Your penchant for real life stories, particuarly memoirs and biographies lends credence to the phrase, 'truth is stranger than fiction.' All the more reason I'm drawn to non-fiction. So fascinating. So many things making the world go around.
"I'm turning into my mother" we are (said me and my crochet projects). Also, I prefer buying old books more than new ones, I just think the story they carry not just in the pages but in the clear "used" structure is simply beautiful
the books Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley (2:56) Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein (4:26) Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday and William Dufty (6:46) Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (8:19) Old Lady Voice by Elisa Victoria (9:49) Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (11:44) Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (13:07) Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (14:43) Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (15:46) The Decline and Fall of the Love Goddesses by Patrick Agan (17:31)
AHHHHHH so excited for you to read more jeanette winterson, she's my favorite! i met her at an event last month and she was incredible, so smart but also very endearing in a way. my favorites aside from oranges are the passion and the powerbook. i think i've commented this before but i think you would LOVE art objects, her book of essays on art and literature. one of the greatest minds alive right now, she deserves a lot more appreciation than she gets!
I'm not lying when I say Dakota is one of my fav booktubers. I love watching her videos, I love her aesthetic, I love everything about her ❤🩹❤🩹 another amazing video 💌
Dakota, Edie's sister wrote a brilliant memoir as well about her and her siblings' lives out on her father's farm... Edie's story is sooo tragic, "Poor Little Rich Girl" goes into it superficially, the movie with Sienna Miller (I believe) called "Factory Girl" goes slightly deeper and "As It Turns Out", the book by Alice Sedgwick, from what I read goes eeeeven deeper. Check it out x
Old Lady Voice looks so cozyyy and warm. Your content is always a joy to watch! Wanted to share my winter hygge essential-'The Cottagecore Winter.' It's my go-to guide for embracing the season with warmth and charm. Those poems at the start of each chapter add an extra layer of coziness!
Currently reading an auto-biography called ‘My Place’ by Sally Morgan. It’s about Sally Morgan’s memories and her coming to terms with her and her ancestors past as she searches for knowledge about her family as an Indigenous Australian. It’s such an important read that holds so much emotion and value. Really enjoying it so far.
Great video and loved that Billie Holiday's Lady Sings The Blues is here. Having read it and being a fan of Billie Holiday, I found it a great read although her life was as colourful as her singing was great.
Oh, Edie! I read a little about her in Warhol's biography by Blake Gopnik, and my immediate thought was "I need a biography on this woman!" Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I am currently reading Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith, and I think you would like it. It's about a girl who is bored in her rural life in Pennsylvania and she manages to slip into the life of a girl who has gone missing. Very "horrors of girlhood," and such wonderful descriptions.
Please please please do a video about films you love! Maybe even more than literature, I love films and cinema and I'd really love to hear about your view on this artform as well, especially bc I think our tastes might be really similar :) (since our taste in literature as well as music is really similar) xxxx
my most recent read was Betty by Tiffany McDaniel and i absolutely LOVED,if you haven't read it,PLEASE DOOO! it's about girlhood and coming of age and and rage and it is beautiful and devastating. the first line of the first chapter is "a girl comes of age against the knife"...need i say more really...very sad and disturbing and melancholic at times but so so so worth the read,it's become one of my favourite books.
As soon as you showed Oldladyvoice, even though I didn’t know that particular book, I knew exactly what publisher made that cover because all their covers are gorgeous. It’s called Blackie books.
this has nothing to do with literature but you talking about Billie Holiday's memoir and "her first triumphant concert at Carnegie Hall" reminded me how badly i want to see that place with my own eyes haha ♥ but apart from that it's great to see you still have great taste! i just finished reading "lady chatterley's lover" and i couldn't be happier to be done with it, i started reading it in january because i insisted on reading the novel before watching the movie adaptation (you know how it is) aaaaand..... gosh i hated it, it's the worst book i've read this year and one of the worst ones i've read ever so saying i'm excited to read something else would be an understatement!
I'm currently reading De Profundis by Oscar Wilde and wow, it is SCATHING!!! I am also reading a collection of works by Kate Chopin (the copy of which I'd been searching for for YEARS and finally found in my local resale shop!!) and WOW is her prose so interesting. I am almost done with Fourth WIng (was feeling some fomo) as well, and while it's not god's gift to literature it is a fun time, which is all I really wanted from it!
