My Top Reads Of 2023
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Presenting my top reads of the year and my reading stats.
Books mentioned: (the links are all time-stamped so you can jump straight to the relevant book)
Andy Stanton "Benny The Blue Whale" • Benny The Blue Whale -...
Anne Carson "Nox" • First Recent Reads of ...
Claudia Rankine "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" • Friday Reads end of May
Victoria Kennefick "Eat Or We Starve" • Recent Reads 9th July
Jacquleine Crooks "Fire Rush" • Friday Reads - Early M...
Kate Zembreno "Write As Though Dead" • Last recent reads of 2023
Catherine Lacy "Biography of X" • Recent Reads late July
Mark O'Connell "A Thread Of Violence" • Recent Reads mid-August
Lance Olsen "Always Crashing In The Same Car" • Recent Reads mid-August
Michael Winkler "Grimmish" • Friday Reads
Martin MacInnes "Ascension" • Recent Reads early June
Magda Carneci "Fem" • Recent Reads 10th April
Benjamin Labatut "The Maniac" • Recent Reads 24th Sept
Danielle Memoire "Public Reading Followed By Discussion" • Friday Reads mid June
Richard Milward "Man-Eating Typewriter" • Friday Reads late August
Claire Kilroy "Soldier, Sailor" • Recent Reads mid-August
Amelie Smith "Thread Ripper" • Friday Reads - Early M...
Mathias Enard "The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild" • Recent Reads Mid October
Poupeh Misshagi "Trans(re)lating House One" • Recent Reads - end of ...
Lars Horn "Voice Of The Fish" • Recent Reads April 23rd
Melissa McCarthy "Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro" • Recent Reads - end of ...
Worst books of the year:
Jaroslav Kalfar "A Brief History Of Living Forever" • Recent Reads - end of ...
Maya Binyam "Hangman" • Recent Reads - end of ...
*Thank you for all the support and views in 2023.
Another book I mentioned in the review was my own "Three Dreams In The Key Of G" available on Amazon / Bookshop.org
Fabulous. I saved your list as a reward for finishing my TBR. Which of course means that now I have a new TBR. So,umm, thanks?!?!! Seriously, I love your approach to all this and agree wholeheartedly with your takes on the (just) four titles on your list that I've already read. (Carson,Labatut,Lacy, Winkler) For my own list, I would add your book. I imagine that years of listening to your posts helped me "hear" it most clearly. Gung Hei Fat Choy!
Thank you so much! Hopefully lots more good recommendations to come this year
Impatient waiting for your "Best of 2023" list, I snapped up your "Best of 2022" after realizing that (1) I was new to this vlog and hadn't seen it, and (2) last year's prize novels aren't exactly stale cheese. So "A Door Behind a Door" and "99 Interruptions" are on their way to me. Thanks!
Ha, do let me know how you fare with Door Behind A Door as I'm still not sure how it worked on me!
Wil@@MarcNash Will do. Amazon provided the most intriguing (and cryptic) "sample page' I'd ever seen!
THOROUGHLY enjoyed Door Behind a Door, and thanks. The formal device of bold print/regular print never got tiresome, she was very elastic with their interrelations--reminding me of what Maddy Mortimer did with something similar--and it seemed to help propel, rather than slow, the reader through the events. I agree with others that she "broke her own rules" as realism becomes magic realism or surrealism (TWO separate knifings in the story line, each involving 3 thrusts? "un, deux, trois"? but like you I was happy enough with her endless inventiveness and fresh language not to be bothered by loose ends or genre contradictions. The anthropomorphized dog at the end was the final charm. Will definitely read more of her!
Brilliant Marc ..looking forward to watching this properly later with a pen in hand ( or the phone ) making notes and adding to my unenviable TBR list
i rely on you for honest no holds barred (although still generous ) away from the mainstream ( Away from the Numbers ) booktuber and sundry picks of the year
Keep on reading, reviewing and writing ...wishing you a superb 2024
Many thanks RHM for your most kind words. Is that a Jam reference I spotted there?
@@MarcNash i believe it sure is...... :)
Looking forward to getting and reading several of these.
Thank you, Mark and I wish you a good and healthy year '24. As always, I am looking forward to listening to your book reviews.
Thank you Danica and I wish the same for you
i love your categories...thanks mark and a happy new year to you and your family too..
Thank you CH and the same right back at you and yours
Happy New Year, Marc! Hope you have a great reading year in 2024!
Thank you very much and you too
Great to see a wrap up of yours again. I think I missed most of the weeks with these books so it was all interesting and new to me. Hope you managed to get some sleep despite the fireworks.
Thanks Fraser. Are you doing a top books for 2023?
@@MarcNash I might. I really didn't read all that much after my videos stopped, but maybe a best of would still be helpful for people.
@@SpringboardThought Please do if you can Fraser, you are so insightful about all things books
@@MarcNash that’s very kind of you! I hope to be reading more again and then I can have something to talk about in videos again. But it is fun doing best and worst of videos.
Happy New Year
Thank you and to you too
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HAPPY NEW YEAR MARC! I love the breath and sweep of the demographics....brilliant....big big smile about NOX...one of my fave books, of any year....fire rush....and btw, Marc, have you ever read Marlon James brilliant A Brief History of a Seven Killings....please do if. you havent...anyway, a brilliant list of great writers and books...have read about 2/3 of the ones mentioned, most of which i ordered after you'd reviewed.....be well and see ya in Jan...bb
I'm afraid I gave up on A B rief History of 7 Killings about a third of the way through
@@MarcNash no worries....as you know, books have their moments for each of us, or not....btw, im bringing some more gifts...poets i hope you will like that are equal to Rankine (who i love too, btw).....see ya soon....btw, do you know the work of my former teacher, Louise Gluck?...or John Ashberry...thinking to bring you some from both....
@bluewordsme2 I own a collected works of ashbury though not got to it yet and have read one Gluck
@@MarcNash ok, i'll bring you 1 small collection from both ...both extraordinary....i figured, i'd start with 2 of my heroe's....then i;'ll slowly introduce some contemporary writers (global) whose work will inspire with their language, ideas and other aspects....off to cook..happy ny marc