I loved Red Comet and I’m greatly interested in Walking in the Dark. The paper dolls bring back so many memories of playing with paper doll historical figures and dress as a child. 😊
So many books to peruse - such a relaxing way to spend an afternoon! And I love how the beautiful vintage items are mixed throughout the place. ❤️ This is why I hesitate so much to discard any books. I always worry I'll regret it someday, if not immediately. 😣 We had dozens of those Dover paper doll booklets when my kids were young. Happy memories. 😊
How lovely that you have friends locally to have an amazing day trips with. All my bookish friends are online and far away from me. What a lovely shop and distillery :)
I love that bookstore name! I remember having some paper doll books from that publisher. I favored Victorian and Edwardian fashions. What a fun day with your friends; thanks for sharing the store, the distillery and your haul.
Hannah, this was such a fun video. That’s my kind of book+vintage resale store. I laughed out loud at the cockatiel story 😂 🍸 🦜 The Roosevelt family paper dolls were a hoot. However, they sparked sweet memories of hours spent with friends cutting out and playing with paper dolls . As with Barbie dolls, we would spend hours changing the outfits and making up scenarios accordingly. Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I had Kennedy family paper dolls. (Earlier today a short video popped up on my YT feed about a young man in Montreal or Quebec who inherited 40,000 books. It’s quite a sight. He’s trying to sell them from the house.
Oh my goodness, the cocktail/cockatiel story!!!! 😆 It looks like it was an amazing outing. Community is so important during these times!! Thanks for taking us along, and I look forward to your next trip to that wonderful bookstore.
All Dovers? Interesting! And I can’t wait for Walking in the Dark. The book The Equivalents, which came out a couple of years ago and which I loved, treads some similar ground but with a different focus. You might enjoy it.
Speaking of regrets, I am sorry to have donated my Dover paper doll book of Princess Diana when I was clearing my bookshelves before our big move last year. Ah well. Thanks for sharing your fun day with us. 🌻
How wonderful to have bookish friends! Red Comet is my favorite biography and I, too, look forward to her future books. I think Clark also has a novel in the works.
Oh, to visit a used bookstore with you, Hannah, followed by afternoon tea. You are in a class by yourself. Love your videos and wishing you all the best as November wraps up! 🌻🌹💪💐✌️☮️🎭☯️🥂🌷🍾
So many bookish outings for you this year, I’m happy I got to be part of one too! I had a friend from California who came back east for a visit and I met him in his former hometown where he had graduated from high school. It was Newton, Massachusetts. Of course I had read Looking for Mercy St. and other Sexton related stuff, but I was completely unprepared that his house was on the same street as hers had been! He would have been an infant when she lived there so no inside scoop. I think I’ve mentioned my hopes when next visiting Boston to go to what was the Ritz Hotel bar and have a drink, preferably at the same table that Sexton, Plath and Lowell did after their poetry workshop seminars. I’ll be waiting with bated breath for Clark’s biography on Sexton, it’s really time for a whole new examination of who she was and Clark is just the person to do her justice.
Hello Hannah, I was thoroughly entertained by your video. I wish we had a bookstore like “my dead Aunts’ or any used bookstore in Hawaii. Besides the Goodwill and book off(which sells more videos and records than books) we’re pretty much a desert in Honolulu. If it weren’t for library book sales, and My occasional foray Minnesota, where my daughter and son live and lately a yearly trip to Paris, I would be forced to use the Internet exclusively for books. I was trying to read all the titles of the books and I’m sure many other watchers were also doing the same. Wishing you health happiness and good reading. Shalom and Aloha
I’m a gin person too-as well as a whiskey person. Patti (the friend) likes both as well. She jokes that she only drinks the gin between Memorial Day and Labor Day-and drinks darks the rest of the year. (Do you get that reference? Back when we were young, women were told to only wear white shoes and pants etc from Memorial Day to Labor Day. I’m not sure men would have learned that rule…)
@ I knew that rule. I wrote a short story a long time ago about Eleanor Roosevelt in which she meets Neil Cassidy and he comments about her wearing white after Labor Day. Never thought about applying the rule to my drinking though.
