"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..." One of my all time favorites. Du Maurier writes like a musician plays their instrument. Just love her.
you can tell a lot about a person based on their bookshelf and it was such a delight to get to know who you are through these books! the Saunders is a MUST! one of my favorite collections. this was such a nice reminder to seek out used copies of To Paradise and The Friend. i love the Martha Stewart! the aesthetics then always make me want to live in a Nancy Meyers film
Thanks, Nathan. Oh, the Saunders. I'm really enjoying the experience of slowly making my way through A Swim In the Pond In the Rain. Oh, man I love how he's written that book. (It's making me want to seek out some Chekov.) I'm thrilled to know you're a big thumbs up on the short story collection. What a value for a $1!
Lovely ending you make me laugh when you said about editing and filming troubles, I am like you with no experience at all but I am trying to do what I love the most " books 📚 ". As I am an author too
I loved watching this, I mean, a bookshelf tour is what all booktube watchers crave for, right? That Daphne Du Maurier Bookclub edition caught my eye 😍. And I spotted a copy of South Riding, a beautiful novel! Great shoutout for To Paradise. But you haven’t finished A Little Life?!? (Thus spoke Leoslittlebooklife 😂). Colm Tóbín is great, one of my favorite writers. Buddenbrooks: one of the best family sagas ever written imo (Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga is my no.1)
Ah, great! I know. I know. A Little Life unfinished. Why? Good question. I've been thinking about it and may dip back in soon. That South Riding cover is one of my favorite covers. I'm glad to know Colm Tobin is one of your faves. Thomas Mann: gotta finish The Magic Mtn...eventually!
This was a nice tour. With Maugham I’ve always felt his short stories trump his novels - my reading of which was not exhaustive. _Cakes and Ale_ was one, but I’ve forgotten it. 😢
Really nice to get a better glimpse into your life through your bookshelves. I also want to especially get to Kent Haruf's Plainsong. I have the first two books in the trilogy in nice hardback editions.
I really enjoyed the tour. Two of the books on your shelves that are fantastic but also devastating to read are Never Let Me Go and Beloved. I also love Penelope Lively but I haven't read the book you have. I have read and loved Moon Tiger and Heat Wave if you ever want to try her work.
I've got that same Mockingbird edition. I re-read it after seeing the play with Richard Harris. Crime and Punishment is pretty good, and you can enjoy it without being quite as fascinated by theology and 19th century Russian life as is necessary for Karamazov. My own shelves have no order other than book size, and I just keep the bigger ones toward the ends to lessen sagging!
I liked Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. The movie was good too. I read the Julian Barnes years ago but can’t remember it. Just read Orlando. Virginia Woolf is one of my favorite all time authors! James Joyce Dubliners is well worth it after first few short stories!
Thanks for that feedback. I can't wait to get to Orlando. i've read 2 Virginia Woolf and ADORED them - her first book..The Voyage Out? And Mrs Dalloway. I was blown away.
That's funny! The more the merrier! i have a Booktube friends that loves the World Classics books ( I think that's what they're called) - those white spines. They're alright, but i prefer a black spine Penguin any day. 😍
@@thelefthandedreader6632 Yes the Oxford World's Classics series can be fantastic, or can have fantastic covers! Amazing as objects, intrinsically, before we get to the content! I have more of the newer Oxford's than the new Penguin Classics series, but I did go hunting for them specifically (with a second hand but nice condition criteria).
“Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin is excellent ( both the book and the film). “Buddenbrooks” is a really good family saga set in 19th C Germany. Mann depicts the rise and slide of the family fortunes over three generations. I haven’t read “The Magic Mountain” which has been described as having extensive sections on philosophy that is not the case with the Buddenbrooks. It’s very accessible. I really liked “The Wings of the Dove” (both novel and film). I know it gets mixed reviews. If you have read and enjoyed “A Portrait of a Lady” or other Henry James novels you would probably enjoy it. His prose can be dense.
Oh I’m glad to have that feedback about Brooklyn. And Buddenbrooks. I’m slow slow reading the Magic Mtn. Actually slowly listening to it in snippets as an audiobook. That’s something I rarely do anymore. The narrator is so addictive. The , I find my place in the physical book. I’ve really enjoyed it. The philosophizing sections have been easier to get through while driving.
Oh, thanks for the reminder aboout that autobiography. I've heard alot about it - that it has the conceit of different ways that she almost died, right? Interesting.
Oooh a tall order! Bluets is SO distinctive. In a different vein, but still memoir genre is Deborah Levy’s memoirs like Cost of Living and Real Estate. I loved Danielle Dutton’s mixed genre book I just read, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other. I haven’t read any other Maggie Nelson but a lot of Booktubers I know have and they like her other memoir/nonfiction.
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..." One of my all time favorites. Du Maurier writes like a musician plays their instrument. Just love her.
I'm really enjoying this. I've finally gotten to it!
you can tell a lot about a person based on their bookshelf and it was such a delight to get to know who you are through these books!
the Saunders is a MUST! one of my favorite collections. this was such a nice reminder to seek out used copies of To Paradise and The Friend. i love the Martha Stewart! the aesthetics then always make me want to live in a Nancy Meyers film
Thanks, Nathan. Oh, the Saunders. I'm really enjoying the experience of slowly making my way through A Swim In the Pond In the Rain. Oh, man I love how he's written that book. (It's making me want to seek out some Chekov.) I'm thrilled to know you're a big thumbs up on the short story collection. What a value for a $1!
