I’m so glad you’re doing books again! You were a role model to my daughter, who now is 24 and started watching you when she was 14! I knew one day you’d be a star and I’m so thankful to you for being part of helping raise her through teenage years, and most of all I’m very very very proud of you!!!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed "If Cats Disappeared..." - I read the whole thing on a plane journey to Italy about 3 years ago and by the end I was crying and had a lovely, but bewildered man next to me asking if I was ok. I responded by simply holding up the book and nodding.
I recently read The House in the Cerulean Sea because of your review, and as someone who is studying to become a social worker, I absolutely loved it. New favourite book!
Here’s a list of all the books/audiobooks Carrie mentioned, in case anyone needed it for their shopping carts/ book wish lists 😝💸😜💸 Sweetly- Jackson Pierce 🎧 The Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman 🎧The Ocean at the End of the Lane- Neil Gaiman 🎧Coraline- Neil Gaiman This is how you lose the time war- Max Gladstone & Amal El Motar Untamed- Glennon Doyle Party Shoes-Noel Stretfield Mrs Death Mrs Death- Salena Godden Daisy Jones and the Six- Taylor Jenkins Reid The Death of Vivek Oji- Akwaeke Emezi The Lock In- Phoebe Lockhurst The land of big numbers- Te Ping Chen If Cats Disappeared from the World-Genki Kawamura Cinderella is Dead-Kalynn Baylon The Dreamers- Karen Thompson Walker
I’ve had Daisy Jones and the Six on my bookshelf for months now but have never bothered to read it but I think it’ll definitely be the next book I read now! Thank you Carrie!
More to add to my list, thank you! I’ve recently bought The Dreamers and have also used my Audible credit this month to download Daisy Jones and the Six as I’ve heard great things about how it’s narrated. 😊
Oh wow I wonder how they have done that could you let me know 🤔 I'm loving the book and the way it is written but can imagine as an audio book that would be amazing
@@Natalie_Awfc they have a different narrator for each character, so it helps with the interview format because it just sounds so realistic... and the narrators are great, they did the characters well
Daisy Jones & The Six was sooo amazing! Loved it. Definitely one of my new favorites. I dog-eared so many pages, and the writing is so cinematic. Can't wait for the Amazon Prime mini-series they are making! For something similar in a few ways and in many ways not similar at all, I'd recommend reading the play "Chimerica" by Lucy Kirkwood. It's a very interesting historical fiction that is just as cinematic as Daisy Jones! I was fortunate enough to see the play when it premiered at the Almeida and I was blown away.
When you mentioned Daisy Jones and the Six i leaped out of my seat a little! I fell in love and have since been trying to read the other Taylor Jenkins Reid books. But i also just finished your book When the Curtain Falls last night! I really loved it so, Thankyou!
CARRIE LISTEN have you read "they both die at the end" by adam silvera? IT'S SO GOOD and it sounds like your cup of tea, from what i've seen in this video. i recommend 100%!!!!!
DAISY JONES. Absolutely one of my top favorite books! Evelyn Hugo is also brilliant and I just finished Malibu Rising which was also great. I love how the three are connected in some small details!
I'm so happy you're back replying to comments. Idk, I've been watching since 2012, so I know you responding to comments isn't a given. Happy you're in a good head space. 💖
So intrigued to read 'If cats disappeared from the world'! You always give great book suggestions. I saw you perform on Tuesday night. I absolutely loved the show! You and the whole cast were amazing, I was hysterically laughing one minute and tearing up the next. Also, Mike did a fantastic job playing Prince Sebastian. I hope I will be able to see the show again in the future.
Love this! You and I lean towards different genre's/styles overall but it's always interesting to be shown books that one wouldn't consider at first glance and I'm eager to read some of these. Thanks & hope you're well, Carrie!
I'm so glad you're on the Taylor Jenkins Reid train! I'd read Seven Husbands before Malibu Rising as Malibu is in the same universe but the majority of it takes place post Seven Husbands.
two faves i've read recently are 'the invisible life of addie la rue' and 'the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle', would 100% recommend to anyone who hasnt read them! Absolutely adding a lot of the books you've mentioned to my wishlist though! starting an english masters in september so making the most of reading what i can while i still have the chance!
If you want to carry on your Neil Gaiman kick I'd HIGLY suggest reading Neverwhere. ESPECIALLY as you live in London. My goodness I think you'll love it. Essentially there's normal London and then a different London you get to via the underground. I won't spoil anymore but it's SO GOOD.
I’m currently reading the Percy Jackson series for the first time and I’m about to start We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. I’m also in the middle of the Delirium trilogy by Lauren Oliver. All great reads so far!
