RecentReads: Sunday 20 October 2024

Let’s chat about my (more or less) recent reads, and my plans for the upcoming weeks.
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube

Books mentioned (in alphabetical order):
#translatedfiction #1001Women #classic

#nonfiction #feminism

#reread #buddyread

#nonfiction #reread

#victober #IrishLit #1001women #sandysbookclub

#unhinged #debut #buddyread

0:00: Intro
0:30: The House of Ulloa
4:25: Nightbitch
9:30: Mothers, fathers & Other
12:00: Doppelganger
15:55: Summer Without Men
17:23: The Real Charlotte
18:22: Outro

People and channels mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks
Sandy @MsReadsAlot

Read along with me!
1. Three classics I want to read in the second half of 2024

2. Sandy’s 1001 Books Bookclub
January – No book
February - The Princess of Cleves by Madame Lafayette (192 pages)
March - The Well Of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (448 pages)
April - Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud (192 pages)
May - The Waves by Virginia Woolf (304 pages)
June – Love’s Work by Gillian Rose (170 pages)
July - The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (383 pages)
September - The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen (320 pages)
October - The Real Charlotte by Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (415 pages)
November - Anagrams by Lorrie Moore (240 Pages)
December - Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair (86 pages)

Name of my YouTube channel:

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I also wrote some books:
Fiction:
available in Dutch

also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish

Non-fiction (available only in Dutch):

Crime novels under the pen name Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt)
The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)

and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)

[myreadinglife]

I definitely want to read more Siri H. 🎉

[ameliareads]

I lately finished Doppelganger too. Fantastic book. Naomi Klein is such an intelligent writer and so skilled in connecting the dots. Loved it!

[penelopegough]

Doppelgänger arrived for me at the library on the eve of my last trip so I returned it half read. Thanks for the enthusiastic reread response. Have just reordered it. Also your enthusiasm for Siri Hustvedt has prompted me to order my first for her. I thought I was in the midst of rereading because I am feeling nostalgic for books I enjoyed/loved years ago. Finding it really satisfying to revisit Catherine McKinnon’s Storyland among others.

[louisep]

I am definitely adding Doppelganger to my list, if both you and Heidi liked it, chances are I will too.
Glad to see I'm not the only one with weird coughing out of nowhere. It's a part of aging I'm not a fan of.

[karlalikestoread]

I’m glad to have heard your opinion on Nightbitch, I’ve been interested in it but wasn’t sure about it. I’m so interested in trying Siri Hustvedt’s books. I’ve been watching videos where she talks about different things and she’s so fascinating and intelligent. Glad you put Mothers, Fathers, and Others on my radar! I’m also looking forward to your final thoughts on The Summer Without Men.

[PaintingThePieces]

I need to look into the Real Charlotte. I also like to read Irish writers. Doppelganger definitely sounds interesting but I just couldn't read about Steve Bannon, especially this close to the election.

[dagmoon]

What? I was unaware Naomi Wolf went off in a conspiracy direction. It makes me sad. The Beauty Myth was seminal.

[vesch]

I absolutely despised Nightbitch. I would have thrown it across the room if it hadn't been a library book.
I agree that the book never came together. I also feel that the animal cruelty brought nothing to the story. I feel the author was trying too hard to write "edgy" and that attempt fell disturbingly flat