I am also a Bay Area bookworm and still manifesting the day I bump into you in a bookstore 🥹 also, you look ADORABLE in this video! I love the braids!!!
Me too I’m in your hood 📚🌈 my sister, my bf and I hit up recycled books pretty often. Did you see the cat ?? Also we’re crazy for a good little free library
I spent that morning with a teen granddaughter. I took her to a local independent bookstore and offered to buy her whatever book she picked out. She wanted A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. I bought an odd modern copy of a Mary Stewart book called Rose Cottage. That's all we bought, but I had just been to the same bookstore the week before and found three used copies and two new copies of books I'd been actively searching for, which was so exciting. Then we went to Mountain Rose Herbs Apothecary, a nursery (bought some eggplant plants), and a nearby coffeehouse. All within walking distance of each other. Meanwhile, you really put in some travel miles for your bookstore day!
I’m a San Jose girl! Born and raised in the Bay Area, I can’t believe you’re from around my hometown and going to all these stores in areas I’m super familiar with! So happy to follow you!! ❤️
Omg! So excited for Santa Cruz - I lived there for 4 months in 1997 when I worked at The Boardwalk - I am from South Wales in the U.K. Downtown Santa Cruz had a great atmosphere - so many great memories. - Thank you XX
I knewwww one of them was gonna be Bookshop Santa Cruz! And also I looooveee recycle. So cool to see you go to the places I also love & know that people like this are around in my community 🥰🥰📚
Your videos help me more than you can ever imagine💗 broke down 3 times today and your videos tamed each one of the freak outs lol. I start the video crying and end it laughing my ass off💌💌💌💌💌💌
@@NoelleGallagher same. There’s something healing ❤️🩹 just one of those phases in life and here you come with a ray of sunshine and a pocket full of inspiration. Bless you ♥️
I did go book shopping for independent bookstore day! I got Milk Fed by Melissa Broder and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Then my local bookstore gave me 2 free ARCs to take home! Truly the best.
for independent bookstore day i went to 2 canadian independent book shops with my mom 🥺we each got 4 books. i got daughters of the deer (which is canadian and i really wanted to get a canadian book to support my canadian authors), convenience store woman, eileen, and the girls. i've really gotten back into the habit of reading again which makes me feel so fulfilled 💜
Hi, not sure you will see this but if you want to read Ulysses I would really, really recommend reading Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners first if you haven’t already! Ulysses is definitely a very challenging read so acclimating yourself to the style first makes it a little easier. Plus a lot of the characters in the other books come up in Ulysses too so the experience is a lot more enriching. Have funnn 🤪🤩🤪🤩
I LOVE the bookshop in Santa Cruz. They have a great selection of new and USED books. Literally got this one book used in great condition with the specific rare cover I wanted and couldn't find there. Best find ever. Btw Okinawa is pronounced Oh-kee-na-wa
thank you for the pronunciation guidance!! and yes my god isn't it incredible? definitely a new go-to bookshop for me, such a wonderful collection of books
I've recommended it before, but I still strongly recommend you going to the Los Gatos library bookstore! It's incredible. There's also one near Campbell that's connected to the library but it's a whole store and new releases can be around $5.
Boswell Books in Milwaukee is a great independent bookstore! Next up on my used book buying list is Towles' Rules of Civility that belongs on my "best of"/favorites bookshelf.
I love Bookshop Santa Cruz and Recycled Books SJ! As a Bay Area bookworm I can also highly recommend the store I used to work at :) Towne Center Books in Pleasanton! if you do go there is also a soft serve place a block or two away (aka the perfect day bookshopping and ice cream)
There is a really cute bookshop near me that reminds me of the one in You got Mail. It's called Old Fox Books in Annapolis and has so much charm. So not the bay area but if you ever make a trip out to visit DC and surrounding areas I highly reccomend. 🤗
Here in Essex, England, we have place names such as Great Leighs and Leigh-on-Sea, and it is pronounced 'Lee'. An old name, possibly Celtic in origin, meaning field or meadow, but also delicate. Of course our early medieval culture was eradicated when the hated Normans paid us a visit..
Ulysses is genuinely the most challenging book I’ve ever read - I took a class where we spent the entire semester reading it, and I’m glad I had the guidance/structure because I probably would have DNFed it on my own. I highly recommend getting the annotated guide by Don Gifford if you decide to give it a go!
