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BooksWeekly: Hidden Lives

My week in books 6 - 12 February 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxYlx...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week:
- Margot Lee Shetterley, Hidden Figures (2016)
- Kate Bolick, Spinster (2015)

also read this week:

- Toni Morrion, Sula (1973)
Uncovered Bookclub (goodreads): https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

- Daphne Merkin, This Close to Happy (7 Feruary 2017)

started this week:
Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve (2016)

Eric Karl Anderson @TheLonesomeReader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5D1R...

BooksWeekly: Crime & Punishment

My week in books: 23 - 29 January 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ykL...

Books & other things mentioned:

not yet finished from previous week:
- Louisa Gilder, The Age of Entanglement (2008)

read this week:
- Jade Chang, The Wangs versus the World (2016)

David’s review @thepoptimist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRPw7...

- Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows (2014)
some info about the Mennonites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite

- Tiffany D. Jackson, Allegedly (January 2017)

started this week:
- Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures (2016)
- Kate Bolick, Spinster (2015)

BooksWeekly: Family Calamities

My week in books 16 - 22 January 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G3Wa...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week(s):
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006)

Uncovered Bookclub: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

also read:
- Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)

Sue @suesbooknook: https://www.youtube.com/user/suemoro

- Emma Flint, Little Deaths (2017)

started this week:
- Louisa Gilder, The Age of Entanglement (2008)

2in1 BookReview: Difficult friendships

Memoirs about a difficult friendship, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adqIi...


Books & other things mentioned:
Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty (2004)

Helen Garner, The Spare Room (2008)

Ashley at @climbthestacks about memoirs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRBwm...

and on memoirs written by women:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv2qE...

and her list of recommended memoirs: http://www.climbthestacks.com/blog/20...

First BooksWeekly 2017: Choices & Changes

Bookish Week #1:
1-8 January 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ktE...

Books & other things mentioned:

first book of the year:
Ann Patchett, State of Wonder (2011)

buddy-read with Nicola @robotnic: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx92...

also read:
- Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts (2015)
- Rose Tremain, The Gustav Sonata

Simon @SavidgeReads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeQN9...

started this week (re-read):
- Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006)

Uncoverd Bookclub: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Top 3 of 2016 (sort of)

Trying to come up with a 'my best reads of 2016'-list...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TVTv...

Books mentioned:

Antonia Hayes, Relativity (2015)
Lionel Shriver, So Much for That (2010)
Octavia Butler, Dawn (1987)

Have a splendid start of 2017!!

Last BooksWeekly of 2016

My last three books of the year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B-dv...

Helen Garner, This House of Grief (2014)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (2013)
Jenny Diski, In Gratitude (2016)

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1,000 Subscriber Q&A & Giveaway Announcement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_eLP...

To celebrate reaching 1,000 subscribers I wanted to thank you all and do a giveaway and also let you ask me any questions you want about anything you want.

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6) Giveaway closes on January 8, 2017

New Video: BooksWeekly - Let's Kill All the Lawyers

My week in books (and movies, lots of movies): 12 - 17 December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noN3d...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week:
Emer O’Toole, Girls Will be Girls (2015)

Feminist Orchestra Bookclub: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

also read this week (re-reads):
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
- Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)

started this week:
- Helen Garner, This House of Grief (2014)

Movies:
- To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
- And Justice for All (1979)
- The Verdict (1982)
- Jagged Egde (1985)
- True Believer (1989)
- Reversal of Fortune (1990)
- Few Good Men (1992)
- The Firm (1993)
- Philadelphia (1993)
- A Time to Kill (1996)
- The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
- Amistad (1997)
- A Civil Action (1998)
- Michael Clayton (2007)
- The Trial (2010)
- The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
- Devil’s Knot (2013)
- The Judge (2014)

New Video: BooksWeekly -Live, Die, Repeat

My week in books (5 - 11 December 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_r1T...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from previous week:
Claire North, The First 15 Lives of Harry August (2014)

re-read this week:
- Kate Atkinson, Life After Life (2013)
- Jenny Erpenbeck, The End of Days (2012)
German Gems #2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzbo-...

also read this week:
- Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac (1984)
The ManBookering Bookclub: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

started this week:
Emer O’Toole, Girls Will Be Girls (2015)

Feminist Orchestra Bookclub: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...