#weekofreading #fridayreads Week of Reading- June 20, 2021 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am in progress of reading currently, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read, if the mood strikes me.   Books I have finished:       Secrets of Happiness- Joan Silber Breasts and Eggs- Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir- Akwaeke Emezi The Death of the Heart- Elizabeth Bowen __ Books I am currently reading:           In Search of Lost Time: vol 3- The Guermantes Way- Marcel Proust, trans. James Grieve         Smoke and Ashes (Captain Sam Wyndham #3)- Abir Mukherjee The Women I Think About At Night: Traveling The Path of My Heros- Mia Kankimäki,  trans by Douglas Robinson        An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey Mystery #1)- Nicola Upson        ___ Mood Reading Roulette: Next up in my Virginia Woolf series BookTubers and Channels mentioned: Bert from @PaSTORY Time Leo at A Little Book Life : https://youtu.be/L2PJ0d8bwAQ Elisabeth at Bookish North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWbc5iLZ3b-9YcV7090fHyA Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel!  I appreciate the support.   You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#weekofreading #fridayreads Week of Reading- June 11, 2021 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am in progress of reading currently, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read, if the mood strikes me. Books I have finished:       Fraud- Anita Brookner       Last Night at the Telegraph Club- Malinda Lo Miss Pym Disposes- Josephine Tey also mentioned: The Daughter of Time- Josephine Tey Gaudy Nights- Dorothy L. Sayers __ Books I am currently reading:        In Search of Lost Time: vol 3- The Guermantes Way- Marcel Proust, trans. James Grieve        The Death of the Heart- Elizabeth Bowen The Women I Think About At Night: Traveling The Path of My Heros- Mia Kankimäki,  trans by Douglas Robinson       Breast and Eggs- Mieko Kawakami, trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd Secrets of Happiness- Joan Silber      __ Mood Reading Roulette: I'm going to revisit some introductions I have skipped- Voices in the Evening- Natalia Ginzburg (intro by Colm Tóibín) The Street- Ann Petry (intro by Tayari Jones) The Way By Swan, vol 1 of In Search of Lost Time- Marcel Proust (Intro by Lydia Davis) The Door- Magda Szabo (intro by Ali Smith) BookTubers and Channels mentioned: Leo at A Little Book Life : https://youtu.be/L2PJ0d8bwAQ Sian from @PaSTORY Time Bert from @PaSTORY Time Russell from @Ink and Paper Blog Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel!  I appreciate the support.   You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#epigraphs #footnotes #reading Literary Adjacent | Epigraphs, Intros, Footnotes, Etc In this video, I wonder how other people think about these things in books. Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!   Books I mention:     Oxford University Press of Virginia Woolf's books (Jacob's Room shown) Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982- Cho Nam-Joo, translated Jamie Chang Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars- Francesca Wade __ BookTubers and Channels mentioned: Elisabeth at Bookish North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWbc5iLZ3b-9YcV7090fHyA Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel!  I appreciate the support.   You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#weekofreading #fridayreads Week of Reading- June 4, 2021 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am in progress of reading currently, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read, if the mood strikes me.   Some of the books you may have seen from me lately have been from the Book of the Month Club, and here is a link in case you want to join (disclaimer- if you join, I will get a free book):   https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: The Survivors- Jane Harper Aftershocks: A Memoir - Nadia Owusu Voices In The Evening- Natalia Ginzburg, translated by D.W. Low Fraud- Anita Brookner Burnt Sugar- Avni Doshi __ Books I am currently reading:        In Search of Lost Time: vol 3- The Guermantes Way- Marcel Proust, trans. James Grieve       The Women I Think About At Night: Traveling The Path of My Heros- Mia Kankimäki, trans by Douglas Robinson How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House- Cherie Jones       ___ Mood Reading Roulette:      The Dry Heart- Natalia Ginzburg, trans Frances Frenaye The Road To The City- Natlia Ginzburg, trans Frances Frenaye They Say Sarah- Pauline Delabroy-Allard, trans Adriana Hunter Last Night at the Telegraph Club- Malinda Lo Rainbow Milk- Paul Mendez BookTubers and Channels mentioned: Leo at A Little Book Life : https://youtu.be/L2PJ0d8bwAQ Sian from @PaSTORY Time Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel!  I appreciate the support.   You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#booktubeprize #BTP #BTPquarterfinalsfiction BookTube Prize 2021 | Quarterfinals Fiction Group C In this video, I share my thoughts on the books I was judging for the BookTube Prize- Quarterfinals for Fiction, group C. Here was Robert's video on the Quarterfinal Results: https://youtu.be/blWV-o7tBTI The books in this group for the quarterfinal round: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels Summer by Ali Smith BookTubers and Channels mentioned: Charles Heathcote at https://www.youtube.com/user/VariousAltitudes Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel!  I appreciate the support.   You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#weekofreading #fridayreads Week of Reading- May 28, 2021 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am in progress of reading currently, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read, if the mood strikes me.   Some of the books you may have seen from me lately have been from the Book of the Month Club, and here is a link in case you want to join (disclaimer- if you join, I will get a free book):   https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: The Salaryman's Wife (Rei Shimura #1)- Sujata Massey A Necessary Evil (Sam Wyndham #2)- Abir Mukherjee Night and Day- Virginia Woolf __ Books I am currently reading:        In Search of Lost Time: vol 3- The Guermantes Way- Marcel Proust, trans. James Grieve       Burnt Sugar- Avni Doshi The Survivors- Jane Harper ___ Mood Reading Roulette: Fraud - Anita Brookner BookTubers and Channels mentioned: Mel @Mel's Bookland Adventures Elisabeth at Bookish North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWbc5iLZ3b-9YcV7090fHyA Leo at A Little Book Life : https://youtu.be/L2PJ0d8bwAQ Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel!  I appreciate the support.   You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

