Cousin of her father’s actually. Although her calling him uncle might not be that much of a stretch. Tío/Tía is used pretty commonly in Chile to refer to older family members or family friends (at least from my experience )😊
I read ‘A Discovery of Witches’ in December, I’m really looking forward to seeing what you think of it! Some bits I loved and other bits annoyed me. I haven’t bought any books this year yet but I have taken three books out of the library: ‘The Night Brother’, which I think is a gothic historical novel set in Victorian Manchester, ‘The Paying Guests’ by Sarah Waters, on Lauren and the Books’ recommendation, and ‘Oh My Gods’, which I reserved as soon as I listened to your podcast episode :)
I can imagine, I'm looking for some fun paranormal fantasy so fingers crossed. I still really need to read some Sarah Waters and I hope you enjoy Oh My Gods!
Could you maybe make a video on how to shop for books in second hand shops? In bookstores everything is sorted, by genre and alphabetically. Also, most books that they sell in bookstores are new(er) releases or popular books in general. However, in second hand shops I usually get lost in the amount of books they have. I cannot scan through every book there is to see if it's good or not. How do you search books? How do you find what you will like? How will you know it's good?
Oh my gosh. ..so many wonderful book titles here. I have an unread Allende on my book shelf but had no idea who was her father. Thank you for suggesting so many interesting books!
My first purchases and borrowings were all inspired by you. Browsing in bookshops to escape the Aussie heat, I spotted Weight by Jeanette Winterson and a sale copy of Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier. I also picked up a Penguin Moderns edition of Audrey Lorde's essays. Once I realised that Tower of Thorns was the second in the Blackthorn and Grim series, I went online and ordered Dreamer's Pool from my library and picked it last week. So thanks for all the recs!
My first bookish purchases were the illustrated anniversary edition of Mythology by Edith Hamilton, Mistborn (one of favorites!), Rebecca, and The Way of Kings. Excited for another great reading year! 💕
I bought The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle a few days ago and am really pleased to hear you enjoyed it so much. I’m also in the middle of an online purchase and am just about to go back to your fantasy reading from last year. There was a series you really enjoyed which I think was Juliette Marrillier? I fancy picking some sort of fantasy up as I’m in a bit of a new year reading slump. Thanks for sharing!
I *love* Trudi Canavan! I'm a few behind on her most recent series, but Priestess of the White and the rest of that trilogy is great. I read A Discovery Of Witches a while ago and really liked it, but never quite got around to finding the others in that series. I wasn't quite sure about the very ending of Seven Deaths, but I loved the rest of the book so so much. I hope he writes something else soon!
I paused in the middle of this to immediately see if Perseverance is available in Canada because my SO would love it, at least according to the themes. I look forward to knowing if it works for you.
love seeing your enthusiasm on all of these books :) my first purchase of the year was actually heart of the fae by emma hamm which I got curious about because you talked about it on here, am very excited to get to it!! :)
Hello Jean, love your Channel and have been following you for a few years now 😯 how time flies...😀. Have you read The Dragonriders of Pern books by Anne McCaffrey? I am sure you have, I think they are still my favourite dragon books..... hope you have a peaceful 2019.
I've recently bough and devoured The Winter of the Witch! Couldn't put it down!!! I'm hoping to go and see David Owens at Waterstones at the end of this month!!! :)
Had a bit of a chuckle with the Allende thing because I’m watching this from Chile. He wasn’t Isabel Allende’s father though. He was her father’s cousin. She refers to him commonly as her uncle in interviews because that’s pretty common here. It’s good that you’re interested in learning more about Chile. I hope I don’t sound too preachy. Happy reading 😊
I recently finished reading Where the Mountain Meets the Moon which is a middle grade fantasy novel and I absolutely fell in love with it. It's a retelling of the Wizard of Oz story but with Chinese mythology woven into it. Since it's inspired by Chinese mythology, it obviously has dragons in it lol and while I was reading it I was thinkin of how much you'd enjoy this book since you love dragons and fantasy a lot. So I would definetely recommend you that book, I truly believe that it's right up your alley. Much love xo
Loosening Skin sounds so good! Haven’t bought anything yet but I’ve borrowed Philosophers Stone on audio from my library and the audio edition of Where Am I Now by Mara Wilson on Scribd. Looks like you’re going to have an interesting reading month!
