Hi everybody, welcome back. This is
going to be the first video in a new
series that I would like to start called
'Kelly Recommends'. So it's not necessarily
a new thing, I have seen quite a few
people do recommendation videos but
I just wanted to explain what the general
format will be because I'm hoping to do
quite a few of these. So I'm not going to
say it'll be like one a month or anything
like that I just have a list of
different ideas of categories or types
of books I'd like to recommend and I
want to do sort of quite short
videos recommending different books
that fit those criteria. So the first one
I'm going to do day is going to be 'rural
reads' which is quite difficult for me to say!
I don't have the best diction, being
the northern girl, I don't have the best
pronounciation of words and I find rural
or rural quite a hard word to say. So I don't know why I picked
this one first...well I do, it's because
I love to read books about the
countryside and wildlife. I am
completely a country girl, I spent the
majority of my childhood in a crappy
town in Lancashire but all of my free
time and my holidays we spent in the
great outdoors so I have a huge passion
for nature and wildlife as you'll know if
you've watched this channel for a while. And I
really love to see rural settings
in the books that I read. So these are
books I think specifically fit the
criteria of talking about rural
landscapes. I'd like to do ones about
isolated lives which could fit in with a
rural setting but these ones don't
necessarily have this. I'd also quite like
to talk about sort of books set on islands,
books that talk about...sort of
narratives that have a strong connection
with wildlife or something like that. So there's
going to be overlap between some of
them but this one, I've tried to pick
five books that specifically stood out in
my mind as ones that talked a lot about
the setting around them and being in
the countryside, the wildlife and that
sort of thing. And I've tried to do a mix
of books that I read recently and books
that I read quite a while ago because I
think that way I can show you and talk
about more books on my shelf that I might
not have talked about before. The first one
is one that a lot of people have talked about
on booktube and that is My Endless Numbered Days by
Claire Fuller. This is aabout a young girl called
Peggy whose dad is a survivalist and he
tells her, one day, that the world has
ended. And he takes her away into a
remote cabin and they live there for
years, just in this small wooden hut,
having to wash in the river and hunt
and gather all of their food. Like I said,
the overall plot wasn't completely to my
taste but I really wholeheartedly
enjoyed the description of the quiet
life when they were actually out in the
in the countryside. They're very isolated
and you know Peggy's a young girl and she
plays a lot in the areas that are
closest to the cabin. It was one of
those books were I could really picture
in my mind the whole area around the
cabin, I think I remember at one point there's like
a rocky crag that they sit up high and
look out over the nearby river, all
that kinda thing. It is really beautifully
described and as I said, I completely can
picture it in my mind as if I visited there and
that was one of the reasons that... it was
one of the things that made me really
enjoy this book and the reason that I
read it all the way to the end. There's
certainly nothing wrong with the
storytelling or the characters either but
what sticks out in my mind with this is like
I said that rural setting which is
why I picked it for this recommends.
The next book I'm going to talk about is
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall and I read
this a couple years ago I think. And I
particularly like this one because it
talks about the Lake District which is
very close to where I'm from and a
really beautiful area so it lends itself
very well to these beautiful
descriptions. This is about young woman
who's involved in a rewilding project
introducing wolves into the Lake District.
Which is something that has been mentioned
once or twice in the past but obviously
it's never gone ahead because it involves a vast
amount of planning and ultimately would
probably not work. Obviously because
we're talking a lot about creating the
correct habitat for these wolves, there
is a lot of description of the
surrounding area. The Lake District is
really beautiful - lots of wooded
areas and mountains and hills but
the character
herself enjoys going out, she likes
hiking and mountain climbing and all that
kind of stuff so you get a lot of it
from that point of view well. Whilst she's
working on the estate where they're
going to introduce these wolves, she lives
in a little cottage which is again in
its own little idyllic bit of
countryside. Another one that I can
just remember, like I can picture the
cottage in my head and the little drive
leading up to it and bits of the estate.
And obviously I've never been there,
it exists in fiction. So yeah this is
another one that very much sticks out in
my mind as having really beautiful
descriptions of the surrounding
countryside and rurality....is that a word?
I don't know! There's a lot of themes of nature
and countryside and yeah definitely that
rural element. The next is a book that I
finished quite recently, in early March, I
think and this is Trio by Sue Gee. This is
actually set in Northumberland, you might
be sensing a theme and that is largely
British countryside. I definitely want to
read about countryside and rural
settings in other countries but I tend
to gravitate a lot of time to British
countryside reads. I find them really
comforting and something that I can
connect to very easily because I spent a
lot of time in the countryside when I was younger.
