I couldn’t believe Jennifer’s passing when I saw the memorial from her mom last week. My heart aches. A few books on my shelf due to Jen’s recommendations. Miss her. Thank you Kate, for honoring Jennifer here.
Kate, thank you for the lovely tribute to Jennifer. I adored her channel and learned so much from her. It's just obscene that she should die so young, and my heart aches for her mother. As I'm not much of a commenter I regret that I had never told her just how much I valued her. And the first person I thought of who I should say the same to is you, who I feel the same way about. Thank you, too, my dear, you are also a treasure.
Oh Susan, I'm so sorry that you also have been hit hard by the death of Jennifer! Obscene really does feel like the right word. I can't imagine what her mother is going through. Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I really appreciate it.
I can't believe Jennifer passed away. So heartbreaking! I appreciated what you had to say about her. Definitely praying for all her loved ones! I can't even imagine what they must be feeling right now. I'm glad you've got some Jean Little. I love her children's historical fiction.
Hi Kate, Thank you for this list. Since you were the second to recommend A Year of Wonder, I just bought two copies: one as a gift, and one for myself. (We need something to get us through winter in the Midwest! I found a few playlists for the book collated on UA-cam. Clemency Burton-Hill has also done a few UA-cam videos promoting/describing the book--- interesting to get a feel for the author behind the "voice." So far, it's been interesting to be able to listen to a few versions of each piece. One can really go down rabbit holes with the signposts she's created. By the way, the search for this title also brought up a book tuber posting as "Book Traveller," a British retired accountant who spent five years in South Africa. He ceased taping a couple years ago, but his video of "Ten Books About Me" is quite endearing, a window into the life of a wonderful person. Worth watching.
I also loved reading 'Howards End is on the Landing' though I like Jane Austen much more than she does. The Classical Music book sounds lovely, I think it would add to my life. Jennifer brought a lot of joy to other people on booktube with her deep dives into subjects and accessible manner, she is very much missed.
I cannot thank you enough for your kind thoughts about Jennifer. It still brings tears to my eyes as I pray for her family, friends and all you who loved her through BookTube. I am eager to hear your thoughts on Lectio Divina. 🙏 Coincidentally, I happen to volunteer at the same Heritage Museum with Ginny Kibitz Moyer’s mother! I think you will enjoy The Seeing Garden!
Kate, a really good pastor friend of mine is always raving about his favourite book of prayer, “The Valley of Vision,” by Arthur Bennett. Fount of Heaven is on my TBR, too! Can’t wait to hear how you enjoy it!
Happy New Year, Kate and thank you for highlighting 'This Homeward Ache,' I am so intrigued! Thanks as well for your graceful tribute to Jennifer, I know that was not easy to deliver Somehow, after nearly 2 years Booktubing it up, I took proper notice of Jennifer's channel only about 6 months ago. Jennifer's enthusiasm and intelligence reignited my love of historical non-fiction by leaps and bounds. I was still forging thru her amazing catalogue when her mom's sad video popped up last week. I clicked on it, expecting to watch a eulogy from Jennifer in honor of a recently deceased author, so the actual content was a gut-punch. Sending love and prayers to the Brooks family and glad tidings to all the Heavenly angels who I know will become very well-read in no time...
great book haul! I have Howards End is on the Landing - I need to read it! I just finished Marcia Willett's "Three Weeks in Winter" and really enjoyed it. She did remind me of Rosamund Pilcher. Belva Plain is another author that I remember liking as well as Rosamund's stories.
I admit I thought it was some twisted joke too when I saw someone's comments on Steve Donoghue saying Jennifer brought them to his channel, but that she had passed. I had to go to her channel, because I hadn't watched the video her mother posted. I loved her channel and she inspired me to give Anne Rice another shot and get into Bernard Cornwall.
Hi Kate! I absolutely love Elizabeth Cadell! I’d recommend Family Gathering, Consider the Lilies, and Language of the Heart! She is such a lovely cozy author. I hope you enjoy her!
