i love the way you describe books and how you go into so much detail about the vibes and the writing without actually giving too much away. perfect balance!
Ahh I'm glad!!I try not to go too into detail on the plot details since I know lots of people like to go into a book without knowing much, glad it works!!
your recent reads are slowly becoming my favorite videos of yours. i'm so excited to have some short story recommendations because it's so hard to find new ones!
It can be kind of hard to find collections since I think they succeed much more on execution than concept, so it's hard to know in advance if the style of the book will resonate with you. If you're looking for a great collection, Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor is one of my favourites!!
Writers are readers, yes. Poets especially. I have been reading *Roots Home - Essays and Journals* by Welsh poet Gillian Clarke (Carcanet 2021). She writes that the Welsh word for July is Gorffenaff. It means Summer's End. Gorffen, end. Haf, summer. Yet I think of July as midsummer. The British Government has issued a weather alert warning because of the heat, unprecedented.
Thanks for tipping us off about Astra by Cedar Bowers: I looked it up on Good Reads and will now order it. Calgary fascinates me. On Shaelin's last vlog a kind reader recommended She Rises by Kate Worsley which is on my Buy List too. Here are my paperbacks. *The Undercurrents - A Story of Berlin* (Fitzcarraldo) by Kirsty Bell is a layered memoir with friendly ghosts such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxembourg and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, gifted Germans who all met violent ends. A writer's writer. Specificity on every page. *Alexandria* by Paul Kingsworth (Faber paperback) is about a small community of survivors on the Fens of eastern England, echoes of Russell Hoban's post-apocalyptic novel, Riddley Walker. *The Painter's Friend* (Picador) the most engaging novel about an artist since The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary. *Sell Us the Rope* (Sandstone Press) by Stephen May is a novel of just 230 pages about Stalin as a young man in London England, a brilliant study of a conspirator, spy, bank robber and psychopath: the devil himself by another name.
Our Wives Under the Sea I liked a lot. I was warned about what it was like before so that probably helped. I feel like it’s like… heavily metaphorical though, and a lot of people take it as literal. And the exact same problem with Mona, how there’s so many intrusions of surrealism people didn’t pay attention to, and then the ending shocked and surprised them.
Shaelin, I so look forward to your "Recent Reads." These are some of my favorite videos. I would like to know what you think of Martha Schabas' "My Face in the Light" (Canadian author) if you get a chance to read it.
I've never heard none of these names before. Now my tbr is longer than before I've watched this video. I've discovered so many books I wouldn't have known about otherwise through your channel.
Thank you so much for sharing! These all sound amazing, and there are a bunch here I haven't heard of! I recently read My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi, published by Two Dollar Radio, and it blew me away. I can say that it is about a volcano that starts to emerge in the middle of Central Park...but other than that it is completely weird and completely impossible to explain. In other words, I loved it.
Oh!! Someone else who read My Volcano! Its definitively bizarre, but I honestly loved it. I love how it entangles its characters and the various events that happen in ways I honestly didn't really expect. It's so well grounded in real life emotions, too. I don't know anybody I could recommend it to, but it still has me thinking about it.
@@Yohannai I feel the same way! I adored it but have absolutely no idea who to recommend it to! But if we both loved it...then clearly there is an audience out there! I saw it described as a kaleidoscope - maybe that's even on the cover. But that's exactly what it was. All this bright, gem-like characters and story threads, that some invisible hand is twisting and shifting over and over. So cool.
@@eyesonindie Yess, I think it was on the back cover? But its such a perfect description of what it is... Wow now that I think about it a bit more it was probably intended that way, since it really twists colors and images this way and that. It feels exactly like a kaleidoscope. I'm glad we like it! And I'm sure it'll be one of those classic odd books people just happen onto, instead of find much through word of mouth
Specificity is the Tao. *Don't mess with Mister In Between.* (Top 25 Quotes by Johnny Mercer) Now we will all be reading Ye Chun (beautiful cover art), Zsuzsi Gartner, Julia Armfield, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson etc. At the end of every year I search online for your new voices in fiction & poetry ... Out of Canada, always something new.
On Specificity. A black bird flew across the zoo A crow flew across the zoo Shaelin's bird flew across the zoo Shaelin's crow flew across the zoo Which do you think is stronger? (I made this comment, just now, on the video about writing advice. I posted it here just to increase the likelihood of getting a reply. Or other comments.)
Shaelin's Crow. Stronger. As a title it catches the eye. The crow's eye? There is a review of Maura Dooley's collection The Silvering in Poetry Review (Summer 2016) an English quarterly. *Wakefield, you dirty bitch. You patron saint of brickyards and rickets, leaky filling in the mouth of the North. There is no better word for you than slag.* Wakefield is a post-industrial town in Yorkshire. Poor children got rickets, their bones deformed because of poor diet. Slag refers to industrial spoil-tips of the coal industry, artificial hills that grassed over in time. Slag is also a term of abuse. Wakefield is the birthplace of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) who married painter Ben Nicolson & lived in St Ives, Cornwall.
