Oh, you make me laugh and smile. Thanks for that...I think you should read Seconds to Live, even if it has a not so pleasant cover. That's probably why it was in the CBD box. 🙂
@debwassenberg885919 сағат бұрын
Chautona, you are such good company. Thanks for another great video. Loved the story of the wedding dress. I'd like to hear your review of Death in a Desert Land. Sounds great.
@insearchofwonder21 сағат бұрын
I thought I left a comment but I don't know if I actually hit send lol. Anyway, I think either Yours Truly or the Agatha Christie one.
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
Right? I mean, come on! So hard. So hard. Both! LOL
@AshleasBookshelf21 сағат бұрын
Ooo! I hope you will read the Death in a Desert Land. And...I need to go add the Baghdad Christie to my Goodreads tbr.
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
Eeep! That's two votes plus mine. Aperfect trifecta. SCORE!
@AshleasBookshelf20 сағат бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig I want you to read it so you can tell me if it's any good. I trust your mystery recommendations, especially as I become more prudish as I age.
@AshleasBookshelf22 сағат бұрын
I avoided a book my friend sent me for Christmas for six months because her dad wrote it, and he died. I knew it would make me sad to read it.
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
I totally get that. I think that's why I haven't read Dell's book for so long. I wasn't there. Now it makes me happy but before I probably would have sobbed through it.
@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies23 сағат бұрын
I am still doing just terrible on reading. But...I feel like I am working through it! I just decided not to put any pressure on myself and try to just enjoy any reading at all.
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
Right. And let yourself snack your way until you find yourself eating the whole book. "Nice chapter. But... maybe I want this other one... nah... not my flavor. Oh, what about this...?"
@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies20 сағат бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig exactly!!!!! Takes me a while to land on something that way but I don't want reading to become a chore
@KrisFasseBooksandButterfliesКүн бұрын
But...I know I will watch again and check out the books...and knowing me I will watch multiple times!
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
So many things.to keep me occupied.
@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies20 сағат бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig so many books to discover!
@KrisFasseBooksandButterfliesКүн бұрын
I have no idea about any of these books because you kept me company while I put groceries away. Your hair looks amazing today!!!!
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
Aw, thanks. It helps to take a shower every month or so... JUST KIDDING!
@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies20 сағат бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig 🤪🤪🤪🤪 I find that once a month routine works wonders!!!!!!
@amyodell71572 күн бұрын
Amanda G. Stevens series! 👍🏻I need to work on my Sarah Sundin series and Joanne Bischof series.
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
Oh,I forgot my Bischof!!! I could totally do Sadie!
@KarenOMeara-o2k3 күн бұрын
Because I'm a seasonal-y reader the Shady Hollow series feels fallish- a good September mood read? Save the Alaska cyber crimes on for winter maybe? Worlds Fair series in Seattle seems late summerish too. Have you ever read Freddy the Detective series by Walter Brooks. Its older American middle grade but has subtle character studies that are HILARIOUS and plenty sophosticated. Most of the characters are anthropomorphic farm animals on Mr. Bean's...because- this gives you an excuse to start and maybe buy a new series! Lol😅
@ChautonaHavig2 күн бұрын
I considered Alaska Cyber crimes for today since it's so hot. LOL I know. I'm weird. You know, I feel like I read Freddy as a kid. Maybe I should get them and read/reread to see!
@AshleasBookshelf3 күн бұрын
I'm interested in hearing more about the Chosen Kids. Do I need them for my kids?
@ChautonaHavig2 күн бұрын
I think you'd get a good feel for them if you checked out R. M. Ruiz at becauseficitonpodcast.com We have talked a lot about her books and you get a feel. It's positive cousin interactions (not perfect but for the most part they enjoy each other) as they go on these missions given them by God. Normally, I'd be bothered by God "giving a mission" outside the Word but since we're dealing with other fictional things (monsters etc) it just seems to me like showing kids how God, in His Word, has given us a mission, the "blessed object" is Armor of God, and the monsters are Satan and his minions--a way to see spiritual warfare in a way that clicks with kids. :)
@ReadJournalLove3 күн бұрын
Last year was my 1st time to join in. I read all 11 of the Dead Sea Squirrels! Thanks for the reminder…it’s right around the corner. I have 4 left in the Martha’s Vineyard series left and it’s a goal to finish it this year. Maybe I’ll do that? 😊
@ChautonaHavig2 күн бұрын
That sounds like fun! YIPPIE!
