Book Haul Revisit for July 2022

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Time to look back at my book hauls from July of 2021, 2020, and 2019 to see how many of the books I bought I have read, how many I still want to read, what might be going away, and what already got unhauled.

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After Francesco, Brian Malloy
Like a Love Story, Abdi Nazemian
Razorblade Tears, S.A. Crosby
Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin
The Late George Apley, John Marquand
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Like Water for Chocolat, Laura Esquivel
How Much of These Hills is Gold, C. Pam Zhang
Notes from a Young Black Chef, Kwame Onwuachi
The Man with Night Sweats, Thom Gunn
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Jeremy Atherton Lin
There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, Kikuko Tsumura

Olivia, by Dorothy Strachey
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness, by Kyung-Sook Shin
Camp, by L.C. Rosen
The Cooking Gene, by Michael Twitty

Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
An Untamed State, Roxane Gay
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Happiness, Aminatta Forna
Three Women, Lisa Taddeo
The Far Field, Madhuri Vijay
The Pervert, Remy Boydell
House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
How We Fight For Our Lives, Saeed Jones

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[ygftiui]

I did enjoy There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job. Looks like you had some intriguing titles that I’ll be looking into

[mradcaqbdb]

I loved How Much of These Hills is Gold. It was in my top 5 in the year I read it. Definitely recommended!

[caleba]

Gay Bar was such a great book in my opinion. I love these videos, I watch them with a pen and paper so I can make a shopping list of books I need to check out 😂

[CestKevvie]

Ooh I love Roxane Gay but I've not yet read An Untamed State. I've read most of her other books though. Last year I really loved her graphic novel The Banks, a heist drama about 3 generations of Black women taking reparations into their own hands. Definitely recommend that one!

[loriroemer]

I think only five unhauls in a month for your first year on booktube is pretty good. (I hope I understood it with the right numbers) I can't believe you have only been on Booktube since 2019! Feel like I've been watching you forever.

[jacquelinemcmenamin]

Happiness is a lovely book. I listened to it on audio. It’s a book that has a real feel good factor to it. I loved it😍

[jacquelinemcmenamin]

After Francesco is still on my unread TBR. It was to be read in June.

[FrankieOlive]

Funny you mentioned Far Field. I just completed that one yesterday as the oldest unread BOTM on my shelf. And I was thoroughly enjoying it for a good 50-75% of the way UNTIL I realized that maybe the main character was not going to evolve in any way after all and then it completely fell flat and unresolved. I was trying to find meaning in why she would end it that way but I just felt so disgusted and dissatisfied especially with the main character. Disappointing.

[jacquelinemcmenamin]

I think you need a month with only feel good/ life affirming books. Ask subscribers for their best “happy “ reads.

[judybrown]

How Much of These Hills... is worth reading IMO