It’s always a good day when there is a Dokota video! Have you ever read Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba? It’s a bizarre book and feel it would be something up your alley!
"Dance, dance, dance" IS A FOLLOW UP to "A Wild Ship Chase"! Please, please, please - do read "A wild ship chase" first! Otherwise, you might ruin your Murakami experience by reading the follow up (and not the best one) of a story you don't know! (( Also - A Wild Ship Chase IS the best Murakami's book. And it is a perfect read during fall season! It's gonna be awesome. ❤
Dance dance dance is one of his more fun novels, but also a sequel! It follows some events from A wild sheep chase, which is equally if not more absurd
Unless you've had others suggest it I believe I considered you divulge into oranges are not the only fruit; regardless I am overjoyed that you enjoyed it. It was such a awaking for 12 year old me, I have not stopped reading it since
Thank you for all the recommendations! I jist wanted to say that Norwegian wood was my first murakami and it was by any means not dull. Its already one of my favorites… I love the dark mood & characters in that, and how he describes mental issues as well as true love. PLEASE read it ❤❤
i found a copy of the decline and fall of the love goddesses randomly on my street. devoured it as i love old hollywood movies, then stuck the images of all the women onto my wall :’)
these all sound sooo good and i shouldnt take anymore recs lol im kind of inbetween books but i am excited to start reading paradise rot by jenny hval tonight finally ive been waiting for this for ages!! im also trying to read more literature from my home country bc for better or worse i tend to favour the english language over my mother tongue....
You might enjoy “Somebody’s Daughter” by Ashley C Ford. It’s a memoir about her growing up with an incarcerated father, and the other traumas she experiences through her girlhood.
About to read The Vegetarian by Han Kang and after that I think I'll read The Awakening by Kate Chopin. And this month all of my reading shall be supplemented by my revisiting the Series of Unfortunate Events and reliving my childhood :)
i am currently reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf even tho I haven't finished it yet I started mourning for the lost years before I came across and read this book
The comment about Rachel Cusk "exposing domestic horrors" is quite poignant and really put into words why I love her work so much. I always fail to recommend her books because they feel so unique and personal, but that's a great descriptor. It's also leveled at David Lynch a lot (in a entirely different way), so it's interesting to see some overlap between my favorite contemporary author and filmmaker.
Dakota you need to read ‘Betty’ by Tiffany Mcdaniels, it is INCREDIBLE, the first line is “a girl comes of age against the knife” if that convinces you! I love you, beautiful queen💝💗💓💕
Lovely creature, if you are a Jeanette Winterson girly please run to get Written on the Body by her, because it absolutely changed me. It's the sort of love story that leaves an aching void when it's over. I love rereads but have never reread it, not because it's not incredible but because my poor heart may not be able to handle such yearning a second time. So much love to you, thank you for sharing your art and life! I'm reading On Sun Swallowing right now and am savoring every page ❤️🔥
Hi, I felt like writing a heartfelt message about books... Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami holds a special place in my heart, read twice. The Secret History by Donna Tart is the epitome of dark academia full of romanticised alcoholism cigarettes murder classics and ancient greece, planning a reread for next fall... The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, honey old books stories magical realism, will need a reread too 😂 so many other books to talk about omh. Books I'm excited to read/ finish for the first time? The picture of Dorain Grey and War and Peace!
I’ve been the same way with fiction lately, the only things I can properly enjoy lately is short philosophy books and music memoirs/biographies/oral histories.
Thanks for this, Dakota! If you like memoir, you might like reading "Race Against Time" by Jerry Mitchell, which is a memoir about how families pushed for justice in some of America's most brutal race murders.
Hi!!! Love the video and your channel sm I think youre so sweet, I just wanted to let you know that oldladyvoice isn't latin american, it's spanish! the author is from Seville, Spain 😊
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There’s definitely something romantic about reading
Your penchant for real life stories, particuarly memoirs and biographies lends credence to the phrase, 'truth is stranger than fiction.'
