I absolutely loved the little monologue. I always pause the video to read the writing at the beginning of your older videos. I love reading what other people are thinking about. Also, I live in South Africa, so I'm literally in my winter right now. I'm always reading summer books in winter---it's kind of just my thing now. I'm obsessed with watching other people speak about what they are planning on reading in the summer. Summer is really the only season that matters---for me at least.
@@kimpetersen13kp i had never thought of reading books outside of season! perhaps it may ring true to read something from summer in winter to warm you up! i might have to do that for the end of the year! happy reading :)
macabéa in hour of the star also has no inner life! then she grows one! then she dies! oop i have so many more lispectors to read before i’ve finished out my list: chandelier, apprenticeship, besieged city and 🍏. but i’ve read all the ones i have read twice, except for near to the wild heart
@@bibliosophie Wait wait wait upon further reflection you’re so right about The Hour of the Star. need to give it a reread. also totally forgot that The Apple in the Dark also has literally no inner life and trying to find it again ofc would be happy to reread any of the unread Lispectors with you ! warms my heart that you have a few left :’)
It's funnily our most rainy season here, but i love participating in the summer reading alongside your guys so that's what I'll be doing. I intend to do big books this summer (Dostoevsky, Elliot, Eugenides's Middlesex is also on the list) so excited for that. Enjoyed this vid and loved seeing those many books stacked, just feeding my eyes. Hope you get to enjoy them❤
Oh what a fantastic list for summer!! I love your choices - drama and hot pink! I’ve been rewatching SATC this year, that first season is sooo good. I’ve never heard anyone talk about Joy Williams on here - I have her on my shelf but now that I have heard your enthusiasm I’m eager to read her as well!
i saw you had Harrow on your bookshelf ! have always wanted to get to that! she was always a name that floated around and i just wanted to get to her work! SATC to push the move to NY? IM ALL FOR IT ! ✨💪🏼
Great stuff as always, Nate! Lispector is so rich in interiority that a protagonist with “no inner life/voice/world” does seem intriguingly incongruous! Looking forward to hearing what you think about it x
i, too, asked for a physical copy of didion and babitz and was ignored lol! but i'm so glad we're doing it as a buddy read with our little e-arcs i found human acts to be really moving. can't wait to hear your thoughts
the bb cream tripod 😭 that joy williams cover is wild lmao. eve babitz screams summer to me too and i’ve been loving seeing your didion & babitz updates on goodreads!! i just bought the besieged city recently and the description of it really threw me for a loop. i’m currently reading near to the wild heart though and absolutely loving it!!
an accessible Lispector! i hope it’s working for you! can’t believe it’s her first novel 🤯 and yesss there is a lot of tea in the Babitz and Didion book - completely illuminating 👀👀
Yes, a gothic Tartt for Summer! Cheap Therapist sounds like a cool one to have on the go between reads. I e always wanted to read Middlesex . I’ve not gotten to August Blue. Wait, Swimming Home is my recommendation for a great Levy fiction read. I think you’d like the vibe. 🥰🥰
im so happy to hear your going into the little friend blind. i feel as though so many people go in with a certain expectation due to the misleading synopsis that causes readers to not enjoy it.
just about done with it and HOLY COW it’s so good!!! can’t believe i’ve put it off for so long but honestly quite happy because i think it’s my favorite Tartt 😭😭😭 we saved the best for last fam !!!
Oh my goodness just discovered your channel and am low key obsessed with your videos haha! As a newbie Booktuber I am absolutely loving binge watching all these videos!
Currently in the midst of winter in Australia but these all seem divine - keen to add to my tbr for the end of the year! I've been meaning to get to 'The little friend' for years and I think this finally gave me the push!
Keep us posted on your thoughts on August Blue. To me it feels dreamier and lighter than her other work. My favorites so far are Swimming Home and The Man Who Saw Everything. On paper, I should love Hot Milk but I’m currently slogging my way through it. Love your recommendations as always!
thank you for mentioning this! all of the reviews i’ve read and heard have said it was meh, but perhaps airy, light and dreamy is something to be desired in summer for me! ahhh perhaps i’ll move onto Swimming Home next! have you read any of her nonfiction?
