Best books - A Closed and Common Orbit, Good Material, Birnam Wood, Sea of Tranquility Biggest disappointments - The Writing Retreat, All Systems Red, The Thirty Names of Night Biggest surprises - Seven Days in June, Nevada, Pride and Prejudice Priority reads - My Brilliant Friend, The Handmaids Tale, The Book Thief love your videos and your recommendations!!
I discovered claire keegan this year too and have really loved her work❤️ My favourite of the ones i’ve read is small things like these, highly recommend it!
@@LydLoves My favorite was Royal Assasin! Which is not a good rec because you've already read it lol. But my second favorite was a feminist non-fiction called The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan, I thought it was quite genius! Reading feminist theory from a philosopher's perspective is always something else.
I have read 70 books so far this year and my favorites have been Foster by Clair Keegan, Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Agawa and The Mad Womens Ball by Victoria Mas. I have thankfully been really lucky this year with so many 4 and 5 star books, last year there were so many duds.
Intermezzo was honestly incredible (I was lucky enough to get an arc) - the saddest, most bleakest Rooney ever but my god... I think you'll really enjoy it!
ive read 16 books so far, and the best one was the gray house by mariam petrosyan (it was my third reread and i dont think ill ever grow to dislike this book. i read it first as a teenager and its just in my bones now), the most disappointing was the awakening by kate chopin (i just was expecting something different from it because i heard about it as an example of early feminist fiction and so i had certain expectations. still, wild that this book was considered so scandalous it destroyed chopins career. and the ending really got me), the most surprising one was earthlings by sayaka murata (i bought it because of a cute hedgehog on the cover as a gift for my friend who likes hedgehogs. well. there was a cute hedgehog in the book, yes, but there also was cannibalism and some other fun stuff). and my new favourite author is sayaka murata, i cant wait to get my hands on 'life ceremony' by her
@@LydLoves the gray house is really peculiar, its more vibes- and character based rather than plot based, so it doesnt work for some people. i haven't read anything like it before or since. i would love to hear your opinion of it!
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Best books - A Closed and Common Orbit, Good Material, Birnam Wood, Sea of Tranquility
Biggest disappointments - The Writing Retreat, All Systems Red, The Thirty Names of Night
Biggest surprises - Seven Days in June, Nevada, Pride and Prejudice
Priority reads - My Brilliant Friend, The Handmaids Tale, The Book Thief
love your videos and your recommendations!!
Thank you so much! I really need to check out Birnam Wood, have heard such good things!
Hi, Lydia, me and my best friend enjoyed watching this. We found some more recommendations for the best books to check out.
Glad you enjoyed it!
LOVED "the housekeeper and the professor"! such a great read
Its a new favourite for sure!
Love the poison wood bible! Hoping to reread soon :)
It’s soo good!!!
My most anticipated is also Intermezzo.
I can’t wait!
I discovered claire keegan this year too and have really loved her work❤️ My favourite of the ones i’ve read is small things like these, highly recommend it!
I'm so excited, I just got her book, So Late in the Day, which I'll be reading very soon!
@@LydLoves really enjoyed that one as well!
Loved finding you! We read very similarly (our most read genres and moods stats look so much alike lol) and we even rate things in a similar way!
I love that!! What was your best of the year so far? I'd love a recc!
@@LydLoves My favorite was Royal Assasin! Which is not a good rec because you've already read it lol. But my second favorite was a feminist non-fiction called The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan, I thought it was quite genius! Reading feminist theory from a philosopher's perspective is always something else.
I need to read the Poisonwood Bible! Sounds so good
Its soo good, I really think you'd like it!
I've been planning to read Moby Dick in July all year and now with it fast approaching I am so nervous and excited....
You should go for it!! (I've never read it though!)
This video was so fun. Definitely going to put the first 3 books u liked most in my TBR📚
Yay! Thank you! Hope you enjoy!
I have read 70 books so far this year and my favorites have been Foster by Clair Keegan, Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Agawa and The Mad Womens Ball by Victoria Mas. I have thankfully been really lucky this year with so many 4 and 5 star books, last year there were so many duds.
So glad you loved Foster and the Housekeeper and the Professor too! I'll have to check out the Mad Women's Ball
Intermezzo was honestly incredible (I was lucky enough to get an arc) - the saddest, most bleakest Rooney ever but my god... I think you'll really enjoy it!
Ah, I'm so jealous! I can't wait, but I'll be ready to cry!!
at first i thought intermezzo is here referenced to a Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's book that he wrote in 1908.
Oh maybe it does reference that!
@@LydLovesdoubt so, intermezzo is a musical term, it's a music that plays between acts in theatre or opera
favourite book of the year so far is joan by katherine j chen it's so good such a beautiful rendition of joan of arc
Sounds amazing, i'll have to check it out!
ive read 16 books so far, and the best one was the gray house by mariam petrosyan (it was my third reread and i dont think ill ever grow to dislike this book. i read it first as a teenager and its just in my bones now), the most disappointing was the awakening by kate chopin (i just was expecting something different from it because i heard about it as an example of early feminist fiction and so i had certain expectations. still, wild that this book was considered so scandalous it destroyed chopins career. and the ending really got me), the most surprising one was earthlings by sayaka murata (i bought it because of a cute hedgehog on the cover as a gift for my friend who likes hedgehogs. well. there was a cute hedgehog in the book, yes, but there also was cannibalism and some other fun stuff). and my new favourite author is sayaka murata, i cant wait to get my hands on 'life ceremony' by her
Ooh I’ll have to check out Gray House! And I really want to read Earthlings too, I’m so intrigued
@@LydLoves the gray house is really peculiar, its more vibes- and character based rather than plot based, so it doesnt work for some people. i haven't read anything like it before or since. i would love to hear your opinion of it!
Half the year already! That’s too fast ❤
I know, time flies!!
Have recently read Soldier, Sailor by Claire Keegan. I recognised myself struggling with my babies. I think you will really like it.
I have read it! And really enjoyed it too! I think its by Claire Kilroy though!
@@LydLoves yes you are right. Didn't realise there was a Keegan and a Kilroy.
My most disappointing book has been a claire kegan one! I'd heard so much hype about her recently so read so late in the day and it was just ok...🤷♀️
Oh no! Maybe I won't do that one yet!
Why is the UK Grace of Kings so much prettier than the US version 🥲 (most UK covers are better haha)
Oh wow they couldn’t be more different too! Such different vibes!