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I just found you Welcome ,I loved your warmth and enthusiasm,the book sounds wonderful ❤

Thank you for showing that book by Gladys Taber. I live in London so she is a completely new author to me! 👍

Julie Andrews movies are the best!. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by her is a really great read. I had no idea about her childhood, so fascinating.

Gina Stanyer also "got me into Rosamunde Pilcher. The first one I read was Winter Solstice, FANTASTIC! Gina spoke about it SOOO often. I found it at a library sale (hardcover) for 25¢. I am trying to collect all her bks. Some I bought brand new. I plan to read The Shell Seekers this summer. I am presently in a rehab after surgery (unexpected). I brought The Blue Bedroom in w/ me. It is a collection of Pitcher's short stories. Oh my! Soooo good. There hasn't been one I didn't like. 13 altogether. Did you know she has a son Robin who writes? Haven't read any of his yet. I read that Gladys Tabor bk. many,many yrs. ago. LOVE Potatoe Peel Pie! A few times I went back and just read some of the letters. Really enjoy epistolary bks. I'm a letter writer myself (pen and paper, NOT text). Also collect children's books. Very fussy about the illustrator. Tasha Tudor, Eloise Wilkins, Garth Brooks, Jan Brett some of my faves. I have a small collection of original L.G. Books most illustrated by Eloise Wilkins Baby Dear, My Book About God,etc. I totally agree w/ your statement about modern children's lit. Very sad. Sounds like we have similar tastes and opinions. I am enjoying alot of older women authors I never read (Gina). Have renewed my interest in Angela Thirlkell. Had some of her bks. A very long time ago and lost them😑 Never forgot them so Re-bought 3 recently because the library couldn't get them. Well, rambled on enough, that's what happens talking about bks! Enjoyed very much, thanks!

I’m so glad you tagged me. It’s great to find other cozy readers! I think you are going to enjoy Gladys Taber.

Lovely video! So many good books. And you do have the first James Herriot book! All Creatures is a compilation of the first two books that were published separately in the UK. 😊

Love this haul so much! ♥️ love Eve Bunting and Jan Brett

I loveeee Gladys Taber! ♥️♥️♥️

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is great for newborns and rhythmic too. Wonderful color illustrations. My last child loved her copy at six weeks. It teaches intonation of our language and so colorful. Easy for infants to catch on to Alphabet sounds. Rather Calypso.

Great! I've not seen nor heard of those Pilchers. Not at our huge library. I have their chunky paperback Homecoming, by her. Thanks for bringing to our attention.

It looks like you DO have the first book as published in the USA: Book 1 is All Creatures Great & Small; Book 2 is All Things Bright & Beautiful; Book 3 is All Things Wise & Wonderful; Book 4 is The Lord God Made Them All. See the Wikipedia article about James Herriot which gives the original UK titles and the corresponding US titles.

Great haul! I too, collect used children's books as I have my first grandbaby. I am a children's librarian, and I can't resist good picture books. I agree about loving the older books.

Thanks for another lovely video.❤ I'm just reading All Things Wild and Wonderful right now. I thought All Creatures Great and Small was the first book, some sites do list it as the first book but the Amazon box set includes If Only They Could Talk, so I guess you're right. I didn't even know I was missing one, thanks for the heads up!

I love the dustjackdets the librar has - with that plastic crinkly smooth cover over them and they don't come off LOL! they just make my reading experience 'extra'!

congratulations on baby!!! how exciting!

I am reading DES's Mrs Tim books right now which are sweet! Aren't we lucky DES wrote so many books!

I have that D. E. Stevenson trilogy waiting for me on my shelf. I have been reading a bunch of her other ones that are on kindle unlimited right now. I like how characters from her other books make appearances in her books. I have read one Molly Clavering, "Susan Settles Down", and it was so lovely. The way she describes the setting is gorgeous. Makes me think of L. M. Montgomery's descriptive writing. After that book, I have bought many more and they, too, are waiting on my shelf. I just read the first Alleyn novel, and I really enjoyed it. A lot of these authors are new to me this year, and I am glad to have discovered your channel!

