I love the casual angle showing the bookshelves. Like every video has a new corner of ariels house and I’m loving the mystery of “which corner will appear in the next video?”
Oh my god someone other than me knows about “the blue castle” So exciting !!!!! The main character, Valency Sterling was so ahead of her time 💕💕 honestly she’s one of my favorite characters of all time. I’ve read it May 2020 and it’s about time I give it a reread. The audiobook is fantastic as well. Love from Saudi Arabia 💕
I just signed up for StoryGraph a few days ago and it was one of the first recommendations for me. I recognized Lucy Maud Montgomery's name but had never heard of the book...now here it is! Just requested from the library 😍
In my late teens I also had a period of looking up not so famous titles by famous authors and the Blue castle was amazing. Now, being a 30 year old, it starts to seem to me that there has always been the checklist for how we are supposed to spend our lives and then there is each person's individual moment of letting the prejudice go . That, as now even social studies say, is the true beginning of happiness, no matter how old the person is. I fully agree that this book should be talked about more.
FINALLY, someone else knows about The Blue Castle! I read it a few years ago and it's my favorite L.M. Montgomery book, topping Anne of Green Gables which I never thought possible! L.M. Montgomery's writing is so descriptive and beautiful! I hope you enjoy it Ariel!
Coming from a small country that has a language basically nobody outside of the country knows, there are so many great books published here that never get translated, and I really wish they were as I want to share my favourites with the rest of the world.
Really appreciate the fact that you took the time to research how to pronounce a last name, rather than just saying "sorry i'm probably butchering this" (as is so common in the youtube space)!
The last book (8) in the Anne series takes place during WW1, if you wanted to know the more specific time period 😊 I’ve had blue castle on my tbr FOREVER, really need to get around to it
I'm currently reading all of the Anne of Green Gables novels and enjoying them! I'm not Canadian, so I don't have the same familiarity with Anne as you have. I lived in Nova Scotia for three months during my teens and when I introduced myself as Anne, people would just say "oh like Anne of Green Gables" and I had no idea what they were talking about lol The Blue Castle sounds really good! I'd love to get my hands on it 😊
I love The Blue Castle! I love practically everything by LMM, but The Blue Castle is my favourite! 😄 It, along with Jane Eyre, have been my favourite novels since I first read them when I was 12 (which was almost 30 years ago now.) 😳
For years, I've been recommending 'The Language of Flowers' by Vanessa Diffenbaugh - AMAZING and heart-squeezing novel that breaks my heart every time I see it in a sales section or a dusty pile.
The Blue Castle read last summer it is extraordinary. Adored it. It is looking at exactly what you love, 20s finding herself just around 1905. To be that utter Montgomery nerd. She was born in 1874 and died in the 1943. And like Anne stubbornly wanted the E, she went by Maud and didn't want the e . Added so many of the others to my tbr 📚
i’ve been watching your videos for so long that your voice is so soothing and nostalgic for me, i really enjoy watching your content to make me feel better. thank you for continuing to post after all these years ❤️✨
ahh I must recommend all of lm montgomery’s other novels!! the emily of new moon series is so dear to my heart! and the story girl + the golden road are SUCH PERFECT, WONDERFUL depictions of childhood wonder. I’ve read almost all of her other books and I can never get enough of her writing, it’s just so wonderful! I hope you can get around to them someday :D
The enthusiasm for all these books made my whole day! One of the books I'm writing a paper on that not *everyone* may be familiar with since it is no longer in print is "Good Morning, Miss Dove" by Frances Gray Patton. It's extremely sentimental to me, my copy is vintage and barely holding up, but I looove studying this book! Especially because there's just not as much out there about it, and I even found a vintage Japanese movie program (it was made into a film in 1955, released in Japan in 1956). Anyways, I loved this video and added several books to my TBR! The most exciting adventures as an adult is reading classic authors everyone knows, but reading their less popular books (I love John Steinbeck, but I love reading all his other little books they did NOT make you read in school).
