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Books to Read in May / A Late Spring Reading List

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Hello and happy Friday! Today, I'm sharing some brilliant books to read in May, from May's Comfort Book Club choice, to an underrated L M Montgomery novel and interesting biographies. Do any of these books appeal to you? Do you have any seasonal reads in your May TBR pile? Have a lovely weekend, everyone!
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BOOK LINKS FOR BOOKS IN PRINT:
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Emma by Jane Austen: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Blue Castle by L M Montgomery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Hopkins Manuscript by R C Sherriff: persephonebooks.co.uk/product...
Gardeners' Choice by Evelyn Dunbar & Charles Mahoney: persephonebooks.co.uk/product...
The Darling Buds of May by H E Bates: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Old Herbaceous by Reginald Arkell: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Girls of the Hamlet Club by Elsie J Oxenham: ejosociety.org/publications/
The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Miss Willmott's Ghosts by Sandra Lawrence: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside by Matthew Kelly: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

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@WaterBearReads 2 года назад

Thank you so much Miranda for another wonderful video! I love your recommendations because they include children's novels, and lesser-known ones at that, which I adore hearing about! 🐞

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

I'm so glad you enjoy them, and it's great to hear from someone else who loves children's books too! xxx

@AlexandraNMorgan 2 года назад

I love The Darling Buds of May!

@a.oquinn6396 2 года назад

I think I MUST have this beautiful copy of Emma. I love the book, but this particular version is stunning! You have also included many of my favorites on your May reading list--and I'm inspired to pluck them off my shelves, get cozy with a cup of coffee, and start reading! :)

@PokhrajRoy. 2 года назад

I can’t believe it’s time for May TBR. I look forward to the picks.

@naomihickman5098 2 года назад

Such lovely recommendations! Emma, The Blue Castle and Elizabeth and her German Garden are old favourites of mine, so nice to hear The Blue Castle mentioned especially as it is less well known. I think this edition of Emma is the perfect one to read in the spring/summer, what a gorgeous cover! I bought Old Herbaceous a while ago on your recommendation but haven’t read it yet, I will definitely try to read it soon, May does seem the right time for garden books. Thank you, I really enjoyed watching this!

@itssammierose 2 года назад

Im finally reading along with you for the comfort book club!! I am always behind but i was able to get Emma on time! So excited to be able to join in with you. I love your channel so much. It brings me so much joy through a hard time in my life. I really appreciate you. I hope to have a friend like you in my life.

@Lu.G. 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing these wonderful suggestions! I'm looking forward to my re-read of Emma. ❤️

@Emmie4497 2 года назад

Hi Miranda! I'm re reading Emma at the moment, thank you for giving me the incentive to pick it up again as it's the first time I've gone back to it since I read it initially. Looking forward to the book club video later this month :) I've just finished reading the third book in the Cazalet Chronicles which I loved, and am now moving on to The Hunchback of Notre Dame :)

@autumnrose_noseinabook 2 года назад

The Blue Castle is one of my favorites!! I haven't read The Enchanted April yet but I recently bought Elizabeth and her German Garden so I'll be reading that this month.

@greatedges Год назад

Thanks! And welcome back. Oh if only my library was as neat as yours! However, you have inspired me to get a grip. 😀

@MirandaMills Год назад

Thank you very much indeed for your lovely support! It’s very kind of you and much appreciated! Haha - don’t worry - so many of my books upstairs are turned sideways and double stacked! ❤️

@teresaparkins1255 2 года назад

Hello Miranda, thank you for a lovely list of May and late Spring reads. I am reading Emma for the Comfort Book Club and I think I will watch the film too if we have a rainy afternoon. I am also planning to read The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis. Happy reading, Teresa 🌷📚🌷

@shelleyimmel8067 2 года назад

Again your recommendations are just superb, and I have ordered several books from Persephone Books as well as Blackwells. My TBR pile is getting out of hand! I enjoy your comments and choices many I have never heard of since some of the English authors didn't get across the big pond and then across the hundreds of miles to the rural plains of Northeastern Montana and our County Carnegie Library. So, the new reading choices are fascinating for me.🌷

