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Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 1 Peter 4:16 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts 11:16
WoW!!! You are too beautiful... whomever see you should believe that God is true and real.. and whenever I see you I feel like Iam in a dream.. And when we wake up we will all realize that all this life was nothing but a dream and that only God is whats true and real.. ❤🌷😘 Even if let say I never seen your lovely beautiful radiant cute baby face nor touched you in any place nor smelled and kissed your wonderful neck and breast.. nor heard your lovely soft warm voice you still know that you exist, & Its true that we dont see God but we all know that God exists There was a teacher who did not believe in the existence of God, he said to his students, do you see God? the students answered no we don't see God, so the teacher said if you don't see God it means there is no God. then a smart student stood up and said to the other students hey guys can you see the teachers brain? then the student answered no we don't see the teachers brain, the student then said the teacher is crazy he has no brain :0) the universe science says was not always there it had a beginning point the big bang meaning it was begun initiated in other words created, thus there should be a creator, there must be a God, we don"t see God and we don"t know the essence of God thats a different story, But we see how things in the universe obey rules and we see some wisdom in things indicating he is knowledgeable and wise, and we see different things many verity of things and creatures and that indicates the capability of God, and we also see that all things are made of almost the same thing for example everything is made-up of particles meaning they share a similarity somehow indicating unity Which proves that the creator of all things is one One God for all of us God initiated everything and he repeats things too, and thats clear we see many cycles of things... water cycle, animal and plants food chain cycle and so on.. God created this life and it is only a temporary sample or an example of a coming everlasting one which could be either in heaven paradise or in hell. If we try to be good humans in life and try to obey God and his messengers and those whom rightly represent them, then we will go to heaven/paradise, if not we will go to hell fire and burn in it forever
Hello, greetings from Germany. Hans Christian Anderson is not a German but a Danish author. However if you want to dive into the lands of fairytales I can recommend for Germany the Grimm Brothers.😊
Oohh that would be a really fun challenge! You'd get a lot of very early novels. Like 1600s has Don Quixote, 1500s has Journey to the West, 1400s has Le Morte d'Arthur, 1300s has The Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 1000s has The Tale of Genji. Before those you wouldn't be reading novels, but there'd be books of epic poetry or short stories or theater play scripts. Like The Canterbury Tales from the 1300s, the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda and the Volsung Saga from the 1200s, and lots of Roman and Greek and Chinese writing before then.
For Brazil, I think you would like Clarice Lispector- The hour of the Star or her collection of short stories, it’s very interesting. We also have Machado de Assis “The alienist” or one of the greatest book written in Portuguese that simply has a very epic opening line “ The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas”
na minha opinião todos esses são insuportavelmente chatos kkkkkkkkk Raphael Montes and Stefano Volp are better and more modern options, they write thrillers For people who like Bridgerton-type of books, I recommend Karina Heid For people who want a book about wizards and magic in recent times, I recommend The Scarlet Weapon by Renata Ventura
Read Clarice Lispector for Brazil!! Her writing is kind of like Virginia Woolf's but with her own flavour to it lol she was a genius, I would recommend maybe starting with her short stories or the hour of the star but my favorite from her is agua viva (it has no plot, its just the narrator spiralling over everything in an amazing way, i cannot explain it)
For Italy, a more famous and critically acclaimed book by Eco himself is The Name of the Rose, it also has a lot of dark academia vibes but they're mixed with a medieval setting and a thrilling murder mystery. It is also quite a long book but for me it was a page turner!
@@Maucha31 To be fair it's not the easiest book to read in its original language, it's very verbose and the language is quite rich and polished and there's even some phrases in Latin. It's probably best enjoyed in your mothertongue :) but by any means, you might try browsing through the first pages and seeing for yourself!
