Reading Vlog | Green Clothes & Paint by Numbers | Lauren's Friday Reading Vlogs 2024 VII

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  • Опубліковано 4 бер 2024
  • Hello! Welcome to the seventh reading vlog of 2024.
    Books mentioned:
    The Amendments
    You Don't Know What War Is
    A Year of Wonder
    A Poem for Every Spring Day
    Dune
    The Sweet Roasting Tin
    Small Things Like These
    Dominoes
    Chrysalis
    Julia
    Night Bloom
    Tom Lake
    The Fraud
    Pet
    Family Lore
    The Rachel Incident
    Bellies
    Yellowface
    Rosewater
    A Sign of Her Own
    The Memory of Animals
    The Land of Milk and Honey
    Big Bones
    By Ash, Oak and Thorn
    The Question: If you could accompany any fictional character on their journey, quest, voyage or adventure, who would you choose?
    The Poem: 'Dear March- Come In' by Emily Dickinson
    The Cake: Spiced Carrot and Coconut Cake
    The Classical Music Piece: 'Carmen Suite no1. 3 Intermezzo' by Georges Bizet
    Mentioned:
    The Women's Prize for Fiction:
    www.womensprize.com/
    March TBR | Irish Readathon TBR:
    • March TBR | Irish Read...
    Dune 2
    Kin Series 1 & 2 on iPlayer
    Derry Girls
    Dulblin Murders
    Sing Street
    Gousto stuff:
    Use this link:
    www.gousto.co.uk/raf/?promo_code=LAURE37552982&
    You get 65% off your first box, then 25% off the first two months, and I get £20 credit.
    Gousto recipes I discussed:
    Baked meat free mince meatballs with linguine
    Halloumi and courgette tray bake
    Warm honey roasted roots and grain bowl
    Spanish style shakshuka with garlic aioli

КОМЕНТАРІ • 37

  • @winesaboutbooks
    @winesaboutbooks 3 місяці тому

    The paint by numbers photo is so cool!!!

  • @Paintspotsandpaper
    @Paintspotsandpaper 5 місяців тому +1

    Absolutely love the dress you wore to David’s dad’s, it looked beautiful with the red hair. I’d most definitely like to join Claire from Outlander, such an adventure and being in Scotland in those times and then the bittersweet feeling when revisiting the castles in the present.

  • @anitahayne8621
    @anitahayne8621 5 місяців тому +2

    You and David are such creative and artistic people. Your decision to make gifts, for your family and friends, is lovely and very thoughtful. I would be thrilled to receive a gift that was created just for me. David might like to check out the website for Modern Folk Embroidery. The cross stitch patterns are designed by a man from the Netherlands.

  • @wooshell11
    @wooshell11 5 місяців тому +2

    I have read via audio So Late in the Day, Small Things Like These and Foster this year. I had not heard of Claire Keegan until last year. Foster is really beautiful but the ending is heartbreaking, so prepare yourself Lauren! 💔

  • @wordsofclover
    @wordsofclover 4 місяці тому

    I'm here for all the green! My favourite Irish film is definitely The Quiet Girl - so beautiful, and I also love The Snapper (though lots of outdated problematic bits), and I have also loved Into the West since I was a kid (it's from 1992 with Gabriel Byrne in it, and Brendan Gleeson cause he's in everything).

  • @MeMyDogAndBooks
    @MeMyDogAndBooks 5 місяців тому +1

    LOVING the green wardrobe

  • @penhallj
    @penhallj 5 місяців тому +1

    Banshees of Inisheeran for a Irish Film!

  • @katherineduffy8456
    @katherineduffy8456 4 місяці тому

    I'm also Irish, and I second someone else's suggestion of The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin as an Irish film. It's beautiful and heartbreaking AND based on Foster by Claire Keegan. A lot of it is in Irish (Gaelic) but with subtitles. As a journey/quest I think I'd choose Lucy Honeychurch's visit to Florence in A Room With a View.

  • @Robert-sy1wf
    @Robert-sy1wf 3 місяці тому

    Funny watching your cookin segments... u trigger my alexa:😅 so I have to cancel the 30min timer

  • @emmas7045
    @emmas7045 5 місяців тому

    I'd love to join Bilbo Baggins and the dwarves on their journey in The Hobbit, or maybe the children in Narnia!

  • @jenniferlovesbooks
    @jenniferlovesbooks 5 місяців тому

    I would accompany Alice on her journey in Wonderland! (Although it would be a bit unnerving!)

  • @heidirgreen
    @heidirgreen 5 місяців тому

    dresses with sweater vests!

