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Jean and I share our favourite space-themed books we've read over the last few months.
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@MrArchiePancakes 5 жыл бұрын

SO many amazing books, also I love hearing about Polish writers (and just translated fiction in general). My family is Polish but I unfortunately can't read it, so always looking for Polish translated fiction!

@AilsaVlogs 5 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy Becky Chambers' books, I like how they're focussed on the relationships between characters as much or more than other plotlines.

@BasicallyBrittx 5 жыл бұрын

This video came at the perfect time, because I was looking for some more space books!! Always obsessed with your necklace haha love it!

@brunabento4866 5 жыл бұрын

omg, those tulips in the back, I WANT THEM! pure gold!

@booksvsmovies 5 жыл бұрын

I've literally spent this whole month reading mostly space books. I never really considered myself a Sci-Fi person but I've been having the craving for space operas.

@LaurenJamesAuthor 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sanne! I'm so glad you liked it! I really wanna check out The Stone Gods now too. x

@elizabethsaunders9640 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendations!

@MaryAmongStories 5 жыл бұрын

you two are the cutest, i love seeing you two in a video! 💗

@susannacain3564 5 жыл бұрын

This makes me want to pick up all of these books!

@BooksWithBrandywine 5 жыл бұрын

I really liked this video! I'm going to have to check out The Lonliest Girl.

@hannahhohendorf7655 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite Sci-fi novel is still The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. Beautiful storytelling :)

@Applepopess 5 жыл бұрын

You two are so cute!! 🌟 Great Collab. This makes me want to pick up all the space boooooks! 🚀📚

@inessamaria2428 5 жыл бұрын

Great content! This year my goal is to read more science fiction, then thanks for the tips.

@thesheepthewolf 5 жыл бұрын

Some of my (relatively) recent favs: The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt, Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter, Space Unicorn Blues by T.J. Berry, The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal, and Proxima by Stephen Baxter.

@jenbates9205 5 жыл бұрын

Great video guys - have added a couple of these to my TBR. Have either of you read the Old Man's War series by John Scalzi - would definitely recommend as one for people trying to get into sci-fi - very accessible and a cool concept 😊👍

@peculiaritea 5 жыл бұрын

I loved this! I took out all three Becky Chambers books from the library when I read them and am now on the lookout for editions that are ALL ONE SIZE. They have definitely been some of my favourite books of all time because of their lovingly satirising treatment of us humans. (: When I just looked at the editions that are on Book Depository, I saw that Becky Chambers has a new space-ish book out in August! Eek!!

@misskit123 5 жыл бұрын

I have done nothing today except: two loads of laundry, cleaning my hamster cage, and reading The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. I couldn’t put it down. Oh my. Thanks for the recommendation! I think...!

@saraafonso1141 5 жыл бұрын

Sanne and Jean in the same video feels like a crossover haha

@Carlos-ln8fd 5 жыл бұрын

I remember her from so long ago!

@misskit123 5 жыл бұрын

Have you read Good Morning Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton? I guess it's only half set in space, there are two parallel stories going on, one on earth and the other on the International Space Station (or a ISS-type space station!) I read it years ago and at the time I enjoyed it just like I enjoy most books I read but it's really stuck with me and I've never seen anyone mention it.

@fordprefect80 5 жыл бұрын

Ah Solaris, I have to read it some day. I didn't know the author was Polish. The 1972 movie was made by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky who also directed Stalker. Both films are on youtube and are worth watching. I've never encountered movies that have so much dialog as these two. My favorite space book would have to be Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke. A real page turner, you actually feel like you're in that alien space ship. The Perry Rhodan books are a lot of fun if you can find them.

@JeansThoughts Жыл бұрын

We're so young!

@booksandquills Жыл бұрын

I know!! And it's not even that long ago haha.

@leslieisepic 5 жыл бұрын

I love the Binti trilogy.

@juditkovacs1205 5 жыл бұрын

The only one of these that I read was Solaris, which I really enjoyed. Too bad about the English translation. I read a beautifully published Hungarian translation, which as far as I can tell from the info in the book is translated directly from Polish. I was wondering what you, as someone who studied translation thinks of such a double translation? Something gets lost in translation either way, but what if it's translated twice?

@lildramatic4760 5 жыл бұрын

both becky chambers and lauren james are my favorites!! Especially the third wayfarer and... all of lauren’s let’s be real. I hadn’t heard about the watchmaker one, which I feel is blasphemous, and I’m so excited to have two books from her in less than six months!!.. Since the first Together-verse book ive ordered her ya from the uk to avoid having to deal with later US releases, old school Harry Potter style Also yay saga reference!