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@SarahAsYouWish 24 минут бұрын
I read this a few years ago when it first came out, and it has stayed with me. I thought it was brilliantly done.
@someokiedude9549 4 сағат бұрын
I read this earlier this year, since I've heard it be compared to one of my favorite books Lolita. While it doesn't have Nabokov's mastery of language, I thought it was a deeply compelling book on its own merit. Also really sad as you say in regards to its content. Definitely one of my favorites of the year, though not one for the squeamish.
@storytoob 4 сағат бұрын
Yeah it’s definitely a book one has to be in the right mindset for!
@chadia25 5 сағат бұрын
I'm in the mood for darkness. Reading this and Bakker at the same time will definitely get me there. 😂
@storytoob 5 сағат бұрын
That’ll do it yep 😂
@kaizacorp 6 сағат бұрын
Agreed! 💯❤️ I still think about this book all of the time
@storytoob 6 сағат бұрын
One of the most impactful books I’ve read in recent years to be sure (or ever?)
@deepstatethrombosis 19 сағат бұрын
I'm curious if you've read Saga? Monstress is incredible. Another great one that's more recent is Feral.
@storytoob 15 сағат бұрын
I have read Saga and loved it! Haven’t heard of Feral, thanks for the recommendation!
@DebReads 23 сағат бұрын
Fredrik Backman is my favorite author and the Beartown Trilogy is one of my favorite trilogies. Happy to hear you enjoyed it!
@storytoob 15 сағат бұрын
He’s great! I want to read everything he’s written😂
@jillybeanh67 Күн бұрын
Love foster. One of my best books of last year for me. I felt that I was missing something when everyone was going on about small things like these, which I thought was impressive and a great book but not wow. Foster was definitely a wow book for me. I love how Claire Keegan's style is stipped back but full of imagery and feeling, all show and no tell.
@darthandy6161 Күн бұрын
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor is a light-hearted book and start of a series you may enjoy.
@storytoob Күн бұрын
Oh cheers! I'll look that up... Never even heard of it!
@Gl1tch2263 Күн бұрын
Small things like deez nutts
@storytoob Күн бұрын
🥜
@jan2bratt Күн бұрын
I read and enjoyed both of these books but rated Foster higher. I loved it! It is the kind of understated writing that I enjoy, plus I like when the good side of people is shown. Small Things I enjoyed, and now want to watch the movie that was made from it. Most of what I know about the Magdalene laundries is from a movie I watched years ago, and from the Joni Mitchell song. I appreciate your perspective on these books as a citizen of Ireland.
@storytoob Күн бұрын
Hey there Jan! Thanks a lot! Yessss Joni Mitchell is great... Foster also has a beautiful little film in Irish called "An Cailín Ciúin" translated into "The Quiet Girl"... It's really really great. I'm also looking forward to trying the Cillian Murphy Small Things Liked These movie
@jan2bratt Күн бұрын
@@storytoob Okay I will look into that one, thanks.
@bookswithnate 2 күн бұрын
Read Small Things Like these a few months ago. Enjoyed it overall but Foster sounds a bit cozier. Have been wanting to get more into Irish Literature recently since moving to London lol I’ll look more at Roddy Doyle
@storytoob 2 күн бұрын
Foster is far superior in my seemingly unpopular opinion! Cheers Nate!
@JosephReadsBooks 2 күн бұрын
Reading authors from my home country is always great. There are lots of authors from Texas 🤠😉 Great review!
@storytoob 2 күн бұрын
Yeehaw! 😆
@mattkean1128 2 күн бұрын
Foster was the more personally affecting of the two. It leaned into more of a Flannery O'Connor sort of short story. It is cozy, but perhaps not uplifting like Small Things. I had a lot of bittersweet feelings.
@storytoob 2 күн бұрын
Totally agree! And I also read some Flannery O'Connor this year and I can absolutely see that
@samanthalongshore9047 Күн бұрын
Foster wrecked this household. Many tears.
@thatsci-firogue 2 күн бұрын
Oh Carlos, is that yourself?
@storytoob 2 күн бұрын
Ah Rogue, sure you're some boyo aren't ya?
@thatsci-firogue 2 күн бұрын
@storytoob aye comes naturally for a Donegal man such as myself
@storytoob 2 күн бұрын
Yup the parish
@esmayrosalyne 3 күн бұрын
Gosh I wish I had loved this book as much as you did, but I read it in completely the wrong mood and with completely wrong expectations, so I didn't give it a fair shot... sounds like I might need to do a re-read someday, because I am allll about those complex interpersonal relationships. Plus, I loved Anxious People, so I know how good his writing is!! 🤩
@storytoob 3 күн бұрын
I can definitely see this one not working if the expectations and mood are wrong! Don't stress over it, I'd recommend giving A Man Called Ove a go if you haven't already!
