A Surprise 5⭐ Read! | May 2023 Wrap Up
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: amzn.to/43JP52w
Happy Place by Emily Henry: amzn.to/3meiKzF
Playing It Safe by Ashley Weaver: amzn.to/3otMz0f
The Social Graces by Renee Rosen: amzn.to/41yKFd0
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi: amzn.to/3uEF5Ya
Threads of Life by Clare Hunter: amzn.to/3FEcj03
Along Came a Llama by Ruth Janette Ruck: amzn.to/3n2qQvK
Wild by Cheryl Strayed: amzn.to/3VO9TRX
Lake of the Ozarks by Bill Geist: amzn.to/3B9e5TZ
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THANK YOU for what you said about history. It's so important that we don't erase or rewrite history just because it makes people uncomfortable!
I agree with you so much about how we should not tone down history. The truth always needs to be told, no matter how much we feel uncomfortable about it.
Love your llama shirt where did you get it?
I also loved Wild! I too loved her writing, so I’ll have to try her other books
One of my favorite recent non-fiction reads was Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, and I thought about you several times while reading it. I think it's something you would enjoy. It's a combination of nature writing, memoir, and social commentary/history. I thought it was lovely. I listened to the audio version, which is read by author.
Thank you. I added Soil to my library list.
As always, great reviews.
I can't wait to hear what you think of Lolita. I read it in my 20s and loved it. I thought the book was sensual, erotic, provocative and written beautifully! It instantly became a favorite of mine. Then I attempted to read it again last year and couldn't finish it. I stopped after a 1/4 of it. I found it widely disturbing and repulsive. It's crazy how time can change things. 😆
I tried to read it last year and felt the same! I was so disturbed and repulsed I stopped reading it a little ways in.
LOVED reading Wild ... I love Cheryl Strayed.
Well said about Happy Place. The big decision at the end was TOO big.
Hope your transition period is serving you well ❤ I also read Wild at one of those moments in my life and I think it resonated with me much more than if I’d been in a more normal period reading it.
I loved Wild. It's the book that inspired me to get up and go do some solo traveling abroad. Best decision of my life!
India 🙏 Namaste 🙏
Thank you for sharing these books with us, you give such inspiration to read great books.
I loved Wild. I read it years ago. I still haven’t gotten to Leasons in Chemistry, but it’s on my bookshelf. Great wrap up!
I enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry (it was very readable), but Zott's personality kind of bothered me. I'm a female engineer and I feel like there's this stereotype that women in STEM can be cold, logical and unemotional and... that's kinda Zott's character? But I'm excited for the TV adaptation and will be watching!
I haven’t read Wild yet but also heard of the „controversy“- a part of me wonders if this is because a female is being honest with her past not so good decisions and being extra harshly criticized for it because she’s not male (this really is only speculation though, I’ll know for sure once I read it!)
I've long thought that you'd enjoy Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth. It's a well written mixture of American, British, Indigenous, and Russian political and ecological history of whales.
Just finished the first book of the Ashley Weaver series, and I LOVED it! I picked up this book because of you and I just wanted to thank you. It was exactly the type of story I was looking for. I can't wait to read the next two books!
The depiction of sexism in Lessons in Chemistry, although uncomfortable, I believe to be true. Historically and currently. I’m not a scientist, but I read work from and about female scientists who portray sexism as an ongoing issue. There is a good 2020 documentary film that I’d refer folks to watch: “Picture a Scientist.” Lessons in Chemistry is a great read!
You look fantastic! Love your energy. ❤
I finished Along Came a Llama yesterday because I saw your compelling one word review on good reads - “DELIGHTFUL!” Loved it as well. ❤ But oh man…. I was left hanging at the end! Even googled it to see if there was ANY follow up, even though this was nearly 50 years ago. Today I’m doing a major pivot and am reading Bunny. 😆
Totally agree with the ending of Happy Place!! Did not make sense at all and has also bothered me since reading
Along came a llama and lake of the ozarks have been added to my list!
Thank you!🤗
Loved lessons in chemistry. I also found it surprising in that it was much more than it’s flap description.
Thanks from a fellow major nerd.
so many good reads! best review of lessons in chemistry Ive heard. such a great list.
