2024 challenge suggestion: reading one book from every country you haven’t read a book from yet. You had a poll about video ideas I believe a year ago and I’d actually really love to see something like this. Only if you want to of course!
YES to that 🙌 That would be so fun but most particularly essential to read authors from as many countries and cultures as possible! I’m trying to do that myself and so far I’m almost at 30 different countries I think 🥰
I’d love for Jack to read more scandinavian books! I’m from norway so it would be pretty cool to see more danish, swedish (beartown by fredrik backman???) and norwegian books (and finnish too)!
I‘d suggest The Kangaroo Chronicles for Germany since it’s been one of the most successful books in recent years and it’s quite meta while being funny (and it’s clever in terms of language)
1:47- White nights by Fyodur Dostoevsky 2:43- Devils by Fydor Dostoevsky 4:03- A thousand mornings by Mary Oliver 4:54- Dog songs by Mary oliver 6:29- If not winter: fragments of sappho 7:44- wolf hall by Hilary Mantel 8:31- Bring up the bodies by Hilary Mantel 11:10- now go: on grief and studio ghibli by Karl Thomas Smith 12:55- What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama 14:25- The diary of a book seller by Shaun Bythell 14:52- Interesting stories about curious words by Susie Dent 15:53- In the Margins by Elena Ferrante 17:32- Agua viva by Clarice Lispector 18:38- Beyond the door of no return by David Diop 19:49- 1984 Julia's perspective by Sandra Newman 22:08- y/n by Esther Yi 22:56- prophet 23:47- Mundo Cruel by Luis Negron 24:20- On Women by Susan Songtag 25:41- A nearby country called love by Salar Abdoh 26:32- No mans land living between two cultures by Anne East 28:01- The heaven and earth grocery store by James Mcbride 29:44- the foreword book of poetry 2024 30:37- Heritage aesthetics by Anthony Anaxogorou 31:49- Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter 32:59- Kick the latch by Kathryn Scandan 33:57- Water shall refuse them by Lucie Mcknight Hardy 34:32- Boulder by Eva Baltasar 35:38- Close to home by Michael Magee 36:39- Kala by Colin Walsh 37:57- The archives of feelings by Peter Stamm 38:31- New millennium boyz by Alex Kazemi 39:13- Bird by bird by Anne Lamott 39:59- Hangman by Maya Binyam 40:43- Survival takes a wild imagination by Fariha Roisin 41:13- The dictionary people by Sarah Ogilive 42:06- A shining by John Fosse 43:21- Boys alive by Pier Paolo 44:29- The librarian by Patrick Dewitt
In December 2024, you should review this exact same list, and review your recommendations after you've read them. It would be interesting to compare them.
I love it tooo! Cause many people (including me lol) feel very self-conscious about the little amount of books they read, so it's nice for him to remind us that his personal situation is different from most of us
Thank you Jack for saying that this form of consumerism isn't normal and that you only buy this many because its your job❤ people don't have to buy like 30 books every month!! I feel like social media is telling them to, its all about more and more and more nowadays :/
If he has the money he can purchase what he wants. His disclaimer was more of a don't feel like you need to buy all these books, borrow them, listen to them etc whatever suits you, as there's a lot of pressure from youtubers who read 100+ books a year
@@Rose-se6fr he can spend his money on whatever he wants. reading and collecting books is literally his hobby and job, him having his own library makes complete sense.
@@Rose-se6fr he said why he buys physical books: it's easier to film content with them. library books are gone after a few weeks and when he wants to film what I read in a month/best books in a year/recommendation videos a few months later, he still has those physical books.
@@Rose-se6fr i'm not sure if he still does but jack has had a job in publishing, having books is important to both his online and offline life, not to mention he's shown multiple times he annotates books. besides, the books he does buy are an accumulation from all sorts of stores he just posts videos of him going to shops in different cities cuz it's draws a bigger audience than online thrift shopping for books
@Rose-se6fr @Rose-se6fr I'm assuming he buys the books for his job which he mentioned in the video, his job isn't just to entertain us. He's a book critic and probably gets sent them or asked to buy them to review. Also he's mentioned before that he likes to buy books from book sellers as this puts money back in to the book writing industry which is important to him.
I’m in a major depression right now and reading helps me a lot to escape my mood. I love how you talk about books. And your happiness makes my day better. Thank you!
As a non native english speaker I'm glad to see you read and appreciate translated/world literature a lot. Doing my first master degree in world lit is one of my favourite things I've done! I made a read the world challenge for myself and made it public on storygraph, I particularly love reading world poetry
I really love going to thriftstores to pick up books! I find that buying new ones each time is so expensive, and my local thriftstore has some nice books and theyre only 1 euro each! Also is much more sustainable and there's something so beautiful about preloved books :))
I absolutely agree!! Sometimes you even find those gorgeous old books that are from a hundred years ago- I once found a beautiful red leatherbound book from 1890!
