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Pre-Tolkien Fantasy & Cosmic Horror | A Reading Diary, Spring 2024

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Summer in Silesia | A Lost Reading Diary

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From Warsaw to Paris | A French Reading Diary - Winter, 2024

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The Best Books I Read This Year | 2023

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An Andalusian Reading Diary | Summer, 2023

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Q&A Part 4 | My Favourite Queer Books & Other Topics

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5 Japanese Women Writers | A Reading Diary - Summer, 2024

I spent my summer reading Japanese women writers. Here are some of my reflections.
0:00 The Dregs of Summer
0:30 In Las Bielański
1:02 On Japan
2:34 Simulacra
3:28 Finding Mishima & Others
5:46 Japanese Women Writers
6:22 A Brief Life
10:14 Forging a Voice
11:17 Mood Pieces
12:43 On Footnotes
14:40 Honkadori
15:21 The Haginoya
16:03 Japanese Gothic
18:25 Tajfuny
20:39 Ogród Krasińskich
21:20 A Shift in Style
23:24 Paper Goods
24:12 Chopsticks
26:00 An Honorary Man
27:18 The Yoshiwara
29:27 Panorama
31:56 Saikaku
33:18 Midori
34:50 A Tickled Sleeve
36:07 Bookmail 1
38:08 Cool Respite
39:11 'An Esoteric Masterpiece'
40:09 Convolutions
41:33 A Ghost Story
42:33 Masking
46:37 The Malign and the Maligned
50:33 Unknown M...

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Pre-Tolkien Fantasy & Cosmic Horror | A Reading Diary, Spring 2024

1:05:55

Pre-Tolkien Fantasy & Cosmic Horror | A Reading Diary, Spring 2024

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With a head full of faerie, and at a suitably Entish pace, I explore some curious fantasy and horror fiction. Support me here: ko-fi.com/sherdstube 0:00 In Fairyland 0:33 Las Bielański 1:22 Childish Things 1:54 A Towering Figure 3:05 Butter & Bacon 3:59 Narrative & Landscape 6:58 In Elfland 10:28 Tam Lin 13:22 Bookmail 1 16:22 Invented Worlds 18:47 An Archaic Mode 21:59 The Glamour of the Archa...

Summer in Silesia | A Lost Reading Diary

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Summer in Silesia | A Lost Reading Diary

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I filmed this reading diary in Lower Silesia in the summer of last year, but wasn't able to get it finished at the time. I'm very pleased to be able to share it with you now. Hope you enjoy it: Support me here: ko-fi.com/sherdstube 0:00 The Burden of Summer 0:32 Lower Silesia 2:45 A Whiter Shade of Pale 3:29 An Unhurried Narrative 5:53 The Texture of Life 10:25 King Arthur in Siedlęcin 11:36 So...

From Warsaw to Paris | A French Reading Diary - Winter, 2024

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From Warsaw to Paris | A French Reading Diary - Winter, 2024

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Warning: I attempt to pronounce many French names in this video. Join me for another reading diary from Warsaw to Paris: 0:00 An Unknown Planet 0:24 Rynek Nowego Miasta 1:06 A Confession Concerning French Literature 1:57 Time Torn Off Unused 3:11 French Horror 5:43 An Unforgiving Land 6:24 An Unlikely Similarity 7:41 Sleek of Fur & Fleet of Foot 8:48 On Hares & Folklore 10:19 Księgarnia Naukowa...

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The Best Books I Read This Year | 2023

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My end-of-year list for 2023. I hope you enjoy it. Support Me: ko-fi.com/sherdstube 0:00 Ritual 0:35 Criteria 1:04 8) Peripheral Imagination 7:03 7) Waves of Violence 12:10 6) Internal Magicking 15:05 5) Sin Eating 19:58 4) Cinematic Language 24:49 3) The Intense Humming of Evil 28:26 2) Parched Lyricism 32:26 Honourable Mentions 33:57 1) Edgelands of Epistemology 41:19 Next Year's Reading Plan...

An Andalusian Reading Diary | Summer, 2023

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An Andalusian Reading Diary | Summer, 2023

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My second experiment in Booktuber form. I hope you enjoy it. Support Me: ko-fi.com/sherdstube 0:00 Andalusian Sadness 0:41 In Seville 1:40 A Professional Andalusian 4:12 Symbols 6:58 Nature as Character 7:54 A Conversation with the Moon 9:33 A Pre-Logical World 10:12 The Corruption of the Flesh 12:52 Playing Dead 13:55 La Cartuja Monastery 15:49 To Córdoba 17:35 Landscape Without Song 21:02 Ech...

