A Recent Book Haul | Classics, Crime & More
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2024
- In which I talk about some books . . .
Books Mentioned
The Premonition, Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda: / the-premonition
More of my thoughts here: • April Reading Wrap Up
How to Solve Your Own Murder, Kristen Perrin: / how-to-solve-your-own-...
I’m going to buddyread this with @CarolynsReadingRamblings
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, Samuel Burr: / the-fellowship-of-puzz...
All the Names Given, Raymond Antrobus: / all-the-names-given
Recommended by @OliviasCatastrophe in this poetry recommendations video: • Top 10 Poetry Recommen... and in this liveshow for the #spoonies2024 readathon: • Spoonies Readathon Live hosted by @novellenovels and @BrewsandReviews
Come Close, Sappho: / come-close
Femme Fatale, Guy de Maupassant: / femme-fatale
Standing Her Ground: Classic Short Stories by Trailblazing Women, Harriet Sanders (ed.): / standing-her-ground
Frenzied Fiction, Stephen Leacock: / 1260883.frenzied_fiction
Touch Me Not, José Rizal: / 418285.noli_me_t_ngere...
The Notting Hill Mystery, Charles Warren Adams: / the-notting-hill-mystery
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde: / the-picture-of-dorian-...
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins: / 867638.the_moonstone
The Theatre of Glass and Shadows, Anne Corlett: / the-theatre-of-glass-a...
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I also love the moonstone and the picture of dorian Grey. Those special editions are stunning!!
Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favorite classics 😀
Olivia Savannah also convinced me to add that Raymond Antrobus book to my TBR (which is impressive because I'm not a poetry reader 😂)
Happy (belated) birthday! I love that edition of The Moonstone!
I have not actually read the Moonstone. Because we did not like the videos of it (2016 Josh Silver, 1996 Greg Wise).
But Books and Things liked The Moonstone so we tried the Britbox channel 1976 version with Robin Ellis and we watched it a couple days ago. And I changed my mind: it was great. Despite the old production values. IMDB 7.5.
Robin Ellis also starred as the lead in Poldark (1970s, IMDB 8.3).
I hope you had a good 🎉 . I love your edition of The Moon Stone.
De Mauppasant is great. I read Cuddy a few weekends ago and fell in love with it. I loved that he included a list of the hundred or so sources he drew upon at the back of the book, I loved how English it was, I loved the visceral nature of the prose-poems - the sleet and fog and sea-birds and water on cold stones. Just a fantastic book.
So glad you loved Cuddy! Wasn't it amazing.
Happy Birthday !
Happy belated birthday!🎉Never heard of Stephen Leacock so I'm curious about your thoughts on the collection when you get to it! That embosser is really cool.
Happy (belated) birthday! 🥳
Gosh! I've just found your channel and I'm very happy to have done so. Your content is wonderful, and from what I've seen alone, you inspire me a lot, and I'm sure many more. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much :)
Yay for new books! Ahh yay for getting all the names given and I really hope you love it
Totally agree with you about Dorian Grey.
Happy Birthday! I like that embosser, cool. And the handbag! I just yesterday started ( 2nd time) to read Moonstone and did not ( again) get very far, --and i hear such great things. I just have so much trouble reading some of these Victorian 'books by the pound ' ( money and weight) ... bad luck for me probably as i might love it if edited. But what a gorgeous Folio edition!! I have a Folio of Diary of a Nobody, i love it.😊
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A belated happy birthday to you! A lovely book haul indeed!
I haven’t read any of the books you talked about, however, Willa Cather is an excellent storyteller. Her writing style is simple, and elegant at the same time. No doubt her short stories will be most enjoyable. One of her mentors was Sarah Orne Jewett, author of The Country of the Pointed Firs. In a letter to her Catha confesses doubts about her writing ability. “At thirty-four one ought to have some sureness in their pen point and some facility in turning out a story. In other matters…I can learn by experience, but when it comes to writing I'm a newborn baby every time-always come into it naked and shivery and without any bones. I never learn anything about it at all. I sometimes wonder whether one can possibly be meant to do the thing at which they are more blind and inept and blundering than at anything else in the world.” Other writers must surely have experienced some of this trepidation too. Super video, Katie, as always! Oh, I almost forgot to say how lovely is the impression made with your personal embossing stamp, simply gorgeous!
Hi Kate
I hope that you enjoy all of these books as you read them.
Take Care & Happy Reading
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Oh that edition of the moonstone is so gorgeous. I love the moonstone too. I hope you enjoy the poetry collection that Olivia recommended 😊
Not me thinking it's a book about the history of making puzzles. Happy to see some Canadian rep! Wow that Moonstone copy is beautiful. Happy belated!
I hope you had a lovely birthday. I really want to read How to Solve Your Own Murder! Now adding The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers to my tbr as well 😅
Happy Birthday * - I love this page-emboss-stamp item, and this book purse.. Cool! A few years ago, I got the Secret Garden Book. I watched the movie with my kids a long time ago once. They liked it a lot, so I got the book years later. To me, it was an eye opener for "the Adult - Parent persona" to 'listen to youngsters' because -both Parent and child have their own different perspectives in issues surrounding them. Discussions are nice in lots of situations. Cool B-day presents! Thanks for these reviews. 🎀📜🌷
I hope you had a lovely birthday 🥳 You got some great books and lovely editions! I hadn't heard of The Notting Hill Mystery so I'll have to look that one up. The embosser is very cool! I love your new bag - I have a couple of 'book' bags and people always comment on them when I'm out and about 😊
Excellent and uplifting. Right now I'm reading the Trumpet Major by Hardy and any of these sound like they would be a wonderful next read. Thanks.
Me seeing the thumbnail and saw Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) by Jose Rizal from my home country, the Philippines it was our required read back then when I was 9th grade and it's a great book
Happy birthday Katie 🎂🎉🥳🍀👋☘️💐🤩
Thank you for recommending
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
I loved it. Another book you might like is
A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock. It’s a version of Frankenstein mixing botany and taxidermy.
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Wow Moonstone so stunning!
Have you read any J.L. Carr? I am currently reading “ A Month In the Country” and enjoying it very much.
Not yet!
Hi Katie, my daughter Nimes has asked me to message you. She thinks you should read Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal and The Story Of The Stone volume 2 by Cao Xueqin. Nimes has been avidly watching Books and Things since the dawn of covid and sees you as an inspiration
They're both on my shelves, and I'm looking forward to them :)
IIRC Dorian Gray doesn't sell his soul per se, instead he is seduced. Perhaps in our 21st century that's a nonsensical distinction tho I do seem to recall a brief movement from about 50 years ago where seduction was a cause celebre. Interview with a Vampire OTOH begins with a man actually actively looking for a way to sell his soul. Anyway, I too enjoy The Picture of Dorian Gray even if the redemptive arc is weak. Have a very happy (belated) birthday, and thanks for the video.
I've always felt the rottenness was already in Dorian and that he would have gone to the bad one way or another.
@@janeturner9064 I agree with you tho without the portrait I suppose there is a limit to his hedonism.
I thought he did sell his soul in an indirect way. He did know what he was doing, well I think he did. That what I like about books, so many permutations on the same story.
@@maryh4650 I don't remember well enough the story to say that there was ever a time when he recognized and understood the depravity of his conduct. Possibly, he believed he just lucky. Possibly, he saw nothing wrong with the way he treated people after that? I mean, obviously we see how cruddy and moldy and decrepit the painting becomes but maybe Dorian doesn't make the connection that is a true portrait of what he has become on the inside? idk - but I do believe there is a difference between temptation and coveting something like eternal life, idk