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Well done on your amazing and wonderful reading month of October tbr list keep up your amazing reading 📖 prayers and blessings for you and your family love ❤️ your Aussie family friend John xx
BTW Suzanne Collins is releasing a new book about Haymitch from the Hunger Games next year, and I felt the movie of Snow was better than the book also lol! I always say that I have to read Pride and Prejudice too, but I never get around to it lol😁
I really enjoyed Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, who also wrote Recursion and the Wayward Pines trilogy (a favorite). For anyone interested Blake Crouch was a writer for the tv show Good Behavior on TNT.
also love a governess story (watched sound of music young lol) and have not had luck with new release books, but there's a plotline in the Sandition tv show that worked for me
I loved your thoughts about Dark Matter being about a life well lived. I love speculative fiction that is really just about people and questions of identity and what is important in life, but kind of dressed in a speculative mystery story, lol. Folks who liked Dark Matter should check out Adrift by Brideau - also lightly speculative but actually about people and connection, but also about amnesia and a strange mystery. It was my top read of 2023, highly recommend! Kind of Blake Crouch meets Emily St. John Mandel.
I read Emma Of 83rd Street and Elizabeth of East Hampton by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding. I thought they were really good! They are modern day Jane Austen retellings. Went in with very low expectations and was really surprised.
I read Just For The Summer last month (on your recommendation of course) and it was 5 stars. Soso good 🩷 I also reread Ghosted by JM Darhower (again), which is one of my all time favourite books. Second chance romance excellence!
Great wrap-up ❤. I completely agree with you about Jojo Moyes. What's she's saying about having a disability is so horrible and insensitive. I don't think she actually knows someone that has a disability.
I read the first three and I thought the first one was bland, the second one terrible, and the third one so bad it was good again 💀😭 I can't wait to read the fourth one as a hate read ngl
Book rec for ya: a deal with the bossy devil by kyra persi. Ungodly rich mmc, spicy banter, pining, and lots of showering of gifts, bratty/brat tamer, etc. v fun silly good time.
i think maybe you just relate to white stories more? this isn't the first time i've heard you say you didn't 100% vibe with a poc story or i could be wrong, bec you're not necessarily a fan of historical fiction either. i didn't really see the need to compare pachinko and the giver of stars because it's kind of apples and oranges
relate was probably not the best word choice on my part. but i like my multi generational historical fiction to have a little more emotion in the narrative (like Homegoing, for example)
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Well done on your amazing and wonderful reading month of October tbr list keep up your amazing reading 📖 prayers and blessings for you and your family love ❤️ your Aussie family friend John xx
Realising that October is already over is the scariest part of Halloween
Haven't watched yet, but you look so pretty in the thumbnail!
I can spoil that for you. She looks great throughout the whole video
BTW Suzanne Collins is releasing a new book about Haymitch from the Hunger Games next year, and I felt the movie of Snow was better than the book also lol! I always say that I have to read Pride and Prejudice too, but I never get around to it lol😁
I really enjoyed Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, who also wrote Recursion and the Wayward Pines trilogy (a favorite). For anyone interested Blake Crouch was a writer for the tv show Good Behavior on TNT.
Ok so I felt the same way about Phantasma and was starting to wonder if I missed something because everyone is loving it.
also love a governess story (watched sound of music young lol) and have not had luck with new release books, but there's a plotline in the Sandition tv show that worked for me
I loved your thoughts about Dark Matter being about a life well lived. I love speculative fiction that is really just about people and questions of identity and what is important in life, but kind of dressed in a speculative mystery story, lol. Folks who liked Dark Matter should check out Adrift by Brideau - also lightly speculative but actually about people and connection, but also about amnesia and a strange mystery. It was my top read of 2023, highly recommend! Kind of Blake Crouch meets Emily St. John Mandel.
On an off-topic, you're so pretty Chandler!
Best of wishes with that reading goal! 💖💖
I’ve heard such interesting things about Phantasma 😂
I read Emma Of 83rd Street and Elizabeth of East Hampton by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding. I thought they were really good! They are modern day Jane Austen retellings. Went in with very low expectations and was really surprised.
I agree with you re: Pachinko. The writing style made it hard to connect to the story. Wanted to like it more than I did.
Man I was hyped for some scary books 😔 but this is good too ig
Dark matter is an apple sjow too
I read Just For The Summer last month (on your recommendation of course) and it was 5 stars. Soso good 🩷 I also reread Ghosted by JM Darhower (again), which is one of my all time favourite books. Second chance romance excellence!
Great wrap-up ❤. I completely agree with you about Jojo Moyes. What's she's saying about having a disability is so horrible and insensitive. I don't think she actually knows someone that has a disability.
have you read the “a touch of darkness” series by scarlett st clair? i’m curious what you would think of it!!
i read the first one or attempted to and wasn’t into it 😭
I read the first three and I thought the first one was bland, the second one terrible, and the third one so bad it was good again 💀😭 I can't wait to read the fourth one as a hate read ngl
Book rec for ya: a deal with the bossy devil by kyra persi. Ungodly rich mmc, spicy banter, pining, and lots of showering of gifts, bratty/brat tamer, etc. v fun silly good time.
I really enjoy your videos. But it seems you talk so fast.
That’s one of her charms haha. Maybe u could watch at .5 speed or something??
I diddo that. One of the reasons I appreciate her is that she speaks quickly. No need to speed the video up lol, as I do to practically all booktubers
The jump cuts constantly through the video don't help
i think maybe you just relate to white stories more? this isn't the first time i've heard you say you didn't 100% vibe with a poc story or i could be wrong, bec you're not necessarily a fan of historical fiction either. i didn't really see the need to compare pachinko and the giver of stars because it's kind of apples and oranges
relate was probably not the best word choice on my part. but i like my multi generational historical fiction to have a little more emotion in the narrative (like Homegoing, for example)