A Book Lover's Delight: Exploring the World of Books with Amina Salman

As I sat surrounded by stacks of books, my eyes widened with excitement as I began to unbox and reveal the treasures that lay within. My friend and fellow book enthusiast, Dylan, had recommended a few titles from her imprint, Salaam Reads, which specialize in publishing Muslim South Asian and Middle Eastern stories for middle readers and teens. I was eager to dive into these titles and see what they had to offer.

My first stop was the Salaam Reads section of my local bookstore, where I picked up "Saints & Misfits" by S.K. Ali. I had heard great things about this debut novel and couldn't wait to read it. Dylan's enthusiasm for the imprint was infectious, and I loved how they brought unique stories to life for young readers. With a title that promised to be as she wrote (I mean, "see"), I knew I was in for an adventure.

As I continued my browsing, I stumbled upon "The Frequency of Fruit" by Jen Campbell, which was available in paperback. Although it wasn't the same book I had been looking for, I was thrilled to discover this Canadian edition and couldn't wait to dive into its pages. Campbell's love letter to grief and loss resonated deeply with me, and I felt honored to be one of the last people to read this poignant collection of essays.

Next on my list were a set of books that had been on my wish list for years – "The Best American Food Writing" series from Mariner Books. These volumes featured some of the best food writing from around the country, and I couldn't wait to explore the world of culinary delights within their pages. The affordable prices made them an attractive option, and I knew that these books would provide endless inspiration for my own cooking adventures.

My next find was "From Scratch" by Tim Baker, a memoir about finding home in Sicily. As the sister of Attica Locke, this book promised to be a must-read for anyone interested in stories about family, identity, and belonging. I had been hesitant to pick it up due to its release as a movie adaptation, but with Dylan's recommendation, I decided to give it a try.

My attention turned to a special section of the bookstore that caught my eye – a "Triage Corner" dedicated to books in need of love and care. Amidst the stacks, one book stood out: "How to Say Goodbye to Your Mother". A memoir by Nicole Williams, this title had been on my radar for years, but I had yet to dive into its pages. The author's promise to tell a story that would be both painful and healing resonated deeply with me.

As I delved deeper into the bookstore, I discovered an intriguing read – "You & I Eat: A Celebration of Food and Cooking". This book promised to explore the countless ways in which food connects us to one another, and I couldn't resist its charms. The beautifully illustrated pages and diverse perspectives on food made this book a must-have for anyone interested in exploring the world of culinary delights.

Finally, I stumbled upon "Ingredient: Unveiling the Essential Elements of Food" by Ali Bazar II. As someone who appreciates the importance of using high-quality ingredients to elevate any dish, this book was right up my alley. With its stunning photographs and insightful essays, I knew that this title would provide valuable guidance for anyone looking to take their cooking to the next level.

