Reading Wrap Up for February 2024
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- čas přidán 6. 03. 2024
- Joel and Teddy join me to wrap up the reading we did in the month of February. Expand for more information. 👇
Link 💻
The You’re Wrong About Episode About Flight 571: www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/11...
Bob the Bookerer’s Interview with Nathan Evans: • Talking to Nathan Evan...
Further Viewing 🎥
Last Month’s Wrap-Up: • Reading Wrap-Up for Ja...
Greg’s March Pile of Possibilities: • My Irish TBR for March
Titles Mentioned 📚
Alive, Piers Paul Read: bookshop.org/a/99775/97800607...
Neighbors and Other Stories, Diane Oliver: bookshop.org/a/99775/97808021...
All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosby: bookshop.org/a/99775/97812508...
Diva 2.0: 12 Life Lessons From Me to Your, Sheryl Lee Ralph: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819598...
Dog Songs: Poems, Mary Oliver: bookshop.org/a/99775/97801431...
One Love, Matt Cain
Us, Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819545...
Epic, Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819545...
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, Curtis Chin: bookshop.org/a/99775/97803165...
The Royal Wulff Murders, Keith McCafferty: bookshop.org/a/99775/97801431...
One Last Song, Nathan Evans
Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame, Olivia Ford: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805936...
To the Moon and Back, N.R. Walker: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819258...
Open Throat, Henry Hoke: bookshop.org/a/99775/97803746...
Everything For You, Chloe Liese: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805936...
North Woods, Daniel Mason: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805935...
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I found your channel around the beginning of this year and enjoy all your content. I’m now ordering books from the UK, because I obviously didn’t have enough on my TBR! 😂 Funny story… I was in Vegas about a month ago and was alone in my hotel room watching one of your videos. I swore I could hear the people in the next room breathing! Paused the video, nothing. Resumed video and a few seconds later the hair stood up on the back of my neck! I could hear someone breathing, right behind me! I jumped out of bed, turned on the lights…nothing. When I started the video again I finally realized I was hearing Teddy’s breathing/snores! So while I love seeing Teddy on the videos, I believe he took a few years off my life that night! 😂🥰
I'm sorry his breathing scared you! I try to let people know that he's snoring when it starts to happen, but sometimes I forget. I'm so glad you're enjoying my channel. 🥂 📚
“We’ll be your gay friends.” ❤😂 I love these wrap ups with the whole fam.
My favorite Feb reads:
The Berry Pickers (Amanda Peters)
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Wintering (Katherine May)
Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
Mrs S (K Patrick, and one of my favorite reads to date)
Dune (Frank Herbert; I was so surprised I enjoyed it so much, and the Dune 2 movie is amazing)
The Secret Life of Albert Eintwitzel (Matt Cain; based on your recommendation!)
Night of the Living Rez (Morgan Talty)
All the Sinners Bleed was my first Cosby book and I think it’s my favorite of his. The narrator for this and Razorblade Tears is fire! 🔥 I also started Matrix in Feb and sadly DNFd-maybe I’ll try it again someday since so many love it. I adored North Woods, also one of my very favorite reads. Eagerly waiting for Heaven & Earth coming up on my library hold.
March is going to be a hot mess of trying to juggle the Women’s prize nonfiction & fiction lists plus a bunch of books I’ve started and then got attacked by squirrels and still need to finish, plus random titles from my favorite book tubers that sound just too good to wait on. Too many books!
I do worry about the stress levels of anyone trying to read both Women’s Prize lists this year. Hang in there! I’m so glad you liked Albert Entwhistle and Night of the Living Rez! What a fascinating bunch of reads.
Squirrels take priority! Right Teddy? My best books of February are
Hello Beautiful
Greta & Valdin
The Bandit Queens
The Caretaker
Ordinary Human Failings
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I’m really looking forward to Greta and Valdin.
Watched Alive as a kid and had nightmares, watched Society Of Snow recently and thought it was excellent
It’s such a well made movie:
Like Teddie, I saw my squirrel and have enjoyed your diverse read habits.
Thank you!
Squirrel! So funny! 😂🤣
He’s a doodle!
You two (and Teddy) are so cute. I love how Joel likes the ... one year later updates. I like those too! ❤
I love how excited he gets when there’s a one year later!
You three couldn’t be more fun to watch! 💜💜💜xxx
Absolutely agree on All The Sinners Bleed!
Dog Songs! OMG! That poem! 😭😭😭💜💜💜
You have me really curious about One Love with the changing ratings! I’m definitely going to pick up a copy on my next trip to London, which, shockingly, may be the end of June! Gasp! Total tourist season and summer to boot!
I listened to The Hummingbird’s Gift over the weekend and loved it! So glad you both recommended it! I will definitely move on to some of Sy’s other work.
For the guy who likes the snow and cold, I can definitely recommend Blizzard by Marie Vingtras translated from the French. It’s a very quick read and an ostensibly simple plot, but there is so much more behind it. I think Joel might like it. (Definitely no cinnamon bun action though.)
I listened to Winter Love by Han Suyin over the weekend too and really enjoyed it!
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal was also fantastic on audio! Highly recommended!
And from the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist, I listened to Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. Really, really outstanding. Even if you just listen to the chapter and Israel and Palestine, written before current events, it would be well worth your time.
Isn’t that poem wonderful?? I’m so glad you enjoyed Winter Love and The Hummingbird’s Gift. Such good books. I have Eastbound saved on Scribd and still want to get to it. And how exciting that you will being London soon! Even if it’s in the busy season.
Love you guys! I like that you don’t read the usual book tuber books. Also, thank you for the new podcast mention - giving it a go👍🏽
I hope you like it! Thanks for the kind words.