All the more reason I'm drawn to non-fiction. So fascinating. So many things making the world go around.
"I'm turning into my mother" we are (said me and my crochet projects). Also, I prefer buying old books more than new ones, I just think the story they carry not just in the pages but in the clear "used" structure is simply beautiful
the books
Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley (2:56)
Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein (4:26)
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday and William Dufty (6:46)
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (8:19)
Old Lady Voice by Elisa Victoria (9:49)
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (11:44)
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (13:07)
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (14:43)
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (15:46)
The Decline and Fall of the Love Goddesses by Patrick Agan (17:31)
I’m so excited for nowhere girl collective and to read everything that gets published!! I’ll be submitting as much as possible too
i love that edie biography! it starts a bit slow imo but gets so good, interesting and gives such a vivid picture of 60s nyc!! def worth a read
AHHHHHH so excited for you to read more jeanette winterson, she's my favorite! i met her at an event last month and she was incredible, so smart but also very endearing in a way. my favorites aside from oranges are the passion and the powerbook. i think i've commented this before but i think you would LOVE art objects, her book of essays on art and literature. one of the greatest minds alive right now, she deserves a lot more appreciation than she gets!
I'm not lying when I say Dakota is one of my fav booktubers. I love watching her videos, I love her aesthetic, I love everything about her ❤🩹❤🩹 another amazing video 💌
Dakota, Edie's sister wrote a brilliant memoir as well about her and her siblings' lives out on her father's farm... Edie's story is sooo tragic, "Poor Little Rich Girl" goes into it superficially, the movie with Sienna Miller (I believe) called "Factory Girl" goes slightly deeper and "As It Turns Out", the book by Alice Sedgwick, from what I read goes eeeeven deeper. Check it out x
i just finished oranges are not the only fruit, it was incredible. so excited to read sexing the cherry now!! her writing style is so fantastic
the thumbnail >>>>
Old Lady Voice looks so cozyyy and warm.
Your content is always a joy to watch! Wanted to share my winter hygge essential-'The Cottagecore Winter.' It's my go-to guide for embracing the season with warmth and charm. Those poems at the start of each chapter add an extra layer of coziness!
I love Dakota, it makes all the books something more than books
Oh everyone has to read Rachel Cusk!!!! After your recommendation a while ago I read two of her books and absolutely adored them
Omg, I absolutely love Edie! Ever since 12 year old me saw Factory Girl (2006), which introduced me to her, she's been like one of my favorite people
Currently reading an auto-biography called ‘My Place’ by Sally Morgan. It’s about Sally Morgan’s memories and her coming to terms with her and her ancestors past as she searches for knowledge about her family as an Indigenous Australian. It’s such an important read that holds so much emotion and value. Really enjoying it so far.
Great video and loved that Billie Holiday's Lady Sings The Blues is here. Having read it and being a fan of Billie Holiday, I found it a great read although her life was as colourful as her singing was great.
I'm so excited for the collective!!
My autumn/winter reading list: Bret Easton Ellis - the shards, Donna Tartt - the goldfinch, Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenjna
Lady Dakota’s beauty is breathtaking
I just finished 'Elvis and Me'. Excited to add a few of these to my TBR.
Yes to normalising judging books by their covers and paying more just to have rare editions💋
thank you for feeding us with this content. i love this community you’ve created 🥰🥰
dance dance dance is such a good book!!! i definitely recommend this one, it's so absurd and i really couldn't put it down
Oh, Edie! I read a little about her in Warhol's biography by Blake Gopnik, and my immediate thought was "I need a biography on this woman!" Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
I am currently reading Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith, and I think you would like it. It's about a girl who is bored in her rural life in Pennsylvania and she manages to slip into the life of a girl who has gone missing. Very "horrors of girlhood," and such wonderful descriptions.
You make me even more excited for reading! Love your videos! ❤️❤️❤️
Please please please do a video about films you love! Maybe even more than literature, I love films and cinema and I'd really love to hear about your view on this artform as well, especially bc I think our tastes might be really similar :) (since our taste in literature as well as music is really similar) xxxx
my most recent read was Betty by Tiffany McDaniel and i absolutely LOVED,if you haven't read it,PLEASE DOOO! it's about girlhood and coming of age and and rage and it is beautiful and devastating. the first line of the first chapter is "a girl comes of age against the knife"...need i say more really...very sad and disturbing and melancholic at times but so so so worth the read,it's become one of my favourite books.
