TBR Clear Out Readathon Vlog #2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- #TBRClearOut
In which I vlog . . .
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Marissa, Blatantly Bookish: / @blatantlybookish
--Books Mentioned--
Death and Mr Pickwick, Stephen Jarvis: / death-and-mr-pickwick
Frog Music, Emma Donoghue: / frog-music
The Runaways, Fatima Bhutto: / the-runaways
Montmorency’s Revenge, Eleanor Updale: / 639751.montmorency_s_r...
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson: / a-god-in-ruins
The Truth About Archie and Pye, Jonathan Pinnock: / the-truth-about-archie...
Beta Life: / beta-life
Audiobook: www.audible.co...
The Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie: / 16335.the_mystery_of_t...
Audiobook: www.audible.co...
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens: / 31244.our_mutual_friend
Audiobook: www.audible.co...
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Email: katie.booksandthings@gmail.com
Your balcony looks so nice hope your enjoying the hot weather on it! Wraps are my favorite meal, The mystery of the blue train is soooo good!
It really is!
I love the calming vibe of this vlog :) The science short story collection sounds interesting - what an innovative kind of collection.
Thanks :) Betalife really was fascinating!
I am currently almost exactly halfway through North and South on your recommendation and am LOVING it. And I think it can only get better, so thank you for the wonderful rec!
I'm so glad you're liking it - it's amazing!
That cheesecake looks SCRUMPTIOUS!! Good job👍😎
Thanks :)
This is so satisfying to watch!
Thanks
I love a vlog - your baking looked so yummy. I'm sure I have a copy of Death and Mr Pickwick on my shelves - you've inspired me to dig it out
Thanks :)
Hi Katie
Love your Reading Vlog - I am going to be buying the Book Death Of Mr. Pickwick. I want to read this one. It sounds so interesting.
Happy Reading Katie ❤️🔰❤️
It was an interesting read :)
The cheesecake and cookies look delicious :D ! I love watching these type of reading vlogs it always motivates me to read more !
Thanks :)
Well this was such a fun video and I enjoyed seeing your food. LOL What? Me hungry? Just a smidgen. Congratulations on reading all those books too.
Ha sorry :P
Your Food especially the Cheesecake looked so good. I love Cheesecake. ❤️
Thanks!
Hmmmm your vlog style is so chilled, Katie... perfect with a coffee and muffin 🧁
You are on course to Utterly Smash your TBR... and so am I! On target for 10 / 40 ish, so thanks so much for creating this Readathon 😊😊
Thanks :) I'm glad the readathon was helpful!
Loved the behind the scenes bit, there :)
Thanks!
Books and Things I was the one who had requested for a behind the scenes video from you on insta few weeks ago:)
Loving the vlogs Katie! I may have said this in the first one but I'm finding reading vlogs particularly calming and comforting at the moment so this was perfect 🙂. I love your Platform 9 3/4 earrings! Sounds like you are having a fantastic reading month and I'm glad you had a nice staycation 😀. My reading has been pretty horrible this month but I have finally got back into a good pattern over the last few days so I am hoping *fingers crossed* to finish 4 books for the Clearout, not at all the number I wanted but I'm trying to tell myself that it is ok that my reading has been weird this month. 😀❤️📘❤️🎧. Hope getting back into the swing of things with work was easy and that you and Nick are doing well, stay safe🙂❤️.
Thanks Carolyn :) I hope you manage to get through a few books this month. Everything is so weird at the moment.
Your new kitchen looks really nice! My tbr clearout is going alright, have managed to read 4 books from it as well as one newer book. Just starting 2 more that I hope to finish by the end of this week.
Good luck with your last two books :)
You are doing great! I hope to get through four books from my TBR by the end of the month but I've read other things as well. :)
Thanks :)
Such a lovely video, it's wonderful to see how you're working your way through your books intentionally but enjoying the challenge - that the challenge isn't taking the joy out of it for you. Brilliant! Can't wait for the next vlog :)
Thanks :) It's definitely fun to have a relaxed challenge!
I agree a great video did you enjoy your cheesecake? It looked wonderful.
My TBR clearout is going great since the libraries are closed :p
Yep, me too . . .
I have read so much this month between your #tbrclearout and Dewey's 24 hour Readathon! Thank you so much for inspiring us all to read, read, read! ::)) P.S. Your cheesecake looks delicious! ::)) Dani
Thanks :D
1:36 the clip is glorious!!
