I loved seeing Editing Olly. That made me laugh out loud. I enjoyed Gareth's book, Permanent Verb. So wonderful that you are reading it and featuring it here. You have a great month planned, Olly. Have fun.
Thanks so much Olly for including my first Poetry collection. It's my most personal book, with some serious stuff in there (about my Dad, about losing a student to suicide etc) as well as some lighter stuff now and again....hope you enjoy it. I am honoured that you've included it. Love the other choices you've made, and love the event - I was going to do it, but realised the best thing for me for September is to try and catch up with some non-event led books that I've been meaning to read.
I've got a huge stack of short books, short stories and collections, and poetry to choose from! I plan to just focus on short stuff and read by the seat of my pants (or shorts, as is were.)
Yes yes yes I knew your Shorty Sept TBR would be brilliant! I've written loads of these down to potentially steal for my own list 😅❤️. I'm so happy you're in for Shorty Sept this year! 😅🤣.
I have to finish the lone star book and I might pick up something spooky to get me in the mood for October but I do have one Executioner book that I picked up for this month that I could read next month.
@@CriminOllyBlog oh but he seems so sweet, would love to see more of him! But I get it. Hard not to compare yourself to him I´d presume, he is very pretty.
Have a great September Olly! Shorty September might be right up my alley. I love Gareth's channel and have enjoyed one of his short story collections. I am also not a huge fan of poetry.
Shorty September! I could do Shorty September, Shorty October, Shorty November, etc. In recent years, my reading choices have been for shorter books--200 pages or less. My patience for longer books has waned during the past decade. Although, I must admit, most of the books I've read the past couple of months have been longer than 200 pages, primarily because I'm working on reading what I own already.
I’ve just learned that we lost the wonderful writer and editor David Stuart Davies a couple weeks ago. He is well known for writing Bending The Willow, the definitive biography of Jeremy Brett, who played Sherlock Holmes. He also edited numerous fiction short story collections and was an excellent author of fiction in his own right. He was a good friend, and it would be cool if anyone is interested in reading any of his works for Shorty September ❤️
Hi Olly, thank you for pointing out that it's the month for short books. I didn't know, and I've decided to change my to-be-read list accordingly. It's funny because I rarely read pulp and those kinds of things, but you're such a good host that I don't miss any of your videos. With that said, my TBR will consist of many Japanese and Korean authors: 1. "Concerning my daughter" by Kim Hye-Jin 2. "The Premonition" by Banana Yoshimoto 3. "Days at the Moriskai Bookshop" by Satoshi Yagisawa 4. "The Hole" by Hiroko Oyamada 5. "Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse" by Otsuichi 6. "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi I may add something else, but let's see.
You.couldn’t have made a better pick for the ‘jorts’ prompt, given that the term ‘Canadian tuxedo’ refers to a jeans-on-jeans outfit. 😂 Given that most people think of Canada as rather staid I am looking forward to hearing what kind of mischief they get into in that one!
So glad to hear you’re doing Shorty September too! I’m very curious about the read a book for every year, starting with the year of your birth challenge! I missed it if you mentioned it…is there a channel where that challenge originated?
