Emmalea Russo on Reading & Writing | Interviewing the author of Vivienne kiran reader 2025-06-29 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comEmmalea Russo is a writer, astrologer, and teacher. Her first novel, Vivienne, was published by Arcade in September 2024 and is now out in paperback. In this interview, we discuss the differences between poetry and prose, the nature of the soul and Virgoan perfection.Follow Emmalea Russo here: instagram.com/emmalea.russo Sub to her Substack here: emmalea.substack.com You can buy Vivienne wherever books are sold :) 0:00 - Intro1:28 - character astrology signs 4:31 - virgo & scorpio, twin signs6:00 - Hecate archetype and the evil V7:42 - Vivienne's form9:54 - the internet, the soul 14:47 - Velour21:00 -WE ARE ENTERING SPOILER TERRITORY21:28 - The genesis of Afterlife 24:00 - Alchemy and creation; womb and tomb30:21 - the quest for immortality 33:29 - NO MORE SPOILERS33:38 - novel writing vs writing poetry 41:28 - writing journey, epilepsy, and being on the precipice43-30 - writing practices 47:17 - the internet's siren call 51:13 - book inspo and reading list56:30 - emmalea's book recs!!59:30 - the moon papers, the batty follow-up 1:00:37 - where you can find emmalea ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
may reading wrap up kiran reader 2025-06-17 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - intro0:58 - The Governesses by Anne Serre read w/ @NerdyNurseReads 7:18 - A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCullochTake a shot each time I say… CULTURE!15:07 - The Pilgrimage by John Broderick20:09 - Sky Daddy by Kate Folk25:06 - 101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason35:24 - Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History by Jamina Ramirez41:11 - The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig44:08 - The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft by Diana Helmuth50:33 - Sweep Book 1-4 by Cate Tiernan (Book of Shadows, The Coven, Blood Witch, Dark Magick)53:08 - Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman By Allison Gilbert and Julia ScheeresOTHER THINGS MENTIONEDLord Jim at Home by Dinah BrookeGuard Your Daughters by Diana TuttonPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfMOVIES:Wicked Little LettersXiao Wu or Pickpocket✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
i watched FOUR movies in TWO months! wow! kiran reader 2025-05-31 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comnot my best video, but it is what it is!!!! 0:00 intro 0:24 - Mickey 175:41 - Pride and Prejudice BBC7:00 - Pride and Prejudice 20058:47 - Antiporno11:42 - The Code ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
april wrap up kiran reader 2025-05-17 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - intro 0:13 - Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli0:41 - The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting by Clara Parkes2:45 - Sister Europe by Nell Zink11:53 - October Child by Linda Boström Knausgård17:01 - Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson17:28 - long cue the perfume monologue 18:35 - Back to vespertine 25:01 - How to Feed a Dictator by Witold Szablowski31:31 - Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife by Hetta Howes34:18 - Liberty, Equality,Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution by Anne Higonnet41:04 - Books I dnf'd:Fabric: the hidden history of the material world by victoria finlayThe Fabric of Civilization: How textiles made the word by Virgnia PostrelInvitation to a Banquet by Fuschsia Dunlop Shoutout:@audreyapproved Yahaira of instagram.com/bitterpurl Misc MentionedPure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish by Francesca PeacockThe Biography of Margery Kempe Eragon by Christopher Paolini ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
perfume and books 🦢 regime des fleur discovery set kiran reader 2025-05-12 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comI forgot to share which scent I bought a full bottle of! Feel free to guess which scent I absolutely loved :) Thumbnail image pulled from alia raza’s ig (@aliaraza) 0:00 - intro 1:25 - my thoughts on rdf 2:09 - Tears5:04 - eye interlude xx5:15 - back to tears5:38 - Rock River Melody 7:57 - Falling Trees9:51 - Oud Dukhan 12:22 - Cacti 14:30 - Nitesurf Neroli 16:34 - Glass Blooms 18:48 - Little Flower 22:20 - Jade Vines 24:24 - La Bas27:01 - Himitsu Violets 28:47 - Fleur Eclair32:14 - Crushed Fruit 34:10 - Toor Toor 36:21 - Green Vanille 37:07 - End notes Reddit thread: reddit.com/r/fragrance/comments/1euqr4k/r%C3%A9gime_des_fleurs_discovery_set_reviews TikTok: tiktok.com/@eau.so.peculiar/video/7486348090388073759?q=regime%20des%20fleurs%20smellwithelle&t=1746966358363✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
may r.e.p.o.r.t. kiran reader 2025-05-09 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comshoutout @casskrug song of the moment: youtu.be/v2N4FTK6iRM?si=wULhN5TKD-7DsZ3J ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
