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![Recent Reads || All the Non-Fiction, Plays & Middle Grade Recs! [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wMFtDbdjkoc/hqdefault.jpg "Recent Reads || All the Non-Fiction, Plays & Middle Grade Recs! [CC]
My thoughts on some (not so recent) reads! Lots of non-fiction, middle grade and play recommendations 🥰
📚 The Books 📚
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
Patina by Jason Reynolds
Sunny by Jason Reynolds
The View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri
The Lost Whale by Hannah Gold
Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge & Emily Gravett
Live Like A Goddess by Jean Menzies
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
The Magic Border by Arlo Parks
The House in the Woods by Yvette Fielding
The House Trap by Emma Read
The Ogre Who Wasnt by Michael Morpurgo & Emily Gravett
Wolf and Bear by Kat Rolfe
⚡️ Content Warnings ⚡️
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: break up, terminal illness, depression, grief, death of a child
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World: gunshot, robbery, grief
Patina: grief, diabetes, car accident
Sunny: grief
The View from the Bridge: toxic masculinity, illegal immigrant experience, murder, implied homophobia, implied incestuous thoughts (not acted upon), unwanted kiss
All My Sons: missing person, suicide
Disobedient Bodies: eating disorder
The Lost Whale: depression, animal cruelty
Island of Whispers: grief, death
Red Dust Road: racism, broken bones, motorcycle accident
The House in the Woods: world war (nazis)
The House Trap: sexism, being locked in
Wolf and Bear: depression
#booktube #bookreview #wrapup @HarperCollinsChildrensBooks @BookBreak @HachetteChildrensGroup @4thEstateBooks @Chickenhousebooks @AndersenPress
As always, closed captions (subtitles) available x
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Hi! I’m Olivia-Savannah. I’m a Campaigns Assistant at Canongate, an independent book publisher. I studied English Literature and Creative Writing at university. I’m based in the UK but I visit the Netherlands where some of my family live from time to time. I love reading, writing, travel, yoga and working out, cooking and baking. I enjoy reading all genres and age audiences. Nice to meet you x")
![April Wrap Up || 12 Books! || 2023 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wWSxH_fMadQ/hqdefault.jpg "April Wrap Up || 12 Books! || 2023 [CC]
Time to chat about the books I read in April 💕
📚 The Books 📚
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
To My Sisters by Courtney Daniella Boateng & Renee Kapuku
Just Sayin by Malorie Blackman
Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong
Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi
None of the Above by Travis Alabanza
Fireborn: Phoenix and the Frost Palace by Aisling Fowler
Bloom by Kevin Panetta & Savanna Ganucheau
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Check Please! vol 1 by Ngozi Ukazu
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
⚡️ Content Warnings ⚡️
Long Walk to Freedom: grief, circumcision, apartheid, racism, colonialism, imperialism, death of a child, imprisonment, police brutality, divorce
Just Sayin: parental abandonment, parental separation, racism, sudden eviction, homelessness, sexual assault, exoticism, miscarriage, sickle cell anaemia, cyberbullying
Disability Visibility: ableism (other content warnings are in the book at the start of each essay)
Project Nought: medical experimentation on people, stealing, imprisonment, grief
None of the Above: transphobia, mentions of the pandemic, harassment, mentions of suicide
Fireborn: Phoenix and the Frost Palace: burning to death, injury, fighting
Bloom: fire
The Four Winds: drought, dust storms, refugee crisis, poverty, childbirth, miscarriage, death, grief, violence
Daisy Darker: murder, mentions of physical child abuse, drowning, divorce, car crash
Our Wives Under the Sea: grief
#booktube #bookreview #wrapup @HarperCollinsUK @HarperCollinsChildrensBooks @BookBreak
As always, closed captions (subtitles) available x
Contact me for business enquiries (I am UK, London based): oliviascatastrophe@gmail.com
Join me over on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=89935327
Wishlist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/H0ORXKL2C7A0?ref wl_share
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oliviascatastro
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Hi! I’m Olivia-Savannah. I’m a Campaigns Assistant at Canongate, an independent book publisher. I studied English Literature and Creative Writing at university. I’m based in the UK but I visit the Netherlands where some of my family live from time to time. I love reading, writing, travel, yoga and working out, cooking and baking. I enjoy reading all genres and age audiences. Nice to meet you x")
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Reading Each Others Favourite Books! || ft. My Best Friend [CC]")
![January Wrap Up || 23 Books?! || Part 2 2023 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wkU3mRj_fYI/hqdefault.jpg "January Wrap Up || 23 Books?! || Part 2 2023 [CC]
Lets chat about the books I read in January 📖
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📚 The Books 📚
Priest by Sierra Simone
Sinner by Sierra Simone
Saint by Sierra Simone
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Wahala by Nikki May
Once Upon a Fever by Angharad Walker
I entered without words by Jody Gladding
Grimwood: Let the Fur Fly! By Nadia Shireen
The House of Shells by Efua Traore
Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die by Tawanda Mulalu
Ada Rue and the Banished by Kereen Getten
A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh
⚡️ Content Warnings ⚡️
Priest: grief
Sinner: age gap romance, terminal cancer, grief, death, racism
Saint: mentions of depression, mentions of suicidal ideation, mentions of racism, cheating
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies: cheating, grief, fatphobia, homophobia
Wahala: mentions of abortion and anxiety, colourism, cheating, stalking, mentions of sexual assault, mentions of murder
The House of Shells: bullying
A Parcel of Patterns: plague, grief, death, quarantine
#booktube #wrapup #bookreview @pushkinpress1360 @VintageBooks @Chickenhousebooks @princetonupress @BloomsburyPublishing @DoubledayPublishing
As always, closed captions (subtitles) available x
Thank you to Simone for doing the subtitles. Check out her blog: https://thewheelchairteen.com/
Thank you to Mariana Quesada for the amazing intro.
