I'm so grateful that you came up in my recommendations!! I'm forever looking for books to read next. I just finished 'Remarkable creatures' and loved it! Started on 'Queenie'. So so hyped that I'm never going to be in a reading rut again! Thank you! 😄
Sounds like a good reading month, definitely like the sound of the last book you talked about. Lola is honestly the cutest - I love the outro scene you made. Have a good one
Hi Jen, it's so lovely to hear your enthusiasm about the Nicci French series :) Tracey Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures is now on my wish list, thanks. I read Turning by Jessica Lee this year and loved it - so will definitely look up her next book. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) - which I very much enjoyed - was the last book I finished. Up next, I have Straight Down the Road by Dan Crawley (a flash fiction novella, and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens :)
I am reading a single thread and like you forgot how much I love Tracey chevalier's novels. I've read all of hers and was excited to see the newest one.
Half way thru Nicci French. Now on Thursday. Most in audio but 1st three were Susan Lyons and now it is Becky Chambers so I am having some problem with the change of voice with the narration. Love the series so not sure if I will continue with audio or go to print. All are such a great reads. Thank you, thank you for that recommendation. I'll let you know how I get on. Love your videos
I may have to read that Patterson series. I've been reading Robert B Parker thrillers/ murder mysteries. I read the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall series, now I'm plowing through the Spenser series. Off topic, but your skin looks great today, flawless and glowing. Happy Holidays. 🎄
I read 15/16 graphic novels in November, I think I'm burned out from graphic novels for right now so I think I will move on to some general fiction and romance this month!
Hahaha, I read 1st To Die and I actually really really liked it. However. However. I thought the women and their friendship felt so forced! I was really disappointed in that. I would have much preferred if they were friends before the series started instead of them meeting and becoming so incredibly close in such a short period of time. Then I tried to read the second book in the series and I could not do it. I DNF'd that series and I will just think about how fast paced and intense book one was. A Puff of Smoke sounds really great, I will add that to my list!
hahaha, such a coincidence, I literally JUST finished reading Remarkable Creatures before watching this video. I loved it so much too! I really want to pick up a lab of one’s own too it sounds fascinating. also, Ive had blue monday sitting on my shelf for years now and you’ve convinced me to finally pick it up. :’)
Recently read Notes on a Scandal and Autumn by Ali Smith (upon your recommendations) and loved them both. I listened to Notes on a Scandal on audiobook and the narrator was phenomenal. Next up, hoping to dive into Remarkable Creatures which will be my first Tracy Chevalier book.
Hi Jen. I got The Starless Star on release day but unlike most people I was very dissappointed by it. I found it convoluted and aimless. My favourite recent read was Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield. Wonderfully atmospheric with a touch of fairy=tale.
@@jenvcampbell I read my first Nicci French because of you and loved it! Thank you. Also quite surprised that you read Patterson... Might give him a try too.
So intrigued by Remarkable Creatures. I'm terrible with names, but I believe I read a bit about one of those women this past year... isn't the rhyme 'she sells seashells by the seashore' based on her? She discovered a lot of dinosaurs but men took credit for them/stole them?
That is believed to have been about Mary Anning, yes, though she didn't just sell sea shells. And yes, this novel is all about other people getting the credit for her work.
William Buckland really is an interesting chap (especially the fossil licking!). A couple of years ago I visited the cave in the Gower where he discovered the Red Lady of Paviland, and it was quite an experience. I’m fascinated by the extent to which Buckland relied on female geologists at the time for tip offs and samples - it was Mary Theresa Talbot who realised the significance of the Paviland cave and whose mother wrote to Buckland about it.
@@jenvcampbell Bones and Ochre by Marianne Sommer looks at the history of the Red Lady (who wasn't a lady), and Buckland plays a big part in it. I haven't read anything solely about Buckland though, but his own Reliquiæ Diluvianæ is interesting and full of interesting illustrations (including one of him exploring Paviland Cave in his top hat!)
detective inspector is the boss of someone who is just one of those, but i forget which one. Source: the resentful comments of the drunken divorced detective to the promoted policeman rival or vice versa in every whodunnit i ever read.
Anything James Patterson writes that has a name other than his own on the cover is really written by the other author; Patterson just pimps out his name to other authors who write the books and they rake in the bucks as bestsellers. The earlier ones, with only Patterson's name on the cover, ARE good - the best and only really good ones in the series. The others - forget it.
I love how your hat matches the mermaid! 😁
Priorities 😂
I'm so grateful that you came up in my recommendations!! I'm forever looking for books to read next. I just finished 'Remarkable creatures' and loved it! Started on 'Queenie'. So so hyped that I'm never going to be in a reading rut again! Thank you! 😄
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Sounds like a good reading month, definitely like the sound of the last book you talked about. Lola is honestly the cutest - I love the outro scene you made. Have a good one
Hi Jen, it's so lovely to hear your enthusiasm about the Nicci French series :)
Tracey Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures is now on my wish list, thanks.
