A Gentleman in Moscow on your shelf!?!? Love all of Amor Towels!!! Anne Frank. YES!! Interesting finds. I'll be roaming the libraries & 2nd hand bookshops.
Love watching your always plentiful hauls lol, you are going to need another bookshelf, STAT. So many books on this list that I hadn't heard of - totally agree, you should read Anne Frank, I didn't read it until my senior year of college and I'm pretty glad that I waited, I think I had so much more context for it and got much more out of it.
Yes I know!! Ha ha! It's in the plan. I will definitely be reading Anne Frank and maybe you're right that reading it later in life is a good thing because you have perspective and more context.
Great haul as usual. I love historical fiction books. I read Memoirs of a geisha, The women in the castle and the secret life of bees and I loved them.
Some delightful books here. The Shoemakers Wife is great. Joanne Harris alway a delight to read. Some others here I have not heard of. As always thanks for a great video. 😊
Cristiane is a fascinating writer and the shoemakers wife connects to other books in a series that begin with very very Valentine I think it was about the shoe company that got started and it will take you back-and-forth in the realm of this family very very interesting there are a number of books to it so hope you find them and hope you enjoy
I was so excited to see this video; you showed some very interesting books. I loved Memoirs and Secret Life of Bees. I keep seeing people talk about Victoria, so I’ll have to add that and Longbourn to my TBR. Love your HF hauls, April!
April, you are such a delight! I think you will enjoy the secret life of bees. Its a wonderful and heartwarming story of women, family, friendship and all the important things about being human. I loved it very much when read it a couple of years ago.
I’m glad I found your videos. Adding on my TBR. We can be reading sisters 😁. Historical fiction and memoirs are my favorites genres. From your list, I have only read 2, The Secret Life of Bees and Memoirs of a Geisha.
Loved your long video! It's a pleasure to see and hear about these books. I've read excerpts but also have never read Anne Frank's diary. I was a voracious reader from early on but the diary seems to be thought of as reading for girls; I don't think boys are encouraged to it though it's very worthwhile reading. I read an article by a woman who knew Anne's father Otto and learned that though he had the diary published he didn't like it or at least didn't like some of it. Later, more complete editions reveal such things as Anne's unfavorable opinion about her parents' marriage and her increasing knowledge of her body and sexuality. Mr. Frank said, "It's like I never knew her", which I suspect is a common reaction when someone reads someone else's diary.---I think it was in a book about Victoria's daughter that I read of an incident in which someone asked Queen Victoria about whether Prince Albert would be displeased about something Victoria did or said or was going to do or say. Victoria replied, "Albert is in my house not I in his".---Also wanted to ask you, April: What do you---and also your viewers--- think about historical fiction that deliberately makes changes in real-life history for the sake of the story? I once started to read an historical fiction novel that had an author's introduction in which she wrote about taking liberties with history for dramatic effect. I didn't bother to read further. I know that fiction is fiction but when real people, places, events and eras are involved I want things to be as accurate as possible even when some of the characters may not have ever existed.
Hrmmmm that's a good question. I don't mind if the author plays with their imagination with things about real life people if it's something like - how that person would be feeling because there's no real way of historians to know that (Except maybe diaries?). But I know what you mean - with real life events? Don't mess with that stuff.
Loved this video! Historical Fiction is my FAVE as well. I've read several of these books(Memoirs of a Geisha, Secret Life of Bees, The Women in the Castle) and enjoyed them all -- plus, I've got 3 others (Five Quarters of the Orange, The Piano Teacher, Victoria) on my TBR! Yes, someday do pick up The Diary of Anne Frank. It's a must read for fans of the WWII era - of which I am one!! Really interested to hear how you like The Room on Rue Amelie.... should I reserve it at the library???? :-)
I haven’t seen a historical fiction haul in ages so it was so exciting to see this!!! This was a super fun and exciting video as I really want to get more historical fiction recommendations for this year so this literally came into my life at the right time. So thank you so much for this video 😊!! Victoria by Daisy Goodwin looks really good. In the UK we have recently had a BBC series on Victoria and it’s made me really want to get to know her story better 😊. The shoemakers wife looks super interesting and the cover is stunning😍!!! I am such a sucker for beautiful books like most book nerds 🤓. A fabulous book haul from a fabulous lady so well done 👍🏼😊📚!!