@@Maucha31 I think that Eco is not the best italian author to star from. He use a very difficult language. Many italians have difficult to read his books. As @alessiamilillo7081 I think that is better to read it in your language and starting by his most famous book "The name of the rose". And then,maybe, see the film with Sean Connery 🤣
If you’re interested in some German fantasy books I think you would really like Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. It’s very slow passed but the characters are really great and I love vibes and world building. The book feels like a love poem or love song to reading 🩵 (There’s also a 2008 movie adaption starring Brendan Fraser and Paul Bettany. So this is clearly no joke)
As a polish sf lover I need to recommend Stanisław Lem's novels. "Solaris" (the classic) and "Mortal Engines" are great introduction to his work. (I wrote this comment while listening to the video and Leonie wanting to read Solaris is amazing) For fantasy I would go with the witcher book series, that was the base for the Game witcher game and Netflix series.
I'm not sure if Witcher is a good match for Leonie's taste. I would rather suggest Olga Tokarczuk's books. Or for actual fantasty "Wait for the frost come" by Marta Krajewska - inspired by slavic folklore, unfortunatelly the rest of the trilogy isn't translated.
I am Chilean, if you want to read more magical realism you should definitely add house of the spirits by Isabel Allende to your list, I also recommend Gabriela Mistral for poetry, she is actually the first Latin American person to win the Nobel for literature, and Roberto Bolaño has some very good books.
For Portugal, please read Saramago. Either Blindness, that is about a pandemic that makes people go blind and Death With Intermissions, that is about Death deciding she is done doing her job because she then falls in love with a human.
🇺🇦 Hello from Ukraine to mates from comment section. If you're interested in dark forest mystic folklore, let me introduce you to our classic gems: 🌱 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky 🌱 The Forest Song by Lesya Ukrainka 🌱 May Night, or the Drowned Maiden by Mykola Gogol 🌱 Viy by Mykola Gogol
Well, considering books that were translated in English and are from my native country (Russia) the very well-loved books in sci-fi genre are books by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (I personally never read them cause not a fan of sci-fi, but my friends love those books), for example their most popular works are 'Roadside Picnic', 'Monday Starts on Saturday' and 'The Dead Mountaineer's Inn' . Then 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin - also a famous book (dystopia) by a Russian author, it was THAT book that inspired George Orwell to write '1984' by the way) Also , Ukrainian authors that I know - Marina and Sergey Dyachenko - are translated in English too, for example Vita Nostra.
Hello! I am from India and I want to recommend a book called 'the palace of illusions' by Chitra Banerjee Divyakaruni. Its a retelling of an Indian epic called Mahabharata but from the point of view of a major Female Character Draupadi. It's a perfect combination of feminism in Medieval India and a peek at Indian Mythology and history.
For Finland I highly recommend Emmi Itäranta's books The Moonday Letters and Memory of Water - her writing style is absolutely beautiful! + Fishing for the Little Pike by Juhani Karila is a super funny light fantasy book featuring some mythical creatures from Finnish folklore 😄
Hello! If you want to read French fantasy book, I would highly recommend reading the series "La Passe miroir" by Christelle Dabos translated in English as The Mirror Visitor. The first of 4 books is called a winter's promise. It is a bestseller in France and is also popular worldwide. It is a mix of fantasy and science fiction. It is beautifully written and the universe is quite unique. The plot in a few words : Long ago, following a cataclysm called the Rupture, the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands, now known as arks. Over each, the spirit of an omnipotent and immortal ancestor abides. The inhabitants of these arks each possess a unique power. Ophelia, with her ability to read the pasts of objects, must navigate this fantastic, disjointed, perilous world using her trademark tenacity and quiet strength.
I'd like to recommend "Fictions" by Jorge Luis Borges from Argentina. It's a collection of short stories, so it's not very time consuming, and maybe you can use it as a palate cleanser between longer books from other countries. What I like about this book, and Borges in general, is his skill with the language, where every word has weight and a precise meaning (I had a classmate that found that very pretentious and kinda snob-ish, so ymmv).
Hi! I'm from Ukraine. If you want to read something else from the work of my country, I recommend the book "I (Romance)" by Mykola Khvylovy. This is a psychological novel, the idea of which is the fatal discrepancy between the ideals of the revolution and the methods of achieving them, the condemnation of Bolshevik revolutionary fanaticism.
