative is engaging, with well-developed characters and a complex plot that keeps you guessing until the very end. I must admit that I had to take a break from listening due to the overwhelming sense of dread that threatened to consume me.

If you're a fan of oceanic adventures, mythical creatures, or are simply looking for a thrilling tale that will leave you on the edge of your seat, then "The Deep" is definitely worth exploring. However, if you're easily spooked by sea-related themes or prefer more light-hearted fare, this might not be the book for you.

**A Historical Fiction Masterpiece: A Review of "All Souls Trilogy - A Discovery of Witches"**

I must confess that I was thoroughly enthralled by this book, which is one of my all-time favorites. The story follows Diana Bishop, a witch in denial who has been trying to suppress her magical heritage for most of her life. When she stumbles upon an ancient alchemical text known as the Ashmole 782 at Oxford University's Bodleian Library, she unwittingly sets off a chain reaction that puts her life in danger.

The author, Deborah Harkness, is a historian who has woven together elements of history, science, and fantasy to create a richly detailed world that is both intellectually stimulating and deeply immersive. I found myself becoming increasingly invested in the story as Diana navigates the treacherous world of witches, vampires, and demons, all while trying to uncover the secrets of her family's past.

One of the aspects that struck me most about this book was its seamless integration of historical facts and figures into the narrative. As someone who is not a history buff, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed learning about the events and periods that were woven into the story. The author's passion for history shines through on every page, making it impossible not to become engaged in the world she has created.

The romance between Diana and Matthew, a vampire who defies all conventions, is swoon-worthy and expertly handled. Their unlikely alliance is fraught with tension and danger, but ultimately leads to a deep and abiding love that defies all odds. The writing is lyrical, the characters are complex and multi-dimensional, and the plot twists and turns in unexpected ways.

If you're looking for a book that will transport you to another world, engage your intellect, and leave you feeling emotionally invested, then "A Discovery of Witches" is an absolute must-read. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys historical fiction, fantasy, or romance, especially during the fall season when cozying up with a good book is perfect.

**The Books Mentioned**

* "The Deep" by Rivers Solomon

* "All Souls Trilogy - A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit is that time of year friends it is the time of year where i can finally wear turtlenecks every single day even though i do that anyway even though fall does not exist in the country that i live in but we can pretend that it does because it's fall hello good greeting friends welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new my name is mel and today i bring you guys a book recommendations video i am going to give you guys some book wrecks these are gonna be cozy books that you can read this fall not necessarily spooky books i am not known for reading spooky books you guys know i am not necessarily a scaredy cat because i do dare every now and again to watch or read spooky things but that is not at the forefront of my reading typically but i do love books with beautiful lyrical writing with darker themes with pain and murder which in my opinion all fit this category of all i have 10 book recommendations for you guys about books that you have definitely not heard about on my channel that is completely sarcastic and also might be concerning that i am relating fallen coziness to pain and murder that's a conversation for another time a book that you wouldn't think or relate to the word cozy based on the themes but a book that just screams fall to me because it's so dark and it's one of my favorite books of all time and that is ninth house by leigh bardugo wow mel you're so original talking about ninth house in the fall season everybody else is probably talking about this book too but with good reason in this one we have a dark academic setting and when i say dark i mean really really dark there's a bunch of trigger warnings for this book i'll definitely leave them all detailed in the description in case you guys are wondering but we follow alex stern who is the last seeming candidate to attend any sort of ivy league however as she finds herself as a sole survivor of an accident on a hospital bed she receives the opportunity of a lifetime to go to yale university full ride no expenses everything's paid for you sweetheart you're gonna have the time of your life potentially but it is all for the sole purpose of using a set of abilities that alex stern has which is seeing and communicating with the dead and soon enough alex does find herself involved in the secret societies within yale and it is much darker than she could have ever imagined there is also a mystery element to this book which is really nice and it really does take up the majority and the bulk of this book but i really love the atmosphere for this i think leigh bardugo truly nailed that cozy arguably so dark academic setting and alex is one of my favorite female characters i truly love her development throughout this book and how she puts herself on the line when she truly doesn't have to for other people just for the sake of keeping people safe i think it's very admirable i really again love her as a character she's gone through so much and i think that's a journey worth reading and the book in general just really has some great commentary about people in power about money about these high education settings and i truly loved every second of this i will say if you're looking to get into this hoping to see alex go to class and deal with everyday student things you won't really see that because we don't really see alex ever taking lessons at this school but it is much more so about that secret society element that again leigh bardugo really really nailed on this one a recent favorite of mine and one that i definitely need everybody to give a try not on audio i will say i haven't read the audiobook but i personally don't think that it's a book that's doable at least for me on audio if you want to give it a try definitely do and let me know how that went for you by the way it's definitely a dense book that i believe is meant to be read physically because it's really an experience also would recommend a classical music soundtrack in the background that you can listen to and really get yourself in the mood it truly does hit different just light a candle get yourself in that cozy setting and trust me when i say you'll come out on top that's what i did and i enjoyed every single second of it and that is middle game by shannon mcguire i truly found myself time and time again