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Heard about milk and honey before but forgot about it. Have been wanting to read more poetry. Maybe this could be the one I start with!

Love this tag and loved your answers! The community on booktube really is the absolute best!

Love this tag and your answers! I love words too (obviously, since I’m a reader, haha) and just well crafted writing ❤️ I guess I need to check out more of L.M. Montgomery’s books, I’ve never heard of the other one you mentioned! Strong friendships in books are also a favorite of mine, can’t get enough of it!! I laughed out loud during the raccoon scene in Just For The Summer, so random but it stuck out to me for some reason and I was crying from laughter 😂 And I knew a Backman book would show up at some point in this video!

I love this tag and it was lovely to hear your answers - very thoughtful as always ^^ Thank you for tagging me!

What a thoughtful and heartfelt video! Your reflections on joy, friendship, community, and gratitude were so engaging and inspiring-it’s clear how much thought and care you put into this tag. Your admiration for Charles Dickens and L. M. Montgomery resonates deeply. The way you described their ability to bring characters and places vividly to life really captures the magic of their writing. I love how you tied that joy back to your own journey as a writer-what a beautiful connection. The concept behind The Celebrant sounds so unique and moving. A celebration of life while living? That’s such a meaningful approach to friendship and community, and I’m definitely adding it to my TBR. And your thoughts on gratitude, especially related to the resilience and courage of women who’ve paved the way, were incredibly powerful. Thank you for sharing that perspective-it’s such an important reminder of the strength and sacrifices that have shaped so many of our opportunities today. I loved this tag and your answers. It’s such a great way to spread positivity and reflection-thank you for sharing!

What a beautiful tag to incorporate gratitude and the book community! Your answers were well thought out and I enjoyed seeing joy radiate through your responses 😊

This was the best take on this tag I’ve seen by far. So much genuine joy and genuine gratitude, I smiled and laughed and cried watching this. 💜

Great tag! You went much more in depth with your answers than I did 😅

Thank you so much for doing my tag. I loved your answers to the prompts, and your presentation was truly joyful. Thank you again for putting together such thoughtful responses.

This is such a fun idea! Hands Free Mama sounds like a really good and very relevant book. I may have to check that one out. I once owned the first Spiderwick book but never ended up picking it up 😬

This is such a brilliant idea! I love that you're doing this with your sisters 💛 I would love to do that with my mum and my sister! Curious to hear what you think about The Emotional Craft of Fiction -- adding it to my list!

This is so fun and such a great idea!! If I had sisters I would totally do this, haha. Eleanor Oliphant is a great choice, and I want to see the movie too!! I love your picks for your sisters and hope they love them! Also, I love Pango Books 😍 I haven’t read any of the ones you received but Sea of Tranquility has been on my TBR cart for a while and The Paris Apartment sounds right up my alley! And I had no idea SJM wrote a Catwoman book, haha how random

Oh that's such an amazing idea to do with your sisters!! I might steal this idea if any of my in person friends are interested in doing it 😍 These are such great picks for your sisters! Some I recall from your videos 🥰 I didn't know about Pangobooks! I'll definitely check it out from when I want to buy some of my 5⭐ reads. I didn't expect any of the picks that your sisters chose for you. I can't wait to see what you think about them.

Loving this idea!

This is so fun! Only one of my sisters reads as much as I do but she only really sticks to fantasy/romantasy so not sure this would work for us but I love the idea! I really want to get to Eleanor Oliphant- was supposed to read it for Neurovember.

This is such a fantastic idea! I love how much thought and care went into choosing books for your sisters-it really shows how well you know them (or at least hope you do! 😆). The Only One Left was such an entertaining read, and I Must Betray You was SO good-I couldn’t put it down. Also, I’ve read The Sea of Tranquility and The Glass Hotel, but somehow I’ve never gotten around to Station Eleven... I should probably fix that! Now I’m tempted to do a book exchange like this myself. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts as you read through your stack!

This is such a fun idea and I hope y'all create it as a new Christmas tradition! :) As you read the books each month, you'll think of the sister who gifted it to you! :)

This is such a good idea! I love that you could all know what to get each other, but still have room to play and surprise within that, and it’s a gift that keeps on giving all year! Love it so much! And they chose such good books for you as well, I mean you did for them too, I just think your haul was such a good mix of things. And I hope Gutsy Girl helps heal your inner child, that is so sweet. 😊 We could all do with more of that!