@marybeth8788 2 года назад

Thank you Miranda. I really am thankful for your lovely videos and book recommendations. I wish you a very happy May!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thank you so much! xxx

@foxedfolios 2 года назад

Thanks for another great video! The RC Sheriff book in particular sounds very interesting. I also rarely read 'classic' sci-fi (tried and failed many times with a variety of authors), but every now and then a book or author in that genre really clicks. For example, I LOVED The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham the first time I read it and have since gone on to really enjoy several more of his novels. For anyone who is interested in English folklore/myth, I always think May is a good time to pick up some Robin Hood-related reading, as Robin - or Robin Hood-like characters - are often a part of traditional May celebrations. Or perhaps Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with a nod to The Green Man. 🧙🧝 Happy Reading Miranda (and Donna)! 🦊📚🤓

@suenicholls5446 2 года назад

😀💕xx many thanks Miranda. Some lovely choices as always. I too absolutely loved the Hopkins Manuscript. I look forward to your next episode. We’re on holiday on the south coast for the next three weeks in our caravan. I hope the good weather we have here in the south continues!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thanks so much! Enjoy your holiday 😊

@chbronte582 2 года назад

Thanks for such nice recommendations for this spring Miranda, I have read several of the books, and those that I haven't, I take note. Have a nice weekend xxx

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Same to you! ❤️

@PokhrajRoy. 2 года назад

Literally not a minute in and I’m floored by the first book and THAT COVER BRB SCREAMING 😱

@angelahunnel9425 2 года назад

I always enjoy watching your reading lists! I found a few that I can't wait to read. I'm reading Enma again. I'm reading it for the second time this year! I always get something new from it!❤️🥰

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

That’s wonderful! I always get something new from all Austen novels each time I reread them too - it’s part of their magic! 💕

@nancyfritz1827 2 года назад

Thank you for your recommendation of "Illyrian Spring." I loved it and felt a certain affinity with and admiration for Grace. She was gentle, kind and curious and has become one of my favorite literary characters. I sat and just held the book for a while after finishing and before adding it to my bookshelf. This morning I started "Emma". Jane Austen just gets better and better with every re-read. Lot's of rain here on Long Island also, which is such a good excuse to just curl up with a cup of tea and keep reading. Hope you are blessed with some sun this weekend and can spend time reading in your garden!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

I’m so glad you enjoyed Illyrian Spring so much Nancy! Hope you get some sunshine this weekend too. Our new little outdoor table & chairs arrived just as it started raining 😂

@bethanyjohnson5598 2 года назад

Miranda, i so enjoyed your videos, i decided to join your cosy book club. I ordered the next two books and am looking forward to reading them. I have always been drawn to books written by British authors and am excited to be introduced to so many more through your channel!!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Yay! Thank you! xxx

@NadineTouzet 2 года назад

Yet another list of interesting reads. I’m really interested in the garden books at the moment so this was on point. ❤️

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you 😊

@juliavasquez82 2 года назад

Hi Miranda! what lovely recommendations! Have a nice weekend!

@playsintraffic2 2 года назад

I always have a shopping list at the end of your videos. Except for that Emma. I already have that edition and it’s lovely

@karenwhite2601 2 года назад

I love The Blue Castle and read it most years. I also adore all the books in H E Bates Darling Buds of May series. I've read a lot of Du Maurier but I don't think I ever read The Flight of the Falcon. I never really took to the Abbey books, I don't know why. Thanks for all the other recommendations too. Miss Willmott's Ghost is also the name of a variety of Sea Holly (Eryngium Giganteum), actually named after Ellen Willmott. She apparently loved it so much that she used to secretly drop seeds in the gardens she visited!

@yumiari2469 2 года назад

I have the Marjolein Bastin edition of Emma and I can’t wait to read it.. lovely book suggestions Miranda ❤

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thanks Yumi!

