Summer Reading, Part 2 | Even More Books!
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Part 2 of my Summer Reading Possibilities & the last 12 squares on the Summer Book Bingo board hosted by Tiffany @beautifulminutiae
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Tiffany's Summer Book Bingo Video with ALL the details - • READ S’MORE BOOKS THIS...
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord - amzn.to/3KeS0ri
One Afternoon by Sian James* - blackwells.co....
The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - amzn.to/3V9IeNq
Tin Man by Sarah Winman - amzn.to/3yvv3h9
Coronation Year by Jennifer Robson - amzn.to/4dN9Ejw
Roman Fever & Other Stories by Edith Wharton - amzn.to/4bMmxZC
Still Life by Sarah Winman - amzn.to/3WW94dc
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden - amzn.to/4dPtWJq
One Night on the Island by Josie Silver - amzn.to/3wIxufG
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - amzn.to/3QSu6WD
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari by Dorothy Gilman - amzn.to/3QT0DvM
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell - amzn.to/4bOlQPt
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards - amzn.to/3QSI0Ig
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson - amzn.to/44NXgf2
The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit - amzn.to/44OypYK
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James - amzn.to/4aykxmu
The Hunter by Tana French - amzn.to/4atPsk1
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles - amzn.to/3QSfyWS
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie - amzn.to/4bpVtQ1
Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster (the linked edition includes the sequel!) - amzn.to/3WQi0ku
A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse - amzn.to/4e1W0cL
The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper - amzn.to/3V76FuZ
Fresh from the Country by Miss Read - amzn.to/44MZw6t
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple - blackwells.co....
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You have alot of interesting choices in your "piles" !! Enjoy your summer reading❤
Thank you! I’m hoping it’s a good summer of good books!
We loved The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams. We really enjoy your videos!
I'm so glad! 😊
Hi Jen. Really liked this video. The book The Green Hat by Michael Arlen is mentioned in Kate Atkinson’s Historical Fiction, Shrines of Gaiety.
Thank you!
I love the fairy tale detective series by Michael Buckley! That’s a fantasy middle grade series! Where fairy tale characters live among us!
I will have to check that out! Thanks for the recommendation. 😊
For SFF, you might enjoy Becky Chambers and Martha Wells (the Murderbot ones are my personal favs by Wells). And anything by Ray Bradbury is wonderful!!
Thank you! I have read one of Becky Chambers books and enjoyed it.
For a book mentioned in another one, read Elizabeth and her German Garden, mentioned in The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. Both excellent books!! I reread Elizabeth and her German Garden every summer
I love Guernsey! And I need to get a copy of Elizabeth and her German Garden because I love The Enchanted April!
I’m currently reading “The Guncle Abroad” by Stephen Rowley and he mentions the book “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews.
Good to know! 😊
Lol my mouth literally dropped open when you said you haven't read Miss Read yet. I hope you'll love her (I think you will), especially since you like books dealing with schools/teaching.
Also, I just read my 1st Laurie Colwin: Happy All The Time, thanks to your recommendation. I liked it! I'd never heard of her until you mentioned her 😊
I’m glad you enjoyed Happy All the Time! I know I need to start Miss Read! I am sure I will love her. 😊
Would love to hear about some of the books about books you have or like!
I will add that to my video idea list! Thank you!
I have had The Wide Wide World sitting on my shelf for awhile and I know that one is mentioned in Little Women. Yesterday I was reading What Katy Did and it was mentioned in that one too!
I love a little bookish serendipity! I need to add The Wide Wide World to my TBR. 😊
Hello! Persuasion (Austen) is mentioned in the Scent of Water (Goudge). Also I remember Twenty Leagues Under the Sea (Vernes) being mentioned in All The Light We Cannot See (Doerr). That's all I've got off the top of my head!
Thanks! I just found The House of Mirth mentioned in another book I’m reading and since I’m already buddy reading it June, I think I’m going to use that one!
The Nevermoor series are great middle grade fantasy books. Also a fun sci fi/fantasy adult series even if you don’t normally read those genres is The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman.
I love Nevermoor! I need to read the most recent one. 😊
@@jensreadinglife yay! It is a fun series.😄
I think I’m going to read A Wrinkle in Tme for a book mentioned in another book. It’s mentioned in quite a few middle grade books.