@esmayrosalyne 3 күн бұрын
@@storytoob Yes, I have read that one and I enjoyed it almost as much as Anxious People. Backman writes so much heart into his stories, no matter how dark they can get!
@Coleton2573 3 күн бұрын
I have some experience with the premise from the American football scene in my home town growing up. Great review, sounds interesting. Inevitability is a helluva word.
@storytoob 3 күн бұрын
I will stick to typing it in the future haha
@jan2bratt 4 күн бұрын
The Beartown trilogy is in my top 5 favorite books ever. Maybe even #1. I love his writing so much, especially in these books. The way he demonstrates the slow disintegration of a marriage, or the sudden budding of a friendship between two people who previously did not like each other, it just gives me chills. I am going to have to read these over again next year. So happy you have read and enjoyed Beartown. I've read nearly all his books and enjoyed them but Beartown and Ove are the best in this readers opinion. Anxious People was my next favorite after the trilogy and Ove.
@storytoob 4 күн бұрын
I will definitely be reading the sequels in 2025, maybe Anxious People as well, we’ll see!😍
@dianneeagle4686 4 күн бұрын
So glad you are going to read the whole trilogy! They are all excellent. Almost all of Backman's work is so worthwhile ( although I found The Deal of a Lifetime too cheesy and not in the same league as his others).
@storytoob 4 күн бұрын
I’m actually so excited to read them! Good to know the rest of his stuff is also good, I’d read everything he writes at this point!
@thatsci-firogue 4 күн бұрын
Even though I've owned it for a while, you've sold me on this. I don't read about small town life often (maybe because I lived in one) even its well done, its great stuff. But if I don't like it, I'll blame you 😂
@storytoob 4 күн бұрын
I give you permission to blame me if you don’t like it😂 but I really hope you do!
@marytoken3557 4 күн бұрын
Thanks for this video, it‘s a good reminder for me. I read planetfall a year ago (thanks to a recommendation in a great sci-fi book shop) and really I liked it. Will now pick up the next one! Definitely agree that it should be talked about a lot more, there are really only a few videos about it!
@FreakOffALeash 4 күн бұрын
Listening to The Boarder currently. Thoughts? I'm loving it so far.
@storytoob 4 күн бұрын
So glad you’re loving it! I really want to reread it. How far into it are you?
@BookishChas 8 күн бұрын
Finally got to watch this update. I’ll have to check out the Planetfall series. Trying to broaden my sci-fi reading lol.
@zan8152 8 күн бұрын
oh my gosh not liking 'book about writers' - I'm pretty sure I'm on the verge of loathing all books that are "about the power of reading" or "How meaningful stories are" or "This is why we read" or whatever flavor of that you might find. God they just turn into this immense circlejerk, the author congratulating themselves on having written something so meaningful that you the reader (congratulations!) will now find so much depth in (because get it, the power of stories). Just... no more writers in books ever please -_-
@storytoob 6 күн бұрын
Yes. Yes to all of this, please for the love of god come up with another profession!
@noneofyourbusiness3288 10 күн бұрын
My two favorite character have to be Fidler and Karsa. Krasa is especially impressive, since I started out hating the guy. But the way Erikson develops that character and the way that the writing itself changes around that character to reflect that development just pushes him on to that whole other level. And I mean Fiddler is just the best. ^^ ps: "Witness" is just Teblor for "Hold my beer.". pps: Malazan has many great characters. I can easily list 50 characters that would be favorite characters in any different series. Kalam, Quick Ben, Hellian, Corabb, Duiker, Leoman,... the list is long.
@iSamwise 11 күн бұрын
I agree this challenges middle book syndrome. King of Thorns is easily the best.
@JosephReadsBooks 12 күн бұрын
I am looking forward to starting this series. Great review!
@thatsci-firogue 12 күн бұрын
Been a while since I've read a quality SF series, I'll check this out. I've been slacking on SF but now that I've read the majority of the Fantasy I've any interest in reading I should get a move on.
@blacknbluecollarreader 12 күн бұрын
Emma is on the TBR now!!! I love me some heavily thematic Sci-Fi. Awesome video my man.