in awe of seanan mcguire's writing in this one and all of these wild themes that she manages to truly address convey and explore it was just done so beautifully in this book that i was again in constant awe as i was reading because i've never read anything quite like this and the way that i think about this book is imagine this conspiracy theory human beings are born with the ability to be telepaths and to have telekinesis and to be fantastical imagine the x-men but in real life however as humans grow older they lose the ability to do these things because they haven't practiced enough because we use such little capacity of our brains to do so what would happen if we bred and fostered kids children babies in these very conditioned settings so that they can foster and truly explore these powers and exploits them to their full potential in order to reach godhood we follow roger and dodger who are twin siblings and they were separated at birth by this alchemist named reed and reid for the longest time has been trying to achieve the doctrine of ethos he has been trying to walk the improbable road and reach the impossible city and in order to do so he has quite literally threw alchemy made people babies to see what lengths he has to go to in order to achieve everything that he has set out to do and that's truly where roger and dodger come into play because both of them have very different abilities while roger is very gifted at linguistics and literature dodger is very gifted at numbers mathematics physics anything really to do with probabilities and equations that's absolutely her the writing in this it is so detailed and atmospheric and it oftentimes felt so lyrical even though it's not it just had such a poetic tone to it and also the way that seanan mcguire built this tension built this sense of dread was absolutely stunning quite literally because you are at the edge of your seat throughout the whole book truly wondering if they're gonna do it if they're going to achieve it and through what means of course at first it was a little bit confusing because it's a very ambitious book but i think once you acclimate yourself to the world and you truly keep on reading you'll get yourself used to it you'll love it hopefully fingers crossed and you'll come out on top on this one a book that i am not done with yet but i definitely needed to put this on here because i don't think there is a better time of year to read this and then during fall and that is the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz obviously spanish copy it is so majestic this is literally peak literature in every way possible in my opinion i absolutely love the writing in this book it's definitely a denser book but when i do think of the fall i think of denser books really books that are longer books that are more atmospheric books that again tend to be lyrical or flowery and also through this book i think it's the perfect opportunity to branch out and read more translated fiction and to read things that are not traditionally published in the us and this is set in barcelona in 1945 which is super nice and refreshing to have something in a completely different country and we follow our main character danielle who after his mother's death has found himself in a big state of grief he goes through this journey alongside his father and the one thing that has truly provided him a lot of comfort is this book called the shadow of the wind and he grows so fascinated in fact that he sets out to find every other book by the same author named julian carrax except when he finds out that all of this author's books are actually very rare to find and the very last few copies in print are being burnt by a very mysterious person and he will set out on this journey in underground barcelona to find out exactly what's happening exactly who's doing these things and potentially solve this mystery this is a series which i absolutely love as well but the writing in this you guys i obviously am not reading the translation so i wouldn't be able to tell you though i do own it it's it's up there i absolutely adore the writing in this book it is something unlike anything i've ever read and it's truly pulling me out of this mindset of oh because i used to read so many hispanic classics when i was in school for coursework i now want to read more because i know what i've been missing this whole time it is so descriptive and atmospheric and it truly sets the scene so perfectly for you there is not one thing that you can't imagine and there is not one voice that is mixed with another every single character has such a distinctive voice such a distinctive motif and the way that all of these character stories weave together is honestly out of this world and not only that but the complexity in this book as well is truly astounding the way that all of these stories weave together and parallel each other and mirror each other it's truly such a stunning work of art that i still cannot get over it it's definitely a book that i'm taking slowly because it is a lot to take in but for the people who have been reading the translation i've been hearing incredible things this is our patron booklet pick for october and if you want to join us you're still in time you can join us on the link in my description because obviously we're still reading it and we're going to discuss it at the end of the month but this is such an incredible read and i'm so glad that we decided to read this because i've been hearing nothing but incredible things outside of this and then for the people who've already read it were citadel members they're all for the majority giving it five stars and that is just it makes my heart so happy it just makes me so warm a staple for the fall some would say and that is the original vampire story and that is dracula by bram stoker i think when anybody thinks about the quintessential fall read they all think of dracula or at least most of the people that i know would argue that dracula is one of those books it is gothic literature which is perfect for this time of year and it is very slow again the atmosphere is at the forefront of the story it's about that sense of dread it's about that sense of as i like to call it the feeling of impending doom that's what this book feels like because you're just constantly waiting for everything to go awfully wrong the writing style is also very different it is epistolary writing which means that it is told through a series of letters and journal entries which is so fascinating and i love the fact that the story is stolen that format you never truly get to see the story through dracula's eyes but rather people surrounding dracula which again was super fascinating for me and i don't think this book needs any introduction and that's why i'm describing all of the elements that make this a perfect book for the fall it's truly the one that set the bar and that provided all of that groundwork for what we now know as vampire mythos and it's so fascinating again to read where all of this comes from i think