Just came across your channel. I like the kind of books you talked about, character driven but with lots of history. I don't know what books you discuss, but i would recommend a 1986 ""The Autobiography of Henry VIII, with notes by his fool Will Somer" A great book, and what an intro to those days and the mind of someone like Henry Viii. Lots of research, but really a great read. With the 2nd part of Wolf Hall coming out on PBS/BBC in 2025 (the Mirror and the Light), this would be a good time to brush up on Tudor England. Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light were all great books, and the TV series covering the first 2 books was fantastic with Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.

Angela I love that you make me think of summer, see summery things when I am experiencing Northern Hemisphere winter. It is cheering

Hi Angela! I’m also Angela. I truly enjoy your reviews and recommendations. I find that the last several years I’ve been reading books for challenges and not enjoying what I have read. I’m not sure why I rush through books. So going forward I’m researching authors and moving away from the top 20. I’m fascinated with Australia and the season reversal. I’m interested in local authors. Thanks for making content. I personally love it. I live in Ohio. Cold weather has arrived. Tonight it’s 19 degrees F.

I definitely consider myself a slow reader, but I'd just love to know where you find people to have these conversations about books because I'd love to do that, but most of the people in my life don't even like to read.

Yes yes yes to seasonal reading in Australia! (I'm in Chicago USA and could really use some summer vibes 🙂). I was tearing up hearing about the kids winning the story contest. 🥲So precious.

I loved People of the Book. It stayed with me for a very long time. I’ll definitely try the other books you recommend here.

I live in Sweden and really love to hear you talk about seasonal reading and other seasonal things. Now that it’s dark and cold up here it’s nice to feel the summer vibes from you 😊

I think your videos should be about YOU! So yes, if you're in the middle of summer, I want to hear all about what you're doing, especially your summer reading. 😊😊

I often choose backlist books. The Fair Botanist is now on my list. I read People of The Book and enjoyed it. I like Gearldine Brooks books. The Chaperone was made into a TV show on PBS in the in the US. Might have been a BBC original. The backlist book I’m raving about is Paradise Walk by Mary Malloy. It is part history, part mystery, with the Wife of Bath’s Tale featuring strongly. It was a cover buy at a local charity shop. It almost didn’t make it home with me I put down twice and when I pick it up a third time I knew it must be a keeper. I am so glad it did come home with me after all. It may be difficult to find and online it is pricey. The author has 2 more books featuring the same main character. If you can find a reasonable priced copy do give it a try. It ticked most of my reading boxes.

Oh yes! I enjoy seeing other places. We live in the Pacific Northwest so I’m hunkering down for the rainy season. Our snow is contained to the mountains ( our volcanoes make very good mountains ) Great list of books. Thank you for talking about Stoneyard Devotional it will go directly on my 2025 list. So is Breath and The Well Gardened Mind thank you for chatting about these I’ve been wondering about them. I will look into these on audio. I’m having eye surgery in December and won’t be reading for most of the month. My daughter-in-law offered to help me set up to listen to audiobooks. This was her idea she is very kind and a lovely woman. Enjoyed your chat so very much. Happy Holidays and joyous reading

I'm from the U K. I love seasonal reading. I know we are heading into winter, but any summer books you mention that I feel drawn to. I'd list forclater on in the year for me. I've just finished listening to huck finn on audio book..

My best friend lost her father in October, and she is fascinated by the connection between nature, working with our hands, and the mind, so I will definitely be recommending The Well Gardened Mind to her as well as adding it (and several others you mentioned) to my own TBR shelf. Also, definitely curious to hear about the way the seasons are different for you all living in the southern hemisphere. I don't know if I ever realized the seasons were flip-flopped that way, so I'd be fascinated to learn something new in that way.

Two things. As a Canadian, I want to hear about your summer picks - helps me to populate my TBR list for June, July and August. And in my experience, a devotional is a resource of snippets, passages, excerpts and short essays that invite you to reflect, maybe meditate and discern meaning for you. Perhaps that’s what Charlotte Wood was thinking when she wrote the Stone Yard Devotional. I look forward to giving it a read. Thank you for your thoughtful reviews -and may I also be fully alive when I die🙏💕🇨🇦

From the books I’ve read so far this month I think I liked the two books about Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers best. Very thought provoking…

It’s always interesting to see what’s going on in other countries and cultures… I live close to the equator so I live in perpetual summer 😊 I miss the seasons sometime

Oh I love Crowded House. Enjoy!

I am a subscriber from the US (Virginia), and I would love to hear about your current seasonal reads. I enjoy following many others from all across the globe, part of what is so lovely is learning more about your place in the world. I also have dreamed of visiting Australia for many years so hearing others share why it is such a lovely place is exciting. Thank you for sharing your book rec's with us all 😊.

i'm sorry to hear of the loss of your father. I lost mine 35 years ago and some days it still feels like yesterday. The grief will never go away and in the beginning it feels wild and uncontrollable, but after time it settles and becomes more comfortable in a place very close in your heart.

Hi Angela! As an Aussie living in the US, I am really enjoying your Australian commentary and book reviews. I would like to hear your seasonal reads, it will take me out of the long cold winter here!

I’ll just say ditto to all the wonderful comments you’ve gotten about your channel.

