Dear all, I’ll be off the internet for the rest of February (for reasons I might talk about in the future). I have scheduled uploads for the time I’m not here, all about my first semester impressions of studying literature, my exams and my courses in the next semester :-) So you can expect me to not answer comments or emails for a few weeks. All the best, Maria ✨
Wishing you all the best and look forward to your return. You lighten my day each week. Your talks are always so genuine and engaging. Take care, we will be here.
Thank you for posting Maria. I love your content so much, I am always happy to see the notification pop up when you upload a new video. I need to read Annie Ernaux. Perhaps I will listen to it rather than reading it. Thank you for the idea. ❤
Thank you so much Maria for the recommendations! It is really satisfying to read smaller books and finish them. I normally tend to, as you also indicated about yourself in the previous video, like to read big books and then that feeling of accomplishment often takes a while. Have a nice day and a good February and it's really impressive that you scheduled uploads so thank you for that :)
Thank you for the French recommendation for us language learners; I like that you recommend books in more than just English translations. Chess, in my naïve opinion, seems more about memorization as it goes on, which made it lose its luster in my eyes. I wish I could see the beauty in it beyond players who have just memorized those patterns. ((Referring to the knight as a horse though, is right around my level of expertise)). Das Purfum is a book that I've been hearing about for a time, perhaps this is a sign to buy it next time I come across it. Short books are underrated as I respect their conciseness; many books can be so long and fail to say anything. Look forward to future videos on short stories.
Seconding the point about recommendations for language learners. Most “booktubers” I watch are exclusively anglophone but I’m trying to learn French right now and have been trying to think of short books to read in French.
@@nicholasbailey6622 I have had the same experience. You have your French lessons, read some short stories, then they recommend 'Le Petit Prince' and 'L'Étranger', and sort of throw you into the ocean. I picked up a short book called "Bonjour Tristesse" and developed the habit of writing each word I don't understand in a journal and then creating its singular/present verb tense as a flashcard. It seems all we can do is climb a mountain of vocabulary until it sticks.
Hi, it's Scott, i hope you're OK. I recommend to you, as you are having to study and write 'scientific ' papers/critiques: Caroline Spurgeon "Shakespeare's Imagery and what it tells us", published first in 1935. Good luck finding the book. Cambridge University Press are the main original publisher. Take care Maria
