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

[@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.

[@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.

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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."

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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!) 🤣