last book haul for a long time

[@musicroom7185]

I have mentioned before, the best part about relocating is getting out & exploring the new area. I am so glad to hear you are doing that! Some great choices here. I am most envious of your acquisition of "Go Tell It on the Mountain". Pet Sematary is a great read that will stick with you on different levels. I read Pride and Prejudice for the first time this past January. I have several other Austen books, including Persuasion, waiting on the shelf for me to get inspired to read it. Perhaps you will provide that inspiration...🤷‍♂! Another short statement that resonated with me from this video.."It feels nice to have a purpose" I am living the antithesis of that statement as I get older & older...😣. Wish you were closer; I could set you up with a cat!😾 Enough for now, take care man!

[@CallosumBooks]

yes, it was good advice so thank you! and if i end up reading persuasion ill let you know and hopefully it will help with the motivation haha. and hey, i think purpose is something that shifts and changes throughout life’s seasons. i think it’s ok to not really know what yours is right now. i mean, i don’t have the answers, but i don’t think it has to be a big grand cosmic thing. could just be taking life one day at a time you know? life is hard enough as it is haha and i wish! i would love to meet the kitties 😭 hope everything is well man!

[@musicroom7185]

@@CallosumBooks Thanks 🙂

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Some interesting books mentioned. Food for thought. The ever expanding tbr! Happy reading to you.

[@de_hobbyhoarder50]

I'm reading The Magic Mountain right now for a book club. I'm only a couple chapters in but I'm really enjoying the writing style so far.

[@marshacasner1800]

Matt, your channel has grown so fast!!! I love to watch all of them. I commented on you first video and i was like the 23rd person, and now you are over 2500+. You rock.

[@CallosumBooks]

thank you so much!!! it has been moving pretty fast and i can’t thank you enough for your continued support ☺️

[@susiesky1]

Thanks for the great vid!! 15 books in a month!! I’ve read just 15 in 2024! 🫣 I love your haul. Wao is wonderful! So much interesting history of Dom. Repub. And J Austen is one of my favs, esp. Persuasion. If you were reading JA at 14 you were an amazing kid! I read Pet Semetary decades ago when I was in the Peace Corps along with lots of other S King. Still have to read The Stand. Congrats on your new job!! 😊😊

[@camillodimaria3288]

Some recommendations… There Are Rivers in the Sky…James by Percival Everett…Martyr!…Another Country by Baldwin (not Alec)…Piranesi by Susanna Clarke…V by Pynchon… Bleeding Edge by Pynchon… so many books so little time… & at a certain point you oughta check out Celine (not Dion) … Oblomov…

[@patriciadeane7250]

Literature and felines are the perfect mix! Another cat is always a good idea.

[@ameliareads589]

I plan to give Infinite Jest a go next year. Usually I read books written in English in the original language, BUT there's an audiobook in German available that took ages to produce, because 1400 narrators are involved! If I understood it correctly it is one narrator per page (the German language needs a lot more words, therefore translations from English are always longer than the original). It sounds insane, but also quite apt for this book. Let's see if I can persevere, wish me luck.

[@CallosumBooks]

@@ameliareads589 that’s insane! the dedication is amazing. i don’t speak German but i’m interested to check this out. IJ as an audiobook is probably a wild experience - it’s hard for me to imagine how that would work out haha.

[@ameliareads589]

@CallosumBooks That's what the publisher says: "over 1400 pages, one narrator per page. What began as an acoustic experiment ends in one of the most spectacular and exciting listening experiences of recent years. Accompanied by music from the "Golden Machine": an analogue synthesizer that autonomously composes automated music that never repeats itself." I'm really curious to give it a try. But you are right, I'm not sure a book like this will be best read via audio.

[@TamarindoBooks]

The empty part next to the bookshelf is perfect for a second bookshelf and it will solve your problems!!

[@CallosumBooks]

eventuallly!! haha unfortunately don’t have enough much wall space for that

[@jamesbaird1342]

Just checked and closer to 25 per cent done but loveing it thank you.

[@emotionally_invested]

The brief and wondrous life of Oscar woa is so beautiful and so heartbreaking. And it’s definitely not horror, but parts of it are really dark and there is a curse that’s a really important theme in the book, so you might still find it seasonally appropriate. Now I want to do a reread lol. And as far as the black cat orange cat combo, I cannot recommend it enough. My cats are so different in personality, but the orange cat has been an excellent grandpa cat to the black (well tuxedo) one. Glad to hear your loving your new job so much!

