my fairytale book recommendations + book shopping

[@kennycat215]

I am a huge reader and so happy that I am not the only grown up person who enjoys fairy tales and myths. Thank you Paola, for sharing ✨✨✨

[@LunaciaBooks]

You are absolutely not alone! ❤ I have always loved fairytales and myths.

[@1805movie]

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” *-C.S. Lewis*

[@nette49]

When I was a little girl, I read every type of fairy book I could. I fantasized about being a fairy and living in a large hollowed out tree with a spiral staircase! I am 74, and still love stories about fairies and folklore. I love the idea of mermaids and love the beach also!

[@Jomatsch]

Books have always been among my best friends. They have taught me so much over seven decades. They were always there to prop me up during many very difficult times. They have made me laugh and cry. They have taken my mind off my worries. They were there when I was homesick in the Navy. They were there after everyone had left---loss of love, divorce, and loss of my son. From their bookshelves, they stand guard even as I sleep.

[@rrhines3151]

I must comment when you mentioned how books 📚 have been your constant companions all your life… I learned as a child the type of person I wouldn’t become because of what I observed, how unkind people can be, and this microcosm of existence must be escaped! Books offered me the opportunity to learn of distant lands, champions of the human spirit and autobiographies of people who DID change the world ❤ We grew up in similar time periods… I just wanted to reach out to you to say you have a kindred spirit in this community Paola has created! I suspect we all share more similarities than differences 🌎

[@aliciamarielavoie]

Books were also companions for me as a child; and, yes, they are still companions to me even now. I learned so much about one's character and growth - basically, who I aspired to be as I got older. I traveled to different lands and became immersed in different life paths and backgrounds. Books are timeless.

[@donnawatson845]

So sorry for your loss of your son. Glad books help. We are huge readers and lovers of books too. Bless you

[@Jomatsch]

@@donnawatson845 Thank you, Donna. Thank God for books when Josh passed in 2014. (36 y/o only child) His Maine Coon cat was a comfort for the next seven years. Willy 'left to play with Josh' on 3/6/21. What a cat! I would lie on my bed reading. (Willy was rather needy and chose me as his therapy person.) As I read, he would shove his head under my book. Then he would try to suck on my neck. When you're single, you probably wouldn't want cat hickeys on your neck. (Married guys probably wouldn't care. HI!) I went to the shelter for many months after Willy "escaped'. One day a volunteer asked, "Didn't you find a forever friend yet?" I pouted and said, "No one picked me yet..." Nighty-night, Donna.

[@Jomatsch]

@@rrhines3151 This site provides a nice escape from day-to-day concerns. Many interesting people in our 'new neighborhood'. Each day I visit 'my coffee shop' in Bay City, Mi. I like to read while enjoying a cup of black coffee. The young employees often tease me about my am/fm/cassette radio with earbuds, a pad of paper, a good eraser, and a dictionary. I've never owned a cellphone. Since 2014, I've read hundreds of books and the young people have filled a huge void after I lost my son, Josh. For Christmas, the girls gave me eight gift-wrapped books to read. Another girl left last week to get married so I had to send another 'daughter' out into the world. In the seventies, I read a lot of Thoreau, R. W. Emerson, Kahlil Gibran, and many of his books. Later Edison, Einstein, Nikola Tesla, James Allen, Wallace Wattles, Charles Haanel, and Walter Russell. Many thought Russell was the smartest man in the world. Einstein did. He discovered and built so many things. He excelled in all the arts. Painter, sculptor, horse breeder, architect, and musician. He brought figure skating to America. He left school at the age of ten. He said it was the best thing he ever did. He gave piano lessons at the age of ten to earn money. He never had lessons. He said 'Everything came from above.' According to the Myers-Briggs test, I am an INFP. Interesting and it seems to hold out. Enjoy your evening. Nighty-night!

[@TheCottageFairy]

Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy this little video ❤ and please share your recommendations! I loooove talking about books. I know this isn’t everyone’s preferred video theme, but it always helps me feel a renewal of joy in making videos when I take a quick break to do bookish things, so I appreciate you being here!

