A Huge Book Haul - August 2021

hey everybody so it's time for a very very big book haul i am here to tell you about a stack of amazing books that have been sent my way books that i cannot wait to read and books that i need to get on your tbr i hope you're ready for it to explode so let's get started [Music] hi everybody and welcome back to my channel it's russell with ink and paper blog how are you all doing today as always i hope you're happy i hope you're healthy i hope you're safe and of course i hope you're reading an amazing book or two or three or four i am hot it is again hot hot in northern california windows closed air conditioned on uh we are wrapping up our visit with our nephew he stayed a week longer than was expected um so this week has been very busy with work and very busy just you know entertaining him and doing things with him so i've been a little bit away from the bookish world but i have been reading some amazing books finished an amazing title that i cannot wait to tell you about this morning so there we go but today we're talking book haul a huge book haul um so many great books and i believe all of these books are out so i think you can get your hands on them right now so as always get out that pen that paper that goodreads however you keep track of your tbr if you are so able please order these books from your local independent bookstore and or get your copy through the library if you are a library user we're going to go ahead and start with the first book on this list it's probably the biggest name in this stack and that is the new novel by joyce carol oates breathe out from echo i want to thank echo for sending me this beautiful finished copy i have a very like up and down relationship with joyce carol oates hit me up sometime i'll tell you about it however this book really spoke to me i've been really enjoying novels that deal with grief and relationships and all of that type of stuff and that's what this book is about so this is the story of a married couple they originally i believe from cambridge massachusetts yes and they wind up going to a little town in new mexico they're academics um they get there though and the husband becomes sort of mysteriously ill winds up being misdiagnosed and hospitalized and it's the the future seems dire and it's really the story about this woman and the love she has for her husband and she's younger than him and sort of coming to terms with the fact that even though she loves him so passionately and wants to do stuff anything she can to help him survive this ordeal maybe her love is not enough to do that and there's a line in there that i think that i love it says a love that refuses to be surrendered at death is this the blessing of a unique married love or a curse that must be exercised i think that sounds fascinating i actually started reading this book um this morning after i finished my last novel and a very unique voice in the beginning of it so i'm excited to see what happens here and how joyce carol oates deals with sort of loss and relationships and love and all of that so that's breathe by joyce carol oates this cover is beautiful new mexico is beautiful um and this is out from echo books right now you can get your hands on it okay one of the debuts of the year that i've really sort of was excited to come out and just arrived on shelves is um damnation spring by ash davidson this is out from scribner and again this just came out so you can get your hands on it right now this book takes place over a single year i want to say like 1977 to 1978 if i'm not mistaken and i will say 1977 is a good year because i was the year i was born this is the story of a couple who is up in like the pacific northwest the husband is involved in um the logging trade and he makes the decision to buy this sort of like take the whole family's savings to buy this this land that um technically has a lot of opportunity um to make the family very very wealthy um his wife who is a midwife has um and he's doing it by the way for his family but we find out that his wife has had a number of miscarriages and she is a midwife and she's noticed that a lot of women in this area are having miscarriages as well and it turns out that the herbicides that the logging company has been using which were considered harmless maybe they are not as harmless as people think and the wife starts to sort of investigate into this while all the sort of all of this logging is disappearing and all this nature is going away is the area being like sort of over um over what's the world i'm looking for like over logged that seems the wrong word but you know what i mean um and that sort of that jumps to position and it happens all over a single year so that's damnation spring by ash davidson i want to say anthony mara blurbs this book and he is both of his novels are two of my favorite reads ever so and i'm like totally a stan of anthony mara so i'm super excited about it so again scribner damnation spring by ash davidson and her book is out already you can get your hands on it as we speak okay now this is a book i this is not the author's debut novel but i believe this is his first book in english translated and that's love in the big city by sing young park i'm going to hold that up there and i think this is translated by anthony hur right is that correct yep anthony herr who by the way i follow on twitter absolutely adore i think he is fantastic and he has translated so many amazing books um from korean to english and this story um sort of sounds like i want to say it's sort of like a love letter to the glittery nightlife of soul so we have a main character he and his best friend