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Did u hv a video that y tlkd about Jeeves w wood house?

Happy New Year, Celeste! I love the illustrations in your O Pioneers! I have Frozen River on hold but still have 16 weeks left to wait for it!😅 I’ve read Brother’s keeper, I look forward to your thoughts on it.❤

I think your plan is good! After all why read at all if not for enjoyment? So read and enjoy, don’t zip through and just count books. Happy new year and happy reading.😊😊😊

Can you direct me to your miss marple video?

This was such an inspiring video!! I love your reading notebook, so I'm going to do the same. Like yours, I'll include my Nancy Drew (and my Trixie Belden) lists, my Newbery medal/honors list, and I'm going to try the Book Voyage Tracker and the Children's Reading Across America Challenge. I'm so excited to finally organize my reading all in one place! I've read Miracles On Maple Hill and I adored it's winter setting and the portrayal of old-fashioned country life. I had never heard of Brother's Keeper, but it sounds very interesting so I'm picking it up from my library. I'm looking forward to 2025's reading adventures! 💜

I am really enjoying your channel! I can definitely recommend T. Kingfisher; she is a great writer. My favorite so far has been "What Moves The Dead," a retelling of "Fall of the House of Usher." Also love your attention to the Newberry Award winners; that's an ongoing challenge of mine as well. I haven't read "Oh, Pioneers!" but I did love "My Antonia." I am also taking notes on your January choices because they all look great. 😊 Stay warm!

Happy New Year Celeste. Have you ever read The Midwife's Tale The Life of Martha Ballard based on her Diary 1785 - 1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich? I think Ballard lived in Maine. I read it years ago but it has stayed with me for the amazing account of all the births and deaths she attended. By the way, I enjoyed very much watching your "method to your madness" with your new plan to conquer your reading this year. I'm in a similar boat.

I'd like to recommend a book I think you'll love. If you haven't read The Lighted Heart by Elizabeth Yates, the Newbery author, you should look for it. It's the memoir of when her husband was going blind and they moved to an old house on a farm in New England. Full of nature, good neighbors and real life, I hugged this book after I finished it. Several friends have now read it and loved it just as much and are passing it to their friends, too. I do something I call My Personal Bookclub every year, where I set general goals for myself to help me stay on track. This year I have Vintage mysteries and books in translation as a couple goals this year. Happy reading!

The last selection with all the children's books made my heart swoon!! I ended up buying two of them. Granite Harbor and Brothers Keepers! Looking forward to reading them. Thank you for sharing. Happy New Years

I love that you are focusing on reading less but with more intent! That is the way I read and I find I enjoy being in the world of a book longer and really absorbing and living in it; (and I just read slower than most people anyway!). Trying to push myself to fly through a book removes me from the experience and I then just feel apathetic - like I have missed an opportunity to make a friend that was trying to get to know me. I give myself one classic per month, one out-of-print vintage, one contemporary new release (on audio) and then one wild card mood read (and then of course there are the books my son and I read for read-aloud). It's the best I can do! You can start a new "slow reading" movement Celeste!!!🥰 Have a lovely day!

You have inspired me to put together a binder for myself! I did go through and make a list of all the books that I would love to read and that have been in my queue for too long (the ones that get pushed aside for mood reading). Those I wrote down onto strips of paper and folded them into origami stars. That's something I've done in the past and it worked quite well. I have the same goal this year with quality over quantity.

I just finished reading The Frozen River and loved it

Good Morning! Watched this with my first cup of coffee this morning! Wow! Great plans! So many interesting books! I look forward to seeing your choices every month. 💕

I bought the 'Frozen River' after seeing Miriam and Jenna's channels, both of them liked it. So I'll be reading it this winter, let's compare notes! I'm glad it's not just me accumulating books in all formats. I was tempted by the audio sale and bought 2 for 1, only to find I'd already read 'The Frozen Lake' by Elizabeth Edmondson. I still enjoyed it though, listening to it over a few days, there was a lot of ironing to do. Happy New Year.

What fabulous plans. I love your challenges. I’m also midway through an around the world challenge and loving it. Happy New Year and happy reading Celeste 😊

I enjoyed this video very much, very inspiring. Thanks

Happy New Year! What are your bookish plans for 2025? That’s what I’m chatting about in this latest video! ❤

I did not see this video until just now. Truly your son has a beautiful voice ! I love seeing the love and bond between you two. Many mothers would give anything to be loved so well. He hit every note beautifully and I love his expressiveness too. Your alleluia at the end was perfect. Please tell him how he made an old woman in South Carolina smile and made me cry tears of joy and love. I always look forward to your videos like a dear visit from a kindred spirit. Happy new year to you. Celeste and to your family. I pray this year brings good health and cheer for us all. God knows we will need it.

