I don't know how I read all of these. | February 2024 Wrap Up

[@RachelB.BookReferences]

I, too, love it when my books talk to each other! 😊

[@BrekkeEl]

okay can we all just stop and look at how amazeballs you look? It's like a punk Clueless and I am here for it!

[@caitlincarter3051]

Thorough reviews as always. Your wrapups are always my favorites.

[@booksmitin]

I love the variety you had this month! I hear you on your frustrations with academic works that are geared toward non-academic audiences, but aren't written for the intended audience. It puts so much onus on the reader to understand the nuances and intricacies of a specific field and highly specific subject matter. For me, this makes reading these works way less fun. Glad there are folx out there who do this well!

[@coffemuse]

I love that cover of the Hunchback of Notre Dame! And really enjoyed the video, thanks.

[@user-mu1nn5xh8k]

Goodness, I love that shirt.

[@meljstephan]

I have been craving non fiction recently. It’s always one of my top read genres, but right now I’m feeling like I’d read a 500 page book about pencil shavings just for the satisfaction of learning

[@buddhabillybob]

The _The Evolution of Beauty_ is on my TBR! Wow, what a month!

[@cathy2142]

I love your enthusiasm about books❤📚📚📚📚📚😊😊

[@shrln6011]

I am glad I found you channel 😊❤

[@awebofstories]

What a fantastic reading month! I am interested in reading the otter books and I have one tagged in Libby to get to soon.

[@bookoffholicbookwart5945]

Such fantastic reads. My February was filled with short stories, especially ones translated from Japanese like "what you are looking for is in the library" and "She and her cat." I'll highly recommend both of these books

[@lavenderlady7441]

love the hair! 😊

[@bookasaurusray8882]

On a non-book related topic, where did you get that shirt from? I AM OBSESSED

[@cathy2142]

Your rage talk through your teeth at the author of the book seduction😂❤. Love that. Me arguing with authors secretly so many times when Im reading😅

[@jup1828]

i love that you do a Wishbone series hahahahaha epic

[@ColaBreak]

So many books, so little time! I have been reading fairly consistently.

[@bybeebooks]

The Evolution of Beauty just zoomed to the top of my wish list.

[@amorfatiloveyourfate]

I had a surgery when I was young, and decided to read The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was a long time ago, but I remember enough of it that I don't think I'd recommend it to many people. Not a happy story.

[@TriumphalReads]

2 Otter books, I'll have to go check that video out for sure.

[@meljstephan]

A few nonfiction loves I read recently: What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib Black Love Matters by Jessica Pryde et al I also read Fantasticland, which is a horror novel written as if it is nonfiction and I really liked that

[@illustratorsam]

I found Caste by Isabel Wilkerson had a similar premise to The Address Book, but it’s more tailored, organized, and global.

[@cathy2142]

Aww those otter books sound cute❤❤🦦🦦

[@sandyokey1019]

I read The Wharton Plot also. I thought it was very well done too. And it made me want to do a reread of The Custom of the Country soon. Althea sounds fascinating.

[@mame-musing]

As a geeky Wharton cheerleader and a frequent Booktube viewer how have I not heard about “Wharton Winter” until you just mentioned it. “The Wharton Plot” is a book I would most likely bypass because I am not a fan of fictionalizing real life personalities. However, since you gave it such a positive review I’ll request it from the library. Thanks for reminding me of “The Evolution of Beauty”. Your review is the first review this book in which the accessibility of the prose was brought to the fore.

[@lindaharrison3240]

Hi Olive. Are you doing a Shakespeare reading project? I seem to recall you saying earlier this year that you had something going on with that. Anyway, you asked for recommendations for Shakespeare. Have you read Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro? Published in 2020.

[@nicoleackerman205]

Agree 1995 one is very good even though there are changes.

[@TimeTravelReads]

Oh good. I'm glad you read Althea. I was going to suggest it if you hadn't.

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

I keep debating if I want to attempt to read The Hunchback of Notre Dame again. Lindsay Ellis made a great video discussing the Disney movie. I have mixed feelings about Edith Wharton. I love her writing, but I don't like how her stories are always tragic.

[@douglassasser4731]

If you were an overachieving student I would like to hear your thoughts on Felecia Day's memoir "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)"

[@doloresprocaccio2336]

I hope you don't mind but this is off-topic. My granddaughter has been accepted at Point Park and we are coming to visit Pittsburg during Spring break. Can you recommend any bookstores I can visit?

[@Sara-if5dx]

I'm so glad I wasnt the only one had the same feelings about Seduction! I read a lot of sex history etc nonfiction and I was so excited for this but I felt so incredibly disappointed. He made a whole section about Casanova seem dull!?

[@prairierose1115]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@Ihearbooks]

A friend of mine's daughter is graduating from High School and I want to give her a book about female basketball players (she played basketball in High School). Is Dear Black Girls the book or is their another you would recommend?

[@abookolive]

Hoop Muses by Kate Fagan might be a better choice for her!

[@allisonryder4781]

Have you ever read Tarka the Otter?

[@Heothbremel]

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[@nanimaonovi2528]

So Otter Country is like Waiting for Godot with otters?

[@launchedathousand]

The Evolution of Beauty sounds really interesting. It sounds like it might pair well with Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke which goes into how complicated sex is for animals and how our trying to place our own gender norms on the animal kingdom is messy and ultimately non-scientific.