@storytoob 12 күн бұрын
atta boy daniel
@iplantevin 12 күн бұрын
Wow these sound very, very interesting and relatable/relevant to current society 😮 Adding to my list 😊 Thanks!
@storytoob 12 күн бұрын
Cheers for watching! Hope you check them out!
@Cale__1 12 күн бұрын
Sounds good
@storytoob 12 күн бұрын
Hey Cale! Definitely, hope you try em!
@verosnotebook 12 күн бұрын
Brilliant! I’m so pleased you made this video since I also believe Newman’s Planetfall series is excellent and deserves more recognition. Those 4 books evoke strong reactions from me too (I do also battle anxiety). Before Mars is my top one, followed by After Atlas, then Planetfall, and finally Atlas Alone.
@storytoob 12 күн бұрын
Cheers Vero! So glad I came back and finished them off this year.. definitely one of my favourite series
@brianwilk7510 12 күн бұрын
I've never heard of this series. Thanks for putting it on my radar.
@storytoob 12 күн бұрын
Hope you try it!
@lisacole6037 12 күн бұрын
I read all 4 books last year and loved them. They are not talked about much on booktube. I'm so pleased to hear that you enjoyed them too.
@storytoob 12 күн бұрын
Would love to see more talk about them!
@geoffcartertheoreticalstru6484 14 күн бұрын
Spike Milligan - the Goon Show - Godfather of Comedy & Irish Superhero is a far more influential IMO
@storytoob 14 күн бұрын
Oh good shout yeah.. sure I think Spike wrote on the Two Ronnies as well
@nlytnlyt6644 15 күн бұрын
I am not a strong reader but one series I did manage to read through as a young man was David Gemmel’s Rigante series. I found the “low magic” fantasy style was extremely appealing to me. I want to attempt another series and thought the stories of Druss would be a good one to go for, based on your review I think I’ll definitely check it out
@morbidgirl6808 16 күн бұрын
I tried reading Gardens of Moon this year and it wasn't hard as everyone made it look like. I was really nervous to start the series, i was expecting it to be a lot harder than books like Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow. Both were absolutely tortuous to read and pompously written but Malazan was nothing like that. It was just super dense in writing style, worldbuilding, storylines, history and character work. A chaotic blend of Scott Bakker and Glen Cook. I really liked it.
@storytoob 16 күн бұрын
Hi there! Totally agree! As someone who has tried and failed to read Ulysses ...
@BooksWithBenghisKahn 17 күн бұрын
Oh wow thanks for putting Planetfall on my radar! Beartown and My Dark Vanessa sound like they’re gonna hit a more depressing note than I can bear but glad you can appreciate them Yolanda!
@storytoob 17 күн бұрын
Planetfall easily the most underrated modern sci fi series out there! Took me a few years to get back to the series, but the first book has been a favourite for a while. Hope you read it!
@esmayrosalyne 18 күн бұрын
Really eager to try some Claire Keegan, I don't know why I haven't picked up any of her works yet especially considering how short some of them are. And the Planetfall series sounds like exactly the type of story that should work for me, thanks for putting it on my radar!! Hope you two have a lovely December, cheers 🤩
@storytoob 18 күн бұрын
Cheers Esmay! Hope you pick em up and enjoy them! And same to you, hope you have a great Christmas too!
@RJGibson7 18 күн бұрын
Foster and planetfall sounds very interesting, will have to try those soon!
@storytoob 18 күн бұрын
I (Yolanda) also need to read both of those asap
@thatsci-firogue 18 күн бұрын
Nothing like catching up on one of my favourite channels while recovering from a hangover 😂 I must get back to reading Criminal. I'd a stacked November from finishing Williams' Memory, Sorrow & Thorn and the 2nd Arc of Wurts' Wars of Light & Shadow as well as continuing Hobb's RotE. *Fantasy* Memory Sorrow & Thorn 3: To Green Angel Tower - Loved it! Williams is becoming one of my favourite authors. I don't typically enjoy Classic Traditional Epic Fantasy all that much, but this just worked for me on so many levels. Wars of Light & Shadow 3: Warhost of Vastmark - Really enjoying this series. Definitely prioritising this series above other Fantasy in the coming years. Book of The Month! As for what I'm currently reading: *Fantasy* Fitz & the Fool 2: Fool's Quest - 70% through
@storytoob 18 күн бұрын
Howdy Rogue! Oh class, I'm looking forward to To Green Angel Tower! You had a great month too. Also, I'm absolutely chuffed to be someone's hangover companion. Cheers!
@thatsci-firogue 17 күн бұрын
@storytoob and I'm sure yous are great drinking companions!
