Remains of the Day is one of my favourite books of all time. I haven't read Kindred yet but it's on my current TBR so I'm really looking forward to it after your review. I like the way that you rate your books out of ten, I think that gives a more accurate and fairer rating that the five stars that Goodreads allows.

Congrats! Well done Berna. I have no idea the current size of my tbr - may be time to do a new count!

Happy BookTube Anniversary!!! I’m sure I’ve seen your Newbie tag before, but I had forgotten a lot. I love Mauve Binchy too. So happy that you started a channel. I really love your videos and buddy reading with you. 💕

I’m nearly at my 300 unread books 🎉🎉🎉

This was fun and revealing. I actually quite enjoyed The Night Train to Lisbon so I think the translation didn't capture the style.

Choosing five must have been excruciating. What a great mixture though. And of course sharing a book adds to the experience so much. The combination of a good book and a good buddyread is the dream. I was very happy to see Kemal and Memed here.

I loved kindred too 😊

Some great books - I loved Kindred and The Remains of the Day. The Scythe trilogy was great.

I love Remains of the Day! Such a beautifully written novel! The film is also excellent. Have you seen it? Very exciting to see this as your top pick! 💛🎉

Congratulations on reaching five enthusiastic years on BookTube. Love that your favourite books are mostly buddy reads and the enjoyment of the buddy reads experience was a recurring theme! Quite a range of book styles there as well.

My worst books since starting booktube have been Flowers in the Attic (though I enjoyed discussing it with Alice) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man!

Congratulations on 5 years birthday Berna ❤🎉🎉❤Thank you for the shout out.

This was delightful.

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You know what's surprising when you meet booktubers?? They have legs!! 🤣

I love this tag! I’m going to do this soon. Wonderful video and here’s to your next five years! 🎉

Congrats on 5 years! Here's to many more!

Enjoying your celebration videos Berna. I am glad we connected on here, grateful for your friendship and I am very happy to be included in your list! I am nearly at my 4th anniversary on Booktube - it has flown by! So many booktubers make me laugh but mainly because we have so much fun together!

You are so lovely and I’m so grateful for you 💜💜

Congratulations Berna, I started my channel exactly 4 years ago on my birthday August 24. How wonderful we got to meet each other here when were so far away from each other. Aloha friend.

I love this so much sweetie. I love learning about books I would never have thought to try 😊

Berna, I think it’s so important to reflect and look back on our Booktube experiences. I try to remind myself what were my expectations when I started my channel? Have they changed and, if so, why? I’d rather have more conversation in the comments section so I can get to hear other thoughts and get to know people. I love this series! 💛

Happy Booktube anniversary! 🎉

Hi Berna, love this. You are so right, no one should be shamed for what they read or how they read. I did giggle at your attempt at click bait titles, good job you don’t do them. Take care x

Wooo 5 years!!! Way to go!!! I’m so proud of you!!!! 🎊

Hi Berna! I agree that life is too short to read books you are not enjoying. Your video title was actually enough bait for me to click and watch. Happy booktube birthday!

Yes Berna! Down with book shaming! I am also trying not to read anything that I am not interested in and I think we are of a similar age - life is too short!

Fun video! I love that you only read the books you want to regardless of popularity. I also appreciate your stance on not degrading readers. There’s room for many opinions on different books.

Love this and I would never judge anyone’s reading tastes or click bait

I really enjoyed your video, Berna. Very thoughtful! Happy BookTube Birthday too!

Interesting points, Booktube is just a hobby for me too. We all have different tastes and we shouldn't gatekeep.

Great video Berna! Hah, it's true, as we get older our perspectives on life do change and we see things somewhat differently from when we were younger :)

Happy 5th anniversary! I would definitely be interested in a video of your top five Turkish books translated into English - I think this is a great starting off point for English-language readers like myself who don't know a lot about Turkish literature. As a booktube viewer, Janelle was a favourite of mine too and is sadly missed.

Yay! Congrats on five years! 🌟

I love TJ Klune sooo much 😊I also found lex croucher who is amazing

What a fun way to look back at the past 5 years! Interesting to see the variety here, and sometimes it's hard to tell what will be so popular and other times it can be very clear. I would love to see more Top 5 videos about Turkish Authors and translated Turkish books. p.s My end of year 2020 videos also did quite well, I think a lot of us were home that year. That said, my most popular video is a book review that I read in anticipation of a film adaptation: The Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. It has twice the number as the next most popular. Wild!

Congrats on 5 years on Booktube! 🎉💛

Great video! Loved hearing these answers! 💛

My most popular video is my one for Alice but it’s a video I wish I never had to make 😢

I’m always so grateful for you joining booktube ❤❤ I love your book to screen adaptations

You know I love pride and prejudice sooo much 😊

I think it’s so cool that you read two plays for Jane Austen July. That actually sounds like a lot of fun. I’ll probably try both of them. Even though the one by AA Milne didn’t get as high a rating from you, I’m still intrigued to learn that he was fan. Thank you again for buddy reading with me, I really enjoyed it. 💜

What a mission to watch and compare all of these. 1995 is absolutely my favourite. I have seen them all except the 1967 although some have really faded from my memory.

I was intrigued about Miss Elizabeth Bennett. I am not sure I will seek it out as you were not that impressed.

I've enjoyed some Liane Moriarty novels but hadn't heard of that one. The Alienist was excellent. Voyager was great! I hope you're enjoying it so far - that might be my favorite in the series. I just finished book 4, Drums of Autumn, which was also great! Perfect for Big Book Summer! Enjoy your books in August!

Hope you enjoy your books!

I’ve been wanting to read The Alienist! Looks like you have some great picks for August. 😊

I did enjoy the hypnotist love story 😊

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I’ve added this to my wishlist. I was wondering if you thought I should start with this one or read The Silence or Sherazade first? I think they both sound good.