Praying for you, it was literally 35-36 °C couple of days ago here and i was SUFFERING. Could not imagine what 10 more degrees added to that would feel like
The Comfort of Strangers is another great summer book taking place while this couple is on a summer vacation. The book looks at their relationship, the people they meet, and get caught up in something they didn’t expect. It’s less than 200 pages, easy to breeze through, highly recommend!
When I think of the quintessential New York City novel, I always say "The Bonfire of the Vanities." It was a huge bestseller in the late 80s. I have vivid memories of sitting in my parents station wagon vigorously turning the pages caught up on this whirlwind of a story full of twists and turns with New York City playing a huge part. There is no slow introduction. This 700 page book flies out the gate and never stops.
One of my favorites. Yes its slow. Lots of characterization in each chapter with a paragraph of action. But thats its strength in how wolfe dissects his characters petty motivations.
Summer crossing by Truman Capote is another great read, it inspired Holly Golightly's character and just captures the chaos of being a teenager and dating the wrong guys. It's also set in New York's upper East side so it gives Gossip Girl energy.
omg a room with a view is my favorite classic!! it is so approachable, really recommend for everyone to check it out. i was giggling and kicking my feet while reading it
I just read Second Place by Rachel Cusk, and I think it perfectly captures that summer aura. I also LOVE Country Life by her as well. For me, anything by Rachel Cusk = summer. ☀️
I second this! I loved Second place and it’s very summer vibes! I also loved (and read on an island, which made it even better) Outline by her! I associate her with summer so much as well :)
I loved The Beach! And had the incredible experience of reading it while in Koh Samui. Being able to look out of a window or over the side of a boat to see what Garland was describing… ugh.
I just love your channel! Your style is amazing! I could read every book you recommend! Eve Babitz is just so perfect as a summer read on the beach with your sunglasses on. I saw the movie The Beach omg... it soooo good, one of my favorite movies ever, but I can not watch it often because I want to buy a one-way ticket and go on an adventure. I need to read this book!
I absolutely love how you describe what you're talking about, your overall attitude. Just hearing your voice is a pleasure. I will definitely pick up one of these books as soon as I finish my exams. ✨🙌
I’m reading Eve Babitz’s Slow Days Fast Company and it is also so summer coded. It’s my first Eve Babitz book, and now I’m in love with her? I can’t help it?
@@amandadavies6751 It was the unexpectedly slow observations amid the LA excitement that I enjoyed, so I get why it could be a bore 😂 I guess no author is for everyone!
i’m currently reading a book called Perfume & Pain that i got when visiting Vegas this week (the hottest place i’ve ever been in think) and it’s very messy and gay and summer in LA! (also your editing is so good, even in chill videos like this there’s just that extra oomph it doesn’t go unnoticed)
I heavily associate Elena Ferrante novels with summer. I'm currently reading through the Neapolitan quartet, but for a shorter option, Days of Abandonment is set in a sticky Italian summer heatwave
One of the books I read during summer was Cujo. Which I felt was perfect because the book takes place in July, & I read it in july??? I also have no AC so I was quite literally dying. It truly made the book better, I think.
I'm rereading black swans right now! it was one of the first books I read when I first started reading as an adult 2 summers ago and I still find it so so SO funny but I feel like I'm absorbing it better now :)
As usual your video offered a good balance of playfulness & gravity. Thinking about A Room with a View & Steinbeck magnified the humidity that is already here. In the summer I think Id rather read books taking place in cool environments, but it doesn’t always work out that way since my choices are usually random. Black Swans & Another Brooklyn interest me. &, as an aside, that’s a pretty intense painting in the background. Who painted that? I’m slogging through Little Women & The Delicate Prey (which is heightening the heat for me). Paul Bowles is very much the embodiment of summer.
Here's another summer read: Sanmao's diaries, especially her Sahara diaries. Its the every day happenings of a Taiwanese woman in Morocco in the seventies. It's so funny and cute. You think you're reading something superficial until you reach the end and you think "Holy shit what did she just do to me?". They're her actual diaries too.
What a fantastic thumbnail! I need a summer book for my book club, my pick is next and as the Leo of the group it just feels like getting to pick a book at this time of year is just full of so much responsibility and potential.
