I enjoyed this video and with it being longer than usual was a delight with a cuppa a tea and a slice of cake because its the law you can’t have tea without cake 😂 thank you for you bookish chats this year and looking forward to what you share with us all in 2025. Happy new year 🎉😊

We deffo need allotment vlogs

I do enjoy the unedited videos because I listen to you as I cook dinner or do some housework so it's nice to have your rambles in my ear as I do so. But, an important question: who is your favourite Doctor?

Just be yourself no editing it's fun to watch. I also love the idea of different content, as I really enjoyed your Amsterdam video. Wow about the fox visiting. I have 3 cats and a Beagle so not sure how they would get on with a fox in the garden ha. 😊

Happy New Year Simon! Always love your vlogs ❤

I'm looking froward to the prompts this year, it's my first time doing them and I'm more than exited. I've decided to (at least try) to only use myTBR aka all the books I've bought but never read, and the library. Love this channel and that you share your joys in life, books, cats, foxes, your family and so on. It is a beautiful thing to do in these times when there is so much cynism around. This channel have become my go-to place for being uplifted ❤🧡💛 and for the book recommendations of course 😉

January 4th here in Cambridge UK ... Happy New Year to you, your best beloved, your splendid mother & those exceptionally fine felines you house ...

I enjoy all your content! Bookish, vlog, edited, unedited. The little fox has stolen my ❤. Dr Doolittle indeed! 😂

Aww I was sad and then I was happy lol 10:30

what are you doing with my nooks??? 😭😭😭 to many more buddy reads in 2025!!! can't wait to do the Mishima with you <333 thank you for a year of videos king!

I’ve decided that editing Simon is as much fun as the black and white asides. Love the thoughts about what to leave behind now that 2024 is gone! That is really important. And so much to look forward to this year!

Yes yes yes to the cat video, cat vlog, cat anything... I am obsessed with your cat adventures. I love the fox, we feed our foxes and when they take food from your hand it is an amazing feeling to have that trust from something wild (I am sure you know this but there is no rabies in the UK).

love the sunshine ☀️ 😊

Here's to a year of shenanigans. An Aussie book festival tour sounds great, my favourite is Byron Bay Writers Festival. As for future videos, you can't go wrong with more cat content. Also is it wrong to say I miss the rubbish truck cameos?

Having space and love for more special cats is an absolute DREAM. What a lovely update. Earl makes me smile whenever he sneaks into (or sleeps into?) the frame.

Greetings from Ashbourne! I've really enjoyed the videos with the artist formerly known as your mother, so I'm looking forward to more of those. I thought your Booker paired readings were inspired!

Happy New Year, Simon, to you and Louise! I would love to see a regular feature with you in various bookstores, chatting with or interviewing bookshop owners and/or associates, on what it’s like working in their particular shops, their current or favorite books, and what they like to recommend to their clients. A revisit with Kate from Harris and Harris, and discussions with others in the book selling field, would be so interesting and entertaining, with an added bonus of bringing Louise along when your schedules allow. I know you have done this before, but more of this would be very welcome!!📚❤️❤️

I enjoyed the surprise trip too and all the other content.

I bought Stoneyard Devotional from your Booker Read video and it will be much decond book of 2025. Will let you know what i think.

I’m always excited for more reading vlogs from you! The assortment of lighting struggles sent me 😂

Re rabies: we don't have a rabies un the animal population in the UK.

I love seeing the cats. We lost our ginger cat Pebbles in September and it was heartbreaking. You spread Gay joy by just being yourself Simon. Chris does it with cheeky grins. 🍀👋☘️📚📕📖☕️

Will you be coming back to Harris and Harris in Clare this year? I missed you in 2023 as it was my aunt's funeral and I needed to travel back north.

I who have never known men was one of my faves in 2024! I picked it up after watching your rave review, so thank you 👍

I’m completely invested in the cats so I’d love a video dedicated to your feline friends.😺I also love your travel videos, bookshop visits, anything with that cheeky chappy Chris, and videos with the artist formerly known as your mother. I’m hoping you’ll dedicate an entire video to a cemetery tour, and speaking about your experience as a cemetery guide. A girl can dream.

