Hi! We’re Dave and Olive! Welcome to Book Blather, where a maltipoo and her dad blather about books and comics of all types. We read a fair bit of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy, including YA and graphic novels, but we like to mix it up with plenty of other fiction and non-fiction as well. Watch at your own risk! 😜
I didn't know Dunkin did that. And Olive is so demure and well mannered! Rosalee would probably bark at the window clerk before proceeding to devour the whole thing in seconds, cup included. Hey, she tries to eat sticks, rocks, and other things (🤢), so why not? When I take her into Rural King (farm store where dogs are welcome), I keep her WELL away from the section where they sell chickens, ducks, and rabbits, believe me. 😂🐕
Hi Dave! I love Graham Masterton, he is great. I have read a lot of his book, but I have not read The Manitou yet. You got a lot of books! Olive is so sweet! Thanks so much for sharing your haul! 🐶
@@BookwormsBuddy It sounds like a good one, right? I haven’t read any Masterton yet, but I am looking forward to trying this one! It’s not too long, which is always good for me 😜
Hi Dave. This book sounds interesting, I will give it that, and it is just a tiny bit intriguing. I'm not saying I will check it out though. LOL Thanks for the detailed review.
The Jim Butcher series the Dresden Files is fantastic, they are so fun, i think you'd love those Dave! I've read like 6 or 7 in the series and really want to get back to those soon! Amazing haul. Manitou was a great find too! Hi Olive!🐶😘❤️
A big thank you to Dave and Gareth for having me on as a guest. Was a fun time and great conversation. Many thanks to the viewers for their kind words and support, much appreciated.
Hey Dave & Olive! Great video! I just finished Children of Memory last night - my brain hurts, but in the best way 😂Well, that series was phenomenal - I completely agree with everything you talk about here! I liked Children of Memory a whole lot, but just a tiny bit less than Children of Ruin, which I liked just a tiny bit less than Children of Time. Children of Memory feels the most different of the three, and is the most difficult of to get my head around, in terms of the concepts discussed in it. I think I'd really benefit from a re-read of that one the most. I definitely enjoyed the mystery of it, and it felt a lot darker than the other two - Tchaikovsky still leans into the horror nicely, though it feels more psychological this time around. I did miss the emphasis on evolved species a little, but I absolutely loved the corvids - their conversations and philosophising was presented brilliantly! I love Tchaikovsky's writing style, humour, ideas - he's a brilliant storyteller, and fast becoming a favourite of mine. I really hope Tchaikovsky returns to this world at some point, any new entries in this series would be a day one read for me. Am eager to jump into some more of his stuff too - I've got The Doors of Eden in my Kindle library, and have got Shards of Earth, Cage of Souls and Dogs of War on audio all waiting for me so I'm spoiled for choice on where to go next!
@@NicolesBookishNook I reached out through your website… didn’t know how else to get you (trying to avoid all magic words here that will strike my comment)
@@BookBlather I’ll check now! Though I think the easiest is my email address in my YT description. Though I have to check if YT deleted it again or not… -big sigh-
Nice haul! What a cover on _War of the Worlds_ ! Joe Abercrombie is one of the authors where I try to read everything, but I've only done audio with him. The narrator for the _First Law Trilogy_ is mesmerizing. What an actor! What characters!
@@ChristopherEvenstar Audio sure can add a lot, depending on the narration. An audiobook is an adaptation in its own right, and now and then, I have found the performance in an audiobook superior to the movie.
Such an awesome haul. The Manitou is a great book I read earlier this month, cheesy, 70s horror. Love those Douglas Adams covers. I have to read Hyperion, his horror novels are so good. My Friend Dahmer looks so cool, I believe there is a movie with the same title. A little something for Olive...🐶🐕
🐕Glad to be back here, I've been sick with severe high blood pressure, it sucks 😸😆 Those uncorrected proofs must be a load of fun. If I'm not mistaken that means you would see all the author's mispellings, poor paragraph formation, grammatical atrocities and so on 😆😸
@@BookBlather Yes thanks 👍 it's very high blood pressure but the medicine seems to help! Agreed that people can hate a writer all they want, but that doesn't take away other people's right to read him if they choose
WOW what an awesome haul - so much there to talk about! - Maus is amazing - so glad you have Persepolis, it's incredible. You have 2 more Hitch Hikers books which is brilliant - one of the best series of all time in my humble opinion. You've got the Dresden files!! - I've read the first two and liked them - just juggling them with the Rivers of London books - I'm intending to get back on the Dresden files once I've finished Rivers of London series (because they're so similar to me in my head - even though they're not hahaha). Love the vintage stuff in there - and that Get Smart book was a good find!
@@bookssongsandothermagic I’ve been in the mood for graphic novels lately, too, so that’s good. I’m looking forward to Dresden Files… I’ve wanted to try it for a very long time.