This, I loved the story in the book
in general, I gave the book four
stars but the descriptions of the
landscape and the wildlife.... they filled
me with such a warm cozy feeling that it
immediately jumps to mind when I think
about nature and rural beauty and
that sort of thing. This is about a young
man who is a schoolteacher in a small
village in Northumberland and he has
very recently lost his wife. They
bought and lived in
this really small cottage, completely in
the middle of nowhere on a moor, on a
hillside. So it says that "it moves between the beauty
and isolation of the moors,
a hillside town and a graceful old country
house." So those are the three main
settings; this tiny cottage out on the
Northumberland moors which is, I think, it's
about half an hour's walk from the
road that has a bus that goes along it
to take him to the town which is where
the guy teaches. And that's a small
hillside town and then there's also this
old mansion which itself has really
beautiful gardens that lead out onto the
moors and into the surrounding
countryside. And it features very heavily
in this book because it's part of his
grieving process, he's thinking about his
life and how it's played out in this
beautiful area and you know in this tiny
cottage on his own, only him and his wife,
and that's all they needed, how they used to
walk out on the moors. And it talks a lot
about the birds that are out there and
what it's like in winter, what it's like in
summer. The seasonal changing of the
countryside features quite heavily in
this as a way to pinpoint how his
grief is moving along. I thoroughly
thoroughly enjoyed it and like I said the
whole thing was beautiful but the
descriptions of the setting and the
surrounding area and all the wildlife
really made it such a heartwarming read
for me. It just gave me that.... you know....
that, what does Lauren from
Laurenandthebooks call it? She calls it ike
fizzy tummy feeling, that's what it gave
me when I read it! The next book I'm
going to recommend is another one that I very
recently read and that is A Place Called
Winter by Patrick Gale. You will be
seeing these two books in my March wrap
up but after reading Trio, I wanted
something else that I felt was going to
give me an isolated wilderness vibe and
it didn't ever have to be in Britain so this
one's set in Canada. I gave this one five
stars, I absolutely loved it. This is
about Harry Cane who is forced to
move to Canada after something
happens back in Edwardian England, which
is where the book starts off. He goes over
there as part of the colonisation of
Canada, the Canadian prairies and he
starts farming. Although the main part of
the story is his move to Canada and
how he gets used to farming and his
relationships, the setting of the
Canadian wilderness is very very present.
He has to learn to farm, he has to learn how to
farm his specific
plot of land that he's been given and
the way that he has to acclimatise to
this very stark, very empty Canadian
wilderness which is very different to
the English countryside which he's
used to, that features quite heavily in
it. Because Harry is learning to farm in
this, the nature of the countryside and
the wildlife and the way that it all
grows is very very important to the story
so there are a lot of descriptions of
this and I don't think that you can get
a much better sort of fit for rural
settings and rural life than a small
isolated farm in the wilderness of the
Canadian prairies. This was another one
where I really enjoyed the countryside
sense of place, it really added something
to the story. The next book really
doesn't need any introduction and that is
How Green Was My Valley by Richard
Llewellyn. I've talked about this
before, it's one of my favourite books of
all time and I think in terms of
British countryside, in particular Welsh
countryside, this is the epitome of
beautiful descriptions of rural living.
The community that's featured
in this is a small mining community in a
valley in Wales and it's described in great
detail but it's not like heavy and hard
to read through, it's just beautiful
and descriptive. It talks about the the
nature of the valley, what it's like in the
small town or the small village at the
bottom of the valley, there's a lot of
walking through all the wildlife up to
the top of the valley and looking out at
all the surrounding areas. And it's just
so beautifully described that it was
really reminiscent of my childhood
holidays in Wales and how beautiful
and green the
countryside there is. The general setting
of the valley and the mine underneath
and then the nature of the valley is so
important this story that I would say
the valley is almost like its own
character. It becomes something
more than just a setting for the story
and it's what enables people to
live, its part of their lives and and it
becomes something bigger than just a
setting. This book is definitely
one of my
number one books for really twee
beautiful descriptions of the Welsh
countryside and it also has a really
heartwarming story as well. Yeah I really
enjoyed this book. So those are the five
books I would recommend for the "books
with a rural setting" and I might do
multiple recommends videos for the
same theme because I read a lot of books
that are set in the countryside and that
sort of thing, it's something I really enjoy
reading about. So I might do another one
like 'rural reads part 2' or something
like that. I hope you enjoyed this
format and there will be more in the
future. If you have any recommendations
of books that are set in sort of
countryside settings or where the rural
nature of the area is a very strong theme
then please let me know. I would love to hear
your recommendations for books like this
because it's just something that I love
to read about. Thank you for watching and
I'll see you in the next video, bye!
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