[@msrashmie4330]

Can you make a video on how "u"make the plants in jar (terrarium) ...would love plants themed vids ...I love book vids too ..❤

[@flowerpixel]

I think you would like "Half a Soul" 🧚 It's a quick read, kind of a howls moving castle/Emily Wilde blend

[@radhikabahl9271]

For more bookish video ideas -you could make a video about your favourite ya/adults books of all time or maybe some books you've read recently. You could make this a monthly or bi-monthly thing so it's like a nice treat for people who love your bookish videos 🌸

[@Kate42]

I love all about fairies. It makes me so happy to know that other people believe in them too. I always check out your recommendations on stories that you have read and I'm never disappointed. Thank you!

[@MS-pt2us]

Beautiful video as always❤ The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, 1955, science fiction story about a group of people in the village who can communicate with their minds and their troubles with others who do not accept them. The story is about tolerance and differences. I have read it about 7 times in the past 25 years😂

[@Mishkamoreland]

I love that I'm not the only person who collects and reads these types of books! I've been told many many times that I waste my money on "kids" books, but it's them I feel sorry for, but me. They're missing out on all the magic!

[@instagamrr]

Your bookshelves look so gorgeous as a background 🥰

[@Glorydancer333]

I love books and I worry about the day when people will no longer hold a physical book in their hands. What a loss that would be with everything becoming digital. I even miss the daily newspaper. Some things can never be replaced and books are in that category. What a joy to cuddle up on a cold night with a lovely book of your choice. Thanks for sharing your favorites! P.S. I am a Romantic at Heart so I love a good love story. Also enjoy poetry and biographies. Kahlil Gibran is my favorite poet. My favorite book of his is The Prophet. Very profound but relatable advice beautifully expressed.

[@lindasteinbrenner8065]

I so agree with you! I do have a Kindle as I am a massive reader.. many different types. But there is NOTHING like an actual book! And I also like an actual newspaper! ❤

[@undefined6251]

While not considered a fairy tale, I really enjoy the Frog and Toad series. They transport me to a nice quaint time and place.

[@jamiechamberlain8954]

I still love “The Snow Child.” That book changed and charged my imagination!

[@flowerpixel]

Me too! It's a perfect read in the winter

[@MatildaTheBookDragon]

One of my best reads this year 🥰

[@zahireenk513]

I just went out and bought it! Can’t wait to read!

[@_Lane_]

Oh, that's one of my favourite books as well! 😄

[@mdmcgee]

I'm reading the Encyclopedia of Fairies right now and am absolutely loving it.

[@AmericanaGardens]

Yes! Finally a KZbin reader who doesn’t bash Emily Wildes encyclopedia book!

[@rachaeltrujillo9960]

Watched this during an episode of intense anxiety and it helped me calm down and get out of my own head. You made a difference in my life today. And I always enjoy your videos. Thank you.

[@animatednovelsbymisquemedi497]

Aww, I love classic fairytales and an epic retelling of ageless themes of love and magic.

[@kathleenroberts7972]

I love the snow child, even if it's sad. .I have kept all of my daughters childhood books, so I can read a fairytale anytime.

[@carolinesimmill4962]

I was just thinking about this book 'the snow child' and it really is a great favourite of mine. I wonder if the author has written anymore books.

[@jenniferlamontleo6114]

I had the privilege to visit the Trail's End bookstore last fall. It's a wonderful place to spend time browsing!

[@SharonG-ip3ll]

I've always been a reader. As I'm getting older I find myself drawn back to children's books and fairy tales. Thank you for these recommendations.

[@Rochele18]

Daughter of the Moon Goddess was oh so good. I was getting back into reading and really wanted magic and it delivered perfectly.

[@judithgrace8359]

I recently re read The Borrowers, I had forgotten how enchanting the whole series is. I guess you’d classify it as fantasy, but a warm and cozy fantasy.

[@jannier9766]

I love The Borrowers.

[@danisantos3088]

I love the whole Borrower series. Such a charming family.

[@elevationview673]

Hi Paola, I don't read books, but love your enthusiasm and can see much joy is found in reading. Also the wall of books is impressive, makes your home look cosy and welcoming. I always find cottage fairy videos calming. You must look up Laura's Little Corner, Laura's our very own British Cottage Fairy!