I love her, I love her for what she does or get excited for. Who wouldn't love this woman?
@kylebalmer3396I’ll stay a child forever then
@@hyacinths.888._ help why was that oddly poetic 💀
As soon as you showed Oldladyvoice, even though I didn’t know that particular book, I knew exactly what publisher made that cover because all their covers are gorgeous. It’s called Blackie books.
this has nothing to do with literature but you talking about Billie Holiday's memoir and "her first triumphant concert at Carnegie Hall" reminded me how badly i want to see that place with my own eyes haha ♥ but apart from that it's great to see you still have great taste!
i just finished reading "lady chatterley's lover" and i couldn't be happier to be done with it, i started reading it in january because i insisted on reading the novel before watching the movie adaptation (you know how it is) aaaaand..... gosh i hated it, it's the worst book i've read this year and one of the worst ones i've read ever so saying i'm excited to read something else would be an understatement!
I'm currently reading De Profundis by Oscar Wilde and wow, it is SCATHING!!! I am also reading a collection of works by Kate Chopin (the copy of which I'd been searching for for YEARS and finally found in my local resale shop!!) and WOW is her prose so interesting. I am almost done with Fourth WIng (was feeling some fomo) as well, and while it's not god's gift to literature it is a fun time, which is all I really wanted from it!
It’s always a good day when there is a Dokota video! Have you ever read Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba? It’s a bizarre book and feel it would be something up your alley!
"Dance, dance, dance" IS A FOLLOW UP to "A Wild Ship Chase"! Please, please, please - do read "A wild ship chase" first! Otherwise, you might ruin your Murakami experience by reading the follow up (and not the best one) of a story you don't know! (( Also - A Wild Ship Chase IS the best Murakami's book. And it is a perfect read during fall season! It's gonna be awesome. ❤
Dance dance dance is one of his more fun novels, but also a sequel! It follows some events from A wild sheep chase, which is equally if not more absurd
Unless you've had others suggest it I believe I considered you divulge into oranges are not the only fruit; regardless I am overjoyed that you enjoyed it. It was such a awaking for 12 year old me, I have not stopped reading it since
Thank you for all the recommendations! I jist wanted to say that Norwegian wood was my first murakami and it was by any means not dull. Its already one of my favorites… I love the dark mood & characters in that, and how he describes mental issues as well as true love. PLEASE read it ❤❤
i feel like you would love 'she's a rainbow' the anita pallenberg biography!! honestly it's the only memoir i've read that i cried at the end
I'm currently reading Carmilla I have 50 more pages left I love it so far!
i found a copy of the decline and fall of the love goddesses randomly on my street. devoured it as i love old hollywood movies, then stuck the images of all the women onto my wall :’)
these all sound sooo good and i shouldnt take anymore recs lol
im kind of inbetween books but i am excited to start reading paradise rot by jenny hval tonight finally ive been waiting for this for ages!! im also trying to read more literature from my home country bc for better or worse i tend to favour the english language over my mother tongue....
In the middle of the video, I got distracted by your natural hair colour, it is tremendously beautiful!!
omg dakota posted again!
You might enjoy “Somebody’s Daughter” by Ashley C Ford. It’s a memoir about her growing up with an incarcerated father, and the other traumas she experiences through her girlhood.
Hello! The author of Oldlady Voice, Elisa Victoria, is actually Spanish, as in from Spain. Spain is not a part of Latin America lol.
Thank you so much! I speak much faster than my brain when making these vids. X
I'm currently reading The Secret History and The Bell Jar. I'm supposed to be reading Othello and John Donne for my British lit class
About to read The Vegetarian by Han Kang and after that I think I'll read The Awakening by Kate Chopin. And this month all of my reading shall be supplemented by my revisiting the Series of Unfortunate Events and reliving my childhood :)
Sounds like an amazing TBR. Haven't re-read Lemony Snicket since I was at uni, which is going a while back now. Would love to re-read them too!
i am currently reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf even tho I haven't finished it yet I started mourning for the lost years before I came across and read this book
Am in love with your videos. ❤❤❤
The comment about Rachel Cusk "exposing domestic horrors" is quite poignant and really put into words why I love her work so much. I always fail to recommend her books because they feel so unique and personal, but that's a great descriptor. It's also leveled at David Lynch a lot (in a entirely different way), so it's interesting to see some overlap between my favorite contemporary author and filmmaker.