same! and if i find a book i’ve been wanting it feels sm more rewarding 😭 i buy new books too occasionally, but kindle and thrift are my go to. (libby has my
36:15 As someone who lived abroad for years and then had that isolating experience of coming back home and not being able to relate to anyone or see anything the same way anymore, I am also so fascinated by this phenomenon and love when it pops up in books and I can feel more understood. A few of my favorite book quotes come to mind... "A town always looked different once you'd returned, like a house where all the furniture had shifted three inches. You wouldn't mistake it for a stranger's house but you'd keeping banging your shins on the table corners." - The Vanishing Half “You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.” - Giovanni's Room
as a brazilian follower i feel so happy and embraced when Jack reads brazilian books/authors and shows appreciation and admiration for them! you should make a video reading goodies from each country ;) love ya
I'm already in love with Jack but when I saw him showing Clarice Lispector I was even more in love! I'm Brazilian and I'm so happy to see one of our best authors exploring new horizons
1. Weeks ago I actually found a collection of Dostoevsky's short works in a Little Free Library. When I saw all your coverage of White Nights, I checked the collection and it's in there! I've added it to my February TBR and am very excited 😁 Thank you for the inspiration! 2. PROPHET. YES. WOW I LOVED THAT BOOK. You mentioned scifi and thriller, but importantly, this book is also ROMANTIC AF ❤️🔥
obsessedddd with Anne Carson, her translations are my favourite!! different translations of ancient texts are so cool, two different translators can give you completely different perspectives of the same text
I love what you said about reading mostly poetry whilst going deep into writing your novel. I think I'm going to try that this year as I find my brain gets so distracted and oversaturated when I'm reading too much and it prevents me from writing, but poems are definitely on the lighter and more nourishing side of that spectrum 🥰
I almost jumped with joy when you pulled out Clarisse, soo excited to hear your perspective on her writing. She's my favorite and our brazilian treasure, you are never the same after reading Lispector!!!
I'm glad you have a writing focused year because I love all the poetry, essays, and non-fiction you've included in your haul. I know you don't only read fiction, but it does tend to be most of your tbr.
Hi Jack. I am retired and reading up to 225 books a year (according to Goodreads). I recently discovered your channel and your love of book recommendations . I feel at home here. Thanks
i love how u start off by like reassuring us that we dont also have to do this (this meaning, getting a whole ton of books) bcs sometimes i do feel like urgh i want those books too!! but then rmbr that its ur actual job so having these books around are what u require to do the job well and better and does this make sense idk but yeah!! love ur channel
The Diary of a Bookseller and the 2 follow ups are my favourite non fiction works of all time. As a bookseller myself, it is SO relatable, and Shaun Bythell is hilarious
yes julia. i am so excited for it. i found it at the book store shortly after it came out completely by coincidence! i habe not gotten around to reading it yet but i habe such high hopes. 1894 was one of the books that really got me into reading when i was young
I looooved “what you are looking for is in the library”. It was so wholesome and heartwarming, a really good palate cleanser from all the creepy, weird and sad books I usually gravitate towards. It was also very encouraging as an aspiring librarian.
You’re going to Love Sontag, I absolutely adore her notes on Camp and on Photography. If I may suggest Last Summer in the City by Calligarich; I still think about it often it’s a bit like an Italian Great Gatsby but so beautiful in the descriptions of 1920s Rome; it’s also the type of book where you end up hating the protagonist by the end but still rooting for them to get it together
I've only just finished The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir alongside A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver. Your selection of books has many gems that I'm eager to pick up! Happy reading Jack 🤗
@@theambitiouslawstudent4828 Oh, she said so much in just 140 pages! A true testament to her talent! I wish it was published back in those days, as I think it would have basked in its brilliance, being so telling of the times!
You should read the first part of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir (mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée in French). It tells the story of how she became friends with Zaza in more detail, their childhood and coming of age in Paris. So many interesting issues, feminism, religion, friendship etc.
I would love to see a video about your favourite independent bookstores! Hannah witton did a similar format highlighting small businesses and chatting with the owners, getting advice ecc. 🥰🥰
hi Jack, amazing haul !! would you ever be interested/able to do a video or potentially a mini-series with the behind the scenes of writing a book/publishing process! I work in the Canadian publishing industry and I think it would be so interesting to see how this differs from one country to another, and one language to another! :)
If you haven't read "The Hour of the Star" from Clarice, I definitely suggest you try it. I read it during high school for my Portuguese class, and I loved it. It's been almost ten years since I first read it, and I've been dreaming of reading it again.
‘What you are looking for is in the library’ is a lovely quick sweet read - like having a cup of iced tea. I listened to the booker podcast and I’m keen to read boulder but probably more excited to read the 1979 prize winner ‘offshore’ which is winging its way to me via the Amazon gods.
14:26 I have read his books I have read two which are remainders of the day and 7 kinds of people you find in a bookstore. I love his style of writing it reminds me of the TV show black books. I haven't read the one you have mentioned but I am really interested in it.
I’m feeling optimistic about my reading year for 2024! The last couple years I’ve not really *loved and adored* any books I’ve read apart from the odd one or two, so I’m hoping this year will be different!