[@rajeshprabhakaran6382]

U r the reason y I don't get stressed much in this stressful World please keep making videos from india

[@aftonmrleslie]

Your book videos bring me life!! You could always make videos on the books you’re currently reading, and the books you’re excited to get into next? As a book worm myself - I love hearing anything and everything about books! I always love your content! You do an absolutely wonderful and whimsical job 🤗💫🍄🌸🫶🏼

[@imnoemit]

Yes! Would be wonderful more book related videos💜

[@andrasim5265]

I could listen to you talk about books all day! So enchanting! ❤️ I love these book recommendations! I've already read a few of them and I look forward to reading the others on your list. On par with these, I recommend The Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden, it's based on Russian folklore and bits of history. Spinning silver by Naomi Novik - based on slavic folktales, The girl who fell beneath the sea by Axie Oh - based on korean folktales.

[@bndergltd3053]

“You hold the map to places only you can see”. I love that quote. It encapsulates how I feel about reading, and why I enjoy it more than watching a story. Couldn’t put it into words until now. Will be adding “The wolf in the whale” to my list 😀.

[@amymaceachern6910]

Paola, I am so happy to see The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making show up on your channel! That whole series is my absolute favorite, and I am thrilled that you enjoy this storytelling too! All your book recommendations are just top shelf. :) Thank you so much for sharing with us.

[@catholicpeaces6257]

Paola, indeed do more book recommendations-your recommendations have opened me to a genre of books full of imagination, story telling and innocence 🧚Reading the series Age of Myth by Michael J Sullivan -not my usual reading but a lot of interesting characters in the forest and quite enjoying the imagination of it all. Happy reading everyone 📚

[@bethforencich623]

The children's book "A Fairy Went A Marketing" is a lovely story with darling illustrations that I loved reading to my boys when they were young.

[@radhikabahl9271]

(Commenting this before watching the video) - All of your videos are exquisite but your videos about books are my personal favourite because you talking about books seems so so genuine and i personally feel like talking to a friend who loves books as much as I do✨🌸🥀

[@lindahenderson1625]

I agree. I struggle with conversations with people who don’t read, whatever the genre. I recently turned 71 and books have been lifelong companions and guides. I read a variety of genres, there are many to entertain and provide wisdom. I have always enjoyed reading to gain wisdom. I’ve told people that there is wisdom in fiction, too. How can people not read books??! Best wishes from Alabama

[@jillychandler]

Thank you for this little video, and I really enjoyed it. I have ordered The Wolf and the Whale book, as I have always felt some sort of link to Inuit folk. I had a Northern Inuit dog for a little while, called Chaska, who was so like a beautiful grey wolf, with blue eyes, and he was the sweetest nature. I have always loved wolves, and I love fairies too! I am 66 year young, and when walking Madge, my black rescue greyhound, I sometimes see those wonderful dragonflies with the blue bodies, and I feel they are fairies, and I always talk to them, and to the butterflies and bees! We need to feed the child within us, and stay forever young, as you do Paola. Would love to have a video on your animals, and hope that your husband has been able to make that rabbit enclosure outside you mentioned a while back? Thank you again for this lovely video. Blessings and hugs to you, from Jilly & Madge in West Devon, England. xxx

[@anthonyskrobul3726]

Hi Paola. I love all of your videos, especially the ones about books. I am an avid reader of nonfiction, but I like to know what's happening in different genre's of fiction. I think one of your book-related videos led me to your channel. I follow a lot of Book Tubers, and I think a KZbin algorithm put one of your videos into my feed over a year ago. I'm so happy I found your wonderful channel. BTW, I love your book. I even bought a copy for my daughter. She loves fairies, decorating, gardening, and nature. Please keep putting out your wonderful videos. I look forward to them every week.

[@annapeart6771]

The Daughter of the Moon Goddess is one of my absolute favorite books!! Great recommendations!

[@asamson2856]

I really enjoy wildwood dancing by Juliet mariner, Ella enchanted by Gail Carson levine and goose girl by Shannon hale!

