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Just wanted to say happy new year 🥂🍾🥳📚

Thanks for your Vlogmas videos! I have enjoyed them a lot 🥰🎄! I hope you are having a very merry Christmas!

I’ve really enjoyed vlogmas, thank you Ange for taking the time to post daily. I hope that you and your family have a well deserved break. See you in 2025. ❤

Looks like Sarah Morgan is another author I need to add to my list 😊

When I was a kid I had a crush on Dickon from the book, The Secret Garden 😂

Happy Christmas to you and yours, I’ve loved the advent vlogs 💕

Happy Christmas! See you in 2025!

This has been a lot of fun -- thank you and Merry Christmas!

This has been such fun! Thank you for putting all this together and well done hubby for the questions.! Merry Christmas, Ange! All the best to you and your family!🎉❤🇨🇦🎄

I would love to meet Jackie French after just finishing The Captain’s Wife and loving it. Can’t wait to read more of her books. Thankyou for your vlogs. I just discovered you in the last few months and excited to find a fellow Aussie doing book tube instead of the usual overseas ones. Looking forward to hearing about your new job next year and following along with your book adventures. Have a great Christmas.

This has been so lovely, Ange ❤ I look forward to seeing my nieces and nephews on Christmas Day - and all the ROAST POTATOES! Merry Christmas! X

Merry Christmas!

Thanks for the vlogs 🎉 and thanks to hubby for doing all the questions what a great job 😊 I think there are still some Aussie authors I would love to meet maya linnell , Barbara hannay , Karly lane and Janet gover are on my list and as for books well books have always been in my life it’s who I am 💞 …. Merry Christmas and a safe and happy new year 🎄🎉📚🥂🍾🎄

Thank you, Ange for doing this, especially at a time when you are starting a new job. Your Advent vlogs were a sweet little highlight of the day. I truly love bookish conversations and you make us fellow librarians proud! FYI: You sent me momentarily in a little panic yesterday, until I realized that Austrailia is one day ahead of the States. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Thanks for all your vlogs this year Ange...especially when you obviously lead a very busy life....Take a well deserved rest with your family & Bluebell...Happy festive season & New Year...Hope you get some good books for Xmas ❤

Hi, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family. Thank you for a wonderful year of books and views. Looking forward to hearing about your new job and the other activities you and your family get up too next year. All the best Robyn.

Lovely Vlog! I smiled when I saw you were reading a book by Sarah Morgan 😊. I am currently also reading a book by Sarah Morgan: "The Holiday Cottage." I really liked her book "The Book Club Hotel." 🙂

The only classic book I read besides Anne of green gable is Agatha Christie’s books… classic murder mysteries 🎄📚🎄

I forgot to tell you that Second wagtail ridge book is out on jan 1 called The knitting club at wagtail ridge by Janet Gover just thought you would like to know 🧡…… 🎄📚🎄

Hi Ange, I can’t even remember question 1 after question 2: YES YES YES!! There are never enough hours in a day, a year or a lifetime 😢😂 and Question 3 I have never had a crush on book characters, I have gotten very fond of some and others I have felt like crushing them 😂 Loving these questions. This is the first time I have watched a Vlogmas Video of any kind and have loved it! I can’t wait till next Christmas’s one now 🙄 but I will be patient as I don’t want to wish any of those precious reading hours away🙂

Love the food bank donations! 💚❤️

I look forward to this series everyday! I’m going to be so sad when it’s over! I’ve really enjoyed these questions and your answers. I don’t know if your husband helped with these but if he did, he did an incredible job! Merry Christmas!! Have a wonderful time with your family!

I don’t have a number of books as last year I planned to read 60 books as I was turning 60 and it turned into a task instead of enjoyment don’t get me wrong I read some really good books but then life got busy and near the end of the year is when it felt pressure but I did get to 61 😊 but this year on good reads I set the goal at 1 book and this year so far I read 40 😳 I was really surprise by that as I wasn’t tracking the number and I had a few reading slumps in there and without a number in my head I enjoyed this year …. 😊 and YES who wouldn’t want More time to read … 😂should be a national day off to read 😂 I would love to get paid to read 🧡 ……🎄📖🎄

My dude! Do you even know me? 😂😂😂😂 I love to have the brain to have more reading time! I struggled in 2024! I’ve been kind to myself and read lots middle grade and easier reads. I don’t have crushes on book characters. 😂 it’s been a great 22 days coming to your house for a visit! Thank you! ❤🇨🇦

I don't think "a crush" explains it 😊 but it belongs to Jamie in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Up to when he left Scotland, then I lost interest. Can't watch the TV series, I liked the books more.

I can’t think of a character in a book that I’ve had a crush for, but I’ve had several for characters in Tv-series. It’s strange.

Mince pies! They are my favourite Christmas treat. My mum used to make them but now we just buy them. I read loads of books while in school as well! Enid Blyton’s Mallory Towers, Noel streatfield’s (sp) Ballet Shoes series to name I my two! I’m sure your colleague loved their gift!

I remember enjoying Ash Road by Ivan Southall, so much so that I asked for my own copy for my birthday. Loved the book but hated the cover 😄. An American teacher at primary school read the Bobsey Twin books to us, they were another favourite of mine. Anything by Enid Blyton, in particular the Magic Faraway Tree, The Wishing Chair and of course The Famous Five. So many wonderful memories.

