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My absolute favourite was 'Glorious Exploits' by Ferdia Lennon. It's a book about Athenian prisoners being fed in ancient Syracuse in exchange for performing Greek tragedy.

Thank you for recommending Betty Neels. Last month I found the COMPLETE COLLECTION of the "Collector's Edition" novels in a box at a secondhand bookstore. One hundred and twenty seven books! Did I buy the whole box? Yes, I did. Did I need a man to carry the box to my car? Yes, I did. Are we having to eat rice and beans this month? Yes, we are. 😆😆😆

I swear you have the nicest sweaters. I love to crochet with light weight yarns and enjoy making colorwork sweaters. So, I always notice your beautiful sweaters. Are they wool? Im slowly learning to spin yarn.

Loved Betty Neels! I lost my books, but I always think fondly of her. The tropey thing is very lovely, when you just want to sink into something beautiful, like you would sink into a Hot bubblebath... Sich.. I was very happy to find your vlog!

Happy New Year!

I enjoy Betty Neels, but I usually can't keep the plots straight. I tend to read two or three in a row, and then they really blur together! They're like potato chips: I can't have just one. I have a few on your list on my shelf, so I will definitely put those at the top. A few of my favorites from this year were "Roses and Champagne", "The Mistletoe Kiss" and "Winter Wedding." My December Betty Neels reads were winter/Christmas ones. I'm glad to hear you are hoping to do more videos for this channel, because I always enjoy them! Take care!

I haven’t even watched this video yet but had to jump into the comments to tell you how excited I am to watch this! Betty Neels is one of my favorites and my goal is to read all her books.

This is such a fun video! I love Betty Neels. Cassandra By Chance is one of my favorites too.

Thank you so much for this list! More to add to my Kindle Wishlist. I'm on a no-buy of books right now, but I do have 8 Betty Neels already on my Kindle that are still unread, so I'll go to those first. 🥰

I enjoyed the coziness and domesticity of An Innocent Bride by Betty Neels last year! I can’t wait to try these! Thank you! ♥️🥰✨

Thank you for your recommendations, I'd never heard of these and I've already added them to my library 'for later' shelf. I just started the audiobook of Mrs. MIke, 3 chapters in and I already love it. I look forward to more of your recommendations. I've subscribed to your channel so I won't miss them. Thanks again!

Thank you for your videos on book recommendations. I finally got out of my reading hiatus! 😊

I enjoyed 'The Frozen Lake' by Elizabeth Edmondson during the last few days of December. Personally I read Pilcher's 'Winter Solstice' and found it a bit bleak.

Thank you so much for your videos! I just started reading Betty Neels because of your recommendation and I am so enjoying her! Since we have many favorite authors in common (big Patricia Wentworth fan, here!) I sought her out. Fun!😊

Love these recommendations. D E Stevenson and Miss Reed are on my list of authors to try!

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Great suggestions! Thanks so much for listing the books you mention that's so helpful. Have you read any Donna VanLieri? She is great and offers series and stand-alone books. Look forward to your next post. Happy reading 📚 😊

What a lovely collection of books! Happy new year! Thank you for all your cozy wholesome content! ❤

Hello Emily, I'm a newer subscriber! I wish you and your family a very happy and joyful Christmas. May you be healthy and blessed by God in the New Year! Miss Read and D.E. Stevenson are my longtime favorite authors! I have the Country Doctor books on my shelves, but haven't yet read them. Oh, and I love your pretty sweater, I'm a knitter too!

I loved Mrs. Mike!!

Late to your channel and a new subscriber. I, too, adore Betty Neels, and it's fun to find another reader who loves her. Like you, a prefer the "nice" guys rather than the arrogant ones, so would really find it helpful to get a list of the books where that's the case, or even your favorite ones. Maybe another video? Thanks.

I am a huge Betty Neels fan! They were the first Harlequin/Mills & Boon books I read. About 20 years ago I made it a point to collect every one of her books, and I still have them!

Thank you for the recommendation! I DID read it! My library was able to get it for me, but took awhile. EXCELLENT!! I got a list of ALL those bks. and hope to be able to get more😊😊

Loved you video! I envy you having just discovered Betty - you have so many delightful books to discover! I saw a link to your video on a Facebook group dedicated to Betty Neels called The Uncrushable Jersey Dress which grew out a website of the same name run by sisters who are BN fans. Yes, Betty was a nurse specifically during WWII. Her future husband was an injured Dutch soldier that she met while nursing, although he wasn’t a doctor himself. I’ve been reading BN for almost 5 decades - I found one of her books in a box in my granny’s closet with other Harlequins.