the gothic genre as this sub-branch of literature is really interesting to me because oftentimes people don't know what they're getting themselves into when you talk about gothic literature it's again about that atmosphere it's about the description it's about those romantic tones and elements that you wouldn't otherwise see in typical horror the audiobook also it's really really good alan cummings and tim curry narrate this audiobook or at least the one that i listened to it's very very good and alongside dracula i can't not talk about this book because it goes along so perfectly and if you want the dracula vibes without reading dracula and getting that sexy gothic very descriptive and lyrical moment a diary of blood by sd gibson it's literally 235 pages it is super short and this is a book that i read and it instantly pulled me out of a slum it is so short but it packs on so many amazing elements it talks a lot about these cycles of abuse towards women and it did it so perfectly in such a short amount of pages i came to realize how much an author is capable of doing in such a short amount of pages in a limited word count and truly be intentional with what they're writing and what they're putting out into the world it's lyrical it's poetic it is not told necessarily through epistolary writing though it feels like it because it feels like a collection of letters and journal entries addressed towards dracula which again just did it for me it's saffic it's got a polyamorous relationship i'm sure you could get through this book in a single day because it goes by super fast and you'll have no regrets fingers crossed i say those things very liberally but i do understand the fact that reading is subjective however book is good book is good may i throw a middle grade on here i know it's a book that i've talked about before plenty of times but it's got a library setting it's super cozy it literally speaks to the title of this video it's fun it warms your soul as you read it and that is pages and co the series the first book tilliam the book wanderers by anna james it is so heartwarming and it just brings you a sense of peace and happiness it truly took me back to those stories that i used to listen or read as i was younger because our main character tilly has the ability to book wonder meaning that it is a sort of magic in which she can insert herself into her favorite books or pull characters out from her favorite books and we get to meet and interact with some of those classic middle grade characters like alice in wonderland and anne of green gables and it was honestly so much fun it was so interesting to get to know this world and the ins and outs of it and all of the lessons that tilly as a character needed to go through i think middle grade is also perfect for this time of year because they're magical and light-hearted while still packing on so much and i definitely think this was one of those books that if you have kids or if you have little cousins or little siblings or any sort of family member that is younger you could definitely read this with them to them or by yourself i'm reading this now and i know a lot of other people reading this now and it is honestly a beautiful form of escapism i've loved every second and this also contains a mystery element which is really good because our main character tilly her mother disappeared when she was very young her father was also absent and so now tilly knowing that she has this sort of magic embarks on this journey to potentially figure out what happened to her mother when she was younger i cannot say enough good things about the series about this book is this a mel video if she doesn't talk about stormlight now because i don't think it would be i also truly believe that stormlight is the perfect fall read these books are long obviously they're massive they're a thousand pages apiece and truly believe me or try to believe me give me a vote of confidence here when i say that honestly the most intimidating thing about these books is the page count it is not the book it is not the content it is not the writing it is simply the fact that when you look at this book it looks like a brick it generally looks so big but when i tell you guys that these books are so easy to read and fall in love with these characters it is truly sensational what sanderson has managed to done here and i truly flew through way of kings arguably so considering the page count because it just sucked me right in it is one of those books that of course because it's so long you have a nook and space for everything you have the time to establish characters and you have the time to establish the world and the atmosphere and everything to do with this narrative and sanderson's writing on like his other works that i have read at least in stormlight it feels somewhat lyrical and poetic and that is a tone that i have found myself missing as i read his other works and i truly believe wholeheartedly that this is my favorite sanderson series that i've read because it has such a magical quality that of course the others do have but this just shines so much brighter but if i were to recommend any sanderson to anybody it would be wildly enough the way of kings but we live in this world called rochar and in roshar there used to be this very elite committee called the knights radiant and these people used to fight with sharp blades and sharp plates which are these magical artifacts that through hundreds and thousands of years have given men these mythical god-like abilities power that can seemingly beat just about anything and of course just like these artifacts have ended wars they have also raised wars and we now find ourselves in the midst of a war in this place called the shattered plains and there are of course different sites to this war we first have kaladin who is a brits man and these are people who literally carry bridges across the entire shattered plains which is a collection of chasms in order for the army to plow through the war and then we've got dalinar who once upon a time used to be obsessed alongside his brother with this text called the way of kings and this text still haunts him to this day he gets these visions and he believes that he is out of it most of the time and he is still on the search for the meaning of these excerpts and these extracts that he gets in his brain and then on the other side of things we've got shalon we follow her and her journey as a scholar with jasmine colin and that is essentially the synopsis that i can give you guys because this is definitely one of those books that goes by super slow because sanderson is not timid when establishing what is going on and writing 10 page battle scenes i absolutely love those and there are some great ambiance for this book that i found that i just listened to time and time again and it just sets the mood so perfectly for this that i will never speak enough great things about my experience with the way of kings because it truly was phenomenal another one of my favorites that i read this