Your videos always make me smile! ~and today also happens to be my birthday. 🥳 "Another Brooklyn" sounds SO GOOD ... and a book that would be fun to pass along to my friends - like a library book but a tighter circle of people. Hmmm, an idea is forming. 🤔 Happy summer ... stay cool! 🏄♀
Summer is my least favourite season, but I try to enjoy it anyway cause you know, life is short, so I needed this, thanks!! I've now made it my goal to read all of these books this summer. Steinbeck is one of my favourite authors, and I've actually been to the beach in Thailand where the Beach was shot, it will be fun to read the book the movie was based on
Excuse my english but stfu i was just reading dogs of summer right now, what a coincidence😅. Btw I recently discovered your channel and I'm loving every single video. Keep doing this, you have a very refreshing personality and also you're beautiful girrl. Much love♡
Haven’t seen one of your vids since I think you mentioned watching SLC Punk. Great movie. Glad this showed up on my recommended again. I’d imagine 99 percent of your viewers of all genders and reading levels have a small crush on you. lol
Yaaay, hot, sweaty Ana! As if being intelligent, literate, beautiful and a bit of a character hadn't already been enough. And she's talking about bras! What have I been taking?
Summer vibe books are one of my FAV "genres"!!!!!! I know Im always jonesing for new recs so Ill share some of mine as well!!! Anything by Mary Karr but especially Cherry and The Liars Club. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. Banana Rose by Natalie Goldberg. The Girls by Emma Cline. Bret Easton Ellis is another author who knows the vibe.
Ana, I live in Upstate NY and we are in Day #5 of “why is it this hot and humid in June?” 🥵🔥 It’s disgusting! Love The Wayward Bus!! Have you read anything by Tiffany McDaniel? She is a favorite of mine and her books are amazing. She wrote The Summer That Melted Everything. I loved it and hope to reread it this summer. ☀️😎
Ana, I don't know if you've read it already, but I feel like you'd really enjoy Down the Drain by Julia Fox. Tough read at certain moments cause it gets dark, but it was great. Currently winter over here, so I'm experiencing the summer vicariously through you ❤
Ana, you should definitely read „Paul” by Daisy Lafarge if you get the chance. I absolutely loved it and I feel like you might as well! Such an underrated book PS. It’s also perfect for summertime, happening in Southern France
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo helped me out last summer, it's such an easy read, a page turner, i went in not knowing anything about it apart that everyone loved it. it didn't change my life by any means, not giving you much to think about once you're done but it definitely made me say "reading is so fun, i just want more! " sometimes all you need is a bestseller, and you're a believer :D
I think the movie ending was a cop-out, Richard was portrayed too sympathetically, and the idea that anyone would look back on their time on The Beach with nostalgia is antithetical to the theme of the novel - which offers a cutting commentary on the toxic elitism sometimes found in backpacker communities. Richard is supposed to be an anti-hero, a dangerously obsessed, self-absorbed backpacker caricature hovering on the fringes of insanity. This was not a good fit for the Leo of that era, a newly-minted romantic screen hero. The film tries to have it both ways, making Richard both dark and heroic, but doesn't execute this all that well. The novel is highly critical of the Western backpackers' sense of entitlement over gatekeeping a "pristine" tropical paradise. The message of the film is muddled in comparison.
I really shouldn’t be watching your videos bc I have a huge tbr already but one sneaky little book from this vid manipulated me into adding it to my list 😒
No idea if it's relevant, but where I live the temperatures have been touching 115-120°F. Expecting thoughts and prayers.
Praying for you, it was literally 35-36 °C couple of days ago here and i was SUFFERING. Could not imagine what 10 more degrees added to that would feel like
Hello from Phoenix where we also get those temps.
nevada is right there with you 🥲
Hello from INDIA
@@redwinepinkhair same I'm here in north India
when the world needed her most, she returned 😌
Bonjour Tristesse is the essential summer novel for me.
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The Comfort of Strangers is another great summer book taking place while this couple is on a summer vacation. The book looks at their relationship, the people they meet, and get caught up in something they didn’t expect. It’s less than 200 pages, easy to breeze through, highly recommend!
When I think of the quintessential New York City novel, I always say "The Bonfire of the Vanities." It was a huge bestseller in the late 80s. I have vivid memories of sitting in my parents station wagon vigorously turning the pages caught up on this whirlwind of a story full of twists and turns with New York City playing a huge part. There is no slow introduction. This 700 page book flies out the gate and never stops.
One of my favorites. Yes its slow. Lots of characterization in each chapter with a paragraph of action. But thats its strength in how wolfe dissects his characters petty motivations.
Summer crossing by Truman Capote is another great read, it inspired Holly Golightly's character and just captures the chaos of being a teenager and dating the wrong guys. It's also set in New York's upper East side so it gives Gossip Girl energy.
omg a room with a view is my favorite classic!! it is so approachable, really recommend for everyone to check it out. i was giggling and kicking my feet while reading it
I just read Second Place by Rachel Cusk, and I think it perfectly captures that summer aura. I also LOVE Country Life by her as well. For me, anything by Rachel Cusk = summer. ☀️
I second this! I loved Second place and it’s very summer vibes! I also loved (and read on an island, which made it even better) Outline by her! I associate her with summer so much as well :)
No one but no one inspires me to read specific titles like you, Ana⚡️ I want to run out and get all the Summer Books now!😊
I loved The Beach! And had the incredible experience of reading it while in Koh Samui. Being able to look out of a window or over the side of a boat to see what Garland was describing… ugh.