@debwassenberg88593 күн бұрын
So many titles I'd never heard of! I love the sound of the Lisa Phillips series. Whatever books you choose I'm looking forward to hearing your reviews.
@ChautonaHavig2 күн бұрын
So hard to decide. EEEP!!!
@debtfreejoy3 күн бұрын
It's good to have you back - and I'm proud of you for making the decisions to set boundaries so you could climb out of burnout-land!
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. God is good. Good to see you!
@beckyfaith10703 күн бұрын
Music in the Hills is the second one after Vitoria Cottage
@ChautonaHavig2 күн бұрын
Just found one on eBay for 20 bucks shipped. BEAUTIFUL condition. I have the next one just not that. So yay!
@ThisLittleLightLife3 күн бұрын
📚🤷
@BooksAndJams3 күн бұрын
So many options! You're going to have such a great reading month! woohoo!
@ChautonaHavig3 күн бұрын
Right. But which one... which one...
@amyodell71573 күн бұрын
Everyone seems to be talking about The Timeless series by Gabrielle Meyer. I’m a little surprised you haven’t mentioned them. I don’t like time travel but I did try a few pages of the first one. Too many rules. I found it convoluted. 🤨🤷♀️
@ChautonaHavig3 күн бұрын
I don't know what it is about it, but every time I think, "I should try that,"... I don't. Someday maybe. Maybe.
@amyodell71573 күн бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig I’m just the opposite if they talk it up I want to try it. In When the Day Comes, the first one, Libby time travels between 1744 Williamsburg and 1914 New York. At 21 she must choose her preferred time period. Her mother was a time traveler but not Libby’s sisters. Only with a sunburst over your heart. 🤔Changing gears, I am into Seek and Hide. I bought it when you first talked about it but I couldn’t figure out what was going on with the car crashing the garage. 🤔I tore my shelves apart trying to find it this afternoon now I’m into it. 👍🏻 Great video! 👏🏻
@insearchofwonder3 күн бұрын
Price of privilege is the trilogy. So good!
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
YES! So tempted. That might be the one.
@insearchofwonder3 күн бұрын
So many options! I haven't had time to think about the September TBR yet but i need to!
@AshleasBookshelf4 күн бұрын
I hope you'll read Blood for Blood. It's one of my possibilities for series September.
@ChautonaHavig3 күн бұрын
One way or t'other.
@LynnetteBonner4 күн бұрын
Sorry for all you’ve been through! Big hugs. Glad you are getting beyond the burnout.
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
It was such a GOOD feeling to realize that... whoa... it's like GONE
@christadelsorbo6 күн бұрын
My friend, I am SO excited for you and for what's next. I know this season has been long (!!!) and hard. Praising the Lord for His faithfulness and kindness as He has sustained you through the valley. Looking forward to seeing how He uses you in the hearts and lives of readers and listeners!
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
EEEP! You've been a steady part of my recovery. Thank you for being you!
@ReadJournalLove6 күн бұрын
So happy you’ve had such a good realization. Praise Jesus! You’ve had a lot…not to mention a motorcycle accident. You’re amazing. The prairie book sounds intriguing! 😊
@ChautonaHavig6 күн бұрын
Motorcycle accident??
@ReadJournalLove6 күн бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig I was thinking your husband had a motorcycle accident. I’m sorry if I was praying the wrong type of accident.
@ChautonaHavig4 күн бұрын
@@ReadJournalLove OH! Kevin. Sorry, my tired brain didn't translate. It was a bicycle accident, but same smell. When a truck hits you on either, it's never good. LOL
@swhitaker03116 күн бұрын
Christa Del Sorbo has been doing amazing voice work. Any chance she could do Past Forward?
@ChautonaHavig6 күн бұрын
Here's another request, @ChristaDelSorbo (we have two volumes, but it's a LOT of words for the next two).
@ChantelReadsAllDay6 күн бұрын
Wow, what an update! I am really needing to read a Chautona book asap . . .
