Time Stamps 1:10 Recent Reads 13:00 Booker rankings 19:00 Straya September TBR 26:11 Shorty September TBR
Recent Reads mentioned: All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In by Kieran Yates Gwen & Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher All The Little Bird Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd Barlow Prophet Song by Paul Lynch The Beesting by Paul Murray
TBR Books: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore Where The Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld Flames, Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott Chai Time at Cinnamon Garden by Shankari Chandran All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories by Trent Dalton But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu Limbic by Peter Scapello Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne Tales of The City by Armistead Maupin Sonnets For Albert by Anthony Joseph Eleven by Tom Rodgers Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Girls Of Slender Means By Ash, Oak and Thorn by Melissa Harrison Tamarind & The Star of Ishta by Jasbinder Bilan S by Slavenka Drakulic
Time Stamps 1:10 Recent Reads 13:00 Booker rankings 19:00 Straya September TBR 26:11 Shorty September TBR
Recent Reads mentioned: All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In by Kieran Yates Gwen & Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher All The Little Bird Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd Barlow Prophet Song by Paul Lynch The Beesting by Paul Murray
TBR Books: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore Where The Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld Flames, Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott Chai Time at Cinnamon Garden by Shankari Chandran All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories by Trent Dalton But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu Limbic by Peter Scapello Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne Tales of The City by Armistead Maupin Sonnets For Albert by Anthony Joseph Eleven by Tom Rodgers Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Girls Of Slender Means By Ash, Oak and Thorn by Melissa Harrison Tamarind & The Star of Ishta by Jasbinder Bilan S by Slavenka DrakulicBooks for the Autumn | feat @CharlesHeathcoteCharlie Brook Reads2024-10-09 | The Charlie’s are back!! Myself & Charlie love Autumn so wanted to share some books we want to read during this cosy reading season!! 🍁 🍂At the end we choose a book for each other to read from those lists!! Classics, Dragons & Middlegrade much more 🐉📚❤️
Do you have an Autumnal book recommendations? Which books do you think we need to prioritise? Let us know in the comments below!!
We filmed another vid over on @CharlesHeathcote Check it out: The Victorian Literature Tag
*I forgot to mention the group read which is The Doctor’s Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialised Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Also mentioned: @GemofBooks @spreadbookjoy @CharlesHeathcote @ChattieTheMadChatter @benreadsgood
Time stamp: Gothtober 17.02
Books mentioned: The Rector by Margaret Oliphant Dracula by Bram Stoker Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde A Study In Scarlet by Sit Arthur Conan Doyle The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Slow Horses by Mick Herron Another Country by James Baldwin Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell Deathnote Vol 5 by Tsugumi OhbaRecent Reads | Sept 24Charlie Brook Reads2024-09-24 | Books I have read recently and me telling you my opinions on them!!
Books mentioned: Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Byron Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood The Walnut Tree by Kate Morgan Guards Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett People from my neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawasaki translated by Ted Goosen Cecilia by K Ming Chang The Deep by Rivers Solomon Moses Ascending by Sam Selvon Global by Eoin Colfer The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers The Safe Keep by Yael van der Wouden The Night In Question by Susan Fletcher
#wrapupBooker Shortlist Reaction with @GemofBooksCharlie Brook Reads2024-09-18 | Join myself and Gem as we chat through our thoughts on the Booker Prize 2024 shortlist!!Sept TBR | Shorty September & Straya SeptemberCharlie Brook Reads2024-08-22 | September is all about the Shortys and reading Aussie books. These are all the books I could read in September!! Let’s face it this is definitely more ideas than plans but hopefully some of these will help you guys❤️
Are you joining in Shorty September or Straya September? Let me know in the comments below!!
Also mentioned: @GemofBooks @spreadbookjoy @InkandPaperBlog
Books mentioned: Mr Norris changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood One punch man illustrated by Yusuke Murata Moses Ascending by Sam Selvon Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh Cecilia by K-Ming Chang Let Me Tell You This by Nadine Aisha Jassat Body Friend by Katherine Brabon Cheri by Jo Ann Beard The Deep by Rivers Solomon The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Guards Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett Global by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin Th Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie The Fish Girl by Miranda Riwoe Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss Edenglassie by Melissa Luchashenko Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran Sipsworth b Simon Van Booy Gunflower by Laura Jean Mckay The Breath of a Whale by Leigh Calvez
Get upto 30% off & treat yourself to some beautiful Ana Luisa jewellery !: shop.analuisa.com/yt-charliebrook #analuisanyLet’s Plod & chat ❤️| Booker editCharlie Brook Reads2024-08-21 | @GemofBooks & @benreadsgood chat all things Booker with me and we also Plod together too❤️I hate reading!! | My relationship with reading at the moment...Charlie Brook Reads2024-08-15 | *I don't actually hate reading, this is just a rambly video talking through my feelings about my relationship with it at the moment.
