The 1970s film adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock is just as iconic as the novel! Highly, highly recommend both. (Criterion Collection has a nice little box set of the film and novel, if you’re the movie-buying type.)
I’m a proud Australian and I don’t know that Picnic at Hanging Rock is our best work 😂. As an English teacher I’ve forced it on many people… but I don’t want it known as our greatest classic or anything! I feel it’s one of our necessary reads, but I try to promote Sofie Laguna, Craig Silvey, Christos Tsiolkas, Tim Winton, Trent Dalton and more.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ absolutely loved this video, will come back jokes aside, i was gifted picnic at hanging rock last week for my birthday (a beautiful new edition by italian publisher sellerio) so i'll take it as a sign! i added a couple of books you mentioned to my reading list, thanks!
ana your brain is such a fun place to be! I added a bunch of these books to my TBR because of how your interest/affection for them JUMPS OUT OF THIS VID. I love it!!
I am right there with you! Books that are unconventional and just not talked about much! 😊 speaking of caged books you should read “They Caged the Animals at Night”
I highly, higly recommend When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola. It was a huge hit in Europe, it was my absolute favorite book of the year when it came out, but I haven’t ever seen any English speaking booktubers talk about it. It is a magical little novel.
My little sneaky book is Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman. It's about a family, the Weirds, the mother of which gives each of her kids a blessing at birth (never getting lost, always have hope, etc.) but as the kids grow up they turn into curses. The mother wants to relieve them of the curses on her deathbed but they no longer get along. It's so fantastic. A little bit The Family Fang, a little bit The Royal Tannenbaums
There’s also a movie from the book of Jan Wolkers. Its a dutch autor. It’s called Turks fruit. A lot of teenagers read this book here in Holland because it’s part of the education program.
what a timely video as i feel like i've just been reading titles that everyone else has been reading. newness in the old! also let us not forget John Krasinski adapted DFW's novel to film! i think another popular title i think people have forgotten/hated/loved is The Man Who Loved Children. hoping to read it sometime this year!
ummm, iconic behavior to be an author!! Congrats, baby!! And when I have the means, I'm getting a copy. Totally forgot Krasinski was a director. WHAT! the floppy hair that CAN Aussie novels were absolutely kickin' back in the day.
Oh my God, Ana!!! You obviously developed a soft spot for weird German literature lately. I almost choked when you mentioned Feuchtgebiete/Wetlands!😲 It has been a bestseller when it came out and was talked about a lot. Of course I have read it, but never saw the movie. Is the book any good I hear you ask? Well, let me say, it is definitely a book of it's time...👯♀️ And yes, I've read Through The Sad Woods..., four stars, baby! 😘
The Fruits of the Earth by André Gide is my favorite book, but no one is talking about it. A poem in prose addressed to the young Nathanael on the beauty but also fragility and sadness of life, exquisite !
A book I never hear people talk about is All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks. It’s a non-fiction about the AIDS epidemic in the South of the US. It’s an amazing book, both sad and funny.
Ooh I love Turkish Delight so just want it from the title alone. I think you’d love Picnic at Hanging Rock. A gothic gem. Wetland, FML, I’ll never forget it that’s for sure 🥑
A Long Way Gone made me think of Songs of a War Boy - Deng Adut was conscripted as a child soldier in South Sudan, later smuggled into Kenya, and then moved to Australia as a refugee where he taught himself English and eventually graduated from university as a lawyer
@@AnaWallaceJohnsonBut me too Ana, I love you, you are a beautiful woman. You must not be frightened, everything is fine between you and me, I assure you.
not me getting excited to talk about my fav book in the comments and then remembering i'm on the english speaking side of youtube :c anyways i'll still say that it's by a russian author (who is also one of the translators of Infinite Jest) and it completely blew my mind when i read it in january. it starts off as an auto-biographical coming-of-age story, nostalgically telling us about childhood in russian countryside, and then seemlessly changes genres throughout the book as the characters are getting older, and in the end it turns into a dystopia with cyberpunk and a sprinkle of magical realism. it's been months since i finished it and i still think about it almost every day
@@AnaWallaceJohnson tehee thanks! the book is "Центр Тяжести" by Алексей Поляринов ["Tsentr Tyazhesti" by Alexey Polyarinov]. I guess if it was published in english the name would be "Center of mass" 😅
This is a really cool video concept - of course I love reading all the new hot books, but there are so many amazing books that don’t get talked about! I read A Long Way Gone back around the time it came out and absolutely loved it (as much as you can a book about such an intense topic) and definitely recommend. Also, I love your nail color! 💛
I feel like I'm the only person that didn't know about this book when it first came out! I'm officially making up for lost time!! Glad to hear so many people got something out of it. Nails are OPI I Just Can't Cope-acabana!