I recently read "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson. I wanted to read it because it was short and a classic work of Gothic fiction. I read the Penguin Classics paperback edition (2003). It was kind of a complicated novella. Dr Jekyll (an apparently "respectable" man) rejects the standard materialistic explanations of life. He creates a potion to separate the good and evil aspects of a person, and it transforms him into Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a dwarfish, ugly, deformed, ape-like, angry man, a primitive throwback to an earlier stage in human evolutionary history and a reflection of the evil impulses within Dr. Jekyll himself. Mr. Hyde's ugliness and deformity are sensed by people around him, but they cannot say exactly what the deformity and ugliness consist of. People hate Mr. Hyde on sight. Dr. Jekyll says that the potion is "neutral." It reflects the inner state of the user. Dr. Jekyll has been unsuccessfully dealing with his desire to do unspecified evil things. He is also a bit of a megalomaniac. On one of Mr. Hyde's excursions into the city, he runs into and tramples on a little girl. Witnesses threaten to ruin Mr Hyde's reputation if he doesn't pay. He pays the blackmail money to keep the witnesses quiet. Mr. Utterson learns that Mr. Hyde has access to Dr.Jekyll's mansion through the rear entrance/exit. Mr. Utterson decides to unlock the mystery of the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. On a later excursion into the city, Mr. Hyde murders Sir Danvers Carew, a high-status person and client of Mr. Utterson, a lawyer. The description of the incident implies that Sir Danvers Carew is a closeted homosexual who propositioned Mr. Hyde. Mr Utterson is also a lawyer for Dr. Jekyll. Early on Mr. Utterson assumes that Dr. Jekyll's bizarre behavior is being caused by syphilis or masturbation sickness. Ultimately Dr. Lanyon (a former friend of Dr. Jekyll's), Mr. utterson (his lawyer), and Poole (a servant of Jekyll's), learn that Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are the same person. Dr. Lanyon witnesses the actual transformation of Mr. Hyde into Dr Jekyll, an experience so extreme that Dr. Lanyon says that he must die soon. He does die a few days later. However it's not clear exactly why Dr. Lanyon feels that he "must die" after witnessing this transformation. Maybe the story just "requires" this extreme reaction. As time goes on, Dr. Jekyll transforms into Mr. Hyde even without the potion every time he feels weak or tired, and he needs more and more potion every time to return to Dr. Jekyll. He runs out of the potion and can't recreate the original formula. He commits suicide rather than live permanently as Mr. Hyde. The novella has a lot in common with "Frankenstein" (1818) by Mary Shelley. In both books, an obsessed, irresponsible scientist transgresses the laws of God or Nature and creates a monster that wreaks havoc and indirectly kills its creator. And it has a lot in common with the movie "Altered States" (1980) starring William Hurt in which a scientist combines sensory deprivation & hallucinogenic drugs to unlock different states of consciousness. These experiments cause him to devolve into earlier stages of human evolution. And it has a lot in common with the novel "Psycho" (1959) by Robert Bloch. Norman's "mother" personality murders Milton Arbogast and Mary Crane. Is Norman Bates "responsible" for these murders ? And it has a lot in common with the short story "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka (1915). Gregor Samsa wakes up and realizes slowly that he has been transformed into some kind of beetle overnight. His family eventually kills him and goes on without him which is depicted as completely normal and beneficial to the family. Dr. Jekyll's mansion symbolizes his mind. The front is clean and respectable, but the back is dirty and run down. Major THEMES of the story: evil frequently lurks behind a respectable facade. Respectability is a mere facade. Man has a dual nature. The oppressiveness of having to constantly worry about one's "reputation" and the need to present the "correct" facade. Humans cannot escape the "doom and burden" of life. IRONY is also prominent: Mr. Hyde (despite his evil nature) cares about his reputation and doesn't want it damaged. Mr. Utterson and servant Poole keep thinking that Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are separate people.
I can't believe that I'm in this stack along with these other incredible reads! I really hope you enjoy the book.
Excited! Hope you enjoy Headhunters!
Can't wait!
Happy Shorty September :)
I loved seeing Editing Olly. That made me laugh out loud. I enjoyed Gareth's book, Permanent Verb. So wonderful that you are reading it and featuring it here. You have a great month planned, Olly. Have fun.
Thanks Pat!
Yay poetry! 🎉 I reread some great essays on poetry yesterday. Look forward to hearing about Gareth’s book.
Thanks so much Olly for including my first Poetry collection. It's my most personal book, with some serious stuff in there (about my Dad, about losing a student to suicide etc) as well as some lighter stuff now and again....hope you enjoy it. I am honoured that you've included it. Love the other choices you've made, and love the event - I was going to do it, but realised the best thing for me for September is to try and catch up with some non-event led books that I've been meaning to read.
