is hamnet a hit or a miss? 👀💀🪶 [cc] 

The irony of Noelle being intimidated by “smart books” when she’s literally studying to become a master of books 😆

the way that the title perfectly appears on screen at the beat of the music is so satisfying to me

If you ever make merch, we need a “sorry, Parker is snoring” mug

When you say "Parker, Mommy's talking!" I will never not laugh. 🤣😂

i read hamnet earlier this month and LOVED it. there is something so beautiful and intense in empathetically sharing hardships with a woman i will never meet, created in another woman’s mind’s eye.

NOELLE you literally were the inspo to start a channel back in the beginning of the panorama - LOVED buddy reading with you and thank you for the kind words I am EMOTIONAL 👁💧👄💧👁

I cried the entire way through the 2nd half of that book. No book has ever touched me so deeply.

I read the last 100 pages of hamnet on the plane and let me tell you, I had to use the book to physically hide my WEEPING. I have never been more grateful for masks to hide my ugly crying

"It's time to sing." Me literally every minute of the day. Cracked me up so much LOL.

I read Hamnet in January and then Hamlet in February for school. I think reading Hamnet first made Hamlet seem so much more meaningful and you understand a deeper message in both of them

This book ripped my heart out. It was one of my top reads of 2021 and I still think about it today because it was such a beautiful book

When my husband and I adopted our rabbit he was about 8 months old and the spca didn’t have a lot of info on him other than he was surrendered. It took about a year and a half for him to be totally comfortable with us and not run away at every sound. It was about when he turned 3 that we really saw a change in his behavior and even now (he’ll turn 5 in May) he still has moments where he dashes off under our bed or couch and he still does not like to be picked up. My husband and I just say he has a past that we’ll never know and that’s ok - we love him and we get down to his level to pet him and give him treats. I’m sure with all the love you and your fiancé are giving Max she’ll get used to everything over time even if she still has a past. She’s very lucky to have the two of you 💙🐰🐶

THIS VIDEO IS SO BEAUTIFUL WHATTTT each day's intro is so gorgeous

I was just thinking to myself “wow I miss noelle hope she’s well” and then I opened RU-vid to this! Just put hamnet on my TBR

Noelle's vlogs just make me happy, I love how she speaks about books and life. She's just so lovely.

your emotional response to the book is all the convincing i need. excited to pick this up sometime soon!!

I love seeing your reaction to a book like this. It makes me smile because for a long time I have forgotten how moving and magical books are. Thank you for giving me the boost to get back into reading again. It's really cool how books can make us feel such powerful emotions

I was so close to finishing Hamnet when I saw you post this video, so I had to hurry up and finish before hearing your thoughts! In the end I thought I would like this book so much more than I did, I was surprised to be one of the people that didn't care for it so much. On the other hand, I do agree that the ending line was absolutely PERFECT and such a clever way of tying it all together. Thank you for the great video as always!

I absolutely loved Hamnet! As a mother, this particular quote resonated deeply with me: [POSSIBLE SPOILER!] “And Agnes finds she can bear anything except her child’s pain. She can bear separation, sickness, blows, birth, deprivation, hunger, unfairness, seclusion, but not this: her child, looking down at her dead twin. Her child, sobbing for her lost brother. Her child, racked with grief.” What a fantastic book! I also thought of you recently when I purchased an adorable strawberry tshirt at Old Navy! 🍓

So glad to see you loved Hamnet! It was definitely my favourite book of 2020! I am excited to read her new book coming out this year! 😊

I also have a rescue dog. She was full grown when I adopted her and very clearly had trauma in her past. She behaved the same way for a solid 3 years before she finally came out of her shell.

Hey! Just wanted to say that i found your channel a few weeks ago and I’ve been watching some of your old videos since then. I really like your personality and reading style from what I can sense from here 👏🏼 (also thank you for that spotify playlist, it works perfectly in crowed places). Thank you for your content, wish you the best ❤️

It's always so great to see someone enjoy a book so much!

I can’t wait for you to give us a look at your new tattoos you got!! 😍😍 I saw a sneak peek lol and I’ve obviously added Hamnet to my reading list! ✨

Noelle, you are simply stunning. Your videos bring me so much joy ❤️ I almost picked up Hamnet at the store today and now I wish I had!

also max is everything and im sending her all of the virtual cuddles possible

Ugh your b roll and the music and just the opening of the vlog. Beauty ✨ Happy to see Max and hear she’s got a new life. My dad got a new dog last year in a similar situation. You can tell she had a terrible start and it took her a while to open up and become comfy at his home. Also, love that passage about a hand. FROM A HAND?!?! 👋🏻

I love your smile and your joy in response to this book (coffee infused, maybe, but still joy) LOVE IT! I love this book as well. It was nothing as I imagined it would be. So good.

i love your editing and everything you do with your videos tbh, it's super fun and thoughtful! i also really appreciate you using close captions, it's such an underrated but immensely useful thing! english is my second language so cc's used to be my saving grace; i don't *need* them anymore now, but they're still my go to at all times if possible lol. so thank you! also did you get a new car? 👀 the inside looks super cool, and i totally get wanting new soft towels to keep it looking as good as possible for as long as you can lol

this has been in my TBR since it was first published but I was also hesitant cause it looks intimidating like you said. but you gave me that little push I needed to give it a try! I love books that make you feel so strongly!

