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Hi Ariele. Those profile decorations on your cover of Middlemarch are called cameos. They are often seen as jewelry in the form of a brooch or as a pendant on a necklace. The Chiltern Classics are very special indeed. Love them, but the text CAN be too small for some people to read. As someone already noted, those edges on your Steinbeck Centennial Editions are called deckled edges, and the flaps on those editions are called French flaps. I'm a big fan of French flaps (classy!) and I also love deckled edges. Many people do NOT. Please don't feel bad about not having read most of your classics. You have your whole life ahead of you to read these books, and, when you do, you will love (most of) them. They are called classics for a reason. God, I sound like some kind of know-it-all teacher or something. I don't mean to be.

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I read a great dystopian called Vox by Christina Dalcher it takes place in a near-future US where women are only allowed to say 100 words per day after a religious takeover of the government. I read a fantastic mystery thriller called A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh, it takes place in a small town in New Zealand.

I just finished The Wall on Saturday! I'd love your opinion, I still don't know how many stars to give it. I'm currently reading Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon because it was inspired by The Wall (really liking that so far). A great thriller I read last month was Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough, she also wrote a book called "Poison; Charm; Beauty" that is a smutty fairytale retelling I'm really looking forward to getting to

Never Never was my first CoHo!! I love it but I don't hear anyone talk about it!

The two best books written in letters that I have read are 'Address Unknown' by Catherine Kressman Taylor and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' by Anne Bronte. From what I remember Dracula is partially/mostly told in letters (but I personally greatly preferred Frankenstein).

A fantastic beginner friendly clean fantasy series is The Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa, plus I can promise the books get better as you go. There are only three so it's very manageable and contained. PS I finished A Day of Fallen Night it is as good or better than Priory!

Cool! You have a gorgeous collection. I'm like you regarding Jane Austen where I want to collect all her books in my various favorite editions like the Everyman's Library and the Season's edition (which revamped and did a Jane Austen Collection with the Season's design this year) - even if I haven't read all of them yet.

😂 it's deckled edges. That's a hard one to remember

I recently discovered the Pan MacMillan Collection and have become a tiny bit obsessed with them-not physically, I don't currently collect books. I just love the size of their editions. Although I'm more so a paperback reader, I do enjoy a small hardcover

Love that your bf got you ice planet barbarians for v day! 🤣🥰

I read Tempting the Gods by Tanith Lee. It's an anthology that has some completely off the rails fantasy/horror smut.

The flowers on the cover & quarter life quarter realization lol!! Felt. Love how many videos you’ve put out lately!

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If you want to know the basics about Cassandra here they are (just from mythology) or skip this if you don't want to know anything. The main important thing is she is cursed to know the future but have nobody believe her when she tries to warn them.

I have Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon pre-ordered! It is the prequel to Priory of the Orange Tree. PS if you want to learn more about Greek mythology I highly recommend Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes, it is nonfiction about how women in Greek mythology have been misrepresented and forgotten.

I'm definitely reading this series next! Right now I'm reading her book Court of the Vampire Queen and oh my... it's so good!

I didn't read most of your classics unti! I was in my 40's. You may get to them still.

I bought 3 Sara J Maas books when they were on sale out of morbid (to me) curiosity, but haven't worked up the courage to try them yet. I'll read almost anything, but I'm still pretending I.dont own them.

I have 511 books that aren’t read- but you have a good spread of different categories which is always a good thing to help prevent slumps! Good luck! You can do it!

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The Night Circus is a must read!

This vid came up in my recommended and I have never related more ✨ when I graduated college I went wild and bought a shit ton of books and have read maybe 15% of them

I also need to read All the Dangerous Things! Totally no pressure but if you want to do a buddy read, I am up for it 😊

I didn't have any reading goal until i watched this vid, which, i think, was awesome. I hope i could read more classics too. I have too many non-fictions. There's a trilogy by Kerstin Gier titled "Ruby red", with time-travelling and the cutest, non-cringy romance i ever read (i'm not into romance), so if you ever give it a chance, i'll be very curious to know your thoughts on it.. 🙂

The Secret History is one of my favorite books of all time! It flows seamlessly once you start, and it so enthralling :) And curious to know your thoughts about Middlemarch - I plan to pick it up in March 😄

Definitely read The Night Circus! An unread book on my shelf is The Mermaid of Jeju.

I hated Spanish Love Deception with the fire of a thousand suns. Hated One Day in December as well. If it has a Reese Book Club sticker on it, I'm running the other direction.

I'm a newbie classics reader and I LOVE your classics collection. Hopefully one day I can own as many as you do 🤭❤️

I think I might need to do one of these videos too - for accountability, and everyone has been making this the last few weeks! 😅 your numbers are not bad at all, at least not to me! Haha

I'm french and yes, you can pass as a french girly hihi

Love your style :)

Just in case you haven't found out yet, there actually is a Poirot series where each episode is a different book!

OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO HATED ONE DAY IN DECEMBER. GOD. GOD I HATED THAT BOOK. FOR THE PAST YEAR SINCE LAST DECEMBER IVE KEPT IT ON MY SHELF BECAUSE I HATED IT SO MUCH . I KEPT IT OUT OF HATE. God. That stupid book.

love ur vibe sm!!!!!!

Girl when they did it for BF, I bought 24. I was so disappointed in myself 🤣

Layla is a gem. That book was so cool.

Honestly, I did the same thing LOL LOVE A USED BOOKSTORE The only diff is that I wrapped them up with wrapping paper and put a sticker on each one with the genre (since I’m a mood reader). This way I will get the instant gratification of unwrapping them before I read and it won’t be a chore to read my own books lol

Totally agree with the C. Hoover books. I haven't read any of the actual books, but from what I have read (quotes, reviews) they seem very corny. I think the people who like them are mostly young girls who haven't read alot of great books yet, so they have nothing good to compare them with.

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You start at the top, from right to left in manga.

To answer your question, I have read Cannery Row by John Steinbeck and enjoyed it

👋🏻, have you read any other novel by Agatha Christie? I appreciate that you buy second-hand books

Just found the channel. Greetings from India...

I really did not like "Dead Romantics". The story was meh but I *really* did not like Florence. I think I ranted in my GR review of this. She is just an awful daughter and sister. Not a good person and we are supposed to feel sorry for her. Not happening.

Girl, slow readers club because same

Is the Dark Olympus something you have to read in order?

4:25 your top is so pretty! Where’d you get it?

Lmao so funny that this video is up because I bought my first Katee Roberts lol I just got Desperate Measures in and I’m kind of excited 😂

You’re not missing much with the hating game😂