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So I heard you want to bring a little bit more whimsy into your life.

Well, a little fairy told me about all the best books that will bring you to a whimsical place.

We'll go down a rabbit hole all the way to all the strange and bizarre books that will satisfy your weirdest sight.

Let's enter the forest.

Let's start with the books that are whimsical and vibey.

They're a little silly.

They're a little magical, a little fairy tale-esque.

I would say that the ultimate whimsical girl is Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

And that is why I highly recommend reading Alice in Wonderland and also Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.

If you've seen the Disney adaptation or the Tim Burton adaptation, the book adds something that the movies don't have and that is, well, written language.

This book is full of language jokes, puns.

Lewis Carroll loves to play around with the English language and that is what made this book so much fun to me.

Of course we have Alice who is a bit of a rebellious girl.

She's very used to every morning looking at things that are getting curiouser and curiouser.

All the little quests she goes on

and the quirky character she needs to me is peak whimsicality

and if you're afraid it's not going to give you

that super whimsical vibe because you already know the characters I specifically recommend Through the Looking Glass

because Through the Looking Glass has a lot of characters

that you may not be familiar with yet because you're so used to Alice in Wonderland.

I could spend hours just listening to the sounds of the forest.

I love this.

I would say that the most whimsical of whimsical fairy fantasy forest books out there are of course the Emily Wilde trilogy.

It's not only whimsical because it is about fae

and about a researcher that researches fae and throughout the series goes on multiple trips to fairy forests to

Iceland's fairy kingdoms to research this fae.

It's also whimsical because the characters are just It's so quirky and a little strange.

We have, you know, your typical awkward researcher and then her rival researcher, who is often described as pretty similar to Howl from Howl's Moving Castle.

Just a very dramatic funny man.

I love a dramatic funny man.

What I love about this trilogy is that it shows elves and fae in the classic folklore way,

not in the now very common sexy elf fae kind of way.

Here we have brownies, we have pixies, we have kelpies.

The fae are actually scary and mean, but somehow Heather Fawcett writes it in such a way that it never is scary,

but it always feels cozy and just a little strange.

Now of course I cannot talk about Howl from Howl's Moving Castle without recommending Howl's Moving Castle.

The book, completely different from the Ghibli movie, you have to be aware of that but it has

that same whimsical feel our main character sophie gets cursed to become an old lady

and as an old lady she starts to work for this wizard howl who lives in a castle that moves

and walks around this book has all the makings of a classic whimsical fairy tale there is a witch

that needs to be beaten there are spells again dramatic wizard man stars that need to be caught, wishes that need to be made.

It's one of those cozy fantasies that feels like a warm hug without ever becoming boring, because a lot is happening in this book.

And especially if you love the movie, it's really fun to read this and see where it goes completely different.

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if you like your whimsical books to be

very atmospheric fantasies i highly recommend the starless sea you may of course know her most well known novel

which is the night circus i think the starless sea has

just slightly more whimsical qualities to it in a sense

that the entire book feels like a little puzzle

or even a scavenger hunt like the author takes you along

flying keys hidden doors hidden chambers it's a story within a

story within a story this is basically a 500 page love letter to stories the times calls it mind-boggling

and I think mind-boggling is like the superlative of whimsical.

This book will take you from secret clubs to the underside of like a pirate ship

and it's whimsical in the sense that it feels like one big labyrinth of a story.

You know what's the most whimsical thing to do when you're in a forest?

Hunt for mushrooms and that's why I would actually really recommend this non-fiction book called The Little Book of Mushrooms.

It is a beautiful little non-fiction book about all the most common

or the most well-known mushrooms with a little bit of information on where they grow, what they are known for, and beautiful illustrations.

The way that this book has been designed is just beautiful.

I wouldn't say that it functions as a field guide, especially because the illustrations are very artistically beautiful,

but not necessarily like biologically accurate or like easy to find it in the wild.

And a lot of the mushrooms in here are very very cool, but they're also quite rare.

But I do think this book is a wonderful addition to a field guide.

And a really wonderful way to see all the possibilities and the beauty of this organism kingdom.

And if this book can convince you to get into mushroom hunting and look for mushrooms in the forest, then my duty is done.

I'm noticing that a lot of the books that I want to recommend here are just kind of weird fairy tales.

And I couldn't be recommending weird fairy tales without recommending a book by T.

Kingfisher.

And I think the best one for this recommendation video is Thornhedge.

This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty.

But it's not about Sleeping Beauty.

