“It feels like order and beauty” and notably “50 pages., that’s my contract with the author... there are so many good books in the world... you owe it to all the good books you could be reading by putting down the book you don’t like“ You are great and hilarious & I love your vids. Thanks for preaching the truth! 😂
I've read Why This World and it is brilliant! The author does such a wonderful job of not only detailing Lispector's life but also the history and political goings-on at the same time so the reader is totally immersed in both her life and her context. Thanks for these videos! love them.
I’m so glad you’re loving Just Kids! One of my favourites. I adore the audiobook, Patti reads it so well in her accent. You have to hear the way she says Robert’s name it’s so sweet. 💜
I read Just Kids a couple years ago (on audiobook). It took me over a year to finish it not because I didn't like it but I had to be in the mood to read it. I had heard of Patti Smith but never grew up listening to her music or anything I mainly read it because I knew about Robert Mapplethorpe and his photography. I loved the part in the book about when Patti meets him the first time but again later when he rescues her from a bad date. If you've ever lost someone getting to the end of the book was very sad but comforting as she says goodbye to her best friend. I just finished reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo which not so strangely had a very similar friendship like Patti and Robert featured in the book and Just Kids was on my mind while reading it.
I've been feeling so bad about myself for not finishing all of my books over the last few years, and especially since this pandemic started. But your advice made me feel so much better about myself and now I feel a little less guilty 😂 I'm trying to go back and pick up some of my books and start over as well as reading some fresh ones this summer. I'm really excited 😁 wish me luck! Love you, Mauve! ❤
I work at New Directions, Lispector's publisher in the US. Just saying thanks for recommending so much translated literature in all your reading videos! I think I remember you saying in another video that you lived for a time in Argentina? Curious to hear if you've read much or any Cesar Aira (one of my favorites on the ND roster of authors).
Ah that's so cool!! Also yes I love translated literature. As for Aira, I haven't read him (although there's plenty to choose from!!) but I did just pick up the Pizarnik poetry pamphlet you did and loved it!
Happy to hear that Just Kids is living up to its hype! It's definitely on my never-ending TBR. I just finished Outlawed by Anna North and have now started in on At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop.
Yes! I’m with you on DNF-ing. I try to make it my last resort, but I’m not going to torture myself. *Edit:* I have not in fact read any of these because I only read trashy escapism romance novels. 😂
Your book videos are always exceptional! I just read/reread Annie Proulx's Wyoming stories collection - CLOSE RANGE. Gorgeous, lyrical, & heartbreaking.
I love you talking about books so much! You just reminded me to grab my new book and start it. Thank you Mauve!I really like your 50 pages rule too btw, I’m gona try that out . Bless u and thank you again, Lovely!🥰🙏🏽♥️
A predictably interesting group of books. I personally feel that Just Kids is a masterpiece of memoir writing. Maybe my favourite of the past decade along with The Memory Chalet by the historian Tony Judt. I am definitely going to take your advice on board regarding not investing more time than necessary in books that aren't doing it for me (which is perhaps applicable more broadly in life as well). :)
So weird I was writing a comment to you recommending Clarice lispector (w/out even seeing the comment section) and as I was writing you pulled out the biography! I think you would really like her!
I study Scandinavian lit, so it makes me smile to hear you like the Copenhagen Trilogy! Haven't read it myself but def should. After my big work push this week, I am diving into Interior Chinatown and probably The Sympathizer after that.
Studying Scandinavian lit--that's so cool! Interior Chinatown is great, and I haven't read The Sympathizer but have only heard good things. As for the Copenhagen Trilogy, it definitely deserves a spot on your TBR! And everyone else's too 😂
One book at a time is pleasant. I routinely have 2 or 3 and find it disagreeable.. I actually dnf the butterfly lampshade a while ago. I was reluctant to, as I am still not clear on why it wasn't clicking for me personally. I hope you'll talk more about it (and the other two) when you finish. I'm reading an Ogawa book called the housekeeper and the professor, which is about a friendship where one person forgets every few hours, and an Ottessa Moshfegh short story book called homesick for another world which is a bit edgy, but the writing is often good/funny so I'll stick through. I just finished territory of light which I liked. I'll definitely get the Copenhagen trilogy. I'm late to say how nice and appreciated your videos are - thank you so much! You're a blessing.
I LOVE Ogawa! I haven't read Homesick but really liked My Year of R&R. And my friend has been trying to get me to read Territory of Light for ages -- it's definitely on my TBR!