time last year again during the fall season or peak fall i should say because i read this right as it was coming out like a little bit before and that is the invisible life of addie levroe i don't know if the paperback version is out yet this is an arc it is the only copy of addie that i own which is atrocious saying that it's literally one of my favorite books of all time but i know this is not arguably every person's favorite i just think it really spoke to me and my soul and really just ran me over with a lot of things that i needed to hear in the moment that i read it in this book is really a beautiful journey it's very character driven as opposed to the other books i think this book would not exist without addie like addie is literally the sole purpose of why this book goes and exists and progresses if you are looking for plots maybe not the wine but if you don't mind having that very cozy atmosphere if you don't mind having a little bit of a sadder story and again the characters being at the forefront of why the story happens and i definitely say give this one a go we obviously follow addie the real and we follow her as she is in a very unhappy place with her life she truly does not want to settle for what society believes and says that she needs to do at her age and at the point in time when she's alive and so in order to get out of these unfortunate situations that she keeps finding herself in she makes a deal with this dark entity that she literally stumbles upon in the woods where she gives away her soul for immortality and her wish is granted because she is allowed to roam free through the earth doing whatever she pleases for eternity except that there is one catch and that is that everybody she stumbles across and meets will soon forget her name so her name and herself are erased from history as a consequence and it will not be until 300 years later where she walks into a bookstore and she meets this man called henry who is the first person to ever remember her it really talks about what it means to make an impact and feelings of inadequacy and i just found it so beautiful i love how all of these realizations came to her at the right time i love the fact that it was so lyrical and flowery and that again the atmosphere was so cozy and it's very different to schwab's other works in fact it is one of the few schwabs that i've actually enjoyed i am not a schwab stand surprisingly enough to whoever wants to believe that and this is one of the few that i've read that i've gone oh she can write i love this and so if you're down for that sort of sentimental mellow emo girl hours sort of read i definitely say go for this one another book that i think is fantastic for this time of year and whose audiobook is literally out of this world into the drowning deep by mira grant also known as shannon mcguire hello it is mainly set at sea and the commentary on human evolution will literally give you an existential crisis i honestly will say it once more seanan mcguire's research i truly need to see what the research process looks like for this woman because all of her books are so different that i've read so far but they have this thread of academia and knowledge and just brains these books scream brains and you guys know if you've been here for a while that i typically don't love books set at sea there's just something about them that are not that interesting to me i just think they're typically very passive story lines with very limited interesting elements at least for me personally and the fact that i still enjoyed this so much regardless of that fact is truly astounding because there's just again something fascinating about life at sea and how little as humanity we've actually gotten to explore that it makes you wonder what truly delves in there if you're scared of the ocean do not read this book because you will never go to a beach ever again like i promise you you won't and the catalyst for this book is this ship that went missing seven years before the start of the book this crew this ship had set out on this mission to film a documentary about what delves at sea and to potentially discover monsters and mythical creatures that live in the mariana trench however the book really kick-starts with a new crew and with our main character in particular whose sister had gone missing in that ship seven years ago and she now sets out with them in the hopes of finding out what happened to her sister and what truly lives in the mariana trench that was so dangerous seven years in the past the sense of dread the scares it is truly a book that i was listening to and i just had to stop because i was so scared you guys i am typically when i listen to audiobooks i'm like i'm fine i'm good i'm fine and then this audiobook really made me stop and take my earphones off because the narrator the narrator really went in okay with the acting skills i also as you can see started annotating and then i slowly gave up because i was sitting like this just listening to the audiobook i couldn't do anything else i couldn't follow along because it had me in it if you want to have an existential crisis about the world in the sea definitely give it a read but if you're scared of the sea steer clear and last but certainly not least of course i have a discovery of witches of course i do you take thee as a monster because i'm not and it's got a really great tv show to accompany it season one is only book one but we follow diana bishop who is our main character and she is a witch in denial she does not accommodate herself to this lifestyle she has been wanting to erase this part of her for what seems like forever she is in fact a scholar at oxford university and one day just walking through the halls of the oxford bodleian library she finds this alchemical ancient text called the ashmal 782 and starts a war between species and now she has a target on her back for being able to grab and open this book which is something that people technically cannot do and she finds herself in this unlikely position of allying with a vampire matthew claremont which is against all rules they are not meant to talk to each other to be with each other romantically and so as they find themselves trying to save their necks they also find themselves breaking every rule and falling in love and it's incredible and i love it like honestly atmosphere academia libraries witches demons vampires an incredibly angsty romance it is very much set in history the author deborah harkness is a historian so a lot of what happens in this book is very dense but the way that she so seamlessly manages to grab elements from history and subvert them to fit into this fictional world is so exquisitely done because i'm not a person that cares too much about science i do care about history but it was never like my favorite subject in school but the way this woman really made me care for every date and every event and every page and every word i was reading this and i was literally talking to my brother and i was like why do i care that's the question