I desperately want more people to read Chemistry by Weike Wang. It’s this short, witty book about a woman dealing with burnout from her Chemistry PhD program, snapping and destroying property at her university, then struggling to figure out her identity outside of the work and productivity that she, her parents, her partner, and society has always defined her by. It’s full of dry humor and is one of the best books I’ve ever read (and I usually only read fantasy. My fav quote: “That about sticks and stones and bones. But my bones are very brittle. And I am lactose intolerant.” I love how her sentences aren’t complete and the humor is very dry. Can’t recommend it enough.
What is giving me life right now is the fact that I painted my nails today and I just realized they’re the same color ariels fireplace which is my favorite color!!!!
I loved Year of Wonders! I read it years ago so I didn't read it from the perspective of the current pandemic. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it :)
Yes for more Ottessa Moshfegh!! Homesick for Another World was quite good, a lot of the stories I loved though as with any collection they're not all stellar. I really hope you enjoy it
The bookshelves in the back, the recommendations,... I love everything about this video! Talking about books that are not as well known as they deserve to be: I loved March by Geraldine Brooks. So if you love Year of Wonders, give that one a shot too!
Ahhh, Ariel.....I'm a newish subscriber. Your "I just purchased a house" video ended up in my feed one day and I've been hooked. You're such a joy to watch. I'm writing a comment because this video reminds me of the voracioius reader I used to be. I, too, was that child who obsessed over my schoolastic book orders, loved the crack of a new hardcover and the candy necklace fragrance of the newly printed pages. I stopped reading in recent years. I'm not sure why. I would guess my anxiety was a contributing factor. My attention wanders to easily. Watching you wax poetic about your finds makes me long to experience those feels myself. I love a good ghost story so I'm going to order The Ghost in the House and hope it serves as the gateway read that shepards me back into the reader world long gone from my life. Great content. Thank you for making me smile (NYS, age 55).
Wow, wow ,wow!! I'm so so looking forward to finding a copy of Finding George Orwell In Burma as my dad was born in Burma and has mentioned so many beautiful places there. I read The Year Of Wonders and could not put it down once I started, you will love it! I'm also obsessed with anything Anne Of Green Gables and have been since I was a child, have to get me that graphic novel also. I've just finished two graphic novels and loved them, they are: Sheets by Brenna Thummler and The Girl Who Married A Skull by Nicole Chartrand.💕📚
Sara O'Leary was my professor last term and is genuinely one of the loveliest people I've met! I know her children's books get a lot of love but it's so nice to see her fiction be featured :-)
I was so happy to hear you mention The Blue Castle! I read it a few years ago (the rationale was the same - I love Anne of Green Gables books) and it instantly became one of my favourite books! It' perfect in every way 😍
I am really enjoying reading "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine", have not finished it yet, but I'm enjoying getting to know the main character and her past
I've read all of the stories in Homesick for Another World! It's a wild one. As with most short story collections, some stories are better than others. But all of them are kind of insane. Moshfegh has an incredible way of understanding humans. She writes them in such a grotesque and intentionally unsettling way. It's hard to say whether I liked it, because "liking" the type of stories that she writes is challenging with how unnerving they can be, but they definitely fascinated me. She paints a fantastic visual and emotional picture.
Definitely! I have been inspired by your book choices. I, too, once lived in France. When I was in Paris I was walking near Notre Dame and came across a bookstore named for Shakespeare! I love books!!! 📚📚 📖 Where The Crawdads Sing is a favourite. Animal Farm is one of my favourites. Have you read The Chrysalids? Another great read! I have many favourites!!! ❤️❤️❤️
oh I'm so glad I'm not the only one who finds comfort in reading pandemic books. I read multiple at the beginning of the year and it was massively cathartic for me.
Also I have an indie reading project where I'm specifically reading self/indie published and small authors so there's a lot of books that I like but nobody I know has read XD I highly highly recommend Remaining Aileen by Autumn Lindsey
The Blue Castle is amazing! So is L.M. Montgomery. I read her biography at the beginning of quarantine. A very long book about someone who sat in her room and wrote books. That’s a bit reductive but I loved it, and love Maud deeply. Sometimes I talk about Anne and Gilbert like old friends. Happy reading!
