I added three of your list to my tbr. With your recommendations, I can usually gauge which ones will be a hit with me😊. Two of my favourite memoirs are The devil that danced on water by Aminatta Forna and Lab Girl by Hope Jahren.
I have Brother Do You Love Me. On my shelf to read I have read a few non-fiction books this year none this month so far! A couple that have stood out for me were Poor by Katriona O’Sullivan and Lion by Saroo Brierley.
Hi Louise, another wonderful video, thank you so much! I'm reading A Home For All Seasons by Gavin Plumley. It's about an old house which he and his husband bought in Herefordshire and about Gavin's journey tracing the history of the house and all the discoveries he makes. Happy reading 📚 ❤
Thank you Louise for another great video! The Chris Hatfield book sounds like the perfect companion to Orbital! 2 books that have stuck with me over the years: Murder in Peking by Paul French and In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson.
@ we were just at the Cambridge literary festival and saw Laura Cummings talk about Thunderclap with such passion that I can’t wait to read it. We also saw Harriet Walter read from her new book on heroines in Shakespeare; it is a really wonderful book, you have to read the bit she wrote for the witches in Macbeth!
You may already have seen, but Chris Hadfield is doing a UK tour next year 😊 I haven't read his book yet though so I will definitely have to give that a go!
I really enjoyed brother do you love me! I’ve just started The Black Angels by Maria Smilios which is about a group of black nurses who went to work at Sea View TB hospital on Staten Island in the late 1920s. They took care of New York City’s poorest residents and became a vital part of the race to find a cure for TB but have been erased from history.
Always a joy to watch your videos, Louise, love that you champion these non-fiction books 🥰 I’ve read some really incredible ones - and still have some from the women’s prize to go! If you hadn’t already read it, I’d fully recommend A Flat Place which I thought was just exceptional. Otherwise I’ll try to contain myself 😂 But off the top of my head I’d say: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe about The Troubles, It’s Not About the Burqa edited by Mariam Khan, Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis and Recognising the Stranger by Isabella Hammad (but yeah, I could go on 😅). Oh, and Manifesto is high up on my list to read soon! Hope you’re doing well and love the sound of a walk in the snow ❄️
Hi Louise, Thanks for sharing non-fiction suggestions, I love weaving non-fiction amongst my usual novels, and it was nice to see two references to Canadians on your list. I've recently read and enjoyed The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading from James Patterson. Another favorite read this year is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents from Isabel Wilkerson. Definitely recommended reading - it really helped me get a better grasp of past and current events in the United States.
Hi Louise, Interesting video - thank you! The Chris Hadfield book sounds enticing. I always recommend ANYTHING by Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21 st Century .. all of them brilliant. I have just ordered his latest - NEXUS - today and cannot wait for it to arrive. Another favourite recommendation of mine if Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ book Women who Run with the Wolves. It was first published in 1992 and is an astonishing book.
I didn’t know Chris Hadfield wrote a book but I just listened to him on Desert Island Discs and found him brilliant and fascinating!! I would recommend to you James Rebanks’ The Place Of Tides about his summer on an island in Norway with an eiderdown “duck woman”. Absolutely beautiful writing and a story of one woman’s drive and determination to uphold tradition and work towards conserving the dwindling population of ducks.
A memoir that I recently picked up from the Black Britain Writing Back Series and also sharing some similarities with Red Dust Road, is My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah-Azieb Pool. Hannah was born in Eritrea and adopted by a white couple who were working there, from an orphanage. They were told that she was an orphan, but as a young adult she discovered that her father was still alive.
I am enjoying The Tree Line by Ben Rawlence - he travels around the Arctic looking at the changing tree line and what it means for the people living there and the world - really fascinating, I think it was on the shortlist for the Wainwright prize last year.
I highly recommend The Editor by Sara B. Franklin (if it has been published in the UK). The life and work of the remarkable Judith Jones and the authors she cultivated, the behind the scenes publishing stories in the industry’s heyday, and a woman challenged by the cultural obstacles of her time. World of Wonders is a beautifully told and evocative memoir/natural history by poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
just started reading The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham Hardcover by Lucy Hughes-Hallettn --- its absolutely brilliant, Louise!
I'm starting A Gentleman From Japan, a visitor to the Court of Elizabeth I. I gave up on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott, like Houdini, giving logical explanations. What fun is that when you enjoy ghostie stories? I don't believe in them. I, too, believe in a never-ending supply of charlatans and evil people, but a fantasy is fun.😮 I like Space in fiction, I don't want to go there or even ride a rollercoaster.😅 I bought Orbital.
Love Chris Hadfield! 💜
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I added three of your list to my tbr. With your recommendations, I can usually gauge which ones will be a hit with me😊.
Two of my favourite memoirs are The devil that danced on water by Aminatta Forna and Lab Girl by Hope Jahren.
I didn’t know that Aminatta Forna had written a memoir! Thanks for the tip off 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
I have Brother Do You Love Me. On my shelf to read I have read a few non-fiction books this year none this month so far! A couple that have stood out for me were Poor by Katriona O’Sullivan and Lion by Saroo Brierley.
I loved the film version of Lion 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
Hi Louise, another wonderful video, thank you so much! I'm reading A Home For All Seasons by Gavin Plumley. It's about an old house which he and his husband bought in Herefordshire and about Gavin's journey tracing the history of the house and all the discoveries he makes. Happy reading 📚 ❤
Having been on a similar journey myself, that sounds right up my street. 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
Thank you Louise for another great video! The Chris Hatfield book sounds like the perfect companion to Orbital! 2 books that have stuck with me over the years: Murder in Peking by Paul French and In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson.