Sleeping Beauty is just up in a tower somewhere.

We follow Toadling, who is a girl that can turn into a toad.

Yes, our main character is a girl that can turn into a toad.

And it is her task to kind of guard

and watch Sleeping Beauty as she is sleeping in the tower

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she strikes up a friendship with the most wholesome knight you will ever meet.

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Like this is a knight who feels really bad about the fact

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that he has to kill people and he's not really a violent man.

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He doesn't really want to do it but he's a knight so he has to.

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Again you will get fairies and folklore in the traditional sense.

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The ones that strike bargains, the ones that are not to be trusted.

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This book is thorny with some dark sides, but ultimately will always be heartwarming.

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I am always just amazed with T.

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Kingfisher's imagination.

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Every time I read one of her books, I'm reading things I've never read anywhere else before.

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In our next steps a bit deeper into the forest we are slowly starting to lose touch with reality.

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The whimsical is starting to get a little weird.

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I personally think that whimsicality is not just a quirky style.

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It's a little bit outside of what is normal.

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A little bit outside of what is expected and therefore I love the overlap between the whimsical and the weird.

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I made myself a London fog.

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I love a London fog.

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I consider putting sprinkles on it, which is, you know, the little whimsical trend that is going on right now.

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But I'm here to de-influence you about sprinkles on your foam milk

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because they get like weird and soggy and sag to the bottom of your drink, giving a really weird texture to your drink.

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I'm loving this current trend of like whimsicality and becoming whimsical.

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I think I've been making like

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whimsical content for years now so I love seeing

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that it is kind of gaining traction now

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that it's gaining popularity I just hope it doesn't devolve too

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much into just a trend with like a set list of things

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that you need to try like I said being whimsical is a little bit about being weird

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and being a little strange and just by default

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that doesn't really go together with just following a set of trends in order to become whimsical.

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Like I said, the whimsical sprinkles on your milk foam, they look really cute, but in practice they're actually not that great.

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That's good.

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Now a book

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that I think perfectly exemplifies this feeling of slowly losing touch with reality is The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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This is about a woman who is feeling what we would nowadays call depressed

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and she is given a cure

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that they gave people back in the day called the rescuer

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which basically means she has to sit in a room by

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herself she is not allowed to do anything she's not allowed to read she's not allowed to think

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because you know as a woman

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if you're thinking too much that's gonna make you sick

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but we see her as she is struggling with dealing with

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this rescuer being alone in this room for such a long time

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and just having her thoughts take over to the point

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that she starts seeing things move in the yellow wallpaper on the walls of this room

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and she's slowly starting to lose touch with her own sanity.

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In only 50 pages this book is just a perfect account of what happens

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when as a woman you are not allowed access to your own intelligence.

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You're not allowed access to being a part of the world.

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It technically counts as horror, but it is horror in the way that people in the 19th century thought things were horror.

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So that's why I'm not putting it super low on the list yet.

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Because although it gets a little creepy, a little eerie, I wouldn't say it's super scary.

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The next book is just beautifully quirkily written and also full of existential dread.

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I'm talking about the opposite of a person.

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This is a Dutch novel, but there is an English translation available.

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The first sentence of this book is, when I was a child, I enjoyed fantasizing about being a cucumber.

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If you hear that, you probably didn't expect

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that this book is written by a philosopher and also the national poet of the Netherlands.

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And she blends poetry with prose and story with actual philosophical ideas about love,

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about entanglement, but also about the impending doom of climate change it's technically a novel

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but it feels more like a little mosaic of little vignettes

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and poems and it's all written in a very frank manner

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that shows a lot of clarity of thought i know this all sounds really heavy

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but just the way it is written remains very playful

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and that's why i think it still belongs in the whimsical

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section my next recommendation is the i think the only one in this video

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that isn't like fantasy or genre adjacent

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but i would recommend it to the girls who are looking for a bit of mischief you know

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that type of whimsicality that is discontent by beatrice serrano this is originally a spanish novel

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but there is an english translation

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and it is about a woman who is i guess you

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could say like the archetype of a girl boss on the outside you know she wears high heels, she has her own big office, she has a cushy job at a marketing firm,

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but she totally sees through all the bullshit.

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Like she's basically not doing anything, she's perfect at convincing the people around her that she's working.

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While she's very aware of the fact that even if she is working, she's not really contributing anything to society and it is this disconnect

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that she feels with the world that is beautifully satirized in this book, which is also very funny.