why do i care and it's just the fact that she made such complex but intellectually interesting characters it just had me hooked and i would not give this up for the world you guys know it's one of my favorite books i still need to finish out of nights let me walk by peacefully don't have me definitely definitely a perfect book for this time of year and those are all the books that i have for you guys today i hope that you guys enjoyed this video if you did don't forget to smash that like button down below and also let me know what books would you recommend around this time of year what are those books that you continuously go back to during fall season or if there are any books that you have your eyes set on for this fall season also let us know if you've read any of these what are your thoughts what are your opinions you agree let me know in the comments as per usual if you've reached the end of this video let's leave some pumpkin emojis down below like the halloween pumpkin i think that's the only pumpkin emoji that exists let's leave that one in the comments if you've reached the very end don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already for more bookish content as you guys know i upload two to three times a week and if you want to support the channel further i used to have a patreon it is always linked down below if you want early access extra live streams a discord server and all of the fun and chats with me again that is always linked down below alongside all of my social medias thank you guys so much for watching i love you all and i shall see you on the next one bye guys soit is that time of year friends it is the time of year where i can finally wear turtlenecks every single day even though i do that anyway even though fall does not exist in the country that i live in but we can pretend that it does because it's fall hello good greeting friends welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new my name is mel and today i bring you guys a book recommendations video i am going to give you guys some book wrecks these are gonna be cozy books that you can read this fall not necessarily spooky books i am not known for reading spooky books you guys know i am not necessarily a scaredy cat because i do dare every now and again to watch or read spooky things but that is not at the forefront of my reading typically but i do love books with beautiful lyrical writing with darker themes with pain and murder which in my opinion all fit this category of all i have 10 book recommendations for you guys about books that you have definitely not heard about on my channel that is completely sarcastic and also might be concerning that i am relating fallen coziness to pain and murder that's a conversation for another time a book that you wouldn't think or relate to the word cozy based on the themes but a book that just screams fall to me because it's so dark and it's one of my favorite books of all time and that is ninth house by leigh bardugo wow mel you're so original talking about ninth house in the fall season everybody else is probably talking about this book too but with good reason in this one we have a dark academic setting and when i say dark i mean really really dark there's a bunch of trigger warnings for this book i'll definitely leave them all detailed in the description in case you guys are wondering but we follow alex stern who is the last seeming candidate to attend any sort of ivy league however as she finds herself as a sole survivor of an accident on a hospital bed she receives the opportunity of a lifetime to go to yale university full ride no expenses everything's paid for you sweetheart you're gonna have the time of your life potentially but it is all for the sole purpose of using a set of abilities that alex stern has which is seeing and communicating with the dead and soon enough alex does find herself involved in the secret societies within yale and it is much darker than she could have ever imagined there is also a mystery element to this book which is really nice and it really does take up the majority and the bulk of this book but i really love the atmosphere for this i think leigh bardugo truly nailed that cozy arguably so dark academic setting and alex is one of my favorite female characters i truly love her development throughout this book and how she puts herself on the line when she truly doesn't have to for other people just for the sake of keeping people safe i think it's very admirable i really again love her as a character she's gone through so much and i think that's a journey worth reading and the book in general just really has some great commentary about people in power about money about these high education settings and i truly loved every second of this i will say if you're looking to get into this hoping to see alex go to class and deal with everyday student things you won't really see that because we don't really see alex ever taking lessons at this school but it is much more so about that secret society element that again leigh bardugo really really nailed on this one a recent favorite of mine and one that i definitely need everybody to give a try not on audio i will say i haven't read the audiobook but i personally don't think that it's a book that's doable at least for me on audio if you want to give it a try definitely do and let me know how that went for you by the way it's definitely a dense book that i believe is meant to be read physically because it's really an experience also would recommend a classical music soundtrack in the background that you can listen to and really get yourself in the mood it truly does hit different just light a candle get yourself in that cozy setting and trust me when i say you'll come out on top that's what i did and i enjoyed every single second of it and that is middle game by shannon mcguire i truly found myself time and time again in awe of seanan mcguire's writing in this one and all of these wild themes that she manages to truly address convey and explore it was just done so beautifully in this book that i was again in constant awe as i was reading because i've never read anything quite like this and the way that i think about this book is imagine this conspiracy theory human beings are born with the ability to be telepaths and to have telekinesis and to be fantastical imagine the x-men but in real life however as humans grow older they lose the ability to do these things because they haven't practiced enough because we use such little capacity of our brains to do so what would happen if we bred and fostered kids children babies in these very conditioned settings so that they can foster and truly explore these powers and exploits them to their full potential in order to reach godhood we follow roger and dodger who are twin siblings and they were separated at birth by this alchemist named reed and reid for the longest time has been trying to achieve the doctrine of ethos he has been trying to walk the improbable road and reach the impossible city and in order to do so