Aww, nostalgia for Recycle Bookstore in Campbell!! Are they still downtown by the light rail?? Ah, I keep listening and hear that they're in Alameda? Still love them!
The shop around the corner😭😭 That’s what the bookstore in you’ve got Mail is called. I love that movie. I actually just watched it for the hundredth time last night that’s so funny.
Just moved to the Bay Area last week and had to check out Leigh's! My best friend and I fell in love with this little store. Thanks for the recs. I'm definitely going to be hitting up Leigh's a ton!
I spent a very long time in this area and miss Recycle Bookstore dearly, especially the Campbell location. That store is easily the best, easiest, most lucrative place to sell books. Enjoy it!
I’m reading Ulysses right now as part of the readalong that Shakespeare & Co is doing for the 100th anniversary of its publication. I’m 1/2 way thru & don’t understand a lick of it. And I’m reading a Ulysses guide as I read the book! But I’m determined to finish just so I can say that I read Ulysses. 😁
ANOTHER BROOKLYN is a great audiobook. I'm so happy you shared this with us. I didn't do the indy bookstore crawl this year cuz I went to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books the weekend before (first one in 3 years), and I was done. I hope those two events are not planned on back to back weekends next year. I'm happy to see I'm not the only person who wants to buy everything in store #1 and forgets I have another 7 stores to hit!
Oh wow! The Santa Cruz bookstore brought back memories…it’s been years since I was there! I’ve never been to the San Jose Recycled Bookstore, so it was fun seeing that :). Love the Campbell one.
If you haven’t been, there is a really cute bookstore called The Bookworks in Pacific Grove. I love going there because there’s tons of great restaurants and an awesome running/walking path.
Buying One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was an excellent choice! You won't regret it. I read it a few times in high school and I still think about it often! Also check out the movie, equally as good as the book! Happy reading!
On IBD, I picked up Beneath the Haunting Sea by Joanne Ruth Meyer from Main Street Books and Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake & Consumed by Aja Barber from Second Flight Books, both in Lafayette, Indiana.
This video just inspired me to purchase a book online from an independent book store - lol had it in my cart - but just went and bought. LOVED this video!!!!
I didn't even realize until you mentioned it, but I visited my local used bookstore, The Write Bookshop in downtown St. Catharines, on indie bookstore day! I picked up some great editions of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, and Lord of the Flies by William Golding, all for the discounted price of $25!
LOLZ, when you were wondering what to do for lunch, I was silently screaming “Falafel Drive-In! Falafel and a banana shake!”. I was so disappointed when you went home to eat! 😂 And then Peters’ Bakery for a burnt almond cupcake or two… heaven on earth!
Went on a holiday to Bath, UK and bought nine books lol - looking forward to reading A Ghost in the Throat by Dorieann NíGríofa! It’s a semi memoir / fiction that sounds v weird but also v cool
my book buying list is wild right now. i finished girlhood by melissa febos, and have decided i need to purchase body work. i also want the nordic theory of everything, the anwsers by catherine lacey (mentioned in girlhood), and paradise falls: the true story of an environmental catastrophe (not out yet!). from your haul i think i want to check out funny you should ask
I will be heading to SF in just about two weeks and I wanted to see if you, Noelle, or anyone else has any recs for bookstores to check out? I want to check out at least 1-2 and hopefully pick up a book!
Book Lovers by Emily Henry is her best yet! Just finished it and it was SO good! Following your historical fiction reading pertaining to libraries/ bookstores, I would recommend The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman. Very warm yet deep, emotional read.
Always always love your videos so much and this was a delight as well! I'd love to know what you're listening to at the moment, especially on your car journeys! Wether it's audiobook, podcast, music, etc. Hope you're having a wonderful day!!
So curious what you will think about Fates and Furries. Read it in 2020 and did not like it! I remember it, because it is one of the few books I read that I did not like. BTW - just finished Hamnet. WOW!! Amazing. Read half of I am, I am, I am today as my Mother’s Day present to myself. 📚❤️
I'm a relatively new sub but I love your chilled style. Excited to hear what you think about Fates and Furies; it's on my TBR but man, the reviews are so low...
