The Bookish Land | 5 Down to Earth Nonfiction about China #NonfictionNovember Recommendation 2019 @TheBookishLand | Uploaded November 2019 | Updated October 2024, 30 minutes ago.
Hi friends! I hope you enjoyed today's video, and hopefully started to get interested in some of the books ❤️here you can see the details from the video:
◉ Books Mentioned:
→ RIVER TOWN by Peter Hessler: bit.ly/2JSM3Sc
・China Trilogy
→ ORACLE BONES: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler:bit.ly/36yoR5w
→ COUNTRY DRVING: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler: bit.ly/2K7sYft
・Not in China Trilogy
→ STRANGE STONES: Dispatches from East and West: bit.ly/2NNo2x0
・
→ FACTORY GIRLS by Leslie T. Chang: bit.ly/32eM6hL
→ THE LAST DAYS OF BEIJING by Michael Meyer: bit.ly/33huoLG
→ SHARK'S FIN AND SICHUAN PEPPER by Fuchsia Dunlop: bit.ly/34HD6n1
→ TEACHING NOTES (上课记) by Wang Xiaoni (王小妮): bit.ly/33tGy4t
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→ Goodreads: bit.ly/2XLpeJV
Hi friends! I hope you enjoyed today's video, and hopefully started to get interested in some of the books ❤️here you can see the details from the video:
◉ Books Mentioned:
→ RIVER TOWN by Peter Hessler: bit.ly/2JSM3Sc
・China Trilogy
→ ORACLE BONES: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler:bit.ly/36yoR5w
→ COUNTRY DRVING: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler: bit.ly/2K7sYft
・Not in China Trilogy
→ STRANGE STONES: Dispatches from East and West: bit.ly/2NNo2x0
・
→ FACTORY GIRLS by Leslie T. Chang: bit.ly/32eM6hL
→ THE LAST DAYS OF BEIJING by Michael Meyer: bit.ly/33huoLG
→ SHARK'S FIN AND SICHUAN PEPPER by Fuchsia Dunlop: bit.ly/34HD6n1
→ TEACHING NOTES (上课记) by Wang Xiaoni (王小妮): bit.ly/33tGy4t
◉ Check out my ART Channel
→ Meonicorn (YouTube Channel): bit.ly/2XjMsli
◉ Let’s be friends!
→ Website: thebookishland.com
→ Twitter: twitter.com/Meonicorn
→ Instagram: instagram.com/meonicorn
→ Goodreads: bit.ly/2XLpeJV
![Extremely Ambitious August 2022 TBR | The Bookish Land [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/avGAS4ztW8o/hqdefault.jpg "Extremely Ambitious August 2022 TBR | The Bookish Land [cc]
[cc] Hi friends! Hope you are having a wonderful time!
◉ FROM AND ABOUT ASIA READING PROJECT
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◉ Edogawa Ranpo - Father of Japanese Mystery: https://youtu.be/xWxHvNY3FWo
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◉ BOOKS MENTIONED
→ THE FACTORY
by Oyamada Hiroko
translated by David Boyd
→ THE LITTLE HOUSE
by Nakajima Kyouko
translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
→ 厌女 // MISOGYNY
by Ueno Chizuko
[CN] translated by Wang Lan
→ 饱食穷民 // POVERTY WITH SATIATION
by Saitou Shigeo
[CN] translated by Wang Xiaoxia
→ THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY
by Elena Ferrante
translated by Ann Goldstein
→ HURRICANE SEASON
by Fernanda Melchor
translated by Sophie Hughes
→ THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER
by Emmuska Orczy
→ ARSENIC AND ADOBO
by Mia P. Manansala
→ THE GREAT EXPERIMENT
Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
Yashca Mounk
→ HOW THE WORD IS PASSED
by Clint Smith
→ NOTABLE NATIVE PEOPLE
by Adrienne Keene")
![READING VLOG: Im in love with this book + apartment tour | The Bookish Land 2022 [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bc9kvFbj08A/hqdefault.jpg "READING VLOG: Im in love with this book + apartment tour | The Bookish Land 2022 [cc]
[cc] Hi friends, I hope you find this vlog entertaining, Im so happy Ive read Wives and Daughters now, and I still want more of it!
