My favorite winter and Christmas story is Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory. The book and also old TV program (on TH-cam) are absolutely delightful. Sook maybe my all time favorite person.
❤📚 A Place to Hang the Moon is on my tbr. I'm looking forward to it even more now. In winter, I love rereading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey and Greenglass House by Kate Milford.
My top winter read is a story poem, The Eve of St Agnes which opens with the coldest stanza in all poetry! ST Agnes' Eve---Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Please do part 2!! The videos are all so enjoyable, am currently on the hunt for Susan Branch, I know I will love them. My favourite read for a mood lift are Susan Coolidge's The what Katy did books and Maud Lovelace's Betsy and Tacy books 😊. I too love Wind in the Willows, utterly magical. Hugs🏵️.
Shoulder The Sky sounds just my type of book and yet i have never even heard of it. That snowy cover is everything though isnt it? I love a cozy winter tale!
Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice is on my 2024 TBR for next year! I finished reading A Cooper and Katherine Howe's Astor book-really good. I reading the History of the Vikings and A Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer. Liking both so far. Going to be reading London Fog a Biography by Christine Corton explains the industrial age creation of the "London fog", all its influences on Dickens and others books, influences on visitors to England at that time before environmental laws came into being, etc. I'll be reading Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart too.
Thank you! Thank you! for mentioning "Wind in the Willows." While I know I read it as a child, I know, reading it now that I missed a lot of the humor and didn't have a full appreciation for Grahame's use of language. I'm reading parts of it to my husband. I just finished the section about the field mouse carolers.
Hi from Renton, WA. 😊 I just finished “Once Upon a Wardrobe” by Patti Callahan and it was amazing. Emotional read but in a good way. Highly recommend. You are the third book lover to recommend “Winter Solstice”. On the top of the pile now.
Hi Jack! The Wind in the Willows has the best cozy scenes! I love so many of them in addition to this, especially the spring cleaning opening and the Christmas one.
Its Summer here in New Zealand. I've been sitting in the sun reading The Darling Buds of May. Oh my gosh, I just added A Place to Hang the Moon to my wishlist today. It sounds delightful.
@@GinaStanyerBooksTHANK YOU for the tip. I just looked it up and see its a series! Have you read the first 2? Im wondering if i can read the last one without reading the first 2. Thank you again! ❤
I loved High Rising and want to read more Thirkell. I’m most of the way through The Sittaford Mystery. It’s wintry setting puts me as close to winter as I care to be. I started The Wind in the Willows but got side tracked. Sounds like I need to get back to it. I am reading Little Women FINALLY. I’ve got Music in the Hills queued up for after Christmas. I think that’s the one before Shoulder the Sky (in that 3 book series). It’s also called Winter and Rough Weather if someone is looking for it. I think that’s what my Kindle version is called as well as the DSP reprint.
Shoulder the Sky is alternately titled Winter and Rough Weather. Dean Street Press published it under the latter title. Just thought I'd share in case anyone is looking for that book! I'm currently rereading Winter Solstice. It's just the best! I haven't read The Day of the Storm yet. I agree that Pilcher's shorter books aren't as good as the longer ones, but they're still cozy reads. :)
Hi Melissa! How are you? Winter Solstice really is the perfect Winter Read. It would have been at the top of my list if I hadn't talked about it so much already this season LOL. Thanks for the reminder about the alternate name of Shoulder the Sky!
You can really communicate your love for these books! I'm reading DE Stevenson in publication order, and my next 3 are Vittoria Cottage (reading this month), Music in the Hills and Shoulder the Sky (my library calls it Winter & Rough Weather). I can't wait!
Oh how fun to read DE Stevenson in order! I love that idea. Are you doing e-books or physical books? I'm curious how you're gotten your hands on them all (are you buying the Dean Street Press editions?)
I first read the Mrs Tim books and then the Miss Buncle books, and I bought these. I then went back and started with the earliest one that was at my public library (Chicago), and except for 1 or 2, they have had them all or have been able to request them on ILL. So I have been very lucky! I think my favorite so far (and I bought this one, too) is Celia's House, which I think is loosely based on Mansfield Park.