Jack, you're voice is so warm and so pleasant and so energetic ánd soothing at the same time, that I always struggle to keep focussing on the book content. Which I don't wanna miss, as an avid reader myself. But boy, do you make it a (very entertaining/rewarding) endeavour! 😉
YOUR NOVEL/!??! WHY IS THIS THE FIRST TIME I'M HEARING ABT THIS?!?!?!? SO EXCITED!!!! also take ur time with writing ofc! don't feel pressured ur loving fans are patient
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante deserves so many more readers. The narrator grieves her friend by writing about Vivian's favorite (fictional) short lived cult TV show, exploring fandom and trans woman community. It manages to be silly and also hurt your heart, the balance is so well done. It's a perfect little book.
I'm not sure if you've read much Romanian literature, but for when the book-buying ban is over, I recommend checking out Mircea Cărtărescu. He's a contemporary fiction writer and his lyricism is unmatched. I recommend his novel Nostalgia!
Can you please try to read one book per country? 🙌 That would be so fun but most particularly essential to read authors from as many countries and cultures as possible! I’m trying to do that myself and so far I’m almost at 30 different countries! 📚 🇯🇵 🇹🇭 🇻🇪
It's the "yes, I am petty." for me lmao. I needed that laugh. But I also appreciate that you and many booktubers I've seen are saying that buying this many books at once isn't normal. I am someone who also likes to collect books when I can, but there is also so many affordable/free ways to access books and it's okay to take advantage of those resources and not buy everything or read everything that is new because social media pushes us to.
I think you should read a book called Solito by Javier Zamora which means alone in Spanish. Its a book about a 9 year old boy who migrates from El Salvador to the U.S and he does it alone to meet up with his parents, and about the people who help him along the way crossing Ocean and Dessert and the the dangers that many people face when trying to find a better life for themselves. It's so so good and sad at times. I would love to hear what you think about it if you decide to read it. Please look into it, I would love to see you talk about it in a future video. 😊
chile mentioned !!!! 🇨🇱 just wanted to stop by and say that, me, personally, i've never liked Neruda bc even as a kid his poems made me extremely uncomfortable (particularly his twenty love poems and a song of despair) bUT ! his longest book "Canto General" is by far one of his best works. It's all about the magic and History of Latin America. Btw if you're trying to get into more poets and, especially Chilean poets, Gabriela Mistral is also an INCREDIBLE writer. She's our queen.
New Millenium Boyz is my comfort read for 2023. It’s erratic, sensual, and out of this world. Can’t wait for you to read it! Literally nothing like it!!!
I have 2 favourites from January so far: Another Brooklyn and The Rachel Incident. You recommended one, and now I am reading By Grand Central Station. I sat down and wept. I'm loving the writing so far!
Already added the heaven &earth grocery store. Always love your recommendations. I recommend “The Reason I Jump” it’s in a question and answer style but I found it very interesting it’s by a thirteen year old autistic boy in Japan.
amazing video! i added so many to my goodreads. so my favourite books I read last year were: Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home' (graphic memoir about Bechdel's father, sort of discovering him and his second/hidden selves while growing up - first book to make me cry in a while), Anatole Broyard's 'Kafka Was The Rage' (I believe this is an autobiographical book, published posthumously, it's about this mad cast of characters in Greenwich Village in 1947), Nella Larsen's 'Passing', Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' (INCREDIBLE), and Muriel Spark's 'The Hothouse by the East River' (very absurdist but has really stuck with me) :)
I just finished Julia and totally thought “I wonder what Jack Edwards would think of this one” earlier today. I thought it was brilliant and hope we get a review from you no matter what you end up thinking about it!
The only book that is really high on my list this year is if Philip Pullman ever finishes the last book in the Book of Dust Trilogy. Other than that, I am mainly focused on classics this year. I just finished Middlemarch, and oh that needs a prequel and sequel!
I’m so excited to see What You Are Looking For Is In The Library here!! I’m currently reading it bc it had library in the title and cat on the cover and i love Japanese translated fiction :)) best combination
I was given that same embosser and I went absolutely nuts with it 😂 I stamped all my books, I have a couple hundred, and it took HOURS. I can only imagine how long it’ll take you lol.
I don’t know if you’ve ever read any Percival Everett, but you should check him out if you haven’t. His novel “The Trees” was was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and his 2001 novel “Erasure” was just adapted into the film “American Fiction” which has been nominated for five Oscars (Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Score). He’s got another book coming out this year, “James”, which is a retelling of Huck Finn from Jim’s POV. Each of Everett’s novels is entirely distinct, and yet absolutely his voice. I’ve been working my way through his entire canon, and pretty much proselytize his work any chance I get.
i once saw that video of jack from some time ago when he first quoted this tweet and i RAN to get a copy of white nights and i recently read it and it turned out to have created the most beautiful moments of my life just by sitting down and turning through the pages. it was AMAZING
OMG Brazil mentioned, my favorite book of Clarice's "A hora da estrela", I remember till today that i've got a test on her book and still haven't read it, in the day of the trial, I pick up the book in the frist class of the day and DEVOUR IT through all classes, till the test came (in like the fourth class or something like this) and I was devastaded by the end of the novel.