Oh my goodness there are SO MANY good books in here!!! Some of my favs! Not the least of which is Peace Like a River. I’m so excited for you to read it!
I also love a good World War II novel, I must check out pretty much all of these titles - haha! But I am particularly interested in The Room on Rue Amelie and I already have snagged a copy of The Women in the Castle, which sounds amazing.
April, I love your videos. It feels like you are just sitting down chatting with a friend and I love your excitement about books! I read Anne Frank’s diary in 6th grade and that’s what made me want to learn more about World War II. It probably lead to my love for historical fiction. I also laughed because I read my fair share of Babysitter’s club and Goosebumps books in my youth!
I loved Memoirs! The Secret Life of Bees and The Piano Teacher were great reads as well. I couldn't believe when I saw you had Five Quarters of the Orange. I just added that to my wishlist this past week. I was looking over my 2017 reads and had really enjoyed Gentlemen and Players, so was checking the backlist for Joanne Harris and that one stuck out to me. Can't wait to see what you think of it!
So glad you liked The Piano Teacher - I've not heard anything about that one before but the story sounded so fascinating. Not sure when I'm going to get to Five Quarters yet but it sounds great!!
Loved your haul! And yes, you are such a delight to watch. You can see your evident love of books! You must 'listen' to the Secret Life of Bees. Oh my goodness, even my husband got into the story (the only one he's listened to with me). The narrator just makes it come to life with her accent. Thanks for sharing. I didn't really care for The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. OH...and I to haven't read The Diary of Anne Frank....and I'm 55, if that makes you feel any better! :)
I just picked up The Invention of Wings in hardback at a 99cent GoodWill Outlet, only to find out when I was reorganizing all of my books later that week, that I already had it in paperback. Guess I'm needing to read it!
Yay the Shoemaker's Wife! I can't wait to see what you think about it! Ooh, I've never heard of the Stars book by her. I love the Lady and the Unicorn!! Tracy Chevalier is so great!! It is about the story of the tapestry on the cover. Who made it, why, how, etc. She did the same thing in her book Girl with the Pearl Earring, about the painting of the same name. The Tenth Gift sounds great! Going in my Want to Read on Goodreads. 😀 I'm so excited to see how you feel about all these books, they look so good! A few are on my Want to Read as well. 😀 There are two in your haul I have already read.
Hi April! GREAT haul! I am watching and loving Victoria on PBS as well. Soooo good! I also really enjoy Trigiani's books. The Secret Life of Bees is FANTASTIC!! Actually I have really enjoyed all of Sue Monk Kidd's books. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and Memoirs of a Geisha were both SOOO good as well! I can't wait to hear your thoughts on these.
Have you read any of Bonny G Smith's historical fiction books? The Baker’s Daughter, The Tudor Chronicles, The Tudor Companion, and several others. I heartily recommend them. 😍 If you like Norah Lofts, you'll absolutely love Bonny G Smith's works.
I'm looking forward to reading The Women in the Castle, it sounds like a decent read. I really need more historical fiction in my life! Memoirs of a Geisha is such a heartbreaking but beautiful book. The Secret Life of Bees is a sweet story, I really liked it when I read it last year.
So many of these sound great! I can't wait to hear what you think 😁 also...I need to message you back on voxer! I will later today! Hope you are having a fabulous weekend!!
I have a few Daisy Goodwin books on my shelves now. I remember reading The Fortune Hunter and not really loving it, but am still very interested in reading more from her.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was not assigned reading for me in high school, so I never read it as a kid, either. I finally managed to get to in 2014. It is both beautiful and tragic. I would recommend reading it, but only when you're ready for more heartache.