As I closed the covers on these new additions to my collection, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the world of books. From Salaam Reads to Mariner Books, there's always something new to discover, and I knew that these titles would bring joy and inspiration into my life. Whether you're a seasoned reader or just starting out, there's never been a better time to explore the wonderful world of books.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello my name is Kendra Winchester welcome back to my channel and today I'm going to be doing my book outlet haul and so on Boxing Day every year book outlet has this incredible sale and I always buy books for book blind dates from book outlet especially for paperback because you want those relatively new as much as possible so they're a great place if you want to buy books for your book club or just for yourself or whatever and of course I always have to throw some things and I've been keeping my eye on and so here are my little stack of books that I got for myself a little more than I had originally intended but you know it's fine it's fine okay so the first one is by the book and this is writers on literature in the literary life from the New York Times Book Review edited and with an introduction by Pamela Paul foreword by Scott Turow now I have this very one-sided tumultuous relationship with Pamela Paul I think she's brilliant and I love what she does sometimes with trying you know she tries to be here open to new genres and less literary things and she's really taken the book review in a great direction I think but there's still some issues because she grew up in New York so she has that like a New York bubble mentality about literature but I feel like she just is kind of oblivious in that way and so I go back and forth but ultimately I do really like what she does she doesn't know who I am so that's fine but I always find it interesting who they get for these because part of me wants to read it because a lot of them are really weird like this is the thing that I read some people read the comics a newspaper I read the book section and like Lauren Groff's was amazing she was like why are you asking like what are you even doing and so I really appreciate how this tiny little like column of people writing about stuff has turned into this very weird Nishi kind of thing so this is where they ask authors different questions about what they're reading is this column and they do these cool little illustrations of their faces and so yeah that's why I'm fascinated by this book like this astray just reason to buy a book cuz cuz you partially want to hate read some of the columns but at the same time you still love it at this maybe it's maybe this is my version of like Real Housewives Atlanta or something I don't know but okay totally different vein we have Mary Oliver may she rest in peace and so bookoutlet had a ton of her stuff around the time that she passed and so I picked up a few things and I picked up this one which is upstream and this is selected essays and I didn't realize it was essays until it arrived at my house but that's fine I'm very excited about essays this is out from penguin press which is more the more per student press is from penguin I mean pretty self-explanatory but Marie Oliver is very is poet but she also looks at the environment a lot and and what that looks like and I'm just excited I'm excited for it speaking of poetry I also picked up for everyone by Jason Reynolds they had so many of these and I'm very interested in poetry but it's pretty expensive up front because all the times it's smaller presses and different things so I find buying poetry on book outlet very affordable and so I've had this on my wish list for almost a year so I would just went ahead and picked it up so it looks amazing the illustrations are great I love Jason Reynolds that's Jason Reynolds I recently read love from A to Z by SK Ali and this is from their Salaam reads imprint of Simon & Schuster and I love this imprint so much when somaye and I planned her themes we usually look at Muslim South Asian and Middle Eastern stories and so they do a great job of doing middle reader and teen Muslim stories I really love it and so I picked up a Saints and misfits because I really liked love for me to see and so um thank you Dylan so I'm looking forward to reading this one because I just thought the first one was as she wrote the I read was adorable alright so next time I picked up is Lanie there were so many different options but the frequent thing with feathers is in paperback so I was like oh I'll get paperback and it wasn't a gray wolf it was a different one I think this is the Canadian edition anyway so I've heard so many people talk about this including Jen Campbell and so I'm very sited to read more of his stuff I loved grief is the thing with feathers so and I feel like I'm the last person to read this book but I'm very much looking forward to it a set of books is three books that I've had on my list for a while and this is food writing 2015 2016 and 2017 now we have the best American food writing series I think that's out from Mariner but this it was a different one but they didn't have the best American food writing during these years so I'm looking forward to reading more food writing and these were extremely inexpensive so I went ahead and picked them up they've been on my list forever but I thought it would be just great to have them when I can read print a little more because I love reading food essays of everything about food it's just it's amazing another one I picked up and this one has a tear in it which I was annoyed about but this is by Tim B luck this is a memoir love Sicily and finding home this is called from scratch and this is actually the sister of Attica Locke and so I've been resisting picking up this book but they're now making it into a movie and so I thought well I should pick it up while I can but I will I have some let's say spell oh tape it's not right way to screw up in America we have scotch tape I'm gonna put some tape on this and we'll fix her right up has to go to my little I have like a whole corner of books that need help and it's kind of like my little triage center for books so this is gonna hang out there until I have a moment to catch up this little sad no more I feel bad for them you know anyway so the next book I have up was inspired by teacher of men she went on the podcast and talked about grace Paley and this is a grace Paley reader stories essays and poetry and she recommended the different works by grace Paley but I thought this would be a great place to start since it is a reader it has a little bit of everything so I was so proud that I saw this and immediately like threw in my cart and was like yes of course so I was speaking of food books I have more maybe I should have put them together but this is you and I eat the same on the countless ways food and cooking connect up to one another and this has been on my wish list for a long time and it has these like photos and like all sorts of different kinds of essays in it from different writers and I'm very excited about it so the last book I have to show you for this book call is ingredient unveiling the essential elements of food by Ali Bazar II and this is a book about ingredients and it has these gorgeous little photos here and you know as I learn more about cooking the more I think it's important to have great ingredients and how that your dish can only be good as the ingredients in it really and so I really appreciated how a lot of more cookbooks for the average cook like myself are focusing more ingredients and teaching people how to pick the best produce from your grocery store and just that little something that makes it a much better dish like you know avoiding hothouse tomatoes for example and just stuff like that so I really love learning about ingredients so I've had this in my cart for a long time and so I was like you know what I'm just gonna get it now because no time like the present all right so those are books that I pick different book outlet on Boxing Day did you participate in the book outlet Boxing Day extravaganza let me know the things that you got and