The Dark Taste of Rivalry by Ala Goodman

This book has been on my mind and in my rotation for what feels like an eternity, but I've yet to pick it up. I know, I know, it's probably getting old hearing me mention it so many times on this channel, but I just haven't gotten around to reading it yet. The truth is, I'm embarrassed that I haven't read it. I feel like I get a lot of flak for not having read it, and I don't want to be that person who's always talking about books they haven't actually read.

On the other hand, there is one book that I've been meaning to read for ages - The Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. This series was a huge part of my middle school and middle grade reading experience, and yet, I still haven't read all of them. I feel like my time has come and gone for re-reading these books, but at the same time, I'm embarrassed that I haven't already read them. Everyone loves Percy Jackson, and I've heard so many good things about this series that it's hard to understand why I haven't picked it up yet.

Another book that comes to mind is Love That Wit by Emily Henry. I've talked about this book several times on my channel because I was really looking forward to reading it. However, when I finally sat down with it, I felt completely underwhelmed. The story just didn't resonate with me, and I couldn't help but wonder why I had even bothered picking it up in the first place.

Book that I picked up, had to put down... Well, there's only one book that comes to mind here - NGA by John Corey Whitney. This was a recent release that I was waiting for, so I just read it while I waited for another book to come out. However, as soon as I started reading it, I knew I wasn't going to be able to finish it. It just didn't hold my attention, and I ended up putting it down after only a few pages.

But here's the thing - I do plan on finishing NGA eventually. Despite not enjoying it initially, I did like it enough that I want to see it through to the end. The other book that comes to mind is Sadly To Say by Wendy Wax. This was another one that I picked up and just couldn't finish. It didn't hold my attention at all, and I ended up putting it down after only a few pages.

Drawing to certain types of stories... When it comes to what kind of books I'm drawn to, fantasy is definitely the way to go. I've gotten really into epic fantasy lately, with its kingdoms and quests and epic battles. There's just something about that type of story that really speaks to me. On the other hand, I'm not a huge fan of dystopian fiction anymore. It was super popular back in the day, but it just doesn't hold my attention like it used to.

I also tend to stay clear of love triangles. I know some people can't get enough of them, but they're just not my thing. There's something about having to choose between two characters that always feels so forced to me. And finally, there's one type of story that I really don't enjoy reading - straight up horror fiction. I've gotten better at tolerating thrillers over the years, but horror just isn't for me.

If you could require the President to read only one book... While it's hard to narrow it down to just one, if I had to choose a book that everyone should read, it would be Harry Potter. This series has been a huge part of many people's reading experiences, and it's just so beloved for a reason.

Planning what to read next... The first thing on my TBR list right now is The Savage Song by Victoria Schwab. I've heard great things about this book, and I'm excited to dive into its dark and gritty world. It's definitely going to be a departure from the usual fantasy stories that I enjoy reading, but I'm always up for a good challenge.

