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Great to hear about your Sci fi & fantasy reads. I hope you enjoy all your translated fiction especially in Aug ❤
Thank you, Charlie. There are so many translated fiction books I own or that are coming out - I'm spoiled for choice. It's a little overwhelming 😅
I’ve had Early Riser on my tbr since it was published! I love Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next books. Also unsure about the next series of The Witcher - a real shame Henry Cavill has left! Juli has not been the best reading month for me but currently enjoying Glorious Exploits which has just won the Waterstone’s Prize for debut fiction.
Just looked up Glorious Exploits, and it sounds good, though I'm not sure if I can imagine what the tone of the book is - intrigued! It was my first Jasper Fforde, but someone in the group said it was fun but not as well structured/plotted as the Thursdsy books. Having come to his writing fresh, I just found it brilliantly bonkers
What a month! Dreadful sounds…wonderful. Or at least fun since you said the jokes don’t all work. I might add that one to my TBR.
Thanks, Kevin - a good mix of books and only the one dud 😅. I hope you enjoy Dreadful 😊✨️
I Loved Fitz so much. His character and the banter between he and Hereward kept me reading! It was so good to laugh in the midst of all the heaviness. Thank you again for sharing it with me. 🥰 I have been waiting for my library to buy The Tainted Cup so I can read it. Sounds like I need to get pushy with them 🤣
Yes, get pushy 😆💛✨️
I think Hereward and Fitz found us at the best time. We got to fully appreciate the best bits 🫶
I am looking for the Salmon - it sounds lovely! I just read “food detectives” and I have to say, it was not intricate or intriguing to me. I loved the food and the relationship between the father and daughter, but it fell flat in the “mystery” and the fact that the daughter and cat felt superfluous. Bookshop woman is on hold! Just waiting!
Deea, I notice you don't mention More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 🤣😉 I think the foodie one worked for me because I decided not to consider it a mystery novel. The detectives bit is very misleading - we think crimes/murder mystery etc. So even though it said Food I was "huh?" 😕 for the first story.
I hope you find Salmon and that the wait for Bookshop Woman isn't too long ✨️
@@PageTurnersWithKatja I think it was that we didn’t follow him on his journey to discover or investigate. All we got was the story after the fact.
@@PageTurnersWithKatja and no… no Morisake for me! 😜
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Hi Katja, I think I told you I lived in Japan for three years and I am very much into translated Japanese fiction so I watched the whole video even though, perhaps food detective might not be up my street😊 I enjoyed days at the Morisaki bookshop so I might be interested in more days. Aloha friend.
Thank you 💛✨️If you liked "before the coffee gets cold", there's a chance you'd like the foodies 😊. I hope you like the morisaki sequel as much as the first. I just saw a goodreads review where someone had the opposite opinion to me - saying they prefer this to the first.
The July international giveaway for a $25 e-gift card has closed, and the winner was announced in Shorts. The August giveaway is UK-only, featuring physical books. Due to repeated issues with international postage, entrants must have a UK postal address. To enter, simply comment on this video with the gift box emoji (🎁) to indicate your interest in winning the two books.
Congrats, Jack @spreadbookjoy 🎉 So excited for you. 🥰
That’s made my day! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you so much!!!
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📚New Subscriber here! Thank you for introducing me to new booktube channels
Welcome 💐 I'm glad I could show you some new channels too 😊✨️
Thanks so much for the shout out matey. There are a few here that I’m not following, so I shall have to check them out!
That's great. I'm glad there are some new to you 💛✨️
Good sharing of the community. Happy reading!
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Impressive. 🎉
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Thank you for introducing me to some new channels and for reminding me why I enjoy the channels I already subscribe to. Job well done 📚
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Hello Katja, thank you so much for mentioning my channel. Next month is my four year book tube anniversary. I am planning some special events and I hope to collaborate with some friends during the month of August. I hope you will join me. Aloha to your friend.❤
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Very nice ❤
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Love this video, Katja! I follow quite a few of these booktubers; it's always nice to learn about new ones. Love also that you mentioned Alice. 💜I will miss her dearly. 📚If I win the gift card, I'd like to buy Shady Hollow by Juneau Black.
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How kind of you to mention my channel! 📚 and thank you for introducing me to some new ones!
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Lots of great book tubers here and some new for me to discover 😊📚
I'm glad there are some channels that are new to you 😊💛✨️
Oh how lovely - thank you so much for mentioning me and for your kind words Katja! What a lovely surprise! 📚🤍
You're welcome, Jack! And ditto 🙏🥰😘✨️
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thanks for the shout out! love when people share as I always find new channels to enjoy.
