Brattle Book Haul with Steve Donoghue! [CC]
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- In which I show you all the books that filled my bags after a wonderful morning at the Brattle Book Shop with @saintdonoghue
My essay about the new biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: www.ronslate.com/on-two-way-m...
Books:
Bibliotopia, compiled by Steven Gilbar
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by AS Byatt
Virginia Wolf by by Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann
The Letters of May Sarton, edited by Susan Sherman
Look Homeward (a biography of Thomas Wolfe) by David Herbert Donald
The Afterlife by Penelope Fitzgerald
Too Soon to Tell by Calvin Trillin
Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark
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What a fabulous haul. I've only read Paul Collins's previous book, Banvard's Folly, but I love Hay-on-Wye. I've been lucky enough to visit twice - once with my wife and then another time with my mum for the festival. Glorious.
Oh it sounds glorious! I really hope I can go one day!
Some fun finds there! 👍
Such a cool place! I hope to visit again in the late fall, perhaps...
Hah! You made a Steve Pyramid! Hilarious!
It isn't easy!!
Brave you making that pyramid!
It really is quite tricky, at least with this many big books...
Oooh May Sarton! I need to get my hand on the letter collection! 🤗
I've just poked around in it a bit at this point, but the letters are wonderful so far.
That Bibliotopia volume sounds very useful but this is a really appealing haul overall
I've definitely been enjoying poking around in a lot of these books!
Letters, biographies, and essays, oh my!
My favorites! Well, those and history, and literary fiction, and short stories...
Many thanks for the introduction to the Brattle! What a glorious haul! The Woolf book in particular looks enticing! (If you haven’t already been, I’d love to introduce you to Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi some day.)
Please do! My father spent a year in Oxford as a visiting professor--and especially since he was a lover of Southern literature, he spent hours and hours in Square Books every week. I would love to visit Oxford sometime! I subscribe to Square Books' youtube channel and love to watch some of the author interviews.
Ring Shout was great. I have Look Homeward, Angel on my TBR. It’s so long though! I have never read a collection of letters, but I love epistolary novels so I am sorely tempted.
I am so glad to hear you enjoyed Ring Shout! Look Homeward, Angel is a long read, although I never remember it that way. Reading long books was so much easier when I was younger and had fewer daily responsibilities and interruptions! The first collection of letters I ever read were those of Flannery O'Connor, and I totally fell in love with them. I hope you will too.
Great finds!
The hardest part has been finding a place to store them at home!
Wonderful book haul, Hannah!
Very much liked the book stack at the end of the video!
Making the pile wasn't easy! I don't know how Steve does it so confidently in each video...
Love this haul (esp Sixpence House), and absolutely desire a Brattle bag!
Thanks, Catherine! Have you already read Sixpence House? I have it on my tentative schedule for next weekend…
@@HannahsBooks Yes, I read it a while back and still can't believe I haven't been to Hay-on-Wye yet! I liked Sixpence House and a number of this author's other books.
@@takingteawithcatherine Visiting the town sounds like a dream trip!
Nice haul Hannah! Not quite what you are asking for with respect to bibliographic miscellanies, but there is a small book by Claire Cock-Starkey called “A Library Miscellany “ that is full of library and library-adjacent random facts, including this gem: At the end of 2015, the United Nations Library in New York revealed that its most popular NEW book for the year was “Immunity for Heads of State and State Officials for International Crimes”!*😳😂
(Full disclosure: This NEW book had been borrowed twice and browsed four times. The most popular book of any kind in the library that year was “I am Malala” - talk about chalk and cheese! 😅😅)
So funny about the UN Library's most popular book! I'm definitely going to be on the lookout for Cock-Starkey! Thanks!
Ring Shout looks interesting!
It definitely intrigues me! I'd love to hear what you think if you choose to read it.
I have read Ring Shout. I found it hard to follow and should do a reread.
I loved it.
@@kimesch9698 So glad to hear!
How fun! I'm so happy you and Steve got to catch up and go to the Brattle. I love your Brattle book bag!
What a wonderful trip it was. I am hoping to return at the end of October if all goes well...
A tremendous selection. Sixpence House sounds appealing now have finally visited Hay on Wye. I love Penelope Fitzgerald's fiction but haven't read any of her nonfiction.
I am so envious of your chance to go to Hay on Wye! Perhaps that will be one of my first destinations when the world reopens, if all is well here.
Just had to check if the biography I have of Thomas Wolfe is the same one ...and it is ...I also read Look Homeward Angel as a young woman and it had a big impact on me ...as for Hay on Wye , it's a special place ..will be staying near Monmouth in December so might manage a visit ...
Nice haul!
Thanks, James!
What a haul! (And a fine “Steve Pyramid “!) I have a couple of those volumes, so I know I’m in great company. Thanks for sharing. ☺️
Thanks! Making the pyramid is a lot harder even than winnowing down the pile of books to purchase from the huge collection I was considering!
I'm so jealous of your haul and your visit to the Brattle. If you're OK to buy used books without being able to see them in person, you might try Better World Books. They have a pretty wide selection that changes frequently, the prices are reasonable and they use the proceeds to fund literacy projects around the world. They might have your volumes of letters. I've had pretty good luck with them. Happy reading!
