You’re the best Booktuber around, Olive. You cover an interesting breadth of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and your delivery is polished and engaging. Thank you and never leave us!! Oh! I also listened to the audio version of The Hunting Party and enjoyed it!
What a fitting way to celebrate 10-years here. Your variety of recommendations is always interesting. I am adding The Capital of Dreams to my WTR (want to read) list. My January 2025 reading: * Continuing with a church group, Peter Enns’ Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming * Ian Cron’s Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale with another church group and for leading a congregation-wide discussion of this book. * A personal finishing of Gerard Straub’s The Sun & Moon Over Assisi: a personal encounter with Francis and Clare * A personal finishing of Robert McDowell’s Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions and possibly some of Billy Collin’s first collection of 180 poems by varied authors *For the public library book club, The Whispers by Ashley Audrain Happy New Year and Happy Reading, Olive!
It’s hard for me to imagine you being a bit anxious to start a channel as you are terrific. I don’t miss a video. I’ve picked up so many interesting reads from you. Glad you are still posting. And you look terrific!! Best in 2025.
You are the only Booktuber I regularly follow Olive! You ARE Booktube to me! Your channel is the perfect blend of professional and personal. You’re super engaging, authentic and insightful. I love your channel! Super grateful to 2015 you for taking the plunge!
Congratulations on 10 years on booktube! I'm relatively new to your channel since I discovered you in 2020, but I have gone back and watched some of your older videos. Its fascinating to see how much your reading taste has changed and grown over the years. You're inspiring me to read more nonfiction again and this year, I'm hoping to get to some of your fiction/nonfiction pairings namely the ones about John Singer Sargent and the ones about the 2011 Japanese Tsunami. Japan holds a special place in my heart, but I've been holding off on reading them because I'm sure my heart will break. It's funny that you read The Winter People 10 years ago because that's going to be my next audiobook. 😂
Congratulations on your 10 year anniversary Olive. Thank goodness you started your channel, who could imagine booktube without you? Without Nonfiction November? I'm off to make like Cher and Turn Back Time!! 😂
Thank you so much Jackie! I remember those days so clearly. You were always one of my favorites to watch and your support meant (and still means) the world to me ❤ We miss you around here!
Happy New Year! 🎉 Wishing you a year filled with success and growth for your channel and an enriching journey in "a book life." May your creativity thrive, your stories inspire, and your passion for books and storytelling take you to incredible new heights in 2025! Here's to making every chapter of this year truly unforgettable.
Happy New Year and Congratulations on 10 years of BookTube Olive! I love how you read books you don't see anyone else mention and shout out lesser known authors and works Your love of books and reading really shines through As for what I am starting 2025 off with I'm reading the following. A Thousand Feasts by Nigel Slater, I am Barbra,No One Tells You This by Glynnis Macnicol, All Fours by Miranda July and The Lonely Century A Call to Reconnect by Noreena Hertz , getting in strong with the non fiction..
Happy 10th anniversary! I haven’t been watching booktube as long, but I’m so glad your channel is one I found when I did first discover this great part of the internet. I loved The Likeness as well as The Hunting Party, so I hope it works for you. Likewise The Hare with Amber Eyes. Some parts are more interesting than others, but overall I enjoyed it very much. I don’t set tbr’s as a rule, so I’m not sure yet what books are going to come my way this month, but I’ll be watching your wrap ups to see how you fared with these and probably adding some of these to my wants list. Happy new year💙
Congrats on 10 years! I guess that means I’ve been following your channel for about 9 years 😅😮 I love this concept of revisiting and matching books based on your first TBR. Best of luck with all the books!! 🎉
Congratulations, Olive, on ten years!! The book list you have for this month is interesting - can't wait to hear your opinions on them. And if you are looking for a book series that captures more of the spirit of The Princess Bride, I'd recommend the Tales of Pell series Delilah S. Dawson cowrote with Kevin Hearne. The first book is Kill the Farm Boy -- a nice call back to Wesley!
Like this way of celebrating 10 years. The Capital of Dreams is enticing. January books to finish: Peter Enns’ Curveball; Gerard Straubs’s Sun & Moon Over Assisi; Robert McDowell’s Poetry as Spiritual Practice January books not started yet: Ian Cron’s Chasing Francis; Ashley Audrain’s The Whispers
Happy New Year, Olive! I'll be interested to hear what you think of The Hunting Party. That one has been on my list for a while and I have only read a short story by Foley so far.
