A Bummer DNF, May Wrap-up, June Bookish Events TBR
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Book Trek hosted by @revenantreads
June on the Range hosted by @michaelk.vaughan8617
Books Mentioned:
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym 5⭐️
Summer Half by Angela Thirkell 5⭐️
Ankle Deep by Angela Thirkell 3⭐️
Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb 4⭐️
Forest Mage by Robin Hobb (DNF)
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlen
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Booktrek is going to be a great event - looking forward to hearing about the books you'll be reading. Camp Booktube sounds great! Have a great time at Disneyland :)
Hi Fred! Thanks. It’s so much fun to read Star Trek in the summer.
I love the Pym novel, too-and really must try Thirkell. Haruf is high on my list, so I’m eager to see what you think of it.
To Say Nothing of the Dog is one of my all time favorite books! It got me hooked on Connie Willis whose book, The Road to Roswell, is also a really fun summer book. Then I branched out to Jodi Taylor’s time travel books- The Chronicles of St Mary’s which I also enjoy.
Oh I’m so glad to hear that. I’m planning to read this book on the plane this weekend on my way to Disneyland!
To Say Nothing of the Dog is my favorite book! Good luck searching for the Bishop's Birdstump!
Hahaha, thanks! I had to google bird stump - I had no idea what that even is! I can already tell this is going to be a fun book.
Hi Gina, I have the whole collection of Barbara Pym books. I loved A glass of blessings too. I’m willing to try a book with a dog no matter what the genre.😊
I just returned from Canada and have a whole bunch of new books to read in different genres. The bookstores there are amazing! Have a wonderful staycation. I’m not a camping person, but I’m with you in spirit. Aloha friend.MMM
Wow! The Robin Hobb! 😮 I need to read some Pym and Thirkell soon, it’s been awhile. I love Connie Willis! 😍
I’m excited about the Connie Willis! And a little heart broken about the Robin Hobb. 💔
Hi Gina! I’ve also got Sarah Plain and Tall on my June Calendar! Can’t remember ever reading it. I was chuckling at your review of the DNF. Long descriptions of eating peas, LOL! 😆
Omg Celeste, that book was so tedious. What a disappointment.
But Sarah Plain and Tall made up for it - it’s as delightful as I was hoping!
I love Sarah, Plain and Tall! Years ago, I actually met the author and had her autograph the book for me. ❤love that movie, too
Oh wow, how fun. I read these last night and loved them.
I'll be rereading Looking Forward this month -- I love the whole Chadwick series!
Oh glad to hear that! I’m excited about it and hope I love it too. I need a big chunky cozy family saga to sink into!
Hi Gina, I've been in a booktube drought recently but you're my third video today. My June events are June on the Range where i'll be starting a series by Rae Ann Thayne one of my two favorite contemporary romance authors. I'm also doing the Historical Fiction readathon. I'll be reading Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge. A Glass of Blessings is going on my TBR. Robin Hobb and other expansive fantasy authors aren't for me. I like myth based or historical fantasy because the worlds are narrower in scope. Plus I learn something. I read four books in May. My two faves were Half Sick of Shadows a YA Arthurian fantasy and A Mother for his Twins a Harlequin Love Inspired romance. For May of the Moderns I gave DE Stevenson another try and four stared The English Air. Her Ceillas series is on my TBR.
Hi Amy. I’ve got a copy of Gentian Hill - I totally forgot about the historical fiction readathon, maybe I’ll pick it up for that too!
I loved To Say Nothing of the Dog! It is a take on Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jacob, which I'd heard of but never read. I also had to look up the cathedral which is the centerpiece of the book. It was a fun adventure!
I loved Three Men in a Boat. It’s so much fun!
I almost bought Cold Comfort Farm the other day. ❤ I wonder how it’ll work for you.
I’ll keep you posted. It’s weird!
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I just bought A Glass of Blessings! I was looking for another Barbara Pym. I am happy to hear you loved it and will be picking it up soon. I picked up the "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series while at the beach a few weeks ago and I'm finishing up the second one now ("A Court of Mist and Fury"). They are so popular online. I do see why because they are so fast paced and interesting. Definitely not super serious reads haha. But as we all know, low brow, high brow, read what you like! I think I am going to take a break after this one and read some other books before I dive back into the series. I'm so glad summer is almost here and look forward to Camp Booktube as well.😀Hope you enjoy your week Gina!
ACOTAR is the perfect beach vacation read! I liked it but never read any more in the series. Let me know what you think of book 2.
I hope you enjoy To Say Nothing of the Dog! I need to reread it now I know more about Victorian literature. Cold Comfort Farm is great but quite difficult with the regional language, there's a lovely film adaptation too which helped me get it a bit more. That's a shame about Hobb, I do think she struggles a bit with second books, I've not read anything outside of elderlings.
Thanks Aaron!
