I honestly think therapy makes you a better writer, just the practice of stepping out of your previous perspective helps I think. You can honestly track my mental health journey through the evolution of my voice in the poetry I write, how the vocabulary, and sentence structure changed is honestly mind boggling. I still write about similar things, but my voice sounds articulated and raw now
I haven't given much thought to what I want to read this month, I'm a terrible planner when it comes to reading. I usually read Hogfather just before Christmas as it gets me in the festive spirit so I'll probably be doing that again
Oh, thank u! I do not go bookshopping without ur insights :)❤ I am happy to finish Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, The death of a bookseller by Alice Slater Julia by Sandra Newman The Hole, also recomended by you :) And someother picks. This year was an awesome book-year🎉
The Christmas season is not my favorite time so am pleased to have some excellent suggestions of books to read from your always wonderful video(s)! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and recommendations. Best wishes and am looking forward to your end-of-2023 lists!
Hair is looking cute! and I like your sweater or top/dress whatever it is :D ❤ I got immortality on sale on amazon but still have to get anatomy, I was a bit on the fence about the books but after I saw your review about it decided to get it and looking forward to it, because it sounds right up my alley!
I haven't read Maggie's Grave yet but I have it on my shelf, same as All the White Spaces (which I originally intended to get done in December anyway), but seems I'll add Maggie's Grave for good measure. I've read Night Shoot and The Haar and he is absolutely the most invigorating voice in horror right now I'd say. Great elements of British humor, fantastic gore and violence, and always a beating heart at the center of the story. He's truly a gift to the horror community right now, I hope you love him and read more!
Great list and video Willow! Let's see, my tbr for December is: "A House to Let" by Dickens, Collins, Gaskell, and Procter, "Mala's Cat" by Mala Kacenberg, and my first time with Keegan "Small Things Like These". 😍🌲
Have you read Maeve Fly yet? I feel like it's similar to your reading tastes--horror, social commentary--it's described as American Psycho with a female lead. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, Willow! :)
so so so looking forward to your review of The Meiji Guillotine Murders & The Three Dahlias. Something about murder mysteries in Dec makes me so happy and I really can't wait.
oh, so lovely about the queer horror book club! This year I joined two SFF book clubs, started a horror book club and co-founded (ish) another one so I became addicted. But in our first horror book club we read/ talked about Camp Damascus :D and in all the book clubs we discuss queer themes, if there are any present (usually there are). Hope you have a great book club!
Your hair looks so beautiful 🥰 I'm trying to finish Alix E. Harrow's Starling House because it's due today. 😬 Some of the stuff I hope to read and finish this month The Spirit Bares Its Teeth Brainwyrms The Lady Killer Taiping Tales of Terror The Night House
If you like non human intelligence, try Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time (and the rest of the series). If you haven't already that it. Also you can make a decent takoyaki with squid if you're not going all the way to vegetarian.
Were the increased mental health difficulties because of witnessing what's going on in Palestine? Because I know that's what's got a LOT of us in a similar boat... I've only found any solace in talking with community about what I've seen on social media happening over there... If you feel able, can you talk about Palestine? Even just boosting fiction and nonfiction written by Palestinian authors does a great deal! It helps humanize the people and the culture in people's eyes. And there's some really great writing out there!
Saga by Brian K Vaughan is the most obvious, but it really is outstanding! And Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen. Also Bitch Planet by Kelly-Sue DeKonnick is pretty great! And I’m a big Green Lantern fan, too :)
Yeah the Journey is the Best part. Wintery books, hot chocolate, music, snow...
I honestly think therapy makes you a better writer, just the practice of stepping out of your previous perspective helps I think. You can honestly track my mental health journey through the evolution of my voice in the poetry I write, how the vocabulary, and sentence structure changed is honestly mind boggling. I still write about similar things, but my voice sounds articulated and raw now
I love that
the journey towards something is usually better than the thing itself
so truee
Mountain in the Sea was great
I haven't given much thought to what I want to read this month, I'm a terrible planner when it comes to reading. I usually read Hogfather just before Christmas as it gets me in the festive spirit so I'll probably be doing that again
You can’t go wrong with Pratchett!
I really loved the world building in frontier - I went to it's book lauch and the author was genuinely so nice!
