Kate reads books. For realsies.

[breakingdawn247]

I was born in Phenoxville

Is thaat how you spell^^ that

[iwasfrancisd]

The Giver was depressing? The ending was very optimistic. Can something optimistic be depressing?

Anyway, that poem Eyesight makes me sad and happy at the same time. No emoticon can express how I feel right now.

[KateReadsBooks]

@iwasfrancisd they're dead at the end.

[iwasfrancisd]

@KateReadsBooks Well, I guess I didn’t really look at it that way the first time I read it.

I think the ending was left uncertain because the future is uncertain. I think the focus was supposed to be on their choice and the reasoning behind that choice. The question of whether or not they lived in the end wasn’t important to me. The book wasn’t depressing at all.

But I still think they made it out ok. It's the future. They can transmit memories and stuff. :-)

[LeDuckie1]

you are so superior...party time.. excellent.

[Foodfast123]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez FTW.

[Kellprincess92]

This is the first time I've watched any of your vids.

My socks have been ROCKED.

[ryoXweedXblackpepper]

I like salinger too.

Have you tried Japanese Literature?

It's good.

[RageOfTheKage]

SEAMUS HEANEY.

The Best

[RageOfTheKage]

YES MADAM!

THE PERKS

[glasslighthouses]

I saved that list of books so I can read them after my current list of books.

[aTRUEstencil]

This video is doubleplusgood.

[KeeepinItReal]

I wrote a poem for ya. You stink.The end.

[shigh10]

middlesex made me come... ah-mazing

[juggaloteardrop]

hustler,playboy,hardcore white girls

[Killacats119]

ginger!

[theblackparade1039]

Everyone loves Sylvia Plath too...

and I LOVE NATHANAEL WEST!!

so thanks for your general enthusiasm. :)

[FlamingCuntLips]

LOL first book

"the day I swapped my dad for a gold fish"

I bought that like 2 months ago plus

"tales from outer suburbia"

by shaun Tan is also good

[reelflmfan]

The artwork on the cover of "The Day I Swapped My Dad..." Is also the album cover artwork for "This Desert Life" By The Counting Crows yes?! ?

Yes.

[nitter123]

the perks of being a wallflower is the second best book eveeeeeerrrrrrrr.... first is the catcher in the rye

[ForAhoneyBeh]

lol, bc, too cute

[0324sunny]

were my eyes going retarded.. or was your camera freaking out? haha..

I adore depressing books and novels.. don't really know why.. but i do.

I'm going to totally check out "say hello Chris" and "blankets"

[xCelebritySkin]

Read more Bret Easton Ellis! He's awesome.

[prepdude22]

i cried when i read the giving tree too

deep stuff

[ambivalentlyunsure]

Picture books have got to be the best.

[nicholasweekend]

franny and zooey is gold.

and i like the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides.

[juliaormond]

I love the terrets moment at 5:08!

[beezoo88]

hi kate! its margie from the hammer. you karaoke'd to the dead milkmen at my house? jumped on here after watching kev's vid about selling u that painting. loved yr bk selections! i got a recommend--ROGUE PRIMATE. my bible. period. worth seeking out. later gorgeous!!

[KateReadsBooks]

i look ridiculous with long hair now.

[annasoalive]

Ahhhgrrrrrrrhhh. I love The Giver!

[oprahlovesgail]

omgz i. . . i think i'm in love with you. no, i know i'm in love with you.

[flippinsweet17]

shel silverstein is the shit

yo i read the giver in 6th grade - but i really dont remember it cuz i have this weird thing with books, movies, tv shows, entertainment in general - that after about a year to three years all i remember is a few unimptant details. like in the giver all i remember is some dude had blue eyes i think and like yeah.

oh i love childrens books. like THE HUNGRY CATERPILLAR - damn i loved that book when i was younger. hmm yeah. uh huh.