My bookish gift cards were spent up just before the new year so I haven't actually purchased any books so far in January! I am using the library a lot though and so far I've read two, Distant Light by Antonio Moresco and Black Dog by Neil Gaiman. I love using my library and I am especially looking out for translated fiction at the moment so I have a few ready to go after my current read.
The holly black series sounds intriguing! I always love fae stories, hence why one of my first book buys of this year was the folio society edition of How to See Fairies by charles van sandwyk! I've also picked up several books in the Fables graphic novel series (which you should definitely read if you haven't already!!), Melmoth by Sarah Perry, as well as two nonfiction books on the AIDS crisis in america. I'm looking forward to 2019 as a reading year- already 8 books down and most were 4 or 5 star reads!
Thanks for this video! All these recommendations sound great, but I must it's "A discovery of witches" that got all my attention! I didn't know it, I'd never heard of it, and yet it already feels like I need it haha. Thanks :)
have you heard of 'red rosa' by kate evans? it's a graphic novel biography of rosa luxemburg, i've not read it yet because my mum's friend borrowed it but everyone i know who has read it loved it ☺️
I have borrowed three books from my library so far. I read Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. It was a very quick read which I really enjoyed. I'm almost through The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. This one is good but a little too young for my taste. I haven't started Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant but am looking forward to reading it. I pick up three of my holds at the library on my day off tomorrow.😁
The Discovery of Witches is the first of a trilogy I love, but the first half of that first book is a slog to get through. Book 2 in all of it's Elizabethan glory is superb and book 3 is a great finish to the trilogy. Can't wait to get to Marcus's book Time's Convert, just released late in 2018. No new purchases or borrows yet, have finished up borrows and purchases from last year :)
My first purchase of the year was The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. Heard such good things about it, I couldn't resist! ☺️ Oh I got the Mermaids book by Skye Alexander, didn't know there were others out there...time to expand that collection! 😜
I've been meaning to read the Discovery of Witches after watching the show (p. good, very female gaze, a little tropey), I didn't realise the book was that thick, do follow up if you read it 😊
My first purchases of the year were Milkman by Anna Burns and The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett. Looking forward to immersing myself into the Discworld!
The first book I've bought this year is How to be Human by Paula Cocozza, which I've started reading. It's somehow not quite what I expected, but I'm getting into it quickly. I've also been loaned Trevor Noah's autobiography Born a Crime, which isn't my usual thing at all but my sister-in law (who's South African) wanted me to read it and it's proving enlightening and entertaining so I'm sticking with it. I've also read a couple of the short stories from Cecilia Ahern's book Roar which were fun/tragic. Three pretty different books!
I’d say that ‘Priestess of the White’ is probably one of her weaker books. She tries something with it that just doesn’t seem to click. If you like it or dislike it I’d suggest trying the Black Magician Trilogy, because it’s just, all round, a better constructed series and world!
I hope you like Priestess of the White! Definitely a better place to start with Canavan- I would recommend you avoid her Young Adult series though. Nowhere near as good as her adult books. Oooo Fires of the Faithful sounds awesome, I can’t wait to hear what you think of that one. So rare to find queer romance in fantasy! Such a wonderfully varied haul as usual Jean! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on these 😊
The All Souls trilogy is my version of the Twilight books! The books are originally german, and they came out around the same time as the twilight books (or just after, either way, I read them JUST before I learned of Twilight), so I always associate them with smol teen me :')
The last book I bought in 2018 was "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" and that was based on your review, I also bought a few books about the Japanese language, a bit technical yes but I'm studying Japanese in Uni now, so that explains it.These were bought on amazon and I have not yet received them. And yesterday I looked in on a sale in one of the local bookstores here in Reykjavik and bought "Knowledge is Power" by John Henry which is about Francis Bacon and the scientific method.
Conversations with Allende seems like an interesting read. My favorite of all the classes I took at Uni was Political development in Latin America, but I haven't read much about politics in Latin America since. So far in 2019 I've only bought two books (though I'm considering a Bookdepository spree today), The Explorer by Katherine Rundell and The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem. I'v really gotten into children's fiction lately, and The Explorer seems like a must read. The only thing I knew about Lem was that he wrote Solaris, but The Star Diaries is soo good. Humorous in a Douglas Adams-esque way, and the stories in the book vary in style and themes, which makes it continuously surprising and fun.