Recommendation: Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor. It’s a short little thing, it’s only about 70 pages but it packed a punch. At least it did for me. It’s historical fiction and I wanted to mention it because it took me by surprise how much I liked it
I’m insanely jealous of all the great independent bookstores the west coast seems to have 😭 I’m sure you have a comment already mentioning this but just in case…my middle name is Leigh and it’s pronounced the same as Lee. So that might be how that store is also pronounced 🤷🏼♀️ Great video as always. Your voice instantly relaxes me. 🥰🥰
I also got a signed edition of Time is a Mother for Independent Bookstore day! My favorite find was a FREE edition of Chandelier by Mieko Kawakami. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Speak, Okinawa
I went to Charis Books (a feminist bookstore) in Decatur GA and got Manhunt and Nettle & Bone 😊 also hard agree about hardcovers! I’m a paperback girl all the way
Noelle I’m planning a road trip to San Francisco and would love some recommendations of good bookshops or fun places to go when in that area since I know you are from around there from your firewood videos. Do you have any other good recommendations these look great
I went to Independent Bookstore day! Unfortunately we only have one where I live. I bought The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo! If you bought a book you got a free book and they were all really good books. I got Klara And The Sun as my free book!
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I am also a Bay Area bookworm and still manifesting the day I bump into you in a bookstore 🥹 also, you look ADORABLE in this video! I love the braids!!!
i hope we run into each other one day!! and thank you!! 💛
Me too I’m in your hood 📚🌈 my sister, my bf and I hit up recycled books pretty often. Did you see the cat ?? Also we’re crazy for a good little free library
Also in the Bay Area. Check out Pegasus in Berkeley, super fun employees
Same here! I’m in Mountain View and always hoping to run into Noel in the local
bookstores :) 🍓
Me too, I head over to Leigh's all the time :D
Noelle I just graduated college today idk why but I wanted to tell you that :) thanks for your videos
This was so sweet 🥹 congratulations!
CONGRATULATIONS!! ✨ SO EXCITING!!
Congratulations!
Congrats! 🎊🎉🎈🍾
AHHHH thanks everyone y'all warm my heart 💖
In the UK ‘Leigh’ is an alternative spelling of the name Lee, usually for a girl :)
In the us as well
That’s how it is here in the US, too. It’s my friend’s name :)
Yes. On the East Coast of the US, it is the same
I spent that morning with a teen granddaughter. I took her to a local independent bookstore and offered to buy her whatever book she picked out. She wanted A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. I bought an odd modern copy of a Mary Stewart book called Rose Cottage. That's all we bought, but I had just been to the same bookstore the week before and found three used copies and two new copies of books I'd been actively searching for, which was so exciting. Then we went to Mountain Rose Herbs Apothecary, a nursery (bought some eggplant plants), and a nearby coffeehouse. All within walking distance of each other. Meanwhile, you really put in some travel miles for your bookstore day!
A new video AND an excuse for me to go book shopping? That’s what my Friday needed
Since you're into historical fictions now, please please read "All The Light We Cannot See". It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read.
I adore that book!!
Yes!!! One of my all time favorites!!!!
the writing is so incredibly beautiful
I loved that book!
Yes, I read it last summer. The first paragraph hooked me!!! You’ll love it
“Time is a mother” is amazing! The audio book is read by the author and so moving!
THE BRAIDS Noelle you look so cozy in this🥰
San Jose native and I went to college in Santa Cruz. It's so cool to see you in familiar bookstores!
I’m a San Jose girl! Born and raised in the Bay Area, I can’t believe you’re from around my hometown and going to all these stores in areas I’m super familiar with! So happy to follow you!! ❤️
I have that vintage mid century hardback copy of Ulysses you saw at recycle books it’s on display in my house
Omg! So excited for Santa Cruz - I lived there for 4 months in 1997 when I worked at The Boardwalk - I am from South Wales in the U.K. Downtown Santa Cruz had a great atmosphere - so many great memories. - Thank you XX
P.S. In the U.K. ‘Leigh’ is another way of spelling the name LEE. Also pronounced Lee. X
I knewwww one of them was gonna be Bookshop Santa Cruz! And also I looooveee recycle. So cool to see you go to the places I also love & know that people like this are around in my community 🥰🥰📚
I did a college year abroad in Santa Cruz so this felt really nostalgic, I loved the bookshop and this whole area downtown, I'm glad it's thriving
Your videos help me more than you can ever imagine💗 broke down 3 times today and your videos tamed each one of the freak outs lol. I start the video crying and end it laughing my ass off💌💌💌💌💌💌
ily 🥺
@@NoelleGallagher same. There’s something healing ❤️🩹 just one of those phases in life and here you come with a ray of sunshine and a pocket full of inspiration. Bless you ♥️
I always have a blast at Bookshop Santa Cruz! Recycle Bookstore is also fun! 📚✨ great vid!
