Trumpet of the Swans was a great book to read aloud, I read it for a group at work. The BFG was hilarious to read aloud. Happy reading😊📚 Bookworm lady

This reading challenge sounds really interesting. I decided to wait and start this challenge in 2025! I have started making my list of choices using Goodreads. I hope you are enjoying your choices so far!

While I really enjoy the tv shows of Marple and Poirot, I do not care for the books. I think it's the writing style for me. I'm so glad you found that book that you loved so much as a pre-teen! Looking forward to hearing the rest!

Bummer Christie doesn't work for you. I think your reasoning is why I don't like people saying her books are cozy mysteries because they are more complex than the average cozy of today. I don't think your meant to figure them out. 😀 Oh I like thst Dorothy Eden cover!😍 Hope you enjoy your picks!

This is fun! Love how you found the 1975 book!

We want to borrow The Girl Who Owned a City and The Trumpet of the Swan. They sound so cute. Also maybe the Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys books. Haven't read either of them for a long time but. Very good video!!

I chuckled when you said you were "breaking up" with Agatha Christie. I have her on my TBR but never seem to get there. I love the Miss Marple TV series so I don't what the hold up is. (Could it be my Mount Everest TBR maybe?) I'm sorry Mrs. Palfrey wasn't an enjoyable read for you. It is a kind of sad that isn't easy to take, for sure. What I've read of Taylor so far always has a touch of something...hard to put my finger on what it is exactly. Sympathetic but underdog women, maybe? I hope Excellent Women is a Pym you'll read. I think you will enjoy that. It's my favorite of hers so far. Lots of pots of tea. And not sad! :) I'll be reading Trumpet of the Swan along with one of my grands; her class is reading it at school. I look even more forward to it because it gets a thumbs up review from you. I have a book too that I'm trying to find the title of a book I read back in the day! Your lucky experience gives me hope. I'm so happy for you, what a thrill!! Mine is a sci fi where the world's magnetic field has stopped working and causes chaos in the world. I thought it was by Damon Knight but I haven't found that synopsis yet. It could even be a short story. And he's a such prolific writer....so ARG! It makes me doubt I even have remembered it right. Looks like the next 5 should all be good reads for you. I'm up to my 10th book in this project. It's been so much fun. Has me concocting other projects I might dream up in order to tackle Mount Everest.

1974.. when your fav sister was born! <3 LOL You have some great books and you are giving me ideas. <3

Side note: love your nail polish color! ❤❤

I’m so glad you found your 1975 book! Cool story!!

I love slice of life books!❤❤

For a minute I was like…Elizabeth Taylor wrote a fiction book?! lol

For a minute I was like…Elizabeth Taylor wrote a fiction book?! Lol

Trumpet of the swan looks sweet!

Hey Tammy!

'Quartet In Autumn,' by Barbara Pym sounds good.

Trumpet of the Swan is so good. The author narrates the audiobook and it is excellent! My boys and I listened to it this summer.

I'm so glad you enjoyed Trumpet of the Swan. I really enjoy it too. Interesting that you found that book while doing this challenge. I hope you enjoy it as much as you did in the past. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on all of these books.

Nice haul! I hope you enjoy them all! Sonia is just the best!!

You guys are so cute.

So glad to see Kayla in such good health!

well I put more books on my tbr. It was nice to meet your daughter Kayla. I read Behind Close Doors, excellent story, that is the only story I like from that author, others are just okay, nothing like this one.

Hooray Anne of Green Gables.. auntie Sonia approves!!!

What a nice surprised you had! It was so lovely to get to see Kayla and hear about the books she likes. Hope she continues to do well with her health. ❤

How fun to meet your daughter! Loved this! My husband and my son also prefer audiobooks. Reading just takes too much time. 😂

Thanks for sharing Kayla! I read Swallow and Amazons to my kids this summer based on your mom’s recommendation. We all loved it. Praying for your health ❤

That was a fun surprise!! You did a good job, Kayla!! Makes me want to read all these books again! They were such good reads!

