nicole is here to learnStephanie (@timetoread!) has a playlist of everybody’s Indie Press Project videos so please check that out and feel free to get involved by checking out the publishers’ catalogues as well!
MILKWEED EDITIONS | #IndiePressProjectnicole is here to learn2020-11-30 | Stephanie (@timetoread!) has a playlist of everybody’s Indie Press Project videos so please check that out and feel free to get involved by checking out the publishers’ catalogues as well!
SORRY I mispronounced Françoise Vergès’ name! I wasn’t looking at it written down and didn’t remember there was an è (barely even remembered the very simple title of the book.. 🤦🏾♀️)
• • • Find me on GOODREADS: goodreads.com/nicolemillo Find my on STORYGRAPH: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/nicolemilloInvisible Cities: END OF AN ERA | #InvisibleCitiesProjectnicole is here to learn2023-10-01 | Thank you so much to everyone who participated whether it was monthly or just reading one book or watching a single video for the project one time. We really appreciate the support! You all made the project what it was.
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 2 countries to read from. You can read from just one of the countries or both. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films, listening to music or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🎶🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
MUSIC GENRES MENTIONED: 🔹Soca 🔹Rake & Scrape I forgot to mention Junkanoo and Calypso! Both Soca and Calypso originated in Trinidad and Tobago but Rake & Scrape and Junkanoo are fully Bahamian.
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 2 countries to read from. You can read from just one or both of the countries. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
• • • Invisible Cities is also on Instagram: @InvisibleCitiesReadingProject #InvisibleCitiesProject
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloInvisible Cities June 2023 TBR | #invisiblecitiesprojectnicole is here to learn2023-06-08 | I feel so awkward coming back to filming. Please bear with me!
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 2 countries to read from. You can read from just one of the countries or both. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films, listening to music or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🎶🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee My review: goodreads.com/review/show/2798454781 * *my review here seems to makes the opposite case to in this video re: synthetic clothing but only because Mike Berners-Lee takes an opposing approach and glosses over the ills of plastic as his focus is specifically on carbon production (in use of the item it seems). Whereas I feel synthetics are the most appropriate for some things and least for others, but he didn’t seem as anti-natural as Natalie Fee seems anti-synthetic.
Invisible Cities Tag: ✿ What’s your favourite book from all the ones you read for the Invisible Cities? ✿ Which author that you read for Invisible Cities are you interested in reading more from? ✿ What’s a non-book related favourite (food, music, movie) you discovered via the Invisible Cities? ✿ Any countries you read from for the first time? ✿ A geographic area/country you want to explore more? ✿ Recommend 1 women in translation book you read for the project. ✿ Do you have any Invisible Cities goals for next year? (reading goals or other activities/media)
You can participate in the tag by making your own video, posting on social media, doing blog post, sharing your thoughts in the comments of other people’s tags and/or joining the discussion on discord!
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 2 countries to read from. You can read from just one of the countries or both. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films, listening to music or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🎶🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
• • • Invisible Cities is also on Instagram: @InvisibleCitiesReadingProject #InvisibleCitiesProject
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloNORWAY wrap up | #InvisibleCitiesProjectnicole is here to learn2022-05-06 | I think the volume is a little wonky (too quiet?) in this one…🔊 And since this is a longish one I’ve added chapters for easy viewing :)
00:00 Intro 00:10 BOOK: The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am 04:36 Tangent about mentioning downsides in reviews 05:23 MOVIE: Mot Naturen (Out of Nature) 09:42 Out of Nature TRAILER 11:38 MOVIE: Gritt 17:53 Gritt TRAILER 20:10 Bye!
FILMS MENTIONED: 🔹Out of Nature // Mot Naturen (2014) co-directed by and starring Ole Giæver with Marte Vold as co-director 🔹Gritt (2021) directed by Itonje Søimer Guttormsen My Letterboxd review: https://boxd.it/2I8R4j
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 2 countries to read from. You can read from just one or both of the countries. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
••• Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloVlog 04 // moving (MAR 2022)nicole is here to learn2022-03-23 | I think it’s hard to overstate what a big event this is for two freelance illustrators but I apparently don’t know how to do fanfare so here’s a rather haphazard and subdued vlog.