I'm reading dogs of summer, by Andrea Abreu, and I know you'd love the concept, but I'm waiting to finish before i recommend completely
Best wishes with your reading and to your channel.
Dakota you need to read ‘Betty’ by Tiffany Mcdaniels, it is INCREDIBLE, the first line is “a girl comes of age against the knife” if that convinces you! I love you, beautiful queen💝💗💓💕
You always have best book recommendations I always add them to my TBR ❤
SO EXCITED!! ❤
Intro made me fall in love
boutta blow my wage on books, thank u dakota
i’m currently re-reading Old Enough by Haley Jakobson bc i need comfort in this challenging era of my life
Hi Lady Dakota! Been watching ur videos since day 1. Thank you! I feel like you would like reading Tea Hacic
Also not sure if you’ve read it yet but a book I think you might enjoy is who will run the frog hospital by Lorrie Moore
Lovely creature, if you are a Jeanette Winterson girly please run to get Written on the Body by her, because it absolutely changed me. It's the sort of love story that leaves an aching void when it's over. I love rereads but have never reread it, not because it's not incredible but because my poor heart may not be able to handle such yearning a second time.
So much love to you, thank you for sharing your art and life! I'm reading On Sun Swallowing right now and am savoring every page ❤️🔥
You should do a video on gothic romance books I love that genre
Sinead O'Connor's biography was *chef's kiss* if you haven't read it yet, definitely some beautiful relections of her girlhood and womanhood.
I'm currently reading 'loveless' by Alice Oseman and I also plan on reading lettres to a young poet soon 😊
Hi, I felt like writing a heartfelt message about books... Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami holds a special place in my heart, read twice. The Secret History by Donna Tart is the epitome of dark academia full of romanticised alcoholism cigarettes murder classics and ancient greece, planning a reread for next fall... The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, honey old books stories magical realism, will need a reread too 😂 so many other books to talk about omh. Books I'm excited to read/ finish for the first time? The picture of Dorain Grey and War and Peace!
I’ve been the same way with fiction lately, the only things I can properly enjoy lately is short philosophy books and music memoirs/biographies/oral histories.
“I’m turning into my mother” quem nunca…
A memoir I read recently and loved was Sing backwards and weep by Mark Lanegan. I can’t stop thinking about it, you should really check it out!✨
I am reading Sayata Murata books. Japanese contemporary fiction is very good 👌🏻
Have you read 'Our Share of Night' by Mariana Enriquez?? I think you'd love it
idk what everyones on about bc i started murakami with norwegian wood and loved it.
you haaaaveeeee to read Machado de Assis pleasee😭😭😭😭😭
be happy always .🌙Ali💜
yea i need to move to squarespace
Good morning!
Young Poet is definitely worth it. It's the only life lesson I ever needed.
Dakota, I have a very dark girlhood memoir for you: Everthing, Nothing, Someone by Alice Carriere!
Thanks for this, Dakota! If you like memoir, you might like reading "Race Against Time" by Jerry Mitchell, which is a memoir about how families pushed for justice in some of America's most brutal race murders.
i wanna know your perfume collection 😎
Hi!!! Love the video and your channel sm I think youre so sweet, I just wanted to let you know that oldladyvoice isn't latin american, it's spanish! the author is from Seville, Spain 😊
a few people have commented this! Thank you, I always speak faster than my brain and slipped up. X
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jeanette winterson is absolutely incredible, you would LOVE written on the body!!!!!!!
those first 14 seconds…… man……….
i love you
I wanted to read murakami but I heard he’s like rly misogynistic 💀
I’m low-key in love with you…okay bye ✌🏻
would you marry me?
On Latin American lit, you have to read Eduardo Galeano’s work!! NOW 🩷