I hate to correct you because I think you’re a genius book tuber, but Samuel Adams was not a president 😀

@abookolive

9 ай бұрын

Just because I'm a Booktuber doesn't mean I'm always right! I appreciate the heads up Told you I'm not big on American history 🤣

@cherylstevens9665

9 ай бұрын

@@abookolive I still think you’re the best book tuber out there!

@abookolive

9 ай бұрын

@@cherylstevens9665 You're so sweet! Thank you ♥️ And thanks again for keeping me informed!

@criss8836

9 ай бұрын

If Olive says he was, then he was 😘

I think you'd love "All the Living and the Dead" by Haley Campbell. Incredibly moving and very in depth look at the industries surrounding death.

Good heavens I’m going to have to add several of these to my TBR! Most excited about the Anthony Bourdain one. I’m kicking off spooky season with some classics - Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Dr Jeckll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, and Frankenstein. 😁 Oh yeah… also throwing in some Poe for good measure!

@RachaelsLibrary

9 ай бұрын

I love his memoir

You make the most niche nonfiction sound interesting! I never thought I would want to read a book about "horse girls"... an yet 🤓❤

Great recommendations. Thanks! I hope you love Hamnet as much as I did. 🌻

@abookolive

9 ай бұрын

I hope so, too!

Just added Maid to my TBR. Both of my grandmothers were housekeepers and worked tirelessly to provide for their families. I’ll read it in honor of them ❤❤

I recommend the book The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel. It is about the recovery of stolen art by the Nazis during World War II. I absolutely enjoyed it and would recommend it for those who are interested in either art, or WWII, or both.

Maids- if you’re working for someone else the pay sucks 😢 but if you’re working for yourself it was $30/ hour x 2 ppl if you have a partner. Would take us 1 hour to clean a house split the tasks do we finished at the same time. Other days for deep cleaning can take longer. That was back in 2006-2010

I think you cost me more money than any other booktuber! I add to my wish list/shopping list almost every time I watch one of your videos. Meanwhile...I am already sitting here speculating about which words will be the Nonfiction November words this year. My anticipation is building.

@abookolive

9 ай бұрын

I just finalized the challenge words late last week! 🤭

@RachaelsLibrary

9 ай бұрын

You're so right 😅

I tried reading the Oliver Sacks book a while back but didn’t get on with the writing and dnf’d it pretty quickly. I hope you have better luck with it! The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu sounds so fun! I read Gut by Enders back in 2015-16 and really enjoyed it, though I don’t remember much of the specifics re: writing etc. I hope you like it. That find of In the Weeds is amazing!!

I loved the badass librarians

I've made a note of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. The title, cover and the story made me want to add it to my TBR.

If you enjoy The Wine Lover's Daughter, I would love to recommend more by Anne Fadiman, especially Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader and At Large and At Small, a book of familiar essays. I absolutely love her work and think you might too.

I've read only two on this list, both books were an absolute charm, albeit for different reasons. Hamnet is gut-wrenching and I adored this book. I came across it while taking part in the Folgers Shakespeare Library's book club a few years ago. Gut, is written by a medical student while she is getting a degree in gastro-enterology, while she is very much enthralled by her subject. It is a fabulous read into, well, our bowels. I hope you enjoy!

You're very convincing. Another great video and I'm ready to spend money on your recommendations 😅

Here's my October list, which covers Historathon, Halloween, and Victober: When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win WW2 by Molly Guptill Manning Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror by W. Scott Poole Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire by W. Scott Poole The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson Dress Diary: Secrets From a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin

As you are a fan of John Singer Sargent, I'm wondering if you have been to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston? I think they have the largest collection of his works and the MFA guides are very well informed about him. As for spooky season books, I have been reading The Ruin of All Witches by Malcolm Gaskill, which is about a witch mania that happened in Springfield Massachusetts decades before the more famous witch trials in Salem. I also listened to Yours Cruelly, Elvira, Cassandra Peterson's memoir.

