I have never commented on a UA-cam video before, but your channel has brought so much joy to my life and has ignited my love for nonfiction to the point that I literally screamed when I saw this video. So many new goodreads suggestion for me thanks to this video. Please never stop making videos about non fiction!!!
Me: Hmm I wish I had more nonfiction recs to go through. Olive: Summer Nonfiction Book Haul on *all the topics I could possibly want* THANK YOU MUCHLY.
I found your channel about a month ago and I just can’t stop watching. You’ve fostered a desire to read more nonfiction and I’ve added so many books to my TBR! I also read I am I am I am recently and it was fantastic. I can’t stop thinking about that memoir since I read it a few weeks ago!
I love watching your hauls, I know I'll always find books to add to my TBR shelf and your excitement is catching . I am really curious about the Botany books you mentioned as they sound interesting. I have always found animals as well as plants interesting and there was a time when I thought about becoming a Botanist or Marine Biologist. Even though my career of being a Botanist or Marine Biologist didn't happen, I do still have a love of learning about plants and living vicariously through those who have made a successful go at those careers or just love sharing their understanding of plants and animals. Happy Reading!
I should have counted how many times I paused the video to go add a book to my tbr on Goodreads :D So many awesome sounding books! I love your nonfiction hauls!
Great book haul! I've read and loved The Evolution of Beauty, She Has Her Mother's Laugh and A Room of One's Own. And yay, more bird books for my TBR! I can never have too many of those.
So many interesting books there! I bought The Secret Lives of Colour recently on a trip to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. I flipped through it on the train on the way home but haven’t settled down to reading it properly. I couldn’t resist that spotty textured cover.
Did I hear the phrase "I'm attached to reality like a baby sloth?" 😆 The book that's a companion to The Language of Flowers sounds rather good, that was a really enjoyable book.
As always, a lovely mix of books here. I love how you indulge your interest in nature. The book about the natural world in urban centers sounds really interesting and cute. I'm also curious about Chrysalis as I once saw a fantastic TedxEd video about her. I read Bonk a few years ago and it's still my favourite Mary Roach book. It's hilarious and informative. And Tattered Banners sounds like a good follow-up to the first Russian non-fiction book I read and loved recently, The Secret Lives of the Tsars.
John Berendt has written a book about birds called My Baby Blue Jays. It appears to be a photo essay of a nest of blue jays outside his window! Would be an obscure addition to your bird book collection! Lots of interesting titles in this haul. Will join in for October’s NF read!
This was such an excellent haul! I want most of these books in my brain right NOW! Of course, my bank balance disagrees. So, on my tbr they go :) Thanks for a great haul!
Bonk is a very interesting, educational and funny book. Easily one of my top 5 books of 2017. Stiff by Mary Roach is brilliant as well and I highly recommend it! I’ve had The Secret Lives of Color since it released so I clearly need to get reading...
I liked the Butchering Art quite a bit, it does a really good job of showing what a huge leap it was to get doctors to consider sanitation as a relevant and necessary part of surgery. It's pretty gory (but I guess that's obvious).
Oh, An Alchemy of Mind sounds fab! I've seen the author's name around, I think she's written a book about butterflies as well. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on The Secret Lives of Colors and The Butchering Art, both titles I've been close to buying for a good while now! Gah, you have the best taste in nonfiction! So many titles here than sound interesting and I love the mix of subjects and sub-genres. I need more bird books in my personal library, too.
Whenever you talk about seahorses I think of this release of 23 short films by Jean Painlevé. They are from the 20s through to the 80s. But the specific release from Criterion has a seahorse on the cover because he has one short called The Seahorse, which I've seen clips of and although it's dated in terms of technology it's still pretty interesting. He made other shorts about sea urchins, pigeons, octopus, and some other random animals.
I’ve been binge-watching your nonfiction hauls (because I LOVE nonfiction and you’re the only book tuber I’ve com across so far with great nonfiction recommendations) and was just wondering if you’ve read The Secret Lives of Color yet. I’ve had my eye on it for a while, just haven’t gotten around to picking it up.
I love watching your non-fiction hauls, even though my interests in non-fiction rarely converge with yours. It just shows me how many interesting topics are out there to be explored. That being said, I am curious about the language book you hauled. And I have read Diving with seahorses in the original Norwegian edition. It was interesting, but I felt it held my hand a little too tightly through the explanations for my taste. But very readable.
