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Can you read Spanish? I recommend you: Pepita Jiménez by Juan Valera.❤

Your mum looks a lot like you and I was pleased to meet her 💜

I loved hearing your thoughts on Our Mutual Friend. I've never heard that perspective before so I enjoyed that!

While I enjoy your videos, it’s always an added bonus when you film with your mom. A few of these were already on my TBR, but your mom added a few more to my list. Thanks for sharing! 💗

This video was a random You Tube recommendation today and am I glad it was! I absolutely loved you and your mom (I'm also a woman of an uncertain age). Some great recommendations - I've read them all except the Sansom books and the Peter Mayle books. Off the top of my head I'd recommend the Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody series - she and her husband are Egyptologists working in the Victorian era. The books are cozy and lighthearted. I also really enjoy Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series; they take place post WWI, as well as Charles Todd's Bess Crawford series. Maisie was a nurse in WW1 while Bess is still working as one in the books. Jacqueline Winspear is what I call a "wordsmith" - her writing is really beautiful.

I buddy-read "Thomas Cromwell" with a friend before we went to England last month. The book presents a balanced picture of the man. For someone so concerned for promulgating the reformed faith, I can't believe some of his decisions and actions. A very detailed biography--make a bit too much so--but overall I recommend it. I may pick up some of the other books presented!

Great job but unfortunate title.

I second the recommendation of Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall. I got so enthused about what I learned I bent every ear in my friends/family circle. I got it from the library but returned it and bought my own copy because I wanted it for future reference and re-reads. His points are easy to follow and he connects the dots of information we already knew but never put together.

Lovely video. I have Wolf Hall on my Kindle, but I wonder if I should read a biography of Thomas Cromwell first.

I love your mum's reading tastes! I either have read all these or they are on my TBR. Dan Jones is fabulous. He makes history so accessible and I agree with your mum that he makes these people from history come alive. Love your channel. Cheers Toni from Australia 🇦🇺

Once again, so many great recommandations from your mother! I have Tracy Borman's biography of Cromwell and The private lives of the Tudor on my TBR. I have a feeling that the new Mirror and the Light series is going to motivate me to read the Cromwell biography soon. There are just so many books about the Tudors! I have never read anything about Charles I and Charles II they don't interest me as much as the Tudors, even though I should feel some connection to Charles II since he spent some time in France before the Restoration.

Hi from Australia! I absolutely loved this video so much. My TBR is now about to bury me but in a good way. 😊 At the moment I'm reading Crypt by Professor Alice Roberts and its fascinating.

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I, too, have an unhealthy interest in the Tudors! 😆 I'm also fascinated with Thomas Cromwell and really enjoyed the book by Tracy Borman. 🤓 Going to have to see if I can find Tudor England: A History by Lucy Wooding! Thank you both so much! 📚

Some great books. I am really looking forward to the Henry V by Dan jones. I love his books also. Is your mom on Goodreads? My reading interests are like hers and I would like to keep with all she is reading

I love hearing your mom talk about history books.

Equiano's book sounds so interesting. I'd love to read it one day. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

So many great books! I remember studying Hedda Gabler at theatre school and playing Hedda in an acting class. It was such a fun role to take on. I hope you enjoy all these amazing sounding reads!

Love all the English history bks

I love that you did another video on your mom’s favorite books! I added Prisoners of Geography to my TBR.

I have really enjoyed seeing your mother talking about the books she has read. I have added them to my list. I hope to see more of her recommendations in the future.

Your mum inspires me to read non-fiction.

I always love hearing from your mother on her favorite books! As a fellow non fiction fan, this was delightful ❤

Oohh this was lovely. Haven´t done a tag for quite a while som might give it a go soon 🤭Jonathan Strange and Mrs. Norrell is on my TBR! Have a lovely birthday! 🥳

I'm so glad you found the tag and did it to celebrate your birthday! Enjoy your birthday and read excellent books! 🎉😊

This is a fun tag! I have been told I need to watch the Poldark series. Should I read the books first? I have this Susanna Clark book on my shelf but have yet to pick it up. Maybe this should be my book for Big Book summer next year.

I love this tag, Heather! I got the entire Poldark series for Christmas last year and have yet to pick up the first book. I think you've inspired me to finally start it 😂

Hi Heather, my other social media platform is Linkedin. Do you have a profile there?

Gorgeous books, all the Poldark novels are enjoyable, mind you, Winston Graham is just a genius with all his novels. I HAVE been listening to the Barsetshire novels on audio for a change. Timothy West narrating is a delight. Love Emma too.

