Johnny Yim

Johnnysbookreviews

Arts EN ↓ 133 episodes

I work at a bookstore and read a lot of books, so I'm going to review all of the books I read. Let's do this!

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Johnny Yim

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Arts

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johnnysbookreviews.com

Latest episode

Nov 25, 2025

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Episodes

57. How I Can Read 4 Hours Everday Working A 9-7 Job 07.06.2023

The best way I can tell how is to provide my schedule of when I wake up to when I go to bed on one of my busiest days. The reason why I read so much is because it's meditative, helps me learn new hobbies, I've learned from the best minds out there, 10xed my health, 10xed my finances, and read some great stories that motivated me to take action. In this episode, I provide the entire schedul...

56. 25 Hours In A Day: Going One More To Get What You Want by Nick Bare Book Review 02.06.2023

Nick Bare is the CEO of Bare Performance Nutrition (BPN). He operates a million dollar business while taking care of a family and training for endurance races like ultra- marathons. I learned how to be more consistent from this book. In this episode, I review this book, discuss what I liked and disliked about the book, and any lessons I received from the book. For written reviews, check out my web...

55. Run Rose Run By Dolly Parton and James Patterson Book Review 26.05.2023

Run Rose Run is where Annielee travels to Nashville to try to become a country singer. She doesn't have money, is homeless, and jobless. She's risking a lot to do something she's passionate about. Will she make it? In this episode, I review this book, discuss what I liked and disliked about the book, and any lessons I received from the book. For written reviews, check out my website: h...

54. In Order To Live by Yeonmi Park Book Review 23.05.2023

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector who escaped from North Korea. This is her story of what happened in her perspective about North Korea, China, and then South Korea. In this episode, I review the book, discuss what I liked and disliked about the book, and how I learned more about North Korea from this book. For written reviews, check out my website: https://johnnysbookreviews.com/ For daily u...

53. Hannah Swensen Series by Joanne Fluke Series Review 17.05.2023

Joanne Fluke is known as the crime, mystery writer. She's a New York Times bestselling author from the Hannah Swensen series she wrote. Hannah is a baker who owns her own bakery. When crimes keep on popping up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah turns into an adult Nancy Drew detective who almost dies multiple times. Hannah is seeing two man (Norman and Mike) in the book who both proposed to her. Afte...

52. Amulet 9: WaveRider by Kazu Kibuishi Has Been Announced! 12.05.2023

If you haven't heard, Amulet 9 release date has just been announced! I've been waiting two years for an annoucement, but other kids and now adults have been waiting over 5 1/2 years for an announcement from Scholastic on when this book is coming out. Number nine has taken Kazu 5 1/2 years to make. Amulet series is a sci-fi kids graphic novel written by Kazu Kibuishi. A young kid, Emily, ha...

51. My Thoughts On It Ends With Us Hard Cover Special Edition and The Cast For This Movie 05.05.2023

We wouldn't know who Colleen Hoover is without Tik Tok, but maybe we would? Tik Tik has put a lot of self-published authors like Colleen Hoover on the map. Hoover's most popular book, It Ends With Us, was the top selling book in 2022. Because of that, Hoover and Atria has decided to release a new Special Edition Hard Cover exclusive for U.S. and Europe. Also, Hoover has developed plans wit...

50. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Book Review 02.05.2023

The 50th episode is over Fourth Wing. Fourth Wing is Rebecca's debut sci-fi book, and it didn't dissapoint. This book has dragons, romance, betrayal, deception, violence, battle scenes, and rooting for the underdog (Violet). It's everything I've always wanted in a book, and it has brought me back into sci-fi again. Fourth Wing comes out today, May 2nd 2023, so get your copy today. In this episode,...

49. Magic Tree House Graphic Novel by Mary Pope Osborn Book Review 27.04.2023

The first Magic Tree House book, Dinosaurs After Dark, was published on July 28th, 1992. 31 years later, the Magic Tree House series now has over 64 books and counting. It has sold 134 million copies, and it has helped initiate a reading journey with young readers like me! I wouldn't be reading as much as I am if I didn't read these books growing up. Mary Pope Osborne, the author of these Magic Tr...

48. Limitless by Jim Kwik Book Review 21.04.2023

Jim Kwik is the brain coach and teaches people on how to remember more information, how to read faster, and how to imrpove their brain capacity. This book contains all of his information he has provided in courses and videos into one area for only $20. If you know who Jim Kwik is and seen his videos, then you don't need read the book cover to cover. Pick a section to learn about, read it, and star...

47. Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap Book Review 14.04.2023

Financial feminist is a financial guidebook to fix your finances now. There's no bias, no restrictions, but there's a way to fix your financial habits with this book. This is important as fixing your finances start with fixing your financial habits. This book addresses some of the problems with Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, and these problems make sense. One of the big ones is a $1,...

46. Self - Published Authors - What Are They and How To Find If A Book Is Self-Published 11.04.2023

Self published authors or independent authors are authors that self-publish their work. This is mostly through Amazon as Amazon provides a service where someone can upload their book. This is called Kindle Direct Publishing. In this episode, I discuss what independent publishing is, pro and con of this, and how to find if a book is self-published. For written reviews, check out my website: https:/...

45. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover Book Review 06.04.2023

A hot headed pilot, Miles, doesn't want love. Then he meets Tate who is a nurse. They hook-up multiple times, but will this sex lead to Miles falling in love again? You'll have to read the book to find out, but this one of my favorite Colleen Hoover books. Hoover is the top selling romance author, and she sold six out of ten of the top selling books in 2022. You read that right. This book was the...

44. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Book Review 03.04.2023

Melinda enters ninth grade traumatized by being sexually assaulted at a party that occured during the summer. You won't know about the party and what happened to Melinda that night until the middle of the book. The scene isn't graphic. This is a great book that I recommend people to read. In this episode, I review this book, discuss what I liked about it and disliked about it, and any less...

43. Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas Book Review 24.03.2023

Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas goes is a sci-fi book that leads to a subpar battle scene at the end of the series (book eight). There's fae, witches, powers, assassins, and romance tropes like haters to lovers in these books. The series has eight books: Assassins Blade (1), Throne of Glass (2), Crown of Midnight (3), Heir of Fire (4), Queen of Shadows (5), Empire of Storms (6), Tower...

42. Amulet Series by Kazu Kibuishi Book Review 16.03.2023

Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi is a popular kids graphic novel. The series started when I was 12 (2008), and Kibuishi is coloring the last pages in the ninth book. The ninth book should be released in late 2023 or early 2024. In this episode, I provide my review over this book, discuss what I liked and disliked about the book, and any lessons I received from the book. For written reviews, check ou...

41. School of Greatness by Lewis Howes Book Review 10.03.2023

Lewis Howes has a podcast where he interviews the best minds out there. This book contains eight lessons he learned from all the people he's interviewed. He provides the lesson while giving you the reader several stories to back up that lesson. In this episode, I review this book, discuss what I liked and disliked about the book, and any lessons I received from the book.  For written reviews,...

40. My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Everday Inspired by Bejamin Spall and Michael Xander Book Review 03.03.2023

My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Everday Inspired by Bejamin Spall and Michael Xander contains a ton of morning routines from CEO's, entrepreneurs, authors, etc. Some of the moring routines like Arianna Huffington's I tried from this book to form my own morning routine. My advise on how to read this book: I wouldn't read the book cover to cover. Pick a couple morning routines to rea...

39. LeBron's Dream Team by Lebron James Book Review 24.02.2023

You can hate him, but he can play ball. Suprisingly, he hasn't got a severe injury yet (knock on wood). LeBron went to St. Vincent St. Mary High School, and this is what this book is about. LeBron's run toward a state championship with his high school teammates and one of the best basketball coaches I've worked with, Dru Joyce II. In this episode, I review this book, discuss what I liked and disli...

38. My Thoughts On Scott Lang's New Book Called Look Out For The Little Guy 17.02.2023

Title is correct. Scott Lang who is Ant Man in the Marvel comics has a new book coming out on Sep. 5th 2023. The movie prop is actually real! The release of this book was announcef on Feb. 2nd 2022 with the marketing for Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. In this episode, I discuss my thoughts on this book, and I rant on how awesome the Marvel movies are and why Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantumania i...

37. A Season In The Sun by Lars Anderson Book Review 10.02.2023

A Season In The Sun by Lars Anderson goes in full detail on the 2020-2021 season and how Tom Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl (the National Football League championship). He provides this story without making it boring, and this is why Iiked the book so much. In this episode, I review the book, discuss what I liked and disliked about the book, and any lessons I received from the...

36. My Top 5 Favorite Books in 2022 27.01.2023

In this episode, I discuss what my top five books were in 2022. I read 100 books in 2022, so it was hard to choose my top five. I do give 33 other notable nominees that almost made the list. My top five were: Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling; Waxing On by Ralph Macchio; I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy; Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines; and Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The oth...

35. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Book Review (Part 2) 20.01.2023

Jennette McCurdy's book, I'm Glad My Mom Died, is a memoir about the struggle of becoming a child star. She discusses in full detail in the book on her mom's abuse, how she developed an eating disorder, and how becoming an actor wasn't her idea at all. In this episode, I discuss if I like the audio book or physical book more, talk about how child stars shouldn't happen, eating disorders, going to...

34. Waxing On by Ralph Macchio Book Review (Part 2) 13.01.2023

Ralph Macchio, the Karate Kid, has a memoir over Karate Kid. This book doesn't contain much information about his life before Karate Kid. Majority of the book is about Karate kid. He discusses his moments with the actors he worked with like Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi), fan theories that he disputes, and iconic scenes like the crane kick. I reviewed this book in more depth in the first episode (Part 1)...

33. Spare by Prince Harry (My Thoughts On This Book and If I'll Read It Or Not) 10.01.2023

Prince Harry drops a new memoir today, January 10th, 2023. This is a highly anticipated release, and it might be the biggest book coming out in 2023. Prince Harry discusses a ton of information that has never been disclosed before. Ultimately, he risked his life and career writing this book and telling his story to the world. I've had the opportunity to read some parts of the book, and I actually...

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