Hi Jean, fabulous video as always! Always love political book recommendations. I was just wondering whether you had read any of the 'A Natural History of Dragons' series by Marie Brennan? Ps I have also bought 'A Discovery of Witches' recently - intrigued to try it! First bookish purchases of 2019: Audre Lourde: The Master's Tools will never dismantle the master's house Daphne du Maurier : The Break Through Library lends: Maus - Art Spiegelman Children of Blood and Bone - Toni Adeyemi The Lonely City - Olivia Laing Bookworm - Lucy Mangan The Actual - Saul Bellow Cassandra Darke - Posy Simmonds Xx
A discovery of Witch would be right up your street, the TV program was amazing! Here is some info on the Robert Louis Stevenson essays - robert-louis-stevenson.org/works/virginibus-puerisque-1881/
I got a giftcard for my birthday so the first books I got this year were Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente and Cuneiform by Irving Finkel and Jonathan Taylor (British Museum). I also got Stephen Fry's Mythos as a belated birthday gift yesterday, and bought myself a book about the Amazons and Colm Toibin's House of Names. So lots of ancient history so far! I read A Discovery of Witches last year and it was somehow simultaneously good and bad. I enjoyed parts of it, but also sometimes it's honestly incredibly dumb and/or annoying. I do think I want to continue the series because it definitely has its good parts but I almost quit the first one several times.
I alwaya have to restrain myself not to spend all my mlney on books after watching one of your hauls. ❤ Are you planning on reading the new book by Christopher Paolini?
I love the cover for the Wicked King, buts thats as far as I'd go fae stories aren't my cup of tea. I read A Discovery of Witches and I didn't enjoy as much as I thought I would. My first book purchases of 2019 were The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie and The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
First Book of the year The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer. Read the Discovery of Witches couple of years ago didnt read the rest of the trilogy time thing and reading slump. Heres to you having a great year.
Not really related to this video, but I thought you might like "The mere wife" by Maria Dahvana Headley. It is a retelling of Beowulf where every element has been brilliantly refunctionalized for modern times. Female perspective, class/race/sexuality/gender struggles, Beowulf is not even the hero. It does use disfigurement in place of the original's monstrosity though. I also read "The Boneless Mercies", but didn't like it as much.
I bought 'Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights' by Juno Mac and Molly Smith in the Verso sale and I would highly recommend! Really excellent feminism, anti borders, pro workers rights, all that great stuff. Juno Mac did a TED talk on the subject a few years ago which you might have seen, but if not I would recommend checking it out for a taster of what the book is like.
Salvadore Allende was actually Isabelle's uncle.
ooooops thank you!
Cousin of her father’s actually. Although her calling him uncle might not be that much of a stretch. Tío/Tía is used pretty commonly in Chile to refer to older family members or family friends (at least from my experience )😊
I read ‘A Discovery of Witches’ in December, I’m really looking forward to seeing what you think of it! Some bits I loved and other bits annoyed me. I haven’t bought any books this year yet but I have taken three books out of the library: ‘The Night Brother’, which I think is a gothic historical novel set in Victorian Manchester, ‘The Paying Guests’ by Sarah Waters, on Lauren and the Books’ recommendation, and ‘Oh My Gods’, which I reserved as soon as I listened to your podcast episode :)
I can imagine, I'm looking for some fun paranormal fantasy so fingers crossed. I still really need to read some Sarah Waters and I hope you enjoy Oh My Gods!
I've also been fascinated by that part of Chilean history lately, so I'm looking forward to your thoughts on that book!
I'll try to get to asap!
Could you maybe make a video on how to shop for books in second hand shops? In bookstores everything is sorted, by genre and alphabetically. Also, most books that they sell in bookstores are new(er) releases or popular books in general. However, in second hand shops I usually get lost in the amount of books they have. I cannot scan through every book there is to see if it's good or not. How do you search books? How do you find what you will like? How will you know it's good?
I’m so intrigued by the Salvadore Allende book! I’ve a big Isabel Allende fan so I feel like it’s something I should get clued up on
that book about Dragons looks so amazing 😍 omg, ghosts in Scotland?! let me add it to my wishlist immediately.
great haul, of course ^^
Footnotes in Gaza looks so interesting! Thank you for sharing it. I just put it on hold at my local library 😊
Awesome, enjoy! Glad to share the Joe Sacco love :D
Oh my gosh. ..so many wonderful book titles here. I have an unread Allende on my book shelf but had no idea who was her father. Thank you for suggesting so many interesting books!
I made a mistake sorry, it was her uncle, but that's why she became a refugee.
