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The Convenient Marriage is my favorite and not many people talk about that book. I plan to reread that one and Sophy’s book too.

thanks for your Video 🙏🏻 I'm searching for Georgette Heyer "love romance books". I have never read a book of her yet... only Jane Austen, Julia Quinn,Bronte Sisters,... 😅 please, can someone help me an tell me the love romance books of her? she wrote so much books and I'm easily overhelmed 😞 thank you 🫶🏻

Loved how honest your opinion is. Thank you for sharing and saving us money. I may be wrong but I seem to remember you do translations for a living. So, if you were asked to translate the book, would you do it?

Love this list and your creative categories! We share some NF favorites!

I started this but didn’t get far. I liked Down and out in London and Paris.

I honestly think that we should all just stay away from it!! I hope the the publishers and the editors manage to find this and will take the time to really 'think' about what what said and done. This was one of the books I 'almost' bought I am so glad that I didn't and I think you (and bow down) to your thoughts PLUS it saved me $40.00!!!

The saddest thing is that to most people, in this time and age of shallow thinking and activism, it will only matter that a female author is 'defending' a woman from the past against the injustice of patriarchy, without care how it is done or if it should be done at all (I mean if it was there injustice or just it was a different era) 😒

Thanks! Another book I don't need to read. But why did you finish? (I apologize if I missed that)

I love a good rant! I'm here for it!

Elisabeth the Merciless strikes again. A good rant is a marvelous thing. Perhaps there is a streak of cruelty in me, but I kind of hope you have to read me really bad nonfiction in. 2025. 🤪

I so agree - I loathed this book so much. I got to the point where I didn’t trust a word she wrote

I adore these reviews from you. The kind where you have a bee in your bonnet!

Oh how I love all your categories. And you are so vigorous and lively all the way through the video. Every year in Jane Austen July I debate whether to bother with the retelling prompt as they are always disappointing especially in a month when I am rereading Austen herself. I didn't feel so negative about Wifedom. I saw it as a portmanteau book with a mix of biography, polemic and fiction. Not one of my best of the year though. Eve was of course.

I've never heard of Roger Lemelin before, and no he's not very available from Australia. I do have access to a digital version of a book called The Town Below but I suspect that this is a different book. I'll put him on my eternal TBR though anyway.

I love that most of the books you chose, either for the best or worst category, were not the usual ones that most UA-camrs talked about in their year summaries. It was not just refreshing and original, but also gave us interesting suggestions as to what to read in the future. Thank you!!! Waiting for the review/rant of Wifedom 😉

There are books you've mentioned that I'd like to get to, but I don't think I'll get to them any time soon. King is one of them. I keep debating with myself about reading US history in or out of order. If I read in order, I'll have lots of context, but it'll take me many years before I read about the civil rights movement.

I really enjoyed your video, made me smile and at points giggle!! Looking forward to your next video, thanks for keeping me company!! Have a lovely week!! Samantha xxx

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Hooray! More books to add to my long-term tbr!

I love the category “book that made me google the most” 😂 genius haha! And it happens to me too! I recently finished a book about the extinction of megafauna in the quaternary period and it mentions a lot of prehistoric species, so I was googling like crazy haha! I also google a lot with art books and history books.

Best reading year review categories on BookTube! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 ♥

I've stayed far away from Jane Austen retellings because of all you say and, well, I'd just rather reread the real thing! However, there's one book that kind of riffs on P&P that I *love* (but not really because it doesn't really follow the plot but meanders off in its own directions and so can indeed stand alone, but you can see the echoes) - Together Tea by Marjan Kamali. She just has a new book that's getting way more buzz, but this, her debut, really won my heart. And I think my favorite character is the mother, who starts out seeming a bit of a ditz, making spreadsheets trying to matchmake her daughter, but ends up she's a frustrated mathematician (the spreadsheets were a symptom) and she really improves after figuring out how to live more for herself and not through her daughter. I have very much enjoyed some movie P&P updates like Bride & Prejudice, Lost in Austen, Austenland etc, but I think it helps that I only have to commit 2 hours or less to it and it's just silly fun... I want to read the Sophus Helle Gilgamesh this year - sounds fantastic!!

