My heart pounding when you showed the copy of The Left Hand of Darkness (my favorite book of all times). Looking forward to know your thoughts about it!
Currently reading Angela Carters "The Bloody Chamber", which I really like so far. Also read Left Hand of Darkness a while ago and also liked it pretty much!
Thanks to you and some of the other Booktubers I'm starting to re-appreciate aesthetically beautiful books again! Nice hard covers with lovely illustrations and whatnot. Hope you have a great week, Leonie! 🙂
oh dude i have three of the ghibli concept art books and they are BEAUTIFUL theyre actually some of my most prized possessions !!!! they have so much beautiful art, obviously, but alsp so much interesting background info !! would defo reccomend :)
i am SO jealous of that copy of radio silence omg! those edges are so lovely, i also am obsessed with the idea of customizing your collection in that way
I am hoping we might get a similar "Creating A Champion" art book after Tears of the Kingdom releases though I doubt it'll be as big as the original one. I love concept art books for games so much, I just wish I had more space for them!
Hi Leonie, thank you for introducing me the penguin great ideas series, I have never heard about it before, the idea of this series sounds really interesting, I will definitely read some of those books.
Hi Leonie. Trust me, as someone who wrote their Honours dissertation on Angela Carter and read all her books as research, Heroes and Villains was my LEAST favourite out of all of them (except maybe for Love, her fifth novel). If you want peak Angela Carter, then you should definitely go for The Bloody Chamber (as you mentioned). Or Nights at the Circus, it's probably her most famous novel, and it's a pure distillation of her fantastical, magical realism writing. If you want a Gothic love story, then I'd recommend The Magic Toyshop or Shadow Dance, as these have very domestic Gothic vibes. Think Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights if they were set in 1960s suburban London. If you want her weirdest stories, then I'd recommend The Passion of New Eve or The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, as these were both critically panned when they were published but have become mainstays of feminist fiction and gender studies. My personal favourite Angela Carter short story (apart from The Bloody Chamber) is Alice in Prague or The Curious Room. It's a fun read. I hope this helps anyone in the comments who is interested in Carter's work. Happy reading!
Great book choice! Alchemy also has its psychological side being human's projection of his inner mental processes. Just as the Christian, Gnostic or modern psychological therapy doctrines it had the purpose of a transformative therapy described in symbolic language. Eventually however, it was approached more as modern natural sciences, which certainly makes it lose much of its utility. I greatly recommend a very dense and informative book by a Swiss psychologist C.G.Jung "Psychology and Alchemy" where he analises most popular alchemical treaties :))
I've just recently discovered your channel and I am currently re-watching your old videos for my daily dose of beloved Booktube (while actually needing to write my thesis). Your videos are such a delight! Edit: please do a whole funny book review again, there my favs!
If you plan on playing the new Zelda game Tears of the Kingdom you should totally do a blog or video about it! I would totally watch it. Love your videos!!
I'll be keeping an eye out for some of these books (especially the Zelda book!) While I also like short stories, my 'problem' with them is that just when I am emotionally invested in them they are done ...
@arawn Yeah the jigsaw really falls into place in the thumbnail, it's all I need. I think the thumbnail was so good because leonie is such a weird fish!
@@alicen3162 Now, you go slowly with all those puns! Don't want this whole comments section to come tumbling down like some kind of... building... made out of... paper. Hmmm
omg I just remember a book that you might like!!!! It's Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda!! I read it last summer and it's so twisted and thrilling. Goodread said : "Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from from Herman Melville, H.P. Lovecraft, and anonymous 'creepypastas', Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear." I read it before becoming a teacher and it was both crystalizing my fears and being so addictive, maybe like Bunny by Mona Award? Anyway, just letting you know this ahah! Thank you for your videos, they are so calming 🌼
6:09 Ehhhhhhhhhhh. People really overstate this. European alchemists were primarily concerned with altering _material properties,_ believing that if you eventually changed all of the properties of a substance you could convert the substance itself. (The earliest texts we have on the subject are from craftsmen in ptolemaic Egypt creating fake jewelry. The idea eventually became if you could imitate luster, weight, density, etc, of gold or whatever, you would have successfully created that thing.) European alchemists also never searched for immortal life, that's just a myth brought on by the conflation of European and Asian alchemy. (Though they did look for medicine to _extend_ life, but never to grant immortality.) It's much less mystical than people think, see _The Secrets of Alchemy_ by Lawrence Principe for more.
5:45 it's the perfect inspiration for a D&D campaign! I based a lot of the game I'm currently running on alchemical concepts, and it turned out very fun!
the only problem with the french postmodernists (simone de beauvoir, jean-paul sartre, michel foucoult, jacques derrida etc.) is that they did philosophy their way into pro-pedophilia so. did not eat with that one
Oooh, I happen to have Terra Ultima checked out from the library atm. Ngl, I don't really care that much about the story, I'm just there for the art. I also have a book checked out that dwarfs your zelda book 😂 I'm genuinely not looking forward to returning it, because it doesn't fit in any of my daily use bags. It's Between the Sea and the Sky and it's gorgeous, but omg it is obscenely large.
