4 of 5 stars to The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX6v... @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social was kind enough to host me banging on about Hungarian/Magyarul literature in English translation, one of my personal obsessions.

Austentatious 2026: Ros, Tilly, and Kathy on all things Jane Austen - a colloquy for #JaneAustenJuly youtu.be/99PuqWAGoJ0

5 of 5 stars to How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...

5 of 5 stars to How to Read a Book by Monica Wood www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...

Marked as did-not-finish: Wilderness of Mirrors by Olufemi Terry www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

5 of 5 stars to The Disinherited by Matt Cohen www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

This Is It: A Novel in Stories by Matthew Fox www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Melanie and Shawn chat about Gareth Russell's Queen James / The Six Loves of James I youtu.be/xN1p8UAyqA8.

A chat with queer novelist Elvin James Mensah about his soon-to-be-published 2nd novel, White Spaces youtu.be/kzE-eTXP38g

Recent Reads: Essays to die for and a hyperactive family in the Jazz Age youtu.be/Bc8f3GMypII

A chat with Canadian writer Dora Dueck about her powerfully ruminative novel All That Belongs youtu.be/YsQDlXA3jEU

Ideas galore—but flesh-and-blood characters, too: A review of Transcription by Ben Lerner youtu.be/Vf_PeIr_TwA

5 of 5 stars to Transcription by Ben Lerner www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

5 of 5 stars to Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

5 of 5 stars to In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Marked as did-not-finish: Too Great a Sky by Liliana Corobca, Monica Cure (Translator) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

In Other Words This is the latest video in my 'etymology series'. youtu.be/zcbd7pOXMGc

Recent Reads: A couple of bails—more than mitigated by a bunch of 5-star reads youtu.be/6HtYDY8-9CI

Natascha Wodin's memoir, She Came From Mariupol: A Ukrainian family pounded against history's anvil youtu.be/KIkw6Hg88wA She Came from Mariupol by Natascha Wodin Alfred Kueppers (Translator)

Novelist Barb Howard and Shawn launch their 4th annual novella reading project: please join us! youtu.be/IU0RWRBI9KM

5 of 5 stars to Reverberations: A Daughter’s Meditations on Alzheimer’s by Marion Agnew www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...

5 of 5 stars to The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 by Beth Brower www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

5 of 5 stars to Like a River Divides the Earth by Dora Dueck www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Marked as did-not-finish: Belle Greene by Alexandra Lapierre, Tina Kover (Translator) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Marked as did-not-finish: The Well by Elizabeth Jolley www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Chris, Dorian, James, and Shawn on Edith Wharton’s ghost stories youtu.be/3fYN5kt9IfM

Recent Reads: Brave old ladies and other revolutionaries youtu.be/rZvqG_9vVQE

Shawn Breathes Books and his mom Helen review Evensong by Stewart O'Nan youtu.be/zmxZ-0QWV4k

Another Library Book Veelog youtu.be/XeSzvl8e2MM

Alina and Shawn chat about the debut Irish novel, The Coast Road by Alan Murrin youtu.be/dAO-IbAAL0Y?...

4 of 5 stars to The Pilgrimage by John Broderick www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

5 of 5 stars to Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...

5 of 5 stars to Evensong by Stewart O'Nan www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Marked as did-not-finish: To Essay by Rusana Bardarska (Author and Translator), Christopher Buxton & Zornitsa Hristova (Translators) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Two writers, two novels, and oh my gosh the resonances!: A chat with Monica Wood and Marion Agnew youtu.be/LZ4SUbGz-HU The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood Making Up the Gods by Marion Agnew

#SundaySentence from She Came from Mariupol by Natascha Wodin, Alfred Kueppers (Translator) #CurrentlyReading

5 of 5 stars to The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Recent Reads: Shawn, still breathing books, is also shaking things up youtu.be/ZOuhRxpQepE

5 of 5 stars to Queen of the Headaches by Sharon Butala www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

3.5 of 5 stars to Gigi by Colette Roger Senhouse (Translator) www.goodreads.com/book/show/47...

3 of 5 stars to Antarctica by Claire Keegan www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...

4 of 5 stars to Landscapes by Christine Lai www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...

Marked as did-not-finish: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

On the bright side, they weren't married: A review of Marjorie Grant's 1921 novel, Latchkey Ladies youtu.be/m5thEzxBvlY

5 of 5 stars to Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

5 of 5 stars to Latchkey Ladies by Marjorie Grant www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

Friday Reads: A hodgepodge of books, topics, and writers youtu.be/pwXDhfkotRQ

Friday Reads: Some of the best Black American short stories ever (IMHO) youtu.be/ihi6AK6uQuY

Mark as did-not-finish: Theatre of War by Andrea Jeftanovic, Frances Riddle (Translator) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...