What a unique name for the bookstore and what seems so much more! It was a lovely glimpse into your day with friends. Someone mentioned it being wonderful to have bookish friends and it seems like a nice way to spend time together. Although it is way over my head I will be reading Proust come January with the group. I got my copy of In Search Of Lost Time Volume 1 yesterday. I will see how it goes! I am reading Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald and the writing is beautiful. Aaron Facer said it was one of his favorites this year. There are no chapters per say, which I am not used to. I am juggling a few other books which I won't get into to keep my comment shorter than usual! Glad to see you had posted a video! Bye now. 😊
Since you're talking about presidential paper doll books, I feel comfortable talking about a different kind of book as well; since our last exchange in your aforementioned video's comments where we went on about coping with Copeland and whatnot, I have found sheet music containing Satie's "Gymnopodies" and "Gnossienes" (I also found some Gershwin and Chopin: I know, I'm completely indiscriminate with piano stuff). I also found a pair of books I have long desired to dive deep into: the Library of America's reprints of Dawn Powell. Have you read her? She's hysterical. It's like of Dorothy Parker had written novels instead of stories. I am very, very much looking forward to Heather Clark's new books, which you mentioned. I loved "Red Comet." It's the best biography of Plath around. Much like Clark, I have often been disappointed with Plath biographies. For years I had a hard time pinpointing what it was about most of them that rubbed me the wrong way, and then I opened up "Red Comet" the day it was published and came across a passage at the beginning about Plath's fine-tuned ear for poetic influence among her fellow poetry students and it clicked with me: the biographies do this weird thing where they avoid talking about Plath as a writer, even though that is ostensibly the reason anyone would be reading their biography of her. And then Clark sights the great Hermione Lee on this weird thing that biographers do with female poets whose lives were bombarded with misfortune: they prioritize that, and subordinate the writing career to it. A metamisfortune on behalf of the literary reader. I loved Clark's book because it is aware of that bizarre phenomenon and avoids it. I especially loved the stuff about her connection to Lowell and the writing programs in its early stages. I love that sort of stuff: what writers were like when they were in school and whatnot. I cannot find anything online about the upcoming Clark book, "Walking in the Dark," which you mention looking forward to. Do you have a source I can learn more about the book from? It sounds right up my alley, since I love all the writers included in the subject: Plath, Sexton, Kingston, Rich? What a quartet. I'm constantly pushing "Woman Warrior" and "Tripmaster Monkey" on people. As for the other three: poetry is tricky to recommend. People are so shy around it. But I espouse my love for the three whenever I can. Speaking of which: you really don't like Anne Sexton's poetry all that much? She's incredible. I will agree that "Transformations" is among my favorites by her, but have you read "The Book of Folly" all the way through? It's just as good. In fact, it is equally as good but has more variety in it, which is a plus for me. I also don't think there is anything in "45 Mercy Street" that I don't like. Not that you're shy around poetry or anything. But I must espouse upon thee!
Oh no! Maxine KUMIN! I misspoke-probably because I too love Maxine Hong Kingston. My apologies! And on top of that, I gave the wrong title. It is WAKING in the Dark… I learned about Clark’s books from her Twitter feed. The Sexton bio is mentioned in a pinned tweet from a couple of years ago. The draft about the group is mentioned in a very recent tweet-along with a photo of her manuscript. I’ll respond to the rest of your comments tomorrow! 💜
@@HannahsBooks Maxine Kumin is just as wonderful. I was going to say that I had been under the impression that Kingston is a Westcoaster like myself, given the locale and the subject-matter, but I have learned in life to be fully prepared to be mistaken. I await more from your end tomorrow regarding the rest! :)
Hi Hannah! First off, Proust. I so badly want to read his works, but I have tried several times over the years to read the first volume and I lost interest and put it down. I think if I just allowed myself several months to dip in and out of it instead of just trying to read through, I'd have better luck. In my last attempt, I ended up donating the first three volumes I owned because I decided it just wasn't for me. However, it keeps haunting me. Someday, I will finish at least the first volume, but 2025 won't be the year. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on it. Now, the bookstore - what a fabulous name for a store! I wish I had something like that here. South Florida (Miami Dade specifically) is a cultural wasteland. There are NO used bookstores around me. There is a goodwill that has some books but very small collection (and mostly my donations lol) So funny you should mention Anne Sexton. I am not a fan of her poetry but have always been drawn to her. I love author biographies and am especially drawn to tragic figures. I am currently reading "Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton". It's ok, but I think I would enjoy the Anne Sexton Biography better for a more in-depth look into her life. Also, those paper dolls...how fabulous!
