*Hello! Thanks for stopping by to chat about books/audiobooks, one of my very favourite subjects :) I hope you enjoy this catch-up - I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments! Don't forget my Serious Lights offer - this code gives you £100 off High Definition (HD) Lights + free delivery -* try.seriousreaders.com/pages/sr486/ *Chapters & links are all in the description box!* *Happy reading/listening!* *Ali xx* ✨
Great to hear about all the books you've been reading. I was watching whilst sitting on the sofa crocheting, with my cat (also a tabby) on my lap. After a while, she spotted Mia on the back of your sofa and seemed to be fascinated with her. She got up to be nearer the TV to watch her more carefully!
Thanks for all the book chat, Ali! I've been writing them down, as my book club and I have enjoyed many of your recommendations over the years! And I also like the feel of a page taped back into a book or notebook - we really need a word for that feeling once a book or notebook takes on that very satisfying, personalized used feeling... It's so good. On another note, when my daughters were teens, I found parenting books so helpful, too, and this isn't a recommendation - because I can't actually remember if it was one of the helpful books - but maybe you can relate to this title: "Get Out of My Life! But First, Can You Take Me and Cheryl to the Mall?" It made me laugh - and humour is such an amazing super power as a mother of teens 😅 along with self care - but also it made me realize I wasn't alone because someone out there had been having the same conversations with her daughter and survived to write the book! And it's so lovely to be reminded that we can get through the crazy hormone years (theirs and ours!) with those earlier relationships in tact - remember how sweet they were? 😅 - and there truly are much calmer seas ahead... I promise! Xo
It was interesting to hear you talk about the books you read. The genre of the books is so different from the books that read as I prefer to be able to relate to real life rather than imaginary life. 🇬🇧
It’s so interesting how they market things differently in different countries. The cover you have for Legends & Lattes looks so much more appealing than the cover I just looked up 😞
I watched Heartstopper with my 11 year old on tv & we both loved everything about it! She’s just borrowed the first 2 books from school & friends & whizzed through them - then asked for the full set & new volume 5 for Christmas. I think I’ll give them a read too 👍🏻 I’ve just finished Life Saving for Beginners after seeing it on your channel & I loved it! I live just outside Brighton so it was all familiar locations & the characters felt like friends - would definitely recommend 🎉
Love hearing about your reads, Ali...I am currently reading, The Reading List which you mentioned in one of your previous vlog. Your hair looks glossy and healthy and the way you do it suits you well. Have a nice weekend. ❤
I Loved Lessons in chemistry, so much so I purchased it on audible and I’m going to reread it with my husband, Charlie, on our car trip in January. Also loved Legends snd Lattes. My most current 5 star book is Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown Love your Book Wrap Ups. ❤️
Nice to see you ,,,Ali,,,,, Wish you well in UR recovery.,,,,Hoping things get better,,,, Wish I had the reading mojo,,,,Just can't get into anything lately,,, Just want to Knit,,,,,Guess that's something ,,,!!! Enjoyed UR chat ,,, Elaine 🍁🍁🏡
Love it when we see the complete differences amongst our children. I always describe myself as a slow learner as pre-kids we had 2 golden retrievers that we couldn’t call to come with same tone of voice. Then when we had our second (boy then girl) I thought I more or less understood parenting the early years. Oh no, was I ever wrong! Definitely two different beings 😅 and how wonderful they are. Oddly enough both took psychology (one science the other arts) as their first degrees and then each went on to do a second degrees in education and are teaching elementary school. Thanks for the books catch up. 📚
Thankyou so much for this book vlog, I do love reading, once I start its hard to stop. It’s just if I do stop reading for a while due to other family commitments I really struggle to get back reading but this vlog has given me the motivation to get back reading 😊📚
Oh I love Legends and Lattes, it's like a giant hug in a book! The second one Bookshops and Bonedust has just been released and I'm equally excited for that! Really enjoyed your book catch up!
Good to see the light back in your eyes! I’m too cheap to order audiobooks but do listen to a lot of podcasts. I’m keeping a list of all the books you are talking about. Hugs from Canada! (My daughter’s name is Ali!)
Hi Ali. I love hearing about what other people are reading and what they think about them. On your recommendation I have been listening to "The Maid" and am also thoroughly enjoying it. It is available here in Australia on Libby as well.
