Books mentioned: Network Effect by Martha Wells Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Kahe heli vahel (Between Two Sounds) by Joonas Sildre Päevaraamat by Johannes Aavik The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The questions: 1. What book is on your night stand now? 2. What was the last truly great book you read? 3. If you could meet any writer - dead or alive - who would it be? And what would you want to know? 4. What books might we be surprised to find on your shelves? 5. How do you organize your personal library? 6. What book have you always meant to read and haven’t gotten around yet? Anything you feel embarrassed never to have read? 7. Disappointing, overrated or just not good: what book did you feel you were supposed to like but didn’t? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing it? 8. What kind of stories are you drawn to? And you stay clear of? 9. If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be? 10. What do you plan to read next?
Books mentioned: Network Effect by Martha Wells Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Kahe heli vahel (Between Two Sounds) by Joonas Sildre Päevaraamat by Johannes Aavik The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The questions: 1. What book is on your night stand now? 2. What was the last truly great book you read? 3. If you could meet any writer - dead or alive - who would it be? And what would you want to know? 4. What books might we be surprised to find on your shelves? 5. How do you organize your personal library? 6. What book have you always meant to read and haven’t gotten around yet? Anything you feel embarrassed never to have read? 7. Disappointing, overrated or just not good: what book did you feel you were supposed to like but didn’t? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing it? 8. What kind of stories are you drawn to? And you stay clear of? 9. If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be? 10. What do you plan to read next?
#nytimesbythebooktagSeptember Wrap Up | 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-10-03 | These are all the books that I read in September, including a fantasy novel, a Booker Prize winner, a Pulitzer winner and an Estonian classic!
Books mentioned: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan by Anton Hansen Tammsaare (The Misadventures of the New Satan) Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Genre Raiders Book Club Liveshow for The Sympathizer: youtube.com/watch?v=EnOTUT0tErQ&ab_channel=ChrisBookishCauldron
Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/heidisbookishadventuresAutumn TBR | 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-09-26 | Books mentioned: Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft (Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft)
Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/heidisbookishadventuresCurrently Reading | September 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-09-12 | Books mentioned: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan by Anton Hansen Tammsaare (The Misadventures of the New Satan) Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
I definitely want to highlight Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J Parker, which I think is a little underrated.
Books mentioned:
Heartstopper, Volume 4 by Alice Oseman The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Carey Pietsch The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited! by Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Carey Pietsch The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb Traitor’s Moon by Lynn Flewelling Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling Underland by Robert Macfarlane Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J Parker North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
#SkalaAlongApril Wrap Up | 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-05-09 | Books mentioned: 100 põnevat lugu Eesti Vabariigist by Jaak Juske Kõik äratatakse ellu by Meelis Friedenthal Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling Saga, Volume 9 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples The Duchess War by Courtney Milan The Duchess War liveshow: youtube.com/watch?v=K-pzPa4znUE&t=139s&ab_channel=ChrisBookishCauldron The Whole Truth by Cara Hunter
#SkalaAlong100 subscribers! | Spring walks around Estonia | March-April 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-05-03 | Thank you all for subscribing! I've had the best time discussing books with you!
The questions: 1. What is your ultimate goal this year reading wise? 2. How many books do you want to read this year? 3. What is the most books you've read in a year? 4. What is the longest book you've read? 5. What is the newest book you've read? 6. What is the oldest book you've read? 7. What is the most popular book you've read? 8. What is the least popular book you've read?
Books mentioned: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Les Miserables by Victor Hugo A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi The Whole Truth by Cara Hunter The Iliad by Homer Oedipus the King by Sophocles The Republic by Plato Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Minu riik by Asko Künnap Naised, šaakalid ja muud inimloomad by Martti Kalda
The questions: 1. What were you like as an early and learning reader? 2. What book or book series really got you excited about reading as a kid? 3. Has there been a person in your life, real or fictional, who inspired you to be a reader? 4. At what point did you begin to identify as a reader? 5. How has being a reader shaped your life and your worldview? 6. Tag someone whose reading history you want to learn more about.
Books mentioned: The Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren Kalle Blomkvist by Astrid Lindgren The Moomin series by Tove Jansson Krabat by Otfried Preußler
The questions: 1) What camera do you use for your videos? 2) Speaking about filming and being your own director. Do you have a favourite film director? 3) What microphone do you use and what program do you use to edit your videos? 4) Do you remember the first record that you bought or received as a gift? 5) How do you prepare your videos? Talking points, a detailed script or just talkin¨? 6) TV shows have become the thing of our time. "Game of Thrones", "Stranger Things", Netflix, HBO and Amazon. What are your favorite TV shows ever. Name a maximum of three. 7) What kind of booktube videos do you prefer to watch and why: reviews, wrapups, vlogs, bookhauls, tag videos or… 8) Watching TV was probably a part of all of our childhoods. These years, it has become less popular. What kind of media user are you?