I've read the Oscar Wilde biography (years ago but I remember it fondly) and A Room of One's Own (more recently and which is GREAT). Virginia Woolf has another long essay called Three Guineas about women, charity, and economic justice which is often bound with A Room of One's Own and which I think is even better - if you have it in that volume, definitely read it!
Here is my struggle. Nothing excites me more than discovering new non-fiction books and deciding which ones to read. Knowledge is so appealing to me, I want it all! But, non-fiction can be pretty dense and I hate that I need a break in between books (during which I read fiction). There is simply not enough time. I wish 36 hour days were a thing.
I do have to admit, nonfiction does take me longer to read as well. I'd also appreciate a few more hours in the day...too much of my time is dedicated to work - I need more reading time!
I'm in the middle of a re-watch of The Wire seeing as my husband has never seen it! We just finished season 3 last night.Might have to add the book to his xmas gift list :)
Do you automatically add all of your hauled books to your to-read list? I love the way you choose a 'random' book from your to-read list using a random number generator and I was curious how you keep up with all your owned by not read books! Although I know you have an amazing memory. :)
Unfortunately my memory can't keep track of each and every book! I wish it could, haha. I try to add all the books I pick up to my TBR when I get home, but some get lost in the shuffle 😕
I'm currently reading The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathon Haidt which is an excellent non-fiction book about the philosophy and science of happiness. Sounds like it might be up your alley!
What do the words 'fake news' mean to you as a 21stC American? Just wondering. I found it interesting that O. Wilde also wrote religious stories eg. The Selfish Giant.
So I have got to ask: how do you go about finding such great and interesting nonfiction to purchase? I’m a bird keeper and am adding most of these bird books to my Amazon wish list. 😒 Just wondering how you stumble across so many gems....perusing a physical shop? Recommendations? Good luck on random online searches? Anyhow, love seeing your hauls Olive!
I head straight to the nonfiction section in every book store or book sale I go to & browse! At library book sales there isn't as much competition for space to stand as there is with fiction so I have time to pick books up & see what they're about.
Olive, I heard that you sometimes discuss business books on your channel. I just posted a video on my channel in looking for recommendations for my office. Please let me know if you have any suggestions! Thank you!
I'm honestly not sure. I've never counted them & the number is always fluctuating since I'm acquiring a lot of new ones but also consistently getting rid of books I've read and don't want to reread.
I’d be curious to know, should you ever feel inclined to count. It might go back to my days doing inventory at Barnes & Noble, I don’t know. I added multiple books from this haul to my TBR. I’m becoming more and more interested in birds since my wife and I bought our house two years ago. I’d never seen a blue jay before we moved into our home, and we have a few who appear now and again. And I just think they’re jaw-droppingly beautiful things. I’ve been keeping the binoculars on the coffee table.
I have never commented on a UA-cam video before, but your channel has brought so much joy to my life and has ignited my love for nonfiction to the point that I literally screamed when I saw this video. So many new goodreads suggestion for me thanks to this video. Please never stop making videos about non fiction!!!
Thank you so much!!
This magnificent haul reminds me that we're only a few months away from Nonfiction November!
Steve Donoghue and I can’t wait!!
So excited!!!
Me: Hmm I wish I had more nonfiction recs to go through.
Olive: Summer Nonfiction Book Haul on *all the topics I could possibly want*
THANK YOU MUCHLY.
I found your channel about a month ago and I just can’t stop watching. You’ve fostered a desire to read more nonfiction and I’ve added so many books to my TBR! I also read I am I am I am recently and it was fantastic. I can’t stop thinking about that memoir since I read it a few weeks ago!
That is so wonderful to hear!! Thank you 😊
I added, once more, so many books to my TBR watching your videos! You really rekindled my love for non fiction! Thank you so much!!
I love watching your hauls, I know I'll always find books to add to my TBR shelf and your excitement is catching . I am really curious about the Botany books you mentioned as they sound interesting. I have always found animals as well as plants interesting and there was a time when I thought about becoming a Botanist or Marine Biologist. Even though my career of being a Botanist or Marine Biologist didn't happen, I do still have a love of learning about plants and living vicariously through those who have made a successful go at those careers or just love sharing their understanding of plants and animals. Happy Reading!
Bunk and All the Devils Are Here have just made my TBR. Love your hauls since there's always something for everyone.