Hi! I read both Sayaka Muraka's books on your TBR and I'd like to warn you that Earthlings has extremely graphic child SA and grotesque themes (nearly every TW is in that book), just in case this is not what you're looking for, because the cover and the marketing don't show this. I liked the book, but it has some really disgusting and hard-to-read scenes. Convenience Store Woman, on the other hand, is exactly what you said and I loved it. On the other hand, from Spain I'd recommend Eduardo Mendoza's No Word from Gurb. It's a comedy about an alien that gets lost in Barcelona. A famous fantasy writer here is Carlos Ruiz Zafón, being "The Shadow of the Wind" his most famous book, but he has a lot more options and he's been translated into English and many other languages. Laura Gallego is another really good fantasy writer, although her books are more young adult mostly. I love her book "Donde los árboles cantan" ( Something like "Where the trees sing") but I'm not sure if it's translated into English. For a more mature side, Torcuato Luca de Tena's "Los renglones torcidos de Dios" is amazing(God's Crooked Lines). Again, I'm not sure if there's an English translation, but there's recently been made a Netflix adaptation. Even if you can't read the book, the story is worth the watch. I hope this helps and that you see this warning about Earthlings! ☺️
@@alejandravazquez9738 Same, I liked the themes it treats and how Murata portrays the main character's trauma, but it left me feeling nauseous for a couple days after reading it
From Finland definitely the book on the video: Tales from Moominvalley! Other moominbooks that I recommend would be Moominpappa at sea, Finn family Moomintroll or Moominsummer Madness. Apart from Moomins there is Memory of Water (the author has written both the Finnish and the English versions), then there is Not Before Sundown / Troll - a love story, which I haven't read yet but it is very famous in Finnish fantasy (it has trolls which is really common fantasyelement in Fenno-Scandia, It also has queer themes apparently). Another iconic book apart from Ronia (I love her too!) is My borther Lionheart also by Astrid Lindgren. The Witcher series is from Poland! I have read two fantasy books from German author Michael Ende that are The Neverending Story and Momo. They were great if I remember correctly.
Hey! I'm Uruguayan but I´ve been currently reading a lot of Argentinian literature, mainly Julio Cortázar's works and I think they perfectly fit what you are looking for! I have obviously read them in spanish so i don´t know much about translations and how well they manage to adress the piece of art that his short stories and novels are, but the concepts of his stories alone are already insane and worth reading as is. Most of them are realistic fantasy and have a lot of hints to psycology and metaphorical imagery that is left to the reader´s interpretation (which i really like and could be an amazing topic of discussion for a book club). You could check out his short stories, the compilation i like the most is "Bestiario", but he also has this very famous long novel called "Rayuela" which is a beautifully written piece of literature. I've gotten into this author because of my boyfriend and we've been reading them together and chatting about the meaning of the symbols and the psycology of the characters (I 100% recommend buddy reading them)
For Hungary, I'd recommend István Örkény, particularly his 'one minute stories'. They're kind of surreal and whimsical, I read a lot of them for school and I really love his work! I'm pretty sure there's a collection of them translated into English.
Hi from Sweden! I definitely think you would like some Mumin stories! Fun fact about Tove Jansson: she grew up in a Swedish speaking part of Finland and studied in Sweden for a while so her books are originally written in Swedish and they can sort of count towards both Finland and Sweden depending on how you look at it (we like claiming her as our own even though her nationality was Finnish haha, we just love her so much). I think it might be cool to read something that was originally written in Finnish as well so if anyone has any recommendations of that I would appreciate it! A book that I would personally like to read from Sweden is Karin Boye's "Kallocain" (1940). It's a dystopian, sci-fi novel, probably the first of its kind in Sweden. Karin Boye is very famous in Sweden for her poetry which is very beautiful and the fact that she was queer (just like Tove Jansson btw) which we love
For New Zealand, in order to get a new perspective you may not have heard before / alleviate the 'ugh english speaking country and centring colonialism and whiteness BORING' vibe, try Purakau, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka. It's a short story collection based on Maori myth and legend, organised into sections based on what kinds of myth the stories tackle e.g. creation myth e.t.c., and even though they're all written by different authors, they do seem cohesive and have a chronology to them, especially the section about creation myths. Some of them do stick to the more mythological tone, some of them are set in modern day New Zealand and there are a few that are actually set in the far future (including one about a theme park with an animatronic river god!). I used it for my own around the world challenge and about a year ago and had a great time (also I'm surprised you're not counting Iron Widow for China, although it was published and released from the states, the author is from China)
Omg, Purakau sounds fantastic! I'm actually doing a "reading the world challenge" myself, and I've been looking for a book from Aotearoa/New Zealand for a while, so this is an amazing recommendation, thank you 😊
I know Leonie mentioned it for NZ but it really enjoyed Gideon the Ninth. Hilarious! But Purakau sounds really interesting too. Thanks for the recommendation
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka is good too. Also, She's a Killer by Kirsten McDougall is about ecological disaster and migration (I wasn't a massive fan, but it was interesting as speculative fiction).