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It's a very funny take on the absurdity of corporate culture, but also how we use the internet,

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internet trends, beauty trends, capitalism, just anything that would make a modern corporate woman discontent.

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It's a very absurd novel and therefore I do feel like it fits into that whimsical category.

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If you wish that you could just scream and just like,

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if you ever feel that urge to just like clatter everything off the table and break everything and scream, I think he would relate to this main character.

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I think the next book is about like the ultimate experience of strangeness.

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Do you ever just sit in a park

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or just see like a fly somewhere or like a duck or a blade of grass?

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You're suddenly struck with the awareness of just being a random little person in a tiny world.

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If you are someone who is interested in existentialist philosophy, you're interested in the question of basically what to do with my life,

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you are really going to enjoy this French novel, Nausea, by Jean Balsart.

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I read the English translation.

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Jean Balsart, you may know as the existentialist philosopher.

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He's known for his philosophy about how we have a kind of a radical freedom.

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So much freedom that we don't really know what to do with it.

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And this is the fictionalized version of that philosophy.

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We follow a man who realizes that he is radically free, but the world has absolutely no meaning,

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and it is completely up to him to choose what he wants to do with his life.

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There is no one that can tell him what to do.

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There is no god that can tell him what to do and so he's kind of overwhelmed with this feeling of, oh god, what do I do now?

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I have to find my own purpose.

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Oh my gosh.

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It's just one of those feelings that I think is relevant and relatable at any age and at any time.

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A book that is incredibly foresty, makes you feel like you are bathing in nature,

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but also at the same time makes you feel very uncomfortable and unsure what the hell's going on is Bear.

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This is a contemporary fiction novel about two sisters that live in this very small town on a small island,

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kind of trapped there, kind of trapped in their lives.

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And one day their lives get shaken up because a bear enters their facility.

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It walks by their house.

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And our main character is, of course, incredibly scared, tries to take this seriously, tries to tell people,

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my god there's a bear here she tries to warn people about it tries to get people to help her

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but no one is taking her seriously classic

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but her sister she's kind of taking a fascination with this

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bear she always feels like she could somehow form a friendship with it

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and it's just these two different girls having this completely opposite approach to this bear on their land

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if i'm describing it right now this sounds like a really

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weird book this book's not really about a bear i I know it's called bear, but it's not really about a bear.

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This is a book about obsession, about sister relationships.

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I think that's one of those books that everyone interprets differently.

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I interpreted it as a book about like male violence, but maybe that's a far stretch.

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It's one of those books where you are constantly thinking, what is going to happen next and where is this book going to take me?

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One of those books where the author does the fantastic job

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of making it tense the whole way through even though not much is happening.

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Those are my favorite type of contemporary books.

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And of course the best way to read any of these books is just putting your jacket down in a forest, on a forest floor, on the grass,

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and reading it in the sun while the birds are tweeting around you.

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The next book is for people who are not afraid of being a little bit confused at the beginning of the story.

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Actually, that goes for a lot of the books that I'm about to recommend in this video.

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But oh my gosh, you just have to try.

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This is how you lose the time war.

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This is a beautiful love story, but I'm calling it whimsical

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because it plays with the concept of time travel in a way

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that doesn't feel like you're watching a Christopher Nolan movie that you don't really understand, but in a way that it feels almost poetic.

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A feeling that is made even stronger by the beautiful lyrical, to some maybe a little bit over the top writing style.

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This story will take you through the braid of time from

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way back into the past to far off into the future there are these two agents of two warring countries

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that are both time travelers and are hunting each other through time,

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writing each other letters through time and slowly falling in love in that way.

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It.. wow.

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It's reading the love letters between two star-crossed lovers with a healthy dose of sci-fi used to bend reality,

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to bend your perception.

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If you ever feel this need to just escape time as a whole.

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You're gonna love this novel.

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It is a little hard to get into at the beginning.

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A lot of people put this book down at the beginning because

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they are intimidated by just how confusing it is at the beginning with all the time travel, but please push through it and also understand

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that you don't have to understand everything and it's actually okay to feel a little bit lost.

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I think that is actually the purpose of this novel.

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Now we've reached the darkest parts of the forest where we will find the weird, the bizarre books.

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The books that I still deem whimsical because they're for the odd girls.

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The people that like their books a little strange.

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Because you yourself maybe are also a little strange.

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Complimentary.

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Complimentary.

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First I want to recommend a book that I just finished and that is The Vegetarian by Han Khan.

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This cover looks way too cute for what this book is actually about.