I read Valley of the Dolls and saw the movie in the early 1970's. I was not impressed. I remember it being sad. But now I think I'd like to try reading it again. I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it here. Thanks for this video, I'm off to look for the book now.
Hey. Before subscribing to you I'd never heard of David Sedaris but yesterday I was walking, stopped by a book vendor in the street and I saw Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris. Yeah, I bought it because you raved about Theft by Finding and David. I hope I enjoy my new book. I live in Kenya, btw, so your influence is wide. Thank you.
Kenya!! Wow. Would absolutely love, LOVE to make it to Kenya. Hope you love Sedaris. He's very American, but I think it's a perfect look into that particular psyche. I hope you'll giggle a little :)))
This was a great video! Added some to my list. You have to pick up Valley of the dolls this year….it’s incredible. And raunchy and camp. I think about this novel all the time 💊
I LOVE 'picnic at hanging rock', I didn't stop thinking about it for a good week or so after finishing it. I had it recommended to me through tik tok but it turned out to be one of my mum's favourite books growing up too.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is interesting but I prefer the 1975 movie over the book! Truly one of my favorite films! It's ethereal and atmospheric, absolutely gorgeous! One thing to emphasize of the synopsis, though, is *the effects* the disappearances have on the other girls at the school, the headmistress, others who were picnicking, etc. Not as much about *what happened* to those who disappeared, which Lindsay DID write in the final chapter but her editor told her to take it out. It _was_ later published including context and the final chapter as a bonus, but it's also available online or at least summarized on the Wikipedia page. So just an FYI depending on the edition you get. Valley of the Dolls is one of my favorite books!! I rewatched the movie towards the end of the year last year and it made me want to reread it. But instead I bought another novel of Susann's: Once Is Not Enough. Turkish Delight sounds great! Also, I might steal this idea and do a video like this 👀
Ohhh wow. Thank you for that context. Maybe I'll pick up a later edition to get the full, intended story. I feel like Valley is going to end up being a favorite of mine. I can't imagine the premise not being something I'd enjoy. Steal away, baby!! Consider the idea yours ;)))
Ana, you have to read Wetlands! I read it as a teenager when it first came out (I was a huge Charlotte Roche fan) and to this day it's one of the books that shaped me as a person and as a reader. Compared to the film I'd say the book is even better.
I read A Long Way Gone during high school for class and I remember it being a tough but ultimately important and informative read - I hope you like it if you pick it up!
Picnic at Hanging Rock is absolutely FANTASTIC! It is set in the area near where I grew up, and it is a phenomenal piece. I genuinely gasped when you mentioned it.
I love your videos omg. Also inspired by you I did my nails in a bright reddish pink color instead of my usual dark red or nude colors. I can't wait for my coworkers to ridicule me about it. (They always think I'm having a mental breakdown when I try something new)
I am currently reading Brief Interviews! My impression of it at this moment (I’m about halfway through) is very mixed. On the one hand, I’m impressed with the amount of liberties taken in relation to short story form. There are definitely a lot of experimental pieces and I give DFW a lot of credit for straying from the norm. I have even been inspired to experiment in my own writing. However……I cannot honestly say that I am enjoying this book. I have to be in a certain mood to pick it back up and it is a mood in which I do not often find myself. Just waiting to see if the positives or negatives will be reflected in my overall rating when I’m finished. I love watching your videos and can’t wait to hear your thoughts on this one! Let me know if you’d like me to send my copy of the book to you when I am done. ❤
Great assessment. I feel like I had similar thoughts with Infinite Jest. The format stuck with me and I felt I could trace the capillaries of the characters, but was the entirety of the novel as great? Who knows. Oh wow--I wouldn't mind a copy!!
Oh gosh, you HAVE to read Birds of America! I read it years ago, and Moore instantly became my favorite short story writer. She does characters and relationships so well, her writing is so engaging, funny and sad. She has another book coming out this year and I just can't wait, it's been so long. In the same vein, a book not talked much about now is The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken, as well as her short story collection Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry (and her more recent The Souvenir Museum.) Those books have the same mix of humor and pathos. The Giant's House especially just blew me away.
I love a good short story filled with humor! I think I'll be looking for these sort of collections come the summer. I gotta get out of the dense book funk!
i loveeeee this i get so hung up on reading books i want to vs books i think will be popular to talk about which is so silly! i've had a long way gone for years and it's come with me across so many moves...maybe it's time to actually read it!! When it comes to memoirs especially about traumatic childhoods i think there is some room for inaccuracies and we can read them with that understanding. like there is a line between misremembering versus blatantly lying of course, but when i read memoirs it's more for getting to know the author rather than agreeing or disagreeing with them on what happened and when
Hey Ana! I’m Samira, from Brazil. your videos are so much fun! I love them. I’ve read A Long Way Home and it is a great read, although it broke my heart! Xo!
