THAT'S THE US COVER OF POD?!?!?!?! OMG GAME CHANGER

Leena: “you’re allowed to just go read some books now” Me watching this at work: 👀

My sister got me a bookstore gift card for my birthday, so obviously I HAD to go book shopping this weekend and buy many books. The entire ride home I just kept saying to my husband, "I love books so much!"

I knew I had seen that Zero Waste Sewing book before, and it's because the author Birgitta Helmersson has a little zero waste clothing butik in Malmö (where I live). I have definitely looked at that book before and thought 'I bet there are people in the Gumption club who would love this if only it weren't in Swedish', so glad to hear there is an English version 😂

the GASP that came out of my mouth at the US cover of Pod!!!! Are you telling me America got that and we didn't I am outraged

I've been reading random books from Little Free Libraries. A recent one that I enjoyed was The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time.

You demonstrate restraint, especially since you’ve read one (plus a quarter) already and two are workbooks, really. A perfectly reasonable snack-size haul for you-👏👏😂

Well, since you asked, I just finished reading Braiding Sweetgrass after hearing about it on your No Books on a Dead Planet series and I feel forever changed. I'm now making all my friends read it so we can feel displaced from society together.. 😂 But really, such a great book. Also I just read Mending Life which is the sweetest most poetic book on mending practices, highly recommend!

Did I just take a box of books to the used book store and walk out with another stack? Yes. Did I break my 'no more buying books while in Germany' rule? Clearly, but am I happy with my selection? Also yes. I love listening to you talk about books, it's such a delight.

Oh leena. Don't tempt me with all those books, now I want to read practically all the books you recommended/teased in this video, but I already have so many books on my tbr pile 😢😂❤

Aaaahhhhhh I love that you showed the two sewing books because after your last video I was LITERALLY going to recommend both of those!! Same wavelength, love it 😂

I have just come back home from a trip to London and I had bought six books in Waterstones on Piccadilly, so watching this has made me feel slightly better about my book spending. Besides, I have come to the conclusion that I am not hoarding books, instead I am stocking up my book collection and preparing for the cold winter nights, I'm like a bear preparing for hibernation.

I used to be such a book nerd when I was younger but now all I read is manga and the struggle of reading manga only online off of fan translations because there’s no English copy is so real, I’m happy you got your well deserved book haul.

My tbr has grown so intensely that I pronounced a book ban on myself 😅 The last book I bought was "Death of a Bookseller" which sounded really interesting, since it supposedly criticises the true crime "movement". As expected I haven't started it yet 😂

I just treated myself to a little Thriftbooks haul. I ordered: I'm Glad My Mom Died, Grapes of Wrath, Ender's Game, and Dune. I'm not entirely sure what this random selection says about me but that's what happened.

Oh well fancy that, im going on a boat trip to Amsterdam this Christmas with my grandma and I'm trying to get a reading list for that. The Kate Mosse book is definitely coming with me! Lovely video ❤

Come from Away is incredible. So glad people are still discovering it

I absolutely love that you now have sewing books in your hauls! Please report back on the Birgitta's book. Based on you buying that and Radical Sewing, I think you'd like the 'How to Sew Clothes' by the All Well Workshop team, it's beautiful and had lots of hacks so you can continue to build off of a small amount of patterns. :)

I do have a deep book....enthusiasm (yeah we'll go with that XD). The latest additions to my book hoard have been Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot books, which I've been slowly buying up, because I'm an absolute sucker for a matched set. If I like the design of the set, I panic buy it, because I'm always worried I'll have bought part of the set and then they will discontinue that design and stop printing it, which is a thing that I've been burned by before. So now, yeah, if I find a nice set, I start compulsively buying it all up.

Yes! Photos for each stage of the process! All we've ever needed!

I had a birthday weekend trip to Hay on Wye, and spent way too much money on books. I’m most excited about Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow (late to that party).

For my birthday I got a lot of books that satisfied my buying urge for a month, but then I went bookshopping with some Gumptioners and I got Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead :D

Come from away is also on Apple TV. totally surprised me as I watched it on a whim one evening and found myself crying on the couch folding laundry.

My library hold list has just increased a ton, these all sound so interesting!

Radical Sewing is a great book! I bought a copy after getting it from the library cause it was something I referenced a lot!

I am here for the term 'deep book enthusiasm'. I am sooooooo using that on occasion. I have Chain Gang All-Stars high on the TBR and now thanks to you I am popping Someday, Maybe waaaaaay higher up my TBR, as it were. Loved The Ghost Ship.