Literally just signed up for BOTM day before yesterday (so psyched because I got two books that I already had in my Barnes and Noble cart and saved money!) and now wishing I had waited until this video so I could have used your referral link! 😆 Also, the Anne series is set in the Edwardian era and I am now pulling out my set to reread. It’s been awhile but oh, the nostalgia! I love Anne. 😊 The Sullivan Entertainment Anne movies are my favorites. I couldn’t get into the more modern TV series.
I listened to The Ghost in the House a couple months ago and remember liking it! Cool to hear a story from the ghost's perspective. I was on a kick of ghost stories, including a bunch of Simone St. James' novels, which are set in the 1930s-40s. There was another "ghost's perspective" book called A Certain Slant of LIght, which I didn't end up finishing. Definitely adding a few of your books to my list, especially Blue Castle! :)
Oh my word, I'm so excited to hear you talk about the Blue Castle!!!!! I read that book for the first time earlier in the year and I adored it. I related to her so much! I hope you love it too 😊
Homesick for Another World is actually next on my list, I grabbed the eBook when it was super on sale a few months ago. I also have Finding George Orwell in Burma and have been meaning to get to it for a while.
that book about paris will make you miss paris more! I'm the same way but with edinburgh and I started re-reading the 44 Scotland Street books and im just cry!ing! about the fact that I'm not there!! But also, those books are great and I highly recommend them if one wants a slow paced book where there isn't really a plot, one just gets to follow different characters life. Like slow-tv but in book form!
"The Fran Lebowitz Reader" is on my wishlist and also came to my attention after watching the Netflix series, which I loved. Thanks for the reminder. The cover for "The Blue Castle" is gorgeous!
so I just finished watching the one from 2017, and you recommended books that I DREAM of discovering (and reading)!! This is so exciting aaaah 🤩 I really hope we get to see more of it, or any of your videos actually. You make everything you talk about sound so fascinating and lovely and I’d pick up literally anything you talk about! Thanks Ariel 💘
You are r the he future of what libraries scan be. Our library closed as fast as they could shut the doors last year, after six months they allowed “appointments”. No regard for the idea of those materials belonging freely to we the public (I’m in Pennsylvania, not CA). Just their attitude! These books are ideas and relationships we have, not just paper and ink! A lot of people in “libraries” turn more people off than on. I’ve worked at three local libraries for an extended time. If people like you worked at libraries more people would dive in more and more lovely authors would get their due, not just the corporate authors on automatic lists at libraries. And I’m 54, I had four kids when I was 27.
My family and other animals by Gerald Durell is a fantastic and hilarious book ! So is all creatures great and small by James Herriot. And also the phantom tollbooth by Norton Juster is really witty. I read them years ago but they still remember them as being exceptional !
You have to read the whole Anne of Green Gables series! You'll get adult Anne, and there are 7 or 8 books. When I was a teenager, the 3rd book was my favorite (Anne of the Island).
I LOVE BLUE CASTLE!!!!!!! It's a great book, my mom introduced me to it last year. I really liked "East" by Edith Pattou, it's a Beauty and the Beast/Eros & Psyche story about a girl and a polar bear. Also, "Once Upon a Marigold" about a boy falling for the princess and the powers that be trying to crush them (very cute, and the princess has powers).