Recently a young man and his uncle opened a bookstore here in Montreal, all of the books were inherited from his father, more than 20, 000. I have tried to read Proust many times both in French and in English without much success, maybe I will give it a go with you and your group. Do you have books of writers letters /correspondence that you would suggest?
20,000 books! That does set you up for a remarkable store! I would love to have you join in for Proust. As for letters, my very favorite collection is the letters of Flannery O’Connor. I first read them when I was still fairly young-and it transformed how I understood her short stories.
@ She’s one of my favorites! A couple of years back, I recorded myself reading a couple of her stories for this channel. They are still some of my most-watched videos.
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I loved Red Comet and I’m greatly interested in Walking in the Dark. The paper dolls bring back so many memories of playing with paper doll historical figures and dress as a child. 😊
So many books to peruse - such a relaxing way to spend an afternoon! And I love how the beautiful vintage items are mixed throughout the place. ❤️
This is why I hesitate so much to discard any books. I always worry I'll regret it someday, if not immediately. 😣
We had dozens of those Dover paper doll booklets when my kids were young. Happy memories. 😊
What a wonderful day, and I loved the bookstore/vintage store you all visited. Not much beats a good day with friends.
How lovely that you have friends locally to have an amazing day trips with.
All my bookish friends are online and far away from me.
What a lovely shop and distillery :)
I love that bookstore name! I remember having some paper doll books from that publisher. I favored Victorian and Edwardian fashions. What a fun day with your friends; thanks for sharing the store, the distillery and your haul.
Ooh-Edwardian paper dolls! I’ll have to look for that next time I’m there!
Only 68 miles away. I’ll need to visit that bookstore when I done with my Read What You Own Challenge. Thanks for the Proust plug.
I’ll meet you there! Or some bookstore in DC!
Thanks for the tour. The bookshop looks amazing
Hannah, this was such a fun video. That’s my kind of book+vintage resale store. I laughed out loud at the cockatiel story 😂 🍸 🦜 The Roosevelt family paper dolls were a hoot. However, they sparked sweet memories of hours spent with friends cutting out and playing with paper dolls . As with Barbie dolls, we would spend hours changing the outfits and making up scenarios accordingly. Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I had Kennedy family paper dolls.
(Earlier today a short video popped up on my YT feed about a young man in Montreal or Quebec who inherited 40,000 books. It’s quite a sight. He’s trying to sell them from the house.
Oh my goodness, the cocktail/cockatiel story!!!! 😆 It looks like it was an amazing outing. Community is so important during these times!! Thanks for taking us along, and I look forward to your next trip to that wonderful bookstore.
I thinking “going out for cockatiels” may be our regular phrase from now on.
_Walking in the Dark_ sounds real interesting. For a while we had a store in the neighborhood that sold exclusively Dover books. I remember those!
All Dovers? Interesting! And I can’t wait for Walking in the Dark. The book The Equivalents, which came out a couple of years ago and which I loved, treads some similar ground but with a different focus. You might enjoy it.
I wasn’t aware that Heather Clark was working on a biography of Anne Sexton. That is wonderful news! “Red Comet” is marvelous.
Speaking of regrets, I am sorry to have donated my Dover paper doll book of Princess Diana when I was clearing my bookshelves before our big move last year. Ah well.
Thanks for sharing your fun day with us. 🌻
@@lindysmagpiereads Now that would have been something I too might have gotten rid of and then regretted!
Just. Loved. This. So. Much. You've definitely got this vlogging video-recording down to a t.
What a nice day out. I love that they don't put stickers on their books!
Those candle names are hilarious.
I liked that, too! Cards are inserted with the categories, but no stickers
How wonderful to have bookish friends! Red Comet is my favorite biography and I, too, look forward to her future books. I think Clark also has a novel in the works.
She does indeed have a novel coming out-middle of next year, I think.
You would have a difficult time getting me out of that store! Thank you for sharing that with us. I love those paper dolls! Een hele lekkere cocktail!
