An Irresponsibly Large Book Haul for July 2024
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- I went a little crazy hauling books in July. But I'm really excited about all the stuff I got! Expand for more information. 👇
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Last Month’s Book Haul: • Book Haul for June 2024
July’s Book Haul Revisit: • Book Haul Revisit for ...
My Most Anticipated Book Released for the Rest of 2024: • My Most Anticipated Bo...
My Most Anticipated Book Releases for the Middle of 2024: • Exciting Upcoming Book...
Titles Mentioned 📚
Highway Thirteen, Fiona McFarlane: bookshop.org/a...
The Burrow, Melanie Cheng: bookshop.org/a...
The World With Its Mouth Open: Stories, Zahid Rafiq: bookshop.org/a...
Masquerade, Mike Fu: bookshop.org/a...
Do Tell, Lindsay Lynch: bookshop.org/a...
Housemates, Emma Copley Eisenberg: bookshop.org/a...
There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak: bookshop.org/a...
Sandwich, Catherine Newman: bookshop.org/a...
The Coast Road, Alan Murrin: bookshop.org/a...
Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange: bookshop.org/a...
Just for the Summer, Abby Jimenez: bookshop.org/a...
The Country Girls Trilogy, Edna O’Brien: bookshop.org/a...
Nocturnes For the King of Naples, Edmund White: bookshop.org/a...
The Corner of Rife and Pacific, Thomas Savage:
Someone, Alice McDermott: bookshop.org/a...
All We Shall Know, Donal Ryan: bookshop.org/a...
Strange Flowers, Donal Ryan: bookshop.org/a...
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III: bookshop.org/a...
The Souvenir Museum, Elizabeth McCracken: bookshop.org/a...
Amy & Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout: bookshop.org/a...
Celestial Navigation, Anne Tyler: bookshop.org/a...
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Such an interesting haul! I never consider book hauls irresponsible (as long as I can afford them) even though I own more books than I can ever possibly read. Bringing them home is just such a joy. I don’t spend money on fancy shoes or bags or whatever most women buy to bring themselves happiness, I don’t go out to eat and can’t travel due to chronic illness, so books are my splurge.
I’m excited you’ll be reading Celestial Navigation, it’s one of my favorites. It’s the book that made me realize I wanted to be a novelist, and create characters as wonderfully quirky, and now writing is my career, so I’ll always be grateful. I hesitated to recommend it because Jeremy is autistic-coded, and I’m not sure how that depiction will hold up in 2024. (My kiddo is likely autistic, so I’m sensitive to this.) But at least in my memory I think it was handled carefully and lovingly, and I do want to read it again someday, so I’m looking forward to seeing what you think. (If you want to continue with Tyler, I’d also highly recommend The Accidental Tourist, which I also loved.) Happy reading, Greg!
Thanks for the helpful feedback on Celestial Navigation. And I also don't really spend money on anything other than books, so it does help me feel less guilty.
Thank you, Greg!🌷Book hauls are (almost😉) never irresponsible, just great fun, and I love watching these videos and… buying books😂I’ve read Thunderstruck by Elizabeth McCracken and, even though I’m not really a huge short-story reader, I enjoyed it so much that it inspired me to read more also by other authors. I’ve read the Lucy Barton books by Elizabeth Strout, and am now listening to Olive Kitteridge and loving it. I’m going to listen also to Olive Again, preparing for Tell Me Everything coming out in September. I think Kimberly Farr does a great job as narrator of these audio books.
I was thinking that audio might be a good way to go for Strout, so thank you. And thanks for the feedback on McCracken! I’ve heard a lot about her work from critics but not from other readers, so that’s good to know.
The Burrow sounds interesting, but as a bunny owner, I'm not sure I could read it if bad things happen to the bunny.
Added a bunch of books to my TBR.
Hopefully, the bunny will be fine by the end! I hope you enjoy any of the books you pick up.
I hope you’ll add Evenings & Weekends to your immediate tbr. It’s an exquisite exploration of love, sexuality, gender, found family that I adored and I think you will too. I just finished it today and I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s one of those books you’ll want to hug tightly after you finish it. A highlight of my reading year :).
I have the audio of Evenings & Weekends saved and hope to get to it soon!