Drinking my first cup of coffee of the day and watching your video was a great way for me to start my Monday. I'm always interested in hearing about people's reading tastes. When I see a book I have no interest in reading and think, "Who reads this?" I can now think, "Oh, I'll be Kayla would like this book." lol

Hello Kayla! So nice to see you and so very glad you are doing well. I enjoyed your book stories about when you were growing up <3

It was so nice to meet Kayla! I also really enjoyed Behind Closed Doors.

It's wonderful to meet Kayla! I'm so glad she's doing well! Praying for that to continue!🌷💚 All of the books she mentioned sound interesting. The only one I've read is Anne of Green Gables which I love. I would like to get to Swallows and Amazons at some point. I think I will really enjoy that story.

Estherjane here. Nice to see your daughter join you😊

Lovely video!

You always need more books you silly silly human! That’s what my niece calls me when she thinks I said something ridiculous. No idea where it came from but… it’s fun to say

Reading out of order, oh the horror! 😮 🤪 Great haul!

The cover of that vintage book is incredible... wow. Awe you are so sweet, thank you for tagging me <3 You are the best sister! Hug mom and dad for me.

Great haul! Such lovely gifts too - what is better than the gift of a book? Especially one you want to read.

Buddy reads and special gifts, such a lovely haul, Tammy. Your smile throughout tells of your full heart. The 1914 Dubliners was stunning. It's a series short stories about a variety of inhabitants of Dublin, some sad, some dark, some profound, each engrossing and his writing style is superb. The cover you have of it is excellent! I read Dubliners online through a site, DailyLit, now defunct, that would email you so many pages of a classic book a day. I wish someone else would revive that idea. BTW I am not among the elite that have read Joyce's later masterpiece, Ulysses. I tried hard for a month but it was nearly gibberish to me. Joyce went on to write Finnigan's Wake which is even more serious gibberish. I'm too dumb for either of those. Dubliners is not like those. It's, well...normal.

Great haul!! Sonia is so sweet. ❤

So many great sounding books!!!!! Yes, I will have to borrow all of them!!! I'm looking forward to the 2 animal books especially!! And the Bess Streeter Aldrich book.I always really want to read of the books you review 😂😊!!!

I'm Irish; I know Joyce well (he isn't optional for us, lol). He is by no means (BY NO MEANS) my favourite author, but IMHO "The Dead" (the last story in "Dubliners") may be the greatest short story ever written in English. If you find yourself touched by it, it was adapted into a film by John Huston...sometime in the '90s.

What a great haul! I love how you buddy read with your parents. I hope you enjoy Gilded Mountains!

What a greay haul. Cousin Sonia is such a lovely lady. Enjoy your reading.

Estherjane here. I loved Dewey😊

I read 'Dewey ,' years ago and loved it. Have you read anything by W. Bruce Cameron? Have you read 'The Art Of Racing In The Rain,' by Garth Stein?

Wow you had some great reading in August! gotta admit I'm with your mom on Tess. 😂

I was planning to read Northanger Abby last month but decided to wait until Victober. Tess is on my pile to read soon. Woman in White is one on my Amazon wish list.

What a great video!!! I can't wait to read The Hope Chest! I loved The Charm Bracelet by him! I will be starting A Walk For Sunshine tomorrow! Your dad has Walking Across America you can borrow, but I didn't know there waa sequal We can buddy read it sometime.

Tammy! You hadn't even finished talking about A Walk For Sunshine before I opened a new tab and found it available both in OpenLibrary and Hoopla :) How did you know I have always wanted to read about the Appalachian Trail? Cuz we're book twinsies, that's how. Now that you have given me a stellar recommendation for one and mentioned me by name too, I'm gonna squeeze it in soon. Your recommendations are the gold standard for me. Naming your daughter after a book! I love that. I named my oldest Antigone. When people ask about her name, she usually starts, "Well, you see, my mom was a hippie and...." I was not a hippie. ha I was a feminist. Tess, Tess, sweet poor Tess. I love Tess. And so glad you did too so that you'll read more Hardy. I've also read Jude (big BIG heartbreak). Hardy is one of those authors I want to read of all his novels. Your videos bring me joy.

A Walk for Sunshine sounds like a book I need to pick up! I always find the stories from people who thru hike the AT fascinating.