Just a few stray thoughts as you were going through your books: Dean Martin made 3 films as Matt Helm from 1966-1968. They were rather like a poor man's James Bond; definitely not to be taken seriously. Graham Masterton has been called the "Master of Horror." "The Manitou" was his first book, written in 1976, and was a big success. There are 6 other books in the series. Over the years, he's written different series as well as 75 standalones. I just started picking up his books on Kindle when I can find them for $1.99:) I think he is Britain's answer to Stephen King. Glen Cook -- I heard about his P.I. series from a booktuber, so I've collected some of the books. Cook writes fantasy and science fiction. The Garret P.I. series has a traditional hardboiled P.I. who operates in a fantasy world "where he has to deal with elves, vampires, centaurs, trolls, and numerous mixed breeds, along with gods, wizards, witches and more." But the emphasis is on the detection, not any kind of magical work.
What a fabulous book haul. MAUS and Persepolis are so, so good. I also have O Caledonian to read. I picked it up for exactly the same reason 😊. Hi Olive 🐶
The only thing I read from William Tenn is a short story called “Child’s Play” in the anthology _The Great SF Stories 9 (1947)._ It was pretty good. Isaac Asimov’s _The Naked Sun_ is the second Lije Bailey novel, a sequel to _The Caves of Steel._ Bailey finds himself on a planet that is the social opposite of his home - open spaces and largely populated with robots. I can recommend it. And of course, you can’t go wrong with Douglas Adams. 🐶
@@mediumjohnsilver I’ll need to check if that Tenn story is in the book I picked up. Lucky for me, I picked up Caves of Steel in the wild not too long ago!
@@jenniferfullmer4783 Absolutely. So often we look back at history, wondering how things could have happened, but we don’t take the time to analogize those events to current events
Sigh. One day I WILL be able to go hunting for books again. Or not, who knows? 🤪 Great haul! I've heard good things about many of these. I've read and am fond of The Black Company. Cook was a veteran who wrote between cycles while workng an assembly line at GM, and he reads like it. I say this approvingly; it works with his kind of story. It takes nerve to write fantasy featuring what is essentially a roving band of medieval mercenaries as the "heroes." These are hardly what anyone would consider admirable people, but Cook makes it work. When you read "The Island of Dr. Moreau," I highly recommend Gene Wolfe's short story "The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories" as a companion piece. They're very different emotional experiences, but if you're like me, you'll forever link them together in an interesting way. Hyperion is terrific. I won't bother elaborating; there are loads of BookTubers who have discussed it better than I could. Shawn Standfast springs immediately to mind. I haven't read the "My Friend Dahmer" graphic novel, but I'm familiar with the basic storyline. It strikes me as pretty sad. The guy basically associated with him because he enjoyed laughing at what an oddball Dahmer was -- at the very time Dahmer was sinking into his dark obsessions and developing alcoholism. I don't necessarily believe that his course could have been altered, but being treated like a clown couldn't have helped matters. Well, thanks for the video. Always cool to see you, Olive, and books. We'll have to see if we can arrange a buddy read or two when things have settled down.
Great video! You found some really nice books. I went to that sale on the second to last day. Picked up a few things myself. Not sure if you're aware. This weekend, starting Thursday night. The Branford town book sale is having their large event. Very similar size, with the same tent system.
Great haul, Dave! I think your video from the book fair last year was the first video I saw of yours. Those Matt Helm books are very good. Hamilton is a solid writer. 👍
Just finished Fermata and came to RU-vid to see if anybody was talking about it. Certainly have a lot of conflicting feelings leaving this one - Arno is a likable narrator who does some truly unlikable acts. His justifications do come across as sincere and well-meaning but his actions are, as you put it, crazy. I enjoyed the bits about toy distribution and buried rot, and probably like you, got queasy during his dictated story. Every paragraph feels so incredibly different from the one before. The mechanics of Arno's power are so much fun to read, and his power feels so interconnected with his writing of the autobiography (struggling for inspiration and struggling to find a new way to trigger the Fold, for instance). Character development does not stem from plot, but from the process of understanding his present place in life and everything that came before.
Yeah, Arno is the quintessential unreliable narrator. Ha... not too hard to guess which part was too much for me 😜 I was good with most of her story, until she got to the experimentation with the teenage couple 😳 You make a really good point about about the analogy between his parallel quests of finding new avenues in his writing and finding new ways of triggering the fold..... that hadn't occurred to me. And you're right about plot.... I mean, which plot? 😜.
It's not easy, Erie. I bring two bags, and usually have to make a pit stop at the car to empty one out 😂. Are you as obsessed with From as I am? I just binged the first two seasons. It's been a while since I was that addicted.
@@BookBlather I've been checking forever for season 3. I thought it was going to be a casualty of the SAG and WGA strikes and not come back. There are a lot of things I need to know! I'm not sure if you've seen the French series Les Revenants (2012) but it's what From reminded me of when I first started watching.
Actually, I'm happy to send it to you if you want... I'm sure you'll get to it long before I would. I might find a matching Book 1 by the time i get to it. Let me know.
You say that as though the "whole summer" is a long time 😂. I didn't get that many books besides this during the summer, so I'd say we're on equal par!