◉ FROM AND ABOUT ASIA READING PROJECT
→ Webpage (ALL THE INFO): https://bit.ly/3rAQSF1
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→ Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2tzFCjs38cS8qzRnH_rS-yjlpwZw_u5z
→ Sri Lanka Reading Recommendations: https://youtu.be/fLVKOSsft8Y
◉ Reading updates for The Making of Asian America: https://bit.ly/3wjgcS2
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![Last Book Haul of 2021 | The Bookish Land [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bs77ECgQipg/hqdefault.jpg "Last Book Haul of 2021 | The Bookish Land [cc]
[cc] Hi friends! I finally made this video in time before 2022 XD, I hope you enjoyed it - Im excited about all these books! Expand for more details:
◉ BOOK REVIEWS MENTIONED
→ Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang: https://youtu.be/ktaKO2KvsKg
→ Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir: https://youtu.be/KqZ6TSMB0i8
◉ FROM AND ABOUT ASIA READING PROJECT
→ Webpage: https://www.thebookishland.com/from-a...
→ Discord server: https://discord.gg/vAebuNqGPm
→ Announcement video: https://youtu.be/3GK1LfeU9OE
→ Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2tzFCjs38cS8qzRnH_rS-yjlpwZw_u5z
◉ LET’S BE FRIENDS
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◉ BOOKS MENTIONED
→ WHY FISH DON’T EXIST by Lulu Miller: https://bit.ly/3qBgdy9
→ A SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN by Amélie Le Renard, translated by Kate Rose: https://bit.ly/349YgPH
→ MY BEIJING: FOUR STORIES OF EVERYDAY WONDER by Nie Jun, translated by Edward Gauvin: https://bit.ly/3pB6I2H
→ GOTHIC TALES by Elizabeth Gaskell: https://bit.ly/3sKQ0j8
→ BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY by Qian Julie Wang: https://bit.ly/3FEeDSa
→ THE COMPLETE POEMS: ANNE SEXTON by Anne Sexton: https://bit.ly/3z5a4xK
→ THE CROWN AIN’T WORTH MUCH by Hanif Abdurraqib: https://bit.ly/3eDGtlz
→ AIN’T NEVER NOT BEEN BLACK by Javon Johnson: https://bit.ly/3HoaGBN
→ TASTE: MY LIFE THROUGH FOOD by Stanley Tucci: https://bit.ly/3HgRiqf
→ JOAN MITCHELL: https://bit.ly/3JpREwB
→ CURSED BUNNY by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur: https://bit.ly/3EzueBd
→ GREEK MYTHS by Jean Menzies, illustrated by Katie Ponder: https://bit.ly/3FDLVB4
→ YOUR GUIDE TO NOT GETTING MURDERED IN A QUAINT ENGLISH VILLAGE by Maureen Johnson, illustrated by Jay Cooper: https://bit.ly/3ECn9ja
→ MRS CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls: https://bit.ly/3euWryu
→ THE QUEEN’S ENGLISH: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chole O Davis: https://bit.ly/3qz5yUl
→ THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER by Francis Fukuyama: https://bit.ly/3sHw3tI
→ [CN] 福尔摩斯的餐桌: 19世纪英国的饮食与生活 by 関矢悦子: https://bit.ly/3EBjXV2")
![Best Books in China 2023 by Genre 🏮History, Culture, Society, Mystery, Sci-fi, Fantasy [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cKOGAl8vhPs/hqdefault.jpg "Best Books in China 2023 by Genre 🏮History, Culture, Society, Mystery, Sci-fi, Fantasy [CC]
