Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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In which I discuss how Booktube has influenced my reading and answer Claudia's thought provoking question: "What’s a book that you ended up loving that you wouldn’t have picked up if not for Booktube?"

BOOKTUBERS MENTIONED:
-Claudia from Spinster's Library: youtube.com/channel/UCzccJ52d8ACSM2nRqkRxT7w
-Katie from Books and Things: youtube.com/user/thesilverscribe
-Jean BookishThoughts: youtube.com/user/BookishThoughts
-Kate Howe: youtube.com/channel/UCgcjcyByhekqVpU6cKriX5w
-Acacia Ives: youtube.com/channel/UCApr3fa3mU68BQc-869liIg

RELATED VIDEOS:
- My Wives & Daughters Video: youtube.com/watch?v=UsnwhYk-K1U&t=3s
-My Station Eleven Review Video: youtube.com/watch?v=7LsXQIyr3No&t=96s
-My Mermaid & Mrs. Hancock Video: youtube.com/watch?v=UEYi4UAa6JE&t=2s
-Acacia's The Clay Girl Review Video: youtube.com/watch?v=fjdVToCfhPQ

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED:
-Diane Setterfield
-Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
-The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett (specifically mentioned: Guards, Guards!)
-Elizabeth Gaskell: North & South, Wives & Daughters, Mary Barton, Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, Cranford, The Moorland Cottage, Christmas Storms and Sunshine, Lois The Witch
-Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, The ABC Murders, Murder at the Vicarage
-The Mermaid & Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
-We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
-The Clay Girl by Heather Tucker

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