Welcome to booktube 📚🧋

I've added Ngao Marsh's series and Vittoria Cottage to my TBR. Those sound wonderful!

I loooove Vittoria Cottage! ♥️ I recommend Mrs. Lorimer’s Quiet Summer by Molly Clavering. I’d love ANYTHING video from you when you can, no pressure. 🌿🍒♥️

Ugh. I don’t like cheating plot lines either. Yuck!🤢😒😑

Yay! 😁 I’m so glad to see you! ♥️

D. E. Stevenson makes my heart happy. And when you finish her books, you don't have to be sad, because you can then read those of her Moffat neighbour (and close friend!) Molly Clavering. :) (Another lovely video, BTW. Thank you.)

Thank you for this video! I’m adding a few to my tbr!

I enjoy you. You are a lovely young woman with convictions and I applaud that in today's " book tube world" or "reader world". I also felt Enchanted April ended rather abruptly and I will also re-read it next Spring. I did enjoy it. I love Jen's channel. She certainly does recommend good bks. I have pgs. and pgs.of her recs.I love Miranda Mills also. She had a new, very fun one today about her favorite recent items. Have you ever read any of Rosamunde Pilcher's bks? She has become one of my favorite authors and I am trying to collect all her bks. Gina Stanyer got me into her. She mentioned her soooo often and especially Winter Solstice, that I had to read it last yr. Oh my!!!! FANTASTIC!! There is a series I am reading, not straight through (my library doesn't have many of them) and that is The Cottage Tales Of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert. She writes lots of " cozy mysteries"? which I've never read, but when I saw the first one on the shelf, had to borrow it! Can get a little bit boring, but I enjoy them. Gives little bits of her life also, which is one reason I enjoy them. I have a biography about her. Thank you and take good care of yourself! 🤗

I am so, so glad to hear you loved Vittoria Cottage! It’s so good…I love Caroline. 🥰 And thank you for the sweet shoutout to my channel. ❤

I just read the "Dering Family Trilogy" (Vittoria Cottage/Music in the Hills/Winter & Rough Weather) in April & May as well. I LOVED Mamie and Jock--two of Stevenson's very best characters. What comes through loud and clear is Stevenson's love of the Scottish landscape, country life and her love of language. I agree that, especially in the last book (aka "Shoulder the Sky"), the "secret" sub-plot was pretty easy to figure out. The one thing that bothers me about her books is that she invariably has one or two characters who are just complete bad apples--they are rotten to the core. If only she would have a "bad" character who has some redeeming qualities or actually shows some growth/change over time. Even Scrooge comes around at the end of A Christmas Carol🤣 I'll keep reading her books, though, to get that wonderful Scottish vibe. I've been reading them in publication order, so I still have a lot left to read. In the Miss Buncle series, I liked Miss Buncle's Book and The Two Mrs. Abbots the best. Other good ones are Celia's House, Listening Valley, and the Mrs Tim books.

ooh I read Quick Curtain too! strange yet interesting!

I stopped after book 2 on Patricia Moyes Henry Tibbett because your video at that time gave a warming LOL! (and yep turns out I was right to stop!) just finished listening to Miss Buncle's Book maybe a week ago and last night finished The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifx (it was good but so unrealistic- I was about to bite my nails off listening to it LOL thinking of how awful it wouldn've been in real life). also read a trilogy by Pepper Basham about Izzy, Penelope, and Luke _ I wanted Luke's story but 'had' to read the other 2 and I liked them but Luke's book and their issue I just wanted to shake them! it's written with a lot of texts/emails and on kindle the texes were lighter print and that bothered me a bit but cute and light and 'christian' though not a whole lot of church - if any LOL! also read The bookish Life of Nina hill by Abbi Waxman (not a clean book but too explicit for all that's going on and I enjoyed it but realized someone mentioned that's in another book so now I'm reading that person's story in The Garden of Small Beginnings. And an ebook I bought on Jen's rcomenndation or rather an author she recommended - laurie colwin - A big Storm Knocked it Over - i've picked it up off and on - it's ok but I'm afraid she's gonna have an affair and I don't want that LOL! it's good enough to keep my interest off and on. April and early may ahd louse penny's books 2-4 I think and Anita Davison's 2 british mysteries and Mr Finchley discovers his england and Susan Hill's jacob's room is full of books (even more added to my kindle and tbr)! and 2 Henry Tibbett myteries but was reading the 2nd when you gave the heads up about book 3 and I had already seen a bit of tha tin book 2... Ireally need more time to read and better vision LOL!

