January 2023 Reading Wrap-Up
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- I had a really great first reading month of 2023. Here's everything I read, from short stories to manga!
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The way you can give a spoiler free description of books while also giving it a touch of your personal insight is a talent!
Aw thank you so much! That means a lot :)
The two animal books look particularly interesting to me - they sound different and like they'll be an easy-read. I've now added several more books to my TBR pile thanks to you! Lol.
I stumbled across your channel quite recently , and I'm so upset that I didn't much much earlier. The way you talk about books is amazing, so concise and articulated.
Thank you so much!
@Books and Bao really excited for this bookish journey
My cat makes my life 100% better!
Thanks for the great video. You read some great books this past month. Looking forward to more videos.
Your thoughts are so valuable and insightful! I loved heading your perspective on all these books, excellent reviews!!! Also comparing the luminaries to buffy has now sold that book for me, I must pick it up asap haha!!
Wow… 15 books. I wish I could read more like that. 😮
I read only 4 books in January. 😅
Spinning Silver
Legends and Lattes
Mistborn
The House In the Cerulean Sea
Here’s my 5 books for My February TBR:
For The Wolf
Howl’s Moving Castle
The Powder Mage Trilogy
- Promise of Blood
- Crimson Campaign
- Autumn Republic
Been planning this for weeks so I hope I get all 5 books read. That’s my goal. 😁
You have some of the yummiest book recommendations ❤
Haha thanks :)
Noragami is great, but not for the magic, romance, or cool fight scenes that come up in conversation most often. It's a fantastic exploration of found family and past trauma, though it takes a few volumes to get there. I think the anime is more effectively paced, and better overall, than the manga (and has a great soundtrack too!)
That is amazing! Wish I could read 15 books at a time
I love your reviews. ❤
Oh, how I wish you could read this Spanish book called Carcoma by Layla Martínez! It's a gothic haunted house story with Spanish folklore sprinkled on top, with stomach-churning family chronicles from the Spanish Civil War being central to the plot. It has saints, ghosts, curses, abuse between family members and 'carcoma' (a woodworm) that seems to have taken hold of the entire family. Very reminiscent of Latin American horror stories and Spanish romantic writers. It was huge in Spain during 2021 and heard there was a translation in the works! Really reminded of you when I re-read it recently and I needed to put it out there 🤣
What an incredible reading month! I bought The Maidens when it came out because I loved his first novel, but then I saw bad review after bad review and so haven’t picked it up yet… but you liked it so maybe I’ll like it!
I bought Salt Slow this month after reading Our Wives Under the Sea. On a bit of a short story collection kick atm. Currently reading Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love by Huma Qureshi… it is soooooo good I am trying not to inhale it in one go.
Can’t wait to see what February brings for you.
I just finished "Taaqtumi" an anthology of short horror stories by Inuit authors. I really liked it, the stories are very different even got one sf. Funny enough although it's in English I found out about it trough French booktube.
That sounds wonderful!!
Good luck with the interview! Can't wait!
Here from Katie Colsons 2022 faves. You convinced me to pick up Queen of Teeth and I'm so stoked.
Salt Slow is awesome. And yay you had fun reading Queen of Teeth. I am gonna read that someday! I really think you'd like Transmuted by Eve Harms. That's also like a B horror/science fiction movie and the author is also a trans woman. :D I read 18 books this month, but that's only cause I finished some books I started in 2022, since I am such a slow reader. Maybe it'll be 19 if I can manage to read the last 58 pages of The Secret History today. I'm starting to like it a little more now :) And I can't wait to watch the interview!
I've been wanting to read She and Her Cat but I didn't know the origins of it. So interesting. And I agree that cats make life better!!
Now She is Witch isn't out in Canada yet and I've been trying to stop myself from buying it from Blackwells but I think I'm going to cave 😂
Great video. Thank you. I have been considering for a while which of the new mythology re-tellings to start with. They all sound really good. I have not read a single one - including the Song of Achilles. I will start with Elektra! You spoke very passionately about it in your videos Happy Last Day of January. (yes, for me, it is a thing to celebrate.)
I saw Now She Is Witch in the thumbnail and hit subscribe, and was like "perhaps I should actually watch the video first" so unsubscribed, then Salt Slow popped up with high praise and I went "I'm in safe hands here" and hit subscribe again!
Good to hear that Salt Slow is really excellent, since I’ve spent the last six months obsessing over Our Wives Under the Sea, I’ve been wanting to pick it up, but it’s even more exciting when you hear a glowing review.
Hi! Can you please give a look to When I sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola? I'm dying for someone on booktube to review the new english translation. It is the type of writing I definitely think you'd like
Have you heard of the film Teeth? It's the same concept as Queen of Teeth and it was everything.
Yeah I saw it years ago. Queen of Teeth goes a lot further with the concept though!
Speaking of Junji Ito, was wondering what you think of Manga being turned into series as happened now. So far I don't feel like it adds anything, but maybe a literal translation into moving picture is the point?
Also almost finished with Nettleblack! Thank you for the recommendation - it is so endearing - yes - quite.
I haven’t seen the new Ito series but there was one a few years ago that was badly received so I’m not super eager. The thing with Ito is that his art is a big reason for why his work is so special. Putting it in the hands of other artists and animators will surely diminish it, right?
@Books and Bao I am not very knowledgeable in the process of paper to screen so I don't know which unpopular decisions are necessary to make there. But with every art piece that you spend so much time mind-walking through before ending up with the final thing..
Maybe it's a bit like reading, only that the reader's is one valid experience next to many others, while claiming it for another medium is supposed to be more representative of the 'original/real' character?
Thank you for your commentary. I wonder if you would be interested in being a beta reader for a book of mine. Your frankness and direct approach to reviewing books is something my book could definitely use. Fairytale fantasy, 120k words
Ooh I've been really wanting to read Our Wives Under the Sea! Salt Slow sounds great, and love that she signed it for you!! I have heard exclusively negative reviews of Maidens, so it was refreshing to see that you enjoyed it! Probably still not for me because I don't really do Dark Academia. I just finished listening to Cabin at the End of the World and WOW that was incredible!!! One of the twists got me so bad! Tremblay did an exceptional job of guiding my mind down one path despite placing obvious clues toward another. What a bummer about Whale. QUEEN OF TEETH!!! I haven't read it yet but I really want to! 🏳⚧ OMG I love museums and mysteries so I definitely need to read Cloisters!!