Shawn Breathes Books | Friday Reads: A Bernini rabbit hole and a bunch of awesome spinsters @shawnbreathesbooks | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Friday Reads: A Bernini rabbit hole and a bunch of awesome spinsters


#FramedinSeptember
#ArtReadathon
#SpinsterSeptember





*The week in review on my channel:*

Zooming In: Mindy and Shawn on the audacity of literary opinion: youtu.be/cMnd0Q5smJQ?si=sAbcvZmyZ7EHrToT

Book Haul: youtu.be/1sfpCGO-Yew?si=9jet2ffXmYStexZI




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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):

00:00 Introduction

05:03 A couple milestones

06:01 Mystery guest

29:43 Week in review

30:32 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

34:21 The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

37:20 The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

43:55 The Misses Mallett by E.H. Young

46:20 Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson

47:55 Spinster Kang by Zoë S. Roy

49:32 The Art Lover by Carole Maso



Books mentioned:

Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee
goodreads.com/book/show/199798695-rhine-journey

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/42983724-drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
goodreads.com/book/show/937105.Lolly_Willowes?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=k46jNWmXPO&rank=1

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
goodreads.com/book/show/60402210-excellent-women

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
goodreads.com/book/show/251665.Hotel_du_Lac?ac=1&from_search=true

Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
David Boyd & Lucy North (Translators)
goodreads.com/book/show/59629744-diary-of-a-void?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=IPlykJ7qHO&rank=1

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
goodreads.com/blog/show/2783-readers-most-anticipated-books-of-fall?ref=BigBooksFall24_eb

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Archibald Colquhoun (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/1320341.The_Leopard

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
goodreads.com/book/show/199795387-the-heart-in-winter?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_18

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
goodreads.com/book/show/317748.The_Stone_Angel

The Misses Mallett by E.H. Young
goodreads.com/book/show/3875872-the-misses-mallett

Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
goodreads.com/book/show/407271.Off_Keck_Road

Spinster Kang by Zoë S. Roy
goodreads.com/book/show/42789195-spinster-kang?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13

The Art Lover by Carole Maso
goodreads.com/book/show/153595.The_Art_Lover?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_9




Mystery guest: Nora
-on Instagram: @pear.jelly
-on Twitter: @pearjelly_

Our Zooming In chat about rearranging books: youtu.be/GXKD4ULbGjM?si=8BOkX9fUPVDQsqdf

Nora’s announcement post about Spinster September: instagram.com/p/C-ntTNiACH6/?igsh=MXh3YTdtMXlmbzdmaQ==

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