Favourite Books of 2017 📖 

Jane Eyre!!

Love your book videos! You should do one about university, what you studied or what books you read and enjoyed !

i say this all the time but it freaks me out how alike we are haha! I need to get on my virgina woolf game though!

Easily my new favourite channel :) Relaxed and calm, but has so much quality. I'm interested in reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, sounds really fascinating. And I'll be reading Jane Eyre, soon; my sister-in-law gave me a copy for Christmas. Oh, and my favourite book I read this year was Pride and Prejudice; it is truly a masterpiece. Along with Dorsai, an excellent sci-fi novel, which I related to very heavily.

The snow is so pretty! But should be enjoyed from behind glass, like observing creatures in a zoo. It's so sweet hearing about your passion for reading. I'm not such a fan of the Game of Thrones books, but I like the TV series. It's very well written. Who were your favorite characters? I liked Arya the best. I'm not sure how much you might like fantasy, but have you read The Last Unicorn or Elric of Melnibone?

Good evening, would you mind pointing me to where get the blanket fabric thing laying over your couch? (the one with the red circle) I love it! Hope your day's been well

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle was my first read this year. It was so good. Murakami's writing is so addicting. I need to read all of his books.

This was so good I want to read all the books 📚

Caraval was my Favourite. I also rlly liked Harry Potter I started it last year and want to continue reading it! I'm looking forward to the sequel of caraval as well :D

So many books 📚 I have to read. Thank you for the list. 🗞️

Orland is my favorite work too. I agree Orland is truly a masterpiece. In 2017, KAAT in Yokohama had a theatre of Orland . So I previewed the original. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--lda7DYx9VQ.html It is regret thst thee trailer looks kind of commical but actually the theatre is stunning and beautiful especially music and the artistic projection mappying onto the wall on the stage. By the way I was an literature student too and now from a street critic commnutiy. In Japan , the school of literature used to be for counter culture youth since 100 years ago Today only a few universities has such litersture school where you can skip the class but go drink with your buddies and your professors whose classes were those of a few classes you are interested in to discuss, art, literature, life, philosophy and Revolution damn until morning. Japan has two places for humanities. One is academic world in universities and the other is street where you are not necessarily required to have a doctor or master degree but to have a talent. In the world of the street critic of over 100 years tradition , anybody can become a critic on literature , art , philosophy , movie, theatere and anything else. The street ciritc as a whole is always associated to a kind of counter culture to create your own philosophy based on widest knowledge of humanities to change the society! They read tons of books but do not look bookish. It’s just like a hip hop commnity. One who wrote the coolest critic (cool means how sharply changes your view to the world ) on self made free-magazine can be a champion and a hero respected in commnitids. He/She can debut in a monthly litersture magazine by major publishers . Of course ,there is dissing against other critics in what they write or battle talk shows in dromt of audience. You have to develop your own style of writing that rocks the society there. The most prispering time of street critic is the era of 60’s student protest culture. But even today, the community still last generation to generation. Not only critics, many famous and innovative novel writers, contemporary theatere/dance directors , historian and philosophers in Japan came out of the street critic community. Talented people who do humanities can not be satisfied with the formal academic world in Japan any time. So whenever, they moved to the street commnitiy to Today, being bookish is often connected to being nerdy. But the coolest people who rocked the society used to be bookish. One of the goals in my life is to introduce the scene and philosophers that thought really originally and in truly innovative way from the street critic scene to the rest part of the world. Because of the language barrier and the prejudice with orientalism that Japan has only oriental thoughts like ZEN, the principal of life of Samurai and so on that are not as universal as western philosophy, they have hardly been introduced to outside of Japan. But the street phisophers in Japan are the truly successors of western philosophy. Truly Hardly-discovered treasures of humanities not only for domestic readers but also for mankind. So I would like you a native english speaker who studies humanities to take a glance into the street humanities comminity in Japan.

I'm actually currently reading Orlando and loving it! I lecturer of mine recommended it and I'm so glad she did. Also, I'm so happy to have stumbled across your channel, I love it! It's nice to see the bookish adventures of another South Aussie :D

So many interesting books! I hope that I can read some of your last year's favorites this year, as my English is not thaaaat good, because I'm German and it is my first language. :) Well, my plans for this year are Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood" and "Sleep", and Keigo Higashino's "The Devotion of Suspect X", but in the German version called "Verdächtige Geliebte". Also I plan to continue collecting my manga books (does that count? xD). Actually I have to go on reading Harry Potter in English too, I got the whole collection over a year ago and still didn't finish it until The Prisoner of Azkaban, I feel guilty. :')

Jane Eyre is a great book. You should watch the movie too (particularly the 2011 one with michael fassbender). If you're into really eccentric books, I recommend Ryu Murakami. He's overshadowed by Haruki, but I think he's great. Coin Locker Baby is my favorite, but I think Piercing is his most popular.

Hi, thanks for show and explain everything. :)

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle is one of my favourite books. Stayed with me for so long after finishing it.