I bless my luck every day that I live so close to the beautiful Alps now.

I found some real treasures in there.

Thank you!

@@readingwithrebeccanicole I'm really interested in her standalone that's coming out in July, too. But I'll have to work through the series first before I can even think of buying that one!

I really don't think that The Drowned World is trying to convey some profound insight into the human mind. It's does something with your mind to read it, though. :D

I'm guilty of reading too much British and American fiction as well, but many of my favourite books of all time are from other countries and in other languages. (Which should be a lesson to me.)

Travelling keeps you awfully busy. :D

I suspect that a lot of people have been tricked into liking it by the label "classic".

She is an oil painting, not done by me, from a series called 'sk spirits'. Hope you can rest easy now that this important and pertinent question has been answered.

Steppenwolf is definitely going to be the next Hesse that I'll read.

I bought Harry August as a kindle deal a while ago and already, prematurely wish I'd bought the paperback. 😆

I haven't, actually. I've been interested in Alan Garner's books, especially Thursbitch, but I had forgotten about it recently. Thank you for the reminder! I adore this kind of British folk fantasy.

I love that I'm now living somewhere where there are real winters every year!

I moved to this part of my country less than two years ago and I'm still in awe of its prettiness every day!

I didn't actually put the mountain's name (spelled Zugspitze) on the screen. The word I put there, Zugspitzplatt, means Zugspitze Plateau. That was the stop before the summit. :)

Hear, hear! 🥂

Well, then I recommend Last Chance To See, which is narrative non-fiction by Douglas Adams. 😁

Omg, I swear, there was a part in this video where I talked about how The Forgotten Beasts of Eld was one of the worst books I've ever read (except for the writing style), but I cut it out. If this is your first McKillip, please don't let it put you off her! Her later books are so much better. In fact, I have a theory that The Bell at Sealey Head is supposed to make up for the abomination that is Forgotten Beasts.

Haha! I haven’t been connecting a lot with the book yet but I thought it was just because I was reading little bits at a time before bed-hmm maybe not. I’ve read Winter Rose from her and thought it was just ok but have several others sitting on my bookshelf and am determined not to give up. Those beautiful covers just drew me in!

This is so difficult -- I feel like the books that have made me laugh the most in the last couple of years are very different from the ones I talked about in this video, so they might not match your taste at all. Pale Fire by Nabokov is just so absurd from the first page to the last, and the conceit alone is enough to send me into a laughing spiral; if it doesn't do the same to you, though, it might not be enjoyable to you. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (and the Lymond Chronicles in general) is full of absurdity, like history itself, and of dizzying and sometimes slapstick-like "set pieces"; it took me a while to recognize the tone, though. If you read romance, I recommend Glitterland by Alexis Hall. It made me cry and giggle-snort by turns. (Caveat: I can't speak about the version that's availavle today, which is a re-worked version; I own a hard copy of the original version, which was written when he was, imo, a better writer than he is today.) Hmm, maybe I should film a part 2 of this video!

Now that I've bought physical copies of all of the Chorus books, I'm waiting until I have a few uninterrupted days at home and with bad weather ahead of me to pick up the next book. It might be well into autumn before that happens. So frustrating! 😆 Mammoth epic fantasy series are the bane of my existence right now!

I'm going back there on Saturday. It is, absurdly, the closest hikeable mountain range to where I live (at least in terms of the time it takes me to get there).