[ed124790]

i have some sweet books by C.S. Lewis that i will trade for some of your books. I have a lot of the ones you have, but I could go for some poem collections.

~Joshua Trefney

[livfstdieprettyy]

you're def my book soulmate, i've read all but uh, that...h/o i'll scroll up and look, oh the goldfish one.

[questionsmirk]

i'm so confused by your videos...what are your religious views?

is there a video about it?

[KateReadsBooks]

No, there's no video about it.

[questionsmirk]

ha ok i guess ill leave it up to my imagination then :)

[Daverza]

The only book ive read (so far) that I've really enjoyed was "Ender's Game" By Orson Scott Key

[TheOtherTyler]

1984 and The Giver are two of the best books I've ever read. And I love The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Ordinary People by Judith Guest.

BOOKS FTW!

[ChaosFerTheKids]

Woot! A book video. xD

[Nyhee7]

I found this video on another guy's favorite's list. I like sylvia too, and dryden and william carlos.

I noticed something, Kate, you've changed a great deal since you made this video. This was a cool video, most of your videos are, but there seems more joy in your recent videos. There's nothing wrong with joy, or depression, but I am glad that you are doing so well.

By the way, you don't owe us anything, we owe you. Have a joyous day. :)

[chickenlurver167]

You should totally read Neil Gaiman books because he is the best! Read the sandman series they are like the best graphic novels to ever exist!!!!

[susiecusieq]

i also love depressing books if they are awesome

[itssallniceonice]

I love Animalia. Best ever.

[shadowenglish]

It's a shame so few Americans read actively and consistently. There are so many people who skim a book over the course of months and call that reading.

[Tbe2007]

Hey, i just want to say thank you for this video. It makes me want to read more. I just want to tell you that i`m currently reading GIOVANNI´S ROOM (German version). Am not through yet but i like it already. I´ve also ordered ANOTHER COUNTRY (original version) ;-)

[Ssource6]

So I've actually been looking for some new books to read... Thanks a million. You're 10 kinds of fantastic.

[timmythetoolshed]

ummm i love you

[seags14]

the miss nelson books, remember finding out that coach swamp was really her twin sister all along? that fucked me up as a child, truly. same with alexander and the terrible horrible no good very bad day, i blame it and my mom for making me cynical and sad.

[seags14]

Steppenwolf was almost as good as Siddhartha. What about Kerouac, Wolfe, Kesey, Ginsberg, Pirsig... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance perhaps? The fucking more you know... classic and one of the top 5 2 seconds on youtube.

[tonjesml]

We gotta do some serious book-swapping.

[youyou2btoo]

finally more books to read... read and loved: Crime and Punishment Brothers Karamozov Beowulf! not the cartoon movie "It" and the dark tower series Rant by Chuck Paladukumama Everybody Poops For Whom The Bell Tolls All quiet on the western front Of Mice and Men - not for depressives like me.

[dickegly000]

I just finished East of Eden, which surprised me..I liked it more than I expected.

Perks is a great book.

I read Blankets this summer

reading MaKeS YoU SmARt!!!!!

[expl0siveLIGHTS]

whoaa....this video inspired me to read more books!

[sarahseayx]

My favorite...The Giving Tree.

[:

[dantegemini]

Nice collection.

I read Siddhartha over the summer. I liked it. Definitely will read more by Hesse, since his other books look really good too.

[TergiversoUniversos]

I just finished How I Became Stupid, by the French author Martin Page. Review = WOW! I recommend The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer, its excellent!! I'm starting God Is Dead by Ron Currie, Jr. BTW Kate, did you find any Cortazar or Borges yet???? I'm reading a lot of dystopian novels right now. Hope you write back, take care.

[UnderTheMist]

Blankets is the absolute shit. I'm about 3/4 of the way through 1984 right now, awesome stuff. If you haven't read it, you should look into Timbuktu by Paul Auster. Awesome novella.

[ziegfeldgirl12]

I fucking love sylvia plath!