I've been obsessed with Leeward by Katie Daysh! A queer historical age-of-sail fiction and so well done! I dont usually go for historical fiction but this one really got me, and the second book in the series is already in the works!

Those covers are so beautiful! I want all of them!!

Missed the live again today…darn it! But I was out THRIFTING!!!!! Will try to make it back next week and then…gotta go back to work-I’m a teacher in NY. Thank you for your content: it’s a psychic relief. 😘 ❤

As a Canadian, I am here for the continued Come From Away love - that show is just a little slice of warmth and love, and I'm gutted our production closed!!! 😭 My library doesn't have The Ghost Ship yet, damn that's annoying.

I've just been on holiday where I gave myself permission to buy as many books as I could physically carry home, so my TBR has also become Quite Lorge - including the first book of the trilogy that The Ghost Ship wraps up!

So many books added to my TBR!

I recently made the trousers from the ZW patterns book and whole heartedly recommend it. They were really easy to make and quick as well. The hardest part was to cut the rectangle at the start, because I made a larger size that doesn't correspond to an exact fabric width. I added slash pockets at the front following helens tutorial on the helens' closet blog (for the winslow culottes). Also, thank you for recommending Love to Sew. It's now one of my favourist podcasts :)

The way you feel about The Uninhabitable Earth is how I feel about Pod. I'm forcing myself to get through it, despite crying at every morbid event.

I finally got my hands on Capitalist Realism, its so so so so good. If you've not read it already, Leena, it might be a good fit for NBOADP?

Books I have recently procured/am intending to read shortly: The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan and A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E Schwab (indie bookstore) the long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers (little library) Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson (library)

I live near Bournville and only found out you’d visited the week after 😢 Can’t believe I missed you. The Bookshop on the Green closed last week, although I know they are looking for new premises, so fingers crossed.

I like to adopt unwanted books from community free-shelves, or from thrift stores. My home library is huge, at least relative to my apartment's size and the non-permanence of my residential arrangements. I am trying to read the books I have a bit more, since once I finish them most of them can go away again. Still, having a large collection of books at home is nice if you're a serious reader. I have maybe more adult general fiction books than my local public library branch, and a much better selection. :) Lately though I have been listening to Libravox recordings of the Dickens novels, and now the Bronte sisters' novels, which I can enjoy while crocheting.

I am sitting on Priory of the Orange Tree (half finished), The Overstory (third way through) and Children of Time (read three pages or so) and I do have some other books I never got around to reading...... I should actually make time for it, lately it's only been a train travel thing!

As a criminologist I’m very excited to read chain gang all stars

I love the title of this video! 💘🌻

AHHHH as a Newfoundlander it still shocks me how popular Come From Away has become

I love Leena suggestions

I recently bought some beautiful puzzles. I love puzzles, and especially love finding them in second hand shops, because then I get to do the awful 80s landscapes, or weird fantasy unicorn fairy images that I would never spend serious money on. However, my confession is that I bought 4 new puzzles, and they are gorgeous. (And I listen to audiobooks from the library while I puzzle)

YAAAASSSS for No Books on a Dead Planet!! can't wait for Season 2! When you say 'available on audio only' does that mean no longer available on YT, or also available in audio-only? English! :P

I haven’t read Pod but I listened to the audiobook of The Bees (also by Laline Paull) and it was an interesting and strange read. I’d definitely recommend it.

Always love your recommendations! I have too many unread books and need to dive into my stacks to actually read them in the next few months! But always add some of your recs to the wish-list 😍 The US cover of POD is amazing. Why do we get the boring covers in the UK?! I don't want to come across as weird about it but I'd just like to ask if you'd consider adding transcripts to your NBOADP podcast for deaf or HOH people? I wasn't sure whether to ask or mention it. I've asked other podcasters in the past and they hadn't really thought about it or just didn't really know how to do it. The thing I love about KZfaq is that it has fairly reliable auto-captions (even if they mess up sometimes) and I loved your No Books On A Dead Planet series. I understand if that isn't something you can do if it's too late in the day to be thinking about access. I can't really access many podcasts (despite really wanting to - and I know a lot of deaf people who'd like to too), and I know that transcription or captioning can be time consuming unless a transcription service or similar is used (or the podcast software has captioning). Just something to consider in the future if not for this podcast. I'm definitely interested in reading the books you read anyway!