What a great collection of reads! I thoroughly enjoyed this stroll through your TBR's with you. As grim as the "Year of Wonders" may seem, it is a really, really good book! Geraldine Brooks took a tough subject matter and time in history and made her story engaging and at times gripping. A couple of other plague books you could check out are "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen and Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year". "Finding George Orwell in Burma" sounds so interesting ... I definitely want to check that one out along with the ghost story (you're right, where are all of the ghost stories?!!). At present I am re-reading Charlotte Bronte's "Villette". I love it that it's even better the second time around. P.S. I've watched your videos for awhile now but have never commented ... I really LOVE your house and what you've done with it. That took guts and I'm proud of you. 😃 ❤️
Hey, glad to see that you're doing well. The best book I read recently that I haven't heard many people talk about is Nothing Gold Can Stay. It was a really interesting story collection, and I found that the setting was very similar to what I knew growing up, even though it was set about 950 kilometers from where I grew up. Finding George Orwell in Burms sounds fascinating. I had it on my TBR and this is only sweetening the deal. Also, your vision of pasta in Paris sounds completely appropriate. We all have our personal traditions when we go places. For me, we always stop at Rue Voltaire so I can hit up all the Anime/Manga/Retro Gaming stores. It's also really hard to find older manga here in Rennes, but there's a wellspring of shops in Paris.
"This is what Canada had" cracked me up. I'm going to read at least three of your selections. Great list. Love the house, too. (I'm reading Crying in H Mart.)
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Ariel, how dare you to not mention the BOOKSHELVES!! There up, they are there, they are THRIVING!
🙈🙈🙈🙈 video about it coming soon!!
@@ArielBissett can't wait!!
Yesssd
I love the casual angle showing the bookshelves. Like every video has a new corner of ariels house and I’m loving the mystery of “which corner will appear in the next video?”
Yay, Ariel bringing back "7 books i want to read that nobody cares about"! That was my favorite video of yours!
I changed the title because I didn’t want to be mean to the books hahahaha 🙈🙈🙈
OMG that’s how I found Ariel! By looking up books about Frieda Kahlo on TH-cam!
“They actually have nothing in common” made me laugh 😂 I sort of associate books that live together on the shelves. Everything in its right place 📚
Ariel on BooksUnbound: I don't read pretentious books
Also Ariel: 13:24
I CONTAIN MULTITUDES
@@ArielBissett hahahahaha
@@ArielBissett I was hoping for an opening like, "In my defence..." 😂 😂 😂
Oh my god someone other than me knows about “the blue castle” So exciting !!!!!
The main character, Valency Sterling was so ahead of her time 💕💕 honestly she’s one of my favorite characters of all time. I’ve read it May 2020 and it’s about time I give it a reread. The audiobook is fantastic as well.
Love from Saudi Arabia 💕
Well this is a great rec! Now I’m extra excited!
Oh I read it in July of 2020. A new favourite as well!
I just signed up for StoryGraph a few days ago and it was one of the first recommendations for me. I recognized Lucy Maud Montgomery's name but had never heard of the book...now here it is! Just requested from the library 😍
@@Katie_DelTaco ENJOOOY 😍😍😍
In my late teens I also had a period of looking up not so famous titles by famous authors and the Blue castle was amazing. Now, being a 30 year old, it starts to seem to me that there has always been the checklist for how we are supposed to spend our lives and then there is each person's individual moment of letting the prejudice go . That, as now even social studies say, is the true beginning of happiness, no matter how old the person is. I fully agree that this book should be talked about more.
What I'd give to have Ariel as a friend, her energy is just so fantastic haha 🖤
ME TOO I need more people in my life like her
Agreeeeeeed 😫
FINALLY, someone else knows about The Blue Castle! I read it a few years ago and it's my favorite L.M. Montgomery book, topping Anne of Green Gables which I never thought possible! L.M. Montgomery's writing is so descriptive and beautiful! I hope you enjoy it Ariel!
Coming from a small country that has a language basically nobody outside of the country knows, there are so many great books published here that never get translated, and I really wish they were as I want to share my favourites with the rest of the world.
what country?
@@leabakir5869 Norway
"it's also short, and Canadian!" me too!! haha
Really appreciate the fact that you took the time to research how to pronounce a last name, rather than just saying "sorry i'm probably butchering this" (as is so common in the youtube space)!
the books, the shelves, the taste, YOU-- IMMACULATE!!!! This corner of the house looking so good!!!!
Aw Ellias thank you 🙈 it’s so lovely to see you in my comments!
