September TBR spin!The Book Bully2023-09-01 | Always trying to find a way to use more pics of Lord Gregory Davies
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Books mentioned: Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki A Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman Hi Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet Henry Henry by Allen Bratton How to be Here by Rob Bell Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Wifedom by Anna Funder Outline by Rachel Cusk Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel Based on a True Story by Norm MacDonald Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Salmon Wars by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins Batshit Seven by Sheung-King Doppelganger by Naomi Klein In Memoriam by Alice Winn The Crying Book by Heather Christle Persuasion by Jane Austen The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn The Promise by Damon Galgut Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn Biography of X by Catherine Lacey The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim Sociopath by Patric Gagne
My dwindling social media presence: The StoryGraph: bit.ly/3os9V0B Instagram: @thebookbully_being vulnerable for no reason at allThe Book Bully2024-04-23 | this video reminds me of my blogging days where I would share a lot of what was happening in my life to small audience. im not sure why i filmed it and i'm even less sure why i'm sharing it but maybe i am just longing for the internet days of yore and trying to capture some of the strength i felt in sharing my thoughts with a community.
i hope you're well.April TBR Spin | 2024The Book Bully2024-04-01 | Follow @FreshlyReadBooks!
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I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!
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- - Books mentioned - - Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
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- - Books mentioned - - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford Prophet Song by Paul Lynch All's Well by Mona Awad Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda, translated by Allison Watts The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad
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- - Questions - - 1. How has your 2023 reading year gone so far? 2. What is the best book you've read so far in 2023? 3. Best sequel you've read so far in 2023? 4. A new release you haven't read yet but want to? 5. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year? 6. Biggest disappointment of 2023 so far? 7. Biggest surprise of 2023 so far? 8. Favorite new author (new to you or debut)? 9. Book that made you cry? 10. Book you saw on TikTok and regret reading? 11. Most beautiful book you bought this year? 12. What are the books you need to read by the end of the year? 13. Favorite video you've made so far in 2023? 14. A video you thought would flop but did well? 15. Any upcoming videos you're excited to make? 16. Any channel goals before the end of the year?
All books: 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson Atonement by Ian McEwan Autumn by Ali Smith Bewilderment by Richard Powers Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel Black Dogs by Ian McEwan Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Bring Up Bodies by Hilary Mantel Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet China Room by Sunjeev Sahota Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman Elmet by Fiona Mozley England, England by Julian Barnes February by Lisa Moore The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohammed Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce History of Wolves by Emily Friedland Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang How To Be Both by Ali Smith Life of Pi by Yann Martel Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer Milkman by Anna Burns My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Normal People by Sally Rooney On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor Room by Emma Donoghue Saturday by Ian McEwan The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan Snap by Belina Bauer The Colony by Audrey Magee The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel The Promise by Damon Galgut The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Trust by Hernan Diaz We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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- - The Short List - - 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro 150 Glimpses of the Beatles by Craig Brown Paris 1919 by Margaret Macmillan Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick Into the Silence by Wade Davis
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- - Books mentioned - - Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richard Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E Kirby Home Stretch by Graham Norton
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- - People mentioned - - @shawnmccomb @MercysBookishMusings (youtu.be/b2fsmsvdOlg) @allisonpaiges @EricKarlAnderson Fatma on instagram: @tthebookplace
- - Books mentioned - - Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot Greek Lessons by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yea Won Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Jae Won Chung Trespasses by Louise Kennedy The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Devotions by Mary Oliver A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Yellowface by R. F. Kuang Huge by Brent Butt il virus by Lillian Necakov Things We Found When the Water Went Down by Tegan Nia Swanson Ghost Town by Kevin Chen Northern Lights by Philip Pullman Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
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- - Books mentioned - - The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot Talking it Over by Julian Barnes We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