Q&A Part 4 | My Favourite Queer Books & Other Topics

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Q&A Part 4 | My Favourite Queer Books & Other Topics

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I answer your questions (on quite a windy day). Thanks for watching. Support me here: ko-fi.com/sherdstube 0:00 Gratitude 0:35 What are your favourite Queer books? 14:03 What are your thoughts on John Banville? 18:19 Which languages do you know? 24:03 What are your favourite publishers? 29:21 Do you read wholesome books as well as disturbing ones? Wake Island Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/4Qh8...

Q&A Part 3 | How to Be a Better Reader & Other Topics

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Q&A Part 3 | How to Be a Better Reader & Other Topics

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Thanks for all your wonderful questions. In this video, I answer five of my favourites. Support me here: ko-fi.com/sherdstube 0:00 Prelude 0:36 How to Be a Better Reader? 10:46 Who are your favourite booktubers? 13:44 What is your comfort book? 20:26 How do you make notes when reading? 23:49 Who are your favourite women writers? Sherds Podcast on Vernon Lee: open.spotify.com/episode/5ObixjZJFL8...

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A Reading Diary | Spring, 2023

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This is a little experimental jaunt in booktuber land - trying out something a little more casual. I hope you enjoy it. Support me here: ko-fi.com/sherdstube 0:00 Spring in Poland 0:40 Majówka 3:17 An Oral History of Cultural Dysfunction 10:10 Marózek 11:24 Jarmark Majowy 12:51 The Companionship of Objects 15:40 Olszynek 16:31 Back in Warsaw 21:28 The Genesis of Evil 26:05 Bookmail 1 26:50 Otwo...

'Genesis', Chaos & the Poetic Imagination

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'Genesis', Chaos & the Poetic Imagination

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A reflection on Geoffrey Hill's 'Genesis' & its excursions into literary history: 0:00 Poetry & Genesis 2:49 Genesis & Violence 4:01 Geoffrey Hill's 'Genesis' 4:27 The First Day - Friction 6:03 The Second Day - Claw 7:49 The Third Day - Voice 11:30 The Fourth Day - Deeps 18:19 The Fifth Day - Blood 18:57 The Sixth Day - Bones 21:57 The Seventh Day - Rest Bibliography: Broken Heirarchies: Poems ...

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Three Novels of Israel & Palestine

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A reflection on three novels set in Israel & Palestine. 0:00 Intro 1:30 Tel Aviv 11:54 Jerusalem 20:47 West Bank Bibliography: 'Ruins of the Present: Yaakov Shabtai's Anti-Nostalgia' by Saul Noam Zaritt, Prooftexts , Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring 2013), pp. 251-273 Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry by Charles O. Hartman (1996, Wesleyan University Press) Sherds Podcast: Spotify: open.spotify...

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The Best Books I Read This Year | 2022

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Here's a countdown of my top reads for 2022 Enjoy! 0:00 Intro 0:30 Criteria 1:06 #8 City of Words 5:31 #7 Pixelated Future 8:52 #6 Fungal Horror 13:18 #5 Astral Noir 17:29 #4 The Horror of Perception 20:34 #3 The Erosion of Self 25:23 #2 The Topography of Violence 29:30 (Honourable Mentions) 30:13 #1 Riverine Language 35:51 Next Year's Reading Plans Here are links to two volumes of The City, tr...

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How Writers Find Meaning in the Sky

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I talk about the sky as a vehicle for literary meaning: 0:00 Intro 2:16 Phallus 4:18 Clay 6:34 Abyss 9:23 Toy 11:10 Wound Writers Mentioned: Cormac McCarthy Philip Larkin Georg Büchner Paul Celan Franz Kafka Vladimir Nabokov Michael Wehunt Tony Harrison & I allude to two others if you're able to catch them ;) Leave a comment if you do. Instagram: @SherdsTube Tiktok: @SherdsTube Sherds Podcast: ...

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Women in Modern Greek Literature

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I talk about what I read this summer in Greece. 0:00 Intro 2:08 The Murderess 8:55 Kassandra and the Wolf 15:20 Three Summers Bibliography: 'The Murderess' (1903) by Alexandros Papadiamantis, trans. Peter Levi 'The Other Self: Selfhood and Society in Modern Greek Fiction' (2003) by Dimitris Tziovas 'Kassandra and the Wolf' (1976) by Margarita Karapanou, trans. N. C. Germanacos 'Reading Between ...

Q&A Part 2 | The Most Disturbing Book I've Read & Other Topics

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Q&A Part 2 | The Most Disturbing Book I've Read & Other Topics

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I answer your questions: 0:00 Intro 0:39 The most disturbing book you've read? 5:08 Writers from the former Yugoslavia? 16:26 Do you make reading plans? 19:37 What do you like about Quentin S. Crisp? 25:03 Favourite Polish writers? Q&A Part 1: ruclips.net/video/ygH3UCx6454/видео.html Interview with Quentin S. Crisp on Sherds Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/21-graves-an-interview-with-que...