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I'm in! This has always been something I've wanted to do for the longest time. My phone usage has definitely caused my attention span to decrease over the years. Sometimes I can't even read a few paragraphs without my mind wandering. Have you ever dealt with a similar problem? I can also relate to the lethargic feeling you get from spending hours on the phone without taking any breaks.

Sadly, i needed to stop watching because the background sound gave me a beadache. You do you, but I recommend buying a mic 👍

I love writing my zero drafts by hand. I prefer unlined paper, as it feels more freeing, so I usually just write on blank printer paper. For outline/ideas that come later, I have post-it notes where I jot those ideas down, typically organized by scene. Write on!

I use a Kaweco classic fountain pen as it flows much better than using a biro. I find writing by hand slows me right down as I have to carefully think about what I am going to write! I do make lots of mistakes and my worse fault is using the same word in the next sentence to either describe something or I just repeat myself which is annoying! After writing on lots of small bits of paper I write it again in long hand onto ruled paper. Anyway at this rate it will take me ten years to write an introduction to my book! Would be interested in Sylvia Plath's writing routine, though in the movie when she got writer's block she baked so many cakes she could have opened a cake shop! Great video thanks!

Do Brandon Sanderson! 😁

Thank you I love these videos! As someone who always does a first draft by hand I completely agree with you about the editing. However it does get me writing and worry less about how it reads also it helps me memorize names and lore. Yes my memory is that bad 😂 Interviewing an accomplished author and asking her about Stephen Kings, I assume, unrequested advice. Is absolutely unhinged and I feel would never happen if she was a man. It would be bad enough to ask about a criticism but advice it just centers the other author on what is your interview.

This was interesting. Makes me want to read one of her books. 3h in one go sounds fairly acceptable. Though I'm sure you were tired enough after that. If you could figure out Jrr tolkiens writing routine it would have been quite something to see.

You're a speedy reader. I've spent the last six weeks trying to read Mary Stewart's "Thunder on the Right", and I'm still only on page 59...!

At first I thought the Stephen Hawking's book would be too much to read in so short a time. Then I went to look at it online and it looks very interesting. Just ordered it for my husband! Good luck with the reads! I will think about what I have read this year as I have read quite a few books thinking about it!

Good luck to you! These sound like interesting books. Just counted and I have read 35 books at this point. I do not have a goal, but I am actually not sure I'll get to 40. Let's see.

I am moving back to my hometown in a month or so. I have started slowly moving my books a two months ago. Every time I went to visit I would bring a couple of books to make future move easier. Weeeeell after few rounds I figured that I am not even making a dent so I had to upgrade to full suit case of books each time. In the end it was also not enough. Bibliophile problems.

I believe I have mentioned my randomization approach which might help with those classics that are eternally on "to read" list but never read. I keep to read list in digital format together with any book that I have received as a gift etc. For digital books my dynamic is something like... I will read one book that was earliest entry on the list (to make sure that one that are oldest are not eternally overlooked), then one that is latest (to read what I am currently interested in), after that one randomly picked by some random number generator (Because list has more than 400 entries...and to spice it up a bit). And I will repeat the process. For books that I have in paper I will actually always go for random number generator. Of course I make some exceptions. For instance I have decided to read Karl Jung's books by publication date so if I draw one of his books I will not read specific book in question but the one that is next in line chronologically.

I read "Beloved", "The Bluest Eye", "Sula" and "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison so far. I can recommend all of them, but I would recommend reading "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved" next.

Greta sucks

Love love love the audiobook version of The Secret History! Donna Tartt does such a great job of narrating it 😊

Good to hear you have managed some reading inger! Thanks for updating us. Take care!

So interesting to see Italy, I have been to Florence and Rome. What was the coastal location it looked amazing? Hope you settle in soon, it does take some getting used to living by a road. All the best!

That’s such a good idea for journaling! But I’d like to mention that knowing that life was slower back then doesn’t mean it wasn’t a luxury to write so much as Virginia did. Only wealthy people had the possibility to be literate, educated and full of free time to dedicate to their passions-so that you can see through their writing what author was rich and which was poor.

Stream of consciousness? :) Glad you made it to Europe!

Best of luck in Germany!

Welcome to Germany back at you!

Hi! Loved this discussion. Could you tell me the page that this quote is from, I'm struggling to find it. “The truth,” says Mia, “is only visible from the corner of one’s eye. The moment you look at it squarely, it becomes a lie.” - thank you in advance!

