#weekofreading #shortyseptember #spinsterseptember #WIT Week of Reading | Sept 17, 2023 As you can see, I am switching up the videos slightly with actual thumbnails and dropping the intro with music. It was time for a change. ; ) In this video, I share what I finished reading recently and what I am currently progressing through. I am including links to Blackwells and Bookshop.org should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Books I have finished: - The Conquest of Plassans- Emile Zola, translated by Helen Constantine - Miss Mapp - E.F. Benson - also mentioned Queen Lucia - The Fraud- Zadie Smith - Good Behaviour- Molly Keane Currently Reading: - A Little Luck- Claudia Piñiero, translated Frances Riddle - The Sin of Abbé Mouret- Emile Zola, translated Valerie Minogue - Lightning Rods- Helen DeWitt Other people mentioned Leo @Leoslittlebooklife and on IG as LeosLittleBookLife Eric @EricKarlAnderson Nora on IG @Pear.jelly Heather @SoggyExpatBooknerd Bert and Sian @pastorytime2683 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 #shortyseptember #spinsterseptember #WIT Recent Reads | Sept 10, 2023 In this video, I share what I finished reading recently, and what I am currently progressing through. I am including links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: - Roman Stories- Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Todd - Learned By Heart- Emma Donahue - I Will Write To Avenge My People- Annie Ernaux, translated Allison L Strayer, and Sophie Lewis - Cold Enough for Snow- Jessica Au - The Forbidden Notebook- Alba de Cespedes, translated Ann Goldstein Wrap Up Coming Up: - The Conquest of Plassans- Emile Zola, translated by Helen Constantine Currently Reading: - The Sin of Abbé Mouret- Emile Zola, translated Valerie Minogue - A Little Luck- Claudia Piñiero, translated Frances Riddle - Lightning Rods- Helen DeWitt Other people mentioned Leo on IG as LeosLittleBookLife Nora on IG @Pear.jelly Heather @SoggyExpatBooknerd Bert and Sian @pastorytime2683 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

#WITMonth #ShortySeptember #SpinsterSeptember In this video, I am sharing the Pile of Possibilities of books that I might read in September to continue the Women in Translation month, Shorty September and Spinster September. Thanks to Kazen @AlwaysDoing for coining the term Pile of Possibilities Shorty September is thanks to Heather @SoggyExpatBooknerd Sian and Bert @pastorytime2683 and Spinster September is thanks to Nora on IG at PearJelly WIT Month was created by Meytal Radzinski The Books mentioned: WIT + Shorty September: I Will Write to Avenge My People- Annie Ernaux, translated Alison L Strayer and Sophie Hughes Child of All Nations- Irmgard Keun, translated Michael Hofmann also mentioned The Artificial Silk Girl A Silence Shared- Lalla Romano, translated Brian Robert Moore Permafrost- Eva Balthasar, translated Julia Sanches also mentioned: Boulder A Single Rose- Muriel Barberry, translated Alison Anderson also mentioned: The Elegance of the Hedgehog The Factory- Hiroko Oyamada, translated David Boyd also mentioned Diary of a Void- Emi Yagi, Translated by Lucy North and David Boyd Is Mother Dead- Vigdis Hjorth, translated Charlotte Barslund The Forbidden Notebook- Alba de Céspedes, translated Ann Goldstein Willful Disregard- Lena Anderssen, translated Sarah Death The Road to the City- Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Frances Frenye The Dry Heart- Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Frances Frenye Valentino- Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Avril Bardoni Sagittarius- Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Avril Bardoni WIT Redux only Alberta Alone- Cora Sandel, translated Elisabeth Rokkan also mentioned: Alberta and Jacob, and Alberta and Freedom A Little Luck- Claudia Piñeiro, translated Frances Riddle also mentioned: Elena Knows Vernon Subutex 3- Virginie Despentes, translated Frank Wynne Shorty September only Cold Enough for Snow- Jessica Au Bluets- Maggie Nelson Call for the Dead- John le Carré Spinster September The Hotel- Elizabeth Bowen The Odd Women- George Gissing Other channels mentioned: Eric @EricKarlAnderson 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 #recentreads Week of Reading- August 27, 2023 In this video, I share what I finished reading recently, and what I am currently progressing through. I am including links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: - My Phantoms- Gwendoline Riley - also mentioned Burnt Sugar- Avni Doshi - The Wife Upstairs- Rachel Hawkins - The Villa- Rachel Hawkins - Master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov - Lolly Willowes- Sylvia Townsend Warner - The Last Samurai- Helen deWitt Currently Reading: - The Conquest of Plassans- Emile Zola, translated by Helen Constantine Other people mentioned Cathie @thegrimmreader3649 Leo on IG as LeosLittleBookLife 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

