Welcome back to Book Break! It is now September, which means autumn
is officially on the way. In just a few weeks we will all be
jumping through crunchy leaves, there'll be a chill in the air, we'll be wearing
big chunky cardigans, but most importantly, the best thing
about autumn is all of the new food we'll be eating.
Autumn is the season of cinnamon buns and apple pie,
and pumpkin spice lattes! I don't like those so I've got here instead a Smores
frappuccino. That's delicious. And of course while
we're eating all of our new snacks we will be curling up with
some really good books. So in honour of the best ever
combination, food and books, and the best ever season,
Autumn, we thought for our next Book Break original tag
we would make a book tag that was literally good enough to eat.
So of course as always we really want to know your answers to all of these
questions, whether you write your answers in the
comments below or actually film your own video and then send us the link we would
love to watch it. Here are the questions for the Autumn
book tag that's good enough to eat. So number one. What are your autumn
snacking favourites to have while you read? So my number one priority
is always having a really good drink while I read, and like I said, this
is the smores frappuccino from Starbucks which is
absolutely delicious. It tastes like roasting marshmallows
around a campfire. But of course, I need some actual snacks
as well. So I love chopping up sweet peppers, that's a great
reading snack, and they come in the most autumnal of colours.
Chocolate is a must, and I think fruit and nut is the most
autumnal chocolate there is. And for my absolute favourite,
a maple and pecan pie. These are so delicious. Though it's a slightly
high risk reading snack as they do make your fingers a little bit sticky!
Worth it. I'm really excited to see your guys's answers to this, especially those
of you who come from different countries. Our American viewers, I have been in
American shops in autumn and I know your range of pumpkin
flavoured sweets is unparalleled. So I'm hoping some of you will show off
some delicious looking pumpkin spiced m&ms or whatever else you
have. But whichever other country you're from,
are your autumn flavours a little bit different from our typical ones? I'm
excited to see your answers. Okay for question two, I'd like you to
show off your best autumnal book stack, and I think you'll
be pretty impressed with what I've gathered here.
Look at these beautiful covers. This is the most
autumn themed book stack I have ever seen.
They look gorgeous all together like this, but also some of these individual
covers are so autumnal and beautiful. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. This has been a
BookTube favourite for a few years. Sun is Sky by Jedah Mayberry is a recent
haul, I haven't read it yet, but look at these colours. And lastly, The
Queen of Bloody Everything by Joanna Naden
looks so perfect for autumn reading, and is also just the perfect
cozy read for this season. It's this really sweet
heartwarming but moving mother and daughter story, so perfect to curl up
with. For question three, we're going to
combine it all together. I want you to show off some of your books that have
food on the cover. So I've been skimming my bookshelves,
and I found Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, with this bunch of fruit on the cover,
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi which has an orange on the cover but also
the word gingerbread, and gingerbread is a very cozy autumn food,
Date with Mystery which is part of the super cosy crime Dales Detective series,
with this yummy looking pie, a lot of Judy Blume's books have food on the
cover, so I picked this cupcake as the thing I most want to eat right
now, and of course there's Just Eat It by Laura Thomas,
which is this brilliant anti-diet book which will encourage us
to eat all of the yummy autumn food that we want to. Question four is a little bit
of a game. I want you to pick up your current read
and skim through until you find the first
food you come across, and then tell us what it is or whether it sounds nice! I
better go and grab my current read. Okay my current read is this short story
collection Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted
Chiang. So let's skim through and see what's the first food I find.
It is a science fiction book so I might find something a bit strange.
Aha! Here we go, a flask of brandy, yep I wouldn't say no to that right now!
Question five is what is the nicest meal you've ever read about in a book?
And honestly the first thing my brain went to here is actually a childhood
book that I used to have called The Teddy Bears Picnic which had
all of these beautiful full page spreads of all of
the foods at the teddy bears picnic: little cakes, sweets, fruits, I used to
spend hours just imagining eating each thing. So honestly to this day
that's probably the nicest meal I've ever read about in a book.
Question six, have you ever made a book themed recipe?
And I don't think I have, but I want to shout out a YouTuber here,
Bradley Bakes. I will link to his channel below, he's absolutely amazing, he has
guest starred on Book Break in the past and he makes these incredible book
themed cakes and recipes. Honestly his cakes
have to be seen to be believed, so go and click through and look at his
channel, because they're just amazing. He makes cakes inspired by books,
inspired by West End shows, he is very talented. And
finally for question number seven, we want you to
tag your friends and recommend them the perfect
autumnal book and food pairing. So I of course am tagging all of you guys, and
I'm going to recommend you the book A Poem for Every Autumn Day, which is a
poetry collection edited by Allie Esiri. It is gorgeous. Firstly look at this
stunning cover, every page is a different date of the
year, and gives you a different autumnal themed poem. I recommend you this
honestly paired with this smores frappuccino because this is changing my
life right now. Yeah it's officially autumn, no way
around it. So do let us know your answers, we would love to hear them,
and tag us if you make your own video, we will add you to the playlist which I
will link here, which has all of our original book tags in it,
plus everyone else who's given them a go. See you next time!