Did you love Johnny? 🥹🥹🥹 Wow, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn has such a special place in my heart. I felt so bad for Johnny. He wanted to be good. 😭😭😭 Angela's Ashes is also Irish immigrant poverty story. Just very different vibe. 😅
I am so happy to have found your channel! More modern and popular trope reads are not of much interest to me and most influencers only cover these. Thank you so much!
"The Pillars of the Earth" was boring and slow to me, but the mini series is awesome. I only saw the "Gone with the wind" film and didn´t like it at all, she´s a narcissist
I am new to your channel and I am looking forward to getting to know you better and what you love ❤️ too read love 🥰 your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
I'm so glad you liked A Tree Grows in Brooklyn!! I think you'll enjoy Pillars of the Earth as well, it's really so much more than the building of a cathedral! I have both Winter Garden and This Tender Land on my shelves... I really need to read both of them! I read Gone With the Wind about three summers back. It was so good! It was written with the vernacular of the day (mid 1800s) and some of it is definitely not politically correct for this day and age, but it was still an excellent read. I'm not into time travel at all, but I really liked The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain. It's my favorite book by her -- so far!
I love time travel but I didn’t love the dream daughter. I was super in too it and then something happens in the middle that I’m apparently the only one mad about it!!
I just finished my first Diane Chamberlain this afternoon. I really enjoyed it! I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn w/ a friend when we were picking books to read together on the Great American Reads list. I liked it.. wasn't an all time favorite and did feel like a book you would read for school. But I did enjoy it.
OMG! Pillars of the Earth is one of my all-time faves! I actually re-listened to it this summer. I highly recommend the audio by John Lee. Also, give it time to get good. I'd say the first half is a bit slow, but then you won't be able to put it down. I read Gone with the Wind this summer. It was OK. I'd say if you don't have any desire to read it, you won't get through it. I read it mostly because it was a buddy read. I couldn't finish the Winter Garden. It was too sad, especially from a mother's perspective. I just stopped it and then asked my friend how it ended.
I’m so glad you read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! It’s a favorite for me, I have reread it 3xs and it feels so different at different ages in life. I’m scared to read Pillars of the Earth, but it’s been recommended to me a couple of times.
All Kristin Hannah books I have read are all good. Looks like you have some good ones here. Couple of these are older reads, Seems to me but glad that you mention them.
Aaaand Hooray! 🎉 I don’t think it’s one of my All Time Favorites either, but it is one I have never forgotten. I just read Joy in the Morning by her (much shorter) and I liked it a lot too.
Yeeeessss! Pillars of the Earth is great. I voted for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn so glad to see it on there and that other people also picked it! Happy reading! ❤
I really liked going through a picture book authors works back to back so I may do that more regularly. I don’t think you’d really like God of the Woods, but I may be wrong and it could be a surprisingly dark read that you enjoy. 🤷♀️
Yay! I am ready to be in a historical fiction mood! I have The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali ordered through the library. It's taking a while, but maybe it will come by November.
Movie adaptations and based in true events are Irenas Children, and the Ruta Septys one set in Siberia, but the movie is a different title than book. Also Hidden Figures. A newer book is Mrs. Morganns Bookclub i think is title. Based on true historical women figures. I also just read True Sisters, by Sandra Dallas about a true mormon emigrant journey to Salt Lake City, Utah. The author is not mormon, but it seemed pretty unbiased about the resilency of this pioneer group and the challenges they faced. I just visited Utah so it intrigued me!
