April 2024 Holiday Book Haul

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  • I filmed this book haul whilst on holidays down the south coast of NSW - so many second-hand finds! Let me know in the comments if you've read any of these and if you think I should prioritise any of them on my TBR.
    These are the books I mentioned in the video:
    The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
    Clarice Bean: Scram! - Lauren Child
    A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Writings - Charles Dickens (Penguin Clothbound Classics edition)
    The Call of Cthulu and other stories - H P Lovecraft
    David Golder - Irene Nemirovsky
    Weyward - Emilia Hart
    Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
    Heartstopper Volume 3 - Alice Osman
    The Naturalist of Amsterdam - Melissa Ashley
    Linger - Maggie Stiefvater
    A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik
    Diva and Flea - Mo Willems
    Fog a Dox - Bruce Pascoe
    The Girl with the Dragon Heart - Stephanie Burgess
    The Enola Holmes series - Nancy Springer
    Lizards of Australia - Scott & Tyese Eipper
    Ladies, We Need to Talk - Yumi Stynes & Claudine Ryan
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  • @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
    @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Best wishes with what you choose to read. I'm currently on page 805 of the Count of Monte Cristo. Still some way to go. Happy reading.

    • @curatoriallyyours
      @curatoriallyyours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh my! I’ve heard great things about The Count of Monte Cristo but its length is intimidating for sure!

  • @kimswhims8435
    @kimswhims8435 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Praiseworthy just won The 2024 Stella! Yay! I think it's a masterpiece but it can be hard to get into, audiobook is a great help. I really need to read Carpentaria now.
    Milton is really pretty, I've just been to Bawley Point a bit further south. Love watching the birds, we've got quite a few that visit us at home, I'm definitely into old person's hobbies 😄
    Great haul. I only just managed to keep out of the secondhand bookshops and op shops. I think they call them thrift shops in the USA.

    • @curatoriallyyours
      @curatoriallyyours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m 160 pages into Praiseworthy and am really not enjoying it! I did end up getting the audiobook, which is helping, but I’m so unmotivated to finish it!

    • @kimswhims8435
      @kimswhims8435 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@curatoriallyyours Might just not be for you this time. Reading Kim Scott's work is a good way to get into the headspace that they both seem to occupy. I think Taboo is one of his easiest. Melissa Lashenko is also helpful to get there.

    • @curatoriallyyours
      @curatoriallyyours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kimswhims8435 I’ve read two of Melissa Lucashenko’s books - Too Much Lip and Mullumbimby - and loved them both! I had no trouble getting into those at all but Praiseworthy just seems to be really repetitive, saying the same thing over and over again in slightly different ways, to the point where it becomes hard to follow the story. It’s not the Aboriginal dialect that’s making it hard for me, it’s the writing!

    • @kimswhims8435
      @kimswhims8435 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@curatoriallyyours yeah, I think of the repetition as a form of chanting as in Indigenous song. I'm not sure if she's done it quite like that before. I need to listen to the Swan Book again and see. Even so, The Swan Book was also a hard one to read.

  • @elzbethmrgn
    @elzbethmrgn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Old Person Hobbies 🎉🎉

    • @elzbethmrgn
      @elzbethmrgn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Warm Hands of Ghosts has been on my TBR for a while now, but my library just got it! So now I'm waiting for my hold. I was shocked because my library doesn't usually have anything I want to read 😅

    • @elzbethmrgn
      @elzbethmrgn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm just live-commenting now 😅 I've always heard (and said) kuh-thoo-loo

    • @curatoriallyyours
      @curatoriallyyours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am 100% fine with having old person hobbies!