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Redhead reading in NYC
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Email: champsey367@gmail.com
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Email: champsey367@gmail.com
the mid-year reading chat | 2024
How is your reading year going? Favorite reads? Must-reads for the second half? Thank you for watching xo.
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'raining or shining' through Ireland
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A lot of driving through seas of green. This was a magical & windy trip. Thank you for watching xo. Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
early summer reads + random bits
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Thank you for being here. What are you reading this summer? Books mentioned: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell The Secret Place by Tana French Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
vlog: gardening, organizing books, apartment updates, etc.
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Thank you for being here xo Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
Q1 reading wrap-up || 2024
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Thank you for being here xo. Books: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing The Word for World Is Forest by Ursala K. Le Guin Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead
vlog | recent reads and getting outside
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thank you for being here xo books: LaRose by Louise Erdrich Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens GoodReads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
February vlog: apartment updates, haircut, and what I'm reading
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Thank you for being here xo. Books: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Love After the End edited by Joshua Whitehead Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
gentle January: holiday book haul, slow routines, & warm meals
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easing into 2024. Thank you for being here xo. reading: Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
BEST BOOKS OF 2023 + FINAL READS OF THE YEAR
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Tuck in for a long video! We're talking best books of the year, honorable mentions, and reads to close out 2023. What was your standout book of the year? Thank you for being here xo Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
December slump: big books and slow days
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A series of unconnected clips but thank you for being here anyway! Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
failing to romanticize the NYC moving experience
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I am so excited for this next chapter. Thank you for being here. Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
autumn buzz || book club, dog sitting, & beginning the move
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thank you for being here Books: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Bliss by Jeff VanderMeer Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn
august, september, & october wrap-up || 2023
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playing catch up books: The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith To the...
a week spent reading in the sun
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Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/117747564-carolyn Books: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
april, may, june, & july wrap-up || 2023
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It's been a while. books: Shriek: An Afterward (Ambergris, #2) by Jeff VanderMeer Finch (Ambergris, #3) by Jeff VanderMeer The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer Rain Wilds Chronicles series by Robin Hobb Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Rosewater Redem...
sunrises and speculative fiction || reading vlog
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sunrises and speculative fiction || reading vlog
Reading Vlog || cottage days are my favorite days
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Reading Vlog || cottage days are my favorite days
Reading Vlog || birthday festivities, great books, and trying new things
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Reading Vlog || birthday festivities, great books, and trying new things
Reading Vlog || My LOTR era and March TBR
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Reading Vlog || My LOTR era and March TBR
Reading Vlog || Home for the holidays & new year book haul
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Reading Vlog || Home for the holidays & new year book haul
September, October, & November Wrap-up
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September, October, & November Wrap-up
Reading Vlog || book haul and reading catch up
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Reading Vlog || book haul and reading catch up
Reading Vlog || Some September reads, cottage days & catch-ups
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Reading Vlog || Some September reads, cottage days & catch-ups
Beautiful, and congrats to your sister!
I had to DNF the golden notebook. I couldn’t do it.
Haven't read the Mad Ship in years. I must dig it out again. Lovely video. Thanks!
I think it's finally time for me to pick up Annihilation! You've raved about it for so long that I feel like I'm missing out! One of the books I really want to get to by the end of the year is Long Island Compromise. I think it's supposed to be about complex family dynamics and intergenerational trauma so it'll probably be sad but those types of stories always hit so hard for me.
ooh! i'm discovering the fourth southern reach book thru you (fittingly)! i'll check it out ha ha ha the golden notebook is kind of a slog, so i feel you... good to see a book video from you! 🖤
i love your voice
Great video and a great shot from The Spinc in Glendalough and a beautiful rainbow. A nice little rain shower thrown in every ten or fifteen minutes to make the walks more fun.
I've recently gone back and watched nearly all your old vlogs and reading wrap-ups because there's just something so soothing and engaging about the way you yourself engage with reading, which has been such a joy for me as a viewer. Needless to say, seeing this video come through my subscription box was such a delight!! I loved hearing about where you are with your reading so far this year and completely related to what you were saying about feeling in some ways like you read "less" than maybe you'd intended, but yet you'd been having wonderful reading experiences. That's so exactly how I've felt this year as well. Thanks for this! It brightened up my afternoon.
I recently read Our Mutual Friend and loved it as well! I have wanted to read it since watching the amazing BBC miniseries as a teen but I was super intimidated for years
I ordered This is Happiness from my library after you talked about it in your last vlog. It arrived yesterday, and I’m looking forward to reading it even more now!
I love to hear that! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did
this was very comforting to watch
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You look like a proper Irish Colleen
what a beautiful video!! the rainbow brought so much joy ❤
Y did the goat have color spray on him?
So the farmers can identify their livestock.
Ireland looks stunning! Thank you for bringing us along :) every time I watch your videos I want to read some more Robin Hobb 😊
she’s simply the best!
Madame Bovary is a brilliant read! Hope you love it too when you get round to it :) Excited to see a library room update!
love the little snippets of life u capture ❤
This is exactly the same favorites list as Sunbeamsjess, descriptions and everything 😅
do you have a goodreads or storygraph? our tastes are so similar, i’d love to get recs through there! happy to have found your channel!!
I've had The Golden Notebook on my shelf for maybe a decade now and I'm embarrassed to say I haven't got round to it yet (you beat me to it). Last month I decided that this shall be the year, I suspect my reaction might be a bit similar to yours, which is why I've been putting me off, and that's curious because I REALLY enjoyed two of her earlier books The Grass Is Singing and Martha Quest, I'd absolutely recommend those. Also that Giant O'Brien book sounds great, I must put that on my list.
annnd shes back!! <3
Thanks so much for your reviews! I just finished the trilogy and I loved them too. I'm working on processing them. Probably will break my brain. 😅
'Promo SM' 🤗
Love the vibes of this vlog Carolyn! loved the music and all the little bits into your days and reading hours. big love and big hugs.
xo
😍!!!!