I have a project to finish but I would rather watch you...

Makes sense to have a stack of romances around for when you need them! Good luck with your reading!

Whee, lots of travel for you, very nice! 💚

This is what I call "mindful book buying"! It's what I strove for last year (but that fell apart after the election), but I'm rededicating myself to it this year.

Congratulations on completing your challenge! I think your stipulations moving forward sound great and will work for your reading style.

Lovely to see you! I got a William morris book for Xmas, so I see it may have a slot for art in September? I don’t often have art books that keep my attention but this one seems like a contender ❤

I really love when challenges are modified for the reader. It makes so much sense! I am also trying to read only from the books that I added to my Goodreads TBR (since I have more digital books) but I am excluding series and book club books.

I don't like to put rules to things that I enjoy, like books, maybe because I'm a rule follower 😅 But also I have always bought books that either I'm gonna read right away or I will use in research, so I have to have it because eventually will be necessary. A lot of words to say that I found it really great that more people are being conscious of what they buy because doing it just for the sake of it is not great on so many levels. Regarding Booktube, maybe it would be a good idea to replace book hauls with library hauls or even bookshelve hauls, sometimes one can forget an old book buried in new ones 😝

I like the idea of continuing the Read What You Own challenge..i do belong to a mail order Book Club of classics so I get about 6 books a year...other than that I will try not to buy a book.

Good luck! I can't do this challenge I like buying to much, but I am trying to read my own books more. 🙂

Hi! I'm doing the challenge as well. I will try to read bigger books more often this year (500 pages or more) and will be obviously counting pages. I need to read more non-fiction though. Hopefully I have some on my shelves. Discovering I had bought good books years ago is so much fun. Have a great week! 😃📚📚

Excellent video and challenge, I've been following quite a few booktubers doing this challenge. I'm doing my own version this year as well 😊

I have a similar idea, I need to save for kitting out my library/quilt studio so I need to save instead of spending. I'm going to be reading what I have...I'm currently doing the Beefcake book challenge (when I make the video!!) so I'll be preoccupied with reading big titles, and also I have a few quilts to finish too!! So I'm going to allow myself to buy a book or two only once a month....or less!!! Although I have an Etsy addiction!! 😕 You have some great ideas though!! Good luck for 2025!xx

Moderation is good. I basically have a goal not to buy random books I don't need. If I need it for a specific project or book club, I'll get it. If I have no idea if I'll get to it, I won't buy it.

Great resolution. 😊 Hope you achieve your goal. ☺

I really like the special rules you are allowing yourself l, sounds like a great plan! Have fun with your version of the challenge!

I love hearing that other people have been setting reading rules for themselves! One of my goals is to read more genres, so I have set a limit of how many of certain genres I can read in a month/row without mixing in something new. I'm a big book-thrifter, which gets you into the same trouble of shelves of books you have yet to read, so I have set a monthly $ limit with exceptions for certain authors. Enjoying your channel!

That is a good goal to abide by. I hope you are successful in achieving it.

Congratulations on finishing your challenge. I’m not done with mine yet but your ideas of how to keep it going make sense.

I don't care for statistics for myself but I love to know about other people's 😝 The video description is absolutely fantastic!!! 🙌

Wow! I especially liked the stats by publication date and the maps

That was an epic of statistics. Give me a few ideas of what to include in my own upcoming video.

Happy New Year, glad to see you back. I love participating in People April. Look forward to your videos again.

Happy New Year Elisabeth and glad to hear you hope to be more able to throw yourself into booktube. I look forward to People April.

Glad to see you again and happy 2025!

I love me some stats! 🥰 One teensy quibble - Medea isn't set in a fictitious country - it's set in the city-state of Corinth, which is most definitely a real place in Greece. (I also count ancient stuff's location/country based on modern country borders). I actually want to start a project to read through all the plays of Euripides, inspired by Natalie Haynes pointing out that of all the Greek playwrights, he gave women a lot more agency and lines (and are often the titular/main character, like Medea, that being the only play of his I've read thus far...)

I think a native reader of French is an essential accompanier on reading Proust!

Nice to see you back - looking forward to people April and Art September!