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Don´t be too harsh about the lenght, because the authors at the time got paid in pages. That said I don´t like Pierre and Natasha and thats why I don´t like the book :)

God I love your content…I’m a new subbie here and I just love the effort you put into your videos and just how articulate you are!

So funny that you said the Bible cause I just recently had this experience reading the book of John🥹. Also, Mieko! Heaven! I just began and I’m finding it hard to keep going. I think it’s because my son just turned 7 and it’s getting really difficult emotionally, which is new because I don’t get emotionally caught up by books in this way. Yet I’m intrigued.

Too much rambling. Get to your points!

Yeah, we all fall into that trap. For me, it was "One hundred years of solitude". Everyone loved that book except me. I just could not finish it. Maybe one day I will give it another go, just to say that I have in fact read it.

Girl, you need to move. I hear the weather in northern Cali is nice and cool. I have never encountered an unhauling. There are always clever and interesting places to store books such as under the bed etc.

Love this unhaul! I'm new to your channel, and just wanted to say I loved your videos on my recent reads Cleopatra & Frankenstein and Beach Read. Based on those vids, I think we definitely have similar taste so I'll be watching more reviews for sure!

@15:13 “just because you read it doesn’t mean you agree”. Yes, I think I needed to hear that!! I really struggle with an author writing certain things thinking everyone (all their readers) sees/thinks the same way of a personal opinion. Meaning they use their opportunity/platform. Nothing more turns me off a book as quick as that. 😞

I haven’t heard of this book until now and your review has intrigued me. Love a book about a book lover! Added it to my TBR. Thank you for the review!

Really well done review! I recently read this book and though it was quite intellectually challenging although at times hard to parse where one idea ended in the other began, it was invigorating to say the least!

I hated this book. It was trite, pretentious, and done to fit a formula.

Cool seeing you on a video from one of those national news outlets about the best book of this century

Can't wait to see the green beanie against all that black you love wearing! MmM!

Have you read Martyr yet?

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau

It is not hoarding if it's books.

Once you go black....

My black leather jacket is one of favorite staples! It’s classic, plain and simple. A must-have! I love when you talk about these things. 🥰 I’m desiring to have a classic, capsule wardrobe in neutral colors. And your random ramblings crack me up! 😂

Thank you!

Sounds like my kind of book to read. I did read "American Ending" based on your review and loved it.

That's definitely now on my priority tbr. It sounds my kind of book.

Alana, I also read books by foreign authors and enjoy their sharing views of other cultures. After your review, I'll put The House on Sun Street on my TBR list. Food for thought; Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi. Moving on, I finished A Game of Thrones, and I'm now into A Clash of Kings. I'm patiently reading to see if the little sh*t Joffrey gets what he as coming to him. Again, well done...Mark.

Being older now, I can't wear a lot of black leather anymore : (. I've a pair of black gloves I wear whenever I can and my go to jacket is black. I think that for women (my opinion only of course) black has always been the basic building block of a wardrobe, particularly shoes and purses. However, on balance I tend to favor blue. Sometimes - well in the past anyway - people would compliment me on the match to my eyes : )

If you’ve read Homer and Virgil you should read Ovid! The Metamorphoses is great!

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Here's a very interesting comment on the issue of Proust translations by an important and very well known Proust scholar, Christopher Prendergast. I hope you'll find it interesting and thought provoking. 46:25-53:20: ruclips.net/video/SQa5fsMvQn0/видео.html

thank you for discussing the Trauma P thing, because I could not understand how people were saying stuff like "this doesnt happen in real life"

Great review. Convinced me to read it

Great book and you are beautiful.

"Notes From Underground" is especially relevant in today's age of isolation away from the physical world and retreat into the digital world.

I agree with you about screens. I love a paper book and looking at something that's not glowing back at me (and not hurting my eyes). Also, good for you to unhaul. I just gave away 7 bags of stuff to the Diabetes Association and a whole box of books (I think there was 30, maybe more). Also, I understand wanting to be a designer, and then... running out of life. It's hard sometimes making conscious choices as to what is needed ATM -even if maybe sometimes it is not completely aligned with desires but NEEDED, truly needed. I have decided to face some fears and actually teach yoga. I don't even know why I have this block but I do and I've decided to unravel what's behind it. As one of my own mentor says, "comfort is the past, discomfort is embracing a possibility, maybe even a better future." I love the unhaul; your minimalist attitude is truly inspiring.