[nightworm]

snap, i tried to recommend giovanni's room and william carlos williams to you like a week or two ago on stickam. then i see this video today. and realize. shit.

[dipsetmuthafucka]

I like a lot of those too.

Chris Ware blows my mind.

[molliesmania9]

I dont think 1984 is allowed in schools anymore...we had to read it... i wonder if it was banned.

[the5thof4]

DUDE

1984 is my #1 Favorite book ever too!

I read it the first time when I was like, 10 and it was awesome even then, lol.

You're the 3rd of 2, I'm the 5th of 4, we both love 1984... basically we should be the same person... except I'm a boy... and 16...

Hmm... some problems there :/

ANYWAYS awesome video!

I've got some suggestions for my next book to read! :D

[GoldenView88]

OMG I have to read 1984!! everyone keeps telling me, I liked "Northern lights" and the otehr two after it by Phillip Pullman that isnpired that movie with Nicole Kidman, a fantasy thing called "compass... something or other" thanks kl vid

[unmeasuredinstances]

OMG! I LOVE A.R. Ammons....seriously! And no one EVER knows Ammons. Have read every one of his books. Garbage is great...Do you know Tape for the End of the Year? Glare and Blink are right up there.

Loved your book selection....and btw my mentor, Andrew Forge, happened to be David Sylvester's closest lifelong friend. In fact Interviews with American Artists is dedicated to him. So totally cool you mention him.

[friendofpyrex]

I tried reading House of Leaves but other people had it on reserve, so I had to give it back before I could finish it! Unfortunate, I know. Unfortunately, I haven't read a lot of the books you mentioned. Ummmm...I'll work on that.

[simonhoopty]

I'm not good at reading.(read:slow) Literacy is possibly the super power I wish to possess the most. Wait, point: I love to read but I don't have a genre of book to stick to so the recommendations are ever so helpful.

[jhudspeth1]

I thought I was in love with you before!

<3

[KateReadsBooks]

Yeah, i just get kater and kater as it goes.

[TergiversoUniversos]

Bastante decente, bastante interesante a decir verdad. Podría imaginar varias coversaciones... Have you ever read any Cortázar??? Read "Rayuela", I think the english translation is "Hopscotch", if you can, read Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges (two geniuses in Latinamerican literature). I would like your review about them. And if you ever read House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski or Only Revolutions, I would like to talk to you about them, talk to you soon, take care...

[KateReadsBooks]

HOUSE OF LEAVES IS ONE OF MY FAVES!!!!!!!! I like your taste.

[BrickRoux]

Kate - I just subscribed to you thanks to K80. Love the literacy. And if you need an extra push to pick up Cortazar per Tergiverso's commendation, consider this it. "Cronopios and Famas" will break your heart with genius, and it is readable a million times over.

[lovelythechemist]

awesomeness... I love the "more you know" ending.

[KateReadsBooks]

That's my favorite part, too.

[tamellaoc]

Love Plath--great list Kate! You rock!

[KateReadsBooks]

YOU ROCK

[wildredrose99]

LOL! You're freaking divine in your hilarity..

& Thank you for the book ideas. Currently I'm in that phase where you're between books - I'm in a place between a Stephen King novel and a crappy medical thriller.

I've read a good amount of Plath, but haven't yet read the Bell Jar. Think I shall start up on it.

[GuessWhoTube]

Definitely!!!! I read it when I was in a court ordered 72-hour lock up thing, so it's a quick read.

[ajgenius]

wheee! you make me want to do a book video. hah.

I own several of those.And bought/re-read the incarnations of immortality just last year in fact.

[KateReadsBooks]

do a book video. for realsies.

[mediamoxy]

I feel like I need to read a book now... I love that feeling!

[Fahrenheit 451 pwns 1984 ;-)]

[KateReadsBooks]

i love ray bradbury! Anything where everything in the future sucks is ok in my book.

