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This looks very sweet and everyone seems to be saying nice things about it. Maybe one for next Christmas.

Your Claudia Piñeiro group project is wonderful. Such a rewarding author to focus on. I enjoyed the discussion you and Tilly had on Nightbloom, and I had similar thoughts about the start.

I've not picked up Hallowe'en Part yet, and I probably still will but I will be lowering my expectations a little now

I've read and loved Pirinesi and I really need to pick up more from Susanna Clarke!!

I'd never heard of this author before, the book sounds fascinating!

I really enjoyed Prisoners of Geography when I read it back in 2018, such an interesting read. I really want to pick up How To Say Babylon

Hi Ros 👋🏽 I'm looking forward to becoming acquainted with Han Kang. I've enjoyed reading Piñeiro with you and the group.

Good luck with your December reading!

I'd never heard of him until last week. This sounds great, I'm sold.

You read such a great mix of interesting books Ros😊 I hope your December reads are going well xx

It does look beautiful. I am hoping to start her chonkster this weekend so if I can get it from the library after I will.

Thanks Ros. Do you think you have to have read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell to enjoy this one or would it work as a standalone?

What about prize fighting victorian women who took an unforgotten blow for women's rights because they had to fight men to get it

Another book on my Christmas wish list😊

Glad you enjoyed it despite it's shortness. I recently did a very short review of a book, but could have gone on longer I I had gone into more detail. Mind you, people don't like me giving away the plot so I never know what to do for the best. The one you read sounds like a sweet little book `though.

I read it and loved it ❤ But yeah, it is very short, so I got it on my Kindle 😉

The protagonist is described as follows: “She can talk to animals and trees - and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods.” That could describe me.😁It’s short but sweet.

This actually sounds quite delightful, the kind of book to sit over a cup of tea on a cold day. Or to place in the guest room for a nice reading surprise for someone staying over. Thank you for the review.

This book sounds wonderful--perhaps especially for this cold and complicated moment.

Sounds great, Ros! I read And Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. There are images from that book that have stayed with me and I really loved the experience of reading it. I will definitely be on the lookout for it - it publishes in Canada on Jan 25. Thanks for the great review and for drawing attention to Andrew Miller!

I’m just looking at books on this subject! I’m reading Winter World and been craving some more on it.

That was a really good sell 😁. This sounds fascinating and I have added Andrew Miller to me must-read author list. Great video Ros 😊

Hello. Wonderful discovery of your channel. Articulate without the normal book tube cliche. I would love love to hear your views on "The Waves" Virginia Woolf. and "1Q84" Murakami. Obviously not your normal fare.... but hey oh

Andrew Miller is a name I didn't know, sounds intriguing. Pure sounds intriguing, too.

Sigrid Undset gave her Nobel prize money to charity and sold her medallion to help needy kids.

I haven't read any Piñeiro yet, but now I'm gonna have to check her out! I'm on a journey to find out definitively if I like crime novels or not and I want to see if a more "literary" crime novel might be my speed. Thank you for the recommendation!

I’ve never read or heard of Andrew Miller’s work - thank you for sharing about it!

Well done giving Andrew Miller a shout out on booktube! I think you are right Ros about the reasons why he is less talked about, although he has had the occasional prize appearance (Costa, Whitbread and even a Booker shortlist with Oxygen). He was also a graduate of the famous Creative Writing programme at UEA that fostered McEwan and Ishiguro. I started reading his books in order and read the first four maybe ten years ago but I seem to have stalled for some reason 🙄. But I will say that the one I really loved the most was his debut Ingenious Pain which I think you will love too - a historical medical novel!

So glad you enjoyed it, I can’t wait to start reading my copy of it. It’s odd with Andrew Miller isn’t it as his writing is so rich yet he doesn’t seem to be that widely known. I’ve hardly seen this book pop up on booktube at all.

His books sound wonderful though I've hardly heard of him! The setting sounds fantastic.

I'm in the middle of Time of Flies and really loving it. I did not realize it was a sequel. Its my third Pineiro and I will keep going with her books for sure. What a lovely group to be joining you.

This appears to be a perfect winter read! Thank you for the recommendation of an author who is new to me.

Sounds great! My local library seems to have only _Now We Shall Be Entirely Free_ (2018). Perhaps I'll start with that!

Coincidences for me in this video - I’ve started rereading Middlemarch this month, a few pages before bed. I read it in my early 20s or late teens and I didn’t realize just how young Dorothy was at the start! Also, in my early 20s I went through a Jorge Amado binge and have four of his books on my shelves, but I’ve been afraid that I wouldn’t like them at all these many decades later. I figured they’d be too macho for my taste now but sounds like it’s not that overbearing?