Really looking forward to reading it, sorry it has taken me so long! And I know what you mean about events, sometimes you need a month off to catch up
I've got a huge stack of short books, short stories and collections, and poetry to choose from! I plan to just focus on short stuff and read by the seat of my pants (or shorts, as is were.)
Ha! Sounds like a you'll have a great month
Yes yes yes I knew your Shorty Sept TBR would be brilliant! I've written loads of these down to potentially steal for my own list 😅❤️. I'm so happy you're in for Shorty Sept this year! 😅🤣.
Thank you Heather :)
Good luck with your TBR!
Cheers!
I have to finish the lone star book and I might pick up something spooky to get me in the mood for October but I do have one Executioner book that I picked up for this month that I could read next month.
Finally, we got to see the mysterious editor behind your videos! 😍
I usually keep him off screen
@@CriminOllyBlog oh but he seems so sweet, would love to see more of him! But I get it. Hard not to compare yourself to him I´d presume, he is very pretty.
Have a great September Olly! Shorty September might be right up my alley. I love Gareth's channel and have enjoyed one of his short story collections. I am also not a huge fan of poetry.
It’s always a fun event!
Thanks Olly for including Cruel Nature in your September TBR! I hope you enjoy it and maybe your editor will read it as well 😊
Ha - I loved it and he did too!
Can you please make an audiobook, I love listening to you talk it's very calming
I think I'd mess up the lines far too much for that!
Shorty September! I could do Shorty September, Shorty October, Shorty November, etc. In recent years, my reading choices have been for shorter books--200 pages or less. My patience for longer books has waned during the past decade. Although, I must admit, most of the books I've read the past couple of months have been longer than 200 pages, primarily because I'm working on reading what I own already.
I definitely gravitate towards shorter books
I’ve just learned that we lost the wonderful writer and editor David Stuart Davies a couple weeks ago. He is well known for writing Bending The Willow, the definitive biography of Jeremy Brett, who played Sherlock Holmes. He also edited numerous fiction short story collections and was an excellent author of fiction in his own right. He was a good friend, and it would be cool if anyone is interested in reading any of his works for Shorty September ❤️
That is very sad news
Hi Olly, thank you for pointing out that it's the month for short books. I didn't know, and I've decided to change my to-be-read list accordingly. It's funny because I rarely read pulp and those kinds of things, but you're such a good host that I don't miss any of your videos.
With that said, my TBR will consist of many Japanese and Korean authors:
1. "Concerning my daughter" by Kim Hye-Jin
2. "The Premonition" by Banana Yoshimoto
3. "Days at the Moriskai Bookshop" by Satoshi Yagisawa
4. "The Hole" by Hiroko Oyamada
5. "Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse" by Otsuichi
6. "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
I may add something else, but let's see.
Glad you're enjoying the channel, even if our tastes don't overlap much. Have a great reading month!
I can’t believe your Festive Garbaugust Season is almost coming to a close :(
I know 😢
That stack is very small!! have a wonderful reading month.
Thank you! You too!
You.couldn’t have made a better pick for the ‘jorts’ prompt, given that the term ‘Canadian tuxedo’ refers to a jeans-on-jeans outfit. 😂 Given that most people think of Canada as rather staid I am looking forward to hearing what kind of mischief they get into in that one!
Ha! I didn't know that term. Love it
I read Tigerman by Nick Harkaway, and it was magnificent. Titanium Noir should be a lot of fun.
I have that one but still haven’t read it. I need to!
@@CriminOllyBlog It was terrific!
So glad to hear you’re doing Shorty September too! I’m very curious about the read a book for every year, starting with the year of your birth challenge! I missed it if you mentioned it…is there a channel where that challenge originated?
It was started by the author Mark Hodder on instagram (or at least that's where I first saw it) instagram.com/markhodderauthor/
‘Shorty September’ sounds more offensive than it is
😂😂
I recently read "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson. I wanted to read it because it was short and a classic work of Gothic fiction. I read the Penguin Classics paperback edition (2003).