[@sarahmattimiro7127]

I think you would love The Bear and The Nightingale series by Katherine Arden. It's a mixture of Russian myth and history and it just has a wonderful feeling to it.

[@sherrimartin1057]

Paola, you have inspired me to start collecting my favorite childhood books, The Boxcar Children ! Although not whimsical and nature filled, they make me happy. My childhood was full of trauma and books were my escape. Whenever I found these books at the school library or "bookmobile" i was thrilled ! They are written by Gertrude Chandler Warner. Thank you for reminding me of my love for this little escape that brought me so much joy ! 💜

[@clydesdalehomestead3807]

Love that series!

[@Laura_DiNunno]

I looooovvveddd!! The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland so much. Great pick.

[@michelleleigh007]

I've just finished Anne of Green Gables ❤ my favourite in the world book. I also adore Beatrix Potter 😊

[@ludovicacastracane4975]

To open your library and to be open to share its content is a woderfull idea to be understood and...to understand others

[@debcarroll8192]

I have always been a huge fan of fairy tales and folklore. I recently finished reading Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies. I really loved how the herione is able to prevail because of her extensive knowledge of fairy tales, although I didn't care much for the romance in it. You shared one or two titles which are new to me, and I look forward to reading them!

[@jade1344]

Hi! Can you recommend more books like this? I’m really into fairy tales also but I don’t know any good books to read. I am a fan of Fairie Trilogy (Cruel Prince, Wicked King….) and I love the romance of the book. 😊 I love fairy tales + a pinch of romance in it. Lolol. Thank you!

[@debcarroll8192]

@@jade1344I think you would like Robin McKinley. She has done a number of really wonderful fairy tale rewrites.

[@lizmarin9568]

I absolutely adore Howls Moving Castle! Diana Wynn Jones is one of my favorite ya authors.

[@angelahagood3639]

Super recommendations! I know you have a ton on your plate, but have you ever considered doing a reading video for children or…reading for audio books??? I hear the excitement in your voice as you tell about each book and not everyone has that spark! My children loved to be read to at night but now with the digital age upon us, I think tuning into a channel to hear about fairytales and wonder and the soothing tones of your voice, would allow any child to dream of magical things all night. One of my favorite quotes, “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.” _C.S. Lewis 🧚‍♀️ 📚🕯️✨ Thank you for your enchanting channel! 🥰

[@sincerelyceline]

These book selections are so perfect, thanks for also adding books with beautiful illustrations💖

[@mch12311969]

Thank you Paola, I will add many of these to my TBR list, I love fantasy stories and especially stories about fae folk.

[@allyrudolph]

Yes! I love book recommendation videos and I love your taste in books. I’ll definitely put these on my to-read list on Goodreads. Thanks for these! 😊

[@rrhines3151]

Paola, I used to be a voracious reader until a serious illness changed my focus. I love your words about healing ❤️‍🩹 your inner child and being your authentic self! I know I paraphrased but I am commenting while listening to this video for a second time! “Daughter of the Moon Goddess” piqued my curiosity and then when you spoke about the Inuit woman who wants to be a warrior offers me an image of me possibly being a warrior against my cancer! 🙄 See, your enthusiasm is contagious 😁 This is SUCH a fun video 📚 Though I’m a senior, my spirited heart suspects we’d have great adventures out in your magical woods and world! I am thrilled you seem so happy living your current life! You’ve shared some of your challenges along your path… I admire and value your talents, attitude and uniqueness so very much! Didn’t you love 💕 reading how the fairies viewed humans?! Sometimes I view humans as quizzical beings!!😂🧚🏼‍♀️

[@julestopper7553]

I love your book recommendation videos. I would love to see more tours of your book collection, thank you for sharing more books!

[@TondreaJackson]

I look forward to your visits to the bookstore, your book recommendation lists and the "why" you enjoy the books recommended. This helps to expand my thinking on what is out there in our book world AND I search for them at our local library. So please, continue to make these type of videos. 🥰 Currently, I am focused on James Herriot. I am enjoying "Treasure for Children: Warm and joyful tales by the author of Every Living Thing. The illustrations by Ruth Brown and Peter Barrett are beautifully done. I also found a video titled "Young James Herriot the early life and education of the beloved British Vet by De Caestecker Lain. What a special young man. From his young life I saw a young man with a pure heart deeply desirous to help animals AND people. He also faced a darkness that is truly eye-opening too that not everyone shares that same belief.