I have just finished this book also after your recommendation which I really enjoyed. Working in a hotel as a housekeeper the way the trolley was described at the start of her shift being well stocked is so satisfying lol
How nice to see you and Mia! Thanks for the book review, it's always helpful to get an opinion on a book. By the way, you look so pretty with your hair pulled back.
Always enjoy your book reviews! I’m on track to read 50 books this year and think I’m on 45 at the moment! Always love recommendations to note down. My very favourite in your list today was Lessons in Chemistry! 5 stars from me!
I love book catch ups. I have read Before the Coffee Gets Cold and the following Tales from the Cafe and Before Your Memory Fades. I liked all 3 but found the first to be my favorite. I loke the everyday blended with a bit of magic mystery.
I listened to Hex Appeal because of your mentions, and loved it for all the reasons you that liked it. I have also listened to Legends and Lattes and loved it as much. It is a feel good read about friendships and acceptance. I love your energy Ali, and hope you will be 100 percent soon.
Ooh fantastic vlog. Not read any of the ones you mention but I often follow your recommendations Ali so I’m looking forward to checking out some of these ❤
My friend has just had a book published called take me instead by Faye Stevenson worth a read and she has three more waiting to be published we ve been friends for48 years
Good vlog Ali interesting to hear your read I have read some of your past recommendations & really enjoyed but sadly don’t fancy any of these hey ho can’t hope to like all Cats & books blend together better than Dogs & Books ( dogs need a walk ) but I’m a dog lover & owner 🐾🐾🐾🐾
Thank you Ali, I have a rotten cold and this cheered me up no end. Also, we are going to see Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford and just found out Mathew Baynton from Ghosts is playing Bottom! Which also cheered me up 🥰
Really enjoyed this - I am following you on story graph and try to update it as I usually use Good Reads - most recent best read was The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn and current read is Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin which I’m really enjoying :-)
Still being stoic, Ali. Hope you feel completely better by the time you finish the antibiotics. The uggh factor will be worth it in the end. I am a crime aficianado, because it's a genre which actually encompasses absolutely everything, and the authors are so lovely! Am a member of a teeny book group ("Wine and Crime" - just me and my pals in the north of Scotland) and all the authors we have reached out to have been so generous, with book group discussion questions and other interactions. It has been truly heartwarming. My group are regular attenders at "Bloody Scotland", the crime fiction festival held in Stirling here in Scotland, every year, some of us online and some of us in person, and it has been a great place to hear new authors and strike up relationships with them, which has been great for us, and I hope helpful for the authors too. Good to hear you being critical as well as complimentary about what you have read - all part of the rich tapestry of reading. (Lorraine Candy was a former editor in chief of Cosmopolitan - thought I recognised the name!) And - I can't believe Mia is around 15 - she doesn't look it. :)
Sorry you have been feeling unwell! Im glad you are feeling better, but antibiotics make me feel like rubbish for ages! Glad you've got onto the heart stopper hype - you are officially a book tuber now :P Also I love that you had to work out your age, Ive been telling people for ages im 32 and my husband pointed out im actually 33. Im currently listening to hex and the city I am loving it but every time they mention too many calories I roll my eyes. I wish I could get the feels everyone else is getting about legends and lattes I just thought it was slow ...
Lynn here on Hubby's phone mines playing up 😏, Hi Ali hope your feeling better 🤞, I've been wanting to read The Heart Stopper books , butt do you thing it's weird for me at 58 to be reading them ? I just wanted to educate myself at what young people face in the twenty first century, I grew up in the late sixties Manley seventies, where the world was such a different place, looking back I feel some of the people I went to school with would have been really struggling with life you know 🤔☹️, but I never realize until not long back , let's hope books like this can make life easier for people , because what they say is true ( you only live once ) 😊Take Care Love xx ❤
Hi Ali, I read Lessons in Chemistry and really had to force myself to finish it. I didn’t enjoy it and now I’ve lost my reading mojo. 😮 I would like a light hearted Christmas read/audio…and suggestions or recommendations?
Hi Mia!! Hi Ali! I read Letters from Lighthouse Cottage as well - agree it was meh. I finished it (though I have to really hate a book to stop reading before the end). I am reading all sorts of random books that I get included with my Amazon Prime membership. Some god - others not so much, but the price I right!
