A Nice Quick Brattle Bookshop-Haul!

[@joannaburgess825]

I just found your channel. You officially have a new subscriber! Your easily relatable and candor about books is just something I have been looking for on KZbin. Thank you!

[@MegaManChiefFan]

I love “A Canticle for Liebowitz” and am very happy to learn about the short story collection! Thanks, Steve! You’ve added another book not only to my large TBR but also to my big books-to-buy/find list!

[@saintdonoghue]

My apologies! I'm well known to be very dangerous to Find lists!

[@pennywright7232]

I just started reading Chesapeake yesterday! He's an author I've always wanted to try but never got around to. I live in the Chesapeake Bay region and it's so fun to read a book set in the region.

[@BostonCadGuru]

Great Corner Office Story

[@sarafairchild2588]

Don’t let that dryer buzzer stop or slow your glorious long videos. I just canned a whole batch of sweet pickles during this one, enjoying both. Thanks so much!

[@ScottDanielson]

Wow that 39 Steps cover! Stunning

[@leegoulter514]

A mass market paperback edition of "The Somme" is selling on Amazon for almost $903.00! 😮 Fortunately, other editions are available for more reasonable prices. I added it to my wish list. I just recently purchased "The Proud Tower" because I'm on a World War I kick, and I love Barbara Tuchman's work. I hope to read it next month. In preparation for October, I bought the whole 7-Volume Kindle edition of Proust in the Moncrief translation. Apparently there are some formatting and/or misprint issues, but I have never attempted to read Proust before, and would rather test the waters with an inexpensive version first. In the interval between now and October, I really MUST get to "The 39 Steps", which I snapped up the last time you talked about it, but which has been languishing on my TBR pile. I don't even have a good excuse, as it's not that long. Great haul, Steve! Makes me wish I had a Brattle clone in my own town.

[@mame-musing]

Just had a couple of sweet flash backs. While in my teens, I remember enjoying reading that edition of “The 39 Steps”. It caught my eye while on the paperback spindle displays in my local library. I agree it was a suspenseful page turner. I also read that edition of “Chesapeake”. My favorite parts of the book were Michener’s wonderful and detailed treatment of the history of the Canadian geese and the Chesapeake Retriever.

[@gaildoughty6799]

I would have thought Mark’s battle would be Midway. Oh my word. A Canticle for Liebowitz! That book taught me to appreciate science fiction.

[@jobuckley2999]

The Wayward Bus and The Moon is Down are both excellent short novels by Steinbeck. The characters and dialog are so interesting.

[@HannahsBooks]

Ooh, we have those Sherlock Holmes editions! What fun. (We we’re just talking about Lupin and Herlock Sholmes over dinner, too.)

[@TodsBurstingBookcase]

Some day I'll need to get to the Brattle to try to find treasures for my shelves.

[@jamesholder13]

Nice haul!

[@BookBlather]

Olive wanted me to let you know that the story about the dogs in Rome was very touching 🥲🐶

[@Michael-rn1et]

If you’re going to say ‘where everybody knows your name’, then the Brattle needs a bar.

[@booknikYT]

We got some tornadoes before that crippling heat left us. Bet you miss those from your Iowa days 🤪.

[@saintdonoghue]

Well, they WERE thrilling, despite all the negatives! A killer funnel of air, unpredictably (and unstoppably) raking tracks along the ground during what is otherwise the most beautiful season in the most beautiful region on Earth? It SOUNDS like something a science fiction author would dream up!

[@publicintellectual]

i found lincoln coincidentally in one of those mailbox libraries you mentioned in a recent video and thought it was a decent though wearisome read - too torturous a length just for decency

[@saintdonoghue]

I haven't re-read it yet, but 'wearisome' is a PERFECT description of my first encounter with it! We'll see if that changes -

[@trishbovell9042]

Funny how you read the Terry Brooks book in the 70’s when you were born in 1993. Did you read pre-utero? 🤨

[@saintdonoghue]

Math is very complicated - probably best not to think about it!

[@trishbovell9042]

@@saintdonoghue Unfortunately for someone, my undergraduate degree is in Mathematics. Must be the new math that is slipping me up.

[@skjoldursvarturskikkjan7860]

How did things go to you in Norway? Where people are like "who the f is this guy? Why is he talking to me? I don't even know him. And why is he sitting so close to me? (While the person is literally sitting ten meters away).

[@saintdonoghue]

Hah! Even in notoriously stand-offish countries, this weird affect still seemed to apply!

[@neo5kali]

I'm currently reading John Buchan's The 39 Steps. It lacks suspense, though I understand the historical significance of the book as one of the first thrillers. I would skip the book and just enjoy Hitchcock's movie version of it.

[@saintdonoghue]

If a thriller lacked an element as important as suspense, I'd probably have mentioned that, no? Readers shouldn't skip the book for the movie.

[@billruttenberg]

Only one shelf on the civil war? Only one shelf on the American revolution? What is wrong with your collection? Very very nice book haul. ThAnks for sharing.

[@saintdonoghue]

Hah! I know! I thought of you the minute I said that line about the Civil War - The famed Ruttenberg Library has a wide shelf of Civil War books just by people with the first name "Bruce"!