Awww... An Island sounds right up my alley - I have a thing for lighthouses 🥰 - You don't exist too much is a great title - sad to hear, that the book doesn't do justice to this awesomeness 😅
It is a great title, which actually also fits the book pretty well. If you like the „unhinged woman“ trope, you may still like it… I think I have simply read too many by now 😅 An Island was really interesting. It’s a weird comparison but in vibes perhaps similar to I Who Have Never Know Men- so maybe give it a try! 😍
I love the way you are describing why you didn't get on with 'Die Jahre' and I guess that for exactly the same reasons I loved it. Knowing more about the backdrop of her life I could value how the personal was and is always political. I will read 'The Island' if you read 'The Yellow Wallpaper', ok? Go on, I know it is on your shelves.....🤭
You got a deal 😁 I wonder whether I would like a memoir similar to “The Years” more if it covered the time period of the 90s-to the 2020s and was set in Germany. Despite my ignorance of many of the political events in France at the time, however, I think I also just always want more emotion… 🤓 I am glad I pushed through though, I did learn some shocking things about recent European/French history, which I was pretty shocked not to know about.
I read quite a bit for November. I especially enjoyed some of the philosophy books: Kant's Metaphysics of Morals - to fill my gut with justified morality and to better understand his ethical system; The Social Contract by Rousseau - the essential episode of the enlightenment at mankind's claim as inherently virtuous and good (beautiful is what I'd call that; nothing is more appealing than an absolute like this); and of course Emerson's essays - such are the transcendentalists more important than ever in a materialistic and relative world. That's the general wrap up for my November. My own little revitalization of universal morality and just causes.
Wow, you read some challenging books. It's so great to hear that you seem to have also really enjoyed them. I do not read much philosophy myself, I find that books are either too basic and I loose interest or they go way over my head. So far I haven't come across some solid middle ground!
@@fayesparallelstories Oh yeah, I definitely understand that. With philosophy it's just a lot of rereading and dissecting. Terminology can be aggravating, but you can usually find articles online to help with the more obscure words. Ralph Waldo Emerson, his essays, they are written with some philosophical context in mind, but they're also very poetic. You might wanna give them a try. There are collections of them in the Library of America editions.
Apparently there has been a newer edition brought out this year and I far prefer that cover 😅 For once I was glad to not judge a book by its cover though 😇😌
I reread The Yellow Wallpaper for the 6th time last month, it was in the short story collection Deadlier than the Male which was 26 horror stories by 19th and 20th century women. The nonfiction i read was Emperors of the Deep by William McKeever, it was about sharks and mainly focused on things like overfishing for shatk fin soup and things like modern slavery on fishing ships, so it wasn't a happy book but it was good if a little repetitive. My new releases saved my fairly bad month that had 4-2☆ 3-3☆ 4-4☆, Kingdom of Sweets didn't dissapoint Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly was very good too. One of the other 4☆s was a reread of The Great Gatsby and I liked it a lot more this time, but it is the kind of book where I know there are books by women that deserve it's plaxe as a classic much more.
Oh wow- the 6th reread of The Yellow Wallpaper, I feel like I am really missing this one in the list of must read feminist modern classics! The Great Gatsby, however, I don’t really understand all the love for. I basically just was relieved it was short 🙈 perhaps upon rereading it, one gets to appreciate it more?!
@@fayesparallelstories I only reread Gatsby bc it was short and another booktuber was reading it for the first time. She (Gwendolyn Ransom) didn't like it either, and I didn't the first time. Knowing that everyone is miserable and selfish and privileged made the contrast with the superficial glamour and dark underbelly of high society work better. Another thing I liked was Nick roasted Tom Buchanan's racist views, and how the same wrong ideas are being used against lgbtq and other marginalized groups today. It's sad but informative how things never seem to change especially in the US.
@@zachreads That’s actually a really good (albeit depressing) point that, even though 100 years old, The Great Gatsby still applies to the privilege by attitudes represented today. I think I will give it a bit of time until I reread it though 😇
We failed so hard on buddy reading 🙈I just skipped back and rewatched your November recap! I have not given up on Ernaux yet, but maybe I will read a shorter book next ;-)
@@fayesparallelstories in Spanish you can say uno hizo…, which literally is “one did…”. The one is masculine, because Spanish is a massively gendered language, but it is still impersonal. I guess the fact that we read two different translations and had similar reactions mean that the translations are pretty good?
@@drawyourbook876 ah interesting - the Spanish sounds closer to the German with "man" sounding very similar to the German man (German: Mann)! Now I also feel more confident that our difficulty with the book was not due to the translation...