It’s so nice how you guys continue to honor your dad. I’m so sorry he can’t be with you 😢
Fascinating book haul!!! You always have books that I’ve never heard of before.
My first purchases and borrowings were all inspired by you. Browsing in bookshops to escape the Aussie heat, I spotted Weight by Jeanette Winterson and a sale copy of Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier. I also picked up a Penguin Moderns edition of Audrey Lorde's essays. Once I realised that Tower of Thorns was the second in the Blackthorn and Grim series, I went online and ordered Dreamer's Pool from my library and picked it last week. So thanks for all the recs!
My first bookish purchases were the illustrated anniversary edition of Mythology by Edith Hamilton, Mistborn (one of favorites!), Rebecca, and The Way of Kings. Excited for another great reading year! 💕
I bought The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle a few days ago and am really pleased to hear you enjoyed it so much. I’m also in the middle of an online purchase and am just about to go back to your fantasy reading from last year. There was a series you really enjoyed which I think was Juliette Marrillier? I fancy picking some sort of fantasy up as I’m in a bit of a new year reading slump. Thanks for sharing!
I *love* Trudi Canavan! I'm a few behind on her most recent series, but Priestess of the White and the rest of that trilogy is great. I read A Discovery Of Witches a while ago and really liked it, but never quite got around to finding the others in that series. I wasn't quite sure about the very ending of Seven Deaths, but I loved the rest of the book so so much. I hope he writes something else soon!
I paused in the middle of this to immediately see if Perseverance is available in Canada because my SO would love it, at least according to the themes. I look forward to knowing if it works for you.
I'm not sure but I think it was Isabel Allende's uncle and not her father who was president of Chile
You are right ^_^ I was wrong aha.
love seeing your enthusiasm on all of these books :) my first purchase of the year was actually heart of the fae by emma hamm which I got curious about because you talked about it on here, am very excited to get to it!! :)
I love A Discovery of Witches! The whole trilogy is great. A new book in that world just came out in 2018 too! Great haul! 📚📚
Eeh i can’t wait to get to it!
Hello Jean, love your Channel and have been following you for a few years now 😯 how time flies...😀. Have you read The Dragonriders of Pern books by Anne McCaffrey? I am sure you have, I think they are still my favourite dragon books..... hope you have a peaceful 2019.
I've recently bough and devoured The Winter of the Witch! Couldn't put it down!!!
I'm hoping to go and see David Owens at Waterstones at the end of this month!!! :)
Ah that’s sounds awesome, enjoy!
Had a bit of a chuckle with the Allende thing because I’m watching this from Chile. He wasn’t Isabel Allende’s father though. He was her father’s cousin. She refers to him commonly as her uncle in interviews because that’s pretty common here. It’s good that you’re interested in learning more about Chile. I hope I don’t sound too preachy. Happy reading 😊
I recently finished reading Where the Mountain Meets the Moon which is a middle grade fantasy novel and I absolutely fell in love with it. It's a retelling of the Wizard of Oz story but with Chinese mythology woven into it. Since it's inspired by Chinese mythology, it obviously has dragons in it lol and while I was reading it I was thinkin of how much you'd enjoy this book since you love dragons and fantasy a lot. So I would definetely recommend you that book, I truly believe that it's right up your alley. Much love xo
Loosening Skin sounds so good! Haven’t bought anything yet but I’ve borrowed Philosophers Stone on audio from my library and the audio edition of Where Am I Now by Mara Wilson on Scribd. Looks like you’re going to have an interesting reading month!
My first bookish purchase of the year was Oh My Gods thanks to you :) I cannot wait to read it.
so glad to hear you want to know more about chile! its my country, a great one and it has a lot of story ✨
My bookish gift cards were spent up just before the new year so I haven't actually purchased any books so far in January! I am using the library a lot though and so far I've read two, Distant Light by Antonio Moresco and Black Dog by Neil Gaiman. I love using my library and I am especially looking out for translated fiction at the moment so I have a few ready to go after my current read.
Yay!!! Joe is getting some air play!!
The holly black series sounds intriguing! I always love fae stories, hence why one of my first book buys of this year was the folio society edition of How to See Fairies by charles van sandwyk! I've also picked up several books in the Fables graphic novel series (which you should definitely read if you haven't already!!), Melmoth by Sarah Perry, as well as two nonfiction books on the AIDS crisis in america. I'm looking forward to 2019 as a reading year- already 8 books down and most were 4 or 5 star reads!
