A Catch Up and Some Brilliant Summer Reads
Vložit
- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Hello again! I'm finally back to CZcams after a hectic summer in which I moved from London to the depths of Yorkshire. I can't wait to share more of my life in the country with you all, as well as catch you up on all the brilliant books I've been reading and buying. In this video, I'm sharing some of the books I read over the past few months that capture the hot days of summer so well.
_
If you enjoy this video, please consider subscribing to my youtube channel. I'd be thrilled!
-
My blog is: mirandasnotebook.com/
You can find me on instagram at: @mirandasnotebook and @mirandasbookcase
-
BOOKS MENTIONED IN VIDEO:
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden: tinyurl.com/yyj9lw9l
The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley: tinyurl.com/y3ftf4c2
Atonement by Ian McEwan: tinyurl.com/y3yxo848
The Owl Service by Alan Garner: tinyurl.com/y29y7jqg
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes: tinyurl.com/yxpjxmsz
Maigret Sets a Trap by George Simenon: tinyurl.com/y249o234
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy: tinyurl.com/y5t5wl4g
British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda Maxtone Graham: tinyurl.com/y6yyffqg
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller: tinyurl.com/y3gk3ld4
The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig: tinyurl.com/y3hjr7v8
OTHER MENTIONS:
My video showing a glimpse of my life in Yorkshire: • Video
You can read about my decision to move to the countryside here: tinyurl.com/y2l8hga6
-
ABOUT ME: I'm Miranda Mills, a freelance writer and photographer who recently moved from London to Yorkshire. - Zábava
The best English booktuber. Great books.
Thank you so much! xxx
I'm so happy to see you back on CZcams. I saved this video to watch when there would be no interruptions as I knew I was in for a treat. I wasn't wrong. You give such intelligent and insightful reviews and articulate the positives and negatives with such clarity. I look forward to many more videos. Take care ❤️
Thank you very much! I'm so glad you enjoy my reviews :)
I am so happy you are back and that you and your mom are living in a happier place.The video about the summer in Yorkshire is so beautiful and relaxing!All the best dor your future there.
Thank you so much! It's wonderful to be in Yorkshire :)
'The past is another country'..... just so is the country another world ! So love to think of you there in beautiful Yorkshire with your beloved Mum. missing your mums voice on tea reads . Feel exactly the same about Atonement. Hope is precious and we need to nurture it.
Thank you! My Mum will be making her CZcams appearance soon ;)
So happy to see new videos from you.
Thank you so much! xxx
Wonderful to have you back. Although my book wish list always gets MUCH longer after watching your book reviews! ☺️ Your new home and surroundings look blissful xx
Haha! Thank you very much - it's great to be back :)
Tess was my first Hardy (and only so far) and I loved it. It was like reading a gorgeous, poetic, light-filled painting! So glad you're in Yorkshire now!
So true - there is a painterly quality to his descriptions of the landscape. I'm loving Yorkshire! :)
That wallpaper is stunning!
Thank you!
Very timely these suggestions as we move into Spring/Summer here.
Lovely to see you back here on you tube and I'll look forward to seeing more of gorgeous North Yorkshire too xx
Thank you so much Anita! Enjoy heading into the warmer season in Australia! xxx
I’m so glad you’re back! I look forward to each and everyone of your posts. You are a breath of fresh air to my day. One of my summer favorites was the Book of Stillmeadow by Gladys Taber. Greatly anticipating your next post.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment, Monica. I love Gladys Taber!
Welcome back! Glad to see you settled and enjoying your new life, and great to have book discussions again, I had missed your videos
Thanks so much! It's lovely to be back :)
It’s wonderful to have you back. You look so relaxed and happy 😊 your new home clearly agrees with you. I too loved One Fine Day, and I think The Greengage Summer, will certainly have to go on a list. So looking forward to your autumn suggestions. Welcome back 🥰
Thank you so much Joanna! It's lovely be back :) I think you'd love The Greengage Summer; it's such an underrated book! xxx
@@MirandaMills As an added bonus I have just found a copy on my shelves! 😊
That green dress! It's the first thing I think of too. I enjoyed Atonement but what I remember mostly is the "feel" of the book, so I know just what you mean about it not being particularly memorable. It's so great how you make time to revisit favorites. I don't do that enough even though I always enjoy the new discoveries rereading unearths and how they deepen (usually!) my appreciation. I just learned of Maigret in a June article in the LRB. I think the universe is telling me to add him to the list. The setting of Bitter Orange sounds similar to that of The Animals of Lockwood Manor, which I have just begun and am really enjoying. As always, so many tempting titles! I've added just about all of them to my list.
