Get well soon Laura’s haircut and looking good Rossi! Wait, that’s not right is it?! 😀 For reading slumps I like to pick up books I’ve already read. They don’t challenge too much and I know I’ll enjoy them. My favourites to re-read are The Culture novels by the late, great Iain M Banks. Proper feel good, optimistic sci-fi with cool space stuff 😎
Apparently it’s changing genre for me. I usually read classics but was totally stressed and couldn’t concentrate for a few reasons so I started reading Assassin’s Apprentice to get out of a slump. I’m absolutely smitten. My husband is on the last of the whole series now because I made him start reading them. And I’m on the last series myself. Or I read a book I’ve been seriously meaning to read for a long time. I now have to read Children of Time and Mistborn. And Sword of Kaigen. Etc etc etc. 😂 my tbr is sooo long!! ✌🏻🥰 And your hair is gorgeous!! Update- Ahhh!! Laura!!! Assassin’s Apprentice!!! Yesss!! 16 novels and 1 novella. Worth every single page! ❤️❤️❤️
I haven’t read Children of Time, but your description reminded me immediately of A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge, 1999), a long novel which also features a race of intelligent spider-like creatures-described mostly from their own point of view, and thus rather sympathetically. There are also two distinct groups of humans, one of which contains the baddies of the story; the spiders are good by comparison. It’s a standalone novel-set in the same universe as A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), but in a completely different time and place. Won the Hugo Award, nominated for the Nebula.
Laura, you are looking stunning! Ross(ie?), get better soon 😉Great video! Love the diversity of all the books! That copy of time war also looks very interesting. Is it just split in two or is each book dedicated to one of the two agents?
❤❤❤ novellas! The best slump busters for me have been “quick wins” like Murderbot. Most recently the lovely dystopian sci-fi We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep by Andrew Kelly Stewart. Authors seem so much more careful and artful with their language in novellas, every word has to count.
I wish that you'd posted a list. I'm not up for the gabfest today although I'm ceratin many enjoy it. Already missed several titles and can't see the book when you're waving it around LOL.
Cheeky of us to expect people to watch the video ;) But point taken about the waving of the books. Hopefully the comments we included underneath mitigated that a bit.
These are also useful not just for slumps but to get some momentum. Like going into a vacation where you want to read a lot. A Psalm For the Wild Built is extremely different, and fun. Good vibes. Just read All Systems Red and it was so fun. Mistborn really did get me back into fantasy as an adult. And it still holds up. Hard to beat a heist setup!
It may be significant that I’ve already read all the books in your Cosy category, except for This Is How You Lose the Time War, which perhaps I should try… As for the others, I first read LOTR when I was 14, and I reread it periodically, although I’m not one of its most devoted fans. Not long ago I tried Mistborn and Assassin’s Apprentice, and finished both, but didn't really take to them and don’t plan to continue those series. Not cosy enough for me. I want books that make me more rather than less cheerful. Happy endings! Depressing books are masochism, like taking a holiday in a place that’s cold and wet. Sorry, Laura, I’m not a hair critic: your hair looks fine to me before and after. (Yes, I still have hair myself, but it gets a little greyer every year.)
@@hardysbooks I’ve been living in Spain for the last 27 years, and most of my holidays these days are in other parts of Spain. I did take a holiday in Scotland in 2019, but that was chosen by my Spanish wife…
Holly by Stephen King has been on the TBR for awhile. I just want to read The Outsiders first and then reread If It Bleeds and also finish the book I'm reading...and maybe also a few other books, I don't know.
I’ve just realized that I bought Leviathan Wakes in 2017, but the beginning failed to appeal and I put it aside. I suppose I should give it another try sometime.
It takes a while for the writing to settle in, felt like the authors were finding their feet with the first book. Great story though, and it only gets better. Took me a while to get into it but definitely worth picking up again and sticking with.
8:05 Arachnophobe here. I somehow didn’t know the spider part of the premise in Children of time. I ended up really enjoying it. IRL spider relations remain tenuous.
Get well soon Laura’s haircut and looking good Rossi! Wait, that’s not right is it?! 😀 For reading slumps I like to pick up books I’ve already read. They don’t challenge too much and I know I’ll enjoy them. My favourites to re-read are The Culture novels by the late, great Iain M Banks. Proper feel good, optimistic sci-fi with cool space stuff 😎
Hail Mary did the trick for me. Something happens, then another thing, then another thing etc.
Apparently it’s changing genre for me. I usually read classics but was totally stressed and couldn’t concentrate for a few reasons so I started reading Assassin’s Apprentice to get out of a slump. I’m absolutely smitten. My husband is on the last of the whole series now because I made him start reading them. And I’m on the last series myself.
Or I read a book I’ve been seriously meaning to read for a long time.
I now have to read Children of Time and Mistborn. And Sword of Kaigen. Etc etc etc. 😂 my tbr is sooo long!!
✌🏻🥰
And your hair is gorgeous!!
