I also love fall and can’t wait to see your book choices!

Catherine, I love your reviews and eclectic taste in books! You've inspired me to check out some of the second hand bookstores in my area. Also I am so excited for the fall content, vlogs and books and all :D

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What an awesome description of the Henrietta Sacks book! I haven’t read it yet, but heard an interview with the author. I’m so intrigued. I love that you’re on the War and Peace train. Ah, Pierre. 😊😊

Literally just started the silmarillion this month. It's giving Bible, but in a good way only tolkien can pull off

Hi Catherine. These wrap ups are my favorite part of BookTube. I love your mix of books. I read "The Old Man and the Sea" decades ago, maybe as a 19-year-old man. I liked it, and I'm sure it's worth a re-read. Thank you an entertaining wrap up.

I love the random start about food lol

Catherine, I feel your pain. I have way more books than I can read (I'm saving them up for retirement, I keep telling myself, as if libraries will be shuttered in five years), but here I am googling yet another local library book sale. We cannot be stopped. Oh, and please do more vlogs. It's always fun to see a slice of someone's life.

Loved the children/ya reccs!

I had no idea Leonora Carrington wrote books - what??

I’d love to see your local bookstores. :)

You such a good actress! Don’t cry because it’s over smile because you read it and you get to mark it complete on Goodreads

I loved The Outsiders so much! The most recent book that made me cry was A Little Luck by Claudia Piniero. I haven't heard anyone else say they cried about this book, but there was one part that hit me so hard. Even if you don't cry, it's a wonderful book!

1:40 made me lol

The Book Thief WRECKED me, I’m still traumatized by Jude The Obscure, and currently re-reading The Mill on the Floss. Excellent recommendations!

I sobbed at the end of Edith Wharton's House of Mirth. Would recommend! 😅

As soon as you posted the books the other day, I knew this video was coming 😢

I don't remember if I cried reading A Little Life, but it certainly made a strong emotional impact. But I new virtually nothing about it when I read it. My mum said she read a book called A Little Life and would recommend. This is all I knew. I really prefer it this way.

'Where The Red Fern Grows,' makes me cry everytime I read it. As for 'The Outsiders,' it was set in Tulsa Oklahoma. S.E. Hinton was around age 16 when she wrote this fantastic book. Not only is she smart she's ahead of her time.

I always sob at thorin's farewell to bilbo and bilbo's farewell to the dwarves

Good choices. I enjoyed the first line and synopsis of Drive Your Plow so much that I placed an order for a used copy. I read A Death in the Family ages ago, in college, and still have that $3.95 Bantam Book paperback.

that stamp is so pretty 🥹

The comic 2000AD would be a great source of movies. Best wishes.

your vibes are immaculate!! 💛 on my way to binge all your videos now

A mumu should be a summer fashion staple. I read My Brilliant Friend when it came out and was notw wowed. I have read a couple other Ferrante's and was impressed. After having read more of her books, I feel much more prepared to go back to My Brilliant Friend.

Love your reviews!

That was fun! :) Days of Abandonment was my first Ferrante and still is my favourite although I haven't yet read My Brilliant Friend. Reading her I do refuse to believe that she might actually be a man - there are clues that apparently link her to Domenico Starnone - having said that, I've read his novella Ties and it gave me a lot of Days of Abandonment vibes...) Drive your plow is awesome, I'm super intimidated by Books of Jacob but I have a lot other Tokarczuk books on my TBR (as I'm Polish, I have a lot to choose from, I really should read BOJ though, it's just SO BIG). I don't think I will ever read War and Peace no matter what everybody says. Yes, my fear of big books is real.

I’m overwhelmed and my last video is 70 days overdue. You killing the game and you make MooMoo better than MiuMiu. Mwah

The Bowen covers would get me to read them

I adore War and Peace. The writing, the character development. I cared so so much about them. I love how Tolstoy allows us to see the growth of people over time. How war affects the characters, etc. 🥰🥰🥰

Hi Catherine! Oooooh weee. Days of Avandonment. Yes to everything you’re saying! I agree that the reason this book was semi triggering for me is because it’s so real!😲😳😳Elizabeth Bowen….an enigma! Death of the Heart, which I read last Summer, took awhile to hook me up with. I stopped and restarted. And then I enjoyed it. But yeah, I think her books are Marmite-y . I would agree The Death of the Heart is more approachable.

Such an excellent video! I wish more people saw it xx

I'm so glad you enjoyed The days of abandonment, I highly recommend "Troubling Love". I've seen people hating it, I personally loved it, especially knowing it was Elena Ferrante's first novel, and a thriller, and so subversive already, wow. Also I'm starting Drive your plow over the bones of the dead RIGHT NOW. And I hate summer too.

