Thank you! It's fun checking in mid-way through the year. Let's hope we have a good second half 🤞

Hello, I'm glad we got to connect here as well 😊 Getting to know new people is one of my favorite things about booktube. I'm glad to hear that the pacing is improved in Pet Sematary! Hopefully I'll love it as much as everyone else seems to 🤞

Thank you 😊 I'm looking forward to our buddy reads as well! I think we've picked some good ones. I hope you are enjoying this glorious weather ☀️ Summer has finally arrived!

Same, those two are my favorites!

Yes! I'm so pleased you agree. I've seen a lot of mixed reviews about Spaceborn Few (compared to the others) but I really enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and supporting my channel. Let me know if you ever want to do a buddy read 😊

@@bibbidibobbidibooks I've never done a buddy read, believe it or not, I would certainly be interested!

They sound so charming don't they! Thank you, I am enjoying the sunshine this week. Summer has finally arrived in Norfolk! I hope you are having a lovely week as well ☀️💛

Brom has such a unique style! Wouldn't recommend Child Theif, but Krampus was a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to reading Slewfoot next! 🧙‍♀️

Hello, I hope you are well 😊 I haven't heard of the Hiddenworld quartet, I will have to look them up! Thanks for the recommendation. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying Bone Season. I've actually had Priory of the Orange Tree on my radar for a while but have been intimidated by how chunky it is 🙈 I agree, I think that's why I enjoy fantasy and sci-fi so much. I don't get the same sense of wonder and escapism with contemporary books. Thanks so much for supporting my channel, it means a lot.

Thank you 😊 I hope you enjoy Hyperion if you do pick it up. I enjoyed "Head Full of Ghosts" by Paul Tremblay and plan to read "Cabin At The End of the World" next. I really hope I continue to enjoy his books. "How High We Go In The Dark" certainly was a tough read! I appreciate how the author took a risk and know lots of other people really rate that book. You definitely have to be in the right headspace though!

Thank you lovely ❤

Hello, thank you so much ❤ Aww black cats are the best, "Midnight" is the perfect name too 🐈‍⬛

It sounds like it's going to be a fun one! I think I'll reach for it in spooky season 👻

I hope you enjoy their books! Thanks for watching and commenting 🥰

Hello 😊 I'm sorry to hear you didn't enjoy Becky Chambers. She writes quite "cosy" sci-fi which I know isn't for everyone. I am looking forward to reading more King. I think my main issue with Salem's Lot was the pacing. Also, I knew it was a vampire story so any element of surprise was lost. Thank you for the novella recommendation! I think short books can really pack a punch when they are done well.

@@bibbidibobbidibooks In a way, I think Becky Chambers hit my partner, and I much the same way as J.K. Rowling, in that we've been reading SF/Fantasy since the 1960s. Rowling got hugely lucky in that she got picked up by the media, and introduced to thousands of people who hadn't been fantasy readers before. To them, Harry Potter was new, and exciting. To us old folks there wasn't an original idea in the books, and it read like mish-mash of ideas that were done better by much better writers decades before. In Chamber's case, it was the fact thar people all over BookTube were raving about her wonderful characterisation, where we just saw stock character types that we'd seen over, and over before. It's not that either of them are bad writers, albeit Rowling has since revealed herself to be problematical in her beliefs, but they just don't quite match up to the hype. There are better books out there. Give Louise Carey's Inscape trilogy a look. Though, it would be unfair of me not to mention that Carey's distopian series is anything but cosy.

That sounds interesting! I'll have to look that one up. Thanks for watching 😊