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I totally agree with you- I enjoyed all the layers in this book.

I agree with the comments recommending Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. Happy new year of reading, Gretchen!

Wow, yet another fantastic summary of your reads! I always have to add to my TBR list after watching your videos! After I read Piranesi I was obsessed with Susanna Clarke and I read JS & MN. Really enjoyed it and will check out the series. Happy 2025!

I too really enjoyed The Most. As you mentioned, it packed a lot into a small book. So well done! I didn’t enjoy The Empusium as much as her book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. And, Mrs. Caliban was such a touching story and a real delight to read. I’m planning to read The Snow Child this winter. Really looking forward to it! ❄️. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell piques my interest but I am intimidated by long books. Maybe I’ll pick it up one day. As always, I am a big fan of your channel!

Happy new year! Another wonderful video, Gretchen. Like other comments have stated, I love listening to you talk about your recent reads. The way you talk about books is so invigorating and exciting. Unrelated, I always find myself looking at the bookshelves behind you and wondering what books you’ve collected. If you’d be interested in doing a bookshelf tour, I’m sure it would be a lovely video! But also, that seems like it would be a huge task so no pressure if that idea doesn’t interest you 😅

I'm so glad you enjoyed Mrs. Caliban! It's a favorite of mine and I've read reviews that call it "close to perfect". Rachel Ingalls was born in the US and moved to the UK which is where she wrote and published. I also enjoyed her book Binstead's Safari. TheBookchemist does a nice review of Mrs. Caliban.

Thank you for your thoughtful descriptions of these books. It helps guide me to books I will enjoy.

Happy new year Gretchen, I’m looking forward to hear what your favourite books from last year were. If you’re still keen on reading War and Peace it’s not too late to join the slow read hosted by Simon Haisell at Footnotes and Tangents. It’s in its third and final year and I’m enjoying it immensely so far. It has just under 365 chapters, and they’re much shorter then Les Mis 😅

I love the way you speak about books! Thank you for sharing. I listened to The Life Impossible and while it wasn’t a 5 star for me… it really stuck with me since I read it….. it’s always about those books! ❤

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I’m 25% in Les Misérables and half way through Middlemarch… 😅 2025 is the year I finish these two bricks! 🙃

Thank you, Gretchen, and Happy New Year!!🎉🥳

Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉 I read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead earlier this year and loved it. Looking forward to trying the Snow Child.

Love your channel! I read Snow Child years ago and I can’t wait for her new book in February!

Also really enjoyed Empusium and The Snow Child this year. Waiting anxiously for Ivey's new book in Feb! I came to read Jonathan Strange after seeing the mini series. It is a book that I find myself rereading with excitement every 5 years or so and I rarely reread books. Love and cherish Piranesi as well. I enjoyed the tv adaptation of J Strange mostly because of the actors, but approach it as different than the book to not be disappointed. The story is shortened, but still good. It cannot compare though because no adaptation of a Susanna Clark novel can transport you into a magical world the way she does with her amazing prose. Here's to lots of amazing reads in 2025!🥳

if you like snow child and want winter read memories of sweden sven

I read snow child years ago and still remember it. very enjoyable

I appreciated the epusium and I am not sorry I read it. however, obviously, my taste is literary not literature. it would be a great lit class but as a read it was work. I felt like I should have written a paper. it is easily recognizable as a tribute to mann.

Happy new year 🎉 The two books I’ve read from your list that I’ve read Intermezzo The Snow Child Are there any new book releases you are looking forward in 2025?

You so sweet🌸 the way you were not happy with translator name not memtioned. ✨

Gretchen - Happy New Year 2025 and looking forward to seeing you then - with your reading updates and reviews!! 🎉😊

Love this review! You are spot on. I just finished today and I loved this read. I appreciate your thorough and insightful review. I appreciate that you could make those connections between code switching historically and contemporarily, and why that is important in Black communities. New subscriber here!!

I loved The Coast Road! I can't wait to read Praiseworthy, Passiontide, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh and Hard by a Great Forest. I'm going to try to tip-toe past the long-lists for both of The Women's Prizes and The International Booker in an effort to read the books I have on my shelves and maybe read some of the short lists, or the winners. FOMO made me purchase too many books that I really didn't enjoy this year. Agree, Ben's prompts are great!