#weekofreading #fridayreads Week of Reading- May 21st, 2021 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am in progress of reading currently, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read, if the mood strikes me.   Books I have finished: A Brightness Long Ago- Guy Gavriel Kay Palestine vol 1- Joe Sacco The Stranger in Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman & Her World- Amy Stanley The Bohemians- Jasmin Darznik* Death at the Crystal Palace (Kat Holloway Mystery #5)- Jennifer Ashley __ Books I am currently reading:        In Search of Lost Time: vol 3- The Guermantes Way- Marcel Proust, trans. James Grieve        Night and Day- Virginia Woolf Burnt Sugar- Avni Doshi ___ Mood Reading Roulette:          Fraud- Anita Brookner The Parisian- Isabella Hammad Meet Me At The Museum- Ann Youngson A Necessary Evil- Abir Mukherjee *= Netgalley Digital Advanced Reader Copies BookTubers and Channels mentioned: Leo at A Little Book Life : https://youtu.be/L2PJ0d8bwAQ Kazen @Always Doing Robert @Barter Hordes Elisabeth at Bookish North: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWbc5iLZ3b-9YcV7090fHyA Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel!  I appreciate the support.   You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

Weekend Used Bookstore Haul In this video, I share what I found in my used bookstore crawl this past weekend   The Shorter Pepys- Folio Society Edition Saplings- Noel Streatfeild The Expendable Man- Dorothy B Hughes The Adventures of Elisabeth in Rugen- Elizabeth von Arnim Red Pottage- Mary Cholomondeley To The North- Elizabeth Bowen The Last September- Elizabeth Bowen The Death of the Heart- Elizabeth Bowen Miss Pym Disposses- Josephine Tey The Short Stories of Alice Adams The Lonely Londoners- Sam Selvon Fear and Trembling- Amelie Nothbomb, translated by Adriana Hunter Die, My Love- Ariana Harwicz, translated by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff Faraway Places- Tom Spanbauer In They City of Shy Hunters- Tom Spanbauer (previously read I Loved You More- Tom Spanbauer) The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Palace Walk Palace of Desire Sugar Street The Harafish- Naguib Mahfouz Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters- Martin Gayford Palestine, vol 1- Joe Sacco Little Gods- Meng Jin Meet Me At The Museum- Anne Youngson Quiet Corners of Rome- David Dowie, photographs by Alison Harris *** Did I get the special French book??? *** Stores Visited: Friends of the Library- Berkeley Sleepy Cat Bookstore Book Marks Friends of the Library - Oakland Half Priced Books BookTubers and Channels mentioned: Bert @PaSTORY Time Leo at A Little Book Life : https://youtu.be/L2PJ0d8bwAQ Jesper @Covertalks on Instagram Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel!  I appreciate the support.   You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com

Just a wee little vlog where I ask you for your opinion on if I should go back and purchase this sweet French edition of Stendhal's The Red and The Black. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments field! Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel!  I appreciate the support.   You can find me: I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter. I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com