#5 A gentleman in Moscow; #9 Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

🤣 So glad you're back. Glad the spin picks are back.

Oh, the suspense! 😂 5: The Kite Runner 9: A Bell for Adano PS; Reading of the diversity of choices among your subscribers is as much fun as the actual Spin

5. Austral - Carlos Fonseca 9. Bolla - Pajtim Statovici Among my most anticipated on the list, so very happy with this outcome!

Yay, it’s back!!! #5: Thornyhold by Mary Stewart #9: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Oh I love Mary Stewart! Love this result for you.

Using my never-ending NetGalley ARCS I need to get through ASAP... going down the list in publication order from newest to oldest, my results were: 5 - "Fragile Designs" by Colleen Coble 9 - "Cold Pursuit" by Nancy Mehl Thank you for the TBR accountability, Rick! 🙂

Awesome that you brought this back. I'm rarely on IG, but a friend saw it and told me. I made a list of Christian fiction authors that I own a bunch of that I can get on audio (mostly). My picks are Charlene Ann Baumbich and Jane Peart. 👍

This was fun! I choose most of my books through a random number generator so this is right up my alley. #5 was Heliotrope by Palmer Pickering and #9 was Mistborn: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson.

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Brandon Sanderson might be my top “I need to read that guy just to see what everyone is talking about.” But equal parts of me thinks I would love and hate the experience lol. Have you read him before?

@jenniferobin7260

6 ай бұрын

I actually first read Way of Kings and really enjoyed it. Then I decided to work my way through his books from the beginning so I've read Elantris, The Emperor's Soul, and the first two books in the Mistborn series. I wouldn't say he's my favorite author but definitely above average for me.

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

@@jenniferobin7260 Great to know, thanks for the insight. Really appreciate it 😊

5 was Self Portrait With Boy. A book I started and soft DNFd. 9. was The Stone Diaries. Again a book started but not finished.☘️👋🍀📕📖🇮🇪📚☕️

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

I liked Self Portrait quite a bit. Would definitely recommend a second chance.

I’ll be reading Solaris by Stanislaw Lem and The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard🎉

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Couple of classics! Solaris has intrigued me for a long time. Have you read anything from him before?

I created my list totally using a random number generator and got the following books. #5 - Ireland by Frank Delaney #9 - Ten Men Dead by David Beresford Both books I want to read in 2024 but I wasn't really planning to read them both so soon. We will see what happens! By the way - welcome back Rick!!!

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the welcome! Hoping the books work out!

Thanks for bringing back the spin, Rick! 5 - Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez 9 - Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

@FullyBookedMelissa

6 ай бұрын

Loved Anne Fadiman's book The Spirit Catches You... Hope you like Ex Libris!

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

I’m not sure I know either of these. I love when that happens! *starts googling*

@terryl87

6 ай бұрын

I loved Part of Your World!! Enjoy!!!

I love the spin music 😊. 5. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers 9. The Shadow King by Maaze Mengiste Guess who buys all The Women's Prize Longlist Books and never quite gets to all of them.

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Oooooh curious to see how you feel about the Chambers book! I’m a fan of

@judybrown1624

5 ай бұрын

​@@RickMacDonnell I finished Small Pleasures. I enjoyed it, didn't love it. I didn't think the writing was anything special, but that ending was genius and I suspect the reason it was LL for The Women's Prize. Glad I finally got to it.

I’m so happy this is back! Probably won’t start until January, but I’m doing both. 5. In Cold Blood 9. Pilgrims at Tinker Creek Thank you, Rick❤️💚

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Pilgrims! Looooove this one for you. Glad to see you back here!

@ginafercho4581

6 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy the writing of In Cold Blood. One of my favorites

I just happened to have twenty SFF award winning books that I am planning to read next year, so I just ordered them by publication year, and came up with: 5: Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke 9: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

I'll be reading Soonish by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith and Redshirts by John Scalzi. Pumped!!!

@AnaMoShoshin

6 ай бұрын

I'll be very interested to hear your thoughts on redshirts! I read it earlier this year.

