Hello friends of coziness, My Name is Ellie and I enjoy sharing my cozy challenges and experiences on getting my surroundings hygge and more relaxing. I hope I can help you with my challenges and adventures to get more coziness to your life as well. Every week you will find here my latest challenges in reading, movies, relaxing activities and much more.
Morning Ellie -- again, a very beautifully put together video. Love the sharing of all your books - such fun! You've convinced me to buy the 'Jane was Here' and 'Jane Austen in Bath', walking tour books that have been on my wishlist for so long. Happy Reading!! up next on my TBR is either 'The Forgotten Sister' by Jennifer Paynter or 'The Man Who Loved Jane Austen' by Sally Smith O'Rourke. 😊
Morning Jacqueline!🌻 Thanks so much for your kind words! I hope you enjoy both Jane related books very much! I would love to hear how you like them when you get to them🤗 The books next on your TBR sound exciting, especially The Man Who Loved Jane Austen! Happy reading!!📚☕🧁🍉📚
Jane Austen's Bath looks interesting! Love the pics/engravings of how Bath looked in Jane's time. Tea with Jane Austen also looks lovely 😍 Thanks for sharing, Ellie!
Thanks so much!💐 I'm so glad that you loved Sense & Sensibility and read it with the Marjolein Bastin edition! What a lovely experience! I hope you have a great week! 📚🌺☕
another video showcasing your beautiful finds! thanks for sharing the details of them. 😊 I have a couple of Jane Austen related books in my pile of July TBRs - 'Jane Austen's First Love' by Syrie James and 'Murder at Mansfield Park' by Lynn Shepherd. have a great month of reading, Ellie!! 🌺🫖📚
Thanks so much for your lovely words!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the books!😊 I'm going to check out Murder at Mansfield Park, I 've never heard about it! I hope you have a wonderful reading month!📚🍹🍉📚
Might I recommend a series that I think is woefully overlooked? It’s called the Being a Jane Austen mystery series, written by Stephanie Barron. The first book is called Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor. I think it’s an excellently written book, more so than many other historical fiction books based on Austen.I think you would enjoy it!
Thanks for mentioning who hosts this challenge. I’ve known about Jane Austen July, and have been participating, but I’ve never known who originated the challenge or the more detailed prompts. No one ever seems to mention those details among the other booktubers I follow! So thank you! I’m going to read “Northanger Abbey” again, but my main read is “In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen’s World”, which is a deep examination of Austen’s work and how she utilizes small character interactions to tell more about a character or characters (ex: card games, dances, etc). It’s an intense and scholarly read, so I won’t likely get much more than that in for Jane Austen July, what with everything else I’m reading for other challenges. Thanks for sharing the books and movies you are reading/watching for this challenge!
I just found your channel, as this is my 1st JAJ and looking for some inspiration. Love your enthusiasm. 😊 Your #3 non-fiction choice sounds amazing! Do you participate in Victober? Are there any other annual themed read-alongs you like?
I thoroughly enjoyed Jane in Love - Rachel Givney. I want to read and am always looking for more Austen contemporary books. I have that same children's book, Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane - love the illustrations. Chiltern editions are so beautiful, and heavy!! Thank you for sharing pictures at the end of your videos too - it's so nice to flip thru the pages of your books. Have you read any of Syrie James books? - I recently read The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen and it was so good, I had to pick up her others... The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen and Jane Austen's First Love. I also have one based on Bronte and one on Dracula. I really enjoyed her writing style and think you would too. Happy Reading, Ellie!! 😊📖📚
You are where I get my recs : ) We have very similar tastes but I have been on a non-fiction kick for years. Getting back into my favorite genres slowly but surely. Just not enough hours in the day 📚❤
Yes, I try to do a mix of what I already own combined with new books. I do some planning ahead for TBR (for Jane Austen July I have a couple books I'm planning for example), and I'm flexible, but my main priority is reading what fits in seasonally. Did you see that the British Library Women Writer's series has a new short story collection out for Summer (Stories for Summer and days by the Pool)? I'm planning to start on that soon. I really enjoyed their Stories for Winter!
Thanks so much for your answer!💐 I loved to hear how you chose what you read! I love to read seasonally too😊🙌 I hadn't heard about the new Summer collection! I love the tittle, I have to check them out! I hope you enjoy the Summer stories very much!🍹📚🍉
@@ElliesCozyChronicles my plan as of right now is to read Sense and Sensibility for the readalong and The Other Bennett Sister for one of the prompts (it's been on my physical TBR for ages, so I really need to get to it haha!