[@CallosumBooks]

ooooh ok, that makes it even more compelling. maybe i’ll read it sooner than i thought haha. and yes the halloween cat duo! it’s my favorite haha. but we will adopt whichever cat we connect with regardless of what it looks like, just have always had this idea of a black and orange duo on my head 😅

[@ToReadersItMayConcern]

Killer haul! You're gonna be quite satisfied. I had to read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao during college, and that's a book I'd love to read without the critical pace of college-level analysis: I could tell it had a distinctive, momentous flow to it, and yet who can appreciate such a flow when annotating copiously and drafting essays. That one in particular I'd love to hear your thoughts on, going in blind as you are. The whole time I was watching I kept thinking of other books to recommend-check out Nobodaddy's Children by Arno Schmidt for some additional Nazi satire-but you're trying to cut back!-No more temptations allowed! Keep us posted on all the great literature podcasts you discover! I'm sure there's a ton I'm not aware of.

[@CallosumBooks]

i don’t know if i have the courage for an Arno Schmidt novel yet either way! but absolutely will post my thoughts on Oscar Wao as soon as i read it

[@enelabe]

That was the cutest intro haha

[@leedsdevil]

Slightly jealous about the book festival (no chance of something like that happening around me) and I understand the need to clear your TBR list before buying more books. Good luck with achieving your goals!

[@CallosumBooks]

@@leedsdevil thanks so much! i have to stay away from bookstores for the near future lol

[@tjfmd]

With the amount of unread books I own I should probably do a read what you own challenge as well 😅 That book festival sounded so fun! Getting books for a good deal and then having a beer sounds like an awesome way to spend a day. I've had Persuasion on my TBR for a while now, I found a copy in great condition at a thrift store from 1997! The original price on the back says $2 in USA, $3 in Canada, and £1.90 in U.K., oh how times have changed. Maybe I'll try and get to it soon too, it's been a while since I've read a classic.

[@CallosumBooks]

maybe persuasion can be a winter read for the channel! a few people have said it’s one they wanna get to, maybe we can figure some sort of group read thing out

[@socalwill9876]

Re: Finishing Infinite Jest - You of course have that feeling with any large book that you want to get it out of the way to make room for more books, but then when it's over you'll miss being in that world; yes the end is near but only afterwards will you realize that it will also be a goodbye. Don't forget to circle back when you're done and read the first few pages again to get the actual ending of the story, the finale is at the start of the book. If you want more of the same from DFW at some later date, The Pale King is stylistically very much in the same vein, with the caveat that the author died while writing it so the story ends ~2/3rds the way through. 📖✌

[@CallosumBooks]

it’s one of those things where going through it i can’t wait for it to be over, but i will end up looking back on it very fondly and with a lot of nostalgia haha. and i would be interested in pale king, but ive read that its been really heavily altered and edited. ill have to check it out more! im definitely at least interested in reading more of his nonfiction

[@EduardoHenrique-nd1ro]

Amazing video, Matt! Thanks for sharing! Cheers from Brazil!

[@Daniel_Barros85]

Ele precisa ler alguma coisa br, né?

[@TamarindoBooks]

​@@Daniel_Barros85 vamos começar a campanha

[@Daniel_Barros85]

@@TamarindoBooks siiiiiiiiiiiiiim! Acho que podemos começar pelos classicos que estao em alta lá pra eles? o machadão, será?

[@TedReadInstead]

Matt, the solution is rather easy. Buy more bookshelves. ;)

[@CallosumBooks]

i wish!! eventually when i have a bigger space haha. all the flat surfaces in my apartment are covered in books rn lol

[@babettedejong2975]

Kittens are always a menace 😁

[@Slothreadersclub]

To be fair it comes with their CV.

[@user-zu7fu6ky9k]

I have a 3 year old, and a 1.5 year old. I had to stop 3/4 of the way through Pet Cemetery because it got to be too much.

[@CallosumBooks]

haha i get that, SK goes a little too crazy sometimes

[@rjmalcolm8066]

Pet Semetary got me into reading a few years ago - the sections involving the wife’s sister really got under my skin… If you’re interested in some shorter horror fiction, Michael Wehunts collection “Greener Pastures” is amazing back to front. Also, Quentin S. Crisp’s “Morbid Tales” contains some of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever read.

[@CallosumBooks]

i’ll check it out - thanks so much for the rec!

[@Daniel_Barros85]

2:58 lol my friend always say that, but always buy one more uahuahuahuahuahua a second cat will be so good for coco..