Thanks :)
I tried to listen to the audiobook of A God In Ruins and couldn't quite get into it , I will probably try it again but I need to wait a while first. Interesting hearing your thoughts on it xx You have done really well clearing out your back log of books xx
I love her writing, but I do sometimes find that I wish one element was slightly tweaked? I'd be interested to know your thoughts if you do get to it.
I loved this vlog! You have done really well so far with your TBR clearout goals. I have managed to read quite a lot so far this month but haven't actually got to many of the books I planned to read going in. Oops!
Ha that often happens to me too!
I hope you aren’t having to go into work and are able to work from home. I’ve never read Kate Atkinson, but I have been curious. It seems like Life After Life might be a better place to start.
Thanks! I'm able to work from home, which is good. I do like Kate Atkinson - and Life After Life is definitely my favourite one.
You made me regret unhauling my copy of Death and Mr Pickwick a few years ago. In retrospect, I think I should have waited until I'd read more Dickens before approaching the book. Frog Music is an Emma Donoghue I'd been toying with picking up - I haven't read any of her work yet and so I feel completely unsure as to what should be my first book of hers to read.
(side-note: I'm rather jealous of your mixing bowl.)
Frog Music is great - I think it'd be a good place to start with her. Death and Mr Pickwick is probably best for hardcore Dickens fans - I really did love it.
such a lovely vlog!
Thanks :)
I thoroughly enjoyed this video! The food looked delicious (well done on that cheesecake!) and your apartment (flat? lol) is lovely. Your TBR progress is inspiring!
Definitely I'd always call it a flat :D
All the books you've mentioned sound so good! You've inspired me to try and power through a few of the books I've been nursing...I recently finished "A Long Fatal Love Chase" by Louisa May Alcott, which is exactly how the title describes it haha. If nothing else, it was surprisingly modern and intense, compared to her other writing. Can't wait for your next video!
Thanks :)
kate Atkinson with Life After Life, manages to intrigue and surprise her readers with her stories full of reversals of roles, thus revealing the delicate and always complex plot of sentimental relationships and human relationships in general.
I did love Life After Life.
I love watching your vlogs and you seem like such a good cook 😊I just started life after life on audiobook
Thanks! I do love cooking and baking. I hope you enjoy Life After Life!
Books and Things I’m loving it 😊🤩
...and the recipe for the cheesecake?
Ha, it's just adapted from one I got online, with different berries and a bit smaller. I think it's this one: www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/strawberry-cheesecake-4-easy-steps
I don't own a copy of The Runaways yet but it's on my list ever since I head Fatima Bhutto at the Sydney Writers Festival a year ago.
It was a great book/
So far off my backlist TBR I’ve read
Frog Music
The Good People
The Trick to Time
I’m going to continue trying to get my list of 57 books down, slowly but surely.
Books I’ve had unread for over a year include
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Home
The Stone Diaries
Larrys’ Party
Iza’s Ballad
A Spell of Winter
Frog Music was great - I hope you liked it too :)
I've read 14 so far, not any chunkers like you tho. I love your idea to clear out our book shelves!
Thanks! I'm glad I've managed to get to a few of the long books lingering on my TBR!
Really liked this vlog. I’m curious about the one element you didn’t like in both Atkinson’s books. I have similar feelings about God in Ruins, I liked it but it was not as gripping as Life Afrer Life. The cheese cake looks delicious. I see you have your recipes hand written in a notebook, are they family recipes?
Thanks! So, I collect recipes I use a lot in a notebook - some of them are recipes from my mum, or recipes I've made up myself, and some of them are written down from online recipes I've found or recipe books that my parents own that I don't :)
So, I loved Life After Life but felt the killing Hitler bit was a bit contrived. And then in A God in Ruins the last chapter saying basically that Teddy's life is all a fiction I didn't love - like, it was a great story without the need for a meta element?
Hi Katie. Would you say you need to have read the Pickwick Papers to fully enjoy/get a richer experience from Death and Mr Pickwick?
Yes, you do. I don't think you'd enjoy if really if you haven't read The Pickwick Papers. You don't need to have read any other Dickens, though.
@@katiejlumsden Okay, thank you.
Noticed the Xbox controller. What games are playing these days? Really enjoying these Vlogs.
My partner plays more Xbox that I do, but at the moment we're playing a two-player game called Unravelled together, which is great.
I would recommend the Independent game, What Remains of Edith Finch. It is a short, 3 hour game with a heavy emphasis on narrative and story telling. Plays/Reads like a really good short story. Bet you and Nick would enjoy it.
It's an unusual question, are you using the bookmark as a pacer to read fast?
Sort of - I always read with a bookmark; I have astigmatism and reading with a bookmark helps my eyes focus and me not loose track of the lines.