Ana! this seems like the rightest video to say this, I recommend you to read Olga Tokarczuk’s work (she’s a Polish novelist) I’ve read Flights and Primeval and Other Times and so far we’re in for magical realism! meditations on time and mobility and the human nature in motion! the movement of time! and who knows what more!
I feel like nobody talks about in watermelon sugar by Richard Brautigan. It was a weird read, but i have read it years ago and still think about it. It was the most weird book i have ever read and i still don't know if i love it or hate it, but for that expirence i love it. I was walking around my Apartment while reading it and tried to gind the meaning behind the themes, and thought i get it, just to let that go one page later. It is definitly an interesting book and i want to know peoples opinions about it. I think it is up to you how you read it. I can just be a whimsical Story, but if you try to Look deeper it can be something complitly diffrent. ♡
Birds of America contains some very good stories. I did make a video in which I reviewed it along with another short story collection by Bryan Washington called Lot.
"Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere" by André Aciman is a beautiful collection on place, time, and how one interacts with them. A nostalgic gut punch, some of them‼
Wetlands is on my tbr for years and hopefully I´ll finally read it this year. Normally I´m not intrigued by negative reviews but many people say it´s awful and disgusting and I´m super curious and have a feeling I might quite enjoy it :D
I haven't made a video, but I read Brief Interviews with Hideous Men about a decade ago on a car ride to New Orleans. I remember really liking it. As for Infinite Jest, I've been stuck on page 581 for about 5 years now. Kind of wish my copy would get flood damaged. 🤣
"Black Wings Has My Angel" by Elliott Chaze is a book you'd like. An escaped prisoner has a toxic relationship with an ex-prostitute, turned roaming tramp. They plot and ploy and rob... It's so good and not too well known.
Nm here’s some anyway you can take or leave: something by Patrick White maybe Voss, Riders in the Chariot or the Vivisector. I don’t read many books by men but I make an exception for him and other Australian softboy Christos Tsiolkas. The Well by Elizabeth jolley, Tirra lirra by the river by Jessica Anderson, anything by Maria Tumarkin, Foals Bread by Gillian Mears, anything by Georgia Blain.
lmaooo never question if I want the reccos or not-- I WANT THE RECCOS. I feel like if I read at least three of these I should get honorary Aussie citizenship
Oh my gosh, Turkish Delight, unfortunately it's definitely a book that was definitely ruined by having to read it for dutch class in high school... There's a movie too, which is pretty iconic, great if you want to see 1970's Amsterdam, and you know, seggsy times..
I have two book recommendations: Among the Immortals by Paul Lake (semi-dark academia but not YA) and Blue Jelly by Debby Bull (creative non-fiction/memoir and recipes).
@@AnaWallaceJohnson If you do decide to get your hands on a copy and read it, I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of it, you'll have a hankering for making jam/preserves/jelly.
Re: "A Long Way Gone" don't be overly bothered about "experts" on anything, all being an "expert" means is that they agree with the prevailing narrative, but what if the prevailing narrative is wrong? Read anything and everything and draw your own conclusions 👍 This really was a set of unusual books, including unusual books from well known people, very well done 👏 Try D.H. Lawrence's novel "Kangaroo" based loosely on his time in Australia, they will get it out of storage for you at the Brooklyn Library Central
Watching you pull a huge nothingburger by yapping on about books you haven't even read was an excruciating ordeal...I couldn't stop watching this trainwreck of a video til the very end. 1 star On a more serious note: I remember reading Wetlands way back in the olden days, not too long after it first got published. The potty humor was a real treat for my late pubescent brain. What I also felt back then was, that the story had a big potential for tear-jerking drama but before it got there another salvo of doodoo jokes hit the page.
I swear, you must be living in my brain. I read "a long way home" back in high school and it changed my life but I haven't thought about it in years. I could not believe the descriptions of graphic violence. I think it was instrumental in my realization of my own privilege as a person living in the US. Also had no idea about the controversy. Makes me very sad that the book may have been enhanced in order to profit from a very very very harrowing piece of history.
Me too... And because of the movie as well 😂😂. I never knew all the physicists were almost at the same place at the same time; it's kinda like woah... Intelligence overload 😂😂
@@Literary_Baddie5838 I know, right? It was so funny to read about how Oppenheimer was so unimpressed the first time he met Einstein and thought he was a bit ‘cuckoo’😂. It truly reads like a thriller - I can’t wait to see the movie, I hope Cillian Murphy wins an Oscar!
@@Literary_Baddie5838 yes!!! I think it’s my favourite show ever! They might also be doing a movie as a continuation of the show, which I cannot wait for😍
randomly bought this book called “The Browser’s Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading” by Geoffrey O’Brien a while ago and i’m pretty sure it’s exactly what it sounds like so should be interesting!! great video as usual 🫡
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The title and cover of "Through The Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang" have me SHOOK
Thank you for bringing all of these to my attention!