Cant beleive I just bought Pod and now I have to buy it again

I love come from away and books so much haha, I am always buying theatre tickets and I may or may not have £275 worth of hamilton tickets on my credit card for the tour ooops😅😅😅

Brookwillow Knits has made a few things from the Zero Waste book. She’s delightful xx

I bought She hulk, New me, today. Really enjoy She hulk so excited to read it. Also recently bought Redwall curios about the hype from you a few videos back.

I also had a Come From Away mug. I cracked it 😢

I read The Uninhabitable Earth in one cold, lonely night - I was working a 12 hour shift in a cloak room at a wedding, by myself. I don’t recommend it, the book is depressing enough when you read it during the day, I think. I would say it changed me and is definitely worth finishing, Lena.

I just picked up Why Women Grow from my local library! Exactly the same reasoning as you - that small description? SOLD

As a companion to your read of The Uninhabitable Earth, I highly recommend watching Sophie From Mars' incredible video essay The World Is Not Ending

Recently bought a few from my long standing tbr. ACOTAR The midnight library matt haig Court of the vampire queen Katee Robert The house in the cerulean sea t.j.klune.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah has an EXCELLENT short story collection called Friday Black. It is harrowing and great!

i would definitely recommend Sophie from Mars' video "The World is Not Ending" which is a really interesting video about climate doomerism and revolution, part of which is a critique/response to The Uninhabitable Earth!

I made in insgrem a bookish tag about bookish fear

Today I got POD and The Genius of Bird 🎉

Funny enough, the last book I bought was the pretty version of POD. I was influenced by Lena but I am not mad, because it is my favourite book so far this year.

why women grow is SO GOOD, one of my favs this year

Would be curious to hear some thoughts on sustainability and buying/owning books. Vs borrowing maybe?

I also started reading The Uninhabitable Earth in an airport 😢 not a good pairing!!

For my book buying to be curtailed charity shops need to ban me

Our tastebuds long again for envelopes, and hands for notes in class the teacher tore. As safe as when communion wafers broke. You bless yourself. You cast your signature. Let’s write and give the birds something to do; a heart’s confession on the talon tied. Return the princess to the pigeon coup; her patient eye against polluted skies. Too little wind in blue, green, sails of text as letters fall from birds believed extinct, and caught and crinkled on a mailbox chest the moment cursive graced the eye again. Their flapping wings will fan away the smog as ink’s the oil-spill upon the heart. -a sonnet i wrote-

I’ve been on a book buying ban because my shelves are overflowing…. But I think I’m going to cave on this next paycheck 😅

I feel a bit better about my own book buying now xd I have recently acquired (and read) - The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton (highly recommend the series, pirates, witches and flying houses in Victorian era plus romance, what more does one need) - “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon (the most life changing nonfiction book of the year for me) And acquired but am in the middle of/planning to read it this year - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell (1/3 in and I really enjoy it so far) - Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden - Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages (very excited about since it contains the text in both the language and in translation!) - Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley - 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff - 3 poetry collections by Polish poets

I read the Uninhabitable Earth in January, and I think it is an important book that covers many important aspects of the climate crisis. One thing that bugged me however, so much that I started to count them, is that the books references SO much more male scientists and authors than female. Literally naming 24 women versus 279 men... Perhaps an interesting point for discussion in your podcast? Does it tell us something about the author or rather about women in science?

Feeling victimised already 😢 also in the midst of a giant declutter where im gifting/ swapping/ donation around 60/70 books that i either didn't like or just will never get round to reading in the hopes of making my collection a bit more reasonable and realistic! 🤞🏻

Essex Dogs by Dan Snow really interesting take on Edward III's invasion of France seen through the eyes of the ordinary soliders/archers. If you love historical fiction but are a bit jaded by certain authors (philippa gregory 🙄), then this is a really good one to get into. "Jesus playing fucking bagpipes on the cross" had me in literally laughing out loud after a particularly tense scene 😂

If you're looking for another book about living outside the gender binary hundreds of years ago, I highly, highly recommend Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg. It's about a 21st century transmasc academic who discovers a manuscript that casts a new genderqueer light on the 18th century London folk hero Jack Sheppard. The first-person narration of the main character is interwoven with the text of the manuscript (similar structure to Nabokov's Pale Fire, but way less unhinged). It's a really fun, slightly surreal read.

