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Woah look at you with your forward planning. Sometimes I can’t figure out what I want to read that day 😊. Am loving Thomas Pynchon, my first foray into his work. Great responses to the tags Gavin 😊

Awesome video Gavin. I totally agree with you about the events. You get to the end of the month and you’re in the middle of a book…..

Yeah I have been tagged for this but I can't answer most of the questions.

The cover of Mystery in White looks very much like an NYRB cover. Interesting.

Thanks for the tag! quite crazy your already thinking about 2027 I haven't even planned tomorrow! Also Everthing Must Go Sounds like a good read I love a end of the world story :)

Excellent job completing this tag. Your planning astounds me!

Thanks for the tag. You're an impressive planner.

So many books I could read by the end of the year. The best for me was 'Glorious Exploits,' loved it.

Thanks for the tag 😊

There is just no booktube channel quite like yours, Gavin. I've been binging on it. I'll be sad when I'm all caught up and have to wait for each new one. The whole pigeon-holing books into genres is getting more problematic with blendings aplenty, don't you think? I'm a snob too but it could be because I haven't read the best or classics of a genre, like Romance or YA. And lord help me if I ever do and really like it. My TBR is already an Eternal Life project.

A correction that possibly annoys no one but me: The book publisher I mentioned should be NYRB New York Review Books (not NYBR as I stated). It is an arm of The New York Review OF Books which is a semi monthly magazine.

AND Happy Birthday to Emily Dickinson! The great American poet.

There is some tiny nudge of optimism for forgotten writers and works. I've recently discovered the American publisher NYBR (New York Book Reviews) which seems to revive stand-out forgotten books. Any time I see one of their editions among my used book haunts, I certainly stop to consider it. Because they were NYBRs, a couple of recent titles that I *never* would have read became five star favorites for me were The Summer Book by Tove Jansson and A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr. I think your British Library Tales of the Weird, which I had never heard of until one of your videos, might be doing the same for forgotten works also. Oh yes, and YOUR Gutenberg series, too, but of course!.

i admire what you Booktubers do. Full stop. Yet this tag does seem especially challenging. Following along I realized I'd be like Sir Galahad at the Bridge of Death in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But you did a great job. Well, except one about The Da Vinci Code -- meet you in the Gorge of Eternal Peril!

Another enjoyable (enjoyable? yes) video! What will happen to my books after I'm gone has been on my mind because, like you, none of my family will want my books. I've reached a happy place with that notion, though. I am picking out a single book for each of my daughters and each of my grandchildren, will separate those books from the rest, and include a note within for them and why I picked that book. I hope it will make my daughters especially feel less guilt about disposing all the rest.

Yet another Michael Caine imitation to add to the many on the Internet...

Oddly enough, she shares her birthday with John Milton. Somehow I don't see them getting along...

I like those illustrations.

🎄📚I've dug out various Christmas books for the read your own challenge. I may find that I have read them before or didn't like them but I'm determined to create more space on the shelves. There's also Catherine Gore's Christmas story on ebook to look forward to.

I had heard of Project Gutenberg before. But until this video, I never looked at the site. I will have to make that a site I look to for classic books. I love how you mentioned Brooke Shields when you talked about The Blue Lagoon

I really should look and see what else is available on the ereader, definitely a get around the read your own challenge. 📚

Some fabulous choices here. I absolutely love your Gutenberg trawls 😊

I now have No Bed for Bacon and Don't Mr. Disraeli. I'm trying to track down the Straganoff ballet novels.

I shall have to check my Diary (of a Provincial Lady) to find "Emma Hay." I had no idea at the time who she was meant to represent. Hamilton sounds like G.B.Shaw's type of woman...

This is such a splendid idea! Thanks for putting this list together.

Nice name! 👍

One away from 550 subscribers Gavin. Well done. Here's to a great Christmas.

Thanks for the tag, Gavin! I don't think I'd heard of John Christopher before this year - I'll have to check him out eventually. Good luck with Against the Day. I have yet to attempt any Pynchon!

Great tag! Oh those old ornaments! Shatterproof only with cats that like to climb the tree 😅 have a great one! 😊

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn was good but faaaaar too long.

I’m loving these mixed up shelves. As always some beautiful covers here and such an eclectic collection. Love your shelf tours 😊

I often feel a bit fragmented and disparate...

You have a great library Gavin.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go sounds like such an interesting read!! Loved hearing about all your reads. 💕

My favourite poet as a teenager! She's brilliant and now I know she shares a birthday with my husband.

Thanks for tagging me Gavin. I love your answers

That John Christopher sounds interesting, I've only read his Death of Grass which I really liked. Thanks for the tag!

The chocolates in The Moon is Down! I completely forgot about that. Clever monkey, you are. Second time I've seen Sunless Solstice and I've got such a hankering for it, preferring older scary/weird stories to most new ones which actually do scare me. Hope to catch your review of it. That should seal the deal. Thanks for another fun video. This is getting addictive.

I always think of Mr. Micawber as W.C. Fields...

Mr. Micawber! That made me think of someone else in David Copperfield that I might use for this tag...Great answers to this tag. I enjoyed all of your answers!

"The man has to run everywhere!" 😂 The Diary of Samuel Pepys! Brilliant choice! Excellent responses, Gavin. I really enjoyed your video, and you definitely made me laugh more than a few times. Well done!

Hi Gavin 👋🏽 This is such a great tag! Thank you for tagging me. My first thought for a book/story with a stabbing was Julius Caesar, as well. I look forward to doing this tag soon. 🙂

Thanks for the shout out, doing the take and some great choices. Was not expecting Steinbeck for the sweats/chocholate question! Hope you have a great Christmas Gavin and I'm up in the Morecambe Bay/Lancaster area.

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Hi Gavin - I enjoyed The Midwich Cuckoos, but my favourite is Day of the Triffids. The World in Winter sounds like The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell - climate shift and a world drastically changed by frigid temperatues. Like you Gavin I also talk about older books and don't typically know what the new releases are. LOL nuclear war, merry christmas, based on recent events in the media, you may not be far off what is coming. Glad you are joining the December ghost story reads, fun event, great suggestions. I have yet to finish Brave New World, figure at the moment we are living it. I've seen 2001 but haven't read it. Awesome that you have a signed copy. I recently picked up 2010 which I have yet to start. I appreciate the tag, I have already been tagged and my video will be up tomorrow. Enjoyed hearing your answers.