Ok I have a lot to say! First of all, this was so nice and relaxing to watch. Most end-of-the-year-videos are impossible to watch. I feel like it's just people flexing their reading muscles at each other while you focused in quality and your love for reading. This video actually made me think I could make one of those as well. As a way to close the year in a relaxed way, not to prove to myself how many pages I can tear through... I'm also falling in love with Woolf at the moment. So lucid. So great. Also, if I would see you reading Plath during a lunch break, you bet I'd come over to have a chat about it. What do you do for work? :-) AND OH MY GOSH YES PROUST. Read it read it read it :D The best way (imo) is 5-10pages in bed, just before sleeping. I found that Proust sort of doesn't work during the day and it puts you in a certain kind of dreamy state that is perfect for remembering things, having meaningful dreams and a peaceful sleep. In terms of Emily D. poems: I have the same collection you have beside my bed and I use it as a sort of oracle.About once or twice a week I grab it and just open it on any page, reading a poem and seeing how it applies to my life. Or I go to the back, where the poems are sorted by themes and pick one that seems relevant for me at the moment. It's a joy. I think her poems are so rich, they need to be digested slowly...Anyways, all the best to you. Again, great video :-)
This is a splendid first video of yours that my ears have had the pleasure to listen too. This just started my binge watching of your other videos. Great job, new favorite BookTuber.
Your video, as always, was (and remains) marvelous. Speaking of short stories, one of the very best short stories I ever read was "Rain" by Steven Millhauser. It bears absolutely no resemblance to the masterpiece of the same name by Somerset Maugham but is an impossible surreal fantasy that's simply unforgettable, at least for me. Unfortunately, I can't say a thing about what happens without ruining it, but it's a marvel.
5:47 "Certain things got in the way. Certain biblical got in the way." Amazing sentences. I discovered your channel this year, and I'm really glad I did. Keep it up!
This was such a fun video to watch! You’ve reminded me of a few books I’ve been meaning to get to. And your 2024 plans are exciting. I’ve never read a Vollman either. I’ll wait for you to dive in! I’ve added The Second Sex to my list. Happy New Year!
Vollmann's Seven Dreams series is perfectly readable without knowing the history ahead of time-that's how I read them. In fact, they ended up being starting points for a deeper interest in history, and there are numerous history books I've read since that I wouldn't have read without reading that series first. Having done it in that order, I recommend it. Also, each Seven Dreams book includes copious endnotes and non-fiction-like passages to teach you as you read. It's not pure fiction in its structure. At least consider reading The Dying Grass and Fathers & Crows; those two books are so extraordinary that you'd really be missing out if you don't get to them.
Hey man. What’d ya think of Shakespeare’s sonnets? Edit: Also, just a random thought. You seem to gravitate towards avant-garde/stream-of-consciousness/post-modern works; you may be interested in Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren.
Cool channel. Thanks, going to add a few that I didn’t now. I’ve got a couple decades on you with similar tastes. Sharing some less than vogue things you might enjoy (if you don’t know them already) short reads to fit your fractional plan for the year. If you can read Gaddis, Pynchon and Lazslo(my living fav) and Enjoy, then I’m sure you would enjoy. Clarise Lispector. Stories Lucia Berlin. Stories. Cleaning women Thornton Wilder. Especially Bridge San Luis Rey. Incredible. Michael Ondaatje’s collected works of Billy the kid: left handed poems Longfellows ‘Evangeline’ Everything by Yuri Herrera Schweblin - Fever dream. I can’t get it out of my head, for a decade. Samuel johnson - Rasselais William Gass (if you liked Gaddis..)omensetters luck, stories, but his letters stun
Thanks for the recommendations! I actually just picked up Clarice Lispector's Short Stories a few days ago. Will definitely take some notes from your recs and add them to my wishlist.
You have rapidly become one of my favourite booktubers. Great taste, great thoughts, no jump cuts. And a Gaddis reader
Ok I have a lot to say! First of all, this was so nice and relaxing to watch. Most end-of-the-year-videos are impossible to watch. I feel like it's just people flexing their reading muscles at each other while you focused in quality and your love for reading. This video actually made me think I could make one of those as well. As a way to close the year in a relaxed way, not to prove to myself how many pages I can tear through...