Oh, to visit a used bookstore with you, Hannah, followed by afternoon tea. You are in a class by yourself. Love your videos and wishing you all the best as November wraps up! 🌻🌹💪💐✌️☮️🎭☯️🥂🌷🍾
Oh, Brady! You are too kind. If you find yourself in the DC area, let’s go!
i love they way you structured your video and you also have such a relaxing voice to listen to😊
Thank you so much! That is very kind of you to say.
Sounds like an amazing days with friends and fellowship
Yes indeed! 💜
This was such a wonderful video! I would be in heaven ❤
So many bookish outings for you this year, I’m happy I got to be part of one too!
I had a friend from California who came back east for a visit and I met him in his former hometown where he had graduated from high school. It was Newton, Massachusetts. Of course I had read Looking for Mercy St. and other Sexton related stuff, but I was completely unprepared that his house was on the same street as hers had been! He would have been an infant when she lived there so no inside scoop.
I think I’ve mentioned my hopes when next visiting Boston to go to what was the Ritz Hotel bar and have a drink, preferably at the same table that Sexton, Plath and Lowell did after their poetry workshop seminars.
I’ll be waiting with bated breath for Clark’s biography on Sexton, it’s really time for a whole new examination of who she was and Clark is just the person to do her justice.
Hello Hannah, I was thoroughly entertained by your video. I wish we had a bookstore like “my dead Aunts’ or any used bookstore in Hawaii. Besides the Goodwill and book off(which sells more videos and records than books) we’re pretty much a desert in Honolulu. If it weren’t for library book sales, and My occasional foray Minnesota, where my daughter and son live and lately a yearly trip to Paris, I would be forced to use the Internet exclusively for books.
I was trying to read all the titles of the books and I’m sure many other watchers were also doing the same. Wishing you health happiness and good reading. Shalom and Aloha
The cockatiels 😂😂 Seems like your friend had happy hour on her mind already
She did indeed! We spotted the sign for cocktails before we walked into the bookstore!
What a lovely day with friends. The martini you ordered sounds amazing.
It was delicious! I have cocktails pretty infrequently, but gin martinis with olives served in pretty glasses are my absolute favorite.
I think my sister had some of those paper doll books. I love gin. That martini looked great.
I’m a gin person too-as well as a whiskey person. Patti (the friend) likes both as well. She jokes that she only drinks the gin between Memorial Day and Labor Day-and drinks darks the rest of the year. (Do you get that reference? Back when we were young, women were told to only wear white shoes and pants etc from Memorial Day to Labor Day. I’m not sure men would have learned that rule…)
@ I knew that rule. I wrote a short story a long time ago about Eleanor Roosevelt in which she meets Neil Cassidy and he comments about her wearing white after Labor Day. Never thought about applying the rule to my drinking though.
Paper dolls books, that takes me back.
Such wonderful memories for me!
Looks like a good time. I want to read that Proust book
I would love to get to it before the Proust read along starts. We’ll see!
What a unique name for the bookstore and what seems so much more! It was a lovely glimpse into your day with friends. Someone mentioned it being wonderful to have bookish friends and it seems like a nice way to spend time together. Although it is way over my head I will be reading Proust come January with the group. I got my copy of In Search Of Lost Time Volume 1 yesterday. I will see how it goes! I am reading Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald and the writing is beautiful. Aaron Facer said it was one of his favorites this year. There are no chapters per say, which I am not used to. I am juggling a few other books which I won't get into to keep my comment shorter than usual! Glad to see you had posted a video! Bye now. 😊
I’m so glad you are going to give Proust a try! A lot of us may be over our heads…. I really must try Austerlitz at some point!
Since you're talking about presidential paper doll books, I feel comfortable talking about a different kind of book as well; since our last exchange in your aforementioned video's comments where we went on about coping with Copeland and whatnot, I have found sheet music containing Satie's "Gymnopodies" and "Gnossienes" (I also found some Gershwin and Chopin: I know, I'm completely indiscriminate with piano stuff). I also found a pair of books I have long desired to dive deep into: the Library of America's reprints of Dawn Powell. Have you read her? She's hysterical. It's like of Dorothy Parker had written novels instead of stories.