It is so hard to process the news about Jennifer, she will be missed. What a fun haul, so many titles I want to check out - the classical music book and the books on prayer and the Farmer's Wife, they all sound so fabulous. I hope you enjoy Elizabeth Cadell!
You find the best books! I am with you on the food sensitivities. It makes cooking and eating such a trial. I think we will all be mourning the loss of Jenny for a long time.
I discovered Susanna Spurgeon's wonderful writings through another devotional, called Seasons of the Heart: A year of Devotions from One Generation of Women to Another. I'll have to read Morning Devotions!
Your words on Jennifer were very thoughtful. I was so shocked and truly sad when I found out. It still feels weird and almost unreal. Excited for your book haul! New Year books are so exciting and delightful. 🧡
Lovely tribute to Jennifer Kate, couldn’t agree more. I love how you buy multiple books in a series at once even though you haven’t read any yet, the faith that you will enjoy them 👍 Thank you for reminding me about Mandrake too, that took me back a few decades!
My copy of Howard’s End is on the landing is smothered in post-it arrows and I’m definitely looking for Jacob’s Room now that I know about it. Happy reading year!
Amazing haul! I can't wait to hear how you like the Elizabeth Cadell books! I've read one or two of hers and really enjoyed them. I'll have to check out that publishing house! I wish I had got the Heaven Tree trilogy in three volumes instead of a bind-up. My copy is a chunker, haha
Thank you, Elizabeth! I'm very excited to finally try Elizabeth Cadell...The individual volumes of The Heaven Tree Trilogy are readily available online so you could also acquire them at some point.
I'm surprised I never came across Jennifer's channel. She seemed lovely and I do thank-you for sharing her story with us. My favorite Jean Little book? Stand In The Wind. Oh my, I keep rereading that one through the years and really, I think you'd love it. Oh, and Winterbound sounds perfect--how have I never heard of that one?
What a fantastic book haul. I hate to admit I don’t recognize most of the titles, though I know some of the authors-including Amy Baik Lee of This Homeward Ache who I’ve actually met. She’s delightful, and the little of her writing I’ve read is beautiful. Aaaahhhh! So many good books! How do you have time to read so many?
You are the first booktuber to mention Jennifer. I was upset and so shocked at the news. I had just watched a video she had posted. Thank you for your tribute to her.
I still can't believe that Jennifer has left us. It was so sad and unexpected. On a lighter note, I got Year of Wonder, too, and have been listening to its selections every day. I love classical music but I sometimes feel like I don't know as much about it or haven't listened as widely as I would have liked so I thought it might be a good idea to help me discover great works and broaden my horizons. I can't wait to hear your thoughts about all those books and hope you have a wonderful reading year and many good energy days!
Loved this blog so much! I’m a very eclectic reader, so I can’t wait to get ahold of some of these books. I read Baby Island in 5th grade (51 years ago) and loved it so much. I found an old copy at Goodwill a few years ago and reread it - it was just as good then as it was when I was 10! Happy reading!
Hi Kate. As I predominantly read classics, I have a limited history of fantasy reading, but I do remember reading the Duncton Chronicles shortly after they were first released and thoroughly enjoyed them. Am keen to hear your thoughts once you have finished Duncton Wood. I agree: Dane Ortland's books are a real encouragement. Another wonderful book of collected prayers is Tim Chester's 'Into His Presence: Praying with the Puritans'. Have you come across it? Of course, 'The Valley of Vision' is still the best in my humble opinion :) Regards, Kim.
I gave Elijah Year of Wonder for Christmas. He loves books about music theory, songwriting, well anything music related and he was very happy to get that one. I love the idea of introducing yourself to so many pieces and then just enjoying those throughout the year. I'm jotting down lots of books from your book haul!
What a great book haul! I hope you enjoy all these new books! I'm excited you're going to try Jean Little... my favourite of hers growing up was Stand in the Wind.
