new year, NEW BOOKS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- Here are some new books for the new year!!!
Hi friends and Happy New Year!
I hope you're doing very well and are having a great 2024 so far!
I hope you enjoy seeing the lovely books I bought and received recently! I'd love to know what books you've been reading and loving :)
Sending you my warmest wishes,
Carolyn Marie :)
Books mentioned:
Intro - 00:00
Heartstopper Volume 5 - 00:49
The Tale of Despereaux - 1:31
Farewell Leicester Square - 04:14
Antarctica - 05:41
Inspire - 07:43
Pedro Paramo - 09:04
Little Men - 09:47
The Best Poems of the English Language - 10:42
Old Yeller - 11:58
Afternoon of the Elves - 13:00
A Wrinkle in Time - 13:51
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Carolyn, would you consider doing a reading vlog on The Count of Monte Cristo? I would love to see your thoughts and see your reaction in the really juicy parts of the book. Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!
Oh God! Indeed, The Tale of Despereaux is a real good book. 💛
Carolyn please start making weekly vlogs if possible. We would love to watch them.
On January 1st I read "Small things like these" and it impacted me so much!! I loved it, I was so excited when I saw it was translated into Serbian in December 🎉
If your interests in Harold Blooms work continues, i highly recommend his 'How to Read and Why', 'Shakespeare: Invention of the Human', 'The Anatomy of Influence' and 'The Western Canon'. These were a great confort and guide when reading through some great of the great books. Happy reading.
Yes, every now and again one must renew one's foundations with an acknowledged master of the field, like Bloom. Even if it's only one every five years or so, just to wade in and soak up some of the ideas freely offered is a refreshing pleasure.
Not new out but new to me, finally getting round to reading the master and margarita by Mikhail bulgakov, thanks to my cousin buying it me as a gift and I'm loving it! Next on the list, also a gift from my sister are cossacks by Leo Tolstoy and snow country by Yasunari Kawabata (a new author to me) all 3 books in lovely cloth bound editions (which I know you appreciate Carolyn 😅😂). Happy new year to all! And may 2024 bring you abundant opportunity❤
I am *loving* The Count of Monte Cristo so far! The first day, I told myself I’d read 2 chapters and I read 5. 😄 It’s so good!
My favorite Christmas gift book was the illustrated version of The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It’s so beautiful!
Pedro Paramo is so good!❤
I’m joining Game of Tomes for the first time this year! I’m 50 pages into Count of Monte Cristo and I cannot put it down!!! I read the abridged version 9 years ago, but I’m glad I’m reading it in depth alongside others
I know! I was surprised at how quickly I got pulled into the story too! I don't know why I thought otherwise. Happy Reading!
Ikr! It's so addictive!
It’s an amazing story ❤
It has been three days since i started the count of monte Cristo. I am on page 210. I feel like i have to take revenge from someone too couldnt decide from whom yet😂
Happy New Year Carolyn! Wishing you all the best in 2024!
Thank you Carolyn. You look happy and healthy, which isn't always easy to do in NY in the winter. btw - I love the red ribbon on your tree. For me, I went only so far as to get a battery operated string of lights as a new addition. It's very convenient, but I like your ribbon more. Looking forward to seeing you again at the Games, and also can't wait to see your next creation - as it's been several months (years?) since the rabbit appeared. His color is awesome! Thx again, and have a happy.
Happy New Year Carolyn! ❤🎉
When I was in New York for the Open,I went to the Strand .It is a great book store.
Carolyn, i also love The Tale of Despereaux! This anniversary edition is so beautiful! I'd like to read Little Men and Old Yeller. Great haul! Happy 2024 with wonderful readings! 💖📚
Greetings from Texas! It is spelled Abiline but the first I is pronounced like an a. Abaline, thought you might want to know. love the videos! …and that tree
Happy Nee Year Caroline, all the best to you and yours. I loved Pedro Paramo 👍👍
Yay a Carolyn upload! It was embarrassing how much I was missing these on Christmas break. Hope you and everyone had some well deserved rest :)
I’m halfway through “Farewell…”! What a great find. I hope you love it.
Cool list I always get great ideas from these videos. That poetry book looks amazing. I'm reading The Master and Margarita right now and absolutely love it.