Great summer TBR! Mine (which is a giant pile of books towering over me on my desk as we speak) is too long to list them all. Currently reading Dracula by Bram Stoker and most excited to get to: 1. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 2. Dante's Inferno (and eventually the Divine Comedy as a whole - I'm not well versed in poetry, we're starting small lmao) 3. The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson 4. After Dark by Haruki Murakami 5. Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova 6. The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower 7. Brat by Gabriel Smith + more Not a very fitting vibe for summer overall; I'd say I'm a little ahead of the game for fall/spooky season, but I know what I like!
we love a summerween ! funny you mention all this, because i’ve actually been in a major binge of b horror movies and idk what it is! maybe it’s the release of Longlegs or the anticipated Noseferatu, but love these broody reads! being scared in the face of the broad summer sun is perhaps easier on the heart than in fall’s dark! 👻🎃
@@nathansnook You know, now that you mention it I *did* just watch Longlegs recently... mayhaps that has something to do with the mood setting lmao. I love what you said about reading in the "light" of summer vs. the "dark" of fall, too - you may just have a point. If we can have Christmas in July, we can very well have Halloween, too! Happy summerween (totally stealing that)!
@@josephbroseph ahhh what did you think of it?? i want to watch it so bad !!! and summerween is totally not an invention of mine! i think it’s a wave of reading that happens on booktube for the fantasy / horror / sci-fi genres :)
@@nathansnook To be honest, it was just alright! I was a bit disappointed considering all of the admittedly stellar marketing (i.e. the trailer censoring Longlegs' face, the phone number, the "scariest film of the decade" claims). Artistically speaking, the film had some nice visuals and the acting was superb, and I found some of the cinematographic techniques used to instill fear really effective and enjoyable, but overall the film left a lot to be desired. It wasn't terrible by any means, but neither did it live up to the hype for me. I'll leave it at that for fear of spoiling it! You might enjoy it more than I did, after all :)
Can't wait to hear your thoughts on all these books 🌻 My summer reads will be Fran Lebowitz's Metropolitan life, and Big Swiss as well!! PS: I so want to be Samantha but I'm truly a mix of Carrie (pre-season 5) and Miranda
there’s a Carrie in all of us 😭😭😭 but also a bit of Miranda is so grounding so glad you’ve got that!! love Fran!!! i was also thinking of reading the reader again as i’m rereading the books that made me! love how biting her humor is, even in writing too !
I love some good flop in my paperbacks. Enjoyed the ‘summonologue’. I’ve been meaning to read Paul Takes The Form of a Mortal Girl so if you wanna brave another buddy read you let me know 🍒 Ps. You’re welcome 😜
Omg it’s night and day from the show or i guess like what the show became. Everything, overall tone, the characters themselves. It’s such an interesting ip that became transformed by the zeitgeist. But either way i have always been carrie 🙈
whoa man, that's the same copy as Rules of Attraction as I own, it's so fucking cool (like you very clearly are!) also I swear sex and the city is slowly becoming everywhere (I'm Miranda and was legit gonna say you were Samantha before you even said it).
omg so lucky we are. honestly, i don’t see this edition in print anymore. it most def beats the rest! yeah! i think SATC is having a revival since its been on tiktok and am sooo jealous whenever someone says they’re a Miranda 😭😭😭 love your discipline, self-worth and hard-headed drive !! ✨💪🏼
....I'm a Carrie. I'd like to think with a sprinkling of Charlotte and Samantha, tho. (at least Charlotte.) honestly reading has not been going for me these last couple months, but a few books I'd like to get to for sure this summer are History by Elsa Morante, Hot Milk, Lapvona, The Guest by Emma Cline, and I also joined bibliosophie's book club :)
what a good mix! babes, that’s what i call a good cocktail ! 🍹 what a good stack of books! i think a break is always nice and then attention will want to sharpen itself and i hope you get to these! The Guest would be such a nice beach read and Lapvona 🤢 watch out for that grape scene !!! 🍇 🍑
@@nathansnook OOF! She may not be the author for me then. In fairness, I was kinda young when I attempted to read that so maybe it'll make more sense if I gave it another try but I was struggling the first time around 😵
Cari brought me here ! My tbr list just grew yet again 😂 also can someone plz tell me where the intro music is from? I feel like i heard it before in a movie or sth but i cant remember and its driving me crazy !!
