Friday Reads May 17: Asian Heritage Month; mythology; nature writing; picture book biography

In this #booktube episode I talk mostly about nonfiction. Formats include graphic novel, picture books, audiobooks & print, for kids, teens and adults
00:00 intro - readthons and Alice Munro
03:20 Winner of Carol Shields Prize announced May 13: VV Ganeshananthan for Brotherless Night
04:11 🇬🇧 Beyond the Page by Quentin Blake; published by Tate
06:16 🇲🇦🇹🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸 One Wish: Fatima al-Fihri and the World’s Oldest University by MO Yuksel and Mariam Quraishi; published by Harper
07:32 🇻🇳🇨🇦 Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch with Tuan Ho; art by Brian Deines; published by Pajama Press
08:35 🇨🇦 We Feel Good Out Here by Julie-Ann André [Gwich’in], Mindy Willett and Tessa Macintosh; published by Fifth House
10:06 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🎧 Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger [Lipan Apache]; audiobook read by Kinsale Drake [Diné]; published by Recorded Books
12:30 🇯🇵🎧 The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters and Yōkai of Japanese Myth by Thersa Matsuura; audiobook read by the author; published by Simon and Schuster
14:47 🇮🇩🇺🇸 Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa; published by Holiday House
16:15 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Living Mountain by Nancy Shepherd; published by Canongate
18:55 Other nature writing
20:39 Gray in May: 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
22:00 Outro - trees in bloom
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Other mentions:
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
Booktube episode in which I talked about Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan: Friday Reads: #PoetryMonth #TransGirlApril #PeopleApril #PictureThis2024 #MentalHealthMay #GraywolfMay
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Carol Shields Prize: carolshieldsprizeforfiction.c...
Jack ‪@spreadbookjoy‬
Picture This Live! recorded:
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Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto
Springathon (nature writing) hosts and their #Springathon announcements:
Natalie ‪@CuriousReader‬ • Read Nature Writing wi...
Heidi ‪@myreadinglife8816‬ • Springathon Announcement
Doris ‪@alldbooks9165‬ • Springathon Announcement!
Emma ‪@ACupOfBooks‬ • Springathon Announceme...
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J Lee
Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J Lee
#GrayinMay for Graywolf Press 50th anniversary:
Sarah ‪@sarah-roadworthy‬ Gray in May announcement: • Gray In May Readathon ...
Sarah ‪@eyesonindie‬ 5 books by Graywolf: • Five Books I Can't WAI...

[@readandre-read]

Thank you, Lindy, for sharing the wonderful memories about Alice Munro. Adrift at Sea looks amazing and makes me wish I was still doing storytime with kids. (Well, if I could do just that part of the job and skip the school duties and bureaucracy!) I loved when you held up The Living Mountain and you had 2000 tabs sticking out of it. Must be a winner!

[@lindysmagpiereads]

I wanted to tab several passages on every page of Living Mountain. The writing is phenomenal!

[@novelideea]

The Living Mountain sounds amazing ♥️⛰️

[@lindysmagpiereads]

Deea, I think you would really enjoy Living Mountain. It shines quietly with soul awareness.

[@novelideea]

Horse Chestnut is one of my favorite spring blooms! 🥰

[@lindysmagpiereads]

The bloom candles are an impressive size and busy with bees 🐝🐝🐝😊

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

Hi Lindy, around the world in 80 trees is a wonderful title! I do love trees and always have so this is one book I would like to look at including the mountain one. See you soon. Aloha

[@lindysmagpiereads]

The tree book will be here for you to enjoy. 🌳🌴🌲😊

[@novelideea]

Yay for Quentin Blake!!

[@lindysmagpiereads]

I forgot to mention that Blake talks about mental health in his book: his own and that of hospital patients and visitors. #MentalHealthMay

[@59cubanita]

Hi Lindy! I still have to read Brotherless Nights but I am glad it won the Carol Shields prize. Let’s see if she does a double winning the Women Prize. In honor of Alice Munro’s passing I am going to read one short story of hers every day the coming weeks. Have a great weekend.

[@lindysmagpiereads]

Hello Alina, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you. Reading a Munro short story a day is such a nice plan. Do you follow Angelia at Read and Reread? She’s doing the same thing with Munro’s stories. Shawn has invited me to read one of her earliest stories and then we are going to talk about it on his channel (with other people) next week.

[@sarah-roadworthy]

Thanks for reading snippets from Sarah's other book. She can write a sentence and is so thought provoking.

[@lindysmagpiereads]

Manguso is thought-provoking alright. Sometimes a little too much provoking, so I only read a few pages at a time. I get annoyed otherwise. It’s an interesting reaction to observe in myself. Here’s a good one: “You can choose your friends but not your friendships.”

[@sarah-roadworthy]

@@lindysmagpiereads What does that mean exactly??? Now I can see why you can only read a couple pages at a time. That may also explain the title.

[@ReadBecca]

I can't wait to get to Shrine Lende! Elatsoe was so good. The Living Mountain sounds so good, will have to check the library for that one. Have you read any of the other Around the World in 80? I very much enjoyed Plants, and saw they've more recently put out 80 Games which sounds so interesting and a departure from the previous nature focus.

[@lindysmagpiereads]

If either of those Around the World in 80- are like the tree book, I am excited to hear about them! I didn’t know there were others. The tree book is great!

[@sreilly66]

Did you know that Darcie Little Badger has a PhD in oceanography? 😮

[@lindysmagpiereads]

I vaguely remember hearing that. It’s impressive and I regret not mentioning it when I talked about her. One of her short stories in an Indigenous sci fi collection is set on the ocean post-apocalypse.