So excited to have discovered your channel. I live with the love of my life, an ex-racer, rescue greyhound named Billy-Blue. I love history & non-fiction as well. Thanks for these great book recommendations, many of them new to me, so much wonder for me to track down. I really look forward to following your bookish adventures.

Don't be late for work, Lillian! Oooo, I'm definitely staying tuned to find out how the Paris Shakespeare and Company is going to come into play in your videos ...😉 As book-a-holics, our TBR's will never end, but what a wonderful problem to have...🙂 For a small town, downtown Staunton, VA has no less than four or five new and used independent bookstores, most within walking distance of each other. I spent a delightful afternoon this summer exploring all of them. I had a gift card to spend at one of the stores, the Book Dragon, and, unsurprisingly, I went way beyond the limit of my gift card when I was there. The newest bookstore in Staunton is Books & Tea, which, hence the name, offers new books as well as various kinds of teas. It had the most curated collection I've ever seen in a bookstore - a relatively small amount of books - but most of which I've heard discussed on BookTube. Needless to say, my wallet took a big hit there as well... Looking forward to yet another haul from you, Lillian, and your thoughts on everything!

1. What do you like about buying new/new to you books? The dopamine hit is very real. Like you Lillian, I love the physical book as object. I love getting to hold it for the first time - the book I've seen photos of. Like meeting a friend for the first time when you've only ever seen photos of them. I love the thought of adding it to my library, putting it among friends for the right time to read, and adding to/completing a collection if it's an author I already have several books by. 2. How often do you buy new books? Probably more often than I should considering my disability pension. Like you, it often comes in spurts. However I don't really spend money on much else besides living essentials and medical costs. 3. Bookstores or online shopping, which do you prefer? These days I definitely do more online book shopping due to illness/disability. But I love going into physical bookstores when I have the chance. There are also local free book-swaps and street-libraries around my area, which are fun to visit. For online book-shopping, I recommend using Bookfinder.com to compare prices across used online booksellers, as it sorts them by total cost (including shipping) so it saves the fiddly parts. Jess from her youtube channel Squirrelly Nerdy Jess (channel name used to be Squirrel's Bookshelf) does a video with awesome tips on the best ways to use the different search functions/fields with Bookfinder. 4. Do you have a favorite bookshop? I live in Brisbane, Australia. My favourite used bookshops here are Archives Fine Books in the CBD on Charlotte street, and Bent Books in West End. My favourite indie shops of new books are Avid Reader in West End, and Riverbend Books in Bulimba. I really miss the Annerley Community bookstore. I lived in London UK for 18 mths and strangely I don't remember my favourite bookshops. Maybe because I didn't have the money/space for book-buying as I was living out of a suitcase and working/saving for travel to other countries. I was a member of the Richmond library and frequented the Saison Poetry Library a lot. 5. Do you preorder books? Not often. If I see that Sarah Winman or Zeyn Joukhadar write another book, I'll definitely pre-order. I'm thinking of pre-ordering Ali Smith's book, Gliff, coming out in October. 6. Do you have a book buying limit? Send help! No further comments. 7. Book buying bans, are they something for you? They should be. It's a matter of not enough bookshelves though, right? I've definitely bought more books in the past couple of years than ever before, and I need to settle down now, because my home library is around 1250 books and there are so many unread on my shelves that I'm so excited for. 8. How big is your book wishlist? My TBR on book-tracking websites is around 250 books, but there are so many more than that I want to read, and wish to buy. 9. Which three books from your wishlist, do you wish you could own right now? Weathering (Ruth Allen), Mountains of the Mind (Robert Macfarlane), Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin) 10. Who do you tag? as I'm not a booktuber... any viewers in the comments who want to participate.