Thanks for this video! All these recommendations sound great, but I must it's "A discovery of witches" that got all my attention! I didn't know it, I'd never heard of it, and yet it already feels like I need it haha. Thanks :)
I've just started reading Trudi Canavan, too!
have you heard of 'red rosa' by kate evans? it's a graphic novel biography of rosa luxemburg, i've not read it yet because my mum's friend borrowed it but everyone i know who has read it loved it ☺️
Yes!! I actually bought that in last years Verso sale and still haven’t read it aha...
I have borrowed three books from my library so far. I read Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. It was a very quick read which I really enjoyed. I'm almost through The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. This one is good but a little too young for my taste. I haven't started Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant but am looking forward to reading it. I pick up three of my holds at the library on my day off tomorrow.😁
The Discovery of Witches is the first of a trilogy I love, but the first half of that first book is a slog to get through. Book 2 in all of it's Elizabethan glory is superb and book 3 is a great finish to the trilogy. Can't wait to get to Marcus's book Time's Convert, just released late in 2018. No new purchases or borrows yet, have finished up borrows and purchases from last year :)
Have you read City Of Ghosts?
My first purchase of the year was The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. Heard such good things about it, I couldn't resist! ☺️
Oh I got the Mermaids book by Skye Alexander, didn't know there were others out there...time to expand that collection! 😜
I enjoyed that book so much, more than I expected to, I hope you do too!
I've been meaning to read the Discovery of Witches after watching the show (p. good, very female gaze, a little tropey), I didn't realise the book was that thick, do follow up if you read it 😊
My first purchases of the year were Milkman by Anna Burns and The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett. Looking forward to immersing myself into the Discworld!
I love the All Souls Trilogy!! Discovery of Witches is the first one. Thinking of reading it for the third time. Magic and history. ❤
The first book I've bought this year is How to be Human by Paula Cocozza, which I've started reading. It's somehow not quite what I expected, but I'm getting into it quickly. I've also been loaned Trevor Noah's autobiography Born a Crime, which isn't my usual thing at all but my sister-in law (who's South African) wanted me to read it and it's proving enlightening and entertaining so I'm sticking with it. I've also read a couple of the short stories from Cecilia Ahern's book Roar which were fun/tragic. Three pretty different books!
I’d say that ‘Priestess of the White’ is probably one of her weaker books. She tries something with it that just doesn’t seem to click. If you like it or dislike it I’d suggest trying the Black Magician Trilogy, because it’s just, all round, a better constructed series and world!
I hope you like Priestess of the White! Definitely a better place to start with Canavan- I would recommend you avoid her Young Adult series though. Nowhere near as good as her adult books.
Oooo Fires of the Faithful sounds awesome, I can’t wait to hear what you think of that one. So rare to find queer romance in fantasy!
Such a wonderfully varied haul as usual Jean! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on these 😊
I'm glad to hear from someone who knows that it's a good one to start with aha - I had no idea. I definitely prefer adult fantasy though.
allende's was isabel's uncle but he did have a daughter called isabel as well who is a politician today
Ah thank you, such a silly mistake, clearly need to read the book aha.
@@JeansThoughts don't worry, it's a common mistake even here in chile
The All Souls trilogy is my version of the Twilight books! The books are originally german, and they came out around the same time as the twilight books (or just after, either way, I read them JUST before I learned of Twilight), so I always associate them with smol teen me :')
I thought they were from an American author?
@@arlena3297 My bad! I didn't realise they were German translated haha
The last book I bought in 2018 was "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" and that was based on your review, I also bought a few books about the Japanese language, a bit technical yes but I'm studying Japanese in Uni now, so that explains it.These were bought on amazon and I have not yet received them.
And yesterday I looked in on a sale in one of the local bookstores here in Reykjavik and bought "Knowledge is Power" by John Henry which is about Francis Bacon and the scientific method.
I’m currently reading The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and I’m enjoying it so far 😊
I'm pleased to hear it, that book completely took me by surprise!
I nearly brought the seven deaths of Evelyn, but passed as it’s my daughters name, sounds like a great book though xx
Similar to Verso is Haymarket Books, which I *highly* recommend!
Yeah I love Haymarkert ^_^
Hi, love the video. What is the book for January for the Feminist Orchestra book club?
I'm so happy for your reading Chile's history!