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This is a Korean novel.

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I read the English translation.

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And it's a novel about a woman who has the gall, the nerve to, instead of just, you know, being a normal,

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everyday, just slightly attractive, slightly unattractive woman,

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who doesn't attract notice, who never nags her husband, who's never annoying, who's okay with everything.

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decides to make the horrendous decision of becoming a vegetarian.

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How dare she make a choice for herself?

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How dare she?

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The rest of the book is about how multiple people surrounding

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this woman deal with her making this choice for herself and her slowly,

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I'm gonna say it again, losing touch with reality.

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Losing touch with humanity even and wanting to completely turn into something else.

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Let's just call it that.

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This book gets very graphic at certain moments so I do want to warn about that.

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It's one of those books that constantly almost becomes surreal but never completely

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and therefore it lives on this edge of tension all the time.

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I would recommend Feast While You Can if you are in the mood for basically just straight up horror, lesbian horror.

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It is one of those books that perfectly blends the tension of the scary with the tension of the erotic.

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It is about a small conservative town

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and our main character has a monster living inside of her

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that is obviously causing problems and also causing problems because she has to deal with this annoying woman,

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this gorgeous really hot woman, who seems to be the only person that can repel the monster inside of Angelina.

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It is a book about hunger, a book about feeling monstrous, breaking free from social rules,

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breaking free from your own small town.

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If you love the trope of a main character with a monster living inside of them, you gotta read this.

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If you like your whimsical books to be very atmospheric, you know, like Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea, but you also like them with a little tinge of horror,

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you know, a little tinge of weirdness, I highly recommend you pick up some Angela Carter.

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And a great way to start with that is actually the Bloody Chamber, not just the short story, but the entire short story collection,

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because this is all of her retellings of fairy tales.

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And fairy tales are very whimsical, they're very silly, but under Angela Carter's pen, they become monstrous.

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They become scary.

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They become bloody and tinged with darkness.

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Exactly how I like my fairy tales, honestly.

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Her take on all the fairy tales in this are full of female rage.

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It is definitely horror.

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She can get a little graphic at certain times, so just be aware of that.

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This next one is for the people who love weird stories about mushrooms.

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I have to recommend to you Paradise brought by Jenny Val.

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This is a Norwegian novel.

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I read the English translation.

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This is another novel about obsession and obsessive love.

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Well, it's not really love.

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Basically, we follow a young student who starts to live together with this kind of weird girl in this pretty weird house.

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The house is like an old factory.

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There is basically no privacy.

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It's kind of falling apart at the seams and the girl

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that she lives with they're not really speaking

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but also they are kind of sleeping next to each other

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in bed most of the time it's one of those books

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that is about obsession something that takes over the body

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so to say i love books that have a lot of imagery of rots

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and mushrooms and decay and this book is full of

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that just like feast while you can it has a strong theme of shame

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and it blurs the edges between human and other organisms.

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This is horror the way that I tend to prefer it

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and that is not necessarily scary but mostly just making you feel really uncomfortable.

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I don't know why I like that.

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I don't know why I enjoy reading books

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that purposely make me feel like I want to tear my skin off out of discomfort

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but um I keep reading it and I will continue to recommend it to you

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and if you know you know you know I know some of you guys like

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that I know some of you guys also want

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that well I have the books for you the next book

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that I want to recommend is very dark it's not really fitting this this bright sunlight

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that is hitting me right now and

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that book is Slewfoot by Brahm this book is a good example of horror in the sense

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that it is quite scary and monstrous it's my favorite kind of horror which is I would call dark forest witchy horror.

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We follow a woman in a historical town in Connecticut who gets accused of being a witch and everything that follows after.

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The revenge that she tries to take, the injustice that she is faced, but also the demon that is trying to strike a deal with her

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and the demonic spirits that she starts to form bonds with.

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Oh, that's a beautiful butterfly.

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Hello.

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Slewfoot is for the fans of the darker Ghibli movies.

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Darkwoods, Spirits, Witches, and Vengeance.

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If that sounds good to you and you're okay with reading some horror, Slewfoot is there.

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And it has gorgeous illustrations, by the way.

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This book is illustrated also by the author.

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Beautiful.

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And they perfectly also represent the vibe that this book has.

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Oh, it's really one of the weirdest sci-fi books

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and horror books I've ever read has got to be Annihilation by Jeff Endermere.

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This is a horror book.

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I wouldn't say it's particularly scary.