march 2025 reading wrap up kiran reader 2025-04-11 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - everyone be kind to me bc my eye hurts1:30 - Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda 6:56 - A Leopard Skin Hat by Anne Serre12:26 - Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq19:03 - Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico23:05 - Crimson Month by Kristen Ciccarelli: Heartless Hunter & Rebel Witch 28:59 - The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark35:00 - Cough break sorry35:35 - Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney44:06 - Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser 52:00 - Religion adds texture!!! And, I forgot to mention that the courts were obsessed with Mary Magdalene and there was lots of great imagery Misc Books Mentioned:Parallel Lives by Phyllis RoseFilterworld by Kyle Chykka Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Serpent and Dove by Shelby MahurinEragon by Christopher Paolini Marie Antoinette by Antonia FraserIf Only by Vigdis Hjorth✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
sunday reading sprints kiran reader 2025-04-07 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
predicting the shortlist for international booker 2025 kiran reader 2025-04-06 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comAll 13 books The Longlist 📚 A Leopard-Skin Hat, Anne Serre (translated by Mark Hutchinson)On a Woman’s Madness, Astrid Roemer (translated by Lucy Scott)Heart Lamp: Selected Stories, Banu Mushtaq (translated by Deep Bhasthi)Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico (translated by Sophie Hughes)Eurotrash, Christian Kracht (translated by Daniel Bowles)Under the Eye of the Big Bird, Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Asa Yoneda)Hunchback, Saou Ichikawa (translated by Polly Barton)Small Boat, Vincent Delecroix (translated by Helen Stevens)Reservoir Bitches, Dahlia de la Cerda (translated by Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary)Solenoid, Mircea Cărtărescu (translated by Sean Cotter)There's a Monster Behind the Door, Gaëlle Bélem (translated by Karen Fleetwood)On the Calculation of (Volume I), Solvej Balle (translated by Barbara J. Haveland)The Book of Disappearance, Ibtisam Azem (translated by Sinan Antoon)✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
i watched FOUR whole movies in february kiran reader 2025-03-20 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - I WATCHED FOUR MOVIES0:23 - One of Them Days0:35 - a diatribe against Hollywood tiktok content 1:56 - back to the movie4:20 - The Collection by Harold Pinter7:20 - great dialogue is witty 10:52 - Paddington in Peru12:55 - The Great Buddha+ 19:58 - what are YOU watching✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
all 12 books i read in february 2025 kiran reader 2025-03-16 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 intro00:30 - Vivienne by Emmalea Russo5:12 - When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker12:04 - The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent15:01 - Something to do with Paying Attention by David Foster Wallace22:09 - Quicksilver by Callie Hart25:01 - Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito, though i mention "spoilers" i actually dont think i said anything super spoilery lol 28:08 - They by Kay Dick31:04 - Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva35:06 - Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki40:37 - On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle44:09 - The Mystery Guest: A True Story by Grégoire Bouillier49:14 - Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi KawakamiMISC MENTIONED:The Cruel Prince by Holly BlackThrone of Glass series by Sarah J MaasAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisOn the Calculation of Volume, 1 by Solvej Balle Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Dune by Frank Herbert Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
march in (mostly) london + edinburgh + booker + perfume kiran reader 2025-03-10 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comi talk so much in this video! 0:00 - just some shots for the vibe0:13 - I announce we are in London and then declare the east is the best1:05 - monologue about the weather 1:37 - the booker books I want to buy2:20 - my experience trying to buy booker books at foyles, waterstones and hatchards and yahaira shoutout 4:14 - v&a great mughal exhibition is so good u need to go6:29 - rapid fire thoughts on reservoir bitches7:57 - a leopard skin hat book 9:10 - plans for the week (eltham palace and edinburgh and a movie)10:30 - I describe harrod's perfume hall (u could skip this lol)11:17 - I announce we are going on a perfume journey12:09 - penhaligon's (halefti, cairo, changing Constance)14:23 - prada perfume lol15:32 - clips of the mughal exhibition 16:12 - thoughts on eltham palace, needs love and care 18:45 - Edinburgh thoughts 19:35 - ANOTHER weather monologue 20:14 - STILL talking about perfume 21:19 - not keen on leopard book 21:52 - eltham palace 22:14 - clips from edinburgh✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
in milan! AGAIN! but this time its international booker kiran reader 2025-03-01 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - intro, plus an int booker leakkkk! and Singapore? 1:27 - alberta ferretti, jil sander, blaze milano and marchesi sweet 2:17 - longlist overview, it's "fresh... youthful"4:18 - brunello cucinelli, bar nico, la double j, & etro5:08 - marco de vincenzo & etro show 5:45 - moschino backstage & missoni show 6:16 - overview of the day 8:40 - guess who's going to the d&g show? 9:25 - an earnest plea for perfume help! 16:13 - dolce & gabbana 16:49 - final thoughts and until next time xoxoI don't own any music! shoutout musical people! about half of the music from this vlog is pulled via: youtube.com/watch?v=XTLthDVbAFU&ab_channel=MAJ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