I'm not going to fault you for reading the bsc because it's amazing in its own right. You need to read the diary of Anne right now. It's so life changing and so good. One of my favorites of all time. Also, legit added almost every book in this haul to my to read list. 💛
Yeah memoirs of a geisha is really bad....the author claims to have done all this research but his work is so inaccurate and the woman he wrote the books about is furious with the book and the author himself. I know it's supposed to be fiction but idk if the person he wrote the book about hates it to me it seems that it shouldn't be as popular as it is
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A Gentleman in Moscow on your shelf!?!? Love all of Amor Towels!!! Anne Frank. YES!! Interesting finds. I'll be roaming the libraries & 2nd hand bookshops.
I love the look on your face when you are looking at one of the books. You look like you’re watching a favorite child do something wonderful.
i see Michael Chabon's Kavalier & Clay on your shelf. LOVED!!!!
Love watching your always plentiful hauls lol, you are going to need another bookshelf, STAT. So many books on this list that I hadn't heard of - totally agree, you should read Anne Frank, I didn't read it until my senior year of college and I'm pretty glad that I waited, I think I had so much more context for it and got much more out of it.
Yes I know!! Ha ha! It's in the plan. I will definitely be reading Anne Frank and maybe you're right that reading it later in life is a good thing because you have perspective and more context.
Had my eyes on The Women in the Castle for a while as well, just sounds amazing and also it has such a pretty cover haha. Great haul! x
Great haul as usual. I love historical fiction books. I read Memoirs of a geisha, The women in the castle and the secret life of bees and I loved them.
Some delightful books here. The Shoemakers Wife is great.
Joanne Harris alway a delight to read.
Some others here I have not heard of. As always thanks for a great video. 😊
I love your historical fiction haul!! Your video could never be too long. Definitely some titles you mention that I need to be on the lookout for.
What a haul!!! How exciting :) can’t wait to hear what you hear of all of these! I have to get on the PBS Victoria show asap! Hope you are doing well!
Cristiane is a fascinating writer and the shoemakers wife connects to other books in a series that begin with very very Valentine I think it was about the shoe company that got started and it will take you back-and-forth in the realm of this family very very interesting there are a number of books to it so hope you find them and hope you enjoy
I was so excited to see this video; you showed some very interesting books. I loved Memoirs and Secret Life of Bees. I keep seeing people talk about Victoria, so I’ll have to add that and Longbourn to my TBR. Love your HF hauls, April!
Hey Debbie! I'm really hoping Victoria is good!
April, you are such a delight!
I think you will enjoy the secret life of bees. Its a wonderful and heartwarming story of women, family, friendship and all the important things about being human. I loved it very much when read it a couple of years ago.
Hi Diana! Thank you! I just finished The Invention of Wings last night and really enjoyed it so I'm eager for Secret Life of Bees!!
I’m glad I found your videos. Adding on my TBR. We can be reading sisters 😁. Historical fiction and memoirs are my favorites genres. From your list, I have only read 2, The Secret Life of Bees and Memoirs of a Geisha.
Hi Lizvette!! I'm so glad you found my channel too! Oh wasn't Memoirs SO GOOD?!!! I loved that book!!!
Loved your long video! It's a pleasure to see and hear about these books. I've read excerpts but also have never read Anne Frank's diary. I was a voracious reader from early on but the diary seems to be thought of as reading for girls; I don't think boys are encouraged to it though it's very worthwhile reading. I read an article by a woman who knew Anne's father Otto and learned that though he had the diary published he didn't like it or at least didn't like some of it. Later, more complete editions reveal such things as Anne's unfavorable opinion about her parents' marriage and her increasing knowledge of her body and sexuality. Mr. Frank said, "It's like I never knew her", which I suspect is a common reaction when someone reads someone else's diary.---I think it was in a book about Victoria's daughter that I read of an incident in which someone asked Queen Victoria about whether Prince Albert would be displeased about something Victoria did or said or was going to do or say. Victoria replied, "Albert is in my house not I in his".---Also wanted to ask you, April: What do you---and also your viewers--- think about historical fiction that deliberately makes changes in real-life history for the sake of the story? I once started to read an historical fiction novel that had an author's introduction in which she wrote about taking liberties with history for dramatic effect. I didn't bother to read further. I know that fiction is fiction but when real people, places, events and eras are involved I want things to be as accurate as possible even when some of the characters may not have ever existed.