When I feel stressed etc my ability to read goes. Are you like this too? You aren’t alone.❤️Sending love to anyone that needs it as always. Charlie x
Let’s normalise not always wanting to read and also normalise sometimes finding reading hard. These are valid parts of our community too.
In today's video I read some Booker books, take you out with me & just do some of the things I love with my favourite people. ❤️Let me know some of your favourite things in the comments below!!
Gone but not forgotten I know you were there with us @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf ❤️Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag | 2024Charlie Brook Reads2024-07-22 | Some of my favourite books ranging from a classic, some non fiction, middle grade, an exciting new release & some books that made me very frustrated!!
Books mentioned: Shadows At Noon by Joya Chatterji Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia Far From The Madding Crowd There Are More Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst by Katie Lumsden Strangers by Taichi Yamada translated by Wayne P. Lammers A Girlhood by Carolyn Hayes Thunderclap by Laura Cumming Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah Frostheart 3 by Jamie Littler Brotherless Night by V.V Ganeshananthan How We Met by Huma Qureshi
Channels mentioned: @booksandbargains : *Its Charlotte’s birthday so Happy Birthday lovely 🥳Go send her some ❤️
@CharlesHeathcote
@katiejlumsden Watch Katie read chapter 1 from her new book:
youtu.be/IeSRPQ2t4RE?si=CmKYiRPHSmvLEd1OMy friend Alice 💔 #ploddersforeverCharlie Brook Reads2024-07-02 | As many of you know my lovely friend @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf recently died. This video is just me crying mostly, chatting and remembering bits. I don’t make any sense and there is so much I forgot to say. Like about Alice loved Demon Copperhead (actually the three of us did myself & Gem). How she gave me Fight Night by Miriam Toews a couple years ago for my bday and I loved it. I read Five Little Pigs this year and gave it 5⭐️.
I could probably do a whole video about books that Alice influenced me. Tell me in the comments your favourite Alice books as I would love to hear about them.
Sending love and hugs to anyone that needs it esp to Alice’s family Jim, Jane, Mark & Freddie and of course little Harry 🐾❤️
Thank you to each and everyone that has reached out to me. You guys are just the best. ❤️
Thank you to all you lovely lot for being patient with my lack of regular videos. There will be reading vlog up soon with some explanation.
Hope you guys are all well. I am looking forward to having a natter in the comments. ☺️Women’s Prize Plodalong ft @GunpowderFictionPlot & @charlottemolloyCharlie Brook Reads2024-05-05 | ...Womens Prize Fiction Shortlist Predictions | 2024 #womensprizeCharlie Brook Reads2024-04-22 | The @WomensPrizeforFiction shortlist gets announced Weds 24th at 8am BST. Here's my thoughts on what i have read so far, my wishlist AND my predictions. Will any of them be right? We shall see!!!
Which books did you love?Which ones are you desperate to see get shortlisted? Let me know in the comments below!
Join myself @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf and @GemofBooks Weds night at 8pm GMT to chat about the shortlist. We cant wait to hear all your thoughts!
youtu.be/-nGEgGeqQ2M?si=z3Yd5mbv1sgkI23KWomen’s Prize Plodalong ft @benreadsgood & @jenniferlovesbooksCharlie Brook Reads2024-04-08 | This is the one where the guests get REVENGE!! See what chaos ensues when the terrible twosome aka Ben & Jen turn the tables on us hosts. Plus we chat about the Womens Prize and favourite recents reads etc too❤️ NOT one to be missed!!Poetry Readathon announcement | 2024 #poetryreadathon2024Charlie Brook Reads2024-04-05 | It’s National Poetry Month so join us 22nd - 28th April for the #poetryreadathon2024 !! A readathon where myself @CharlesHeathcote will be encouraging you to pick up some poetry for the week!!
