I read so much 60s/70s american non-fiction written by women last year, literally, as you said, because of the setting and the aesthetic. Loved Joan Didion, and I also loved Patti Smith. I feel like Didion is kind of objective and solid in how she writes about things, which makes sense cos she's a journalist. The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem were amazing! Patti Smith's books are a bit more emotional and poetic. I especially loved Just Kids. It really played into how i want to romantise the 70s, haha. The central relationship/friendship is also really great in it so there's that.
You might enjoy Eve Babitz if you haven't already! Fun fact, she's the naked lady on the cover of "Play it as it lays." Her writing made me see L.A. in a different light.
Yay I’m glad!! Hehehehe thank you thank you I took a silly amount of pleasure from matching them and THANK YOU MY HAIR TOOK 20 MINS TO DRY WITH THAT STUPID DIFFUSER IT HURT MY NECK But the waves look so wavey te he beauty is pain so ty for your kindness 🥰
IDK if you read Breakfast at Tiffany's yet but try not to picture Adurey Hepburn, I know it's hard but Capote wanted someone who could be from Middle America and he thought Audrey Hepburn was too chic and too European looking. Plus in the film, the character was styled to fit Audrey instead of the other way around. I read Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe who obviously wouldn't have had Givenchy designing her gowns in that movie. Just some fun facts here.
If you enjoy W. Somerset Maugham, definitely check out his novel, The Painted Veil. I recently read it and absolutely adored it. I would also say it gave me Madame Bovary vibes - another book I would love to see you read/talk about on your channel as I feel you would enjoy them.
Oooo I’ll pass the recommendation on to one of my friends and keep it in my back pocket for later. And yeah you’d think I’d have read Madame Bovary seeings as it’s my name sake and all and I’ve had a copy for like 5 years 😅😅 I honestly couldn’t tell you why I keep avoiding it
we love themed hauls! 💗💙 The Bell Jar is my favorite book!! part of that is because I didn't know it was considered semiautobiographical until after I finished it and I went down this rabbit hole of learning as much as I could about Sylvia Plath. I swear it consumed me for like 2 weeks. I love her writing and, though I've never been clinically depressed or su1c1dal, Esther became the character I've related to the most in the literature I've read. Plath was writing a second novel when she died; I'm so curious what that would have been like. Oh! and actually it ranked very high on my all-time favorite books list when I first read it but it took me 3 years to realize it was my number one. I really thought about it like every day of those 3 years and one day it just clicked like, Bailee- this is your favorite book! Capote is pronounced like cuh-pote-ee, btw, so just how you're saying it but with an -ee sound added to the end. I have Nin's Delta of Venus and Of Human Bondage by Maugham but haven't read them, yet 😬
The magic mountain is not spooky. It does have a sort of special atmosphere. I loved it... something about it was very... home, to me personally. Perhaps the fact that I read it over a span of a few months, every day, so I 'lived' in it for so long. I loved the writing... and the way that the author speaks about his main character, with this sort of... kind criticism? :))
@@sarcastic_fish I am dyslexic and have adhd like you so I know how intimidating such books are...but it was so rewarding. If you feel like it you should give it a go.
Would love to know your take on the Hemingway. We had to read The Old Man and the Sea in high school (in the 90s) and it was SO boring. But I think I was bored because I was 16. Also - I've owned The Bell Jar since high school and still not gotten around to reading it. I have read her diaries (and just purchased Red Comet). More interested in her life than the fictionalization of it, I guess.
hey it’d be fine really cool to see a video about a comp lit degree (especially compared to an english degree) idk if other people would be interested but i definitely would! also a starting point for reading philosophy xx
We’ll arent you in luck cause I made that video a couple years ago at the end of my degree! Search my channel it’ll be there. And honestly with philosophy imo start with the Stoics
When I was in high school, I was supposed to read Old Man and the Sea, but like so many of the texts that were assigned, I never bothered, womp womp. As for the others, I've always meant to read Magic Mountain. In college at Princeton, there was a course on the "modern European novel" listed with the comp lit department. In it, students read Madame Bovary to lay the groundwork for three subsequent novels on the syllabus: Joyce's Ulysses, Proust's Swann's Way, and Mann's Magic Mountain. The woman who taught it, a Woolf specialist who ended up teaching a different course in the English department on the 20th-century novel which I took when I was a senior, never offered the "modern European novel" course when I was there. It's too bad -- I definitely would've taken it. Also, I LOVED The Road. McCarthy is SO good. If you really want to read more modern classic American lit, I can't recommend Toni Morrison (start with The Bluest Eye) and Don DeLillo (start with Mao II, NOT White Noise, which I find terribly over-rated) highly enough.
your videos are so fun ^_^ i bought magic mountain many years ago and still havent read it oops. but i loved death in venice. and i've read a lot of plath and still don't own any of her books lol it's not easy to find them in english where i live. and since you're more grown.. have you read any sarah kane? i recently read cleansed and it floored me.
if u liked death in venice i say read magic mountain it is like a crazier version of it ! lol it is sortt of spooky i guess but not really…def a good winter-y read though!!
You might be interested to know that Father John Misty has written a song that borrows a lot from Magic Mountain. It's titled, 'So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain'.
