Thanks for joining me in my cozy corner of the world. Here, I like to chat about books. I’m often reading from a variety of genres and hope to share my love of literature with you.
@@NicoleGalindoMencia its instructions for how to live a good life and how to treat people. It’s believed to have influenced some of the writers of other books that came after it that discuss similar topics.
Ugh! I had a comment all written out but then lost it. Basically it said, you are my people. I do not get on booktube to see super edited videos. They are often very nice & sometimes entertaining but I'm interested in hearing people's views of reading, not 20 mins of montage of reading in different places. LOL I'm not going to make those kind & have no expectations of ever making any kind of real money here, just hopefully a few like-minded book nerd friends. :)
@@Kristy.Reads.2024 aww thank you so much Kristy! I really appreciate your kind words and for taking the time to watch my video. I will check out your channel as well
@@literarylayer I just started it. I just filmed two videos today so I have to do some quick chopping up of it since little girl decided to demand I fix the iPad twice. LOL
I need to read this book. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. William T. Vollmann has a two-volume set called Carbon Ideologies-Volume 1, No Immediate Danger; Volume 2, No Good Alternative-that struggles with precisely what you communicate in this video. He strives to understand the causes of climate change as best he can, and then he reaches a similarly horrifying conclusion: the math for how to deal with it doesn't add up, and many solutions come at a great cost to massive amounts of people throughout the world. It's not a book that connects to the Congo; instead it's another road that leads to the same position you express here, one that leaves the author himself quite forlorn and fatalistic (it's written as a letter to future generations explaining why we did not solve the problem).
@@ToReadersItMayConcern I’ve never heard of Carbon Idealogies but I will check them out. Thanks for sharing them with me. I hope that you get a chance to read Cobalt Red. I’m still feeling the aftereffects of it.
congrats on one year of youtube! I just found your channel 😊 You are so right about the YA fantasy. It took me many fairyloot boxes to realize this lol
@@TheLinguistsLibrary hi 👋🏽 what a coincidence I found your channel through the tag as well and love the books you selected and had to subscribe. Thanks for watching!
@literarylayer You're definitely welcome. There are quite a few points that pertain to me and my experience here in the community specifically, so I'll be taking heed to them.
Yes to bulk recording!! I’m glad I did this for my vacation. I also just use my smart phone and my tripod. I don’t care to have more than that. Loved these tips!
@@literarylayer I’ve mentioned it here and there in my wrap ups but, I’m planning to do an official video soon where I go over all the books I have left to read. 😊
As a collector of books, I have no intention of reading all of them. I do read, but every time I get a new batch, I put aside one to read. I am developing a library. With my collection of over thousands of books, I could never read them all even if I wanted to.
@@literarylayer Both. I started collecting books by and about African Americans and when I came across a book that I already had, I gave them to my daughter. Well, she had enough so I started selling at local flea markets.
Mr Mercedes has some pretty graphic descriptions, just as a warning. It's the first book in a trilogy and is also linked to Holly Gibney series. I really enjoyed it and I can't wait to see what you think of it 😊
@@LizsReadingCorner- thanks for the heads up. I’ll need to check the content warnings before starting it. Some things I can handle like blood and a little violence. Others, not so much
This is a great list! And thanks for the tag, I’m definitely going to do this for my next video! Also I love Zora Neale Hurston and I have not been able to find her books apart from Their Eyes… at my favourite bookstore. I may need to just special order them because her writing style is just wonderful! Also, Blood at the Root is a ton of fun!
I just finished reading James, and as someone who never read the original, I definitely think it stands well on its own. I had debated about reading Huckleberry first, but my requested library copy of James came in before I had the chance. I love how intelligent James was depicted in the book - it was a great read and I’ll be thinking about it for a long time. Definitely want to read more of Percival Everett.
Great buys!! I LOVE Cloud Cuckoo Land, an amazing book that should have won him the Pulitzer Prize again! The opening of If on a Winter's Night was amazing but then the book lost me. I recently hauled Passage to India as well. Fun stuff! Happy reading!
Yes! They had a good selection available. Wondering if I heard you talking about Cloud Cuckoo Land on your channel, probably! This is my first Calvino. Hope I don’t have the same experience 😕
Thanks for the suggestion. I never thought of doing that but will try to include it next time. I’m sure the artists don’t get as much credit as they deserve
One of the interesting articles in "The Black Book" is Alexander Dumas stating that he wanted to come to the United States but he feared he would be captured and held as a slave.
11/22/63 is a good book, much better than the adaptation imo.This is a good variety of books from different genres, love it 🙂 Thanks for another great video 😊
So great! I love the range of books people have been selecting. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows sounds especially beautiful! Thank you for including such essential history in the second half, and you've introduced me to a work of Toni Morrison's that I hadn't heard of before. Thank you!
Thank you! The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is wonderful and I think you’d enjoy it. For some reason I keep forgetting that I have Recitatif on my shelf but recording this video has me want to get to it sooner than later.
11/22/63 is so interesting! Very complex with details that were really well thought out. I switched back and forth between physical and audio when I read it, which helped me get through it a little faster.
I'm so glad to hear your thoughts about this. I remembered absolutely nothing about Huckleberry Finn from reading it as a kid, so I read it recently to have the story fresh in my mind. I think I've had enough of a break in between and I'll probably start James later this week. Great video!
I haven't read either of these, I'll be adding them to my tbr now that you've piqued my interest 🙂 I can relate to reading sequels or a series too close together, it can become too much especially if you're not liking or not interested in some of the characters.
@@LizsReadingCorner- I can’t say that I’d recommend Huck Finn. It’s very racist but I guess that’s to be expected during that time period with the story he was trying to tell. There were portions of it that were good though. Depends on what you’re comfortable with. James was definitely worth the read and I would’ve preferred to hear more about him in the book.
@@literarylayer yeah I think it's a prominent problem with most stories that I've read from that time period, there's a lot of racism in them unfortunately 😒I'll still add both so I can see what you're talking about 🙂
