The Comfort Reading Tag

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Tag Prompts:

1. The Kettle's On: A book of steadfast comfort, always there for you, makes any day better, like a cup of tea (or your favorite warm drink).

2. Grandmother's Quilt: A book that reminds you of a loved one, or a comforting book that was given to you or read aloud to you by someone dear.

3. Warm Spices: A book with particularly vivid prose or imagery. A story comforting in its richness, depth, or vibrance.

4. Candlelight: A book that keeps you going or encourages you when things feel dark.

5. Laugh-Medicine: A book that makes you laugh out loud or grin widely, coming to the rescue on the gloomiest days.

6. In Bed All Day: You've got your warm drink, a cozy blanket (maybe grandmother's quilt.) What do you read when you're curled up in bed all day? (Or for a couple of hours, anyway.)

7. Endless Comfort: A book that brings you solace no matter how many times you reread it.

8. Portable Hope: A book that restores your faith in humanity, faith in life, faith in yourself. A book that says, "It's going to be okay. The world is full of good things, and tomorrow will be better."

9. A Basket for Your Neighbor: Just as it's lovely to be comforted by books, it can be lovely to pass the comfort along. Imagining you were putting together a cozy comfort basket for your neighbor (or friend, loved one, take your pick), which book(s) would you include?

10. A Walk in the Woods: Though we'd like to stay curled up indoors with our books forever (or, at least, I would), we've got to venture into the world again sometime. A walk in the woods always helps me feel refreshed (unless I happen upon a spider or something, but let's not think about that). Tell us about a book with beautiful nature writing, or a book that restores your peace.

Books Mentioned In This Video:
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
The Eliot Family Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Ruth Rendell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Grania by Emily Lawless
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Susanna Kearsley
Phyllis Whitney
Martha's Vineyard: Isle of Dreams by Susan Branch
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Barsetshire Chronicles by Anthony Trollope
Harry Potter books illustrated by Jim Kay
All Creatures Great and Small series by James Herriot
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Commissario Brunetti series by Donna Leon
Hercule Poirot series by Agatha Christie
Agatha Raisin series by M.C. Beaton
Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George
Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
This Beautiful Truth by Sarah Clarkson
Elizabeth Gaskell's letters
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Few Apples and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Brambly Hedge books by Jill Barklem
Beatrix Potter's stories
Diary of a Nobody by George P. Grossmith
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
Waterfalls of Stars by Rosanne Alexander
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
A Welsh Witch by Allen Raine
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

[kirstyp]

I could listen to you talk about books all day. 😊 You have so many great recommendations and your books are beautiful! I hope your little boys are doing well. They are so cute. 💙 Arthur is the exact same age as my little girl and I used to love watching your reading vlogs when he was a baby. They were so authentic and inspiring. Thank you. 😀

[lizlittle]

Thank you for this post. I enjoyed your choices. I enjoyed choosing mine. Loved this book tag!

[RaineyDayReads]

I am saving this to make sure I pick up all these books at some point!

[skurrygirl]

Watched this yesterday on my TV, with a pen and paper handy. We have read so many of the same books but you may have books I haven't read yet. I'm going to try Elizabeth Goudge again thanks to you.

[meghanthestorygirl]

So many comforting reads! The Blue Castle truly is delightful. I found Girl of the Limberlost in my used bookstore a couple months ago and I'm hoping to read it some time this year.

[catreadsbooks]

I love this tag. I hope more BookTubers do this one. You made me want to read all of the books you showed in this video. The fiction I read is definitely for comfort and coziness. Some of my favorite comfort reads are the Little House on the Prairie series, books featuring animals like Winnie the Pooh, Paddington, Beatrix Potter, etc, and cozy mysteries. With my love of books featuring animals, I need to read Brambly Hedge soon. It looks so adorable.

[GloriaZThompson]

I recently read The Hiding Place and had the same thoughts! Such an encouraging yet convicting read.

[elizabethbrink]

Yay for a long video! There are so many books you mentioned that I love and so many more I want to read. This is such an amazing idea for a tag, and I'm definitely going to write it and my answers out in my book journal.

[Dinadoesyoga]

So many great books! Some I never heard of. I'm reading Wives and Daughters now and just love it. Enchanted April and A Room with a View are also favorites. I also love atmospheric books, so I eagerly await your suggestions.

[gracetaylor]

I really enjoy this tag !! ☺️💓love the books you talk about as well!

[ABearandaBeeBooks]

Yes, I love Far From the Maddening Crowd! That is the exact book I would have chosen. There are so many lovely books in this tag. I absolutely love comforting books!

[johnsaxongitnolife]

I really love some of your book 📖 suggestions please stay safe love from your number one Australia fan John ❤️❤️❤️

[rae_of_sunlight]

Oh my goodness, I love so many of these books that I now want to read every single one I hadn't heard of before the tag! 💛

[GinaHouse]

My favorite kind of books!! You shared some of my favorites and definitely inspired me to read a bunch, too. Love Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Goudge, Phyllis A. Whitney, M.C. Beaton, Maud Hart Lovelace, Juliet Marillier, etc. Such wonderful books and authors! I would add Miss Read to my cozy book list, too. Have you ever read Victoria Holt? She has similar Gothic romances to Phyllis A. Whitney. Thank you for recommending At The Sign of the Golden Pineapple by Marion Chesney. Reading it right now and really enjoying it. Can't wait to read more :D Thanks, Kate!

[lexie_winner]

I read "The Blue Castle" over 10 years ago, and I only remember that I liked it. Now I'm 28, so I want to read it again because the main character is of a similar age.
Great video. :)

[MarilynMayaMendoza]

Hi Kate, I read Miss Pym disposes with you guys last month and it was a very unusual book. Josephine Tey is a unique writer and I’d like the slowness of the mystery And the setting of a gymnastics college. The ending was unusual as well.
I love love Ruth Rendell and I read my first lieutenant Wexford book a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised. It was quite different than her standalones. As life gets busier I’m more into the cozy pastoral books that I’ve never read, like miss read. I saw the movie enchanted April and it was a beautifully filmed movie By the merchant Ivory directors. Just stunning. I just finished Mansfield park for Jane Austen July and just flew through it. I also just downloaded far from the madding crowd on my Kindle. Thank you for all of the new to me books. Aloha

[taylorrae]

So excited!! The Cozy Reading Tag is a perfectly acceptable alternative name, haha. 😄🥰

Update: Definitely gonna buy all these books at some point in my life lol
Also, I need to read Brambly Hedge like YESTERDAY 😵🥰

[rumontalumbantoruan]

Great video! I really want to get that edition of Anne of green gables. Is it good edition? the font size and durability? 😀

[kathleencraine]

Loved this, Kate! Need to figure out how to keep it a favorite so I can refer to it when I need some comfort! Oh, and I just read a short Elizabeth Gaskell that I loved--"Cousin Phillis"--have you read that one?

[sandunikadissanayake]

I really enjoyed this video 😍 I want to appreciate the effort you put into these videos ❤️ you could've suggest one book for each category and made it a small video but you showed us almost all of the books you've read. I really appreciate that. Great video ☺️ and thank you for showing that Harry Potter illustration book. I'd love to buy one someday. Can you please share the publisher? ❤️