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Thanks for the tour - I really enjoyed it. Cakes and Ale is a great read.
You’re welcome! Oh, so good to know. 🤓
Lovely ending you make me laugh when you said about editing and filming troubles, I am like you with no experience at all but I am trying to do what I love the most " books 📚 ". As I am an author too
oh I’m glad I made you laugh!
I loved watching this, I mean, a bookshelf tour is what all booktube watchers crave for, right? That Daphne Du Maurier Bookclub edition caught my eye 😍. And I spotted a copy of South Riding, a beautiful novel! Great shoutout for To Paradise. But you haven’t finished A Little Life?!? (Thus spoke Leoslittlebooklife 😂). Colm Tóbín is great, one of my favorite writers. Buddenbrooks: one of the best family sagas ever written imo (Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga is my no.1)
Ah, great! I know. I know. A Little Life unfinished. Why? Good question. I've been thinking about it and may dip back in soon. That South Riding cover is one of my favorite covers. I'm glad to know Colm Tobin is one of your faves. Thomas Mann: gotta finish The Magic Mtn...eventually!
This was a nice tour. With Maugham I’ve always felt his short stories trump his novels - my reading of which was not exhaustive. _Cakes and Ale_ was one, but I’ve forgotten it. 😢
Thank you. Interesting! I’ve only read Of Human Bondage but ages ago.
Really nice to get a better glimpse into your life through your bookshelves. I also want to especially get to Kent Haruf's Plainsong. I have the first two books in the trilogy in nice hardback editions.
Thank you. I really enjoy watching bookshelf tours. I didn’t know Plainsong was a part of a trilogy. Wow.
I really enjoyed the tour. Two of the books on your shelves that are fantastic but also devastating to read are Never Let Me Go and Beloved. I also love Penelope Lively but I haven't read the book you have. I have read and loved Moon Tiger and Heat Wave if you ever want to try her work.
I do want to get to Never Let Me Go. And now that you mention it, I have read Hear Wave. I liked it. Thanks for watching!
I've got that same Mockingbird edition. I re-read it after seeing the play with Richard Harris. Crime and Punishment is pretty good, and you can enjoy it without being quite as fascinated by theology and 19th century Russian life as is necessary for Karamazov. My own shelves have no order other than book size, and I just keep the bigger ones toward the ends to lessen sagging!
Oh yes, the play. I bet that would be good on stage. I do want to get to Crime & Punishment. Maybe next year.
I liked Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. The movie was good too. I read the Julian Barnes years ago but can’t remember it. Just read Orlando. Virginia Woolf is one of my favorite all time authors! James Joyce Dubliners is well worth it after first few short stories!
Thanks for that feedback. I can't wait to get to Orlando. i've read 2 Virginia Woolf and ADORED them - her first book..The Voyage Out? And Mrs Dalloway. I was blown away.
Had to laugh. I was thinking how I liked the Modern Library editions and don't really like the Penguin Modern Classics...😼
That's funny! The more the merrier! i have a Booktube friends that loves the World Classics books ( I think that's what they're called) - those white spines. They're alright, but i prefer a black spine Penguin any day. 😍
@@thelefthandedreader6632 Yes the Oxford World's Classics series can be fantastic, or can have fantastic covers! Amazing as objects, intrinsically, before we get to the content! I have more of the newer Oxford's than the new Penguin Classics series, but I did go hunting for them specifically (with a second hand but nice condition criteria).
“Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin is excellent ( both the book and the film).
“Buddenbrooks” is a really good family saga set in 19th C Germany. Mann depicts the rise and slide of the family fortunes over three generations. I haven’t read “The Magic Mountain” which has been described as having extensive sections on philosophy that is not the case with the Buddenbrooks. It’s very accessible.
I really liked “The Wings of the Dove” (both novel and film). I know it gets mixed reviews. If you have read and enjoyed “A Portrait of a Lady” or other Henry James novels you would probably enjoy it. His prose can be dense.
Oh I’m glad to have that feedback about Brooklyn. And Buddenbrooks. I’m slow slow reading the Magic Mtn. Actually slowly listening to it in snippets as an audiobook. That’s something I rarely do anymore. The narrator is so addictive. The , I find my place in the physical book. I’ve really enjoyed it. The philosophizing sections have been easier to get through while driving.
Hamnet is on my TBR, just finished MF's autobiography I am I am I am which was different to what i expected....
Oh, thanks for the reminder aboout that autobiography. I've heard alot about it - that it has the conceit of different ways that she almost died, right? Interesting.
Why I have this feeling that we're gonna be friends some day ? You are most welcome if you visited Lebanon
Thank you! ☺️
hi can u recommend me books i love love bluets something like that perhaps but anything !!
Oooh a tall order! Bluets is SO distinctive. In a different vein, but still memoir genre is Deborah Levy’s memoirs like Cost of Living and Real Estate. I loved Danielle Dutton’s mixed genre book I just read, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other. I haven’t read any other Maggie Nelson but a lot of Booktubers I know have and they like her other memoir/nonfiction.