Great vlog, I love your reading catch ups. I listened to Thrown and didn't overly enjoy it. Can I suggest that you give Such A Loving Couple by Hayley Smith a go? Legends and Lattes was one of my favourite books so far this year x
I read Sweetness at the Bottom o the Pie - seems to me it was geared toward a young adult audience so very uncool about the racist bit. Been a while since I read it, so I do not remember much about it, but will have to see whether it is repeated in the other books in the series.
You have read a lit of books coukd you send me a link to the book site you mention so i can follow you on there. And chat about books, i do like a mixture of genes from autobiography, H.G.Wells, thrillers some horror and pre history books about long lost ancient societies. Mark
*Hello! Thanks for stopping by to chat about books/audiobooks, one of my very favourite subjects :) I hope you enjoy this catch-up - I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments! Don't forget my Serious Lights offer - this code gives you £100 off High Definition (HD) Lights + free delivery -* try.seriousreaders.com/pages/sr486/
*Chapters & links are all in the description box!*
*Happy reading/listening!*
*Ali xx* ✨
Cats and books! Couldn’t be more perfect 💗 love your book blogs Ali and they could never be too long. Thanks as always
Great to hear about all the books you've been reading. I was watching whilst sitting on the sofa crocheting, with my cat (also a tabby) on my lap. After a while, she spotted Mia on the back of your sofa and seemed to be fascinated with her. She got up to be nearer the TV to watch her more carefully!
Thanks for all the book chat, Ali! I've been writing them down, as my book club and I have enjoyed many of your recommendations over the years! And I also like the feel of a page taped back into a book or notebook - we really need a word for that feeling once a book or notebook takes on that very satisfying, personalized used feeling... It's so good. On another note, when my daughters were teens, I found parenting books so helpful, too, and this isn't a recommendation - because I can't actually remember if it was one of the helpful books - but maybe you can relate to this title: "Get Out of My Life! But First, Can You Take Me and Cheryl to the Mall?" It made me laugh - and humour is such an amazing super power as a mother of teens 😅 along with self care - but also it made me realize I wasn't alone because someone out there had been having the same conversations with her daughter and survived to write the book! And it's so lovely to be reminded that we can get through the crazy hormone years (theirs and ours!) with those earlier relationships in tact - remember how sweet they were? 😅 - and there truly are much calmer seas ahead... I promise! Xo
It was interesting to hear you talk about the books you read. The genre of the books is so different from the books that read as I prefer to be able to relate to real life rather than imaginary life. 🇬🇧
Yep, cats love to Loaf, and it usually means they feel safe!
Glad you are feeling a good bit better. x
Mia doing anything undignified 😮! Never 😂 ❤. So lovely see see you, praying for wellness for you. Love & Hugs, Suze xxx📚📖
Even though she is not your cat, she’s precious, I just lost one of my beloved Kitties at 13 yrs. Very hard to say goodbye. Love Mia if only for me.
‘It’s not my cat’ makes me chuckle every time 😂👌
It’s so interesting how they market things differently in different countries. The cover you have for Legends & Lattes looks so much more appealing than the cover I just looked up 😞
I watched Heartstopper with my 11 year old on tv & we both loved everything about it! She’s just borrowed the first 2 books from school & friends & whizzed through them - then asked for the full set & new volume 5 for Christmas. I think I’ll give them a read too 👍🏻
I’ve just finished Life Saving for Beginners after seeing it on your channel & I loved it! I live just outside Brighton so it was all familiar locations & the characters felt like friends - would definitely recommend 🎉
I just can't get over the cat 😂bless
Love hearing about your reads, Ali...I am currently reading, The Reading List which you mentioned in one of your previous vlog. Your hair looks glossy and healthy and the way you do it suits you well. Have a nice weekend. ❤
I've heard that when cats get in the loaf position, their weight goes up 10X.
I Loved Lessons in chemistry, so much so I purchased it on audible and I’m going to reread it with my husband, Charlie, on our car trip in January.
Also loved Legends snd Lattes.
My most current 5 star book is Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
Love your Book Wrap Ups. ❤️
I always loving seeing Mia! Great catch up
Nice to see you ,,,Ali,,,,,
Wish you well in UR recovery.,,,,Hoping things get better,,,,
Wish I had the reading mojo,,,,Just can't get into anything lately,,,
Just want to Knit,,,,,Guess that's something ,,,!!!