The NY Times Book Tag

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone today I'm here to do a tag video tag has been around for a while and I'm just now getting around to it because I just love tag videos I mean I I don't know what else to say I than I like filming them and yeah this tag is going to be the NY Times by the book tag original Creator was Marie Berg and she got this idea from this book that the New York Times um put together like a whole bunch of authors and they asked them a whole bunch of questions and she done took questions and made them their own her own for this for book so yeah I will l the original down below and let's just get right on to the question the first question is what book is on your nightstand now well I have two actually that I had to pull from the the first one was one I just finished that was on my night stand still because I had to bring it downstairs to put it back on my bookshelf to review and that is the woman and cin 10 by Ruth wear it's an adult history slth novel and I do plan on filming a review so check out that one soon but yeah like I said I just finished this one so it's obviously on my nightstand the next one's not on my nightstand because I'm putting it on my stand tonight when I go to bed that is it ends with us by Colleen Hoover I just received this in the mail from Atria and this book comes out August 2nd and it's a new adult like romance type of Novel so I'm excited to read it because I need a little bit of a break from a lot of the Thriller SLS series books I've read a little bit lighthearted but I've heard this isn't very light-hearted because of the topics in it but used to say still got to read it and I want to read it the next question is what is the last truly great book you've read read a lot of really good books this year despite looking at a good reader like like I've only had six five star reviews I'm very like strict on that for some reason I don't know last truly great book I read was actually a couple weeks ago and that is vicious by V Schwab I am obsessed with this book I just loved it so so very much I just can't get in of it this is an adult book all about villains and the notion of Heroes versus Villains right versus wrong all that stuff please pick it up because it's going to rock your world question number three is if you can be any writer Dead or Alive who would it be and what would you want to know when I thought about this I was like I don't know what writer like I'm really itching to me but the answer comes so easily to me but it's like the most cliche answer and that's JK Roland because she pretty much shaped my childhood and like my adulthood and my young adulthood all that stuff combined she really shaped it so I would love to meet her what I would ask is I don't know just a myriad questions like I would ask her so many things about Harry Potter so many things I would just want to meet her probably question number four is what books might we be surprised to find on your shelves and I don't know I don't really have any on here that I'm just like oh crap do not look on my shelves because you're going to be surprised there's not any I don't think like there's not one that I don't think people would be like you're surprised like I said I didn't I don't have an answer for this one I feel horrible but I just really don't have an question number five is how do you organize your personal Library I am somewhat strict about it I don't know um I have like I call my background you know my background of video so I like to have like some really colorful contempories over here just a few and then I like to have Decor in my background not all books but that's just how is and I have this is like one of my favorite shelf I have two I have lots of favorite shelves so this is one this is like my tall favorite shelves I would say I organize most by genre and tallness tallness is a very important thing with me here I keep all of my adult books up there I keep all my adult books over there keep all my contemporary keep all of like my finished Trilogy so I'm very I like to organize it a lot and up here up here I keep like my TV like my books I haven't read yet I'm I don't know I'm a little bit of organization freak that is an understatement but mostly by genre and tallness that's a that's the tallness thing is one of my pet peev I like to really keep them like height wise like height-wise is my thing tallness not tallness height-wise what am I saying question is what book have you always meant to read and haven't gotten around to yet question to go with it is anything you feel embarrassed to never have read I'm usually pretty good if I have kept a book for like over two years on my TB red shelf I just have to get rid of it because if I've kept it on there for that long there's no way I'm going to freaking read it I'm just going to be r but the one book I've talked about time and time again on this channel I've been meaning to read I've been meaning to read I've been meaning to read you're probably sick of me holding up because you're probably just like shut up Heather and freaking read it I know and that is the dark tast by Ala Goodman this one HMS me I really want to read it I just haven't yet Lord knows why but I just haven't yet I'm embarrassed not to have read because I just feel like I get so much FL on it I don't really I just feel embarrassed for myself that I haven't read it and that's the Percy Jackson the Olympians by Rick Ry and I've talked about this in my middle school my middle grade reads um video I just don't know if I'm going to read it I feel like my time is kind of come and gone for reading them but I just feel embarrassed because everyone loves Percy Jackson and I'm sure I would too at least I would hope so but I just feel embarrassed I haven't read them the next question is disappointed overrated and just not good what book did you feel you were supposed to like but didn't do you remember the last book you put down without finishing the one book that stands out to me the book that I think I felt like I was supposed to