Hurrah, a books video! You just made my day, M ✨ I think 50 pages is a very generous amount, I usually bail out by about 25 if I'm not feeling it. Your Valentine has very good taste 👌 I'm currently reading The Confession by Jessie Burton, which is understated but brilliant (so far), I loved her previous novel, The Muse, too. I recently read Real Estate by Deborah Levy, a memoir of her time in Paris, highly recommend. I loved the Copenhagen Trilogy too, so blackly funny and devastating. Thanks for this xx
There’s something about your voice and your mannerisms that always make me fall asleep instantly even if I’m just trying to listen to what you’re saying lol
I used to feel guilty about not finishing books but not anymore :) I’m currently reading The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk The Power of Voice by Denise Woods When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
And I’m currently reading The Topeka School by Ben Lerner, The Idiot by Elif Batuman (which I think you’d like) and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
hey Mauve! Thank you for sharing. I read Just Kids for the first time back in 2014, and I loved it. Just like you said, on a line level it is just so beautiful. It is Patti's best work, for sure. Clarice Lispector is a favorite of mine, I wonder if the translation is doing her justice, since she used portuguese in such an inventive way. Hope you're doing well!
What I can say about the Clarice translations I've read is that she's constantly choosing unexpected but otherwise simple words--I hope they're doing her justice too! Since I don't speak Portuguese 😅
@@MauveASMR Maybe some nuance is inevitably lost in translation, but the bigger loss would be not to read her work! Anyways, I’m very interested in this biography. I really loved the video, super tingly and informative as always.
I’ve been reading 1984 by George Orwell and I hate it so much it’s been torture! I feel guilty about not wanting to finish it because it’s a ‘’classic’’ :/ have you ever felt that way? Great video btw❤️
I would say just put it down! Come back to it another time and maybe you'll bring something different to the text. A few years ago I REALLY wanted to read (and love) Orlando but just couldn't get into it -- so I set it down and said I'd look at it again in a few years. Same with Middlemarch :)
Currently reading On Immunity by Eula Biss. Eerily timely, given it was published in 2014. It combines a journalistic history of p*ndemics with her personal experience as a young mom during H1N1. Very good so far!
I don't have any tips but I just wanted to say: I feel you!! I'm back into reading now but at a slower pace than usual, and in 2020 I barely read at all. It's okay 🤗
I love your book recommendations!! I’ve just started the dangers of smoking in bed by mariana enriquez and it totally made me think of you and seemed like something I could see you reading. Also nobody is taking about this by Patricia Lockwood. I adore your channel and get an indescribable amount of value from your content💓
@@MauveASMR I haven’t actually started the Patricia Lockwood book yet but it sounds promising! I really want to purchase the clarice lispector biography as I purchased the hour of the star on your recommendation and thoroughly enjoyed! ✨😌
Assata’s autobiography is my favorite book ever!! It is so so good! Would also recommend blood in my eye by George Jackson if you haven’t read it already
When I read the synopsis of a new book I'm thinking of getting I always ask myself I wonder if Mauve has read it
“It feels like order and beauty” and notably “50 pages., that’s my contract with the author... there are so many good books in the world... you owe it to all the good books you could be reading by putting down the book you don’t like“
You are great and hilarious & I love your vids. Thanks for preaching the truth! 😂
Haha thank you 🤗💜💜
my never ending to-read list is about to get even longer 😩
Hahha same! I always write them down but never have time to actually read them all😅
I'll never get through even 1/4 of it in my lifetime and that makes me sad sometimes
@@leahdarski tempted to start listening to audio books on x2 speed to compensate
@@teacup2301 that's what I do 🤣 you honestly get used to the speed after a while. Now normal speed makes it sound like the narrator's drunk 😅
Totally agree with what you said about putting books down! Used to bother me too but I also realized there are so many books out there!
I love watching your book videos because you read such different books than me. It's honestly a real treat.
I've read Why This World and it is brilliant! The author does such a wonderful job of not only detailing Lispector's life but also the history and political goings-on at the same time so the reader is totally immersed in both her life and her context. Thanks for these videos! love them.
Can't wait!!
I am reading "the woman in the window" and "la piel del cielo". It's the last week of classes so I have time to read again!
Summer reading party! 🎉
I’m so glad you’re loving Just Kids! One of my favourites. I adore the audiobook, Patti reads it so well in her accent. You have to hear the way she says Robert’s name it’s so sweet. 💜
I read Just Kids a couple years ago (on audiobook). It took me over a year to finish it not because I didn't like it but I had to be in the mood to read it. I had heard of Patti Smith but never grew up listening to her music or anything I mainly read it because I knew about Robert Mapplethorpe and his photography. I loved the part in the book about when Patti meets him the first time but again later when he rescues her from a bad date. If you've ever lost someone getting to the end of the book was very sad but comforting as she says goodbye to her best friend.
I just finished reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo which not so strangely had a very similar friendship like Patti and Robert featured in the book and Just Kids was on my mind while reading it.
