i love your commentary on hanya! i feel so complicated about a little life but i loved it and was so profoundly enthralled by it when i first read it. i leaned more into the discussions of family and friendship, and how we cannot fix the people in our lives than anything else. but i def need to reread now after a few years to get an updated feel for it :)
Fun fun, love the mid year book freak out! Im happy to hear you enjoyed reading Izumi Suzuki! Terminal Boredom caught my attention but I have not read it yet.
love it!!! so happy to hear that perfume and pain was a pleasant surprise!! between spaces seems fun!! i'm going to toronto this summer, maybe i can check it out!!
Seeing this reminds me that I need to make my mid year video😩 Also would love to read Outline this year. V high on the list. And To Paradise is probably what I'd call the most ambitious novel of the decade I've read so far. And although I had very up and down moments with it, but overall a testament to her abilities as a storyteller.
ahhh can’t wait to watch it ! and can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the Outline trilogy! the first book definitely broke something within me as i think it’s revolutionary in how the novel forms character! and eep!!! this makes me excited to start the Hanya !!!
ahhh i remember being disappointed by the end of kudos as well. i liked the hearing test but i didn’t love it, i wish i had enjoyed it more!! izumi suzuki has a novel coming out in the fall, i just got it on netgalley - i haven’t read anything by her yet but i’n really intrigued. i had the SAME exact thoughts about on not knowing too 😪 i really enjoyed the first volume of sontag’s journals but i DNFed on women back in the winter, i’d like to return to it eventually so i’m excited to hear your thoughts on it!!
omg your turning 30 project, i cannot waitttt for that! (also run dont walk into 30s arms, babe. its wonderful here) and i too love a chunker that can double as a visor in the summer 🫡
@@katsfieldnotes STILL SO JEALOUS OF YOUR ROONEY ARC AND CAN'T WAIT FOR THE THOUGHTS!!! oooh buzzy ones! i can't wait to hear your thoughts on Lessing! been meaning to get to her for forever!! 😭
Oh I too loved Shop Girl! Oh wow. I forgot all about it. Yay…To Paradise. I loved this book! I loved the 3 time periods which I normally wouldn’t. Maybe I’ll read People in the Trees, finally.
To Paradise was kind of frustrating for me even if it was eventually my second favorite book of last year. I think the scale and ambition comes together and settles in that final book. And like A Little Life, so much examinations of the complexity of the human experience which she always does great.
I think when hearing about it, my first impressions steered me clear from wanting to do 3 different time periods with reimagined historical fiction! But I think after reading The Fraud, I’m up for the challenge! Please do The People in the Trees! It’s unsettling and will make you mad and go mad!
I read shop girl like 10 years ago (bought the same copy as you at goodwill, thought it was cute) and it was one of the weirdest books ive ever read. Hahaha
@@nathansnook no i’ve never seen the film! I have 1Q84, a wild sheep chase (tbr), colorless tsukuru tazaki, dance x3 (tbr), after dark, norwegian wood, what i talk about when i talk about running (tbr), wind-up bird chronicle, kafka on the shore
using big books as a visor - how did I not think of this? #lifehack to paradise has been sitting on my shelf, haunting me in the past 2 years eeek. perhaps its functionality as a visor is the perfect excuse for me to finally tackle it hah. also that christopher doyle book is a steal! i remember your rec of anthony bourdain’s kitchen confidential. have you seen ‘parts unknown’ in which bourdain and doyle explore around hong kong?
It’s a book I always pass by in bookshops only to pick it up, weigh it in my hands, and always say no! But either I got stronger or the book got lighter and it’s being read this summer!!! I’m doing it! It’s a ‘big books as visors’ summer! Get to it!!! And I have not watched that ep of Parts Unknown!!! I need to find it! Had no idea Bourdaine and Doyle had done something together like this!
re all fours & optimism, i see a pokémon creature evolution: 25-yr-old dwm --> 30-35-yr-old anguished creative new mother --> 45-yr-old questioning with a more constructive conclusion. it's a logical pathway out of a roiling 20s/30s if we want to avoid turning into hardened husks. the 20-yr-old dwm is abusive, mostly to herself; the 40-yr-old crisis character in a book whose author wants to explore construction as much as destruction has survived longer and fucks around and finds out to different ends (but as we in miranda july, she's definitely fucking around and finding out!)
I recently discovered your channel from a video that you did with @elielioo and ended up binging all of your videos---well, almost all. I'm still going. I love your style as a content creator, your recommendations are always so good and I love hearing your thoughts and little meditations on all of the books you read. You are so well-read.
Oo interesting sally rooney take 🤔 i shall have to wait for your intermezzo vid to determine if i need to reassess my rooney ban. But like i mean she’s just not as fun and uncomplicated as anna dorn 💁🏻♀️ and omg nana makes up a solid 30% of my 20s personality ❤️
awesome video as usual!! just started the new Cusk, going to be reviewing soon :-) My fav book this year so far is Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek.. super recommended
I actually enjoyed it! I just did not like the ending at all…haha What did you think of the ending in terms of wrapping up the whole trilogy? I see how it works in her themes as a writer in comparison to her other works, but just the tone and image of the last moment just did not make sense in a hunk of metal 10,000 feet in the sky. (Read it on a 11 hr flight lol)
@@nathansnook i absolutely loved the ending and im not sure why, it just stayed with me in some sick way, i read kudos high in one afternoon last summer and i think being high can, in some ways, help understand my love for kudos (?). i also take kudos for it's role in closing the outline trilogy, the constant teasing of the reader, waiting for a tangible moment, i felt the last scene was maybe rachel cusk being unpredictable (?) i wanna reread the trilogy so bad this summer.. maybe ill get a bigger understanding of why i loved it
@@atlas.numberone6534 Omg yes looove when party favors give us clarity to our readings! I think I’ll give it another go sometime in the future! I feel like there are layers to her work that just hit harder with every reading. I hope you have a grand Cuskian summer :)
No book has made you have a weep in the shower yet? Come on Nathan, I expect a shower weep in a future video by the end of the year. Hahaha. Ooh I can’t wait for your Yanagihara vlog. That’ll be a time. Yes please to wrap ups… says the man who hasn’t done one in six months. Hahaha.
Where in Boston did you see To Paradise? Was it Trident? I go there a lot and almost every time I go I pick up To Paradise and think "I should read this someday" and then never do lol
This was literally me for the longest time…haha Finally mustering up the courage to do it! And ahh are you based in Boston? I am jealous of all the bookstores I miss them all! Brookline Booksmith! I first saw To Paradise at The Harvard Bookstore!
@@nathansnook I am! I love both the Brookline Booksmith and The Harvard Bookstore. We do have a lot of good bookstores here, great places to kill an afternoon when it's cold and snowy out lol