HI Lillian! Athough I haven't read Kincaid's Garden Book, I agree completely with your assessment of her writing as "scattered" and "angsty," which I've found to be the case in the fiction I've read by her (although I certainly haven't read everything by her.) Kincaid's fiction, I've found, is an uncomfortable reading experience, likely intentionally, due to the angst and even rage she exhibits in her books. Specifically, she had a very contentious and difficult (to say the least) relationship with her mother, which is a theme she returns to in her fiction, and more broadly, rage from growing up under the oppression of colonialism in Antigua. I was curious about her garden book when you first mentioned it because, unless she's mellowed as she's grown older, coziness and Jamaica Kincaid absolutely do not go together. Of course, art does not have to be cozy or uplifting (as I know you know, Lillian). In short, a Kincaid book is not something to pick up if you want an cozy, uplifting read. I'm sorry her garden book was disappointing to you, though. I'm actually curious to pick it up myself now so I can compare it to her fiction. I'm curious what you think of her fiction, should you choose to read any. Speaking of gardens, I enjoy your garden footage - I hope you've had more rain than we've had in western Virginia this summer. I've never seen things so dry. Everyone I know is waiting for tomatoes. My sweet neighbors gave me four tomatoes recently out of the very few that have managed to grow in their garden. And if the heat and the drought aren't enough to deal with, it's the critters. My neighbors have trapped at least three groundhogs this summer and released them elsewhere. Corn stalks that should be at full height weeks ago are still not quite grown. I've posted before about how much I enjoyed Willa Cather's "O Pioneers" last summer. I'm currently enjoying Cather's "The Song of The Lark" which I think may be of interest to you, Lillian, as it's Cather's exploration about how to become an artist/creative. It's about a Swedish immigrant girl, Thea Kronberg, who lives in a small desert town in Colorado, and her evolution into becoming a successful singer, rather than marrying and living a small town life. It's much longer than "O Pioneers" with perhaps some unnecessary detail, but, because I know I love Cather's prose, I've hung on with it and found it a rewarding reading experience, although Cather does use some language that we would consider inappropriate today. The last time I checked, the sky wasn't falling. 😀 Well done, as always, Lillian.

Hey Lillian. So nice to see your reading thoughts gracing my screen. I haven't read any of the authors/books you mentioned in this video. I really loved the way you described The Beginning Place (the first section of it) and I thought, oh, that sounds exactly like the kind of book I need right now. After how you described the subtle nuanced first part of the book (the kind of tone I love in books), I was surprised to hear the direction that it went in, sort of manifesting in a more plot-driven narrative and shifting away from that internal life that was being explored. All the same I'm very interested in picking it up. Having never read a Le Guin book, The Beginning Place might just be quite literally the beginning place for my journey with Le Guin. Is there another Le Guin book you think would be a good place to start, one where I don't have to commit to a long fantasy series? I've never read Sanderson either, and the one you mentioned sounded interesting. Regarding the ocean of spores... I love seeing world-building that takes inspiration from the environment, biology, science, rather than necessarily a hard magic system. Becky Chambers talks about how her biggest inspiration for world-building is always biology - non-fiction, text books, documentaries. For example when she talks about one of her character species having taken inspiration from I think a particular actual reptilian species that communicates through colour, she's considering if that's how this somewhat anthropomorphised fantasy species in her book is built, how does that influence the way they interact with their living spaces, and art, and so on. I just love her.

I really liked the way you explained things, especially since I am going alone.

I am going to be in Budapest Sept. 3rd, 2024, I am older and know I will not be able to walk up too many steps, just wondered why you did not take the Funicular to Budda Castle. or is it a Venticular. I hope it is still working.

Good luck with your reading choices and to your channel. Happy reading to you!

It's HOT, LIllian, even in the mountains of western Virginia! 🥵 I think a "heat wave" is defined as several consecutive days that reach 90+ degrees, which makes sense, and that's what we've definitely had! We're supposed to have some relief tomorrow. There's nothing like a good piece of existential literature to ramp a party up to the next level, lol! 🤣🤣🤣 I may have read The Plague when I was in college a few millennia ago as I know I own a copy somewhere. Definitely worth reading as it is an existential classic. 🙂 All this talk of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues makes me laugh because of all the early 90's nostalgia it brings up for me from the film trailer and music video - a hitchhiking Uma Thurman and a motorcycle-riding KD Lang. (KD Lang did the complete soundtrack.) (If you don't know who Uma Thurman and KD Lang are, Lillian, we're fortunate we live in an era when you can easily look them up.) Uma Thurman's star was rising in the early 90's and KD Lang was beginning the downslide of the height of her fame in the U.S. Although KD Lang's popularity in the U.S has long since faded., I'd still argue that she has one of the best voices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJLLi32VmpeKmpY Again, I haven't read the book or seen the film, but my impression is that it's a dark comedy about a drug-fueled road trip. 🤠 Looking forward to your reviews of these books and I hope you and Molly are able to stay cool!

I'm surprised how many reads we have in common. I have Blackouts, The Plague, Lote, a Jean Rhys (After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie), and an Anais Nin (Delta of Venus) on my nightstand right now. I'm in the middle of a Woolf, too (Between the Acts). The Wall and To the Lighthouse are meditative and brilliant in their ways. I'd describe Robbins' books as Good-trip LSD-lit. 😁My faves of his are Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume and Another Roadside Attraction. I believe there is a film of Even Cowgirls. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on many of these especially the Unreality of Memory. Happy Summer Reading!

I also recently hauled a copy of The Wall. I haven't read it yet. When I re-read To the Lighthouse, tears welling up turned into ugly sobbing. Amazing what a difference it made reading it first in my early 20's then in my mid 40's. My reading time has been taken up by more screen time than usual as I've been binge-watching Derry Girls. It's hands down the funniest show I've ever watched.

Seems like a city as beautiful as the two characters we got to see experience it.

Thank you for sharing this with us!

Move over Samantha Brown and Rick Steves' Europe! Who do we need to talk to get you your own travel show, Lillian? This video is stunning, of course, Lillian. I knew next to nothing about Budapest, so obviously, I've been missing out. I enjoyed your interspersal of author quotes along with your own commentary. And what I particularly love about your travel videos is how you so beautifully and thoughtfully conclude them by commenting about what your trip means to you and what you're carrying forward from it. Thank you for sharing this! ❤

Gorgeous video! Thanks for allowing us to live vicariously through you for a bit. It sounds like you had an amazing time!

I never knew how culturally decorated Budapest is (literally and figuratively). Thank you so much for sharing. 😊 Love it! ❤

What a stunning place. I've never been to Hungary. To a couple of Hungary's neighbouring countries, yes, but not Hungary. Lovely as always Lillian to see you sharing what you're passionate about, and to see you and your partner being heaps adorable and adoring of one another. It's strange, but I'm nostalgic for the age that you are at now, when I lived abroad and travelled. I wish I had video footage of that time - many a photo, yes (and at the same time, not nearly enough), but no video. You have a very soothing voice for narrating historical/travel content.

This is an excellent checklist of potential essay collections! Great haul!

nice video

It seems criminal to whack a sticker on the front cover of a beautifully embossed hardcover with ink design, doesn't it? For more glossy paperbacks or dust jackets I use eucalyptus oil and the sticker residue comes right off. I know other people use things like rubbing alcohol, Un-Du, Goo Gone, lighter fluid, to name a few but I would be nervous using those on a matte-like more porous hardcover with ink and embossing in case it lifts the ink, plus I tend to use what I already have in the house. You can use a hairdryer if you have one, on a medium heat, which will make the residue under the sticker more cooperative. When peeling, always pull backwards as close to the surface as possible, and not upwards. After carefully removing as much of the sticker as possible, you can use a kneaded/kneadable eraser very gently to get off the rest of the residue. I love the colour palette of that edition of Wide Sargasso Sea. Can you believe I've never read Jane Eyre? The only one on this list I've read is Christmas Days. I have Even Cowgirls get the Blues on my shelf but I haven't read it yet. I've read a few other Tom Robbins though and enjoyed them - Jitterbug Perfume, Half Asleep in Frog Pyjamas, Wild Ducks Flying Backwards. TR is very witty! Jeanette Winterson has a great speaking voice so she's absolutely the right person to narrate her own books. I highly recommend watching on youtube a talk that she did at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Writers Festival in 2012. You can find it either titled "An Evening with Jeanette Winterson" on the youtube channel The Monthly, or "Jeanette Winterson at Sydney Opera House | Sydney Writers' Festival 2012" on the youtube channel Sydney Writers' Festival. I just started reading a graphic novel, Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp. It's set in a fantasy world about a printer's apprentice, publishing, whistle-blowing, it's got queer rep and disability rep, and I'm so here for all of those things. It's amazing how much time it can take to get through certain graphic novels, because I spend so much time looking at all the details of the art/illustrations because it's so immersive.

