I can totally connect to what you have said in this video, Shelly. I love reading my fair share of Non-Fictions but I don't want to read anything more about what I am currently living/experiencing. I don't mind reading it from a different period but living and reading my current reality, will slowly and surely send me into a serious depressive state🤷♀️ That being said the two books that stood out to me also from this list are ‘The Marriage Question’ and maybe posiiblibly ‘The Talk’ Again like the last list, I have enough in my library to get to, so I doubt I‘m going to be rushing to read any of them soon. Thanks for sharing, as this keeps me informed about the newer releases💕
Thanks for sharing the list and doing the research for us. I totally agree the George Eliot one sounds best and I kind am intrigued by the artic race one maybe because I lived in Alaska for a while. Happy summer reading!!
I nearly always read to escape reality! I long for the days of 30 minutes only of news each day. There was only time for the facts, not opinions. Now we are smothered by the same bad/sad news continuously and poor behavior is considered news. Non-fiction is not ususlly my forte, but the Elliot sounds good as well as the ocean one. Thank you for the info!🙂
“give me something that doesn’t remind of now” I can totally relate to. I am super happy within my days but yes I definitely want escapism within my books too. I guess that’s why I like historical fiction so much. Thank you for sharing these with us. I took note of The Talk. In general I am not super Non fiction heavy within my reading. I saying having just finished one yesterday 😂
I'm not a huge celebrity memoir person either, but if I had to chose one to read this year, Pageboy would be up there. The Sullivanians and The Underworld also sounds interesting. I enjoy these types of videos since I don't usually seek out info about new releases! -Becks
Of all of these, Underworld sounds the most exciting to me. Even more than Pageboy, which I happen to have out from the library at the moment, and which I haven’t yet started. I can relate to your desire to be transported elsewhere by whatever book you pick up. I tried three different audiobooks before I settled on one about raising backyard chickens (Under the Henfluence).
I had basically the same reaction to the list: too many serious and depressing issues. I am unlikely to read any of them this summer (though it’s likely some of them will show up in the Booktube Prize next year).
Well, none of them sound like must-reads for me, which is good for my wallet. The Visionaries caught my attention first. After that, it's a tie between between deep sea life and how the heat will kill me. I'm already dreading the heat of summer, so I think I'd pass on that until later in the year. A Most Tolerant Little Town and The Talk do sound moving. All the others sound OK, but just OK.
Of those _The Marriage Question_ sounds like the only one I would read. A lot of non-fiction seems to have such a narrow focus; and things like climate change, I know the general gist, but I’m not going to be in a position of trying to sway somebody’s vote on something, or opinion, so I skip that.
If you are interested in a book to take you to an otherworldly place, you might want to escape to Shangri-La by reading _Lost Horizon_ (1933) by James Hilton. I just read it and liked it a lot. Have you read it?