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This book has just such a wonderful take of what it means to be scary

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and that according to this book the scariest thing out there is actually the unknown.

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You know the monster in a horror movie is the scariest the moment that you haven't seen it yet.

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And that's what this book is It's about a bunch of scientists that go into Area X,

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which is this contaminated area in the world where everyone who goes in doesn't go out

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and the scientists are on an expedition, one of many expeditions, to figure out what is going on in Area X.

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You constantly know that there is something going on, that there is some kind of monster or alien or being or human somewhere,

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but you never fully understand it and it just keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire book,

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but also really confronts you with your own fear of the unknown.

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Especially, you know, because the main character is a biologist, a scientist, whose job it is to know things.

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What happens when you just don't understand something?

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You just cannot know something?

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This book is weird in the sense that it plays on everything that is strange to us, that feels unfamiliar, that we don't know about,

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we don't know what to feel about it.

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This is the epitome of horror in my opinion.

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Another book that has definitely made me deeply uncomfortable in all the best ways is Hunger.

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This is a Korean novel and I read the English translation.

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This is a book about a boy

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and girl who get into a very codependent relationship

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and it starts with our main girl finding the boy dead on the street.

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And this is not one of those novels where the girl then wants to die to be with him

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but instead she thinks I want the love that we have to live on for as long as possible.

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I want him to live on within me forever so

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that the love that we have for each other can live on forever.

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So she eats him.

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It's kind of nasty but really this book isn't about that at all actually.

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In its essence this is a book about the awful working conditions

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and workers rights in Korea and the guilt and the debt that this male character gets himself in because of poverty.

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So on the one it is a novel about literal cannibalism

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but it is also a novel about how capitalism eats you up from the inside.

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Now next I want to recommend two books by, in my opinion, the queen of weird novels.

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Of novels that will make you scratch your head, that will make you think, what is going on?

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I do not understand.

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And I personally really love that feeling.

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I love when I'm reading a book and I'm just like, I don't understand what's going on, but I'm gonna try to figure it out.

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And then once you finish it you go to reddit

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and just search like ending explained to see what other people have interpreted the book as

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and everyone always interprets it in a different way and i love

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that every time i meet someone who has read one of

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these two books i immediately love having a conversation on like

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what do you think it was about you know i am

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of course talking about mona what first we have rouge

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which is a retelling of snow white and which means

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that this is mostly a story about beauty

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and a main character who is absolutely obsessed with skincare

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and beauty routines and becoming the most beautiful version of herself

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and she ends up in this spa-like cult

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that you know promises her eternal ethereal beauty

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and it's about how far we are willing to go for

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that beauty but also it's

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so it's i cannot emphasize enough how weird this book is

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what i'm describing now it could just be you know like

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an interesting literary fiction there's like a tom cruise in a

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mirror there's jellyfish floating around it gets weird guys it gets real weird i love absurd books like this

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that give a societal critique of something because it shows how absurd

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our own daily lives are

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or how absurd in this case the beauty industry is oh mona wad also writes horror

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so it i personally don't think that her books are particularly scary

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but yeah there may be some violence in here and some blood

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and then of course i cannot make a video about weird

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books without recommending bunny by mona one of my favorite books of all time yes it is dark academia

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because it takes place at this prestigious writing school where you follow heather who is not like other girls

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and she wears turtlenecks i don't know if i'm making

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that up right now but i feel like she wore a turtleneck

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and the other girls in her writing group are these like giggling girly rich girls

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that she does not want to be a part of

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but then you know they invite her to be part of their group with an envelope

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and an invitation to a movie night and she is actually very fascinated

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and i guess you can see where this is going thematically

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you know it is about the absurdity of friendship between girls

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and the link between jealousy

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and obsession how women are played up against each other these are all my interpretations of the story

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but i'm sure many different people have many different interpretations of this book because it gets again it gets so weird.

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It gets so weird.

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This book is a fever dream.

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It is a tumble down a rabbit hole.

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It's Mean Girls and Clueless on LSD.

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And then I think one of my favorite weird little books about a weird little guy is Perfume by Patrick Suskind.

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This is a German novel.

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I read the Dutch translation, but there is an English translation as well.

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This is a historical novel set in 18th century Paris, and you follow a man from the moment he is born to his adulthood.

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And the interesting thing about him is that he was born without a smell, which is really unsettling to people.

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People think that he must be some kind of devil.

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There must be something wrong with him.

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He is cast out and he becomes obsessed with the idea of smells.