I haven’t read that one since I was a child. Enjoy! 😊
What a beautiful Miss Read cover!
I love these Dean Street Press editions. They are so lovely.
Do you have The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza Knight? Could fit your last bingo square, there are quite a few Nancy Mitford books mentioned in this one - enjoyable read!!
I really enjoyed The Durrells in Corfu on PBS - beautiful scenery! I too have yet to read a Miss Read book - but am slowly collecting the Fair Acre and Thrush Green series - I'm weird like that, I want at least the 1st couple before starting a series! Good luck with pile of possibilities! 😊 and hope you have a great summer. Don't have children in school anymore but here where I live in Maine - they are out June 10th. Hope the weather cools a bit for you. happy reading!! Jacqueline
I don’t have The Mayfair Bookshop but will have to look it up! I’m glad I’m not the only one collecting Miss Read books but who has yet to read them! 😁
I read Night War on Netgalley and liked it so much I bought a physical copy for myself. Her book, The War That Saved My Life, is another favorite of mine. Mrs. Pollifax on Safari is my favorite Mrs. Pollifax book (although I love all of them.) I think you will really enjoy Gerald Durrell - he is a very engaging writer. For a middle grade sci-fi, I recommend Orion Lost, which I learned about on an earlier Middle Grade March. I don't usually read horror but The Sundown Motel was a book club pick and I ended up really liking it. Have you read Dear Enemy? It is the sequel to Daddy Long Legs. I am sorry this comment got so long - you have so many good books on your list!
Thanks for the middle grade science-fiction recommendation, I’ll add that to my TBR! And yes, I’ve read Dear Enemy though it’s been a long time! I will need to reread it too after I reread Daddy Long-Legs!
Currently reading Roman Fever so will be interested to compare notes. I just finished High Wages by Dorothy Whipple which is brilliant! Plus, the heroine Jane goes to the Free Library, so some book titles are mentioned, including Alice in Wonderland, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and others. It's one of her early books and it reads very fast--316 pages which I read in 2 days (Persephone edition).
I have High Wages on my shelf and I am so glad to hear you loved it! I will definitely share my thoughts on Roman Fever after I read it.
Robinson Crusoe is mentioned in The Moonstone. I'm also currently reading The Age of Innocence and Possession, where they both mention lots of books (but can't think of a title at the moment). 😅
I think that’s been my problem! Though I just found The House of Mirth mentioned in another book I’m reading so I think I’ll use that one since I already had plans to read it. 😁
@@jensreadinglife oh thanks for letting me know! I'm reading House of Mirth now.
I’d love to read tin man and still life
I really, really, really want to get to both this summer!
I found for A Book mentioned in another Book, “The Kensington Kidnap” by Katie Gayle. I got it on my Kindle for 2.99 and it sounds really good. Sorry can’t remember what I was reading when it came up.
That’s ok! I actually found The House of Mirth mentioned in another book I’m reading and so I used that one. 😁
It's a pleasure! I look forward to hearing your thoughts on "in the Year of the Boar...". Does your copy have the Mandarin characters for the month at the start of each chapter? I noticed that some of the paperbacks don't. Jen! I just read the short story 'Roman Fever' for my trip to Italy! I chatted about it in my last video - I really, really loved it! I need to get to her other short stories as I am also now hooked on Edith Wharton!💞 We have read 'Five Children and It' and have been looking forward to 'The Phoenix and the Carpet' - a reminder to get to it! I love seeing all your book choices! 📚
Yes, my copy does have the Mandarin characters at the start of each chapter! I’m so looking forward to Roman Fever! Both you and Celeste at A Reader’s Almanac have both mentioned it recently and have me very excited for it! Thank you so much for watching, Heather! 😊
@@jensreadinglife Its a pleasure I love your videos!
Yes, I’m planning on Tiffany’s Summer Book Bingo!
Yay! It’s such a fun challenge. 😊
Pilgrims progress is mentioned in Little Women.
Gone With The Wind is mentioned in Divine Secrets of the Ya ya Sisterhood.
I’ve read GWTW but I’ll have to keep Pilgrim’s Progress in mind. Thanks for the recommendations! 😀
I love the two Dorothy Whipple books that I have read. I have Someone at a Distance in my queue.
I can’t wait to start reading her! I’ve heard such good things!