I'm also falling in love with Woolf at the moment. So lucid. So great. Also, if I would see you reading Plath during a lunch break, you bet I'd come over to have a chat about it. What do you do for work? :-)
AND OH MY GOSH YES PROUST. Read it read it read it :D The best way (imo) is 5-10pages in bed, just before sleeping. I found that Proust sort of doesn't work during the day and it puts you in a certain kind of dreamy state that is perfect for remembering things, having meaningful dreams and a peaceful sleep.
In terms of Emily D. poems: I have the same collection you have beside my bed and I use it as a sort of oracle.About once or twice a week I grab it and just open it on any page, reading a poem and seeing how it applies to my life. Or I go to the back, where the poems are sorted by themes and pick one that seems relevant for me at the moment. It's a joy. I think her poems are so rich, they need to be digested slowly...Anyways, all the best to you. Again, great video :-)
This is a splendid first video of yours that my ears have had the pleasure to listen too. This just started my binge watching of your other videos. Great job, new favorite BookTuber.
Blood Meridian became one of my absolute favorite novels of all time this year. "Stopped reading Blood Meridian, to read The Bible" is excellent lol
History of Western Philosophy is one of my favourite books! Its hilarious. I've dipped into it every so often for the last twenty years.
thank you for the video and happy holidays! looking forward for your thoughts and cooments next year!
Your video, as always, was (and remains) marvelous. Speaking of short stories, one of the very best short stories I ever read was "Rain" by Steven Millhauser. It bears absolutely no resemblance to the masterpiece of the same name by Somerset Maugham but is an impossible surreal fantasy that's simply unforgettable, at least for me. Unfortunately, I can't say a thing about what happens without ruining it, but it's a marvel.
How did I not find your channel earlier!! Great Content!
5:47 "Certain things got in the way. Certain biblical got in the way." Amazing sentences.
I discovered your channel this year, and I'm really glad I did. Keep it up!
only come across your channel today, great content, well presented, look forward to joining you on your 2024 bookish journey.
This was such a fun video to watch! You’ve reminded me of a few books I’ve been meaning to get to. And your 2024 plans are exciting. I’ve never read a Vollman either. I’ll wait for you to dive in! I’ve added The Second Sex to my list. Happy New Year!
We have very similar taste. Loved these choices. My favorite read of the year was The Tunnel by William Gass. New subscriber!
I keep looking to see if a copy of The Tunnel appears somewhere, but it's so hard to find it in Australia
I’d be happy to send you a copy. Do you have a PO Box?
Hey, that sounds great! Do you mind sending me a message on Instagram? @readread_official , so I can also get some details to pay you for the book.
Vollmann's Seven Dreams series is perfectly readable without knowing the history ahead of time-that's how I read them. In fact, they ended up being starting points for a deeper interest in history, and there are numerous history books I've read since that I wouldn't have read without reading that series first. Having done it in that order, I recommend it. Also, each Seven Dreams book includes copious endnotes and non-fiction-like passages to teach you as you read. It's not pure fiction in its structure. At least consider reading The Dying Grass and Fathers & Crows; those two books are so extraordinary that you'd really be missing out if you don't get to them.
Hey man. What’d ya think of Shakespeare’s sonnets?
Edit: Also, just a random thought. You seem to gravitate towards avant-garde/stream-of-consciousness/post-modern works; you may be interested in Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren.
Great idea to give out awards at the end of the year! I am working on a similar video :)
Cool channel.
Cool channel. Thanks, going to add a few that I didn’t now. I’ve got a couple decades on you with similar tastes. Sharing some less than vogue things you might enjoy (if you don’t know them already) short reads to fit your fractional plan for the year. If you can read Gaddis, Pynchon and Lazslo(my living fav) and Enjoy, then I’m sure you would enjoy.
Clarise Lispector. Stories
Lucia Berlin. Stories. Cleaning women
Thornton Wilder. Especially Bridge San Luis Rey. Incredible.
Michael Ondaatje’s collected works of Billy the kid: left handed poems
Longfellows ‘Evangeline’
Everything by Yuri Herrera
Schweblin - Fever dream. I can’t get it out of my head, for a decade.
Samuel johnson - Rasselais
William Gass (if you liked Gaddis..)omensetters luck, stories, but his letters stun
Thanks for the recommendations! I actually just picked up Clarice Lispector's Short Stories a few days ago. Will definitely take some notes from your recs and add them to my wishlist.
My friend, do you go into detail with some of the books here. Do you say why you like them?
Ignore me, I will check on your other content. Only just found your channel 👍