I've been feeling so bad about myself for not finishing all of my books over the last few years, and especially since this pandemic started. But your advice made me feel so much better about myself and now I feel a little less guilty 😂 I'm trying to go back and pick up some of my books and start over as well as reading some fresh ones this summer. I'm really excited 😁 wish me luck! Love you, Mauve! ❤
Just read a page or two a day and only go on if you want to. You can do it! 🤗
I work at New Directions, Lispector's publisher in the US. Just saying thanks for recommending so much translated literature in all your reading videos! I think I remember you saying in another video that you lived for a time in Argentina? Curious to hear if you've read much or any Cesar Aira (one of my favorites on the ND roster of authors).
Ah that's so cool!! Also yes I love translated literature. As for Aira, I haven't read him (although there's plenty to choose from!!) but I did just pick up the Pizarnik poetry pamphlet you did and loved it!
Happy to hear that Just Kids is living up to its hype! It's definitely on my never-ending TBR. I just finished Outlawed by Anna North and have now started in on At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop.
Your book videos are my absolute faves Mauve! ☺️ I’m currently reading Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami - such thought-provoking writing!
Ooo yes I've been seeing that one around! Lmk what you think, I'm eyeing it
Yes! I’m with you on DNF-ing. I try to make it my last resort, but I’m not going to torture myself.
*Edit:* I have not in fact read any of these because I only read trashy escapism romance novels. 😂
I fully support your trashy romance novel interest! I've only read one (for a sociology class actually) but I get it! They are super entertaining
@@MauveASMRwhich one was it, may I ask?
I honestly don't remember. Ages ago :)@@Molly_K28
Your book videos are always exceptional! I just read/reread Annie Proulx's Wyoming stories collection - CLOSE RANGE. Gorgeous, lyrical, & heartbreaking.
Oo I read and loved Brokeback Mountain so I'll have to check that out!
A capricorn at her finest♑💫💫
I love you talking about books so much! You just reminded me to grab my new book and start it. Thank you Mauve!I really like your 50 pages rule too btw, I’m gona try that out . Bless u and thank you again, Lovely!🥰🙏🏽♥️
So glad you liked it! Hope your new book is a great one to cozy up with 🤗
A predictably interesting group of books. I personally feel that Just Kids is a masterpiece of memoir writing. Maybe my favourite of the past decade along with The Memory Chalet by the historian Tony Judt. I am definitely going to take your advice on board regarding not investing more time than necessary in books that aren't doing it for me (which is perhaps applicable more broadly in life as well). :)
Love love love your book recommendations Mauve! Please can you do a video on your favourite books of all time shelf 😁💕
Yes! Soon I'll have all my books in one place and then I will!
@@MauveASMR Yayyy can't wait! I know the struggle though my book obsession has grown so much that they're all over the place now 😅🤣
Omg I have the same 50 page rule!!! weeds out the boring ones for sure
So weird I was writing a comment to you recommending Clarice lispector (w/out even seeing the comment section) and as I was writing you pulled out the biography! I think you would really like her!
I study Scandinavian lit, so it makes me smile to hear you like the Copenhagen Trilogy! Haven't read it myself but def should. After my big work push this week, I am diving into Interior Chinatown and probably The Sympathizer after that.
Studying Scandinavian lit--that's so cool! Interior Chinatown is great, and I haven't read The Sympathizer but have only heard good things. As for the Copenhagen Trilogy, it definitely deserves a spot on your TBR! And everyone else's too 😂
Yes new book recommendations!😅🤗 I actually like watching these types of videos to get inspiration for new ones to read😃🤫🙈
One book at a time is pleasant. I routinely have 2 or 3 and find it disagreeable..
I actually dnf the butterfly lampshade a while ago. I was reluctant to, as I am still not clear on why it wasn't clicking for me personally. I hope you'll talk more about it (and the other two) when you finish. I'm reading an Ogawa book called the housekeeper and the professor, which is about a friendship where one person forgets every few hours, and an Ottessa Moshfegh short story book called homesick for another world which is a bit edgy, but the writing is often good/funny so I'll stick through. I just finished territory of light which I liked. I'll definitely get the Copenhagen trilogy.
I'm late to say how nice and appreciated your videos are - thank you so much! You're a blessing.
I LOVE Ogawa! I haven't read Homesick but really liked My Year of R&R. And my friend has been trying to get me to read Territory of Light for ages -- it's definitely on my TBR!
i've been reading Braiding Sweetgrass and the author's stories are absolutely beautiful.
Hurrah, a books video! You just made my day, M ✨
I think 50 pages is a very generous amount, I usually bail out by about 25 if I'm not feeling it.