I did go book shopping for independent bookstore day! I got Milk Fed by Melissa Broder and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Then my local bookstore gave me 2 free ARCs to take home! Truly the best.
that is INCREDIBLE!
Milk fed is such a ride but so good! Have so much fun with it! 😆
for independent bookstore day i went to 2 canadian independent book shops with my mom 🥺we each got 4 books. i got daughters of the deer (which is canadian and i really wanted to get a canadian book to support my canadian authors), convenience store woman, eileen, and the girls. i've really gotten back into the habit of reading again which makes me feel so fulfilled 💜
Santa Cruz Bookstore is one of my favorites!! I'm always impressed by their nonfiction table - they always stuff I haven't heard of!
Aw I was just at bookshop Santa Cruz a couple weeks ago when I was visiting for a concert! I’m from Nevada. That bookshop was super cute! :)
Hi, not sure you will see this but if you want to read Ulysses I would really, really recommend reading Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners first if you haven’t already! Ulysses is definitely a very challenging read so acclimating yourself to the style first makes it a little easier. Plus a lot of the characters in the other books come up in Ulysses too so the experience is a lot more enriching. Have funnn 🤪🤩🤪🤩
Don’t forget Feldman’s in Menlo Park and Bell’s Books in Palo Alto! I’m heading to the bookshops you visited on my next weekend off :)
I LOVE the bookshop in Santa Cruz. They have a great selection of new and USED books. Literally got this one book used in great condition with the specific rare cover I wanted and couldn't find there. Best find ever.
Btw Okinawa is pronounced Oh-kee-na-wa
thank you for the pronunciation guidance!! and yes my god isn't it incredible? definitely a new go-to bookshop for me, such a wonderful collection of books
This video just got me motivated to get back into books!! I haven’t read anything in such a long time!
I've recommended it before, but I still strongly recommend you going to the Los Gatos library bookstore! It's incredible. There's also one near Campbell that's connected to the library but it's a whole store and new releases can be around $5.
Book Shop Santa Cruz is great but the owners treat their employees like trash, especially during Covid.
Boswell Books in Milwaukee is a great independent bookstore! Next up on my used book buying list is Towles' Rules of Civility that belongs on my "best of"/favorites bookshelf.
I’m in the Bay Area too! So many good bookstores, my favorites have to be both the recycle bookstores in SJ and Campbell 📚
I love Bookshop Santa Cruz and Recycled Books SJ! As a Bay Area bookworm I can also highly recommend the store I used to work at :) Towne Center Books in Pleasanton! if you do go there is also a soft serve place a block or two away (aka the perfect day bookshopping and ice cream)
There is a really cute bookshop near me that reminds me of the one in You got Mail. It's called Old Fox Books in Annapolis and has so much charm. So not the bay area but if you ever make a trip out to visit DC and surrounding areas I highly reccomend. 🤗
Lee's Favourite books? - Leigh is traditionally a female spelling I believe.
Well, I don’t know about traditionally female, but it’s an option for sure. I love it as a middle name.
@Jaime Leigh my middle name too!
My name is KaLeigh and it is usually pronounced Lee! Love the spelling!
Here in Essex, England, we have place names such as Great Leighs and Leigh-on-Sea, and it is pronounced 'Lee'. An old name, possibly Celtic in origin, meaning field or meadow, but also delicate. Of course our early medieval culture was eradicated when the hated Normans paid us a visit..
Ulysses is genuinely the most challenging book I’ve ever read - I took a class where we spent the entire semester reading it, and I’m glad I had the guidance/structure because I probably would have DNFed it on my own. I highly recommend getting the annotated guide by Don Gifford if you decide to give it a go!
Aww, nostalgia for Recycle Bookstore in Campbell!! Are they still downtown by the light rail?? Ah, I keep listening and hear that they're in Alameda? Still love them!
The shop around the corner😭😭
That’s what the bookstore in you’ve got Mail is called. I love that movie. I actually just watched it for the hundredth time last night that’s so funny.
Just moved to the Bay Area last week and had to check out Leigh's! My best friend and I fell in love with this little store. Thanks for the recs. I'm definitely going to be hitting up Leigh's a ton!
