Some years ago I read a book I really loved called "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating", by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. It's a memoir about how a snail helped the author going through her health issues 😊

@Nastya-readsandlifts

7 ай бұрын

OMG, I love this book! it is like 2 books smashed together in just about 150 pages: one about disability, and another is about gastropods - such an unexpected book”marriage”.

@joreads8782

6 ай бұрын

Me too that was such a beautiful book!

You are beautiful! I like your thoughts on different kinds of books. I’m a big reader of nonfiction ; of late it’s been my most favorite genre. A lot of great books. Sometimes I surprise myself with what I liked. I’m trading “My Hijacking” about the PLO hijacking of a commercial airliner taking off from Israel and diverted to Jordon in 1970. The author was 12 years old Jewish girl at the time of the hijacking traveling with her older sister after spending summer with her divorced mom and returning to New York where her father lived. She’s trying to get a better sense of her faded memories and understand why and how it happened. It’s fascinating. Gives a personal Look at the establishment of Israel at the expense of Palestinians who were displaced to accommodate the creation of Israel. Their captivity as hostages is fascinating. As she grew older she wanted to understand more about it. I never would have thought this would be an interesting story but it’s very good.

I picked up The Way Through the Woods because of one of your earlier videos. It’s very good, poignant & so informative about mushrooms!

I’m adding all the nature books to my want to read lists. Off topic, I have to add I love your sweater🥰

@TheBookCastle

7 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

Yay Falcon Thief! yes, it is indeed similar to Feather Thief, very good, though slightly not as wacky

thank you for sharing, adding so many of these to my tbr! 📚 some recs that are a memoir + focus on a subject matter: - smoke gets in your eyes by caitlin doughty (her other 2 are great as well) - for small creatures such as we by sasha sagan - braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer - maybe you should talk to someone by lori gottlieb - wintering by katherine may - the anthropocene reviewed by john green - cornflakes with john lennon by robert hilburn - finding the mother tree by suzanne simard

@TheBookCastle

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the recommendations!!! 🖤🖤

Like you I also have a fascination for books about death and dying so I’ve added The In-Between to my list. I’m currently reading From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty, I think you’ve mentioned it before? A memoir recommendation is The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. It’s about a woman who loses her home and her husband is very ill. She sets off to walk a long coastal path in England, camping wild. Given your interest in memoir with another story and nature I think you might like it.

@TheBookCastle

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I love that book by Doughty! 🖤

I’m reading “Ashes and Stones” by Allyson Shaw. A journey through Scotland in search of women hunted as witches. So far so good 🤍🖤🪄

I'm in the middle of civil rights queen❤ thanks for the recs🙌🏼🙌🏼

I have The Falcon Thief on my shelf also. Great list!

I have added The Way Through the Woods to my tbr. I do not like to eat mushrooms but find them aestheticly pleasing. 😆 Any excuse to be in the woods is a good one!

I just ordered The Invention of Nature after watching this video. I read Agent Zigzag a few years ago and loved it. Hoping to get to The Spy and the Traitor this year.

I adore H is for Hawk, by Helen McDonald, but since you mentioned you don’t have much interest in birds, so I don’t know. It is another book exploring grief. It really hit home to me that is for sure. It’s worth looking into though. Olive from A Book Olive adores it. Maybe watch her reviews and see what you think.

@joreads8782

6 ай бұрын

Also I really loved The Way through the Woods! Hope you love it!

I just ordered the Orchid Thief after watching the great movie "Adaptation" which I had somehow missed previously. Loved the Feather Thief also. Now reading A Room of Ones Own as first Nonfiction of the Year . The Book of Eels is also on my list.

The Way Through the Woods is on my TBR for Feb/Mar. And the Invention of Nature was one of my faves for the year I read it on. I hope you’ll enjoy them both! well, all of the books really 😅

I liked the memoir 'Cheer up love' by Susan Calman. She is a Britisch comedian and her memoir is about her struggles with depression growing up and as an adult and how people respond to it. Also Born A Crime by Trevor Noah about apartheid in South Africa. And Unfollow by Megan Phelps about leaving the extremist/fundamentalist group her family runs. Also this week I read Garlic and the Vampire on your recommendation and I loved it, so adorable 😊

I really enjoyed The Way Through the Woods! I found it to be quiet, reflective, and tender. Other books that come to mind that have a combined memoir + other stuff are Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall-Kimmerer (my all-time favorite book!), A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott, and How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler. I'd highly recommend all three 🙂

@TheBookCastle

6 ай бұрын

Amaziiing, thank you!! 🖤🖤

I read Notes on a Silencing in June 2021 and there's one particular detail in that book that I don't think I will ever forget. I gave it 4.5/5. -Becks

Hello Alice ! What a great selection ! I really hope you'll get to read them, because I really really want to hear your reveiw !

I loved The Invention of Nature!

The Invention of Nature is INSANELY GOOD! Enjoy!

I"m hoping to get to Ice by amy brady (a history on ice in america), Raw dog by Jamie Loftus (a history of hot dogs), and meet me by the fountain by Alexandra Lange (a history of shopping malls)

Factfulness is so good 🥰

I read this stunning nonfiction book some weeks ago "Ace : what asexuality reveals about desire, society and the meaning of sex " by Angela Chen Huge recommendation 💜

I want to read more non fiction as well, I recently picked up a book about poisons

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes is a memoir that sounds like what you’re looking for.

"The world of yesterday" by Stefan Zweig, it's a great memoire about his life as writer and intellectual and about the history of Europe before the IIWW.

For memoirs I recommend to you "Traveling with ghosts" by Shannon Leone Fowler, I think you'll like it. It's about how the author (who is a marine biologist) loses her fiancé because of the sting of a jellyfish. She then starts traveling through countries with tumultuous pasts trying to process her own tragedy.

If you haven't read A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, I highly recommend it. It's kind of a memoir of the authors time translating a poem from the 1700's and the parallels between her own life and the poets

@TheBookCastle

6 ай бұрын

Oooh, that sounds very interesting!

Desert Flower by Waris Dirie also deals with Femal Genital Mutilation and cultural differences and modelling world. it is a tough and horrible read but also very educational and very, very, very important, I think. It's a book I hope as many people read who are able to read it.

Alice, do you know the author of The Feather Thief? I enjoy your reviews and recommendations. Thanks!

@TheBookCastle

6 ай бұрын

The author is Kirk Wallace Johnson 🖤