Happy New Year! I finished The Hunting Party on New Year's Day and I thought it was great! Lots of unlikeable characters, but in an enjoyable way (for me, at least).
I just found you through another utube! (Let’s make a Mess) Finally someone who talks about all kinds of books! Looking forward to watching all your videos! 🎉 Congrats on ten years!
Olive! 10 years? That's such an accomplishment congratulations! Thank you for your reading inspos ❤ I will actually be re-reading a book called The Hollow Places by Ursula Vernon. It's a bit of a scary read and I definitely rushed it because I was alone in the dark through much of it. I need to make better pre-bed book choices. Anyway, it really stuck with me this year so I'd like to revisit it.
Congrats on the 10 years! Just based on the title alone I think Me and Earl and the Dying Girl might have that kind of tongue in cheek humour poking lovingly fun at genre that Princess Bride does. As You Wish is a fun memoir about the filming that I highly recommend!
That's a good point - perhaps it is a tongue-in-cheek title? I suppose I'll find out here soon! And I definitely plan on reading As You Wish eventually! Gonna save it for when I'm craving a rewatch of the movie.
I saw a Tana French interview where she said she thought The Searcher was a stand-alone also "but the characters weren't done with her". Interesting perspective. I really enjoyed the pub dialogue, especially in The Hunter.
For someone who has never read Edith Wharton, where would you recommend starting? So glad that you decided to join booktube because I really enjoy your channel and your recommendations😊
Oooh, good question. Hmm. Well, definitely not The Age of Innocence. That's where I feel like most people start since it's her most famous and won her the Pulitzer, but it's not very beginner friendly. I would say probably The Buccaneers (which was left unfinished at the time of Wharton's death but Marion Mainwaring finished it for her and did a good job of it, in my opinion). You'll get a sample of the trials that Wharton puts her characters through, but it's not quite as heavy as the rest of her works. I spoke about it here: th-cam.com/video/fJYG8VlWWH4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5zGO8BFVJXD-GZjO&t=15 From there, you could try The House of Mirth, which I think is her best. I spoke about that one here: th-cam.com/video/2RreDqyqui4/w-d-xo.html
I love this idea of a TBR inspired by your first TBR 😊 The movie for Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl is very good, IMO. I haven’t read the book, but I have watched the movie a few times now. The Idiot is also very good and I have wanted to pick up the next book by Batuman.
HNY - 10 years congrats!! Saw what you said about Princess Bride and it caught my eye because I just finished Sphere, for a club here on BT, and it too was one of the few where the movie was better. I did enjoy it tho and probably would have liked it more not knowing how it ended. The idea of a movie being better than the novel on which it is based always has interested me.
Edith Wharton has become one of my favorite American writers in the past two years. I haven't read Glimpses of the Moon. I wonder if you and I both see Wharton as suitable for wintery reading because of Ethan Frome. That's a lot of Wharton readers' first Wharton. However, my first Wharton was "Age of Innocence" and I still love it most, I think; but its story begins in January, which obviously evokes the season. Have you ever talked to Hannah about Edith Wharton? @HannahsBooks has a strange history with Wharton's writing. Wharton Winter aside, when I think of the books I like to read in the cold winter outside, I think "The Ice-Shirt" by Vollmann is what comes to mind more often, which was a memorable experienc. And I have a personal tradition of reading "A Christmas Carol" every year during the week of Christmas. Also, both "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann and "The Recognitions" by Gaddis come to mind each winter, but that's probably just because I first read them in the winter and they both feature memorable Christmas and winter scenes.
My first Wharton was also The Age of Innocence (it's now my opinion that it's not the best place to start with her, but alas) and I went on to read a few other of her books at all different times of year, so I'm not sure what prompted me to read her every January. It just seemed to fit, I think, since that's when I like my books to be nice and dreary, haha!
@@abookolive The reason I picked Age of Innocence first was totally random: I had always wanted to read Wharton, but Age of Innocence was my first decision to do so entirely because an introduction had been written for it by a writer I really like named Maureen Howard, who had just passed away when I picked it up, and it sounds ridiculous, but I actually picked up two mass market paperbacks of it that day because the other had an introduction written by the playwright Wendy Wasserstein and I haven't regretted that total of four dollars I spent on those two copies a few years ago, because Wharton very quickly became a favorite of mine. Nice and dreary. . . . Have you ever read Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford? I think you would like it, and she is actually more well-known for her incredible nonfiction writing, so if you haven't read her, there's a lot about her writing I think you would like.