The best speculative novel to come out of Mexico is Pedro Paramo. Trust me, if you like bunny, this one’s for you. It’s a super weird, dark descent into the underworld 👀
From Uruguay I would recommend one of the short story collection by Horacio Quiroga, like The decapitated chicken and other stories, or Jungle Tales. But we don't have much translated speculative fiction.
Hi! From Hungary I can recommend you from Attila Veres The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales. It is a weird/ horror/ folk horror short story collection. From Ervin Lazar there is a whimsical funny folkish children book: Arnica the Duck Princess. Or from Magda Szabo- Abigail. It is a story about a teenage girl from the Second World War, who have to live in a boarding school.
"Sophies world" would be a great choice for Norway! It's a great introduction to/summary of the history of philosophy, and personally it made me reconnect to my inner child and feel curious and wondrous about the world again:)
Omg the scum villain self saving system is CRAZY in the best way possible. It's a satire of the fantasy genre, and it was hilarious. I really really hope you enjoy it if you give it a try!!
i have to second this especially since you like video games leo, it has aspects that feel video game esque! scum villain has been the most fun i’ve had while reading all year! ps: enjoy tears of the kingdom i know you’ve been waiting along with me!! 💚
Thank you for making the point about Sally Rooney's books and being Irish . I am Irish myself and I was so happy you made the point about culture within Rooneys books. It is an important note most book reviewers have not brought up when it comes to Rooneys books so thank you❤🇮🇪.
I can recommend to you “Forest Song” , which is a play by Lesia Ukrainka that is based on Ukrainian folklore! Also , there is a provocative novel “The city” by Valerian Pidmohylny. If you would like something from modern Ukrainian literature ,there is “ The orphanage “ by Serhiy Zhadan and “Felix Austria” by Sophia Andrukhovych. The English translation of “The city” will be coming out this August and “Felix Austria” will be coming out this spring
I'm Brazilian, and I think you're going to love Machado de Assis. It is not sci-fi or fantasy, but I believe everyone should read it. Try Dom Casmurro (the most famous) and Quincas Borba (my favorite). Anyway, I really liked that you're giving preference to non-English-speaking countries :)
if you want to try mo xiang tong xiu's books i would highly recommend to start not with scum villain but with grandmaster of demonic cultivation! the thing about scum villain is that it satirizes chinese xianxia fantasy tropes and so if you're not familiar with them it takes away from your understanding and reading experience. so it's better to learn those tropes through a different novel and grandmaster is the best in my opinion (also it has two adaptations already if you need some visual material to accompany your reading)
If you think One Hundred Years of Solitude is too long, you might like Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It is shorter and it is also from García Márquez, I personally loved it!
my personal favorites are, Tales of a shipwreck and of love and other demons, that last one is quite weird, not sure why I liked it, but I did. and about One Hundred Years of Solitude, I have the whole forced school reading problem, and my teen self found the book quite confusing so i didn't finish it, might do it one day though when I have the time and the brain power.
oh, yes! Solaris was my first thought as a recommendation. it's very much a discussion on what a first contact could be from the perspective of human society. it's far bigger than just communication. really recommend!
I have a German non-fiction for anyone interested. The English title is "Speaking and Being" and I haven't finished it but I'm loving it so far. The Author is Turkish but grew up in Germany and it's about her relationship to each of the languages she speaks and how our native language shapes our thinking and subsequentially how learning new languages changes how you are able to express yourself
hey an Indian reader here, Amish's novel series are absolutely incredible. I have seen so many western reading audience loving different takes on Greek mythology so try Indian Mythology! It is such a dense well crafted ay of mythological and folktale retellings and indeed one of my all time favorites. The immortals of Meluha and Sita are two of my favorites. Another series I recommend is Ponniyin Selvan series. Its a very well known read among young people here as its a historic fiction and a beautiful insight into history of southern India back then.