[CC] Hi friends, happy Lantern festival! Lets talk about the best books in different genres in China last year, 2023 🥰
◉ Full list here (In Chinese) https://book.douban.com/annual/2023/?fullscreen=1&source=book_navigation
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◉ HISTORY AND CULTURE
→ [CN] 一百年，许多人，许多事 (A Hundred Years, Many People, Many Things)
by 杨苡 (Yang Yi) and 余斌 (Yu Bin)
→ [CN] 世说俗谈 (A Folk Account of the Tales of the World)
by 刘勃 (Liu Bo)
→ [CN] 入关(Crossing the Broader)
by 张明扬 (Zhang Ming Yang)
→ [EN] Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
[CN] 中华帝国晚期的性、法律与社会
by Mattew H. Sommer
translated by 谢美裕 (Xie Meiyu) and 尤陈俊 (Yo Chenjun)
→ [EN] The Chinese Typewriter: a History
[CN] 中文打字机
by Thomas S. Mullaney
translated by 张朋亮 (Zhang Pengliang)
→ [CN] 开场：女性学者访谈 (Women in Acdemia)
by 新京报书评周刊 (Xinjingbao Book Critiques)
→ [FR] Rage Against the Machisme
[CN] 去他的父权制
by Mathilde Larrere
translated by 何润哲 (He Runzhe)
→ [EN] The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
[CN] 要命还是要灵魂
by Anne Fadiman
translated by 汤丽明 (Tang Liming), 刘建台 (Liu Jiantai) 杨佳蓉 (Yang Jiarong)
→ [EN] The Five: the Untold Lives of the Women Killed
[CN] 生而为女
by Hallie Rubenhold
◉ SOCIETY AND DOCUMENTARY
→ [JP] 生き延びるための思想
[CN] 为了活下去的思想
by 上野千鶴子 (Ueno Chizuko)
translated by 邹韵 (Zou Yun) and 薛梅 (Xue Mei)
→ [JP] 快楽上等！
[CN] 快乐上等
by 上野千鶴子 and 湯山玲子
translated by 马文赫
→ [JP] ネグレクト
[CN] 育儿放弃
by 杉山春
translated by 烨伊
→ 盐镇
by 易小荷
→ [FR] Moi les hommes, je les déteste
[EN] I Hate Men
[CN]我，厌男
by Pauline Harmange
translated by 一千度
→ 多谈谈问题 (The Issues Issue)
by 吴琦 (Wu Qi)
→ 金榜题名之后
→ [EN] Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
[CN] 将熟悉变为陌生
by Zygmunt Bauman and Peter Haffner
translated by 王立秋
→ [FR] La Condition ouvrière
[CN] 工厂日记
by Simone Weil
translated by 王天宇
→ [EN] Diddly Squat, a Year on the Farm
[CN] 克拉克森的农场
by Jeremy Clarkson
translated by 吴超
◉ MYSTERIES
→ [CN] 第欧根尼变奏曲 (The Diogenes Variations)
by 陈浩基 (Chen Haoji)
→ [FR] Le Manuscrit inachevé (The Unfinished Manuscript)
[CN] 两度 (Twice)
by Frank Thilliez
tranlsated by 萨姆斯 (Sa Mu Si)
→ [EN] The Man Who Died Twice
[CN] 死了两次的男人
by Richard Osman
translated by 张雅琳 (Zhang Yalin)
→ [JP] 火の粉 (Flames)
[CN] 邻居
by 雫井脩介 (Shizukui Shusuke)
translated by 吕灵芝 (Lv Lingzhi)
→ [JP] 六人の嘘つきな大学生 (Six Lying College Students)
[CN] 六个说谎的大学生
by 浅倉秋成 (Asakura Akinari)
translated by 王星星
→ [JP] グレイヴディッガー (Grave Digger)
[CN] 恶徒的救赎
by 高野和明
translated by 徐建雄 (Xu Jianxiong)
→ [JP] 黒牢城 (Black Prisoned City)
[CN] 黑牢城
by 米澤穂信 (Yonezawa Honobu)
translated by 萧遥 (Xiao Yao)
→ [JP] 硝子の塔の殺人 (The Glass Tower Murder)
[CN] 玻璃塔谜案
by 知念実希人 (Chinen Mikito)
translated by 烨伊 (Ye Yi)
→ [JP] 名探偵のいけにえ (Detectives Sacrifice)
[CN] 名侦探的献祭
by 白井智之 (Shirai Tomoyuki)
translated by 吕灵芝 (Lv Lingzhi)
→ [JP] 孤島の来訪者 (Visitors of the lone island)
[CN] 孤岛的来访者
by 方丈貴恵 (Houjou Kie)
translated by 穆迪 (Mu Di)
