Few video ideas: 1)What Emma Watson reads 2)All the books mentioned on F.R.I.E.N.D.S 3)Reading books recommended by your subscribers 4)One book from every genre 5)Only reading translated book for a week 6)What Jisoo from Blackpink reads 7)Books about religion 8)Biographies and Autobiographies 9)Celebrity lifestyle part 2 10)How different your life is in Paris and in England. 11)What Elio from Call Me By Your name reads 12)1 Book from every country 13)Literature you enjoyed as a child 14)Books mentioned in Perks of Being a Wallflower. 15)What Charlie reads in Heartstopper 16)Try other academias like The Dark Academia video 17)Books under 200 pages 18)Tier rank authors 19)Read fanfics 20)Lgbtq+ books
‘The End of the World is a Cul-De-Sac’ is such a cool title. So is ‘My Pen Is The Wing Of A Bird’. I think Jack’s type is unusually long titles, good covers and excellent blurbs which could literally be any one of us.
Jack may be one of the only booktubers who NEVER disappoints. He always has new and diverse content, diversifies his videos, does real research on what he reads and comes up with new ideas for videos super frequently. I sometimes find myself a bit annoyed at other booktubers for repeating stuff about the same popular books over and over again, but with Jack you can feel how really and genuinely passionate he is about reading and finding new ways to communicate his passions to us. Great job, Jack!
@@AthynVixen that’s what you’ll find on this channel - they’re all first impressions! If you want reviews, head to my main channel :) I can’t give an in depth analysis before I’ve read it!!
It would be so amazing, Jack, if you were to create a public catalogue of all the books you’ve spoken about and identify the video(s) they’re mentioned and/or reviewed in! Sometimes I’ll read a recommendation and then want to rewatch the video it was reviewed in but struggle to remember/find which one it was. An idea I thought I’d share! Sounds like a great trip. Hope you have a lovely Sunday :)
@@jack_edwards I‘ve been thinking about what a great resource that would be too and even thought about building such a catalogue myself, so please do❣️
@@jack_edwards Yes that would be amazing! I often find myself in a bookshop recognizing a title you mentioned, but when I want to rewatch your review, I often cannot remember the video anymore (I have to admit that binging your entire yt channel in two weeks might have caused this haha). Also thank you for making YT a brighter place with your videos ~
Yes! Also when I’m done reading a book, I love going back to whatever video recommended to me and hearing the creator’s review in context! If anyone knows where I can find Jack’s review of the song of achilles, I’ll be extremely grateful x)
@@jack_edwards Or maybe you can design a nice "reading wishlist" notebook. Where you can write down the writer, the title, a little bit of room to add a bit of text and a place to add who recommended it or why
as a translator (from english to portuguese) i'm so happy to see you talking about how important is to recognize the tranlastors! thank you :) and happy to see you reading so many translated lit. ❤
I'm shocked, you don't put the translator's name on the covers!!! here in the arab world we read some books because of the translator not the author (sometimes)😂 let's appreciate them, I see more people read more translated books lately which is a good thing , I hope to be one in the future!
For fans of Norse mythology I recommend The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec! Its a mythological retelling similar to Circe by Madeline Miller and I LOVED it!! 😍Thanks for taking us along for ride Jack!💞
As someone whose family is from Hay and whose been lucky enough to be brought up with monthly visits there, this video brought me so much joy! I literally couldn't think your channel(s) would get better, but thank you for again proving me wrong and doing Hay justice. PS I hope you had coffee at The Old Electric Shop xx
I need to see more of that town. There is something very wholesome about a village with stone buildings and bunting in the streets (maybe that’s just me being from a baby country with nothing comparable?)
Paradais is just the way you would pronunce paradise following the spanish language logic. "-DAIS" in spanish sounds like "-DISE" in english. So it's okay if you just say paradise haha. I'm so glad you're reading Fernanda Melchor, I haven't read Paradais but I loved Hurricane Season.
Anton Hur is so kind, I can't deal. I was lucky enough to meet him and most other shortlisted translators recently at an International Booker Prize event. I'm thinking of pursuing translation and he gave me some lovely advice. It's so cool that you met him and I hope you enjoy Cursed Bunny!
