Book Haul | January Review

[MrScottLott]

John Green is the best! DFTBA!

[OpheliaDagger]

@MrScottLott I can not deny this statement :) Best wishes!

[duckpondwithoutducks]

The Old Man And The Sea is also a very short Hemingway book.

I loved your review of TFIOS - blown away - clever!

[OpheliaDagger]

@duckpondwithoutducks I heard that TOMaTS is brilliant, if it's short I'll read that next ;) Thanks!

[WordsofaReader]

LOVE a moveable feast!

[OpheliaDagger]

@WordsofaReader Me too - I really want to read the other books about that era of Paris and the Lost Generation :).

[allsheeverwanted1991]

Sounds like a plan :D

[allsheeverwanted1991]

Oh I wish we could be friends, you are too hilarious. 

[OpheliaDagger]

@allsheeverwanted1991 internet friends count!

[ETepic]

Look at you reviewing books and looking radiant. :P

I like the "Face-Sound Reviews" hahaha

[OpheliaDagger]

@ETepic thank you. I like to do minimum effort everything.

[nichelle435]

I thought The Shadow of the Wind was really good. Cool sound effects lol!!!

[OpheliaDagger]

@nichelle435 it's so good, isn't it?! I wish the cemetery of books was real. And thank you - it's something you cant teach ;)

[tomphillips84]

I want to read more, and I'm going to use your recommendations as a guide. Also, you should know that in the first sentence I initially type 'youre'. Sorry about that.

[OpheliaDagger]

@tomphillips84 I'd say mmmm, mmmm, oooh, aaahhh, mmmm. Is the best one.

I appreciate your honesty. I can forgive but never forget.

[tomphillips84]

@OpheliaDagger I posted a comment on your Tumblr, did you get it?



[OpheliaDagger]

@tomphillips84 I haven't been on there for at least 3 days. I anticipate it highly, though. *checks*

[OpheliaDagger]

@tomphillips84 Are you the comment asking me for sex or xbox?

[tomphillips84]

@OpheliaDagger I'm pretty sure I meant Xbox but now you make me doubt myself.

[OpheliaDagger]

@tomphillips84 I'll just say yes either way.

[JamiesFace]

YOU'VE HAD SEX i thought vyousers were meant to discuss life choices like that. oh no sorry i may have vyousers and prefontal cortex mixed up. my bad

[OpheliaDagger]

@JamiesFace that's an easy mistake to make. I do that all the time. So. That might make to smooth over any weird misunderstandings at a later date. 

[JamiesFace]

i like the face and noise thing. you should do just a video with those reviews in :) and not explain the faces haha

[OpheliaDagger]

@JamiesFace I was going to but I felt it would be entirely uninformative. Maybe as the year progresses. Got to ease the new language in slowly.

[KAPOWWkate]

LOVE the face/noise evaluation technique type thing. Pretty much summed up my TFiOS reaction right down to the snot. Nicely done.

[OpheliaDagger]

@KAPOWWkate haha, THANKS! I'm surprised it isn't a more popular technique in mainstream media ;)

[BarryAldridge]

Good luck with the book challenge. Thank you so much for your comments on Ray's video about me. So sweet of you. Definitely subscribing as you are a great vlogger.

[OpheliaDagger]

@BarryAldridge Thank you, I hope it's a resolution I keep!

And you are very welcome, you've just proved how right I was in saying those things with this comment. I've always respected your attitude to YouTube and the community :)

[novanine]

I bought a kindle to bring on tour with me. I've got 5 books on it so far and haven't read a word because a) I'm still reading the TIME end of 2011 issue and the TIME welcome to 2012 issue and b) there's no bath in my hotel room (for that is where I do most of my reading).

Also, you are funny, knowledgeable about chocolate mikshake emporia and, apparently, well-read. I think I'd like to sex you.

[OpheliaDagger]

@novanine WHAT A SURPRISE I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE ABOUT TO COMMENT.

What 5 books have you got? Are they the standard classic Dickensian affair that kindle enjoys so readily [cheaply].

My knowledge of chocolate milkshake has gotten me many an offer. Sexually.

[novanine]

@OpheliaDagger Nah. I bought The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson, three Christopher Hitchens books and a slim tome about zombies by a youtube/internet friend of mine by way of supporting him.

Three of those rum and chocolate milkshakes and I'm anybody's. I'm probably also vomiting, but anybody's.

[OpheliaDagger]

@novanine OOOH, I've been and ordered some Hitchens. I was less interested before he died, but having watched some of the old videos of his I have grown a liking for the cantankerous fellow.

I also want to read The Genius Test. Let me know if it is any good. Unless I read it first. Then I'll tell you.

I mourn those milkshakes. WE MAY HAVE SHARED A GLASS UNKNOWINGLY.

[novanine]

@OpheliaDagger I am halfway through the psychopath test and enjoying it thoroughly. Like all of Jon's stuff (I've met him twice now and have decided we're on first name terms) it cerebrally stimulates without being remotely academic.

I only have sporadic internets on my laptop right now, hence this tardy reply, but I am currently buffering your recent video and very excited that it may be of you in the bath. I shall prolly comment on it via twitter innit.

[aquemeni541]

Ophelia Dagger reads books at the rate of crackheads smoking crack. Ophelia Dagger reads books so fast, Chuck Norris's eyes burn out of his head. Ophelia Dagger reads books so fast...Oh, you get the idea.

[OpheliaDagger]

@aquemeni541 did you make that up ALL BY YOURSELF?! You never stop impressing me.

[aquemeni541]

@OpheliaDagger Just a normal day for me! Merci!

[LAshlieH]

@OpheliaDagger Probably. I am part of a collab channel so it will probably go there tomorrow. My personal channel is sort of a ghost town these days.

[OpheliaDagger]

@LAshlieH I will look out for this :)

[Ir0nIsland]

Why aren't you an internet celebrity yet?

[OpheliaDagger]

@Ir0nIsland you're just biased ;)

[LAshlieH]

@OpheliaDagger My J squiggle is orange and my HANKLERIFSH is blue! I searched 12 different places looking for fish-a-fied copies. It was a great nerdtastic adventure.

[OpheliaDagger]

@LAshlieH I didn't want to ask about the Hanklerfish as the likelihood was you didn't have one then it would make tfios seem as though it wasn't the best it could be. I AM SO JEALOUS, though. I just got the standard red J squiggle [not that I am complaining!] Are you going to make a tfios review? :)

[LAshlieH]

You are probably my new favorite youtuber. I totally agree with your noise review of TFIOS. It was epic and sad and funny and made me think about how I think about things and is probably got tear stains in it from the crying. It was perfect.

[OpheliaDagger]

@LAshlieH Thank you! I am glad my noise translated well! I had to keep putting it down when I was crying as I didn't want to taint the new crisp book with my sadness. So good! What colour was your J squiggle?

[freakypeachez]

'Well yah okay it's okay.' Please talk like this more.

[OpheliaDagger]

@freakypeachez it's a new thing I'm getting into. I should have used that accent for the "it's good. It's not good" portion of my review so it looked like I was trying to be a moron on purpose.

[SeanieBlahBlah]

I love the honesty of just saying "I got the smallest one so I can still say I'm reading Hemmingway" :) I don't read as much as I should. Last book was East of Eden, can't beat that..

[OpheliaDagger]

@SeanieBlahBlah Can't beat a bit of Steinbeck. Although, once again, I like Of Mice and Men. Short.