In this video, I do The Book Acquiring Tag | How do you decide what books to buy? | Little Free Libraries? | TBR games? //ORIGINAL TAG// Kristin from @Enter the Book Tag Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0JdqlD4gb0&t=0s I was tagged by: Bookworm Adventure Girl: https://youtu.be/r__X-Iw2qCc //PROMPTS// 1. Do you plan your book purchases ahead or impulse buy? 2. How do you decide what books to buy? 3. What is your philosophy on where you shop? Online vs in person- large vs small- physical, digital or audio- new vs used? Etc 4. What about little free libraries- what do you think about them- have you used one? Why or why not? 5. How do you feel after acquiring a book? Do you share - like in a book haul or diary? 6. How do you feel looking at your books that haven’t been read? Does it matter if it’s currently a lot or little amount? 7. How do you decide what number of unread books is the right amount? 8. Do you have a TBR game or process for reading them? 9. Do you have a book buying problem? If so what is the nature of it? And can it be adjusted? 10. Tag two or three others to ponder their book buying process! 11. Know you are awesome just as you are - being a book lover is amazing! Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support. You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#travelandbooks #booksandtravel In this video, I share what's been keeping me away from BookTube recently! Other Channels Mentioned: Leo at A Little Book Life : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-FEiOwoPLd1RWQzEvEoyIA and now mostly on IG @leoslittlebooklife Charlie @Charles Heathcote Bert and Siân @PaSTORY Time Elizabeth @Bookish North Eric @Eric Karl Anderson Videos mentioned: Bert’s List: https://youtu.be/2GQKsHAob9Q Top 5 English Novels with Sarah https://youtu.be/i34skN7B1xU Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support. You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#weekofreading #marchmysterymadness Week of Reading- Catch Up Edition In this video, I share what I finished reading recently given that I have been away from BookTube for a bit. I am including my links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: - Between the Acts- Virginia Woolf - also mentioned Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars - Franchesca Wade - A Psalm for the Wild Built- Becky Chambers - Falling Slowly- Anita Brookner - Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake #3)- CJ Sansom - The Old Lady with the Knife- Gu Byeong-Mo, translated Chi-Young Kim - All Systems Red (MurderBot Diaries #1)- Martha Wells Other Channels Mentioned: Elisabeth @Bookish North Leo (primarily on Instagram @Leoslittlebooklife) Kazen @Always Doing and her brilliant video that I mangled the title of is here: https://youtu.be/AxEqHsB89UI Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support. You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#weekofreading #marchmysterymadness Week of Reading- Catch Up Edition In this video, I share what I finished reading recently given that I have been away from BookTube for a bit. I am including my links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: - An English Murder- Cyril Hare - Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery #1) - Nekesa Afia - Phineas Finn (#2 Palliser series) - Anthony Trollope Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support. You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#bestbooksof2021 In this video, I share my favorite books of 2021- in the categories of Memoirs, Essays, Backlisted & Classics, and Mysteries. The first part of this series is here: https://youtu.be/qqAD2IXwE7U I am including my links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Memoirs and Essays: - Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter- Simone de Beauvoir, trans. James Kirkup - From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily , and Finding Home- Tembi Locke - The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020- Rachel Kushner - Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir- Akwakwe Emezie - The Cost of Living - Deborah Levy - Real Estate- Deborah Levy - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants- Robin Wall Kimmermer - A Girl's Story- Annie Ernaux, trans Allison L Strayer - I'm Afraid of Men- Vivek Shraya __ Backlisted and Classics: - Cranford- Elizabeth Gaskell - The Weather In The Streets- Rosamund Lehman - Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf - All Passions Spent- Vita Sackville West - Brief Lives- Anita Brookner - A Family Romance ( titled Dolly in the US editions)- Anita Brookner - Incidents in the Rue Laugier- Anita Brookner Mysteries: - A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham #1)- Abir Mukherjee - Miss Pym Disposes- Josephine Tey - The Appeal- Janice Hallett - Thrones, Dominations- Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Patton Walsh __ Other Channels Mentioned: Roz @Scallydandling about the books Hannah @Hannah's Books Kim @MIDDLE of the Book MARCH Elisabeth @Bookish North Leo @A_Little_Book_Life on instagram Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support. You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#bestbooksof2021 