I hope you enjoyed seeing all those books there's a book you think I should pick up sooner rather than later definitely let me know and I will try to prioritize that in my reading yeah until next time I'll talk to you guys later byehello my name is Kendra Winchester welcome back to my channel and today I'm going to be doing my book outlet haul and so on Boxing Day every year book outlet has this incredible sale and I always buy books for book blind dates from book outlet especially for paperback because you want those relatively new as much as possible so they're a great place if you want to buy books for your book club or just for yourself or whatever and of course I always have to throw some things and I've been keeping my eye on and so here are my little stack of books that I got for myself a little more than I had originally intended but you know it's fine it's fine okay so the first one is by the book and this is writers on literature in the literary life from the New York Times Book Review edited and with an introduction by Pamela Paul foreword by Scott Turow now I have this very one-sided tumultuous relationship with Pamela Paul I think she's brilliant and I love what she does sometimes with trying you know she tries to be here open to new genres and less literary things and she's really taken the book review in a great direction I think but there's still some issues because she grew up in New York so she has that like a New York bubble mentality about literature but I feel like she just is kind of oblivious in that way and so I go back and forth but ultimately I do really like what she does she doesn't know who I am so that's fine but I always find it interesting who they get for these because part of me wants to read it because a lot of them are really weird like this is the thing that I read some people read the comics a newspaper I read the book section and like Lauren Groff's was amazing she was like why are you asking like what are you even doing and so I really appreciate how this tiny little like column of people writing about stuff has turned into this very weird Nishi kind of thing so this is where they ask authors different questions about what they're reading is this column and they do these cool little illustrations of their faces and so yeah that's why I'm fascinated by this book like this astray just reason to buy a book cuz cuz you partially want to hate read some of the columns but at the same time you still love it at this maybe it's maybe this is my version of like Real Housewives Atlanta or something I don't know but okay totally different vein we have Mary Oliver may she rest in peace and so bookoutlet had a ton of her stuff around the time that she passed and so I picked up a few things and I picked up this one which is upstream and this is selected essays and I didn't realize it was essays until it arrived at my house but that's fine I'm very excited about essays this is out from penguin press which is more the more per student press is from penguin I mean pretty self-explanatory but Marie Oliver is very is poet but she also looks at the environment a lot and and what that looks like and I'm just excited I'm excited for it speaking of poetry I also picked up for everyone by Jason Reynolds they had so many of these and I'm very interested in poetry but it's pretty expensive up front because all the times it's smaller presses and different things so I find buying poetry on book outlet very affordable and so I've had this on my wish list for almost a year so I would just went ahead and picked it up so it looks amazing the illustrations are great I love Jason Reynolds that's Jason Reynolds I recently read love from A to Z by SK Ali and this is from their Salaam reads imprint of Simon & Schuster and I love this imprint so much when somaye and I planned her themes we usually look at Muslim South Asian and Middle Eastern stories and so they do a great job of doing middle reader and teen Muslim stories I really love it and so I picked up a Saints and misfits because I really liked love for me to see and so um thank you Dylan so I'm looking forward to reading this one because I just thought the first one was as she wrote the I read was adorable alright so next time I picked up is Lanie there were so many different options but the frequent thing with feathers is in paperback so I was like oh I'll get paperback and it wasn't a gray wolf it was a different one I think this is the Canadian edition anyway so I've heard so many people talk about this including Jen Campbell and so I'm very sited to read more of his stuff I loved grief is the thing with feathers so and I feel like I'm the last person to read this book but I'm very much looking forward to it a set of books is three books that I've had on my list for a while and this is food writing 2015 2016 and 2017 now we have the best American food writing series I think that's out from Mariner but this it was a different one but they didn't have the best American food writing during these years so I'm looking forward to reading more food writing and these were extremely inexpensive so I went ahead and picked them up they've been on my list forever but I thought it would be just great to have them when I can read print a little more because I love reading food essays of everything about food it's just it's amazing another one I picked up and this one has a tear in it which I was annoyed about but this is by Tim B luck this is a memoir love Sicily and finding home this is called from scratch and this is actually the sister of Attica Locke and so I've been resisting picking up this book but they're now making it into a movie and so I thought well I should pick it up while I can but I will I have some let's say spell oh tape it's not right way to screw up in America we have scotch tape I'm gonna put some tape on this and we'll fix her right up has to go to my little I have like a whole corner of books that need help and it's kind of like my little triage center for books so this is gonna hang out there until I have a moment to catch up this little sad no more I feel bad for them you know anyway so the next book I have up was inspired by teacher of men she went on the podcast and talked about grace Paley and this is a grace Paley reader stories essays and poetry and she recommended the different works by grace Paley but I thought this would be a great place to start since it is a reader it has a little bit of everything so I was so proud that I saw this and immediately like threw in my cart and was like yes of course so I was speaking of food books I have more maybe I should have put them together but this is you and I eat the same on the countless ways food and cooking connect up to one another and this has been on my wish list for a long time and it has these like photos and like all sorts of different kinds of essays in it from different writers and I'm very excited about it so the last book I have to show you for this book call is ingredient unveiling the essential elements of food by Ali Bazar II and this is a book about ingredients and it has these gorgeous little photos here and you know as I learn more about cooking the more I think it's important to have great ingredients and how that your dish can only be good as the ingredients in it really and so I really appreciated how a lot of more cookbooks for the average cook like myself are focusing more ingredients and teaching people how to pick the best produce from your grocery store and just that little something that makes it a much better dish like you know avoiding hothouse tomatoes for example and just stuff like that so I really love learning about ingredients so I've had this in my cart for a long time and so I was like you know what I'm just gonna get it now because no time like the present all right so those are books that I pick different book outlet on Boxing Day did you participate in the book outlet Boxing Day extravaganza let me know the things that you got and I hope you enjoyed seeing all those books there's a book you think I should pick up sooner rather than later definitely let me know and I will try to prioritize that in my reading yeah until next time I'll talk to you guys later bye\n"