Friday Reads: Friends and Family

Friday Reads: Friends and Family
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Watch the announcement Chris and Emily and I made starting at 23:37 here: • Friday Reads: A name ...
The week in review on my channel:
Shawn of Shawn Breathes Books reviews Wild Houses by Colin Barrett: • Shawn of Shawn Breathe...
Chris, Dorian, James and Shawn chat about Edith Wharton’s 1917 novel Summer: • Chris, Dorian, James a...
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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
01:44 Mystery guest
23:04 Week in Review
24:24 Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
25:24 The Family Way by Christopher DiRaddo
30:03 My Friends by Hisham Matar
35:40 Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
39:20 Season of Fury and Wonder by Sharon Butala
41:48 Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson
Books mentioned:
Other Ranks by William Vincent Tilsley
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Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction By One of Their Favorite Authors by David Madden
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Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction by David Madden
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Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding (Editors)n
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The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler
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Shawn and Ange’s joint review:
• Shawn and Ange Review ...
Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis
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My bite-sized chat with James: • Bite-sized Book Chats:...
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
Michael Hofmann (Translator)
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Panthers and the Museum of Fire by Jen Craig
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Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
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The Family Way by Christopher DiRaddo
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My Friends by Hisham Matar
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Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
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Season of Fury and Wonder by Sharon Butala
www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson
www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
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[@homolibrariensis8132]

Congrats Shawn and Kenji! That is so exciting!

[@enidlacob1157]

Lovely to hear good news for a change

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Wonderful news 💕

[@janethansen9612]

Great news for you and Kenji. Best wishes to Kenji and his family.

[@SineadScrap]

Loved "My Friends," especially that I lived in London at the time the novel is set.

[@mpushify]

Congratulations to you both. I wish your life full of happiness soon✨🌻

[@EricKarlAnderson]

First, congrats on the news about Kenji! 💕 Your talk with Brad is really fascinating! I'd love to read some of these little known books. "The Family Way" sounds great. And finally, I was thrilled to hear you finished "My Friends" and found it so masterfully done.

[@gilliankingston1141]

I also thought My Friends an incredible read, and I'm looking forward to seeing him here at the West Cork literary festival soon. And I too loved Music and Silence. Rose Tremain is a wonderful writer on many diverse subjects and one of my favourites is The Gustav Sonata.

[@anenthusiasticreader]

Hooray! I’m excited for you and Kenji. ❤❤❤

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

Congrats on Kenji coming to Canada. Aloha

[@DuncanMcCurdie]

Congratulations to you both!

[@myreadinglife8816]

Awesome personal news! ❤
Brad is doing great work and it’s right up your alley!
Excellent reading week!

[@judybrown1624]

Yay, Kenji!

[@alldbooks9165]

Hooray! I’m so happy for you two! ❤️❤️❤️

[@azu_rikka]

I am so happy for you and Kenji🎉!
My Friends seems finally like a book from Matar that I will love! I have read three previous ones and liked them, but now with your glowing review, I am sure, I will love this one, thank you!

[@59cubanita]

Great news about Kenji! ❤❤

[@marianryan2991]

yayyyyyy! best news!!! so thrilled for you both.

[@josmith5992]

Brad is doing amazing work, I love the idea of someone delving through stacks to find undiscovered gems! I’d like to read Waiting in November too for the Wafer thin club. I think Eric raved about The Friend too so with two Beloved Booktuber recommendations how can i avoid reading it!

[@paulsomerville4005]

I'm so happy for your good news. I need to read one of the DiRaddo books. They both sound great. Thank you for this.

[@Gagging4Lit]

My Friends sounds so good!! Also your mystery guest was brilliant.

[@bookmark_kl]

Congrat's on Kenji's PR approval, shawn!. I found "my freinds" a bit wayward. story was powerful though

[@lindysmagpiereads]

Wait, what? Music and Silence is set in the 17th century but it’s not a historical novel?? 😂😂😂

[@shawnbreathesbooks]

Nope. I would never denigrate its literary value that way. 😜

[@lindysmagpiereads]

@@shawnbreathesbooks I will not dignify that remark with a thumbs up 😉