Enjoyed UR chat ,,,
Elaine 🍁🍁🏡
Love it when we see the complete differences amongst our children. I always describe myself as a slow learner as pre-kids we had 2 golden retrievers that we couldn’t call to come with same tone of voice. Then when we had our second (boy then girl) I thought I more or less understood parenting the early years. Oh no, was I ever wrong! Definitely two different beings 😅 and how wonderful they are. Oddly enough both took psychology (one science the other arts) as their first degrees and then each went on to do a second degrees in education and are teaching elementary school. Thanks for the books catch up. 📚
Isn't it amazing how different they can be :) My eldest would spend all her money on books, my youngest on a designer t-shirt 😅xx
Yayyyy to have you back! Thanks, Ali 🍁📚🎈💕 I hope that 30% is in full swing soon 💚
Thankyou so much for this book vlog, I do love reading, once I start its hard to stop. It’s just if I do stop reading for a while due to other family commitments I really struggle to get back reading but this vlog has given me the motivation to get back reading 😊📚
I managed to find a second hand copy of Once upon a time.. :) £1.75 from BHF Looking forward to reading it..
So glad you enjoyed Mordicax! We can't wait for the next one either 😍
Oh I love Legends and Lattes, it's like a giant hug in a book! The second one Bookshops and Bonedust has just been released and I'm equally excited for that! Really enjoyed your book catch up!
She's not your cat, but you are her person 😂. Antibiotics make me feel awful too 💔 hope you're recovering well by now. Loved this xx
Thanks for the reviews and recomendations! I've been re-listening to miss fisher books, which are a great light read for spring-summer
Great wrap up and I’m so happy you’re enjoying the bookmarks! 💛
Haha! Thank you!! 😊 I smile every time I use those bookmarks!
Good to see the light back in your eyes! I’m too cheap to order audiobooks but do listen to a lot of podcasts. I’m keeping a list of all the books you are talking about. Hugs from Canada! (My daughter’s name is Ali!)
I love your videos when you post you make me so happy ❤
Hi Ali. I love hearing about what other people are reading and what they think about them. On your recommendation I have been listening to "The Maid" and am also thoroughly enjoying it. It is available here in Australia on Libby as well.
I have just finished this book also after your recommendation which I really enjoyed. Working in a hotel
as a housekeeper the way the trolley was described at the start of her shift being well stocked is so satisfying lol
I bought my first Serious Readers light in 2017 and my second arrived today with your discount: they are wonderful and worth every penny. 💜
How nice to see you and Mia! Thanks for the book review, it's always helpful to get an opinion on a book.
By the way, you look so pretty with your hair pulled back.
Always enjoy your book reviews! I’m on track to read 50 books this year and think I’m on 45 at the moment! Always love recommendations to note down. My very favourite in your list today was Lessons in Chemistry! 5 stars from me!
LOVED Maid! Thanks for the recommendation!
I love book catch ups. I have read Before the Coffee Gets Cold and the following Tales from the Cafe and Before Your Memory Fades. I liked all 3 but found the first to be my favorite. I loke the everyday blended with a bit of magic mystery.
So glad to see your vlog today, nice surprise! Hope all are doing well!
I listened to Hex Appeal because of your mentions, and loved it for all the reasons you that liked it. I have also listened to Legends and Lattes and loved it as much. It is a feel good read about friendships and acceptance. I love your energy Ali, and hope you will be 100 percent soon.
Ooh fantastic vlog. Not read any of the ones you mention but I often follow your recommendations Ali so I’m looking forward to checking out some of these ❤
My friend has just had a book published called take me instead by Faye Stevenson worth a read and she has three more waiting to be published we ve been friends for48 years
Good vlog Ali interesting to hear your read I have read some of your past recommendations & really enjoyed
but sadly don’t fancy any of these hey ho can’t hope to like all
Cats & books blend together better than Dogs & Books ( dogs need a walk ) but I’m a dog lover & owner 🐾🐾🐾🐾
Thank you Ali, I have a rotten cold and this cheered me up no end. Also, we are going to see Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford and just found out Mathew Baynton from Ghosts is playing Bottom! Which also cheered me up 🥰
Really enjoyed this - I am following you on story graph and try to update it as I usually use Good Reads - most recent best read was The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn and current read is Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin which I’m really enjoying :-)
Weren’t you reading a book about a maid? I was hoping to hear the title so I can put it on my ‘to read’ list!
