 Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. If y'all are new here, hi, my name is Kinsey. Nice to meet you. I'm in a really good mood because my favorite thing in the world to talk about is definitely books. Our books, our books. Really, that's not fitting my reading aesthetic vibe that I have going. My favorite thing to talk about would be reading. I'm a big reader. I grew up on Nancy Drew and Judy B. Jones. And then as I got older, I eventually transitioned into other things. I am all about the reading content. You guys want more reading videos? You let me know down below. In the past two years, I would say I've read at least 200 books. And I'm gonna be showing you guys from my Goodreads, the ones that I have rated five star if y'all are trying to keep up. With me, don't worry about following my Goodreads. Go follow my bookstagram. Thank you very much at KE Book Club. And that is where y'all will stay up to date on my latest reads. What I've been doing, you get it, okay? I'm also wearing a bread-winning housewife set, linked below. I do also want to say, as I'm getting on Goodreads, that this is probably not the most fair video, but it will be full of great book recs because I don't give out fives. Like, I'm not doing it. I'm very stingy with them. Other times, I'm just throwing them out nonstop. So there are definitely books in which I would flip from a four to a five and a five to a four, okay? All right, now that we've established that. So this is like fair enough, okay? We're as good as we're gonna get. I also wasn't using Goodreads correctly until like early 2021. So not every book that I've read in the past two years I've even rated, whatever, the most part I have, okay? So Magnolia Parks Universe. Got Magnolia Parks. We've got Daisy, which is number two. And then we have Magnolia Parks, The Long Way Home, which is number three. I don't know why sometimes I forget these on roundups because they really are some of my favorite books in the entire world. Jess is also a very good friend of mine. So I think that's why I forget because I'm thinking like authors that I don't know personally. Fun fact, her episode was the first one on my podcast to those like navigating your 20s, which is what ended up like really directing the podcast into the direction of navigating your 20s. The more you know, the more you know. Go listen, we also talk about writing. All three of these books, five stars. Unbelievable. I would say this is like the London version of Gossip Girl, but much, much better. I love BJ, like if you listen to anything I say, read the Magnolia Parks Universe. So good, also really unique, different. The covers are beautiful. Like it's just so good. By the way, these are in no particular order than other than what's showing up in my Goodreads. Okay, I'll do a few nonfiction. Most of these are gonna be fiction. Attached, the new signs of adult attachment and how you can find and keep love. This is all about attachment theory. It is so good and so helpful. When I learned about attachment theory, it like changed my life. And then when I read this book, it helped me so much. There's four different types of attachment and it is so good. I also read The Defining Decade, Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them and Now. I love this book. It changed my life. Certain parts of it, I understand why they're controversial and not everyone loves it. I personally felt like it was a very helpful read. Love, Forever Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins-Read. So I love Taylor Jenkins-Read's like early stuff too. So this follows the story of Elsie who falls in love very quickly with this boy named Ben. They meet on New Year's Day and by May they're married and then nine days later he dies tragically. At this point the families don't even know they're married so she's at the hospital dealing with all that stuff. I loved this book. The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier who is one of my favorite thriller authors. Now this is one of the books that I don't know why I picked it up other than I love Jennifer Hillier because it's so not, it's just not a book I would normally grab for. So this is about a serial killer by the name of the Beacon Hill Butcher. He was hunted down and killed by police but now 30 seconds later, Shank who is the like, I think he's like the sheriff, I think. He's now retired and widowed and he's giving up his large house to his grandson Matt who he raised. So Matt moves into this house. Matt's girlfriend has always had this theory that her mother was killed by the Beacon Hill Butcher. Matt makes a really weird discovery when he gets into this house. At this time, his girlfriend is having her own like Nancy Drew moment, if you will. Figures things out, this goes into Matt's secret. It's really, really good. Even friends that like are normally not into this kind of realm of books that I recommended to really liked it. November 9, Colin Hoover. I feel like a lot of us know about this book. So November 9 comes with a really crazy plot twist. It's about these two people who meet up every November 9th of every single year. It's a beautiful story. I really loved this one. If you're a Colin Hoover fan, I really feel like everyone's a Colin Hoover fan, would really recommend. Bright Side, this is a controversial kind of take. I loved the book. I feel like you either love this book or you hate it. This follows Kate who leaves San Diego to go to college in like Minnesota or something like that. She basically falls in love with this guy, Keller. That's pretty much all I'm gonna leave it at. I loved this book. Lots of twists, lots of turns, just so good. Before we are strangers, Renee Carlino, this is the book that made me realize that I actually do love romance novels. It's a missed connection. Basically these two people meet on the NYU meetup day. They have this like fast connection, a lot's happening. And then the guy ends up going away to do something. He has like an internship with National Geographic or something. He thinks it's gonna come back to the girl. The girl ends up being gone. A lot happens. You don't know. There ends up being twists and turns and