Book Haul! Brattle Book Shop, Little Free Libraries, etc.

[@bradykelso8682]

Hi Hannah. Another great video. Especially loved the biographies. Cheers!

[@HannahsBooks]

@@bradykelso8682 Thanks so much, Brady!

[@myreadinglife8816]

Birds of the Shore is lovely!

[@HannahsBooks]

@@myreadinglife8816 I’m so looking forward to it!

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Hannah! I am in awe of your women’s biographies and am reflecting on the ones I own for an upcoming video which will include some Canfield Fisher and others. Lovely video! 😊

[@HannahsBooks]

@@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366 Ooh! I can’t wait to see your discussion!

[@revenantreads]

Interesting haul! Love a great curry pun.

[@HannahsBooks]

Thank you! I was one second away from editing it out because it is so ridiculous…

[@MemphisJones]

Right!!!! Time to shop.😅

[@HannahsBooks]

@@MemphisJones 🤓

[@LeeKempter]

I absolutely had to purchase Charlotte Gilmans bio..... this sounds fabulous !!

[@HannahsBooks]

We’ll have to compare notes sometime!

[@TriumphalReads]

Jeniffer Ackerman has some lovely works, I hope you enjoy Birds of the Shore!

[@HannahsBooks]

I’m thinking it will be a lovely book to read in the late summer / early fall season when David, Abe, and I used to go to the beach she writes about. Glad to hear you like Ackerman!

[@mame-musing]

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on “The Red Badge of Courage”. Fairly recently, I reread it and appreciated Crane’s wonderful prose in a way that was far beyond my 8th grade experience of literature. My 13yo self hated it. I was prompted to reread it after I came across an old interview of Crane’s biographer raving about the beauty of the writing. She said people at the time were amazed to learn that Crane himself had not been a soldier in the war. Much of it was composed from experiences his soldier brother related to him. I loved “The Group” when I read it as a college student. Maybe it’s worth a revisit to see how it holds up to today’s societal shifts. You could certainly do a pretty deep dive into McCarthy’s outlook with the books you have. Happy reading 📖 👀

[@HannahsBooks]

I’m so grateful for your words about Crane and his book. Thank you. Yes-I can imagine sliding into a deep dive on McCarthy, or Canfield Fisher!

[@curioushmm9027]

absolutley right!😀😀

[@HannahsBooks]

Absolutely right that it is time to go book shopping? Yes!

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

You've got a great library there, Hannah. I hope you have a great reading summer.

[@HannahsBooks]

Thanks! Great to see you.

[@MaximusStetich]

I’m jealous over that Mary McCarthy biography!

[@HannahsBooks]

Doesn’t it sound interesting?!

[@robin-tainebrownell1491]

So many wonderful books. I'm saving this video to a playlist to I can come back for more inspiration!

[@HannahsBooks]

Thank you, Robin!

[@joshuacreboreads]

Wonderful video, Hannah! Gilman sounds like such an interesting person. Just recently I also sampled the first few pages of The Group on kindle, and I was immediately drawn into the novel. Now I’m thinking of ordering a physical copy. Thanks for the great video.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@joshuacreboreads I’m so glad to hear that The Group drew you in right at the start! I hope it will continue to. Thanks for your lovely comment, Joshua.

[@sm-k5513]

You might be interested to know that Persephone books have also republished 2 books by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, namely The Homemaker and The Deepening Stream. I especially loved The Homemaker!

[@HannahsBooks]

Ooh! Fabulous news!

[@TheActiveMind1]

I share your adoration for the OED and have mine sitting in my living room!

[@HannahsBooks]

Oooh! The home edition, I assume? I don’t have a copy!

[@TheActiveMind1]

@@HannahsBooks It's the New Oxford American Dictionary 3rd Edition, whatever that may make it. Perhaps that's the home edition? It's a fat 2,000 pg book that my wife fortunately let's me keep lying around since it adds to decor haha

[@HannahsBooks]

@TheActiveMind1 No-the OED is a different animal. See if you can take a gander at them at your local library, or at least online. (I love the Oxford American and have a copy at home, too. Thrilled to hear that even you young people have use for it!)

[@TheActiveMind1]

@@HannahsBooks oh you’re right! I totally forgot. American is obviously not the word English 😂😂 apologies for my mental lapse!