Oh my, that's quite a stack! We visited a dear older friend during Christmas. She and her husband, who was a bishop, have quite the collection of books. She gave me permission to borrow, but i limited myself. Prayer is a key topic, and discipline, i seem to be drawn to this year, too, so i took some books on prayer from her collection. I'm interested to hear what you glean from those you purchased/were given.
@katehowereads The two on prayer specifically are Living Prayer by Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) and Six Ways to Pray from Six Great Saints. Have you read Pray Big by Alistair Begg? Two friends (twins, actually) highly recommended it to me. I haven't picked it up yet, but I trust their judgment.
What a lovely book haul! I also have The Highly Trained Dogs of Professor Petit, the Marcia Willett books AND the Susan Hill book on my shelves with hopes to get to them this year. Let me know if you’d like to buddy read any of them. 😊
I stumbled upon Marcia Willet some years ago and have read all her books I could find. Really liked them all. Also I have Lenten Lands on hold at my library and looking forward to reading it. Always appreciate your recommendations. Thanks,!
If you like Dane Ortlund, his brother Gavin has a UA-cam channel. I'm Catholic, but I appreciate his commentary on certain subjects (if you're interested.) :) Hope you are doing well Kate!
I am also still in shock. I thought it was some kind of a joke too. She was just so young. I really liked Elizabeth Cadell. Where did you find her books?
I enjoyed Willett’s A Week in Winter. It was very much like Pilcher. If you enjoy spiritual books, try Joan Chittister’s The Rule of Benedict and others. Also Marina Wiederkehr and Joyce Rupp. I’m sure you have probably read Thomas Merton, but if not definitely his. New Seeds of Contemplation, Dialogues with Silence and No Man is an Island are some good ones. I look forward to hearing what you have to say about Helen Rebanks book. That’s one that I want to read. Also want hear about the Cadell ones, as I loved the one that I read, Iris in Winter? Did you read The Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson? I loved that one too. She also was kind of DES like.
Are the Duncan Wood books appropriate for an almost 15yo? She’s a Redwall fanatic and I’m always looking for similar things. Fount of Heaven sounds intriguing.
Hmm There are some mentions of the moles mating and one brutal instance of mole cannibalism. I'd ask Darryl since he actually has a kid that age and might have a better idea if it's appropriate for them.
I was absolutely floored by Jennifer's death as well. She was one of my favorites on here and will be greatly missed.
Jennifer’s passing is so hard to absorb. Such a loss to this community and to her family.😔
Still in shock over Jennifer’s passing. I also thought it was a cruel joke at first. She will never be forgotten. ❤
I couldn’t believe Jennifer’s passing when I saw the memorial from her mom last week. My heart aches.
A few books on my shelf due to Jen’s recommendations.
Miss her.
Thank you Kate, for honoring Jennifer here.
She had such a wonderful way of conveying what was wonderful about the books she loved.
Your kind words about Jennifer were a lovely tribute to her. You always find such interesting books! I have added several to my want list.
Kate, thank you for the lovely tribute to Jennifer. I adored her channel and learned so much from her. It's just obscene that she should die so young, and my heart aches for her mother. As I'm not much of a commenter I regret that I had never told her just how much I valued her. And the first person I thought of who I should say the same to is you, who I feel the same way about. Thank you, too, my dear, you are also a treasure.
Oh Susan, I'm so sorry that you also have been hit hard by the death of Jennifer! Obscene really does feel like the right word. I can't imagine what her mother is going through.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I really appreciate it.
I can't believe Jennifer passed away. So heartbreaking! I appreciated what you had to say about her. Definitely praying for all her loved ones! I can't even imagine what they must be feeling right now.
I'm glad you've got some Jean Little. I love her children's historical fiction.
I was so shocked by the news about Jennifer's passing. I just hope that her mom know how much we cared for Jenny and will miss her in this community.
She was an integral part of it! She will be able to see all the comments on the In Memory video.
