Bouquins & Books | The Joy of Big Books: a Discussion and a Bookshelf Tour @bouquinsbooks | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
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@CriminOllyBlog
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@Shellyish
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@saintdonoghue
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Time stamps:
0:00 Big books vs short books
2:20 The last ten books I read
12:10 Bookshelf tour with focus on big books
22:53 Big books vs short books again
The last ten books I read:
What the Boys Did over there; by Themselves (Henry L. Fox ed.)
Whose Body?; by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; by Muriel Sparks
Eloquence of the Sardine; by Bill François
The Lost City of the Monkey God; by Douglas Preston
How the Word is Passed; by Clint Smith
The Fabric of Civilization; by Virginia Postrel
Northanger Abbey; by Jane Austen
The Right to Sex; by Armia Srinivasan
We Don't Know Ourselves, A Personal History of Ireland; by Fintan O'Toole
Big books mentioned:
La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert (The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair); by Joel Dicker
Dissolution; by C.J. Sansom
The Pillars of the Earth; by Ken Follett
A World without End; by Ken Follett
Queen Margot; by Alexandre Dumas
Les Misérables; by Victor Hugo
Don Quixote; by Cervantes
David Copperfield; by Dickens
L'île mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island); by Jules Vernes
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World; Haruki Murakami
La vie, mode d'emploi (Life: A User's Manual); by Georges Perec
We Need to Talk about Kevin; by Lionel Shriver
The Corpse Reader; by Antionio Garrido
Heretics; by Leonardo Padura
The Man who Loved Dog; by Leonardo Padura
Stalingrad; Vassili Grossman
Une saga moscovite ; by Vassili Axionov
War and Peace; by Leo Tolstoi
The Brothers Karmazov; The Demons; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; by Dostoyevsky
The Three Musketeers; Twenty Years After; by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo; by Alexandre Dumas
Là où les tigres sont chez eux (Where Tigers Are at Home); by Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Shogun; by James Clavell
Musashi; by Eiji Yoshikawa
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I am now on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/140211814-elisabeth-bouquins-books
Three videos mentioned:
@CriminOllyBlog
youtube.com/watch?v=oEmjgu35Nvg
@Shellyish
youtube.com/watch?v=u82lw2po_M8
@saintdonoghue
youtube.com/watch?v=NqwAbX7VXzk
Time stamps:
0:00 Big books vs short books
2:20 The last ten books I read
12:10 Bookshelf tour with focus on big books
22:53 Big books vs short books again
The last ten books I read:
What the Boys Did over there; by Themselves (Henry L. Fox ed.)
Whose Body?; by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; by Muriel Sparks
Eloquence of the Sardine; by Bill François
The Lost City of the Monkey God; by Douglas Preston
How the Word is Passed; by Clint Smith
The Fabric of Civilization; by Virginia Postrel
Northanger Abbey; by Jane Austen
The Right to Sex; by Armia Srinivasan
We Don't Know Ourselves, A Personal History of Ireland; by Fintan O'Toole
Big books mentioned:
La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert (The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair); by Joel Dicker
Dissolution; by C.J. Sansom
The Pillars of the Earth; by Ken Follett
A World without End; by Ken Follett
Queen Margot; by Alexandre Dumas
Les Misérables; by Victor Hugo
Don Quixote; by Cervantes
David Copperfield; by Dickens
L'île mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island); by Jules Vernes
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World; Haruki Murakami
La vie, mode d'emploi (Life: A User's Manual); by Georges Perec
We Need to Talk about Kevin; by Lionel Shriver
The Corpse Reader; by Antionio Garrido
Heretics; by Leonardo Padura
The Man who Loved Dog; by Leonardo Padura
Stalingrad; Vassili Grossman
Une saga moscovite ; by Vassili Axionov
War and Peace; by Leo Tolstoi
The Brothers Karmazov; The Demons; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; by Dostoyevsky
The Three Musketeers; Twenty Years After; by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo; by Alexandre Dumas
Là où les tigres sont chez eux (Where Tigers Are at Home); by Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Shogun; by James Clavell
Musashi; by Eiji Yoshikawa
**********
I am now on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/140211814-elisabeth-bouquins-books
