will you be my valentine?
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- a love letter to you: books, films, jouissance, sweet treats
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such great recs!! i just started reading my first Nin (A Spy in the House of Love)!! also loved the intro of this video wow
loved everything about this - thank you for putting so much thought into putting this list together I've just added about 10 things to my tbr and 10 movies to my watchlist!!
Thank you Geneva! I hope you love them. I can’t wait to watch your new video tonight! 🥰 I always look forward to watching them
I just finished Written on the Body by Winterson this week per your recommendation and was absolutely floored. Truly some of the most beautiful prose I’ve ever read.
Written on The Body is the best book ever!! It blew me away when I read it too
I love everything Winterson writes. Her prose are stunning!
Something about "melancholic seaside" makes me think of those scenes in season 2 of "Penny Dreadful" where Eva Green goes to the Cut-Wife's cottage.
Caitlyn, I am obsessed with this list, I have added every book to my tbr, I wrote a long list in my reading journal. I just started Henry and June by Anaïs Nin and wow you were right, the way she writes about desire and intimacy is so raw and vulnerable, yet beautiful. I cannot wait to get to her other work that you’ve mentioned in this video. And I’m geeking out because I just found out that she was a big fan of D.H Lawrence!!
Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Henry and June- it’s one of my favorites! And yes she was! 🤎 I feel like the best way to find your next favorite book is looking at your favorite authors favorite authors 🙂↔️
Great video ! Loved seeing scenes from In The Mood for Love - that is one of my favorite movies. Thanks for the book recommendations. I'm not into reading love stories but I do love a good tragic love story. I can't believe I haven't read any Anais Nin. I need to remedy that this year. I adored The Flowers of Evil, Giovanni's room, and The Lover. Madonna in a Fur Coat is on my TBR for this year. I have not read Written on the Body, but Oranges are not the only Fruit is one of my favorite books. I need to read more Winterson. I would have never thought to put a Bukowski book in a valentine recommendations video but now that you mention it, it works.
Anna Karenina is my all-time favorite classic. Another favorite is The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which incorporates some elements of Anna Karenina.
I love the connection you made with fragrance and literature. I love both also. I recently bought a sampler of Tokyo Milk fragrances and am enjoying exploring them.
I have to confess, I've always hated Valentine's Day but you have inspired me to look at it differently, so thank you.
I am a melancholy soul and would love to see melancholy book recommendations.
Oh you’ll love Anais Nin!! I recommend Henry and June 🤎 I also love melancholy. More melancholic literature coming soon 🥀
your channel is my favourite book club!
Thank you!!🤎
I truly enjoy listening to your book reviews which I look forward to always!
Very concise and detailed. It feeds one's imagination. 👌🏻
I’ll be posting a lot more book content in my videos. Especially with philosophy and classics 🤎
You’ve just added about 10 books to my must read list! 📚
Hope you love them 🤎
a million times yes!!!
Glad you enjoyed 😘
I'm curious, do you feel that the female characters in Anna Karenina were explored enough? I felt that Vronsky and Levin had SO MUCH DEPTH but also felt that Anna and Kitty were almost caricatures of the "unstable/mentally ill/'fallen'" woman and the "pure/virtuous" woman respectively, which I think made it slightlyyy harder for me to fully enjoy the book because I felt they were a little one-dimensional. This might be because I read it right after The Idiot though - I felt that Dostoevsky did SUCH a good job of exploring Nastasya Fillipovna and all her complexity, so perhaps Tolstoy wasn't as bad as a remember, and just seemed worse in comparison to Dostoevsky.
P.S. thank you for the romance recommendations!!! I've noted a few of them down and I'm going to try find a second hand copy of at least one of them asap 😝😝
i think tolstoy absolutely gives vronsky and levin more interiority, but i wouldn’t say anna and kitty are one-dimensional-it’s more that their struggles are filtered through the lens of societal expectation in a way that makes them feel archetypal. anna, for example, embodies the tension between desire and duty, but i think there’s real psychological depth in the way tolstoy shows her unraveling. kitty also starts off feeling like a “pure” ideal but gains complexity through her relationship with levin and her own growth. that said, dostoevsky definitely gives nastasya filippovna a different kind of interiority-she’s messier, harder to pin down, more of a raw nerve than anna, whose downfall feels almost inevitable from the start. i do think comparing them highlights the difference between tolstoy’s moral weight and dostoevsky’s psychological chaos, which is why reading anna karenina after the idiot probably makes tolstoy feel more restrained. And it’s also why i enjoyed the Idiot more 😉
also, love that you’re looking for secondhand copies of the recs! would love to hear what you end up picking up!🤎🤎🤎
Love the videos ❤ but they're all backwards/mirrored 😭
I record everything on my iPhone. I don’t even have a microphone 😂 but I’ll be getting a camera soon. Hopefully!!
0:10 0:21 what names of this films?
0:10 is The Dreamers (2003)
0:21 is The Beautiful Person (2008)