My Bookish Week 091524
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- Опубліковано 24 жов 2024
- Last week I finished:
The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan / 61111300
Cultish by Amanda Montell / 55338982
Requeening by Amanda Moore / 56817028
Blood Lyrics by Katie Ford / 20613704
I’m currently reading:
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather / 37857060
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst / 203657010
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil / 48615751
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What a nice editon of Death Comes for the Archbishop.
So lovely to hear what a fun day you had with your teen and granddaughter.
@@alldbooks9165 they’re awesome together!
Thank you for sharing your bookish week with us!❤
Some day your grand-daughter will be curious about the books on your shelves and it will be so fun to give her some recommendations!!❤
Taking notes so I can add more books to my tbr!!😂
A toddler and a teen-what a fun day!!
Queen of Dirt Island is on my growing list. And, the Amanda Moore is going to be a gift for my much younger (and only) sister. She has taken up beekeeping (she retired from teaching 4 yrs ago) and I know she’ll love it.
I have Cultish on my TBR so it was interesting to hear your thoughts on it!
@@savagereads it’s not bad but not great. 🤨
Hi Kim, how wonderful to have spent the day with your granddaughter! My granddaughter just started kindergarten this year and it’s amazing how fast they grow. Unfortunately, I don’t get to see her that often, but I hope to see her early next year.
I’ve been reading a lot of nonfiction this month so I might try to find cultish. I guess you can call a lot of different things cults. Been sort of researching the cult of minimalism. Well it’s not exactly a cult, but for some people anything can become extreme taken to the extreme . Aloha friend.
@@MarilynMayaMendoza so much of social media is cultish. She talks about that in her book too.
LOL! Hope you got to bed early that day - you looked wiped, but VERY, VERY happy! Good book choices! I need to read "Death Comes for the Archbishop". - it sounds wonderful. I lived in NM for 15 years - definitely a different and very enchanting place. I was always astounded by the marriage of Christianity and native spirituality visible on the reservations there. Very interesting stuff! Take care.
@@BeyondBooks-wt5il I would love to visit that part of the country. 🤓
Death Comes for the Archbishop is one of my favorite books.
What I would give for an iHOP in the country I live in!
I read Death comes to the Archbishop last year. It was my first cather book. I stayed with it until the end because of the writing but it was not for me for reasons you gave. I still want to read O pioneers and hope I will fare better with that one.
Grammie weekend! I ❤ it! They are exhausting though. 😂
@@myreadinglife8816 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Kim ..enjoyed the video. I am always glad to know that people are still reading Willa Cather, one of my all time favorites. I have read Death Comes, but My Antonia will always be my all time #1!...I recently was cleaning out and donating from my shelves and realized that I had 3 copies..so now I'm back down to 1...like a normal person...I buy cheap duplicates and press them on others!
My library has World of Wonders so it's on my list now. I hope it's as good as it sounds.
Thanks for sharing😊
@@cindys4722 so far it’s wonderful!
I was able to check out the audiobook of Information Desk and listened to it after you highlighted it in your haul.
I loved it and it’s brilliant, but as someone who worked at that desk I’m a very niche audience, so I’m interested in your take. I knew and understood about 80% of the Art History references, and she does mention Cleopatra’s Needle, so you will get that one.
There’s also a lot about the quirkiness of working at a museums that I was familiar with. What was new to me was the information about various insects, and mainly wasps, that she wraps the poem in. I could follow it and understood her metaphorical uses of it.
It does seem unique in being a single long narrative poem broken into just a few parts. She reads the audiobook very quickly, as if she’s at a poetry slam, this the first audiobook I almost slowed down instead of sped up!
I would recommend setting a block of time to try to read it in its entirety, or within a day with a few breaks. That will keep the references fresh as she circles back on things.
@@bookofdust I will definitely pick it up this week. Thanks for the tips! 🥰
Great week Kim. I listened to Cultish a few years ago and had much the same reactions. Death Comes... Is not my favorite Cather but it's real good
Cultish is on my Everand list and I’ve been interested in it for a while. The author has a podcast which delves into all of the same things which I’ve been listening to.
@@spreadbookjoy awesome to know! 🤓
Congratulations for surviving a day with a two year old!😂😂😂❤
@@premadimauro2691 🤣🤣🤣
Well done you stayed awake😂 I haven’t read any Donal Ryan and need to rectify that, I’ve ordered Queen of Dirt Island as it sounds fab!
@@Ali-AvidReader it’s so good!
I'm glad you had a wonderful day with your granddaughter. It sounded like a lot of fun. Cultish. I am sorry to say I was quite bored with the book. I listened on audio and recently finished it just to see if I was missing something. There was some interesting parts but it wasn't what I had hoped it to be. I've been enjoying The Lady in Gold for #framedinseptember and been look forward to watching the DVD when I'm done. Have I've read a few short stories but not as many as I thought I was going to get to! Sometimes life does get in your way. I don't know how I worked full-time. Enjoy the rest of your weekend with your granddaughter.❤
@@marciajohansson769 🥰🥰🥰
I read the Queen of dirt Island a year ago and just went to check my Goodreads review. I gave it a 3.5 - so above average- saying it was thoroughly enjoyable and immersive, BUT, even after your review and having read the reviews of others, I don’t remember a thing about this book!!
Yikes!
@@eviewilliams5100 🤣🤣🤣
I thought the Cultish was good because I learned some things about the topic, but it wasn't great. The takeaway for me was that the MLMs use the same type of language that major cults use to draw in people and keep them engaged with the product/brand. I agree the focus of the book wasn't clear.
It sounds like an interesting topic to think about.
I really ended up liking Cultish a lot, but I think it was a bit mis-marketed. The author has a focus on linguistics (that’s her academic background) and the book is really intended to be about the language used by cults and how that intersects with language used by non-cult organizations like employers or exercise brands. Looking at it from that lens, I think the book works better, but if someone was going in really only expecting it to discuss cults, I can definitely see where the book would fall short.
@@themusicsnob that’s good to know. I can definitely see the value in the book with that perspective.