Old Yeller is a GREAT book. I loved it as a child, yes there is a movie. Robert Frost is my favorite Poet. I am from New England and although Frost was born in Calif. He lived the rest of his life in New Englad; even my home state Mass. Been in so many of his homes. I am presently reading Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher. Haven't even disowned first chapter and it's awesome! Bought sooo many books after C-Mas, which I said I WAS NOT going to do.I LOVE poetry! Have since the 3rd grade. Have a great collection. MT newest book arrived today... A Poem For Every Day Of The Year. Been wanting it for a while.I was disappointed in b's after C-Mas sale, but I did buy 3 classics, The Berry Pickers, A card. Was looking for their edition of Poe's Complete Poems And Sories, but they didn't have it. Thanks, great video! Enjoy your new bks.😊
I was spoiled for books this year 🤗 My Penguin Clothbound collection almost doubled and the lovely members of my bookclub have given me a TBR amount of gifts. So yeah...lots and lots to read in 2024!
I found some of my favorites from your Game of Tomes bookclub. I'm excited to read books I'd been meaning to read for forever, like The Count of Monte Cristo or The Lord of the Rings this year ! 😊
I got Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien for Christmas. I read the Lord of the Rings books last year.
Wishing you all the best for 2024 Carolyn! 💕 xx
Thank you so much!! Wishing you the same :)
Pedro Paramo is one of the best novels of the latinamerican literary boom of the 50s to 70s. Also Rulfo wrote an excellent collection of stories called El Llano en Llamas (The Burning Plain) that is often sold together with Pedro Paramo. I highly recommend it.
❤Happy New Year Carolyn ❤🎉
Thank you! Happy New Year 🥳✨
That Christmas tree is fantastic, by the way.
I got no books at Christmas, but with the New Year, I ordered a book that I have been curious about for years - Richard Halliburton’s _Complete Book of Marvels_ (1937). It compiles travel writing and photography from the world traveler Halliburton during the early 20th century. For a lot of readers of decades past, this was a window to the world.
Ahh I read small things like these after you recommended it, i had already read Foster so it didnt take much persuading and I loved it so thank you!
I am in the UK so now im curious what the US version is of antartica ahah
I am currently reading one of my christmas pressies, Vengence of the pirate queen by Tricia Levenseller and I am loving it so much it is the third book in the series and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves pirates, some serious romantic tension and all round found family vibes!
That Ben Fogle book sounds so cool! I love him in the Longleat zoo series Animal Park so thats definitely going on my tbr!
For my next read i think I will be reading the golden mole by Katherine Rundell and im so excited for it!
I believe "It was a dark and stormy night" traces back to Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Paul Clifford (1830), but I completely forgot that's also how A Wrinkle in Time Starts. Nice!
Happy New Year, Carolyn! I hope 2024 is great for you.
Happy New Year!! 🥳 Thank you so much, and wishing you the same!
I got Lattimore’s translation of the Iliad and Jon Klassen’s We Found a Hat :) Also bought myself Falen’s translation of Eugene Onegin and some LOTR audio books for game of tomes. Also loved Heartstopper 5, especially the parts about Tori! Happy New Year!
Does anybody ever feel overwhelmed by all the books that u have that are waiting for you to read but you have no time to read them? I have so many beautiful books on variety of topics stacked up and I don’t know how to read all of them because they are all amazing. This seriously gives me anxiety. I don’t know whether I should read Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Brontes, counseling books or textbooks 😬 On top of that I’m a slow reader! If only I didn’t have to sleep and attend to my other responsibilities…life would be beautiful 😍 I think I have a book addiction!
I have this problem too, and school is about to start back up and make it worse 😩
Happy New Year and happy reading in 2024. xx 💖
Thank you so much! Same to you :) 💖
I love that Persephone book! What a fantastic deal you found there! And I'm SOO glad I'm not the only person who has no idea how to pronounce author's names. 🤣 I'm so bad at that.
Ohhh Pedro Páramo is incredible! I hope you love it
I love the Strand ❤
It’s the best!
I just received Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare The Invention of the Human. It’s wonderful and I now want that poetry critique book you have too
All the best wishes for 2024. May it be a happy and blessed year for you!
Thank you so much! I’m wishing the same for you! :)
I’ve just started reading “pride & prejudice”. Enjoy so far
I’m trying to get myself through the penguin 100 books to read list (8/100 so far). So thank you so much for game of tomes because 4/6 of them are on the list and I’ve been terrible with long books in the past. Just taking it 2% on my kindle a day and reading other stuff as well and it’s working really well! Can’t wait for the discussion!
Ive read all the books after Little women -Good wives, Little men and Jo's boys and little men is my favourite. I've read it several times. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did . I am currently rereading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman because I got the most beautiful Folio society copy for Christmas
If you loved Foster you should check out An Cailín Ciúin (the quiet girl). It is the film adapted from the novella. Really beautiful and bilingual (Irish and English).
