Ben Fensome | APRIL 2021 READING WRAP UP | it's all about love and death innit @somebenfen | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Hello!

Ben here,

Here's the books I read in April! 4 of which may very well be in my top 10 of the whole year!

It's a long one... (bonus points for anyone who finds the Theresa May reference)

Timestamps (or chapters as I believe they're now called):
00:00 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist Reaction
03:30 The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. by Michael Hulse)
08:10 The New Sorrows of Young W., Ulrich Plenzdorf (trans. by Romy Fursland)
10:16 Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin (trans. by James E. Falen)
16:32 You, Nuala Ni Chonchuir
19:52 The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (trans. by William Weaver)
24:40 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart
27:59 Beloved, Toni Morrison
32:18 Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille (trans. by Joachim Neugroschal)
38:39 Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
45:14 Open Water, Caleb Azumah Nelson

Many of these books were provided by Kieran @KDbooks (THANKS SO MUCH MATE!!) If you don't follow him then what are you even doing?

Here is his review of Story of the Eye:
youtube.com/watch?v=6mYnjRX11Xw&t=397s

Other Follow up Vids:

The Book Chemist's in depth review of The Name of the Rose:
youtube.com/watch?v=9JHbd34D3zM&t=500s

Great review of Open Water from a new booktuber Satbo Reads Books:
youtube.com/watch?v=F2vSZzfkywk&t=205s

A brilliant comprehensive review into Detransition Baby from Zack Wilson (I want him to make more vids so please send him some love!)
youtube.com/watch?v=CwdUR_oDmNY

Thanks everyone!

Ben x