I’m looking forward to next year’s book haul revisit
😂 😬
IMO, Amy and Isabelle is Strout's best work. It's certainly my favorite. I've read it four times, just for the pleasure of the writing.
That's good to know--thanks.
Oh I would love to see the long version! I wish you could save it and post a link. I would LOVE to hear long descriptions about the books. Half the books.
So much goodness here! And thank you for making my day with 47 minutes of delight! I totally agree about Sandwich and The Coast Road. I listened to both on audio and loved them!
I put Masquerade on my list immediately. It sounds fascinating and I love the surreal! I’ve been looking at that edition of Edmund White’s Nocturnes for quite a while on Blackwell’s, just entranced by the cover. I didn’t realize it was already out here. I’ll be ordering a copy at my local this weekend! I recently bought the pb of There, There as I never read it back when it came out and I wanted to read it before picking up Wandering Stars. I’m hoping to get to There, There before summer is over. I put Someone on my library TBR. And I’ve been going back and forth over Elif Shafak’s latest for a while. It sounds so intriguing, but it’s sooo long. Well, you managed to push me over the edge today and I ordered the UK edition, which has such a beautiful cover. I probably should have gone with audio, but I bit the bullet and went for the physical copy. I too still have to read 10 Minutes 38 Seconds and The Island of Misfit Trees (which I can’t help but call that book), but I do really like the sound of her new one.
Edit: I forgot Highway Thirteen! That is going on my list too!
You are such an influencer! 😉🤣💜
🤗 So many exciting books coming out! The cover of the Edmund White really is stunning.
When you said at the beginning that you had a lot of books to talk about I looked at the time, 10 til 12, and thought no way, you’ll be up another hour! I laughed when I saw the YT blurb, I bought too many books. My problem is juggling books on Libby. I do buy some definitely independent bookstore books here, but they are in Spanish! I love all stories! And ones that have maps, etc.
Everyone must be reading Sandwich, I still have a 22 week wait!
Oh yeah, I meant to add that I really liked the Alison Cochrun book. Most readable!
I'm so glad you liked the Cochrun! And it does seem like a lot of people are reading Sandwich right now.
Love an irresponsible naughty book haul, i do it all the time😂😂😂
😂 😂 😂 🥂
All We Shall Know was my first Donal Ryan. I really liked it. The lack of quotation marks didn’t bother me. I picked it up in a little free library so I had no idea what it was about beforehand. Fortunately I am not bothered by thoughts of ending one’s life or pregnancy because this book’s main character contemplates what to do about her situation. I also enjoyed The Thing About December by Donal Ryan which has heavy trigger warnings too.
The more people tell me they love his work the more I want to get to it!
House of Sand and Fog is so good, as is the movie.
I look forward to both someday.
Book hauls are awesome! I love to watch them and make them. I’ve added Sandwich to my wishlist.
I hope you like it!
There will be more books to buy out there. If you can afford and books make you happy then book hauls are fun and exciting. Enjoy your reading xx❤❤❤
Amen to that! 🥂
I have only watched the movie House of Sand and Fog and it was a tear jerker for sure. I have a copy of the book so I am sure at some point I would love to read it. Many excellent titles reviewed today. I have many of the Elizabeth Strout novels as when I see them at the library book sales or other inexpensive copies I snatched them right up. I had a bit of a irresponsible book haul month myself. Time to get reading!!! I did purchase a new bookcase with some retirement gift money so I will have fun rearranging my book collection soon!
Rearranging books for new bookshelves is so fun to me. Enjoy it!
Having loved “The Queen of Dirt Island,” I plan to go on a Donal Ryan bender in the near future. 😄
If I see a copy of that one I'll probably grab it, too. Although I should probably read one of his books before I collect the whole set. 😂
Greg - you simply must read The Island of Missing Trees!!!!!
Of course the only one I don’t have. 🤣😂
Anne Tyler is the best! She has a new book coming out in 2025.
I already have it on my list of upcoming 2025 books. I’m excited to read more of her work.
I’m currently listening to the audio of The Coast Road. It’s set in Donegal in the run up to the referendum on divorce. The Catholic Church was very much against it. The population voted for for divorce and it was one of the first pillars to be toppled in the churches hold over the country. The vote on equal marriage and abortion followed.
I didn't know there was an audio edition "The Coast Road." I may have to reread it - this time with my ears.
I hope you like it!