For Italy - if you find Foucault's Pendulum to be too long (It's awesome though!) The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria may be up your alley. It involves, partially, a library where people can anonymously write down and share their innermost, ugliest thoughts. It's horrifying in its predictions about what the internet has become - an ideal vector for hate speech - and it was written in the 1970s, before the internet as we know it existed! Highly recommended!
Moomins are an excellent choice for Finland but I also want to recommend Fishing for the Little Pike by Juhani Karila! Set in the north of Finland with lots of mythological elements! The English translation is being published this summer
For France, I'd recommend "la passe miroir", it's like the best fantasy serie I've ever read ! I actually thought it was translated from english when I read it for the first time but no, it's really french ! What you showed in this video is our version of "boring books that we have to read in high school" so I feel it would be more fun to read a book a little less "serious" ? Anyway, I highly recommend it.
Hi, hungarian here:) i can't really give you any hungarian fantasy recs but i believe Attila Veres has a book called The black maybe, I dont know if its good because I didn't get the chance to read it yet but I loved his hungarian works, he writes in a very unique weird horror-ish style. Also Magda Szabo had lots of her books translated, they're really good. 😊
I'm from Canada and I also absolutely loved The Last Tale of the Flower Bride & Bunny!!!! I'm pretty sure you'd like Silvia Moreno Garcia (Mexican Gothic is really good! It's a gothic novel set in Mexico), Emily St-John Mandel (loved Station Eleven and how it showed the importance of art, especially during hard times. It talks about how everything/everything is connected. It's hard to describe, but it made me feel as if I am part of something bigger than myself as a human.) & Cherie Dimaline (Venco, especially! she's a First Nation author).
Ohhh Umberto Eco!! Il nome della rosa (the name of the rose in English, I think?) is also a really cool mystery with interesting philosophical and linguistic elements set in a monastery :)
Hi, a wee FYI, Hans Christian Andersen was Danish hehe But here are some modern Russian recs: Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin (bit on the historical speculative fiction side of things), Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (extremely popular urban fantasy), and I think someone already recommended this, but Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky for a post-apocalyptic vibe. And Stanislav Lem's Solaris (this is sci-fi) is a good Polish one too.
@@swekanadesu I made an attempt to read Night Watch, wasn't really my thing either, but I just thought that with how popular it is, there has to be someone out there who could appreciate the suggestion. Plus, as you probably know, there isn't too much that's been translated, so the choice is limited haha
I ❤ reading around the world videos. For Germany: I know that "Tschick" is translated to english, which is a modern book and not an old classic. German fantasy for example: never ending story and Momo (M. Ende) the little witch and Krabat (O. Preussler), ink heart (C. Funke).
hi leonie! albanian here :) for my country i would definitely recommend you read “the ghost rider” by ismail kadare (alternatively titled “doruntine”.) he’s one of the most well known albanian authors and his books are some of the easiest to find translated in english, and this one is a novelization of one of the most famous albanian legends, the ballad of constantine / kostandin and doruntine. it’s a great horror read that you will find to be faintly reminiscent of the legend of sleepy hollow, and also a great introduction into gothic albanian folklore. other than the horror aspect, it’s a very haunting and heartbreaking tale of how powerful the love between two siblings is that not even death can part them. it’s a story i originally studied in grade school as a folk ballad & later saw as a theater play. i hope you check it out and enjoy it!! thank you for doing this series, it’s inspired me to challenge myself to read a book from every country i haven’t!!
My two recommendations are "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Nigeria (which is about the Nigerian-Biafran Civil War and quite emotional) and "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith from Botswana (which is just a light-hearted easy read). I think both were published from the UK, but are two of my favourite books!
for the philippines, try smaller and smaller circles! it's a thriller novel with commentary on the country's blind following of religion and the corruption that goes on in the government in general. it also has a movie adaptation which i really liked so!