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And so he goes to school to learn to become a parfumier,

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a par a parfumier a parfumier parfumier a parfumerist a perfumerist perfumier i don't know a perfume maker

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so not only we get beautiful descriptions of him learning to make perfume and how

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that process goes he also eventually becomes really obsessed with the

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idea of creating the perfect female smell um i told you

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he was a weird little guy i really feel like

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if this was not set in the 18th century

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but instead now he will be an incel he would be

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watching weird manosphere videos all day on his phone instead of

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you know doing something with his life men don't become perfumiers

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anymore okay they're just on their phone watching manosphere videos this is for everyone who loves to read about obsession

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and how it always leads to someone's downfall

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And that is all of my whimsical and weird books that I have to recommend to you.

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I think I have found out that I love weird literary fiction.

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And I can't wait to read even more and more and more and more.

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So if you have any recommendations, leave them down in the comments.

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And also let us know in which area, which level of whimsicality and weirdness they fit into.

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I had so much fun making this video, especially the little animations in this video.

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i'm also like i'm like a little insecure about them

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because this is like this paper animation is completely new to me

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so i'm sure i'm making a lot of beginner mistakes

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but i just had so much fun creating a craft

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that is physical

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and in real life i have been like a digital creator from the moment i learned how to draw

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and paint ms but with like the rise of ai and technology taking over so many parts of the process.

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I really wanted to challenge myself to do like paper crafts and physical artwork.

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Not that I believe digital artwork is somehow lesser than physical artwork,

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but it's just something that I wanted to challenge myself to do and it was so much fun to work on that.

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So yeah, I hope you liked it.

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I hope this video gave you some wonderful whimsical book recommendations

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and inspired you to embrace a little bit of your own whimsical and weird side.

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I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day

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and I will see you soon with another video very soon goodbye

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このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「whimsical books you should read (but they keep getting weirder) 🧚🌀」を教材にしています。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が451文、単語が5834語あります。音声の長さは35:04です。話す速さは1分あたり約166語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は81%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
obsession 名詞	/əbˈsɛʃən/	妄想
deodorant 名詞	/diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/	デオドラント
perfume 名詞	/ˈpɝfjuːm/	香り, 香気
interpret 動詞	/ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/	解説する
absurd 形容詞	/əbˈsɜːd/	馬鹿らしい, 愚か
recommendation 名詞	/ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/	勧告, 推薦
howl 動詞	/ˈhaʊ̯l/	遠吠えする, 吠える
obsess 動詞	/əbˈsɛs/	取り付く
sprinkle 動詞	/ˈspɹɪŋkəl/	蒔く, 播く
researcher 名詞	/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/	研究員, 研究者
illustration 名詞	/ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/	例, 実例
artwork 名詞	/ˈɑɹtˌwɝk/	芸術作品, アートワーク
uncomfortable 形容詞	/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/	心地よくない
annoy 動詞	/əˈnoɪ̯/	煩わす, 騒がす
cosy 形容詞	/ˈkoʊzi/	居心地のいい

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
take over 動詞	引き受ける
find out 動詞	見出す, 調べる
go down 動詞	降りる, 降下する
go out 動詞	出る
look back 動詞	振り返る
pick up 動詞	拾う, 拾い上げる
see through 動詞	見通す, 透視する
try out 動詞	試す, 試してみる

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

Look, I won't lie, I am a sweaty girl.
It's like I'm putting on perfume.
I'm talking about the opposite of a person.
What happens when you just don't understand something?
You just cannot know something?

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作	I've been looking · I've been using · I've been making
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	you've seen · I've never looked · have gifted
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	is often described · be beaten · be partnered
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	woman who is · book, which is · someone who is

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, don't, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を86回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「sh」と「zh」の音: mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/, obsession /əbˈsɛʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: deodorant /diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, atmospheric /ˌætməsˈfɛɹɪk/, illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: sprinkle /ˈspɹɪŋkəl/, illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/, complimentary /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/, folklore /ˈfoʊk.lɔːɹ/, refill /ˈɹiː.fɪl/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vegetarian /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/, vibe /vaɪb/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, rival /ˈɹaɪvəl/, nerve /nɝv/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: perfume /ˈpɝfjuːm/, atmospheric /ˌætməsˈfɛɹɪk/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, folklore /ˈfoʊk.lɔːɹ/, manosphere /ˈmænəsfɪr/

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まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。obsession, deodorant, perfumeなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

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この動画の文法

注意したい発音

この動画での練習方法

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由