[@HannahsBooks]

@TheActiveMind1 🤓

[@thelefthandedreader6632]

I’ve gotten SO many book recommendations from watching this. What a delightful thing as I was getting ready this morning for the day. 😊. I second the others here….RedBadge of Curry. 😅

[@HannahsBooks]

@@thelefthandedreader6632 Thanks, Renee! What a wonderful comment!

[@kathleencraine7335]

Somehow I didn't read Stephen Crane in high school, so I read The Red Badge of Courage for the first time last year. When you're done with the novel, look up Crane's short story "The Veteran", which is about the same soldier when an old man. "A Common Life" looks fascinating. I believe Persephone Books publishes a couple of Glaspell's novels. Great Virago find! They're getting harder and harder to find. I enjoyed Canfield's The Homemaker and have Rough Hewn on my massive TBR. Some recent controversy about Canfield, but her books are still interesting.

[@HannahsBooks]

Thank you for the recommendation. Yes-you’re referring to her support of eugenics and her stereotypes of indigenous peoples? She was definitely a product of her time. I would not hesitate to read her books-but I do understand why some folks are concerned about the state explicitly honoring her. Such complicated questions…

[@Nina_DP]

Nerdy books. An eye-rolling, groan-worthy pun (which I will use at my first opportunity.) Just some of the reasons I keep coming back!

[@HannahsBooks]

@@Nina_DP Ha! I am glad at least one person didn’t unsubscribe after that joke!

[@ariannefowler455]

I have not even heard of Dorothy Canfield but you have me intrigued.

[@HannahsBooks]

She’s quite interesting-especially in what she shows about her era.

[@bookofdust]

Great collection! There’s an artsy edition of Red Badge of Courage that looks as if a bullet pierced the book, I’ve always wanted to have that copy!

[@HannahsBooks]

Oooh-I must look that up!

[@bookofdust]

@@HannahsBooks I just looked it up and weirdly it’s by Westvaco, which growing up we had extensive limited editions in the house by them that my father got because he worked in Forestry and in conjunction with paper mills and printers. I’m wondering if it was even for sale, as I think they annually did a special edition presentation work for the holidays, usually around a patriotic work. I may have already owned this at some point, that would make sense where I saw it before. Some pages also have splashes of red on them. Currently, it looks like most copies are $100-150. It’s one to be on the hunt for at book sales. You should find it easily with the publisher.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@bookofdust Fascinating! Just seeing the picture will do for me, I think! Thank you. Off to look it up!

[@HannahsBooks]

@@bookofdust Wow! And I think you are right about the annual special edition: Christmas 1968.

[@jorgem71962]

Hi Hannah, I read The Dictionary People and loved it. You must come to the Cape. The Outermost House is a great book. I loved it!

[@HannahsBooks]

I’m so glad to hear you love Outermost House, too. The Cape sounds like my kind of beach community!

[@davidnovakreadspoetry]

I have had something by Mary McCarthy on my TBR for a long time, some non-fiction about Italy if that sounds right. I enjoyed your review of Grinburg. I’ve never liked Mailer, so I would automatically discount anything he had to say. 😂

[@HannahsBooks]

@@davidnovakreadspoetry Yes! I haven’t read Venice Observed, but it sounds wonderful. Let me know what you think!

[@marciajohansson769]

Hi Hannah, I find your book haul very interesting although I find myself becoming a bit emotional. My HS years were spent trying to fit in and less on my academics so at times i feel like I have missed so much when it comes to my education incl. historical figures, classic novels and such. I think perhaps this is why I feel drawn to your channel and that of Steve Donoghue's channel. I am getting an education of sorts of which I missed out on as I was a younger person. I was actually at the Brattle Bookshop yesterday as my daughter was as Beth Israel having an angiogram. (YAY! no return on the brain aneurysms) I picked up Anthony Trollope's The Warden, Framley Parsonage, and He Knew He Was Right. Kelly of Books I'm Not Reading piqued my interest and they had several Trollope books (inside) I had already picked up a few of the others in the Chronicles of Barsetshire and one standalone novel. Now that my retirement is coming quick next week, I hope to dig into many of the books I have collected since finding booktube. Thankfully, my daughter graduated with a double major in History and English literature and helps me understand things a little differently than my concrete brain interprets them! Thankyou for what you do here on Booktube, it is invaluable to me. (sorry for any grammatical errors 😜

[@HannahsBooks]

Marcia, you are so amazingly kind. I too managed to miss so many canonical books when I was growing up. For example, I still have that Trollope series (beyond The Warden) on my TBR. I am so glad your daughter’s results looked good. And how cool that you were at the Brattle!