Hi, I'm from Cuba! Seeing you enjoy magical realism I would recommend El Reino de este Mundo by Alejo Carpentier. Also, an emblematic book from Cuba is La Edad de Oro, a recopilation of tales for children which includes poetry and some small historical essays; every child in Cuba has read it at least once.
What a great challenge! I look forward to seeing the results! And yes, do read One Hundred Years of Solitude. I read it on Emma's recommendation and did not regret it. For Finland, you might look for a copy of The Kalevala--an old fairy tale. Have a great week, Leonie!
Thanks for the sci-fi/fantasy recommendations! I also prefer speculative fiction to literary fiction, so it's nice to see recommendations for books from other countries that I might actually be interested in!
Hey Leonie, I got so excited when I saw Jostein Gaarder mentioned, he is one of my favorite authors! Sophie’s World is pretty good, but my personal fave is The Solitaire Mystery. It’s philosophical speculative fiction and I can highly recommend it!
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories is on my reading list and i'm very excited to read it! It's apparently a folklore fairytale classic so it sounds exactly like what you are looking for😊
For Singapore, I recommend the Tensorate series by Neon Yang (the first book is called The Black Tides of Heaven). It has one of my favorite magic systems I've ever read in a fantasy book. And for Japan, I don't think you can go wrong with Lonely Castle in the Mirror!
Having done this challenge for over a year and a hell of a lot of research it’s impossible to exclusively read science fiction or fantasy but with a bit of deep diving you can do it for most! I’ll share my list in a minute :)
This challenge sounds so interesting and fun! Keep us posted on how you're progressing too :) From Bulgaria I would recommend Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov. It was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023. It is certainly speculative, as there are "clinics for the past" or "time shelters", where patients can dwell in the past and relive their golden age of their choosing. At the same time it also heavily draws on the history and culture of our country too.
for an Iranian fiction book, there is this fantasy-fiction that has that fantasy elements that you seek but i'm not sure if it has been translated to english or not. it's called " Parsiaan and i" by Arman Arian and it's about persian mythology. and of course there is the great "shahnameh" which is THE book for persian fiction and persian literature. Sadegh Hedayat is a well-known iranian author whose books have been translated to other languages and he does a great job picturing the scenes. his books mostly have this dark gothic vibe that i think you'll actually love. although he lived in france for a while and had been affected by french culture, you can still see the iranian elements in his stories. "Perspolis" is another masterpiece by Marjaneh Satrapi. it's actually not a fantasy and not fiction either, but believe me, it's not like any other book that you've read. i'm not gonna say anything about this one, because i really want to see your reaction and your honest take from this book. Firoozeh Jazayeri Duma is an iranian-american author who writes about her memories from iran. i only have read one of her books and enjoyed it soooo much! it's amazing how much she remembers from iran and her days in here! and the way she tells those stories is just inspiring! i burst out laughing every pages in a while! i'm pretty sure you'll love it! i actually know a lot other iranian books but i'm kind of sure they haven't been translated. i'll be so very happy if you read a book from our culture considering the situation in our country. love you soooo much, Z
What a great format! You already received plenty of good German recommendations like Inkheart by Cornelia Funke or the never ending story by Michael Ende but I actually wanted to recommend you a Portuguese book. On my travels to Portugal a guide told us about the author José Saramago who is like a national hero. I read the elephants journey and loved it - it is super funny, narrated in the perspective of an elephant and is just pretty wholesome alltogether. A good Swedish book was "the hundred year old who claimed out of the window and disappeared".
Hello! I just got to the part where you mentioned Jawbone for Ecuador but I think you might also enjoy Poso Wells by Gabriela Aleman. For Uruguay, I also really really recommend short stories from Horacio Quiroga. I read a collection titled “The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories” and loved it. The setting is so vivid. Really fantastic.
You should read Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (for Mexico, it’s tiny and I’ve read it inspired Garcia Marquez to write 100 years of solitude) plus it’s one of my favorite books :)
Heeey ! From Portugal ! My recommendation it's blindness by José Saramago. It's a great book once you get over the writing style (aka the guy didn't know the concept of pontuation). And please be in the right state of mind it's about a pandemic people start to get blind for no apparent reason except dor 1 women and its social critic about how people react to it !