Only a couple books I’ve read recently that have a Winter setting come to mind. One is _Murder on the Orient Express_ by Agatha Christie. The other is _The Left Hand of Darkness_ by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Oh yes, Murder on the Orient Express is a goooood one! I own The Left Hand of Darkness, but haven't read it. I really want to get to it soon.... maybe this is the winter.
Yes! I'm starting a reread of The left hand of darkness. Not cozy, but very cool (pun not intended, just not a native speaker and not finding the right word)
Do you know The Beggars' Christmas by John Aurelio? It is written in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Dickens. It is set in the Middle Ages and it is about two beggars, one blind and another crippled who in Christmas night they bemoan their luck in life and suddenly an angel appears and takes them through time to shown how their lives have been and afterwards he takes them up to Palestine during the Roman domination and they witness all the events narrated in the Bible up to the crucifixion, being healed in the process. The story ends when the angel takes them back to their own time in the cathedral of their town while the choir is singing the Christmas mass. It is a wonderful and poignant story about the true message of Christmas. Hope you make a review about it someday. Take care and merry Christmas!
Gina, You should narrate audio books. Your voice is so soothing and you make the story so interesting. Love your videos!!
Awww thanks so much!
My favorite winter and Christmas story is Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory. The book and also old TV program (on TH-cam) are absolutely delightful. Sook maybe my all time favorite person.
Oooo I haven't heard of that one before. I'll have to check it out!
Heartily agree!
I second that big time. I adore the TV program, too, narrated by Truman Capote. You'll love it, Gina!
I so love that you have Miss Read in the background 💙💙💙💙💙
I just love this lady and her love for books, I would rather have her book collection than a million!
@@brendawood6712 thanks so much!
❤📚 A Place to Hang the Moon is on my tbr. I'm looking forward to it even more now.
In winter, I love rereading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey and Greenglass House by Kate Milford.
I loved Greenglass House too!
My top winter read is a story poem, The Eve of St Agnes which opens with the coldest stanza in all poetry!
ST Agnes' Eve---Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold:
Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told
His rosary, and while his frosted breath,
Like pious incense from a censer old,
Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death,
Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Definitely wintery where I am 😊😊😊 aww badger. That is a sweet scene. Love all the winter covers.
I hope that you are enjoying the snow and cold! It's (surprise) gray and drizzly here :)
Gina, you are the queen of Cozy! 💛
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Please do part 2!! The videos are all so enjoyable, am currently on the hunt for Susan Branch, I know I will love them. My favourite read for a mood lift are Susan Coolidge's The what Katy did books and Maud Lovelace's Betsy and Tacy books 😊. I too love Wind in the Willows, utterly magical. Hugs🏵️.
Thanks Punita!
Shoulder The Sky sounds just my type of book and yet i have never even heard of it. That snowy cover is everything though isnt it? I love a cozy winter tale!
Isn't that cover gorgeous!
Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice is on my 2024 TBR for next year! I finished reading A Cooper and Katherine Howe's Astor book-really good. I reading the History of the Vikings and A Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer. Liking both so far. Going to be reading London Fog a Biography by Christine Corton explains the industrial age creation of the "London fog", all its influences on Dickens and others books, influences on visitors to England at that time before environmental laws came into being, etc. I'll be reading Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart too.
Sounds like you have some great reading planned for next year!
I loooove High Rising.
Thank you! Thank you! for mentioning "Wind in the Willows." While I know I read it as a child, I know, reading it now that I missed a lot of the humor and didn't have a full appreciation for Grahame's use of language. I'm reading parts of it to my husband. I just finished the section about the field mouse carolers.
Wow, what a nice variety of books…most of which I have never heard of! How interesting!
Thanks Renee!
I love Wind in the Willows!!! I will go back and read that section ❤
It's so cozy!
Hi from Renton, WA. 😊 I just finished “Once Upon a Wardrobe” by Patti Callahan and it was amazing. Emotional read but in a good way. Highly recommend. You are the third book lover to recommend “Winter Solstice”. On the top of the pile now.
Hey neighbor! Great to “meet” you.
I purchased a collection of Angela Thirkell books on ebook, yet to read them but you've given me more interest now to read them soon.
I just found your channel and I love your personality and your content so much! ☺
Awww, thank you so much!! I am really glad you are here.