like but I didn't one I can think of is love that withit the World by Emily Henry I've talked about it several times I've heard so many good things about it and I was went into it expecting to love it I came out of it thinking why did I even read that because I felt like it was just a confused pile of just confusion pretty much and I just really did not enjoy it at all book I picked up I had to put down like I didn't finish um would have to be sadly to say is NGA by John Corey whey I just started that like literally four days ago because I was waiting for another book to release so I was just reading it in between times and I put it down but I do have plans to finish it because I liked it I just knew I wanted to read this other book that was coming out more and serious on my dresser so yeah I do plan to finish that that's the last one I have picked up and put down number eight is what kind of stories are you drawn to any you stay clear of drawn I'm drawn to a lot of fantasy books I feel like I've gotten a lot into my Groth of fantasy you know a lot of like high Epic Fantasy with a kingdom and a person supposed to claim their throne and a kingdom going aai I love those type of books I am drawn to a lot of contemporary books where it sounds like it's going to be a good romance I like that things I stay clear of I'm not a super fan of dystopia anymore and it was really popular back in the day but I feel like times are kind of going away from that I try to stay clear of love triangles I'm not a huge fan of those I never have been I just I don't like that so but you know sometimes you try to stay clear of those but that doesn't come evident to the second or third book they're like oh crap I'm already invested gota I got to stick with it um there's not much I won't read I will stay clear of like straight up like horror stories I have gotten better about reading Thrillers horror stories no never no that's just something I will never be drawn to question number nine if you could require the president to read one book what would it be I feel like everyone should read Harry Potter that would probably be my one requirement reading of like if I had to pick one book for everyone to read I guess it'd be seven books but it'd be Harry Potter cliche yes but my true an honest answer question number 10 is what do you plan to read next and like I said in the beginning of this video I'm planning to read this next too but if you want to get even more you know into my TBR I plan to finish after this one is going to be the Savage song by Victoria swab I just got some my alate and I already can't wait to read it so that's what I plan to read so it's going to be totally different new adult with romance to a like fantasy anyway that was the NY Times by the book tag thank you so much for watching I hope you guys enjoyed this tag if you have any other tag videos that I haven't heard of because I try to hear a lot let me know in the comments down below if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and hit subscribe and I will see you in my next video bye youhello everyone today I'm here to do a tag video tag has been around for a while and I'm just now getting around to it because I just love tag videos I mean I I don't know what else to say I than I like filming them and yeah this tag is going to be the NY Times by the book tag original Creator was Marie Berg and she got this idea from this book that the New York Times um put together like a whole bunch of authors and they asked them a whole bunch of questions and she done took questions and made them their own her own for this for book so yeah I will l the original down below and let's just get right on to the question the first question is what book is on your nightstand now well I have two actually that I had to pull from the the first one was one I just finished that was on my night stand still because I had to bring it downstairs to put it back on my bookshelf to review and that is the woman and cin 10 by Ruth wear it's an adult history slth novel and I do plan on filming a review so check out that one soon but yeah like I said I just finished this one so it's obviously on my nightstand the next one's not on my nightstand because I'm putting it on my stand tonight when I go to bed that is it ends with us by Colleen Hoover I just received this in the mail from Atria and this book comes out August 2nd and it's a new adult like romance type of Novel so I'm excited to read it because I need a little bit of a break from a lot of the Thriller SLS series books I've read a little bit lighthearted but I've heard this isn't very light-hearted because of the topics in it but used to say still got to read it and I want to read it the next question is what is the last truly great book you've read read a lot of really good books this year despite looking at a good reader like like I've only had six five star reviews I'm very like strict on that for some reason I don't know last truly great book I read was actually a couple weeks ago and that is vicious by V Schwab I am obsessed with this book I just loved it so so very much I just can't get in of it this is an adult book all about villains and the notion of Heroes versus Villains right versus wrong all that stuff please pick it up because it's going to rock your world question number three is if you can be any writer Dead or Alive who would it be and what would you want to know when I thought about this I was like I don't know what writer like I'm really itching to me but the answer comes so easily to me but it's like the most cliche answer and that's JK Roland because she pretty much shaped my childhood and like my adulthood and my young adulthood all that stuff combined she really shaped it so I would love to meet her what I would ask is I don't know just a myriad questions like I would ask her so many things about Harry Potter so many things I would just want to meet her probably question number four is what books might we be surprised to find on your shelves and I don't know I don't really have any on here that I'm just like oh crap