I absolutely love your vlogs! So good to have ya back 🤗 much love ❤️

I'm so excited to see what you thought. I actually tried picking it up two days ago and I wasn't sure if I'd like it. We typically have similar tastes so I'm looking forward to seeing what you thought about it. 👍

After You'd Gone is Maggie O'Farrell's first book. It has the best depiction of grief I have ever read and highly recommend it!!

I just picked this book up from my local bookstore and now I’m that much more excited to read it! Love the new ring, have a safe travels when you go on your trip! Also what do you do for work? Love that you get to do meetings from your car 😊

Love your vlogs so muchhh! Please, we need more of theseee. They are so funny and just GREAT!

Noelle, your videos never fail to put a smile on me ☀️ thanks so much 💕

I just went on my break at work and needed something to watch, and then saw Noelle posted a new video. It’s a good day y’all 💖

Recently finished 'Things we lost in the fire' thanks to your recommendation. Loved it! Now I'm onto Lonesome Dove which is a BEAST. I'm also having a homemade pizza night tonight. My fav topping combo is red onion, garlic, peppers, chorizo slices, mushrooms, cheddar, mozarella, basil

these are my favourite videos of yours! my evening has been made!

I absolutely loved this book. It was so satisfying!

Hamnet was delightful! The flea chapter rekindled my love for literature, just magnificent! I'm a bti upset that the US cover is so ugly tho🥲🥲

i was just thinking about how i was missing your videos!!! feeling so comforted rn

I'm late to this vlog as Hamnet was on my tbr and just finished last night. You are right: it is perfect. The description of Agnes preparing his body was the most devastating and beautiful writing I've come across in so long. I think it broke me a little and how brilliant that Maggie O'Farrell was able to write immediate grief in this way. Such a special story x

loving ur hair at this length!!!! Jaylen is my king

Wow perfect timing! Just finished Hamnet yesterday!

I recently bought Hamnet and this has inspired me to pick it up very soon!! Love you videos! 💜

Omg yay you loved it!!! Also I believe she has a new book coming out later this year !!

I was so excited to see you reading this one! I love Hamnet so much I have multiple copies, so when you were talking about getting the paperback for annotations I was agreeing 100% 😂 I'm so so glad you enjoyed it, and seeing someone else react in the same way made me remember how much I truly love Agnes. ❤️

Your videos are just so wholesome and lovely to watch! Hamnet is on my TBR, I’m pretty excited to read it. My favourite pizza toppings would be pineapple and jalapeños 😍

We have a pit who also was clearly treated very poorly before we found her (she was about 6 months old, my wife found her on the side of the road) and she’s finally becoming more confident at 6 years old. To be fair, my wife was really depressed before we met so I only started working with the dog on her issues when Covid hit. Pits are such good dogs and they’re so willing and eager to learn! I would die for this dog hahah

I don't know why I love reading books because of you. Thank you very much and you are very beautiful. I loved you🥺🥺

Hamnet had been on my reading list for a while but I read it immediately after watching you read I am I Am I Am. It devastated me. Now I've read both Hamnet and I am I am I am and it SOLIDIFIED Maggie O'Farrel as my fav author. Her new book comes out in the second half of this year and I'm so excited!

I love, love, love this book!!!!! I’m glad you did as well

I enjoyed Hamnet so thoroughly last year, it also made my “top books of 2021” of course I added I Am I Am I Am to my TBR on your recommendation 😂

I am currently reading Hamnet! I always love your reading vlogs, but reading the same book at the same time is extra fun

Watching this at 2 am after submitting an assignment and ugh this video is so calming and fun, just what I needed

From a fellow student who pivoted away from my thesis: it’s so freeing to realize that you can write ‘articles’ and ‘essays’ about things you want (like the hands analysis!) just because you want to and there’s no academic accountability!! I fully encourage you to write that analysis just for fun!

This book is the best of my year, really, I love this story...

Love your reading vlogs so much omg 😭❤️💕

I love watching your vlogs. It's like facetiming a friend who likes the same books as me (I don't know anyone with the same taste in books).