In this video, I share my favorite books of 2021- in the categories of Literary and Translated Fiction I am including my links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Literary Fiction: -Bass Rock- Evie Wyld -The Last Thing You Surrender- Leonard Pitts Jr -Detransition, Baby- Torrey Peters -Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi -Assembly- Natasha Brown -Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch- Rivka Galchen __ Translated Fiction Favorites: -Slum Virgin- Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, trans Frances Riddle -Difficult Light- Tomas Gonzalez, trans Andrea Rosenberg -Minor Incident- Adania Shibli, trans Elizabeth Jacquette -Elena Knows- Claudia Piñeiro, trans Frances Riddle -At the End of the Matinee- Keiichiro Hirano, trans Juliet Winters Carpenter -Abigail- Magda Szabo, Len Rix -Alberta and Jacob- Cora Sandel, trans Elizabeth Rokken -The Lady and the Little Fox Fur- Violette LeDuc, trans -The Summer Book- Tove Jansen, trans Thomas Teal -The Palace Walk- Naguib Mahfouz, trans. William Maynard Hutchins, and Olive E. Kenney __ Other Channels Mentioned: Didi @Brown Girl Reading and @readsoullit on Instagram Natalie @Curious Reader Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support. You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#weekofreading Week of Reading- Feb 13, 2022 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am in the progress of reading currently, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read if the mood strikes me. I am including my links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: -The Years- Virginia Woolf -In Search of Lost Time: vol 6- The Fugitive- Marcel Proust, trans. Peter Collier -In Search of Lost Time: vol 7- Finding Time Again- Marcel Proust, trans. Ian Patterson -Washington Square- Henry James -Portrait of An Unknown Lady- María Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead __ Books I am currently reading: -Falling Slowly- Anita Brookner - Between The Acts- Virginia Woolf __ Mood Reading Roulette: -More BookTube Prize Judging Here is my video on Why and How to Read the 7 Volumes of Proust's In Search of Lost Time: https://youtu.be/kZGlX8b_9Z0 Other Channels Mentioned: Leo (primarily on Instagram @a_little_book_life) Elisabeth @Bookish North The BookTube Prize https://www.youtube.com/c/BookTubePrize Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support. You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#Proust #insearchoflosttime In this video, I share my thoughts on reading all 7 volumes of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. I am including my links to Blackwells, and Bookshop.org should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists The series is known by two different names, as I mention in my video: In Search of Lost Time, or Remembrance of Things Past. In French, it is À La Recherche du Temps Perdu. The Books: My editions are from Penguin Modern Classics Vol 1: The Way By Swann's (also known as Swann's Way) Vol 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower ( also known as Within a Budding Grove) Vol 3: The Guermantes Way Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah (also known as Cities of the Plain) Vol 5: The Prisoner and The Fugitive (This is a combined volume of vols 5 and 6. And The Prisoner is also known as The Captive or The Sweet Cheat Gone) Vol 6: Finding Time Again (This is really vol 7. It is also known as Time Regained, or The Past Recaptured.) __ Other Channels Mentioned: Leo on instagram as @a_little_book_life Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support. You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#weekofreading #januaryinjapan Week of Reading- Jan 30, 2022 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am in the progress of reading currently, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read if the mood strikes me. I am including my links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: -Infinite Country- Patricia Engel -also mentioned Lost Children Archive- Valeria Luiselli Domenica- Angie Cruz -Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo #2)- Kiego Higashino , trans by Alexander O. Smith and Ely Alexander -In Search of Lost Time: vol 5- The Prisoner - Marcel Proust, trans. Peter Collier -To Paradise- Hanya Yanagihara - and another Brandon Taylor (Author of Real Life and Filthy Animals) essay: https://blgtylr.substack.com/p/emotional-support-trauma-plot - Eric Karl Anderson review: https://youtu.be/a-Kvj091JMI - Fraser Simons- Springboard Thought's review: https://youtu.be/oEa1MJiPNeg __ Books I am currently reading: -In Search of Lost Time: vol 6- The Fugitive- Marcel Proust, trans. Peter Collier -The Years- Virginia Woolf -Portrait of An Unknown Lady- María Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead __ Mood Reading Roulette: -Possibly BookTube Prize Judging Other Channels Mentioned: Leo @A Little Book Life Elisabeth @Bookish North Robert @Barter Hordes The BookTube Prize @BookTube Prize Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support. You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com