@spinstercatlady 2 года назад

I've already started in on my lovely Marjolein Bastin edition of Emma, and am thoroughly enjoying it! Other books on my May TBR are Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe which is a fictional account of Lewis Carroll's strange friendship with Alice Liddell, The Asylum by Karen Coles (gotta get my Victorian gothic fix haha), and also some supplemental Spring children's books/stories like Brambly Hedge, The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies, and Little Witch Hazel. Just finished a darling middle grade book called By Ash, Oak and Thorn from Melissa Harrison which was so Spring-y 🍄🐇 Hope you have a wonderful weekend with time for lots of reading, Miranda!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Sounds great, happy reading! Those books by Melissa Harrison are based on the original stories by 'BB" (The Little Grey Men and Down the Bright Stream). I highly recommend them as well! xxx

@spinstercatlady 2 года назад

@@MirandaMills will definitely be checking those out, thank you!

@mariacristinabuenoasensio3071 2 года назад

Thank you Miranda for another excellent bunch of such lovely and interesting recommendations!! I particularly loved "Girls of the Hamlet Club" story, I'm really hooked by the story! I can't wait to read it and to see your new set of table and chairs for your garden! I can already imagine you and Donna outside with your wonderful China and amazing books 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thank you Cristina! I hope you enjoy 'Girls of the Hamlet Club;' I think it's a charming story. It's still cold & grey here so no sitting outside yet, but hopefully soon!! xxx

@mariacristinabuenoasensio3071 2 года назад

@@MirandaMills Thank you so much!! I'm sure you'll enjoy the unpacking of the furniture and the plans you have for it😘😘😘😘🥰

@DianeC1975 2 года назад

Enjoyed as always. The Blue Castle was my favorite book I read last year. Just received Father by von Arnim. I love your lists Miranda. May is my favorite month mostly because it is my birthday month. I claim the whole month not just the day I was born.😂 Anyways, til next time, sending my best wishes to you from your Arizona friend.📚💐💕

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Happy Birthday month, Diane! Hope you have lots of fun celebrations! May is such a beautiful month xxx

@ingertsvard6731 2 года назад

Thank u Miranda, so many books so little time 😏 but it is a good problem 😁. I hope u have an amazing weekend. I am going to a book festival this weekend 💃💃💃and very much looking forward to an event with Sarah Moss, Molly Giles, and Leslie K. Campbell. First really book outing in 2 years!!!!! I can’t see the hear with $ in this video, hopefully next time u upload.

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thanks very much! Enjoy your book event - so exciting to be able to attend such gatherings again. The heart symbol is in the same bar as where you 'like' the video and has 'thanks' next to it (it's now definitely showing on all videos). xxx

@sheilaadams638 2 года назад

Thanks for the wonderful spring reads recommendations, Miranda. I'm definitely going to check out My Cousin Rachel. I have to get started on Emma too!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

So glad you enjoyed them - thank you! xxx

@MichelleElsten 2 года назад

Such great suggestions! I am eager to delve into several that you mentioned. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" is a perfect choice and has been a long time favorite of mine, too. And I agree with you on "My Cousin Rachel." I wanted to tell everyone about this book after I first read it. It was around 20 years ago, when my children were in grade school. I was a sleep deprived Momma getting two kiddos off to school one morning because I had intended on reading only a few pages and stayed up the entire night to finish it! Would you believe I've never read Emma? Looking forward to it. 😊

@kitchentablecrafting7111 2 года назад

Have lined up Emma to start reading this weekend. Lovely book list too.

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thank you so much!

@ruthb9403 2 года назад

I had no idea it was a month for Daphne du Maurier, but I am coincidentally reading The House on the Strand at the moment and will finish it this weekend. My favourite has always been My Cousin Rachel; however, this is extremely readable and pacy - I’m really enjoying it! I love the sound of the garden books and biographies and will be reading Emma. I’ve recently seen the latest film version and all the adaptations I’ve seen are all so different that I’ve got to read it to remind myself and decide which is the truest version! Thank you for the recommendations.