I just finished “When the Curtain Falls” and then the sample of “Into the Spotlight”. I CANT WAIT to get my hands on it and finish it. Your writing is absolutely captivating. I need to read all the books. Also reread “The Giver” and want to reread the Baxter series by Karen Kingsbury.
Completely agree about This is How You Lose the Time War! I enjoyed it, but I had absolutely no idea what was going on a lot of the time. It seemed intentional so I just kind of went with it and by the end had a rough idea of the mechanisms involved in that universe, but at times it seems almost abstract in its worldbuilding and I'm still working through my thoughts about it a couple of years later.
I would genuinely be super curious to see you do a re-reading old favorites video. I think I started following your channel in 2010/2011 and remember when you did mostly book content and really liked The Night Circus, would be interested to see if it holds up for you!
“The Ocean…” is gorgeous - I read it about 12-18 months ago in the beautiful illustrated edition. I love “Neverwhere” (first thing of his i read and first thing I ever read on Kindle about 5-6 years ago - I remember the crap TV series in the 90s and he wrote the book because he wasn’t happy about how the TV series turned out) - if you have lived in London at any point it is such a joy to read. It brought back lovely memories whilst being a fab story.
My parents are from the 50s and grew up on rock n roll in the 60s and 70s- that Daisy Jones book sounds right up their ally, I'll have to recommend it to them!
I'm reading Yoko Ogawa's Memory Police, it has a similar concept with one of the books in the video. It's about an island where things are disappearing from time to time, but it's very differently described. People just forget, why those things were valuable to them and dispose of them willingly. There are people who are not able to forget, and they are taken by Memory Police.. It's a bit mysterious and a bit anti-utopian, but mostly very atmospheric and dream-like. And there was a beautiful chapter about how people watched roses disappearing, breaks your 💓
I bought Daisy Jones and the Six because I heard you and many others raving about it. I'm so excited to get stuck into it! I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen and about to start The Scarlet Letter.
Yay, another book video 🥳🥳🥳 thank you for contributing to me every growing TBR list 📚. Thank you especially for explaining more of the plot of Cinderella is Dead, because normally fairy tale retellings aren’t my thing, but that sounds fantastic!
Really amused to see Cinderella is Dead here - I read it on a library app and enjoyed it so much I brought a copy. It's a pretty impressive debut novel - I love the idea of combining fairytales, dystopian YA and Jordan Peele-style satirical horror, and the story does justice to the concept. Like many of the best fairytales, it is creative, engaging and imaginative enough for us to stick with it. I am looking forward to seeing what Kalynn Bayron does next, and I hope Cinderella Is Dead gets further exposure through adaptations...
Great video im definitely going to look at reading some of these books myself. I got the audio book to the seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle after you made the book haul video and I loved it I would definitely recommend the book it had me gripped from the first page.
I have to say, I really enjoyed listening to you talk about these books because it seems like you were more than usually open to admitting it if you didn't unreservedly love a book, which in my opinion makes for a more interesting review (by which I do not mean that piling hate on a book is good, but that it should be possible to discussing elements one did not necessarily enjoy). I'm a huge Neil Gaiman fan, and if you haven't already tried it I would really recommend my favourite, which is Neverwhere. I think you'd enjoy it both as an author and a Londoner.
Neil Gaiman reading Norse Mythology is one of my favourite Audiobooks of all time. I just finished The Black Count which is a biography of General Thomas Alexandre Dumas, father of the famous writer Alexandre Dumas, and am now re-reading The Count of Monte Cristo which was partly based on the General's experience as a Prisoner of War.
I've been stuck in a reading rut for the past few years, especially summer 2020 but I've been getting back into reading more in 2021, partially inspired by your booktube videos.
I just finished “Starve Acre” which I enjoyed very much but felt it ended a bit abruptly (oddly enough what the Book Shop Lady said!) but it is a good dark, folklore-y thriller and a quick read. If you want a TRULY beautiful, moving, deep read, “The Starless Sea” is one of my favourite books now. Don’t Google it, just read it knowing nothing anything and let it open up around you - that is what I did at Xmas 2019 and it was so, so special. It has myths and fairystories and so on and a significant fraction is based in a huge subterranean library that opens itself to you at times in which you need it. It is a loveletter to storytelling and to the fantasy genre. I spent £300 on the deluxe edition that there are only 100 copies of in the world, I loved it that much!
