 This is a thick boy. Chris isn't a thick boy. Hello everyone, it's Megan again from the future. I seem to be making a bit of a habit of this but I just wanted to pop in to say a really really big thank you for us hitting 1k. It's crazy. I really really can't believe it at all and I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be doing a 1k Q&A very very soon. I am so excited. 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Hello everyone welcome back to my channel my name is Megan and today we are doing the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen as books so if you don't know what the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen is it's essentially a group of people who cook things. You're joking me. Today I've picked five people in the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen and we're going to recommend books based on them. Okay here we go. So I'm actually going to start with Claire because she's like you know the most well known I think out of everyone. Oh do you hear it popping? Yeah. Trapped cat. Oh that's bad. You guys it's popping. And um I'm gonna recommend I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman. Now I listened to this in an audio book which I'd actually really really recommend so here's the thing it wasn't what I expected which is what I think the whole Bon Appetit Test Kitchen is like you don't expect you think oh it's just some people cooking. I've watched MasterChef like I ain't gonna be this thing's bitch but So I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman follows a fan of a boy group and she's like a super fan and I don't want to give too much away but you essentially follow her and a member of the band's POVs it switches between them every chapter. She gets to learn not everything is what she thinks it is with the band. I think in like boy group fandoms people paint pictures of stuff they want to believe I know I was the biggest one direction stand so I've seen all that like toxicity firsthand um when I was like 13. She kind of has a realisation throughout the book I don't think this is a spoiler about you know these are real people we can't just project our own feelings onto them and project project you know the kind of people we want them to be onto them they're their own person and it's really really well written I've never heard really of a book that deals with this suspect subject in a way that's not like I don't want to say like fetishy but like kind of like glorifying the idea of being a fan of a boy band or inner boy band or whatever you know like I think it has a really healthy look at the whole experience and the whole topic of being on either side and I just wanted to protect them all just like I want to protect them she's like angelic too good for this world and things go wrong just like in how I got my mix she goes wrong I would prefer not to tell you what I did wrong what's going on here I don't want to talk about it I don't want to talk about it you don't want to talk about it I don't want to talk about it next one I'm going to recommend is based off of chris now chris I think is my favorite in the bunna tikka stitch and I I love him king of smelling if you haven't watched his series where he recreates like famous dishes famous chef's dishes based on just tasting them it's like the most impressive thing I've ever watched it's so good so chris is just like he's an interesting character because when you first see him you think oh he's gonna be like up tight like up himself or just because he like carries himself in a very like way you know and um he's like a perfectionist very very complex so I thought I'd go with a very complex book and we're gonna go with the gold finch by donna tart this is a thick boy chris isn't a thick boy it's long it's like 800 pages 830 pages so much happens so much happens just like so much is happening all the dishes chris taste all the flavor profiles you really have to take your time in this book um it essentially follows theo and his world is torn apart when his mother dies in an explosion an art gallery that app that he survives and um I don't want to really say much more but he kind of uh he I don't want to say anything I don't want to say anything about it because I don't want to give anything away but you've probably heard a lot about it anyway so the thing that I say probably wouldn't give anything away but I still don't want to you essentially just follow theo throughout his life from when he's 13 up until he's like 23 probably probably about 10 years of his life it's such an ambitious book just like chris just thinking about how she wrote this like I could never aim to write a book like this like this is next level ambitious everyone knows I love the secret history by donna tart favorite book probably ever if not of the year and I gave his four stars just because it did take me a little while to connect with the characters this isn't linked to chris anymore but it did take me a little while to kind of connect to the characters and I felt like some parts of it were very slow and then the ending was a little bit rushed but on the whole a really good book what happened yo she's so low on energy she's not moving yo the music video she actually has some you know it was soft but you know you can feel the zirton and you know what i'm saying she's not doing that yo she can't even move and a really ambitious book and I really um I just like it's that kind of book everyone should read you know like we all enjoy reading like some easy YA but this is a challenge I would recommend reading this at a point in your life when you're not doing too much because you kind of just need to divide yourself to it and like getting through it the thing about donna tart's books