I hope lots of you will join us!! ❤️
Prompts below: 1) Read a poetry collection 2) Prize winner 3) Read a sonnet 4) Nature 5) Watch a poet 6) Try something new 7) Pre 1950 8) Modern 9) Free space: pick a collection by whim, practice self care, write a poem etc etc
youtu.be/Ex0c0RWl-oM?si=lrreQ6NaEMneHUEWWomens Prize Shortlist Predictions | Non fiction 2024Charlie Brook Reads2024-03-26 | The @WomensPrizeforFiction non fiction shortlist gets announced tomorrow (27th March ) at 6pm GMT. Here I chat through the longlisted books that I have read and both my wishlist and my predictions for the shortlist.
Have you read any from the longlist? Which ones are your favourites? Which ones do want to see get shortlisted? Let me know in the comments!!
Join the Plodalong crew as myself @GemofBooks & @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf react to the shortlist at 8pm tomorrow (27th March) ❤️
Also mentioned @louisesavidgemuses4135Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist: Plodalong Live ReactionCharlie Brook Reads2024-03-06 | ...Booktubers take on London | March 2024Charlie Brook Reads2024-03-04 | The lovely @katiejlumsden organised a Booktuber meet up. I chat about meeting everyone in London, the books I bought and photos and clips from the day.
Books mentioned: The Middle Daughter by Chike Unigwe The Lagos Wife by Vanessa Walters Intervals by Marianne Brooker Remember Remember Elle Mackray Moses Ascending by Sam Selvon Nuclear Family by Kate Davis Siblings by Brigitte ReimannWomen’s Prize Fiction Predictions!! | 2024 #womensprizeCharlie Brook Reads2024-02-22 | The @WomensPrizeforFiction longlist is being announced 5th March. This video is my predictions for this list!!
Channels mentioned: @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf
Plodalong Sun 25th February @3pm GMT on Alice’s channel
Books mentioned: The Fraud by Zadie Smith Julia by Sandra Newman The Wren The Wren by Anne Enright Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein Come & Get It by Kiley Reid Land Of Milk & Honey by C Pam Zhang The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy The Story Of The Forest by By Linda Grant Mrs Gulliver by Valerie Martin Evil Eye by Etaf Rum The Museum Of Failures by Thrity Umrigar Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor Hidden Fires by Sairesh Hussain Playing Games by Huma Quereshi Bird Life By Anna SmailWomens Prize Non-fiction predictions!! | 2024Charlie Brook Reads2024-02-07 | This year for the first time ever the @WomensPrizeforFiction hosting a Non-fiction prize in addition to their usual prize for fiction.
The dates: Longlist announcement : 15th February Shortlist: 27th March Winner: 13th June
Join myself, @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf over on @GemofBooks at 6pm GMT on Friday 16th February as we react to the longlist. We look forward to catching up with you all too ❤️
Books mentioned: All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In by Kieran Yates Hungry by Grace Dent How To Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair Some of Us Just Fall by Polly Atkin Good Girls by Tessa Hadley Rural by Rebecca Smith What’s In A Name by Sheela Banerjee The Unfamiliar by Kirsty Logan The Walnut Tree by Kate Morgan The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read by Phillipa Perry Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard Normal Women by Philippa Gregory Divine Might by Natalie HaynesReading Goals Reflect & Reset 2023-2024Charlie Brook Reads2024-02-02 | Chatting about my bookish goals from last year and what I have chosen to focus on in 2024.
It’s a good video to watch if you want to hear about my reading taste and also a few reading challenges that I am participating in this year!!
instagram.com/listenwithaudrey?igsh=enBkaWIwMDRpbmg2Best Books 2023Charlie Brook Reads2024-01-15 | Am I wearing the same outfit as in my book haul? Yes yes. Just me chatting about 11 of the books I LOVED the most from 2023 …. Well kinda as the first two books I don’t mention the plot… whoops … give me a bit of time to warm up 😝❤️
What were the favourites you read last year? Let me know.
@shawnbreathesbooks is brilliant and chats with the equally brilliant Elvin James Mensah here:
Also mentioned: @spreadbookjoy @novellenovelsChristmas Book Haul & catch up #bookhaul #booktubeCharlie Brook Reads2024-01-05 | Book Haul time!! Let me know what you guys got for Christmas too as I would love to know.