I used to hardly ever reread books, but I find I enjoy rereading much more now! Or perhaps it's just that I'm getting older and more forgetful haha. Maigret books are slight but brilliant - I do recommend giving one a go! xxx
I have missed you so much, welcome back dear Miranda💙💙💙💙
Thank you so much! It's love to be back xxx
One Fine Day sounds so wonderful. I am new to your channel and I am loving your videos- your book suggestions are fabulous! Also, I adore the wallpaper design behind you 💕
Thank you very much! So glad you're enjoying my reviews. One Fine Day is a truly standout read :)
Oh yippee a new video! I really missed your CZcams videos, I’ve been reading a lot more since lockdown so keen to discover some new reads! X
Thanks so much Becky! Hope you like the sound of some of these suggestions xxx
A great selection of summer reads Miranda, many of which I have read and enjoyed myself although you have inspired me to want to re-read some of them. This Summer I enjoyed re-reading ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne Du Maurier and ‘The Glovemaker’ by Ann Weisgarber. I am definitely going to put a couple of those I haven’t read from your selection on next year’s list! It has been lovely to have a catch up and I am already looking forward to seeing you again with more news, Teresa
Thank you so much, Teresa! I want to reread Rebecca soon too; I'm so excited for the new film! And I loved 'The Glovemaker.' xxx
Miranda, congratulations on your move to a new house. All the best as you embark on this new chapter of your life.
Thank you so much :)
Hi Miranda, lovely to see you and wishing you the very best of luck in your new life in Yorkshire. How exciting and brave of you both to up sticks and leave London. I've added to my reading wish list considerably now... xxxx
Happy to hear I've added to your TBR pile, Tamara! Thank you for your good wishes xx
I'm going to make in 2023 a bookshop flat it's our passion books I will have a bookshop flat going to make it to Valentines Christmas & New year before the best job in the world Merry Christmas & happy new year luv Skye x
Hr
We moved from the City of San Francisco CA to the Bluegrass of Kentucky just in May. We also couldn't house hunt in person etc, so we had to move without any house to move into, and lived with the family until we found a place in a very competitive house market. We found a delightful 130-year-old place after only two days of looking in person. I desperately need bookshelves! I wonder what guidelines you use when having one maid. We might need to do such. I'm so happy for you and your mum, to be living in Yorkshire! One of my dear friends from my 3 years in Scotland, was from there, and she has the most lovely accent! The way she'd say that I was so "cuddly" in her native accent, was enchanting! I hope you are both very happy there.
So glad to see you back Miranda and thank you for giving me some new books for my TBR list. I have loved some of your previous book recommendations, particularly this year, The Other Bennet Sister and A Fine Romance by Susan Branch. Looking forward to seeing more of your new life in beautiful North Yorkshire.....
Thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed those recommendations xxx
The greengage summer sounds lovely, I will have to look into picking it up. Funnily enough I did a video on my channel recently where I spoke about classics I want to get to soon and both the go between and Tess of the D’Urbervilles were on the list! But I still haven’t got to them but this video really entices me. Particularly towards the go between. I have recently read a Mollie Panter Downes and adored it!! So will defiantly have to pick this one up, she has the most wonderful writing style! Also I haven’t picked up any of the Maigret books but enjoy watching the tv series with Rowan Atkinson, so perhaps i should look into starting the series :)
The Greengage Summer is wonderful, and yes I definitely recommend reading The Go-Between asap if it's already on your list. I like the Maigret TV series too, although my favourite is the 90s version with the brilliant Michael Gambon! xxx
A wonderful selection - thank you! I’m so pleased to see you mention Hardy especially. I would also love to hear more books you’ve enjoyed that are set in one day (which is a favourite conceit of mine too).
I may do a video on that! Yay for Hardy fans :)
I also love the Mary Webb books, the thinking womens Thomas Hardy. has the messages of the deep connection to the earth and the mysterious folklore of plants . give them a go many are Virago classics
YAAAAY! So happy you are back!!
thanks so much Mamey! xxx
I really missed your book recommendations on here, Miranda! I want to read each of the books you presented. I love your enthusiasm about books. It comes across so well and is so contagious. As I‘m still going through a nasty never ending divorce maybe I should read the last book on the list first... 😊xx
Thanks so much for the lovely comment, Marion! I'm really sorry you're going through such a miserable situation :(
Thank you Miranda. One day it will be over and done with!
As always I end up ordering more books. 🙂 So many books I have never heard of here in Norway. I love your videos. 📚
So glad to have you back.
Thanks so much Anita! xxx
so glad to see you back 💛
Thank you very much :)
All of these sound wonderful! The only one I’ve read is Atonement and I did love it. I have been wanting to read the Maigret books since watching the series with Rowan Atkinson and Lucy Cohu.
The Maigret books are so worth reading! I enjoyed that TV series too, although my very favourite Maigret series is the one starring the incredible Michael Gambon xxx
I am binge watching your episodes on CZcams . Lovely start .