Thank you so much. I have quite a few Better World books on my shelves--and have always been happy with the quality of the books they send out. I will look for the extra volumes!
Wonderful haul. I will be on the lookout for Woolf’s letters as well as the Fitzgerald essay collection.
I am excited to get to the Fitzgerald essays soon!
I LOVE lists and trivia so much, so I'm interested in Bibliotopia!
Doesn't it sound like fun? I have been trying to figure out the perfect spot to keep it--so I can pull it out at random moments here and there.
May we all make the pilgrimage to Hyde Cottage and the Brattle. Love the Brattle bag!
Yes indeed! Both the Brattle and Hyde Cottage definitely make Boston a destination city, all by themselves. And Boston is pretty cool for a whole lot of other reasons as well!
Great fun
Thanks, Mark! I hope I can go to some of the Vermont used book stores sometime!
@@HannahsBooks that would be so much fun. I’d love to meet in person.
Great haul, Hannah! I have some of the volumes from Virginia Woolf’s letters and have really enjoyed exploring them. Hope you enjoy all of these!
Best, Jack
I wonder if I need to commit to a letter or journal collection each month, always of different authors. I have so many books like that which I poke through often but almost never read in their entirety...
@@HannahsBooks I definitely have one going most months that I dip into, but I change those up every 3-6 weeks to keep some space and perspective for the writer.
I really loved "Look Homeward, Angel" and "You Can't Go Home Again". I have another of his books around here I need to get to---Of Time and the River? Something like that.
There was a time when Of Time and the River was my favorite of the three. Now I am back in the Look Homeward camp. Perhaps I need to read all of these books again sometime soon!
@@HannahsBooks If you decide to do it, I would love to know so I can read Of Time and River and then watch your reviews with some knowledge of the book. :)
Ohhh wonderful! I am off to Hay on Wye in early November. I hope my bookish trip is as rich as yours has been. 😃 ps..shelf space is an insolvable problem here too
I am so envious! I really hope to visit Hay on Wye at some point in my life. Sounds perfect.
So glad to find your channel. As a southernor myself I love Thomas Wolfe and will never give him up! In fact, I have been sending copies of LHA and YCGHA yo friends transplanting ftom other states to the south. Will be on the lookout for that bio if him.
P.S. I love your voice--have you ever recorded audiobooks?
SIXPENCE HOUSE was so fun! I almost dared contacting the author, who is a prof at a nearby university, but I'm afraid he may not turn out to be as generous and open in person...I am a strange reader, after all... 😆
Oh perfect! Maybe you could try now and set up a zoom conversation!
I have not read any of these books, but they all sound interesting!
Thanks for the comment. I am definitely looking forward to them!
Afterlife sits on my shelves, too. I hope you’ve read Lee’s bio of Fitzgerald. So interesting. Will you find the rest of the VW letters? Eventually. Because “the Brattle will provide.”
I have not yet read Lee's bio of Fitzgerald but of course I am now hoping "the Brattle will provide" (or some other closer used book store source will provide) for this book, too!
Very enjoyable
Thank you very much!
@@HannahsBooks yes
Video worth waiting for to watch. Just as well you are too far away from the Brattle. Well done with the pyramid. Kind regards.
Thank you! Yes, I don't know how much I could afford to buy at the Brattle--not because of the cost of the books (which is very low especially in the sale lot) but because I would need to keep buying bookcases, which would require me to move to a bigger house, etc etc...
So you'll need to build an extension to the house
especially if you plan on returning to the Brattle
LOL
You are so right. Every wall is covered with full bookcases, as are all the flat surfaces in the house... I think a culling might have to be on the schedule...
@@HannahsBooks Would love a video walk-through episode of your shelves. I know your background photo isn’t your shelves, and I’d love to see what a reading family’s shelves look like- for style inspiration. No need to make it anything like Steve’s shelf by shelf, book by book tour (unless you reeeally want to in later videos.)
Great haul. Hope you had fun.
@@kimesch9698 You can watch a video pan of many of my shelves in my video called Behind the Scenes. Right at the moment our house is in flux as we reorganize our space (now that my son is back at school and my husband knows he’ll be working from home for quite a bit longer)-but when we get settled, I will try to film a new version. I will look up the link to the old video and leave it below:
ruclips.net/video/u1yQmj88P00/видео.html
Thank you for your another lovely video, Hannah! May I please ask: what are your favorite bookstores in our area? I find it a shame that we don't seem to have great ones except, of course, for Politics and Prose and Kramer. Yet I'm sure I'm missing out on other places. Perhaps you can provide some guidance. Thank you!
Ah! You're a local! Excellent. You've listed two of the stores I used to walk in most frequently. Loyalty is the other I go to--with a small shop within walking distance of my house but a larger one downtown. As for used bookstores, Second Story Books and Capitol Hill books are favorites. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Brattle is the only bookstore I have been inside (although most of the time we were outside). I think I may be brave enough to visit some local places soon...
Sweet book haul. Have you read In This House of Brede?
I love it
I haven't yet--although I have tentativevly put it on my May TBR for the Maybe Midrash event. Sounds like a fascinating book! You recommend it, I assume?
@@HannahsBooks Yes very much so. I heard about it through Kim’s channel Middle of the Book March.