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- - Books mentioned - - Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill The Testaments by Margaret Atwood An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makubmi Little Weird by Jenny Slate Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin I've Been Meaning to Tell You by David Chariandy The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins Mrs. March by Virginia Feito Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Müller How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohammed The Wheaton by Joanne Jackson Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert, translated by Linda Coverdale The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, translated by Ros Schwarz The Employees by Olga Ravin, translated by Martin Aikin Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Everything I Need I Get From You by Kaitlyn Tiffany The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays Up All Night by Lisa Napoli Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
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- - Books mentioned - - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky The Unseen by Roy Jacobson, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky The Believer by Sarah Krasnostein Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller Little Town On the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
books mentioned: ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Wells ARTIFICIAL CONDITION by Martha Wells SULPHURTONGUE by Rebecca Salazar THE PACHINKO PARLOUR by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins SORROW AND BLISS by Meg Mason THE OTHER MOTHER by Rachel M. Harper FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND THE BIG TERRIBLE THING by Matthew Perry SPARE by Prince Harry OF WOMEN AND SALT by Gabriela Garcia TRICKSTER DRIFT by Eden Robinson GIRLS OF A CERTAIN AGE by Maria Adelmann THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED by John Green CROW LAKE by Mary Lawson
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Thank you, you gorgeous bibliophiles, for being here. I appreciate all the thoughtful comments over the year and I am so grateful for the beautiful space you've helped me build.
- - Books mentioned - - The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme Did Ye Hear Mammy Died by Séamus O'Reilly Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer This is How We Love by Lisa Moore Son Of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud On Writing by Stephen King The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Stasiland by Anna Funder Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnett The Colony by Audrey Magee The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Trust by Hernan Diaz
Honorable mentions: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes Sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar
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(but seriously if I didn't love your favourite book we can still be friends!)
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- - Books mentioned - - The Wife by Meg Wolitzer The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, translated by Ros Schwartz Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Original Sins by Matt Rowland Hill A Billion Years by Mike Rinder Bluets by Maggie Nelson Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell Chatter by Patrick Radden Keefe
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- - Books mentioned - - Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hume Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Trust by Hernan Diaz The Colony by Audrey Magee Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Everything I Need I Get From You by Kaitlyn Tiffany A Minor Chorus by Billy Ray Belcourt 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer Vanishing Fleece by Clara Parkes Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein The Door by Magda Szabó by Len Rix Bluets by Maggie Nelson The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein Persuasion by Jane Austen Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier Actress by Anne Enright Hot Milk by Deborah Levy The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky New York by Edward Rutherford A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Love by Roddy Doyle Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell Try Not to be Strange by Michael Hingston Having and Being Had by Eula Biss In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts Home Stretch by Graham Norton
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- - Books mentioned - - Truth and Conviction by L. Jane McMillan Border by Kapka Kassabova Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell Stasiland by Anna Funder Try Not To Be Strange by Michael Hingston The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald Chatter by Patrick Radden Keefe
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- - Books mentioned - - Tend by Kate Hargreaves Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet Red Comet by Heather Clark Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins Everything I Need I Get From You by Kaitlyn Tiffany Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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- - Books mentioned - - I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy Trust by Hernan Diaz The Colony by Audrey Magee Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm
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- - Videos mentioned - - Subscribe to my son @shawnmccomb My Giller long list predictions: youtu.be/pa-Tt-7CLSE @SpringboardThought review of The Colony: youtu.be/tTLTXhQKkRk
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- - My predictions - - This is How We Love by Lisa Moore We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky by Emma Hooper Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel God Isn't Here Today by Francine Cunningham Homesickness by Colin Barrett A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt Mansions of the Moon by Shyam Selvadurai Junie by Chelene Knight* Minique by Anna Maxymiw Some Hellish by Nicholas Herring* In the City of Pigs by André Forget Hey, Good Luck Out There by Georgia Toews Every Summer After by Carley Fortune All The Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
* I requested and was sent review copies of these titles from their respective publishing companies.
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- - Books mentioned - - Larger Than Life by Maria Sherman Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi The Little Friend by Donna Tartt The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe All the Shining People by Kathy Friedman My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen Magpie by Elizabeth Day