I love Shorty September. I have that Claire Keegan book and I bought it on the strength of Foster, which I thought was amazing. Some great choices there. Enjoy 😊
I read the forester's daughter and had no idea it was by Claire Keegan! Funnily enough Jo and I were debating whether to read Diary Of A Nobody for Victober. I love that there are a couple of childhood re-reads in there. Everyone's choices are so different for their tbrs (apart from Claire Keegan!)
What a cool challenge! I love short books because I honestly would rather read 4 books 300 pages or less vs. 1 600+ page book 😂 I’m sure that is psychological.
I generally prefer chunky books and lean towards character-focused ones which tend to need the extra pages. So shorty September is kinda out of my comfort zone 😬. I often like but don't love the short ones, though it's amazing when a shorty is great.
Good lord, Spock Must Die takes me back to the early 70s when I found and bought that, absolutely 'thrilled' to find a Star Trek book to read, especially in Penzance which was not exactly awash with Science fiction back then. LOL
Oh Aaron! The 1995 film version of The Scarlet Letter strays so far from the novel itself that Hawthorne’s story is almost unrecognizable in it! It’s REALLY bad! But it will probably be fun too.
@@AaronReadABook oh, you have to watch it now! But it really is like a totally different story. Totally different ending, for sure. It won all kinds of awards for worst movie of the year. I guess I would suggest that you read the novel first to fully appreciate how the film…deviates from the story.
Stefan Zweig is worth a read, but you're right about the melancholy in a lot of his stories. It was a double unaliving wutg his wife lotte - really morbid. I've been meaning to read When I Sing Mountains Dance sounds brilliant. Great tbr.
Cracking TBR. This thumbnail is 🔥 I wish I could not see people on public transport. There’s a regular on my bus home who aggressively picks his nose. 🤢
Oh I went to The House of Seven Gables and saw a bunch of Hawthorne stuff in Salem a few years ago :) Have you read The Landlady by Roald Dahl (short story)?!! Beneath the Heart of the Sea sounds great too!
Bahahaha about not seeing other humans on the bus. Is that because you're so entranced in book and music that you never see anyone or because people who take the bus are too weird to be real humans? 😅 (As a fellow bus rider, I feel like this could go either way 🤣) Oh man I LOVE Scarlet Letter! That was one of the only books from school that I actually liked. That Middle Ages graphic novel looks cool - I'm going to see if I can find it. I hope you like Thin Man! The main character married couple is so cool - I wish I knew them in real life. Yay! Glad you're down for Shorty Dept - this TBR is 💪👏❤️.
I get the tube. Every now and then I go on it without headphones on and everyone on there is mental. The night bus is actually my favourite transport in London, it's usually a drunken good vibes. Everyone seems to like the scarlet letter so that's good. The medieval book is by Eleanor Janega, she's also done a normal book on women's lives in medieval times!
I just bought a nonfiction book on Kindle that could pair up with your chess story. It's "Birth of the Chess Queen: A History" by Marilyn Yalom. From the blurb: "Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born...Yalom draws parallels between the rise of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe, presenting a layered, fascinating history of medieval courts and internal struggles for power."
@@KatJack-vl8xj page counts are always hard to judge, i looked on the different editions on goodreads and a lot of them are around 330. I'm trying to stick around 200 cos I'm quite a slow reader 😁
😂 - me, when you said you were still angry at Spanish people for the football ⚽ game. I don't usually do TBRs for the same reason (moody reader) but the Shorty prompts are too clever to pass up. 🤩. Jekyll and Hyde is a possibility for me as well.
I have a book written by the same author as Chess Story. Can't wait for an upbeat read. 😅 I think I'll try to participate in shorty September. Ive wanted to for the post two years but for whatever reason haven't.
This is a fun challenge. And now I’ve got my bandmate Stephen’s song in my head: “It’s shorts-wearing weather in my heart.”
@@genteelblackhole haha sounds interesting
I love Shorty September. I have that Claire Keegan book and I bought it on the strength of Foster, which I thought was amazing. Some great choices there. Enjoy 😊
Yeah, Claire Keegan spread through booktube like wildfire in recent years. So glad she did, Foster is 14 years old which surprised me.
Happy Reading! Your TBR looks very interesting. I hope you enjoy every single one.
@@TheGrapeJellyLibrary Thanks! I've been having a great time with them so far ☺️
I read the forester's daughter and had no idea it was by Claire Keegan!
Funnily enough Jo and I were debating whether to read Diary Of A Nobody for Victober.
I love that there are a couple of childhood re-reads in there.
Everyone's choices are so different for their tbrs (apart from Claire Keegan!)
@@YourTrueShelf I'll let you know how Diary of a Nobody goes, I've only heard good things.
This has dredged up a memory- I had the “Adrian Mole” computer game for the Commodore 64 😮
I did not know that that existed 😆
What a cool challenge! I love short books because I honestly would rather read 4 books 300 pages or less vs. 1 600+ page book 😂 I’m sure that is psychological.