The Blue Castle is so dear to me and I've just put that anne graphic in my basket. I'm so glad people still love anne.
i'm in a literature class and your notification is just *chef's kiss*
We are always excited to hear ANY recs you have!!
So into this line: 10:44: "You don't read the backlist... that's dumb". Couldn't agree more lol
The graphic novel of Anne of green gables is how I got my 6 year old to really get into reading!
Thank you for putting all the books in the description! Every booktuber should do this :)
The lavender fireplace and baseboards are giving me life!
Or is it periwinkle? The light changes between different shots. Still giving me life.
I read Year of Wonder when I was in high school and was captivated by it.
the bookshelves are up!! ahhh!!
The last book (8) in the Anne series takes place during WW1, if you wanted to know the more specific time period 😊 I’ve had blue castle on my tbr FOREVER, really need to get around to it
THE BOOKSHELVES IN THE BACK 🤩🙌🏽🤩🙌🏽
I read Year of Wonders years and years ago, and remember liking it. How weirdly relevant it seems now, I must re read it.
Me too!
I'm currently reading all of the Anne of Green Gables novels and enjoying them! I'm not Canadian, so I don't have the same familiarity with Anne as you have. I lived in Nova Scotia for three months during my teens and when I introduced myself as Anne, people would just say "oh like Anne of Green Gables" and I had no idea what they were talking about lol
The Blue Castle sounds really good! I'd love to get my hands on it 😊
I love The Blue Castle! I love practically everything by LMM, but The Blue Castle is my favourite! 😄 It, along with Jane Eyre, have been my favourite novels since I first read them when I was 12 (which was almost 30 years ago now.) 😳
The Blue Castle is fabulous! I think you will love the main character and it’s just such a fun heartwarming story.
For years, I've been recommending 'The Language of Flowers' by Vanessa Diffenbaugh - AMAZING and heart-squeezing novel that breaks my heart every time I see it in a sales section or a dusty pile.
I looove L.M. Montgomery's works! 😍😍
Homesick for another world was good! A lot of the stories are so similar to MYORAR but It was addicting in the same kind of morbidly fascinating way
The Blue Castle read last summer it is extraordinary. Adored it. It is looking at exactly what you love, 20s finding herself just around 1905.
To be that utter Montgomery nerd. She was born in 1874 and died in the 1943. And like Anne stubbornly wanted the E, she went by Maud and didn't want the e .
Added so many of the others to my tbr 📚
I loved "The Cantoras" about wlw pre-uprising in Uruguay across their lives, I learnt stuff, I laughed, I cried
i’ve been watching your videos for so long that your voice is so soothing and nostalgic for me, i really enjoy watching your content to make me feel better. thank you for continuing to post after all these years ❤️✨
ahh I must recommend all of lm montgomery’s other novels!! the emily of new moon series is so dear to my heart! and the story girl + the golden road are SUCH PERFECT, WONDERFUL depictions of childhood wonder. I’ve read almost all of her other books and I can never get enough of her writing, it’s just so wonderful! I hope you can get around to them someday :D
unrelated but the background looks so cute and cozy, your home is turning out wonderfully!!
The enthusiasm for all these books made my whole day! One of the books I'm writing a paper on that not *everyone* may be familiar with since it is no longer in print is "Good Morning, Miss Dove" by Frances Gray Patton. It's extremely sentimental to me, my copy is vintage and barely holding up, but I looove studying this book! Especially because there's just not as much out there about it, and I even found a vintage Japanese movie program (it was made into a film in 1955, released in Japan in 1956). Anyways, I loved this video and added several books to my TBR! The most exciting adventures as an adult is reading classic authors everyone knows, but reading their less popular books (I love John Steinbeck, but I love reading all his other little books they did NOT make you read in school).
