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mission accomplished lol

i've been attracted to creepy plant stories since i was tiny, so glad to learn there are a lot of them out there ~ i haven't seen any others in the series, will keep an eye out 👁

thanks for sharing <3

the Vancouver central library is one of the best i've ever been in, just my favourite place to be probably 📚

thanks - hope you like it here 🌻

oh i'm glad it grew on you too! i wouldn't have guessed it was your cup of tea, with all that teenageyness lol yeah honestly i feel really grateful to the book for making me sympathize with how smt like idol fandom could be a life-defining or even life-saving support for some ppl, without glorifying or sugar-coating it either. ~ i'll look up Vladimir now, cheers!

@@apocalypsereading7117 I learning to appreciate the voice of young narrators now! 🤣 I thought the book was able to carry a big idea even with simple language... Oof I guess I gotta record a video now

yeah i feel like publishers jsut went wild for her at some point in the last decade or so, unless i was just blind to her bookshelf presence when i was a kid...

@@apocalypsereading7117 I think publishers are still kinda crazy with her in recent years 🤣

yes, that's the proper way to describe it, absolutely. i think i need you to script some of my rambley videos =)

it's a good feeling, right?? is that the one by Kobo Abe? i guess for some of these older classics they got published in English in either Europe or America decades ago and haven't been revisited since, so the only way to get your hands on them is by A) paying your inheritance to internationally import someone's family heirlooms off ebay or B) travelling across the Atlantic Ocean...

@@apocalypsereading7117 yup Kobo Abe. I didn’t like it as much as Woman in the Dunes, but I also think I just need to reread. I feel I normally let books find me, rather than I find them. If they want me to read them, they’ll seek me out hahaha

there was definitely some stuff i really liked about Ghost wall, i feel like i would've got on with it more if i read it quicker... i had to look up Notes coz the name sounded so familiar, maybe i heard bout the film. would be interested to see how they tackle it!

i've been blessed to have several!

i hadn't heard that story, but it's true we shouldn't let superfluities interfere with good craft! "committed" is a great word, maybe i should change the title =P

thank you!

@@apocalypsereading7117 you are welcome

is there even anything better? =)

hope you enjoy her brilliant vids! it's lovely to know she's still reaching and engaging ppl now <3

i forgot to mention that i listened to the audiobook of Idol, Burning - hope you end up liking it as much as i did =) had a quick look online and Chrysalis sounds really interesting, though i also saw it compared to The Vegetarian by Han Kang which i had mixed feelings on. thanks for putting it on my radar!

what a nice-looking bird! it's great when characters are obsessed with a specific species instead of just like "birds" in general. would you recommend Nipponia Nippon?

@@apocalypsereading7117 It also added to the obsession, because of the Nipponia Nippon being this symbol of Japan and the main characters anger at Japan… the downfall of the bird reflecting the downfall of the country… If you can get it at the library, I think it is a pretty good quick read. Not life changing but not bad.

@@deadlizardreads1937 oh right, Nipponia Nipon is the scientific name of the bird! haha what a loaded name. hm maybe if the ibis is actually a symbol for Japan i wouldn't like it so much... i dunno i sometimes feel like i'm allergic to metaphors for nations. would def give it a shot tho. i'll keep it in my peripheral vision! 🐦

thanks! =D it's been a while since i read this but i don't think i picked up on motherhood stuff at all, so that's really interesting to hear. maybe i was too focused on trying to figure out how the bits i liked fit together as a book that i ended up skimming over other important parts? altho i think i do like motherhood as a theme, loved it recently in Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima. i remember that opening scene with the mum falling really flat for me, but i think i'm generally not able to connect with grief in novels, and it just felt very alienating for me, like i'd walked into someone else's house at a bad time. thanks for the comment!

cheers! glad to meet a fellow fan ✨

i will praise them till the cows come home and then go back to the field again 🐄 the Ponti review was more or less that i think, felt more like the reviewer wanted to rant about how the creative writing degree industrial complex was poisoning literature and thought a book review was a good way to get it all off her chest... awkward lol. espesh coz the reviewer is an author herself 😅

@@apocalypsereading7117 Yeah... not all thoughts need to shared in the same way....

thank you so much! =D Iphigenia at Aulis is such a gem, honestly the greek tragedies are way too good to just be enjoyed by classicists so it makes me happy when i hear ppl wanna read them 🎈

oh, you're the first person i've heard say they like it more than Hurricane Season! must admit i don't remember the water stuff, was it descriptions of the river?