Hi Kate,
Thank you for this list. Since you were the second to recommend A Year of Wonder, I just bought two copies: one as a gift, and one for myself. (We need something to get us through winter in the Midwest! I found a few playlists for the book collated on UA-cam. Clemency Burton-Hill has also done a few UA-cam videos promoting/describing the book--- interesting to get a feel for the author behind the "voice." So far, it's been interesting to be able to listen to a few versions of each piece. One can really go down rabbit holes with the signposts she's created.
By the way, the search for this title also brought up a book tuber posting as "Book Traveller," a British retired accountant who spent five years in South Africa. He ceased taping a couple years ago, but his video of "Ten Books About Me" is quite endearing, a window into the life of a wonderful person. Worth watching.
I also loved reading 'Howards End is on the Landing' though I like Jane Austen much more than she does. The Classical Music book sounds lovely, I think it would add to my life.
Jennifer brought a lot of joy to other people on booktube with her deep dives into subjects and accessible manner, she is very much missed.
❤🎉 A beautiful tribute to Jennifer
I'll be watching for final thoughts of these new books!❤
I cannot thank you enough for your kind thoughts about Jennifer. It still brings tears to my eyes as I pray for her family, friends and all you who loved her through BookTube.
I am eager to hear your thoughts on Lectio Divina. 🙏
Coincidentally, I happen to volunteer at the same Heritage Museum with Ginny Kibitz Moyer’s mother! I think you will enjoy The Seeing Garden!
The Marcia Willett series is wonderful!! I also love her A Week in Winter, too.
Kate, a really good pastor friend of mine is always raving about his favourite book of prayer, “The Valley of Vision,” by Arthur Bennett. Fount of Heaven is on my TBR, too! Can’t wait to hear how you enjoy it!
Happy New Year, Kate and thank you for highlighting 'This Homeward Ache,' I am so intrigued! Thanks as well for your graceful tribute to Jennifer, I know that was not easy to deliver Somehow, after nearly 2 years Booktubing it up, I took proper notice of Jennifer's channel only about 6 months ago. Jennifer's enthusiasm and intelligence reignited my love of historical non-fiction by leaps and bounds. I was still forging thru her amazing catalogue when her mom's sad video popped up last week. I clicked on it, expecting to watch a eulogy from Jennifer in honor of a recently deceased author, so the actual content was a gut-punch. Sending love and prayers to the Brooks family and glad tidings to all the Heavenly angels who I know will become very well-read in no time...
Happy New Year to you! I'm really looking forward to getting to This Homeward Ache...Booktube definitely seems incomplete without Jenny.
A cozy mole fantasy series?! Yes please!
So true about Jennifer, still can’t believe she’s gone 💔
Right?! I'm really loving it so far and I hope it stays that way
It's going to feel surreal for a very long time.
great book haul! I have Howards End is on the Landing - I need to read it! I just finished Marcia Willett's "Three Weeks in Winter" and really enjoyed it. She did remind me of Rosamund Pilcher. Belva Plain is another author that I remember liking as well as Rosamund's stories.
A leap year! I didn’t know! ❤️🐰
I admit I thought it was some twisted joke too when I saw someone's comments on Steve Donoghue saying Jennifer brought them to his channel, but that she had passed. I had to go to her channel, because I hadn't watched the video her mother posted. I loved her channel and she inspired me to give Anne Rice another shot and get into Bernard Cornwall.
Hi Kate! I absolutely love Elizabeth Cadell! I’d recommend Family Gathering, Consider the Lilies, and Language of the Heart! She is such a lovely cozy author. I hope you enjoy her!
How fun! I will definitely keep this recommendation in mind!
It is so hard to process the news about Jennifer, she will be missed. What a fun haul, so many titles I want to check out - the classical music book and the books on prayer and the Farmer's Wife, they all sound so fabulous. I hope you enjoy Elizabeth Cadell!
You find the best books! I am with you on the food sensitivities. It makes cooking and eating such a trial. I think we will all be mourning the loss of Jenny for a long time.