Hrmmmm that's a good question. I don't mind if the author plays with their imagination with things about real life people if it's something like - how that person would be feeling because there's no real way of historians to know that (Except maybe diaries?). But I know what you mean - with real life events? Don't mess with that stuff.
Loved this video! Historical Fiction is my FAVE as well. I've read several of these books(Memoirs of a Geisha, Secret Life of Bees, The Women in the Castle) and enjoyed them all -- plus, I've got 3 others (Five Quarters of the Orange, The Piano Teacher, Victoria) on my TBR! Yes, someday do pick up The Diary of Anne Frank. It's a must read for fans of the WWII era - of which I am one!! Really interested to hear how you like The Room on Rue Amelie.... should I reserve it at the library???? :-)
I will definitely pick up Diary of Anne Frank. I feel like I must! I say give The Room on Rue Amelie a whirl! It's being compared to The Nightingale!
I haven’t seen a historical fiction haul in ages so it was so exciting to see this!!! This was a super fun and exciting video as I really want to get more historical fiction recommendations for this year so this literally came into my life at the right time. So thank you so much for this video 😊!! Victoria by Daisy Goodwin looks really good. In the UK we have recently had a BBC series on Victoria and it’s made me really want to get to know her story better 😊. The shoemakers wife looks super interesting and the cover is stunning😍!!! I am such a sucker for beautiful books like most book nerds 🤓. A fabulous book haul from a fabulous lady so well done 👍🏼😊📚!!
Hi Beth! I'm so glad you liked it and noticed some books you'd want to pick up too!!
Oh my goodness there are SO MANY good books in here!!! Some of my favs! Not the least of which is Peace Like a River. I’m so excited for you to read it!
Yes! I realized later that Peace like a River isn't historical fiction. Oopsie! It got jumbled in with the lot! Still very eager to read it!
Getting Hygge With It it sort of is! Reuben is reflecting back on his childhood in the 60s. So, technically, it’s historical fiction. :)
I also love a good World War II novel, I must check out pretty much all of these titles - haha! But I am particularly interested in The Room on Rue Amelie and I already have snagged a copy of The Women in the Castle, which sounds amazing.
I have so much hope for Women in the Castle!!!
April, I love your videos. It feels like you are just sitting down chatting with a friend and I love your excitement about books!
I read Anne Frank’s diary in 6th grade and that’s what made me want to learn more about World War II. It probably lead to my love for historical fiction. I also laughed because I read my fair share of Babysitter’s club and Goosebumps books in my youth!
Hi Brittany! I'm so glad! Thats the nicest compliment. :) I'm so glad i'm not the only one who was obsessed with Babysitter's club! Ha!
I loved Memoirs! The Secret Life of Bees and The Piano Teacher were great reads as well. I couldn't believe when I saw you had Five Quarters of the Orange. I just added that to my wishlist this past week. I was looking over my 2017 reads and had really enjoyed Gentlemen and Players, so was checking the backlist for Joanne Harris and that one stuck out to me. Can't wait to see what you think of it!
So glad you liked The Piano Teacher - I've not heard anything about that one before but the story sounded so fascinating. Not sure when I'm going to get to Five Quarters yet but it sounds great!!
Loved your haul! And yes, you are such a delight to watch. You can see your evident love of books! You must 'listen' to the Secret Life of Bees. Oh my goodness, even my husband got into the story (the only one he's listened to with me). The narrator just makes it come to life with her accent. Thanks for sharing. I didn't really care for The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. OH...and I to haven't read The Diary of Anne Frank....and I'm 55, if that makes you feel any better! :)
I just finished The Invention of Wings and now I want to read all of Kidd's books so I'm sure Secret Life of Bees won't be far behind!
I just picked up The Invention of Wings in hardback at a 99cent GoodWill Outlet, only to find out when I was reorganizing all of my books later that week, that I already had it in paperback. Guess I'm needing to read it!
Yay the Shoemaker's Wife! I can't wait to see what you think about it!
Ooh, I've never heard of the Stars book by her.