I’m so glad you liked Lessons in Chemistry. I think this book is powerful because it gives such a powerful message to women of all ages, from teenagers to beyond retirement. I also think the first half is is the best, not because the second half is a disappointment, but, because I like to see a strong woman struggle and succeed. By the second half that has already happened so the struggle is over. However, I loved the in-your-face ending!
Great video! Was Wild made into a movie? Blessings.
Yes, starring Reese Witherspoon.
" she is fictional and i am not" TRUTH girl, TRUTH!
Some days I wish I was fictional 😂
YES, a thousand times YES to that situation in Happy Place - I was like, wait, what, you waited for 225 pages to drop this? I really think this was a women's contemporary fiction book masquerading as a romance - and it failed at both
I absolutely loved Lessons in Chemistry and Reading Lolita in Tehran. Wonderful recommendations 🤗
I have listened to numerous other book tubers and none come close to your presentation. You are so clear, concise, and inspiring. Thank you. I have also read Ashley Weaver's books, all three, and was also amazed that they just seem to keep getting better and better. Also, Wild is a favorite of mine. I think Cheryl is amazing in her soul-searching honesty. Love Tiny Beautiful Things also. I am excited for you to read Inheritance, I really enjoyed this and hope you do too. I have a couple recommendations: The Bee Keeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. She has written many follow-up books, some better than others. But if you enjoy Bee Keeper's, please at least read the next one, A Monstrous Regiment of Women. Thanks again for your reviews, I look forward to them so much.
I really need to get Lessons in Chemistry for my family, it really sounds like a book both my mom and sister would enjoy. I'll be interested in hearing your thoughts about Lolita if you get to it, I read it years ago and its a very polarising and disturbing book-which is what the author intended and I think some people forget that.
You got me interesting in reading those Ashley Weaver books. I'm a big mystery nerd myself especially when you have a mystery book set in the past.
I read Wild during a reading spate of memoirs about hiking the PCT. I enjoyed the book, but a bit surprised that she didn't plan to hike the whole length of the trail as others had done.
I really liked Lessons in Chemistry. I liked the “romance” and that she included the dog's point of view. I liked the characters personalities in spite of the eccentricity. The things people don’t like is the way things were. Don’t look away. Learn and recognize how society changes and how it doesn’t. Happy Place was not my favorite Emily Henry novel, but it was entertaining. Her banter is great.
I love how you wrap up the books without giving away too much of the story! You give enough details to make me want to read them, without it feeling like spoilers!
Omg! Your shirt! It's so cute! I need to read Along Came a Llama. I've had Lessons in Chemistry on my TBR for awhile, but it's not a priority at the moment.
Love the llama shirt
Thanks! It's been one of my favorites lately, haha!
May you find the peace, contentment and joy that you are looking for. May you find the answers that you need to questions you haven’t already thought about. May you feel fulfilled, contentment and peace where you are along your journey
I would really like to hear your thoughts on a book by Bronnie Ware “The top five regrets of the dying”.
Okay, I've been circling this book and now I must 📚 it. (Lessons in Chemistry)
You have me hooked on the Ashley Weaver series. Thank you! Also, loved Wild!
CBS Sunday Morning had a lovely piece about the author on today’s show. I was reluctant to read it based on the cover, but I fought that, read it and gave it five stars.
Loved this, and so many striking covers for your May reads. Wild sounds fab, and how perfect is her surname for someone trying to find their path in life again! 😅
I want to read Along Came A Llama! Sounds so cute!
Love your shirt! Putting along came a llama on my list!
The library called yesterday and told me that it's my turn to read Lessons in Chemistry. I've already read the first 2 chapters and it's a delight.
So exciting! I imagine that was quite a long holds list.
love your llama shirt!
A great alternative to the Thread book would be "Fabric: the hidden history of the material world' by Victoria Finlay. I see you have it on your TBR and I recently read it and loved it. Not so dense as Threads of Life sounds to be, but still informative and full of interest. Even some grief memoir aspects in it! The Llama book is totally now on my TBR and I love your shirt!
Great tshirt.
Agree regarding Lessons In Chemistry 📖🪱💚