@@abdulmalikadeola Words, images, overheard conversations: out of context can be a wonderful tool. A black bird flew across ... is evocative too. Flew across, where? The graveyard if Blackfriars Church, Edinburgh? If you want to read a shockingly original animal novel get *A Black Fox Running* by Brian Carter. It is the tale of Wulfgar a fox like no other of Dartmoor, England, shadowed by his enemy Scoble, a ruthless gamekeeper. Although strictly naturalistic the story has a kind of occult power and Wulfgar, a survivalist is never sentimentalised. First published in 1981 and reissued in paperback it comes with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison author of the novel Clay. Ted Hughes devoured Tarka the Otter as a boy and must have read Black Fox: *101 Poems. Anthology (Various. Read by Ted Hughes.* *Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death.* CZcams.
Correction: Greyfriars Church, a 17th Century kirk associated with the Covenanters those grim religious fanatics who fascinated Stevenson in his unfinished novel Weir of Hermiston.
A big thanks for telling us about Manto (Wikipedia) my latest discovery. I have long been interested in Pakistan, India, Partition etc. Pakistan was always in the news because of Afghanistan. *A writer picks up his pen only when his sensibility is hurt,* Manto wrote in Urdu, reminding me of Auden who said Ireland hurt Yeats into writing poetry. Manto's family composed an enigmatic epitaph for him: *This is the grave of Saadat Hasan Manto, who still thinks his name was not the repeated word on the tablet of time.*
I love how your bookshelf keeps getting more and more crowded for every video that you make haha
Oh I am Running Out of Space
i love the way you describe books and how you go into so much detail about the vibes and the writing without actually giving too much away. perfect balance!
Ahh I'm glad!!I try not to go too into detail on the plot details since I know lots of people like to go into a book without knowing much, glad it works!!
your recent reads are slowly becoming my favorite videos of yours. i'm so excited to have some short story recommendations because it's so hard to find new ones!
It can be kind of hard to find collections since I think they succeed much more on execution than concept, so it's hard to know in advance if the style of the book will resonate with you. If you're looking for a great collection, Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor is one of my favourites!!
I live for your recent reads videos, it reminds me why I love CZcams and books.
thanks for always linking goodreads and making my life easier!
Writers are readers. Thank you for sharing these!
Writers are readers, yes. Poets especially.
I have been reading *Roots Home - Essays and Journals* by Welsh poet Gillian Clarke (Carcanet 2021).
She writes that the Welsh word for July is Gorffenaff. It means Summer's End. Gorffen, end. Haf, summer.
Yet I think of July as midsummer. The British Government has issued a weather alert warning because of the heat, unprecedented.
I love those videos😭✨ your reading taste is always amazing
yes!! I will end up loving every one of these books 😅😭
Every time you drop a recent reads i watch it immediately
love these recent reads videos, as always 😍 thank you for making such helpful reviews!
40 of these? Time reeeeeeeeally flies.
Doesn't make the wait for "Pareidolia" any easier.
My favourite book I’ve read recently was Astra by Cedar Bowers (I think on your recommendation but I honestly cannot remember)
Thanks for tipping us off about Astra by Cedar Bowers: I looked it up on Good Reads and will now order it. Calgary fascinates me.
On Shaelin's last vlog a kind reader recommended She Rises by Kate Worsley which is on my Buy List too. Here are my paperbacks.
*The Undercurrents - A Story of Berlin* (Fitzcarraldo) by Kirsty Bell is a layered memoir with friendly ghosts such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxembourg and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, gifted Germans who all met violent ends. A writer's writer. Specificity on every page.
*Alexandria* by Paul Kingsworth (Faber paperback) is about a small community of survivors on the Fens of eastern England, echoes of Russell Hoban's post-apocalyptic novel, Riddley Walker.
*The Painter's Friend* (Picador) the most engaging novel about an artist since The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary.
*Sell Us the Rope* (Sandstone Press) by Stephen May is a novel of just 230 pages about Stalin as a young man in London England, a brilliant study of a conspirator, spy, bank robber and psychopath: the devil himself by another name.
Our Wives Under the Sea I liked a lot. I was warned about what it was like before so that probably helped. I feel like it’s like… heavily metaphorical though, and a lot of people take it as literal.
And the exact same problem with Mona, how there’s so many intrusions of surrealism people didn’t pay attention to, and then the ending shocked and surprised them.
Yaaaasss!!!
Shaelin, I so look forward to your "Recent Reads." These are some of my favorite videos. I would like to know what you think of Martha Schabas' "My Face in the Light" (Canadian author) if you get a chance to read it.