@FullyBookedMelissa

6 ай бұрын

@@AnaMoShoshin I'm really glad that was one of my results. My husband bought it for me for Christmas last year and I have a bad track record of not reading what he buys me so I'm excited to remedy that!

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

He and I were working in cahoots on this one. Just an FYI.

5. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver. A win because Kingsolver is my fave author haha 9. Invisible Cirus by Jennifer Egan. I loveee Goon Squad (read it already 4 times). I believe this one is her debut so excited to see how I will like it!

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Four reads! That’s awesome. I love a re-reader. Not many I’ve re-read 4+ times though. Good excuse for me to finally read some Egan.

Both are short story collections. 5: Home Gone Quiet by Kelsey Norris. 9: Animal Spirit:Stories by Francesca Marciano

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

That explains my lack of familiarity 😂

5. The Family Izquierdo by Ruben Degollado 9. Conviction by Denise Mina I will try to read both, since that'll knock two books off my shelf for the Read What You Own challenge. 🙂

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Not sure I’m aware of either of these. Ahh! * googles *

#5 Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead and #9 The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell . I'm happy with the two Maggies. Rick, your feeling tired book tube spin is funny, for sure.

For me #5 was LEGENDS AND LATTES and #9 was an m/m romance, THE BEST NAN'S PROBLRM. Actually good with both - so we have until end of March, you're just doing the next spin in March to be a bit early? Have I got that right?

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

I’ll pull the next numbers in early/mid-march. So you can start them right away in March, or push them to an April start (most people end up doing this).

Book 5. Disgrace by JM Coetzee Book 9. Her Side of the Story by Alba de Cespedes

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Disgrace is extraordinary. Hard. Rough. But extraordinary.

My two books are Cadillac Desert by Mark Reisner and Rice’s Language of Buildings by Matthew Rice. I got a third of the way through Cadillac Desert several months ago, so I guess this is my call to finish it!

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Godspeed 🫡

@hazabee

6 ай бұрын

@@RickMacDonnellI read The Vaster Wilds a couple of months ago btw! I look forward to your thoughts on it.

5. Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks 9. The Years by Virginia Woolf I'm excited to get to these!

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

I haven’t read either 😮 Know which you’re going to start with?

I got: #5 - True Biz #9 - Night by Elie Wiesel

Ok so I'll FINALLY be reading 1984 :O plus a chunky Dickens if I get to it (Nicholas Nickleby). I am trying to read one Dickens a year so that's good but it's just so long it always scares me. As for 1984 I actually heard really mixed things about it so we'll see ;D

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

I read 1984 again a year or two ago and I can definitely recommend it.

Very improvised list over here, but I guess I'll be reading Volker Kutscher's Der nasse Fisch (first book in the series that Babylon Berlin is based on) and Hilary Mantell's Wolf Hall. Good thing, too, because those are exactly the kind of books I tend to put off (read: everything over 400 pages) 😅

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

I *love* adding books to my list that I’m always meaning to get to…but never do. Excited for you! Congrats on entering the world of Wolf Hall 😊

#5 Zlata’s Diary #9 Here I Am Looking forward to both, but I think the friend who gave me #9 wanted to read it as a buddy read so I need to ask her if she can fit it in to her reading plans.

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Honour would dictate she join you!

I put a bunch of wild cards in: Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. No idea 😅

Ok, Big Swiss by Jen Beagin is happening. Also Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet. I'm excited for both of them

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

This is such a great haul! Nearly picked up Big Swiss the other day…

This is my first time doing this. I got: The End of Drum Time by Hanna Pylvainen The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for playing along! How do you feel about the result?

@AdyGrafovna

6 ай бұрын

@@RickMacDonnell Well… they come from my own TBR, so they are books I’m interested in reading. I just wish I had some happier books in my TBR so that it wasn’t so easy to draw two sad books.

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

@@AdyGrafovna I hear you. I complain about this all the time, how so much of literary fiction is sad sad sad…

Hey Rick, is the new spin coming soon? :)

😂 Rick you are the spin Master. You have to open every Booktube Spin video like this!

@RickMacDonnell

6 ай бұрын

I have unlocked something important and vital 😂

@unboundbookishnotions7373

6 ай бұрын

@@RickMacDonnell Yes!! Laughter 💛

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