Hoi.
Welcome to my September book hall.
I'm pretty sure it's September.
Basically one of them was really late and now these two are going to be squashed together really closely
So sorry if I've posted two almost back to back
but I should be back on schedule after this.
I have a really nice collection of books I have received for review
and today I am going to share them with you.
The first one I have is "The Essex Serpent"
In a video I don't think is out yet I did an East London bookshop tour
Lucy, who I was with, bought this book; she was really excited to read it.
This is one in lots of bookshops on display and
it has just received some amazing reviews and quotes from authors
Including Jessie Burton.
I'm actually listening to the Muse on audio at the moment by Jessie Burton
Which I think actually has a quite similar cover to this.
It's set in London in 1983.
and John Burnside describes it as mix between Charles Dickens and Bram Stoker
It's about a women who has recently become a widow and her son
when they move to a new town where there are rumours that the Essex Serpent is around.
People actually believe it may be an undiscovered species.
Cora who kind of has a huge interest in this, goes after it and that where the story begins.
Next I have a translated book from a Dutch author
It is "A Beautiful Young Wife" by Tommy Wieringa.
Now the reason I accepted this is that I want to read more Dutch literature
especially if it's been translated into English
so I can share it with you guys
I figured since this is quite a short one it would be a nice opportunity to get through it quite quickly.
He's definitely and author I have heard of before.
probably when I was in school but I haven't read anything by him yet.
The description of this is quite vague I know it's about a couple.
But I'm just going to read it and let you guys know what I think
Then next up I have this georgious book
It is "Bloom" by Estée Lalonde
who you might know from of course Youtube.
I've made a video with her before where we talked about books to get back into reading
and her book is now out. And I have a lovely signed copy.
I wish I could explain to you guys what this feels like
This is a sort of super matt finish; it's the rubbery one.
And this is the fabric.
It is probably the most georgious combinations of finishes and colours I have ever seen.
I have no doubt I will be reading this from back to back but I'll tell you guys what's on the inside.
It is split up in different parts that all centre around a different topic
So for example there's home, travel, food work etc.
It's filled with lots of georgious photography.
I guess if you follow Estée online you probably wouldn't be too surprised by that.
Also I got to go to one of the launch events for her book.
Where Aslan and Estée read out postcards that they wrote to each other
while they were in a long distance relationship
I think particularly looking forward to reading about Estée moving from Canada to London
to live here and how that adjustment was for her.
because I know it was quite difficult and obviously I can relate to trying to live in a new country.
I just realised you can see them piling up on the side here.
So next is the new book by Emma Donoghue
Now I saw "Room" a while ago and friggin loved it.
I haven't read the book yet but this is set in the Irish Midlands which I'm very much looking forward to
in the 1850's and is about a girl who stops eating
but somehow remains healthy and alive
It's about a nurse who is sent to go investigate basically
who then clashes with the journalist who is trying to write a story about this girl.
and then finally there is one I don't know much about yet because it's still wrapped
I received it like this. It's from Quercus. It's actually one of my old colleagues who went this to me.
She said that this is quite a good Halloween read as well.
So I'm going to open this up.
Alright.
"The Hidden People". It looks like this. It is by Alison Littlewood
Tragedy is only half a step away.
Oh it has a poem on the back.
I'm so obsessed with epigraphs at the beginning of books
I have done a video about that before.
and I just love when the author has a poem that somehow matches really well with the story
The poem on the back is by Yates and it is
"Come away o' human child. To the woods and waters wild.
With the fairy hand in hand.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
This is also set in the 1850's. Apparently this is a theme for today's haul.
It's a crossover that hints at "The Wicker Man" and "The Midwich Cuckoos"
which is by John Wyndham who I love
It seems to be about a young woman who was murdered
because her husband thought she was a changeling which I'm assuming is like a fairy changeling
and a man who leaves his young wife in London to go find out what the story is.
Alright so those were the books I received in September
Do let me know if there was anything in there you would be interested in reading.
I almost forgot an important thing.
On November 5th I will be at Libreria which is a beautiful bookshop just off of Brick Lane
from 2 til 4 with other booktubers: Jen, Lina, Lauren, and Jean.
And we'll basically be there to help people out with shopping
and like recommend our favourite books
So if you're in the neighbourhood come say hi
and you know, go browse some books
cool that was really it. I will talk to you guys later.
Doei