I've been binging a bunch of your videos since finding your channel a few days ago. Love your book taste and creativity! I also have such a similar hair type to yours and you're making me rethink my bangs ban - never had them because I think my hair is thin and unpredictable, but it suits you well!
Ana! I got Stages in the mail on Friday & it completely made my weekend. Thank you so much 💖 Also Sharp Objects is my fav thriller of all time. You're in for a treat. And lastly, you are stunning& your hair is absolutely fabulous! ✨
Bonjour Ana ! Ça va? Як там Олег? Jon Krakauer yes 🙌 and I am buying Pickhart’s book for sure. I am flying tomorrow across the country for my Uncle’s funeral. I am trying to finish a 650 page book tonight. I had Ehrlich’s book in French a few years back. It was an old edition (the book was published in 1986) but I haven’t kept it. Curious about it now that Penguin has published it again. It was good to see your smiling face.
Oh no, my dear. I'm sorry to hear of your Uncle's passing. It's never easy and we never get used to a loved one leaving us. Which book is taking your mind off it??
@@AnaWallaceJohnson Wives and Daughters a British classic. I had no idea she died before finishing it. I managed to finish it before flying but of course was surprise by the absence of ending. I just got back. I had brought another book but couldn't find the time or desire to read. I just saw on GR that you're again reading a weird book ? Thanks for your kind words. My Uncle was a great man.
Welp, I guess I’m not seen 🥲 cuz I could rant about this book. It was so hard to find a similar opinion on the web but thankfully I found some readers who didn’t like it for the same reasons and they were Korean so I felt validated lol
@@AnaWallaceJohnson Yes! There was a time when I was living in Chicago longing for the hills of southern Indiana and no that's not an oxymoron. They do exist after the cornfields! I skipped a chapter about the cattle industry but still epic.
just wanted to say that you have the most amasing aesthetics. you remind me of old Hollywood, i totally adore your personal style - chic and effortless
oh wow, Lola. This comment made my day. Thank you so much. I can honestly say thrifting curates my aesthetic. Whatever I can find that fits, it’s coming home with me!
Funnily enough, even though most of Ernaux's work is made up of memoir, A Frozen Woman is one of her early novels. It's very very very much connected to and based on her life (to the point that you can claim it to be autofictional), but it is technically a novel/work of fiction. Anyway, iconic haul. Zitkala-Ša is wonderful, Lispector is an icon, and Ernaux deserves the hype and more.
That's the answer I needed! I couldn't figure if it was memoir or not. The spot I bought it at filed it under memoir, but the synopsis threw me. You're amazing for this clarification!!
Great book haul Ana! I love that you talk about books that no one else talks about - so interesting! By the way your hair and makeup are on point ❤ You look gorgeous! 💋💄
You definitely have willpower when it comes to buying books! If I visited 20 bookstores, I would have walked out with at least 100 books by the time I got back. I also collect bookmarks from the bookstores that I visit, and I like to use the bookmark with the book that came from that particular bookstore. I also got some nice bookmarks for Christmas one year that have nice, book loving messages on them. I like bookmarks! Have you heard of Pantheon Books and the collections of fairy tales, folktales, myths, and legends that they have released? When you mentioned American Indian Stories, that was the first thing that came to my mind (though I saw it at Fact and Fiction in the previous video). At first, I thought American Indian Stories was an anthology, but it is simply a collection of short works from a single writer, which is perfectly okay, because we are still getting her perspective and from a time period that was quite intense. I really need to read something by Gillian Flynn, for I own her major books, but have yet to read any of them. Like Comment Subscribe looks VERY intriguing. I would like to read more about social media and the impact that it has had on people and their way of living. Thank you for sharing! -Josh
Yeah, I've definitely heard of Pantheon books! I wasn't entirely familiar with their fairy tales, folktales, etc., but maybe I'd make a point to read some. I need to dip more into fantasy and all it's surrounding genres. I've got so many books to read!! thank you for being here!!
I got into a whirlwind of fairy tale, folktale, and other collections of that nature, and many of them were published by Pantheon Books. They are definitely worth looking into and while I have yet to read one in its entirety, I have dipped in and out and discussed a few on our channel. There is definitely so much more we need to read and more time to accomplish this desire. I am happy to stop by!
Those all look great, though I'm most interested in American Indian Stories--need to pick up a copy! Currently reading V. Woolf's Orlando, as I'm planning to read everything by Woolf, and reread some that I've read previously.
How far are you into the Woolf catalogue? I need to read much more of hers/similar to you, do some rereading. I feel like I read her too early to fully grasp what I needed out of it all
@@AnaWallaceJohnson I feel like I'm not very far, but that's partly because Woolf wrote so much. So, reading and rereading some of her best-known works: Orlando, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, A Room of One's Own, and Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf. After I finish Orlando, I hope to read Between the Acts, her Common Reader(s) (1&2), some short stories (I've only read "Solid Objects"), Three Guineas, A Writer's Diary, and her biography of Roger Fry. There's more of course, but that's what I have planned for now, along w/ some criticism, starting w/ Anna Snaith's edited collection, Virginia Woolf Studies. Finally, at some point, I hope to read Hermione Lee's biography of Woolf, but at just over a thousand pages I'm not sure when I'm going to fit that in! This is probably way too ambitious for me, as I'm a fairly slow reader; on the other hand, I haven't read anything by Woolf that I haven't loved, so I hope to keep going. Also, rereading Woolf is always rewarding--there's always something new to discover, and I never tire of reading her beautifully crafted prose.
i'm currently reading clarice lispector's last book, a breath of life! very experiemental, meta, trippy... i haven't read much of her early work so curious to hear your thoughts when/if you read near to the wild heart!
I just finished Clive Barker's "Thief of Always" (the edition with his own illustrations). Next up is Carl Jung's thoughts on synchronicity and then finishing "The Phantom of the Opera" by the end of the month.
Oh! Love those illustrations! Phantom is always perfect for October. I'm reading some... choice horror books right now. I feel like horror classics are the way to go.
Oh babe, I love a good nail moment. Okay, she splurged on this one, but Chanel Harmony #755. I was on vacation and got caught up in the purchase moment. 0 regrets
also totally mesmerised (i cant spell that:( ) by your hair!!! do you brush it out dry at all??? it sort of looks like a long 1940's brush out but more curl integrity left behind.... ik its not your usual thing but would love a hair care routine video if youre ever in the mood to shoot one!!!
ahah! I have trouble spelling it, too : ) I rarely brush it out dry, but this look is achieved by using a curler on dry, conditioned hair! I'll maybe incorporate a segment on hair care in a vlog, if you'd like