i watched 2 movies in january 2025 kiran reader 2025-02-26 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - Intro0:15 - Conclave7:14 - Devil Wears Prada Musical9:00 - Happy Together ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
reading sprits + chat kiran reader 2025-02-23 | see u soon!!!!!!! we will stop when its time for me to eat dinner! image via: Fear of Fear (1975)
international booker 2025 predictions 🐙 kiran reader 2025-02-17 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - intro1:00 - the books 7:26 - the themes in MY longlist lol 8:29 - tell me your predictions pls and thank u!!!✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
5 books for valentines day kiran reader 2025-02-14 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - Intro1:27 - The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet 3:00 - Willful Disregard by Lena Andersson5:37 - Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham7:54 - My Husband by Maud Ventura8:41 - Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
january 2025 reading wrap up! kiran reader 2025-02-09 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - intro0:23 - Three Fires by Denise Mina 3:30 - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore9:19 - The Odyssey by Homer16:38 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros17:38 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros19:43 - Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros23:01 - The Beggar Student by Osamu Dazai25:00 - The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey32:05 - Mary by Vladimir Nabokov35:40 - On the Calculation of Volume, volume I by Solvej Balle41:33 - Offshore by Penelope FitzgeraldMisc Mentioned:- Booth by Karen Joy Fowler- Orbital by Sammantha Harvey- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein - Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins- The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell - Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power by Sonia Purnell - A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams- Run River by Joan Didion✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
all 5 films i watched in december kiran reader 2025-01-28 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 intro 0:32 Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (documentary)2:40 The Sisters Brothers5:30 Wicked7:55 French Exit10:29 Twilight of the Warriors: Walled InMISC MENTIONEDAllure by Diana Vreeland edited by Jackie OKung fu HustleThe Sister Brothers by Patrick deWittFrench Exit by Patrick deWitt✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
january 2025 VLOG: milan, fashion week, prada, rome, trevi fountain, onyx storm + nabakovs debut kiran reader 2025-01-23 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - intro in Milan 0:33 - brunello cucinelli presentation, dolce & gabbana, church's2:28 - prada + me being a silly goose re tiktok5:23 - bar luce, prada show6:27 - idk think I'm talking about fourth wing etc12:04 - trevi fountain12:40 - vatican museum, sistine chapel, nabakov Things Mentioned:Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros Eragon by Christopher PaolliniThrone of Glass by Sarah J. MaasSomething to do with Paying Attention by David Foster Wallace The Beggar Student by Osamu DazaiMary by Vladimir Nabokov Emma by Jane Austen✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
december 2024 reading wrap up kiran reader 2025-01-13 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - intro21:11 - middle-ish of the video41:33 - final salutations Eurotrash by Christian KrachtEmily Dickinson Face to Face by Martha Dickinson BianchiGhost Roots by Pemi AgudaThe Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss"We Met in December " by Rosie CurtisMeet me in London by Georgia ToffoloWillful Disregard by Lena AnderssonThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWittFrench Exit by Patrick DeWittHungerstone by Kat DunnBlankets by Craig ThompsonRodham by Curtis SittenfeldHunchback by Saou IchikawaPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenBeauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata MISC MENTIONEDMouth by Puloma GhoshIf Only by Vigdis Hjorth Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck Annie Ernaux misc Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyButcher’s Crossing by John Williams Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroCarmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu Ottessa Moshfegh miscFun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
my 2025 reading goals!!!!!!!! kiran reader 2025-01-08 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comTELL ME YOUR RESOLUTIONS IN THE COMMENTS XOXOXChannels Mentioned: @NerdyNurseReads MISC THINGS MENTIONED:- The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922 - 1968 by William Feaver- The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley- Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah Carlson- Run River by Joan Didion- South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion- The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell- The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
techo kaigi 2025 | hobonichi, midori, and more journals!!!!!! kiran reader 2025-01-06 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comvid's a little blurry? my b XOXOXOXOlast year's journal video: youtube.com/watch?v=C1Fh9Q7I6KwMENTIONEDMorning Pages: The Artist's Way Dodolulu DesignsYumi Kitagashi ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
