Look! Magical I'm not wearing a shade of gray or black. It's a miracle! It was like
the only pink shirt I have. Anyway, Dylan's over there. He has disemboweled an
elephant, and it's scattered the carnage across the library floor. Thank You, Dylan.
It's so kind. Now I'm filming this, and it's actually right now hurricane
Michael, the rain has just come through. And it finally started, you know, sun
starts shining again. So we're gonna work with this, but now, like I talked about in
my last video. There's a lot going on right now, so I can't really do any sort
of wrap ups or reviews or anything like that, and I'm just like, "Okay, what am I
going to do then?" Well, I guess I'm gonna do my book haul a little bit early this
month, so we're gonna be doing a book haul. October book haul? I don't know what
number, but let's just do this. Alright, so some of the best books of the year have
arrived at my house, and I have to tell you how great they are. So I've actually
already read this one: ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW by Nicole Chung. This was
sent to me by a Catapult, and I am so glad that they did. This book is as
amazing as everyone says it is. It appeared on all of my social media feeds,
but it is so good. It's actually on Hoopla, if you want to go check it out. And I
listened to it and one day and cried. It was beautiful, a great experience. This is
about Nicole's life. This is a memoir, and she was adopted by white parents. And she
was born in like 81, I think, and so it's her coming to terms with that and
emotionally processing that. And also finding her biological family and
learning some things about them. And she basically is writing her story and
encouraging people to view adoption in a complex way. I mean, to be, you know,
adopted typically that means you started out with a very difficult circumstances
for whatever reason that your birth parents had to give you up. And so she
wants people to think more critically about how they view adoption and think
of it as more complex than we typically portray it in movies and things. Ao I really
appreciated this book, and I would recommend it.
And I want to reread it, and it's just beautiful. It's also my favorite color, so
I feel like bonus, bonus for it, right? Okay, so this book I've been anticipating
for about a year now. And that is THE MERMAID AND MRS. HANCOCK. This is sent to
me by Harper. Look at those and papers. Oh my goodness, it's beautiful mustard
yellow and blue. And it has this ridged hardcover. Umm, this one is not quite like
the UK cover. It harkens back to the UK cover, but the blue is a different shade.
And there's only one shell on it, but it's so very beautiful. Deckled edges—gorgeous!
This book is a historical fiction novel. I think you've probably already seen at
least half a dozen reviews of this book already, but it's about a man who finds
like a mummified mermaid, makes a trade for it or something. I'm not sure, but I'm
very much looking forward to reading this. And this is Imogen Hermes
Gowar's debut, and it was shortlisted— shortlisted?—or the woman's prize for
fiction. So yeah I'm really excited about this one, so if you listen to the Reading
Women podcast you'll know that this month's guess was Sumaiyya of @sumaiyya .books
over on instagram. She's one of my favorite books to reviewers. I love her work,
and we've known each other online for a few years now. I just love what she's
done with her bookstagram. She is a freelance writer and editor from Saudi
Arabia, and she actually reviewed this book for us and this is Kristy Coulter's
NOTHING GOOD CAN COME from this, and then they sent me a copy as well. And she,
being a Muslim woman, doesn't drink alcohol, but this essay collection is
about Kristi Coulter's struggle with alcoholism. And our cultural perspective
of alcoholism, especially when a woman is an alcoholic. And I really appreciated
Sumaiyya's take on this because she's never had alcohol, and there is not
really alcohol anywhere around her culture. So it's like how would she
relate to that and that's the question that she had and she answered that
question on the podcast. Definitely go check it out she also reviews RADIO
SILENCE, which is another book I need to check out, and I found it on Hoopla. So I
am ready it's also about a podcast. I podcast
sometimes, right? All right, so the next book I have was longlisted for the
National Book Award. And this is from MCD as was Kristi Coulter's book from the
same publisher. And this is THE GOLDEN STATE by Lydia Keasling. And Autumn read
this book, and she described it as like a stream-of-consciousness book, so Autumn
has a great rant about this book. This book has a stream-of-consciousness type
style and something about punctuation as she was telling me, but she said that a
lot of people were commenting on that in a negative way. And she said, "Man We're
fine when James Joyce does it because he's a dude!" Anyway, maybe one day I will
record this rant so I can play it for you, but I'm very excited to read this
book either way. It sounds amazing. The design of this book is one I love.
You can see that it's almost like they . . . they did! They just took blocks of things,
and they did it on the spine. And it's just a plain hardback in here, but I feel
like it being about something. Well, it's about something about California. I think
it makes sense: the Golden State, Golden State Warriors. I see that everywhere in my
house it's what happens when you marry a dude from California who's obsessed with
professional sports. All right, so the next book I have is from Pantheon, and this is
manga. This is MY BROTHER'S HUSBAND Vol. 2 by Gengoroh Tagame, and I've
already reviewed this book. I'll link it up above my head and down below. But this
book is one of the cutest made books that I have seen. So I have to
show this to you. So first you have the hardback. The naked heart back is printed
that has that, but also the end papers aren't still just the cutest thing. I
mean look at that. Oh my word, I really enjoyed this
second volume, and I've already reviewed it, so I'm not gonna review it here. But
if you haven't already checked out MY BROTHER'S HUSBAND, definitely do so it is
really an adorable story. And I love the art, and I just love how this book is
made. It's just so beautiful. I'm just very impressed with that.