◉ SCI-FI FANTASY
→ [CN] 她对此感到厌烦 (She Got Bored by This)
by 妚鹤 (Fou He)
→ [CN] 我们生活在南京 (We Live in Nanjing)
by 天瑞说符 (Tian Rui Shuo Fu)
→ [CN] 宛转环 (The Serpentine Band)
by 慕明 (Mu Ming)
→ [EN] Babel
[CN] 巴别塔
by RF Kuang
translated by 陈阳 (Chen Yang)
→ [EN] The Best of Greg Egan
[CN] 祈祷之海
by Greg Egan
translated by 鲁冬旭 (Lu Dongxu), 阿古 (Ah Gu), 刘文元 (Liu Wenyuan), 萧傲然 (Xiao Aoran) and 张涵 (Zhang Han)
→ [EN] Axiomatic
[CN] 意识上传中
by Greg Egan
translated by 姚向辉 (Yao Xianghui)
→ [EN] The Book of Wonder
[CN] 奇迹之书
by Greg Egan
translated by 何殇 (He Shang) and 张螺螺 (Zhang Luoluo)
→ [JP] 肉食屋敷
[CN] 破烂回收店
by 小林泰三 (Kobayashi Yasumi)
translated by 黄怡轶 (Huang Yiyi)
→ [KR] 지구 끝의 온실 (Greenhouse in the end of the World)
[CN] 地球尽头的温室
by 김초엽 (Kim Cho-Yup)
translated by 简郁璇 (Jian Yuxuan)
→ [EN] QualityLand
[CN] 未来之城
by Marc-Uwe Kling
translated by 王柄熠
◉ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 overview
3:24 History and Culture
7:22 Society and documenting
12:50 Mystery and Deductive
18:48 Sci-fi fantasy")
![Try A Chapter 🍃 Booker Prize Longlist 2022 Edition | The Bookish Land [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/caUfKJhkxRI/hqdefault.jpg "Try A Chapter 🍃 Booker Prize Longlist 2022 Edition | The Bookish Land [cc]
[cc] I tried the first chapter of 8 books on the longlist of The Booker Prize this year! (2022)
◉ The Booker Prize Longlist:
→ https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2022
◉ Try A Chapter 🌿 Womens Prize for Fiction Longlist 2022 Edition
→ https://youtu.be/-z6-uee3jbA
◉ Ranking Womens Prize for Fiction ✨ 2022 Shortlist Reviews
→ https://youtu.be/QJvegE-Q6aQ
◉ FROM AND ABOUT ASIA READING PROJECT
→ Webpage (ALL THE INFO) : https://bit.ly/3rAQSF1
→ Discord server: https://discord.gg/vAebuNqGPm
→ Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2tzFCjs38cS8qzRnH_rS-yjlpwZw_u5z
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→ Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2XLpeJV")
![10 Books for Mental Health Awareness Month 🌱 Book Recommendations | The Bookish Land 2023 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/el0MGj4yv2U/hqdefault.jpg "10 Books for Mental Health Awareness Month 🌱 Book Recommendations | The Bookish Land 2023 [CC]
[CC] Hi friends, I hope this video finds you guys well :D May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so I want to share with you ten amazing books that revolve around the topic of mental health. Hope you find something that interests you. Happy reading, and please take good care of yourselves, xx
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◉ BOOKS MENTIONED
→ I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI
by Baek Se-hee, translated by Anton Hur
→IM GLAD MY MOM DIED
by Jennette McCurdy
→ FURIOUSLY HAPPY
by Jenny Lawson
→ HUNGER
by Roxane Gay
→ MAYBE YOU NEED TO TALK TO SOMEONE
by Lori Gottlieb
→ SORROW AND BLISS
by Meg Mason
→ WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH?
