Bookish Catch-Up! Recent Reads, Highlights of 2023 & Book Projects for 2024
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- Hello! I'm having a bookish catch-up in this video, sharing my recent reads, my highlights from 2023 and some reading projects for 2024.
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Hercule Poirot's Silent Night by Sophie Hannah: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Crime at Christmas by C. H. B. Kitchin: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Another Little Christmas Murder by Lorna Nicholl Morgan: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Barsetshire Towers by Anthony Trollope: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Yoked with a Lamb by Molly Clavering: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Agency for Scandal by Laura Wood: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A Season for Scandal by Laura Wood: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Hello again! Do let me know your bookish highlights of 2023, and don't forget to download the free Winter Commonplace Book: www.mirandajanemills.com/wintercommonplacebook
Your Winter Commonplace Book was perfect for winter. I loved the artwork as well as the quotes. Recently, I finally was able to clean through my husband’s bookcases and found his Commonplace Book of sorts. A journal of quotes he had been collecting for years which I had never seen. He has been gone over 4 years now and this book will give our sons, as well as me, an insight into his interests. This was a lovely video. Thank you.❄️
What a special thing to have found, Glenda ❤️
I echo your sentiments about Mistletoe Malice, which I quickly abandoned, and The Long Shadow, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I know I don't speak for myself when I say how grateful we are for your creative year. We certainly reap the benefits! Seasons of Story is always stellar. Your contributors are terrific. The daily almanac is a little burst of ☀every day. Thank you for all of the readerly and aesthetic pleasures. Wishing you and your mom a healthy and joyful 2024! 📚 💚
Thank you so much for your lovely words and wonderful support, as always, Pamela! I so appreciate both! Hope you've got a fabulous 2024 ahead of you ❤️
Having been a follower of yours for sometime now it is delightful to see your work expanding, growing and going even more out into the world. I thank you for years of great book recommendations, beautiful photography and inspiration for beautiful living. Looking forward to this year ahead and to reading along with you and Donna. Happy 2024!
Thank you so much! ❤️
Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing the books you didn't enjoy so much - it's really good to know that I don't need to love everything I read! I really enjoy being part of the Bookish Almanac community, it's such a positive place and really has become part of my day - I highly recommend it for anyone who may be considering joining x
Thanks so much, Sue! ❤️
Hello Miranda, wishing you and Donna a very happy and successful 2024!
For a few years I read alot of children's book and then started listening to children books on audio. But I had to stop reading in general because of a neck injury so switched to audio books and started the adult ones. Really did enjoy and would be nice to do again so interested in the Girls gone by books. Enjoying your channel which just found recently and find you engaging and enjoy your descriptions of books.
Your description of “
Mistletoe Malice” exactly matched my experience lol. Glad it wasn’t just me.
Hello, dear Miranda, so lovely to have you back! Thank you for this interesting video, what fun projects you have going on this year. Since I joined your channel in December '22 one of my projects is to read all the Comfort Bookclub reads which I missed until then. There are still 8 on my list. Otherwise I plan on rereading Jane Austen and on reading all the Persephone books I bought last year in Bath during my summer holidays. They were all recommended by you. Once again I wish you and your mother a very happy new year and good health because I really think this is the most important thing to posess!!! My highlight of my christmas break was visiting my parents in Berlin and attending the famous silvester concert in the Philharmonie played by the Berliner Philharmoniker and conducted by Kirill Petrenko, whom I adore and whom I had never seen live. That made me extremely happy!!! Have a very lovely week!❤❤
Thank you so much for your amazing support and lovely comment, Inga! So kind of you - I really appreciate both ❤️ I love that you're reading through the Comfort Book Club backlist. Hope you have a wonderful year ahead of you!! xxx
It was really very refreshing to hear there are books you "don't" enjoy. When I read that you thought Georgette Meyer's "Why Shoot the Butler" was dreadful, I found myself smiling. You speak so warmly about so many of the authors and books you have read that I was starting to think there wasn't anything that would leave you cold. So thank you for your honesty.
Then you have not listened to or read all my reviews! Have a look at my recent review of Lessons in Chemistry, which was a fair review with good and bad, and although last year I adored 'The Wheel Spins,' for instance, I read another by the same author and said what a weird and not good book it is. If I don't like a book, I say so. Fortunately, I generally pick well., because I know my own taste. But I also make a lot of recommendations on certain themes - I obviously pick good books (or ones I like) for those.