This amazing haul will most certainly have an impact on my budget. Wonderful picks, Olive! Bravo!
My favorite Mary Roach is Stiff. Fantastic haul!
The best haul ever. Oliver Sacks in particular, I have enjoyed almost every book of his I’ve ever read.
The Butchering Art was absolutely amazing, so interesting. I think you’ll really enjoy it
HOLY HAUL, BATMAN! What a gold mine! I'm a little bit jealous and very much in awe.
I should have counted how many times I paused the video to go add a book to my tbr on Goodreads :D So many awesome sounding books! I love your nonfiction hauls!
Great book haul! I've read and loved The Evolution of Beauty, She Has Her Mother's Laugh and A Room of One's Own. And yay, more bird books for my TBR! I can never have too many of those.
Always intrigued with your choices. I also have The Reason for Flowers to read and can't wait to hear your review when you get to it.
So many interesting books there! I bought The Secret Lives of Colour recently on a trip to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. I flipped through it on the train on the way home but haven’t settled down to reading it properly. I couldn’t resist that spotty textured cover.
It's so pretty!
I want to buy ALL of these.... 🙃 you have such interesting nonfiction hauls!
Did I hear the phrase "I'm attached to reality like a baby sloth?" 😆 The book that's a companion to The Language of Flowers sounds rather good, that was a really enjoyable book.
Olive, you have excellent taste. This haul stands as a reminder that nonfiction is amazing!
As always, a lovely mix of books here. I love how you indulge your interest in nature. The book about the natural world in urban centers sounds really interesting and cute. I'm also curious about Chrysalis as I once saw a fantastic TedxEd video about her.
I read Bonk a few years ago and it's still my favourite Mary Roach book. It's hilarious and informative. And Tattered Banners sounds like a good follow-up to the first Russian non-fiction book I read and loved recently, The Secret Lives of the Tsars.
Nearly every nonfiction book you haul ends up on my TBR. You are bad for my wallet, but wonderful for my brain.
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John Berendt has written a book about birds called My Baby Blue Jays. It appears to be a photo essay of a nest of blue jays outside his window! Would be an obscure addition to your bird book collection! Lots of interesting titles in this haul. Will join in for October’s NF read!
So many books, so much potential! Hope you enjoy them!
I loved Cork Dork and can’t wait to hear your thoughts of the wine books you brought. Great haul!
Your segues to the next book are really witty :D Interesting books!
This was such an excellent haul! I want most of these books in my brain right NOW! Of course, my bank balance disagrees. So, on my tbr they go :) Thanks for a great haul!
Bonk is a very interesting, educational and funny book. Easily one of my top 5 books of 2017. Stiff by Mary Roach is brilliant as well and I highly recommend it! I’ve had The Secret Lives of Color since it released so I clearly need to get reading...
I liked the Butchering Art quite a bit, it does a really good job of showing what a huge leap it was to get doctors to consider sanitation as a relevant and necessary part of surgery. It's pretty gory (but I guess that's obvious).
Oh, An Alchemy of Mind sounds fab! I've seen the author's name around, I think she's written a book about butterflies as well. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on The Secret Lives of Colors and The Butchering Art, both titles I've been close to buying for a good while now! Gah, you have the best taste in nonfiction! So many titles here than sound interesting and I love the mix of subjects and sub-genres. I need more bird books in my personal library, too.
Whenever you talk about seahorses I think of this release of 23 short films by Jean Painlevé. They are from the 20s through to the 80s. But the specific release from Criterion has a seahorse on the cover because he has one short called The Seahorse, which I've seen clips of and although it's dated in terms of technology it's still pretty interesting. He made other shorts about sea urchins, pigeons, octopus, and some other random animals.
I’ve been binge-watching your nonfiction hauls (because I LOVE nonfiction and you’re the only book tuber I’ve com across so far with great nonfiction recommendations) and was just wondering if you’ve read The Secret Lives of Color yet. I’ve had my eye on it for a while, just haven’t gotten around to picking it up.
I love watching your non-fiction hauls, even though my interests in non-fiction rarely converge with yours. It just shows me how many interesting topics are out there to be explored.
That being said, I am curious about the language book you hauled. And I have read Diving with seahorses in the original Norwegian edition. It was interesting, but I felt it held my hand a little too tightly through the explanations for my taste. But very readable.