Hi Gina 👋🏽 I love StarTrek but I've only ever watched the series and the movies. I don't even know where to jump in with the books. 😅. And your plans for Camp Booktube sound lovely 🫶🏽.
Yeah, I had no idea where to start with the books either. I just want to the used bookstore and bought a stack of cheap paperbacks. 😆
I am also planning to read To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis soon. I loved the first book in the time travel series. 👍
I just finished it and loved it. It was a little long, and dragged in a couple of spots, but regardless it was just wonderful. A definite recommend!
@@GinaStanyerBooks Thank you. That is good to hear!
Gina! 🫶🏻 i took a huge break from reading and watching youtube. I went through this weird time where i just got soo sick of winter (North Dakota living atm). Its still pretty chilly here but my garden is planted and i see the light. 😂 I am currently reading, “The Birds Our Teachers” by John Stott. Its non fiction and im loving it so far. I think next i will pick up a Rosamunde Pilcher book. I am def adding that “Looking Forward” by Marcia Willett to my tbr. You are looking so happy! I hope you enjoy your long weekend at Disney Land. I will catch up on your videos now that im back in the swing of things! Happy June! 😊
Hiyee!! I’ve been taking some breaks too. Our nice weather is starting, but I can’t plant any garden because I am in a very shady wooded area. I think I have a little seasonal affective disorder so spring in Seattle can be really tough.
@@GinaStanyerBooks i completely understand that. I hope you enjoy your time in california and soak up alllll the sunshine.
Plainsong is lovely! And google informs me that he wrote so many other books, I had no idea, but I’m thinking Haruf is now on my TBR list! Thanks for the nudge!
I’m looking forward to it, I’ve heard such good things.
Good morning Gina 🌞. It's Sunday morning here. I see the shaman's crossing series in a lot of used book stores but not the other books set in the same realm, must mean that loads of people feel the same way! I have the Fitz series but haven't gotten into it yet! Have a great week! ❤
Thanks Punita!
Interesting video Gina. Must read Barbara Pym! Sounds like my kind of author. I love Angela Thirkell. Haven’t read Ankle Deep and you haven’t sold it to me 😂😂 but I love her Barsetshire novels. It’s a shame you were disappointed in your book you DNF. I’m reading something at the moment that I’m not loving and might DNF. Enjoy the start of summer and your trip to Disney 😊
Thanks Jill! I really love Barbara Pym.
I have added 6 R. Pilcher small paperback books to my collection of her bks. I have 16,19 ? now.😊 Also added 2 Mary Stewart bks. to my collection of hers. Have you ever read " Madam, Will You Talk?" or Rose Cottage? Had an Angela Thirlkell bk. Wild Strawberries umpteen yrs ago but somehow lost it. Re-bought last week. Will be buying more of hers. I am really enjoying older authors. I haven't been reading at all this past week because my sister died this past Monday, Memorial Day. Rather fast and unexpected as she was very healthy, active . A very aggressive cancer that took her in a month from the time she found a lump in her armpit. Her treatment was very strong chemo and radiation. Her husband and I think the chemo killed her. She never even took aspirin. I can't stop crying am always on the verge of tears and can't think, so spaced out. Trying to prepare for a surgery on June 14. Other major stuff also happening and I just want to hide in bed. I am the only one left in my family now. Kathy was my older sister and her birthday is this month. That is my 2nd sister to die in May. My younger sister actually died on my birthday10 yrs. ago.
Oh my god Eileen I am so sorry about you sister. Sending lots of internet love your way.
Hi, Gina. I'm so glad you'll be participating in June on the Range too. I read Lonesome Dove at the start of the year, and it's really drawn me to reading more Westerns.
I read Skylark last year which is the sequel to Sarah Plain and Tall 😊 This year I'm going for some Louis L'Amour.
I just read the Sarah Plain and Tall and it’s just as wonderful as I was hoping. I’m going to jump into Skylark now, and then all of them (such quick reads).
Gina, I love that you have turned Camp Booktube into an event! You are going to love Plainsong! It was the best book I read in 2018ish. I definitely think it is perfect for June on the Range! 🤠
Thanks Kelly! Camp Booktube is going to be my summer!!!
Thank you so much for mentioning my channel, Gina! I hope you stuck with Cold Comfort Farm…it’s zany but I think it pays off in the end! Sounds like you have some wonderful reading ahead of you in June - enjoy! 😊
Thanks Jen. Sorry I spaced out on the name of your channel!
@@GinaStanyerBooks No worries! Happens to me all the time. 😂
❤📚❤️ I watched a video by Tristan and the Classics recently, and he highly recommended Cold Comfort Farm. I am sixty percent into the audio book. I agree it starts out well, then it lost me for a bit. At forty percent, it picked up again, hoping it continues to hold my interest. Good luck to you.