[@ralphjenkins1507]

Great deals 📖 🎉❤

[@estella_jel]

A second cat, how exciting! 10/10 recommend two cats. 🐈 A "read what you own" challenge sounds like fun; I'm looking forward to seeing that. I most likely would benefit from that as well. 😅

[@CallosumBooks]

@@estella_jel i think most people who collect books/read a lot probably could benefit from a read what you own challenge 😅 just hangin around and perusing bookstores is one of my favorite things to do, it’s hard not to also grab a book while i’m there!

[@estella_jel]

@@CallosumBooks Agreed! I'm the same way. 😂

[@teacupthestoryteller]

Thanks for sharing ☺ Really not a fan of horror books but I maneged to read (and love) Dracula finally so I consider it lil success 🤭I re-read Persuation recently, it was lovely. happy reading!

[@CallosumBooks]

glad you enjoyed it! maybe frankenstein next?

[@petersampson6210]

Inherent Vice is the first Pynchon I read, and I really enjoyed it. I recommend the movie as well, but I might like the book better.

[@CallosumBooks]

i definitely will check the movie out once i finish the book haha

[@ralphjenkins1507]

❤ 😻 crazy coco! 🎉

[@darkstarsbookcavern]

I love how the cat steals the show 😄If you buy them all at once it still only counts as one....right? Pet Sematary starts slow but when things start going to hell they travel fast.

[@wademayorga9527]

Ur taste is immaculate! I’ve got Goon Squad and Oscar Wow on my shelf rn staring at me even harder 🤣

[@CallosumBooks]

thanks so much! i think im gonna do oscar wao in december

[@jamesbaird1342]

So, you introduced me to I.J. which surprised me. Im a retired social worker. Worked in and with many recovery programs and had a cousin who wss a tennis player and coach. I'm about 25-40 percent through the audiobook.

[@CallosumBooks]

hey, so glad you’re enjoying it! how’s the audiobook?

[@jackwalter5970]

Wise Blood and Oscar Wao are terrific.

[@marcelhidalgo1076]

Death in Venice is amazing!

[@marcelhidalgo1076]

I've heard nothing but bad things about Tender is the Night, so I'm curious if you will like it.

[@CallosumBooks]

oh really?? that’s so surprising. i’ve only had the opposite experience haha

[@bethelbarlow]

Wise Blood was really...something? Hope you can review it once you're done with it!

[@CallosumBooks]

will do! i’ve been meaning to get to it for a long time

[@carolinec3951]

If you are in to classic literature and don't mind ebooks, might I suggest using Project Gutenberg? Their books are free because they are in the public domain. I did a search and books by F. Scott Fitzgerald are available.

[@CallosumBooks]

@@carolinec3951 i’ll check it out, thank you!

[@courtenaywrites]

A fellow HOL podcast listener!

[@billyd10]

Go Tell it On the Mountain is amazing. It is semi autobiographical.

[@billyd10]

Another great read is The Magician by Colm Toibin. It is a fiction biography of Thomas Mann.

[@jackwalter5970]

​@billyd10 both books are great!

[@CallosumBooks]

so excited to get into it thank you for the book recs! though i will have to restrain myself for a while 😂

[@TheJadezilla]

Hey Matt! Your channel piqued my interest because I have hypoplasia of the corpus callosum and was curious what your book channel might be about! I've stayed for a wholesome content and because I struggle to read fiction so having your videos as a touch stone has been helpful. Cheers from Australia 🦘

[@CallosumBooks]

hey welcome! the first paper i ever published was on the corpus callosum and it’ll always be my favorite part of the brain. i’m glad you’re enjoying the content and i hope you’re doing well! stay safe out there!! 🇦🇺 maybe one of these days the right fiction book will find you

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

Idk if you’ve read it but since it’s on your shelf I want to ask, how is Ulysses? I’m very excited to read it but it’s a future goal for sure lol.

[@CallosumBooks]

future goal for me as well. its 2 books (i think) out for me and my cousins book club

[@ralphjenkins1507]

Horror? Try Poe and Lovecraft

[@BlackHatHacker77]

greetings

[@CallosumBooks]

greetings!

[@camillodimaria3288]

Koko B. Ware ha

[@NicholasOfAutrecourt]

I love the History and Literature podcast. If you're interested in ancient literature, check out the Literature and History podcast (confusingly similar name, I know) with Doug Metzger. He's a Ph.D. in literature who's doing a DEEP dive into the history of literature from the very beginning (going all the way back to the Atra-Hasis and Enuma Elish). Keep up the great work with the videos and congratulations on the move!

[@CallosumBooks]

i’ll check it out haha, thanks for the recommendation! and thanks so much for the kind words hope you’ve been doing well man!