I love Books and Bao! I binge their channel every so often, rewatching older videos and reviews after I finally read a book they mentioned. Really good source for Asian (mostly Japanese) literature :)
I was at Hay festival too. Would have been amazing if i had met you. Hopefully next year. 🙏 i think hay on wye should have a section for book-fluencers as they're now becoming an important reason as to why people are falling more deeply in love with reading.
I have never thought about putting the translator's name on the cover, but now that i think about it it's so important!! In Spain a lot of the books we read are translated from english and the translator's name is always inside the book with all the copyright section, which now seems really unfair to me. It's just so common to read translated books here that we don't aknowledge the work of the people who made possible for us to read it. I hope they start changing that but so far i've never seen the translator's name on the cover :(
How cool that you ran into the translator of Cursed Bunny! I'm reading it right now and loving it - it's so thought provoking that I have to take some time between stories to ruminate. Enjoy!
i miss wales so much omfg. i remember going to hay-on-wye years ago, just when i was getting really into reading, i loved it so much and bought so many books, i was around eleven at the time which is ridiculous thinking back. i will never forget this town and i'm so excited for when i get to go back
I can't get through your videos without my TBR climbing a little higher, oops 😶 I would love to visit Hay-on-Wye sometime! I'm in Ireland so it would make a fantastic weekend away I think - especially as I prefer to buy a book or three as souvenirs whenever I'm away. Hope to see reviews of these books sometime in the future!
I go to hay-on-wye most years with my family and its such a nostalgic, familiar and homely place that I love with all of my heart. I love the Richard booth bookshop and have many a book from there, but also the numerous secondhand bookshops there are so maze like and vast and I can't wait to go again!
i go to durham uni now and im doing Germanic myth and legend for my second year seminar, hearing you talk about how much extra reading you have to do to understand the mythology ah i understand it's so hard haha
I live for your videos!!! I commute, watching your videos. I eat, watching your videos. I take a shower, watching your videos. Please, never stop posting videos! You are literally my life! And I looove all your book recoms. 😭😭🥰🥰❤
hay on wye has been on my must visit list for a while now and i'm so excited to finally get to go there this summer especially after seeing your content about it
Was very lucky to be within a few hours distance of Hay on Wye. I convinced my parents to come with me to the Hay Festival last week and it was so lovely to be in a place where everyone was passionate about reading and books. I loved every second of it! 📚 great video Jack😊
Your videos haven’t been on my notifications even though the bell is on :( I missed so many new videos so I’ll just come scout your channels often. Love you Jack! ❤️
Cursed Bunny is on my reading list for the fall along with The Dangers of Smoking in Bed which was on the Booker International shortlist last year. That is amazing that not only did you get to meet the translator but also found out they are a fan of your videos. Also added My Pen is the Wing of a Bird so my ever-growing TBR list.
Cursed Bunny is a vibe train you either get on or you don't. But if you do, you are in for an incredible journey. Amazing book I picked up thanks to Willow's review as well. I hope you enjoy it as well. I am adding The End of the World is a Cul-De-Sac in my list... such a cool title.
I’m actually obsessed with the Fitzcarraldo Editions I’ve only got one book from them right now but someday I WILL have a little shelf of all those gorgeous blue books
I was so excited when I saw the title of this video!! I got to visit Haye On Wye earlier this spring and it was absolutely magical. Especially Richard Booth’s bookshop!! I would probably still be there if my friends hadn’t dragged me out 😂😭
I absolutely love all the books you recommend. Your goodreads/storygraph is my goto when I need something new to read. Buuuut….I just don’t get the hype about“7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo”. I usually love those kinds of books, but it’s the first dnf in a long time. Maybe it’s because I’m listening to it?
I'd love to know more about your favourite booktubers, Jack! I feel like we can all agree you have great taste, and it's been really hard for me to find other channels as good as yours
I don't know which I'm more jealous of, that you met Anton Hur (I've read his translation and it's immaculate) or that Cursed Bunny is available in the UK (it isn't here yet).