Currently reading The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman only 46 pages in but loving it! Parallel worlds, libraries and adventure what’s more to like 😀. Thank you for creating a space to talk about books 📚 I don’t have many friends that are big readers so therefore they don’t understand the journey a book can take you on and the emotional grief when it finishes. I love your book recommendations xx
Hi Carrie!! I loved seeing what you’ve read these past months! I hope you are staying healthy and happy, I’m from Massachusetts in the US and I have been adoring seeing live theatre back in London through your channel. I just finished reading The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls today, I gave it 3 stars. Next, I’m going to read Live Your Life by Amanda Kloots which is about her husband Tony Award Nominee Nick Cordero who died last year from COVID-19
Love these book roundups! I personally really liked Mrs Death Misses Death. Salena Godden is a poet and I've read some of her stuff before, so I didn't mind the change. But I totally get it's not a style for everyone. I kept getting distracted and looking at the book Ivy on the shelf behind you because I so vividly remember reading that when I was younger, but I'd completely forgotten about it until now 😂
to go along with playing cinderella, might i suggest you read stardust by neil gaiman next? it's a beautiful fairy tale about a boy who journeys into the land of faerie to retrieve a fallen star, only to find she doesn't enjoy the idea of being brought back to his crush as a trinket. they have several perilous adventures on their way back through faerie (and of course they fall in love). there's a gorgeous version illustrated by charles vess that is available online 2nd-hand for quite cheap, and a movie adaptation that feels very different from the book but is also fun and amazing!
LOVED Daisy Jones and the Six as well! Can’t wait to watch the show! I read Evelyn Hugo first and I loved that one slightly more. And that’s saying a lot! I can’t wait to read more by her!
What you said about "The Death of Vivek Oji" reminds me of one of my favorite things about the musical "Bonnie and Clyde"! The musical starts with their deaths, then jumps back to their childhoods. It's sobering, but really makes it hit like a tragedy for me
I love your book recommendations! I need to read more, but I'm always snowed under with uni work! My problem is I need a good book to entice me or else I just can't be bothered, I've got hundreds here unread, yet I reread the same ones all the time 😂 My summer goal before I start my Masters is to read more books!
I read the graveyard book over and over and over again when I was younger! I donated it to charity a few years ago because I ran out of room in my bookcase, but I still miss it and think about it a lot!
I always love hearing your recommendations and how much you enjoy talking about books!! I'm deffo intrigued by Cinderella is Dead! I love things with a twist! Going off the plot of 'If all the cats disappeared from the world' I think you'd really like this book I'm reading at the moment called 'They both die at the end' by Adam Silvera. It's basically set in a world where people are informed of the day they're going to die on the day but dont know how or when during that day and it follows these two boys who meet each other through an app called The last Friend App to spend their last day together! It's so so beautiful so far and I'm so invested in it! I'd highly recommend! Two other books I've read this year that i think you may enjoy (if you;ve not read them already) Are Hideous Beauty and The Outrage both by William Hussey! Both of these books are written beautifully and will both break and warm your heart in one go! Thank you so much for all these recommendations! I'mma have to go through the video again and write them down hehe! =:')
Love these videos. I have finished the midnight library after you talking about it on here and loved it. I have passed it onto my mum to read. I am now reading the family upstairs by Lisa Jewell and loving it so far. I have one of us is lying and one of us is next both by Karen M McManus to read next
Thanks for this video, really lovely as always! I mean this in the kindest way, but it’d be lovely if you could check how to pronounce authors names rather than saying I hope I’m pronouncing them right. It would just show a huge amount of respect for the writers and be really heartwarming to know that your large audience might also be encouraged to take the time to learn how to pronounce a name correctly as well. I mean no disrespect in saying this and hope you understand!
my friend let me borrow cinderella is dead because she thought i would really like it and it sat in the corner of my room for months cuz i just didn't really have the time and last night i thought i would start it and ended up going to sleep at like 3am because i couldn't put it down until i finished it and then i had so much adrenaline from reading the ending ahhh it's so good!!!
When you talked about The Dreamers I was reminded of Blindness by José Saramago which got turned into an exhibition/immersive theatre experience. There's a place where out of the blue an epidemic of blindness happens. Not a fun, feel-good experience but would recommend if you see coming to somewhere near you
Yay! Currently watching on my break at work which is a good way to spend a break! I definitely needed some new book recommendations because all I’m reading at the moment is science content for my degree ahhh! ❤️
i read the graveyard book a few months ago and i will occasionally remember it and want to reread it i loved it so much!! i dont read very often but i really need to get back into it!!
I take a screenshot of the book when she holds it up. Then once a week, I add them to my running TBR list (which currently contains 600+ titles). Happy reading!
Lovely as always Carrie! You know you’re always worried about pronouncing these authors’ names wrong? Might be worth a little TH-cam search for an interview with the authors so you can hear them say their own name or someone reputable addressing them, so that you can be confident in how you’re pronouncing them ☺️
Listing all the books here for easier re-finding :) Sweetly by Jackson Pearce The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Coraline by Neil Gaiman This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar Untamed by Glennon Doyle Party Shoes by Noel Streatfeild Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi The Lock In by Phoebe Luckhurst Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
I'm currently reading on the other side ( love it so far) and mythos, i like to switch between styles😊. Bought so many books because of you; the midnight library, Daisy Jones and the Six and the shelf. Because of this video i'll probably buy some more; the Neill Gaiman books and if Cats dissapear from the world.