Love the decor!
Looks great!! Glad you're able to paint and make this place your own. Looking forward to your January and February reviews. 💛
thank you :)
Just found you and I'm in awe! You are so well spoken and I literally have not heard a single thing about any of the books you talked about! Ah no I lied 😅 Robin hobb I heard of. So stoked to look into your other videos to see if I will pick up some of your recommendations 🥰
Ive found your channel today and subscribed. I almost certain that your calm energy is going to put you among my top booktubers.
same!!
Vandermeer is also one of my favorite authors. My favorite book of his is Finch. I like to think of it as a stand alone novel, although I know its part of the Ambergris series.
Happy I just found you! I've been looking for book lovers who don't read just new releases. I love your recs and have added many to my TBR. You also made me want to try Robin Hobb one more time 👀
Of all the fiction I read in 2023, Claire Keegan’s “Foster” is the book that has lingered in my mind the longest and with the deepest emotional effect since I first came across it last March. And I wouldn’t have heard of Keegan’s story had it not been for the Irish language film adaptation-“An Cailín Ciúin”-“The Quiet Girl”-which I also first saw last March at my local independent cinema. All I knew of “The Quiet Girl” beforehand was what I had seen in a trailer a few weeks earlier, so the film’s story and its overpowering final scene caught me entirely off-guard and left me emotionally wrung out. After I got home from the movie theatre that day, I began rummaging around online and was able to find a PDF copy of “Foster”, which I read in one spellbound sitting. I’m a retired child protection/family services worker, so the story of Keegan’s nameless little girl, her dire family situation, and her restorative summer months with John and Edna (Seán and Eibhlín in the movie) struck a sensitive chord with me. One of the foster couples I used to work with even ran a dairy farm, just like the Kinsellas. The screenwriter/director, Colm Bairéad, did a wonderful job of bringing Keegan’s long short story to the screen, and I highly recommend “The Quiet Girl” to anyone who hasn’t seen it. The film was released in Canada and the US last March, but I don’t think it received the theatre distribution it deserved, as I still meet people who have read “Foster” but have no idea it was made into an Oscar-nominated film. “Foster” is part of the curriculum for Irish schoolchildren, and you can find a copy of the study guide they use by doing an online search for “Study Notes on ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan - Reviews Rants and Rambles”.
just found your youtube channel and I’m so excited to watch more of your videos! i have barely heard of any of these books, so I hope that your videos will expose me to some new reads that I wouldn’t have found outherwise :)
Hooray, great to hear :)
Watching this on a cold& gloomy day is perfect. Love hearing u discuss books 🩵
So glad you're enjoying Ship of Magic! The Liveship Traders is my favourite trilogy by Robin Hobb, it is incredible ❤
I’m almost done with it!
your makeup looks so so good <3
thank you <3
Assassin of reality was great, but too short😢
Good to know! I wonder if there’s a third book planned…?
I’ve had a lot of the same experiences with you on the acne front. Tried doxycycline and topical treatments forever and my dermatologist literally just put me on accutane. It’s so tough to have acne cause it’s something I’m like always always conscious about so I am glad that finally it could go away (hopefully!!) My side effects have been dry lips and that’s it so far (if you’re wondering)
good to hear! I hope it works for you too. My brother told me aquaphor is a lifesaver.
Roaccutane really takes it out of you. It is absolutely worth the end result if you can manage it - unfortunately my prescription was unexpectedly stopped before I had a chance to finish it so I've never quite gotten rid of my acne, but I hope that you're able to stamp it out. For what it's worth, you look wonderful 24/7 and nothing can change that. China Mieville and Mervyn Peake are soooo good - I can't think of any other writers I've read that are quite like them.
The Word for World is Forest is a punch of a book, I stayed up late because I HAD to know how it would end.
ooo can't wait to read it
What a cozy vlog! The gloomy lighting ❤ but omg carolyn your highlighter ✨ and your overall style you look like a contemporary irl american girl! I would totally read your american girl series, starring you! ❤ can’t wait for your upcoming vlogs as you settle into your new apt
What a compliment! Thanks so much xo ❤
I feel you on the acne struggle….I really hope you’re able to get it cleared up 🤞🏼 Also, have to ask where in the WORLD you got that wonderfully floppy edition of Ship of Magic that has the beautiful cover???
Barnes and Noble had these editions! :)
Thank you for the recommendation of Foster!! Wow! I loved it!
The covenant of water sounds right up my alley! Omg Foster is my fav claire keegan and you cannot miss the forester’s daughter. Whale-cheon myung kwan really hit me hard and it’s also a multigen saga! And just an absolutely crazy ride that I was gleefully chuckling throughout and had me painfully sobbing at the end. Happy 2024 Carolyn! Hope you have a great reading year ahead! ❤
loved it! i started my robin hobb journey in 2023 and will keep going with her work later this year :)
Oh man, if you are looking for another Louise Erdrich to read I would love to see you read The Round House. It is harrowing, rage-inducing, desperately sad; so so many layers. I'd read some trigger warnings before diving into this one if that is something you're sensitive to in books, but LE never makes it gratuitous. So many ways in which violence perpetuates violence, esp in acts of vengeance -- as "justified" as it may seem. Lots of interesting things to say about penalization vs. rehabilitation, esp where it concerns the feelings of victims too.
Added to my list! I want to read a bunch more LE.
I love we are all completely beside ourselves it’s so good. A must read
Agreed!
Can't wait to read Royal Assassin and finish the Farseer trilogy this year ! ❤great vlog !
I loved Round House by Louise Endrich. Highly recommend.