I have a couple Bowen books I haven’t read yet and now I’m nervous to read them. 😅 Drive Your Plow seems great and adding to my list!

Idk abt anyone else, but I'm tired of the heat, and im tired of keeping my hair up just to keep it away from my sweaty, sweaty neck. Cant wait for fall.

new catherine video! new catherine video! you really sold “Drive Your Plow…” for me. I will definitely try and pick it up soon. I also got “The Days of Abandonment” on a whim recently which will most likely be my first Ferrante, and I am excited for my soul to be crushed .

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I recently listened to the BBC radio dramatisations of the George Smiley novels by John Le Carré, and they are great spy thrillers! Espionage is such a cool theme but difficult to get right it seems. Certainly comes through that Le Carré worked at MI5 during the Cold War. We don't have Libby in the UK so I'm not sure of it is on there, but Audible has the whole collection available as one audiobook. I would highly recommend it! The radio adaptation is great because you get a cast of actors, and they're condensed so they are only a few hours each. Capitalisation is a great way to emphasise concepts, I liked how it was done in '1984'. 'Drive Your Plow' has been on my shelf for a while now, I shall pick it up this month! 'War & Peace' likewise has been staring me down, I have been waiting to read it through winter but I might have to pick it up sooner :) Cool video, thanks!

I'm Polish and so happy you liked Drive Your Plow! I've read lots of Tokarczuk's books and this one's definitely in my top 3. I also recommend the two other novels which were reprinted/translated for the first time after she won the Nobel prize, and are now available in most bookstores - Books of Jacob and Flights. Those two were translated by Jennifer Croft, who did an amazing job, to the extent that I enjoy reading them in English as much as I do in Polish haha (I'm also an English major so did that at first to look at stylistic differences between the two versions and I was not disappointed!). Books of Jacob is around 1000 pages, and it's historical fiction (set mostly in the 18th century) with lots of characters and settings and so it's quite an intense read - probably also because the naming of characters (from different cultural/ethnic/religious backgrounds) seems to be confusing readers who don't speak Polish. From the blurb and not to spoil the plot, it's about a messianic religious leader of mysterious origins who arrives in a village in Poland, as well as about the changes he inspires across the continent and not only amongst his followers. Flights is also amazing (and shorter) so you can check out the blurb! Drive Your Plow was translated by a different author, who also did an amazing job, and translated a couple of Tokarczuk's other books, which are mostly out of print in English, but available in libraries. My favourite is probably House of Day, House of Night, which is written, as well as Flights, in her unique and very much recognisable style - vigniettes about different characters and short, almost short story-like chapters, with the topics alternating. Definitely not a short story collection though, as they are all connected to the theme and often with their stories collectively resolved. House of Day is about the lives of the inhabitants of a small village in the Polish mountains, near the borders with Czechia and Germany, stories not limited to the current timeline of the main narrator though. Such a long comment but I love seeing others enjoy Tokarczuk's work!

I love sally rooney she’s probably my favorite author & normal peoples my fav, I hope when you do read it you like it. I personally didn’t notice the quotation marks too much when reading. The first line also has a deeper meaning you notice as you read it.

Love the Steppenwolf/Stepmom shout out :)

Great video! Completely agree with you on House of Leaves. I saw an adaptation of The Monk w/ Vincent Cassel at a film fest many years ago. I haven't watched it again but having read the book years before I recall enjoying the adaptation. Love your idea for Moby Dick.

I couldn’t get through the Rebecca Hall version of Wide Sargasso Sea so I’m definitely on board for a remake. I love your idea for The Monk!

I read 'The Bridges Of Madison County,' years ago.

- The Hearing Trumpet: sounds pretty sick. I'll have to check it out. - House of Leaves: would be sad to get a perfectly-fine version that lacks all the magic. Like (imo) what happened with Emma Donoghue's Room, where the movie does everything right and still fails to capture what made the book great, which was its representation of Words and Thought. - Infinite Jest: one good "adaptation" is the Kindle version where you can click footnotes as links, search for names, hit the back button, etc. I wonder if someone could nudge that a step beyond and really make the hypertext hyper. - Needs another shot: Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels. The movie had a bad case of "gotta hear both sides" and is mostly famous for being long. Whereas when I think of the book I think of its strong point of view, even to the point of inserting a character to stop and say hey guys, this is what the theme is. - Impossible to film: most Clive Barker stories. When he's pulling you along on pure poetry, and you stop to think about how the scene would actually look in physical space... it's awkward. Maaaybe Julia Ducournau could do something with the awkwardness.

Interesting idea to make John Dollar a play. Also, I think that’s your mothers copy

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Now I must read A Death in the Family!

You have to post that sneeze pleasee😅❤

That book club sounds amazing!