Ariel I read Station Eleven because of you last month and HOLY COW 🐄🐄🐄 that book was so amazing!!! Thank you so much for the rec💕✨📚
I desperately want more people to read Chemistry by Weike Wang. It’s this short, witty book about a woman dealing with burnout from her Chemistry PhD program, snapping and destroying property at her university, then struggling to figure out her identity outside of the work and productivity that she, her parents, her partner, and society has always defined her by. It’s full of dry humor and is one of the best books I’ve ever read (and I usually only read fantasy.
My fav quote: “That about sticks and stones and bones. But my bones are very brittle. And I am lactose intolerant.”
I love how her sentences aren’t complete and the humor is very dry. Can’t recommend it enough.
I love Geraldine Brooks! People of the Book is my favorite, but this makes me want to give Year of Wonders another read.
What is giving me life right now is the fact that I painted my nails today and I just realized they’re the same color ariels fireplace which is my favorite color!!!!
We just watched your video on blackout poetry in my AP English class ❤️❤️
I loved The Blue Castle. One of my favourite books!
I'm gonna scream, the shelves in the back. I AM WAY TO EXCITED FOR YOUR VIDEO ON THEM.
I loved Year of Wonders! I read it years ago so I didn't read it from the perspective of the current pandemic. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it :)
The Blue Castle is incredible. Beautiful.
Omg, the bookshelves look so good!
OMG YOUR SHELVEEEEEEES! 🤩🤩🤩 (the hype is real, specially for the dust jackets ✌🏼)
The Blue Castle is SO GOOD. Favorite LM book
Yes for more Ottessa Moshfegh!! Homesick for Another World was quite good, a lot of the stories I loved though as with any collection they're not all stellar. I really hope you enjoy it
The bookshelves in the back, the recommendations,... I love everything about this video!
Talking about books that are not as well known as they deserve to be: I loved March by Geraldine Brooks. So if you love Year of Wonders, give that one a shot too!
Ooooo! I could look into the backlist of an author I found while looking for backlist books, haha!
Ahhh, Ariel.....I'm a newish subscriber. Your "I just purchased a house" video ended up in my feed one day and I've been hooked. You're such a joy to watch. I'm writing a comment because this video reminds me of the voracioius reader I used to be. I, too, was that child who obsessed over my schoolastic book orders, loved the crack of a new hardcover and the candy necklace fragrance of the newly printed pages. I stopped reading in recent years. I'm not sure why. I would guess my anxiety was a contributing factor. My attention wanders to easily. Watching you wax poetic about your finds makes me long to experience those feels myself. I love a good ghost story so I'm going to order The Ghost in the House and hope it serves as the gateway read that shepards me back into the reader world long gone from my life. Great content. Thank you for making me smile (NYS, age 55).
So excited to dig into these new book recommendations. ❤️❤️❤️
Wow, wow ,wow!! I'm so so looking forward to finding a copy of Finding George Orwell In Burma as my dad was born in Burma and has mentioned so many beautiful places there. I read The Year Of Wonders and could not put it down once I started, you will love it! I'm also obsessed with anything Anne Of Green Gables and have been since I was a child, have to get me that graphic novel also. I've just finished two graphic novels and loved them, they are: Sheets by Brenna Thummler and The Girl Who Married A Skull by Nicole Chartrand.💕📚
Sara O'Leary was my professor last term and is genuinely one of the loveliest people I've met! I know her children's books get a lot of love but it's so nice to see her fiction be featured :-)
year of wonders, flashback to year 11 english, also melted the hell out of my copy's spine.
I was so happy to hear you mention The Blue Castle! I read it a few years ago (the rationale was the same - I love Anne of Green Gables books) and it instantly became one of my favourite books! It' perfect in every way 😍
I am really enjoying reading "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine", have not finished it yet, but I'm enjoying getting to know the main character and her past
Loved that book!
It's getting better the more I advance
Adore!!! that fireplace cover!!!
whenever i find myself in a reading slump, i come and watch your videos because your enthusiasm and excitement is infectious 😊
I've read all of the stories in Homesick for Another World! It's a wild one. As with most short story collections, some stories are better than others. But all of them are kind of insane. Moshfegh has an incredible way of understanding humans. She writes them in such a grotesque and intentionally unsettling way. It's hard to say whether I liked it, because "liking" the type of stories that she writes is challenging with how unnerving they can be, but they definitely fascinated me. She paints a fantastic visual and emotional picture.