Right??! I wanna say the cover is what first attracted me to it!
The 1970s film adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock is just as iconic as the novel! Highly, highly recommend both. (Criterion Collection has a nice little box set of the film and novel, if you’re the movie-buying type.)
Well, if it's Criterion certified, I know I'm gonna love it
yessss i love the movie so much! the book has been on my to-read list for so long, i'm just waiting for the thrift store gods to send a copy in my way
Yes it’s a very atmospheric quite dreamy film as I remember. Not seen it since the 1980s though! Seems to have been forgotten.
Absolutely LOVE your curiosity about the world and the people that live in it 🧡
Thank you! I love people!!
I am sick and tired of mainstream and popular books. Loved this video!
It's time to bring out the oldies!
I’m a proud Australian and I don’t know that Picnic at Hanging Rock is our best work 😂. As an English teacher I’ve forced it on many people… but I don’t want it known as our greatest classic or anything! I feel it’s one of our necessary reads, but I try to promote Sofie Laguna, Craig Silvey, Christos Tsiolkas, Tim Winton, Trent Dalton and more.
Hahahah Wikipedia be lying to us all! Noted on all the other authors. I love Australia and can't wait to get into more authors
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ absolutely loved this video, will come back
jokes aside, i was gifted picnic at hanging rock last week for my birthday (a beautiful new edition by italian publisher sellerio) so i'll take it as a sign! i added a couple of books you mentioned to my reading list, thanks!
woah! it IS a sign! what a coincidence! I'll check out the Italian edition!
ana your brain is such a fun place to be! I added a bunch of these books to my TBR because of how your interest/affection for them JUMPS OUT OF THIS VID. I love it!!
🥺🥺🥺🥺 you’re truly iconic. I hope you love the ones you’ve added. I already started one tehehehe
I am right there with you! Books that are unconventional and just not talked about much! 😊 speaking of caged books you should read “They Caged the Animals at Night”
Woah! That book looks gripping. Foster care in the 50's... wow. I'd love to read it
Picnic at hanging rock would be a good one to do for the book/film series too!
Seems like the movie is an absolute banger!
I highly, higly recommend When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola. It was a huge hit in Europe, it was my absolute favorite book of the year when it came out, but I haven’t ever seen any English speaking booktubers talk about it. It is a magical little novel.
Oh wow! Yeah, any Catalan novel will probably be a love by me.
My little sneaky book is Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman. It's about a family, the Weirds, the mother of which gives each of her kids a blessing at birth (never getting lost, always have hope, etc.) but as the kids grow up they turn into curses. The mother wants to relieve them of the curses on her deathbed but they no longer get along. It's so fantastic. A little bit The Family Fang, a little bit The Royal Tannenbaums
Woah, that sounds so up my alley. It says it's a road trip novel, too! Yep, love everything about it. Will keep my eyes peeled.
There’s also a movie from the book of Jan Wolkers. Its a dutch autor.
It’s called Turks fruit.
A lot of teenagers read this book here in Holland because it’s part of the education program.
what a timely video as i feel like i've just been reading titles that everyone else has been reading. newness in the old!
also let us not forget John Krasinski adapted DFW's novel to film!
i think another popular title i think people have forgotten/hated/loved is The Man Who Loved Children. hoping to read it sometime this year!
ummm, iconic behavior to be an author!! Congrats, baby!! And when I have the means, I'm getting a copy.
Totally forgot Krasinski was a director. WHAT! the floppy hair that CAN
Aussie novels were absolutely kickin' back in the day.
@@AnaWallaceJohnson floppy hair is, essentially, movie director hair
Oh my God, Ana!!! You obviously developed a soft spot for weird German literature lately. I almost choked when you mentioned Feuchtgebiete/Wetlands!😲 It has been a bestseller when it came out and was talked about a lot. Of course I have read it, but never saw the movie. Is the book any good I hear you ask? Well, let me say, it is definitely a book of it's time...👯♀️
And yes, I've read Through The Sad Woods..., four stars, baby! 😘
hahahaha! It's coming into my life-- I can't help it!!! Maybe I'll do a movie/book comparison for Wetlands 🤪🤪🤪
The Fruits of the Earth by André Gide is my favorite book, but no one is talking about it. A poem in prose addressed to the young Nathanael on the beauty but also fragility and sadness of life, exquisite !
I love a good 1800's book, so this is right up my alley. Thank you!
A book I never hear people talk about is All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks. It’s a non-fiction about the AIDS epidemic in the South of the US. It’s an amazing book, both sad and funny.
