Let's Catch Up | Everything I Read In July
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- We're done with the Booker Prize, which means it's time for me to catch up on all the videos I've been neglecting. We're starting with my July reading wrap-up.
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I love Fernanda Trias, her other book ‘the rooftop’ is even more eerie I think. Very much recommend it!
Thank you! I must hunt down a copy
Your discussion of “84, Charing Cross Road”-which I haven’t read-stirred memories of my long-ago preschool years. My family was then living in the country north of Hamilton, Ontario, and for a period of time, we had a young English couple living in our semi-finished basement. I can still remember the names of this young man and woman, but have no idea of how they came to be staying with us, though it’s a safe bet it had something to do with the war.
The couple eventually returned to England, and I can remember my mother sending them packages occasionally in the years thereafter. I imagine she sent them various food items and other semi-luxury goods that were still in short supply in the UK, for even though the British government officially ended rationing in July 1954, shortages persisted for years afterwards.
We would exchange Christmas cards every year, and I remember how odd the British Father Christmas appeared in comparison to our North American Santa Claus. Best of all, my younger sister and I periodically received packages from our former houseguests. These included various types of sweets, such as Blackpool candy, wine gums, and jelly babies, as well as politically incorrect golliwog dolls, and once a little stuffed hedgehog, that became my favourite stuffie.
We also received books, and these were how my sister and I were introduced to Noddy and Big Ears, and Rupert Bear and his friends. Once, we received a big English encyclopedia. These books always had a particular smell which, for some reason, I found comforting. As I grew older, I found this smell was common among other books printed in the UK, and I always interpreted its presence as a sign of quality.
It was through reading the Rupert Bear Annuals and the other children’s books my sister and I received from the UK, that I developed a nostalgic fondness for the idealized realm of the English village and the English countryside, aspects of English tradition that I still find present in the novels of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, the Bronte sisters, and numerous others.
This is so lovely. What a wonderful relationship you guys had. I'm sure everyone enjoyed the treats and gifts that were crossing the ocean!
I've never been to the UK and I have to go before I die. I grew up watching so much BBC TV because we didn't have cable and PBS had the best programing. I feel like my idea of what my adult life would look like is me living in a small english village. My heart honestly longs for it. Perhaps one day I'll be brave enough to move.
@@NerdyNurseReads Move to the UK? Surely not! You’d miss the Fall season and everything associated with it. Besides, I think life in an English country village would get pretty stultifying after a while.
My mother, sister, and I went on a two-week tour of the UK back in the 1980s. My overall impression of the country was that, yes, much of what we saw was very beautiful and touched our imaginations deeply, especially my mother, whose father was from Sussex. The whole of England is a garden, as Kipling once wrote. But so much of what we saw was on a miniature scale-houses, stores, vehicles, things in general-that anyone born and raised in North America would start to feel that the close-quarters, thatched-roof coziness was becoming confining after a while. When our tour group was in London visiting Dickens’ ‘The Olde Curiosity Shoppe’, I couldn’t help blurting out-callow youth that I was-“It feels more like ‘The Olde Claustrophobia Shoppe!’”
For myself, I daresay the UK is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there, the potent lure of BBC dramas and documentaries notwithstanding. I’d miss the changing seasons here in the Northeast; the cry of the loon; Vs of Canada geese overhead; blue jays, cardinals, and chickadees; even the chipmunks who make a nuisance of themselves digging in my flower pots. Most of all, I’d miss the sense of being surrounded by a vast continent, close to the shores of the inland sea of Lake Ontario, and by the knowledge that you’re only a 45 minute or hour’s drive away from forested wilderness-I’m sure it’s the same in your neck of the woods-where it’s ever so easy to become lost without even trying. I’d miss the spaciousness and still lingering newness of this New World.
I hope you were able to see the gorgeous full moon last night. I was out and about and able to see it emerge over the eastern horizon about 7:30 pm, as big and orange as the Great Pumpkin. I was up again in the early morning hours, by which time a rising ground mist was starting to obscure it high overhead.
Your wrap ups give me too many books to read!!!