Books mentioned: Influential by Amara Sage Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Doctor Who Resurrection Casket Hungry by Grace Dent I am a Cat Barrister by Hiro Maijima The Soul of A Women by Isabel Allende The Three Of Us by Ore Agbaje-Williams We All Want impossible Things by Catherine Newman The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohammed Playing Games by Hima Qureshi Bad Cree by Jessica Johns Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carrol Darling by India Knight The Love Songs of Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce The Eyre Affair by by Jasper Fforde Hungry Ghost by Kevin Jared Hosseni Fayne by Ann Marie MacDonald Come as You Are by Emily NagoskiChristmas Book Recs & 2024 Reading Plans | Christmas Cracker Week 3Charlie Brook Reads2023-12-15 | Join myself & @CharlesHeathcote for week 3 of our Christmas cracker; terrible jokes, Christmas book recommendations, 2024 reading plans, a giveaway & a Christmas quiz question.
Books mentioned; To be filled in shortly ❤️Hot or Not Christmas Movie edit 🎄| Christmas Cracker Week 2Charlie Brook Reads2023-12-08 | Jokes, Christmas movie chats, quiz questions & a giveaway!! Feat @CharlesHeathcote
What are your favourite Christmas movies? Let us know in the comments!!
1st ever John Lewis ad youtu.be/pWlmMhGvH-c?si=hy30sdj3jpfTqeiIPast and Future Readathon 2024 #pastandfuturereadathonCharlie Brook Reads2023-12-06 | This is a super relaxed readathon running throughout January in order to help clear some of the books sitting on your shelves. We will also be running Reading sprints which I will post about on the community tab. I hope lots of you can join us ☺️❤️
Past: 1 Read the Oldest Book on your TBR 2 Old Favourite: Reread an old favourite or read a book by a favourite author 3 Bucket List : Read a book from your Bucket List or that you’ve always meant to get to!
Future 1 New Addition: Read a Recent addition to the TBR/your newest book 2 New Year’s Resolution: Read a book that gets you off to a good start with a reading goal. 3 Try Something New: Pick a Read Using a Colour Wheel
Either/or 1. Series Sort Out: Continue a series, or start a new one. 2. Book Buddy: Have a friend choose your book!
Moody Monday: Mood read pick, any Monday of the month!
We will also be hosting reading sprints throughout Jan too so look out on the community tab for more details on that ☺️Doctor Who | A Book For Every DoctorCharlie Brook Reads2023-11-29 | I read an article from Pan Macmillan recommending a book for every incarnation of the Doctor. This video is me chatting through that article and my thoughts on the books included.
For more recommendations by Pan MacMillan check out @BookBreak
Books mentioned: Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Trust by Hernan Diaz A Very Short History of Life on Earth by Henry Gee Went to Land Took The Dog by Nina Stibbe Life, The Universe & Everything by Douglas Adams The Cat Who Solved Three Murders by L.T Shearer Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel The War Doctor by David Nott I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramonte Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis The War of The Worlds by H.G Wells She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker Chan How Not To Age by Micheal Greger
#booktube #books #drwho #doctorwhoCatch-up: Dr Who, Music, Body swapping, Christmas & more | Charlie & CharlieCharlie Brook Reads2023-11-12 | The Charlie’s are back and we are just discussing about what we are watching, what music we are listening to and plans ahead etc. Just the general Charlie n Charlie natter, putting the world to rights as always!!
poetrybookshop.co.ukVlogtober week 3: Birthday, bookshops & time with EmCharlie Brook Reads2023-10-22 | My birthday, some bookshops, lush and having time with my big sister.
Some of the books mentioned: Love from The Pink Palace by Jill Nalder Shepherds Delight by Charles Heathcote Let The Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay The Happy Prince & Other Stories by Oscar WildeVlogtober Week 2: Classics, Odney & The VyneCharlie Brook Reads2023-10-15 | Started the week slowly tucked up reading and baking then ended it by visiting some pretty places.
Books mentioned: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Deathnote by Tsugumi Ohba The Happy Princes & Other Stories by Oscar Wilde Charley’s Aunt by Brandon ThomasVlogtober Week 1 | Henley, Friends & a lot of tea!! 🫖Charlie Brook Reads2023-10-08 | Henley, Friends, Autumn & all a whole lot of TEA!!
I am vlogging throughout October. What have you guys been up to? Let me know in the comments below.
