Channel: booksandquills

Category: People & Blogs

Tags: top books of 2019best books of 2019favourite books

Description: It's that time of year! Find out how many books I read for my 100 books challenge and which ones were my ultimate favourites. Playlist of all my previous best books of the year videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaGhIHM9WMtYyAdbqqLEVM4IuwX2nTGwN Follow what I'm reading on GoodReads: goodreads.com/booksandquills The books mentioned (GoodReads links) The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue*: bit.ly/GRGentlemansGuide Lullaby*: bit.ly/LullabyGR The Truth About Keeping Secrets*: bit.ly/TruthAboutGR The Song of Achilles: bit.ly/GRSongofAchilles Circe*: bit.ly/CirceGR This is Going to Hurt: bit.ly/GRThisIsGoingToHurt The Girl Aquarium: bit.ly/GRGirlAquarium The Deathless Girls*: bit.ly/GRDeathlessGirls Kindred: bit.ly/GRKindred Scythe*: bit.ly/GRScythe * = Books I requested from a publisher or received at an event, with no requirement to feature or review, in the last few years. Insta | instagram.com/booksandquills Blog (travel, food & London) | booksandquills.co.uk Twitter | twitter.com/booksandquills 🌿take your thyme Cruelty-free beauty, 2nd hand clothes and sustainable lifestyle channel with my friend Marion. youtube.com/takeyourthyme twitter.com/_takeyourthyme instagram.com/takeyourthyme ✏️captions You can help me out by contributing captions/subtitles on my videos. Thanks so much to everyone who’s already contributed! A guide: support.google.com/youtube/answer/6054623?hl=en-GB ✨talks + panels I can give talks, moderate panels or appear on panels on a variety of topics, from BookTube to working with brands, how to start a YouTube channel, building your personal brand online, productivity, and much more. I can also host author Q&As, panels and other publishing events. Get in touch at booksandquills@gmail.com or visit my website for more info: booksandquills.co.uk/panels-public-speaking 🚀 f a q • Can you review my book? I’m always happy to hear about upcoming books, but I’m afraid I don’t review self-published books and can only accept a small number of books for review. I enjoy reading classics, dystopian/apocalyptic novels, sci-fi, translated fiction and a variety of graphic novels, YA and contemporary literary fiction. • Where is your accent from? I was born and raised in the Netherlands, studied English Lit at Leiden University (also in the Netherlands), studied in the US for 3 months and have lots of American friends. I'm definitely not Irish or Canadian, I promise! • Where do you live? I live in London and have been here for 7 years now. • How did you get into publishing? I did publishing work experience, did a lot of networking and learned everything I know about social media from creating and running this channel. (P.s. You don't necessarily have to study Publishing or English to get a job in publishing!).