I love that dream!! 🤩 You going to Australia and hosting events sounds beyond fab. Especially knowing how excited that would make you. And understandably so! I also think it’s a beautiful intention to see family and friends more. And making time for other loves you have besides books. Yeah, I’m cheering you on for all of it, lol 🙌 Bookish challenges could be reading a book recommended/chosen by Chris or your mum or sister or another booktuber maybe? Even though I know reading for events or prizes are “restrictive” enough (for lack of a better word), and I’m sure you would want to read by mood once in a while. Could also be a sort of continuation of books set in paces you visit - but books you recommend as you go along and not necessarily ones you read while you’re e.g. vlogging/travelling there. Idk. I wasn’t going to give any suggestions bc it sounds like you’ve got ace ideas already - and plenty of them too! I don’t want to put any sort of pressure on you at all. But all I would wish for is that you enjoy what you do, keep giving yourself those times off you’ve loved in 2024, and have a really lovely 2025 🫶

No rabies in the UK, but probably other things you could catch from a fox!!

I just had an idea for a cat reading inspired challenge: Pick one book that reminds you of the personality of each cat :)

You are bookish Jesus though!?

Wow! That sure was something. I'm going to pick up the audio of Monique Roffey's Passiontide from all the gems discussed.

Trinidadian gothic? YES! And I wanted to read Butter last year but 😢

I’ve read The Pachinko Parlour and being wanting to get to Winter in Sokcho! And I actually kinda enjoy Western Lane. Really enjoyed how it portrays grief. Oh and I also read Riambel. It was nice to read a book set in Mauritius but I also thought it could have been longer and more in-depth

Noting down Joshua Jones. I love short stories collections - and Brotherless Night AND The Bee Sting! I’ve also now added Bad Habit and Adam. Omg 😂

Oh Dazzling! We started off interestingly. I have a copy and I really want to read because I rarely read Igbo mythology

😂 I’m obsessed w Nathan andddd you 💚

Loved your interview with Akwaeke Emezi - one of my Booktube highlights of the year. 😊 here’s to a fab 2025 full of great books ! (Like This Motherless Land 💕). I have A History of Dreams out from the library - need to find me a coven in Melbourne. 😆

Simon, once again I am astounded by the breadth and depth of your reading, and by all of the authors you had the privilege of interviewing in 2024. Your interview with Kate Atkinson in the Newcastle cinema where you and your mom went when she was at the university is such a lovely story, made better because your mom was there with you for the interview.

Soooo good! Thanks heaps, Simon, loadsa work there. Agree about Burnam Wood. Thanx to Oscar for introducing the cat's tail element. Hi to Chris. Still to report on Raising Hare.

A nice walk to the bus. I made a mincemeat 🥧. Another walk, cool. I love Malaysia and sate. I vote for blurbs.

Fantastic video x

Thank you for this video, Simon! It was delightful to go through your year in reading. My first read of the year here is Orbital, loving it. Happy 2025! ✨🥂

Itchy nose, you're going to have visitors, relax, it won't be me, just another old saying by earlier old people. Yes, I love proofs, no longer an advance reader.

Some of what I read in '24: --5 of the medical/hospital thriller novels by former Boston doctor turned author Michael Palmer, M.D. (Flashback from 1988 was the first one I read; the others have been Side Effects from 1985, Natural Causes from 1994, Silent Treatment from 1995 and The Fifth Vial from 2007) --Summer of '49 by David Halberstam, from 1989 (about the pennant race of 1949 in Major League Baseball between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox)

What a feast of a video Simon! I now have a really long list of notes on my phone.. (and you are really challenging my no book buying in January 😅) Happy New Year 🎉

Your boss regarding the New Year 😂 😂😂

Thissssss video is book worm nerdga5m type sh** . Tysm Simon ! Happy new year I look forward to another year of book stuff from you 📚🪱💚

This is making my first day at work after the Xmas hols :) Thank you. I wanna read "Local Fires" now because of you.

Happy New Year Simon- to you, Chris, the Duchess all your furry babies 🥰 and your family. Are you planning a January- solo rest trip to Edinburgh? Huggs xxx

Fabulous video...Happy New Year Simon 😊

Happy New Year Simon. I have a no buy January so I can get through some of my physical tbr before the madness (FOMO really) starts again pre book prize season. So many books, so little time.