I read Turning by Jessica Lee this year and loved it - so will definitely look up her next book. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) - which I very much enjoyed - was the last book I finished. Up next, I have Straight Down the Road by Dan Crawley (a flash fiction novella, and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens :)
I did a big happy squeak when you said about a video on the history of red riding hood :D x
normally i'm not sold on persephone books, but that one sounds amazing, i like realistic novels
wow, you have such enthusiasm! Great book suggestions. Remarkable creatures sounds really interesting.
It’s a good’un
I"m excited for your Little Red Riding Hood video!
I am reading a single thread and like you forgot how much I love Tracey chevalier's novels. I've read all of hers and was excited to see the newest one.
Half way thru Nicci French. Now on Thursday. Most in audio but 1st three were Susan Lyons and now it is Becky Chambers so I am having some problem with the change of voice with the narration. Love the series so not sure if I will continue with audio or go to print. All are such a great reads. Thank you, thank you for that recommendation. I'll let you know how I get on. Love your videos
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I may have to read that Patterson series. I've been reading Robert B Parker thrillers/ murder mysteries. I read the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall series, now I'm plowing through the Spenser series.
Off topic, but your skin looks great today, flawless and glowing.
Happy Holidays. 🎄
I read 15/16 graphic novels in November, I think I'm burned out from graphic novels for right now so I think I will move on to some general fiction and romance this month!
Hahaha, I read 1st To Die and I actually really really liked it. However. However. I thought the women and their friendship felt so forced! I was really disappointed in that. I would have much preferred if they were friends before the series started instead of them meeting and becoming so incredibly close in such a short period of time. Then I tried to read the second book in the series and I could not do it. I DNF'd that series and I will just think about how fast paced and intense book one was. A Puff of Smoke sounds really great, I will add that to my list!
hahaha, such a coincidence, I literally JUST finished reading Remarkable Creatures before watching this video. I loved it so much too!
I really want to pick up a lab of one’s own too it sounds fascinating. also, Ive had blue monday sitting on my shelf for years now and you’ve convinced me to finally pick it up. :’)
I hope you love it, too! x
The pumpkin eater by Penelope Mortimer is a great favourite of mine. Do try it
Recently read Notes on a Scandal and Autumn by Ali Smith (upon your recommendations) and loved them both. I listened to Notes on a Scandal on audiobook and the narrator was phenomenal. Next up, hoping to dive into Remarkable Creatures which will be my first Tracy Chevalier book.
Enjoy! And I may have to reread Notes on a Scandal on audiobook - good call! x
Hi Jen. I got The Starless Star on release day but unlike most people I was very dissappointed by it. I found it convoluted and aimless. My favourite recent read was Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield. Wonderfully atmospheric with a touch of fairy=tale.
Ah, that's a shame!
My mind is blown that you’re reading a James Patterson series. Cool. I might have to check that first one out.
I hope you like it; I enjoyed it a lot. The Frieda Klein series own my heart, though.
@@jenvcampbell I read my first Nicci French because of you and loved it! Thank you. Also quite surprised that you read Patterson... Might give him a try too.
So intrigued by Remarkable Creatures. I'm terrible with names, but I believe I read a bit about one of those women this past year... isn't the rhyme 'she sells seashells by the seashore' based on her? She discovered a lot of dinosaurs but men took credit for them/stole them?
That is believed to have been about Mary Anning, yes, though she didn't just sell sea shells. And yes, this novel is all about other people getting the credit for her work.
William Buckland really is an interesting chap (especially the fossil licking!). A couple of years ago I visited the cave in the Gower where he discovered the Red Lady of Paviland, and it was quite an experience. I’m fascinated by the extent to which Buckland relied on female geologists at the time for tip offs and samples - it was Mary Theresa Talbot who realised the significance of the Paviland cave and whose mother wrote to Buckland about it.
Do you have any recommendations for books on Buckland?
@@jenvcampbell Bones and Ochre by Marianne Sommer looks at the history of the Red Lady (who wasn't a lady), and Buckland plays a big part in it. I haven't read anything solely about Buckland though, but his own Reliquiæ Diluvianæ is interesting and full of interesting illustrations (including one of him exploring Paviland Cave in his top hat!)
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Love your books
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beautiful review as always
Thanks, Irene. x
Where’d you get your mermaid necklace! I want one!
merimeri.co.uk/products/mermaid-necklace
Desperate Housewives but set in the 1950s? I'm SOLD!
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detective inspector is the boss of someone who is just one of those, but i forget which one. Source: the resentful comments of the drunken divorced detective to the promoted policeman rival or vice versa in every whodunnit i ever read.
Anything James Patterson writes that has a name other than his own on the cover is really written by the other author; Patterson just pimps out his name to other authors who write the books and they rake in the bucks as bestsellers. The earlier ones, with only Patterson's name on the cover, ARE good - the best and only really good ones in the series. The others - forget it.
Donald Scott it became a business.