Omg I was at book shop Santa Cruz! It’s my favorite place!
Yes, Funny You Should Ask! I haven’t seen many people talking about it but I’m so excited for it! It’s also so pretty
I spent a very long time in this area and miss Recycle Bookstore dearly, especially the Campbell location. That store is easily the best, easiest, most lucrative place to sell books. Enjoy it!
I’m reading Ulysses right now as part of the readalong that Shakespeare & Co is doing for the 100th anniversary of its publication. I’m 1/2 way thru & don’t understand a lick of it. And I’m reading a Ulysses guide as I read the book! But I’m determined to finish just so I can say that I read Ulysses. 😁
ANOTHER BROOKLYN is a great audiobook. I'm so happy you shared this with us. I didn't do the indy bookstore crawl this year cuz I went to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books the weekend before (first one in 3 years), and I was done. I hope those two events are not planned on back to back weekends next year. I'm happy to see I'm not the only person who wants to buy everything in store #1 and forgets I have another 7 stores to hit!
Love the voice-overs!
Oh wow! The Santa Cruz bookstore brought back memories…it’s been years since I was there! I’ve never been to the San Jose Recycled Bookstore, so it was fun seeing that :). Love the Campbell one.
Love Bookshop! It's my hometown bookshop and I was there on Independent Bookstore Day too ❤️📚❤️
I loved the little bookshop voiceovers, this video was the perfect wind down after a long day of exam revision.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry is absolutely at the top of my "want to buy" list! 💕
omg hi sara! i wanna read this one so bad tooooo!
yes book lovers!!!! you'll have to let me know what you think once you pick it up!!
The Paris Library was so good! I think you’ll like it!
I also bought Funny You Should Ask on indie bookstore day. I started and finished it the same day. I loved it. It may be my new fave romcom.
I picked up Speak, Okinawa after your video and it's absolutely beautiful. You're gonna devour this, Noelle! ❣
If you haven’t been, there is a really cute bookstore called The Bookworks in Pacific Grove. I love going there because there’s tons of great restaurants and an awesome running/walking path.
Buying One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was an excellent choice! You won't regret it. I read it a few times in high school and I still think about it often! Also check out the movie, equally as good as the book! Happy reading!
Since you are really into memoirs, I highly recommend The Choice by Dr. Edith Egar.
On IBD, I picked up Beneath the Haunting Sea by Joanne Ruth Meyer from Main Street Books and Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake & Consumed by Aja Barber from Second Flight Books, both in Lafayette, Indiana.
Your content is a gift to this world.
I still have my frequent buy card for Bookshop Santa Cruz...it's like 10 years old, and I live in Portland... 😂
I have been wanting to go to Bookshop Santa Cruz for so looong. I need to go one day.
This video just inspired me to purchase a book online from an independent book store - lol had it in my cart - but just went and bought. LOVED this video!!!!
youre the sweetest girl out there. loved the vid, Noelle!!!
I didn't even realize until you mentioned it, but I visited my local used bookstore, The Write Bookshop in downtown St. Catharines, on indie bookstore day!
I picked up some great editions of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, and Lord of the Flies by William Golding, all for the discounted price of $25!
LOLZ, when you were wondering what to do for lunch, I was silently screaming “Falafel Drive-In! Falafel and a banana shake!”. I was so disappointed when you went home to eat! 😂 And then Peters’ Bakery for a burnt almond cupcake or two… heaven on earth!
Ooh also checkout book shops in downtown Mountain View
The Paris Library is beautiful! Really curious what you think of it!!
Went on a holiday to Bath, UK and bought nine books lol - looking forward to reading A Ghost in the Throat by Dorieann NíGríofa! It’s a semi memoir / fiction that sounds v weird but also v cool
I picked this up recently and intend to read it soon! the cover is stunning
i read it earlier this year and it was excellent! hope you enjoy it too
I’m about to hop on a flight from SAN to Santa Cruz! What perfect timing! Downloaded this for the plane ✈️
I really love the shirt with the heart/books I always see you wear! Is it available somewhere?!
the queen blessed us with a book shopping video and my day is now made :D
I also went out to celebrate the day and picked up 4 books!! The Atlas Six (because TikTok), Black Cake, The Night Shift and Cain's Jawbone!