Contact me for business enquiries (I am UK, London based): oliviascatastrophe@gmail.com
Wishlist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/H0ORXKL2C7A0?ref wl_share
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oliviascatastro
Instagram: https://instagram.com/oliviascatastrophe/
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oliviascatastrophe
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/34117027-olivia-savannah
Hi! I’m Olivia-Savannah. I’m a Campaigns Assistant at Canongate, an independent book publisher. I studied English Literature and Creative Writing at university. I’m based in the UK but I visit the Netherlands where some of my family live from time to time. I love reading, writing, travel, yoga, cooking and baking. I enjoy reading all genres and age audiences. Nice to meet you x")
![High Fantasy & Black Authors || Reading Vlog || Gothtober 2022 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xl1blta0oTo/hqdefault.jpg "High Fantasy & Black Authors || Reading Vlog || Gothtober 2022 [CC]
First week of Gothtober complete ✅ Consumed all the high fantasy and books by Black authors 💛
🌙 Recommending books by Black Authors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcWTJ0qxNa8
📚 The Books 📚
Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Babel by R.F. Kuang
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Take A Hint Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Out of the Sun by Esi Edugyan
We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
🧡 People Mentioned 🧡
@AmyMcCaw
@AbiofPellinor
#booktube #vlog #readingvlog @BookBreak
As always, closed captions (subtitles) available x
Thank you to Simone for doing the subtitles. Check out her blog: https://thewheelchairteen.com/
Thank you to Mariana Quesada for the amazing intro.
Contact me for business enquiries (I am UK, London based): oliviascatastrophe@gmail.com
Wishlist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/H0ORXKL2C7A0?ref wl_share
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oliviascatastro
Instagram: https://instagram.com/oliviascatastrophe/
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oliviascatastrophe
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/34117027-olivia-savannah
Hi! I’m Olivia-Savannah. I’m a Campaigns Assistant at Canongate, an independent book publisher. I studied English Literature and Creative Writing at university. I’m based in the UK but I visit the Netherlands where some of my family live from time to time. I love reading, writing, travel, yoga, cooking and baking. I enjoy reading all genres and age audiences. Nice to meet you x
Want to try Scribd and get access to free audiobooks and ebooks for 60 days? Here you go: https://www.scribd.com/g/8qshc5")
![Huge Book Haul || 35+ Books! || June 2024 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yeAsB5QKhtY/hqdefault.jpg "Huge Book Haul || 35+ Books! || June 2024 [CC]
Shes hauling books again, folks 😜
🧡 People Mentioned 🧡
Abi @AbiofPellinor
Hannah @ perusing.hannah: https://www.instagram.com/perusing.hannah/
Lekeisha @ lbooknerd: https://twitter.com/BooknerdKee
Lianne @Literary@literarydiversions
Emily @novellenovels
Daniela @OnlyIfForAPage
Hannah @LadetteM
Liene @rasaslase
Bekka @TheBookSanctum
Charlotte @booksandbargains
Mina @MinaReads
Charlie @CharlieBrookReads
Scott @GunpowderFictionPlot
Chelsea @ChelseaZhao
Kristin @KristinKravesBooks
Tasmin @ reads.and.reveries: https://www.instagram.com/reads.and.reveries
Mary @MaryAmongStories
📚 The Books 📚
Heartsong by TJ Klune
To Cage A God by Elizabeth May
Godkiller by Hannah Kent
The Adventures of Amina El-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste
Iron Gold by Piece Brown
An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Atlanta by Jennifer Saints
Elektra by Jennifer Saint
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
Delilah Green Doesnt Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Poster Girl by Veronica Roth
Waiting for Flood by Alexis Hall
Chasing the Light by Alexis Hall
Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M. McManus
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okarafor
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
My Roommate is A Vampire by Jenna Levine
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
With A Little Luck by Marissa Meyer
Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer
The Firekeepers Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Natives by Akala
Kindling by Traci Chee
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink
The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Mongrel by Hanoko Footman
The Love Interest by Helen Comerford
The Last Phi Hunter by Salinee Goldenberg
#booktube #bookhaul #haul @sourcebooksfire @AngryRobotBooks @SourcebooksInc @SourcebooksRomance @PenguinPlatform @faberandfaber @harperteen @titanbookstrailers @BloomsburyPublishing
As always, closed captions (subtitles) available x
Contact me for business enquiries (I am UK, London based): oliviascatastrophe@gmail.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=89935327
Wishlist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/H0ORXKL2C7A0?ref wl_share
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oliviascatastro
Instagram: https://instagram.com/oliviascatastrophe/
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oliviascatastrophe
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/34117027-olivia-savannah
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@oliviascatastrophe
The audiobook service I use is libro.fm because every audiobook you choose / purchase supports an independent bookshop! If you sign up for libro.fm here, I also get a free audiobook: https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm482934
Hi! I’m Olivia-Savannah. I studied English Literature and Creative Writing at university, and work in publishing (Pan Macmillan, Tor). I’m based in London, the UK but I visit The Netherlands where some of my family live from time to time. I love reading, writing, travel, yoga and working out, cooking and baking. I enjoy reading all genres and age audiences. Nice to meet you x")
