I ❤ when you include clips at the end of your videos. The reflection of the sky in the water as you crossed the stepping stones was beautiful.
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Thank you! I love that reflected bit also and it was serendipitous because I only saw it later when I was sorting through my video clips and deciding which to include.
@spreadbookjoy
5 ай бұрын
A Suitable Boy is definitely setting a standard that my other reading isn’t quite meeting! Still Born sounds fascinating. As a woman who consciously decided to not have children and who is very happy with that decision (though it took me some time to realise it for many reasons but mainly because I didn’t realise I could decide not to), I find the topic still taboo enough in most circles to not feel comfortable talking openly about it. Love the peacock footage and reading! The flowers are gorgeous - I’ve been enjoying spring blossom as well!
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Thank you for telling me why Still Born sounds fascinating. I’m not sure why choosing childlessness remains such a fraught subject, but it is the same here in Canada also. I read a collection of essays on this topic about 10 years ago: Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed: 16 Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. The title pretty much sums up the judgmental attitudes that women who are childless by choice have faced.
@novelideea
5 ай бұрын
I am living vicariously through your Spring weather. We had snow again yesterday and today it is clear and bright but 35F. Such an array of reads, as usual, and it sounds like there were a couple of winners for you! 🥰
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Hello Deea! I’m sure your spring weather will arrive soon. Thanks for watching. 🥰
@actual-spinster
5 ай бұрын
as usual a rly interesting and beuatiful sounding selection of books!!
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Thanks Anna Marie!
@BonnieNicoleWrites
5 ай бұрын
I love hearing about all of your wonderful reads. I added Council of Dolls to my TBR.
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Hi Bonnie! Thanks so much for your comments. I hope you enjoy Council of Dolls. 😊
@sarah-roadworthy
5 ай бұрын
I see the knitwear is back on. SO glad you all liked Creep.I'm sure the essay where she talks about Mean while being in an abusive experience was interesting for you since you'd read Mean. I was really impressed with her writing and would like to go back and read Mean. Her review of American Dirt was... biting. I loved it.
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Oh, that final essay! Wow! As to the weather: yes, it was chilly when I filmed this fairly early in the morning. But later it was 12 C (54 F) and brilliant sunshine. A beautiful day to walk by the ocean.
@MarilynMayaMendoza
5 ай бұрын
Hi Lindy, First of all, I love how affectionate your kitty is. My daughter takes care of 5 to 6 cats only one let’s us pet. I want both of the books by the Mexican authors. Creep and stillborn. I’m not sure my library will have them as they don’t buy many books from translated authors outside of Asia. I plan to do Jolene‘s tag soon. About mysteries, I also read more mysteries when I was younger, but I’m coming back especially to the Older ones. I find I don’t enjoy most of modern mysteries, because they tend to be thrillers in the vein of “Gone Girl’ I did not like that book. Modern mysteries, I like are literary mysteries like those of Tana French. I enjoyed the garden. I still haven’t gone to the botanical garden to see the butterflies yet. But I’m planning to. Very much. Enjoyed your video as usual. Aloha friend.
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Aloha Maya! I hope you have success finding those books at your library. I have been enjoying your Mystery Mondays so maybe the older mysteries appeal to me too.
@BookwormAdventureGirl
5 ай бұрын
Love that you have journals from 1994. I want to read Council of Dolls eventually but it’s not high on my list right now. Maybe if it’s shortlisted I will give it more priority. The Butchart Gardens footage is beautiful. 😊💙
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
My old reading journals will make it easy to do your Don’t Forget About Me tag… if I have the energy to film something besides what I have been reading lately. I got a membership to Butchart Gardens because I plan to visit there often. 🌸
@BookwormAdventureGirl
5 ай бұрын
@@lindysmagpiereads I love it there. I need to visit again. 😊
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
@@BookwormAdventureGirl Next time you are in Victoria, let’s take a stroll there together. 😊
@BookChatWithPat8668
5 ай бұрын
Hi Lindy. I love the depth and breadth and diversity of your reading. I feel like I always learn so much here. You have certainly made me want to read A Suitable Boy. Breathtaking scenes at the end of your video! Thank you!