whatever. So then 15 years later, he sees her. He issues like a missed connection thing. They reconnect and it goes on from there. Really, really, really good. Swear on the slides again. Some of these books I haven't read in two years. So I'm trying to like summarize them and I'm forgetting, but trust me, they're good. So there is this debut author, J. Colby. And everyone's talking about this book. Emilyne reads it reluctantly. She's a little bit bitter because this is like a young and new author. But from the very first page as she reads it, it's about this like crazy childhood. She realizes it's her childhood and J. Colby has to be like her first love. So J. Colby would be Jace, which is the best friend and first love that she hasn't seen in over a decade. She ends up like trying to hunt him down basically. Very good. Kind of heavy, but good. And of course, it ends with us. I love this book. I haven't, I actually should probably go back and reread it before the next book comes because it was so good. Like so, so good. And I read this at early 2020. So it's been a while, but like I could tell you I tell people to read this book every single day. Okay, so Lily graduates college, moves to Boston and she starts her own business and that's where she meets Ryle. She has like no dating role, but she like meets Ryle and he's surgeon or something like that. What is he? Yeah, neuro surgeon. I was right. And basically it just all kind of works out at that time and everything seems too good to be true. Ultimately Lily kind of becomes the exception to his no dating role. Well, I'm talking so much with my hands guys. And then there's just some things that I knew really should have happened. Questions start to concern her. She starts thinking about Atlas which is like really her first love. Atlas suddenly reappears and then it suddenly everything that she built with Ryle is like threatened almost. This one is really crazy trigger warning. It's like some bad things happening in this one but it is very powerful. It's actually loosely based off of Colleen's mom. It is one of the best books I've ever read. I loved it so, so much. Okay, I've rated behind closed doors by B.A. Paris, a five star. And like I don't know, I haven't read it forever so I mean we're going with it. Basically this couple seems like the perfect couple and the perfect marriage. But weirdly enough the girl Grace, she never answers the phone. She can never meet for coffee. She can never do all these things. She's cooking these elaborate meals and then like there's just like a lot of stuff that's really weird going on and they're wondering like what happens behind closed doors. I do remember liking it. I guess I rated it five stars. Seven Houses of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins-Bread. Obviously this is one of my favorite books in the entire world. So good, it follows like superstar, movie star, like icon Evelyn Hugo through her like seven husbands, her lifetime under the guise of like writing this article. It's just like the best book ever. There's so many turns, there's so much to the book. It has a 4.47 rating too on Goodreads, which is really good. It is just the best book ever. One True Love by Taylor Jenkins-Bread. So Emma marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse, and they build a lives for themselves far away, right? On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific and it goes missing just like that. Jesse has gone forever. At this point they hadn't like found a spot or anything so they just assumed he was dead. They never like could obviously confirm that but like he's in the middle of the ocean. Like you would think he was dead. So Emma eventually quits her job and she just moves back home to kind of get her life back together. Years later, now in her 30s, she runs into an old fan friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. They get engaged and then Jesse is found. So he's alive and he's been trying all these years to come back to her but in that time she's healed and grieved him and it's like moved on into another relationship. So it just kind of goes through like picking with who her one true love is and it is so good. I rated it with 101 essays that would change the way you think. Five Star as well. This is more of a non-fiction, just obviously 101 essays. Really good, it makes you think. The last one is Parish. This is actually the first book that got me back on my fiction reading, not journey, but like kind of back on my like fiction reading in early 2020. So basically Amber is fed up. She wants like money. Basically she wants money, power, she wants a certain lifestyle. And Daphne is a socialite, philanthropist and she's basically everyone, she's who everyone like wants to be in this small town in Connecticut. It's a very exclusive town and she has a real estate mogul husband, Jackson. They're basically like straight out of a fairy tale. So Amber wants what Daphne has. She's so envious that she has this plan to basically like inserts herself into the family and then it goes on. There is a twist. So like what you think from me sharing that, it sounds like it's very obvious and you know what's gonna happen. But there are twists, I promise you, like it is so good. That's my Liv Constantine, which is actually an author duo. One day in December, Josie Silver, I read this book I think in a night. I read a lot of these in a night and it was just such a sweet story. Lori is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere for the movies but then through a bus window, one snowy December day, she sees a man and she goes instantly that he is the one and then her bus drives away, okay? This is actually kind of crazy. She is convinced that they are meant to be. So for the next year, she is like looking around on every bus stop that she's at for him and she doesn't find him right but they end up reuniting at a Christmas party with her best friend who giddily introduces her new boyfriend, which is shocking, is the guy from the bus, Jake. So what follows for Lori, Sarah and Jack is 10 years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, rose not taken, destiny's reconsidered, joy is heartwarming and