I subscribed to Jen because of your recommendation, thank you. I'm so glad you liked Enchanted April, I knew you would! Now that you've read it (Spoiler Alert for the rest of this comment) I highly recommend the movie, it sticks very closely to the book except Mr. Briggs, they make him much more likable and use a cute way of getting him together with Caroline that I prefer to the book. It also has a stellar cast, I would love to hear a book vs movie opinion from you.

Love this video idea! Thank you for sharing! Love love love the library! ❤️🌈📚

I love Catherine Fisher! ♥️

Your baby is sooo sweet. ♥️ I really like Susan Scarlett!

Alan Melville sounds wonderful!

Watching your older videos! I love Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver, too! I’ve only read four? so far, but really enjoyed.

did the bookshop on the corner series stay pretty good after book 3? (I see it's already out)

I bought the miss read books on kindle - the books are so pretty though (saw them on gina's channel" only read the thrush green series so far- saving the other LOL!

Thank you for another great video! I love Miss Silver too! ❤️🌈📚

We're like the same person, except I'm twice your age lol. Homeschooled, large family, Heyer/Austen/Regency fan, not big on fantasy, etc. Glad i found your channel!

Oh I simply adore The Blue Castle! I reread it every year. Hope you'll like it :)

I came over to your channel at a recommendation from Jen at Jen's Reading Life because she said you felt the same as I do about Me Before You. And she was right! I was nodding along to not only your opinion on that one, but also your opinion on so many of the other books you mentioned! Looking forward to watching more of your videos! 😊

You have so many wonderful books to look forward to! I love The Enchanted April (I just reread it), Thornyhold, Ngaio Marsh, The Blue Castle…you are going to have lots of great reading ahead of you! And now I need to look up Alan Melville! I love the British Library Crime Classics as well!

I have purchased many of your recommendations... thank you so much. I have one that stick out from my younger years and I re-read it recently, "Calico Captive", I think I was in about 6th grade (I'm now 73 yrs. young). The other I have read several times and given it as gifts .. it is 'Eat Cake'. Love a good read and as do a good knit or crochet. Hugs to you.

I love the books podcasts you do! Will you ever being doing small children books, for your little ones as they grow. Would love that.

I recently discovered D E Stevenson myself and I am in LOVE!!! I have NO IDEA how I missed Betsy Tacy series as a kid but also heard about it on Kate Howe channel ( have you watched her? I think you would love her she is such a delight) I sped through the whole series in no time! The Enchanted Barn is my favorite Grace Livingston Hill. Ooooooo I haven't read the blue Castle either but I have it on my shelf. What a beautiful edition...hmmmm might have to pick it up.

I’ve never heard of Alan Melville! 😮yay! Another author to check into it! Thanks.

I loooove your seasonal TBR, great idea! I kind of have morphed into this myself. I really personally love 💕 The Enchanted April and the film is lovely. So many great things on your list. I love many of these! The later Betsy Tacy books are WONDERFUL. You are in for such a treat.

Enchanted April or Hester is my next book to read. Do you worry about bed bugs when you buy books from resale ( Goodwill, Salv.Army) or even library sales? I've been hearing terrible stories lately. Enjoyed, thanks.

I, too, want to read the Blue Castle. I am currently reading Susan Settles Down by Molly Clavering and am really enjoying it. The library district that I work for has a big sale twice a year, and I just went to the spring one last weekend. I bought a few Ngaio Marsh books. Do you recommend reading them in order, because I didn't find the first one at the sale?