Hi Carrie, have you read So This Is Love; A Twisted Tale by Elizabeth Lim? It’s another e twist on the story of Cinderella. For being a Cinderella purest, I really enjoyed this book very much. I may pick up the Cinderella book you mentioned as well as a few others. Thanks so much for the reviews. Happy reading! 📖💖
A Single Thread of Moonlight by Laura Wood is out in October I think you’ll love! It’s a Cinderella retelling. Think you’ll love anything Laura has written tbh. Have had the pleasure of meeting her too 🧡
I love all of Taylor Jenkins Reid's books! You should pick up One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab. Both have that touch of magic that you seem to enjoy and weave into your books!
Carrie: “I enjoyed it?…..I enjoyed it….” 😅 I’ve been there before whilst reading … it’s a cool feeling when you feel a story is impacting you or sitting with you differently afterwards. P. S. Neil Gaiman LOVE everything by him. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is so good!! He has some pretty amazing graphic novels too.
Have you ever read any of the Charlie Bone books? they are for a younger audience, but I think that if you pick up a book, and enjoy reading it, then it is for you as well.
I love ‘A Thousand Splendid suns’ and ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khalid Hosseini. He is brilliant, I read both for my a level English lit course and there were both crackin books 🧡 ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ is also a great novel especially if you like American literature 😊
I recommend The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. I read it years ago but it's stuck with me. I would describe it as gentle dystopia. It's from the point of view of a pre-teen girl and it's about what happens to society when the earth starts spinning slower and slower so days get longer and longer. I own The Dreamers but for obvious reasons I'm not in the mood for it now! I spent a large chunk of my afternoon reading Malibu Rising in the park in the sunshine. I'm about half way through and I'm enjoying it a lot.
I would recommend Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman! It's my favourite and along the same lines as Stardust. Also a dramatic recording by the BBC which is excellent!
you can just tell that when Carrie’s around books, she’s in her happy place. and i love that
Aww, great pick! Little women is one of all time favorites. Just lovely to be with the March family for a while.
I'm despite my dyslexia re-reading the harry potters in preparation for a long awaited trip to the HP studios for my birthday!!
Hannah, enjoy reading and the HP studio’s 😃 And happy birthday 🥳
Trying to find a way to justify buying some of these books when I’ve run out of shelf space and have a huge TBR pile 😭
There are always libraries 👀
Carrie have you read Good Omens? It’s a Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet story, lots of fun.
The TV show on Amazon prime is a masterpiece after you read the book
@@flyingzombie4159 got it on dvd! Loved it!
@@flyingzombie4159 and now a series 2 has been confirmed!
I’m so glad you’re doing books again! You were a role model to my daughter, who now is 24 and started watching you when she was 14! I knew one day you’d be a star and I’m so thankful to you for being part of helping raise her through teenage years, and most of all I’m very very very proud of you!!!!
Just finished All that she can see, loved it! Can’t wait to read your other ones. Cinderella was also great, planning a return trip already! 💙
Ahhh so pleased you enjoyed it! The book and the show!
I love StoryGraph! It satisfies my analytic brain and supports a company that isn't Amazon. Going to have to add some of these to my TBR!
I'm so glad you enjoyed "If Cats Disappeared..." - I read the whole thing on a plane journey to Italy about 3 years ago and by the end I was crying and had a lovely, but bewildered man next to me asking if I was ok. I responded by simply holding up the book and nodding.
I recently read The House in the Cerulean Sea because of your review, and as someone who is studying to become a social worker, I absolutely loved it. New favourite book!
I love Storygraph so much! I’m glad more people are using it
Here’s a list of all the books/audiobooks Carrie mentioned, in case anyone needed it for their shopping carts/ book wish lists 😝💸😜💸
Sweetly- Jackson Pierce
🎧 The Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman
🎧The Ocean at the End of the Lane- Neil Gaiman
🎧Coraline- Neil Gaiman
This is how you lose the time war- Max Gladstone & Amal El Motar
Untamed- Glennon Doyle
Party Shoes-Noel Stretfield
Mrs Death Mrs Death- Salena Godden
Daisy Jones and the Six- Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Death of Vivek Oji- Akwaeke Emezi
The Lock In- Phoebe Lockhurst
The land of big numbers- Te Ping Chen
If Cats Disappeared from the World-Genki Kawamura
Cinderella is Dead-Kalynn Baylon
The Dreamers- Karen Thompson Walker
I’ve had Daisy Jones and the Six on my bookshelf for months now but have never bothered to read it but I think it’ll definitely be the next book I read now! Thank you Carrie!