That scene in The Wind in the Willows! ❤ I have Winter Solstice to read since you talked about it last year!
Hi Jack! The Wind in the Willows has the best cozy scenes! I love so many of them in addition to this, especially the spring cleaning opening and the Christmas one.
Its Summer here in New Zealand. I've been sitting in the sun reading The Darling Buds of May.
Oh my gosh, I just added A Place to Hang the Moon to my wishlist today. It sounds delightful.
Oh I hope to visit New Zealand some day!
A Place to Hang the Moon made it on my top ten list last year. I just loved it!
I love this list. I wish shoulder the sky was on kindle. I might have to hunt a copy down. 😊
Hi! It actually is available on Kindle, under the name of Winter and Rough Weather. I don’t know why publishers change names like this!
@@GinaStanyerBooksTHANK YOU for the tip. I just looked it up and see its a series! Have you read the first 2? Im wondering if i can read the last one without reading the first 2. Thank you again! ❤
Shoulder the Sky sounds lovely!
It's really fun. Very atmoshperic!
I loved High Rising and want to read more Thirkell. I’m most of the way through The Sittaford Mystery. It’s wintry setting puts me as close to winter as I care to be. I started The Wind in the Willows but got side tracked. Sounds like I need to get back to it. I am reading Little Women FINALLY. I’ve got Music in the Hills queued up for after Christmas. I think that’s the one before Shoulder the Sky (in that 3 book series). It’s also called Winter and Rough Weather if someone is looking for it. I think that’s what my Kindle version is called as well as the DSP reprint.
I'm reading Christmas At High Rising right now and it is so good. It's hilarious.
Thanks so much Gina. Will look up Highriseing Shoulder the Sky, The Day of the Storm and Martha's Vinyard.
Thanks Amy!
@@GinaStanyerBooks I put The Day of the Storm on my TBR.
Shoulder the Sky is alternately titled Winter and Rough Weather. Dean Street Press published it under the latter title. Just thought I'd share in case anyone is looking for that book! I'm currently rereading Winter Solstice. It's just the best! I haven't read The Day of the Storm yet. I agree that Pilcher's shorter books aren't as good as the longer ones, but they're still cozy reads. :)
Hi Melissa! How are you?
Winter Solstice really is the perfect Winter Read. It would have been at the top of my list if I hadn't talked about it so much already this season LOL.
Thanks for the reminder about the alternate name of Shoulder the Sky!
You can really communicate your love for these books! I'm reading DE Stevenson in publication order, and my next 3 are Vittoria Cottage (reading this month), Music in the Hills and Shoulder the Sky (my library calls it Winter & Rough Weather). I can't wait!
Oh how fun to read DE Stevenson in order! I love that idea. Are you doing e-books or physical books? I'm curious how you're gotten your hands on them all (are you buying the Dean Street Press editions?)
I first read the Mrs Tim books and then the Miss Buncle books, and I bought these. I then went back and started with the earliest one that was at my public library (Chicago), and except for 1 or 2, they have had them all or have been able to request them on ILL. So I have been very lucky! I think my favorite so far (and I bought this one, too) is Celia's House, which I think is loosely based on Mansfield Park.
Only a couple books I’ve read recently that have a Winter setting come to mind. One is _Murder on the Orient Express_ by Agatha Christie. The other is _The Left Hand of Darkness_ by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Oh yes, Murder on the Orient Express is a goooood one!
I own The Left Hand of Darkness, but haven't read it. I really want to get to it soon.... maybe this is the winter.
Yes! I'm starting a reread of The left hand of darkness. Not cozy, but very cool (pun not intended, just not a native speaker and not finding the right word)
Do you know The Beggars' Christmas by John Aurelio? It is written in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Dickens. It is set in the Middle Ages and it is about two beggars, one blind and another crippled who in Christmas night they bemoan their luck in life and suddenly an angel appears and takes them through time to shown how their lives have been and afterwards he takes them up to Palestine during the Roman domination and they witness all the events narrated in the Bible up to the crucifixion, being healed in the process. The story ends when the angel takes them back to their own time in the cathedral of their town while the choir is singing the Christmas mass. It is a wonderful and poignant story about the true message of Christmas. Hope you make a review about it someday. Take care and merry Christmas!