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This was such a fun video!!

Wow! I love your library. I would have a cup of coffee or latte and just sit there, pick up a book, smell it and drift into the story. No kids no husband no nothing. Just some "me" time until my eyes water of eye exhaustion 😅

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You put a lot of effort into this, noted. Love Dashiell Hammett. Best wishes.

Oh my God Kathi what a lot of work to place every single book and take a picture! There Perfume was school reading, I loved that book and the writing stile so much. The newest covers of Agatha christie are so ugly, the covers are the same all over the world, the previous covers where much bettet, i try to buy them before the are out of print. I like the hardcovers too but they are very expensive. You have a great collection, are you still planning to move with all those books?!

What an amazing collection! Love the covers as usual. I really do appreciate how well you lined up the books when showing them... the lighting is perfect! I've been a bit behind on your videos lately, but looking forward to watching your Memories of Ice video when I get a chance. Keep up the great work.

Hmmmm....yeah, I liked these but I can't read them anymore given all that came out about him. 😕 Good review though.

Kathi!!!🥰…. I love Your Collection… I was oohing and aahing!!! at the Beautiful Covers 📚

I felt similar about the continuity-overall enjoyed it still but I do believe it could have been furthered. That said I’m sure in the end we’ll realize just how deliberate it ends up being. I can’t wait to reread these puppies. It’s also wild that I just found this video 2 weeks later 🫨

You have a great selection of Agatha Christie novels 😀

Kathi, what we have in common- Anthony Horowitz, Richard Osman, Ruth Ware, Agatha Christie, Kerry Greenwood (Love Phryne Fisher…have you seen the tv adaptation?) Alexander McCall Smith, I have all of his books…Benjamin Stevenson, although I’ve only read a couple of his at this stage. I’d love to know how you feel about the Agatha Christie books you have that are read. I’m a huge Poirot fan, even the Sophie Hannah books, and I’m currently reading my way through the Miss Marple books. I recently finished the Poirot’s and I would read one, then watch the tv adaptation, and I’m doing the same with the Miss Marples…then I’ll move to the “other” Agatha books. It’s amazing how different the adaptations can be. Very enjoyable all the same. I love your collection. I’m new to Louise Penny, just about to start the second book. Have you ever read an Elly Griffiths?

Great tour, I love your Hammett, that cover is to die for.

It's very surprising you don't like The Lord of the Rings. I loved it. But I haven't read much fantasy anyway. I do have noticed, though, that many booktubers don't list TLOTR among their top ten fantasy books or series, which makes me curious about the state of the art of fantasy literature. By the way, what is your impression of "The Last Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle? Have you seen the animated film version? I totally recommend it.

I'm looking forward to watching the new Salems lot film. I love Ira Levin, Stepford Wives, A kiss before dying etc. Graham Masterton for me is on a par with james Herbert. I've read many of your selections so I'm looking forward to your opinion on them when you pick some to read. I'm going into town tomorrow to choose some horror books.

You have a wonderful library! There are many goodies for your future reading pleasure on your TBR!! Legal thrillers are some of my favorites too, but I've not yet tried Richard North Patterson. Two of my favorite legal reads are Greg Iles' Penn Cage series and the Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt. Last year I read 123 books and The Quiet Game by Iles was one of the best of all I read. Rosenfelt's are more cozy with humor and a love of dogs, but still with a good mystery plot. Thank you for giving us a tour of your shelves!!

What a fantastic library!!! Thanks for sharing. 😍📚👍

Yess!!! This made me so happy. As someone who is reading the series myself for the first time, I adore these videos. I think you're right to only do spoiler reviews moving forward. While Spoiler Free would attract a larger audience.. These books are so dense, it would be so hard to convey your thoughts with such restrictions. The Toc the Younger and Tool scenes towards the end definitely made me the most emotional haha another wonderful review Kathi and ps. love the ambient music

I read Rosemary’s Baby a few years ago and it’s been remarkably memorable for me.

What is your favorite Harry Potter book? Mine is book #6 and then book #3.

It's a fun video. My birthday month is oct so i have always felt unfair that it was considered as a horror month. I see it as a peaceful month because we can look forward to a cool and beautiful season.

Thanks for recommending Johanna. I subscribed to her channel. Just like her, I think you're also very well spoken and articulate, and there's something soothing to the way you speak and the pace of your articulations. I might be wrong, but something tells me you are or were a teacher or a professor. Anyway, I also have never DNFed a book. I've always felt a need to finish a book I've already started. I remember suffering through "Titus Groan", but I ultimately finished it.