I will be live on Olivia’s channel Thurs 12th Oct at 6.45 pm with @ameliabarlowbooks . Hope lots of you can join us!!
Books mentioned: Booklove by Debbie Tung The Vegetarian by Han Kan The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng The Tea Dragon Society by K’O Neil Learned by Heart by Emma DonoghueSecrets Q & A with Katie LumsdenCharlie Brook Reads2023-10-03 | A liveshow to discuss The Secrets of Hartwood Hall with author @katiejlumsden
Books that influenced Katie’s writing of The Secrets of Hartwood Hall:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens The Women in White by Wilkie Collins Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens Olive by Dinah Mulock Craik The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Secret Garden by Frances Hogson Burnett The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley Fingersmith by Sarah Waters The Wonder by Emma Donoghue The House at Riverton by Kate MortonWeekly reads: It’s the final countdown!!! #shortyseptemberCharlie Brook Reads2023-10-01 | Bookish natter and general natter as ALWAYS!! What are you guys reading? Let me know in the comments below!! 📚❤️
Books mentioned: The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden The Tea Dragon Festival by K O’Neil Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson The Weekend by Charlotte Wood Frockodile by Jeanne Willis and illustrated by Stephanie Laberis *The Little Red Wolf by Amelie Flechais Animal Tales from India by Nikita Gill East End Tales by Gilda O Neil Glad of These Times by Helen Dunmore Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend Learned by Heart by Emma DonoghueVictober made easy!! Tips & a TBR #victoberCharlie Brook Reads2023-09-27 | Victober is a readathon hosted to celebrate and read books by Victorian literature. (Victorian literature is British and Irish literature published and/or written between 1837 and 1901.) This is just me doing Victober the easy way and sharing that with you.
The Victober Prompts The challenges: Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work featuring a stranger/outsider Katie’s challenge: Read a piece of Victorian ‘New Woman’ fiction Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work by an author who is new to you Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian first-person narrative Ros’s challenge: Read a Victorian work in which class features strongly
Books mentioned: Oscar Wilde’s plays Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas Miss Meredith by Amy Levy The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Dracula by Bram Stoker Tess of the D’ubervilles by Thomas Hardy A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Goblin Market by Christina RossettiWeekly reads: Aussie reads and MORE shortys!!! #strayaseptember #shortyseptemberCharlie Brook Reads2023-09-24 | Book chatter as always.
Books mentioned: Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie Banksy Graffitied Walls & Wasn’t Sorry The Tea Dragon Society by K O’Neil Love Stories by Trent Dalton Drop bear by Evelyn Aralven Gunpoint by Jim Eldridge By Ash Oak & Thorn by Melissa Harrison The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden Tales of The City by Armistead Maupin The Weekend by Charlotte Wood The Other Side of You by Amanda Craig In A German Pension by Katherine Mansfield Wall & Piece Banksy Frockodile by Jeanne Willis illustrated by Stephanie Laberis Deathnote Vol 4, 6 by Tsugumi OhbaBooker Shortlist reaction, chat & let’s read togetherCharlie Brook Reads2023-09-22 | ...Weekly Reads | Shorty-tastic!!! #shortyseptemberCharlie Brook Reads2023-09-17 | Heaps of shortys and a couple books for #strayaseptember ❤️
For the eagled eyed viewers you may see I forgot to mention reading The Secrets of Hartwood Hall!! Whoops. I am obv still reading and very much enjoying this book. Thank you again to everyone joining us. Myself and Charlie are having so much fun chatting to all of you.
Books mentioned: Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph Days at the Moraski Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa Gwen & Art are not in Love by Lex Croucher Til September Petronella by Jean Rhys Eleven by Tom Rogers Cannery Row by John Steinbeck The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark Love Stories by Trent Dalton Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie The Weekend by Charlotte WoodRead with us & chat #SecretsSeptemberCharlie Brook Reads2023-09-11 | Liveshow feat @CharlesHeathcote We read, we chat … the usual!!