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Pat, thanks so much for watching and for your kind comments. On days when I struggle to summon energy to create a video, it’s people like you who give me motivation.
@BookChatWithPat8668
5 ай бұрын
@@lindysmagpiereads, your videos always give me lots to think about, and you also have such a lovely and calming presentation. Thank you!😊
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
@@BookChatWithPat8668 🤗😘
@BookChatWithPat8668
5 ай бұрын
@@lindysmagpiereads I've activated my "Mod Squad" (see Angelia's community announcement) to try to push you over the 1000 subscriber mark. Almost there.....We're working on this!😊
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
@@BookChatWithPat8668 awwww! Thank you! That’s so sweet 🥹
@barbaraboethling596
5 ай бұрын
Cool! I checked out an ebook of Simon Sort of Says, and I'm only in the first chapter and already laughing. Hey, St. Barbara is the patron saint of explosives !?!? I knew Barbara refers to foreign and strange, but did my folks know about the explosives? Anyway, I also put Creep and Mexikid on hold!. I love your snuggle bunny catl💕
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
All of the stuff about saints is pretty cool in Bow’s novel. And the blessing of the animals. And the amorous peacock. And the rampaging emus and death metal squirrel cult. Enjoy, but safely! No explosives! 💣😉 Frida is definitely a snuggly cat. She was trying to whisper something in my ear but I couldn’t quite hear…
@barbaraboethling596
5 ай бұрын
I've had a lot of experience with pea fowl in a local park, and their vocalizations are just weird!. I freaked out on first hearing one in full cry one quiet early morning. It was like a cat on LSD.. Now it just makes me smile.
@readandre-read
5 ай бұрын
I usually love finding surprise commonalities between books but you really ran into some weird ones! Myriam Gurba and Pedro Martin will both be at the San Antonio Book Festival that I'm going to in April.
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Hi Angelia! Lucky you to have the opportunity to hear Gurba and Martín-I really hope you will share your festival experiences on your channel.
@readandre-read
5 ай бұрын
@@lindysmagpiereads That's my plan! 🙂
@59cubanita
5 ай бұрын
I still read mysteries but hardly any thrillers. For me mysteries are like palate cleansers.
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
I know what you mean about palate cleansers. But instead of mysteries, I seek out graphic novels when I feel a need to clear my palate.
@sreilly66
5 ай бұрын
Do you have any books planned for Trans Rights Readathon? Also, our motor home wasn’t a Winnebago, it was a Cabana. 😊💜
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Zan, thanks for reminding me about the Trans Rights Readathon - it’s a short one. I’m currently listening to Nghi Vo’s Mammoths at the Gates, which features a nonbinary central character. That’s about as close as I will get to participating in the readathon because I’ve got about 13 other books out from the library that need to be read and none of them are by trans authors. Thanks also for the correction about our old motorhome. Of course you are right, my wise sister with a sharp memory! 🤗
@59cubanita
5 ай бұрын
Hi Lindy, I read Still Born last year and thought it was very good. I read it in Spanish and I’m still wondering why the title is so different in English. The original title would translate as something as The Only Daughter/ child.
@lindysmagpiereads
5 ай бұрын
Hi Alina. I agree about the title: it’s an odd choice. Even though it’s two words, not stillborn, it obviously evokes an infant born dead… but why? Other interpretations - born regardless? Bearing the weight of judgment? - also don’t make a lot of sense for this story. I find the title baffling.
@59cubanita
5 ай бұрын
@@lindysmagpiereads I agree. It also might make people not pick up the book because of the inetrpretation of the title. Having said all that I thought the author described all the different forms of family and parenting in a interesting way.
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