Subbed IMMEDIATELY on Spotify!!! ❤

Late to the party but loved this and the recs - do either of the sewing books have any menswear / masc fit patterns / designs? I inherited a very old singer but all the beginner sewing books i find are womenswear or projects i would get any use out of afterwards (appliqueing a heart onto childs dress etc). Not things i can gift my husband and my mother wont let me dress her!

Can someone tell me, if you can read the Kate Mosse book on it's own? I just checked it out and it seems to be the last part of a trilogy. How closely knitted are the three books and does my understanding of "The Ghost Ship" depend on reading the other two?

Could you make a video or give advice on how to figure out which books off of your to-read-list to read (first), especially when one is a slow reader who isn't able to just rush though 100 books per year

Nooo I already got books coming out of my ears! 😵‍💫Speaking of, I recently obtained Factfulness per your several recommendations! Already got me hook, line and sinker! (Love your wallpaper btw. Matches my shirt lol.)

I use the library. 🙃 I "shop" then i give it allllllll back.

what am i buying? Concert tickets. So many concert tickets.

Chain gang all stars doesn’t sound too far from non-fiction 🇺🇸 😬 will be curious to hear your thoughts

I also buy too many books 😅

By the way…WHERE did you get that wallpaper????!!!!!! I would love to do a wall or two of my son’s room in it and he’d love it!!! Ttfn ❤

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My tbr is quadruple the size of Leena’s. I read really slowly. The book stack of Leena would take me a year to read 🫣

Where do you buy books second hand? Would some tips on budget book buying 😉

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Finally a book to accompany my pirating endeavours!

Don't know if you take recommendations for books for No Books on a Dead Planet but I'd hugely recommend This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein. I'm not very far in but so far it's been a very very interesting, although particularly depressing as it was published in 2015...

I've been buying so many books (all audiobooks so thankfully don't take up space). I've just read the uninhabitable earth on my library app (agreed, terrifying). And chain gang all stars is on my to buy list. I've been getting into fiction more this year, read all the harry potter and hunger games, and a few others. (Recently finished sick kids in love which has been on my TBR for like 4 years) Might buy the divergent series or the twilight books this month, or maybe maze runner or Percy Jackson (I'm finding I'm much better with books I've seen the film version of so I don't have to build the world in my head as much). There's just so many good books, so little time. I'm currently reading backlash, a book about racism. Then I think a medical book and then a crime book. Maybe. I also do have a loan from the library about private education for boys and the men it creates (sad little men) that I need to get to. I've read nearly 270 books this year and can do up to 3 or 4 a day depending on length (I read at a fast speed due to la ADHD) so I'm frequently planning 2 or 3 books ahead. I also really want to get around to some of my re-read books. This is only the 2nd year I've really had since getting back into reading early 2022, before then it'd been about a decade since I'd read a book. I'm obsessed and now maths is based on books. ''I could spend £50 on takeaway, or I could buy this many books'' ''I could order crap I don't need or want, just seeking a dopamine boost or I could buy books''. I think it's been the biggest help with me being more climate conscious, because reading audiobooks it's a great no waste thing. There's no fuel for shipping, no paper for making, nothing. Just reading forever. Love it. I do wish I had a more sustainable provider, but frankly with the amount of books I read other providers are significantly more expensive (I pay just over £3 a book from audible) and there's so many books that are only available on audible. Being blind I can't just decide to read those books on paper instead. I need the audiobook version. I've got a list of books I want to read without any audiobook option and there's hundreds, I can't justify limiting my options even more. But better than buying books on amazon at least (yes audible is owned by amazon but again about the no waste audiobook thing). I would love more book content makers who read non fiction, it's nearly all of what I read and there's just not enough people talking about how awesome non fic books are.

I think the Kate Mosse book is a sequel to another book, so just a warning!

Try ‘When Women Were Dragons’!

If anyone sees this who has read 'Someday, Maybe' how graphic is is? I'd love to read it but am in the midst of my own grief story so can't read it if it includes graphic descriptions. :) :)

It kinda makes sense that someone who reads a lot would converge on the climate crisis being the most important thing in our lives right now. Nothing else matters (as much).

"The Uninhabitable Earth" is the one book on Climate Change that I advise people not to read who want to stay optimistic and hopeful xD I hope you like it nevertheless!

#spon Polaroid 📸

hello i love your videos but saying you're a hoarder when you're not one is kind of on the same vain as saying something's depressing that isn't really giving you depression - just a pointer for next time :)

My friend Mary has Blurb Your Enthusiasm as her social handle everywhere--Proper. Book. Nerd. YES