Yay! I was so excited to see that you were sharing your favorites!!! I love 84 Charing Cross Road, too, but I've never seen the movie- need to find and watch that one. You started me on the Miss Read trail and I'm slowly collecting them so I can just keep reading. Right now, I'm reading Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher and I am loving it!! I have September, too, so I plan to read that one next.
I just finished re-reading Coming Home for the umpteenth time about a week ago. Such an absorbing novel. I want to live in the Dower House at Nancherrow! LOL. And the film of 84 Charing Cross Rd is a must-see if you love the book. Definitely worth it, and I think it's pretty readily available at the usual online sources.
Hiya, Gina. I 100% agree with @Melanie220 regarding the 84, Charing Cross Road movie. It is excellent. So I'm the opposite to you as I've seen the movie but haven't read the book. Never fear though. I recently bought 84, Charing Cross Road and the Duchess of Bloomsbury Street and I'm looking forward to reading these relatively short books soon. I love your vlogs and I'm subscribed.
I also recently picked up a vintage copy of The Wind in the Willows because I enjoyed it as a child. I love your copy with the beautiful illustrations!
My most reread novels are… _The Great Gatsby_ by F. Scott Fitzgerald; _The Time Machine_ by H.G. Wells; And an obscure choice: _7 Steps to Midnight,_ a 1993 thriller by Richard Matheson. It’s the story of a mathematician who has his identity stripped away and finds himself on a disorienting chase from his home in Arizona all the way to Europe, dodging assassination attempts, while also contemplating the question posed at the start by a random hitchhiker: “What is reality?”
Hi Gina! Most reread books: Winter Solstice (Pilcher), Miss Read, multiple Agatha Christie, The Hobbit (Tolkien), Anne of Green Gables, The Chronicles of Narnia, Rebecca, and of course 84 Charing Cross Road (love the movie too).
@GinaStanyerBooks Yes, Gina! I have other favorites as well, but I always tend to reread these books. They take me to nostalgic lane for some reason. 🙂
Congrats on 5,000 subscribers! 🎉 I love that you have so many wonderful memories attached to your favorite books. The books I most frequently come back to are usually comfort reads: The Chronicles of Narnia series, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, and anything by Agatha Christie.
I have way too many favourite 're-reads!' LOL. But my Miss Reads and Rosamunde Pilchers are right at the very top of the list. As well, Jane Eyre, the Little House series, and a couple of 1950s-era teen romance series by Anne Emery that I loved when I was in my early teens and then years later found at library sales when my library was culling out old books in favour of newer ones. I couldn't believe my luck that I was able to buy the exact copies of favourite books I'd checked out so many times as a kid! 😯
Thank you for sharing these great classics, Gina! I loved them all. 😊 (The novels that I have re-read the most over the years are: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" (Trilogy), by Tolkien, "Redwall" by Brain Jacques, "Harry Potter" (series), by Rowling, "Anne of Green Gables" by Montgomery, "The Walking Drum" by Louis L'Amour, "All Creatures Great and Small" by James Herriot, (and so many more...) I have also enjoyed re-reading several non-fiction faves, as well. It's so comforting to go back to the beautiful stories that make us feel so cozy, and/or bring back lovely memories as we enjoy them once again. Thanks, Gina! ☮🧡📚
Persuasion was my first Austen but I didn't read any Austen till I joined booktube, so that is the greatest gift booktube has given me. I've also never read The Wind In The Willows so that is one I need to correct. Fellowship I think is my ultimate comfort read, I love the beginning. I am going to make a video about The Shell Seekers this weekend, my first Pilcher!
The Wind in the Willows is my comfort read. I keep a copy in my car. In fact, the Down to Sleep channel on You Tube has the absolute best reading of this book. It puts me to sleep many nights.
@@GinaStanyerBooks It’s hands down the best reading of Wind in the Willows to me, although I do love the Derek Jacobi version. The Down to Sleep version is so calming, but also particularly good at the humor. The bootscraper scene is brilliant.
I can't believe it! I just happened upon your channel and was so happy to hear you talking about miss read. I purchased a fairacre novel at a library book sale. After I read it I was hooked. Love those stories ❤️
Have you ever read R.F. Delderfield? The books were written in the early seventies. There is a (3) series, on the Swann family saga. Taking place in England in the late 1800's up to the early 1900's. There also a few more that he wrote. They are wonderful!
Also check out British author Marcia Willett. She wrote many books that can be read alone but have some overlapping characters. I think anyone who likes RF Delderfield would like her also
I also love Miss Read, I've read all of her Fairacre series, which I adore but I haven't read all of the Thrush Green novels, yet. I like the Rosamund Pilcher books, too. My most re-read books are Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonsong", "Dragonsinger" and "Dragondrums", I love all of her Dragons of Pern series. I would say Anne is my favourite author. When it goes to real easy comfort reads I turn to Enid Blyton, I've cherished her children's book series for years especially The Famous Five, The Adventure series and The Secret Series. Enid Blyton is that cozy, warm read for a cold day inside.
