Ten Great Books for Spring Plus Our First Spring in Devon, England
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Spring is finally here in the UK and it has made me think about books featuring spring, so here are ten of my favourites along with some footage of spring in Devon!
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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
A Room With a View by EM Forster
The Wind in the Willows by Graham Green
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
1984 by George Orwell
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
The Tea Dragon Society by K O’Neill
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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I really enjoyed The Salt Path and have her other books on my TBR.🌸
I love spring 😊 You know I love Anne of green gables and crawdads 🌷🌼🌻🌸💐
Spring makes me so happy 💛🌺
Springtime Devon looking gorgeous. It really lifts my spirits when the buds burst on the trees in spring. New beech leaves and bluebells are my perfect spring combination. I love the way groups of rooks talk to each other too.
Being here for the whole year has been marvellous and spring has lifted my spirits immensely! We went to Dartmoor this week and caught the last of the bluebell fields there so that has been added to the calendar for next year as they must be absolutely amazing in full bloom - blue hills!
A great list of books plus all the lush Devon bits❤I love that you captured the sun , the rain and snow in the space of a few days 🌞🌦️❄️☃️☔️🌞🪻🌼🌷❤
Devon weather is crazy! 😂🌺💛
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Lovely video. Thanks for sharing the beauty of the place you live.
Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
Such beautiful footage! Thank you for sharing with us.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching! 😊
How fun! I loved seeing all your nature footage 😊
Thanks, Katie! 😊🌺
Awww, Devon. Thanks so much for taking us along.
I have loved many of your suggestions! I love the Spring ☔🌈🐝
I think of Walden by Thoreau, The Awakening by Chopin, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Dillard, A Time of Gifts by Fermor, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Ogawa, All Creatures Great and Small by Herriot, Ring of Bright Water by Maxwell, Rain by Harrison, Sweet BeanPaste by ??,
The Darling Buds of May by H (somebody)...
I better stop, my memory is getting more sketchy as I go!
All of those recommendations are either books I’ve always wanted to read and now need to bump up the list and adding the others. I remember watching Ring of Bright Water as a child and sobbing my heart out. I also grew up watching All Creatures Great and Small with my parents and they had the books but I never read them. Such comforting tv and I really should read the Herriot books. Thanks so much for all of the suggestions Deea 💛🌺
Great rec list! Many of these I've also read and loved. You're making me miss the English countryside!
Thanks, Gloria! Nothing quite like the English countryside in spring. It’s been wonderful to be here for it and glad to share. 💛🌺
My Granny's family was from Coastal Devon and Cornwell, lovely seeing some of the countryside. I'm Australian, we're going into Autumn, but I think of Mary Wesley's
books when I think of Devon and Cornwell in the Spring and Summer. Agatha Christie also set some of her books in Devon.
The Salt Path was a great memoir. It was interesting seeing a few books set in the USA and Canada, I was thinking you'd focus more on your local area. Happy Reading 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed the footage! I have a list of books I have been adding to as part of my South West Stories project and Mary Wesley is a great recommendation to add to it so thanks for mentioning her! Books with a strong nature theme or set in spring were what I was going for but at some point when I’ve read enough, I want to do a South West Stories project update with recommendations. Not sure when that will be though!
What a beautiful video Jack! I’ve always wanted to read Bryson‘s walk in the woods, and I think I’ve read part of it.
Devon is gorgeous! Love ❤️ you. Aloha
Thanks Marilyn 😘🥰
Beautiful footage of your Devon Spring and great suggestions, thank you! I read The Secret Garden for the first time this Spring and just loved it.
Thank you!☺️ I’ve never read The Secret Garden but I imagine it was a perfect spring read!🌺💛
I love it when Spring arrives! Beautiful video, thanks for sharing Devon with us! I also love A Walk in the Woods and Anne. My two recommendations for you to read this spring based on your video are: any one of Tom Cox's nature books: either 21st Century Yokel or Ring the Hill, and Hokkaido Highway Blues which is a non-fiction about following the cherry blossoms across Japan. 💛
I’ve got three Tom Cox books to read and am determined to get to them this summer now that I’ve cut back on buddy and group reads. Will probably start with 21st Century Yokel on audio as I started it last year and it is part of my South West Stories TBR. Spring brings all the happy! 🌺💛
Gosh this was just sooooo beautiful loved every minute Jax esp the nature footage gah! 😍💖💝 Its our Autumn here down under but a book that peaks my interest for spring is Cherry Ingram by Naoko Abe (im partial to florals) 😊 Thank you so much for this & yes to Enchanted April- *love* the film 🤓🥰
Thank you so much Melissa - I’ll add that to my wish list! I really need to watch the film of The Enchanted April - the book was brilliant! 💛🌺
Such a lovely video 💐
Thank you 🤗
I am so glad spring has finally sprung! And I can't wait for the summer to keep coming as well. So nice to have these recommendations from you. Anne of green gables is one of my favourites and the series / film adaptions also capture spring so well
Thanks Olivia! LM Montgomery is the queen of descriptive writing! Days at the Morosaki Bookshop is such a gentle, lovely read - perfect for spring or summer really. And who doesn’t love a bookshop book? I hope you enjoy it when you get to it! 🌺💛☺️
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I must really like springy books. I’ve read all but 3. Great picks. I really need to get to the tea dragon society. 🌷
The Tea Dragon society is just lovely if you want a nice, gentle read! 💛🌺
Want to say thank you for your picture book suggestions We have started a mental health library at work and wanted to add some picture books I have today bought 4 of those you featured Much appreciated
That is amazing news and exactly the sort of thing I started my channel to promote - really means a lot to hear that, so thank you! I hope it’s going down well at work! ☺️💛
It looks really beautiful where you live! I'd love to visit. Hopefully I get a chance this year, we have been talking about maybe September. Nice list. I've read a lot of them, but I will definitely look into Days in the Morasaki Bookshop.
It’s such an amazing part of the UK - highly recommend a visit! Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is a lovely gentle book and I hope you enjoy it if you get to it! ☺️
I’ve read 5/10 on your list and seen movies of some of the others. Great list. 😃🌼🌸
Thank you so much! All lovely books! 😊
thank you for these lovely clips, Jack - great video ♥️ I loved Crawdads but there was a lot of speculation around Delia Owens a few years ago as she and her husband got caught up in a poaching scandal. not sure about the ins and outs of it though!
Thanks Amelia! Did not know that about Delia Owens! I’ll have to look into that!
Wow incredibly beautiful, thank you for sharing 💕Love Anne of Green Gables, read the series years ago. Pedro lovely 🥰 Our weather here in Ontario, Canada just as unpredictable. Almost finished my comparison video of 1984 vs 2024, thought provoking read for sure. Few new authors to check out thank you.
Hi Elaine! Thank you and glad you enjoyed it. Pedro is such a gorgeous boy, but then I am very biased! 😂 I have been having a bit of a booktube break - both watching and creating - but trying to ease myself back and and will add that video to my watchlist!