I read two books for Victober, but only finished one, The Woman in White. I'm still reading The Framley Parsonage. I loved The Woman in White and am enjoying Framley Parsonage, The rest of my reading was spooky with one exception of my last book, though I finished it November 1. It's hard to pick a favorite, because it was a really good month and I enjoyed all my reads. October 1. Of Blood and Fire by Ryan Cahill 2. The Woman in White by: Wilkie Collins 3. The SpellBook of Katrina Van Tassel by Alyssa Palombo 4. Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow 5. The Tall Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 6. The Omen by David Seltzer 7. John Adams by David McCullough

Thank you for shouting out the podcast and my channel! I can't believe I missed this when it came out 🤍 I loved your comments on Mrs. Elton and Elizabeth Elliot-I haven't covered either of those characters much yet. Lucy Steele and Isabella are pretty terrifying! I do think the financial pressures they face influences their behavior, but it’s no excuse for their cruelty. Such a great video!

I enjoyed a Trollope stand alone called the Three Clerks about corruption in the Civil Service and read/ listened to the wonderful Timothy West on Doctor Thorne. I also read the group novel, the Doctor's Wife, watched Lady Windermere's Fan and read The Woman in White and Three Men in a Boat. Oh and Scenes From Clerical Life to fit Kate's challenge of something revolving around religion - so all in all a great month!

I only read The haunted hotel among those but wasn't thrilled either. In Victober, I read The woman in white (loved), Trollope's Framely parsonage and Miss MacKenzie (loved) and Oliver Twist (liked, but not loved). I have Trollope's complete works on my tablet, so I have quite a long way to go 😁

I completely understand that you did not feel very invested in the short Trollope, because I felt the same with the Warden: it's too short and we don't have time to get into the story. I'm so glad you enjoyed He knew he was right, which I remember as a very strong Trollope with many interesting characters. I had a good Victober. Among other things, I finally read Agnes Grey and really enjoyed Doctor Wortle's School by Trollope.

You got through plenty. Best wishes and happy reading.

I read He Knew He was Right years ago and I cannot forget it--it is so powerful. I can imagine that listening to Our Mutual Friend on a first read would be very confusing. You may want to watch the BBC TV production with Keeley Hawes and David Morrissey (as Bradley Headstone--fantastic performance), which might clear up some of the confusion. Also Dickens went out of his way to present Mr Riah as a positive Jewish character, and I'm sorry you didn't feel that on your reading. I found both Our Mutual Friend & He Knew He was Right on DVD through my library system.

Hi Heather, I appreciated your honesty. I've mentioned my Classics page cap 600 to you so The Struggles of Brown Jones and Robinson is going on my TBR. I'll read the Trollope standalones that you and Gina recommend. My Victober read was The Semi Detached House by Emily Eden which I enjoyed and four stared. Her other book The Semi Attached Couple's on my TBR too. My Oct favorites were cozier and MG fantasy, Rewitched , The House with Chicken Legs and The Lost Child of Lytchford.

The Louise Allen looks so fun! Claire Tomalin's book sounds like my cup of tea, I read a few biographies of hers and it would be interesting to learn about her own life. In November I will be reading Paula Byrne's Perdita, which I have long meaning to get to. I would also like to start a reread of The Count of Monte Cristo (watching the new French film this summer has made me want to reread it), I hope I will get to it. Happy November reading!

Hi Heather for my second NFN I'll be reading Lost in Wonder an Anglican spirituality book. I'll also be continuing my Autumnal reading.

I need to get my hands on a copy of Toast and Marmalade. My bucket list includes going to her factory and getting at least one of her gorgeous mugs and a nice tea towel. I didn't realize she had a book, too! Love it!❤☕️📖

I'm so glad you enjoyed Montgomery Hurst! It sounds lovely.

As always, your videos are cozy and give me so many great ideas of books to read!

May enjoy "Margaret Hamilton From Cleveland Ohio to the Land of Oz" as a happy biography. Details her journey from kindergarten teacher to her true passion as a theatrical actress (and of course the Wicked Witch).

So many fun things! I love the My Other Home is Pemberley tea towel 😊

My appreciation for opera continues to grow because of what I am learning from you!

I loved hearing about your growing up at the library!

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I love that you and Marissa go book shopping often! You guys look so sweet in the photo 💜 I haven’t read Giovanni’s Room but I have read If Beale Street Could Talk and I enjoyed it, I think you might like it better based on your specific criterion. Los Empeños de la Casa sounds so fun! It looks like it is a play, a comedy of mistaken identities. Not sure how dirty it might be but it’s definitely secular. I love fashion plates too! The cover and illustrations of your edition of The Twelve Dancing Princesses look so gorgeous. I need to try Balzac too and The Odd Women is on my tbr as well. I’ve read Middlemarch twice and love it, I need to read more from her. Fanny and The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher sound really interesting. What a great and varied haul!

This opera sounds so fun! I really enjoyed the Coppelia ballet so I feel like I would enjoy this too. I love the idea of reading Hoffmann’s short stories as well. I’m excited to check out the musical moments you linked. Thanks for your wonderful introduction!

Swan Song is an excellent read. It's really stayed with me over the years. I did enjoy Scoop but it's very much of it's place and time. Probably one of the better of his books to read for somebody who hasn't had much joy with Waugh yet. I would also recommend Decline and Fall, even if you don't like Scoop!