Happy New Year Carolyn. I recently finished The Torrents of Spring by Turgrnev. I always have a picture of characters in my mind's eye whilst reading. Gemma reminded me so much of you when she was introduced and described that I could not help but reminded of you every time she was mentioned. (She even was of Italian descent)
Your boyfriend was right it is pronounced Les ter - lots of silly pronunciations in England, I think we do it just to confuse people.
Yes, Gloster gets me all the time. I don't even try to spell it properly anymore : )
I just bought The Count of Monte Cristo. I am looking forward to reading along with everyone on the Book of Tomes😊
Omg I loooove Little Men, hope you enjoy it too❤
Happy New Year! 😊 I am currently reading Anxious people by F.Backman who is rapidly becoming a favourite author, and Something wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury.
I loveee your videos!
I’m so glad!!
i went to waterstones yesterday to pick up the count of monte cristo, and i also found little men which was a lovely surprise as i didn’t think they’d stock it there!🥰 i hope we both enjoy it when we get to it:’)
A Wrinkle in Time is part of a quintet. I'm reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Carolyn, I read Foster during the New Year’s weekend after hearing you speak highly of Claire Keegan’s work. I absolutely loved it! Thank you for the recommendation. I have ordered Small things like these and I can’t wait to read it as soon as I get it.
That’s amazing! I’m so glad you enjoyed Foster, and I hope you love Small Thing Like These too! :)
@@CarolynMarieReads I have only read one book of hers but I can already tell she is going to become a favorite of mine!
That cover of Antarctica really is way nicer than the US edition!
Isn't it tho? One of the best I've seen.
Highly recommend Ben Fogle’s different tv-series as well! They are so inspiring! 🥰
Yes that series is amazing !!!!!
i audably gasped when you pulled up that persephone edition omg, happy new year indeed :)
Yesss! Happy New Year 🥳
Love Ben Fogle. Total gentleman and great tv presenter.
I got vouchers so have bought two books by Sarah J Maas, my first Foray into Fantasy and a few others including Demon Copperfield. You have done well getting a Persephone book. These were written during the inter-war years and not just by Women. i have a couple of these books and while they are expensive new, they can be re-read so many times and are beautifully published.
Happy New Year Carolyn ! I recently bought a Russian illustrated edition of Nikolai Gogol's short fiction.
Happy New Year!! That’s amazing!
I'm going to be rereading Nicholas Nickleby and then a few months after that I'll be rereading Barnaby Rudge. I have only read them once and it's been awhile. I'm in a Jane Austen book club and this year we're reading Mansfield Park - so I got a super chunky Annotated Mansfield Park that Anchor Books puts out. This could be the year of the reread!
❤🎉📚 Happy New Year. Old Yeller is so good. I started January with The Underneath by Kathi Appelt.
Thank you! Happy New Year! 🥳 wonderful!
@@CarolynMarieReads Thank you!
Fascinating bow you have not learned about Harold Bloom but it is Harold Blood that has made aware of literature and by detention your channel bc you spoke about Count of Monte Christo
the coziest !
i hate being this person but "it was a dark and stormy night" was actually originally from a novel by bulwer-lytton!
Oh very interesting!!
Yes, that's the rumor tho perhaps even he wasn't first? I know that whenever I'm stuck for an opening all of a sudden big night-time clouds rush in and a clap of thunder rattles the window. It's a prosaic line no matter whom it is succumbing to the temptation of appropriating it. : )
Be that person! Better to learn you’re making a mistake from someone who means well rather than from some condescending person
I received Eugene Onegin for Christmas and I’m currently reading it!
That’s amazing!!
Love all your nice books they're very nice Ivory chicken soup books they are very expiring they have nice little short stories in them I get them at a thrift store the Goodwill they're called chicken soup books I love your video very nice🎉🎊👍👍
Chekhov wrote the story Kashtanka. It's about a dog. Like all Chekhov's stories, it is not very big and very exciting.
Kashtanka - derived from the word kashtan. Kashtan is a tree and its fruit, chestnut in English. If I'm not mistaken, you like chestnuts :)
omg so that edition of Little Men is the same as this journal i got, it’s bound by an old book called Captains Courageous and it has the same kind of illustrations in the cover!
Didn't buy any books but went to disneyworld!!! Much love to you
Came for Russian literature review, stayed for calm, wholesome vibes. Thx for your amazing videos, Carolyn Albertovna 😂
Love this 😂 thank you 🤍
I love Strand! Have you been to Alabaster Bookshop? It's just around the corner from Strand. I always go to both when I make a trip to buy books.