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

I enjoyed The House on the Strand too, even if it's a bit odd in places. Enjoy your reread of Emma! xxx

@idabustamante7081 2 года назад

Hello Miranda tfs your latest list of interesting books 🌻 . . have a beautiful Mother's Day weekend ahead 💐❤️🙋‍♀️🦋🌺

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thank you! Mother's Day is in March in the UK, but enjoy your Mother's Day weekend xxx

@christysmith1058 2 года назад

I love love LOVE The Blue Castle! I’ve read it so many times over a lifetime. If I could chose any book to be made into a movie it would be this one (second choice would be The Middle Window by Elizabeth Goudge). I’ve also read Emma many times and think it’s a perfect choice for May. There are some books I “rotate” according to the seasons too…I always seem to reread the Anne of Green Gables books in the summer and the Emily of New Moon books in the fall. I read The Enchanted April many years ago and loved it, but by then I had seen the lovely movie so many times and it had made such a huge impression on me I only read the book once. I just love your channel because you’ve mentioned so many books I’ve loved for so many years that have just become part of my DNA!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thanks so much, Christy! We do indeed share many favourites xxx

@janicemacdougall1844 2 года назад

I'm rereading The Blue Castle this month and then hope to start Emma, for the first time, for The Comfort Book Club. I love your videos with book recommendations. Actually, I love all your videos.

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Oh wonderful! How exciting to read Emma for the first time! Thank you for your kind words xxx

@dafnezegarra3464 2 года назад

I like watching your videos even though those books are really difficult to find in my country it is sad but beacuse i saw your video in which you bought some cups from emma bridgewater i decided to buy it for me and my mom i got the same you got with the chickens and the ones with the bees i have not recive them yet but two more days and i cant wait so thanks have a wonderful sunday.🙃

@PokhrajRoy. 2 года назад

It’s so cool you have a signed copy from Daphne du Maurier’s Daughter and Tatiana de Rosnay 👏🏽

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

I really treasure it!

@marty9011 2 года назад

" The Flight of the Falcon " is one of Daphne du Maurier's books that I still like ! I went off a lot of her books but this one & " The Glassblowers " remain favourites.

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

I'm looking forward to getting to it! xxx

@carrie-leehurzeler7413 2 года назад

There is some good bits about May Day celebrations in Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson.

@lindylouwho550 2 года назад

Hello Miranda, thank you 🙏 so much for yet another wonderful video. I have read 4 books 📚 you had recommend in the past - all 5 star reads for me, particularly "The Fortnight in September". Have you read "The Paris Bookseller" about the Shakespeare and Company book shop in 🇫🇷Paris?

@malenehjarnaa1443 2 года назад

Tak!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thank you very much! xxx

@robinmuir3489 2 года назад

Hello! I’m quite new to your channel, and am so very much enjoying your videos and wonderful book recommendations.

@robinmuir3489 2 года назад

Oops - and quite new to commenting on You Tube too! Thank you for the RC Sheriff recommendation; will be very much looking forward to reading that… and so many more!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

I'm so glad! Thank you!

@AuthorBooksReader 2 года назад

Nice!!!

@diamondslashranch 2 года назад

Thanks!

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

Thanks so much for the support! xxx

@asan1050 2 года назад

Thanks , subscribed, have a great day.

@stacischwarz1249 2 года назад

Thank you for these lovely recommendations! I’m interested in reading Girls of the Hamlet Club and am wondering if it works as a stand alone or if it is better to read it as part of the series?

@MirandaMills 2 года назад

It's the first of the Abbey Series, but definitely possible to read as a stand alone. Enjoy!

@PokhrajRoy. 2 года назад

‘The Hopkins Manuscript’ sounds ‘Don’t Look Up’ except it’s the Moon instead of a comet. The protagonist sounds like Leonardo Di Caprio in the movie.