Wow, Sub Rosa sounds right up my alley - definitely adding to my TBR!

Hey there, Lillian! Your "unhinged" and "stress-induced" fiction book haul is really bringing back some memories for me! I read Wide Sargasso Sea a hundred years ago and I'd forgotten about it's connection to Jane Eyre. I know I have a copy of it somewhere - looks like I'm due for a reread. Ceremony also sounds really familiar to me, although I can't remember when I read it, except that it's been a long time. Whenever I hear someone mention Tom Robbin's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, it takes me back to 1993 or 1994 when the film version came out - I was in high school. I never saw the film and I haven't read the book, but I do remember the trailer for the film for some reason, probably because it has a memorable title. I see that your sticker has a clear protector on it. If you'd like to remove it, you could try to slowly peel off the protector and hopefully the library barcode sticker will come along with it without damaging your beautiful book cover. If you peel off the protector and the sticker, or parts of the sticker remain and there's a sticky residue, rubbing the spot with some WD-40 on a rag or paper towel might help. And you'll want to do this outside because WD-40 has a strong odor that will dissipate after a while. I've used the WD-40 trick many times to remove sticker residue from library books and textbooks, although I can't speak to what WD-40 might do to a cover like that. Looking forward to your thoughts on everything from your nonfiction and fiction "stress-induced" book hauls!

I really like how you talk about backlist books that I haven't yet heard about. "Ceremony" & "The Confessions of Frannie Langton" sound very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Oooh, just added the Jeanette Winterson book to my wish list! Her collection of ghost stories is my favorite short story collection of the year so far.

Gay New York is excellent. Enjoy!

You are talking about so many interesting books that I've not read. I do own My brilliant friend and hope to get to it this year. Loved listening to you talk about these books :)

I'm so interested in reading Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich and Oracles: A Pilgrimage by Catheryn M, Valente. I love your videos you have such a calming vibe. 💛

Oooo I love a nonfic haul. I also have Paradise Built in Hell on my shelves but os many of these I hadn't heard of!! Great haul

OMG, Lillian - i don't know where to start - all of these sound fascinating! You're getting dangerously close to breaking your own rule about no hour-long book hauls, which I'm sure many of us would watch without hesitation. 😁 I look forward to your reviews and thoughts about all these books and I look forward to your upcoming stress-induced fiction haul. 😄 I'm certainly "guilty" of my own stress-induced book buying binges and your wonderful book hauls don't make resisting a good stress-induced book buying binge any easier...😆

Regarding the last book in your haul, Oracles... In case you were wondering, that stunning cover is a painting called The Priestess of Delphi by John Collier. The pic on your screen cut off the bottom of it, which doesn't show the fissure in the earth beneath her feet through which vapours are seeping. It's worth looking at the painting in its entirety. About 20 years ago I had a card print of it on my wall, and a narrow book-sized tote-style bag with that painting on the outside. The "you might like these books because you bought this book" sections are so dangerous! But no regrets, right? I love a genre that straddles essays and memoir and nature writing, so when I fall down one of those rabbit holes, I feel like I've struck gold. I haven't read any of Annie Dillard's work yet. I first heard about her when I read Women Writing Wild last year (that book itself has put so many other books/writers on my wish-list). I'd be interested to see you document your journey through The Artist's Way. The Art of the Personal Essay is a chunky enough brick that can hold the door closed (the door that is hinged while your book haul is not) while you ultimately take a stress-nap on top of your very tall stack of books that is conveniently chin-height. 😅💚💚

Nooooooo Lillian! Your channel is growing ever more dangerous for me - my TBR list is so long, but dang, so many of these sound intriguing! I've read and really enjoyed most of the Dillard, Solnit, and Sontag books. I'll be eager to hear your reviews! The Ehrenreich and Cameron books have been in my queue for a long time too. Heading over to my library app stat to add more of these to my list! 🙈

Stress buying non-fiction is my favorite thing to do! You bough so many great books. Thank you so much for the shoutout, I hope you enjoy Pop Song! 😊

I read Gay New York many years ago in a graduate seminar. From what I remember, it's very good and a pioneer study of the topic.