Evelyn Hugo is so good! I personally loved it even more than Daisy Jones.
Me too!
Me too!
More to add to my list, thank you! I’ve recently bought The Dreamers and have also used my Audible credit this month to download Daisy Jones and the Six as I’ve heard great things about how it’s narrated. 😊
IT'S SO GOOD! I'd be so intrigued to listen to the audiobook too actually!
Oh wow I wonder how they have done that could you let me know 🤔 I'm loving the book and the way it is written but can imagine as an audio book that would be amazing
@@Carrie the way it's narrated makes this book even better! A must-listen, for me
@@Natalie_Awfc they have a different narrator for each character, so it helps with the interview format because it just sounds so realistic... and the narrators are great, they did the characters well
@@EchoSinger I think I'm going to have to get that on audible after I have finished the book
Seeing you on Saturday in Cinderella, so excited!!! Xxxxx
Daisy Jones and The Six is SO good!!! I read it in May and absolutely devoured it, it's definitely my favorite book as well now!!
Daisy Jones & The Six was sooo amazing! Loved it. Definitely one of my new favorites. I dog-eared so many pages, and the writing is so cinematic. Can't wait for the Amazon Prime mini-series they are making! For something similar in a few ways and in many ways not similar at all, I'd recommend reading the play "Chimerica" by Lucy Kirkwood. It's a very interesting historical fiction that is just as cinematic as Daisy Jones! I was fortunate enough to see the play when it premiered at the Almeida and I was blown away.
When you mentioned Daisy Jones and the Six i leaped out of my seat a little! I fell in love and have since been trying to read the other Taylor Jenkins Reid books. But i also just finished your book When the Curtain Falls last night! I really loved it so, Thankyou!
CARRIE LISTEN have you read "they both die at the end" by adam silvera? IT'S SO GOOD and it sounds like your cup of tea, from what i've seen in this video. i recommend 100%!!!!!
Thank you for so many new recommendations. I had the same reaction to Daisy Jones- the audiobook is particularly fab, with mutiple actors narrating.
DAISY JONES. Absolutely one of my top favorite books! Evelyn Hugo is also brilliant and I just finished Malibu Rising which was also great. I love how the three are connected in some small details!
I'm so happy you're back replying to comments. Idk, I've been watching since 2012, so I know you responding to comments isn't a given. Happy you're in a good head space. 💖
I just love listening to you talking, making me so calm😌❤️
Carrie, I could hear you talk about books all day 😍 thanks for sharing and recommending, I’ll definitely be checking some of these out!
Ocean at the end of the lane is absolutely my favorite book I’m so glad you read it!!
Books, books, books just loved that Carrie, thank you. I can never become bored while I have books in my life. Fabulous job.
So intrigued to read 'If cats disappeared from the world'! You always give great book suggestions.
I saw you perform on Tuesday night. I absolutely loved the show! You and the whole cast were amazing, I was hysterically laughing one minute and tearing up the next. Also, Mike did a fantastic job playing Prince Sebastian. I hope I will be able to see the show again in the future.
Love this! You and I lean towards different genre's/styles overall but it's always interesting to be shown books that one wouldn't consider at first glance and I'm eager to read some of these. Thanks & hope you're well, Carrie!
I'm so glad you're on the Taylor Jenkins Reid train! I'd read Seven Husbands before Malibu Rising as Malibu is in the same universe but the majority of it takes place post Seven Husbands.
I’ve ordered Cinderella Is Dead on Amazon and I’m so excited to read it! My friend won’t stop going on about it 💖
two faves i've read recently are 'the invisible life of addie la rue' and 'the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle', would 100% recommend to anyone who hasnt read them!
Absolutely adding a lot of the books you've mentioned to my wishlist though! starting an english masters in september so making the most of reading what i can while i still have the chance!
Just finished daisy Jones and the six because of you! I loved it!
You are wickedly awesome, Carrie, especially your equally awesome performance as Eponine!
If you want to carry on your Neil Gaiman kick I'd HIGLY suggest reading Neverwhere. ESPECIALLY as you live in London. My goodness I think you'll love it. Essentially there's normal London and then a different London you get to via the underground. I won't spoil anymore but it's SO GOOD.
Party Shoes is mentioned in You’ve Got Mail, love that
I’m currently reading the Percy Jackson series for the first time and I’m about to start We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. I’m also in the middle of the Delirium trilogy by Lauren Oliver. All great reads so far!