he has quite literally threw alchemy made people babies to see what lengths he has to go to in order to achieve everything that he has set out to do and that's truly where roger and dodger come into play because both of them have very different abilities while roger is very gifted at linguistics and literature dodger is very gifted at numbers mathematics physics anything really to do with probabilities and equations that's absolutely her the writing in this it is so detailed and atmospheric and it oftentimes felt so lyrical even though it's not it just had such a poetic tone to it and also the way that seanan mcguire built this tension built this sense of dread was absolutely stunning quite literally because you are at the edge of your seat throughout the whole book truly wondering if they're gonna do it if they're going to achieve it and through what means of course at first it was a little bit confusing because it's a very ambitious book but i think once you acclimate yourself to the world and you truly keep on reading you'll get yourself used to it you'll love it hopefully fingers crossed and you'll come out on top on this one a book that i am not done with yet but i definitely needed to put this on here because i don't think there is a better time of year to read this and then during fall and that is the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz obviously spanish copy it is so majestic this is literally peak literature in every way possible in my opinion i absolutely love the writing in this book it's definitely a denser book but when i do think of the fall i think of denser books really books that are longer books that are more atmospheric books that again tend to be lyrical or flowery and also through this book i think it's the perfect opportunity to branch out and read more translated fiction and to read things that are not traditionally published in the us and this is set in barcelona in 1945 which is super nice and refreshing to have something in a completely different country and we follow our main character danielle who after his mother's death has found himself in a big state of grief he goes through this journey alongside his father and the one thing that has truly provided him a lot of comfort is this book called the shadow of the wind and he grows so fascinated in fact that he sets out to find every other book by the same author named julian carrax except when he finds out that all of this author's books are actually very rare to find and the very last few copies in print are being burnt by a very mysterious person and he will set out on this journey in underground barcelona to find out exactly what's happening exactly who's doing these things and potentially solve this mystery this is a series which i absolutely love as well but the writing in this you guys i obviously am not reading the translation so i wouldn't be able to tell you though i do own it it's it's up there i absolutely adore the writing in this book it is something unlike anything i've ever read and it's truly pulling me out of this mindset of oh because i used to read so many hispanic classics when i was in school for coursework i now want to read more because i know what i've been missing this whole time it is so descriptive and atmospheric and it truly sets the scene so perfectly for you there is not one thing that you can't imagine and there is not one voice that is mixed with another every single character has such a distinctive voice such a distinctive motif and the way that all of these character stories weave together is honestly out of this world and not only that but the complexity in this book as well is truly astounding the way that all of these stories weave together and parallel each other and mirror each other it's truly such a stunning work of art that i still cannot get over it it's definitely a book that i'm taking slowly because it is a lot to take in but for the people who have been reading the translation i've been hearing incredible things this is our patron booklet pick for october and if you want to join us you're still in time you can join us on the link in my description because obviously we're still reading it and we're going to discuss it at the end of the month but this is such an incredible read and i'm so glad that we decided to read this because i've been hearing nothing but incredible things outside of this and then for the people who've already read it were citadel members they're all for the majority giving it five stars and that is just it makes my heart so happy it just makes me so warm a staple for the fall some would say and that is the original vampire story and that is dracula by bram stoker i think when anybody thinks about the quintessential fall read they all think of dracula or at least most of the people that i know would argue that dracula is one of those books it is gothic literature which is perfect for this time of year and it is very slow again the atmosphere is at the forefront of the story it's about that sense of dread it's about that sense of as i like to call it the feeling of impending doom that's what this book feels like because you're just constantly waiting for everything to go awfully wrong the writing style is also very different it is epistolary writing which means that it is told through a series of letters and journal entries which is so fascinating and i love the fact that the story is stolen that format you never truly get to see the story through dracula's eyes but rather people surrounding dracula which again was super fascinating for me and i don't think this book needs any introduction and that's why i'm describing all of the elements that make this a perfect book for the fall it's truly the one that set the bar and that provided all of that groundwork for what we now know as vampire mythos and it's so fascinating again to read where all of this comes from i think the gothic genre as this sub-branch of literature is really interesting to me because oftentimes people don't know what they're getting themselves into when you talk about gothic literature it's again about that atmosphere it's about the description it's about those romantic tones and elements that you wouldn't otherwise see in typical horror the audiobook also it's really really good alan cummings and tim curry narrate this audiobook or at least the one that i listened to it's very very good and alongside dracula i can't not talk about this book because it goes along so perfectly and if you want the dracula vibes without reading dracula and getting that sexy gothic very descriptive and lyrical moment a diary of blood by sd gibson it's literally 235 pages it is super short and this is a book that i read and it instantly pulled me out of a slum it is so short but it packs on so many amazing elements it talks a lot about these cycles of abuse towards women and it did it so perfectly in such a short amount of pages i came to realize how much an author is capable of doing in such a short amount of pages in a limited word count and truly be intentional