immensely moving. It's just like a really beautiful heartwarming story. Love, in other words, by Christina Lauren. I sobbed at this book. I sobbed, I sobbed. A lot of people are comparing this one to every summer after and I read this one a year or two ago. So I would have never like connected with you. I understand the story line's being similar but I get it, I get it. Macy is settling into an ambitious routine, work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But then she runs into Elliot who is the first and only love of her life in the bubble that she's crafted dissolves. So it's told in alternating timelines between then and now, it's teenage Elliot and Macy and then adult Elliot Macy. They're sharing a weekend in lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco, reading books, sharing favorite words and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. And then as adults, they become strangers to one another until their chance of reunion. Basically like love lost friendship, very good book. I just remember crying. The Simple Wild series by K.A. Tucker. Oh my God, I loved these books and again, I would have never picked them for myself. So I read all of them. There's four books technically in the series. Oh, I just saw that Colleen Hoover also rated it a five star. So it's The Simple Wild, Wild at Heart, Running Wild. And then there's also a novella I wanna say in between that. There's four, I don't know where it is. So good. Kala and her mom, this actually kind of really giving a little bit of a Twilight vibe stop, you'll see. Kala and her mom, when Kala was just a baby, Fleet Alaska, her mother was in love with her dad and he just required them to live in Alaska and Kala's mom was miserable. So she ends up leaving him in their rural lifestyle and it's very rural, like very, very rural, okay? Leaving behind the father, Ren in the process. So then Kala at 26 is living this busy life in Toronto and that's all she knows. Then she learns that her dad, Ren is sick and she ends up going to spend time with him in Alaska. She meets this guy Jonah and it's this beautiful, beautiful story. And it's just, again, it's a beautiful story. 4.33, but on good reads, okay guys? The whole series is so good. If you're looking to like dive into a series, it's amazing and it takes place in Alaska and I haven't really read a book, like in the Alaskan wild ever and it was so good. The silent patient, I loved. I read this early 2021 in a day and it was so good. So Alicia Barrenson's life is seemingly perfect, famous painter, married to an in-demand fashion photographer. She lives in this grand house, overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word, okay. She refuses to talk or give any kind of explanation. She turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander. This was a crazy, crazy twist and it was just so good. Like talk further for me. Okay, red, white, moral, blue, I loved this book. It's basically the first son, Alex Diaz and then Prince Henry had this like confrontation at the royal wedding. A lot of stuff happens. Basically it's a love story, hate to love story between them too. And it is juicy. I also like love anything that's presidential but it's not just presidential, it's also the royal family. It is really good. Verity calling Hoover again. I know so many of us feel the same way about this book. Lowen is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts a job offer of a livestock time. So Jeremy Crawford is a husband of the best selling author Verity Crawford and he's hired Lowen to complete her remaining books and successful series since injured wife is unable to finish. She arrives at the Crawford home and just like it is weird. And Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office an unfinished biography or autobiography Verity had never intended for anyone to read. So page after page of bone chili admissions including Verity's recollection of what happened the day her daughter died. So Lowen's keeping this manuscript hidden from Jeremy knowing that the contents would devastate the grieving father. But then Lowen's feelings for Jeremy intensify and she recognizes all the ways that it could benefit him. And then basically there's like a crazy twist at the very end and that is still up to interpretation. They keep up all this weird theories. Very good. The friend zone series by Abby Gemenez. So these are three stories that are about heavier topics but they're it doesn't feel heavy when you're reading them. I will say I think the covers and the titles don't do these books any sort of justice at all. I rated all of them five stars. And it's not as a rep series. It's one where she like picks a side character from the book and then expands on their story and another side character from the book and expands on their story. And it's just like some of my favorite books ever. I love this series. And each falls like a different like love story basically but so good. Beatrice Emily Henry. I fucking love Beatrice. The romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut and a summer long challenge that might just up in everything they believe about happily ever after. I remember when I read this, feeling like the cover and the title didn't do this book justice at all. I felt like it was a lot more than just what was like advertised almost. I love Beatrice. I don't, I didn't love a lot of the other books but I love Beatrice. Reminders of him by Colleen Hoover. I love this book because it honestly makes me rethink a lot of things. Follows a troubled young mother that's yearning for a shot of redemption after this very heartbreaking mistake that she makes and she ends up losing custody of her daughter. And then she's getting back. And then there's like obviously love story with it. And it is so good. And it's made me like question a lot of things in my life. Like I'm always like, I don't know how I feel about that. Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier. This is my favorite thriller book ever. It is so unique. Most thrillers, the husband kills the wife, right? This thriller, none of that happens. Very different. And also a twist that I never ever saw coming. Marin had the perfect life. Marin to her college sweetheart. She owns a chain of upskill hair, salons and Derek Brunstone Company. They're admired in their community and are a loving family. Until the word falls apart, the day their son Sebastian is taken. And a year later, Marin does a shot of herself. FBI has gone cold and she hired a PI where the police left off, her and her husband barely speak. And it's just so good. Like so good. Also Jennifer Hillier always writes in the Pacific Northwest. I really appreciate it because it's like different than like, I feel like so many books are like Marie Helen, you know? Open book, Jessica Simpson. Jessica Simpson's memoir. No, I don't need to explain any of that. But like, unbelievable one memoir just might be the best memoir ever. Pack Up the Moon, Kristen Hagen. So this is the Kristen Hagen's book that I saw that. Every month, a letter, that's what Lauren decides to leave her husband. When she finds out she's dying each month, she gives Josh a letter containing a task to help him face the first year without her leading him on a heart-rending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again. And the new novel from New York Times best son author, Kristen Hagen. This book made me stop. It is so good. You wanna just cry and read a beautiful, beautiful story. That's the one for you. The last thing he told me, I liked this book because there was two locations that I connected to, one being Texas, the other being Pacific Design Center, which is where the studio of Dear Media is in LA. It's a racist book club pick. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year protector. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows who she's referring to, which is Owen's 16-year-old daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey wants nothing to do with her new stepmother. Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen continue to go unanswered as the FBI arrests Owen's boss for weird stuff, and Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he says he was. I loved this book. It got me out of a reading rod and I thought it was so good. It happened one summer at Tessa Bailey. This is the most porny book there's ever been, I think, but it's really good. It follows Piper, who is basically this kind of uptight, stuck-up LA girl, who then goes, where'd she go? She gets cut off after just doing stupid things, and then the stepfather, who's the rich one, sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility. Basically, they're running their late fathers' dive bar in Washington. They don't fit in. She meets this guy. He's making fun of her. Kind of like they hate each other and love each other kind of thing. Really good book. Everyone loves this one. Part of your world, Abby Jimenez, again, I've read in every book that she's ever read, all four are written. Every book that she's ever written, I think I've rated a five star. Alexis Montgomery's had her world turned upside down. Her ultra-wealthy parents are high up in this hospital, and they have a very clear vision for what they want her life to be. She was engaged, and then that just went really, really south, and then she meets this guy, Daniel, who's 10 years younger than her, carpenter, totally different life, and he, basically, his hometown all relies on him. They live like two hours away. The story continues on. Basically, bringing Daniel into her world is impossible, but it just ends up being a really beautiful book. I'm saying that about everything. I'm sorry, guys. Every summer, after Carly Fortune, again, a story of these kids who grew up, their summer house is next to each other. It's similar to the one I was sharing earlier. This one's really hot currently, but it does, like, a then and now take the twist of, like, why things went south or why didn't they never rekindle? Didn't see that coming. Really good. Run Ra's Run by Dolly Parton. This book takes place in Nashville, which is why I loved it, and I love Dolly Parton, and I love everything about it. So it's a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run and determined to do whatever it takes. I loved it. I just read Jeanette McCurdy's memoir. I'm glad my mom died. So good. Like, if you were into celebrity memoirs, this is, like, one of the best. Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Scorer. Obsessed. Obsessed. I loved this book. It's long, but I loved it. Naomi, it wasn't just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Virginia. And this twin is like an evil twin. She hasn't changed at all, and she finds out she has a niece, Naomi. She's 11, and basically, since her mom's left, she has to take care of her and do all the stuff, and she meets Knox, who doesn't like complications or how I mean it's women, and I mean, you can guess where it goes from there. Really good. Ugly love, Colleen Hoover. When Tate Collins meets airline pilot, Miles Archer, she knows it isn't love at first sight. They wouldn't even go as far to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize that they have the perfect setup. He doesn't want love, she doesn't have time for love, so that just leaves a sex. Their arrangement couldn't be more surprisingly seamless as long as Tate can stick to it. The only two rules Miles has for her don't ask for the fact and don't expect the future. Very like classic, but it's a really good book. And that is it for books that I have rated five stars. I'm sure some of my readings are off and some of my fours should be five, the five should be fours, whatever. You know, this is a good start. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you guys want book reviews or book content or anything like that, let me know down below what you want to see. And also, I already posted a ton on my Instagram. I have a whole book Instagram, KE Book Club, and then on my actual Instagram, Kansy Elizabeth, I do a lot of book roundups. So I love you guys so much. I hope you guys enjoyed and I will talk to you guys soon. Bye. So I started to write, you know, and I'm also, I also have done the artist way. Have you heard of this? Mm-hmm. With Julia Cameron and a piece of that is also morning writing, morning journaling.