Hi Ange, We have never heard of rolling in the wrapping paper as a tradition. It sounds so good we would make it our tradition if we had more presses and wrapping paper! 😂 I used to love watching my cat jump around and roll in it, she looked like she was having so much fun. I love ripping into it to see what’s inside the best and I love watching everyone open their presents too. Are you going to make that your blog activity on Christmas Day and give us the enjoyment of watching?😂

The books I most remember reading in school were the Ramona series from Beverly Cleary, which I used to borrow from the primary school library. Also remember being obsessed with the Baby Sitters Club series. The only author I’ve met was Bryce Courtney when he did a bookstore signing in the 90s. I was only there because my mum wanted to go meet him. ☺️

Off the top of my head rereads: Mary Oliver’s poetry, Austen, and a new one, James by Percival Everett.

I read the famous five by Enid blyton , The three investigators by Alfred Hitchcock and Agatha Christie I think too many to list lol 😂,and I have met a lot of authors but my favourite would have been Monica McInerney just loved her which I have meet her few times , her books are just so good and loved getting my books signed by her……🎄📖🎄

I visited a library at the start of this year 😬😬 I love to display my books on my shelves I do read a bit more on my kindle so I really only have the physical books I have on my shelves are the ones I love 🧡 sometimes i can predict but I still read on to see if I am right 😂 it’s so funny of your husband to write a question about library’s 😂….. 🎄📖🎄

Tuesday I picked up The Women in Black by Madeleine St John based on the Hilary Mantel recommendation on the cover, “The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up”. Reading is competing with holiday knitting and cleaning, so I’ve only read five short chapters, but so far so good.

I agree with revising your predictions all the way. Although I do second guess myself because if it seems really obvious I think, well, the author is going to pull a twist here, because it won’t be the obvious thing, will it? I hardly ever guess the ending from early on.

What a great cafe bookshop idea, I would need to travel to Australia from the UK to visit it!

I wondered where you’d got to😂. Pretty nails! I like to think I’m good at predicting plot lines, but I don’t want to be right! How boring would that be! I have t been to a library since the summer. I’m trying to read my shelves! It snowy and foggy here today so it definitely cost reading weather.

I always look forward to your Vlogmas videos 🥰. I went to the library five days ago 😅.

Hi Ange I so want to come to your treehouse!! Libraries used to be my introvert cosy heaven until they modernised them to today’s standard. Bah Humbug progress😢😂.

Your fantasy bookshop sounds wonderful. I love craft markets so perhaps your shop could include some handmade goodies ❤

I want to come to your tree house!!!

I would visit your bookstore for sure, and spend time in the introverts room. My bookstore would have an area with comfy couches to read and would have a cafe for drinks. My bookstore would be a quiet zone like a traditional library. A good cover is a magnet for me. I’d like to retrain myself next year and not walk straight past the books with the ugly covers. ☺️

Highly controversial opinion but I do not love the trend for genre shelving 🙃 Free browsing is the best thing about libraries and bookshops! I know myself and I could so easily read the same book by different authors for the rest of time. There is a unique freedom and challenge in alphabetical shelving that gently encourages people to be more adventurous readers. This is going to put me in high fuddy duddy territory, but the fact that my local library uses genre shelving for fiction drives me so bonkers that I travel over 30 minutes to another local government area to use their library solely because they still shelve their fiction alphabetically.

This is my fantasy so back off had me rolling! 😂😂😂 your fantasy bookstore sounds like heaven!!! Don’t forget puzzles, word puzzles and jigsaw puzzles. Much like you, books were a large part of my childhood as my father was suffering for undiagnosed mental illness that made him unpredictable and I often stayed in my room with fictional friends. A specific book that saved my life is Gabor Mate’s When the Body Says No, the hidden cost of stress. My doctor had me read this 10 years ago when I had a mental and physical breakdown. I saw myself in parts of the book and was shocked that things I did as a child to self soothe were normal in the situation I was in, although I had no clue I was in, if that makes sense. I worked in a corporate bookstore for 7 years and I would never own my own store. Your bookstore, on the other hand… I’d rent a room there!😂❤🇨🇦

Love your tree book house. You could call it sanctuatree!

Love the hammocks and the slide! A book supplier/community hangout, yeah, definitely need to get folks off their screens and instead out reading, and, possibly, crafting in community, or not, ie the introverts quiet corner. Blankets provided with flashlights to replicate reading after lights out.

I am a cover buy 😂 … love a beautiful cover …… books have changed my life there are always there through good and bad times …. As for my bookstore it would be at beach just off the sand with a covered deck so people could sit in nice relaxing chairs and just look at the beach while reading what they brought there would be a coffee / tea stand on the deck so people could read with a coffee or a iced tea …. And watch the waves coming in on the beach … plus on the beach just on the sand would be one of those book swap libraries and inside would be comfy chairs around a fire place fir the cold days and it would be just full of books everywhere and different areas to sit and choose books 🎄📚🎄 your book sounds good as well 🎄📚🎄

That's my kind of bookstore down to a tee ❤

I’m with you on Colleen Hoover, just didn’t warm to her books at all. Same with Jodi Piccoult! Such popular authors I don’t gel with. I would love to meet Emily Brontë, although she was so introverted she may not want to meet me ;) also Beatrix Potter! Such an interesting lady. Love a good Aussie end of year school concert🎉

Hello how's it going I always enjoy your vlogs these are amazing I'm studying Library and information science. It's my 3rd year of BS program I wanna ask, can i get the job as a librarian there in Australia kindly reply to me I'll wait