Food sensitivities really are so inconvenient especially for spending time with friends...Booktube will never be the same without her.
I discovered Susanna Spurgeon's wonderful writings through another devotional, called Seasons of the Heart: A year of Devotions from One Generation of Women to Another. I'll have to read Morning Devotions!
That sounds wonderful too!
Your words on Jennifer were very thoughtful. I was so shocked and truly sad when I found out. It still feels weird and almost unreal.
Excited for your book haul! New Year books are so exciting and delightful. 🧡
Lovely tribute to Jennifer Kate, couldn’t agree more. I love how you buy multiple books in a series at once even though you haven’t read any yet, the faith that you will enjoy them 👍 Thank you for reminding me about Mandrake too, that took me back a few decades!
She was truly remarkable...I mean, what if I love the first in the series and instantly absolutely must start the second one! 😆
My copy of Howard’s End is on the landing is smothered in post-it arrows and I’m definitely looking for Jacob’s Room now that I know about it. Happy reading year!
How fun! I hope you enjoy Jacob's Room is Full of Books!
I enjoyed learning what books are in your haul, Kate, especially your Christian ones. Jennifer was a lovely person!
Amazing haul! I can't wait to hear how you like the Elizabeth Cadell books! I've read one or two of hers and really enjoyed them. I'll have to check out that publishing house! I wish I had got the Heaven Tree trilogy in three volumes instead of a bind-up. My copy is a chunker, haha
Thank you, Elizabeth! I'm very excited to finally try Elizabeth Cadell...The individual volumes of The Heaven Tree Trilogy are readily available online so you could also acquire them at some point.
I'm surprised I never came across Jennifer's channel. She seemed lovely and I do thank-you for sharing her story with us. My favorite Jean Little book? Stand In The Wind. Oh my, I keep rereading that one through the years and really, I think you'd love it. Oh, and Winterbound sounds perfect--how have I never heard of that one?
She has a wonderful backlog for you...Good to get another Jean Little recommendation!
What a fantastic book haul. I hate to admit I don’t recognize most of the titles, though I know some of the authors-including Amy Baik Lee of This Homeward Ache who I’ve actually met. She’s delightful, and the little of her writing I’ve read is beautiful. Aaaahhhh! So many good books! How do you have time to read so many?
One of my girls gave me This Homeward Ache. I am so excited to read it.
So fun! I hope we both love it!
You are the first booktuber to mention Jennifer. I was upset and so shocked at the news. I had just watched a video she had posted. Thank you for your tribute to her.
She really was wonderful 💜 Faith and Books just did a wonderful tribute video to her and Emma from Bookish Princess spoke about her in a video today.
I still can't believe that Jennifer has left us. It was so sad and unexpected.
On a lighter note, I got Year of Wonder, too, and have been listening to its selections every day. I love classical music but I sometimes feel like I don't know as much about it or haven't listened as widely as I would have liked so I thought it might be a good idea to help me discover great works and broaden my horizons.
I can't wait to hear your thoughts about all those books and hope you have a wonderful reading year and many good energy days!
That *was* a big ol' book haul 😆and they all look fantastic! Just heartbroken about Jennifer and your tribute to her was beautiful. ❤
Loved this blog so much! I’m a very eclectic reader, so I can’t wait to get ahold of some of these books. I read Baby Island in 5th grade (51 years ago) and loved it so much. I found an old copy at Goodwill a few years ago and reread it - it was just as good then as it was when I was 10! Happy reading!
Thank you! Oooh thank you for sharing this! That is wonderful when a book can hold up to a reread as an adult.
Hi Kate. As I predominantly read classics, I have a limited history of fantasy reading, but I do remember reading the Duncton Chronicles shortly after they were first released and thoroughly enjoyed them. Am keen to hear your thoughts once you have finished Duncton Wood. I agree: Dane Ortland's books are a real encouragement. Another wonderful book of collected prayers is Tim Chester's 'Into His Presence: Praying with the Puritans'. Have you come across it? Of course, 'The Valley of Vision' is still the best in my humble opinion :) Regards, Kim.