Other TV series I've liked over the years: Stranger Things, The IT Crowd, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Arrested Development, Pushing Daisies, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Hannibal, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Love, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Broadchurch, The Crown, Community, Sex Education, Dracula, Rome, Game of Thrones before I got major GoT fatigue even way before * that * season.
#tagtuesdayMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell | Review | 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-03-14 | Dark, disturbing and uncomfortable to read but this book is definitely very successful at what it set out to do.
Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/heidisbookishadventuresFebruary wrap up & currently reading | 7 March 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-03-07 | It's March, which means it's #SkalaAlong ! Everyone join spy and thief Seregil and his apprentice Alec of Kerry on their adventures! P.S If you turn the map upside down in the book, it looks a bit like Europe and Skala is like a weird looking Estonia haha.
There is an excellent film made that is based on the first part of Truth and Justice. I would definitely recommend it to absolutely everyone. Here's the trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=LWDyVmq6ako&ab_channel=TheAllfilm
Books mentioned: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling Chris' #SkalaAlong announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=9rgZrGDzFEQ&t=495s&ab_channel=ChrisBookishCauldron Andy's #SkalaAlong announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=cPDbG89Ax1E&ab_channel=AndySmith Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Truth and Justice II (Tõde ja õigus II) by Anton Hansen Tammsaare
#februarywrapup #currentlyreadingJanuary Wrap Up Part 2 | 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-02-21 | Books mentioned: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol My review of Dead Souls: youtube.com/watch?v=h1xdkaIPDMU&t=31s&ab&ab A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis PetersJanuary Wrap Up Part 1 | Murderbot and graphic novels | 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-01-24 | Books mentioned: Network Effect by Martha Wells Rat Queens Volume 7: The Once and Future King by Ryan Ferrier, Priscilla Petraites, Marco Lasko Monstress Volume 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider Strange Planet by Nathan W. PyleDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol | 3-minute book review | 2021Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-01-20 | I read Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol and ended up loving it so here's a quick summary of my thoughts! Its place among the great Russian classics is definitely justified.
Of course, there's a lot more that could be said about the context in which it was written (it was meant to be a trilogy and drawing parallels to Dante's The Divine Comedy) and Gogol's general state of mind (not good) but that's for another time.
#bookreview #russianliterature2021 TBR Part 2 | Bookish video in Estonian (with English subs!)Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-01-17 | Here I talk about all the Estonian language books (by Estonian authors and translated) that are on my TBR! This video is in Estonian and includes subtitles!
Eestikeelsed raamatud, mida ma tahaks see aasta läbi lugeda (või vähemalt proovida!).
Books mentioned: Apteeker Melchior ja Pilaatuse evangeelium by Indrek Hargla (in the Apothecary Melchior series, also available in English) Tõde ja õigus II by Anton Hansen Tammsaare (from the Truth and Justice pentalogy, also available in English) Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan by Anton Hansen Tammsaare (The Misadventures of the New Satan, also available in English) Kõik äratatakse ellu by Meelis Friedenthal Unistuste tappev kasvamine by Mehis Heinsaar Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 100 põnevat lugu Eesti Vabariigist by Jaak Juske Näidendid by Anton Tšehhov (Anton Chekhov's plays) Sõda ja rahu by Lev Tolstoi (War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy)
#raamatud #2021tbr #eestikirjandusBooks I Read During Christmas and New Year 2020 | December Wrap Up Part 2Heidis Bookish Adventures2021-01-04 | We have so much snow right now and it makes me so happy!
Books mentioned: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Dead Voices by Katherine Arden Hollow Empire by Sam Hawke November by Gustave Flaubert Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker A Promised Land by Barack Obama
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#decemberwrapupDecember Wrap Up 2020 Part 1 | Trying to get more into romanceHeidis Bookish Adventures2020-12-29 | So I've been trying to get more into romance with...mixed results haha.
#winterwalkMost Anticipated New Releases of 2021| 2021 TBR Part 1Heidis Bookish Adventures2020-12-21 | These are 10 new books coming out in 2021 I'm most excited about reading!
Books mentioned: The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary The Adventure Zone: The Crystal Kingdom by Clint McElroy, Travis McElroy, Justin McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Carey Pietsch Heartstopper Vol. 4 by Alice Oseman Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter The Thorn of Emberlain by Scott Lynch
1. Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish? 2. Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year? 3. Is there a new release you're still waiting for? 4. What are three books you want to read before the end of the year? 5. Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favourite book of the year? 6. Have you already started making reading plans for 2021?
Books mentioned: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien Hollow Empire by Sam Hawke City of Lies by Sam Hawke A Promised Land by Barack Obama The Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Network Effect by Martha Wells Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Odyssey by Homer War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol
I tag everyone who hasn't done this yet!
#endoftheyearbooktag(Nonfiction) November Wrap Up Part 2 | 2020Heidis Bookish Adventures2020-12-01 | Part 2 is here and even though I didn't love everything I read I'm still very happy with how this month turned out!