Ooh that new Olivia Laing sounds really cool!!

Hi Lillian! Ooo, a new Olivia Laing...I didn't know this existed so thanks for mentioning this, Lillian. And the Body Phobia book looks like something right up my alley... Goodness, Taylor Swift pops up everywhere, doesn't she? 😀 I enjoy savoring books as I read them, as I will that tomato sandwich and sweet tea I'm looking forward to enjoying later this summer. 😀 So, in other words, I like to take it slow with my reading. And I'm glad you are, too, Lillian. I appreciate that you have seasonal TBRs rather than monthly ones. I don't keep any stats about my reading, either online or off, and I don't like to think of myself as some kind of machine reading book after book after book as quickly as I possibly can just to check them off a list. Although I feel like I should probably be reading more and faster so I can unhaul some books that I've had laying around, but then again, is having too many books really a problem? 😀 I have three books going at the moment: Flying my geek flag high here, but I'm almost finished the very first Star Wars novel I've ever read - The Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule, the first book in the Star Wars High Republic series. I don't know what I was expecting from a Star Wars novel, but I love Soule's prose and the ability that reading gives to understand on a deep satisfying level, characters' psychologies and motivations, something that I've only gotten on a superficial level from the movies and TV series. I'm also very pleased and proud to have queer characters included in a Star Wars story, something that hasn't quite yet made it to Star Wars on screen. Knife by Salman Rushdie - this is a memoir about an attempted murder via stabbing Rushdie survived at a literary festival about two years ago. I was in middle school in 1989 when the death threat regarding The Satanic Verses began. Knife is the first book I'm reading by Rushdie and I can tell already, I'll be reading more, including The Satanic Verses. And last but not least, because a certain Booktuber I watch has recommended it so often, I'm about halfway through May Sarton's Journal of a Solitude. 😁 I'm very much enjoying the coziness and contemplative nature of it. I can see why it's comforting for a young aspiring author like you, Lillian, and for someone quickly approaching middle-age like myself. (I believe she states that she's 58 at the time of the writing.) There are many lines/paragraphs in it worthy of annotating, but I really resonate with the moment (so far) when she compares her work as an author to that of her gardener who passes away. She also makes a poignant statement about the inability of funerals to adequately memorialize lives, which I think is true and especially true in regards to the hurried and sparsely attended funerals that were held during COVID. (I understand, of course, why this was necessary, but also how hard it is on loved ones to have "annotated" funerals.)

Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton is such a precious book for me, too, as a solitary person going through depression. Mary Oliver's works are deeply comforting in that sense as well. I really enjoyed Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich this year and currently enjoying Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich. Always waiting for your videos. 💙

- Best book you've read so far this year? Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr), Landmarks (Robert Macfarlane), The Living Mountain (Nan Shepherd). - Best sequel you've read so far this year? N/A - New releases you haven't read yet but want to? I had no idea that Olivia Laing had a new book out, so thanks for putting it on my radar, Lillian :-) - Most anticipated release for the second half of the year? Gliff (Ali Smith) which apparently is the first of two books which are independent but which go together, the second of which is coming out in 2025. As a queer, physically disabled person, I'm also interested in reading Body Phobia which I hadn't heard of, so thanks for mentioning that one too. - Biggest disappointment? hmmm probably The Bookshop (Penelope Fitzgerald). - Biggest surprise? That I was finally able to get my hands on a copy of Infinite Gradation (Anne Michaels) - New favorite author (debut or new to you)? Tarjei Vesaas. Definitely not a new author, and not new to me this year, but I'm currently reading The Boat in the Evening, which is the second book of his I've read. The writing... oh my goodness, it's putting him among my favourite writers. I'm moving slowly through it, feeling all the feelings, re-reading parts, tabbing lots. It's nice to hear you're slowing down and taking your time through reading too, Lillian. I love looking back at my reading year, whether it's displayed on Storygraph or my own documents, not to look at the number of books, but what "kind" of reading year I was having - what themes or authors I found myself leaning into. - Newest fictional crush? N/A for this year. - New favorite character? Struggling to think of an answer for that one too! - Book that made you cry? The Boat in the Evening (Tarjei Vesaas). I'm about two-thirds of the way through and it's made me cry a few times already. Held (Anne Michaels) made me tear up too. - Book that made you happy? Ember and the Ice Dragons (Heather Fawcett) - Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year? The Moth Keeper - a sweet graphic novel with beautiful art and a stunning colour palette that hushed my overtired little heart and mind. And a deluxe pop-up edition of The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) - What books do you want to read by the end of the year? So, so many. But I would like to read The Winners (Frederik Backman) which is the third and final book in the Beartown series. There are other books I am more immediately excited to read, but I would like to read that one while the other two - which I read last year - are relatively fresh in my mind. I'm actually in the middle of a record number of books, for me. Years ago I sent a friend a photo of the books I was currently reading at the time. In the photo was a stack of books with bookmarks in them. I had added the note "When you stray from book-monogamy". Some time later I sent them an even larger stack of bookmarked books, with the note "Officially declaring myself polybiblioamorous". Just a word that I made up and I love it.