do not look on my shelves because you're going to be surprised there's not any I don't think like there's not one that I don't think people would be like you're surprised like I said I didn't I don't have an answer for this one I feel horrible but I just really don't have an question number five is how do you organize your personal Library I am somewhat strict about it I don't know um I have like I call my background you know my background of video so I like to have like some really colorful contempories over here just a few and then I like to have Decor in my background not all books but that's just how is and I have this is like one of my favorite shelf I have two I have lots of favorite shelves so this is one this is like my tall favorite shelves I would say I organize most by genre and tallness tallness is a very important thing with me here I keep all of my adult books up there I keep all my adult books over there keep all my contemporary keep all of like my finished Trilogy so I'm very I like to organize it a lot and up here up here I keep like my TV like my books I haven't read yet I'm I don't know I'm a little bit of organization freak that is an understatement but mostly by genre and tallness that's a that's the tallness thing is one of my pet peev I like to really keep them like height wise like height-wise is my thing tallness not tallness height-wise what am I saying question is what book have you always meant to read and haven't gotten around to yet question to go with it is anything you feel embarrassed to never have read I'm usually pretty good if I have kept a book for like over two years on my TB red shelf I just have to get rid of it because if I've kept it on there for that long there's no way I'm going to freaking read it I'm just going to be r but the one book I've talked about time and time again on this channel I've been meaning to read I've been meaning to read I've been meaning to read you're probably sick of me holding up because you're probably just like shut up Heather and freaking read it I know and that is the dark tast by Ala Goodman this one HMS me I really want to read it I just haven't yet Lord knows why but I just haven't yet I'm embarrassed not to have read because I just feel like I get so much FL on it I don't really I just feel embarrassed for myself that I haven't read it and that's the Percy Jackson the Olympians by Rick Ry and I've talked about this in my middle school my middle grade reads um video I just don't know if I'm going to read it I feel like my time is kind of come and gone for reading them but I just feel embarrassed because everyone loves Percy Jackson and I'm sure I would too at least I would hope so but I just feel embarrassed I haven't read them the next question is disappointed overrated and just not good what book did you feel you were supposed to like but didn't do you remember the last book you put down without finishing the one book that stands out to me the book that I think I felt like I was supposed to like but I didn't one I can think of is love that withit the World by Emily Henry I've talked about it several times I've heard so many good things about it and I was went into it expecting to love it I came out of it thinking why did I even read that because I felt like it was just a confused pile of just confusion pretty much and I just really did not enjoy it at all book I picked up I had to put down like I didn't finish um would have to be sadly to say is NGA by John Corey whey I just started that like literally four days ago because I was waiting for another book to release so I was just reading it in between times and I put it down but I do have plans to finish it because I liked it I just knew I wanted to read this other book that was coming out more and serious on my dresser so yeah I do plan to finish that that's the last one I have picked up and put down number eight is what kind of stories are you drawn to any you stay clear of drawn I'm drawn to a lot of fantasy books I feel like I've gotten a lot into my Groth of fantasy you know a lot of like high Epic Fantasy with a kingdom and a person supposed to claim their throne and a kingdom going aai I love those type of books I am drawn to a lot of contemporary books where it sounds like it's going to be a good romance I like that things I stay clear of I'm not a super fan of dystopia anymore and it was really popular back in the day but I feel like times are kind of going away from that I try to stay clear of love triangles I'm not a huge fan of those I never have been I just I don't like that so but you know sometimes you try to stay clear of those but that doesn't come evident to the second or third book they're like oh crap I'm already invested gota I got to stick with it um there's not much I won't read I will stay clear of like straight up like horror stories I have gotten better about reading Thrillers horror stories no never no that's just something I will never be drawn to question number nine if you could require the president to read one book what would it be I feel like everyone should read Harry Potter that would probably be my one requirement reading of like if I had to pick one book for everyone to read I guess it'd be seven books but it'd be Harry Potter cliche yes but my true an honest answer question number 10 is what do you plan to read next and like I said in the beginning of this video I'm planning to read this next too but if you want to get even more you know into my TBR I plan to finish after this one is going to be the Savage song by Victoria swab I just got some my alate and I already can't wait to read it so that's what I plan to read so it's going to be totally different new adult with romance to a like fantasy anyway that was the NY Times by the book tag thank you so much for watching I hope you guys enjoyed this tag if you have any other tag videos that I haven't heard of because I try to hear a lot let me know in the comments down below if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and hit subscribe and I will see you in my next video bye you\n"