film critics best films of 2024 kiran reader 2025-01-03 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - intro0:50 - films21:05 - tell me your fav filmIn The Mood for Love - 2000Withnail & I - 1987The Daytrippers - 1996Ariel - 1988The Doom Generation - 1995Xiao Wu - 1997Millenium Mambo - 2001The Banshees of Inisherin - 2022Anora - 2024Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In - 2024✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
the best non-fiction books of 2024 kiran reader 2025-01-02 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comInto Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of RussiaThe Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His EmpireSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and memory in Northern IrelandWhen Women Ruled the WorldTo Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie ConverseThe Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for IndependenceThe Strangers' House: Writing Northern IrelandThe Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan DidionPockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things CloseLet's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the WorldMISC MENTIONED:We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
best books of 2024 kiran reader 2025-01-01 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - happy new year bb 2:07 - HONORABLE MENTIONSB as in Beirut by Iman Humaydan Younnes; All Fours by Miranda July; Butcher's Crossing by John Williams; James by Percival Everett; Brat by Gabriel Smith4:56 - BOOKS 10 - 5Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata; Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; If Only by Vigdis Hjorth; The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft; Binstead's Safari by Rachell Ingalls17:59 - BOOKS 5 - 1The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood; Run River by Joan Didion; Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee; Rejections by Tony Tulathimutte, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller26:12 - FINAL THOUGHTS MISC BOOKS MENTIONED:Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
anora, mishimas debut film, and the book club kiran reader 2024-12-26 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comps - i'm still working on the anora newsletter! 0:00 intro0:22 - Anora2:27 - Afraid to Die 5:47 - The Book ClubPride and PrejudiceIn the Mood for LoveMisc Mentionedmaster and margarita by mikhail bulgakov50 shades of grey by E. L. JamesShows MentionedThe Book GroupPeaky Blinders✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
i read 5 romance books so you dont have to kiran reader 2024-12-20 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - Intro1:58 - We Met in December by Rosie Curtis 8:24 - Always in December by Emily Stone10:13 - The 12 Dates of Christmas 15:00 - Meet me In London !! MY ENTHUSIASM FOR THIS BOOK! LOL20:30 - One day In December by Josie 23:21 - closing remarks from the esteemed chairwoman of the 2024 Christmas romance in London bookprize ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
a nyrb gift guide for christmas 🎁✨ kiran reader 2024-12-19 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comTwelve NYRB Books for the 12 zodiac signs just in time for the holidays. happy shopping! TIME STAMPS:0:00 - Intro1:18 - Aries2:21 - Taurus3:42 - Gemini5:05 - Cancer6:02 - Leo7:10 - Virgo 7:48 - Tangent8:04 - Back to Virgo, but small tangent too 9:45 - Libra 11:10 - Scorpio 12:39 - Sagittarius 14:45 - Capricorn16:30 - Aquarius18:25 - Pisces19:16 - Outro ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
the only book gift guide you need 🎁✨ kiran reader 2024-12-13 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comI 🫶 McNally Jackson & McNally Editions! 0:00 - Intro1:10 - Earth Signs2:52 - PSA3:54 - Fire Signs6:10 - Air Signs8:40 - Water Signs10:12 - Lmk if you have any video requests ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
10 ideas for your 2025 reading goals kiran reader 2024-12-12 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comChannels mentioned: @NerdyNurseReads and @nathansnook Misc Mentioned:Charles DickensJoan DidionJane AustenPhilip LarkinDorothy MolloySeamus Heaney 0:00 - intro 0:33 - idea 1 through 10 Everytime I said poetry.org - I meant: poetryfoundation.org/poems/poem-of-the-day lol!8:08 - tell me your ideas!✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
november reading wrap up!!!! kiran reader 2024-12-03 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comWE LOVE READING ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader0:00 - false start 0:30 - The Nenoquich by Henry BeanBuddy Read with @NerdyNurseReads and instagram.com/bitterpurl@NerdyNurseReads 4:45 - Role Play by Clara Drummond 6:58 - Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon9:56 - The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister11:52 - Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara19:29 - SECRET BOOK 1 & 2 - STAY TUNED FOR DECEMBER19:44 - Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show BusinessMISC MENTIONED:The War Below by Ernest Scheyder Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