It was kind of a complicated novella. Dr Jekyll (an apparently "respectable" man) rejects the standard materialistic explanations of life. He creates a potion to separate the good and evil aspects of a person, and it transforms him into Mr. Hyde.
Mr. Hyde is a dwarfish, ugly, deformed, ape-like, angry man, a primitive throwback to an earlier stage in human evolutionary history and a reflection of the evil impulses within Dr. Jekyll himself.
Mr. Hyde's ugliness and deformity are sensed by people around him, but they cannot say exactly what the deformity and ugliness consist of. People hate Mr. Hyde on sight.
Dr. Jekyll says that the potion is "neutral." It reflects the inner state of the user. Dr. Jekyll has been unsuccessfully dealing with his desire to do unspecified evil things. He is also a bit of a megalomaniac.
On one of Mr. Hyde's excursions into the city, he runs into and tramples on a little girl. Witnesses threaten to ruin Mr Hyde's reputation if he doesn't pay. He pays the blackmail money to keep the witnesses quiet. Mr. Utterson learns that Mr. Hyde has access to Dr.Jekyll's mansion through the rear entrance/exit. Mr. Utterson decides to unlock the mystery of the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
On a later excursion into the city, Mr. Hyde murders Sir Danvers Carew, a high-status person and client of Mr. Utterson, a lawyer. The description of the incident implies that Sir Danvers Carew is a closeted homosexual who propositioned Mr. Hyde. Mr Utterson is also a lawyer for Dr. Jekyll.
Early on Mr. Utterson assumes that Dr. Jekyll's bizarre behavior is being caused by syphilis or masturbation sickness.
Ultimately Dr. Lanyon (a former friend of Dr. Jekyll's), Mr. utterson (his lawyer), and Poole (a servant of Jekyll's), learn that Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are the same person.
Dr. Lanyon witnesses the actual transformation of Mr. Hyde into Dr Jekyll, an experience so extreme that Dr. Lanyon says that he must die soon. He does die a few days later. However it's not clear exactly why Dr. Lanyon feels that he "must die" after witnessing this transformation. Maybe the story just "requires" this extreme reaction.
As time goes on, Dr. Jekyll transforms into Mr. Hyde even without the potion every time he feels weak or tired, and he needs more and more potion every time to return to Dr. Jekyll. He runs out of the potion and can't recreate the original formula. He commits suicide rather than live permanently as Mr. Hyde.
The novella has a lot in common with "Frankenstein" (1818) by Mary Shelley. In both books, an obsessed, irresponsible scientist transgresses the laws of God or Nature and creates a monster that wreaks havoc and indirectly kills its creator.
And it has a lot in common with the movie "Altered States" (1980) starring William Hurt in which a scientist combines sensory deprivation & hallucinogenic drugs to unlock different states of consciousness. These experiments cause him to devolve into earlier stages of human evolution.
And it has a lot in common with the novel "Psycho" (1959) by Robert Bloch. Norman's "mother" personality murders Milton Arbogast and Mary Crane. Is Norman Bates "responsible" for these murders ?
And it has a lot in common with the short story "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka (1915). Gregor Samsa wakes up and realizes slowly that he has been transformed into some kind of beetle overnight. His family eventually kills him and goes on without him which is depicted as completely normal and beneficial to the family.
Dr. Jekyll's mansion symbolizes his mind. The front is clean and respectable, but the back is dirty and run down.
Major THEMES of the story: evil frequently lurks behind a respectable facade. Respectability is a mere facade. Man has a dual nature. The oppressiveness of having to constantly worry about one's "reputation" and the need to present the "correct" facade. Humans cannot escape the "doom and burden" of life.
IRONY is also prominent: Mr. Hyde (despite his evil nature) cares about his reputation and doesn't want it damaged. Mr. Utterson and servant Poole keep thinking that Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are separate people.
That is a good Shorty Sept suggestion and a great book - I really enjoyed it
💚🖤
Don’t read the new Smiley novel (I can’t wait btw!) before you’ve read the others in order. The way he wrote them and the order is important.
Noted! Cheers Phill