I'm trying not to set a TBR, but I am thinking about some books. I started my reread of Touch me Not by Jose Rizal and I'm reading the third and final book in the Heartstone trilogy by Elle Katherine White, which starts out as a fantasy retelling of Pride and Prejudice. I'm also continuing with The American Senator by Anthony Trollop. I do some reading projects and one of them is reading the books I own on the Rory Gilmore reading list and I'm going to start Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, but I don't expect to be done with it by the end of the month. I'm also looking at Journey to the Center of the Earth, which we also got kids version of for my nine year old nephew for Christmas. Finally, also looking at Belchamber by Howard Sturgis, a classic I didn't know about until I saw it in my used bookstore. I guess I do have a TBR, but I'm trying to not to put pressure on my self this year. A couple years ago, I read Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson that's one of my favorites you might find interesting. I could be wrong.
Congrats for the ten years on TH-cam. Love this pairing you are doing . My Jan 2025 Reading List Rebecca by Daphne Du Mauier My man ,Jeeves by P.G.Wodehouse An excellent mystery by Ellis Peters How not to fit in by Jess Joy amd Charlotte Mia Reading in the wild by Donalyn Miller
I don't think you'll find The Hunting Party scary. It's more of a juicy, gossipy murder mystery. I would highly recommend the audio. I actually just started The Midnight Feast yesterday because I now associate Foley with New Year's. Cheers to 10 years!
Congrats on 10 years on booktube! ... I think a good read-alike for Princess Bride would be Stardust by Neil Gaiman (I also think the movie was better than the book for this too)
Thank you! Very much appreciate the suggestion, but from my experience reading his books and what I've been hearing about him lately, I'm not much of a Gaiman fan.
IDK about "The Hare with Amber Eyes" being cozy... I read this last year and it was kind of heartbreaking learning about the Rothschild family and what happened to them during the Holocaust. The story of how the netsuke were saved is very interesting, tho.
Princess bride. I love the movie so much. I tried to read the book. I couldn’t stand it. I love that movie so much. I refuse to let the book ruin it for me.
Happy Ten Year Booktube Anniversary! You’ve come a long way baby! (The slogan seemed appropriate for you). Love your videos. Your January tbr is a good mix. Good luck with the Stalin book - get your cozy emergency pack ready to help counterbalance the impact.
Thank you! It's definitely been a transformative decade for me. And a cozy emergency pack is just what the doctor ordered during these heavyweight reads I have planned for myself 😅
I know you like Liz Moore so I was wondering: have you read The God of the Woods? I have only heard great things, but would like to know your opinion. Happy New Year!
Starting my classic read (I try to do 2/year) - Don Quixote. My 1st non fiction will be The Woman They Could Not Silence and my first fiction is The God of the Woods as my hold request finally came in.
You’re the best Booktuber around, Olive. You cover an interesting breadth of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and your delivery is polished and engaging. Thank you and never leave us!!
Oh! I also listened to the audio version of The Hunting Party and enjoyed it!
You made me smile from ear to ear as I read this - thank you so much! ❤ I don't deserve you guys, I swear.
What a fitting way to celebrate 10-years here. Your variety of recommendations is always interesting. I am adding The Capital of Dreams to my WTR (want to read) list.
My January 2025 reading:
* Continuing with a church group, Peter Enns’ Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming
* Ian Cron’s Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale with another church group and for leading a congregation-wide discussion of this book.
* A personal finishing of Gerard Straub’s The Sun & Moon Over Assisi: a personal encounter with Francis and Clare
* A personal finishing of Robert McDowell’s Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions and possibly some of Billy Collin’s first collection of 180 poems by varied authors
*For the public library book club, The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
Happy New Year and Happy Reading, Olive!
Happy New Year, and Happy 10 Years on Booktube! ❤
Thank you so much Elsie! Hope you're doing well - miss you around here!
It’s hard for me to imagine you being a bit anxious to start a channel as you are terrific. I don’t miss a video. I’ve picked up so many interesting reads from you. Glad you are still posting. And you look terrific!! Best in 2025.
You are the only Booktuber I regularly follow Olive! You ARE Booktube to me! Your channel is the perfect blend of professional and personal. You’re super engaging, authentic and insightful. I love your channel! Super grateful to 2015 you for taking the plunge!