One of my bookish highlights of 2023 was watching your videos. They are so inspiring and you and your Mom are like the book loving friend s I’ve never had and I’m 65. Another big highlight was going over to England for a month with my husband and visiting every bookstore we were near. We made it to Barter Books and Armchair Books and many more. We stuffed all our luggage with all the books we found. Thanks for all you do and for being such an inspiration. 💗💗🇨🇦
HappyNY. It is bitter cold in East Iowa US so it is delightful to see and hear you.
Lovely to see you back, wishing you both a wonderful year ❤
Thanks Miranda for your inspiration
Thank you so much, Virginia, for your lovely support ❤️❤️
Hi Miranda. I'm a pretty new subscriber. I love your videos, they are so cozy and relaxing, and so unique from everything else in youtube. Can't wait to see more from you this year.
Welcome to my channel and thanks so much for your kind words! ❤️
Envious! Of your Maud Hart Lovelace vintage books!! I’m from Minnesota near her home. I’ve been to it and the little museum there. Collected these years ago but have never found the Carney book. What a nice mother you have! 💕
Hi Miranda. Lovely to see you again. I really enjoy your vlogs and Common Place books. Thank you for all the hard work you put in. Im looking forward to watching more of your vlogs in 2024.😊❤
Thank you so much!
Hello Miranda. Thank you very much for your UA-cam clips. I have purchased one or two of the books that you have recommended and have enjoyed reading them. I want to say how much I am enjoying your common place journals you post online. They are just beautiful. May you and your mom have a wonderful 2024. Lorna.
Thank you, Lorna! I'm glad you enjoy them x
Happy New Year! I totally agree with your comments about ‘Silent Night’ and ‘Mistletoe Malice’. I’ve gone on to read another Sophie Hannah ‘Poirot’ book since then and, if anything, it’s even weaker. Have just finished the totally charming ‘Shady Hollow’ by Juneau Black - described by someone as ‘Agatha Christie meets Beatrix Potter’! I’d recommend it as a twist on the cosy murder mystery genre.
I was really hoping to enjoy both, but yes, I was definitely left underwhelmed! A few people have mentioned Shady Hollow; I must admit I've thought they sound a bit odd, but it's good to hear you'd recommend! I may give one a try xxx
Have to agree about the Sophie Hannah books. I haven't read Silent Night, but i did read the first and second in the series and was so disappointed. The second was definitely better than the first because it fleshed out Hercule Poirot much better, but still not great. I guess no one can really do justice to the Queen of Mystery--big shoes to fill!
One of the highlights of 2023 was the gift by a dear friend, of a first edition copy of one of my most favorite books - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough.
Best wishes for a scrumptious reading year to you and Donna!
Hi Miranda. I’m absolutely loving Pig Ignorant which I got for Christmas. It is utterly charming, even though it gives a horribly real picture of the Blitz.
. It is thanks to you that I found Slightly Foxed and I have earmarked at least 5 more of their little lovely cloth-bound gems to order over the coming months.
I'm so glad, Penny! I'm currently reading Pig Ignorant! xxx
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your lovely support! It’s very kind of you, and I really appreciate it ❤️
So nice to see you! I appreciate your honest review of the books that weren't pleasing to you, and I look forward to following you as you start your reading projects. So excited to see what you will do in 2024. I'm so glad I "found" you in 2023 when I went looking for UA-cam videos about Beatrix Potter!
Thank you so much! xxx
Thanks
Thank you so much for your kind support, Penny! I really appreciate it ❤️
Thank you for another cosy video, so lovely to catch up, as it were. Your highlights have been wonderful highlights for us too! You have created the most generous gifts for us in 2023 and I am very grateful. I had a peaceful half hour this afternoon reading the latest Seasons of Story and, as usual, it was superb. Looking forward to all the lovely bookishness to come. Much love. Xx
Happy New Year, Miranda - hope you both had a lovely time over the festive season. My wife and I visited the Emma Bridgewater Factory after watching your video; we live in Sheffield so it didn't take too long to get there. We had a good look round and paid a visit to the café for some lunch; lovely atmosphere. We didn't buy anything that day as we want to visit the Burleigh Pottery Factory next so we can decide where we are going to buy two lovely mugs and two lovely tea plates for a cosy supper tray; at this time of the year, cosy is very much on our minds; in line with that thought, I've gone back to re-reading Jane Austen starting with 'Sense and Sensibility'. There is a great second-hand bookshop in Buxton called 'Scrivener's Books And Bookbinding' - '40,000 books over five floors'. I found a hardcopy of 'Sense and Sensibility' there; the pages are turning yellow and it is a lovely feeling to know that someone else has owned and read it.