with what they're writing and what they're putting out into the world it's lyrical it's poetic it is not told necessarily through epistolary writing though it feels like it because it feels like a collection of letters and journal entries addressed towards dracula which again just did it for me it's saffic it's got a polyamorous relationship i'm sure you could get through this book in a single day because it goes by super fast and you'll have no regrets fingers crossed i say those things very liberally but i do understand the fact that reading is subjective however book is good book is good may i throw a middle grade on here i know it's a book that i've talked about before plenty of times but it's got a library setting it's super cozy it literally speaks to the title of this video it's fun it warms your soul as you read it and that is pages and co the series the first book tilliam the book wanderers by anna james it is so heartwarming and it just brings you a sense of peace and happiness it truly took me back to those stories that i used to listen or read as i was younger because our main character tilly has the ability to book wonder meaning that it is a sort of magic in which she can insert herself into her favorite books or pull characters out from her favorite books and we get to meet and interact with some of those classic middle grade characters like alice in wonderland and anne of green gables and it was honestly so much fun it was so interesting to get to know this world and the ins and outs of it and all of the lessons that tilly as a character needed to go through i think middle grade is also perfect for this time of year because they're magical and light-hearted while still packing on so much and i definitely think this was one of those books that if you have kids or if you have little cousins or little siblings or any sort of family member that is younger you could definitely read this with them to them or by yourself i'm reading this now and i know a lot of other people reading this now and it is honestly a beautiful form of escapism i've loved every second and this also contains a mystery element which is really good because our main character tilly her mother disappeared when she was very young her father was also absent and so now tilly knowing that she has this sort of magic embarks on this journey to potentially figure out what happened to her mother when she was younger i cannot say enough good things about the series about this book is this a mel video if she doesn't talk about stormlight now because i don't think it would be i also truly believe that stormlight is the perfect fall read these books are long obviously they're massive they're a thousand pages apiece and truly believe me or try to believe me give me a vote of confidence here when i say that honestly the most intimidating thing about these books is the page count it is not the book it is not the content it is not the writing it is simply the fact that when you look at this book it looks like a brick it generally looks so big but when i tell you guys that these books are so easy to read and fall in love with these characters it is truly sensational what sanderson has managed to done here and i truly flew through way of kings arguably so considering the page count because it just sucked me right in it is one of those books that of course because it's so long you have a nook and space for everything you have the time to establish characters and you have the time to establish the world and the atmosphere and everything to do with this narrative and sanderson's writing on like his other works that i have read at least in stormlight it feels somewhat lyrical and poetic and that is a tone that i have found myself missing as i read his other works and i truly believe wholeheartedly that this is my favorite sanderson series that i've read because it has such a magical quality that of course the others do have but this just shines so much brighter but if i were to recommend any sanderson to anybody it would be wildly enough the way of kings but we live in this world called rochar and in roshar there used to be this very elite committee called the knights radiant and these people used to fight with sharp blades and sharp plates which are these magical artifacts that through hundreds and thousands of years have given men these mythical god-like abilities power that can seemingly beat just about anything and of course just like these artifacts have ended wars they have also raised wars and we now find ourselves in the midst of a war in this place called the shattered plains and there are of course different sites to this war we first have kaladin who is a brits man and these are people who literally carry bridges across the entire shattered plains which is a collection of chasms in order for the army to plow through the war and then we've got dalinar who once upon a time used to be obsessed alongside his brother with this text called the way of kings and this text still haunts him to this day he gets these visions and he believes that he is out of it most of the time and he is still on the search for the meaning of these excerpts and these extracts that he gets in his brain and then on the other side of things we've got shalon we follow her and her journey as a scholar with jasmine colin and that is essentially the synopsis that i can give you guys because this is definitely one of those books that goes by super slow because sanderson is not timid when establishing what is going on and writing 10 page battle scenes i absolutely love those and there are some great ambiance for this book that i found that i just listened to time and time again and it just sets the mood so perfectly for this that i will never speak enough great things about my experience with the way of kings because it truly was phenomenal another one of my favorites that i read this time last year again during the fall season or peak fall i should say because i read this right as it was coming out like a little bit before and that is the invisible life of addie levroe i don't know if the paperback version is out yet this is an arc it is the only copy of addie that i own which is atrocious saying that it's literally one of my favorite books of all time but i know this is not arguably every person's favorite i just think it really spoke to me and my soul and really just ran me over with a lot of things that i needed to hear in the moment that i read it in this book is really a beautiful journey it's very character driven as opposed to the other books i think this book would not exist without addie like addie is literally the sole purpose of why this book goes and exists and progresses if you are looking for plots maybe not the wine but if you don't mind having that very cozy atmosphere if you don't mind having a little bit of a sadder story and again the characters being at the forefront of why the story happens and i definitely say give this one a go we obviously follow addie the real and we follow her as she is in a very