I'm glad you enjoyed it - and thrilled that so many of these are on your shelves! No rush, and when you get to them I’d love to hear your thoughts ✨ I’ll look up She Would Be King 👑

😀😀@@apocalypsereading7117 will do.

had to look up metacognition but that makes sense haha did you find a balance between reading and the disruptions in the end? art sounds like a great thing to be disrupted by tho ~

@@apocalypsereading7117 I haven't found the perfect balance, but what has helped is taking art/paint classes. That way I know I am at least doing some drawing once a week!

i'm really surprised by how many ppl in the comments have similar stories (and here's me thinking i was special). that library card story is cute, i was also such a library kid (as i am now). glad to know more of the Mary timeline, sounds like you've had a lot of pull-and-push factors over the years... one of my friends decided from the outset when she had her kid that reading would have to go, at least for a few years, which is kinda sad but i get it, raising a life and all that. glad this year is looking up for you! i also stress about making vids and worry about consistency when it comes to putting out content (maybe we all do?) and frequently have to remind myself that it's only me that's putting pressure on myself, and at the end of the day it's smt i do coz it's fun and rewarding getting to chat to all these good ppl (like yourself) and it generally does make reading (which is basically a solo thing) more fun when it's a bit social and shared, i think. keep being kind to yourself! 🎈

That's interesting, I found I was getting more into non-fiction before I stopped reading, but when I came back to it I also just didn't wanna read non-fic anymore (i've only started dipping my toes back again in lately). i can see what you mean by the books being too close to your degree. when I wasn't doing literature anymore but still reading loads of academic stuff, it was refreshing to dip into some fiction from time to time just to remind myself that I actually liked reading - altho the end result was, like you, just a few non-uni books a year. sounds like you were right to do a bit of experimenting and find a way back in for yourself =) I half-want to join a book club too, but I know I'd be terrible at sticking with it if I wasn't in charge of picking the books myself =P hope you find a good one! and thanks for sharing =D

sometimes the simplest stories are the best ones ~ i envy all the extra years of reading you got under your belt 📚

i'm seeing a common thread in the comments when it comes to uni... kinda ironic, since it's meant to be where we get all enriched and stuff. that's interesting that it was a gradual thing for you, for me when i tried to do it gradually i got nowhere for some reason, and had to take drastic action X] i didn't like doing English lit at school either, maybe connected to the "being told what to read" thing, but also coz i thought everyone, teachers included, were so bad at analysing! =P touch of teenage arrogance, perhaps 😅 cheers for sharing Jennifer!

wow, sounds like we followed a similar pattern then! booktube was also a big part of me getting back into it <3 i have a lot of hobbies so i imagine reading will move up and down the list of how i prioritize them, but i hope it doesn't dry up like it did before, because i'm really enjoying being a born-again reader ~ thanks for sharing, Amelia =)

ah well, you gotta roll with the punches... school ends eventually, i suppose, unless you try for a career as an academic. for sure back in uni i had that "reading for pleasure" guilt, like i have a reading quota and i'm filling it up with fun instead of Important Life Reading. actually the stuff i read at uni was fun too, in reality, was just sometimes harder to see it that way when there were deadlines to be met! if i'd filmed any longer i would've ascended into the heavens for sure =P☁ 👼☁

haha a doctor of mystery... maybe i'll have to do a phd video one day ✨ ah that does sound similar, sounds like we both got back into it at the same time too. these things do ebb and flow, last year i read much less than my new usual, but that was fine too. i've thought about joining a bookclub a few times, but my problem is these days i'm both capricious and particular when it comes to reading, so i'd be bad sticking to a programme unless it was my turn to pick the book 😅

nothing wrong with a break ☕🌞

i'm glad you feel the same! i thought it was deliberately trying to blur the lines between her psychological issues and actually physically absorbing the dude, which i was mostly fine with, but then it felt like a lot more lines started getting blurred, like, is he possessing her like a ghost? that could've worked i think but then we just got more blurring with other potential plot directions, and that whole Rosemary's Baby strand did absolutely nothing for me, like i kept waiting for it to tie together or give us some kind of reveal at least, but no...👿 i still like it for the main things it combines tho, body horror, millenial fiction, and the "unhinged woman" trope ~ i'd read more of that, maybe by a diff writer tho...