Your Valentine has very good taste 👌
I'm currently reading The Confession by Jessie Burton, which is understated but brilliant (so far), I loved her previous novel, The Muse, too.
I recently read Real Estate by Deborah Levy, a memoir of her time in Paris, highly recommend.
I loved the Copenhagen Trilogy too, so blackly funny and devastating. Thanks for this xx
OOO three books just got added to my to-read list. Thank you! Glad you liked Copenhagen too 🤗
@@MauveASMR Fabulous! The Butterfly Lampshade just got added to mine!
There’s something about your voice and your mannerisms that always make me fall asleep instantly even if I’m just trying to listen to what you’re saying lol
That's what I'm here for 😘
This Is Perfect For My Late Night Here, So Relaxing & I Really Enjoying Your Whispering, LIKE IT! 👌😌✨❤️💙
I used to feel guilty about not finishing books but not anymore :) I’m currently reading The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
The Power of Voice by Denise Woods
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
And I’m currently reading The Topeka School by Ben Lerner, The Idiot by Elif Batuman (which I think you’d like) and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Topeka School is sitting on my shelf waiting to be read! I've heard of The Idiot but haven't picked it up yet. Adding to my list!
hey Mauve! Thank you for sharing. I read Just Kids for the first time back in 2014, and I loved it. Just like you said, on a line level it is just so beautiful. It is Patti's best work, for sure. Clarice Lispector is a favorite of mine, I wonder if the translation is doing her justice, since she used portuguese in such an inventive way. Hope you're doing well!
What I can say about the Clarice translations I've read is that she's constantly choosing unexpected but otherwise simple words--I hope they're doing her justice too! Since I don't speak Portuguese 😅
@@MauveASMR Maybe some nuance is inevitably lost in translation, but the bigger loss would be not to read her work! Anyways, I’m very interested in this biography. I really loved the video, super tingly and informative as always.
You're right about the 50 pages! I personally call it "the 40 page rule". (And that's about 10% of an average book)
Ive been looking for book recommendations recently! I’ve nearly finished “conversations with friends” by sally rooney! 💜
Oh that one is so so good!
just finished Such a Fun Age! not sure what to start next
Currently reading SPQR by Mary Beard and In The Distance by Hernán Díaz. Both are insanely good!
My favorite woman author is Iréné Nemirovsky
I’ve been reading 1984 by George Orwell and I hate it so much it’s been torture! I feel guilty about not wanting to finish it because it’s a ‘’classic’’ :/ have you ever felt that way? Great video btw❤️
I would say just put it down! Come back to it another time and maybe you'll bring something different to the text. A few years ago I REALLY wanted to read (and love) Orlando but just couldn't get into it -- so I set it down and said I'd look at it again in a few years. Same with Middlemarch :)
@@MauveASMR thanks for the advice! It might just not be the right time... and i need a break from it anyway!
Yay! I love your book recommendations
Currently reading On Immunity by Eula Biss. Eerily timely, given it was published in 2014. It combines a journalistic history of p*ndemics with her personal experience as a young mom during H1N1. Very good so far!
I'm here for the Clarice Lispector rabbit hole!! 💛💛
Hello Mauve! Happy Monday
Happy Monday to you too!
Wow 1:42 was deep 💫
Anyone have any tips for reading more? I feel like I’ve been so lazy this year and I love reading idk why I’ve been so bad with it this year! Ugh
I don't have any tips but I just wanted to say: I feel you!! I'm back into reading now but at a slower pace than usual, and in 2020 I barely read at all. It's okay 🤗
I love your book recommendations!! I’ve just started the dangers of smoking in bed by mariana enriquez and it totally made me think of you and seemed like something I could see you reading. Also nobody is taking about this by Patricia Lockwood. I adore your channel and get an indescribable amount of value from your content💓
How do you like No One Is Talking About This? Almost bought it the other day! And Dangers is in the mail to me as we speak yay
@@MauveASMR I haven’t actually started the Patricia Lockwood book yet but it sounds promising! I really want to purchase the clarice lispector biography as I purchased the hour of the star on your recommendation and thoroughly enjoyed! ✨😌
Hey Mauve
Have you read any leftist books written by leftists authors like Angela Davis or Assata Shakur?
I think you’d be really into them!
I haven't yet but I would like to!
Assata’s autobiography is my favorite book ever!! It is so so good! Would also recommend blood in my eye by George Jackson if you haven’t read it already
I only read urban fiction cause it's the only genre worth reading
Unsubscribed because I think you're whispering is ridiculous!! I don't need to struggle to understands what your saying. Byeee
goodbye Cheryl
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it's asmr 😭 i don't think she will miss you! i'll subscribe to cancel out your lost number 🙏