New Books! 📚 | September Book Haul

All of the books I've bought recently, and the books I've been sent for review. x

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MY BOOKS:

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THINGS MENTIONED

Forward Book of Poetry 2021
After the Silence by Louise O’Neill
Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain
The Woman of the Wolf and Other Stories by Renée Vivien*
Three Rival Sisters by Marie-Louise Gagneu*
Come Let us Sing Anyway by Leone Ross
One Love Chigusa by Soji Shimada*
The Refugees’ Daughter by Takuji Ichikawa*
The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro by Kanji Hanawa*
Stand-in Companion by Kazufumi Shiraishi*
Backlight by Kanji Hanawa*
Tokyo Performance by Roger Pulvers*
Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit*
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction ed by Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton*
The River Within by Karen Powell*
Tilly and the Map of Stories by Anna James*
The Park of Upside-Down Chairs by Alexandra Van de Kamp
Otherhood by Reginald Shepherd
The Harpy by Megan Hunter
Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Supporting Cast by Kit de Waal
Jewish Folktales of Britain and Ireland by Liz Berg*
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam*

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Books marked with * were sent to me by publishers for an honest review.

[wordsofclover]

I loved After the Silence. Louise O'Neill was really able to nail the mystery element while capturing a wonderful sense of atmosphere on the island, and focusing on some really important topics as well. Also, I don't know if I've said it before but I absolutely adore that dress on you - the colours are so gorgeous!

[pastorytime]

my husband Bert has a teeny-tiny poem in the Forward book! i hope you like it. sian xx

[braincabbage]

it might be very capitalist of me but I love a book haul. there's something oddly satisfying about seeing a bunch of exciting new books, even if they're not mine

[amandanicholls]

I keep on looking at the weird woods book...looks good

[CharlieBrookReads]

Such a great book haul. I have Pages 3 to start tomorrow so super excited to get to that one ❤️

[majcikic]

I just bought Weird women, because I saw it here, and then I tought about The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition, saw on goodreads that you recommend it, and I bought that too. And now I'm very happy person, and just wanted to thank you. :)

[quirkydee]

So intrigued by the premise of Backlight by Kanji Hanawa!! May have to put that on *my* halloween tbr :)

[eyrecester]

I was literally telling myself just now “Hm, if only Jen released a video tonight, that would be so great. But it’s only been like 2 or 3 days since the last one”. You can therefore imagine my face when I saw the notification 😂 and it’s haul as well, what a treat!

[GKReads]

The River Within won a Northern Writers’ Award before it was published and it’s brilliant! I’m also desperate to read The Harpy

[GaggingLit]

The Forward Prize is also my fave in the UK. Always fascinating to see what makes their book each year.

[mradcaqbdb]

I’m waiting for my copy of The Harpy to be shipped from London. I preordered it in the spring, when it was originally scheduled for a June release. Very much looking forward to it as I loved The End We Start From.

[falconette]

Just finished Outsiders and (mostly) LOVED it. I'm astonished at how well the short stories were edited together. I definitely want to add the 3 of Cups anthologies to my collection as well as some of works from the authors in the anthology, including the Come Let Us Sing Anyway by Leone Ross (it sounds so tantalizing!). The only quibble I had with Outsiders was To Peel an Orange, which is funny because it is the one closest to my personal experiences, and I definitely resonated with the kind of outsidership it was trying to portray. But I found the way it handles the Hong Kong protests concerning? I have friends from HK, one of whom is very close to me, so I've listened to a lot of grief concerning what is happening there. And I understand that the dismissive glossing of it was to support that distantness the main character has with the troubles of the people there as an other, but it didn't sit well with me that something that has resulted in stripping the freedoms, the rights, and the mass police brutality of the people there being used as a thin device, especially as that may be many people's only experience of hearing about the protests. Part of me wants to excuse it because it was still beautifully written and it really captured a perspective I feel like there's an utter lack of in published writing, but part of me is just...so frustrated that it used that subject matter in that way.

[thelifeofmiranda]

I just found your channel and I love your vibe and your background AGHH! thanks for sharing x

[teanlit]

Ohhh Weird Woods sounds like a future favorite. Thanks for sharing!

[BeatrixOnyx]

Thank you for recommending the Red Circle authors. It's such an interesting concept! I've been wanting to explore more Japanese books. ❤️

[nonisnest]

Such a fascinating haul! Btw, I love what you are wearing.

[jodydiou]

I'm very new to your channel but I really like a couple of the books you showed. The Page and Co. Trilogy And The Harpy!!

[pandaaaaa]

Alright then, let me just open up my Goodreads first.
I added 10 books to my overflowing tbr, why do you do this to me Jen 😭😭😭

[chiming_]

My most recent purchases included, books two to four of the Freida Klein series, another books two to four of a sci series, and out-of-mindey Pet Sematary 🙈

[Hillary]

A Ghost in the Throat reminded me of the Netflix movie Velvet Buzzsaw