I did! And I loved it - I popped a note on the screen as I totally left it out 😅 It was The Maid by Nita Prose - it was a great listen!
Still being stoic, Ali. Hope you feel completely better by the time you finish the antibiotics. The uggh factor will be worth it in the end.
I am a crime aficianado, because it's a genre which actually encompasses absolutely everything, and the authors are so lovely! Am a member of a teeny book group ("Wine and Crime" - just me and my pals in the north of Scotland) and all the authors we have reached out to have been so generous, with book group discussion questions and other interactions. It has been truly heartwarming.
My group are regular attenders at "Bloody Scotland", the crime fiction festival held in Stirling here in Scotland, every year, some of us online and some of us in person, and it has been a great place to hear new authors and strike up relationships with them, which has been great for us, and I hope helpful for the authors too.
Good to hear you being critical as well as complimentary about what you have read - all part of the rich tapestry of reading.
(Lorraine Candy was a former editor in chief of Cosmopolitan - thought I recognised the name!)
And - I can't believe Mia is around 15 - she doesn't look it. :)
"Wine and Crime" is such a perfect book group name! Love it! What a wonderful community to be part of 📚
Love the book vlogs Alibobs x🥰
Your hair looks lovely. Shiny
Sorry you have been feeling unwell! Im glad you are feeling better, but antibiotics make me feel like rubbish for ages! Glad you've got onto the heart stopper hype - you are officially a book tuber now :P Also I love that you had to work out your age, Ive been telling people for ages im 32 and my husband pointed out im actually 33. Im currently listening to hex and the city I am loving it but every time they mention too many calories I roll my eyes. I wish I could get the feels everyone else is getting about legends and lattes I just thought it was slow ...
Lynn here on Hubby's phone mines playing up 😏, Hi Ali hope your feeling better 🤞, I've been wanting to read The Heart Stopper books , butt do you thing it's weird for me at 58 to be reading them ? I just wanted to educate myself at what young people face in the twenty first century, I grew up in the late sixties Manley seventies, where the world was such a different place, looking back I feel some of the people I went to school with would have been really struggling with life you know 🤔☹️, but I never realize until not long back , let's hope books like this can make life easier for people , because what they say is true ( you only live once ) 😊Take Care Love xx ❤
Enjoyed The Maid of Linden Hall and can recommend The Book of Lost Names. Both audio books.
Ah thank you so much Ellen! xx
I just realized you didn’t talk about “ The Maid” I’m just starting that book
I'm buying this for the "Secret Santa" for one of my book group - for recirculation through the group once they have finished with it. :)
You're right! I left it out by mistake - it was The Maid by Nita Prose and I listened to it on audio. I really enjoyed it!
Hi Ali, I read Lessons in Chemistry and really had to force myself to finish it. I didn’t enjoy it and now I’ve lost my reading mojo. 😮
I would like a light hearted Christmas read/audio…and suggestions or recommendations?
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support Sandra, you are so kind ❤️xx
At 46 l think you are ‘slap bang’ at the beginning of mid-life!😂
Hi Mia!! Hi Ali! I read Letters from Lighthouse Cottage as well - agree it was meh. I finished it (though I have to really hate a book to stop reading before the end). I am reading all sorts of random books that I get included with my Amazon Prime membership. Some god - others not so much, but the price I right!
Great vlog, I love your reading catch ups. I listened to Thrown and didn't overly enjoy it. Can I suggest that you give Such A Loving Couple by Hayley Smith a go? Legends and Lattes was one of my favourite books so far this year x
Thanks for the recommendation, just listened to the sample and love the narration so that's on my Audible to read list! x
@@ThisLittleWonderfulLife I think you will enjoy it x
❤ 📚
I read Sweetness at the Bottom o the Pie - seems to me it was geared toward a young adult audience so very uncool about the racist bit. Been a while since I read it, so I do not remember much about it, but will have to see whether it is repeated in the other books in the series.
You have read a lit of books coukd you send me a link to the book site you mention so i can follow you on there. And chat about books, i do like a mixture of genes from autobiography, H.G.Wells, thrillers some horror and pre history books about long lost ancient societies. Mark