Hi, Leonie! 🌿🌿🌿 Just wanted to let u know, that I pretty much enjoy your content. Your videos are soothing as well as informative and sometimes hilarious. I fond of the aesthetics of your room and clothes, the way you edit your product.... just wow. You are my favorite book blogger as well as just blogger in general. You are motivating me to discover new worlds through the books.🐸 To be honest, I wasn't having the access to the Internet in my new apartment for a month, so I was going to the local library to grab a bunch of books and download some of your videos. This way I could watch them by my breakfasts throughout the week 😊 I've been hesitating whether I should write this (i've never written sth like this before), but eventually decided to show the appreciation that u deserve for sure~
Moomitrolls were in my school program, and as a child I was really impressed. Maybe it was even that first book with which my reading way has been started. It really has a special comfort atmosphere. (Sorry, I assume I've made some grammar mistakes, but I'm from Ukraine and still try to learn English)
Okay! I'm excited to be part of this reading excursion. You've mentioned titles that are near and dear to my heart, and I hope sincerely you derive the same degrees of pleasure from them that I have had. Take care.
Hi, Belgian here :) If you want to read something from Belgium I recommend De engelenmaker by Stefan Brijs (for non-Dutch speakers: it has been translated into English as The angel maker). It's about a mad professor and cloning, set in de 1980's but it feels very gothic. Another great recommendation is Het echte leven by Adeline Dieudonné (translated from French - she's from Brussels - La vraie vie and it also has an English translation: Real life). It's about a girl who wants to put back the smile on her little brother's face after he witnesses a horrible accident an retreats into himself, and she turns to science to do this. Not for the faint hearted, but definitely a great read. And off course, everything by Amélie Nothomb, though her early works are the best.
Hi Leonie! I'm Dutch and I can't recommand the Dutch author Thomas Olde Heuvelt enough! He writes these creepy, really scary books like Hex and November. They are translated into English, November even takes place in the US.
The recommendation from Mexico sounds amazing, definitely going to have to read that! A Dutch book I read that I liked was We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets.
I need to jump on my studies right now. But the moment I heard you say you had a TBR for other countries I stayed watching this because I felt you had colombia on your list. Now I can hit the books in peace.
Wow, that's such an interesting topic to research! Would you mind sharing a lit bit about the focus of your paper? I'm always looking for bibliography on this theme
these are my favorites from a couple countries i’ve read: south korea - “i want to die but i want to eat tteobokki” and “kim jiyoung, born 1982” portugal - “blindness” japan - “my days at morisaki library” france - “the second sex”
I'd recommend Rosewater by Tade Thompson for Nigeria. It's about a town built around an alien biome that popped up one day. And also a detective story involving psychic powers.
My favourite german fantasy books are "Igraine the brave" by Cornelia Funke, "Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures" by Walter Moers and "Momo" by Michael Ende.
Yay for several Canadian books! I'm from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. I have an adult fantasy from Canada to recommend that actually has super Canadian vibes (though to be honest it is currently on my TBR but I'm thinking it's going to be good). It's about a Metis witch going on a witchy road trip and finding things out about her Indigenous ancestors. It's called "VenCo" by Cherie Dimaline. A sci-fi dystopian book from France that I've recently read is called, "I Who Have Never Known Men" and it was bleak but fantastic. I have a lot of books from other countries on my TBR shelf this year, too - particularly Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea
If you intrested in reading some Belarusian literature, there's a collection of stories by Jan Barszczewski "Shlyakhtich (Nobleman) Zawalnia, or Belarus in fantastic stories". It's a collection of gothic and folk horror stories based on eerie tales and legends of northern Belarus which are told by Zawalnia to his guests or travellers. Just like you, I wasn't really interested in the books that we read at school, but "Shlyakhtich Zawalnia" might be an exeption, I really loved it!
Gosh dang it I just watched Emmie's video on this and now you too 😅 . I made a spreadsheet to track all my series because of Mara from Bookslikewhoa and now I'm adding a nationality column to it bc of you and Emmie. I'm feeling so influenced