I've never heard of By Any Other Name, but it sounds like a really interesting story! I've heard that some people don't think Shakespeare wrote all of his plays, but I've never done any research into it myself. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on The Taming of the Shrew after reading Picoult's book.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 101 book is so amazing 😍 Last month for me was not it. I had to push myself to read, which is surprising to me because I thought I'd be on full vacay relaxing mode but apparently not 😂 Holidays mean hanging out with family a lot more. Not bad, but I needed to readjust my expectations. I can't wait to see how you do your wrap ups because that sounds SO smart. I might borrow the idea (but I might want to do some videos like you, where you talk about specific books). The Reappearance of Rachel Price has been on my TBR for a long time -- now I'm going to try to get it on audio because I want to get into my thriller/mystery era. LOL Dickens making your life harder but I'm here for him, I'm sorry 😭 I cannot wait to see what you think about The Winners. I have about 5 days left on my audiobook but I'm mentally scared because I'm so emotionally attached to these characters. 🥹 I don't know how he is able to allow us to be frustrated about some characters but also let us to know their quirks & love them.

Congrats on your year on BookTube! What a great month of reading - looking forward to your finds in the New Year!

Wow I love your new haircut! It looks fabulous on you. And reading twelve books in a month is quite the accomplishment. I can’t wait to get back to my library but it’s closed because of the snow storm. 😢

Celebrating the end of the slump!! 🎉🎉 And wow, 12 books! I read 2 novellas and 2 short stories at the end of the year so no shame there haha. I like the idea of doing highlights for your wrap ups. I got The Reappearance of Rachel Price for Christmas and can’t wait to read it! Love a good cat interruption 😂🙄 Glad you’re reading Frankenstein and The Winners! I loved it so much and still love Benji ❤️

Thanks for this video, Bonnie! :) I'm a strong Christian. I very much applaud men and women who are strong enough to leave cults. I've never been in a cult, but just knowing that there are people out there who manipulate others (yes, even in Jesus' name) angers me. So when I hear of people who escape that culture, I can't help but feel happy for their victories. :)

Good choice with doing highlights! A well trained wife sounds very powerful, I know you talked about it before too. I think you’re brave to try it and I’m glad it worked out for you! By any other name sounds interesting as well! I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned it before, but since you’re intrigued now, there’s a book called Shakespeare was a woman and other heresies by Elizabeth Winkler. Her sister Caroline Winkler has a TH-cam (same name) so that’s where I heard about it and they did a video talking about it. It’s nonfiction but sounded like more narrative and suspenseful nonfiction. Check it out if you want 😊

95 books is amazing!! I love hearing stats they’re so interesting to me 🤣 you read such a variety of genres!! I’ve been hearing so many good things about bear town, hoping to get to it in 2025!! So interesting I loved divine rivals so much more than fourth wing, although I did also like fourth wing, but divine rivals I read as a combo with the audiobook and I think that really helped!

I loved this video! You really took a lot of prep for this video and it shows. Thank you for sharing your thoughts as well as some insights. I agree - Booktube has opened up many friendships for me as well! :)

Seems like you had quite a good reading year ^^ I really liked the variety of prompts! I hope you have a great 2025, reading-wise and in general!

I'm fully here for the stats!! Now that I've been mixing up my formats, I might have to add combo in as well, that's pretty smart to add! I also really like to compare your stats with mine while I'm watching your video 😂 The biggest difference in a similar category is our length, most of mine were 200's but I blame the fact that I'm a manga/manhwa readers -- they're usually 100-200 per book (or less than 300). I think I will also have to add thrift/secondhand books to my sheet as well since I've started doing that. And here I thought I was done updating my sheet LOL. I also love seeing how much money you saved for 2024 too -- that's an AMAZING AMOUNT. I wish we had more people doing stats on that because it'll really show how accessible reading is as a hobby 😍 This year has been amazing as well, really do love meeting everyone and chatting with everyone 🥹 This End of Year Tag is a little bit different, and I haven't seen this mix variation you made!! Especially with specific books that highlights different categories/genres. I definitely was able to predict all of your top 4 (not top 5 because I wasn't prepared!! 😂😂) Is Fourth Wing YA???? WITH THE SMUT? I'm always shook with there's smut in YA 😳 LOL, "prefer not to have orange/red flags in MC"... meanwhile I'm a RED FLAG lover 😭But only in fiction. 100% also agree with Benji. His character was amazing, and even while people try to label him negatively, he's still a great person. I think 2024 was an awesome year for you after hearing everything. Happy New Year, Bonnie and here's to 2025 for both of us 🥰

Bonnie, I tagged you to do the Evolution Of A Booktuber tag created by Jackie @spreadbookjoy. It’s airing on Tuesday.

Totally agree that we don’t have to have the same opinions about books! I absolutely loved Stone blind, but you don’t have to! 😊 Expectations play such a big role, and one person’s pleasant surprise is another’s confused disappointment 😂 That is just as it should be! Loved watching this! Happy New Year! 🎆 💜 I’m so happy to have connected with you on here!

Love your top 3 reads of the year! I also loved Fourth Wing, Beartown, and Funny Story! (I’m sure the other 2 you mentioned are great - I just haven’t read them!) Also, Onyx Storm comes out in a few weeks! I hope you’re excited!