I just love your channel! Your style is amazing! I could read every book you recommend! Eve Babitz is just so perfect as a summer read on the beach with your sunglasses on. I saw the movie The Beach omg... it soooo good, one of my favorite movies ever, but I can not watch it often because I want to buy a one-way ticket and go on an adventure. I need to read this book!
Love from wales 🏴 💙💙 having to get my summer through books because the skies are endlessly grey and it’s always raining 😭
I absolutely love how you describe what you're talking about, your overall attitude. Just hearing your voice is a pleasure. I will definitely pick up one of these books as soon as I finish my exams. ✨🙌
So glad I found ur channel. You truly brought a light to my day. ❤❤
Summertime , my favourite season of the year🌄
I’m reading Eve Babitz’s Slow Days Fast Company and it is also so summer coded. It’s my first Eve Babitz book, and now I’m in love with her? I can’t help it?
What is it with Eve Babitz? I just couldn't. I was bored out of my gore.
@@amandadavies6751 It was the unexpectedly slow observations amid the LA excitement that I enjoyed, so I get why it could be a bore 😂 I guess no author is for everyone!
i’m currently reading a book called Perfume & Pain that i got when visiting Vegas this week (the hottest place i’ve ever been in think) and it’s very messy and gay and summer in LA! (also your editing is so good, even in chill videos like this there’s just that extra oomph it doesn’t go unnoticed)
I heavily associate Elena Ferrante novels with summer. I'm currently reading through the Neapolitan quartet, but for a shorter option, Days of Abandonment is set in a sticky Italian summer heatwave
One of the books I read during summer was Cujo. Which I felt was perfect because the book takes place in July, & I read it in july??? I also have no AC so I was quite literally dying. It truly made the book better, I think.
I'm rereading black swans right now! it was one of the first books I read when I first started reading as an adult 2 summers ago and I still find it so so SO funny but I feel like I'm absorbing it better now :)
JAWS 🦈 by Peter Benchley. Read it before you go swimming. (Jaws theme song plays)
My 3 summer books: Lolita, which I'm reading now; Light in August and East of Eden on my tbr list over summer 🥹
I decided to leave behind my copy of Lolita while travelling one year and have regretted it ever since :( East of Eden is also on my tbr!
@@cocktailshrimps get another one! It's also a great book about travelling 😜
@@adehope Definitely! It took me so long to finish it that i got fed up as soon as I finished & left it. Never ditching a book again😭
The great gatsby and the bell jar
I read The Beach because of your recommendation a couple of summers ago! Truly a wild ride and I thank you for it.
Beautiful timing as I’ve been reading so much nonfiction that I’m craving a new fiction recommendation !!!
As usual your video offered a good balance of playfulness & gravity. Thinking about A Room with a View & Steinbeck magnified the humidity that is already here. In the
summer I think Id rather read books taking place in cool environments, but it doesn’t always work out that way since my choices are usually random. Black Swans & Another Brooklyn interest me. &,
as an aside, that’s a pretty intense painting in the background. Who painted that? I’m slogging through Little Women & The Delicate Prey (which is heightening the heat for me). Paul Bowles is very much the embodiment of summer.
Here's another summer read: Sanmao's diaries, especially her Sahara diaries. Its the every day happenings of a Taiwanese woman in Morocco in the seventies. It's so funny and cute. You think you're reading something superficial until you reach the end and you think "Holy shit what did she just do to me?". They're her actual diaries too.
Consider reading the book The Sun Shines Again by Wendy Lovell which can be found on Amazon and many other places. It is a good read!
amazing list! i’d add happy hour by marlowe granados to your NYC section too
this is the first time i'm watching one of your videos and i love all the suggestions, but i just have to say that those nails are PERFECT!
i’m so glad this video was just recommended to me, i absolutely love you and your energy!!!!!
Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books are summer books.
What a fantastic thumbnail! I need a summer book for my book club, my pick is next and as the Leo of the group it just feels like getting to pick a book at this time of year is just full of so much responsibility and potential.
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados is a good NYC/summer book; be warned, the word count per page is more than you might anticipate lol
Your videos always make me smile! ~and today also happens to be my birthday. 🥳 "Another Brooklyn" sounds SO GOOD ... and a book that would be fun to pass along to my friends - like a library book but a tighter circle of people. Hmmm, an idea is forming. 🤔 Happy summer ... stay cool! 🏄♀
Love your book picks!