to live together she and he sort of live this extravagant lifestyle together very like night clubby energy and all of that but eventually she decides to sort of settle down and he is sort of left on his own he winds up taking care of his mother he wants to figure out what he's going to be doing and he winds up in a bunch of relationships with a variety of different men one of the men is like very handsome but very cold and another one may be like that perfect guy but how does he sort of juggle all of this um as coming in or out of the life that he normally and is usually leading um i hope that that makes sense it sort of sounds like a coming of age story but also sort of like a a tribute to sort of this 20s age you know and figuring out what the world is going to be um i trust anthony hur because i think he's a fantastic fantastic uh translator and i'm really excited about this so this is out from grove it actually is the one that doesn't come out on this list for a while this book comes out on november 9th and this is love in the big city by sung young park translated by anthony herr and look at that cover it's phenomenal i will say this arrived to me in the mail a little beat up like the mailman took it out read it a couple times and then sent it on its way to me so um i'm very excited about it though okay i am a huge fan of celadon they usually write like thrillers that i'm really into but they just released this novel which is we are the brennans by tracy lang that is more along the lines of like one of those small town family drama things that just sounds so good so at the at the center of this is a young woman named sunday sunday sunday brennan um she's been involved in a car accident a dui car accident which she is at fault she is out um in los angeles and she winds up sort of scurrying home back to new york back to her family where she left five years ago without really much ado she left a boyfriend fiance she left her family and then she has to go home and sort of re reinvent those relationships and she gets there and she realizes that maybe not only does she need them but maybe they need her just as badly so this feels to me like very much in um the veins of yes again or something maybe even you know how um celestine should can do like that town family vibe so well i'm really very interested in seeing what this one puts out and the cover is just rather beautiful so that's we are the brennans by tracy ling out from celadon books as we speak okay this book sounds like it's going to be so much fun and sort of like a body humor i don't know i don't know exactly but i absolutely love and i love the pictures on instagram of people recreating this cover so look at that cover this is nobody somebody anybody by kelly mcclory is that how you say mcclory and this is again this is out now from echo i love echo i think there's a whole lot of echo in this pile actually they treat me very very well and they send me fantastic books um so this is the story of amy she's a young woman who has taken a job as a chambermaid at a yacht club as she prepares to take the exam to become an emt for the third and hopefully the lucky charm time but she's as the date sort of nears amy has a habit of sort of building up her anxiety and starts a sort of self-doubt and she becomes she creates this sort of pattern that she thinks is going to sort of fix that she winds up becoming friends and receiving an invite from her landlord um where she really is like this is the first person she feels like she can trust he invites her over for dinner but this connection comes with sort of this surge of hopefulness but is it one of those things that she's over putting her like is she putting her eggs in all in one basket sort of situation and she has to figure that out before the summer end she has to take this test which is really you know the next step for her and her future so that's nobody somebody anybody by kelly mcclory out from echo books again this one is out and you can get your hands on it this one just came out and this one speaks to me in so many ways because you guys know i have certain things that i'm very passionate about but agatha of little neon by claire lucita luchetta um i want to make it super french i'm not even sure that's absolutely true but this is you know this is a story of a group of nuns which come on right then you know i'm totally bought in agatha is one of four sisters they live in a house together they're very communal they pray together they've been together and then one day their landlord evicts them so they have to move into this sort of um halfway house and they have to sort of go back into the real world agatha winds up going into a all girls school to teach math and sort of that conundrum of what is her place in the world has she sort of been secluded too long is her place out there in the real world what is that going to teach her about herself not only herself but the sisterhood she's a part of and the people that she holds dear to her heart so i think this sounds excellent i'm very excited for it so that's agatha of little neon by claire luchette and this is out from fsg you can get your hands on it right now okay europa always treats me well too gosh i love these publishers big thank you to all of them and all of the books that they send me but this is brotherhood by muhammad and i am sorry um and i don't think i'm saying that middle name actually accurately and this is translated i believe from the french give me one minute translated from the french by alexia trigo um and this is the story of a regime called the brotherhood and you know that goes and he publicly execute the executes