[@Tristan-L-Space-Books]

If you need another Cape Cod book to add to your nonfiction November, you could look into On the Shores of Bohemia by John Taylor Williams. It's all about a group of artists, subversive thinkers, and counterculturists in the 20th century. I saw him present the book at the Boston Book Festival and it was very interesting. It's one I'd like to read by the end of the year!

[@HannahsBooks]

That sounds wonderful! I’m going to track down a copy possibly for September, actually. Thank you so much for the recommendation!

[@JamesRuchala]

This New York boy did not have Red Badge assigned in school but i dod read it this year. It's a good quick read that creates an atmosphere of its own. LoL at red badge of curry. Did you ever see "arguing the world"? Kind of a film version of think like a man.

[@PatriciaCrabtree-wm8xd]

Red Badge of Courage was important to Ernest Hemingway before writing about the inner life of a soldier.

[@HannahsBooks]

That makes sense!

[@HannahsBooks]

I will look up Arguing the World as soon as I get home! Speaking of which, I just stalked you to see if you grew up in the same town my husband did (nope)-and there are a couple of interesting things about you in addition to your stellar reading tastes. Not asking any questions myself…

[@HannahsBooks]

Incidentally, my son has a similar imdb cred: onscreen “goth accordion player” (although he was actually a folk concertina player).

[@HannahsBooks]

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[@lindseyreads5450]

I’ve read The Group by McCarthy but want to read so much more from her! I own the same memoir How I Grew. I’ve been holding off reading it until I read more of her fiction but perhaps her memoir could inspire me to do a deep dive on all of her work.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@lindseyreads5450 Might you be interested in a very casual buddy read of the memoir, perhaps? Maybe in September or November or December?

[@lindseyreads5450]

@@HannahsBooks I would love to do a buddy read of How I Grew. How about in November?

[@angiejones5918]

Hello Hannah. Book shopping along with some wine and calzones perhaps? 🤞

[@HannahsBooks]

@@angiejones5918 Sadly-these Brattle books are from nearly a year ago-which I briefly explain in there somewhere. But wouldn’t wine an calzones be lovely…

[@angiejones5918]

@@HannahsBooks Sorry, I was unclear. I was thinking, if it's time to do some more used book shopping, is that a good enough excuse for a Brattle/Steve visit? I'm sure it's quite an expensive trip though (before buying any books), so might be an infrequent endeavour.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@angiejones5918 ❤️ Definitely on my to-do list… My son now lives and works in Boston, too!

[@recentlyseenreading]

Count me as another non-Red Badge of Courage reader but for different geographical reasons :) I haven’t thought about Gilman’s Herland in decades - it was amusing to teach alongside Bellamy’s Looking Backward. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered Canfield before - is the Brimming Cup the best place to start with her work?

[@HannahsBooks]

Actually, I read Herland for a graduate class where we read it alongside Bellamy! As for where to start with Canfield, I’m not sure since I’ve read so little myself-but Brimming Cup and Her Son’s Wife are often recommended.

[@recentlyseenreading]

@@HannahsBooks That’s a surprising Gilman/Bellamy coincidence ! I’ve been trying to remember what else I put on the course - Joanna Russ and Sheri Tepper I think but the rest are lost in the mists of time. I think I can get a print copy of Brimming Cup from the library so maybe I’ll slide that onto a future reading list.

[@sarahhepworth]

Red badge of curry! 🤣

[@HannahsBooks]

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[@Bucky749]

If recipe doesn’t exist it needs to sounds like something fun for dinner a and movie type deal if you where watching the red badge of courage I know she misspoke but it’s still a good a idea.

[@HannahsBooks]

@Bucky749 Ha! Great idea! Not a misspeak of mine at all-just a really dumb joke…