The Cromwell series is one of my favourite series of all time. I am so excited for your review. Do you plan on reading 'A place of greater safety' too?
I don’t know if you’ll see this given the date but I was listening to you speak about Mary Oliver, as you’ve done in other videos I’ve seen so far and I wonder if you’d like Jenny Odell’s work. I read How to Do Nothing and loved it, I’m about halfway through Saving Time and while it’s not quite as propulsive as the former it’s still absolutely valuable so far. If you’re interesting in a self reflective odyssey with some of the most valuable insights one could have in our digital age, IMO, I’d recommend those two (tho if the second half of Saving Time has issues I claim no responsibility lol)
Out of interest, have you read anything by Tristan Hughes? I think you'd enjoy his book 'Revenant' - it focuses on several of the themes you mentioned in this video (reunion of old friends, belonging to two cultures but not wholly to either) and I really enjoy how vividly he writes his settings and atmosphere. He's not very well-known outside of Wales, or even within Wales for that matter, so I'm always keen to share his books with other people!
JACK have you ever read “Ella Minnow Pea” by Mark Dunn? Since you said you love words, I figured you’d love this lipogram. It’s about an island that worships the phrase “the quick fox jumps over the lazy dog” and one day they find one of the letters go missing. So they decide to stop using the letter altogether. The best part is: the AUTHOR also stops using the letter for THE REST OF THE BOOK! And as more and more letters go missing, the words the author uses become limited too. It’s great, one of my ultimate faves!
The Brothers Karamazov is a solid read by Dostoevsky. I read it in January, it had been on my to-be-read bookshelf for a long time and I finally did. There are lots of themes of religion, faith In God and in other people, doubt of God and other people, injustice, wealth vs. poverty, despair, desperation, betrayal, guilt, love, and justice vs. injustice. It doesn’t end in a way that would satisfy anyone with a strong sense of justice, but if you tend to be a bit more on the “an eye for an eye” side of things, it’s a satisfying ending.
27:12 thats an intresting theme. I think u should read Nick Cave's Red Hand Files because some days ago i came across a file where this subject was discussed by Nick in (as always) poetic and amusing way. Red Hand Files are basically his blog, so called page where he answers people's questions or thoughts about grief, love etc etc
14:00 I don't know if you read it but if you like that kinda books then I think you might like "The Cat Who Saved The Books" too. Writer Sōsuke Natsukawa is also Japanese and there is a cat that is an important part of the story (I love wise cats :D). It is definitely a book to think about. The book is about how the book industry and some readers are like these days and the occurences of the events are like "Midnight Library". I think anyone who reads books nowadays should take a look at this book. 🌼
2024 challenge suggestion: reading one book from every country you haven’t read a book from yet. You had a poll about video ideas I believe a year ago and I’d actually really love to see something like this. Only if you want to of course!
YES to that 🙌 That would be so fun but most particularly essential to read authors from as many countries and cultures as possible! I’m trying to do that myself and so far I’m almost at 30 different countries I think 🥰
I’d love for Jack to read more scandinavian books! I’m from norway so it would be pretty cool to see more danish, swedish (beartown by fredrik backman???) and norwegian books (and finnish too)!
So does this mean that the author is from a certain country or that the story is set in a particular country? 😊
@@sherig1376 the author is from a certain country
I‘d suggest The Kangaroo Chronicles for Germany since it’s been one of the most successful books in recent years and it’s quite meta while being funny (and it’s clever in terms of language)
Jack is the Ken of book world
"My job is just book"
I literally came down here to type that 😂
Yesssssss
Amazing comment 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Im just ken
as a translator, i LOVE how Jack mentions the translators of the books he buys :') love seeing people in my field getting a shoutout.
Translating is a hard job and getting no shoutout for it is just evil. Thanks to translators I read one of my favourite books of all times
which languages do you work with?
1:47- White nights by Fyodur Dostoevsky
2:43- Devils by Fydor Dostoevsky
4:03- A thousand mornings by Mary Oliver
4:54- Dog songs by Mary oliver
6:29- If not winter: fragments of sappho
7:44- wolf hall by Hilary Mantel
8:31- Bring up the bodies by Hilary Mantel
11:10- now go: on grief and studio ghibli by Karl Thomas Smith
12:55- What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama
14:25- The diary of a book seller by Shaun Bythell
14:52- Interesting stories about curious words by Susie Dent
15:53- In the Margins by Elena Ferrante
17:32- Agua viva by Clarice Lispector
18:38- Beyond the door of no return by David Diop
19:49- 1984 Julia's perspective by Sandra Newman
22:08- y/n by Esther Yi
22:56- prophet
23:47- Mundo Cruel by Luis Negron
24:20- On Women by Susan Songtag
25:41- A nearby country called love by Salar Abdoh
26:32- No mans land living between two cultures by Anne East
28:01- The heaven and earth grocery store by James Mcbride
29:44- the foreword book of poetry 2024
30:37- Heritage aesthetics by Anthony Anaxogorou
31:49- Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter
32:59- Kick the latch by Kathryn Scandan
33:57- Water shall refuse them by Lucie Mcknight Hardy
34:32- Boulder by Eva Baltasar
35:38- Close to home by Michael Magee
36:39- Kala by Colin Walsh
37:57- The archives of feelings by Peter Stamm
38:31- New millennium boyz by Alex Kazemi
39:13- Bird by bird by Anne Lamott
39:59- Hangman by Maya Binyam
40:43- Survival takes a wild imagination by Fariha Roisin
41:13- The dictionary people by Sarah Ogilive
42:06- A shining by John Fosse
43:21- Boys alive by Pier Paolo
44:29- The librarian by Patrick Dewitt
Tysm for this
In December 2024, you should review this exact same list, and review your recommendations after you've read them. It would be interesting to compare them.
