ndbooks.com/book/the-besieged-city
Intellectual Reads
My thoughts on Clarice Lispector's The Besieged City.
ndbooks.com/book/the-besieged-city
ndbooks.com/book/the-besieged-city
updated 5 years ago
ndbooks.com/book/the-besieged-city
Additional Resources:
A link to an introduction of 10 Surrealist Works of Leonora Carrington
sybariscollection.com/10-works-to-meet-leonora-carrington
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Links to Mathews Videos up to the time of this post, regarding Magic Mountain.
Ascending The Magic Mountain
youtube.com/watch?v=ldAoIrVNNwk&t=17s
First Day at The Sanitarium
youtube.com/watch?v=CahwO8Xf50U&t=84s
A Tempestuous Night on The Magic Mountain
youtube.com/watch?v=0jEzEfH3qY8
A Sunday Concert
youtube.com/watch?v=jgiiU2_SZzg
Descending into the X-Ray Room
youtube.com/watch?v=oYX4o3jM5ZQ
The First Year at The Sanitarium
youtube.com/watch?v=PbQJH6Wujtw
Snow
youtube.com/watch?v=9E5P2rYLics
Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi by Ahmet Midhat Efendi (An Ottoman Novel )
Book Review - American Dirt By Jeanine Cummins
nyrb.com/collections/henri-bosco
Created by HungryBookworm - youtube.com/watch?v=uex8I3qiiWg
BookTubers who have done tag!
Alex Black Reads - youtube.com/watch?v=WASeMR2Mxbw&t=1s
Bookish - youtube.com/watch?v=saSGLuM36cQ&t=9s
Big Hard Books & Classics - youtube.com/watch?v=_xPBty71qoA
I tag everyone and Mathew @ Mayberry Bookclub youtube.com/channel/UCImyteqPrMuNoAqaD8qX-cw
QUESTIONS:
1) Do you buy second hand books?
2) What is / was your latest purchase?
3) What condition do you find acceptable? ie, tatty or not tatty etc
4) After you have read said book, do you keep it for a re read or re donate it?
5) Do you have a favourite place you like to go to, when looking for second hand books?
6) Hardback or Paperback, do you have a preference?
7) Have you found any real gems?
8) OPTIONAL - Find a book from your shelves that you can donate to a good cause or your local
Charity / Goodwill shops
9) Go ahead and tag some peeps!
#JanuaryWrapUp #CurrentlyReading #FebruaryTBR
Read:
The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1:14)
Review Video: youtube.com/watch?v=p6mIaDfPfA4
Long Bright River by Liz Moore (3:26)
Review Video: youtube.com/watch?v=vuD3_9bfv-o
Reading:
The Bad Side of Books - Selected Essays by D.H. Lawrence (5:25)
Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer (7:33)
The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (8:35)
Ready:
Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabakov (12:40)
Free Day by Ines Cagnati (17:51)
The Simple Past by Driss Chribi (19:03)
An anticipated read for me by an author who wrote "The Unseen World". A work that was one of my favorite reads a few years ago.
Review of Milkman By Anna Burns mentioned:
youtube.com/watch?v=C80XECI-diQ&t=9s
A more thorough and Succinct lecture on the life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
youtube.com/watch?v=m9IpTGmCzL0&list=PLJY83kWNwt6bPW41AZHRHm82ugzkGKxl3&index=3&t=0s
Read it. Thank me later!
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/289713/collected-stories-by-saul-bellow
#ayearofreadingonesown Announcement Videos
Old Blue's Chapter and Verse (Jason):youtube.com/watch?v=7Oti0RznKlc&t=15s
Books I'm Not Reading (Kelly):youtube.com/watch?v=mJtM24SPhSo
Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson
The Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Never A Lovely So Real | The Life and Work of Nelson Algren | by Colin Asher
Link to Colin Asher’s Interview and Discusion of Book:
youtube.com/watch?v=uxDr5Dmqnlw
The Collected Schizophrenias Essays by Esme Weijun Wang
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
The Dry Heart - ndbooks.com/book/the-dry-heart
Happiness, as Such - ndbooks.com/book/happiness-as-such
Brian @ Bookish video chapters 7-11
youtube.com/watch?v=Oy7-hfzB47U
Allen @ Big Hard Books & Classics video chapters 7-11
youtube.com/watch?v=4IRoyq7RQ7Q&t=560s
Brian @ Bookish video chapters 2-6
youtube.com/watch?v=JyxwnliTF4c
Allen @ Big Hard Books & Classics video chapters 2-6
youtube.com/watch?v=H27JNpeQi38&t=0s
Allen @ Big Hard Books & Classics
youtube.com/watch?v=97jxrrIUujY&t=9s
Brian @ Bookish
youtube.com/watch?v=hAgm0Y3AOXY&t=0s
Please!! Join us in reading this work and our discussions by subscribing to these great content creators @ Booktube.