Thank you for inspiring me to read and write more!

Sounds like you had a pretty good reading year! I hope 2025 goes well for you, and also that you enjoy Les Mis when you get to it!

I love the sentimental thoughts haha, and totally agree! So cool to be able to connect with so many different people from all over the world and have internet friends to talk about books with, love it. Fourth Wing was one of my top books of 2023 and Beartown was for 2022 and this year too since e it was a re-read! Funny Story and Just For the Summer were some faves from this year too, and I also liked JFTS slightly more 😊 I liked Divine Rivals and Stone Blind but I totally get your reasons for feeling like they were overhyped, those things kept me from rating them higher than I did. Benji has my heart forever ❤️ So glad you found lots of new favorites this year! And 90 feels like a good reading goal number if you want to take more time with your reading, I think I’ll keep mine at 75 so I can guarantee that I’ll succeed, haha that always feels good.

Great video as always, I’m going to have to read Beartown soon, it’s been bothering my TBR for a while now. Have a happy new year 😊

Happy New Year! Have you Frederick Backman's 'Anxious People'? That was a great book. Also, the TV show was just as good. Have you read 'The People We Meet On Vacation,' or Beach Read,' by Emily Henry? I loved them too. I think her writing is very sweet.

Love your new haircut! It suits you so well!! 😍 My hair does that too curling to one side 😅

I haven't heard the name Sue Monk Kidd in ages! I remember reading The Mermaid Chair when I was a teenager. Haven't read The Secret Life of Bees but I agree with your assessment of centering a white character with the backdrop of the civil right's movement, it seems icky.

YES! I do love the new hair 😍 Yes to all the library books!! We need more stats of how people get their books to show that the library is so valuable!! Even unscripted, you're so great at summarizing your thoughts and feelings. I'm going to be adding The Woman They Could Not Silence! I'm not going to lie, I'm interested in Truly, Madly, Deeply 😂 Seems like the kind of book I'd enjoy. I haven't heard any of these books, and I love hearing your opinions on that -- especially about The Secret Life of Bees. I get the vibe you're feeling, and agreed! I cannot wait to hear everything about your stats at the end of the year. I WAS in a reading slump for November!! Averaged a lot less books with a lot lower star rating so had a slower start to my December reading but it's going better now! Favorite read for November was The Dragon's Republic!

Very cute haircut!

I haven't heard of most of these books. I'll have to go look into them. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Frankenstein!

I love the haircut! It looks so cute ^^ It suits you really well. The Woman they could not silence sounds like such a difficult read indeed... but such an important story! Ahah did you inadvertently participate in Neurovember with The Reason I Jump? ^^ so funny

My favorite read recently is “Light from Uncommon Stars” by Ryka Aoki!

Cute haircut! Gotta love when our hair has a mind of its own 😂 I always see The Secret Life of Bees at the thrift store and sometimes consider picking it up! Very helpful to hear your thoughts and totally agree with your take on the best way to convey themes of racism and black stories, probably don’t need to be featuring a white character for that… Yay for hopefully getting out of a book slump! Hope you enjoy your December reads 😊❄️

Your hair looks super cute! 😊 The Woman they could not silence sounds really heavy. The moment you said "the problem was that she had opinions" I was immediately mad. The problem was that the self-centered, fragile, and scared little men couldn't handle the fact that she had opinions. It does sound like a very important story, well done for powering through. I also get the second guessing of your own experiences. No wonder, given the previous book, and how voices have been silenced and downplayed throughout time. A lot of that still lingers. For anyone who has been put in a follower kind of role, whether in a cult or a relationship or family or whatever. It takes a lot to keep clinging to your own truth sometimes. I really appreciated hearing your thoughts about The Secret Lives of Bees as well, I've only heard good things but I don't really have a grasp of the story. Well, a better grasp now that you have explained it! It's always tricky reading things about an era and it not being of the silenced voices... I feel like there's a pretty strong theme to your reading this month! Maybe that has something to do with the slumpiness? The Small and the Mighty sounds so good, an maybe empowering, but I feel like it could also include a lot of silenced voices, so maybe it's a good one to save for later. I hope you will enjoy your December reads and that they fill you up with positive energy and light!

Yessss! Came after just reading Here One Moment and I cant agree with you more about Liane’s writing ability! The depth and relatability that she is able to produce with her characters is PHENOMENAL!

4:44 Reading the experiences with the monster can be so emotional and the movies doesnt give you the full effect- the book's better. Frankenstein is my favorite book of all time (it's a scifi, philosophical, mystery, thriller, dark academia, suspense, and written like a fantasy- I love it so much😆).

So cool!!!! ❤ And of course it wasn't terrible!

This is a great inspiration for me!! I really want to sit down and actually write!