[@shanne6625]

Where did you find the video?

[@catistefi1148]

The best friend in your live are books. I would have liked to live in a world of books. Unfortunately, these days we don't see TV shows about books anymore. No one recommends a book anymore. Every time when I need some peace, I am watching your videos. Thank you Paola for your videos.

[@shanne6625]

I enjoyed your books talk. You have inspired me to revisit old and experience new reads in this genre 🎉❤

[@gopathakurroy3222]

Both my husband and I love books, and tales about fairies. I am so glad that there are so many out there like us. 😍

[@mariabosse6655]

Thank you so much for this book series. Maybe you could recommend books about crafts, gardening, nature?

[@nargisfirdous1976]

I also love the fairy tales they brought us in another world in our imagination..

[@savannahp5884]

I was just talking to my boyfriend last night, that I was hoping you would do a part 2 to your book recommendations! I just finished the audio book version of "James herriot's Treasury for Children " and absolutely loved it. So this video couldn't of come at a better time !

[@onestrauss3066]

Oohhh. I love hearing about the books on your shelf Paola. Now I have more recommendations when I’m next at my own local bookshop. Thanks so much!

[@lindasteinbrenner8065]

I really enjoy your book videos! And you are so blessed to have an actual beautiful bookstore to visit! ❤

[@niko.1221]

I'm currently reading Legends &Lattes because of your last video on books. İ really enjoy it! I'm looking forward to checking out these as well. Thank you so much 😊

[@janewalster5613]

So happy you mentioned "The Land of Stone Flowers" by Sveta Dorosheva. I love this book and her beautiful illustrations so much that I took an online drawing class from the author/artist. As you mentioned, her book is a wonderfully weird and imaginative perspective on the fairy world. Thanks for sharing your love of books and recommendations!

[@SacredQueen1927]

I also the Land of Stone Flowers also! It’s a quirky, but delightful book. Thank you for the recommendations, I have enjoyed reading several of the recommend books. Great work! ❤

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

Another beautiful and wonderful video from the amazing and wonderful fairy reader love it 🥰

[@lyra3517]

This came at just the perfect time!! I needed some new book recommendations and will be sure to look these up to see if my local library has some 🥰✨🍄

[@francineh.7825]

I have three of the books you talked about so I definitely loved this book review! I just started reading the Daughter of the Moon Goddess. The Wolf in the Whale sounds very interesting!

[@TheKickasskatie]

Thank you so much for being the only person to ever mention this book by Catherynne Valente!!🎉 I will recommend this series till the sun burns out, but no one ever talks about it. It's so magical, the characters are wonderful and it's not dumbed down for a younger audience. There are some lessons in there

[@awildbecoming]

Also, might be worth checking out: “the uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales” and “Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales” ❤

[@neurolotte2406]

I love your bookish videos, so thank you for this! Maybe you could do a video about illustrated books recommendations next?

[@theteapotreads]

These all look absolutely delightful 🌸

[@kellyramirez7465]

Im excited to read your lost here! Thank you for sharing! Howl's Moving Castle and the other books in the series is awesome. I adored Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries❤ One book kind of similar for others who like a book like this is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Not as cosy but more of a hefty epic with magicians and the Napoleonic wars😂

[@KW-lz3iw]

I would also like to recommend: The Moorchild - Eloise Jarvis McGraw The forbidden door - Marilee Hayer The Onion Girl - Charles De Lint

[@noemimitart2174]

Just watching your video motivates me so much to read, paint and write! Thank you so much for sharing your book recommendations, I really enjoyed the video:)

[@jaclynbukich1685]

Thank you for your lovely channel and book recommendations! My children absolutely love Heartwood Hotel, we have been reading a chapter each night for bedtime and has become a special addition to their library. ❤

[@kiara4345]