Loved the Paris Library! Hope you love it too 🥰
my book buying list is wild right now. i finished girlhood by melissa febos, and have decided i need to purchase body work. i also want the nordic theory of everything, the anwsers by catherine lacey (mentioned in girlhood), and paradise falls: the true story of an environmental catastrophe (not out yet!). from your haul i think i want to check out funny you should ask
The Paris Library is really good! I really liked it a lot.
I picked up Detransition, Baby and I’ve already fallen in love with it only 100 pages in
I LOVE the Santa Cruz bookstore! I'm definitely going to have to make another trip when I'm back home in the bay!
Hi Noelle! Come to Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park then enjoy your new read with a glass of wine or coffee at Cafe Borrone next door.
I will be heading to SF in just about two weeks and I wanted to see if you, Noelle, or anyone else has any recs for bookstores to check out? I want to check out at least 1-2 and hopefully pick up a book!
One of my friends just released her first book last month! It’s SO GOOD, you should read it. Dear Yesterday by Lindsey Ray Redd ❤️
Book Lovers by Emily Henry is her best yet! Just finished it and it was SO good!
Following your historical fiction reading pertaining to libraries/ bookstores, I would recommend The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman. Very warm yet deep, emotional read.
i went HUNTING for the paris book seller yesterday but i couldn't find it!!! so excited to see what you think about some of these books!
Always always love your videos so much and this was a delight as well! I'd love to know what you're listening to at the moment, especially on your car journeys! Wether it's audiobook, podcast, music, etc. Hope you're having a wonderful day!!
You won’t be disappointed with The Paris Library, one of my 5* from last year and has lingered in my mind
I’m not usually a historical fiction person, but really enjoyed The Paris Library!
Speak, Okinawa is also on my radar too!!
we had to read a long way gone by Ishmael Beah in school but it’s so good and it’s a memoir! You should look into it!
On IBD I picked up (another) beautiful copy of Jane Eyre, City of Brass, and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Lovely video, as always! ❤ At the small bookshops, do you just ask the staff if you can film?
So curious what you will think about Fates and Furries. Read it in 2020 and did not like it! I remember it, because it is one of the few books I read that I did not like. BTW - just finished Hamnet. WOW!! Amazing. Read half of I am, I am, I am today as my Mother’s Day present to myself. 📚❤️
Omg bookshop santa cruz is my home bookstore🥰 glad you like it
I'm a relatively new sub but I love your chilled style. Excited to hear what you think about Fates and Furies; it's on my TBR but man, the reviews are so low...
Love Jacqueline Woodson! Try Brown Girl Dreaming, her memoir!
Recommendation: Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor. It’s a short little thing, it’s only about 70 pages but it packed a punch. At least it did for me. It’s historical fiction and I wanted to mention it because it took me by surprise how much I liked it
So sweet 💖, why didn't you give us a footage journey in California 🤭?
My mom just read The Paris Library and loved it!
We love the new car Noelle!!
I’m insanely jealous of all the great independent bookstores the west coast seems to have 😭
I’m sure you have a comment already mentioning this but just in case…my middle name is Leigh and it’s pronounced the same as Lee. So that might be how that store is also pronounced 🤷🏼♀️
Great video as always. Your voice instantly relaxes me. 🥰🥰
I also got a signed edition of Time is a Mother for Independent Bookstore day! My favorite find was a FREE edition of Chandelier by Mieko Kawakami. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Speak, Okinawa
I went to Charis Books (a feminist bookstore) in Decatur GA and got Manhunt and Nettle & Bone 😊 also hard agree about hardcovers! I’m a paperback girl all the way
i loved “funny you should ask” like gabe parker had me kicking my feet
Noelle I’m planning a road trip to San Francisco and would love some recommendations of good bookshops or fun places to go when in that area since I know you are from around there from your firewood videos. Do you have any other good recommendations these look great
My next purchases will likely be “Love & Gelato” and “Life of Pi” :) currently reading “Book Lovers”
I got „My dark Vanessa“ 😄 extremely excited to read it! Greetings from Germany!
I finished reading My Dark Vanessa yesterday! I LOVED it. Hope you enjoy!!
Noelle! Any recommendations for bookstores near Monterey? Heading there next month…might be a bit out of your area, but I thought you might have been?
i was at bookshop santa cruz on independent bookstore day as well! how cool:)
I went to Independent Bookstore day! Unfortunately we only have one where I live. I bought The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo! If you bought a book you got a free book and they were all really good books. I got Klara And The Sun as my free book!