Like another of your subscribers comments I don't tend to reread my books, although that is why I keep them. I have so many new ones to get through. This video has inspired me to perhaps go back to reread some of the favourite books from my childhood for example the 'Borrowers' series by Mary Norton, my number one favourite, Wind in The Willows, Secret Garden. I have however two Miss Read ones 'Winter in Thrush Green' and 'The Christmas Mouse' which I read ever Christmas 😊
Congratulations on all the new subscribers. I will try to keep my list of favorite rereads short. Greenwillow by B. J. Chute - comfort reading for decades A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Thank you Rosamunde Pilcher The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett - I just love this Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace - my favorite of hers An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott - my favorite of hers A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer - my favorite of hers The Woodwife by Terri Windling - fantasy set in the AZ desert and TW is just a fascinating person, lots of insight. Miss Read, D. E. Stevenson, Angela Thirkell, Barbara Pym, L. M. Montgomery - any and all. I read a lot when I was young .
I've read Coming Home to tatters, I've got all the Miss Read books, and adore the Cat Who books. I've read and listened on audio to the Potter books for nearly 20 years! My collection include the Little House books and the James Herriot books.
The Fellowship of the Ring, check (I have the same copy!) The Wind in the Willows, check Jane Austen , check (Pride and Prejudice is my favorite) Harry Potter, check 84 Charing Cross Road, check The Cat Who series ❤, check I haven't read Agatha Christie, but love the shows. I've added Miss Read to my TBR list! It's great to find your channel.
Omg, 84, Charing Cross Road is one of my most favorite books! It is truly for the book lover❤ I like Rosamunde Pilcher too and have read 2 of her books, with 2 more on my TBR pile. Thank you for introducing me to the Thrush Green series. I have gone ahead and added the books to my ever-growing TBR list😂
Most reread: The Fellowship of the Ring (the other 2 also, but not as much), The Secret History (Tartt), The Winter Sea (Kearsley), numerous Miss Reads (some more than others), Persuasion, Wild Strawberries (Thirkell), The Magus (Fowler), Winter Solstice (Pilcher), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Shaffer), The Warden (Trollope), and all of the Chocolat series (Harris).
Oooo I loved The Secret History and still own my copy. I should reread that one!! We have so many favorites in common! I haven't read Chocolat but I am adding it to my list!
Donna Tartt is on my list of 10 greatest novelists of all time. For what it's worth. Most of the other's are old Victorians. 20th century: EM Forster. Tolkien.
Thank you for sharing your cozy video about reading books. I subscribed right away. 😸🤗 My most reread novel is probably ‘The Master and Margarita’ by M. Bulgakov. It contains an amazing love story and a cat. What more could I need?
I love Jane Austen and Agatha Christie too. (I am reading a Poirot book in honor of Alice, I only chatted in comments and I though she was a very sweet and kind young women I'm so sorry she passed away..) I have that edition of Persuasion, my issue with it is that it is so heavy, you wouldn't think so since it is a little book. I adore 84 Charing Cross Rd, I saw the movie the first with my parents and my brother. I didn't know there was a book till years later, I read it once a year. I read The Christmas Carol every year. And The Time Machine every year. I also love Phryne Fisher Murder Mysteries, (I saw the TV series first, the books are very different, deeper and more complex,) and I re-read the books all the time. That's it, thank you for your fun list.
I know, it is so so sad about Alice. I just can't believe it. I haven't watched the Phryne Fisher murder mysteries, but there was a fun (and silly) new one recently I watched that featured her niece Peregrine.
Jane Eyre was the first "classic" novel I ever read and I think I've read it five or six times since my high school days. Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Farenheit 451, 1984, Dune, Witches Abroad (Terry Pratchett), every book I own by Thurber and PG Wodehouse are the books I've read multiple times. There are others I'd like to read again, but with all the new books to read, who has time? I'd like to re-read the Game of Thrones series, LOTR, and any of the books I own by Terry Pratchett. Someone that I read a lot in my early adulthood was James Michener. I loved those books and the movies made from them. I need to dig through the boxes and see if I still have a copy of Chesapeake.
Some of my most reread books are The Chronicles of Narnia, Winter Solstice (Rosamund Pilcher), The Poldark series and Mary Stewart's Merlin books (The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills and The Last Enchantment). Also The Secret Garden (Frances H. Burnett). Love these all so much.
I reread A Christmas Memory (Truman Capote short story) every December. Every other year I reread A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens-short story). I frequently reread Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte). Ive reread Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens,) Silas Marner (George Eliot,) Living Well is the Best Revenge (Calvin Thompkins, NF,) My Antonia (Willa Cather) and a few others. Im not a big rereader. I love Les Miserables but it is just too long to reread.