!!! Oh wow. Yeah, this sounds like a "me" book. I feel we hear so much of the NY and SF stories. Interested to read southern stories.
the sunshine yellow nails with the grey-teal shirt is GIVING
eta I put Turkish Delights on my wishlist
The yellow said, "I'm here for the party!" And I hope to get to TD soon!
Ooh I love Turkish Delight so just want it from the title alone. I think you’d love Picnic at Hanging Rock. A gothic gem. Wetland, FML, I’ll never forget it that’s for sure 🥑
Lmaooo you've read it! I am so ready to giggle my lil avocado off when I read it
turkish delight is amazing!! (maybe im biased cause im dutch but really... read it)
is it as saucy as it seems? I hope!
A Long Way Gone made me think of Songs of a War Boy - Deng Adut was conscripted as a child soldier in South Sudan, later smuggled into Kenya, and then moved to Australia as a refugee where he taught himself English and eventually graduated from university as a lawyer
WHAT! Oh my. Talk about an incredible story. Noted!!
Thanks Ana. I love your reading choices.
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@@francis4291 I love ya so much!
@@AnaWallaceJohnsonBut me too Ana, I love you, you are a beautiful woman. You must not be frightened, everything is fine between you and me, I assure you.
not me getting excited to talk about my fav book in the comments and then remembering i'm on the english speaking side of youtube :c anyways i'll still say that it's by a russian author (who is also one of the translators of Infinite Jest) and it completely blew my mind when i read it in january. it starts off as an auto-biographical coming-of-age story, nostalgically telling us about childhood in russian countryside, and then seemlessly changes genres throughout the book as the characters are getting older, and in the end it turns into a dystopia with cyberpunk and a sprinkle of magical realism. it's been months since i finished it and i still think about it almost every day
lmaooo kudos to you for knowing multiple languages--it's always a work in progress for me. And woahhh--wild ride of a book. What is the name???
@@AnaWallaceJohnson tehee thanks! the book is "Центр Тяжести" by Алексей Поляринов ["Tsentr Tyazhesti" by Alexey Polyarinov]. I guess if it was published in english the name would be "Center of mass" 😅
This is a really cool video concept - of course I love reading all the new hot books, but there are so many amazing books that don’t get talked about! I read A Long Way Gone back around the time it came out and absolutely loved it (as much as you can a book about such an intense topic) and definitely recommend. Also, I love your nail color! 💛
I feel like I'm the only person that didn't know about this book when it first came out! I'm officially making up for lost time!! Glad to hear so many people got something out of it. Nails are OPI I Just Can't Cope-acabana!
I read Valley of the Dolls and saw the movie in the early 1970's. I was not impressed. I remember it being sad. But now I think I'd like to try reading it again. I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it here. Thanks for this video, I'm off to look for the book now.
Ooooh, let me know how the search goes! And what cover you find. I love the vintage ones
You are so right! Not many people talk about Picnic at hanging Rock! Great book!
Everyone seems to love it! I'm ready to jump on the icon train
Underground is so good, might read it again
SO keen to pick that up soon.
A long way gone was such a very good read. It is so interesting and I definitely recommend it!
People seem to have had a great experience with it, so I'm happy it's universally enjoyed!
i love Valley of the Dolls!!! so pulpy and addictive ive thought abt it so often since reading in 2020
yessss! I want to get a great, used vintage copy and bath in the camp!
Hey. Before subscribing to you I'd never heard of David Sedaris but yesterday I was walking, stopped by a book vendor in the street and I saw Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris. Yeah, I bought it because you raved about Theft by Finding and David. I hope I enjoy my new book. I live in Kenya, btw, so your influence is wide. Thank you.
Kenya!! Wow. Would absolutely love, LOVE to make it to Kenya. Hope you love Sedaris. He's very American, but I think it's a perfect look into that particular psyche. I hope you'll giggle a little :)))
I also love reading one star reviews!!
literally first thing I do when I find a place I love. check the haters
This was a great video! Added some to my list. You have to pick up Valley of the dolls this year….it’s incredible. And raunchy and camp. I think about this novel all the time 💊
I just want to live in a camp world. Recently watched Sugar & Spice again. So camp!! Bring ur tents!
I LOVE 'picnic at hanging rock', I didn't stop thinking about it for a good week or so after finishing it. I had it recommended to me through tik tok but it turned out to be one of my mum's favourite books growing up too.
tik tok is doing the lords work! I think about joining constantly, but my mind hurts whenever I log in
I bought a long way gone from goodwill recently. Will definitely check it out soon!
Such a lucky find! keep me posted!
infinite jest being destroyed in a flood is a biblical warning
lmaoooo you should've seen the locust
love your curious and diverse interest in books
thanks so much, julie! it keeps me going!
I love the subject of this video. Absolutely. What books are we not hearing about? Perfect.
bring out the randoms, ya know!
