I love these segments. I also want to re-read The Bell Jar - I have the same paperback edition of the book (from high school). Steven's art is so fun! 🐭
Haven’t read any of the books on those two shelves. The Rachman book looks interesting to me and I really should read some Plath. I am enjoying the banana hat driven bookshelf tours very much!
You have a great Sylvia Plath collection! I keep hearing about The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. I think I need to read that one. I love Steven's painting! I did laugh when you said you haven't opened Alexander Pope in years. I have a volume of Pope too that I have NEVER been inclined to look at again--oh, in the past 45 years or so! Terrific shelf tour! Thanks, Angelia.
@@BookChatWithPat8668Thanks, Pat. I think you'd really enjoy The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. I guess there's somebody who reads Pope for fun but it just seems like someone that only exists on a college syllabus!
Oooh, art books! Is he a little old man mouse? Or is something else going on there? Yay Deeshaw Philyaw! You have the same volume of Plath's journals that I had, bought at Recycled along with the letters and her bio, Bitter Fame. I've got Ship of Fools on Kindle but also have never read it. There are two Dawn Powell on my shelves that I've never picked up. I really want to re-read The Imperfectionists. Never heard of Black Bottom Saints, but I tend to trust Ann Patchett's recs. I spy Straight Man! This was fun. Yes, more, please!
@@EveningReader Thanks, Priscilla. I read the Plath letters back in high school; I guess it was a library book. That first wave of Plath love was so intense. I don't think the mouse is old; he's just ....off. 😃
It's fun looking at what people have on their bookshelves. How do you decide what to unhaul and what to keep? I sometimes can't get past "I will read it someday" which may make me a book hoarder! I did promise my daughter I would hand them off after I read them to keep the joy of reading going in someone else's hands.
@@marciajohansson769 I'm usually ready to unhaul books that I've had for awhile if I don't feel strongly about them - I don't think I'd reread them or that anyone else in the family would be interested. Maybe I bought it and it was blah or just okay. If I haven't read it yet I'll hold out for a loooong time before giving up. Years and years!
I read Porter’s short story, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, in high school and it haunts me to this day. 🤗 Mary Renault wrote The King Must Die. A college assignment read that I really got into. Great shelf!
I just picked up a new lovely edition of Ariel at my favorite friends of the library bookstore since I have no idea where my original version got to! Your husband’s animal portrait is giving me Jenny Lawson’s taxidermied animals vibes, what’s in the water down there in Texas????
@@bookofdust Maybe it's the humidity!? Jenny Lawson owns a bookstore in San Antonio that I want to check out. Yay to a pretty new copy of Ariel. Who the heck donated such a treasure?