Book haul books can be found at this site as well as the sweet sale
nyrb.com/collections/nyrb-summer-sale
Allen @ Big Hard Books & Classics
youtube.com/watch?v=97jxrrIUujY&t=9s
Brian @ Bookish
youtube.com/watch?v=hAgm0Y3AOXY&t=0s
Please!! Join us in reading this work and our discussions by subscribing to these great content creators @ Booktube.
Books Mentioned:
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
youtube.com/watch?v=N9JS1zYrLRo
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
youtube.com/watch?v=z_mFBCI3lvw&t=4s
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
youtube.com/watch?v=8KbZgIjhRPs
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
Allan's Review of 1st Part of Berlin Alexanderplatz
youtube.com/watch?v=88-hhX0R6Fk
The Collected Schizophrenias Essays by Esme Weijun Wang
Books Mentioned:
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
goodreads.com/book/show/40611179-the-besieged-city
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
goodreads.com/book/show/42201996-ask-again-yes
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
goodreads.com/book/show/35886439-berlin-alexanderplatz
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
goodreads.com/book/show/40121993-the-collected-schizophrenias?ac=1&from_search=true
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
goodreads.com/book/show/36510722-gods-of-jade-and-shadow?from_search=true
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
goodreads.com/book/show/42201100-three-women?from_search=true
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
goodreads.com/book/show/42207168-the-gifted-school?from_search=true
The Overstory by Richard Powers
goodreads.com/book/show/40180098-the-overstory?from_search=true
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
goodreads.com/book/show/39927096-less?from_search=true
Two Reviews of Three Women mentioned:
Portal in the pages - (Approx @ 12 min mark.) youtube.com/watch?v=Los0l8j3i5A
Hard Cover Hearts - youtube.com/watch?v=jwdyxIAoxgk&t=43s
Two more booktubers, also mentioned in the video:
Allan @ Big Hard Books and Classics -
youtube.com/channel/UCBNfvf5Imc7KjiUIf4WC4Mg
The Bookchemist @ youtube.com/watch?v=jwdyxIAoxgk&t=43s
Booktubers Mentioned: Alan @ Big Hard Books & Classics
youtube.com/channel/UCBNfvf5Imc7KjiUIf4WC4Mg
Books Mentioned: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
goodreads.com/book/show/36809135-where-the-crawdads-sing
Books Mentioned:
Lost Children Archive By: Valeria Luiselli
goodreads.com/book/show/40245130-lost-children-archive
Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader By: Tom Miller
goodreads.com/book/show/1046481.Writing_on_the_Edge
Allan @ Big Hard Books & Classics
youtube.com/channel/UCBNfvf5Imc7KjiUIf4WC4Mg
Amy @ FromTheDustyBookshelf
youtube.com/channel/UCPW-bgiI342jEBQq0XL2H6w/featured
JUNE TBR
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564678/lost-children-archive-by-valeria-luiselli/9780525520610
Writing on the Edge - a borderlands reader, edited by Tom Miller
goodreads.com/book/show/1046481.Writing_on_the_Edge
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
nyrb.com/products/berlin-alexanderplatz?variant=50076683463
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
goodreads.com/book/show/42201996-ask-again-yes
Thanks for watching
0:00 - Intro
4:35 - The Steppe
8:02 - The Duel
13:55 - The Story of an Unkown Man
22:43 - Three Years
28:35 - My Life
The Complet Short Novelsgoodreads.com/book/show/5697.The_Complete_Short_Novels
Reference for Summary of Chapters (By Michael Davitt Bell)
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/links/culture/rainbow.bell.html
The Bookchemist review of the first 100pgs:
youtube.com/watch?v=VcG-UyHzJUQ&t=69s
brooklynbookfestival.org
Books Mentioned
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgard
goodreads.com/book/show/39096905-inadvertent?ac=1&from_search=true
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
goodreads.com/book/show/415.Gravity_s_Rainbow?ac=1&from_search=true
McSweeny’s Issue 53
goodreads.com/book/show/41633541-mcsweeney-s-53?ac=1&from_search=true