I have not come across Tim Chester's Into His Presence but have enjoyed Valley of Vision. Such a beautiful window into their spirituality!
What a lovely book haul! I have several of these on my shelf waiting to be read!
That is a big book haul! That Susan Hill one looks amazing. 😍
I gave Elijah Year of Wonder for Christmas. He loves books about music theory, songwriting, well anything music related and he was very happy to get that one. I love the idea of introducing yourself to so many pieces and then just enjoying those throughout the year. I'm jotting down lots of books from your book haul!
So fun! I hope he enjoys it too.
I am very intrigued by pretty much all of your devotional books.
I loved “Deeper!” Great great book!
I'm sooo SAD to hear about Jennifer!! 💔😢 I loved her the same as you said. Her interests in certain books. 😓💔💔💔
Such a big loss to booktube.
What a great book haul! I hope you enjoy all these new books! I'm excited you're going to try Jean Little... my favourite of hers growing up was Stand in the Wind.
Thank you, Chelsea!..I'll keep that recommendation in mind!
Oh my, that's quite a stack! We visited a dear older friend during Christmas. She and her husband, who was a bishop, have quite the collection of books. She gave me permission to borrow, but i limited myself. Prayer is a key topic, and discipline, i seem to be drawn to this year, too, so i took some books on prayer from her collection. I'm interested to hear what you glean from those you purchased/were given.
So fun to get to borrow books from a friend! What are some of the books on prayer you will be trying?
@katehowereads The two on prayer specifically are Living Prayer by Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) and Six Ways to Pray from Six Great Saints.
Have you read Pray Big by Alistair Begg? Two friends (twins, actually) highly recommended it to me. I haven't picked it up yet, but I trust their judgment.
What a lovely book haul! I also have The Highly Trained Dogs of Professor Petit, the Marcia Willett books AND the Susan Hill book on my shelves with hopes to get to them this year. Let me know if you’d like to buddy read any of them. 😊
Oooh! I would love to do some buddy reading with you! Shall we start off with The Highly Trained Dogs during Middle Grade March?
@@katehowereads yes, let's do it! :)
I stumbled upon Marcia Willet some years ago and have read all her books I could find. Really liked them all. Also I have Lenten Lands on hold at my library and looking forward to reading it. Always appreciate your recommendations. Thanks,!
I hope you enjoy Lenten Lands!
Oh my goodness, that is such shocking and unexpected news about Jennifer..wow...comfort and strength to her family
Adding many more books to my TBR.
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If you like Dane Ortlund, his brother Gavin has a UA-cam channel. I'm Catholic, but I appreciate his commentary on certain subjects (if you're interested.) :) Hope you are doing well Kate!
I am also still in shock. I thought it was some kind of a joke too. She was just so young. I really liked Elizabeth Cadell. Where did you find her books?
I enjoyed Willett’s A Week in Winter. It was very much like Pilcher.
If you enjoy spiritual books, try Joan Chittister’s The Rule of Benedict and others. Also Marina Wiederkehr and Joyce Rupp. I’m sure you have probably read Thomas Merton, but if not definitely his. New Seeds of Contemplation, Dialogues with Silence and No Man is an Island are some good ones.
I look forward to hearing what you have to say about Helen Rebanks book. That’s one that I want to read. Also want hear about the Cadell ones, as I loved the one that I read, Iris in Winter? Did you read The Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson? I loved that one too. She also was kind of DES like.
Are the Duncan Wood books appropriate for an almost 15yo? She’s a Redwall fanatic and I’m always looking for similar things. Fount of Heaven sounds intriguing.
Hmm There are some mentions of the moles mating and one brutal instance of mole cannibalism. I'd ask Darryl since he actually has a kid that age and might have a better idea if it's appropriate for them.
What?😮😢😮😢 She was just on 12 days ago😢. I am sick 😫
It's really awful! It seems too terrible to be true.