Thanks so much for the recommendations, I haven’t read either of them 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@ we were just at the Cambridge literary festival and saw Laura Cummings talk about Thunderclap with such passion that I can’t wait to read it. We also saw Harriet Walter read from her new book on heroines in Shakespeare; it is a really wonderful book, you have to read the bit she wrote for the witches in Macbeth!
You may already have seen, but Chris Hadfield is doing a UK tour next year 😊 I haven't read his book yet though so I will definitely have to give that a go!
Oh cool! I must try to catch him. Thanks so much for the tip off 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
Adding several of your recommendations to my TBR, and I’m going to check out Tom Wilson’s music. Thanks for the recommendations!
Please let me know what you think of his music 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
I really enjoyed brother do you love me! I’ve just started The Black Angels by Maria Smilios which is about a group of black nurses who went to work at Sea View TB hospital on Staten Island in the late 1920s. They took care of New York City’s poorest residents and became a vital part of the race to find a cure for TB but have been erased from history.
Blimey! There are so many amazing untold stories about women! Thank you for letting me know about this one 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
Always a joy to watch your videos, Louise, love that you champion these non-fiction books 🥰 I’ve read some really incredible ones - and still have some from the women’s prize to go! If you hadn’t already read it, I’d fully recommend A Flat Place which I thought was just exceptional. Otherwise I’ll try to contain myself 😂 But off the top of my head I’d say: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe about The Troubles, It’s Not About the Burqa edited by Mariam Khan, Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis and Recognising the Stranger by Isabella Hammad (but yeah, I could go on 😅).
Oh, and Manifesto is high up on my list to read soon! Hope you’re doing well and love the sound of a walk in the snow ❄️
Thank you so much. The Burqa book has been on my radar for a while - I must get to it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
Hi Louise,
Thanks for sharing non-fiction suggestions, I love weaving non-fiction amongst my usual novels, and it was nice to see two references to Canadians on your list.
I've recently read and enjoyed The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading from James Patterson.
Another favorite read this year is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents from Isabel Wilkerson. Definitely recommended reading - it really helped me get a better grasp of past and current events in the United States.
Thank you, you’ve given me some real food for thought there 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
Hi Louise, Interesting video - thank you! The Chris Hadfield book sounds enticing.
I always recommend ANYTHING by Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21 st Century .. all of them brilliant. I have just ordered his latest - NEXUS - today and cannot wait for it to arrive.
Another favourite recommendation of mine if Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ book Women who Run with the Wolves. It was first published in 1992 and is an astonishing book.
Love Harari and Estes’ book will be one I look out for 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚💛💛💛
I didn’t know Chris Hadfield wrote a book but I just listened to him on Desert Island Discs and found him brilliant and fascinating!!
I would recommend to you James Rebanks’ The Place Of Tides about his summer on an island in Norway with an eiderdown “duck woman”. Absolutely beautiful writing and a story of one woman’s drive and determination to uphold tradition and work towards conserving the dwindling population of ducks.
That sounds very interesting and I haven’t come across it before 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚💛💛💛
OMG. That sounds great.
A memoir that I recently picked up from the Black Britain Writing Back Series and also sharing some similarities with Red Dust Road, is My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah-Azieb Pool. Hannah was born in Eritrea and adopted by a white couple who were working there, from an orphanage. They were told that she was an orphan, but as a young adult she discovered that her father was still alive.
Oh my goodness! That sounds really engaging 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
I am enjoying The Tree Line by Ben Rawlence - he travels around the Arctic looking at the changing tree line and what it means for the people living there and the world - really fascinating, I think it was on the shortlist for the Wainwright prize last year.
That sounds really unusual. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
I highly recommend The Editor by Sara B. Franklin (if it has been published in the UK). The life and work of the remarkable Judith Jones and the authors she cultivated, the behind the scenes publishing stories in the industry’s heyday, and a woman challenged by the cultural obstacles of her time. World of Wonders is a beautifully told and evocative memoir/natural history by poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
Thank you so much for your recommendations 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
Jackie Kay has a novel out called Trumpet. I have not read it yet.
Me neither but I’m looking forward to it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
just started reading The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham Hardcover by Lucy Hughes-Hallettn --- its absolutely brilliant, Louise!
Another one I haven’t come across, will keep my eyes peeled 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚💛💛💛
Listening from America, I’m thinking it might be time to revisit some non fiction George Orwell.
I do love his essays, just struggle to think of him in the same way since Wifedom 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵
@ what in the world is wifedom? Another attempt to destroy another dead person?
I'm starting A Gentleman From Japan, a visitor to the Court of Elizabeth I. I gave up on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott, like Houdini, giving logical explanations. What fun is that when you enjoy ghostie stories? I don't believe in them. I, too, believe in a never-ending supply of charlatans and evil people, but a fantasy is fun.😮 I like Space in fiction, I don't want to go there or even ride a rollercoaster.😅 I bought Orbital.
I like the sound of A Gentleman From Japan, will look out for it 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚💛💛💛
MpYou must read Say Nothing by Paterick Radden Keefe my 5* non fiction book of the month .❤
Thank you, I’ll look it up 🙏🙏🙏📚📚📚💛💛💛
Wasn’t it Space Oddity that Chris Hadfield sang in space?
Thank you! Think you’re right 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏📚📚📚