I just finished reading Frankenstein, and I really loved it. It's definitely one of the books I've enjoyed more in terms of literary style and how words and phrases are weaved. While I was reading the book I was thinking of how wonderful it would be if film director Guillermo del Toro made a film adaptation of the novel, since his visual and cinematic style and prowess, in my opinion, would be perfect for the book. Well, I just found out that he's actually already working on such film. What can be better than that. If anyone can produce a wonderful cinematic rendition of Frankenstein, it is definitely Guillermo del Toro.

Thanks so much for the kind words! I hope you enjoy Black Mouth. It’s very dark and a bit of an ode to Stephen King’s IT.

I really liked The Troop!

Clive Barkers Book of Blood is a classic of the genre. Midnight Meat Train is one of my favorite Stories from that book and they made a movie too, i still search for the uncut version. As for Ghost Stories Shirley Jackson is a recommendation, very dark stories. I like Horror Movies but with a grain of salt like the Final Fantasy movies. The Omen gave me Nightmare as a kid, I saw the devil everywhere in the dark:-) Interesting that Halloween season in Australia is in the spring completely different atmosphere. The hat looks great Kathi with cloak and wand you can act as Professor Macgonogall:-)

Dan Simmons is such a great horror writer! The Terror and Drood are some of my all-time favorites, but I haven't read Song of Kali. Hope you have a great spooky reading month!

Hi Kathi, thank you so much for making this video. I will definitely read horror in October, but I don’t have a TBR since I am also a mood reader. I hope you have lots of fun reading spooky books in October 💀👻🎃

Hi Kathi, love your selection of books. I started reading my first Dean Koontz book, The Voice of the Night.

Besides Dark Tower I may read Blatty’s Legion and The Ninth Configuration. Also possibly Interview With a Vampire As well as Dan Simmons book Carrion Comfort I really like your book club hags of horror idea!

9 & 3/4? 🤩

This is the book i stopped reading the series at. Dispte what everyone says, i guessed the ending of the series here. And felt no need to read though 7 more books to get to the obvious conclusion.

Totally agree! Same here If I have started the book already & paid good money for it I have to finish it🤭

I've never read a horror book before, so I wouldn't know where to start! In terms of movies though, I have a few go-tos for spooky season but Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" is my absolute favorite.

Since 2021 I have been reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Dracula Daily. We follow the story chronologically from May to November via the diary entries. I also reread Slewfoot by Brom every October. It’s one of my all time favorites and the paintings in the book are beautiful.

I love your hat! I’m not as much into horror, but I may try Never Whistle at Night (Indigenous horror collection) and Out There Screaming (Black horror anthology). Maybe I’ll do better with short stories! Enjoy your reads!

Clive Barker is great.

Love, love Georgette Heyer! ❤

Good on you, Kathi! Love the hat 🖤

This is so fun, I'm also planning to read primarily horror this month!

I decided a couple of weeks ago to only read horror books in October too! And Tender Is The Flesh is on my list! I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about what you read as I'm always looking for new horror book recommendations! (I'm currently warming myself up with pet Sematary 🐈‍⬛)

Great video. Your reading group sounds fun. I plan to read The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie and as many mysteries and ghost stories, haunted houses and witch books I can get from the library for the rest of the season.

I'm reading Robert McCammon's Swan Song. It's excellent. I actually like him better than King. They write the same type of Horror only McCammon's writing is tighter.

I am excited for our Hags group! But, you know me, I only do nonscary movies.🙈🧙🏻📚

Hi Kathy. for cozy reads I usually go for a novella. it could be any genre. For example. atm I'm reading the mist by SK before I jump into something more time consuming. Another comfort read of mine is Stepford wives by Ira Levin its quick and camp and I love the nostalgia

Thank you for the super review❤

I have not read this, but will make an effort. Nice review!

I get why you think Deadhouse Gates and Memories of Ice would have been better in reversed positions, but I disagree. I think it's good that Erikson makes us do those jumps, because this will not be the end of them, so it's best to be trained in them right from the gate. I think the shock would have been greater in Deadhouse Gates after we'd spent 2 whole books with the "same" set of characters than it is in the order as is

I too rarely DNF. Two I wish I had were “classics” 100 Years of Solitude & The Jungle. One was for a book club, one for high school. Both torture for me. I have put some aside & return later. As years go by I know genres I won t touch. Life really is too short when it comes to reading!

For novels, I frequently DNF. More often than not -- maybe 70%. Often it is within the first 100 pages. It has nothing to do with "grabbing my attention". Most of all, I want an author to value my time and attention. Tell the story and weave the spell without any self-indulgence. I demand good writing. I won't put up with lazy characterization, weak and artificial plot elements, or shallow tropes.

I love when I’m thinking of gladly putting a book in the dnf pile, but continue reading it anyway. Or finally finishing a book abandoned yrs ago, only to discover how much I love it! Not only are you rewarded with a great book reading experience to think about, but you also feel a huge sense of accomplishment.😅