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Thank you for including me Katja 📚❤ 3 new to me channels so thank you for the heads up with them too ❤
You're welcome, Charlie - and that's good to hear 😊 💛✨️
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Did you just start off your video with a DIVING metaphor after exiting the POOL??? 10/10, no notes.
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Thank you so much Katja!!! You’re so sweet to mention me. Great minds think alike. Our taste is very similar. 💕☺️
You are so welcome! 💛✨️
Leave a book stack/ book pile 📚 emoji if you're entering the giveaway for an e card worth $25, check that you're in a country that does Amazon e-gift cards. Optional - only if you feel like it: let me know which book or books you'd get with the ecard if you won. If I haven't mentioned your channel there are 4 more videos coming out over August - November. Chances are that this year's shout-outs may cover some channels I shouted out last year but that's for the benefit of any new subscribers on the channel x
Books-about-books is my absolute favorite niche genre. I'll have to add it to my tbr list.
Hope you enjoy it too 😊✨️
Way to go!
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I walked up and down the stairs in my house, seven times and did a stretching program yesterday. Today I’m going to physical therapy and yes, it’s kicking my butt. But health is everything.❤. sending aloha your way
Go you! 👏 All the best with physical therapy today, Marilyn 💛✨️
Nice to see you so energetic and enthusiastic 😁 This sounds like my kind of book (yet again!)👍🏻
Thanks, Gael! I feel "rejuvenated" whenever my blood count returns to norma levelsl 😅🩸✨️
OMG love this!! This is so exciting and I cannot wait to read this, awesome review and glad you’re back swimming❤❤❤
Thanks, I'm grateful to be back in the pool. Have dun reading this one 😊📚✨️
This sounds right up my alley and I hadn’t heard anything about it! Great review thank you! Congratulations on getting back in the pool! It’s such an amazing feeling when you get to get back to the exercise you enjoy!
Thanks! The pool was awesome, and it was even better today! I think because of the football game last night, a lot of people had hangovers and didn't show up 😅. There were only 6 of us in the pool compared to almost 30 last time. I hope you like The Bookshop Woman, too 📚💛✨️
I think I must do a reread of Seven Husbands! It’s been so many people’s favorites, and I also really liked it…but have forgotten the story. I struggled with Ethan Frome as well. Hmm, giveaway thoughts. Sadly, Book Depository is no more but maybe from Blackwells? And paperback would probably suit just about anyone. Have a wonderful week, Katja ❤
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I read Ethan Frome back in high school, but I don't remember it well. I would like to reread it and see what I think of it now.
John, that sounds like a good idea. It's really well written, and if you don't mind depressing themes, you might like it. I think Jess and Deea both do.
I definitely use all formats and read different genres at a time. I need to catch up on Storygraph 😊 Wonderful video!
I sometimes bulk input my reads into storygraph at the end of the month and want to start inputting weekly. Thanks, Summer 💛✨️
The seven husbands of evelyn hugo is so great and one of my favourites in the year that I read it as well! I have seen so many people loving James lately and I'm glad you're finding it so masterful as well. My sister tried reading womb city and couldn't get past the first chapter with the writing style, and so I understand your review. And in the end I decided to remove it from my tbr wishlist. I haven't actually seen any reviews of when the moon hatched before but I didn't really have any interest in it... and it doesn't sound very balanced and like one I should skip.
I need to read more from Taylor Jenkins Reid 💛. Womb City was over ambitious and Chapter 1 already gives you an indication if that but I had a review copy and ploughed on 😅 When the Moon Hatched has such a high rating, it's considered a tik tok sensation
Great video Katja! I am behind my reading goals this year. I did not realize that the books I have been reading ultimately impact my mood 😅 i have been reading a lot of novels that deal with heavy topics and after an otherwise productive sprint, i fall into a slump! Its always good to have variety 😊
I noticed it the most after reading a really difficult but important book about homelessness. I read it when lots of stuff was happening in my life, I had just left my long-term relationship, there was stuff happening at work, and then I read this book. That's when I had a full week of not reading to just recalibrate, and the next books I read were all easy and light.
@@PageTurnersWithKatja awee sending you love and light and better days ahead ❤️
Totally agree that eclectic reading means fewer (or no) reading slumps. I always have about a dozen ebooks in my queue but only a couple of those appeal to me at any given time 😊
Variety feels key, and it sounds like you had a similar experience ✨️
Reading slumps are way more relatable than not having slumps.😮 I was like, "This is just going to sound smug if I say I don't get slumps."😅 Still, here's hoping some ideas work for you 💛✨️
Ahh that is the worst when a video doesn't work properly! 😭 congrats on the milestone, well deserved.
Thank you! 💛✨️