I love this books videos!! I was feeling quite a little sick and just tired today, and your video lightened up my day!! Thanks, you are a kind real life fairy

[@olgaamelia]

Maybe next you can recommend us your favorite fairy related, cozy, heartwarming, fantasy movies. Really looking forward for that 🙌🏼

[@SherryBaby1107]

Always loved to read and be transported to worlds that we can imagine being a part of! It provides a time to unwind and relax and enjoy different journeys that can be thought provoking or just for the enjoyment and enrichment of mind they offer…to be lost in another world is to be found in your own 🧚‍♂️🌼🌺🌸

[@moongold9025]

You look so pretty Paola! I love how you braided your hair, and that star necklace is so pretty! ✨️ Thank you for sharing your Fairy books with us.

[@karinschott]

I read The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill this year. It’s a retelling of the Japanese folktale The Crane Wife. Her retelling is dark. I love Barnhill’s children’s books. I am so glad she is writing for adults. I also enjoyed the fractured fairy tales of Alix Harrow. She wrote the 10,000 Doors of January and The Once and Future Witches. Her fairytales series are short novellas that begins with A Spindle Splintered.

[@joannwillis8035]

Have you ever read The Swans of Ballycastle? It’s an Irish folktale about three children who were driven from their home by their stepmother and cursed to never return until they heard the church bell, which was damaged in a storm, ring in their village. The children become swans and swim to a magical island off-shore of their village. It’s one of my favorites. 😊

[@corncobpipe4]

I so love these book videos!!❤ Anytime you would like to make book content, I'm here for it! Bookshelf tours, reviews of specific books, flip throughs...books, books, books!!😊❤

[@elizabethwareing8818]

One of my favourite aspects of your videos ( there are many) 🥰 is your sharing of books I shopped for books this week bought too many as always but definitely had you sitting on my shoulder as I shopped!

[@marianamorais4608]

I just added "The Storyteller's Handbook" by Elise Hurst to my wishlist! Thank you for sharing such wonderfull books 🧚

[@saramaguire8413]

I recently read Garlic and the Witch from another one of your videos and it was so sweet - and I agree, I really enjoyed Daughter of the Moon Goddess! Can't wait to read the rest of these!

[@pedrabrulez1820]

I think that with your imagination and the beautiful drawings you make, there are certainly several stories you can write yourself....

[@katherinesage]

Paola: would you make a video on your favorite dresses and why you choose their colors? ✨

[@nancydroge7682]

Every time I catch a glimpse of your bookshelves made by your dear husband, I am awed! Your shelves in my mind are a book tree, & since a tree as such is my dream, every glimpse I catch of your shelves, is a little dream come true for me! I can only imagine sitting in that magical room to read! Thank you for another excellent book ‘picks’ video! I can hardly wait to pick up my order at our library! What did you think about that first book you picked up, ‘How to read a Tree’? Also, do you mix hardcover books with softcovers on your book tree?! ~Sending you my heartfelt love & gratitude~ 💕🌳📚📖🧚🏼💕

[@lolo3968]

Paola you are so good at this, a natural!

[@fifidefreitas1045]

This video made me so warm and nostalgic 😍 thank you so much 💜

[@imaginationsmusic1985]

I'm interested in a few of these after seeing this! Hoping to visit Half Price Books soon so i will look for them! My favorite comfort books is The Chronicles Of Narnia. They will always be the most magical for me 💜💙

[@johndej]

Wonderful video! From one who does limited reading these day, I love you enthusiasm for the you share. Thank you!

[@sarathaslife7978]

Thank you so much for making book video it's really wonderful for a book lover like me ❤

[@lmhlmh9584]

Your page makes me very happy! We need to let our own inner kid playfully enjoy the magic fairy tails bring. I hope you keep posting your videos😇💕

[@lxtatar7773]

So nice to see Howl's Moving Castle among your recommendations! I love the book much more than the anime movie. It also has two sequels!

[@philomenaward1833]

Loved this and was quite green with envy at the plentitude of wonderful story telling in pictue and word. One boon that still haunts me to this day by Monica Dickens "The tree that sat down and the stream that stood still" wish I could find it again. Thankyou Paoula what a wonderful array you brought to us.

