the classics I want to read this spring and summer💐📚 

The Secret Garden is one of my forever and always favorites, and believe me, I’m not an outdoors person at all, but FHB’s descriptions make me want to get planting asap. I absolutely recommend watching the 1990s film adaptation with Maggie Smith, it’s just lovely.

I wouldn't really consider Walden a "memoir", but more a collection of non-fiction essays. (and it really is not as homesteading as you have imagined; he basically lives a mile or two out of town in someone's backwoods; he can pop back home and steal mom's cookies from her kitchen in an afternoon visit, if he wanted). Each chapter has its own subject and tone. The first chapter is the longest, and provides the reader as to the experiment that Thoreau had in mind. Once you get through the first chapter (which some find grueling), you can bounce around to any of the chapters, as you see fit. Some are seasonal, so they will not feel like Spring or Summer (eg. the measuring the depth of the pond in winter). With all that said, it is the book I have re-read the most times in my life.

No matter how many teas I try, Earl Grey will forever be my go-to 😊🍃🫖🍊

Hi, Ciara, you’ll have so much fun this summer! As a German the first of all that classics I read was of course HEIDI, which I loved a lot more than the movies I later saw. Even at the age of 68 I enjoy a re-reading from time to time… Thomas Hardy I tried once, don’t even remember the title, but didn’t come into it… and never tried again. If you like yours, please share and I’ll give it a try. The secret Garden is the first book I considered as a 'positive thinking' and 'you can change, if you want to' book by enjoying the nature, fresh air, moving, watch growing plants with conscience, I love it so much and maybe it was the first whole children book I read in English. Anne of Green Gables I like very much, but I adore THE BLUE CASTLE of Lucy M. Montgomery… read it several times! Love, Monika❣

Anne of Green Gables is such a comfort book for me. I still have my childhood copy and it is one of my most prized books 💚

Emma was an entertaining read and I thought that line about Mr Elton was one of her funniest:that he found himself in the same room with three women,the woman he had just married,the woman he was expected to marry and the woman he wanted to marry!😂

You have treats coming with The Secret Garden (one of my favorite books) and Heidi, which are both delightful.

the secret garden is one of my favourites🥰 I have this gorgeous illustrated edition that I got as a child and I used to constantly reread it because it is so beautiful 🌿🌷 and if you love Emma's growth you will for sure love Mary's too!!

Walden sounds great, I had no idea it was nonfiction! 💖🌿

I've never read Emma but your description of the title character makes me realize that Clueless seems like it was a pretty faithful adaption. I was sipping Earl Grey while watching, too! I think you're gonna love The Secret Garden

15:18 It’s so funny to think that we would never know people are fleeing to the woods to escape the bustle of modern life, except they have such relaxing RU-vid content! Thoreau would 🙄

I’ve read The Secret Garden, Walden, and Emma and I enjoyed them all

such a sweet and heartwarming video

I love Heidi and The Secret Garden, love them both very much. I love Agatha Christie her short stories are wonderful, but I have to let you know, Death On The Nile, is different the novel, a completely different story. So you may find it very interesting.

Hello, Ciara! I have read almost all the books that you have mentioned and my favourites are Heidi and Anne of Green Gables! In the Agatha Christie series Winter is out since last year. We also have Spring and Autumn will be available later this year! Looks like your summer is all booked! :) I have stated to read a lot of non-fiction this year and will also enjoy some summer romances! 🤗

You really should come to Switzerland in the summertime! I‘ve been living in the Swiss mountains for little over a year now and you are absolutely right: everything is so different depending on the season we‘re in! I love the variety of landscape and activities during the year here! I can really recommend our region (Davos/Klosters) for a visit, there are so many hiking possibilities ☺️. Would love to show you around 😉

OhmyGOSH you’ve just listed all the books I adored reading when I was younger, I hope you enjoy them so much! I think it might be time for a reread of these on my channel because the nostalgia is strong! Also fabulous to hear the accent of my childhood (I’m now in Australia) subscribed! 🌸🌷

The plan is to finish "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" and then the books I have slated to read next are: Sinister Spring (from the Agatha Christie collection), Beach Read, Lost Coast Literary, and Anne of Green Gables.

Thank you for reminding me to continue the Anne of Green Gables Series, which I wanted to do for a long time. I’ve read The Secret Garden and have to say didn’t like it very much… maybe I was too old for that. The next month I am planning to read Dracula an The Third Policeman since I’m going on vacation to Ireland

Love this. I love classics. ❤📚

Love the colour coordination between your outfit, mug, and that gorgeous Emma cover!

Wish you a very Happy Birthday Ciara 🎂🎁!

As I am in the middle of reading Anne of Green Gables series for the first time (reading book 4), I can confirm it is the most perfect, coziest choice for this time of the year! However, I would also like to give you trigger warning for animal abuse in book 3. Apparently it was normalized back then, which is so sad. It shocked me since I would never expect to find something disturbing in Anne series, which is all about love and appreciation of nature. But that is the exact reason why I wanted others to come into this book prepared :(

I read Secret Garden in April and earlier this month I read Anne of Green Gables. I just bought book 2 the other day. I did have a TBR plan, but when I do that they tend to fall apart of eventually.

I would start with Anne and then checker the Anne series with the rest. Ex: Anne 3, Heidi, Anne 4, Maddening Crowd, Anne 5, etc

Anne of avonlea is perfect for spring 😍😍😍

Hi again‼️ I love how your outfit matches your mug of ☕️‼️ All the book covers so pretty‼️ Ps: surprisingly I managed to finish my tbr from last week which feels great‼️ Up next I got 22 chapters to go Arsenic & Adobo which has been thrilling‼️ Last but not least I started reading Luck of The Titanic; so far it’s I like the relationship between the twin sibling Valora and Jamie Luck‼️

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Oh Walden was a torture for me. Thoreau was fashioning himself as self sufficient, living along in the woods, surviving only on the work of his hands, blah, blah, blah... He was excruciatingly full of self importance and failed to mention that, unlike other people around him, he did not have to pay for the land he was living on, wood he used, water he drank, fish he ate - it all belonged to his friend who allowed him to squat there. The "out there" was barely a couple of miles away from a town and people who, curious about the strange man in the woods, were visiting him and bringing him food - yet these were the same people he was judging for their way of life. Do not recommend...

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