Honestly I love how you talk haha and I loved this video, thank you!
this thumbnail is so hot girl summer coded!!!!
Summer is my least favourite season, but I try to enjoy it anyway cause you know, life is short, so I needed this, thanks!! I've now made it my goal to read all of these books this summer. Steinbeck is one of my favourite authors, and I've actually been to the beach in Thailand where the Beach was shot, it will be fun to read the book the movie was based on
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados is another perfect NYC summer read!!
Underrated book! Been looking for something similar since my initial read.
Excuse my english but stfu i was just reading dogs of summer right now, what a coincidence😅. Btw I recently discovered your channel and I'm loving every single video. Keep doing this, you have a very refreshing personality and also you're beautiful girrl. Much love♡
Dahhhlin ... you are fabulous! Love you. xoxo
Haven’t seen one of your vids since I think you mentioned watching SLC Punk. Great movie. Glad this showed up on my recommended again. I’d imagine 99 percent of your viewers of all genders and reading levels have a small crush on you. lol
Yaaay, hot, sweaty Ana!
As if being intelligent, literate, beautiful and a bit of a character hadn't already been enough.
And she's talking about bras! What have I been taking?
Summer vibe books are one of my FAV "genres"!!!!!! I know Im always jonesing for new recs so Ill share some of mine as well!!! Anything by Mary Karr but especially Cherry and The Liars Club. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. Banana Rose by Natalie Goldberg. The Girls by Emma Cline. Bret Easton Ellis is another author who knows the vibe.
My kind of perfect summer read: Her side of the story by Alba de Cespedes and Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan, have you read them?
Ana, I live in Upstate NY and we are in Day #5 of “why is it this hot and humid in June?” 🥵🔥 It’s disgusting! Love The Wayward Bus!! Have you read anything by Tiffany McDaniel? She is a favorite of mine and her books are amazing. She wrote The Summer That Melted Everything. I loved it and hope to reread it this summer. ☀️😎
Ana Wallace Queenson 👑is here again, dropping masterpieces and raising the temperature - as if it wasn't already hot outside.🥵
I could watch you sell a phonebook fr... ma'am you would've killed it as a newsie
❤📚❤️ Great summer list.
You might enjoy Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andei Makine.
Ana, I don't know if you've read it already, but I feel like you'd really enjoy Down the Drain by Julia Fox. Tough read at certain moments cause it gets dark, but it was great. Currently winter over here, so I'm experiencing the summer vicariously through you ❤
Ana, you should definitely read „Paul” by Daisy Lafarge if you get the chance. I absolutely loved it and I feel like you might as well! Such an underrated book
PS. It’s also perfect for summertime, happening in Southern France
I started the idiot ages ago and didn't finish reading it cos I'm currently in a book slump
ahh i've been waiting for this!!
love this!
i love eve babitz!!!
oh my....oh my.....
Hello from Ukraine! 😉 It was unexpected 😅
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does anyone have any tips for getting out of a book slump :(
Re_read a book you loved. That works for me.
Or maybe try out a new genre
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo helped me out last summer, it's such an easy read, a page turner, i went in not knowing anything about it apart that everyone loved it. it didn't change my life by any means, not giving you much to think about once you're done but it definitely made me say "reading is so fun, i just want more! " sometimes all you need is a bestseller, and you're a believer :D
For me it works to read an agatha christie novel
Was there really ever a time when women were not doing scandalous things?
Ainda não vi, mas quis ser a primeira comentar. Beijo, Ana.
I think the movie ending was a cop-out, Richard was portrayed too sympathetically, and the idea that anyone would look back on their time on The Beach with nostalgia is antithetical to the theme of the novel - which offers a cutting commentary on the toxic elitism sometimes found in backpacker communities.
Richard is supposed to be an anti-hero, a dangerously obsessed, self-absorbed backpacker caricature hovering on the fringes of insanity. This was not a good fit for the Leo of that era, a newly-minted romantic screen hero. The film tries to have it both ways, making Richard both dark and heroic, but doesn't execute this all that well.
The novel is highly critical of the Western backpackers' sense of entitlement over gatekeeping a "pristine" tropical paradise. The message of the film is muddled in comparison.
I really shouldn’t be watching your videos bc I have a huge tbr already but one sneaky little book from this vid manipulated me into adding it to my list 😒
chanfina humeda..
Gracias Dios por traerme hasta estos videos de hot mamasitas que nos hablan de libros 🔥
😁👍😘
Such a HOT video