That edition of The Christmas Mouse is so adorable. I am a big Miss Read, DE Stevenson, and Rosamunde Pilcher fan. Their books are so cozy!

Hi Emily, I don’t often write comments, but just wanted to tell you that I LOVE your channel. Our reading tastes are very similar, and I always want to add every book you mention to my TBR list. I especially enjoyed baby making an appearance and how you look so happy and natural in your motherhood journey ❤

Presently re-reading Winter Solstice. You HAVE to read it!! Marry Christmas to you and you family. ADORABLE baby!!🎄

I loved Mrs Mike!! I've read it several times and always really enjoy it. Love your videos! Merry Christmas!!!! 🎄⛄

Mrs. Mike sounds amazing!

Did you knit your sweater? It's lovely!

To date myself, I actually read Betty Neels when she was still writing books and still enjoy rereading her. As a recommendation, if you can find her, try Charlotte MacLeod. She was a Canadian mystery writer and her books are full of quirky characters and cozy vibes. I reread two of hers every Christmas, Rest You Merry and Murder Goes Mumming.

Adding Before I saw You to my TBR! Also, my daughter had that same puppy pyjama when she was a newborn and seeing your little one gave me all the memories 😍 so sweet!

Put Before I Saw You on hold! 😮♥️

I am reading my first Betty Neels and am loving it! It’s her wedding duology: A Christmas Proposal and Winter Wedding.

Love your channel! I too like to treat myself to the library book sales. My library has just opened a year round book sale area!! I just read King of the Wind over the summer and loved it.❤

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YES to "Texas Destiny"! If you haven't read it, Heath's "A Promise to Remember" won the RITA many years ago and is a unique and special book. It's hard to read in places, dealing as it does with war and cowardice/conscientious objection, but I wish she wrote more books like it. I get that these days it's easier to sell Regency-set historicals...but I am TIRED of those (unless Carla Kelly writes them 😉). Thank you for another lovely video. 💚

Never heard of Betty Neels, but sounds like the perfect sort of thing for you right now in this season. There are definitely times when you just need brainless comfort reads!

Great list, I looooooved Woman in White 🤩 Added few recommendations on my list. Such a lovely video, happy I came across the channel, thank you ☺

I just finished a book I KNOW you will LOVE! It is one of my favorite bks. of the year! I gave it 5 stars. The Little Village School by Gervase Phinn. Jenn Reads recommended it some time ago. Don't know if you'll find on Kindle. A MUST read 🤗

I just finished a book I KNOW you would LOVE. It is one of my favorites of the year! The Little Village School by Gervase Phinn. Jenn Reads recommended it a while ago. Don't know if you'll find on Kindle. You have to read this!!

I agree completely with your assessment of Betty Neels. I enjoy them, too, but don’t love the ‘cold shoulder’ trope.

Cruella’s car! 😂😍

Now I really want to read Neels since I am in such a busy season

Have you read any Cameron Dokey fairytale retellings? They are lovely!

I’ve enjoyed Laura Frantz lately. I’d love to hear what you think her book, The Lacemaker! 😄♥️

I always enjoy your videos! I'm a librarian, and believe me, librarians love helping people find books, so don't hesitate to ask for help at the library. I went on a Betty Neels kick for a little while earlier this year, and I have a good stash ready for when I want to dive in again. There is a blog called The Uncrushable Jersey Dress where they talk about all things Betty Neel. They even have a spreadsheet of the books with rankings, and list out the man's profession, the women's profession, what car he drive, the pets in the story, and what time of love story it is, for example a marriage of convenience, etc. It's fun to look through. it helped me decide which ones I wanted to read. I don't mind the doctor/nurse thing, but it got old to me. I've been reading a lot of nonfiction, mostly books about books and reading. I also just started a Elizabeth Goudge book.

Yay a new video! Your baby is such a cutie! Despite the lukewarm review I want to try Fairest of Heart, because I love fairy tale retellings. I do find they are often too dark, so a bit too light doesn't sound bad to me. About "lion feathers", being a swear word, I immediately thought of Amy saying "Oh feathers", in Little Women. I can't think of why feathers would be negative, but I guess it was the slang of the late 1800's.

Joined your channel. Your Reviews and comments on books very well. We make review videos on simple Urdu literature books from Pakistan. Hope you like our work. Love and best wishes to you. from: Nadeem Rehman Malik

instead of saying 'but it was only a dollar' you should say 'but it's for a good purpose- helping the library'!