Thanks a lot
Thanks ❤
Thank you for your effort. 🌸
I love the 'disclaimer' Jack shared in the beginning about buying so many books and doing book hauls
I love it tooo! Cause many people (including me lol) feel very self-conscious about the little amount of books they read, so it's nice for him to remind us that his personal situation is different from most of us
I love that you don’t go over the trending book tok books. You go over so many genres and that makes me happy
Thank you Jack for saying that this form of consumerism isn't normal and that you only buy this many because its your job❤ people don't have to buy like 30 books every month!! I feel like social media is telling them to, its all about more and more and more nowadays :/
If he has the money he can purchase what he wants. His disclaimer was more of a don't feel like you need to buy all these books, borrow them, listen to them etc whatever suits you, as there's a lot of pressure from youtubers who read 100+ books a year
@@Rose-se6fr he can spend his money on whatever he wants. reading and collecting books is literally his hobby and job, him having his own library makes complete sense.
@@Rose-se6fr he said why he buys physical books: it's easier to film content with them. library books are gone after a few weeks and when he wants to film what I read in a month/best books in a year/recommendation videos a few months later, he still has those physical books.
@@Rose-se6fr i'm not sure if he still does but jack has had a job in publishing, having books is important to both his online and offline life, not to mention he's shown multiple times he annotates books. besides, the books he does buy are an accumulation from all sorts of stores he just posts videos of him going to shops in different cities cuz it's draws a bigger audience than online thrift shopping for books
@Rose-se6fr @Rose-se6fr I'm assuming he buys the books for his job which he mentioned in the video, his job isn't just to entertain us. He's a book critic and probably gets sent them or asked to buy them to review. Also he's mentioned before that he likes to buy books from book sellers as this puts money back in to the book writing industry which is important to him.
I’m in a major depression right now and reading helps me a lot to escape my mood. I love how you talk about books. And your happiness makes my day better. Thank you!
I hope you’re feeling better :) regardless you should be proud!
@ Thank you!
As a non native english speaker I'm glad to see you read and appreciate translated/world literature a lot. Doing my first master degree in world lit is one of my favourite things I've done! I made a read the world challenge for myself and made it public on storygraph, I particularly love reading world poetry
I really love going to thriftstores to pick up books! I find that buying new ones each time is so expensive, and my local thriftstore has some nice books and theyre only 1 euro each! Also is much more sustainable and there's something so beautiful about preloved books :))
I absolutely agree!! Sometimes you even find those gorgeous old books that are from a hundred years ago- I once found a beautiful red leatherbound book from 1890!
same! and if i find a book i’ve been wanting it feels sm more rewarding 😭 i buy new books too occasionally, but kindle and thrift are my go to. (libby has my
@@kirstynhawkins exactlyyy! :)
@@mayswords yes!! Omg such a gem you've found
@kirstynhawkins1539 exactly exactly!! Always an amazing day when you've found some good ones
36:15 As someone who lived abroad for years and then had that isolating experience of coming back home and not being able to relate to anyone or see anything the same way anymore, I am also so fascinated by this phenomenon and love when it pops up in books and I can feel more understood. A few of my favorite book quotes come to mind...
"A town always looked different once you'd returned, like a house where all the furniture had shifted three inches. You wouldn't mistake it for a stranger's house but you'd keeping banging your shins on the table corners." - The Vanishing Half
“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.” - Giovanni's Room
Lovely
as a brazilian follower i feel so happy and embraced when Jack reads brazilian books/authors and shows appreciation and admiration for them! you should make a video reading goodies from each country ;) love ya
When Jack has a reading plan, we can’t help but be SHOOKETH to our core. It’s the coronation of the unhinged King himself.
I'm already in love with Jack but when I saw him showing Clarice Lispector I was even more in love! I'm Brazilian and I'm so happy to see one of our best authors exploring new horizons
1. Weeks ago I actually found a collection of Dostoevsky's short works in a Little Free Library. When I saw all your coverage of White Nights, I checked the collection and it's in there! I've added it to my February TBR and am very excited 😁 Thank you for the inspiration!
