Pirates, Adventure & Underwhelming Curses: A Reading Vlog 🦜🗡️🐪 | The Book Castle | 2023

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
The Collector's Daughter by Gill Paul
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

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00:00 Let's read some adventure books!
01:00 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
12:39 The Collector's Daughter
20:41 Final thoughts

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Hi! My name is Alice and I love books! I read just about everything from classics to contemporary fiction, adventures to mysteries, fantasy to all kinds of non-fiction - and I love reviewing and recommending books, and just generally having a chat about literature. I also adore baking, hot chocolate, crafts and basically everything cosy, soft and peaceful. I currently live in Oslo, Norway.

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[Maria_reads]

The adventures of amina al-sirafi is one of my favorite books of the year!
Perhaps you already know the series but have you heard of the memoirs of Lady Trent? It's about her life and how she became a dragon naturalist in a world based on our 19th century! It's not about archeology but there are elements of it throughout the series and it's so interesting learning about her adventures and discoveries especially in later books as she's getting older

[nevaidos]

If you are looking for great pirate books, I can highly recommend the Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb. It's the second trilogy in the Realm of the Elderlings, but you can totally read it as a standalone trilogy. I read it this year and it has become one of my all time favourite series. It has a lot of strong female characters and great character arcs. The first book is Ship of Magic :)

[emma.c.b]

For pirate adventure books… Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson might work for you. And also I think Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan might work because it’s an alternate history where dragons exist and Lady Trent is telling her stories about her adventures discovering more about dragons. It’s not exactly archaeology, but it might scratch the same itch because it’s in a scientific vein??? Hope that’s helpful!

[michellefields]

One of the things I'm getting from your request is the tone/vibe of a book. I echo people saying that the Liveship Traders trilogy is fantastic -- one of my favorite reads. Please don't read it expecting the same tone as Amina, though. Amina is breezy and cheeky. Liveship Traders is slower, with more politics and dysfunctional family drama. The characters, Robin Hobb's greatest strength, are multi-layered. It has one of the most dangerous, manipulative, and charismatic pirate characters I've ever come across. I think you would really like the series, but not if you are reading it when looking for the fun adventure vibe.

[Shaegeeksout]

One book you may enjoy is Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri. Different kind of adventure, but I think you would enjoy it.

[margretsnae]

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and its sequels are fun adventure books. No archeology though, but there are pirates.

[thereadingcat]

Hi Alice, The first thing that came into my mind when you were talking about adventure books with an egyptian background were the books written by Philipp Vandenberg. I read them quite a long time ago - and they were fantastic. Maybe this is something for you and more the kind of book you’re looking for 🤗

[irhonda]

The pirate book sounds so good! I’ll say it again, The Eight by Katherine Neville.

[gloracruikshanks]

Love pirate stories and I don't know why 😂😂

[jazzgirlie]

Two thoughts on adventure books: 1) i wonder if there are a lot of archeologist memoirs out there that could be interesting (ex. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth - not an archeologist but this is the type of vibe I’m thinking of) and 2) have you read anything by Erik Larson? His books are nonfiction adventure/history but they’re written like fiction!!

[munglejoela]

The piratey book looks great. I recently read The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse which has a female pirate - that only comes into it about halfway through the book but it was very good. It's the third in a series but you can definitely read it without having read the others. Robin Hobb's fantasy books The Liveship trilogy also has pirates (male) and female sea captains so you might like those.
I can't think of any that are exactly archaeology-related but Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia is Poirot investigating murder on an archaelogical dig. And I think I've mentioned it before, but Christie's They Came to Baghdad is adventurey - more spy adventures than anything else though, but with a great heroine and she does visit a dig at one part of the story!

[aleksandrapetrov]

Hi Alice,
Here are some recommendations from me, Sevent scroll (Ancient Egypt series #2)from Wilbur Smith, it's like Indiana Jones, I like it very much. Or Dirk Pitt series from Clive Cussler, all kinds of advanture.

[arlissbunny]

Archeology adventure. Have you read from Gigi Pandian’s Jaya Jones series. The first book is Artifact. I’m a huge fan of her Accidental Alchemist series but the Jaya Jones books take place around the world so maybe of more interest to you? I don’t know if they will be quite right but they are short, fast reads so you don’t need too invest a lot of time to get an idea. The video is a great idea. Thank you!

[fashionearrings]

I'm so glad I found your channel because I'm forever looking for adventure books!!

Flyaway by Desmond Bagley is a FANTASTIC adventure book for me.
Birds of Prey and quite a few others by Wilbur Smith.. More great stuff!

If you ever read James L Nelson' s books, can you please review thrm? Because I'm not sure if I should read them or not. Books like The Guard ship. I don't know if it's what I'm looking for..

[starlasell]

❤📚❤️...yes to pirates! I loved Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas. I've got The Wager on my TBR.

[LoveAlwaysAlana]

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson

[the_eerie_faerie_tales]

If you like archeology type adventure books, bit like DaVinci code perhaps, is The Celestine Prophecy. It does touch on some spiritual things (has to do with the "quest") but it's a fun story. I read it several years ago.

[the_eerie_faerie_tales]

I'm reading The Stardust Thief right now and I'd say it's like an adventure book. They are searching in the Sandsea for a relic imbued with jinn magic. I like it so far. Though I'm knocking it down a half star for the lack of a map. What a missed opportunity!

[ThatsSoPoe]

A little bit different from what you were mentioning, but I'm reading Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi right now, and I think that's got some pretty good adventure and discovery in it plus quite a bit of humor, so it might scratch the kind of itch you're feeling. It's about a guy who ends up getting a job that turns out to be a group of scientists going into an alternate version of earth where kaiju (think Godzilla-like creatures) have evolved, and there's a ton of action around them trying to study the kaiju while the whole world around them is terribly dangerous.

[cadeylinn]

You need to read The Anomaly by Michael Rutger! Great supernaturalish adventure story with definite Mummy vibes. “A rogue archeologist retraces the steps of an explorer from 1909 who claimed to have discovered a mysterious cavern high up in the ancient rock of the Grand Canyon… And, for once, he may have actually found what he seeks. Then the trip takes a nasty turn, and the cave begins turning against them in mysterious ways.” I loved it!