@@AnaWallaceJohnson I’ve been considered a rando my whole life, so I can identify with these books 📚 I also identify AS a book 📕.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is interesting but I prefer the 1975 movie over the book! Truly one of my favorite films! It's ethereal and atmospheric, absolutely gorgeous! One thing to emphasize of the synopsis, though, is *the effects* the disappearances have on the other girls at the school, the headmistress, others who were picnicking, etc. Not as much about *what happened* to those who disappeared, which Lindsay DID write in the final chapter but her editor told her to take it out. It _was_ later published including context and the final chapter as a bonus, but it's also available online or at least summarized on the Wikipedia page. So just an FYI depending on the edition you get.
Valley of the Dolls is one of my favorite books!! I rewatched the movie towards the end of the year last year and it made me want to reread it. But instead I bought another novel of Susann's: Once Is Not Enough.
Turkish Delight sounds great!
Also, I might steal this idea and do a video like this 👀
Ohhh wow. Thank you for that context. Maybe I'll pick up a later edition to get the full, intended story.
I feel like Valley is going to end up being a favorite of mine. I can't imagine the premise not being something I'd enjoy.
Steal away, baby!! Consider the idea yours ;)))
Ana, you have to read Wetlands! I read it as a teenager when it first came out (I was a huge Charlotte Roche fan) and to this day it's one of the books that shaped me as a person and as a reader. Compared to the film I'd say the book is even better.
!!!! I love to hear it! I think if I read it when I was younger, it would probably have the same effect on me. Seems like my jam!
I read A Long Way Gone during high school for class and I remember it being a tough but ultimately important and informative read - I hope you like it if you pick it up!
I'm scouring used bookstores for it every time I go!
Fab list. I have only read the Lorrie Moore and the Foster Wallace neither of which blew my mind. 1 star.
Noted!! Foster Wallace is gonna happen when I have a lot of time and angsty thoughts
Picnic at Hanging Rock is absolutely FANTASTIC! It is set in the area near where I grew up, and it is a phenomenal piece. I genuinely gasped when you mentioned it.
Aussie lit for the win, baby!! I think I might even go out and buy the novel soon
@@AnaWallaceJohnson If you do, I would love to hear your thoughts!
I love your videos omg. Also inspired by you I did my nails in a bright reddish pink color instead of my usual dark red or nude colors. I can't wait for my coworkers to ridicule me about it. (They always think I'm having a mental breakdown when I try something new)
hahah! Have the coworkers spoken??? I gotta know the nail DRAM
I am currently reading Brief Interviews! My impression of it at this moment (I’m about halfway through) is very mixed. On the one hand, I’m impressed with the amount of liberties taken in relation to short story form. There are definitely a lot of experimental pieces and I give DFW a lot of credit for straying from the norm. I have even been inspired to experiment in my own writing. However……I cannot honestly say that I am enjoying this book. I have to be in a certain mood to pick it back up and it is a mood in which I do not often find myself. Just waiting to see if the positives or negatives will be reflected in my overall rating when I’m finished.
I love watching your videos and can’t wait to hear your thoughts on this one! Let me know if you’d like me to send my copy of the book to you when I am done. ❤
Great assessment. I feel like I had similar thoughts with Infinite Jest. The format stuck with me and I felt I could trace the capillaries of the characters, but was the entirety of the novel as great? Who knows.
Oh wow--I wouldn't mind a copy!!
Oh gosh, you HAVE to read Birds of America! I read it years ago, and Moore instantly became my favorite short story writer. She does characters and relationships so well, her writing is so engaging, funny and sad. She has another book coming out this year and I just can't wait, it's been so long.
In the same vein, a book not talked much about now is The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken, as well as her short story collection Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry (and her more recent The Souvenir Museum.) Those books have the same mix of humor and pathos. The Giant's House especially just blew me away.
I love a good short story filled with humor! I think I'll be looking for these sort of collections come the summer. I gotta get out of the dense book funk!
i loveeeee this i get so hung up on reading books i want to vs books i think will be popular to talk about which is so silly!
i've had a long way gone for years and it's come with me across so many moves...maybe it's time to actually read it!! When it comes to memoirs especially about traumatic childhoods i think there is some room for inaccuracies and we can read them with that understanding. like there is a line between misremembering versus blatantly lying of course, but when i read memoirs it's more for getting to know the author rather than agreeing or disagreeing with them on what happened and when
Love what you said about this. I agree. I think it's so important to understand the scale of the emotional weight
Love what you said about this. I agree. I think it's so important to understand the scale of the emotional weight.
Hey Ana! I’m Samira, from Brazil. your videos are so much fun! I love them. I’ve read A Long Way Home and it is a great read, although it broke my heart! Xo!
Brazil! hello!!! Would love to make it there one day.
