My most anticipated is also Intermezzo.

LOVED "the housekeeper and the professor"! such a great read

This video was so fun. Definitely going to put the first 3 books u liked most in my TBR📚

Best books - A Closed and Common Orbit, Good Material, Birnam Wood, Sea of Tranquility Biggest disappointments - The Writing Retreat, All Systems Red, The Thirty Names of Night Biggest surprises - Seven Days in June, Nevada, Pride and Prejudice Priority reads - My Brilliant Friend, The Handmaids Tale, The Book Thief love your videos and your recommendations!!

I have read 70 books so far this year and my favorites have been Foster by Clair Keegan, Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Agawa and The Mad Womens Ball by Victoria Mas. I have thankfully been really lucky this year with so many 4 and 5 star books, last year there were so many duds.

I discovered claire keegan this year too and have really loved her work❤️ My favourite of the ones i’ve read is small things like these, highly recommend it!

I've been planning to read Moby Dick in July all year and now with it fast approaching I am so nervous and excited....

I need to read the Poisonwood Bible! Sounds so good

Loved finding you! We read very similarly (our most read genres and moods stats look so much alike lol) and we even rate things in a similar way!

at first i thought intermezzo is here referenced to a Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's book that he wrote in 1908.

ive read 16 books so far, and the best one was the gray house by mariam petrosyan (it was my third reread and i dont think ill ever grow to dislike this book. i read it first as a teenager and its just in my bones now), the most disappointing was the awakening by kate chopin (i just was expecting something different from it because i heard about it as an example of early feminist fiction and so i had certain expectations. still, wild that this book was considered so scandalous it destroyed chopins career. and the ending really got me), the most surprising one was earthlings by sayaka murata (i bought it because of a cute hedgehog on the cover as a gift for my friend who likes hedgehogs. well. there was a cute hedgehog in the book, yes, but there also was cannibalism and some other fun stuff). and my new favourite author is sayaka murata, i cant wait to get my hands on 'life ceremony' by her

favourite book of the year so far is joan by katherine j chen it's so good such a beautiful rendition of joan of arc

Intermezzo was honestly incredible (I was lucky enough to get an arc) - the saddest, most bleakest Rooney ever but my god... I think you'll really enjoy it!

My most disappointing book has been a claire kegan one! I'd heard so much hype about her recently so read so late in the day and it was just ok...🤷‍♀️

Have recently read Soldier, Sailor by Claire Keegan. I recognised myself struggling with my babies. I think you will really like it.

Half the year already! That’s too fast ❤

Why is the UK Grace of Kings so much prettier than the US version 🥲 (most UK covers are better haha)