Ah, so glad you picked up Lote! It's a great book, and I think you'll enjoy it 😊The Woolf is a beloved classic. Adore all of Ross Gay's books - if you like podcasts, Ten Percent Happier has a good interview. Also adding more essay collections to my TBR based on your recs 🙈🙊

I'm glad to see that you're continuing to buy new books, Lillian. Long gone is the book buying ban! Yay! 😀 That's quite the Nabokov quote. I remember reading in college a similar sentiment in Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Okay, I'm going to have to pick up "Hand in Hand with Love" - it looks irresistible. One of my favorite sections of Whitman's Leaves of Grass is "The Twenty-Ninth Swimmer" in which a "handsome" woman, presumably Whitman calling himself a woman because he didn't have the language to describe himself as anything else, watches and then participates in swimming in the ocean with twenty-eight male swimmers/bathers. There's certainly a lot from Leaves of Grass that could be included in a queer poetry collection like this, so I'm curious if "The Twenty-Ninth Swimmer" made the cut. And the cover of your Virginia Woolf novel is deceptive - I don't see a lighthouse, but there are waves, so it's understandable why you would mistake it for "The Waves" rather than "To the Lighthouse." 😄

I'll sit back down now and go back to using my inside voice lol. Glad you managed to get your hands on that particular cover/edition of Art Objects! I like the sound of A Plea for Eros and Words Are My Matter. Can you believe I've never read anything - yet - by Ursula K Le Guin? No Time to Spare (also by Le Guin) sounds interesting too.

I love that your reading pile is so diverse. Happy reading.

Best wishes with what you choose to read. The only problem with watching other book tube channels is that it only increases the tbr! Happy reading to you.

Totally agree that Never Let Me Go is a modern classic and so haunting and gripping, but in a quiet way. Have you read more from Ishiguro??

Great books! You reminded me that I have In the Garden of Beasts on my Kindle and I should get to it!

I like that you started off this video with a little Becky Chambers love. She is such a champ. Her 4-book Wayfarers series is wonderful, starting with book 1 The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. So much diversity and representation in those books, and a nice break from the doom of the world. I've read everything of hers so far - her 2-book series, her 4-book series, and her standalone novella. She is great to listen to/watch in interview format too if you get the chance. It was my birthday yesterday and I received several books - from others, and from myself. I hope your cold hits the road soon, Lillian!

Ah, the lovely distractions of spring, birdsong (no need to apologize for that - I think it's lovely), loud mowing 😄, and very opinionated cats...As I am catless, I can fortunately leave Butterscotch at work when he becomes too opinionated with me, as he often does. 😀 Very nice book reviews, Lillian.

I loved this video and will be looking for most of the books you mentioned.

I’m reading Jill Lenore’s essay collection The Deadline and it’s great! I love essay collections.

I think you'd like False Cause by Adam Domby. It's a history of the development of the lost cause in North Carolina. It's smartly done.

Oh, this is a great tag theme! I was excited to see you mention the Dear America diary series - I loved those books when I was a kiddo too. Hear My Sorrow and A Coal Miner's Bride were my favorites. Adding Necessary Trouble to my TBR. Love the little bloopers reel at the end! ☺️