VLOG | Booktube Prize NF Group C | Pt 1 - What An Owl Knows, Doppelganger, Memoir of My Former Self

This is the VERY LONG fully uncut rambling version of my Booktube prize NonFiction Quarterfinal Group C reading experience, if you are looking for my abbreviated thoughts on the books and final rankings, they can be found here: • 2024 Booktube Prize Qu...
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00:00 Intro
01:30 Assignment reaction
05:30 Book 1 - What an Owl Knows
21:15 Zoo Bird tour!
25:07 Book 2 - Doppelganger
50:46 Book 3 - Memoir of My Former Self
57:57 Botanical Garden Tulips & Sakura!
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[@ReadBecca]

If you are looking for my abbreviated thoughts on the books and final rankings, they can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2HSd2Whd6arjM0

[@ThatsSoPoe]

Enjoyed hearing your thoughts more in depth on the books! Yeah, I don't think I'd enjoy the Mantel collection so much either given the bits you shared. Loved the celebration of your kitchen & (mainly) teeth alignment being done! They both look fantastic. So many cool birds at the zoo, and tulips at the gardens! Looking forward to the second part of the vlog too.😁

[@ReadBecca]

Yea the Mantel hurt because a couple people had been raving about it and put it at their first in the previous round, so I went in expecting a lot. I think they were already fans, so I can see that having more appeal, but it was just so uneven for me up against too many other consistently strong books. As I was going I really thought basically nothing happened in the first month, then looking back it was pretty full of big things. It's funny how being forced to look at a record changes perception a lot. And oh man I was so pleased about the tulips, I was there hoping for the Sakura thinking both would be basically gone after the hail we had. I have never made it when they were all in bloom before, I always miss the season or storms destroy them before I can go.

[@ThatsSoPoe]

@@ReadBecca Glad the tulips survived the hail (that looked so intense) and you got to see them!

[@novelideea]

❣️ looking forward to pt 2

[@ReadBecca]

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[@awebofstories]

I have Doppleganger in my group this round and your thoughts made me more excited to read it!

[@ReadBecca]

I don't think I've seen anyone hate Doppelganger yet, so hopefully it goes well for you this round. A long wait to hear, but I will be super excited for what you think about it. I do believe even if you don't enjoy it as much as I did, you are totally going to have something to say from it I feel.

[@themusicsnob]

Great vlog and so much cat and nature time. I always love that! I am super interested in Doppelgänger. I haven’t ever read any Hillary Mantel but haven’t really been interested in her books before, and this collection sounds like it wouldn’t really make me interested LOL. It reminds me a bit of a similar experience I had reading Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir last year. It wasn’t bad, but I didn’t get a ton out of it partially because I had never read her work and partially because I felt like some her ideas were pretty dated

[@ReadBecca]

Doppelganger was such a surprise! We have so many similar interests this hit on, so I think you would take a lot from it too. Yes, that was totally the experience with Mantel's essays. It is so hard to weigh how to react to those things, especially since many of them were from decades ago, when they might have hit differently.

[@myreadinglife8816]

I really want to read Doppleganger.

[@ReadBecca]

it is well worth reading, and I just saw it won the first non-fiction Women's Prize! Maybe that bodes well for it's position in BTP?