A great bookhaul! Especially the bird books and Unseen City sound interesting to me :)
I've read the Oscar Wilde biography (years ago but I remember it fondly) and A Room of One's Own (more recently and which is GREAT). Virginia Woolf has another long essay called Three Guineas about women, charity, and economic justice which is often bound with A Room of One's Own and which I think is even better - if you have it in that volume, definitely read it!
BRB adding a dozen books to my TBR
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Here is my struggle. Nothing excites me more than discovering new non-fiction books and deciding which ones to read. Knowledge is so appealing to me, I want it all! But, non-fiction can be pretty dense and I hate that I need a break in between books (during which I read fiction). There is simply not enough time. I wish 36 hour days were a thing.
I do have to admit, nonfiction does take me longer to read as well. I'd also appreciate a few more hours in the day...too much of my time is dedicated to work - I need more reading time!
Kerouac gives me that problem too sometimes where I'm like, "Is this fiction or non-fiction?" :D
I'm in the middle of a re-watch of The Wire seeing as my husband has never seen it! We just finished season 3 last night.Might have to add the book to his xmas gift list :)
Oh man, that means you're on to season 4 💔
I don't know what her other books are like but i LOVE mary roach's Stiff. One of my favorite books ever
I really need to read that!
Please read Chrysalis soon. That’s been on my TBR for years. I bought a much shorter illustrated story about her, but it wasn’t well written.
Love the name of that cheese book so much!
It's fantastic! 😁
So many interesting topics!
Do you automatically add all of your hauled books to your to-read list? I love the way you choose a 'random' book from your to-read list using a random number generator and I was curious how you keep up with all your owned by not read books! Although I know you have an amazing memory. :)
Unfortunately my memory can't keep track of each and every book! I wish it could, haha. I try to add all the books I pick up to my TBR when I get home, but some get lost in the shuffle 😕
I'm currently reading The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathon Haidt which is an excellent non-fiction book about the philosophy and science of happiness. Sounds like it might be up your alley!
Thanks for the recommendation!
What do the words 'fake news' mean to you as a 21stC American? Just wondering.
I found it interesting that O. Wilde also wrote religious stories eg. The Selfish Giant.
So I have got to ask: how do you go about finding such great and interesting nonfiction to purchase? I’m a bird keeper and am adding most of these bird books to my Amazon wish list. 😒 Just wondering how you stumble across so many gems....perusing a physical shop? Recommendations? Good luck on random online searches? Anyhow, love seeing your hauls Olive!
I head straight to the nonfiction section in every book store or book sale I go to & browse! At library book sales there isn't as much competition for space to stand as there is with fiction so I have time to pick books up & see what they're about.
I really enjoyed the Butchering Art, it was a great introduction to an area I knew nothing about.... I hope you like it :)
That Hereditary book and the language one look fascinating!! Why do you make me want to read all the non fiction?? So many Interesting ones here
Haha, making everyone want to pick up more nonfiction is always my goal 😁
Olive, this is very dangerous. I do not have time to read all of the excellent-looking books in this haul that I immediately want to add to my TBR. 😫
Wow all of these sound so interesting, especially the language one and the heredity one
I have the same biography of Oscar Wilde but I have yet to read it. It is quite the chunker.
Nonfiction recommendation fix! Thank you!
My pleasure 😁
have you narrated a book? because you have a nice and very understandable voice :)
Thank you! I hope to narrate a book someday!
Olive, I heard that you sometimes discuss business books on your channel. I just posted a video on my channel in looking for recommendations for my office. Please let me know if you have any suggestions! Thank you!
Nice books!! I mostly read fantasy. Lol
How many books do you own?
I'm honestly not sure. I've never counted them & the number is always fluctuating since I'm acquiring a lot of new ones but also consistently getting rid of books I've read and don't want to reread.
I’d be curious to know, should you ever feel inclined to count. It might go back to my days doing inventory at Barnes & Noble, I don’t know. I added multiple books from this haul to my TBR. I’m becoming more and more interested in birds since my wife and I bought our house two years ago. I’d never seen a blue jay before we moved into our home, and we have a few who appear now and again. And I just think they’re jaw-droppingly beautiful things. I’ve been keeping the binoculars on the coffee table.
Wow! That's a great haul of fantastic books. As a city dweller though I hate pigeons
Everyone seems to hate them, but I think they're cute 😳
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