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 2 countries to read from. You can read from just one or both of the countries. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
• • • Invisible Cities is also on Instagram: @InvisibleCitiesReadingProject #InvisibleCitiesProject
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloReview :: The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less by Christine Plattnicole is here to learn2022-01-24 | A good addition to any book collection on minimalism.
(…Is that statement verging on ironic re: collections & minimalism)
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemillo Find my on Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/nicolemilloUnhauling Some Booksnicole is here to learn2021-08-28 | “If you buy so few books and only have 50~ books on your TBR…why are you taking so long to read through your TBR?” you might be wondering. Well, friends…You’ve got me there! I have no idea.🙃
This really has no right to be called a vlog. Forgive me.
Wonder if anyone noticed my glasses changes? 🤓 (I’m testing out lenses and, since I have them, I thought it’d be funny to randomly switch them throughout the video because stupid things make me giggle.)
••• Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloMarch & April Wrap Up 2021nicole is here to learn2021-06-16 | Finally found it in myself to edit this wrap up that I filmed 2nd May and, I’ll be honest with you...I’m not sure that wrap up on “Tell Me How It Ends” is coming anymore? lol...
HOW DO I GET THE BOOKS?! Just leave a comment saying which ones you want! I’ll pick a winner at random.
WHAT IF I WANT MORE THAN ONE? Ask for as many as you want. (Not multiple copies of the same one though since I only have one spare copy for some of them.)
WHY THESE PARTICULAR BOOKS? Because I was the illustrator or a contributor in each of these.
WHEN WILL I KNOW IF THE BOOKS ARE DESTINED TO BE MINE? I’ll post a video one month from now saying if you destroyed the competition through sheer luck and intense wishing.
WHAT IF I DON’T LIVE IN THE UK? This book-love knows no boundaries! I’m happy to send the package internationally but once it’s dropped off at the post office, it is, quite literally, out of my hands.
I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN ADDRESSED BY THIS RUDIMENTARY Q&A! Ask away in the comments!Vlog 02 // thanks & work (APR 2021)nicole is here to learn2021-04-28 | Thanks @ClaireReadsBooks & @jenvcampbell ! 💕✨
Now that we are 1,000 strong(!!?!), let me know if you’re interested in a giveaway and what kind of thing you’d be interested in 🎊
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloFebruary Wrap Up 2021nicole is here to learn2021-03-07 | I need to catch up on comments and have a growing list of videos I want to make and videos I want to watch. Meanwhile, this video is probably too fast, too long and (almost) too late...but at least it’s here! 😅
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloCOUNTERPOINT PRESS | #IndiePressProjectnicole is here to learn2021-02-28 | This book is actually published in the UK by a different independent press called Saqi Books (also worth checking out if you’re interested in books about/from the Middle East or North Africa).
Stephanie (@timetoread!) has a playlist of everybody’s Indie Press Project videos so please check that out and feel free to get involved by checking out the publishers’ catalogues as well!
Jan - Honford Star Feb - Counterpoint Press Mar - Jacaranda Books Apr - Coffee House Press May - Archipelago Jun - Charco Press
Stephanie (@timetoread!) has a playlist of everybody’s Indie Press Project videos so please check that out and feel free to get involved by checking out the publishers’ catalogues as well!
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 3 countries to read from. You can read from just one or two or all three countries. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
• • • Invisible Cities is also on Instagram: @InvisibleCitiesReadingProject #InvisibleCitiesProject
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloVlog 00 // Weekly Update 6 Feb 2021nicole is here to learn2021-02-06 | Dang. Vlogging is hard. Please don’t judge me for *very* clumsily trying to say: I don’t want my reading to accidentally be split into being *only* trauma stories and/or “chick lit” from women and the whole gamut of life experiences (minus “women’s issues” by men 🥲 (I don’t think my reading is split this way but it is a(n irrational?) thing at the back of my mind...)
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 3 countries to read from. You can read from just one or two or all three countries. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
• • • Invisible Cities is also on Instagram: @InvisibleCitiesReadingProject #InvisibleCitiesProject
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloHONFORD STAR | #IndiePressProjectnicole is here to learn2021-01-31 | It is probably worth saying that I liked Convenience Store Woman despite thinking it was clunky in parts. I feel like this could just as well be tagged for #InvisibleCitiesProject considering how many Japanese books I mentioned. (What is Invisible Cities Project? youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5sQMCyocQ)
Stephanie (@timetoread!) has a playlist of everybody’s Indie Press Project videos so please check that out and feel free to get involved by checking out the publishers’ catalogues as well!