Oh, thank u! I do not go bookshopping without ur insights :)❤
I am happy to finish Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov,
The death of a bookseller by Alice Slater
Julia by Sandra Newman
The Hole, also recomended by you :)
And someother picks. This year was an awesome book-year🎉
The Christmas season is not my favorite time so am pleased to have some excellent suggestions of books to read from your always wonderful video(s)! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and recommendations. Best wishes and am looking forward to your end-of-2023 lists!
Hair is looking cute! and I like your sweater or top/dress whatever it is :D ❤
I got immortality on sale on amazon but still have to get anatomy, I was a bit on the fence about the books but after I saw your review about it decided to get it and looking forward to it, because it sounds right up my alley!
I haven't read Maggie's Grave yet but I have it on my shelf, same as All the White Spaces (which I originally intended to get done in December anyway), but seems I'll add Maggie's Grave for good measure. I've read Night Shoot and The Haar and he is absolutely the most invigorating voice in horror right now I'd say. Great elements of British humor, fantastic gore and violence, and always a beating heart at the center of the story. He's truly a gift to the horror community right now, I hope you love him and read more!
Some good ones for December! Adding a few to my TBR. Thank you book friend!
I read All Hallows in November. loved it! 😄
Great list and video Willow! Let's see, my tbr for December is: "A House to Let" by Dickens, Collins, Gaskell, and Procter, "Mala's Cat" by Mala Kacenberg, and my first time with Keegan "Small Things Like These". 😍🌲
Your book list are always amazing... I only consider your suggestions and you never let me down... 😊
Thank you Willow❤
I’m ( healthily) obsessed w 🐙 🐙 and hype you used the proper plural for them . 📚🪱💚
Haha yeah it grinds my gears when people get it wrong. It’s cuz it comes from Greek, not Latin, right?
Thank you for mentioning the translators. They don’t get enough accolades.
Absolutely
More SciFi ❤
Watch this space :)
I also feel sad that I ever ate octopus 😞
Please consider reading the Brazilian novel Crooked Plow in 2024
Ok
Have you read Maeve Fly yet? I feel like it's similar to your reading tastes--horror, social commentary--it's described as American Psycho with a female lead. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, Willow! :)
It’s on my wish list and I’ll definitely be getting to it soon!
I too prefer the lead up to Xmas than the actual thing. And the moment it passes I want all the decor gone 😅
so so so looking forward to your review of The Meiji Guillotine Murders & The Three Dahlias. Something about murder mysteries in Dec makes me so happy and I really can't wait.
I actually DNF’d The Meiji Guillotine Murders 😬 but I’ll be reading The Three Dahlias around Xmas :)
oh, so lovely about the queer horror book club! This year I joined two SFF book clubs, started a horror book club and co-founded (ish) another one so I became addicted. But in our first horror book club we read/ talked about Camp Damascus :D and in all the book clubs we discuss queer themes, if there are any present (usually there are). Hope you have a great book club!
Oh wow, that’s all so amazing!!
Your hair looks so beautiful 🥰 I'm trying to finish Alix E. Harrow's Starling House because it's due today. 😬
Some of the stuff I hope to read and finish this month
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Brainwyrms
The Lady Killer
Taiping Tales of Terror
The Night House
If you like non human intelligence, try Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time (and the rest of the series). If you haven't already that it.
Also you can make a decent takoyaki with squid if you're not going all the way to vegetarian.
I love Children of Time to bits! One of my all-time favourite sci-fi novels. Still haven’t read the sequels though
@@WillowTalksBooks would recommend them :)
Where did you post the poll for your patreons… I missed it somewhere.
I posted it on the Patreon page. Polls are a perk for $3+ patrons :)
Were the increased mental health difficulties because of witnessing what's going on in Palestine? Because I know that's what's got a LOT of us in a similar boat... I've only found any solace in talking with community about what I've seen on social media happening over there... If you feel able, can you talk about Palestine? Even just boosting fiction and nonfiction written by Palestinian authors does a great deal! It helps humanize the people and the culture in people's eyes. And there's some really great writing out there!
📚
That octopus book sounds neat! How did you encounter it?
It actually just caught my eye in a bookshop one day!
I would love to know which SF comics you recommend 😮
Saga by Brian K Vaughan is the most obvious, but it really is outstanding! And Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen. Also Bitch Planet by Kelly-Sue DeKonnick is pretty great! And I’m a big Green Lantern fan, too :)
@@WillowTalksBooks uuh, great titles! I have read Saga but should check out the others you mentioned. Thank you ☺️
Don't you know that betterhelp is donating to israel?