It's a Charlie Thing

In which the Charlies look back on their first book haul.Books Mentioned:An Elderly Lady is Up To No Good by Helene TurstenAn Elderly Lady Must Not be Crossed by Helen TurstenThe Cat Prince and Other Poems by Michael PedersenThe Angel of Redemption by Nikita Gill Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 17The Other Valley by Scott Alexander HowardThe Children Who Lived in a Barn by Eleanor GrahamWe Were the Universe by Kimberly King ParsonsTo Hear the Trees Speak by Olivia SprinkelCursed Daughters by Oyinkan BraithwaiteEverything is Energy by Emma TalbotTranslating Feminisms by Intan ParamadithaThe Wood in Midwinter by Susanna ClarkeA Glass of Blessings by Barbara PymThe Driver's Seat by Muriel SparkCamp! by Paul BakerBarrowbeck by Andrew Michael HurleyThe Ladie Upstairs by Jessie EllandLong Island Compromise by Taffy Brodessen-AknerSecrets in the Snow & Other Christmas Crime Stories, ed. Matthew BoothTouch Not the Cat by Mary StewartLublin by Manya WilkinsonJesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin MyersFruit Fly by Josh SilverLeonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession11.22.63 by Stephen KingThe House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier

In which we have a very welcome visitor.Pre-order An Unlikely Visitor by Joanna Cannon here:Out 4th June:https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/An-Unlikely-Visitor-by-Joanna-Cannon/9780008255077Charlie’s video on Joanna’s books:https://youtu.be/W7_Fa-R-qEU?si=dj7EYjbKRgybs-8Nhttps://youtu.be/reEpKBSXyYY?si=yAh9NY-XYOYQLLFBhttps://youtu.be/OM4_o4WKsoM?si=DOimmJC3rU0Lj8obhttps://youtu.be/iwi5hHddqmg?si=hr56Y0p6W8wk6v7v

Today we're seeing if our favourite books from 2018 - the year we first discovered one another's existence - are still favourites today.Books Mentioned:Fool's Fate by Robin HobbThe Hoarder by Jess KiddThe Management Style of the Supreme Beings by Tom HoltAnansi Boys by Neil GaimanAnd After Many Days by Jowhor IleDriven by Dane CobainThe Music Shop by Rachel JoyceDon't Call Us Dead by Danez SmithDying in Other Words by Maggie GeeThe Museum of Innocence by Orhan PamukThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyEmma by Jane AustenA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensA Monster Calls by Patrick NessThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasLove Simon by Becky AlbertalliThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann ShafferThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Terrible by Yrsa Daley WardThe Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood HargraveCall Me By Your Name by Andre AcimanPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi Wild Embers by Nikita GillThe Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart TurtonHomegoing by Yaa GyasiJane Eyre by Charlotte BronteFlames by Robbie Arnott Potato by Rebecca EarleAll the Names Given by Raymond AntrobusSigns, Music by Raymond AntrobusCursed Daughter by Oyinkan BraithwaiteThe Mercy Step by Marcia HutchinsonThe Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie MorrisThe Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by JRR TolkienKingfisher by Rozie KellyThe Lamplighters by Emma StonexThunder on the Right by Mary StewartFruit Fly by Josh Silver

The Charlies react to AITA posts all about books.

This week, the Charlies tested themselves to see what colour readers they are. However, they might not have agreed with the findings.Books Mentioned:My Father's House by Joseph O'ConnorThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafonTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersCreation Lake by Rachel KushnerLong Island by Colm ToibinThe Whisperwicks: The Vanished Key by Jordan LeesTo Be Young, Gifted and Black by Kadiatu Kanneh-MasonThe Two Towers by JRR TolkienThe Guardian and the Thief by Megha MajumdarKingfisher by Rozie KellyGreen Dot by Madeleine GrayChosen Family by Madeleine Gray

In which we talk about expectations in books, and how blurbs can be deceptive.Books Mentioned:The Raven Scholar by Antonia HodgsonThe Little Friend by Donna TarttBlaming by Elizabeth TaylorWe Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill BrownA Stroke of the Pen by Terry PratchettSomeday, Maybe by Onyi NwabineliLimberlost by Robbie ArnottThe Mercy Step by Marcia HutchinsonThe Whisperwicks: The Vanished Key by Jordan LeesLublin by Manya WilkinsonThe House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurierA Patchwork Planet by Anne TylerThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafonThis House of Burning Bones by Stuart MacBride

In which we give recommendations of the poetical kind.Books Mentioned:Stag's Leap by Sharon OldsThe Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie MorrisStolen Rowan Berries by Joy WinklerThe Orange by Wendy CopeDeath of a Naturalist by Seamus HeaneyPostcolonial Banter by Suhaiymah Manzoor-KhanThe Half-God of Rainfall by Inua EllamsThe Perserverance by Raymond AntrobusThe Fellowship of the Ring by JRR TolkienEverything is Energy by Emma TalbotThe Correspondent by Virginia EvansThe Whisperwicks: The Vanished Key by Jordan LeesEmotionally Weird by Kate AtkinsonWar of the Daleks by John PeelThe Bed and Breakfast Star by Jacqueline WilsonPity by Andrew McMillan