The floppiness of a paperback! So important! The binding of some book is just disgraceful. You might be a Samantha when the camera is off, but on camera you are a Carrie to me. I think I'm actually a mix of all of them apart from Charlotte. I read the book way back then and the show is just so much better.
@@ameliareads589 I don’t like UK paperbacks and how STIFF they feel sometimes !!! makes me FURIOUS 😤 OOOP u caught me !!! I am very Carrie off screen 🙈 and I’ve heard the rare instance that the show is better than the book! i want to see the comparisons! love that the pilot is a total riff of the first chapter in the book!
I absolutely loved the little monologue. I always pause the video to read the writing at the beginning of your older videos. I love reading what other people are thinking about. Also, I live in South Africa, so I'm literally in my winter right now. I'm always reading summer books in winter---it's kind of just my thing now. I'm obsessed with watching other people speak about what they are planning on reading in the summer. Summer is really the only season that matters---for me at least.
@@kimpetersen13kp i had never thought of reading books outside of season! perhaps it may ring true to read something from summer in winter to warm you up! i might have to do that for the end of the year! happy reading :)
macabéa in hour of the star also has no inner life! then she grows one! then she dies! oop
i have so many more lispectors to read before i’ve finished out my list: chandelier, apprenticeship, besieged city and 🍏. but i’ve read all the ones i have read twice, except for near to the wild heart
@@bibliosophie Wait wait wait upon further reflection you’re so right about The Hour of the Star. need to give it a reread. also totally forgot that The Apple in the Dark also has literally no inner life and trying to find it again
ofc would be happy to reread any of the unread Lispectors with you ! warms my heart that you have a few left :’)
just started my first lispector, near to the wild heart!! loving it so far
@@smamsasmasmsmasmasmasamsas Ahhh a perfect introduction to living and to her work! glad you’re enjoying it !
It's funnily our most rainy season here, but i love participating in the summer reading alongside your guys so that's what I'll be doing. I intend to do big books this summer (Dostoevsky, Elliot, Eugenides's Middlesex is also on the list) so excited for that. Enjoyed this vid and loved seeing those many books stacked, just feeding my eyes. Hope you get to enjoy them❤
oooh classics! and the Eugenides! can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it!
Oh what a fantastic list for summer!! I love your choices - drama and hot pink!
I’ve been rewatching SATC this year, that first season is sooo good.
I’ve never heard anyone talk about Joy Williams on here - I have her on my shelf but now that I have heard your enthusiasm I’m eager to read her as well!
i saw you had Harrow on your bookshelf ! have always wanted to get to that! she was always a name that floated around and i just wanted to get to her work!
SATC to push the move to NY? IM ALL FOR IT ! ✨💪🏼
@@nathansnook haha yes as soon as I knew I was moving I knew it was time to revisit SATC! I think I’m a complex mix of charlotte and Miranda…
@@rebareads Girl that is so real I love you for that 😭😭😭
Great stuff as always, Nate! Lispector is so rich in interiority that a protagonist with “no inner life/voice/world” does seem intriguingly incongruous! Looking forward to hearing what you think about it x
right?! curious to see what Lispector does with this one. which Lispectors have you done? :)
i, too, asked for a physical copy of didion and babitz and was ignored lol! but i'm so glad we're doing it as a buddy read with our little e-arcs
i found human acts to be really moving. can't wait to hear your thoughts
@@kiranreader LETS GOOOOO loving it so far with you but also choose ur fighter? Eve or Didion 🤜🏼💥🤛🏼
the bb cream tripod 😭 that joy williams cover is wild lmao. eve babitz screams summer to me too and i’ve been loving seeing your didion & babitz updates on goodreads!! i just bought the besieged city recently and the description of it really threw me for a loop. i’m currently reading near to the wild heart though and absolutely loving it!!
an accessible Lispector! i hope it’s working for you! can’t believe it’s her first novel 🤯
and yesss there is a lot of tea in the Babitz and Didion book - completely illuminating 👀👀
Yes, a gothic Tartt for Summer! Cheap Therapist sounds like a cool one to have on the go between reads. I e always wanted to read Middlesex . I’ve not gotten to August Blue. Wait, Swimming Home is my recommendation for a great Levy fiction read. I think you’d like the vibe. 🥰🥰
yes !!! after your thoughts about Swimming Home, i’m curious about it! might squeeze it in for summer if time allows !
im so happy to hear your going into the little friend blind. i feel as though so many people go in with a certain expectation due to the misleading synopsis that causes readers to not enjoy it.
just about done with it and HOLY COW it’s so good!!! can’t believe i’ve put it off for so long but honestly quite happy because i think it’s my favorite Tartt 😭😭😭 we saved the best for last fam !!!
