Time for a New Book Haul - What I Bought On Sale

Hello everyone and welcome to a new video where I talk about some new books that I've bought on heavy discounts - which frankly is one of the good ways to acquire books (it's better if you get them for free but that's because I'm a 'tight arse' - Aussie slang for someone who doesn't spend her money or opens her purse and moths fly out - ha ha!!)
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[@heathergregg9975]

Your house looks like a welcoming library (a very high accolade from me). Since you asked, I took a delivery of 2 poetry books *as* I was watching your video - fully immersive Booktubing! These are by Micheal O'Siadhail and I got them secondhand as I too have a tightly clenched purse.

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

Wonderful! I haven’t read much poetry at all sadly. I keep putting it off. I did read Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and it took ages to read, reread repeatedly to understand the intention of the poem. That’s when it hit me. That’s poetry I guess. Happy reading! (Thank you for the kind comment about our house being a welcoming library. I try. More books=contentment at home) 🤣

[@heathergregg9975]

@@LifeLessonsFromBooks Sylvia Plath is complex in a very academic style. Best thing - get one of the "Poetry on the Underground" books - poetry so good and instantly understandable that it could go on a poster and be read by someone on the subway. Also, anything by the Poetry Pharmacy. Look out for them in secondhand bookshops. tip: any poem with a greek phrase in it is for the egghead academics, shun it immediately. I read a few poems on my channel and they are ALWAYS accessible and insightful ones I choose.

[@andyjones1899]

Wow you've got a lot of books!!!..I read Stoner a while back and lurvved it..at first I thought Mmm..but then it opened up and I couldn't stop reading it.its a real message book for the slow, little guy genre...I'm gonna check out Shirley Jackson coz I never heard of her..and finally..I also read The Old Man and The Sea and thought Mmm.. Now..try this..give your husband Blueback by Tim Winton..I went crazy over that..absolutely brilliant and for me..controversialy..it left Hemingway in the dust..check it out..great review

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

Okay I’ve requested to borrow Blueback from my library. It should come in soon from another library and then I’ll read it. I’ve not read any Tim Winton. It’ll be my first book of his!!!

[@andyjones1899]

I was going to ask you if you've read any Winton?? What an extraordinary writer..there is no man alive who can do landscape like Winton..obviously Cloudstreet( a uniquely Australian novel).. but so much more...

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

Looking forward to reading his books. I'm first on the waitlist so just waiting for my library to send the message that the book is on hold for me and then....I'll settle in comfortably in my chair and read.....

[@LibroParadiso-ep4zt]

John Fowles, now there is a writer no one talks about. I remember first edition of his books would sell for a lot of money at collector and used book shops, notably The French Lieutenant's Woman and his first novel The Collector. I gave a copy of The Magus to a friend of mine at the time. She later wrote me she had thrown the book against the wall out of frustration. But she wouldn't be beaten, she wrote, she would get through it! Did you read Ernesto Sabato's The Tunnel? It has some similarities to The Collector. A fine writer.

[@LibroParadiso-ep4zt]

p.s. Pretty funny about your separate collections. Reminded me of Paul Newman's answer to the question about his successful marriage to Joanne Woodward, "Joanne likes to go the the ballet, I race cars."

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

I loved The Collector and that’s why I bought his other books. I also loved The Tunnel and read it a few times. I even did a review of that one too a couple of years ago. Book Review of The Tunnel by Ernest Sabato kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZbGd355odKpqJI I had to chuckle. Yes my husband is the complete opposite to me in many ways. The books I love, he despises. He has a completely different view or perspective on the motivations of the characters. Arguments in our house are usually around Old Man & The Sea (I love, he’s annoyed by the old man); The Catcher in the Rye (I was obsessed by Holden Caulfield meanwhile to my husband he’s an annoying sh*t; Wuthering Heights (he loves Heathcliff and can understand his suffering; whereas I couldn’t stand the book or any of the characters!) 🤣