I generally prefer chunky books and lean towards character-focused ones which tend to need the extra pages. So shorty September is kinda out of my comfort zone 😬. I often like but don't love the short ones, though it's amazing when a shorty is great.
@@AaronReadABook love that!
You dont see anyone at all while commuting made me laugh and i also sometimes dont feel smart enough for poetry!
Having started the poetry book now I can confirm I still feel that way 😂 I might need to look up notes on them.
Good lord, Spock Must Die takes me back to the early 70s when I found and bought that, absolutely 'thrilled' to find a Star Trek book to read, especially in Penzance which was not exactly awash with Science fiction back then. LOL
@@cathrussell2426 I found a load of old ones in perfect condition. I imagine you were good for Poldark and Du Maurier books though!
Oh Aaron! The 1995 film version of The Scarlet Letter strays so far from the novel itself that Hawthorne’s story is almost unrecognizable in it! It’s REALLY bad! But it will probably be fun too.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Somehow that makes me want to watch it more 😄
@@AaronReadABook oh, you have to watch it now! But it really is like a totally different story. Totally different ending, for sure. It won all kinds of awards for worst movie of the year. I guess I would suggest that you read the novel first to fully appreciate how the film…deviates from the story.
Stefan Zweig is worth a read, but you're right about the melancholy in a lot of his stories. It was a double unaliving wutg his wife lotte - really morbid.
I've been meaning to read When I Sing Mountains Dance sounds brilliant. Great tbr.
@@PageTurnersWithKatja All seems to like Zweig so that's promising!
😂 I love that you were shortening Robert Louis Stevenson’s name too! So excited to have found your channel thanks to the Shorty September playlist!
@@Bookchara Oo I didn't know there was a playlist, I'll have to watch it! I should have gone Rob Stevenson, even shorter.
Great to see your TBR! We are big fans of that Demi Moore Scarlet Letter film (which is obviously terrible/amazing) siân
It does not surprise me that you two have watched that film 😂
@@AaronReadABook 😂 we love a bad film (and Demi Moore)
Cracking TBR. This thumbnail is 🔥 I wish I could not see people on public transport. There’s a regular on my bus home who aggressively picks his nose. 🤢
Yeah, buses tend to attract some odd behaviour generally. It's even weirder in my home town.
Oh I went to The House of Seven Gables and saw a bunch of Hawthorne stuff in Salem a few years ago :) Have you read The Landlady by Roald Dahl (short story)?!! Beneath the Heart of the Sea sounds great too!
Weirdly Boy is the only Dahl I've ever had I think. See, didn't even know that's a real house!
Bahahaha about not seeing other humans on the bus. Is that because you're so entranced in book and music that you never see anyone or because people who take the bus are too weird to be real humans? 😅 (As a fellow bus rider, I feel like this could go either way 🤣) Oh man I LOVE Scarlet Letter! That was one of the only books from school that I actually liked. That Middle Ages graphic novel looks cool - I'm going to see if I can find it. I hope you like Thin Man! The main character married couple is so cool - I wish I knew them in real life. Yay! Glad you're down for Shorty Dept - this TBR is 💪👏❤️.
I get the tube. Every now and then I go on it without headphones on and everyone on there is mental. The night bus is actually my favourite transport in London, it's usually a drunken good vibes. Everyone seems to like the scarlet letter so that's good. The medieval book is by Eleanor Janega, she's also done a normal book on women's lives in medieval times!
I just bought a nonfiction book on Kindle that could pair up with your chess story. It's "Birth of the Chess Queen: A History"
by Marilyn Yalom. From the blurb:
"Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born...Yalom draws parallels between the rise of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe, presenting a layered, fascinating history of medieval courts and internal struggles for power."
@@KatJack-vl8xj ooo that sounds interesting, probably too long for shorty september though. It's quite hard to find non fiction under 250 pages
@@AaronReadABook I just checked and it's 292 pages. Not that much over 250. Couldn't you squeeze it in?😃
@@KatJack-vl8xj page counts are always hard to judge, i looked on the different editions on goodreads and a lot of them are around 330. I'm trying to stick around 200 cos I'm quite a slow reader 😁
😂 - me, when you said you were still angry at Spanish people for the football ⚽ game. I don't usually do TBRs for the same reason (moody reader) but the Shorty prompts are too clever to pass up. 🤩. Jekyll and Hyde is a possibility for me as well.
Yeah definitely do one! I have already started one book not on this TBR 😁Just make a giant TBR so you have lots of choice haha.
I have a book written by the same author as Chess Story. Can't wait for an upbeat read. 😅 I think I'll try to participate in shorty September. Ive wanted to for the post two years but for whatever reason haven't.
@@ellethinks Always having Robin Hobb on the go probably doesn't help 😁
@@AaronReadABook you're not wrong there 😂
Zweig is pronounced Tsvike. (Rhymes with spike) 😊 I loved Chess Story - good choice!
@@erinh7450 I was way off 😂
@@AaronReadABookI’ve also spoken about that book on my channel - and also got the pronunciation wrong! 😅