I love the Lady and the Unicorn!! Tracy Chevalier is so great!! It is about the story of the tapestry on the cover. Who made it, why, how, etc. She did the same thing in her book Girl with the Pearl Earring, about the painting of the same name.
The Tenth Gift sounds great! Going in my Want to Read on Goodreads. 😀
I'm so excited to see how you feel about all these books, they look so good! A few are on my Want to Read as well. 😀 There are two in your haul I have already read.
I think this was my favourite haul. I LOVE historical fiction so insanely much!! So glad many of them got two thumbs up from you!!
Hi April! GREAT haul! I am watching and loving Victoria on PBS as well. Soooo good! I also really enjoy Trigiani's books. The Secret Life of Bees is FANTASTIC!! Actually I have really enjoyed all of Sue Monk Kidd's books. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and Memoirs of a Geisha were both SOOO good as well! I can't wait to hear your thoughts on these.
I just finished Invention of Wings last night and LOVED it. She's a great writer!!
Have you read any of Bonny G Smith's historical fiction books? The Baker’s Daughter, The Tudor Chronicles, The Tudor Companion, and several others. I heartily recommend them. 😍
If you like Norah Lofts, you'll absolutely love Bonny G Smith's works.
I'm looking forward to reading The Women in the Castle, it sounds like a decent read. I really need more historical fiction in my life! Memoirs of a Geisha is such a heartbreaking but beautiful book. The Secret Life of Bees is a sweet story, I really liked it when I read it last year.
Historical fiction is so wonderful! I loved Memoirs too. And I'm planning on reading Secret Life in the summer!
Memoirs of a Geisha, don't remember what exactly happened, just remembered I really enjoyed it
So many of these sound great! I can't wait to hear what you think 😁 also...I need to message you back on voxer! I will later today! Hope you are having a fabulous weekend!!
I have a few Daisy Goodwin books on my shelves now. I remember reading The Fortune Hunter and not really loving it, but am still very interested in reading more from her.
I haven't read her at all yet! Looking forward to Victoria!
The person who wrote Longbourn was actually a lecturer at my uni
Whaaaaaaatt? Jo Baker? That is so incredible! I would have fan girled a little bit lol
So happy to see this on my sunday morning!!!
Before she wrote books, Adriana Trigiani used to write for the Cosby Show.
Really?! I'm surprised!!!
Fantastic video!
Do you have a favorite historical era that you like to read of?
Secret Life of Bees was one of my favorites! Enjoy!
Annexed was a great read!!
I loved "the Room on Rue Amelia". It was a very good book.
Yes! The Shoemaker's Wife is an awesome book! She's a great author.
Read Anne Frank!!! Great haul! Must re read memoirs of a geisha!!
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was not assigned reading for me in high school, so I never read it as a kid, either. I finally managed to get to in 2014. It is both beautiful and tragic. I would recommend reading it, but only when you're ready for more heartache.
Okay I will wait a while I think for Diary of Anne. I know it’s important though so I will definitely read it
I read Memoirs of a Geisha as a teenager and loved it!
It's SO good!!
Don't worry, I was reading RL Stine too instead of Anne Frank. It's all good :)
I'm not alone!
R L Stine has reached cult status. Don't feel bad. It's a rite of passage
Since I watch book hauls I been buying book hauls lol xx
I'm not going to fault you for reading the bsc because it's amazing in its own right. You need to read the diary of Anne right now. It's so life changing and so good. One of my favorites of all time. Also, legit added almost every book in this haul to my to read list. 💛
Hee hee! i'm so glad you added them to your TBR too!! I Loooooooove historical fiction shopping. Just love it. I promise I will Diary of Anne!
New single here.. I LOVE your channel name lol
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Oh. Duh of course you've already read the Nightingale. Lol
Yeah memoirs of a geisha is really bad....the author claims to have done all this research but his work is so inaccurate and the woman he wrote the books about is furious with the book and the author himself. I know it's supposed to be fiction but idk if the person he wrote the book about hates it to me it seems that it shouldn't be as popular as it is
I’ll have to look into that. I really loved it!