[@kerenvalentin7082]

Loved your selections of fairy tale books. Most of them sound so soothing, I will definitely find one to read very soon. Thank you!!

[@annamallard2730]

It lifted my heart to see you had a new video out! I’ve been feeling very depressed and anxious this week, for various reasons including being hurt by a friend… and often I feel I just don’t belong in this world 😢 Your videos remind me there are fellow kind and gentle souls out there who adore whimsy and magical escapades. You’ve brought me much needed escapism and comfort, just by talking about these books ✨🥰🧚‍♀️ Thank you Paola! Ps. I remember as a child reading a collection of short stories, the title one being ‘A Necklace of Raindrops’, and it totally captivating me - I read it a few times actually! Planning to revisit it as an adult 🩷 has anyone else read that one?

[@Glorydancer333]

I haven't read that book, but I'd love to. I can certainly relate to the way you've been feeling. Sometimes it's not a bad thing to not fit into this world the way it is now. There are many of us who feel that way. I hope your week will be much better. I've been hurting too.

[@annamallard2730]

@@Glorydancer333 Thank you 🥰 that’s a great way of looking at it! I hope your hurting feelings will be replaced by something more magical soon ✨

[@bandouche5654]

💖🧸🍀🌺🌈🤗

[@taz2906]

I really enjoyed For the Wolf. Very atmospheric, and a retelling of Beauty and the Beast with bits of Little Red Riding Hood.

[@tapathune]

I haven't done an update in a couple of weeks - I'm happy to share that we've finally found a house :) I moved in last week, I'm slowly settling in, ironing out all the kinks and details. My best friend and future housemate is moving in next week!!! I'm so excited, it has been a little lonely here. However, I've taken some time to explore - visiting a renowned secondhand bookstore and hunting for some novels to pass the time. I managed to get my hands on an Ursula Le Guin book - an author which I've been meaning to explore for a long time now. Looking forward to diving into it! The city is drop dead gorgeous - it's incredible to finally be here. I start work next week, another exciting beginning. I'm a little worried I'll be shakey on my feet, I haven't done work like this for about a year now. But I'm sure it's just like riding a bike :) To new beginnings! 🥂

[@LJmysticOwl]

For people who love atmospheric books that transport you, I recommend The Night Circus. No book has ever made me want to crawl into it to visit a place like it has.

[@morganfiona8378]

Just letting you know the author of the moth keeper prefers to be known as Kay rather than Katie (which they previously published under). I highly recommend their tea dragon series as well, they are so sweet and bring me so much joy!

[@baileyjones7570]

I think you love fairies in the way I love dragons. I collect books like Dragonology and illustrated Tolkien books, and I have sketchbooks full of dragons I would draw over and over again when I was younger. Now, I'm trying to write about them, and it makes me so happy 🥰 I also love fairies, because I have an aunt who would give me and my sisters illustrated children's treasuries about fairies and little folk, and I have very fond memories of building fairy houses with her---it's still something I do with my sisters occasionally even though we're all mostly college-age. She would also give us little fairies she made out of wire and embroidery floss, with wooden beads for heads and the faces drawn in minute detail in pen and watercolor. She even sewed tiny dresses and shawls with beautiful beadwork on the hems, and made mine a little copper wire crown. I will always treasure those. I've made a few myself since then; they make delightful gifts. There's a book I found at my local library that shows you how, called Felt Wee Folk by Salley Mavor.

[@TheMennomilist]

As an avid reader, I always love recommendations!

[@AdrianasWonderland]

east of the sun and west of the moon was jus added to my amazon whishlist, thank you for this beautiful video

[@bl4639]

Loved these selections (I LOVE Jackie Morris!)

[@mylifewithtaco]

I love your the color scheme in your video ❤

[@snehayogish]

I was looking for recommendations, I have grown a lot interest in fairy tales and poetry lately. Definitely inspired by your lifestyle and videos. Thank you for sharing :):)

[@lauramallory6275]

This was so super enjoyable you are broadening my horizons of the possibilities of good reads ❤