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How to Sell a Haunted House is on my TBR, maybe not for the best reasons. I did like the one book of his I've read so far (My Best Friend's Exorcism), but this one appeals to me because there is a difficult brother in it named Mark, which is the same name as my difficult brother. Silly, I know!

obviously you need to start with julia armfield. that one’s on my list too and gideon the ninth. lucky day sounds cute.

I love Mary Stewart. I think, throughout the years, I have read all of her books. Enjoy!

I can relate. I have 12-15 books checked out from the library and there's people waiting for many of them. Definitely interested to hear your thoughts on Safe Keep. I enjoyed Delilah Green doesn't care which was a surprise since I so rarely read romance. Since you liked book 3, I think you'll like it too. I didn't enjoy book 2 since it was a "hate-to-love trope" which doesn't work for me.

Love that you picked up 23 books from the library!! I have the new Emezi so will look forward to hearing what you think of it. For some reason I thought Death of a bookseller was a Christmas book. Can’t remember why 😂 Can’t handle books with creepy dolls so I will leave that one for you 😝 I hope you enjoy all the ones you get to Jen.

Oh my gosh these editions are so pretty!

am so behind on commenting on videos !!! but i def agree w what u said about the mermaid and mrs hancock, i felt like it didnt know what it wanted to be /didnt rly work... im glad u said u might return to the idiot bc i rly enjoyed it and i hope u do too!!

Discomfort for Evening definitely sounds like a miss for me. I can't read gross books. I think Exit West is on my TBR. I'm glad you enjoyed it

I'm 72 years old and I love reading. Now I really didn't experience reading until I started reading the classics. I fine them to have more substance, then the books I was reading namely thrillers. It got that they all seam to be the same different charters but at the end of the day same plot. I love mysteries Christy, Hammond.

Just really love second hand book haul!! 😊😊 I hope you enjoy the books. I have not read that many classics so I havn’t read any of the books 😊

💜📚 great project - highly satisfying hearing your unhaul stats. Memory called Empire is a dulogy and is on my wish list and have heard amazing things about it.

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Really enjoyed watching this and hearing about your May reading. My best books were 2 Middlegrades, Keedie and The Secrets of Haven Point 💜📚

43:56 - publisher spoiling theor own book makes no sense! 💜📚

Oh Yes, I was curious about The Hole a few years ago but maybe it's ok that I never got to it hearing you review it here. I loved The Idiot but Gemma hated it l🤣 I Who Have Never Known Men was such an odd one to me.

As you mentioned that you like short stories.... I wonder, can you tell us what you like about them and how you approach them differently to regular novels? As it happens, I recently picked up a second-hand copy of a selectin of Alice Munroe's short stories. So far I've read two. They're probably not quite my cup of tea, but it also got me thinking about short stories. When they're very, very short - I don't end up appreciating the individual ones. When they're longer (like 50-60 pages), I'm not as fulfilled as with novels. So I wonder what your thoughts are? 🙂

do you think your enjoyment of the murder mystery genre is amplified by the fact that you’re able to go one step deeper towards visualising what’s going on? I’m very similar to you, certain writing styles work really well for me but for the most part my imagination is awful! but then with most of my favourite books (Ohio, Still Life, Great Circle) I can visualise the characters and settings really well, and those are the books that stay with me and impact me the most! as for subvocalisation, I only hear my own voice too… which is a shame when you think about the fact that means all characters have a perpetual Lancashire accent hahaha

I really enjoyed this one as well. Did a bit of bookbinding whilst listening to you chat about books, La Santé and everything. Love your self-characterisation as a kangaroo-reader. And every mention of La Santé is adorable. Best of luck for you!

Randomly came across this video of yours. Really enjoyed it! 🙂 But typical VAR in the final decision - they don't get anything right. It was very obviously three penalties, I mean, you should've read all three books.. ;-) PS: La Santé is a legend cat name.

I recently ordered I Who Have Never Known Men, looking forward to reading it

I think about this often. I used to be able to visualise everything when reading as a child/early teenager and had a really good imagination. I could switch between subvocalization and/or just skimming over the words and visualizing instead. The latter was faster for me. There was a marked difference and I remember asking my mam which way was the best to read. (I must have been quite young). Now as an adult I can't switch over from subvocalization, and don't visualise everything. I can visualise some things but it's not the same. Im not sure what happened to my imagination but it's almost gone. I do keep trying though. Reading as a youngster was soo much better.