Awww... An Island sounds right up my alley - I have a thing for lighthouses 🥰 - You don't exist too much is a great title - sad to hear, that the book doesn't do justice to this awesomeness 😅
It is a great title, which actually also fits the book pretty well. If you like the „unhinged woman“ trope, you may still like it… I think I have simply read too many by now 😅
An Island was really interesting. It’s a weird comparison but in vibes perhaps similar to I Who Have Never Know Men- so maybe give it a try! 😍
I love the way you are describing why you didn't get on with 'Die Jahre' and I guess that for exactly the same reasons I loved it. Knowing more about the backdrop of her life I could value how the personal was and is always political. I will read 'The Island' if you read 'The Yellow Wallpaper', ok? Go on, I know it is on your shelves.....🤭
You got a deal 😁
I wonder whether I would like a memoir similar to “The Years” more if it covered the time period of the 90s-to the 2020s and was set in Germany. Despite my ignorance of many of the political events in France at the time, however, I think I also just always want more emotion… 🤓 I am glad I pushed through though, I did learn some shocking things about recent European/French history, which I was pretty shocked not to know about.
I read quite a bit for November. I especially enjoyed some of the philosophy books: Kant's Metaphysics of Morals - to fill my gut with justified morality and to better understand his ethical system; The Social Contract by Rousseau - the essential episode of the enlightenment at mankind's claim as inherently virtuous and good (beautiful is what I'd call that; nothing is more appealing than an absolute like this); and of course Emerson's essays - such are the transcendentalists more important than ever in a materialistic and relative world. That's the general wrap up for my November. My own little revitalization of universal morality and just causes.
Wow, you read some challenging books. It's so great to hear that you seem to have also really enjoyed them. I do not read much philosophy myself, I find that books are either too basic and I loose interest or they go way over my head. So far I haven't come across some solid middle ground!
@@fayesparallelstories Oh yeah, I definitely understand that. With philosophy it's just a lot of rereading and dissecting. Terminology can be aggravating, but you can usually find articles online to help with the more obscure words. Ralph Waldo Emerson, his essays, they are written with some philosophical context in mind, but they're also very poetic. You might wanna give them a try. There are collections of them in the Library of America editions.
An island sounds really compelling. I agree the cover could be better 😅
Apparently there has been a newer edition brought out this year and I far prefer that cover 😅 For once I was glad to not judge a book by its cover though 😇😌
I reread The Yellow Wallpaper for the 6th time last month, it was in the short story collection Deadlier than the Male which was 26 horror stories by 19th and 20th century women.
The nonfiction i read was Emperors of the Deep by William McKeever, it was about sharks and mainly focused on things like overfishing for shatk fin soup and things like modern slavery on fishing ships, so it wasn't a happy book but it was good if a little repetitive.
My new releases saved my fairly bad month that had 4-2☆ 3-3☆ 4-4☆, Kingdom of Sweets didn't dissapoint Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly was very good too.
One of the other 4☆s was a reread of The Great Gatsby and I liked it a lot more this time, but it is the kind of book where I know there are books by women that deserve it's plaxe as a classic much more.
Oh wow- the 6th reread of The Yellow Wallpaper, I feel like I am really missing this one in the list of must read feminist modern classics!
The Great Gatsby, however, I don’t really understand all the love for. I basically just was relieved it was short 🙈 perhaps upon rereading it, one gets to appreciate it more?!
@@fayesparallelstories I only reread Gatsby bc it was short and another booktuber was reading it for the first time. She (Gwendolyn Ransom) didn't like it either, and I didn't the first time. Knowing that everyone is miserable and selfish and privileged made the contrast with the superficial glamour and dark underbelly of high society work better.
Another thing I liked was Nick roasted Tom Buchanan's racist views, and how the same wrong ideas are being used against lgbtq and other marginalized groups today. It's sad but informative how things never seem to change especially in the US.
@@zachreads That’s actually a really good (albeit depressing) point that, even though 100 years old, The Great Gatsby still applies to the privilege by attitudes represented today. I think I will give it a bit of time until I reread it though 😇
I had very similar feelings for the Annie ernaux
We failed so hard on buddy reading 🙈I just skipped back and rewatched your November recap! I have not given up on Ernaux yet, but maybe I will read a shorter book next ;-)
@@fayesparallelstories Hahahha, well, we both read it kind of at the same time 😅
@@drawyourbook876 in two different translated versions - that's pretty cool! How does the Spanish deal with the impersonal pronoun?
@@fayesparallelstories in Spanish you can say uno hizo…, which literally is “one did…”. The one is masculine, because Spanish is a massively gendered language, but it is still impersonal. I guess the fact that we read two different translations and had similar reactions mean that the translations are pretty good?
@@drawyourbook876 ah interesting - the Spanish sounds closer to the German with "man" sounding very similar to the German man (German: Mann)! Now I also feel more confident that our difficulty with the book was not due to the translation...