Ohh I haven't heard of it, thanks for the recommendation!
I've never heard none of these names before. Now my tbr is longer than before I've watched this video. I've discovered so many books I wouldn't have known about otherwise through your channel.
Thank you so much for sharing! These all sound amazing, and there are a bunch here I haven't heard of! I recently read My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi, published by Two Dollar Radio, and it blew me away. I can say that it is about a volcano that starts to emerge in the middle of Central Park...but other than that it is completely weird and completely impossible to explain. In other words, I loved it.
Oh!! Someone else who read My Volcano! Its definitively bizarre, but I honestly loved it. I love how it entangles its characters and the various events that happen in ways I honestly didn't really expect. It's so well grounded in real life emotions, too. I don't know anybody I could recommend it to, but it still has me thinking about it.
@@Yohannai I feel the same way! I adored it but have absolutely no idea who to recommend it to! But if we both loved it...then clearly there is an audience out there! I saw it described as a kaleidoscope - maybe that's even on the cover. But that's exactly what it was. All this bright, gem-like characters and story threads, that some invisible hand is twisting and shifting over and over. So cool.
Ohh I read John Elizabeth Stintzi's debut Vanishing Monuments so I'll have to check out My Volcano!
@@eyesonindie Yess, I think it was on the back cover? But its such a perfect description of what it is... Wow now that I think about it a bit more it was probably intended that way, since it really twists colors and images this way and that. It feels exactly like a kaleidoscope.
I'm glad we like it! And I'm sure it'll be one of those classic odd books people just happen onto, instead of find much through word of mouth
@@ShaelinWrites I'm sure you'll love it, it often feels like a short story collection blending and merging threads. A really unique and good read!
Specificity is the Tao. *Don't mess with Mister In Between.* (Top 25 Quotes by Johnny Mercer)
Now we will all be reading Ye Chun (beautiful cover art), Zsuzsi Gartner, Julia Armfield, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson etc.
At the end of every year I search online for your new voices in fiction & poetry ... Out of Canada, always something new.
On Specificity.
A black bird flew across the zoo
A crow flew across the zoo
Shaelin's bird flew across the zoo
Shaelin's crow flew across the zoo
Which do you think is stronger?
(I made this comment, just now, on the video about writing advice. I posted it here just to increase the likelihood of getting a reply. Or other comments.)
Shaelin's Crow. Stronger. As a title it catches the eye. The crow's eye?
There is a review of Maura Dooley's collection The Silvering in Poetry Review (Summer 2016) an English quarterly.
*Wakefield, you dirty bitch.
You patron saint of brickyards and rickets,
leaky filling in the mouth of the North.
There is no better word for you than slag.*
Wakefield is a post-industrial town in Yorkshire. Poor children got rickets, their bones deformed because of poor diet.
Slag refers to industrial spoil-tips of the coal industry, artificial hills that grassed over in time. Slag is also a term of abuse.
Wakefield is the birthplace of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) who married painter Ben Nicolson & lived in St Ives, Cornwall.
@@jackhaggerty1066 @JACK HAGGERTY That is quite strong. Thanks. Quite specific.
Seeing "Shaelin's Crow" out of context did the trick.
@@abdulmalikadeola
Words, images, overheard conversations: out of context can be a wonderful tool.
A black bird flew across ... is evocative too. Flew across, where? The graveyard if Blackfriars Church, Edinburgh?
If you want to read a shockingly original animal novel get *A Black Fox Running* by Brian Carter.
It is the tale of Wulfgar a fox like no other of Dartmoor, England, shadowed by his enemy Scoble, a ruthless gamekeeper.
Although strictly naturalistic the story has a kind of occult power and Wulfgar, a survivalist is never sentimentalised.
First published in 1981 and reissued in paperback it comes with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison author of the novel Clay.
Ted Hughes devoured Tarka the Otter as a boy and must have read Black Fox:
*101 Poems. Anthology (Various. Read by Ted Hughes.* *Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death.* CZcams.
Correction: Greyfriars Church, a 17th Century kirk associated with the Covenanters those grim religious fanatics who fascinated Stevenson in his unfinished novel Weir of Hermiston.
great video u r so nice
Check out short stories of Sadat Hassan Manto
A big thanks for telling us about Manto (Wikipedia) my latest discovery.
I have long been interested in Pakistan, India, Partition etc. Pakistan was always in the news because of Afghanistan.
*A writer picks up his pen only when his sensibility is hurt,* Manto wrote in Urdu, reminding me of Auden who said Ireland hurt Yeats into writing poetry.
Manto's family composed an enigmatic epitaph for him:
*This is the grave of Saadat Hasan Manto, who still thinks his name was not the repeated word on the tablet of time.*
Unfortunately, “slow burn” has a tendency to actually be “boring” at times. 🫠