Enjoyed this recap!

Enjoyed hearing of your favourite reads! Merry Christmas, Celeste!

Thank you for the recommendations and the gift of your son's singing. 🙂 Our family celebrates Jolabokaflod but we do it on New Year's Eve. I think I will either read Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan or read The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. Merry Christmas!

The Chinese Shawl was a favorite for me too. The other Miss Silver that I thought would make a good movie would be Lonesome Road. I loved Disney’s Thomasina as a child. Didn’t realize that those old ones were still streaming somewhere.

Your son sings beautifully! Thank you ❤

Here you go again, adding to my TBR pile with some great recommendations! Thank you for sharing all your videos with us in ‘24 … looking forward to ‘25! 📚🎄🕎🙏

I really enjoyed The Fox Wife, too. My favorite book of the year was The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff, which managed to provide social commentary on the lives of women in contemporary India while still being laugh-out-loud funny. I also enjoyed Lolly Willows, Olive Kitteridge, and Thornyhold, my first Mary Stewart book. I've added The Home Maker to the top of my tbr. I'm looking forward to seeing all your book reviews and recommendations in 2025! 💜

I may have misheard you.. saying that you like the audiobooks by …choo lady… thot you said “Nancy Drew!??” lol. My bad😁

These look like some great selections. I will check several of these out!

I loved it Celeste a, Happy Christmas!

Oh...and Thomasina!!! One of my best friends has been telling me to read "Jennie" by Paul Gallico for some time now. I need to read that one too. I am EXTREMELY jealous of your copy of Thomasina! 😻

Hey Celeste, I watched this video in the wee hours of the morning and loved it! Then I watched it again after breakfast. So many wonderful books. You did have a great reading year! Of your list I most wish to read Penelope Farmer, it sounds amazing! Edith Wharton and H.G. Wells are two authors I want to read in 2025. Actually, there are so many! I also LOVE how you divided them up into months! Stand by for my favorite reads...although it may not be my very next video, but the one after (so many videos, so little time! ha ha). I love that color of your ring...stunning! Have a lovely Sunday!💗

This was wonderful learned about a few new options, Merry Christmas!

Looking forward to reading and watching Thomisina!

I've just read 'The Great Ghost Rescue' by Eva Ibbotson, which is a children's book, if I had children young enough, I'd have kept it. My favourite for the year would be Ferdia Lennon's 'Glorious Exploits' a couple of potters feed Athenian prisoners in exchange for putting on plays, written in an Irish dialect. It's a bit like being sat in an Irish bar and told a story. I like the way the story just is, the lack of a didactic author telling you to think a certain way about the situation, and there's a touch of the Hans Solo about it: stepping up to heroics, not necessarily being the best intentioned person to start with.

Such a sweet ending

Love your list!! My favourite books this year were Beartown, Tale for time being and Paper Menagerie and other stories!!

Beautiful singing! Merry Christmas 🎄 😘

I’d love to hear what your favorite books were, in 2024! Not necessarily “new”, but new to you! ❤

Your son has a beautiful voice!

What a lovely Silent Night! Well done! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

What a lovely gift. I recently read the book "The True Story of the Christmas Truce" by Anthony Evans. It was such an interesting read. I have not felt in the Christmas Spirit this year but that right there, wow. Please tell your son thank you. Now I need to go get some Kleenex to wipes these tears. 😊

What a gift hearing your son sing, he has such a lovely voice ❤

Thank you, Celeste. Wow! Singing a pitch perfect a capella "Silent Night" is not easy. Your son's voice is beautiful! I'm wishing you both a lovely and peaceful holiday season.🎄

A beautiful carol. Thanks for sharing and merry Christmas to you and to your talented son!

He was fantastic. Your mother’s smile was that of a proud “Mama!” God bless both of you this holiday season!❤️🙏🏽❤️

your son has a lovely voice. I am sitting here with tears in my eyes. i wish you both the peace and joy of Christmas.

Thank you for these great book recommendations. And what a blessing to hear your son sing! He has a wonderful voice. Merry Christmas to you both!

That was so lovely, it moved me to tears ❤ Happy Christmas 🎄

Happy Holidays!