You are so kind! This means the world to me, thank you ❤
Happy new year and congratulations on 10 years! 🎊🥳🎉
Thank you kindly!
OMG I love your sweaters and matching makeup. I love your channel and congrats on [almost] 10 years on BookTube!
Thanks 😊💙
Happy New Year Olive. Congratulations on 10 years on Booktube.❤
Congratulations on 10 years on booktube! I'm relatively new to your channel since I discovered you in 2020, but I have gone back and watched some of your older videos. Its fascinating to see how much your reading taste has changed and grown over the years. You're inspiring me to read more nonfiction again and this year, I'm hoping to get to some of your fiction/nonfiction pairings namely the ones about John Singer Sargent and the ones about the 2011 Japanese Tsunami. Japan holds a special place in my heart, but I've been holding off on reading them because I'm sure my heart will break. It's funny that you read The Winter People 10 years ago because that's going to be my next audiobook. 😂
Congratulations on your 10 year anniversary Olive. Thank goodness you started your channel, who could imagine booktube without you? Without Nonfiction November?
I'm off to make like Cher and Turn Back Time!! 😂
Definitely going to have Cher stuck in my head now 🤣🤣🤣
Happy 10 years on Booktube, Olive! I’m glad to say I’ve been here since the beginning! 💙
Thank you so much Jackie! I remember those days so clearly. You were always one of my favorites to watch and your support meant (and still means) the world to me ❤ We miss you around here!
Happy New Year! 🎉
Wishing you a year filled with success and growth for your channel and an enriching journey in "a book life." May your creativity thrive, your stories inspire, and your passion for books and storytelling take you to incredible new heights in 2025! Here's to making every chapter of this year truly unforgettable.
Happy New Year and Congratulations on 10 years of BookTube Olive! I love how you read books you don't see anyone else mention and shout out lesser known authors and works Your love of books and reading really shines through As for what I am starting 2025 off with I'm reading the following. A Thousand Feasts by Nigel Slater, I am Barbra,No One Tells You This by Glynnis Macnicol, All Fours by Miranda July and The Lonely Century A Call to Reconnect by Noreena Hertz , getting in strong with the non fiction..
Thank you so much! Happy reading 📚❤
Happy 10th anniversary! I haven’t been watching booktube as long, but I’m so glad your channel is one I found when I did first discover this great part of the internet. I loved The Likeness as well as The Hunting Party, so I hope it works for you. Likewise The Hare with Amber Eyes. Some parts are more interesting than others, but overall I enjoyed it very much. I don’t set tbr’s as a rule, so I’m not sure yet what books are going to come my way this month, but I’ll be watching your wrap ups to see how you fared with these and probably adding some of these to my wants list. Happy new year💙
Congrats on 10 years! I guess that means I’ve been following your channel for about 9 years 😅😮
I love this concept of revisiting and matching books based on your first TBR. Best of luck with all the books!! 🎉
Thanks for sticking with me this long! What a journey you've witnessed 🤣
Happy new year Olive
Congratulations, Olive, on ten years!! The book list you have for this month is interesting - can't wait to hear your opinions on them. And if you are looking for a book series that captures more of the spirit of The Princess Bride, I'd recommend the Tales of Pell series Delilah S. Dawson cowrote with Kevin Hearne. The first book is Kill the Farm Boy -- a nice call back to Wesley!
Congrats on 10 years
Like this way of celebrating 10 years. The Capital of Dreams is enticing.
January books to finish:
Peter Enns’ Curveball;
Gerard Straubs’s Sun & Moon Over Assisi; Robert McDowell’s Poetry as Spiritual Practice
January books not started yet:
Ian Cron’s Chasing Francis; Ashley Audrain’s The Whispers
Love a good ol' fashioned monthly TBR! Hope you enjoy the misery and the coziness!
Misery and coziness definitely sums up my January reading vibes every year 🤣🤣🤣
Happy New Year, Olive! I'll be interested to hear what you think of The Hunting Party. That one has been on my list for a while and I have only read a short story by Foley so far.
Happy New Year! I finished The Hunting Party on New Year's Day and I thought it was great! Lots of unlikeable characters, but in an enjoyable way (for me, at least).
I just found you through another utube! (Let’s make a Mess) Finally someone who talks about all kinds of books! Looking forward to watching all your videos! 🎉 Congrats on ten years!