Jack, I saw you couldn’t put down “Paradais” so I highly recommend to read “Hurricane Season” by the same author Fernanda Melchor. That novel is such a masterpiece and a whole experience to read, greater than Paradais in my opinion. It was also translated by Sophie so I assume the translation must be also good!
Happy Pride Month! It was my birthday yesterday so I consider this as a birthday gift I haven’t opened till now. Also, I was gifted ‘The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told’ which is a Short Story Collection selected and edited by Mitra Phukan so yes, we need a video on Short Stories.
Now I wanna read Paradais and Cursed Bunny👀👀👀👀👀 Also I was kinda crying at 5am and I was looking for some kind of comfort and you just posted🥺 I love your golden retriever energy (or maybe a beagle? Haha) and you also motivate me to read and do stuff that makes me feel good. Thank you❤️✨
I Will be going to Hay-on-Wye in the summer as I will be traveling through the uk.(unfortunately not with the hay festival.) I was a bit skeptical first but I'm glad you liked it! I cannot wait to absolutely buy my whole bank account empty haha
Hello love! Have you read Candide? It’s a short, fast read satire classic written by Voltaire in 1759. I haven’t seen you talk about it at all, which surprised me! I’m sure you’re sick of book recommendations, but if you haven’t read it, Candide is great dark comedy.
You know how people have a comfort food or a comfort movie? Jack you are my comfort youtuber. Watching your videos always brings me a sense of stillness. Just wanted to share that. :) Anyways love you babe, hope you have a great day.
jack, maybe you’ve read it but i feel like Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology worked as Mythos for me. He reads the audiobook as well and to me both him and Stephen are the best narrators i have experienced. They both made mythology very personal and fun. Highly recommend.
I often struggle with short story collections, but I really enjoyed Cursed Bunny. There were some truly out-there stories that made me a bit uncomfortable (a talent to do that with writing, for sure), and there were some that I found really interesting and poignant. I've rated it up there as one of the top 2 short story collections that I've ever read, the other being Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, which I highly recommend!
Did you know that Hay on Wye was made famous in a novel written many years ago? The novel was called Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine and it was a time travel books, similar to the Outlander. Historical fiction just to be clear!! I just thought you might want to know that that was the first time I ever heard or read about Hay on Wye and the book town it became. Lady of Hay was first published back in 1986. I absolutely adored the original cover. The E-book cover it has now is rather blah and meh. But I purchased it, because of my memories of the first time I read this book over 30 years ago!!
a book i just bought because the title caught my attention; When I Sing, Mountains Dance, by Irene Solà, translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem. it looks fantastic and im so excited to read it!!!
As a non native speaker; trying to say all he Norse names of gods, folklore, even language in general... is pretty difficult for me lol my first language is english, and I can speak different levels of formal and informal speech for various ones too, but Scandinavian is so hard to get the precise accents when speaking 🤷♂️😶 I've hear it so many times and the actual way to say the gods' names. So different from the Americanized movie names lol
I read Cursed Bunny, yikes. Really curious to hear your review. Ragnarock sounds interesting and Paradais has been on my list for a while; looking forward to your thoughts.
Jack go read tomb of sand I'm reading the Hindi version because being a native speaker it meant alot to me for a Hindi book to win. Although it's been quite challenging because sadly it's been ages since I read something in Hindi (Haven't read more than 4 lines since grade 8th). It's a really beautiful story with nuanced characters. I'll force my parents to read it as well because now they can't say it's hard for them to interpret English books.
Ah, the old Snorri Sturluson! I hadn’t thought of him for a very long time! I loved A.S. Byatt’s Possession and I think I’ll pick up Ragnarok. Thanks, Jack!🌷
My copy of the complete Claudine by Colette translated from French to English by Antonia white has the translator’s name on the from if my memory is right, I haven’t read it in a while mind
This is so odd for me because I live 20 minutes away from it and though it is known for books I've never really considered it a book town just a regular town, so it's quite interesting to me
The phrase “linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant” sounds like those times I was supposed to write a short, precise 1 page answer but then I write 3 and a half pages to overcompensate for the fact that I don’t know anything. 😂
