Fun to have a swap out!! I'm going to have to swap too as I had to spooky vibes on the list. So I'm swapping in Frankenstein as I've wanted to read it for ages.

I’m currently reading Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei, a translated mystery thriller set in Hong Kong

How have I been watching booktube for so long and only just found you! Hi, new subscriber from England loving the vibes of your channel 👋🏻🇬🇧

You (and Hiromi) got me with that opening line! 🤍 TBR’d RoaNtB

nothing will ever match the experience of inhaling the first hundred pages of Normal People in one sitting!! nothing!!

The anticlimactic coffee tasting was so funny!

I'll be reading Beloved. Been wanting to read it for so long but I know it's gonna be rough. I am feeling excited about reading this month. Spooky season is my favourite reading season so hopefully it will be a good month. It was so nice to watch a cozy catch up video as the book community (and the community in general) here had a very sad day. Our local library was broken into early hours Monday. Glass broken, water fountains ripped from the walls, computers smashed, drains plugged in an effort to flood. Library closed for the foreseeable future. We're all devastated. I've been watching every cozy booktube video I could find. It was a real bright spot in my day to do the TBR spin and hear about recent reads. ❤

ugh yes the dark! it gets dark where I live in the (american) midwest at like 4:30 for a couple months of the fall/winter and I do not love it. feels like bedtime when I'm eating dinner haha. I am currently reading the new richard osman because I finished the murder club series and have been desperate to read something else by him, so I totally understand your dilemma. I also have pale fire in my fall reading plans, despite never reading nabokov before, so I am happy that others like it so much. always love your reading updates :)

I read We Who Have Never Kniwn Men last year, it’s a really interesting book!

Baseball is such a nuanced and complex sport. The more you watch the better it is. It's a great game. Lucky you for attending a game that the Jays actually won! Despite the disappointing season, GO JAYS! I've added that baseball book to my tbr 😊. Currently reading Coco Mellors' Blue Sisters and can't put it down tbh. Great video!

I love the Phillies. Pick a team. You'll get to know and love the players. You'll be hooked.

That coffee may not taste that special, but it seems to have plenty of caffeine 😏

Oh, to be back at McNally Jackson 😭

You and I “discovered” baseball around the same time and when you originally talked about it in a video you said something to the effect that you’re now a baseball expert after your first game and I quote that to my husband all the time because I feel the same way! He took me to my first baseball games in Seattle over the summer (we live in Alberta) and it was AMAZING-we went to all three Mariners/Astros games. I would love to go see the Jays sometime. Cheers!

Loved listening to your plans. Now I want to do a Say Nothing reread.

My goodness the covers!! SO BEAUTIFUL

I'm going to count 'creepy' as equivalent to 'spooky' and have gladly decided to read a very early John Wyndham, a crime novel first released in 1935, Foul Play Suspected, described in blurbs as "genuinely creepy" and "odd" and "disturbing rather than horrific...worrying to think about." Kind of makes my skin crawl, frankly, and it's a mystery from before he began to write scifi.

I'm planning to read And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave for the spin. I'm also a big Julian Barnes fan, I love his writing.

You know how you have a “ fascination “? with Baseball? I’ve a weird “ thing” about Ice Hickey. I’ve never been to an Ice Hockey game. I know nothing about the rules etc. Yet I’ve read so many books, mostly romance about Ice Hockey.

Very happy about the spooky prompt, thank you spin gods! 😅 I still haven't picked up the September prompt (Julian Barnes - Before she met me) but hope to catch up by end of the year. One of my friends also loooooves Pale Fire, I've only read Lolita and was impressed by the writing. If you like baseball and haven't read it yet, you can try Housekeeper and the Professor. I am that one weird person who hated Brooklyn but hope you will love it, I'm definitely in the minority 😅

I’m currently listening to Intermezzo Held James Creation Lake

I’m watching you while drinking my tea. I love my tea ❤Not a coffee lover , though I love the smell. Only three books left!!

So good to see you again! I'm currently reading Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to lose your mind and create a new one, and The Stationary Shop. Have to balance a heavier thinking read with lighter ones! I understand about the longer darker days of the season. My depression is usually worse in winter. I didn't realize they are making something about Say Nothing. I'll have to try that book again. It wasn't the right time for me to read it maybe. I was so excited for it and read over half of it then I remember getting frustrated with it for some reason and putting it down. Good reason to pick it up again!

Intermezzo is on my Libby list--i'm 5th in line so who knows when I will get it but I'm trying, somewhat difficult--to not read any summaries or reviews about it. So thank you for not saying too much, other than you love it. also I loved hearing about NYC book stores. I get into the city about every 6 weeks so now I have more places I want to get to. I've been reading some translated fiction--Ti Amo by Orstavik was very good and most sad memoir. Also Black Butterflies by Morris was excellent. Want to read Say Nothing and now with the series coming out it has moved to the top of the stack. Recently got The Safekeep (from this year's Booker shortlist) but have only read the first 40 pages in the last few weeks. Thank you for the video, always love seeing you and Bennie.