I had this book on my shelf for two years and finally pick it up this year. I’m glad I read it this year - I don’t think I would’ve enjoyed it two years ago. The world is a dark place. This book reminds of me enjoying those small moments and don’t live up to others expectations.

Sorry but this book's overrated

I mostly use the library, so I only own about 300 physical books. I don't like my Kindle nearly as much as I like physical books, but they do come in handy enough that I'm glad I have one.

Such a fun review as always!

Damn girl you are absolutely right the east coast is too hot, and your boy does not like it hot. That being said, as a bald man, I would love to have a hand knitted hat for fall/winter. Judging by your beautiful sweater, I'm sure you would make an equally beautiful hat. Also, I am exactly the same about curating my stuff, with the marked exception of my books, I collect and keep all my books because it's a dream of mine to eventually own a huge home library. Everything else though, if I forgot I had you for more than a few weeks, bye!👋

Girl!! you made those sweaters?! OMG! amazing! I have about 20 books sitting on my bottom shelf that I'm going to try a chapter of and then get rid of them if I don't like them! I haven't been buying as many book as before. If I do its either from an author I read before or a book I read from the library that I gave 4 or 5 stars.

I starting reading this novel this summer and my first mistake was doing so in public, the contents made me feel extremely uncomfortable at first (granted) to the point where I kept putting the book down for a breather since I genuinely couldn’t believe Humperts perverted audacious nature. It’s definitely not for the faint hearted, but one can’t deny Nobokov’s addictive writing style. It’s so great yet so sad. Truly the definition of bittersweet.

i read normal people and felt the same way about her writing i hated it so much

I am trying not to buy books until I read the piles that I already own. Sometimes I buy books and they sit for a long time and then I wonder why I bought it because now I have no interest in reading it. Plus I want to use the library more because it’s free 😊

Hi fellow New Englander)l’m doing the same…figuring out which books are Kindle worthy. I only read on my Kindle for travel-otherwise I prefer physical. If I believe if I won’t read a book again-then I’ll donate! I love purging-especially during the summer😂

Oshaqhennessy get me everytime. I had to call someone for work and they had this last name, and it took everything in me not to say Oshaqhennessy. 😂😂😂

The Iliad and the odyssey copies look wonderful. Older Gen X loves older books. Great head on your shoulders in regards to money. A 75 thousand dollar car wrecks just as well as a 30 thousand dollar one. Not to mention the insurance for it.

That brown jumper @7:45 looks so good on you I love the vibesss

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I keep very few books now. My father had surgery a few years ago. His hospital roommate had no visitors, no smart phone, and was just sitting there alone reading the oldest, most decrepit book I’ve ever seen because it was all that was available for him to read. I gave him the book that I was reading at the time (Brooklyn), and have donated almost every book I’ve finished reading to our local hospital ever since. I understand everyone has their thing, and if collecting books is their thing that’s wonderful! But reading is my thing, clutter isn’t, and if I’m not going to read it again, there is no point in letting a book collect dust on my shelf when there are people down on their luck who could be enjoying it

We *agree* on a book! I really liked Jane Eyre, though I haven't re-read it. I have promised myself I'd read the Ali Smith Quartet this year, though... You're an extremely disciplined individual: I'd consider I was doing well if I only bought five books in a month (used to be a week, mind, so I'm getting better).

Laughed so hard at the Key & Peele joke.🤣

I totally get it. I’ve been unhauling books, yarn and clothes too, ‘streamlining’ what we have in the last 2 years. I reduced my collection by a third.

Loved this 👌💕 & girl i never would have had you down for a 'revhead' 😆🛻👍 I so agree with your wrap up i had a 100% bonafide shopping/ books (no sh*it) addiction for 4 yrs (stressful time). For the first time i also feel like i have everything i need. I have both read & purchased faaaar less books in 2024 as life has just taken on a different flavour/ priorities & interests. Im hoping/ trusting ill get back into reading more at some point.. life cycles y'know 🤷‍♀ Your knitting is fabulous btw 💖😊