The narrator of the audio is very good.
Will be seeing Elizabeth Strout and Andre Dubus III in Nashville this fall. Strout will be at Parnassus in September and Dubus will be at the Southern Festival of Books in October
I'm so jealous! I want to attend a Parnassus event someday.
I just finished reading a short story collection and liked 5 out of 7 stories.... Heartbreaking!!
It's called The Accusation by Bandi -forbidden stories from inside North Korea....
Liking 5 out of 7 is not a bad outcome!
@@SupposedlyFun agree 💯
Do check it out please
There was a spike in my book purchases because July is my birth month. It was mostly a heavy buying month
because I’m scared about the election. Kamala Harris may keep me from bankruptcy.
Happy birthday month! Book retail therapy is definitely a thing.
Love this video! Most of these you got on sale, for free, or for a couple of bucks -- we need to celebrate the relief of the unbearable anxiety -- so, no guilt! I read Someone years ago when the author, Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover, Martin Marten,) recommended it to me. He said that Alice McDermott was the "voice" of New York -- that she "owned" it, which I found interesting. I'm so all over All We Shall Know -- grim opening and all! You got Celestial Navigation! I recommended it, and DATHR, to you and I'm super thrilled you're trying CN now. I've got The Coast Road and Amongst Women on their way to me, yay! Our book symbiosis is on point! Please tell me your anxiety has been vastly reduced? We dodged a gigantic, world-changing bullet, I think. 💚
Anxiety is definitely lower but by no means gone. It's been great to see people starting to get energized this week, but there's a long road to November. 🤞
@SupposedlyFun agreed -- it was great to surgically disconnect my shoulders from my ears, but yes, November is a ways off. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 Eep! 😬🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
As you enjoy short story collections then I'd thoroughly recommend Address Book by Neil Bartlett, which is an LGBTQ+ collection. It's wonderful.
I just looked it up and it sounds interesting! Thanks for the recommendation.
Your first two books are Australian! And I haven't seen either of them in stores here yet. Highway 13 is only released here next week, I'll certainly be picking up a copy (our cover is really quite different- and much nicer I think). Any Australian will immediately think of Ivan Milat, I presume this book is based on his crimes.
I didn't know what the crimes were based on, so thank you! The longer (lost) version of the book descriptions did include that they were Australian. I lost those details when I refilmed to go shorter.
I just started seeing your video and will continue till the end 😊but I have been waiting since yesterday to tell you this...
I READ DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT!!!😊😊😊
And it was soooooo nice!!!A 5⭐read for me!!!
Thank you for recommending it....
I have added The Blue Spool of thread by the same author to my tbr....
Anything else you might recommend?
I'm so glad you liked it! The only other book of Anne Tyler's I've read so far is Breathing Lessons (which was her Pulitzer winner). I need to reread it now that I'm not 18, because I don't think I appreciated it then. But I mostly hear good things about The Accidental Tourist.
@@SupposedlyFun will check out both... thank you 😊
That’s the second book I’ve heard about with the title masquerade though the other one had a female protagonist. Which reminded of the super hero of the same name who was in project super powers . She has mini series and readers collection you can get of her golden age comics she a mystery woman who uses a
Martial arts in the golden age in modern comics she has super power from being trapped in Pandora’s box by the fighting yank and she gains the power to take over people’s body’s .
If it’s ok I’ll recommend a couple of books
1 blue sued clues by Daniel Klein
It’s part of a four book series and is Elvis Presley fiction. Blending real life events with fiction as Elvis becomes a detective.
2. The mother hunt a Nero Wolfe mystery by rex
When a recent widow of famous writer finds a baby boy on her door step claiming her husband is the father .can Nero Wolfe and Archie help find mother learn the truth of this mother hunt .
There is also a book called the father hunt . But I haven’t read that one aside from the name I don’t think there isn’t any connection between the to .
3. Captain future summer 41 it’s a reprint of a old pulp magazine from adventure house presents
Take my advice get the three pack offer .
Thank you for the recommendations! I’ve only read one Nero Wolfe mystery and I think it was the first in the series. Elvis as a detective sounds like a hoot!
You definitely need to read All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker… 😊
You're not the first person to say so, so I will have to look at it more closely.
Where is beautiful fur baby Teddy?
He was taking a nap in the cool hallway for most of the video.