2. PROPHET. YES. WOW I LOVED THAT BOOK. You mentioned scifi and thriller, but importantly, this book is also ROMANTIC AF ❤️🔥
You make me want to read prophet 😊
@@belhypotheque6417 Then I am succeeding at life! ✨️💖✨️
I loved Prophet! White Nights is one I haven't read by Dostoevsky yet but I am definitely adding it to my Feb book haul list ❤
Your videos consistently take the lead in fueling my TBR with thrilling and captivating reads!
obsessedddd with Anne Carson, her translations are my favourite!! different translations of ancient texts are so cool, two different translators can give you completely different perspectives of the same text
I love what you said about reading mostly poetry whilst going deep into writing your novel. I think I'm going to try that this year as I find my brain gets so distracted and oversaturated when I'm reading too much and it prevents me from writing, but poems are definitely on the lighter and more nourishing side of that spectrum 🥰
me: surrounds myself with book content to encourage myself to read more
I almost jumped with joy when you pulled out Clarisse, soo excited to hear your perspective on her writing. She's my favorite and our brazilian treasure, you are never the same after reading Lispector!!!
I'm glad you have a writing focused year because I love all the poetry, essays, and non-fiction you've included in your haul. I know you don't only read fiction, but it does tend to be most of your tbr.
White Nights by Dostoevsky is one of those book I read once and never stop thinking about. I get so excited whenever I see it somewhere
Hi Jack. I am retired and reading up to 225 books a year (according to Goodreads). I recently discovered your channel and your love of book recommendations . I feel at home here. Thanks
*_many more happy returns💝🥰_*
i love how u start off by like reassuring us that we dont also have to do this (this meaning, getting a whole ton of books) bcs sometimes i do feel like urgh i want those books too!! but then rmbr that its ur actual job so having these books around are what u require to do the job well and better and does this make sense idk but yeah!! love ur channel
The Diary of a Bookseller and the 2 follow ups are my favourite non fiction works of all time. As a bookseller myself, it is SO relatable, and Shaun Bythell is hilarious
can't believe I've read a book before Jack has. What you are looking for is in the Library is a great read
YESSS! It's such a cosy and beautiful book.
i’m so glad you’re back! thanks for the video, it made my day! 💕 best wishes to you, i hope you know how inspiring and kind you are!
yes julia. i am so excited for it. i found it at the book store shortly after it came out completely by coincidence! i habe not gotten around to reading it yet but i habe such high hopes. 1894 was one of the books that really got me into reading when i was young
My daughter bought 1984 and Julia for me for Christmas. I have read 1984 this month and will be reading Julia in Feb. Cannot waitxx
omg i have been manifesting a jack edwards video all week by rewatching old jack and dakota videos 🙏
Jack is the best in the game. Always look forward to these videos.
the joy in jack’s eyes when he talks about books he’s excited about is so beautiful
Piranesi is one of my favourite books that I read last year! And Frankenstein as well! And more!
Happy to see a Brazilian author among your books, Jack! Clarice is the best ever!
"Fathers and Children" broke my heart when I finished reading it years ago. So if you have some time and are interested, it is absolutely worth it
So glad you are back on Goodreads!
do a video of you embossing all your books while answering q/a or giving niche book recs!
I looooved “what you are looking for is in the library”. It was so wholesome and heartwarming, a really good palate cleanser from all the creepy, weird and sad books I usually gravitate towards. It was also very encouraging as an aspiring librarian.
I bloody LOVE the whole Diary of a Bookseller series - so funny and heartwarming ✨just finished his most recent one, I didn’t want it to end.
Woah these sound like very interesting books! Thanks for sharing Jack!! Let’s see how many I will read this year. (Accomplish my Goodreads goal 🤞)
You’re going to Love Sontag, I absolutely adore her notes on Camp and on Photography. If I may suggest Last Summer in the City by Calligarich; I still think about it often it’s a bit like an Italian Great Gatsby but so beautiful in the descriptions of 1920s Rome; it’s also the type of book where you end up hating the protagonist by the end but still rooting for them to get it together
I've only just finished The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir alongside A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver. Your selection of books has many gems that I'm eager to pick up! Happy reading Jack 🤗
The inseperables is so good- reading more about simone and her friend zaza's bond added so much depth to the story
@@theambitiouslawstudent4828 Oh, she said so much in just 140 pages! A true testament to her talent! I wish it was published back in those days, as I think it would have basked in its brilliance, being so telling of the times!
You should read the first part of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir (mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée in French). It tells the story of how she became friends with Zaza in more detail, their childhood and coming of age in Paris. So many interesting issues, feminism, religion, friendship etc.
Adding to my tbr right now!!!@@maika0395
I would love to see a video about your favourite independent bookstores! Hannah witton did a similar format highlighting small businesses and chatting with the owners, getting advice ecc. 🥰🥰
hi Jack, amazing haul !! would you ever be interested/able to do a video or potentially a mini-series with the behind the scenes of writing a book/publishing process! I work in the Canadian publishing industry and I think it would be so interesting to see how this differs from one country to another, and one language to another! :)
If you haven't read "The Hour of the Star" from Clarice, I definitely suggest you try it. I read it during high school for my Portuguese class, and I loved it. It's been almost ten years since I first read it, and I've been dreaming of reading it again.
I bought The Librarianist in a tiny bookshop in The Netherlands. Good choice, I really resonated with the characters
‘What you are looking for is in the library’ is a lovely quick sweet read - like having a cup of iced tea. I listened to the booker podcast and I’m keen to read boulder but probably more excited to read the 1979 prize winner ‘offshore’ which is winging its way to me via the Amazon gods.
