Hello hello! I'm obsessed with books and I need a place to *feel things about it* so if you like classics, nonfiction, history, contemporary fictions, memoirs, transgressive fiction , or straight up weird shit, you've come to the right place.
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I love sally rooney she’s probably my favorite author & normal peoples my fav, I hope when you do read it you like it. I personally didn’t notice the quotation marks too much when reading. The first line also has a deeper meaning you notice as you read it.
Great video! Completely agree with you on House of Leaves. I saw an adaptation of The Monk w/ Vincent Cassel at a film fest many years ago. I haven't watched it again but having read the book years before I recall enjoying the adaptation. Love your idea for Moby Dick.
- The Hearing Trumpet: sounds pretty sick. I'll have to check it out. - House of Leaves: would be sad to get a perfectly-fine version that lacks all the magic. Like (imo) what happened with Emma Donoghue's Room, where the movie does everything right and still fails to capture what made the book great, which was its representation of Words and Thought. - Infinite Jest: one good "adaptation" is the Kindle version where you can click footnotes as links, search for names, hit the back button, etc. I wonder if someone could nudge that a step beyond and really make the hypertext hyper. - Needs another shot: Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels. The movie had a bad case of "gotta hear both sides" and is mostly famous for being long. Whereas when I think of the book I think of its strong point of view, even to the point of inserting a character to stop and say hey guys, this is what the theme is. - Impossible to film: most Clive Barker stories. When he's pulling you along on pure poetry, and you stop to think about how the scene would actually look in physical space... it's awkward. Maaaybe Julia Ducournau could do something with the awkwardness.
I still have to read “Room” but I imagine a lot was lot in translation. I’ll have to read some Clive Barker stories, if they’re impossible to film then I’ll want to read them lol
Good choice!!! I really liked this book (not saying this because I'm Polish 😅) Books of Jacob intimidate me... Hamnet is really overrated IMO but sooo many people love it so you might too
I added Books of Jacob to my TBR but it does seem pretty intense! And I’ll see how I like Hamnet, there was so much hype for it, it wouldn’t surprise me if some thought it was overblown
Catherine, I am so honored!! "Drive Your Plow..." would have been my pick as well and it just shot up very high on my TBR. Can't wait to hear how you end up liking it <3 Also I am currently reading "Near to the Wild Heart" which is my first Clarice Lispector novel. Very good + think-y so far
"disguised to myself" reminds me of the Portishead lyric "frozen to myself"... I wonder if there's some old phrasing behind it, or if they're just having fun with prepositions
i really needed a new video of yours right now, I felt so lonely, thank you so much for being here (although you're not literally here for ME I know that) and for your amazing content I real Days of my abandonment recently, it's amaziiinnnng. I love Ferrante's style, I've actually read Troubling Love, her first novel, and it was borderline stream of consciousness, such a complex story and storytelling. She likes blurring the lines between reality and hallucinations, dreams, lucidity and insanity, it's really amazing. Drive your plow over the bones of the dead (long a** title..) is also in my TBR and this first sentence got me into iit.
Glad I can be here for you and that my videos are a comfort 🥰! And I love hearing that about “Days of Abandonment,” I love when reality starts to get blurred!
I love Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid! I reviewed it on my channel a few months ago and I’ll be mentioning it again in an upcoming video. Great answers to the questions! I am totally with you on Colleen Hoover 😂
@@theeconstantreader it’s so good! I read it as a companion to Villette with a literary round table thing and we compared the two Lucy characters. It was soooo interesting!
@@ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged wait that’s so funny, I read Lucy and Villette for the same book club and we remarked how the two had the same name and the same disdain for their audience 😂
WHOA, how funny! I agree on the disdain for the reader as to both Lucy characters and there were so many other similarities: (a) both books were auto-fiction, (b) both obsess over letters (either devouring them or just refusing to read them), (c) both Lucy are super judgmental and angry and want independence; however, all appear to be internal for the reader because they both appear to be popular and well-liked people, (d) both are outsiders: racially, culturally, religiously, (e) and both have a relationship with a man named Paul. SO MUCH to unpack, I loved it.
