2018 Bookish Holiday Gift Guide

[@jakobbourne6381]

*personalised childrens books* are really nice gift ideas to kids while they're young. You pique their interest by having it with custom labels and cover design, but without changes to the contents. So having an educational book for kids be turned into something personalised, it makes a really good contribution into their literature and learning experience

[@LaurenAndTheBooks]

HAVEN'T SEEN ANY BOOKS YET BUT YOU LOOK LIKE A FESTIVE DREAM

[@LaurenAndTheBooks]

Moonstruck is at the top of my Christmas list after hearing you talk about it earlier this year, it sounds amazing! Also, both Cooking on a Bootstrap and The Green Roasting Tin are my favourite cookbooks in a long time, both absolutely fantastic, and I have made many MANY things from both. And BOARD GAMES YES PLEASE. Such a great gift guide Jean, you have picked the cream of the crop! xx

[@anacardenas4931]

More like “bookish holiday gift guide FOR MYSELF” 😂 i feel like I’ll end up buying all for me. Great video!

[@JeansThoughts]

Aha I feel that ;)

[@sharniephillpott9922]

Just binge watching loads of your videos.. Love love love. My favourite KZbinr!!

[@gillybean1234]

So happy you've put this up so early! Thank god for organised people! Love your new hair and festive vibes in this video too!!

[@JeansThoughts]

Aha glad to be of service ;)

[@the.social.fabric]

Yay! I love your gift guides, and the new hair looks incredible! ♥️

[@JeansThoughts]

Thank you ^_^

[@rivierejulia5991]

I can't even tell you how much I love Christmas, and most of all... Christmas in November ! Thank you for this video !

[@JeansThoughts]

Never too soon ^_^

[@funfuz]

I love comics, but I wasn't crazy about Moonstruck. I just started in Heavy Vinyl and I'm really liking that. I also very much recommend Sleepless, which is absolutely stunning.

[@bookishshenanigans4769]

Great list-I love those mini moderns, still need to read the James Baldwin one. Congrats on reaching 60k subs!

[@bookswithrowanundertherowa3348]

@bookvoyageuk is also another diverse book service and the prices are reasonable. You will get a book from a different country each time along with a bookmark and a couple of other items from that country. It was great and the packaging was really lovely. I would recommend.

[@MelissaF101]

Thank you for featuring a vegan cookbook that anyone would love. Great idea!

[@JeansThoughts]

No problemo ^_^ glad something sparked your interest!

[@yosr5090]

You literally look like Christmas😂 I loved the books and i'm hoping to read some of them. So thanks for the suggestions ❤

[@sashahawkins]

I looove your gift guides wheee! Looking to get some of these for myself, as you do lol

[@joannecarnevale7737]

Some good ones here. Must also check out your previous gift guides. Thank you!

[@MaryAmongStories]

all those books are BEAUTIFUL 💕thank you for the suggestions, I loved this video so much!

[@chasityd6168]

I love this time of year when all my favorite youtube channels start doing gift guides. This was such a good video and gave me so many ideas for gifts (more than I could possibly afford!) and things to bookmark for myself in the future. The Penguin Modern Minis in particular caught my attention. I don't live in the UK but they are available from the book depository, too. They didn't pull up with search terms for me on the book depository but putting in the ISBN did the trick. They look gorgeous. And did you say there was a book with work by Audre Lorde included? Because we read one of her speeches for my women's literature class - it was actually one of the first things we read this semester - and she seems amazing. Thanks for posting the video!

[@JeansThoughts]

Yes, there is an Audre Lorde ^_^ it's linked in my description box if you need the ISBN. I love her so much! And I'm really glad you enjoyed the video. I can't wait to watch other people's gift guides myself aha.

[@BookishWitch777]

You should find yourself a copy of the game Bring Your Own Book. It would be a really fun one for you I'm sure.

[@tankgrlz]

So many lovely new collections!

[@JeansThoughts]

Publishers on their a-game!

[@laureb7697]

You got me hooked on a winter's promise ;) (i have now read the two first books and started the third !) took me a while to get into the writing style but thanks for convincing me to stick with it :)

[@JeansThoughts]

Aah so pleased to hear it! I can't wait for the sequels to come out in English so I can find out what happens next ^_^

[@bookswithrowanundertherowa3348]

I'm reading that edition of A Letter to Birmingham Jail right now.

[@sigridmlj]

I love your outfit in this video!

[@JeansThoughts]

Thank you :)

[@margit97]

Ah yisss! So immensely glad tis got uploaded!

[@JeansThoughts]

Yay glad to be of service :D

[@corneliusowl6024]

Yay so many ideas! Thank you.

[@JeansThoughts]

No problem :D

[@rubyred2606]

Hollydunnedesign works look absolutely amazing! Thank you for your recommendations :) P.s. you look gorgeous with this festive look :))

[@JeansThoughts]

Her stuff is so gorgeous, definitely follow her on instagram as well! Thanks ^_^

[@bookswithrowanundertherowa3348]

Also this cookbook was such a good idea. Alot of the "student cookbooks" you can buy teach you how to make a sandwich, boil an egg, make pasta or bake a cake. I didn't know there were people who didn't know how to do this at 19! I could do this when I was like 3. It was a shocking revelation. Just shocking. I would have loved that one I think. Anyone with a student in mind. Don't get the "student" ones. I couldn't use any of mine because the recipes were so basic. You shouldn't need a recipe to make a sandwich or an omelette at 19 lol. It was so disappointing. I actually was really really upset when I couldn't use it. 😭😭

[@bookswithrowanundertherowa3348]

So the games are kinda like updated versions of balderdash? All for it. Who will play with me?

[@prachi1869]

i love her in general but i had to stop in middle because her infinite gorgeous.

[@heidigardner3598]

For anyone looking for Queer Book Box you can order here: queerbookbox.com/ I've had two so far and they've both been wonderful!

[@mohankashyap3534]

useful video jean

[@bookswithrowanundertherowa3348]

I'd love for people to buy me books but the sad reality is when people who aren't booknerds buy me books, they are always mainstream super-hyped books that I already own and read years ago and have read a gazillion times. It's so sad and anticlimactic. 😭😭😭

[@juditkovacse]

I am not willing to read a single word from Khaled Hosseini after reading his book A Thousand Splendid Suns, which was the most vile, unemphatic, irresponsible, sexist and racist books I have ever read. As a writer he is at best mediocre, but that things he choses to focus on, and the story he told there is completely vile. Never again. I get a bit mad every single time I even see his other books in a bookshop. Sorry, I get your intention here, and it's great, but that guy's books should not even be published, let alone be as hyped as they are.