@marjoriedybec3450 I reread A Christmas Memory every December also! Do you also reread The Thanksgiving Visitor every November? I love both of those Truman Capote short stories and the movie adaptations 🎬🎄
@@shelliclarke5563 yes I do reread The Thanksgiving Visitor. By now, Sook is part of my family! Last year I read everything written by or about Capote (except In Cold Blood which still haunts me from reading it when it was first published) and watched the available RU-vid’s.
@@GinaStanyerBooks I reread it for like the 8th time last year. The whole St-John-Rivers section was like a new book to me. I love when a book delivers something new each time you read it.
I love to re-read The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery as well as all the Anne books by the same author. Evening Class by Maeve Binchy, Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer as well as Book Lovers by Emily Henry. I love to find new authors and then read all their books. Miss Read books and Agatha Christie are two examples of that. I also re read David Copperfield, given to me by my father many years ago. I also love the Louise Penny books and Kristin Hannah books. I love mysteries as well but in a place where my reading is very selective. No stress please! So many books I put back on the shelf until a later time. Just found your channel. Looking forward to more videos. Thank you for doing this.❤
I do not reread books as I have a whole bookcase of unread books to get to now that I have unpacked them in my move to another place. And I have stacked books by my bed to read the rest of this year (Brotherless Night, 4 Kate Mortons, Fresh Water for Flowers, Hungry Ghosts). I have a mix of history (The Alexiad, The Tulip, etc), historical fiction, nonfiction, mythology and classic children's fiction, classic fiction (Dickens, Hardy, Austen, etc), contemporary fiction (Lisa Scottoline, mysteries (disappointed that I don't have any Agatha Christie-the Queen of mysteries!), translated fiction or books set in Asia, Europe, Africa. I am glad that my move is over; now, I can enjoy reading my books again. Hooray!
Ok this is my first time here and your first two favorites are my first two favorites as well! But The Wind in the Willows would be first for me. I also keep my first copy of the book since childhood.
What a great idea! I just found September at my local thrift shop and bought it. I’ve never read Pilcher. For me it would be Jane Eyre, Nancy Drew, and poetry. ❤
I reread Rosamunde Pilcher’s Winter Solstice and Marcia Willett’s A Week in Winter each December. Some recent favorites that I look forward to rereading: The Enchanted April, The Secret Garden, and Heidi.
This was great Gina! Thought you would pick Winter Solstice for a Pilcher bk.. I have September and will wait til then to read it. Just started The Shell Seekers.🙂 ABSOLUTELY LOVE 84 Charring Cross Rd. Read it when I was 19? and still have that copy. Also have the monie!😊 My fave re-reads are: Little Women, Wuthering Heights, 84 Charring Cross Rd., The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society, and now Winter Solstice. YEAH! 5000!! Weren't you supposed to announce a winner of a give-a-way this past Sunday or did I enter an old contest binge watching??
Hi Gina, I can sympathize with Josie. My Cockapoo Dinah is recovering from bladder stone removal surgery . When I finish Jane Austen's six books Persuasion is one I'll re read. The Fairacre series is on my TBR. I don't get along with Agatha Christie or Rosamond Pilcher. Instead I like authors who write in those styles. My favorite classic author right now is Elizabeth Goudge. I have two favorite low spice contemporary romance authors.Rae Ann Thayne and Susan Wiggs. For sweet historical romance you introduced me to Julie Klassen. The series that made me fall in love with historical and myth based fantasy was The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden. For classic fantasy I love Sir Terry Prattchet.
Unfortunately for Josie, they can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong. It’s been so awful seeing her in pain and not able to help her. We got antibiotics today so hopefully that will help. 😻
What an ego he had, LOL. The Queen and her Ladies-in-waiting Sat at the window and sewed. She cried, 'Look! Who's that HANDSOME man?' They answered, 'Mr Toad.'
I just now stumbled upon Ms. Gina's channel and she seems like a really fun person to sit down with and listen to her stories. Btw, I wonder if there are any tv show or movie adaptations of Miss Read's books?
Thank you for the Charing Cross Road recommendation... I will try that one. Have you heard of Dropseed by Nettie Magnan? I've just finished reading it, and I feel like I'll want to read it again one day because it was beautifully written...so that's my recommendation. Thanks for the video 💕
Miss Read is this mystery? My favorite reread novels are Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass To Kill a Mockingbird Pride and Prejudice One Hundred Years of Solitude-Marquez
Please share the story behind the Frances book by Russel Hoban (I can't see the actual title) that is so displayed prominantly on your bookshelf. I read these books to my children when they were young, and my grandkids have enjoyed them as well.
@@shelliclarke5563 I’m sure she wanted to do and he bought the rights. When I saw this in the theater, there were a few mild laughs when his name appeared. You know they were thinking “From the man who brought you ‘Blazing Saddles.’”
Look at the cover of your harry potter book you said you had it with you on September 11th and look at the cover Sorcerers Stone = September and hes flying through the two columns, that are 1 1