Welcome to the channel! Glad to have you. 😊
Olive! 10 years? That's such an accomplishment congratulations! Thank you for your reading inspos ❤ I will actually be re-reading a book called The Hollow Places by Ursula Vernon. It's a bit of a scary read and I definitely rushed it because I was alone in the dark through much of it. I need to make better pre-bed book choices. Anyway, it really stuck with me this year so I'd like to revisit it.
Congratulations on 10 years on Booktube! Happy reading
Thanks! It's flown by, haha!
❤📚🎉 Happy 2025 and ten year booktube anniversary.
Such a brilliant idea. Happy reading!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you like the idea! 😊
@@abookolive 🤗👍
Happy New Year!! 10 years? Amazing! Congratulations!!
Thank you so much! It's a long time, I know 😅
10yrs! Love your videos
Congrats on the 10 years! Just based on the title alone I think Me and Earl and the Dying Girl might have that kind of tongue in cheek humour poking lovingly fun at genre that Princess Bride does. As You Wish is a fun memoir about the filming that I highly recommend!
That's a good point - perhaps it is a tongue-in-cheek title? I suppose I'll find out here soon! And I definitely plan on reading As You Wish eventually! Gonna save it for when I'm craving a rewatch of the movie.
I saw a Tana French interview where she said she thought The Searcher was a stand-alone also "but the characters weren't done with her". Interesting perspective. I really enjoyed the pub dialogue, especially in The Hunter.
10 years is amazing!!! 🎉 I started Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney today. I too needed a dark, moody book to kick off January.
Olive, I have never related to you more than when you said you lock in that seasonal depression 😂
For someone who has never read Edith Wharton, where would you recommend starting? So glad that you decided to join booktube because I really enjoy your channel and your recommendations😊
Oooh, good question. Hmm. Well, definitely not The Age of Innocence. That's where I feel like most people start since it's her most famous and won her the Pulitzer, but it's not very beginner friendly.
I would say probably The Buccaneers (which was left unfinished at the time of Wharton's death but Marion Mainwaring finished it for her and did a good job of it, in my opinion). You'll get a sample of the trials that Wharton puts her characters through, but it's not quite as heavy as the rest of her works. I spoke about it here: th-cam.com/video/fJYG8VlWWH4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5zGO8BFVJXD-GZjO&t=15
From there, you could try The House of Mirth, which I think is her best. I spoke about that one here: th-cam.com/video/2RreDqyqui4/w-d-xo.html
I love this idea of a TBR inspired by your first TBR 😊 The movie for Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl is very good, IMO. I haven’t read the book, but I have watched the movie a few times now. The Idiot is also very good and I have wanted to pick up the next book by Batuman.
Love Tana French... loved the Hunter. If you like the hunting party try the Outside by Ragner Jonasson. Thank you for all your reviews!
Congratulations on ten years!
I started the year with I Might Be in Trouble by Daniel Alderman. I'm a 100 pages in and it's been really good so far.
Thank you so much! Happy reading 📚❤
HNY - 10 years congrats!! Saw what you said about Princess Bride and it caught my eye because I just finished Sphere, for a club here on BT, and it too was one of the few where the movie was better. I did enjoy it tho and probably would have liked it more not knowing how it ended. The idea of a movie being better than the novel on which it is based always has interested me.
Edith Wharton has become one of my favorite American writers in the past two years. I haven't read Glimpses of the Moon. I wonder if you and I both see Wharton as suitable for wintery reading because of Ethan Frome. That's a lot of Wharton readers' first Wharton. However, my first Wharton was "Age of Innocence" and I still love it most, I think; but its story begins in January, which obviously evokes the season. Have you ever talked to Hannah about Edith Wharton? @HannahsBooks has a strange history with Wharton's writing.
Wharton Winter aside, when I think of the books I like to read in the cold winter outside, I think "The Ice-Shirt" by Vollmann is what comes to mind more often, which was a memorable experienc. And I have a personal tradition of reading "A Christmas Carol" every year during the week of Christmas. Also, both "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann and "The Recognitions" by Gaddis come to mind each winter, but that's probably just because I first read them in the winter and they both feature memorable Christmas and winter scenes.
My first Wharton was also The Age of Innocence (it's now my opinion that it's not the best place to start with her, but alas) and I went on to read a few other of her books at all different times of year, so I'm not sure what prompted me to read her every January. It just seemed to fit, I think, since that's when I like my books to be nice and dreary, haha!