I have never read Mansifeld Park so that's probably going to be my read. But I am adding Her Homes and Her Friends book to my list! Thank you for the suggestion! Also gong to be cross stitching on the Elizabeth Bennet silhouette during the month. She's not from the book I'm reading, but it's still Jane : )
That's so exciting! I hope you enjoy Mansfield Park a lot! Her Homes and Her Friends is so charming! I love your cross stitching plans, so fun! Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Thanks so much Amy!!💕💐 Jane & Dorothy sound so interesting! Adding it to my TBR for the year! Which Jane Austen book is your favorite? I hope you have a lovely last week of June!📚☕🧁🌺📚
Thanks so much!! How exciting that you are participating for the first time! I hope you enjoy Pride & Prejudice very much! I would love hear how you liked it🤗 Have you watched any of the adaptations? I hope you a lovely week!📚🌺🧁☕
@@ElliesCozyChronicles : Yes, I’ve seen many P&P adaptations; I’ve even read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!! So it’s about time to read the original source! I hope you have a lovely week as well!
Thanks for the reminder about The Growing Summer. I’ve got that and it sounds like a great one for summer! And you had me at English Countryside on the Moet one. 😂Happy reading!
@@ElliesCozyChronicles my only goal is to read MORE! I just finished Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade, an historical fiction book based on a true story from WWI. I am also reading a non-fiction book about a famous art theft titled The Gardner Heist, by Ulrich Boser. Neither book could be classified as “cozy” but I am broadening my horizons! LOL I just started The Dean’s Watch by Elizabeth Goudge and already love it! Her writing is beautiful!!
My goal is to read more too :) I have been doing more Try a Chapters and that has helped me to find more books that I enjoy and read more. Both "not cozy books" sound good! In one of my Try a Chapters I started reading The Dean's Watch. The language is so beautiful and the story so touching! It's definitely on my TBR for the year! I hope you have a lovely week!
This sounds like fun. At first, I wasn't sure if I could think of any authors/books to read but then I thought about some of my fave childhood books published within that time period -- Narnia, Nancy Drew, Trixie Beldon -- so many are coming to mind now so I might make this a Middle Grade challenge for me.
I love the idea of a Vintage Middle Grade Challenge!! It's going to be so lovely! I am planning to do a video with my favorite vintage authors and books soon. Miss Read, Mary Stewart, Georgette Heyer, P.G Wodhouse are some of my favorites :) Thanks so much for watching and commenting! I hope you have a lovely reading week!
I’m looking forward to hearing what you think about Mrs. Lorimer’s Quiet Summer. That’s on my TBR cart for this year. Maybe I’ll read it in June too. I’m planning to read Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell in June. I have several new books started, which I had been trying not to spread myself so thin. But for different groups, I’m reading Georgette Heyer’s biography(Kloester), Coming Home by Pilcher, Emma M. Lion #2, The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves #netgalley, preview. On the back burner until I finish a couple of those are Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart, Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary by Ruby Ferguson, and Business as Usual Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford.
A Little Princess is so inspiring and special! Carbonel is one of my favorite children books! Do you have any vintage book recommendations? Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, The Enchanted April, The Secret Garden are favorites. I still have not decided on my vintage TBR…maybe some Agatha Christie of children’s classics. I may choose a book published the year I was born. Does that make me vintage??😂
I’m reading Miss Buncle Married now. I’m enjoying it as it’s giving more of a look into the Miss Buncle character in a new community with her husband. (Just finished Mrs. Tim of the Regiment which I loved! It was so funny, especially the second half.). My favorite Molly Clavering books so far are Near Neighbors and Dear Hugo. I have several Wodehouse books on my shelf and have only read a Wooster and Jeeves short story. Where’s a good place to start with Wodehouse? Thanks!
I enjoyed Miss Buncle Married, but I prefer Miss Buncles Book, I found it funnier and more lighthearted. I would love to hear how you liked Miss Buncle Married when you finish it. I am looking forward to start reading Mrs.Tim of The Regiment, your comment made feel like reading it :) I think Dear Hugo is very special and I want to read Near Neighbors soon! Between the Jeeves and Wooster and the Blandings Castle series, I prefer the Blandings Castle books, I find them a easier to inmerse myself into. I feel like all the books in the Blandings Castle series could be standalones, but I would recommend to start with the first one "Something Fresh" if possible. And if you like audiobooks, the narrations of Blandings Castle are so fun :) My favorite book in the series so far is "Heavy Weather" Thanks so much for watching and commenting!!
The Four Graces was my first DES and I loved it! And Miss Buncle’s Book was hard for me to get into. But I should read it again, as I would probably enjoy it more. And I did really enjoy Mrs. Buncle Married. As I told my husband, when I finish one of her books, I just feel happy. 😊 Thanks for the Wodehouse recommendations. I’ll look for those. I love well done comical scenes, so I should enjoy them.
Wodehouse is so much fun!! I love the book covers of the different editions! Do you have a favorite publisher for Wodehouse? I love the covers of the Arrow books, but the quality of the Everyman editions is very tempting! I hope you have a lovely reading week!