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is in my top five books of all time. It’s incredible 💚
I just finished “When the Curtain Falls” and then the sample of “Into the Spotlight”. I CANT WAIT to get my hands on it and finish it. Your writing is absolutely captivating. I need to read all the books.
Also reread “The Giver” and want to reread the Baxter series by Karen Kingsbury.
REALLY recommend rereading The Giver and the other books in the quartet :)
You have such good suggestions!! I just finished Midnight Library and then Cerulean Sea - BAWLED MY EYES OUT TO BOTH ❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨🌻🌻🌻
Completely agree about This is How You Lose the Time War! I enjoyed it, but I had absolutely no idea what was going on a lot of the time. It seemed intentional so I just kind of went with it and by the end had a rough idea of the mechanisms involved in that universe, but at times it seems almost abstract in its worldbuilding and I'm still working through my thoughts about it a couple of years later.
I would genuinely be super curious to see you do a re-reading old favorites video. I think I started following your channel in 2010/2011 and remember when you did mostly book content and really liked The Night Circus, would be interested to see if it holds up for you!
“The Ocean…” is gorgeous - I read it about 12-18 months ago in the beautiful illustrated edition. I love “Neverwhere” (first thing of his i read and first thing I ever read on Kindle about 5-6 years ago - I remember the crap TV series in the 90s and he wrote the book because he wasn’t happy about how the TV series turned out) - if you have lived in London at any point it is such a joy to read. It brought back lovely memories whilst being a fab story.
My parents are from the 50s and grew up on rock n roll in the 60s and 70s- that Daisy Jones book sounds right up their ally, I'll have to recommend it to them!
I'm reading Yoko Ogawa's Memory Police, it has a similar concept with one of the books in the video. It's about an island where things are disappearing from time to time, but it's very differently described. People just forget, why those things were valuable to them and dispose of them willingly. There are people who are not able to forget, and they are taken by Memory Police.. It's a bit mysterious and a bit anti-utopian, but mostly very atmospheric and dream-like. And there was a beautiful chapter about how people watched roses disappearing, breaks your 💓
I‘m picking up three of these, thank you for the recommendations!💜
I bought Daisy Jones and the Six because I heard you and many others raving about it. I'm so excited to get stuck into it! I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen and about to start The Scarlet Letter.
If your getting into Neil Gaiman I recommend Neverwhere it’s one my favourites of his!
Yay, another book video 🥳🥳🥳 thank you for contributing to me every growing TBR list 📚. Thank you especially for explaining more of the plot of Cinderella is Dead, because normally fairy tale retellings aren’t my thing, but that sounds fantastic!
I am currently reading 'All That She Can See!'
I would also recommend 'Stardust' if you are looking for more Neil Gaiman! :)
Really amused to see Cinderella is Dead here - I read it on a library app and enjoyed it so much I brought a copy. It's a pretty impressive debut novel - I love the idea of combining fairytales, dystopian YA and Jordan Peele-style satirical horror, and the story does justice to the concept. Like many of the best fairytales, it is creative, engaging and imaginative enough for us to stick with it. I am looking forward to seeing what Kalynn Bayron does next, and I hope Cinderella Is Dead gets further exposure through adaptations...
Great video im definitely going to look at reading some of these books myself. I got the audio book to the seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle after you made the book haul video and I loved it I would definitely recommend the book it had me gripped from the first page.
I have to say, I really enjoyed listening to you talk about these books because it seems like you were more than usually open to admitting it if you didn't unreservedly love a book, which in my opinion makes for a more interesting review (by which I do not mean that piling hate on a book is good, but that it should be possible to discussing elements one did not necessarily enjoy). I'm a huge Neil Gaiman fan, and if you haven't already tried it I would really recommend my favourite, which is Neverwhere. I think you'd enjoy it both as an author and a Londoner.
Neil Gaiman reading Norse Mythology is one of my favourite Audiobooks of all time. I just finished The Black Count which is a biography of General Thomas Alexandre Dumas, father of the famous writer Alexandre Dumas, and am now re-reading The Count of Monte Cristo which was partly based on the General's experience as a Prisoner of War.
I've been stuck in a reading rut for the past few years, especially summer 2020 but I've been getting back into reading more in 2021, partially inspired by your booktube videos.
I just finished “Starve Acre” which I enjoyed very much but felt it ended a bit abruptly (oddly enough what the Book Shop Lady said!) but it is a good dark, folklore-y thriller and a quick read. If you want a TRULY beautiful, moving, deep read, “The Starless Sea” is one of my favourite books now. Don’t Google it, just read it knowing nothing anything and let it open up around you - that is what I did at Xmas 2019 and it was so, so special. It has myths and fairystories and so on and a significant fraction is based in a huge subterranean library that opens itself to you at times in which you need it. It is a loveletter to storytelling and to the fantasy genre. I spent £300 on the deluxe edition that there are only 100 copies of in the world, I loved it that much!