Yay! Thank you 😊
Great to see you back and recommending lots of books to add the the TBR pile. I really want to read British Summertime Begins. Sounds wonderful. My top summer picks have been finally reading The Cazalet Chronicles and some of the Dean Street Press books. A House in the Country by Ruth Adam was absolutely brilliant and seems apt for a move to the countryside!
Thank you so much! British Summer Time Begins is brilliant (you can catch it on BBC4 too ~ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lly0). Love the Cazalet books! And I have a copy of A House in the Country on my shelf which I can't wait to read xxx
Good to see you back! I really do hope I get to visit England one day. 🙂
Thanks so much! I hope you're able to get to the UK one day too :)
The best decision both of you moving from London I been living in London with my daughter for more than 27 years we are making plans to move out of London. We live in W2 not far from little venice canal boat
I re-watch some of your posts (this one obviously) from time to time. Re: Atonement ... I haven't read the book, only watched the movie. I absolutely agree, I cannot take it .... the ENDING. Ugh. As far as the movie, I am surprised I have been able to go forward and watch Saoirse Ronan in anything else. Such are my bad feelings toward her character. It is comforting to have my feelings about this story voiced.
Also hated Atonement. We read it for a book club selection and only 1 person out of 15 liked it.
Just joined you after watching your bookcase video and saw we had many similar books in my collection. X
That's great - welcome!
Some great recommendations, lots to add to my ‘want to read’ list! Particularly like the sound of British Summertime Begins’
Oh wonderful - thank you! You may like to check out the BBC4 production of 'British Summer Time Begins' - gives you a nice taste of the book. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lly0
Thank you - will have a listen.
It’s lovely to have this book corner back- accidentally saved it before finishing the message.
I have never intentionally selected books to match the season, but it makes sense as books really set a tone. I might select my nxt read more carefully to experience what it is like.
Thanks so much Valentina :)
I definitely love reading in tune with the season! The Tea & Tattle Book Club will always be seasonal reads so I hope it inspires you too xxx
Miranda Mills I’ll be using it as my compass.
I agree with you about the ending to Atonement. Ian McEwan has written better books. Enduring Love, The Cement Garden, and The Comfort of Strangers all come to my mind.
Good to know! Thank you!
Hello Miranda. I just discovered you and your taste is so much different from mine. But I really want to read some of the books that you have mentioned.
Welcome! Glad you like the sound of some of the books! xxx
So happy to see you back, Miranda! Thank you for all these brilliant recommendations - will definitely follow up on those I haven't yet read.
I too disliked the ending of Atonement. To me it seemed like a heavy-handed conceit under the guise of "metafiction." I really enjoyed listening to British Summer Time Begins on BBC 4's Book of the Week. I too am a fan of Ysenda Maxtone Graham. Loved Thomas Hardy as a teenager so it would be interesting to return to him as an adult. This summer I reveled in a close and leisurely reading of Middlemarch (following along w/Emily Rhodes' webcasts) and am now getting back to contemporary novels and essays. Finishing up Coventry by Rachel Cusk right now and then on to the latest Anne Tyler and Zadie's Smith's Intimations.
Looking forward to more of your videos! xx
Completely agree with your Atonement comment! I've heard such good things about Rachel Cusk, but I haven't tried any of her books yet. I can't decide if they'd be very 'me' or not. Are you a fan of her writing?
@@MirandaMills I have only read her nonfiction writing so far but would like to try The Outline Trilogy at some point. I think she is an extraordinary thinker, in the same league as the American writer/philosopher Rebecca Solnit. They are honest and fearless!
@@lisa1922 that's great to know, thank you! I do like Rebecca Solnit's writing so should give Rachel Cusk a go sometime xxx
I totally agree about Atonement also the ending bothers me as well...and I also really dislike the younger sister Briony, which yes is young and naive, but at the same time I feel at 13 years old you should know most of what is right from wrong especially about lies and making up things that are just not true, like accusing someone of something so horrible when in fact it was someone else, and then don’t get me started of what Lola, the cousin ended up doing towards the end, I mean that’s who you decide to marry really?? I also really disliked the ending but I also realize it’s a realistic book where it highlights that injustices sadly happen all the time and we don’t always get a satisfying ending...idk if I would recommend this book though bc i really disliked Briony and I don’t think that she reached a real atonement for her wrong doing, because atonement means you reach a real reparation for a wrong and she definitely did not repare it
I didn't find Briony a very likeable character either! And yes, what happened with Lola annoyed me too and somehow just seemed so unlikely.
Good for you, change is needed. Love your videos🙋🏼♀️kisses from Portugal, Lisbon @patricia_fernandes_barbado
Thank you very much :)