as well is that like she uses very thin pages and so it doesn't look that long like hang on this is betting the house which um I spoke about my non-fiction recs video recently and like okay it looks a bit smaller than this probably um this one is betting the house this is a goldfinch but this is 400 pages and this is 800 pages the next person I'm going to recommend based off of is brat now if I had liked it I would have recommended the subtle art of not giving a fuck because you don't give a fuck because oh yeah wait about I was gonna put a data but you know it's you know and culture but I hated that book so what I am gonna recommend is the turn of the key by Ruth where now hold on you're thinking how the hell is this thriller book related to Brad I chose this because bread is chaotic energy times 100 this is chaotic energy times 100 in this you have no idea what the hell is going on you have you have no clue you have no clue what's going on Brad has no clue what is going on most of the time so that's why I chose this um I spoke about this a couple times on my channel particularly I did a reading vlog for this which I will link up above in this a nanny moves into a smart time to be a living nanny for the kids and things start going wrong it's very spooky she starts hearing noises and you find out at the beginning of the novel she has been accused of killing one of the children and she's saying I did not kill that kid I didn't kill it so we're essentially trying to find out if she didn't kill the kid or if she did it's also written through a series of letters um and you forget at times it's written through a series of letters but it's done really really well this I gave us five stars it was the first through that I've ever read and I'm excited to read many more next I'm gonna recommend off of molly quick question about potatoes you can power a cock with it what was that power a cock with it you can do what you can power a cock with a potato that is true crispy or mashed mashed all day all day all day even on even on Thanksgiving day hell yeah special days giving those nice old babies I thought you said you could pound my cock with it did you not hear that now I feel like molly just has like a safe energy and a very sisterly energy so for this I've gone with Sadie by Courtney Summers this is about two sisters one of which has died and the other one has disappeared and we find out kind of just like at the beginning that she has actually gone to search for her sister's killer and is trying to track them down I since it's an audiobook everyone recommends the audiobook I would without a doubt it's probably the best audiobook I've ever listened to you're what do what's that rubbish you're dispouted it's because half of it is in it was a podcast and so it sounds like a podcast it has a full cast for me I think I've had no mention but for me the highlight was when they were talking to the kind of like adoptive grandma of the girls like she's being interviewed in her trailer and you can hear like the noises of the trailer and the clock ticking in the background and it just made it seem to me like so realistic it was it was like I've never I just thought it was so well done I was like in Marvel but like I was marveled by the ingenuity of it all and the last member of the Bon Appetit test kitchen I'm gonna recommend off based off is Andy look at these wait wait I made them no you did yeah Chris and I made them this yeah I went to Michael's you do that now Andy I feel like has a very particular way of doing things like when he's paired with Brad Brad is just like all over the place chaotic whatever and he's like the person to bring him back down to earth so for this I'm gonna recommend truly devious by Maureen Johnson I actually finished this like two days ago and I really really enjoyed it now Andy kind of reminds me of Stevie our main character she is very interested in mysteries and she has like her method like she wants things done her way but she's also like not an unfun character she's fun she in her head she's like I gotta do this I gotta do this I gotta do this like she has her way and that's very like Andy so in this we followed two timelines but predominantly the one with Stevie but essentially she's gone to a boarding school there was a murder there um and disappearances there in 1930s when it was set up and the owner of the school his wife and daughter were abducted and there was also another murder at the school at the time and now she has managed to go there she has gotten through being interested in the case she's very interested in true crime I'm so horrified I don't know what to say she loves true crime podcast books and um she's obsessed with the case in her head she's like I've read everything that is to read about this case I know more than anyone else and I want to be the one to solve it so that is why she has gotten into school it's like a special school for like really talented people in very niche areas if that makes sense like you've got to be good at something that like no one else is good at kind of thing so um yeah things start going wrong it's a whole ride it's very quick read like I think you could just fly through this I'm very excited to read the second one but I think it's definitely just like Andy's energy all over so there we have it that is all my recommendations based off of members of the Bonnet petite test kitchen if you want more let me know because there are obviously so many more people there that I can recommend books based off of let me know who is your favorite member of the Bonnet petite test kitchen down below and um yeah I hope you enjoyed this video I get it's a bit niche thank you as always for watching and I will see you in another video very very soon bye