@eavanodonoghue 18 күн бұрын
😂😂😂 I really loved your impression of fiddly-eye Irishisms. I agree about Claire Keegan. The insistence on going on and on about the same events in our social history is a bit exhausting. I much preferred Foster as well.
@storytoob 18 күн бұрын
Haha cheers! My excuse is that a good chunk of my fam is from Wexford 🤣 And yeah I get tired of the same subject matter in Irish literature just to appear important or worthy of recognition
@JosephReadsBooks 19 күн бұрын
Great wrap up! Planetfall has been added to my TBR already(thanks Carlos). Chomsky? I got tricked into watching a reciew about non-fiction! How dare you! 🤣 Well Yolanda, I hope you find a banger to end the year on in your month of unplanned reading.
@storytoob 18 күн бұрын
Non fiction November!
@briangal71 19 күн бұрын
BOOKS!
@storytoob 19 күн бұрын
BOOKS!
@timburbagereads 19 күн бұрын
Is the subtitle of Noam Chomsky's book "Why Kissinger was such a bastard" 😂?
@storytoob 19 күн бұрын
Hahahaha might as well be! It's "How US Foreign Policy Endangers The World"
@MacScarfield 19 күн бұрын
So far in November I have finished: «The Steel Tsar» (A Nomad of the Time Streams» Trilogy #3) by Michael Moorcock (Multiverse/Alternative History/Time Travel Steampunk(?)😅) «The Stranger» by Albert Camus/illustrated by Jacques Ferrandez (Graphic Novel adaptation of the Absurdist Philosophical Novel) «The Duel» by Joseph Conrad (Napoleonic Historical Military Fiction Novella) Currently reading and will finish this month: «Lord of Light» by Roger Zelazny (Science Fantasy inspired by the Legend of Siddhartha Gautama/the Buddha) «The Fury of the Gods» (Bloodsworn Saga #3) by John Gwynne (Epic Fantasy inspired by Norse Mythology) My Q4 long-read; «The Power Broker» by Robert Caro (Political Biography/Investigative Journalism Classic)
@storytoob 19 күн бұрын
How is the John Gwynne so far! I thought Shadow was great, but haven't continued with the trilogy
@MacScarfield 19 күн бұрын
@ I really love the Trilogy so far, it is a fun twist on Norse Mythology and Culture (such as fusing the Norse Gods with Creatures such as the Nidhogg Dragon, the Midgard Worm and the Fenris Wolf, with welcome Slavic and Middle Eastern Features to the Iskidan giving how important they were to the Viking Economy, can highly recommend Cat Jarman’s “River Kings”, one of the most easy-to yet very thorough books about the Vikings and their place in the 8-12th Century Old World!). I see most people gravitate to either Orka or Varg’s POV, but I have to admit that I have had the most fun with Elvar and (from book #2) Guthvarr (who is such a wonderfully very punchable dirtbag scoundrel and coward, very much a “Black Adder” character! 😄). I have to admit the naming of the main continent as Vigrid make me wince a bit every time I read it, but to be fair, it comes from Norse Myth, so I can’t fairly criticize Gwynne (or expect him to know) that the most prominent Pagan Neo-N@zi Group in Norway use that same name…😬😅 Also, Chomsky is a figure to be taken with some grains of salt: While his criticism of American Imperialism and the CIA, definitely can be fair and very valid, his conclusions to then defend many American opponents and Anti-American regimes, such as the Communist Vietnamese, the Eastern Bloc (he still considers the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Eastern Bloc as a “mistake” by Eastern Europeans, “not knowing better” and that they should have continued to “enjoy” Soviet rule…) and the Serbs during the Jugoslavian Wars (😬), should definitely be mentioned and criticized. Can recommend “Kraut”’s video on the topic of Chomsky, as a good example on valid non-right wing criticism of him!
@storytoob 19 күн бұрын
Oh I didn't know that about the continent name that's unfortunate! And yes of course, that's the case with non-fiction and political writing in general anyway. You have to approach with an open mind and a critical brain. Given that this book was purely about a critical look at US Foreign Policy, the focus was just on that
@verosnotebook 19 күн бұрын
Totally agree on Foster and on Planetfall series. Before Mars caused me anxiety but was excellent. Newman doesn’t shy away from difficult topics while giving us thrilling reads and I applaud her for that.
@storytoob 19 күн бұрын
I really love how Newman gets those visceral reactions from me. It was the same with Planetfall when I read it a few years ago. Cheers Vero!