@ChautonaHavig6 күн бұрын
Wee Bonnie Books is on the radar for end of this year beginning of next. :D
@kathleenrobison85547 күн бұрын
Lots of wisdom here! Thanks for sharing, so we can glean. Excited for your future projects, and praising God for pulling you through.🙌🏼 ❤ You look lovely, btw.😊
@ChautonaHavig6 күн бұрын
Aw, thanks. You bless me. :)
@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies7 күн бұрын
This really spoke to me. I have a similar situation within the same time frame. Some similar and some different but the same reactions within me. I didn't feel confirmed till you described your reactions here....but it's been absolute burn out. And you are so right... consequences from burn out remain. But it will get better. Or we get stronger! Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to these books!
@ChautonaHavig20 сағат бұрын
Burnout can also affect reading, so it's no wonder you're having a rough reading patch! Praying for you, my friend!
@amyodell71577 күн бұрын
When I had my biggest load of hours for a college semester, it was my best grades overall. My guidance counselor said that is usually how it goes. That’s probably your best work! 🤷♀️🤔 Great video! 👏🏻
@ChautonaHavig6 күн бұрын
Aw, thanks. My email might work if you want to try the address once more. I've been holding onto Love Overboard for you. :)
@ThisLittleLightLife7 күн бұрын
Hope you have a nice stretch of calm and peaceful with a lengthy sabbatical from the rough patches!
@ChautonaHavig7 күн бұрын
Aw, thanks! I could use it!! :D
@AshleasBookshelf7 күн бұрын
I'm glad to hear you're getting past the burnout. I pre-ordered Once Upon a Courtship.
@ChautonaHavig7 күн бұрын
Too much fun! Thanks!
@insearchofwonder7 күн бұрын
Glad your life is settling down!
@ChautonaHavig7 күн бұрын
It's amazing what you can handle if it's either/or. That both... not so much. LOL
@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies7 күн бұрын
This month has been a terrible reading month for me. I have completed one book. Only one. I have been all over the place and some days haven't even picked up a book. I think everything (including what i got used to in vooktube) has just been all out of sorts and i just lost momentum. Plus i had a good reading month last month and then just wemt flat. So maybe i needed a break.
@ChautonaHavig7 күн бұрын
I feel like that is what happened last month. June was so great and add on the smoke and misery of July... I just needed a break.
@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies7 күн бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig we will both get back on this!
@AshleasBookshelf8 күн бұрын
I have made good progress on my Camp ReadMore: Cold weather (What Happens Next) Mosquitoes (The Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit has lots of pesky dragons in it) Hot Dogs (Silence of the Clans by Jan Fields) A week (Nemesis by Agatha Christie) I plan on picking up a book where the characters live in a cave with some comforts (thanks to magic). Would that count for Cabin/rustic living?
@ChautonaHavig7 күн бұрын
I'd say so!
@AshleasBookshelf7 күн бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig yay! I was having a difficult time finding one for that prompt.
@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies8 күн бұрын
Oh yes! I need this!!!!!
@MorgansEndlessBookshelf8 күн бұрын
The Lark sounds really fun! I've loved what I've read by Nesbit so far!
@ChautonaHavig7 күн бұрын
It really is delightful.
@beckyfaith107010 күн бұрын
I don’t know if she is in the top five but I enjoy Allen Raine. My favorite is the Welsh Singer. Have you read any of hers. She wrote in the mid to late 1800’s. This was really fun! Thanks for posting!
@ReadJournalLove10 күн бұрын
This was a fun game. You did good IMO! I was thinking Frankenstein because it really talks about humanity. Also, 1984 because… 😊
@Eevie36110 күн бұрын
For War and Peace, you should have said 'It's a complicated novel that has the Napoleonic Wars as a backdrop to events seen in the novel'. I only read War and Peace in French, but it's complicated. It's got a plot within a plot that is within a subplot that is one of a dozen other subplots that make up the major plot.
@ChautonaHavig10 күн бұрын
You know... I should have known more about it to do a better bad description. Read it when I was 15 because I had nothing else to do and remember zippo, nada, nothing. I don't think I cared enough to remember at the time. I should reread it.