So I finally received a copy of the hardback of Melmoth by Sarah Perry, and
I've talked about this book a lot. I also have the ARC, which will go to Autumn
here shortly, but this is the hardback. A beautiful cover, there's the Reading
Woman recommended sticker. They put one of those other stickers on it, and I took
it off. And it peeled part of the cover off. I was not happy, as someone you know, who
treasures books. Even goo gone couldn't even fix it. And this is a
textured hardback. It has a beautiful blue spine. You all know I love Sarah Perry,
and we interviewed Sarah Perry, oh man, over a year ago. And she was delightful. And
she was talking about turning this book in and everything. And yeah foil
and everything—everything about this book, I have no idea what it's about yet I don't
need to know. I just know it's Sarah Perry so I'm going to read it. There you go.
This is from Custom House by the way, here in the United States. So I'm so
excited to get a copy of Tahereh Mafi's A VERY LARGE EXPANSE OF SEA, which is
her contemporary YA novel based on her own experiences of being a Muslim
woman as a teenager post 9/11. And it's about a female protagonist who wears a
hijab every day and after 9/11. It becomes very dangerous for her and just
about the experiences, based on the author's own experiences. So I have only
read one of her books, and that was one of her middle reader books, so I'm very
excited to read this one. And I've heard the buzz around this one for a very long
time, so I'm very excited to read it. Just amazing the book that has been
shortlisted the National Book Award is HEARTLAND: A Memoir of Working Hard and
Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh. Yeah, that's hard
to say, isn't it. So anyway, I'm really excited that this
is on the National Book Award shortlist because unfortunately in the National
Book Award does not give memoirs enough credit. I'm just gonna be honest here, so
the fact that it's a memoir made it on the list,
makes me very excited. I have not read it yet, but I'm very interested in promoting
rural lit, especially next year being a year of rural it for me. And
researching some different things, and so I'm very excited.
I'll quit gushing. This particular book is like the sky, which I think is very
fitting because it's about the heartland, what people often call the flyover
States, unfortunately. But this is about the heartland of America. So yeah, sky,
prairie looks pretty cool. Um, and this is out from Scribner. So a book I have from
a Knopf is IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family by Fox
Butterfield, and this is basically about organized crime and how it runs in
families. I think that sounds pretty cool I haven't really seen too many people
talking about this besides the Knopf account on Instagram. So I'm here to
listen to this. I'm really interested in these types of things after marrying
someone from the Bay Area and Alcatraz and research into organized crime, and
who was in Alcatraz. And anyway I have no idea if anyone in this book was in
Alcatraz, but organized crime was something that Samuel researched. And so
yeah, when two people who love to research things get married you have a
lot of random facts stuck in your head. So another book I received from
publishers is one of very excited about and that is DAEMON VOICES by Philip
Pullman. This is obviously the author of His Dark Materials and these are short
stories set in his world I'm assuming. I haven't actually I found the audiobook
on Scribd, so I'm going to listen in to that later. But yeah, I'm very excited for
this because I love Philip Pullman. And I really need to read listen to his Dark
Materials soon. We will get there. And so that's the books that I received
from publishers or some other two books that I have here one I won in a giveaway
on Instagram, and this is THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS a novel by Pat Barker. And this
is about the Sabine women and how men came and stole them away. And if
you're like me and you grew up on musicals you might remember Seven Brides
for Seven Brothers, and they turn it into Sobbin' women. I'm not gonna sing it for
you I've already sang it so much since I received this book. I'm pretty sure
that Samuel is about to ban all show tunes from the house. Unfortunately, for
him that would to include Hamilton, so at least I think
I'm safe for now. So the last book, I have for you is one that I've heard Jenn from
Book Riot recommend about half a dozen times and finally I was like, you know
what, Jenn, for you, I will get this book. Now, she doesn't know me from Adam—Eve?
—but I had to pick this up. And that is Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin. And
this is basically a Monica Lewinsky story where a young woman sleeps with a male
political figure and the press basically you know drags her through the mud.
So she moves through small town, changes her name, and then I think she runs for
office or something. And the news comes out, and her daughter has to come to
terms with who her mom was and different things. And I found this also in Hoopla,
but there's just something about this book that really interests me. I watched
Monica Lewinsky's TED talk and really enjoyed what she had to say, so I'm
hoping that some of those similar themes were in this book. Sounds like it, but,
yeah. So this from Algonquin. The last book I have to show you was sent to me
by Thames and Hudson, which is Jen Campbell's American publisher and that
is FRANKLIN AND LUNA GO TO THE MOON. This is the sequel to FRANKLIN'S FLYING
BOOKSHOP, so I've actually already gotten a copy of this for my niece. I gave my
nephew, her older brother, the first one, so now they can have both of them, which
is really exciting. And I've never actually seen an American edition before.
I bought the UK edition for myself [of the first one], and so this one has the jacket.
And it has a foil in a jacket but also if your kids destroy the jacket you
still have the beautiful art on the cover. And then you know, but it will
be there. But I feel like destruction of jackets it's probably an assumption when
you have small children, but yeah I'm really excited about this. I read it this
afternoon. It's really adorable. I really love, I really love Franklin and Luna, and
it's just the art is gorgeous. So I'm gonna open it to a random page and show
you what I'm talking about. Oh, that's a good page to open it on.
Look at that I love the illustrator Katie Hartnett. And I've actually started
looking up some of her other books that he's Illustrated because she does this so
beautifully. I love it, so I'm definitely
looking for more of that. So that's it. Those are the books I have to show you. I
guess I will see you in the next one. Bye, guys!
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