Jan - Honford Star Feb - Counterpoint Press Mar - Jacaranda Books Apr - Coffee House Press May - Archipelago Jun - Charco Press
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 3 countries to read from. You can read from just one or two or all three countries. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
• • • Invisible Cities is also on Instagram: @InvisibleCitiesReadingProject #InvisibleCitiesProject
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloARGENTINA wrap up | #InvisibleCitiesProjectnicole is here to learn2021-01-30 | 🇦🇷 ARGENTINA 🇦🇷 Do you have a clear idea what all these books are about thanks to my excellent skills at (not) explaining any plots at all? You’re welcome.
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 3 countries to read from. You can read from just one or two or all three countries. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
🌍 THE BASIC PREMISE Every month we will choose 3 countries to read from. You can read from just one or two or all three countries. 🧳📚
💫 BONUS POINTS Try watching some films or cooking/baking recipes from the countries you’re reading from. 📺🍲
🌝 CHEAT MODE Read in a language that isn’t English.🚫
🌈TRUE FRIENDS TIER Join the Discord group to chat with us about what you might/have read, get resources and recommendations, hang out, etc: discord.gg/WAZ6XRe2Ya
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloNonfiction November Wrap Up 2020nicole is here to learn2020-12-26 | You would think, with such a short video — filmed, as it was, in early December — I could have got this uploaded a little closer to November than January, but no.
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloHAYMARKET BOOKS | #IndiePressProjectnicole is here to learn2020-10-18 | I probably should have also mentioned that Haymarket also has some titles en Español.
Stephanie (@timetoread!) has a playlist of everybody’s Indie Press Project videos so please check that out and feel free to get involved by checking out the publishers’ catalogues as well!
Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus & Simon Butler goodreads.com/book/show/11293041-too-many-people Is the World Really Overpopulated by George Monbiot: https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2020/13/october/is-the-world-really-overpopulated-george-monbiot
• • • World of Books is my go-to for physical books: worldofbooks.com WoB is an online retailer of secondhand books sourced from charity shop overstock AND they have many green initiatives/company goals. (Not sponsored. Just my genuine thoughts.)
• • • Did you know World of Books is my go-to for physical books?: worldofbooks.com I love that WoB is an online retailer of secondhand books sourced from charity shop overstock AND they have many green initiatives/company goals. (Not sponsored. Just my genuine thoughts.)
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloJune & July Wrap Up 2020nicole is here to learn2020-07-19 | Totally forgot to say thank you so much for all the comments on my last video!! I’m usually so on it with replying to comments...but then usually I only have, like, 3 comments on any one video so I was surprised and overwhelmed. Replies impending!
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloBook Recs & Discussionnicole is here to learn2020-06-12 | I definitely didn’t speak as well on this topic as I would have liked and there’s some further clarification I wish I’d said, but if I sit on this any longer, I’ll never post it. It’s an ongoing conversation and I hope you understand what I’m trying to say here. #BlackLivesMatter
A few to help now: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co A few ways to help going forward: Continue the above, have the tough conversations with friends and family, contact your government representatives, patronise black businesses, read and watch and listen more, share what you learn...
• • • Did you know World of Books is my go-to for physical books?: worldofbooks.com I love that WoB is an online retailer of secondhand books sourced from charity shop overstock AND they have many green initiatives/company goals. (Not sponsored. Just my genuine thoughts.)
• • • Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/nicolemilloApril Wrap Up 2020 (part 1)nicole is here to learn2020-05-06 | I think I need a “tangent cam” for when I unnecessarily go off piste talking about every other thing I’ve read from an author and how the book I read this past month compares.
• • • Original tag: http://aperfectioncalledbooks.blogspot.com/2014/08/tbr-tag.html How do you keep track of your TBR pile? Is your TBR mostly print or ebook? How do you determine which book from your TBR to read next? A Book That's Been On Your TBR List The Longest A Book You Recently Added To Your TBR A Book In Your TBR Strictly Because Of Its Beautiful Cover A Book On Your TBR That You Never Plan on Reading An Unpublished Book On Your TBR That You’re Excited For A Book On Your TBR That Basically Everyone’s Read But You A Book On Your TBR That Everyone Recommends To You A Book On Your TBR That You’re Dying To Read How many books are on your TBR shelf?