I’m going to stick with it! Keeping my fingers crossed. 🤞
That Marcia willets book cover reminds me if Bobbsey twins at the seashore!😂 I read glass if blessings and cold comfort farm. Cold comfort was definitely strange but I oddly liked it
I think I’ll end up liking cold comfort farm, I just wasn’t expecting it!
@@GinaStanyerBooks it has to be read as unreal I think lol! 2 of the men really disturbed me and the girl who cleans. Really weird
I love Star Trek, I have quite a collection of ST books both original and Next Generation, some signed. I will have to pick one. Also about Cold Comfort Farm, stick with it, think of Jane Austen's Emma when you read it, she is like her in many ways but not as snobby. I am reading Tokyo Express, the book this month from Shedunnit book club. And I am reading Pride and Prejudice for the Comfort book club, and I am reading Betty Zane for June on the Range. 📚
You’ve got a fun TBR! I always get excited when other people love Star Trek too. Thanks for the hint about reading Flora with an eye to Emma. That helps, I was thinking she’s such a brat to everyone!
@@GinaStanyerBooks Yes, I have loved ST for a long time. When I was teen and there was no cable, I watched it every week on a local channel, (I'm from Los Angeles,) and I checked it off in a ST book each episode till I saw all 39. Yes, she even mentions Austen in the book and film. Have you seen the movie? If you haven't watched it you can see the movie after, it's super! I won't spoil it for you, just keep reading.
@@BooksandRadioPlays I’m from LA originally too (well, Glendale/Montrose)! Small world:)
@@GinaStanyerBooks I know it well, I am a San Fernando Valley kid, I lived in so many areas of The Valley, I just say I am from The Valley.😄 It is a very small world. (Why do I hear the song playing in my head.) I was born in Orange County not far from Disneyland. )
@@BooksandRadioPlays I went to CSUN!!
I enjoy your recommendations of other authors that are like Rosemunde pilcher, what Marcia Willett books did you really enjoy? And have you read any Maeve Binchy books?
I think my favorite of hers was The Courtyard. I also enjoyed A Week in Winter. I one starred Second Time Around - so I really but not have liked that one but I don’t really remember it.
Hi Gina, I tried reading Cold Comfort Farm last summer and ended up DNFing it. I know most people love it, but it was just too weird for me!
Yeah, I was not expecting the strange style. I think I’ll be able to finish it though.
A movie worth watching (in place of reading the Pym or Thirkell): "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (1969).🧡
As always too many events too little time! That cow nose cover is great, I have only seen the cartoons one for that book and it makes it look more cheesy. Have you read EM Delafield? I picked up a book from that author at a charity sale recently that looks like it might be in the same publisher/line as the Pym, and is also kind of a quirky lady book it seems like.
Yes EM Delafield is good!
What one Star Trek book can I try as an intro to the fandom? I’m so curious. 👀 😅
I’m not sure, I really haven’t read enough to give any solid recs. I just picked up a stack at the used bookstore and am working my way through them LOL
Gina, I recently read a book by Marcia Willett because I heard you mention her once as similar to Rosamund Pilcher and Maeve Binchy (I love both authors)… would you please let me know which of the Marcia Willett books you did NOT enjoy? I’d really appreciate that before I order others! Thanks!
Hi, the one I didn’t like was called Second Time Around. I don’t remember what I disliked but I gave it one star on Goodreads! I liked The Courtyard and A Week in Winter.
Cold Comfort Farm is pure comedy but it’s really a parody of novels depicting harsh rural life so it’s purposely exaggerated and silly. It’s ridiculous but it’s definitely hard to understand with no context. I don’t know if that helps! Kate Beckinsale played Flora in a 1995 adaptation of the book, the cast is stellar and I really enjoy this film which you can totally watch without reading the book! ❤️❤️
Thank you! I think that context will be really helpful.
May I recommend possible remedies for the Robin Hobb books you didn't like? I just finished reading two books by Jenny L. Howe: "The Make-Up Test," and "On the Plus Side." They're stand alones. Jenny's characters are 20-somethings plus-sized women who accept their bodies and expect those around them to respect them, too. Jenny admits in each introduction to being into "fat activism." Even if you can't personally relate to the characters' situations, you may find enjoyment in both or either one of these books. The writing is TERRIFIC. In "The Make-Up Test," the main character is deep into grad school and is horrified to learn that the guy who dumped her in undergraduate school has somehow followed her. How can she avoid him when he's in most of the same classes? In "On the Plus Side," the main character wins participation in a reality TV show that showcases people of size and serves to make-over their wardrobes and parts of their lives in order to help the contestants live their best lives. Unfortunately, the realities of Reality TV can get rather cluttered and frustrating, not to mention intrusive. These are fresh plots that I found fun to read. They're labeled as "romcoms," I think. But they're much better than that.
Thanks for the recommendations Corrine. They sound right up my alley. I love romcom!
Forest Mage sounds awful, DNFing is a perfectly healthy response to such books.
P.S. gave your channel name to someone today.