Buy yourself a copy of The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
Behind the Booktube Tag 1. What has surprised you the most about Booktube both in a good way and in a bad way? 2. How do you balance reading and Booktube with the rest of your life? 3. Have you ever thought about starting a Patreon? 4. Have you made any mistakes on Booktube? 5. Do you have any advice for new Booktubers? 6. What are your thoughts on the Youtube algorithm? 7a. How do you decide what videos to make? 7b. Are you ever overwhelmed with video ideas? 8. Have you regretted posting a video? 9a. Are the number of views/subscribers meaningful to you? 9b. Are the number of views/subscribers a measurement of success? 10. Are you disappointed by the growth on your channel? 11. Have you ever thought about quitting Booktube? 12a. What are the most touching comments? 12b. What are the most negative comments? 13. In regards to Booktube, where do you see yourself in five years?Weekly reads: I wasn’t expecting this!! #SecretsSeptemberCharlie Brook Reads2023-08-27 | Bookish natter, updated Booker rankings etc!!
Want to read The Secrets of Hartwood Hall? Join myself & @CharlesHeathcote for Secrets September:
Check out these awesome channels : @charlottemolloy @booksandbargains @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf @GemofBooks
Books mentioned: Content Warning Everything by Akwaeke Emezi What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama translated by Alison Watts My Soul Twin by Nino Haratishwili translated by Charlotte Collins Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein Prophet Song by Paul Lynch A Girlhood by Carolyn HayesPlodalong Catch up - Booker etc!!Charlie Brook Reads2023-08-24 | ...First Line Battle | Predicting the Booker winner?!! #bookerprizeCharlie Brook Reads2023-08-24 | Inspired by the wonderful @LaurenAndTheBooks myself and @CharlesHeathcote battle the Booker books first lines!! Have we predicted the winner of Booker 2023?!!
Are you reading any Booker books? Which have been your faves so far? Let me know in the comments below.
#secretsseptember Me & Charlie are reading The Secrets of Hartwood Hall in September. Want to join us cluck on the Google doc below. You have to the 31st Aug to join us!!
PLODDERS ALERT!!! 🚨🚨: Join myself @GemofBooks & @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf Weds 23rd(next Weds) @ 6pm BST on my channel for a Booker chat & catch up. We have missed you guys and wanted to check in!! I hope lots of you can make it. ❤️
Books mentioned: The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue Content Warning Everything by Akwaeke Emezi All The Houses I’ve Lived In Kieran Yates Pearl by Sian Hughes Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry All The Little Bird Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd BarlowLondon Booktuber Meet up & haul 📚Charlie Brook Reads2023-08-16 | Last Saturday I did a bookshop crawl in London with a bunch of wonderful booktubers. This video is me talking through the day with some clips that I vlogged and a book haul as I go.
If you were/are a Plodder you might be intrigued by a Pizza Scandal that occurred feat Gem!!😱😱😱🍕
Have you been to any cool bookshops recently or picked up any books? Let me know in the comments below ☺️📚❤️
Books mentioned: By Ash Oak & Thorn by Melissa Harrison But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu Content Warning Everything by Akwaeke Emezi Limbic by Peter Scapello Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph A Spell Of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo Palomar by Italo Calvino Cells by Gavin McCrea What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama translated by Alison Watts Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa translated by
Original Bookshop Crawl plan (incase you are interested)
Waterstones (Piccadilly: 203/206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HD) Hatchards (Piccadilly) Any Amount of Books (Charing Cross Road) Foyles (Charing Cross Road) Oxfam Bookshop (Bloomsbury Plaza) London Review Bookshop (Bury Place) Treadwell’s (Store Street) Skoob Books (Marchmont Street) Gay’s the Word (Marchmont Street) Waterstones (Gower Street) Daunt Books (Marylebone High Street) –
Also mentioned: Forbidden Planet in terms of location it’s between Foyles & Oxfam Bookshop (Bloomsbury Plaza)Weekly reads: Pink, Booker & Barbie #SecretsSeptemberCharlie Brook Reads2023-08-13 | What I have been reading, what I have been upto etc!!
Books mentioned: The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue In Ascension by Martin Macinnes If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery Pearl by Sian Hughes The Secrets Of Hartwood Hall by @katiejlumsden Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton SThe Secrets of Hartwood Hall Readalong Announcement #SecretsSeptemberCharlie Brook Reads2023-08-10 | Join myself & @CharlesHeathcote reading The Secrets Of Hartwood Hall by the wonderful @katiejlumsden in September.
We will be reading one volume per week in September, except for the final week of the month where we will read the final two. Each Sunday, there will be a Voxer chat where readers can discuss their thoughts.
I hope lots of you can join us in readings this wonderful novel ☺️📚❤️