these two young people for their love and this is the story of what their mothers do in response it's very simple it says in response their mothers begin a secret correspondence their only outlet for the outlet for the grief they share and each woman's personal reckoning with a leadership that would take her beloved child's life so this cover leads me to believe you know one thing but it sounds like this is going to be one of those books that's going to tug at all of our heartstrings mom's dealing with the loss of a child is one of those things that just even thinking about it makes me cry a little bit inside um so i'm really excited about this one so this is um brotherhood by muhammad mughbar magar and i'm sorry sar and i'm gonna put that up there um they're translated from the french by um alexia trigo and out from europa as we speak right now okay next is a book that when the publisher sent it to me and i posted it one of the people um megan that works there was like russell i'm so excited for you to read this one and my book club may choose it so i've been holding off on reading it in case they choose it because i don't want to read it early but that's radiant fugitives by nawaz ahmed and this is out from counterpoint and you can get your hands on it right now this is the story um yeah this is the story of an indian family three generations of an indian family um but at the center of it is a woman named seema who her father disowned her when she came out as a lesbian so she left and i believe this takes place in san francisco she's in san francisco if i'm not mistaken i know she's in california um and she is now pregnant and she's estranged from the father of the baby and she has to sort of start rebuilding relationships with her mother and also her sister who is very very religious and lives in texas and i believe is a medical doctor but this book is told from the perspective of sema's child who at the start of the book is unborn so it's going to be one of those very creative narrative voices so i'm very interested in that but it also takes place over sort of the obama era and sort of how that all plays into this family and their feeling of security and what's going on in the united states that's also what's going on between all three of them i hope i did a good job on that i'm really excited about it i'm i don't know if my book club will choose it because if they don't then i need to read it immediately so that's radiant fugitives by nawaz ahmed and this is out from counterpoint as we speak okay this stack is almost done i only have four more y'all uh the next book i want to tell you about sort of hard to see the title there i apologize this is immediate family by ashley nelson levy again fsg coming home sending me a fantastic title and this also has a huge blurb by anthony mara who i love rachel kong who i love lydia kelsey who i love i don't know julie buntin who also recommends this book but i'm going to say i love her too because all of those people are fantastic um this is the story this is the story of a young girl who is writing or has been asked to write a speech for her brother's wedding she's going to give the wedding toast right and she sort of uses this as a way of writing a letter to her brother to reminisce about sort of their upbringing now she is introduced to her brother late in life she was nine years old when the she traveled with her parents to thailand to meet her brother six years her junior so this is about um orphans and adoption and family in that way and it's also about this sort of rocky relationship between the main character and her brother and how all of that story comes out in this tale about this family i'm actually thinking this may be the next book that i read so that's immediate family by ashley nelson levy out from fsg and i just think there's something starkly beautiful about that cover i don't know why i really like it okay thank you fsg going on to a book i've actually talked about this book in a couple of videos now because i'm such a carolina de roberta's fan um and this is her new file uh new novel the president and the frog now if you haven't read cantorus which was her last novel please stop what you're doing get that book and read it it is freaking fantastic this book is a bit different so this is the story of a president of a fictionalized a latin country who is being interviewed by a journalist and it turns out that this president has quite a past he was part of like the guerrilla movement he was put in prison and the journalist is sort of trying to figure out how he got where he got right but the president doesn't want to say that part of and one of the inspirations for what has happened to him is a conversation he had in prison with a frog and he's trying to make the decision of whether or not he should sort of tell that part of the story does that make sense so this has sort of like a de geus mahina maybe a little bit of um magical realism to it um i trust carolina she is brilliant um and she reads her audiobooks she read cantorus and it was so good um and i hear she reads this one too so there you go so this is the president and the frog by carolina dave roberts out now from kanov two more i'm almost done your tbr will get to take a break in just a minute but you're gonna oh you know i lied i have three more so i better get going um this is tin camp road out from riverhead books by uh ellen ergood she wrote south of superior which i heard about i don't know that i've read anything by her but this one sounds so good so this takes place on the upper peninsula of michigan we have a young mother and her daughter who sort of live a very very