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I'm so happy to see you back on KZfaq. I saved this video to watch when there would be no interruptions as I knew I was in for a treat. I wasn't wrong. You give such intelligent and insightful reviews and articulate the positives and negatives with such clarity. I look forward to many more videos. Take care ❤️

So happy to see new videos from you.

Tess was my first Hardy (and only so far) and I loved it. It was like reading a gorgeous, poetic, light-filled painting! So glad you're in Yorkshire now!

I am so happy you are back and that you and your mom are living in a happier place.The video about the summer in Yorkshire is so beautiful and relaxing!All the best dor your future there.

That wallpaper is stunning!

Wonderful to have you back. Although my book wish list always gets MUCH longer after watching your book reviews! ☺️ Your new home and surroundings look blissful xx

'The past is another country'..... just so is the country another world ! So love to think of you there in beautiful Yorkshire with your beloved Mum. missing your mums voice on tea reads . Feel exactly the same about Atonement. Hope is precious and we need to nurture it.

I’m so glad you’re back! I look forward to each and everyone of your posts. You are a breath of fresh air to my day. One of my summer favorites was the Book of Stillmeadow by Gladys Taber. Greatly anticipating your next post.

Very timely these suggestions as we move into Spring/Summer here. Lovely to see you back here on you tube and I'll look forward to seeing more of gorgeous North Yorkshire too xx

It’s wonderful to have you back. You look so relaxed and happy 😊 your new home clearly agrees with you. I too loved One Fine Day, and I think The Greengage Summer, will certainly have to go on a list. So looking forward to your autumn suggestions. Welcome back 🥰

I have missed you so much, welcome back dear Miranda💙💙💙💙

One Fine Day sounds so wonderful. I am new to your channel and I am loving your videos- your book suggestions are fabulous! Also, I adore the wallpaper design behind you 💕

Welcome back! Glad to see you settled and enjoying your new life, and great to have book discussions again, I had missed your videos

Oh yippee a new video! I really missed your KZfaq videos, I’ve been reading a lot more since lockdown so keen to discover some new reads! X

That green dress! It's the first thing I think of too. I enjoyed Atonement but what I remember mostly is the "feel" of the book, so I know just what you mean about it not being particularly memorable. It's so great how you make time to revisit favorites. I don't do that enough even though I always enjoy the new discoveries rereading unearths and how they deepen (usually!) my appreciation. I just learned of Maigret in a June article in the LRB. I think the universe is telling me to add him to the list. The setting of Bitter Orange sounds similar to that of The Animals of Lockwood Manor, which I have just begun and am really enjoying. As always, so many tempting titles! I've added just about all of them to my list.

A great selection of summer reads Miranda, many of which I have read and enjoyed myself although you have inspired me to want to re-read some of them. This Summer I enjoyed re-reading ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne Du Maurier and ‘The Glovemaker’ by Ann Weisgarber. I am definitely going to put a couple of those I haven’t read from your selection on next year’s list! It has been lovely to have a catch up and I am already looking forward to seeing you again with more news, Teresa

YAAAAY! So happy you are back!!

Miranda, congratulations on your move to a new house. All the best as you embark on this new chapter of your life.

Hi Miranda, lovely to see you and wishing you the very best of luck in your new life in Yorkshire. How exciting and brave of you both to up sticks and leave London. I've added to my reading wish list considerably now... xxxx

I really missed your book recommendations on here, Miranda! I want to read each of the books you presented. I love your enthusiasm about books. It comes across so well and is so contagious. As I‘m still going through a nasty never ending divorce maybe I should read the last book on the list first... 😊xx

A wonderful selection - thank you! I’m so pleased to see you mention Hardy especially. I would also love to hear more books you’ve enjoyed that are set in one day (which is a favourite conceit of mine too).

So glad to see you back Miranda and thank you for giving me some new books for my TBR list. I have loved some of your previous book recommendations, particularly this year, The Other Bennet Sister and A Fine Romance by Susan Branch. Looking forward to seeing more of your new life in beautiful North Yorkshire.....

So glad to have you back.

I am binge watching your episodes on KZfaq . Lovely start .

We moved from the City of San Francisco CA to the Bluegrass of Kentucky just in May. We also couldn't house hunt in person etc, so we had to move without any house to move into, and lived with the family until we found a place in a very competitive house market. We found a delightful 130-year-old place after only two days of looking in person. I desperately need bookshelves! I wonder what guidelines you use when having one maid. We might need to do such. I'm so happy for you and your mum, to be living in Yorkshire! One of my dear friends from my 3 years in Scotland, was from there, and she has the most lovely accent! The way she'd say that I was so "cuddly" in her native accent, was enchanting! I hope you are both very happy there.