Yay Jack! You're gonna loooove White Nights, it's my favourite book ever 💙 it's for us sad and melancholy readers let me tell you
14:26 I have read his books I have read two which are remainders of the day and 7 kinds of people you find in a bookstore. I love his style of writing it reminds me of the TV show black books. I haven't read the one you have mentioned but I am really interested in it.
Hope you love and enjoy all the books of 2024 and wish you all the best of your book reading Jack ❤😊😊❤
Would you consider doing a video analysis of some kind about your favorite melancholy reads? The ghibli and grief book made me think of it.
ohhhh A Diary of a Bookseller is SO good, you’ll love it!!
I’m feeling optimistic about my reading year for 2024! The last couple years I’ve not really *loved and adored* any books I’ve read apart from the odd one or two, so I’m hoping this year will be different!
Jack, you're voice is so warm and so pleasant and so energetic ánd soothing at the same time, that I always struggle to keep focussing on the book content. Which I don't wanna miss, as an avid reader myself. But boy, do you make it a (very entertaining/rewarding) endeavour! 😉
YOUR NOVEL/!??! WHY IS THIS THE FIRST TIME I'M HEARING ABT THIS?!?!?!? SO EXCITED!!!! also take ur time with writing ofc! don't feel pressured ur loving fans are patient
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante deserves so many more readers. The narrator grieves her friend by writing about Vivian's favorite (fictional) short lived cult TV show, exploring fandom and trans woman community. It manages to be silly and also hurt your heart, the balance is so well done. It's a perfect little book.
This is being added to my tbr
My mum got me a library embosser for Christmas and I’m obsessed!
So many greats on this list - my tbr just got a lot longer.
when jack posts everything becomes better
I'm not sure if you've read much Romanian literature, but for when the book-buying ban is over, I recommend checking out Mircea Cărtărescu. He's a contemporary fiction writer and his lyricism is unmatched. I recommend his novel Nostalgia!
Can you please try to read one book per country? 🙌 That would be so fun but most particularly essential to read authors from as many countries and cultures as possible! I’m trying to do that myself and so far I’m almost at 30 different countries! 📚 🇯🇵 🇹🇭 🇻🇪
It's the "yes, I am petty." for me lmao. I needed that laugh. But I also appreciate that you and many booktubers I've seen are saying that buying this many books at once isn't normal. I am someone who also likes to collect books when I can, but there is also so many affordable/free ways to access books and it's okay to take advantage of those resources and not buy everything or read everything that is new because social media pushes us to.
I think you should read a book called Solito by Javier Zamora which means alone in Spanish. Its a book about a 9 year old boy who migrates from El Salvador to the U.S and he does it alone to meet up with his parents, and about the people who help him along the way crossing Ocean and Dessert and the the dangers that many people face when trying to find a better life for themselves. It's so so good and sad at times. I would love to hear what you think about it if you decide to read it. Please look into it, I would love to see you talk about it in a future video. 😊
The only genuine disclaimer I have ever seen on any social media platform in my entire life
chile mentioned !!!! 🇨🇱 just wanted to stop by and say that, me, personally, i've never liked Neruda bc even as a kid his poems made me extremely uncomfortable (particularly his twenty love poems and a song of despair) bUT ! his longest book "Canto General" is by far one of his best works. It's all about the magic and History of Latin America.
Btw if you're trying to get into more poets and, especially Chilean poets, Gabriela Mistral is also an INCREDIBLE writer. She's our queen.
I absolutely ADORED the librarianist. I'm so shocked but happy to know you're going to read it !
New Millenium Boyz is my comfort read for 2023. It’s erratic, sensual, and out of this world.
Can’t wait for you to read it! Literally nothing like it!!!
I have 2 favourites from January so far: Another Brooklyn and The Rachel Incident. You recommended one, and now I am reading By Grand Central Station. I sat down and wept. I'm loving the writing so far!
Already added the heaven &earth grocery store. Always love your recommendations. I recommend “The Reason I Jump” it’s in a question and answer style but I found it very interesting it’s by a thirteen year old autistic boy in Japan.
We need an embossing video!!!
amazing video! i added so many to my goodreads. so my favourite books I read last year were: Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home' (graphic memoir about Bechdel's father, sort of discovering him and his second/hidden selves while growing up - first book to make me cry in a while), Anatole Broyard's 'Kafka Was The Rage' (I believe this is an autobiographical book, published posthumously, it's about this mad cast of characters in Greenwich Village in 1947), Nella Larsen's 'Passing', Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' (INCREDIBLE), and Muriel Spark's 'The Hothouse by the East River' (very absurdist but has really stuck with me) :)
Sther Yi's book is AMAZING. I loved it. So weird and unique. She plays with language to a level that I didnt see coming at all!
I just finished Julia and totally thought “I wonder what Jack Edwards would think of this one” earlier today. I thought it was brilliant and hope we get a review from you no matter what you end up thinking about it!