🌅🙋♀️🙂 I Want to Wish You ,Your Family and Everyone a Joyous New Year🎆🎉✨️😃😃😃Wonderful(Love The Tale of Despereaux😃😊)!!😊I Recieved Many Books As Gifts As Well in 2023📚😊: Les Mìsérables By Victor Hugo, a New Copy of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Phantom Of The Opera by Gaston Leroux , Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens😊📚For The GameofTomes Bookclub(Can't Wait😃😊📚) I Recieved Middlemarch and am waiting for The Count of Monte Cristo( Soo Looking Forward to Reading This😊📚)
Those are excellent titles. I'm sure you'll enjoy reading them. I have read all except Middlemarch, which I will read for the GoT club. I've read the French ones in French, and I'm proud and happy about that fact (tho I expect it means little to you : )
I just brought Charles Dickens Oliver twist
I received a beautiful copy of Grimms Fairy Tales from my son.
So nice!!!
Next time you’re in NYC, check out McNally Jackson in FiDi! Great bookstore
I’ve been meaning to go there for ages! I’m glad to hear you recommend it :)
It'll be great if you make a video with some non-fiction recommendations !
The voiceover is just the funniest thing ever😂🫶🏼
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Have you read The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo? It is one of my favorite books. The audio is also great!
Yes!! She’s one of my all time favorite authors :)
Juan Rulfo is Inmortal!
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Have you read the book Strands of Starlight by Gael Baudino? It deals with some dark themes, but there's also a lot of beauty to it.
What’s your opinion on 100 years of solitude and your rating
Oh my oh my. A mother of a gf recommended that to me in the 1980s and it's been a favorite of mine since then. Around that time I read a bunch of other GGMarquez's tho without nearly as much enjoyment of 100 Years. That ending is so perfect but so unique too. I've read no other book that could use that ending, and it works so perfectly for that story!
I got to chapter 60 of The Count of Monte Cristo and started a free audiobook of it on TH-cam. It’s a very good book but way too long. I’m going to finish it on audiobook. If you read Old Yellow you will cry like a baby! Anything to do with a dog I cry.
Oh man, Ol Yeller hurts, you’re in for a ride there. The A in Abilene is pronounced like Abby. It’s Abb - uh - lean. 😊
You are not the first person to mis-pronounce Leicester nor will you be the last! It’s up there with Worcestershire and Marylebone in the category of English place names that we can only imagine were designed specifically to trip people up! (It’s a tough category to reach the top of as the pool of impossible to spell/pronounce place names in England is frankly gargantuan)
I actually moved to Leicester when I went to university and it took me ages to learn how to spell my own address 😂 So you are not a fool, or at least not much more of one than I am.
The Iliad by Homer.
Maybe in 2024, you can bring back book reviews? ❤❤
I got Killers of the Flower Moon. The movie adaptation came out last year and it was incredible, so far I’m loving the book
You've really never seen the Old Yeller disney movie? Man oh Man.... I'm getting all emotional inside just thinking about it now. lol
I’ll have to watch it!!
You were told that you like Turgenev's stories. Turgenev wrote a story that every schoolchild who speaks russian knows. This is a short story about a dog. It's called Mumu.
You’re definitely NOT a fool for mispronouncing Leicester! It just means you’re not English! We have some weird place names and some even wierder pronunciations! (Fairly close to where I live is a place called Mildenhall, but it’s usually pronounced “mine-all” by the locals)
That's nice of you to add, but what's up with So-and-so St. John? How is that ever Syngyn?
@@jamesduggan7200 hahaha yes, that is a classic! Even English people are confused by that one because it’s not a name we hear nowadays (except when watching an adaptation of Jane Eyre and hear it for the first time instead of reading it on a page). I wonder how common a name it was at that time? I believe it’s just a contraction of the name so instead of Saint John it becomes more like Sn Jn
Not sure how you did it but the abbreviation "Sn Jn" - simple as it is - perfectly captures the abstract alien quality of the language. Pleasure to chat with you, so thx.
I meant to say I have chicken soup books I'm using my microphone I'm not texting and I'm using my microphone sorry about that🎉
Wait huh ? The strand has never given me a free bookmark ! Am I supposed to ask ?
The "a" in Abilene is pronounced like the "a" in absent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene,_Texas
"Old Yeller" movie (free with ads)
th-cam.com/video/b6EKpyvbZBg/w-d-xo.html
I love that you explained why it was one arm at the end🥹 I thought it was new year new wave kind of thing🥹
Aww hahaha Don’t worry, new year same wave!
I don't know why it made me emotional but the way you always say happy reading at the end and wave with both hands makes me feel like it's a genuine wish and that yes I will be happy reading