I read valley of the dolls last year and I agree you would definitely like it. 😂 I thoroughly enjoyed it
I cannot wait to become a doll
Ana! this seems like the rightest video to say this, I recommend you to read Olga Tokarczuk’s work (she’s a Polish novelist)
I’ve read Flights and Primeval and Other Times and so far we’re in for magical realism! meditations on time and mobility and the human nature in motion! the movement of time! and who knows what more!
I've only heard amazing things about her work!!! I'm super keen to read Flights. If I'm correct, it all takes place in airports??? SIGN ME UP!
I feel like nobody talks about in watermelon sugar by Richard Brautigan. It was a weird read, but i have read it years ago and still think about it. It was the most weird book i have ever read and i still don't know if i love it or hate it, but for that expirence i love it. I was walking around my Apartment while reading it and tried to gind the meaning behind the themes, and thought i get it, just to let that go one page later. It is definitly an interesting book and i want to know peoples opinions about it. I think it is up to you how you read it. I can just be a whimsical Story, but if you try to Look deeper it can be something complitly diffrent. ♡
I honestly only first heard of it after the song and now I feel like I should've known about it much sooner!
My recs are The Twenty Days of Turin (Giorgio de Maria), and Asylum Road (Olivia Sudjic).
I've heard only iconic things about Asylum Road. Maybe I'll try to snag it on audio
Love you, love your taste in books, love your channel!
love is coming right back to you, baby!
I read A Long Way Gone as required reading in 8th grade and it was amazing. Literal tears. Highly recommend
!!! okay, everyone says it's an amazing book. I gotta find it
@@AnaWallaceJohnson I can send you my extra copy!
I picked up Birds of America on the street a good while ago and have never gotten to it, but you're making me think I should...
omg, the streets never fail to be the most wonderful version of a public library
I read Wetlands years ago.....I still remember it 😂😂😂😂
lmaooo I can't wait to get my hands on it teheheeh
Birds of America contains some very good stories. I did make a video in which I reviewed it along with another short story collection by Bryan Washington called Lot.
Oh yes! I know Lot very well. Picked it up in SF. Liked it, but wasn't a huge favorite of mine. Will check out your BOA video
"Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere" by André Aciman is a beautiful collection on place, time, and how one interacts with them. A nostalgic gut punch, some of them‼
I haven't read any Aciman yet and I feel I'm missing out. Maybe this will be my introduction
I remember Jacqueline Susan being mentioned in Sex and the City and if I am not mistaken, they were referring to Valley of dolls
oh, I absolutely believe that! seems very on trend for the show
Wetlands is on my tbr for years and hopefully I´ll finally read it this year. Normally I´m not intrigued by negative reviews but many people say it´s awful and disgusting and I´m super curious and have a feeling I might quite enjoy it :D
Right? The more gross it is, the more I need to find out why tehehehe
I haven't made a video, but I read Brief Interviews with Hideous Men about a decade ago on a car ride to New Orleans. I remember really liking it. As for Infinite Jest, I've been stuck on page 581 for about 5 years now. Kind of wish my copy would get flood damaged. 🤣
hahaha!!! you're much deeper than I was. Page 100 forever. And I feel like a road trip to New Orleans is the perfect setting for a DFW novel
I’ve read A Long Way Gone. It’s very good but also horrifying and heart breaking.
Oh gosh, I can't even begin to imagine
"Black Wings Has My Angel" by Elliott Chaze is a book you'd like. An escaped prisoner has a toxic relationship with an ex-prostitute, turned roaming tramp. They plot and ploy and rob... It's so good and not too well known.
Oh yes!! That's a me book for sure!
Bondi rescue, haha! Picnic at hanging rock is very no plot just vibes but I enjoyed. Let me know if you want other Australian recommendations
Nm here’s some anyway you can take or leave: something by Patrick White maybe Voss, Riders in the Chariot or the Vivisector. I don’t read many books by men but I make an exception for him and other Australian softboy Christos Tsiolkas. The Well by Elizabeth jolley, Tirra lirra by the river by Jessica Anderson, anything by Maria Tumarkin, Foals Bread by Gillian Mears, anything by Georgia Blain.
lmaooo never question if I want the reccos or not-- I WANT THE RECCOS. I feel like if I read at least three of these I should get honorary Aussie citizenship
Oh my gosh, Turkish Delight, unfortunately it's definitely a book that was definitely ruined by having to read it for dutch class in high school... There's a movie too, which is pretty iconic, great if you want to see 1970's Amsterdam, and you know, seggsy times..
seggsssyyy times ahaha. I didn't realize there was a movie. I am so ready to pick that one up. I want to giggle about the sizzle
We So Seldom Look On Love-Barbara Gowdy
sounds like exactly something I would like. Canada forever!
“Of her behind hair” 🤣🤣🤣
hehehehe
I never even heard of Sierra Leone Civil war before :O
I have two book recommendations: Among the Immortals by Paul Lake (semi-dark academia but not YA) and Blue Jelly by Debby Bull (creative non-fiction/memoir and recipes).