I read Giovanni's Room and If Beale Street Could Talk by Baldwin this year, my first taste of him as an author. They were beautifully devastating. My very best of the year so far have been Family Lexicon, Pereira Maintains and East of Eden
My only goal for the rest of the year is to finish Emily wildes encyclopedia of faeries, read tolkien's the children of húrin, and the silmarillion. 🤷♀️🤷♀️ my ambitions are low
I truly think anyone could like this book! For being a children’s book, the prose isn’t too simplistic, but it was obviously lighter than what I usually read, and the story was just lovely. I say give it a shot!
catherine!!! i feel very similar about carmen maria machado and recently i came across an edition of orlando by virgina woolfe that had an introduction from her! have yet to read it but am very excited 🙌
@@smamsasmasmsmasmasmasamsas yes! Her prose can be tricky but I think because the book is kind of fantastical it’s easier to approach than some of her other works
I agree wholeheartedly about the Chanel Miller book. Important. Riveting. And so well written! Oooh yes to War and Peace! I’m currently reading Giovanni’s Room. Had I read it in the first part of this yr, it would easily be on this list. One of my faves from this year is Knife, Salman Rushdie’s memoir and The Magic Mtn by Thomas Mann.
I’ve been wanting to get my hands on Knife, I’m glad you liked it! And I have The Magic Mountain, I might move it farther up the TBR if it was one of your faves 👀👀👀
Love the tombombadil character. He’s very mythical and really gives you a sense just how rich Tolkiens world is. For me, good world building in books is as much about the mysteries as it is about the culture/magic/values of the world.
hi! i love your discussion on giovanni's room! i agree that it's a trailblazer especially with how the characters were fleshed out in such a small book, how the dialogues are just so painful, so realistic. this reminds me of what i told my friend: "Giovanni's Room was their Eden, until it wasn't anymore, until they've run out of reasons to make it their version of paradise." great video! i'm subscribed now :D
You've totally sold me on Picnic at Hanging Rock- I love an open-ended book! And when authors refuse to explain themselves 😅 Sounds like you had a great reading month 😍
Omg Giovanni’s Room has been on my list for so long. Sold! And Picnic at Hanging Rock. Wowza. Also sold! I love the way you talk about your experience with books.
Woo first vlog! Good job!! On the gas thing: that’s why I loved when I went to New Jersey one summer. lol I am a princess and therefore am incapable of pumping my own gas.
HAHAHA STOP - that was her way of telling us that the world was way more harsh than the movies we watched. Also I feel like we both had a Romanov phase and Caroline didn't
Ah, Virginia Woolf: yes, anything by her is unforgettable. I think 'To the Lighthouse' is my favourite - but, I love the lot! And 'The Hours' is such a powerful novel-turned-feature film. Both the book & film really should come with a trigger warning, so raw & powerful, the majesty of the greatest art.
"To the Lighthouse" was the first I read from her, but I think it needs a re-read now that I am more used to her writing style. I want to read "The Hours" very soon!
I am old, & been lucky enough to make reading/writing my career (poetry, criticism & literary essays), & have recently retired into a tiny home, thus freeing up some resources for absolute indulgences like The Folio Society from London. I am in heaven.
@@theeconstantreader: yes, I'm very lucky. Just ventured into booktube myself. The tech stuff is daunting, but I'll see if I can muddle through - just following my nose.
@@theeconstantreader: You are amazing. Thank you. I have an episode on AR Ammons planned for this Friday. Always loved his poetry. I've learnt so much from poets like Plath & Ammons. I love to write in dialogue.
Yay! Your first vlog! Do more! I loved it. I don’t do vlogs. I just don’t do them well or I end up too uninspired to put them together? Of course yours would slay! And the books! What a haul!