You say that like it's a bad thing lol
You need to get into Tawny Man!!! It's CRAZY (but also has a very trauma-heavy last book with a somewhat unsatisfying ending)
I'm determined to start it this month
What an interesting selection of books! I bought the audio for Foster Dade after seeing Roro's review, then read reviews that suggested I'd probably have to look up words on every page, so audio probably wasn't the best way to go! I also just finished reading All Yours, and really enjoyed it. Ines was such a fascinating character, I'm really looking forward to Time of the Flies.
I have a JCO story...She lives in my home town, and I went to a talk she gave at a B&N years ago when I was in my early 20's, in a job I hated. My dream was to be able to quit and write for a living, but I'd just gotten a string of rejections from agents. I needed some kind of encouragement, so when I brough books up for her to sign I told her (in the way a 20 year old will) that I'd written two novels and was giving up hope. She signed one of the books saying, "Never forget you ARE a writer, and if it's truly your passion you should never, ever give up." A few years later my first book was published and became a national bestseller. And after my 3rd book, she was giving a talk at my local library...I brought that same book up to her, showed her what she'd written and told her I'd been able to quit my job and write for a living, and that she'd been such an inspiration. You should have seen her smile! And under her original note she wrote, "You see!!!!" So I'll always be a huge fan. 😊
Well I started reading Foster Dade, and I have no idea what those reviews are talking about, it’s not overly purplish, and there aren’t any words most people wouldn’t understand. Enjoying it so far! (I live just outside of Princeton, which makes this especially fun.)
OH YAY!! I'm so glad you're enjoying it! I found it really well written but not overdone or anything.
I love your JCO story! It's so wonderful when authors are supportive of other authors, especially new authors.
Not refilming a whole video...how bad was it? lol yay for someone agreeing with me about the end of Ship of Destiny
I was rambling too much and at one point I knocked a whole mug of coffee over onto the carpet. Oh and the lighting changed several times and StoryGraph was being a little bitch.
@@NerdyNurseReads but that fits your chaos goblin vibes 🤣
@@RodgersReads it was too much chaos
Not only do u read all those books u chart them statically in addition to your real (full-time?) job! You’re such a workaholic I feel guilty and shamed when I’m just SITTING here watching. All I have to do is be sure a 91-year old with dementia doesn’t fall on her way to the bathroom haha!⚛️❤️
Keeping your mom safe is a very important (and exhausting job)! You're doing good work, but make sure you take time for yourself too.
Ursula Parrott and her 1929 novel, “Ex-Wife”, receive a brief mention in a book I picked up at a local thrift store a few years ago, “The Technique of the Love Affair”, published anonymously in 1928. The author was given as, “by a Gentlewoman”, who turned out to be Doris Langley Moore, a novelist and nonfiction writer, who was also in demand as a costume designer for stage and screen throughout her lifetime, which lasted from 1902 to 1989.
The edition of “The Technique of the Love Affair” that I have was published in 1999, and might almost be called an annotated edition because of all the sidebar comments and quotes from other authors that the book’s editor, Norrie Epstein, has included to accompany the original text. Moore’s intent was to write a partly satirical but partly sincere step-by-step guide for young women seeking to attract a desirable husband. One thing Moore cautions her readers to avoid is “the bad boy” type. Not even feelings of charity should ever persuade a young woman to squander any of her time on “the reclamation of wastrels and degenerates”.
To judge by the amount of underlining and stars in the borders of the pages, the previous owner of my book was most interested in the chapters on flattery and maintaining a husband’s interest after marriage. With regard to flattery, Moore advises young women to let their male suitors feel they are their best versions of themselves, “strong, courageous, [and] generous”. For, “if you show him that you expect him to be a cad, then a cad he will be. Men will give you whatever you seem to ask of them. Ask much.”
As for married women, Moore encourages them to cultivate a small circle of male admirers. “They are desirable if only as a means of keeping her husband alert and herself fresh and youthful … the effort is very salutary.”
I’m reading Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth” at present, and I can’t help but think that the novel’s young heroine, Lily Bart, might have benefited from Moore’s book in her own quest to land a rich husband.
Whenever I read House of Mirth I can't help but think of Tess from Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Society lets both these women down.