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Happiest birthday!! I loved A Sharks Heart! Should be recommended more. Thank you for highlighting it.

Thanks for your thoughts and honestly, I thought SJP - was a fluff personality - but you have opened her reading world for me and I hope your faith in this 2025 group is all we hope for with the Booker Prize.

Hey Gretchen! Thanks for the shout out about the Aspen Longlist challenge. You probably already noticed, but Fire Exit will satisfy Ben’s February prompt as well, so there ya go! I just joined his challenge on StoryGraph. With all of my other 2025 reading goals, I think some of my books will fit into those slots for sure and it will be fun. In regards to your 24 missed in 24, the books that I have read from your list that I will weigh in on for you getting to them, because they were really good: Clear, Covenant of Water Books that I also have physical copies of but did not get yet either that you have in your video: Praiseworthy Night Alphabet (which I also ordered from Blackstone’s 🫣) The Coast Road Books that I own and I missed in 2024 that aren’t in your video: There are Rivers in the Sky Whale Fall Catalina Gliff The Position of Spoons The Sequel Hard by a Great Forest The History of Sound The Watermark

Love your channel

I agree about SJP, she is a book lover and great book picker.

Always love to watch you when I see you come up to review or chat about upcoming books - you do such a good job - Have a very Merry Christmas - your tree is so festive behind you🧑🏻‍🎄📕🎈

I loved loved this video! You’ve reminded me of SO many books I want to try including Praiseworthy! Yes! Happy Holidays, Gretchen.

My TBR is equally as large, there were so many books I wanted to read but failed to get round to. I’ve actually managed to fill each month of Ben’s challenge with books already on my shelf. Thank you for all the wonderful videos this year. Have a Happy Christmas🎄⭐️🎄

I'm also really looking forward to reading Someone Like Us after hearing about it from Barack Obama's top books of 2024 list!

Great list! I also would put Coast Road in my list, along with (and here I blush) James by Everett!

Clear and Fireexit are definitely both in my top 10 of 2024, I also really enjoyed The Night Alphabet 😊 I'm adding a few of these to my TBR (not too many, as its long like yours! I really want to re ad The Fertile Earth and Husbands. On my list are Hagstone, Birnam Wood among many others Thank you, I really enjoy your video's

You have some great books to roll over into the next year. Praiseworthy and The Night Alphabet are ones that are high priority for me.

Such a great idea! I can’t wait to pick out my 24 books for 2025. Always love your videos! ✨

Barack Obama named Someone Like Us in his top 10 list for 2024

Love your tree!! Praiseworthy was a biiiiig one that I regret not reading in 2024! (Also, Ben Reads Good's 2025 challenge prompts are SO great!)

Hi Gretchen I have shopped my shelves for Bens prompts and I have all of them covered. Yay.you have some great books to look forward to. Merry Christmas 🎄

Glad you mentioned the Aspen Words Literary Prize. That long list does look really good. As does your stack of books. I don't have plans to read any of them, but there are a couple I at least want to pick up.

My physical tbr is like 20 books away from haunting my dreams😂😂😂 So I feel you!

The Coast Road and Clear were two of my favorite books this year. I think you'll love them both!

Happy Christmas Gretchen. I've enjoyed watching your content this year.

I really didn't like the book, as a whole. I don't think the author's writing style is smooth, but I did like some of the strong characters.

I just finished 11/22/63 too! Agree with all you said. Never read Stephen King because I don’t read horror. But this was an awesome ride!! Happy to hear your thoughts on it 🙂

Great to hear your thoughts on Eastbound - that's been on my list to check out! Thank you!!

Well, you've sold me on Eastbound! I have a little stack of Archipelago books that I just love. I covet them as physical objects, you know? They're right up there with Europa on my list of favorite publishers. I'm still determined to read The Empusium, but realistically I may have to take a break and come back to it. I'm pretty sure I'll like it if I pick it up at the right time. Happy Holidays, Gretchen! It's been great having you at the GFP meetings! 🙂

A YETI! That's adorable! Great bookish update!! Good luck with the rest of 2024!!

Happy belated birthday! 🎉