I love “A Canticle for Liebowitz” and am very happy to learn about the short story collection! Thanks, Steve! You’ve added another book not only to my large TBR but also to my big books-to-buy/find list!
A mass market paperback edition of "The Somme" is selling on Amazon for almost $903.00! 😮 Fortunately, other editions are available for more reasonable prices. I added it to my wish list. I just recently purchased "The Proud Tower" because I'm on a World War I kick, and I love Barbara Tuchman's work. I hope to read it next month. In preparation for October, I bought the whole 7-Volume Kindle edition of Proust in the Moncrief translation. Apparently there are some formatting and/or misprint issues, but I have never attempted to read Proust before, and would rather test the waters with an inexpensive version first. In the interval between now and October, I really MUST get to "The 39 Steps", which I snapped up the last time you talked about it, but which has been languishing on my TBR pile. I don't even have a good excuse, as it's not that long. Great haul, Steve! Makes me wish I had a Brattle clone in my own town.
I just started reading Chesapeake yesterday! He's an author I've always wanted to try but never got around to. I live in the Chesapeake Bay region and it's so fun to read a book set in the region.
Don’t let that dryer buzzer stop or slow your glorious long videos. I just canned a whole batch of sweet pickles during this one, enjoying both. Thanks so much!
Just had a couple of sweet flash backs. While in my teens, I remember enjoying reading that edition of “The 39 Steps”. It caught my eye while on the paperback spindle displays in my local library. I agree it was a suspenseful page turner. I also read that edition of “Chesapeake”. My favorite parts of the book were Michener’s wonderful and detailed treatment of the history of the Canadian geese and the Chesapeake Retriever.
I just found your channel. You officially have a new subscriber! Your easily relatable and candor about books is just something I have been looking for on RU-vid. Thank you!
Well, they WERE thrilling, despite all the negatives! A killer funnel of air, unpredictably (and unstoppably) raking tracks along the ground during what is otherwise the most beautiful season in the most beautiful region on Earth? It SOUNDS like something a science fiction author would dream up!
Only one shelf on the civil war? Only one shelf on the American revolution? What is wrong with your collection? Very very nice book haul. ThAnks for sharing.
Hah! I know! I thought of you the minute I said that line about the Civil War - The famed Ruttenberg Library has a wide shelf of Civil War books just by people with the first name "Bruce"!
How did things go to you in Norway? Where people are like "who the f is this guy? Why is he talking to me? I don't even know him. And why is he sitting so close to me? (While the person is literally sitting ten meters away).
i found lincoln coincidentally in one of those mailbox libraries you mentioned in a recent video and thought it was a decent though wearisome read - too torturous a length just for decency
I'm currently reading John Buchan's The 39 Steps. It lacks suspense, though I understand the historical significance of the book as one of the first thrillers. I would skip the book and just enjoy Hitchcock's movie version of it.