As always I end up ordering more books. 🙂 So many books I have never heard of here in Norway. I love your videos. 📚

The greengage summer sounds lovely, I will have to look into picking it up. Funnily enough I did a video on my channel recently where I spoke about classics I want to get to soon and both the go between and Tess of the D’Urbervilles were on the list! But I still haven’t got to them but this video really entices me. Particularly towards the go between. I have recently read a Mollie Panter Downes and adored it!! So will defiantly have to pick this one up, she has the most wonderful writing style! Also I haven’t picked up any of the Maigret books but enjoy watching the tv series with Rowan Atkinson, so perhaps i should look into starting the series :)

so glad to see you back 💛

I'm going to make in 2023 a bookshop flat it's our passion books I will have a bookshop flat going to make it to Valentines Christmas & New year before the best job in the world Merry Christmas & happy new year luv Skye x Hr

Great to see you back and recommending lots of books to add the the TBR pile. I really want to read British Summertime Begins. Sounds wonderful. My top summer picks have been finally reading The Cazalet Chronicles and some of the Dean Street Press books. A House in the Country by Ruth Adam was absolutely brilliant and seems apt for a move to the countryside!

Good to see you back! I really do hope I get to visit England one day. 🙂

All of these sound wonderful! The only one I’ve read is Atonement and I did love it. I have been wanting to read the Maigret books since watching the series with Rowan Atkinson and Lucy Cohu.

I re-watch some of your posts (this one obviously) from time to time. Re: Atonement ... I haven't read the book, only watched the movie. I absolutely agree, I cannot take it .... the ENDING. Ugh. As far as the movie, I am surprised I have been able to go forward and watch Saoirse Ronan in anything else. Such are my bad feelings toward her character. It is comforting to have my feelings about this story voiced.

The best decision both of you moving from London I been living in London with my daughter for more than 27 years we are making plans to move out of London. We live in W2 not far from little venice canal boat

It’s lovely to have this book corner back- accidentally saved it before finishing the message. I have never intentionally selected books to match the season, but it makes sense as books really set a tone. I might select my nxt read more carefully to experience what it is like.

Some great recommendations, lots to add to my ‘want to read’ list! Particularly like the sound of British Summertime Begins’

Just joined you after watching your bookcase video and saw we had many similar books in my collection. X

So happy to see you back, Miranda! Thank you for all these brilliant recommendations - will definitely follow up on those I haven't yet read. I too disliked the ending of Atonement. To me it seemed like a heavy-handed conceit under the guise of "metafiction." I really enjoyed listening to British Summer Time Begins on BBC 4's Book of the Week. I too am a fan of Ysenda Maxtone Graham. Loved Thomas Hardy as a teenager so it would be interesting to return to him as an adult. This summer I reveled in a close and leisurely reading of Middlemarch (following along w/Emily Rhodes' webcasts) and am now getting back to contemporary novels and essays. Finishing up Coventry by Rachel Cusk right now and then on to the latest Anne Tyler and Zadie's Smith's Intimations. Looking forward to more of your videos! xx

I agree with you about the ending to Atonement. Ian McEwan has written better books. Enduring Love, The Cement Garden, and The Comfort of Strangers all come to my mind.

Hello Miranda. I just discovered you and your taste is so much different from mine. But I really want to read some of the books that you have mentioned.

I totally agree about Atonement also the ending bothers me as well...and I also really dislike the younger sister Briony, which yes is young and naive, but at the same time I feel at 13 years old you should know most of what is right from wrong especially about lies and making up things that are just not true, like accusing someone of something so horrible when in fact it was someone else, and then don’t get me started of what Lola, the cousin ended up doing towards the end, I mean that’s who you decide to marry really?? I also really disliked the ending but I also realize it’s a realistic book where it highlights that injustices sadly happen all the time and we don’t always get a satisfying ending...idk if I would recommend this book though bc i really disliked Briony and I don’t think that she reached a real atonement for her wrong doing, because atonement means you reach a real reparation for a wrong and she definitely did not repare it

Good for you, change is needed. Love your videos🙋🏼‍♀️kisses from Portugal, Lisbon @patricia_fernandes_barbado