  • @natasagajic1061
    @natasagajic1061 5 місяців тому

    Regarding the journey/quest/adventure question, if we're talking strictly about books, I'd love to join the female friend group/found family in European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (Athena Club book 2) by Theodora Goss, where the girls hop on the Orient Express and go on adventure throughout Europe tasting all the lovely European food along the way and meeting cool magical women (now that I think about it, it might be a lovely idea for a spring reread) 💖
    Also, regarding the carrot cake, I'd have to say that I agree with your dad - coming from a south-eastern European country where we put carrots exclusively in savory dishes, I never understood the appeal of a carrot _cake_ 😂

  • @cathymullan9618
    @cathymullan9618 5 місяців тому

    Irish films... The Guard is the best there is!

  • @alisonhood2190
    @alisonhood2190 5 місяців тому

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️ you guys

  • @rukbat3
    @rukbat3 5 місяців тому

    I have three potential answers to the question! Either I would like to go on errantry with Kit and Nita from the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane, or I would like to help solve puzzles in the joint dream space in An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green, or I would like to go on a scavenger hunt around London with the characters from Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James by Paula Danziger!

  • @Yellowrose871
    @Yellowrose871 5 місяців тому +5

    Morning ☺️ can’t you wear the dresses with different shoes/tights/cardigans so it’s a different outfit? It feels such a shame for them to be a one time wear!

    • @LaurenAndTheBooks
      @LaurenAndTheBooks  5 місяців тому

      I think you are right and I could!

    • @wooshell11
      @wooshell11 5 місяців тому

      This is exactly what I was thinking too. They are too lovely to only wear once all year!

  • @michellehyland3675
    @michellehyland3675 5 місяців тому

    Hi Lauren from Ireland 🇮🇪. Do watch The Quiet Girl, The Committments, Aftersun, The Banshees of Inisireen. For TV series try Smother, Hidden Assets, Blackshore.

    • @LaurenAndTheBooks
      @LaurenAndTheBooks  5 місяців тому

      Thank you so much for all your recommendations! You’ve reminded me I’ve been meaning to watch The Commitments for ages!

    • @michellehyland3675
      @michellehyland3675 5 місяців тому

      @@LaurenAndTheBooks Hi Lauren. You are very welcome. I hope that you find something to watch that you enjoy. I would definitely endorse "Dublin Murders."

  • @VanessaButtino
    @VanessaButtino 5 місяців тому

    Do you realize how often you pull your hair out and put the strands on the floor? I say this because when I was younger, I constantly twirled strands of my hair around my fingers. It was like a nervous impulse I had. Until someone pointed it out to me, I hadn't noticed I was constantly doing it. Then I cut my hair really short and couldn't twirl anymore - that fixed the problem! LOL

    • @lesleylickley2207
      @lesleylickley2207 4 місяці тому

      That's very rude. Lauren spends a lot of her personal time making these videos.

    • @VanessaButtino
      @VanessaButtino 4 місяці тому

      @@lesleylickley2207I'm sorry you feel that way. I certainly didn't intend on being rude or upsetting anyone, that's why I told a similar story about myself.

  • @emoore6602
    @emoore6602 5 місяців тому

    I made the same cake as you last month and found it almost bitter tasting! I think gram flour isn't for me. Not in cakes anyway!

  • @BallroomPink
    @BallroomPink 4 місяці тому

    I got a different paint-by-number kit and I still need to finish it. Why does yours have two different numbers?

    • @BallroomPink
      @BallroomPink 4 місяці тому

      Also, mine said to start at the top, and with the darkest colors first.

  • @heidirgreen
    @heidirgreen 5 місяців тому

    You said 35 minutes to the Alexa and then when it repeated the time it sounded like it said 45 minutes - hence the burn.

  • @ephrussi9765
    @ephrussi9765 5 місяців тому

    Lauren - I love your vlogs. But your habit is distracting. You pull your hands through your hair - and discard loose strands onto your floor. It's non-stop. Stop it, if you can.

    • @darklycheerful
      @darklycheerful 5 місяців тому +2

      This is so incredibly rude! Just because you love someone’s vlogs doesn’t mean you’re entitled to have a say in their habits. You didn’t even ask, you just demanded. She doesn’t know you!

    • @LaurenAndTheBooks
      @LaurenAndTheBooks  5 місяців тому +4

      So pleased you enjoy the vlogs, but your comment about my habit isn’t very kind at all. If it bothers you that much, please stop watching.

    • @ephrussi9765
      @ephrussi9765 5 місяців тому +1

      You are right. I was unkind. And I'm sorry.@@LaurenAndTheBooks

    • @ephrussi9765
      @ephrussi9765 5 місяців тому +1

      You are right!@@darklycheerful

  • @penhallj
    @penhallj 5 місяців тому

    Banshees of Inisheeran for a Irish Film!

    • @LaurenAndTheBooks
      @LaurenAndTheBooks  5 місяців тому

      We watched that a few years ago and v much enjoyed it!