unhappy place with her life she truly does not want to settle for what society believes and says that she needs to do at her age and at the point in time when she's alive and so in order to get out of these unfortunate situations that she keeps finding herself in she makes a deal with this dark entity that she literally stumbles upon in the woods where she gives away her soul for immortality and her wish is granted because she is allowed to roam free through the earth doing whatever she pleases for eternity except that there is one catch and that is that everybody she stumbles across and meets will soon forget her name so her name and herself are erased from history as a consequence and it will not be until 300 years later where she walks into a bookstore and she meets this man called henry who is the first person to ever remember her it really talks about what it means to make an impact and feelings of inadequacy and i just found it so beautiful i love how all of these realizations came to her at the right time i love the fact that it was so lyrical and flowery and that again the atmosphere was so cozy and it's very different to schwab's other works in fact it is one of the few schwabs that i've actually enjoyed i am not a schwab stand surprisingly enough to whoever wants to believe that and this is one of the few that i've read that i've gone oh she can write i love this and so if you're down for that sort of sentimental mellow emo girl hours sort of read i definitely say go for this one another book that i think is fantastic for this time of year and whose audiobook is literally out of this world into the drowning deep by mira grant also known as shannon mcguire hello it is mainly set at sea and the commentary on human evolution will literally give you an existential crisis i honestly will say it once more seanan mcguire's research i truly need to see what the research process looks like for this woman because all of her books are so different that i've read so far but they have this thread of academia and knowledge and just brains these books scream brains and you guys know if you've been here for a while that i typically don't love books set at sea there's just something about them that are not that interesting to me i just think they're typically very passive story lines with very limited interesting elements at least for me personally and the fact that i still enjoyed this so much regardless of that fact is truly astounding because there's just again something fascinating about life at sea and how little as humanity we've actually gotten to explore that it makes you wonder what truly delves in there if you're scared of the ocean do not read this book because you will never go to a beach ever again like i promise you you won't and the catalyst for this book is this ship that went missing seven years before the start of the book this crew this ship had set out on this mission to film a documentary about what delves at sea and to potentially discover monsters and mythical creatures that live in the mariana trench however the book really kick-starts with a new crew and with our main character in particular whose sister had gone missing in that ship seven years ago and she now sets out with them in the hopes of finding out what happened to her sister and what truly lives in the mariana trench that was so dangerous seven years in the past the sense of dread the scares it is truly a book that i was listening to and i just had to stop because i was so scared you guys i am typically when i listen to audiobooks i'm like i'm fine i'm good i'm fine and then this audiobook really made me stop and take my earphones off because the narrator the narrator really went in okay with the acting skills i also as you can see started annotating and then i slowly gave up because i was sitting like this just listening to the audiobook i couldn't do anything else i couldn't follow along because it had me in it if you want to have an existential crisis about the world in the sea definitely give it a read but if you're scared of the sea steer clear and last but certainly not least of course i have a discovery of witches of course i do you take thee as a monster because i'm not and it's got a really great tv show to accompany it season one is only book one but we follow diana bishop who is our main character and she is a witch in denial she does not accommodate herself to this lifestyle she has been wanting to erase this part of her for what seems like forever she is in fact a scholar at oxford university and one day just walking through the halls of the oxford bodleian library she finds this alchemical ancient text called the ashmal 782 and starts a war between species and now she has a target on her back for being able to grab and open this book which is something that people technically cannot do and she finds herself in this unlikely position of allying with a vampire matthew claremont which is against all rules they are not meant to talk to each other to be with each other romantically and so as they find themselves trying to save their necks they also find themselves breaking every rule and falling in love and it's incredible and i love it like honestly atmosphere academia libraries witches demons vampires an incredibly angsty romance it is very much set in history the author deborah harkness is a historian so a lot of what happens in this book is very dense but the way that she so seamlessly manages to grab elements from history and subvert them to fit into this fictional world is so exquisitely done because i'm not a person that cares too much about science i do care about history but it was never like my favorite subject in school but the way this woman really made me care for every date and every event and every page and every word i was reading this and i was literally talking to my brother and i was like why do i care that's the question why do i care and it's just the fact that she made such complex but intellectually interesting characters it just had me hooked and i would not give this up for the world you guys know it's one of my favorite books i still need to finish out of nights let me walk by peacefully don't have me definitely definitely a perfect book for this time of year and those are all the books that i have for you guys today i hope that you guys enjoyed this video if you did don't forget to smash that like button down below and also let me know what books would you recommend around this time of year what are those books that you continuously go back to during fall season or if there are any books that you have your eyes set on for this fall season also let us know if you've read any of these what are your thoughts what are your opinions you agree let me know in the comments as per usual if you've reached the end of this video let's leave some pumpkin emojis down below like the halloween pumpkin i think that's the only pumpkin emoji that exists let's leave that one in the comments if you've reached the very end 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