I finished Hamnet recently but I found it so slow to begin with that it took me weeks to actually get into it. I'm glad I continued to read it and eventually finished it, but in my opinion the book really didn't pick up until about 100 pages in. Overall I enjoyed it, I just wish the beginning was a bit more compelling :)

That boundaries book was extremely helpful for me!

This was the perfect video to come across because I have been putting off reading hamnet for nearly a year.

Not one week goes by where I don't think about this book. It broke my heart.

Yeeees! So excited when you post! Love watching your videos!!!!

It's funny because I liked this book, I gobbled it up and then forgot about it pretty much but hearing your review it has just made me appreciate aspects of it a year later which is great! I loved what you said about Agnes being such a folkloric character and it was definitely her relationship to nature and her children that I enjoyed the most!

This is the sign I needed to pick up my copy of Hamnet and start it! Been putting it off because I was worried after all the hype I wouldn’t like it. Starting tonight 😌

Hamnet was one of my favourite books of last year and I knew you would love to it too, Noelle. What an astonishing writer she is; it's like she gets to the essence of love, and then loss, in this book. I cried so hard in the second half and just thinking about some passages causes me to tear up. Check out the UK paperback, it's beautiful xx

My first time being slightly early to one of your videos since I recently found your channel. Just want to say I’m so happy I did ♥️ I found reading again thanks to you!

Nothing makes me scream ‘YAY’ like a new noelle vid 😍

Loved this so much. Hamnet is one of my all time favs from an all time fav author. Would highly recommend The Vanishing of Esme Lennox which is one of my other favourite O’Farrells.

Your reaction to the hand description in Hamnet is everything lol

I love that you’re lifting weights instead of just cardio! 🙌🙌🙌

Love your videos. I have Hamnet on my reading list so I was curious what your opinion was and now I’m even more excited to read it. I love Maggie O’Farrell’s writing but I’ve only read This Must Be The Place by her which I would highly recommend. It’s a backlist from 2016. She is so ridiculously good at creating realistic characters that you can’t help but become emotionally connected to.

Okay, now you have convinced me to order this book.

Love your style!

oooh i hope it's a hit! i love hamnet, tho the first time i read it i had to finish the last 150-ish pages standing in my bathroom because i was crying so much i couldn't leave the tissues and the sink. never had that happen before

You're the person that makes me want to read more and be smarter. Love your reading vlogs!

I also loved this book 📖 and from someone who lives in Stratford upon Avon, I could picture all the places, mentioned. I walk in Henley street most days and after reading this book, it has become a whole different experience. Also having been to the Globe theatre In London, it was described perfectly. Five star read 🤩

Your dogs are snoring all the time 😂❤️ i love them 🥺

Oh I'm so excited to watch this. I'm currently doing so many job interviews and it's been so exhausting. This will take my mind off all the anxious thoughts🥺

YAYYY I’ve missed your reading vlogs!!!

Red onion and pineapple has been my go to for years! Tied with pineapple and jalapeño and onion

Your reading vlogs are my FAVE 👏

I have a pup that was severely abused in the first year and a half of his life. Like on medical hold at the shelter for nearly 6 months, almost died, abused. And he was very very scared of everything when we got him and now for the most part he is doing wonderfully. He is 5 and a half, and his only trigger is loud talking/yelling and other dogs. So hopefully Max can adjust, it may take time though ❤️🥺

Hamnet! A stunning book if there ever was one. 👏🏻 Agnes is such an incredible & complex character.

so excited to see what you have to say!!!! that intro was beautiful

I love these Vlogs they’re so cozy

Okay okay, you sold me on reading it. Too my bookshelf I go!

The vanilla bean grew in me lol great clog!

FINALLY! THANK YOU. Missed u so much

Yay!! Fun vlog! :D Thanks for creating, Noelle!

One of my coworkers has been begging me to buy and read Hamnet! I may need to take the plunge and do it before my TBR gets entirely too long (problems working at a bookstore)!

I am getting hamnet on the weekend so I will stop now and let you know what I think about it when I am finished reading 📖 xxx

I agree about the stellar writing and SAD - oh my. I. sobbed. my. eyes. out! It's the saddest book i've ever read and maybe partly because it was so unexpected. I didn't know anyone else who had read it so I had no hints. It's a stunner for sure.

the intro title being right on beat added five years to my life

Yay!!! I've missed your reading vlogs🥰

the jack Edwards was too stunned to speak

Yay!! I live for your reading vlogs! Hopefully, this will get me out of my reading slump :\

I would recommend "The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox". Very different from Hamnet but equally heart breaking and beautiful. I loved it.