Gosh some difficult choices to make! So glad kitty came to say hello! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is not an easy read. I have the series on DVD which is nice and atmospheric and I also listened to it as an audio book. However the book itself did tend to wear me down. I wanted to shake Helen Graham by the shoulders as I could not understand her overly devote nature, especially when it came to her decision to return to her prior home to undertake what she felt was her 'duty'. Yet there are strengths in this book, the realism of how gender roles played out. How appallingly spoilt boys and young men were and how ignored young women were. However much we feel there is something 'romantic' about those days in truth owning nothing which is what amounted to a woman's life must have been pretty dire. Also Charlotte Bronte whose work I really love as a person annoys me a bit because she was either protecting or embarrassed by her sister's works. I hadn't realized that Charlotte had not allowed 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' to be published until after Anne's death! Charlotte also didn't like 'Wuthering Heights' which is hardly surprising because everyone in the book is really unlikeable, yet it is also a masterpiece especially as it was written by a young woman who had no experience of love or romance or so we are told. I believe Branwell appears in all of the sister's books as the unpleasant and violent character who set out to destroy the peace and harmony that could have existed both in his own life and in how the novels develop. However without him perhaps the Bronte's would never have written those incredible books! Have a great trip!!

Lovely work, writers have a routine.

Gosh inger it all sounds very exciting. Lovely to know you will be staying with your grandma at the beginning. Looking forward to your vlogs from Germany!

So excited for the unknown new stuff!!! 🎉❤

Haruki Murakami has an interesting routine too. Gets up even earlier though 😅

I hope your move to Germany goes smoothly. Take care! 🤗

All the best wishes for your time in Germany! ;)

She also had THREE children there while doing this stuff. haha. I think her time to write was the time her kids were at school.

Inger!! a bit of a shock to hear you are going away, what about your beautiful cat will your Dad look after it. All very mysterious. Wishing you a very safe journey and that you settle in well in Germany, will you be working in a book shop there? take care and be well!❤🙏

Wishing you a happy journey and all the best ❤

Good luck on your journey hopefully you'll more videos from Germany

I really enjoyed “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” 😊 I wish you all the best with moving and your next stage of your life! ❤

Just had a look at the book preview of 'the portable nineteenth century African American Women' it does look an interesting read though the three women whose story I looked at certainly had a hard time of it. Interested in your next vlog, hope you enjoyed your audio books.

Just what I needed to pick up my book and read a bit! 😊❤I will check out City of Girls. I also have the Vuong book in my tbr

I agree with you there about The Secret History. Now I feel like reading it too 😂

Some of my favorite poems are The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Elliot, The Mosquito by John Updike, The Two Voices by Lord Alfred Tennyson, and The Unwritten by W.S. Merwin

Stem of the Moon is available in the UK! Maybe a bit expensive, but not crazy. It was a lovely idea for a video. Loved the poems you read, will definitely look into the ones I have not known before: E E Cummings, Jenny Joseph and Thandi Sliepen

Hi Inger I have read 'The painted Veil' by Somerset Maugham and love the movie! I really like this book. Not too sure about the book you mention or indeed his other ones, I did attempt 'Of Human Bondage' but the main female character was so awful that I didn't continue, I did watch via RUclips Betty Davis starring in the film of the same name and I thought she did a good job of being awful!!😆

Good material by dolly alderton x

Hi Inger, I've just finished Recursion by Blake Crouch. About to start If It Bleeds by Stephen King. Greetings from Singapore 🇸🇬

I love your reading vlogs! Happy travels 😊

That's a good selection of books! Let us know what you think of them when you have read them!

Happy reading!

I've always been drawn to her, only today I listened to her biography and I'm shocked to discover we had very similar childhoods. Nowadays, she would've been diagnosed with Complex PTSD as a result of years of S abuse/incest. She was kept alive till 69 by her success as a writer. It gave her life purpose and brought her happiness. Fascinating women.

Yay! I would like to read “Nightwood.” I see it often in bookshops here in Istanbul. “A Death in the Family” looks interesting. Thank you ❤

Only two for me this year No longer human - by Osamu Dazai Leviathan and its enemies - Samuel T. Francis

What is the most beautiful romantic book you liked?😅

I’m reading Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri currently, and so far the stories are perfect for summer - languorous and perfectly invoking the city. Highly recommend!