So glad you enjoyed your trip to Emma Bridgewater! Happy New Year! xxx
Hello Miranda! I truly enjoy and appreciate your videos and emails. I have developed quite a lengthy list of book suggestions, many are those that I hear about from your YT channel. Have a blessed 2024.
I’ve seen a few videos on journals and my method of tackling it is tiny notebooks but I have been hearing about the Commonplace Book.
Happy New Year! I resolved to read every Miss Marple and Poirot book, in order, this year. It's not so much a challenge as a delight. I did smile when you said Poirot was like the 'real' Poirot but I knew exactly what you meant. I won't bother with those books though. I'm always very wary when new writers pick up a much loved character
Me again! I absolutely loved Slightly Foxed I was a Stranger and Eric Newby Loveand War in the Apennines. Both are on my Shelf of Delight.
Happy 2024 I know you will do great things. Thank you for this recap video of 2023. What a nice video. I wonder if you mom would be willing to give us a short book highlight list of 2023❤
Thank you! No, my mum won't do that, but I have a video coming on my favourite books from 2023 for my youtube channel, so I hope you enjoy that. This isn't a joint channel btw - I'm the sole creator, and I feature my Mum when appropriate because we live together and enjoy doing the Comfort Book Club together. My mum has no interest in doing videos herself.
So glad you got to relax and enjoy Barchester Towers; great when you enjoy something that just suits your mood and refreshes you. 💕💕
Happy New Year! I simply love your channel, your videos always make me feel cozy. As it is -13 Fahrenheit here today, I appreciate that!
Thank you so much! Hope you keep warm and cosy! ❤️
Greetings Miranda! As usual, this was great! Does Blackwells sell Perseffany (sp?) Bks.? I would like to get some of their classics. I have bought probably 6 bks. from Blackwells now. I got a biography by Lucy Worsley about Agatha Christie. Have you read that one? Think yours is better? You SURE were busy in 2023!! I can see why you were so exhausted on Christmas Eve! CONGRATULATIONS on being featured in the magazine! SUPER! Just this past week and esp. Fri. Sat. and today (Sun.). we got our typical Mi. Winter weather. A snow and ice storm those 3 days. Today the sun is out (NOT typical) but it is 23°!!!!! I am presently reading Rosamunde Pitcher's Winter Solstice and LOVING it. Not to far in and health reasons have prohibited steady reading 😑 (I don't like when that happens). Will look up all the posts you mentioned. Drinking lots of tea to keep warm. Found a lovely Tea Shop (not tea room) to buy loose teas in! Far away, but being a true tea drinker, I do that sometimes.Was expensive also, but considered it my Jan. splurge! Greetings to your Mom! Time to make some scones...
Yes, Blackwells sell Persephone Books, and yes, I've read and greatly enjoyed Lucy Worsley's Agatha Christie biography. Take care and hope you have a good year ahead ❤️
Hi Miranda and Donna, welcome back. I truly missed you very much. I also received my first order of Emma Bridgewater. I ordered the Tawny Owl mug, and love it.
Love seeing you in this new year. Sending best wishes for you and Donna for joy and good health in 2024. Looking forward. Thanks for the book scenarios. 🤗
Hi Miranda - fun video and always love to see the beautiful vintage editions - your Mum did wonderfully with those Emily books! Look forward to more videos in the future of you shopping for books! I wanted to ask you if you have read Mariana by Monica Dickens? I found a beautiful Persphone copy of this in a used book store - and picked up like I'd found a lottery ticket on the shelf! Anyway - wondered your thoughts on it if you have read this one? have a wonderful week - stay warm! Jacqueline
Welcome back and Happy New Year! It’s so good to see you again.
What a terrific list of accomplishments you amassed last year Miranda. I have enjoyed your work immensely. My bookish highlights of the year were The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, A Fine Romance, The Kitchen Front and Eleanore Oliphant is Completely Fine.
Thank you, Debbie! xxx
Hi Miranda wonderful to hear from you again , looking forward to joining in the comfort book club this year, I always find you ans Donna's thoughts so insightful . Hope you both have a wonderful 2024😊
Oh super! Thank you. Hope you have a great year ahead too ❤️
I'm pleased that you mentioned some books that didn't work for you. This happens to all readers, even with favourite authors . I never finish a book
that I am not enjoying !
Happy New Year Miranda!
Thank you for your honest evaluations and insights.
Congrats on your article!! 👏
Hello Miranda,Happy New Year to yourself and to Donna. Let’s hope it will be a good one. I had quite a few books from my family for Christmas and have currently got my head stuck into “The Lost Bookshop” by Evie Woods. Not my normal book of choice but fascinating nevertheless. Enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing. X
Thanks so much, have a lovely 2024 😊
Miranda Thank you very much!
So glad to have you back to start my week! My reading has exploded now that I’ve added comfort books to my list!
Thank you so much for your lovely support! I so appreciate it . Hope you have a wonderful year and lots of good books ahead! ❤️
Dear Miranda, wishing you and your Mum wonderful year 2024 ❤️
Happy New Year to you and Donna 🎉❤ xx
So nice to See you again! I wish you and Donna a very happy new year! 💫
❤🧡💛Really enjoyed this video 👍love your gorgeous hair band too😊🥰
Thank you so much!
Happy new year! I'm looking forward to watching all your 2024 videos!
Happy New Year to you and your mum! So pleased to see a new video! Love your channel and look forward to these.
Great catch up today Miranda!!! Love to you and you Mum. XO
Quite new to this channel.
Your little books look absolutely gorgeous! Just seeing the covers ATM but when I get a little more time I'll certainly download. Thank you for your great work and videos.
💞 from Australia
Thank you so much! Welcome to my channel ❤️
Thank you very much for your videos, I wish you and your mum a very happy 2024.
Happy New Year! Hope you and everyone at home is doing well. I have gone back to reading (pacing is a problem though) and here’s to a reading arc I can achieve.
I loved all of your gifted projects in 2023 like the Common Place books, the Bookish Almanac and Seasons of Story. It was fun to watch your community grow, and I was excited to be part of that community. I look forward to the upcoming reading projects in 2024 with Persephone and Girls Gone By. So much inspiration. My only regret is the time to read all the wonderful literature you share. I need a larger bank account, too😂 Thank you Miranda for a wonderful year of hard work that truly was a gift.
Thank you very much, Shanne! Hope you've got a wonderful 2024 ahead ❤️
You’ve been very busy. Thank you so much for your wonderful content.
Anthony Trollope, you can't go wrong with him. Thank you for all your January inspiration!!
Looking forward to your and Donna’s company this year, Miranda. Best wishes to you both.
Hi Miranda. Lovely to see you back. My lifetime book project is to read all of Charles Dickens. Have read some but not all. Love from West Yorkshire xxx
It's great to see a new video from you Miranda:-) What an exiting idea for 2024, I'll be looking forward to the updates for sure, as I've read only a few of the Slightly Foxed memoirs and Persephone Classics and I would love to discover more of them.
Thank you so much! I look forward to sharing reviews throughout the year ❤️
Thank you for this lovely video, Miranda! Yay for Barchester Towers! I adore Trollope. I love your goals for 2024!
Happy New Year Miranda and Donna! You have been missed, so glad you are back! Wishing you well! 🥰🇨🇦♥️
Thank you for showing books you didn’t like as well as favorites. I always wonder about books you maybe did not finish or just didn’t enjoy. As always I adore your video! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you and Donna . Great to hear and see you again. Enjoyed the reviews. Kind regards from Marit
Happy new year to you and your Mum ; I wish you a lot of joys and of course many wonderful readings. I had read the first Poirot by S Hannah but was disappointed too, so I didn't try again.
Happy New Year! I love your plans for 2024 and look forward to hearing your bookish chats! I have a head cold at the moment and your voice is so soothing... Just what I needed! Have a lovely week🌸
Thank you! I hope you feel much better soon! xxx
Thank you!@@MirandaMills
It's so great to see you back! Congratulations on all your achievements in 2023. I have loved Seasons of Story and the Commonplace Books. Those Maud Hart Lovelace books are treasures. I have read Emily but not Carney. And I love Anthony Trollope. I may have to give some of his books a re-read.
Thank you very much for your kind words! I definitely recommend a Trollope reread. It was so much fun to return to Barchester Towers!
So agree with mistletoe madness. Boring! By the way happy new year!