I’ll be so interested to hear your thoughts on Lord of the Flies. I’ve been attempting to do the same with books I read years ago in school. I didn’t like LOTF in high school either and I’ll hold off my adult thoughts until you do your reread😊. The bad ass librarians is going to be a must for me! And I’m adding The Revolutionary and Dark Horses too. As well as Ann Fadiman’s book and The Grand Affair. Have a great week💙

Great recommendations. You may have already read the book I'm going to recommend, but just in case you haven't, see if you can get your hands on Flow. The Psychology of the Optimal Experience by Mihaly something. Sorry. He has a long last name full of consonants. I've read it twice, and I rarely do that. And speaking of death, try Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death. I read it when I was 18 (I'm almost 70) and it blew me away. Love your channel.

Giulia Enders' book about guts was a huge bestseller here in Germany. She started as a science slammer, I think. And her sister did the illustrations for the book. I always enjoy the diversity of topics in nonfiction books. I'm interested in the horse girl book and will look that up 🙂

Thanks for the rec that's similar to Doughty! Hope you've been doing well 😊

Man those are some scary books!!! 😮

love your makeup❤

@abookolive

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I love wearing darker colors when the weather gets cooler 🍂

Lord of the Flies will go well with Wager by David Grann. Enjoy!

@abookolive

9 ай бұрын

Loved The Wager!

Have added Hamnet, Maid and The Oregon Trail to my TBR - and I am still only at the 5 minute mark on this video!! Bad Ass Librarians I purchased last year and I LOVED it!! Most of the rest dont interest me that much. Actually that In the Weeds book, for some reason made me think of Anderson Cooper so I just purchased 3 of his books - all as E-books. I think I thought of his Memoir as a war journalist. Despatches from the Edge, Vanderbilt The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty and The Rainbow comes and goes. All by Anderson Cooper. I have been wanting these forever!! Thanks for the haul, Olive.

I maybe I should read Gut.😊 The ones that sound up my alley are Severed, Hamnet (I've been thinking about that one for a while.), Maid, Revolutionary, The Wine Lover's Daughter, and The Honest Art Dictionary.

I really enjoyed Samuel Adams and the impact that he had on American history was fascinating to me.

Dark Horses and Black Beauties sounds very interesting! I have a book similar on my tbr called Horse Crazy Girls and the Lives of Horses by Jean O’Malley Halley. I've heard great things about Rest in Pieces.

The author of Maid is coming out with a new book, in case you love it you might want to pick that next one up also!

You may like A Taste For Poison by Neil Bradbury. Got at least 3 book resc from this list mainly the death ones.

Personal Effects is a wonderful book about a delicate topic handled with sensitivity and Buttermilk Graffiti is a wonderful book as well. Highly recommend both of them and I am looking forward to your thoughts Olive.

@abookolive

9 ай бұрын

Excellent to hear about both, thank you!

I read Severed a few years ago and quite enjoyed it. If anyone's up for it, I'd pair it with Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul by Dr. Brandy Schillace, about one doctor's attempt to transplant heads. Not for the squeamish (obviously) but still fascinating.

I finished reading Oregon trail just a couple of months ago. I thought it was a lot of fun like you were on a road trip with them. I felt bad for his brother at times. I looked up KZread videos for places that they mentioned as well kind help feel like I was there with them lol I also played the old school Oregon trail game online which is free. I tried to play it how the actual pioneers were on the trail and I died

I absolutely loved Timbuctoo and the Badass Librarians. I learned so much. A lot of familiar names appear in that book. You can Google the names of Islamic people to see their photos too. I can't believe that the Grand Affair is in my library!

I loved Maid so much.

@abookolive

9 ай бұрын

Oh, wonderful! Even more excited now to read it 😊

I *loved* Gut. It's fascinating! I really disliked *Maid*. Many of the author's comments on poverty were correct, but her behavior was appalling.

@abookolive

9 ай бұрын

Interesting! Good to hear your take - I'll be curious to see how I end up liking it.

I really enjoyed In The Weeds with its whirlwind adventures as they visited so many foreign places around the globe! I found lots of good recommends on your video..they are now written in my little red book! I find tracking books down almost as fun as reading them! I love a good deal! Thanks for your video!

Every single one of those books sounds horrible. It is actually impressive.

@abookolive

8 ай бұрын

Cool!