Reading Wrap Up for January and February Plans
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Joel and I had a great reading month to kick off 2025, and we’ll tell you about everything we read (with Teddy and Scout as well). Expand for more information. 👇
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Last Month’s Wrap-Up: • Reading Wrap-Up for De...
January Book Haul: • A Big Book Haul for Ja...
Reading Review for 2024 (and 2025 Plans): • 2024 Reading Review an...
Do I Want to Read These Upcoming Books? • Do I Want to Read Thes...
Book Haul Revisit for January: • Book Haul Revisit for ...
The Best Books of 2024: • The Best Books of 2024
Honorable Mentions for 2024: • Honorable Mentions for...
The Best Nonfiction of 2024: • The Best Nonfiction Bo...
The Worst Books of 2024: • The Worst Books of 2024
Most Anticipated Books of 2025: • The Most Anticipated B...
Titles Mentioned 📚
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger: bookshop.org/a...
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey: bookshop.org/a...
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing: bookshop.org/a...
Isaac’s Song, Daniel Black: bookshop.org/a...
The Anthropologists, Ayșegül Savaș: bookshop.org/a...
The Falcon and the Foe, AJ Truman: bookshop.org/a...
The Mayor and the Mystery Man, AJ Truman: bookshop.org/a...
The Barkeep and the Bro, AJ Truman: bookshop.org/a...
The Fireman and the Flirt, AJ Truman: bookshop.org/a...
Grief is Love: Living With Loss, Marisa Renee Lee: bookshop.org/a...
Wicked, Gregory Maguire: bookshop.org/a...
Four Squares, Bobby Finger: bookshop.org/a...
Tartufo, Kira Jane Buxton: bookshop.org/a...
32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line, Eric Ripert: bookshop.org/a...
Blue Light Hours, Bruna Dantas Lobato: bookshop.org/a...
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths, Barbara Comyns: bookshop.org/a...
The Hills Is Lonely, Lillian Beckwith
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey: bookshop.org/a...
To the Bright Edge of the World, Eowyn Ivey: bookshop.org/a...
Black Woods, Blue Sky, Eowyn Ivey: bookshop.org/a...
Hue and Cry, James Alan McPherson: bookshop.org/a...
Other Titles Mentioned 📕
The Ship Beneath the Ice, Mensun Bound: bookshop.org/a...
Don’t Cry For Me, Daniel Black: bookshop.org/a...
Ebook Links 📱
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger: bookshop.org/a...
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey: bookshop.org/a...
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing: bookshop.org/a...
The Ship Beneath the Ice, Mensun Bound: bookshop.org/a...
Isaac’s Song, Daniel Black: bookshop.org/a...
Don’t Cry For Me, Daniel Black: bookshop.org/a...
Grief is Love: Living With Loss, Marisa Renee Lee: bookshop.org/a...
Four Squares, Bobby Finger: bookshop.org/a...
Tartufo, Kira Jane Buxton: bookshop.org/a...
32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line, Eric Ripert: bookshop.org/a...
Blue Light Hours, Bruna Dantas Lobato: bookshop.org/a...
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths, Barbara Comyns: bookshop.org/a...
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey: bookshop.org/a...
To the Bright Edge of the World, Eowyn Ivey: bookshop.org/a...
Black Woods, Blue Sky, Eowyn Ivey: bookshop.org/a...
Hue and Cry, James Alan McPherson: bookshop.org/a...
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Catcher in the Rye is my favorite novel and the one I’ve read the most times. I’m looking forward to your full Catcher video.
Scout seems like such a nice dog
I'm glad Joel has figured out ways to honor his mom, and good for you, Greg, for helping him do that. My mom's been dead for 27 years, but one way I honor her is with the number 33. I know this sounds bizarre but hang on... 33 is a number we had in common in about 33 (ha ha!) different and bizarre ways, and it always comes up for me after she died. Every time it does, I just say, "Hi Mom, love you!" You'd be surprised how that repetition can comfort. I think it just brings her alive for a few minutes, and she would laugh at this 33 thing, so it feels like a hug from mom, no matter where the 33 is found. (I once found it in a tub of hummus -- no joke -- she would have howled at that. 💚
I just finished The Book of Love by Kelly Link, which was okay-ish. I'm trying to figure out my next book. I'm reading the Tournament of Books for 2025, and I'm about half through, I think.
Notes from a Young Black Chef is great - especially on audio which Kwame narrates 😊
Audio definitely sounds like the way to go for that one. Thanks!
I am going to read my first Toni Morrison book for Black History Month.
Scout is a sweetie! I loved Endurance. You’ve made me want to read it again. With all their travails, they didn’t have the outdoor clothing that adventurers have today. They were remarkable men, as was Shackleton.
I appreciate the ways in which Joel honours his mother’s memory. My mother died many years ago. Each year on the anniversary of her birth, I take her spirit out for afternoon tea.🫖😊
That is just lovely. Bless you.
I love that tradition.
I read The Anthropologists while my husband and I were deciding on an Apartment in Shanghai. We decided to stay where we are for now. But the book is so similar to our experience.