Recipes! Wow, love that integration. I've been trying to cook more this year...
@@AnaWallaceJohnson If you do decide to get your hands on a copy and read it, I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of it, you'll have a hankering for making jam/preserves/jelly.
the syndrome by john case. never heard anyone talk about it but it was my favorite book in HS
!!! I think I have to do a rereading HS favorites vid
Re: "A Long Way Gone" don't be overly bothered about "experts" on anything, all being an "expert" means is that they agree with the prevailing narrative, but what if the prevailing narrative is wrong? Read anything and everything and draw your own conclusions 👍 This really was a set of unusual books, including unusual books from well known people, very well done 👏 Try D.H. Lawrence's novel "Kangaroo" based loosely on his time in Australia, they will get it out of storage for you at the Brooklyn Library Central
Totally agree! Books are all about coming to your own conclusions--as are most things in life. Kangaroo sounds like a happily good time!
I have a book for you Ana, its an old lesser appreciated classic -- Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer.
omg stopppp the 50's had such iconic novels and I feel like it's time for them to make a resurgence. Thank you so much for the recco!!
Watching you pull a huge nothingburger by yapping on about books you haven't even read was an excruciating ordeal...I couldn't stop watching this trainwreck of a video til the very end. 1 star
On a more serious note: I remember reading Wetlands way back in the olden days, not too long after it first got published. The potty humor was a real treat for my late pubescent brain. What I also felt back then was, that the story had a big potential for tear-jerking drama but before it got there another salvo of doodoo jokes hit the page.
hahaha! HATE IT! And oh yeah, I think Wetlands will be a one day kind of read that scratches my slightly immature brain. It's still developing!
I love a good bondi rescue obsession
Jethro forever!
I swear, you must be living in my brain. I read "a long way home" back in high school and it changed my life but I haven't thought about it in years. I could not believe the descriptions of graphic violence. I think it was instrumental in my realization of my own privilege as a person living in the US. Also had no idea about the controversy. Makes me very sad that the book may have been enhanced in order to profit from a very very very harrowing piece of history.
Not really a hidden gem, since there’s a movie coming up about it, but I’m reading ‘American Prometheus’ and I think you’d find it interesting, Ana😊
Me too... And because of the movie as well 😂😂. I never knew all the physicists were almost at the same place at the same time; it's kinda like woah... Intelligence overload 😂😂
@@Literary_Baddie5838 I know, right? It was so funny to read about how Oppenheimer was so unimpressed the first time he met Einstein and thought he was a bit ‘cuckoo’😂. It truly reads like a thriller - I can’t wait to see the movie, I hope Cillian Murphy wins an Oscar!
@@AnaMariaBotoser Did you watch Peaky Blinders? I did, and I'm convinced he's going to be great in that movie... I cannot wait
@@Literary_Baddie5838 yes!!! I think it’s my favourite show ever! They might also be doing a movie as a continuation of the show, which I cannot wait for😍
@@AnaMariaBotoser I'd actually forgotten about the possibility of a movie... I do hope they make a movie 🤞🏾
I read Wetlands, bc I used to be a huge fan of Roche, but I didn’t like it at all. Found it really self serving.
oh no!! I can see that tbh. I think it'll be a book I can cruise through easily and just vibe out to the weirdness
I find tragic situations tragically hilarious, inappropriately so.
I am loving the nails
ol yeller
put birds of america at the top of your list please! so funny and so heartbreaking...
also lorrie has a new novel coming out in june with an iconic title, "i am homeless if this is not my home"
!!! wow, how pertinent. And great title!!
Not enough people (Ana I’m talking about you) have read apartment by teddy Wayne!
Fingers pointed and I'm noting it, baby!! I always loved that cover : ))
Love all ur videos Ana, but how are your teeth so beautiful and white? ❤
haha! thank you! I use an electric toothbrush and floss daily. I'm crazy about my teeth.
Not enough Shelley Duvall. One star.
hahahaha! Shelley is always ~with us~
I need everyone to read I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
I've heard it an absolute banger!!!
I can see you as an Olga.
So funny. Imagine Oleg and Olga.
Here is my one star review of this video: The books are actually talked about, and too much glorious hair. Thanks
lmaooo one star---never coming back to this establishment again!
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf is my little fantastic book. Don't read it. It is mine.
Thank you for bringing my attention to the book. But i will not read it.
Totally never gonna look for it.
randomly bought this book called “The Browser’s Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading” by Geoffrey O’Brien a while ago and i’m pretty sure it’s exactly what it sounds like so should be interesting!! great video as usual 🫡
Omg. Sounds fantastic. I think I'd pair that book with a nice, overcast, slightly warm day. Just fall into it and daydream.