Carrie + Books = PERFECTION
Currently reading The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman only 46 pages in but loving it! Parallel worlds, libraries and adventure what’s more to like 😀. Thank you for creating a space to talk about books 📚 I don’t have many friends that are big readers so therefore they don’t understand the journey a book can take you on and the emotional grief when it finishes. I love your book recommendations xx
Hi Carrie!! I loved seeing what you’ve read these past months! I hope you are staying healthy and happy, I’m from Massachusetts in the US and I have been adoring seeing live theatre back in London through your channel. I just finished reading The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls today, I gave it 3 stars. Next, I’m going to read Live Your Life by Amanda Kloots which is about her husband Tony Award Nominee Nick Cordero who died last year from COVID-19
I just got the graveyard book in the mail!! By the way you described it, it reminds me of behind the curtain which is in my top 2 favorite books
I love fairytale retellings, always looking for new ones to read. ❤️
Love these book roundups! I personally really liked Mrs Death Misses Death. Salena Godden is a poet and I've read some of her stuff before, so I didn't mind the change. But I totally get it's not a style for everyone. I kept getting distracted and looking at the book Ivy on the shelf behind you because I so vividly remember reading that when I was younger, but I'd completely forgotten about it until now 😂
to go along with playing cinderella, might i suggest you read stardust by neil gaiman next? it's a beautiful fairy tale about a boy who journeys into the land of faerie to retrieve a fallen star, only to find she doesn't enjoy the idea of being brought back to his crush as a trinket. they have several perilous adventures on their way back through faerie (and of course they fall in love). there's a gorgeous version illustrated by charles vess that is available online 2nd-hand for quite cheap, and a movie adaptation that feels very different from the book but is also fun and amazing!
11:53 the book teleported onto your head :0
Hahaha that’s what excitement about a good book does!
LOVED Daisy Jones and the Six as well! Can’t wait to watch the show!
I read Evelyn Hugo first and I loved that one slightly more. And that’s saying a lot!
I can’t wait to read more by her!
What you said about "The Death of Vivek Oji" reminds me of one of my favorite things about the musical "Bonnie and Clyde"! The musical starts with their deaths, then jumps back to their childhoods. It's sobering, but really makes it hit like a tragedy for me
I love your book recommendations! I need to read more, but I'm always snowed under with uni work! My problem is I need a good book to entice me or else I just can't be bothered, I've got hundreds here unread, yet I reread the same ones all the time 😂 My summer goal before I start my Masters is to read more books!
I love The Graveyard Book 🥰 I first read it in my bookclub in high school and definitely had to buy it for myself
Carrie, you could be takling about anything, I just love looking at you... ❤️
would love to see a video about breathing tips & tricks for singers
I read the graveyard book over and over and over again when I was younger! I donated it to charity a few years ago because I ran out of room in my bookcase, but I still miss it and think about it a lot!
I always love hearing your recommendations and how much you enjoy talking about books!! I'm deffo intrigued by Cinderella is Dead! I love things with a twist! Going off the plot of 'If all the cats disappeared from the world' I think you'd really like this book I'm reading at the moment called 'They both die at the end' by Adam Silvera. It's basically set in a world where people are informed of the day they're going to die on the day but dont know how or when during that day and it follows these two boys who meet each other through an app called The last Friend App to spend their last day together! It's so so beautiful so far and I'm so invested in it! I'd highly recommend! Two other books I've read this year that i think you may enjoy (if you;ve not read them already) Are Hideous Beauty and The Outrage both by William Hussey! Both of these books are written beautifully and will both break and warm your heart in one go! Thank you so much for all these recommendations! I'mma have to go through the video again and write them down hehe! =:')
They Both Die At The End has been on my TBR for the longest time! I know I’d love it! ❤️
Omg They Both Die At The End is amazing!!
I was about to recommend They Both Die in the End! It’s great!!
@@Carrie it’s definitely worth picking up it’s so so good! Devastating but really worth a read!!
@@seren6165 Right? I love it so much!!
Im going to see Cinderella in December!
I have been reading "station eleven" from Emily St. John Mandel lately and its been since then one of my favourite books.
Love these videos. I have finished the midnight library after you talking about it on here and loved it. I have passed it onto my mum to read. I am now reading the family upstairs by Lisa Jewell and loving it so far. I have one of us is lying and one of us is next both by Karen M McManus to read next
You keep me reading, thank you for the inspiration 🙏🏻
Thanks for this video, really lovely as always! I mean this in the kindest way, but it’d be lovely if you could check how to pronounce authors names rather than saying I hope I’m pronouncing them right. It would just show a huge amount of respect for the writers and be really heartwarming to know that your large audience might also be encouraged to take the time to learn how to pronounce a name correctly as well. I mean no disrespect in saying this and hope you understand!
