So glad to see you back. Enjoyable video. Best wishes, Emma

Love these lists. Nightbloom and Brotherless Night will also make my list. I really want to read Pet, as I loved remote sympathy. Ahhh I share those memories of pop music and that time! I was 13-23 then 😊

So glad you’re back👏👏👏👍😄

What an amazing list of books Lauren!

You probably are already aware but there is a Spotify playlist for your best book of the year so far 😊 5 star reads for me this year have been beartown, all the light we cannot see and clear by carys Davies. I'm also going to add pet to my tbr after your recommendation!

Other than some fabulous re-reads I haven't had more than a few five stars reads this year and most of those are poetry collections. My favourite new to me book this year has been My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier.

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

I’ve been rereading some bangers too, I too loved My Cousin Rachel, but it was a reread for me! 😊

So glad you are back after your break. I’ve had a really mixed year with my reading . I finished Slum boy by Juano Diaz and Poor by Katriona O’Sullivan last month which were 5 stars and I can’t recommend them enough. I seem to be having better luck with 5 star non fiction books at the moment. 💛

So lovely to see you back Lauren! My subscription feed has felt lost without you!

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

Thank you so much, it feels lovely to be back!

I have had Pet on my pile for ages. I think I will take it to Portugal with me in September. Thanks Laurenxx

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! 😊

I am so glad you loved The Golden Mole! I had a feeling you would 😊

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

It’s so cute! 🥰

Really like the sound of the time travel book and teachers pet !! The invisible life of addie larue cant recommend enough and fairytale by Stephen king are my tops up to know x

She’s back!!!

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

And it feels NICE!

I’ve also had a bit of a rubbish reading this year so far. Women’s Prize was not for me this year which was sad although I did like Brotherless Night and was glad it won for the same reason as you. I honestly haven’t read any five stars this year and have found myself just picking up crime/thrillers at the moment!

lol I love how you talk to Daphne! So funny!!

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

😻😻😻

The House on the Strand is amazing, isn't it? I agree, there are some fantastic du Maurier books and some not so .... I highly recommend The Loving Spirit if you haven't already read it 🙂 My favourite book of the year so far is Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake - it's such a different kind of fantasy series where this huge castle is the main star of the novel 🏰

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

I have The Loving Spirit! I must get to it. 😊

My top 5 so far: 1) Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet 2) Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo 3) Space: The Human Story by Tim Peake 4) You are Here - David Nicholls 5) The Things we do to our friends by Heather Darwent

So happy to see a Kiwi author doing so well! I think you will love Catherine Chidgey’s latest, The Axeman’s Carnival. Different again, she is so clever! (She is also a translator and translated my favourite book for babies, Tickle My Ears 🤯)

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

Oh wow! I didn’t know she had another out, I’ll be sure to keep my eye out for it! 😊

Wow so much helpfull information in this video, I personally don't like to promote anything in the comments but I simply have to share this book that I found called Money Grins the greatest book if you want to be successful

4, five star reads for me so far in 24, Pet is one of them Prima Facie, brilliantly narrated by Jodie Comer. The list of suspicious things Jennie Godfrey An my absolute favourite In Memoriam by Alice Winn

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

I think I will listen to Prima Facie once I’ve done the new Juno Dawson 😊

Ooooo if you want another cousin book read The Witch Elm by Tana French! It’s a liiiiiittle messed up because it’s a mystery thriller but one of my favourites!!

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

Oooh lovely! Thanks for the recommendation April 😊

The Golden Mole is read by Lenny Henry on audiobook so could be worth checking out for your audio re-read!

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

Lenny Henry is my favourite audiobook reader so this is wonderful news and I will definitely be revisiting it next year via audio, thanks for the tip!

Ooh House on the Strand sounds great!! Will need to pick it up 😄 On the note of time travel books have you read 11/22/63 by Stephen King?! Time travel but isn’t horror or supernatural like his other stuff but just a brilliant book about people and love and an adventure, his characters are just so great, excellent audiobook too ❤

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

Not yet! But sounds like I need to get to it ☺️

Not had many 5* reads... Mainly because I can't find anything different! Awful lot of books at the moment seem to be a version of something I have already read. Possibly need to explore indie publishers more!

My best books so far are all concentrated in January to April. May and June have been a disaster. Little reading and terrible weather. Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad Brotherless Night Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Haworth ☘️ Service by Sarah Gilmartin ☘️ Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Strong Female Character by Fern Brady Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Fayne by AnnMarie MacDonald North Woods by Daniel Mason How To Build A Boat by Elaine Feeney ☘️ Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan ☘️ Solider Sailor by Claire Kilroy ☘️ The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff The Caretaker by Ron Rash Stone Yard Devotional by Charolette Wood ☘️👋🍀📖📕☕️📚

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

Lots of great Irish authors there! 😊

One Christmas wish by Katherine Rundell is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Christmas book

@LaurenAndTheBooks

14 күн бұрын

I hadn’t even made the link that was the same person, that’s one of my favourite Christmas books and the illustrations 😍😍😍

@andrinawatson7006

10 күн бұрын

@@LaurenAndTheBooks I hadn't either!!!