Brain injury, love, villainy: Patrick Charnley's powerful & poignant novel, 'This, My Second Life' youtu.be/7rEz3CVg5PE

Way behind on cross-posting, sorry - this was posted on BookTube on July 6 Recent Reads: Fasten your seatbelts—and then read these novels youtu.be/kTGXXywHpHo

Marked as did-not-finish: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, Anthea Bell (Translator) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

5 of 5 stars to This, My Second Life by Patrick Charnley www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

3 of 5 stars to Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

5 of 5 stars to Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

4 of 5 stars to The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Austentatious 2026: Ros, Tilly, and Kathy on all things Jane Austen - a colloquy for #JaneAustenJuly youtu.be/99PuqWAGoJ0

5 of 5 stars to How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...

5 of 5 stars to How to Read a Book by Monica Wood www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...

Marked as did-not-finish: Wilderness of Mirrors by Olufemi Terry www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

5 of 5 stars to The Disinherited by Matt Cohen www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

This Is It: A Novel in Stories by Matthew Fox www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Melanie and Shawn chat about Gareth Russell's Queen James / The Six Loves of James I youtu.be/xN1p8UAyqA8.

A chat with queer novelist Elvin James Mensah about his soon-to-be-published 2nd novel, White Spaces youtu.be/kzE-eTXP38g

Recent Reads: Essays to die for and a hyperactive family in the Jazz Age youtu.be/Bc8f3GMypII

A chat with Canadian writer Dora Dueck about her powerfully ruminative novel All That Belongs youtu.be/YsQDlXA3jEU

Ideas galore—but flesh-and-blood characters, too: A review of Transcription by Ben Lerner youtu.be/Vf_PeIr_TwA

5 of 5 stars to Transcription by Ben Lerner www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

5 of 5 stars to Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

5 of 5 stars to In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Marked as did-not-finish: Too Great a Sky by Liliana Corobca, Monica Cure (Translator) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

In Other Words This is the latest video in my 'etymology series'. youtu.be/zcbd7pOXMGc

Recent Reads: A couple of bails—more than mitigated by a bunch of 5-star reads youtu.be/6HtYDY8-9CI

Natascha Wodin's memoir, She Came From Mariupol: A Ukrainian family pounded against history's anvil youtu.be/KIkw6Hg88wA She Came from Mariupol by Natascha Wodin Alfred Kueppers (Translator)

Novelist Barb Howard and Shawn launch their 4th annual novella reading project: please join us! youtu.be/IU0RWRBI9KM

5 of 5 stars to Reverberations: A Daughter’s Meditations on Alzheimer’s by Marion Agnew www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...

5 of 5 stars to The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 by Beth Brower www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

5 of 5 stars to Like a River Divides the Earth by Dora Dueck www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Marked as did-not-finish: Belle Greene by Alexandra Lapierre, Tina Kover (Translator) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...