Love this!!! Its nice to have suggestions of new books to read! Especially since i am about to go on holiday.
my friend let me borrow cinderella is dead because she thought i would really like it and it sat in the corner of my room for months cuz i just didn't really have the time and last night i thought i would start it and ended up going to sleep at like 3am because i couldn't put it down until i finished it and then i had so much adrenaline from reading the ending ahhh it's so good!!!
YAAAASSS so pleased you loved it!!!!!
When you talked about The Dreamers I was reminded of Blindness by José Saramago which got turned into an exhibition/immersive theatre experience. There's a place where out of the blue an epidemic of blindness happens. Not a fun, feel-good experience but would recommend if you see coming to somewhere near you
Yay! Currently watching on my break at work which is a good way to spend a break! I definitely needed some new book recommendations because all I’m reading at the moment is science content for my degree ahhh! ❤️
Hope you found a few new books to add to your non-science themed TBR!
I’ve just finished the “book woman of troublesome creek” and “guest list.” Both were fantastic reads.
I love watching your TH-cam videos. You have a amazing voice and can't wait to watch more of your videos
i read the graveyard book a few months ago and i will occasionally remember it and want to reread it i loved it so much!! i dont read very often but i really need to get back into it!!
~*me furiously writing down a list of books to read*~
I take a screenshot of the book when she holds it up. Then once a week, I add them to my running TBR list (which currently contains 600+ titles). Happy reading!
i just finished cinderella is dead, it’s so so good!!!
Lovely as always Carrie! You know you’re always worried about pronouncing these authors’ names wrong? Might be worth a little TH-cam search for an interview with the authors so you can hear them say their own name or someone reputable addressing them, so that you can be confident in how you’re pronouncing them ☺️
Listing all the books here for easier re-finding :)
Sweetly by Jackson Pearce
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Party Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Lock In by Phoebe Luckhurst
Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen
If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
I'm currently reading on the other side ( love it so far) and mythos, i like to switch between styles😊. Bought so many books because of you; the midnight library, Daisy Jones and the Six and the shelf. Because of this video i'll probably buy some more; the Neill Gaiman books and if Cats dissapear from the world.
Hi Carrie, have you read So This Is Love; A Twisted Tale by Elizabeth Lim? It’s another e twist on the story of Cinderella. For being a Cinderella purest, I really enjoyed this book very much. I may pick up the Cinderella book you mentioned as well as a few others. Thanks so much for the reviews. Happy reading! 📖💖
Ugh I loved The Graveyard Book so much!
A Single Thread of Moonlight by Laura Wood is out in October I think you’ll love! It’s a Cinderella retelling. Think you’ll love anything Laura has written tbh. Have had the pleasure of meeting her too 🧡
I love all of Taylor Jenkins Reid's books! You should pick up One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab. Both have that touch of magic that you seem to enjoy and weave into your books!
Carrie: “I enjoyed it?…..I enjoyed it….” 😅 I’ve been there before whilst reading … it’s a cool feeling when you feel a story is impacting you or sitting with you differently afterwards. P. S. Neil Gaiman LOVE everything by him. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is so good!! He has some pretty amazing graphic novels too.
CARRIE! I’m going to have no money left after this!! 😂♥️
🎶 Sorry not sorry bout what I said! I just want to read some books...! 🎶
@@Carrie STOP IT!!! I’ve just seen six this afternoon! Are you a psychic?!
Have you ever read any of the Charlie Bone books? they are for a younger audience, but I think that if you pick up a book, and enjoy reading it, then it is for you as well.
I love ‘A Thousand Splendid suns’ and ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khalid Hosseini. He is brilliant, I read both for my a level English lit course and there were both crackin books 🧡
‘The Catcher in the Rye’ is also a great novel especially if you like American literature 😊
Ohh I've missed your bookish videos!
Loved this vid! Thanks for sharing what you've read 💜
Pandemic related fiction that has my heart: station eleven by Emily st. John Mandel and the pull of the stars by Emma Donoghue
I recommend The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. I read it years ago but it's stuck with me. I would describe it as gentle dystopia. It's from the point of view of a pre-teen girl and it's about what happens to society when the earth starts spinning slower and slower so days get longer and longer. I own The Dreamers but for obvious reasons I'm not in the mood for it now!
I spent a large chunk of my afternoon reading Malibu Rising in the park in the sunshine. I'm about half way through and I'm enjoying it a lot.
I would recommend Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman! It's my favourite and along the same lines as Stardust. Also a dramatic recording by the BBC which is excellent!