I am very, very much looking forward to Heather Clark's new books, which you mentioned. I loved "Red Comet." It's the best biography of Plath around. Much like Clark, I have often been disappointed with Plath biographies. For years I had a hard time pinpointing what it was about most of them that rubbed me the wrong way, and then I opened up "Red Comet" the day it was published and came across a passage at the beginning about Plath's fine-tuned ear for poetic influence among her fellow poetry students and it clicked with me: the biographies do this weird thing where they avoid talking about Plath as a writer, even though that is ostensibly the reason anyone would be reading their biography of her. And then Clark sights the great Hermione Lee on this weird thing that biographers do with female poets whose lives were bombarded with misfortune: they prioritize that, and subordinate the writing career to it. A metamisfortune on behalf of the literary reader.
I loved Clark's book because it is aware of that bizarre phenomenon and avoids it. I especially loved the stuff about her connection to Lowell and the writing programs in its early stages. I love that sort of stuff: what writers were like when they were in school and whatnot.
I cannot find anything online about the upcoming Clark book, "Walking in the Dark," which you mention looking forward to. Do you have a source I can learn more about the book from? It sounds right up my alley, since I love all the writers included in the subject: Plath, Sexton, Kingston, Rich? What a quartet. I'm constantly pushing "Woman Warrior" and "Tripmaster Monkey" on people. As for the other three: poetry is tricky to recommend. People are so shy around it. But I espouse my love for the three whenever I can.
Speaking of which: you really don't like Anne Sexton's poetry all that much? She's incredible. I will agree that "Transformations" is among my favorites by her, but have you read "The Book of Folly" all the way through? It's just as good. In fact, it is equally as good but has more variety in it, which is a plus for me. I also don't think there is anything in "45 Mercy Street" that I don't like. Not that you're shy around poetry or anything. But I must espouse upon thee!
Oh no! Maxine KUMIN! I misspoke-probably because I too love Maxine Hong Kingston. My apologies! And on top of that, I gave the wrong title. It is WAKING in the Dark…
I learned about Clark’s books from her Twitter feed. The Sexton bio is mentioned in a pinned tweet from a couple of years ago. The draft about the group is mentioned in a very recent tweet-along with a photo of her manuscript.
I’ll respond to the rest of your comments tomorrow! 💜
@@HannahsBooks Maxine Kumin is just as wonderful. I was going to say that I had been under the impression that Kingston is a Westcoaster like myself, given the locale and the subject-matter, but I have learned in life to be fully prepared to be mistaken. I await more from your end tomorrow regarding the rest! :)
Hi Hannah! First off, Proust. I so badly want to read his works, but I have tried several times over the years to read the first volume and I lost interest and put it down. I think if I just allowed myself several months to dip in and out of it instead of just trying to read through, I'd have better luck.
In my last attempt, I ended up donating the first three volumes I owned because I decided it just wasn't for me. However, it keeps haunting me. Someday, I will finish at least the first volume, but 2025 won't be the year. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on it.
Now, the bookstore - what a fabulous name for a store! I wish I had something like that here. South Florida (Miami Dade specifically) is a cultural wasteland. There are NO used bookstores around me. There is a goodwill that has some books but very small collection (and mostly my donations lol)
So funny you should mention Anne Sexton. I am not a fan of her poetry but have always been drawn to her. I love author biographies and am especially drawn to tragic figures. I am currently reading "Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton". It's ok, but I think I would enjoy the Anne Sexton Biography better for a more in-depth look into her life.
Also, those paper dolls...how fabulous!
Recently a young man and his uncle opened a bookstore here in Montreal, all of the books were inherited from his father, more than 20, 000. I have tried to read Proust many times both in French and in English without much success, maybe I will give it a go with you and your group. Do you have books of writers letters /correspondence that you would suggest?
20,000 books! That does set you up for a remarkable store! I would love to have you join in for Proust. As for letters, my very favorite collection is the letters of Flannery O’Connor. I first read them when I was still fairly young-and it transformed how I understood her short stories.
@HannahsBooks thank you for the suggestion! 😃 I haven't read Flannery O'connor since college.
@ She’s one of my favorites! A couple of years back, I recorded myself reading a couple of her stories for this channel. They are still some of my most-watched videos.