Best wises with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories.

I know I've read The Bookseller of Kabul, but I don't remember a single thing about it...except there is a bookseller and it is is Kabul!

Hi Jennifer, Your Sherlock collection is wonderful! It's time for me to continue my reading of Sherlock Holmes. I love the Penguin editions and they're hard to find in Hawaii.I bought a Hans Christian Anderson in his home in England when I visited in the 80's. Aloha.

do you have Sherlock Holmes books and do you love mystery novels

I must admit I visualise detectives in crime novels and avoid television adaptions afterwards. For example Ian Rankin's Rebus - the new one on TV looks nothing like what I imagine. Enjoy your channel by the way.

I tried the Discomfort of Evenings too and dnf'd it very early on because it was too disturbing. And I can't see the point in that kind of book at all. But obviously a lot of people do, since it has been praised practically everywhere! Which too me is a bit disturbing in itself!😅

I liked Dead Relatives when I read it. I don’t even like that genre so it must be good. Great wrap up as always. Xx Favourite book of May was Far From The Madding Crowd.

I don't know, Jennifer. You say that the Discomfort of Evening must be well written as it was capable of making you feel uncomfortable and disgusted but if you were to read the half witted ramblings of a deranged serial killer, I'm guessing they would have the same effect. I think it is easier to make a reader feel disgusted and uncomfortable than uplifted-any fool can write about bodily functions or appalling things in order to make the rest of us think, 'yuk'.

Oh, goodness, I loved Jonathan Creek! Haven’t thought about that series in years! Thanks for the memory.

The only one on your list that I’ve read ( and loved) is The Mermaid of Black Conch I have I Who Have Never Known Men on my TBR. What’s your June reading going? 🍀👋☘️📚📖📕☕️💐

This was so fascinating! Information processing is such a great and really varied experience. I'm definitely quite far down the aphantasiac side, so it was neat to hear where you are similar or different. I've definitely got no images or voices 😂

Jennifer nooooo Project Hail Mary is incredible 😭 Another victim of JenniferDNFsBooks 😂 In the other hand, I also struggle with Ali Smith. And I’m sceptical that any copies exist with the historical storyline first - I swear everyone who has read it seems to have had the contemporary story first!

I always have holds from the library. We have a one card system which means we can get anything from any library in South Australia which is great if you are on holiday. I currently have 14 books in transit. We can get up to 100 🤭🤭📚📚📚 am so lucky as they are always getting new books and quite often when I see something from book tube I can get it

I love this topic, it's fascinating! So, I subvocalise in my own voice and visualise, but the pictures are not very detailed. I'd say, like looking through a milky glass and everything is a bit blurred, but you can tell what is what. Sometimes, when I read something that was written by a person whose voice I am very familiar with, I will sort of hear them in my mind. I had a lot of conversations about this with my mom and my aunt. My aunt sees everything highly detailed, as in she can describe everyones nose and the pattern on the fabric. I am a but blurry and my mom has aphantasia (not being able to visualise), so her reading is only words. What I still don't understand is how she draws and paints so well without being able to see a vision of what she wants to do. She can't explain and we're always both a bit confused after these conversations! 😂

Yes I do have voices too xx

Loved this video, thankq. I thought everyone had images in their minds while reading, found it fascinating that you didn’t but we can’t all be the same I suppose. Also I’m a slow reader, I read every word on the page where I found that many people skim over the pages and get the gist of what’s happening and read so much faster but I can’t take the story in if I don’t read every word x

You have described my reading style..

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So interesting! And yes, I am going to do a video on this soon. I find this stuff so interesting.

I naturally visualise and vocalise when I’m reading which is why I’m very much in favour of character based books and I struggle with adaptations

This is a really fascinating discussion. I had to think about this, but I do visualize and vocalize. One way I know if a book is well-written, is if the voices I hear have accents.

I can't visualise, I just cant! So I've never visualised books, I can read that the author has mentioned curly hair, I'm aware of what curly hair looks like on a human head but I wouldn't be able to jigsaw the rest of the descriptive phases to create a full face. Rather funnily my partner who is also a reader is baffled by this, on of our very early dates was almost spent entirely discussing this topic! I'll be showing them this video x

I subvocalise and completely visualise when I read. Great topic.