Definitely! I have been inspired by your book choices. I, too, once lived in France. When I was in Paris I was walking near Notre Dame and came across a bookstore named for Shakespeare! I love books!!! 📚📚 📖 Where The Crawdads Sing is a favourite. Animal Farm is one of my favourites. Have you read The Chrysalids? Another great read! I have many favourites!!! ❤️❤️❤️
The lighting and color grading? I think? looks SO good. It’s calming and so so visually pleasing IDKKKKK
oh I'm so glad I'm not the only one who finds comfort in reading pandemic books. I read multiple at the beginning of the year and it was massively cathartic for me.
Also I have an indie reading project where I'm specifically reading self/indie published and small authors so there's a lot of books that I like but nobody I know has read XD I highly highly recommend Remaining Aileen by Autumn Lindsey
I love your "new books" videos. It always contains some really interesting and kinda random (which adds to the fun) books with exciting topics.
Year of wonders is phenomenal!
I truly love Orphic Paris. It's one of the few books that I've actually reread.
Omg! I’ve never heard of anyone reading it, let alone loving it! This is great news 👏🏼
Blue Castle is my favorite LMM book, I've reread it many times.
The Blue Castle!!!! That book is great I love to see it on this list
I LOVED Homesick for Another World. I read it early on in the pandemic and found its weirdness oddly comforting.
The Blue Castle is amazing! So is L.M. Montgomery. I read her biography at the beginning of quarantine. A very long book about someone who sat in her room and wrote books. That’s a bit reductive but I loved it, and love Maud deeply. Sometimes I talk about Anne and Gilbert like old friends. Happy reading!
Omg I’ve been in a big biography mood.. I’m looking this up!!
@@ArielBissett it’s called The Gift of Wings by Mary Henley Rubio. ☺️
I just picked up The Blue Castle on the recommendation of my cousin-in-law who says it was her favorite book as a teen!
Literally just signed up for BOTM day before yesterday (so psyched because I got two books that I already had in my Barnes and Noble cart and saved money!) and now wishing I had waited until this video so I could have used your referral link! 😆
Also, the Anne series is set in the Edwardian era and I am now pulling out my set to reread. It’s been awhile but oh, the nostalgia! I love Anne. 😊 The Sullivan Entertainment Anne movies are my favorites. I couldn’t get into the more modern TV series.
I listened to The Ghost in the House a couple months ago and remember liking it! Cool to hear a story from the ghost's perspective. I was on a kick of ghost stories, including a bunch of Simone St. James' novels, which are set in the 1930s-40s. There was another "ghost's perspective" book called A Certain Slant of LIght, which I didn't end up finishing. Definitely adding a few of your books to my list, especially Blue Castle! :)
Have read a few of these. Finding George Orwell i really liked
Oh my word, I'm so excited to hear you talk about the Blue Castle!!!!! I read that book for the first time earlier in the year and I adored it. I related to her so much! I hope you love it too 😊
Homesick for Another World is actually next on my list, I grabbed the eBook when it was super on sale a few months ago. I also have Finding George Orwell in Burma and have been meaning to get to it for a while.
Loved these recs! Have added a couple to my wish list!
that book about paris will make you miss paris more! I'm the same way but with edinburgh and I started re-reading the 44 Scotland Street books and im just cry!ing! about the fact that I'm not there!! But also, those books are great and I highly recommend them if one wants a slow paced book where there isn't really a plot, one just gets to follow different characters life. Like slow-tv but in book form!
I see those gorgeous bookshelves behind you!!! The wood looks so smooth, that carpenter binge paid off lmao
I really liked the Year of Wonders. It's quiet but I thought it was really great.