Update- Ahhh!! Laura!!! Assassin’s Apprentice!!! Yesss!!
16 novels and 1 novella. Worth every single page! ❤️❤️❤️
Hahahaha what a wonderful comment! This was a journey ❤️❤️ enjoy finishing The Realm of the Elderlings! It’s bittersweet, but beautiful.
I love the hair cut and hope you feel better soon! Once again I am adding more books to my TBR 😂📚
Thank you!! 😊❤️
I noticed those elegant layers instantly !!! What a lift!!!
Thank you!!!! ❤️❤️
I haven’t read Children of Time, but your description reminded me immediately of A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge, 1999), a long novel which also features a race of intelligent spider-like creatures-described mostly from their own point of view, and thus rather sympathetically. There are also two distinct groups of humans, one of which contains the baddies of the story; the spiders are good by comparison. It’s a standalone novel-set in the same universe as A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), but in a completely different time and place. Won the Hugo Award, nominated for the Nebula.
Laura, you are looking stunning! Ross(ie?), get better soon 😉Great video! Love the diversity of all the books!
That copy of time war also looks very interesting. Is it just split in two or is each book dedicated to one of the two agents?
I believe it's actually just two copies of the book! Illumicrate did it, but we found it in a charity shop
DCC! I second Murderbot too
I also watched Columbo as a kid with my mum. Columbo and Murder She Wrote and the piece de resistance Diagnosis Murder with Dick Van Dyke
The Triumvirate
❤❤❤ novellas! The best slump busters for me have been “quick wins” like Murderbot. Most recently the lovely dystopian sci-fi We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep by Andrew Kelly Stewart. Authors seem so much more careful and artful with their language in novellas, every word has to count.
I wish that you'd posted a list. I'm not up for the gabfest today although I'm ceratin many enjoy it. Already missed several titles and can't see the book when you're waving it around LOL.
Cheeky of us to expect people to watch the video ;) But point taken about the waving of the books. Hopefully the comments we included underneath mitigated that a bit.
@@hardysbooks thank you😅
These are also useful not just for slumps but to get some momentum. Like going into a vacation where you want to read a lot.
A Psalm For the Wild Built is extremely different, and fun. Good vibes.
Just read All Systems Red and it was so fun.
Mistborn really did get me back into fantasy as an adult. And it still holds up. Hard to beat a heist setup!
💯!
I loved The Martian and was surprised how captivated I was by the science and math in the story. Hiughly recommend!
It may be significant that I’ve already read all the books in your Cosy category, except for This Is How You Lose the Time War, which perhaps I should try…
As for the others, I first read LOTR when I was 14, and I reread it periodically, although I’m not one of its most devoted fans. Not long ago I tried Mistborn and Assassin’s Apprentice, and finished both, but didn't really take to them and don’t plan to continue those series. Not cosy enough for me.
I want books that make me more rather than less cheerful. Happy endings! Depressing books are masochism, like taking a holiday in a place that’s cold and wet.
Sorry, Laura, I’m not a hair critic: your hair looks fine to me before and after. (Yes, I still have hair myself, but it gets a little greyer every year.)
I look forward to your comments every week Jonathan and they never disappoint!
(Funnily enough, our last two holidays have been to Scotland and Cornwall- that tracks with your depressing book theory!)
@@hardysbooks I’ve been living in Spain for the last 27 years, and most of my holidays these days are in other parts of Spain. I did take a holiday in Scotland in 2019, but that was chosen by my Spanish wife…
Holly by Stephen King has been on the TBR for awhile. I just want to read The Outsiders first and then reread If It Bleeds and also finish the book I'm reading...and maybe also a few other books, I don't know.
Reread! Always my top choice.
I’ve just realized that I bought Leviathan Wakes in 2017, but the beginning failed to appeal and I put it aside. I suppose I should give it another try sometime.
It takes a while for the writing to settle in, felt like the authors were finding their feet with the first book. Great story though, and it only gets better. Took me a while to get into it but definitely worth picking up again and sticking with.
Legends and Lattes was meeeeee!
8:05 Arachnophobe here. I somehow didn’t know the spider part of the premise in Children of time. I ended up really enjoying it. IRL spider relations remain tenuous.
Upvote for the Children of Time 🙌 however, i tried to continue that series, but the second book the Children of Ruin put me on a reading slump 😂
Also, I definitely recommend The Expanse series! So so good
Nice haircut Laura ! 🤩
I love how the "fast-paced engrossing thrillers" section have just 1 THRILLER.....😂😂
😂 yes okay fair point
Nice haircut rossy!
Nice haircut Laura 😊
So I’m an arachnophobic and I read a smut book with a spider creature and I wasn’t scared. I was terrified when I read cirque de freak though 😂
Top 10 Smut books when?
Smut… spiders… nope! 😱
@@hardysbooks hahaha
Looking stunning Laura !
I’ve read every book except Holly!
Thank you
Aw you guys ❤
Guards Guards!
0:00 wow lovely hair
19:02 nice hair Laura get well soon Ross