Oh my goodness just discovered your channel and am low key obsessed with your videos haha! As a newbie Booktuber I am absolutely loving binge watching all these videos!
ahhh thank you so much ✨🙇🏻 your presence matters!
and welcome to booktube ! it’s a wonderful community :)
@@nathansnook That is so lovely to say, thank you!
Currently in the midst of winter in Australia but these all seem divine - keen to add to my tbr for the end of the year! I've been meaning to get to 'The little friend' for years and I think this finally gave me the push!
hello! hope you’re keeping cozy! currently in the middle of the Tartt and it goes deep DEEP south in the southern gothic 😮💨
@@nathansnook oh i'm going to EAT this up
books. yippee 🎉
books 4 lyfe !
Keep us posted on your thoughts on August Blue. To me it feels dreamier and lighter than her other work. My favorites so far are Swimming Home and The Man Who Saw Everything. On paper, I should love Hot Milk but I’m currently slogging my way through it. Love your recommendations as always!
thank you for mentioning this! all of the reviews i’ve read and heard have said it was meh, but perhaps airy, light and dreamy is something to be desired in summer for me!
ahhh perhaps i’ll move onto Swimming Home next! have you read any of her nonfiction?
Great summer TBR! Mine (which is a giant pile of books towering over me on my desk as we speak) is too long to list them all. Currently reading Dracula by Bram Stoker and most excited to get to:
1. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
2. Dante's Inferno (and eventually the Divine Comedy as a whole - I'm not well versed in poetry, we're starting small lmao)
3. The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson
4. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
5. Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
6. The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower
7. Brat by Gabriel Smith
+ more
Not a very fitting vibe for summer overall; I'd say I'm a little ahead of the game for fall/spooky season, but I know what I like!
we love a summerween !
funny you mention all this, because i’ve actually been in a major binge of b horror movies and idk what it is! maybe it’s the release of Longlegs or the anticipated Noseferatu, but love these broody reads! being scared in the face of the broad summer sun is perhaps easier on the heart than in fall’s dark! 👻🎃
@@nathansnook You know, now that you mention it I *did* just watch Longlegs recently... mayhaps that has something to do with the mood setting lmao. I love what you said about reading in the "light" of summer vs. the "dark" of fall, too - you may just have a point. If we can have Christmas in July, we can very well have Halloween, too! Happy summerween (totally stealing that)!
@@josephbroseph ahhh what did you think of it?? i want to watch it so bad !!!
and summerween is totally not an invention of mine! i think it’s a wave of reading that happens on booktube for the fantasy / horror / sci-fi genres :)
@@nathansnook To be honest, it was just alright! I was a bit disappointed considering all of the admittedly stellar marketing (i.e. the trailer censoring Longlegs' face, the phone number, the "scariest film of the decade" claims). Artistically speaking, the film had some nice visuals and the acting was superb, and I found some of the cinematographic techniques used to instill fear really effective and enjoyable, but overall the film left a lot to be desired. It wasn't terrible by any means, but neither did it live up to the hype for me. I'll leave it at that for fear of spoiling it! You might enjoy it more than I did, after all :)
Can't wait to hear your thoughts on all these books 🌻 My summer reads will be Fran Lebowitz's Metropolitan life, and Big Swiss as well!!
PS: I so want to be Samantha but I'm truly a mix of Carrie (pre-season 5) and Miranda
there’s a Carrie in all of us 😭😭😭 but also a bit of Miranda is so grounding so glad you’ve got that!!
love Fran!!! i was also thinking of reading the reader again as i’m rereading the books that made me! love how biting her humor is, even in writing too !
Ooh now I want to read Bushnell this summer too!!
it’s a SATC summer! go off girlie !!!