"The Fran Lebowitz Reader" is on my wishlist and also came to my attention after watching the Netflix series, which I loved. Thanks for the reminder. The cover for "The Blue Castle" is gorgeous!
so I just finished watching the one from 2017, and you recommended books that I DREAM of discovering (and reading)!! This is so exciting aaaah 🤩 I really hope we get to see more of it, or any of your videos actually. You make everything you talk about sound so fascinating and lovely and I’d pick up literally anything you talk about! Thanks Ariel 💘
You are r the he future of what libraries scan be. Our library closed as fast as they could shut the doors last year, after six months they allowed “appointments”. No regard for the idea of those materials belonging freely to we the public (I’m in Pennsylvania, not CA). Just their attitude! These books are ideas and relationships we have, not just paper and ink! A lot of people in “libraries” turn more people off than on. I’ve worked at three local libraries for an extended time. If people like you worked at libraries more people would dive in more and more lovely authors would get their due, not just the corporate authors on automatic lists at libraries. And I’m 54, I had four kids when I was 27.
loving this tbr Ariel! so quirky like you lmfaooo
Thanks, now I have some books to be excited about too!
My family and other animals by Gerald Durell is a fantastic and hilarious book ! So is all creatures great and small by James Herriot. And also the phantom tollbooth by Norton Juster is really witty. I read them years ago but they still remember them as being exceptional !
I just started watching Anne With an E, and I can’t wait to read Anne of Green Gables for the first time, and more of L.M. Montgomery’s books.
loving the shelves. From Spain, today I fell in love with La loca de la puerta de al lado, written by Aida Merini.
I now want to read EVERY book on this list! I love your book taste and the way you talk about books
The Blue Castle is my favorite novel of all time. Something about the depression of the beginning versus the mystery, scandal and love.
You have to read the whole Anne of Green Gables series! You'll get adult Anne, and there are 7 or 8 books. When I was a teenager, the 3rd book was my favorite (Anne of the Island).
I LOVE BLUE CASTLE!!!!!!! It's a great book, my mom introduced me to it last year. I really liked "East" by Edith Pattou, it's a Beauty and the Beast/Eros & Psyche story about a girl and a polar bear. Also, "Once Upon a Marigold" about a boy falling for the princess and the powers that be trying to crush them (very cute, and the princess has powers).
What a great collection of reads! I thoroughly enjoyed this stroll through your TBR's with you. As grim as the "Year of Wonders" may seem, it is a really, really good book! Geraldine Brooks took a tough subject matter and time in history and made her story engaging and at times gripping. A couple of other plague books you could check out are "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen and Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year". "Finding George Orwell in Burma" sounds so interesting ... I definitely want to check that one out along with the ghost story (you're right, where are all of the ghost stories?!!). At present I am re-reading Charlotte Bronte's "Villette". I love it that it's even better the second time around. P.S. I've watched your videos for awhile now but have never commented ... I really LOVE your house and what you've done with it. That took guts and I'm proud of you. 😃 ❤️
The blue castle is great! ❤️
Yes to Year of Wonders! I loved it so much.
Lisssssenn.... I think everyone should read “Lamb” by Christopher Moore, I both laughed & cried out loud haha
the ghost in the house sounds a lot like the sixth sense! very interesting! already added to my tbr!
For missing Paris - A Moveable Feast :) I think I'm gonna go add all these to my tbr.
Hey, glad to see that you're doing well. The best book I read recently that I haven't heard many people talk about is Nothing Gold Can Stay. It was a really interesting story collection, and I found that the setting was very similar to what I knew growing up, even though it was set about 950 kilometers from where I grew up. Finding George Orwell in Burms sounds fascinating. I had it on my TBR and this is only sweetening the deal.
Also, your vision of pasta in Paris sounds completely appropriate. We all have our personal traditions when we go places. For me, we always stop at Rue Voltaire so I can hit up all the Anime/Manga/Retro Gaming stores. It's also really hard to find older manga here in Rennes, but there's a wellspring of shops in Paris.
"This is what Canada had" cracked me up. I'm going to read at least three of your selections. Great list. Love the house, too. (I'm reading Crying in H Mart.)