I just found your channel and love the books you choose and what you say about them. I’ve only read. now we shall be entirely free and loved it for just the reasons you mention. I’ve read that it’s in development to be a TV miniseries, although whether that actually happens is another matter. A new author I’ve read that I think has the same strengths as Andrew Miller is (coincidentally named) Nathaniel Ian Miller, and he’s published one extraordinary book IMHO, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, and apparently another is coming out in 2025. I think you might like it! I don’t know how I found him, but I’m glad I did!

Immediately reserved it at my library. Thank you!

I’m going to recommend this to my bookclub, thank you.

This sounds really good. I have never read anything by Miller but you have sold me on this one. Quiet and deep is exactly what I'm looking for right now.

The White Book l is the only other Han Kang I’ve read apart from The Vegetarian and I really liked it. The way she talked about things you automatically associate with white and then other things that you wouldn’t at first. Beautiful language and often quite emotional. I’m with you Ros, less is more, let me find things out for myself or not find them out and be ok with that.

You sold me on reading more Claudia Piñeiro. Not 100% sold on Han Kang, however. I loved the Vegetarian and bailed on Human Acts. Maybe I should give White Book a try. Like you, I respond best to a lot of white space in a novel; I like room for my imagination.

I have Nightbloom on my bookshelf but haven’t read it yet. Look forward to hearing your review of it.

How wonderful to see your listing! I haven't read any Christie in years, but I think I might pick one up over the holidays. And Han King really needs to be on my TBR sometime soon... (I'm afraid I am unbelievelably behind on booktube but hope to be catching up over the next few days. I have been missing you and the other wonderful people in our little corner of booktube.)

I really enjoyed reading the White Book with you! And this week’s events in South Korea have been so extraordinary in the light of reading Human Acts 😢. It really shows the value of reading globally!

Good books don’t always fit our tastes. I look forward to your discussion of Night Bloom

What an incredible month you've had, Ros--all of this fiction, plus all of the non-fiction you talked about in the last video! I'm really enjoying our Pineiro group. I have not read any Han Kang yet, and you have definitely caught my interest.

_First!_ 12 books in one month is voracious 😮🎉😅 You always turn me on to new books. For fiction, I'm buddy reading _Beautyland,_ next year. "The Hound of ..." is a great Holmes story, isnt it? Can't wait for the Sherlock Holmes Group, again, next year ♧

Hi Ros 👋🏽. I'm also enjoying our Piñeiro Project. 🫶🏽

I think you will enjoy the Kline book. He is such a delightful writer.

Thank you so much for the reminder of "Code" I hadn't even heard of that way of life until the past couple years when I've been honing in on the Caribbean. Still don't know a lot of it so absolutely will look into that. I find this Pioneers book fascinating and actually sounds like a perfect holiday gift for someone I know! Thank you! i admit i had forgotten about the prompts, I think I started and then just started going for any nonfic... Titles I made it through Soil by camille dungy - a black woman's journey into gardening and exploring the history /connection of black and native people Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill about her experience being stuck in Scientology and niece of leader. Spirals in Time by Helen Scales- looking at all the sea shells, history, science of the critters in them, culture etc....was more interesting than I anticipated as it was a 'push out of comfort zone' pick An Indigenous People's History of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Twenty Years by Sune Engel Rasmussen - a look at the history of modern Afghanistan and the war the US waged on it through the perspective of five or so people and many supporting based on the journalist-author's experience living there and interacting with these people. Fascinating, well rounded look that held absolutely everyone accountable for their input and was generous in not making the 'bad actors' sympathetic but providing perspective Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen - similar to history but views the land now called the United States of America as well as Mexico, parts of Canada and central +South America when relevant from the perspective and achievements of the indigenous peoples that shows just how resilient they really are and how history is very different when not viewed through the slow colonization. Quackery: a brief history of the worst ways to cure everything but Lydia Kang The LIfe and TImes of Hannah Crafts by Gregg Hecimovich - investigating the identity of the author of the first novel written by a black woman but also influences on the book, the history of the time, and the lives of all the potential authors. worthy topic but all over the place. really should have been two if not three different publications in my humble opinion Though it was fiction I also read "Front Desk" which is a middle grade novel but more leaning towards autofiction as it draws from many experiences the author had as a chinese immigrant running a hotel with her parents when she was young.

I’ve heard great things about How to Say Babylon - Salman Rushdie even mentioned it in his book Knife- but I do struggle with memoirs. That’s why I loved Wilding when I read it a few years ago, it was more about the work than the author. So well written and inspiring, I’d love to go and see Knepp some day!