Books mentioned: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach SPQR by Mary Beard Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence Grimoire by Robin Robertson Hearts in Darkness by Laura Kaye Minu Peipsiveer by Raul Oreškin
The questions: 1. A popular book EVERYONE loves that you have no interest in reading? 2. A classic book (or author) you don’t have an interest in reading? 3. An author whose books you have no interest in reading? 3.2 A problematic author whose books you have no interest in reading? (*you can combine questions 3 & 3.2 or you can answer them separately if you have an answer for both*) 4. An author you have read a couple of books from & have decided their books are not for you? 5. A genre you have no interest in OR a genre you tried to get into & couldn’t? 6. A book you have bought but will never read? (this can be a book you have unhauled/returned to the library unread) 7. A series you have no interest in reading OR a series you started & have DNF’d? 8. A new release you have no interest in reading?
Books and authors mentioned: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Marquis de Sade Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher (Book 1: Storm Front) The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski (Book 1, sort of: The Last Wish) The Rampart Trilogy by M. R. Carey (Book 1: The Book of Koli) A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
#theantitbrtagNonfiction November Wrap Up Part 1 | 2020Heidis Bookish Adventures2020-11-14 | So this is basically a love letter to Rammstein...
So far this month I've discovered a book equivalent to the Uncharted video game series, struggled with a book by a very popular author and discovered that a member of one of my favourite metal bands can write really well. I wonder what the rest of the month is going to be like haha.
Books mentioned: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade The Lost City of Z by David Grann It's the World's Birthday Today by Flake
#novemberwrapup #nonfictionnovember #nonfictionnovemberwrapupReading Tastes TagHeidis Bookish Adventures2020-11-07 | This seemed like a fun tag!
1. What is your favourite genre? 2. What is the most difficult genre for you to read? 3. What is your preferred age range? 4. Are you a character driven or plot driven reader? 5. Do you have a preferred perspective? 6. Do you have a preferred tense? 7. Do you like series or stand-alone books best? 8. Which would you rather read, long or short books? 9. Which format do you like best? 10. What are you currently reading?
Books mentioned: Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, The Name of the Wind Robin Hobb's books Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson It's the World's Birthday today by Flake Packing for Mars by Mary Roach SPQR by Mary Beard Minu Peipsiveer by Raul Oreškin
#readingtastestag #readingtastesAutumn Book Haul 2020Heidis Bookish Adventures2020-11-01 | I decided to buy some books!
Books mentioned: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Grimoire by Robin Robertson (The Long Take by Robin Robertson) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Hollowpox by Jessica Townsend The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Quichotte by Salman Rushdie The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Here are all the books I finished in October! It was a super slumpy month for me...
Books mentioned: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
#wrapup #octoberwrapup #GenreRaidersBookClubNonfiction November TBR 2020Heidis Bookish Adventures2020-10-25 | Hi everyone! I'm so excited for Nonfiction November this year!
Time: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker SPQR by Mary Beard
Movement: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
Buzz: Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh It's the World's Birthday Today by Flake
Discovery: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach The Lost City of Z by David Grann
#nonfictionnovember #nonfictionnovember2020 #nonfictionnovembertbrInternational Booktuber TagHeidis Bookish Adventures2020-10-21 | Hi everyone! This seemed like such a fun tag that I decided to just go for it haha. Sorry about the lighting, it gets dark very early where I live.
#internationalbooktubertag #internationalbooktubeReading project | Books that have been on my TBR foreverHeidis Bookish Adventures2020-10-15 | Hi everyone! These books have been on my TBR for an embarrassing amount of time...
Books mentioned: Skin by Ilka Tampke Milkman by Anna Burns The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J. Parker A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Dumb House by John Burnside The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Washington Black by Esi Edugyan An American Marriage by Tayari Jones City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber The Overstory by Richard Powers The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
#TBR #readingproject#FridayReads | 9 October 2020Heidis Bookish Adventures2020-10-09 | Hello, I'm Heidi! In this video, I talk about how my reading has been going so far in October :)
Books mentioned: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
#fridayreads #GenreRaidersBookClub #booktubenewbieBooktube Newbie TagHeidis Bookish Adventures2020-10-04 | Hi everyone, I'm Heidi and here's by booktube newbie tag! So happy to join booktube!
Things mentioned: Astrid Lindgren The Moomins (by Tove Jansson) Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
#booktubenewbie #booktubenewbietagChatty intro/September reads/currently readingHeidis Bookish Adventures2020-10-01 | Hi guys, my name is Heidi and welcome to my channel! In this video I talk about the Genre Raiders Book Club, some of the books I finished in September and a few that I'm currently reading.
Books mentioned: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey Recursion by Blake Crouch A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine The Martian by Andy Weir Small Spaces by Katherine Arden The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton