Eleanor Oliphant... remains one of my favorites. I hope Gail Honeyman will still surprise us in the future. I don't know if it is a gift idea but I just finished The Painted Veil and indeed is a masterpiece. 📖✨️
Thanks for the recs! I’ve only read Educated and found it excellent (I also am not usually a fan of memoirs). To add my own lesser known (probably completely unknown for most readers) novel to the list, check out Starling by Kirsten Cram. It is a touching story of two children, both with difficult home lives, who bond and become close friends… it is Cram’s debut novel, self-published, and is so beautifully written. It is very special and I hope to see more by her in the future.
Bright young women has been on my list for a long time along with educated. I must get to them soon! Yes my ever growing gigantic list of books to get to 😂 I won’t complain though , I haven’t yet read a book you’ve recommended that I disliked. The description you gave of The melting by lize spit reminded me of a book called The ice palace by Tarjei Vesaas. The penguin modern classic edition seemed to be a poor translation of the Norwegian . As I was reading it , I felt like it must be so much more beautiful in its original language. It felt as if the translator basically just translated it word for word. Regardless of this it was a book that captures you from the beginning and so I’m really intrigued to check out this Belgian authors work , sounds great! Thank you as always ❤
Little secret (well, not really)… I’m returning home as we speak from the launch of Lize Spit’s newest book and had a long conversation with her…I don’t often get starstruck, but 🤩
@ that’s really cool 😎sounds like you had a lovely evening ! I’ve ordered it straight away , looking forward to checking it out and also hearing about the new book in another video
The book by Yoshimuro Keiko isn't in English yet. Maybe now that you've highlighted it, then it will get translated. I haven't added anything to my TBR, but "The House of the Mosque" is a definite maybe. This is the first time I've seen your videos and I'm now subscribed.
Thank you and welcome. It’s somewhat rare to see a book being translated in languages like Dutch and Italian first, but I’m confident English will follow. (Although I don’t think I will have influenced that 😋)
❤📚📚❤️ Nice recommendations! I loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. I just finished the Japanese translated book Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa and really liked it.
Huh. For some reason I though Eleanor Oliphant was considerably younger. Somehow missed the part about drinking vodka and office coworkers. Oh well. Still own it. Still interested. Just need to adjust expectations. (By the way, the first Amazon link to Speak actually links to The Melting)
Did I add some books to your TBR? And do you have some recommendations for me? Let's fill those whislists down below!
They all sound really good. Thanks for the recommendations. 😊
My pleasure!
I can always count on you to recommend loads of books I’ve never even heard of!
I’m special 🤣
a little confused about why you are yelling at us about books - but I love the list 😂😂
Don’t worry, I’m confused about myself as well half of the time 😋
Thanks so much for the reccomendations! Of the ones you recommended that I've read I've really liked. Adding many to my TBR and subscribed! : )
Thanks for subscribing! Happy reading ☺️
Eleanor Oliphant... remains one of my favorites. I hope Gail Honeyman will still surprise us in the future. I don't know if it is a gift idea but I just finished The Painted Veil and indeed is a masterpiece. 📖✨️
I havn’t read it yet, so it could very well go on the list!
I really want to read Eleanor oliphant is completely fine it was on my tbr , thanks for the reminder.
Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks for the recs! I’ve only read Educated and found it excellent (I also am not usually a fan of memoirs). To add my own lesser known (probably completely unknown for most readers) novel to the list, check out Starling by Kirsten Cram. It is a touching story of two children, both with difficult home lives, who bond and become close friends… it is Cram’s debut novel, self-published, and is so beautifully written. It is very special and I hope to see more by her in the future.
That does sound interesting! On the Christmas list it goes! :D
Bright young women has been on my list for a long time along with educated. I must get to them soon! Yes my ever growing gigantic list of books to get to 😂 I won’t complain though , I haven’t yet read a book you’ve recommended that I disliked.
The description you gave of The melting by lize spit reminded me of a book called The ice palace by Tarjei Vesaas. The penguin modern classic edition seemed to be a poor translation of the Norwegian . As I was reading it , I felt like it must be so much more beautiful in its original language. It felt as if the translator basically just translated it word for word. Regardless of this it was a book that captures you from the beginning and so I’m really intrigued to check out this Belgian authors work , sounds great!
Thank you as always ❤
Little secret (well, not really)… I’m returning home as we speak from the launch of Lize Spit’s newest book and had a long conversation with her…I don’t often get starstruck, but 🤩
@ that’s really cool 😎sounds like you had a lovely evening ! I’ve ordered it straight away , looking forward to checking it out and also hearing about the new book in another video
The book by Yoshimuro Keiko isn't in English yet. Maybe now that you've highlighted it, then it will get translated. I haven't added anything to my TBR, but "The House of the Mosque" is a definite maybe. This is the first time I've seen your videos and I'm now subscribed.
Thank you and welcome. It’s somewhat rare to see a book being translated in languages like Dutch and Italian first, but I’m confident English will follow. (Although I don’t think I will have influenced that 😋)
❤📚📚❤️
Nice recommendations! I loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.
I just finished the Japanese translated book Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa and really liked it.
Sweet Bean Paste was one of the better ones, I agree.
@@cafeaulivre 😀👍
Huh. For some reason I though Eleanor Oliphant was considerably younger. Somehow missed the part about drinking vodka and office coworkers. Oh well. Still own it. Still interested. Just need to adjust expectations. (By the way, the first Amazon link to Speak actually links to The Melting)
Thanks for flagging that, I’ll get on it as soon as I have access to my computer!