secluded life um they just take odd jobs to the mom just takes odd jobs in order to keep sort of the family going um they've just lived very very secluded um but one day their landlord evicts them landlorder landlord evicts them and things change for the family and they she's trying to figure out how and what she's going to do to protect and provide for her daughter gosh this one sounds so good too gosh i have so much reading to do maybe i just need to ignore the world for a while um i love mother-daughter stories i love a story about you know sort of the hardships of what we have to do for family sometimes and i just want this to be as beautiful and heart-wrenching as it sounds it's going to be so this is ellen ergood's tin camp road out now from riverhead books that cover is quite beautiful too um yeah super excited about this sometimes it takes all my power everyone to not open the book while i'm doing a video and start reading it really does it takes all my power okay i don't know if i requested this book or if it was just sent to me sometimes i request things and my brain doesn't remember but once this book came i was like okay this book sounds fantastic and so that's the turnout by megan abbott now um as a guest on my channel a number of times hunter of shelf by shelf on instagram is a huge megan abbott fan he has already raved about this book um but this is the story of um a dance school so we have two sisters who own a dance school one of them is married after their parents die they take over the ownership of it um the youngest one of the sisters sort of takes care of the younger dancers does the soft uh um loving part of being a dance instructor and then the older sister i think it's the older sister don't quote me on that but the other sister she um is she's the one who does the older dancers who are like destined for something she's sort of the hard edge of the dance school and the husband's the behind the scenes he used to be the star student of the dance school but due to injury he can no longer dance um the nutcracker is about to be performed it is like sort or they're getting ready to performance their big yearly thing and it says um just uh but when a suspicious accident occurs just on the onset of school's annual performance of the nutcracker a season of competition anxiety and exhilaration an interloper arrives and threatens the sisters so yeah that sounds great these are i think ballet those ballet slipper um what am i what ribbons that you tie around so that's the turnout by megan abbott out now from putnam thank you very very much putnam um and that is a very clever title i'm just gonna say it right now i thought it was doing well i thought i'd stay under 20 minutes today and i'm not going to so i apologize um but i have to include the new lindsey fay book that just came out and that's the king of infinite space now lindsay faye wrote jane steele which i absolutely loved was recommended to me by joss over at squibblesread she doesn't do her youtube channel anymore but you can absolutely find her as a contributor on the reading women podcast um and she's great and she's a lovely person and i miss seeing her very very much so this book is a bit complicated i had read i was like okay how are you gonna summarize this and there's no way okay so at the center is ben dane he's brilliant devastating devoted honest to a fault um and his broadway theater barren father has died and but was it an accident or was it on purpose we don't really know but it's sort of getting into ben's head unable to face alone his mother's ghastly remarriage to his uncle ben turns to his dearest friend horatio patel whom he has seen since the rel who he hasn't seen since their relationship changed forever from platonic to something other loyal to a fault truly a fault horatio is on the first flight to nyc when he finds himself next to a sly tailor who portends inevitable disaster and who seems ominously like the architect of mayhem himself meanwhile ben's ex-fiancee laya sundered from her loved ones thanks to her addiction recovery and torn from her art has been drawn into the fold of three florists from new orleans seemingly ageless sisters who teach her the language of flowers and whose magic kobo k's holds both curses and cures for a price now i just want you all to know yes as you read as i read that and you listened hamlet is the inspiration for this book it screams hamlet but in the hands of lindsay faye i think it's going to be so much fun so that's the king of infinite space by lindsey fay out from putnam and that book is it that is the whole stack there are way too many books for me to lift up to show you this stack today y'all but what i want to say is if you are a turn subscriber thank you so much i could not do this without you if you are new to my channel i hope you subscribe i hope every single one of these books winds up on your tbr and you thank me for making it explode that's my favorite compliment and i totally love it as always i encourage you to read globally shop locally and until next time i wish you happy reading bye everyone [Music] [Music] you

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Keywords: Books, Reading, Bookclubs, Book Reviews, Book Recommendations, Literature, Kid Friendly, Family Friendly, Joyce Carol Oats, Ash Davidson, Sang Young Park, Tracey Lange, Kelly McClorey, Claire Luchette, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Nawaaz Ahmed, Nelson Levy, Caroline De Robertis, Ellen Airgood, Megan Abbot, Lindsay Faye

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Length: 24min 21sec (1461 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 14 2021