[pete275]

plums killed my entire family

[KateReadsBooks]

mine, too, that's why they're so funny.

[QuinnEGorges]

YOU are FUN-damental.

Great list! Yeah! Books!

[paisleyduck]

wow. 1984, man's search for meaning and middlesex are three of my favorite books of all time.

you are cool. :D

[stephenashley93]

god your good.

[KateReadsBooks]

YOU ARE! EVERY DAY! FOREVER

[yourtubeunderground]

i really feel like reading now...

maybe 1984, never read that one before

[yourtubeunderground]

watership down

[KateReadsBooks]

FUCK YEAH TALKING BUNNIES

[cowbellanarchy]

I am going to write a book about this youtube video. It is going to be better than the movie!

[KateReadsBooks]

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT

[djvbb12]

You NEED to read a Christopher Moore book! Especially, "The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove"! It will make you crap your pants with laughter! BTW I'm reading 1984 now for fun-ducation! AHHH you still mispronouced Siddhartha!

[KateReadsBooks]

yeah, yeah, you don't do the hard H, i know. lame.

[ImaPeezaGUM]

wowzer trousers. Maybe I'll make a response... maybe...

[KateReadsBooks]

DO IT NOW

[theantiunion]

oh my goodness. do you know how many times i have bought the Giver. i lend it out and never get it back so now i buy books and give them to people cuz i like to keep my copies. call me crazy. i'm doin a response vid. i gotta. i gotta do it.

[KateReadsBooks]

HELL YEAH GIVER

[kalila8alisha]

awesome my kids would love to question you... peace great choices..

[KateReadsBooks]

Kid questions = great video idea

[SonomaDave1]

Wow...exciting. You made me want to go get um. I had almost forgotten about Herman Hesse's book--life changing for me. Which makes me wonder... What are your top ten, life changing/altering books of your life? Seriously.

[KateReadsBooks]

1984, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha (Seung Sahn), Thinking of You (Sam Brown), Why I Am Agnostic (Robert Ingersoll), Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Chris Ware), On a Pale Horse (Piers Anthony), the Giver, Song of Soloman, House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski), The Monster at the End of This Book (Michael Smollin and Grover), is that 10? I think so.

[nerdfighter4]

The books I read now I read over and over and over until my son picks a different story for bedtime. James and the buzzy bee is the current favorite. I didnt see any Harry potter books in that collection. Have you read J.K. Rowling?

[KateReadsBooks]

I read the first harry potter and liked it a lot, but haven't read any of the other ones yet. Kids books are the bomb Dr Suess is my favorite to read to my nephews.

[nerdfighter4]

FOX in SOcks!!! and the new Horton hears a who! AAAHHHHHHHH toungue twisters..i need ah bahnd-ayde =P

[K80Blog]

I sensed a little backhand to E.B. White. Watch your step!

[KateReadsBooks]

Girl!

[K80Blog]

Oh stop bragging about reading. : )

[pagiepage]

My favorite writer ever is Margaret attwood. If you ever feel like trying a different style of writing try , Alias Grace, The blind assasin or the handmaids tale.

[0deevil]

you win !

[theantiunion]

handmaids tale = awesome!

[mohuju]

fabulous book collection. my jaw dropped when you added the giver at the end. totally one of my favs.

[KateReadsBooks]

FUCK YEAH THE GIVER

[dianakazoo]

Middlesex is awesome. So is The Velveteen Rabbit. In different ways, I guess.

[KateReadsBooks]

FUCK YEAH

[KateReadsBooks]

FUCK YEAH

[FrankCopper]

I dont know if your into the style.

But. I found a whole new author and

writing style. Book = the road .

Came out like a year or two ago.

Try it out. ( super around halloween )

[KateReadsBooks]

ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK

[KateReadsBooks]

I can already tell this is going to be my most popular video. Almost ten full minutes of non-stop book talk. HOW CAN YOU LOSE?!