@Eevie36110 күн бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig I feel that historical novels like this are better appreciated when you understand the historical events that inspired the book. Tolstoy's novel is more of a chore not because of it's length, but the detail to history, along with the complexities of a country at war and the characters and their separate stories doesn't exactly help matters. While I was reading War & Peace, I was doing a unit about the Napoleonic Wars and understanding more about Napoleon. It's definitely a book that you really have got to have a basic understanding of the history in order to appreciate. I read this book in French so it was separated into three separate tomes. Maybe this is the reason I loved it so much because the French publisher made it more manageable whereas the English is nearly 1,300 pages!
@ChautonaHavig10 күн бұрын
@@Eevie361 I don't remember being nearly as intimidated by the size as a kid as I do today. Probably because that's all I had to do all day. And I do remember asking my dad a LOT about the Napoleonic Wars now that you mention it. I think I learned more about those than I got from the book just because I asked. And interestingly enough, I remember that Dad compared and contrasted the Napoleonic Wars of the time with the War of 1812 in America. I just don't remember what those comparisons and contrasts were. LOL
@Eevie36110 күн бұрын
Ah, Dracula is one of my favourite classics. It's definitely a staple of vampire literature. It's the classic story of good versus evil, in my opinion. It's really good and because it's told from the journals, letters, and newspaper clippings of other characters- it's not a unreliable narrator. It's absolutely brilliant.
@Eevie36110 күн бұрын
Frankenstein is an amazing book. Highly recommend it. There's a funny little story with the origins of this book and it had been written when the author was a teenager at the time she wrote and published it. Frankenstein was actually written as part of a little competition she and other authors had between one another to see who could write the best horror story. It's more about a scientist who decided to play God and create life of his own accord and the fallout of that. It's a good book. Highly recommend reading. I also have read The Last Man by the author as well. It's a good example of early dystopian literature. It's actually a book set in the 21st century and not too many people know about it because people choose to remember Mary Shelley with Frankenstein.
@AshleasBookshelf11 күн бұрын
I guessed more from the second half than the first. I've tried all of the authors you recommended, except for Stevenson. Which book do you recommend to read first?
@ChautonaHavig10 күн бұрын
Oh, that's tough. I'm going to say Miss Buncle's Book. It's hilarious.
@AshleasBookshelf10 күн бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig I'll add it to my ever-growing tbr.
@MorgansEndlessBookshelf11 күн бұрын
Definitely agree that everyone should try Lewis! I'd probably also say Austen.
@MorgansEndlessBookshelf11 күн бұрын
This was really fun!
@ReadJournalLove12 күн бұрын
Earthquakes always leave me unsettled for a while. Your thoughts on S&S were really good. So glad for your videos. You have a contagious joy. 💖
@insearchofwonder13 күн бұрын
Enjoyed your analysis/discussion of Sense and Sensibility! I, too, conflate my memories of adaptations with the actual books. 😂
@KrisFasseBooksandButterflies14 күн бұрын
Yes. Emotion expressed is not always necessary. Information about life is not always necessary. Some things are not the business of others and some things are not necessary to express or even healthy to. We need to respect that in people.
@ChautonaHavig13 күн бұрын
We do. BOTH sides. I had to learn to respect and appreciate how others DO share their emotions. That was hard, but there is value in that. I don't see any in being RULED by emotions, but expressing them freely and being ruled by them are not the same thing. That was a lesson for me.
@AshleasBookshelf14 күн бұрын
July was a great reading month for me. I've only finished 2 books so far this month. I hope to finish another one over the weekend. I read Love Mary Elisabeth and Marigolds for Mourning last month. They were so good! Thanks for recommending them.
@ChautonaHavig13 күн бұрын
Isn't Love, Mary Elisabeth the sweetest?
@AshleasBookshelf13 күн бұрын
@@ChautonaHavig yes! I loved it! It was so wholesome and showed healthy family dynamics while still having realistic problems and good times.
@Devin3Anthologie14 күн бұрын
Hi Chautona🙋🏾♀️. I did not feel the earthquake but I was on my way home so that may have been the reason. Supposedly our region was feeling something. But glad everyone is okay over there. ☺️ Also I have been experimenting with narrating my novella. Would you narrate any of your books?
@ChautonaHavig14 күн бұрын
So glad you are all well. A couple of kids were driving and felt nothing, but everyone in the house felt the 5.2. :)