i’m going to do a self care night tonight 🖤 Also i know you said that you love sad books, have you read A Man Called Ove?? That book had be sobbing the entire time reading it

I hate having to get rid of clothes i love because i don’t fit them anymore, it’s nice to see i’m not alone! 😭 Also your hair looks so good, i want to get layers like yours!!

such a cozy video <3 for me self care is let my feelings out/crying if i need to, read, journal, play the ukulele, try a new hobbie I've been avoiding (punch needle), organize my house.. but on top of all just do whatever i feel like doing and don't force anything! ps: also listening to the spellshop eheh

First here, love your videos, Nina❤❤

Nina, your channel is an oasis for real readers! Reading must be a hobbie and most of the time social media makes it feel like an obligation. Thanks for your videos and sharing more of your routine and yourself here. I'm glad I found you here. ❤

I love sad books but i don’t think i’ll ever be able to read A Little Life! The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has been my favorite book of all time since 2018 and deserves all of the hype and the love, if people look down on it for being a booktok book then that’s their problem because there is a reason it got so popular!!

Thank you for sharing this video! I love hearing about people's favourite books

I love your emphasis on reading being fun - I fully agree but I often struggle with also seeing it as a competition - I'm going on a reading retreat this weekend and, even though it's the perfect opportunity to just relax, lose myself in books and spend hours and hours reading, I always find myself setting targets and counting how many pages I've got through... :sigh:

I could listen to you talk about books forever ❤

I really enjoyed hearing about your liking of sad books, as odd as that sounds. One of my favourite books is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrel. It is historical fiction, but it is very much about life and connection and loss, I could connect to it a lot, even though it is set in a very different time. Maybe you would enjoy it too? It was definitely a book that emotionally got me.

of your list i've read looking for alaska and the seven husbands of evelyn hugo! which by the way, i feel similarly to you when it comes to tshoeh, i loved it and read it twice but it has it's flaws!! also i think this video might be my final push to finally read tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Thank you so much for sharing! I think it's so wonderful how different books can be just perfect for a reader if they pick it up at the right moment in their life. Even if the book isn't considered the best by other's standards, it might be a book that perfectly fit what you needed. Love hearing what those stories are for different people. ❤

I had the same thoughts on these books!!! I think you might like Holiday Romance and Snowed In, by Catherine Walsh. They're technically a series but you could read either one first and all it would spoil is that the couples end up together (what a twist! ) They are both very believable romances and the characters are so nice to read about.

Your best vlog yet Nina! Great reviews and nice to see books reviewed that are not witchy, fantasy, whimsical fluff, which is what a lot of people seem to just be reading today. I've added three of them to my wishlist so thanks for that 😂

Oooh very excited to see which books are your favourites!

Oh my, I only read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow last month for the first time and I LOVED it so much!

I used to love to start my weekend mornings slowly by drinking coffee and reading a book. And I'm trying to get back to that rutine. But in the workdays I need to wakeup early and maybe I'll manage to squeeze in about 10-15 minutes of reading time but I usually do most of my reading after work. Somehow my reading has been bad and quite slow and inactive for a while now which is sad. But thanks for this lovely video, maybe it will inspire me to take more time for myself in the mornings :)

Thank you! You phrased it perfectly. They’re not bad books, it’s just that I don’t think that I’d remember anything about them in a week or two!!

Sorryyy, next time I'll show up later for drinks! Hahah

❤❤❤ I’m really loving your videos, thank you for taking the time to do them! 📖🫂

Appreciating the fact that you have to edit these videos in your free time. Thanks, I enjoy them a lot <3

Hey goede video! Ik snap je verhaal over de tandem read, maar je moet er gewoon middagen voor zitten, dan blijf je erin! Overigens ik zie op je mooie boekenkast een terracotta pot staan. Heb je er wel wat onder voor bescherming? Anders krijg je een grote watervlek! Fijn deze video! Ik probeer nu ook weer meer te lezen na het werk. Soms wel lastig als je moe bent en met andere hobbies. Ik heb zelf de goal 30 boeken dit jaar. Als ik elke week 1 lees moet het lukken, maar lees nu aardig dikke 600 blz steeds haha.ben benieuwd of ik het ga halen en anders maar niet. Minder gelezen betekend heel veel leuke dingen gedaan met vrienden vaak❤

I think the tandem read is more of a re-read thing? SMJ wrote the books separately and i think they should be read one after the other like she intended! Saves you switching back and forth

I love when you do cosy vlogs with book reviews and anything journal related. I enjoyed your 30 Days of Journalling shorts series 🌟

Also 10:21 I feel you! I started a gaming channel last year and it's so much work! I couldn't do that for books.

Can someone explain to me why you need to switch between the books? I don't think I'll ever read anything SJM, but I'm interested in what that's about.

What's currently on your TBR list that you're most excited to dive into? Love the vid!

i love you and your videos 📚💛✨

The cat should be a major active participant in the videos going forward because he was stealing the show even from the background. What a cutie! Great video.

Ik moet deel twee nog lezen dus kijk nog niet verder, wil geen spoilers haha. Maar deel 1 was net een cosy hallmark film idd. En wat je zei; de communicatie tussen hun en de stadsgenoten was niet al te best. Hielp mij weer meer te lezen ook! Gaf hem 3 sterren.

I tried to read the Pumpkin Spice Cafe. I was just so bored I couldn’t finish it. This autumn I read House of Leaves. That is definitely not boring. It’s actually a love story but I have to admit it has minus cosy vibes.

Lol classic hallmark or lifetime vibes.

My problem with recent books is that it seems the marketing/design team is superior than the quality of the story. It makes me feel clickbaited 🥲

I've just bought that book 2 days ago. Can't wait for your review

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this was sooo cozy i loveeeee. also your rant about quirky harry styles alpaca was so real

Really loved this video, please keep making more! I’d love to watch more like this.

I just read this book as well, and I also feel kind of the same. Like it was enjoyable, the vibes were cute, super easy to read. But it didn’t feel very impactful or real, I couldn’t imagine the main characters as real people, especially Jeanie. It felt a bit forgetful. And although I had a good time, I didn’t feel like it connects with the reader emotionally.

Super cosy vlog !! I’m a bit skeptical about these kinds of books bc I don’t read romance and I worry they’d be too cutesy for me so I’ve found my niche with the Shady Hollow series which is wholesome but murder mysteries with animal characters in a forest 😂

6:26 I'm sorry to point this out, but it's distracting me too much: Is there a stain on your camera lens or does the camera have a dead pixel? Also 100% agree, most miscommunication plots are just. So. Annoying.

I've only read "The Pumpkin Spice Cafe" so far, and I definitely enjoyed it mainly because of the vibes. The miscommunication was easily my least favorite part. I haven't read the 2nd one yet, but thanks for the warning on the amount of spice in there!

Only time i wear my “cute shoes” is when going out to dinner! But I also live in the US (virginia) and we drive everywhere, so i’m only walking from the parking lot to the restaurant

i love the turtlenecks from uniqlo, they have them in a range of different materials

"now this copy, does not look great" >:(

OMG ! I undersand the struggle of finding cute shoes without being able to wear them !!!

Thank you Nina for all the hard work you do in making your videos...so much fun to watch😊❤

you always inspire me

Loved the idea. I haven’t read Malibu Rising, but I’ve read Daisy Jones and Evelyn Hugo, and I don’t remember the character you mentioned. Now I want to reread everything just because it’s all connected!! Nina, if you don’t mind me asking, where do you edit your videos? I have a channel in Portuguese, and I would love to add similar editing to my videos.

Wat een mooie en wijze lessen❤

i love your piercings!