I was in the local library a few weeks ago and saw Terra Ultima but i didn't buy it cause I 'had enough books already' NOW I need something new to read and I can't find it there anymore:(
I think you are my missing best friend. I love all your book recommendations, your outro art, your aesthetic and best of all, BOTW!! Subscribed right away. So excited to binge your videos.
I have not watched a book haul for a moment. This was really nice to watch, and I got some recs for books I am interested in. I have read Carter's Bloody Chamber and other stories and I loved them. I have a complete bind up of all her short stories called Burning Your Boats. So if you are interested in reading more, here is one you can look into.
ohhh the left hand of darkness!! i went into this book completely blind and was. well. you could say i was surprised. she really was over there exploring omegaverse before the omegaverse was invented huh. but i loved it nonetheless and will definitely reread it one day, its got a lot of ideas to chew on and beautiful eloquent language to convey them
I guess I'm due for a re read of The Left Hand of Darkness! Le Guin's speculative fiction is just unmatched! So excited for you to finally get your hands on a copy ❤
I would 100% recommend reading Gregory Maguire’s Hiddensee if you love ETA Hoffman’s The Nutcracker! Hiddensee is not a retelling of the Nutcracker, but it does provide a beautiful history of and background to Drosselmeyer (the godfather who gave Clara the nutcracker). It’s one of my favorite books of all time!!
Can you please recommend some autobiographies? I’m looking for some good ones because I really enjoy audiobook versions of autobiographies. I have loved Educated by Tara westover, Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, Stolen Life Jaycee Dougard, Im glad my mom died Jeanette McCurdy, Tastes like War by Grace Cho. Please someone offer some titles of autobiographies? 🙏
about the botw one: YES! I haven't actually played it, but ive already finished totk and am awaiting the art book! Also waiting for a few more, art books from games, movies, books, really any media you love is 100% worth it!
I think you should do a video where you read a bunch (like 3) gothic books. Like Belladonna, Juniper &Thorn, What moves the dead, a far wilder magic, the hacienda. I'd also really like you to read House of salt and sorrows which is 12 Dancing Princesses set in a creepy seaside mansion and its supposed to be my new favourite book because its everything i love but i have such high expectations that I'm too scared to actually read it and a recommendation from you could push me to finally read it.
Creating a Champion was one of the best book purchases I ever made! Not only does it show so much beautiful art and so many tantalizing design concepts, but it elaborates on the lore of the game, which I love reading about
Leonie! I just finished reading Anatomy by Dana Schwartz and if you have not read it you definitely should, when you talked about the book on occultism I thought, "she MUST read Anatomy!". It's as if Dr. Frankenstein were a woman, and about all the things that a woman had to do if she wanted to become a surgeon during the 19th century, and of course there are other things happening that might interest you. Hope you can add it to your TBR!
I could tell that was an Angela Carter when you took the books off the shelf haha:D (She's one of my fav authors). Heroes and Villains is weird but it has interesting ideas and good moments, and I don't think I ever read a gothic post apocalyptic story examining gender roles. I generally prefer her short fiction to her novels (although I haven't read her probably most popular one, Nights at the Circus, and only read Heroes and Villains and The Magic Toyshop). I loved Black Venus, particularly the Lizzie Borden story, hope you'll like it too! The Bloody Chamber is excellent, her prose is just so interesting and evocative to read (in all works).
Oh i loved this. Once i have a more permanent living space i definitely want to collect more books that are just pretty and have amazing illustrations.
Imma tell you something about the left hand of the darkness. There is a chapter about two people having a "forbidden romance" and is soooo interesting and crazy. Literally a single chapter with a telenovela, really well written.
I know you've mentioned not enjoying The Raven Cycle before, but it's my absolute favourite story containing a magical forest (also my favourite magical realism book in general), so I would definitely recommend giving it another try if you're looking for that kind of thing 🌱✨🌿
Yes, I did enjoy spending time with you. Some of those new books are gorgeous, and should (I hope) last a lifetime. I, alas, am still bogged down in recondite doorstop tomes, and listening to you makes me remember how much I miss taking a day off to visit the NYC museums. On the other hand, I'm very thankful for having had the chance to do that (when I was young), Well, as much as I would like to here and now compose a little short story, instead I'll suggest you give Dylan Thomas a try, especially around Christmas.
The love for The Nutracker coming from the Barbie movie made me like you so much more heheh very much relate to that 🩰✨️ Also wow the custom spray painting is so cool!!