by Sigrid Nunez
→ MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
by Ottessa Moshfegh
→ FRESHWATER
by Akwaeke Emezi
→ IMAGINE ME GONE
by Adam Haslett
◉ TIME STAMPS
00:00 mental health awareness month
01:30 memoirs
08:30 novels")
![10 Thought Provoking Nonfiction Recommendations 📝 Nonfiction November 2023 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ewOfhT1sHbg/hqdefault.jpg "10 Thought Provoking Nonfiction Recommendations 📝 Nonfiction November 2023 [CC]
[CC] Hi friends, happy Nonfiction November! I finally got my voice back, so to celebrate, lets talk about some nonfictions books that I learnt a lot from. What are your favorite nonfictions?
◉ LET’S BE FRIENDS
→ Website: https://www.thebookishland.com/
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◉ BOOKS MENTIONED
→ OUR BODIES, THEIR BATTLEFIELDS
War Through the Lives of Women
by Christina Lamb
→ STRANGERS TO OURSELVES
Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us
by Rachel Aviv
→ HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD
Inside the Mind of an American Family
by Robert Kolker
→ EMPIRE OF PAIN
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe
→ THE RADIUM GIRLS
The Dark Story of Americas Shining Women
by Kate Moore
→ HOW THE WORD IS PASSED
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
→ THE ADDRESS BOOK
What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
by Deirdre Mask
→ ACE
What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
by Angela Chen
→ HOW TO LOSE A COUNTRY
The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
by Ece Temelkuran
→ POLITICS IS FOR POWER
How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change
by Eitan D. Hersh
◉ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Most recommend!
02:27 On Mental Health
05:25 On Medical Industry
06:46 On History
10:00 On Interesting things
11:04 On Identity
12:30 On politics")
![I Somehow Read 9 Books in May 😆 May 2023 Reading Wrap Up | the Bookish Land [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fJctz5ncsKM/hqdefault.jpg "I Somehow Read 9 Books in May 😆 May 2023 Reading Wrap Up | the Bookish Land [CC]
[CC] Hi friends! After two months of not really reading anything, I somehow managed to read 9 books in May and Im loving them! Today I am talking about the books that are not part of the Womens Prize for Fiction since I will do a wrap-up of them together in a later video. Hope you enjoy this video, please let me know your thoughts and what did you read in May 🥰
◉ VIDEOS MENTIONED
→ 10 Books for Mental Health Awareness Month: https://youtu.be/el0MGj4yv2U
→ Vlog where I read 2 Chinese books in one day: https://youtu.be/Z9wKihPs0AQ
◉ LET’S BE FRIENDS
→ Website: https://www.thebookishland.com/
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→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meonicorn/
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◉ BOOKS MENTIONED
→ FIRE RUSH
by Jacqueline Crooks
→ THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
by Maggie OFarrell
→ DIARY OF A VOID
by Emi Yagi
translated by David Boyd and Lucy North
→ BROKEN
by Jenny Lawson
→ THERES NO SUCH THING AS AN EASY JOB
by Kikuko Tsumura
translated by Polly Barton
→ ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE
by Gail Honeyman
→ THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
by Joan Didion
→ 鱼猎 //FISH HUNTING
by 史迈 (Shi Mai)
→ 潮汐图 // TIDAL CHARTS
by 林棹 (Lin Zhao)
◉ TIME STAMPS
00:00 May Summary
00:59 Diary of a Void
04:00 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
06:08 Theres No Such Thing as an Easy Job
08:55 Broken
10:28 the Year of Magical Thinking
12:45 鱼猎 //fish Hunting
14:23 潮汐图 // Tidal Charts")
