I've been wanting to read Beloved by Toni Morisson, but I've also been rather undecided (looks at my HUGE TBR pile...). Your description of it made me borrow it immediately! Love books that use haunting, love this video too! Looking forward to more book recommendations from you, Andrew :-)
I can sympathize with the huge TBR pile. I seem to be able to buy books much faster than I can read them! Beloved is the best. Really one of those books I think everyone should read in their lifetime. It’s heavy but I think you’ll enjoy it. Thanks so much for watching!
I wanted to tell you I watched a couple of your videos and have bought a copy of Frederick Douglas's autobiography. It sounds interesting and I'm planning to get The Cancer Journals from the library sometime but I'm reading Sing, Unburied, Sing right now and really don't like it. One thing I don't understand is how Leonie got to be so cruel to her own children when her parents and brother were so good to her. I know it's highly rated, I'm only halfway through it, but personally I think it's overrated. I've also read Beloved and didn't like that one either. I did buy a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray to read sometime in the future. I have too many books to get through. I just wanted to respond to your video though.
@@GreatBooksProf I agree, it really draws you in. I feel like I’ll be pondering this book, and Greek music echoing from mountaintops, for many years to come. 😊 Again, excellent recommendation.
Murakami owes much of his international success to his translator, Alfred Birmbaum. Were his prose renderings (not really direct translations) of Murakami's Japanese not so evocative, he might never have gained an international audience.
I've been wanting to read Beloved by Toni Morisson, but I've also been rather undecided (looks at my HUGE TBR pile...). Your description of it made me borrow it immediately! Love books that use haunting, love this video too! Looking forward to more book recommendations from you, Andrew :-)
I can sympathize with the huge TBR pile. I seem to be able to buy books much faster than I can read them!
Beloved is the best. Really one of those books I think everyone should read in their lifetime. It’s heavy but I think you’ll enjoy it.
Thanks so much for watching!
I wanted to tell you I watched a couple of your videos and have bought a copy of Frederick Douglas's autobiography. It sounds interesting and I'm planning to get The Cancer Journals from the library sometime but I'm reading Sing, Unburied, Sing right now and really don't like it. One thing I don't understand is how Leonie got to be so cruel to her own children when her parents and brother were so good to her. I know it's highly rated, I'm only halfway through it, but personally I think it's overrated. I've also read Beloved and didn't like that one either. I did buy a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray to read sometime in the future. I have too many books to get through. I just wanted to respond to your video though.
Just finished Sputnik Sweetheart. Great recommendation, loved the novel, thank you!
@@kyleread2524 Glad to hear it! I think about that book all the time.
@@GreatBooksProf I agree, it really draws you in. I feel like I’ll be pondering this book, and Greek music echoing from mountaintops, for many years to come. 😊
Again, excellent recommendation.
Murakami owes much of his international success to his translator, Alfred Birmbaum. Were his prose renderings (not really direct translations) of Murakami's Japanese not so evocative, he might never have gained an international audience.
Very interesting.