Kay was my favorite character too. I love that edition that you have. Thanks for alerting me to Shawn's interview of Nancy Pearl! She is one of my all time favorite people (and I even have her librarian action figure LOL) Barchester Towers is definitely my favorite of that series. And funnily, I just started reading Joy in the Morning, also after seeing Steve talk about it. I think my favorite Sarah Waters is Affinity. Or Fingersmith. Or The Little Stranger... LOL I could never decide!

I’ve never heard of Sarah Waters before Kelly posted her favorite books of the year.😂. I guess I need to put her on the list!

I enjoy your general waffles section name :D - I was super lucky to meet Alice Roberts a few years ago and have her booked Tamed really enjoy the way she writes - hadn't seen that one.

I love Kay! It wasn’t my number one, but it was in my top 5 books of 2023. You should read Fingersmith! Happy reading this weekend! 💛

I loved the night watch! I bought loads of other Sarah Waters after I read it and haven't read any of them yet 🙈 As Jo said, funny that we all bought ancestors! I hope you're feeling better, I was wondering if you were OK when you didn't post for a while but thought maybe you just needed a week off 😊

Hi Aaron! My favourite Sarah Waters is the first one I read, Fingersmith. It was that feeling of discovering a new to you author and loving the writing. I want to read The Night Watch next. Also Ancestors is on my TBR for #historathon2024 but first I need to finish The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt. Enjoyed your video!

I’m intrigued to try the Night Watch sometime. Fingersmith is the only Sarah Waters book I’ve read (having previously seen the Handmaiden), but I think I’d like her stuff more now than I did when I read it. Maybe I’ll find out this year!

Hope you’re feeling better Aaron 👍How great that you bought Book Lust, that was such a good interview and Nancy Pearl is so interesting to listen to. I think I need to reread all the Barchester series before I decide on my favorite but Small House at Allington would be top two I think. I’ve only read two Sarah Waters and my favorite is Tipping the Velvet, I really liked The Nightwatch but, like you, it wasn’t a five star read. How funny you are reading Ancestors, Sarah and I bought a copy each when I was in England to read together so hopefully we will get to it for the first quarter of Historathon.

I had the flu A this year too! Not fun! I don't know if I've had it before... if I did, I didn't know that's what it was. I really would like to finish reading Sarah Waters's books. I've read 3 I think, but need to look at the list and see what I'm missing. I've always thought Ancestors sounded interesting. I'm reading The Lady of the Camellias by Dumas right now :) I rarely read classics, but it's going well! Do you have any books you've read that cover British history (like Romans and before, fiction or nonfiction) that aren't boring?

I hope to read Night Watch at some point. I tried to read Fingersmith last year and dnfed it about halfway through. I know most people absolutely love it, but I hated all of the characters and didn't care about the story because of that. I think I will like Night Watch better.

Reading multiple books at once?! Scandalous. 😄 Lordy Trollope got increasingly wordy as he went along didn't he, I'd thought Dr Thorne looked like a chunker...