Happy new year to you and your mum miranda. Its so lovely to see you filming your videos again it's felt alot longer. I have started my own commonplace book In January it's been fun adding some lovely quotes and passages to it some things from yourself from your commonplace booklets. One of my highlights of last year was finding some of my very own Emma Bridgewater items which I love ❤
Happy new year! I really enjoyed this first bookish catch up of 2024 and loved January's Seasons of Story.
My January reading has started really well and I can recommend The Other Side of Mrs Wood by Lucy Barker, I devoured it and hope she writes again soon. I enjoyed Jeanette Winterson's Christmas Days and am looking forward to reading my only book gift this Christmas The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes, Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin. My reading goal for 2024 is NOT to buy any books! I live 5 minutes away from a library so they will be seeing a lot of me this year 😊📚
Thank you for the inspiring books selection. I never know what books to choose at the library so will definitely try some of the ones you enjoyed! Best wishes for 2024 to you and your mum
Always so inspiring! Thank you Miranda!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for mentioning Betsy Tacy. I immediately hastened off to our Main Library 3 blocks away and got the Up the Hill in Children's large dept. It was worth the 40 mins wait due to Fire Alarm sounding just before I got there across a massive demonstration. Worth the wait as I met a charming book lover.
Happy New Year to yo Miranda, so lovely to have you back on UA-cam 😊. Thank you for sharing your least loved books as well, I’ve always enjoyed the Sophie Hannah Poirot books but was very underwhelmed with Silent night! Hope you have a great week.
Lovely to catch up with you Miranda and Happy New Year to you and Donna ❤
Thank you!
Dear Miranda,
You can't go wrong with Anthony Trollope! What a great book to reread over Christmas!!
I read Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair' for the first time as my big Christmas read and loved it!
Happy New Year to you and your mum!❤
Happy new year Miranda and Donna .love to hear what you thought of yoked with a lamb and hear more about Anthony Trollope I didn’t know you read him .❤ I listening to Emma on audio atm .
You are appreciated!!
Thank you so much for your fabulous support; I appreciate it very much!! ❤️
Happy New Year🎉. I reread (on audio) the Barsetshire & Palliser series a couple of years ago and loved them all. BT is a particular favourite. I listened to David Shaw-Parker or Simon Vance's narrations and had such a great time. Looking forward to catching up with the latest Commonplace Book this afternoon with a cup of tea. Good luck with all your plans for 2024.
Another lovely video, Miranda. Trollope is one of my favorite authors and Dr. Thorne is my favorite of his books. I have also just discovered Molly Clavering. My favorite title of hers so far is Near Neighbors. Looking forward to the new Seasons of Story!
Happy New Year Miranda ( and Donna )🎉 I'm glad I'm not the only person who struggles to finish books I'm not really enjoying. Sometimes I go back to them much later, but generally not. My bookish highlight is some treasures I found in my local secondhand bookshop. A gorgeous illustrated edition of James Heriot's Yorkshire Stories, and Alethea Hayter's A Sultry Month, both practically brand new. One of my new year reading projects is to re-read Alasdair Gray novels starting with Poor Things, as I'm hoping to see the film soon. Thank you for all the beautiful Bookish items you've provided in 2023, I am loving the Bookish Almanac and Season's of Story. A lot of work has obviously gone into them, they are absolutely wonderful ❤. And lastly, I love your fairisle Sweaters 😍 It's my hope to actually knit one this year, fingers crossed. 😊
Thank you for your lovely words! Those are great book finds; obviously I'm a huge Herriot fan, and A Sultry Month was such an interesting read. Good luck with your reading and creative projects in the year ahead ❤️
You recommended a book called "The Bookseller's Tale" by Martin Latham. I am so enjoying it. I look forward to your bookish chats. My mom and I look forward to your Sunday vlogs.
Happy New Year, Miranda! Say hello to your Mum too! My reading projects this year are to read(re-read) my favourite childhood books. One for each month. I read Wind in the Willows this month and have The Secret Garden lined up for February. I am also reading my shelves for the first few months and only purchasing second hand books this year. I have found some great free books in the little book libraries that stocked by neighbours and dotted around the streets in our area. I love taking some of my books and dropping them off as well as taking some home. I’ve downloaded your winter commonplace book and will enjoy that this weekend. It has been freezing here the last few days with temps at -37C with wind. It is currently warming up at -15C so that feels much better. Xx❤🇨🇦
Hi Miranda and Donna, Happy New Year to you both. This is a lovely catch up, I very much enjoyed it. I was very lucky with all my bookish gifts this year, and several were due to your recommendations (The Agency for Scandal, The Box of Delights and Midwinter Murder). I've also tracked down a few second hand titles, including a lovely copy of The Far Distant Oxus, (the edition published by Fidra Books), Dear Mrs Bird for our January read, which I am currently reading and The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets ready for February. It's probably good that I already own March's and Aprils' Book Club titles!