Joel is a trooper. I used to get the worst anxiety taking the cats to the vet 12 minutes down the road. 😬
Thanks D. Hope all is well
I surprised myself when I was "tricked" into looking around my living room for the source of the pet snoring *again* full well knowing Teddy tends to snooze. Joel I think Scout and you have matching whiskers. 😉 Scout seems to have settled in nicely on your lap. I am sorry Teddy and Scout don't get on... Totally get having to put Teddy first. So many interesting titles mentioned. I think I need to reread Catcher in the Rye and prioritize The Snow Child. Take care of yourselves and stay strong.
#matchingmuzzles
Hi guys! I read Desert Solitaire and appreciated for the trip in the past when we could enjoy a view without a phone and people taking selfies everywhere! 😅
That is a great point. Simpler times.
oh I need to read Grief is love! I lost my mom in 2003 of cancer and had my son in 2010. Since then I haven’t accepted the idea that she didn’t have the chance to meet her grandson and vice versa. I don’t know if it will ever heal… 😔
I have "Endurance" and have been meaning to read... for some reason...I thought it was a recent publication from like the last 5 years or so. I just read the back in a bookstore and bought it without any previous knowledge of the story and I feel like it was displayed like right up front at B&N or something.... not that it really matters if it from a long time ago. My son saw it on the shelf and read and loved it. He couldnt' get over it and he mostly reads fantasy so I was happy he tried something different. I've got to get to it!
It remains a popular book, and I absolutely see why. I hope you enjoy it!
I read Issac's song in January and loved it!
I agree that even if a person doesn't enjoy Wicked the book you could still enjoy the musical. I happen to like both, but I know the book is pretty dark and slow read. It makes me smile to your fur babies.
Just also want to add to food memoirs. I love Ruth Reichel when she was food critic and I listened to My Life in Provence which was absolutely lovely
I'm reading Girl, Woman Other by Bernadinne Evaristo for Black History Month....😊
I just finished The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King by Harry Trevaldwyn. It hooked me with the tagline “Heartstopper meets the Derry Girls” it’s fluff but I did laugh out loud several times.
I really loved Four Squares. Thank you for the recommendation.
Reading Four Squares now. I like it so far.
@ I’m very curious to hear what you think about it.
I'm kind of opposite... I don't like the show "Wicked", but boy, I love the book!
Lot's of people love the book!
Ooh! There’s a movie of Endurance with Kenneth Branagh? He’s one of my favorite actors! I’ve seen him on the London stage twice now and of course have seen a bunch of his films. I will have to search for that!
I finally finished Josephine Tey’s The Child of Time last night (review on Insta). I moved to one of the many library books I have piled up right now. (I can definitely sympathize with library apocalypse.) It’s a 1980s translated crime book called Murder at Mt Fuji by Shizuko Natsuki and it’s very good so far. A much quicker read than the Josephine Tey. But after finishing the Tey, I went to Pango and ordered the first book in her Alan Grant series for $1.50 (plus shipping, of course). I want to see if her other books are as interesting or if it was just the mystery of Richard III that drew me into The Child of Time.
I will be listening to Lie With Me by Philippe Besson for Simon’s Patreon book club tonight. The discussion is tomorrow, but it’s like a 4 hour book. I read the physical book last year and absolutely adored it (LGBTQ). I recently picked up another book of his called In The Absence of Men that I hope to read in the coming months.
Great video!
OMG books into musicals...I read Wicked years ago, and I cannot bring myself to see the play or watch the movie. Les Miserable as a musical freaked me out. I mean, what were they thinking?
I actually love Les Mis the musical! But it was one of the first two musicals I saw as a child, so the scale of the production and the music will always have a special place in my heart.
Are you keeping the Christmas tree up till Easter 😂😂😂😂
I don't think they take it down.
I’m waiting for my library to purchase “Tartufo” and I’m on the waiting list for “The Anthropologists.” I’m planning to get my hands on a copy of “Mutual Interest” by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith today.
I really like Tartufo. Fun read.
I'm reading 'Home Place: A Coloured Man's Love Affair With Nature' for Black History Month. In Scandinavia they have Allemansrätten, or "everyman's right" to wild spaces and I wish the author Drew Lanham had that right in the USA. I remember a time when I was blatantly stealing unpicked pears and was offered a ladder by the owner. That is white girl privilege, and also very Canadian.
Question. I got Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey in my BOTM box. Do I need to read The Snow Child first?
I don't believe so. It's not a follow up to The Snow Child, so you should be fine.
They were called cocktail tables in the 40s.
I had never heard them called anything but coffee tables until we purchased that one.
@@SupposedlyFun Could have been more frequent in Southern California.
According to Google Ngram use in books started in 1890s, peaked in 1951, less usage 1965-1995, increased to smaller peak 2012-2016, declining again.
Since 1925, coffee table has been much more frequently used in books.
My apologies if this posts twice. I read most types of romance, not romantasy, and I try to be out loud about it as I think it's a much maligned genre mostly written by and enjoyed by women. So I have thoughts. Anyway, if you're interested in M/ M romance, I would suggest Sarina Bowen and Rachel Reid. Some , not all, of Sarina Bowens books center on hockey, which is sort of an obsession of mine-Minnesota born-her Hockey Guys series is sweet and really enjoyable read. RR books are definitely more spicy, but also puts her characters on the spectrum of queerness and sexuality. Some characters have MH, family issues etc. I don't know if you'd go for this, but the books by both authors are set in the fantasy world of acceptance by a super machismo sport. It's sort of cool to read about teammates defending their gay/bi teammates and no one being overtly punished for being who they are.