Henry getting late for the appointment. The appointment which will trigger his self; his conscience till he lives. Julian was the guy who curtained his own cowardice so skillfully, you could never say he is not 'The Gifted guide' who can chizel a plato out of you. But ironically, Henry inherited every speck of his charisma and teachings, but his malice. The bullet could pierce him but his pain of Julian's betrayal was still unscarred. Such rapt loss of all innocence is harsh! But the epilogue shouts 'having an unfortunate life'. When karma spills , it spills all over:(

I read this book over 15 years ago still the most heartbreaking book I’ve read 😢

I also adored Cue the Sun. Such a fun read. Constantly had to pause and tell interesting facts to my husband. Hope you are well! Sorry I'm watching this over a month late 😅 still not in the mood to make videos, but I love keeping up with my bookish pals when they feel like checking in.

Oh, you are such a pleasure to listen to! I look forward to checking out your recommendations! Warm regards from AB 🇨🇦

I am in exactly the same position. I had been putting off reading this book because I thought from all the hype it was getting that i would be disappointed, but I was pleasantly surprised. I devoured it in a few days, couldn't stop reading and now I feel a huge hole in my chest. I love all the characters and the epilogue left me with a suffocated feeling that I haven't been able to shake off. I'll be honest, at first I didn't like Henry's character almost at all (he was very bland to me) but after his death and the epilogue where Richard dreams of his ghost and walks away to nowhere I don't know why I felt a horrible nostalgia and so much sadness 😭 well I'm very sensitive probably, but I can't get over the characters, I think it definitely became one of my favorite books.

Dr Pepper is my jam. Pepsi peach is basically Dr Pepper but peach instead of cherry right? That's what I'm thinking. I can't do the sugar-free sweeteners though, it makes my gallbladder act up.

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I'm reading this book right now. Thanks for this honest review, you nailed it!! I'm agree with everything.

This video made me want to buy books! 😂 In particular, Swimming Lessons because I loved Unsettled Ground and Bitter Orange but her most recent one doesn’t appeal to me, so going back catalogue feels right in this instance. Also I would so try that Peach coke flavor if it was out in the UK.

I've been into trying all the 'zero' versions of beverages lately, so if I see the one you mentioned I will 100% try it. I've been drinking a lot of Spiced Coke Zero lately. 'Cue the Sun!' is on my list so obviously glad you enjoyed it. -Becks

I enjoy your videos. Thank you.

I'm with you on feeling weird about making videos, I keep thinking about starting it up again but there's just something not sitting right that keeps stopping me but I can't put my finger on what. Also, FAYNE! I loved it and think it's absolutely brilliant, once you get past that first scroll which is like a tourist guide to the building, it's a brilliant story

Ooh fun prompt! I'm going with The Secret Lives of Church Ladies for a class on the art of the short story collection. I've wanted to read this for so long!

💯 on North Woods. So mid!

I am halfway through The Thursday Murder Club and I giggle constantly. I love it and I hope that the production they are making does it justice, it looks like it will, good casting. So happy that it seems the rest of the series is just as good. Will be watching this video again after work when I can focus better and jot down some titles. You always have great book recs so thank you!

really enjoying Glorious Exploits at the moment! i thought the whole everyone speaks in Irish accents thing would get tiring but it hasn't. it is just sooo funny

I was looking forward to this video!! Great prompt! I am choosing (from my stack) Belching Out The Devil, Global Adventures With Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas - a non fiction book by a political comedian. I got into his work when I was a late teen and it's been so insightful, yet also funny.

Reading Dune for the first time. Sci Fi has never been my thing but Denis Villeneuve is my favorite director of all time (Incendie is breathtaking) so I want to read the book(s) before watching the movies :). Great stuff in this video as usual Jill😁

North Woods was incredibly underwhelming. The stories all felt like half-formed dreams and lacked depth. I found the writing pretentious and too flowery to the point where it became funny.

I too have Seamus Heaney's "100 Poems" on my TBR. Thanks for the freakout. 🙂

Fayne was the first book I read this year. Wasn't what I expected. Not sure what I expected..lol..but I very much enjoyed it. Sometimes I get frustrated with long books because I think they could be shorter, but this one held my attention all the way through. Will be interested in your experience reading Strange Eventful History. Like that you are such an eclectic reader! Already got a couple books for my TBR from this video!

Oh I’m so sad you didn’t like North Woods. I loved it but I also love interconnected short stories. I get way too excited about the way previous characters and things “drop in”. 😂 Thank you for the reminder about Cue the Sun. I was so intrigued when I heard it was coming out but then I haven’t heard anyone speak about it. So glad you enjoyed it! Wonderful to see you by the way. 😊

The Feast has a stunning cover. Might have to check that out. Dayspring sounds interesting too. Intrigued by What I’d Rather Not Think About. I keep hearing about In Memorium. I might pick that up eventually. Swimming Lessons is good. I’d like to read more of her books. 😊💙

Days of Abandonment was my first Ferrante and I really enjoyed it :) Please do read Fayne as I've been interested in it for a while but could not decide if I want to buy it or not. :D I'm not good with picking up and reading big books... I do need to read more Barnes this year too ☺ That cover of Glorious Exploits is really awesome and so much better than the UK one, I've just heard amazing things about this book.

Multiple five star reviews and one halfway decent one is not a bad track record so I'm still looking forward to reading it!

You got me so dreading the Norm MacDonald book but I absolutely must read it lol Richard Osman has been on my list to read. I find him delightful and I am sure he writes delightful things