@@abookolive The reason I picked Age of Innocence first was totally random: I had always wanted to read Wharton, but Age of Innocence was my first decision to do so entirely because an introduction had been written for it by a writer I really like named Maureen Howard, who had just passed away when I picked it up, and it sounds ridiculous, but I actually picked up two mass market paperbacks of it that day because the other had an introduction written by the playwright Wendy Wasserstein and I haven't regretted that total of four dollars I spent on those two copies a few years ago, because Wharton very quickly became a favorite of mine.
Nice and dreary. . . . Have you ever read Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford? I think you would like it, and she is actually more well-known for her incredible nonfiction writing, so if you haven't read her, there's a lot about her writing I think you would like.
I'm trying not to set a TBR, but I am thinking about some books. I started my reread of Touch me Not by Jose Rizal and I'm reading the third and final book in the Heartstone trilogy by Elle Katherine White, which starts out as a fantasy retelling of Pride and Prejudice. I'm also continuing with The American Senator by Anthony Trollop. I do some reading projects and one of them is reading the books I own on the Rory Gilmore reading list and I'm going to start Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, but I don't expect to be done with it by the end of the month. I'm also looking at Journey to the Center of the Earth, which we also got kids version of for my nine year old nephew for Christmas. Finally, also looking at Belchamber by Howard Sturgis, a classic I didn't know about until I saw it in my used bookstore. I guess I do have a TBR, but I'm trying to not to put pressure on my self this year. A couple years ago, I read Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson that's one of my favorites you might find interesting. I could be wrong.
Congrats for the ten years on TH-cam.
Love this pairing you are doing .
My Jan 2025 Reading List
Rebecca by Daphne Du Mauier
My man ,Jeeves by P.G.Wodehouse
An excellent mystery by Ellis Peters
How not to fit in by Jess Joy amd Charlotte Mia
Reading in the wild by Donalyn Miller
Congratulations Olive!
I'm reading Wicked, which I should have done years ago. Congrats on 10 years.
Starting off 2025 with “The Joy of Movement “ audio book- thanks to you for recommending and “We took to the Woods” a memoir written in 1942.
Horse by brooks
We begin at the end by Whitaker
All the colors of the dark by Whitaker
Great video❤
Im reading ishi😢
love the sweater!! looks so good on you
Thank you! Chilly cool-toned colors, but it keeps me warm, haha!
I don't think you'll find The Hunting Party scary. It's more of a juicy, gossipy murder mystery. I would highly recommend the audio. I actually just started The Midnight Feast yesterday because I now associate Foley with New Year's. Cheers to 10 years!
Congrats on 10 years on booktube! ... I think a good read-alike for Princess Bride would be Stardust by Neil Gaiman (I also think the movie was better than the book for this too)
Thank you! Very much appreciate the suggestion, but from my experience reading his books and what I've been hearing about him lately, I'm not much of a Gaiman fan.
I'm in need to read Joe Pickett series by C. J. Box.
IDK about "The Hare with Amber Eyes" being cozy... I read this last year and it was kind of heartbreaking learning about the Rothschild family and what happened to them during the Holocaust. The story of how the netsuke were saved is very interesting, tho.
Butter a novel of food and murder by Asako Yuzuki and Blue sisters by Coco Mellors are at the top of my list this month
I will be starting the year with Jamaica Inn by Daphne DuMaurier
I keep meaning to read more du Maurier!
Princess bride. I love the movie so much. I tried to read the book. I couldn’t stand it. I love that movie so much. I refuse to let the book ruin it for me.
The movie really is superior to the book in every way.
Happy Ten Year Booktube Anniversary! You’ve come a long way baby! (The slogan seemed appropriate for you). Love your videos. Your January tbr is a good mix. Good luck with the Stalin book - get your cozy emergency pack ready to help counterbalance the impact.
Thank you! It's definitely been a transformative decade for me. And a cozy emergency pack is just what the doctor ordered during these heavyweight reads I have planned for myself 😅
I know you like Liz Moore so I was wondering: have you read The God of the Woods? I have only heard great things, but would like to know your opinion. Happy New Year!
I am in the middle of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt and already recommended it to many friends.
Starting my classic read (I try to do 2/year) - Don Quixote. My 1st non fiction will be The Woman They Could Not Silence and my first fiction is The God of the Woods as my hold request finally came in.