#bookhaul In this video, I share what I picked up on my most recent trip to Europe and the UK. These are specifically bought in Copenhagen, Brussels and London. I am including links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Without further ado, the books: - A Painted Veil- W. Somerset Maugham - Save Me the Waltz - Zelda Fitzgerald - Jazz- Toni Morrison - Money- Martin Amis - The Perfect Golden Circle- Benjamin Myers - Deceits of Time- Isabel Colgate - The Franchise Affair- Josephine Tey - The House of Lamentations- S.G. MacLean - Uncle Paul- Celia Fremlin - Boulder- Eva Balthasar, translated Julia Sanches - None of the Above: Reflections on a Life Beyond the Binary- Travis Alabanza - Pod- Laline Paull - Whale- Cheon Myeong-Kwan Jae Won Chung - August Blue- Deborah Levy - The New Life- Tom Crewes - Child of All Nations- Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hoffman - The Trio- Johanna Hedman, translated by Kira Josephson - An Attempt At Exhausting A Place in Place- Georges Perec, translated by Marc Lowenthal - Valentino- Natalia Ginzburg, translated Avril Bradoni - Sagittarius- Natalia Ginzburg, translated Avril Bardoni - I Will Write To Avenge My People- Annie Ernaux, translated Alison L. Strayer and Sophie Lewis - A Little Luck- Claudia Pineiro, translated Frances Riddle Other people mentioned Leo on IG as LeosLittleBookLife Eric @EricKarlAnderson 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

#book haul Week of Reading- July 30, 2023 In this video, I share what I picked up on my most recent trip to the UK. These were specifically bought in Oxford and London. I am including links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Without further ado, the books: - Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris - Mark Braude - Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art - Lauren Elkin - These Days- Lucy Caldwell - Family Lexicon- Natalia Ginzburg, translated Jenny McPhee - Oh, To Be a Painter!- Virginia Woolf - Selected Stories- Elizabeth Bowen - The Hotel- Elizabeth Bowen - The Towers of Trebizond- Rose Macaulay - In Search of Sheba- Barbara Toy - Cold Comfort Farm- Stella Gibbons - Diary of a Country Prosecutor- Tawfik Al-Hakim, translated Abba Eban - The Happy Couple- Naoise Dolan - The Summer of the Royal Visit- Isabel Colgate - The Wind Changes- Olivia Manning - The Square of Sevens- Laura Shepherd-Robinson - The Cook (Detective Kamil Rahman #2)- Ajay Chowdhury - The Darkest Sin - DV Bishop - Blue Water- Leonora Nattrass - The Three Dahlias- Katy Watson - Beast in the Shadows- Edogawa Rampo, translated Ian Hughes - Maigret and the Headless Corpse- Georges Simenon, translated Howard Curtis - Call for the Dead- John Le Carré Other people mentioned Leo on IG as LeosLittleBookLife 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 Week of Reading- July 30, 2023 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am currently progressing through, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read if the mood strikes me. I am including links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: - The Vaster Wilds- Lauren Groff - Rosewater- Liv Little - The Rachel Incident- Caroline O'Donoghue - In Memoriam- Alice Winn - also mentioned Alec- William di Canzio - Maurice- E.M. Forster - Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney #2) - Colson Whitehead Currently Reading: - A Horse at Night: On Writing- Amina Cain - The Bookbinder of Jericho- Pip Williams - also mentioned: The Dictionary of Lost Words - Maddalena and The Dark- Julia FIne - The Last Samurai- Helen deWitt - The Master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov - The Other Side of Mrs. Wood- Lucy Barker Other people mentioned Leo on IG as LeosLittleBookLife Silje @siljeblomst1 Elisabeth @BookishNorth Eric Karl Anderson @EricKarlAnderson Cathie @thegrimmreader3649 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 Week of Reading- July 2, 2023 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am currently progressing through, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read if the mood strikes me. I am including links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: - Paris Stories- Mavis Gallant - Link to review: https://www.cincinnatireview.com/what-were-reading/what-were-reading-mavis-gallants-paris-stories/ - Helen DeWitt Group Read: https://youtu.be/3NPJgBDbdAk. (August- October 2023) - (Thank you, Susan for the recommendation! ) - Diary of a Tuscan Bookseller- Alba Donati, translated by Elena Pala, narrated by Jane MacDowell - also mentioned: Diary of a Bookseller- Shaun Bythell - Demon Copperhead- Barbara Kingsolver, narrated by Charles - Shirley Hazzard: A Writer's Life- Brigitta Olubas Currently Reading: - Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind, and World of William Shakespeare- Jonathan Bate - Daughters of Night- Laura Sheperd- Robinson Other people mentioned Leo on IG as LeosLittleBookLife 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 Week of Reading- June 25, 2023 In this video, I share what I finished reading this week, what I am currently progressing through, and a section called Mood Reading Roulette- or the books that I *may* read if the mood strikes me. I am including links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below. Blackwells: https://tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35 Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/catch-release-book-lists Book of the Month Club: https://www.mybotm.com/36c2e3ba11626?show_box=true Books I have finished: - The Marriage Portrait- Maggie O'Farrell - also mentioned: - I Am, I Am, I Am - Hamnet - A Compass Error- Sybille Bedford - A Favourite of the Gods- Sybille Bedford - Slightly Foxed podcast episode: https://foxedquarterly.com/sybille-bedford-appetite-for-life-slightly-foxed-podcast-episode-34/ - The Sea Elephants- Shastri Akella, narrator Vikas Adam Currently Reading: - Daughters of Night- Laura Sheperd- Robinson - Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life- Brigita Olubas - Demon Copperhead- Barbara Kingsolver Other people mentioned Leo on IG as LeosLittleBookLife 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