Loved this, as always, rapidly adding 5-6 books to my list for the year! Thank you ☺
Jack making my weekend peaceful ♥️
The only book that is really high on my list this year is if Philip Pullman ever finishes the last book in the Book of Dust Trilogy. Other than that, I am mainly focused on classics this year. I just finished Middlemarch, and oh that needs a prequel and sequel!
“one thing about me i will be yapping” i LOVE you ahahahha
I’m so excited to see What You Are Looking For Is In The Library here!! I’m currently reading it bc it had library in the title and cat on the cover and i love Japanese translated fiction :)) best combination
would love to see a video on poetry! different types, how to read it, who to start with, reccs for different moods/situations, other things like that!
I was given that same embosser and I went absolutely nuts with it 😂 I stamped all my books, I have a couple hundred, and it took HOURS. I can only imagine how long it’ll take you lol.
I don’t know if you’ve ever read any Percival Everett, but you should check him out if you haven’t. His novel “The Trees” was was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and his 2001 novel “Erasure” was just adapted into the film “American Fiction” which has been nominated for five Oscars (Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Score). He’s got another book coming out this year, “James”, which is a retelling of Huck Finn from Jim’s POV. Each of Everett’s novels is entirely distinct, and yet absolutely his voice. I’ve been working my way through his entire canon, and pretty much proselytize his work any chance I get.
Your videos can change my whole mood for the better
We’re gonna need another library babes
Added so many of these to my reading list, thank you so much for sharing your book haul!!
Hey Man! Love your videos! Keep it up! Keep reading!
Whenever you post I get so happy :D
Hey Jack. Thanks for recommending Julia. I really enjoyed it
my friend also got me an embosser and it was the sweetest gift ever 😭💛 please do a video stamping all of them !!!
i once saw that video of jack from some time ago when he first quoted this tweet and i RAN to get a copy of white nights and i recently read it and it turned out to have created the most beautiful moments of my life just by sitting down and turning through the pages. it was AMAZING
OMG Brazil mentioned, my favorite book of Clarice's "A hora da estrela", I remember till today that i've got a test on her book and still haven't read it, in the day of the trial, I pick up the book in the frist class of the day and DEVOUR IT through all classes, till the test came (in like the fourth class or something like this) and I was devastaded by the end of the novel.
The Cromwell series is one of my favourite series of all time. I am so excited for your review. Do you plan on reading 'A place of greater safety' too?
I don’t know if you’ll see this given the date but I was listening to you speak about Mary Oliver, as you’ve done in other videos I’ve seen so far and I wonder if you’d like Jenny Odell’s work.
I read How to Do Nothing and loved it, I’m about halfway through Saving Time and while it’s not quite as propulsive as the former it’s still absolutely valuable so far. If you’re interesting in a self reflective odyssey with some of the most valuable insights one could have in our digital age, IMO, I’d recommend those two (tho if the second half of Saving Time has issues I claim no responsibility lol)
Julia is absolutely brilliant, Jack, you won't be disappointed!
Out of interest, have you read anything by Tristan Hughes? I think you'd enjoy his book 'Revenant' - it focuses on several of the themes you mentioned in this video (reunion of old friends, belonging to two cultures but not wholly to either) and I really enjoy how vividly he writes his settings and atmosphere. He's not very well-known outside of Wales, or even within Wales for that matter, so I'm always keen to share his books with other people!
JACK have you ever read “Ella Minnow Pea” by Mark Dunn? Since you said you love words, I figured you’d love this lipogram. It’s about an island that worships the phrase “the quick fox jumps over the lazy dog” and one day they find one of the letters go missing. So they decide to stop using the letter altogether. The best part is: the AUTHOR also stops using the letter for THE REST OF THE BOOK! And as more and more letters go missing, the words the author uses become limited too. It’s great, one of my ultimate faves!
The Brothers Karamazov is a solid read by Dostoevsky. I read it in January, it had been on my to-be-read bookshelf for a long time and I finally did. There are lots of themes of religion, faith
In God and in other people, doubt of God and other people, injustice, wealth vs. poverty, despair, desperation, betrayal, guilt, love, and justice vs. injustice. It doesn’t end in a way that would satisfy anyone with a strong sense of justice, but if you tend to be a bit more on the “an eye for an eye” side of things, it’s a satisfying ending.
A new Jack video!! My day is fulfilled.
27:12 thats an intresting theme. I think u should read Nick Cave's Red Hand Files because some days ago i came across a file where this subject was discussed by Nick in (as always) poetic and amusing way.
Red Hand Files are basically his blog, so called page where he answers people's questions or thoughts about grief, love etc etc
14:00 I don't know if you read it but if you like that kinda books then I think you might like "The Cat Who Saved The Books" too. Writer Sōsuke Natsukawa is also Japanese and there is a cat that is an important part of the story (I love wise cats :D). It is definitely a book to think about. The book is about how the book industry and some readers are like these days and the occurences of the events are like "Midnight Library". I think anyone who reads books nowadays should take a look at this book. 🌼
I bought Dog Songs by Mary Oliver on sale at BAM when I was fresh out of high school and it remains one of my favorite poetry collections to date