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Haven’t seen any new videos for 24. Hoping to see them soon. 3:36 3:38 😊

I hope you keep posting videos. I loved your list!!❤

Incredibly Bright Creatures was wonderful!

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Awesome book, but I was struck by the utter improbability of alllllll those people who loved him. Someone that messed up is highly likely to spend his life alone.

I have recently found your website and your reading challenge mini course interest me. You mention that one of the things the reading challenge can do is to alert oneself to reading goals. However. When I listen to this list of your October 2023 recommendations, all the genres are different and yet they all sound so interesting to me. So is your personal challenge to read contemporary written by female authors? Is this the type of thing I would have taking your mini course? Or can I just choose a book or two from your latest monthly book recommendations? So I guess I’m a bit confused. Thanks for listening…

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Could you possibly read Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly. I think it was written in the 40s. It's my favorite book but one I have trouble getting other people to read. I also loved Anya by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer and Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck.

Killers of a Certain Age seems fun, I’m putting it on my TBR list 👍 Thanks!

I just found your channel and I love your reviews. I totally agree with your analysis of American Mermaid and Community Board. On your recommendation, I just bought the last count. Thanks for the great videos!

I really enjoy your videos and trust your recommendations, so much so I may read a Henry book someday. I did put How to Keep House on hold and look forward to getting some tips. How to think like a woman piqued my interest. Unfortunately, it's not available at my library, but I put it on my audible wishlist. Thank you.

Great video! Remarkably Bright Creatures has been on my TBR and you renewed my interest in it. I hadn't heard of At last Count before and was pleased to find it on Hoopla so I will be reading it soon. Thank you!

I appreciate the way you discuss books, so I couldn't be happier to have discovered your channel. I haven't read any of these books, but added No Two Persons to my collection and placed Maame on hold from my library. Some of my favorites I've read this year are The Wind Knows my name by Isabel Allende, Maybe you Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, and I wonder as I wander by Langston Hughes.

To me what happened to Jude strained, and then broke, credibility. I just didn’t believe it and in the end I didn’t care. I finished it, despite it’s length, but… meh.

Great list!! Your channel just showed up in my feed, I clicked, watched, liked and subscribed, and have been watching your back list all morning! 🎉😊❤📕

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Favorite books are A Charm of Finches by Suanne Laqueur and Everyday History by Alice Archer. I’m looking forward to reading No Two Persons. Thanks for your recommendations.

My favorite so far this year is Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. I also read and really liked "I Have Some Questions for You". Maame is on my TBR, so I think that's next.

Great list! I’m adding some of these to my TBR list as well. 😊

Honey Girl by Morgan Rodgers: 4:15 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters: 5:23 Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan: 6:38 The Antidote for Everything by Kimmery Martin: 7:24 The Great Believers by Rebbeca Makkai: 8:30 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong: 9:42 Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston: 10:39 The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain: 11:53 Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch: 12:47 This was a very wonderful video, thank you. I'm thinking about reading Stay and Fight, it has a very unique concept.

I loved the book but was very curious about the title. Glad to get that clarified and enjoyed the rest of the video. I personally don't think it would be good as a movie and would not care to see the play.

I am looking for more uplifting feel good books. Clean easy reads with some romance would be good. I like books with some magic realism too. Good list. Thank you

I am getting ready to retire and plan to spend a lot of time on one of my favorite activities…reading. Appreciate the recommendations..

Nicely put. I appreciate your sensitive commentary. Have the book…haven’t read it yet..

thank you for making this video! you helped me give a name to some of the details that i noticed in the book, and i loved the quotes that you found, too!

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"Verges on torture porn"??!! A Little Life is emphatically and indisputably torture porn. And the "too muchness" of it isn't really an adequate defence for the way Yanagihara delivers child sexual abuse, self-mutilation and mental anguish by the bucket load. But what's truly extraordinary about the book is how many readers seem able to swallow it all without ever stopping for a moment to ask "Is this even remotely believable?" and "Is this actually okay as a form of entertainment?" If you set out the basics of Jude's story - orphaned, sexually and physically abused by his carers, kidnapped by a brother who sexually abuses and prostitute him, rescued and abused again, runs away and prostitutes himself, held captive and sexually abused by a creep, then, as an adult, physically abused and raped by his first love. Then he loses yet another loved one in a car accident! I mean: FFS!!!! It is graphic, but it is never believable. This tale of horrors exists not to enlighten us about child sexual abuse and it's victims, but only for readers to get off on the endless, epic suffering. The trade off is that they unconsciously agree not to ask any searching questions or bring any reality checks to the table. Don't ask why none of the oh-so-concerned friends - including a doctor - ever does anything to help Jude. (A real doctor would have had Jude sectioned to get him the necessary help - and, indeed, could have been struck off for not doing so). Also, don't ask why there are no women in the book. And don't delve too deeply into Yanagihara's somewhat creepy obsession with gay men, or her total ignorance of real gay men and the sexuality.

i just finished the book and i’m glad to have met these beautiful, scarily real characters but i’m not sure if it was worth all the pain the book brings so i’m a bit divided lol

Wooow i love the way that Hanya speaks... So eloquent and poetic all that time hahah, a truly extension of the book!

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Loved this video! Two of my favorite things, dogs and books. I'm always excited for new books to look for at the library. That's also where I buy most of my books. I have sooo many at home to read, but I still cannot stay out of the library! I just got another stack yesterday. I also get them cheap online and at Pangobooks, thriftstores too. I have read Ordinary Grace and loved it. I put it on my "recommend list". I also love the Beartown series. The rest is going on my tbr list. Thanks again! I have an aussie with separation anxiety. I have no advice.😒 Like you, I run less. I try to plan things when my husband or son will be home, but I'm still his person.

I LOVE Peace Like a River. So glad to see it mentioned here. It's such an under-the-radar book. Miracle Creek and Razorblade Tears are on my TBR as well, but I'm also adding Once Their Were Wolves. Thanks for this!

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Great video! tbh i am still unsure how i feel about the book but i can't deny that it definitely impacted me lol.

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