I am loving the bright shirts on you the past couple videos. Life of Hunger sounds so good! I didn't realize Nothomb was so prolific, but I very much liked the one of hers I read, so seems I will need to read more.
@@ReadBecca hi Becca! I think most of my wardrobe is brightly colored 🤣 Colors are great!! I find it difficult to find Nothomb's books here. I only learned recently that she's very prolific and there are still books of hers not translated yet.
@SluggishReader very different from one another I think, The Housekkeper and The Professor is such a cosy found family book. The short story collection The Diving Pool is kind of surreal, and I have The Memory Police and Mina's Matchbox on my owned TBR list.
@PageTurnersWithKatja The Housekeeper + the Professor has quite a presence in pastel instagram, I'm not surprised to hear that it's a cosy book. I'm intrigued to hear that her books are quite different from one another so I look forward to trying The Housekeeper + the Professor next (just bought it!)
Great video! I will hope my library has the last book. At the moment i am really interested in stories about romantic/sexual relationships that are a bit different. And your video sparked my interest.
The French title _Biographie de la faim_ has an interesting nuance that the English doesn’t quite catch. (I just looked it up.) Yoko Ogawa sounds interesting. Did you talk about another book recently that connected sex and violence? Either I heard or read that somewhere and it was intriguing. Now I’m wracking my memory to no avail.
@@davidnovakreadspoetry Hey David! Ooh that is delightful - do enlighten me in case I missed it...! I thought it sounds a bit like Biographie de la femme which is what it sorta is. Recently.. Perhaps it was the Fernando Melchor book Hurricane Season which I talked about in the recent reads video with Chun Sue. Actually, the next catch-up recent read will also have a book - Tayeb Salih's - Season of Migration to the North - that sorta connects sex and violence, this time in postcolonialism context, although sex plays smaller part. (but interesting and slightly spoilery, so I didn't mention it too much when recording)
@ Ooh I just don’t know - I know I’ve been hearing about _Season of Migration_ all over the place - I’ve even put it on my list (not that that means anything) so that might be the answer. 🙂
Hotel Iris sounds interesting. I've read The Housekeeper and the Professor, but I think that's a much gentler novel.
I am loving the bright shirts on you the past couple videos.
Life of Hunger sounds so good! I didn't realize Nothomb was so prolific, but I very much liked the one of hers I read, so seems I will need to read more.
@@ReadBecca hi Becca! I think most of my wardrobe is brightly colored 🤣 Colors are great!!
I find it difficult to find Nothomb's books here. I only learned recently that she's very prolific and there are still books of hers not translated yet.
You've convinced me I need to read Amelie Northomb
@@PageTurnersWithKatja Hahah Katja I'm glad to hear that! 😆
I didn't enjoy hotel iris, but you're right, it's thought-provoking
@@PageTurnersWithKatja Have you read other Yoko Ogawa and if yes, what did you think about them? Do you have any favorite?
@SluggishReader very different from one another I think, The Housekkeper and The Professor is such a cosy found family book. The short story collection The Diving Pool is kind of surreal, and I have The Memory Police and Mina's Matchbox on my owned TBR list.
@PageTurnersWithKatja The Housekeeper + the Professor has quite a presence in pastel instagram, I'm not surprised to hear that it's a cosy book. I'm intrigued to hear that her books are quite different from one another so I look forward to trying The Housekeeper + the Professor next (just bought it!)
Great video!
I will hope my library has the last book. At the moment i am really interested in stories about romantic/sexual relationships that are a bit different. And your video sparked my interest.
@@NurChaos Thank you!! 😁 I hope you'll be able to find it.
The French title _Biographie de la faim_ has an interesting nuance that the English doesn’t quite catch. (I just looked it up.) Yoko Ogawa sounds interesting. Did you talk about another book recently that connected sex and violence? Either I heard or read that somewhere and it was intriguing. Now I’m wracking my memory to no avail.
@@davidnovakreadspoetry Hey David! Ooh that is delightful - do enlighten me in case I missed it...! I thought it sounds a bit like Biographie de la femme which is what it sorta is.
Recently.. Perhaps it was the Fernando Melchor book Hurricane Season which I talked about in the recent reads video with Chun Sue. Actually, the next catch-up recent read will also have a book - Tayeb Salih's - Season of Migration to the North - that sorta connects sex and violence, this time in postcolonialism context, although sex plays smaller part. (but interesting and slightly spoilery, so I didn't mention it too much when recording)
@ Ooh I just don’t know - I know I’ve been hearing about _Season of Migration_ all over the place - I’ve even put it on my list (not that that means anything) so that might be the answer. 🙂
@@davidnovakreadspoetry I will upload the video with _Season of Migration_ probably this evening (Malaysian time). 😉