Natalie Morrill Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Natalie Morrill on XAll things counter, original, spare, strange | THE GHOST KEEPER - @HarperCollinsCa 2018 https://t.co/3VLUjVv1iM

Pride & Prejudice
Jane AustenI have Jane Austen novels (audiobooks) translated into French by different translators. The translator of Pride & Prejudice translated young women being "out" as "dans le monde," & the translator of Mansfield Park translated it as the girls being "sortie."
Hardcover, 2023
$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mansfield Park
Jane AustenI have Jane Austen novels (audiobooks) translated into French by different translators. The translator of Pride & Prejudice translated young women being "out" as "dans le monde," & the translator of Mansfield Park translated it as the girls being "sortie."
Paperback, 2003
$9.00Member price:$4.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Thing Itself
Adam RobertsThis week Dad introduces me to Adam Roberts's German-idealist sci-fi: "'The This' is based on Hegel, & 'The Thing Itself' is like the movie 'The Thing' crossed with Kant" So it's as if I never logged off twitter
Paperback, 2017
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Histories
HerodotusIn Herodotus's Histories, there's a story about how Darius secured his kingship by tricking his horse into neighing, but my friend remembered it as "tricking a donkey into sneezing." Felt like I was watching alternate versions of a myth arise in real time.
Paperback, 1996
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate BeatonI know it just won Canada Reads & doesn't need my endorsement, but Kate Beaton's Ducks is so good https://t.co/uVGqjbXj89
Hardcover, 2022
$39.95Member price:$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley JacksonI feel like Shirley Jackson wrote The Haunting of Hill House because she loved "The Yellow Wallpaper" but resented the implication that there was not ACTUALLY a creeping woman stuck behind the wallpaper
Paperback, 2006
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mansfield Park
Jane AustenI have Jane Austen novels (audiobooks) translated into French by different translators. The translator of Pride & Prejudice translated young women being "out" as "dans le monde," & the translator of Mansfield Park translated it as the girls being "sortie."
Paperback, 2015
$20.25Member price:$10.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
84, Charing Cross Road
Helene HanffI would like to do a course/reading group in which we read all the books Helene Hanff orders in 84 Charing Cross Road https://t.co/n4RPdFTZFc
Paperback, 1990
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Busman's Honeymoon
Dorothy L. SayersIntriguing philosophical distinction plopped into Busman's Honeymoon (Dorothy Sayers): whether life is fundamentally good, although horrible things keep happening, or fundamentally bleak, though in the midst of it many beautiful things can happen https://t.co/wiTZDoczPZ
Paperback, 2012
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Escapes: Stories
Joy Williams@Liamjsm 99 Stories of God by Joy Williams; Abecedary by Goffredo Parise (if you can find it)
Out of stock