I love some good flop in my paperbacks. Enjoyed the ‘summonologue’. I’ve been meaning to read Paul Takes The Form of a Mortal Girl so if you wanna brave another buddy read you let me know 🍒
Ps. You’re welcome 😜
@@SavidgeReads haha ty king ! and OMG YES CAN WE ?!? we love flop !
@@nathansnook it’s a book buddy date. Just let me know when works for you!
why has it never occurred to me to READ sex and the city?!
Omg it’s night and day from the show or i guess like what the show became. Everything, overall tone, the characters themselves. It’s such an interesting ip that became transformed by the zeitgeist.
But either way i have always been carrie 🙈
@@yenasung transformed by the zeitgeist! i’ve always heard this and i wondered, how true can it be?! i need to know for myself!
can't wait to hear your thoughts on the Andrea Lawlor book!
starting in soon! want to know what it’s all about 🩷🖤🩷
whoa man, that's the same copy as Rules of Attraction as I own, it's so fucking cool (like you very clearly are!) also I swear sex and the city is slowly becoming everywhere (I'm Miranda and was legit gonna say you were Samantha before you even said it).
omg so lucky we are. honestly, i don’t see this edition in print anymore. it most def beats the rest!
yeah! i think SATC is having a revival since its been on tiktok and am sooo jealous whenever someone says they’re a Miranda 😭😭😭 love your discipline, self-worth and hard-headed drive !! ✨💪🏼
....I'm a Carrie. I'd like to think with a sprinkling of Charlotte and Samantha, tho. (at least Charlotte.)
honestly reading has not been going for me these last couple months, but a few books I'd like to get to for sure this summer are History by Elsa Morante, Hot Milk, Lapvona, The Guest by Emma Cline, and I also joined bibliosophie's book club :)
what a good mix! babes, that’s what i call a good cocktail ! 🍹
what a good stack of books! i think a break is always nice and then attention will want to sharpen itself and i hope you get to these! The Guest would be such a nice beach read and Lapvona 🤢 watch out for that grape scene !!! 🍇 🍑
Thank you for these book recommendations, gonna have hot, brat, bookworm summer 💕💕🔥
CHARLI XCX WOULD LUVVV to hear that 💚 what will you be reading?
@@nathansnookDonna Tartt and Joy Williams for sure!!!
I’m Miranda
it’s so grounding to be Miranda i’m so jealous 😭
Wooow, interesting summer reading list! Well mine is The Kites by Romain Gary ;)
just looked this up! how are you enjoying it? :)
I remember the first Lispector I tried to read made me feel really dumb 😂
and that’s okay!!! her text is sometimes impenetrable and it’s a prose that you have to let flow through you to really ride it! 💫
@@nathansnook Yeah, it was Near to the Wild Heart cause I wanted to start with her debut. It was too cerebral for me. Had no idea what was going on.
@@adriana410 i am sad to inform you that it just gets more cerebral from her first 😭😭😭
@@nathansnook OOF! She may not be the author for me then. In fairness, I was kinda young when I attempted to read that so maybe it'll make more sense if I gave it another try but I was struggling the first time around 😵
Cari brought me here ! My tbr list just grew yet again 😂 also can someone plz tell me where the intro music is from? I feel like i heard it before in a movie or sth but i cant remember and its driving me crazy !!
we luv Cari!!!
and oh! it’s Ryuichi Sakamoto - M.A.Y. in The Backyard, which i first found by way of the film, Call Me By Your Name :)
@@nathansnook OMG YES!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH I CAN FINALLY SLEEP NOW !
The floppiness of a paperback! So important! The binding of some book is just disgraceful.
You might be a Samantha when the camera is off, but on camera you are a Carrie to me. I think I'm actually a mix of all of them apart from Charlotte.
I read the book way back then and the show is just so much better.
@@ameliareads589 I don’t like UK paperbacks and how STIFF they feel sometimes !!! makes me FURIOUS 😤
OOOP u caught me !!! I am very Carrie off screen 🙈
and I’ve heard the rare instance that the show is better than the book! i want to see the comparisons! love that the pilot is a total riff of the first chapter in the book!
May I ask where your striped bedsheets are from (thumbnail)?
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