I just got myself Conversations with Friends, Nevermoor and a beautiful new edition of The Name of the Rose that just came out in Portuguese
Conversations with Allende seems like an interesting read. My favorite of all the classes I took at Uni was Political development in Latin America, but I haven't read much about politics in Latin America since. So far in 2019 I've only bought two books (though I'm considering a Bookdepository spree today), The Explorer by Katherine Rundell and The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem. I'v really gotten into children's fiction lately, and The Explorer seems like a must read. The only thing I knew about Lem was that he wrote Solaris, but The Star Diaries is soo good. Humorous in a Douglas Adams-esque way, and the stories in the book vary in style and themes, which makes it continuously surprising and fun.
Hi Jean, fabulous video as always! Always love political book recommendations.
I was just wondering whether you had read any of the 'A Natural History of Dragons' series by Marie Brennan?
Ps I have also bought 'A Discovery of Witches' recently - intrigued to try it!
First bookish purchases of 2019:
Audre Lourde: The Master's Tools will never dismantle the master's house
Daphne du Maurier : The Break Through
Library lends: Maus - Art Spiegelman
Children of Blood and Bone - Toni Adeyemi
The Lonely City - Olivia Laing
Bookworm - Lucy Mangan
The Actual - Saul Bellow
Cassandra Darke - Posy Simmonds
Xx
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A discovery of Witch would be right up your street, the TV program was amazing! Here is some info on the Robert Louis Stevenson essays - robert-louis-stevenson.org/works/virginibus-puerisque-1881/
I got a giftcard for my birthday so the first books I got this year were Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente and Cuneiform by Irving Finkel and Jonathan Taylor (British Museum). I also got Stephen Fry's Mythos as a belated birthday gift yesterday, and bought myself a book about the Amazons and Colm Toibin's House of Names. So lots of ancient history so far! I read A Discovery of Witches last year and it was somehow simultaneously good and bad. I enjoyed parts of it, but also sometimes it's honestly incredibly dumb and/or annoying. I do think I want to continue the series because it definitely has its good parts but I almost quit the first one several times.
I am currently waiting for The Wicked King to arrive in the mailbox, and while I'm waiting I am really enjoying My Plain Jane 😊
I'm going to start it next!
@@JeansThoughts Hope you'll like it:) So far it is even more fun than anticipated!
My first purchase of the year was the complete Lord of the rings! I had it before until my ex took it from me, so I finally have a new one 😊
That is an excellent first purchase!
I alwaya have to restrain myself not to spend all my mlney on books after watching one of your hauls. ❤ Are you planning on reading the new book by Christopher Paolini?
I love the cover for the Wicked King, buts thats as far as I'd go fae stories aren't my cup of tea. I read A Discovery of Witches and I didn't enjoy as much as I thought I would.
My first book purchases of 2019 were The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie and The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
Gary Watters The Painted Man is amaazing; hope you enjoy it :)
GeEkY89 I look forward to reading it
First Book of the year The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer. Read the Discovery of Witches couple of years ago didnt read the rest of the trilogy time thing and reading slump. Heres to you having a great year.
hope you enjoy all the lonely people !!I can't wait to pick that one up also I heard it has a f/f romance in !!!!
Me too! And that's so good to hear.
great haul
I got Propa Propaganda from a charity shop too :D
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My first read was the Ukrainian translated Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko. I can't get it out of my head.
Not really related to this video, but I thought you might like "The mere wife" by Maria Dahvana Headley. It is a retelling of Beowulf where every element has been brilliantly refunctionalized for modern times. Female perspective, class/race/sexuality/gender struggles, Beowulf is not even the hero. It does use disfigurement in place of the original's monstrosity though. I also read "The Boneless Mercies", but didn't like it as much.
Ooh yeah I remember seeing something about it before it came out and it's been in the back of my mind to check out!
I was so exited when I heard Malala Yousafzai wrote another book a few days ago.
Right!? She is wonderful.
I bought 'Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights' by Juno Mac and Molly Smith in the Verso sale and I would highly recommend! Really excellent feminism, anti borders, pro workers rights, all that great stuff. Juno Mac did a TED talk on the subject a few years ago which you might have seen, but if not I would recommend checking it out for a taster of what the book is like.
a discovery of witches is fairly mediocre, but definitely something to read if you need something light and nothing to concentrate on.
I'm sorry to say priestess of the white series the first book was so bad It literally put me off high fantasy for like over a decade.
Ahahaha I'll bear that in mind ;)
Priestess of the White is amazing, it was the book that got me into adult fantasy as a teenager
Ah I’m so pleased to hear your say that, I hadn’t heard anything about that one specifically.