Thanks for all you do, you work very hard. I am loving your series of Commonplace Books and of course your delightful Seasons of Story. You spoil us!
Happy New Year, dear Miranda! So happy that you're back from your holiday break. I watched a lot of videos by you from the past that I missed before (mostly from this season to keep up with the seasonal feeling).
Thank you! Happy New Year to you too! xxx
Happy New Year Miranda and Donna! Congratulations on all your accomplishments and beautiful content. I hope the best for you both in this new year
Thank you! xxx
Thank you, Happy New Year! So pleased you’re back, you were missed. Looking forward to all the new exciting reads with you and the comfort book club this year.
Thank you so much!
Many congratulations on your accomplishments this year! Well deserved. I have read all the Sophie Hannah Poirot books even though I find them overlong and not satisfying in the solution. Not sure why I’m still reading them! I’m re-reading Envious Casca now. Oh I love Barchester Towers. I give a silent squeal every time a Stanhope makes an appearance.
Happy New Year Miranda! Your reading projects for this year are terrific. Thank you for the wonderful commonplace book series, for the Seasons of Story, and for all the reading suggestions, insights you give us. Best to you and to Donna!
Thank you for your lovely support and kind words. They both mean a great deal to me! I'm so glad you've enjoyed my content ♥️
Wishing you and your mum a wonderful 2024. Really enjoying the Seasons of Story - looking forward to reading the January edition, what a lovely way to end the week 😊
Thank you so much!
You've inspired me to give Anthony Trollope a try. Thank you for your wonderful channel, and congratulations on the features in The Simple Things Magazine. I used to read (and love) cosy mysteries but I found, as time went on, that I started to become bored with many of them. It's frustrating because I do love that genre. Your channel did turn me into an Elly Griffiths fan (the Ruth Galloway series), and I appreciate that.
I have been enjoying your videos, your emails and all the wonderful treats that come with them. Well done on all your achievements for 2023. Here's to another wonderful new year to you and to Donna too. See you again soon..
Thank you so much! I hope you've got a lovely year ahead too! xxx
Happy 2024 Miranda! Thank you for bringing us "Seasons of Stories" and the seasonal commonplace books in 2023 - so creative and enriching. I enjoyed the honest reviews of your holiday reads and am now inspired to read Anthony Trollop's novel (have never read any of his works). Have a delightful week!
Trollope is so worth reading!! Do start with The Warden if you're coming to the Barsetshire series for the first time though; it's the first in the series and a lot happens in that book that is referenced in the second and gives important understanding of the characters. xxx
Hi Miranda - Happy New Year!
I also read - and was bitterly disappointed by - Mistletoe Malice over Christmas. I spent the entire time thinking how much better it would have been, had it been written by Celia Fremlin or Elizabeth Jane Howard. I kept thinking of EJH's The Long View, which also features unsympathetic characters but is so much better. I have no idea why people have been gushing about the wit in Mistletoe Malice - I found no evidence of it!
I also read Hercule Poirot's Silent Night - I have read all of the other Hannah Poirots as well. They are a mixed bunch - I didn't think much of the first one, then enjoyed some of the others more. I was quite bored by this latest one - it seemed to go on for ever.
I also read The Long Shadow and loved it - now that's witty writing!
Nothing like Trollope for comfort. I have just finished 'The Duke's Children' - my re-read of the Pallisers just tipped over from 2023. I also read the Sophie Hannah book and felt exactly like you about it. Too long by half and weak ending. I did enjoy a Christie novella I hadn't read before (it wasn't published in her lifetime) called Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly, which she later developed into Dead Man's Folly. Nice atmospheric read.
Dear Miranda, Happy New Year to you and Donna! I got to know SF and Persephone thanks to you, now eager to get my ordered copy of William, an Englishman in the mailbox 😊 It would be nice to read one of their titles for the CBC 🤗 Looking forward to your YT videos in 2024 ❤ All the best, Vanessa
Thank you! You too! We have already done a Persephone classic for the CBC - Miss Buncle’s Book (the most fitting for the CBC from the Persephone collection). Xxx
@@MirandaMills Thank you for pointing that out, I must catch up with it then! 😊