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude?ac=1&from_search=true
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
goodreads.com/book/show/19117.Fathers_and_Sons?ac=1&from_search=true
The Red and The Black by Stendhal
goodreads.com/book/show/14662.The_Red_and_the_Black?ac=1&from_search=true
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
goodreads.com/book/show/88077.The_Magic_Mountain?from_search=true
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
goodreads.com/book/show/26795307-moonglow?ac=1&from_search=true
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
goodreads.com/book/show/26795307-moonglow?ac=1&from_search=true
Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood
goodreads.com/book/show/91686.Corrigan?ac=1&from_search=true
All For Nothing by Walter Kempowski
goodreads.com/book/show/36620274-all-for-nothing
Boredom by Alberto Moravia
goodreads.com/book/show/67140.Boredom?ac=1&from_search=true
Going To The Dogs by Erich Kastner
goodreads.com/book/show/13532203-going-to-the-dogs?ac=1&from_search=true
My Marriage by Jakob Wasserman
goodreads.com/book/show/28585049-my-marriage
Women In Translation Read-athon Hosts,
Matthew Sciarappa
youtube.com/channel/UCb7srjyBRVjcGpf2LJS7pQQ
Kendra Winchester
youtube.com/channel/UCeOsY9TGb2UitTOr-Qn5wJg
Books Discussed:
Yann Andréa Steiner by Marguerite Duras
archipelagobooks.org/book/yann-andrea-steiner
Wait, Blink by Gunhild Oyehaug
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374285890
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey
https://yalepress.yale.edu/book/9780300221510/inadvertent
Book Festival I plan on attending:
Brooklyn Book Festival
brooklynbookfestival.org
A Mind at Peace.
Book - archipelagobooks.org/book/a-mind-at-peace
Goodreads - goodreads.com/book/show/2012466.A_Mind_at_Peace
Hosted by,
Matthew Sciarappa
youtube.com/channel/UCb7srjyBRVjcGpf2LJS7pQQ
Kendra Winchester
youtube.com/channel/UCeOsY9TGb2UitTOr-Qn5wJg
Jen @ Insert Literary Pun Here youtube.com/channel/UCm-7CYD6E97yulCpHJHCI6Q
Videos Introducing W.I.T. Read-athon TBR’s
aMatthew: youtube.com/watch?v=OqfAgtU-59Y
Kendra: youtube.com/watch?v=k8OZYOW6TCc&t=372s
PROMPTS:
1. Read something that is not a novel
Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante
europaeditions.com/book/9781609452926/frantumaglia
2. Read a book about childhood
A Tale Without A Name by Penelope S. Delta
pushkinpress.com/product/a-tale-without-a-name
Yann Andréa Steiner by Marguerite Duras
archipelagobooks.org/book/yann-andrea-steiner
3. Read a book with red on the cover
I Didn’t Talk by Beatriz Bracher
ndbooks.com/book/i-didn-t-talk
4. Read a text translated from a language that you haven't read a text translated from before
Wait, Blink by Gunhild Oyehaug
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374285890
BONUS PROMPTS:
1. Read a book that was translated posthumously
Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo
pushkinpress.com/product/land-of-smoke
2. Read a text written by a Nobel Laureate
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
goodreads.com/book/show/357486.Voices_from_Chernobyl
BONUS POINTS?:
1.Read texts that were also translated by women translators
Blue Self-Portrait by Noemi Lefebvre - transitbooks.org/books/blueselfportrait
Archipelago Books offer for WIT month!.
archipelagobooks.org/2018/08/50-off-books-by-women-translators-for-wit-month
The_Bookchemist - Read Along Video
youtube.com/watch?v=exi6tuuUZ54
The_Bookchemist - Review of Slow Learner
youtube.com/watch?v=gURP2XO9axo
Content Creators Mentioned in the Video:
Rincey Reads @ youtube.com/channel/UCovQFgis-zwBWnO5axLzlmg
Kamil @ youtube.com/channel/UC5EqdhJ8XWcgIeaD9IkjBAQ
Adam @ youtube.com/channel/UC6oWvnoj1O9kq0Mz_DFeIew
The BookChemist @ youtube.com/channel/UCWE-DhzTZqCGu_uZmVBOgig
WildeReads @ youtube.com/channel/UCoWEGZDykNDPSKWKKWiT7nQ
Insert Literary Pun Here @ youtube.com/channel/UCm-7CYD6E97yulCpHJHCI6Q
Steve Donoghue @ youtube.com/channel/UC1B9FfvVLRt8s6scUa79oag
Jen Campbell @youtube.com/channel/UCwME97IPvhAXAV_bbgAvOtw
Book Images taken for question # 9
Steve McCurry - On Reading
http://www.phaidon.com/store/photography/steve-mccurry-on-reading-9780714871295