I'm based in Western Canada and it would be lovely to have some hot sunny, summery content. Being a seasonal reader, it's highly likely I will circle back to your videos again next May for my TBR lists. 😊

Hi Angela! Western Canada here in the dark days of winter and cold make me yearn for summer content, so definitely interested in your Australian seasons! Breath, and the Well gardened Mind sounds very interesting to me. I’ve added them to my virtual tbr, so thank you for bringing them to our attention! ❤ my best book of November is Three Things Anout Elsie by Joanna Cannon. I cried after I closed the last page. 😢

Hi. Angela. I am in India and winter is coming! 😄. I enjoy seeing and hearing your videos and can make out a book lover when I see one!😀. I am one too and have often taken your book suggestions for my book clubs so thank you and keep it going 👍

I have read The Weekend and enjoyed it. Not sure that Stone Yard is for me though. Maybe I need to try some of Charlotte Wood’s other books.

Excellent video. Well done. Did you do a separate video on, The Offing ?

As a Kiwi I'm in the minority of your viewers but I would love seasonal content - it's so hard for me to find booktubers from the southern hemisphere who also have a similar taste in books. I love your channel, it's so calming and cozy, and I really enjoy listening to you chat about books and life.

I live on the currently very snowy Canadian prairies. I would love to hear about an Australian summer. Aside from a bit of escape from coming months of cold and snow, it's just so important to learn about life outside of our own experience. I just love your channel, Angela. Thanks for chatting about books with us!

Unfortunately, "Adv. of Huckleberry Finn" is controversial, due to racial language, and is a banned book in parts of the USA. Hopefully, "James" will make a difference there. Found news books to add to my TBR, thank you for sharing.

Best review and book collection s ❤

You read some fantastic things this month!! I really recommend Remains of the Day. I would probably try that before Never Let Me Go. Though both are very good. I read and enjoyed Klara and the Sun, but I can see what you mean about it being a little like something is missing.

The best book I read in November is Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan with Rachel Cusk (Contributor), Heather Lloyd (Translator). Sagan was a teenage genius! I don't understand how someone so young could write like that. I live in the desert in Arizona and we don't really have much seasonal change other than paradise in the winter and inferno the rest of the year so my reading isn't really tied to the seasons. I love hearing about Australia.

I'm so happy I found your channel! I love your chatty reviews. This was my first year doing Non-fiction November. My favorite this month has been "Why we sleep" by Matthew Walker. Your review of "breath" reminded me of that one. We all sleep, but we don't really think about it. It was fascinating. I highly recommend it. I'm putting 3 of your reviews on my wish list. Thank you.

Yes, Angela! Would love to hear/see what is going on seasonally in Australia. You live in a beautiful country!

Great video, Angela! Your upcoming Crowded House concert sounds amazing. What a perfect venue. I also read James recently and really loved it. Very powerful read. My favourite read in November was Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. I’m reading A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor as well and it is also excellent. I would love to hear about your seasonal summer reading, especially as we enter our long winter here in Toronto. All the best.

I also enjoyed James and Stoneyard Devotional though I could see why Orbital won the Booker - thought-provoking, very original and certainly very current. My non fiction book of the month was I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell - what a tough life she has had and what a beautifully written book. Will finish The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich soon as part of a project to read more of her books. Enjoing it so far.

As an American who fantasizes about living in Australia, I love to hear about what you're doind during the different seasons.

❤📚📚❤️ The library "yarn" event sounds so cool. It's wonderful hearing that the youth participation was up this year! I'm drinking hot coffee in front of my fireplace, and hearing about your summer reads and activities sounds amazing to me. 🌞 I've got James on my list, but your passion for it has moved it up to the top. Added Breath! Thank you! The Well Gardened Mind passage you read touched me deeply. Beautiful!

I'm in Florida, U.S, and don't mind the seasonal reads! I haven't read James, but glad it was so good! I've read Huckleberry Finn (and liked it more than Tom Sawyer).

What a great video, I’m so glad you enjoyed James and Stone Yard Devotional, I still can’t believe that neither won the Booker Prize. I’d love to hear about summer Christmas books, we’ve had quite a bit of snow here in the UK this week so it will be nice to read something warming. The Well Gardened Mind sounds a must read!

Interesting hearing about the best Australian yarn; I had not heard about this type of festival before. Wished we had that here (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). I know what you mean about a popular book that you just don't connect with. I am almost through reading The Real Beatrix Potter by Nadia Cohen. It is fascinating to read about her life during Victorian times and how difficult it was for her to break free of her wealthy parents to do illustrations and write stories. It was hard for her to find a life for herself. I had no idea of her conservation of 4,000 acres of farmland that was part of in the Lake District. Quite an amazing woman. I finished reading The Salt Path by Raynor Winn which was an interesting look at how this couple coped with the man's terminal illness diagnosis, losing their home, and walking this 600 mile trek around southwest England and sleeping outdoors with all its challenges.

I am interested in hearing about novels that work the summer season naturally into celebrating Christmas holiday and end of year or New Year holidays and with that summer feel.

"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." Since published in 2012 that first line from Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons has stuck with me. Tiny little book, huge impact. Thanks for this great video. First lines have always been a delight for me.

Such great suggestions!

Thank you so much. Just found you by chance. Great reviews

Of course we read historical fiction so we can learn about points in history without reading a dull text book. I enjoy Geraldine Brooks and her research always seems solid..I liked People of the Book also!

Thanks for the great recommendations! When We Were Gods sounds fabulous. I'm also interested in The Gold in These Hills and People of the Book. Thanks!

The Bridge of San Luis Rey An Officer and a Spy neither are about female protagonists and neither are Australian. Interested?

Yes, I don't have a lot of time to read so what I read needs to be 4.5 to 5.0 😊

I'm so glad your channel popped up in my recommendations. First Booktube channel that I've ever subscribed to. Looking forward to following your journey. Already found a couple of books to add to my TBR pile! 🤗📚

Hi Angela, I loved this video 😀 People of the Book is my favourite Geraldine Brooks story. I'll be sure to try some of those others you described so attractively