If you want to try S.A. Cosby, but are apprehensive, I recommend looking up some of his short stories. I've run across a couple of them in various anthologies (the 2023 Best Mystery and Suspense is the one the first comes to mind) and they have all been excellent. He's a really tight writer so, in short story film, there is less violence so they might be a good on ramp to his work.
That’s a great idea. Thank you for the suggestion.
I recommend McEwan Scotch Ale if you feel like crossing the border sometime. It is delicious and very strong. Have a great trip.
Just love listening to the videos on the way home from work. I feel like I have company in the car talking about books which is one of my favorite things to listen to and talk about❤ I'll have re watch the video so I can get my teddy time in
Teddy is so funny. What a cutie he is!
@SupposedlyFun As always, Greg and Joel, thanks for sharing Teddy with us. I love the connection he has with the both of you and it shines through.
Not directly related to sightseeing in Dublin, but if you want to go to an independent bookstore, check out Chapters on Parnell Street.
You probably already know this but Jonathan Swift was the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral and his grave is there. And yes, there is a statue of Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square Park
Chapters is on our list! I didn't realize Swift was buried at St. Patrick's--thanks!
Such a fun relaxed video, thanks so much. S A Cosby Razor Blade Tears my husband enjoyed and I have just ordered him All The Sinners Bleed.
Teddy always is such a treat to see!
Teddy is such a card. I hope your husband likes All the Sinners Bleed.
Because of you I know about Curtis Chin. And he is coming to my local library for a book talk and signing this month!! Thank you for expanding my book knowledge. (and thanks for sharing Teddy with us)
That's so cool! I hope it's a good event.
I loved Razorblade Tears, but All the Sinners Bleed was my favorite so far of S.A. Cosby. Read Alive in the 70s, but it’s a hard book to forget! Excited to read the Olivia Ford book too.
I definitely need to get to S.A. Cosby this year.
Hi! I’m always interested by Joel’s cold adventures! 🥶 I watch Cecilia Blomdahl here on YT. She lives on Svalbard and it’s beautiful! Polar night, polar bears, a lot of snow and beautiful landscape. I just bought The memoirs of Stockholm Sven set in this town and can’t wait to read it. Hopefully, before winter ends.
I'm halfway through One Love. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I don't like most of the characters, but I am going to finish it because I want to see how it ends. I hope Danny finds some peace.
Joel and I had the same feeling but were glad we stuck with it. I hope you feel the same!
Great video! Looking forward to checking out Alive and Mrs. Quinn. I really enjoyed Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer years ago. I love books and shows that take place in a frozen setting.
Into Thin Air is on my long term TBR. Someday!
@@SupposedlyFun I’m not much of a nonfiction reader and I still enjoyed it.
@pancakeday4866, love both the books, another twisted snow climbing book is “Touching the Void”. So good
That story of the plane crash is very old. I washed the original mocie in Spanish long time ago.
It was rough. 😢
Everything old is new again! I read Alive in the 70s and there was, I think, an Uruguayan movie at that time as well.
I also read Alive as a kid in the 70s and it freaked me out. I've never forgotten it!
I had only seen the 90s movie with Ethan Hawke before this.
Ugh! I may have misspoke! The movie I saw was Survive!, which was a Mexican made film based on the book Survive! by Clay Blair. I guess there were competing books at the time. I do know I read Alive! because I was somewhat obsessed that his name had “Read” in it and that made it funny to me. I do know remember being confused why the book was Alive!, but the movie was Survive! And I knew that the movie wasn’t Chilean, despite the Andes.
By the way I was obsessed with all those Airport movies of the 70s, especially Helen Hayes as the grifter old lady, Helen Reddy as the singing nun and of course as any good gay boy I was obsessed with Karen Black landing that god damn plane all by herself! And then there was Airplane!
I loved Razorblade Tears and I have All The Sinners Bleed on my Kindle. I need to get to it.
Omg tedddddyyyyy ❤❤❤❤ he is so so so adorable❤❤
You both read so much! Ok back to the video, here for Teddy but also for the books 😂
Teddy is a star!
@@SupposedlyFun he’s gorgeous!
Tell Teddy our dog Nelson goes on squirrel watch too. We have a walk at the side of our house which they sit on and torment him😂 Think I need to read Matt Cain seeing as I'm in the UK and the three books sound really interesting. X
Jamie also had an eye for squirrels. One used to sit on the back fence and deliberately taunt her! We've obviously loved Matt Cain, so if you pick one up I hope you do, too!
I'm excited for the Irish books! I absolutely loved Open Throat, but I get how some folks will not. It's weird, isn’t it, how it's being marketed as a gay mountain lion? He likes watching people/animals having sex, which to my mind, doesn't necessarily mean he's gay or straight. 🤷🏻♀️ That ending, though! *Chef's kiss!*
It’s definitely an interesting book!
I can also vouch for “Razorblade Tears.” Great book! 😎📚👍
I look forward to catching up to it!
When you get around to discussing “Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame,” I’d like to hear Joel’s idea for an alternate ending.😀
I'm halfway through now so should be soon!
My mom and I listened to the podcast about the plane crash while traveling last year. I read a lot in February, but March I'm thinking of DNFing, Confederacy of Dunces.
I remember loving Confederacy of Dunces, but I really liked quirky books when I was in my early twenties. It will be interesting to see if it lands the same way when I reread it.
The book just isn’t for me.
Is S A Cosby not too harrowing? My March involves the Womens Prize longlist and the Stella Prize longlist so let's see how far I get with those.
I've heard that Cosby's books can be very intense, but without reading one yet I'm going off of what I've heard.
They are intense and disturbing. But so good.
When are you going to make Teddy a reader?
I think he's holding out until Sy Montgomery writes a book about squirrels. 😂