@apocalypsereading7117 rightt!! I recommend "My Husband" by Maud Ventura if u haven't checked it out yet, same disaster girl trope but super elaborate with a satisfying plot twist 🫶🏼

@@missbasma5231 cheers, I'll check it out! =)

ooo if u wanna do it then def start this month if you can! i was really happily surprised that it happened to start in April, the same month i started reading it, but looking back it really made the experience sooo much better being completely in sync with the months and seasons as they passed, i feel like i was genuinely blessed by the books gods for that one ~

haha, i nearly matched your dedication! but in the end they offered a full refund, and i don't even know if i'll like this book or not, so i took the cash and the dirty weasels... in your case it makes more sense, tho, since you've got more invested than i did. just checked those covers and they look lovely 🔭

cheers! ✨of my friends, one did piano, one wanted to learn drums, and the other wanted to learn bass, so i figured i had to learn guitar and be the frontman 😋 wow, what kind of singing do you do? i'm so glad you'll never hear my teenage attempts at singing! 🎤🎸🎶 glad Paradais piqued your interest, it's a relatively quick read but leaves a nasty taste in your mouth...

@@apocalypsereading7117 love me a discomforting book ✨👌🏻 I’m going to get the Italian translation since it’s written in Spanish originally . Oh, what makes you think I am any good at singing ? 🤪 I sing everything because it is so much fun (actually it’s been a long time since I did it publicly) I loved country/rock in particular but I was also singing with my sister as a sort of duo and we’ve also been in a musical company (a very small one) I really miss it 🥹

@@booksandpizza that makes sense, Italian and Spanish feel like siblings rather than cousins in the Latin family tree ~ i love how your sister always turns up in your stories!! a musical company, fantastic... i was in a very small dance group back in Japan and miss it lots, maybe we're both performers at heart 🎭

I was shocked too, it came really out of the blue 😔

i'm a serial dipper lol i watched the Phantom Tollbooth film over and over again as a kid, i guess i should really read the book! it's not one i hear talked about very often at all. ~ the 1001 idea sounds great, you should go for it! sometimes i think making lists is a hobby in and of itself. ~ i'm envious of your Latin classes - I've read over and over again how Ovid is so much better in Latin because he really uses the language like a pro. if i ever learn Latin it will basically be just to read his work, which i love so much <3

was probably more than 20 years ago for me! 🧙‍♂ i enjoyed the more recent Netflix version of it but i'm well due a re-read too 🐇

cute!🌷

i kno... she reminds me of my aunt so maybe something Irish... city &city produced such mixed feelings in me, i was in awe at the setting but i guess i'm more of a characters and story gal =P thank u, i love being here! 📚

@@apocalypsereading7117 😀😀

cheers! it's all animals these days (and i wouldn't have it any other way)

i never thought of it like a poem before, but i think i know what you mean ~ i guess all of these books must have a poetic quality since i feel i can get something out of any random section, like every sentence has got some sort of resonance or cleverness to it ~

"me books" is probably more accurate; "sacred" sorta implies other ppl think they're special in the same way but really it's just me X] i remember when you tried those few pages lol it's like a maze for sure, good on your sister tho ~

i don't think there's a best order for old Shakey, but definitely some are not good starting points, at least not without a guide of some kind, and Hamlet or Macbeth are probably particularly good ways in. Julius Caesar is prob a fine one to begin with! the language can be overwhelming so i think it's good to be ready to not get everything and just let some of it wash over you, unless you're ready to read a version with loads of notes... i guess imagining how scenes could be performed might help too, or watching performance clips online. =) hope you enjoy!

@@apocalypsereading7117 thank you! That was very helpful.. I might start with Macbeth that I sort of read when I was 15 or something, maybe that is an easier way in!

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it's funny, of all the books on this list the one that's stayed with me the most is The Fish... well not really stayed, just swims back into my mind from time to time, still shimmering - definitely smt magic going on there ~ i should read more by Laxness!

yes, that sounds very much like what i get! short bursts of reading, long bouts of reeling =P i love Dostoevsky, but i've deliberately put off the Brothers K as smt to look forward to.... some of his characters really are phenomenal; maybe more than any other writer i feel like some of the ppl i've met in his books are ones i used to know and spend time with, like i instinctively wonder what they're up to these days, before remembering they're made up ~ thanks for the thoughtful comment =D