I LOVED THE GOWN! For a book within a book, would The Lady Of Shallot count, mentioned in Anne of G.G.? I know you already read or mentioned it. I also ADORE R. Pilcher! I am trying to collect every book she wrote. Gina Stanyer got me going on her and back into Miss Read after yrs. and yrs. of not continuing. My summer reading is going to be very different this yr. starting June 14. That day I am having a REPEAT Total Shlr. Replacement. Had it done 4 yrs. ago, but not correctly.😑😑. So...I will be on drugs for at least 6 wks. SO, I am gathering short, light and Middlegrade reads for at least 2 mos. So far I have Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart, Johnny Tremaine and Summer At Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan. I know I will be reading stories from The Blue Bedroom (Pilcher), some poetry and I know for sure my bible...HA! It will also be busy w/ A nurse, P.T. coming in until I go out for therapy.Will be a problem finding someone to take me. I have lots to choose from w/ o going to library😊 So I'll just " play it by ear". Not looking forward to it. This was great as usual. Wrote down lots of suggestions😶. I have SOOOOO many lists, not bks. but lists of bks. I want to read before I die. I KNOW it isn't possible 😑 Today, I found a Barbara Pym bk!! I swapped for 3 bks. Collecting her also! Thanks Jen 🤗
I hope all goes well with your shoulder surgery and you find cozy, comforting reads while you are recovering! It sounds like you’ve already pulled a few good ones! I’m so glad you found a Barbara Pym! Enjoy! And thank you as always for watching and commenting! ❤️
I’m hoping this will be my summer of “Still Life” but the library waiting list is so long that it might be the autumn. I look forward to your bingo progress!
I hope it comes in for you sooner rather than later! I’ll be keeping everyone apprised of my bingo progress. 😊
Since you follow Miranda Mills her Comfort Book Club pick for May ‘Life In The Garden’ if you read along mentions lots of books. One I’ve put on my TBR is’Tom’s Midnight Garden’. This book is celebrating 65 years and has an anniversary edition out. Enjoyed your video and I might join the bingo challenge if you can only do a completed row as I’d never get the whole card filled. 😅
Thank you for telling me that Life in the Garden has lots of books mentioned in it! I was hoping to read it for Miranda’s book club so need to prioritize it now! Enjoy Tom’s Midnight Garden, it’s a lovely story.
I enjoyed The Girl in the Painting, I read it in the summer while traveling. And I have more by Tea Cooper on my unread shelf, just waiting! I also have Still Life on my shelf, your post is nudging me to give it a go. Great post, Jen - thanks!
I’m so glad to hear you loved The Girl in the Painting, Susan! That makes me want to pick it up even more! And maybe we will both finally get to Still Life this summer! 🤞🏻😁
@@jensreadinglife yes!
I have both of the Sarah Winman on my shelf, unread and I’m not sure why.
Same! This needs to be the summer I get to them!
Hi Jen, I am getting through the Agatha Christie and reading through the Tommy and Tuppance books, and then the Miss Marple books. Then I thought of some rereads I want to do. I want to reread Mary Stewart’s The Moonspinners and Airs Above the ground, which is about the Lipazanner (sp?) stallions which I got to see when I was a young woman. And I thought of one I read ages ago and loved which was Pennmaric by Susan Howatch I believe. I’m going to do a search on that one and hope I will still love it.😊
Agatha Christie is always a good idea! I love Mary Stewart and have read most of her books multiple times! How exciting you got to see the Lipizzaner horses! Bet that was amazing!
The Secret of Platform 13 is very fun!
That is good to know! 😃
A sci-fi book that Miranda Mills recommended which I haven't gotten around to yet is The Hopkins Manuscript by R. C. Sherriff. It's by the same author who wrote The Fortnight in September. I love Miss Read! I'm reading Emily Davis. A Pin to See The Peepshow was mentioned very positively on Miranda Mills' channel. If you Google "Books mentioned in other books," I'm sure that you'll find plenty of options.
The Fortnight in September was such a pleasant read, but one that I would have to be selective about who I recommend it to.
Ok, it’s very serendipitous that you mentioned The Hopkins Manuscript because I just ordered it from Book Outlet after hearing Miranda talk about it. I’m so intrigued by it. And that’s a good idea about googling for books mentioned in books. Though The House of Mirth which I’m buddy reading in June was mentioned in another book I’m reading so I’ll probably use that one! 😁
I agree completely! It’s a wonderful book but probably not for everyone.