THE END OF YEAR TAG IS HERE!!!!!!!! 2024 kiran reader 2024-12-01 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comI tag @Lokster71 + @Megzi14 🧚 questions 🧚- Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish?- Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year?- Is there a new release you're still waiting for?- What are three books you want to read before the end of the year?- Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favourite book of the year?- Have you already started making reading plans for next year?✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
8 short and sexy books kiran reader 2024-11-29 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comIt only occurred to me after filming this video that many of these books are very sexy. Or maybe it is more apt to say that I can make the argument for most of these books being sexy. 0:00 - Intro0:45 - BooksThe Patriot by Yukio MishimaThe Walk by Robert WalserReunion by Fred UhlmanThe Breast by Philip RothThe Murderess by Alexandros PapadiamantisMy Death by Lisa Tuttle The Stepdaughter by Caroline BlackwoodRole Play by Clara Drummond 10:32 - silly goose✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
movies are life kiran reader 2024-11-13 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comwatch any good films in october? lmk! are you a fan of reality tv? 0:00 - intro0:32 - The Banshees of Inisherin3:01 - Millenium Mambo7:34 - Real Housewives of New York City8:31 - No One Wants This9:18 The Book Group✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
does anyone even care about this years booker? 📚 booker 2024 prediction kiran reader 2024-11-08 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
8 nonfic books about love for the lover girls 💔 kiran reader 2024-11-06 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.coma short and sweet video about nonfic books on love! lmk if you have any recs for me0:00 - Intro0:58 - More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter1:52 - Sea State by Tabita Lasley3:16 - Molly by Blake Butler4:20 - Free Love by The Story of a Great American Scandal5:30 - Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg7:07 - Henry and June by Anais min 8:19 - Parallel Lives: 5 Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose9:10 - Lives of the Wives by Carmela Ciurau ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
i read 14 books and dnfd 6 in october 2024 kiran reader 2024-11-04 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comsuch a long video! ty for watching and do lmk what you're reading ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader00:00 - Intro0:39 - Long Live the Post Horn! By Vigdis Hjorth 3:41 - The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir 5:26 - The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty 11:42 - Witches Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers byBarbara Ehrenreich with Deirdre English 13:10 - Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp 16:10 - More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter 21:39 - The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland by Alexander Poots 24:18 - Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz 28:04 - Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff - ty the publisher for sending me this 29:53 - A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Robert Evans 32:00 - Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain by Caitlin C. Gillespie 33:15 - South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion 36:30 - The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley 42:53- Art in Nature by Tove Jansson44:50 - 6 Books I DNF’d50:40 - I love you all!OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED:🦪 Is Mother Dead? By Vigdis Hjorth 🦪 If Only by Vigdis Hjorth 🦪 The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf🦪 Manic Pixie E-Girl Nate Lemke 🦪 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz🦪 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis🦪 Milkman by Anna Burns 🦪 A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare🦪 Seasons of the Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih🦪 When Women Ruled the World 🦪 Run River by Joan Didion🦪 Bluebeard by Angela Carter
10 seconds of my life in october: the end of pfw, a quick trip to athens, halloween in nyc + matcha kiran reader 2024-11-02 | ...
Puloma Ghosh on Reading & Writing | A Spooky Szn Interview 🎃 kiran reader 2024-10-31 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comPuloma Ghosh is the author of Mouth, a debut collection of short stories. The collection fuses speculative fiction, horror and fantastical elements for stories that are eerie, otherworldly -- perfect for Halloween. In this interview we discuss her collection, the short story form and the nature of writing. Follow Puloma Ghosh here: instagram.com/pulomeowYou can buy Mouth wherever books are sold :) ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader--------------------0:00 - Intro0:29 - Taking us back in time to the inception of Mouth4:26 - Anomaly was the most fun to write 5:44 - Authorial Obsessions: Vampires 9:00 - Alienation and Connection16:00 - Let's talk about horror and speculative fiction19:17 - Dreams & Nightmares24:18 - THE SHORT STORY FORM IS A SHOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!36:00 - The working writer life!40:50 - Read widely!42:00 - The Recs You Need!!!!!!44:16 - what's next --------------------🧿🧿🧿Puloma Ghosh on Reading & Writing | An Interview about Short Stories, Horror and More#authorinterviews #booktube #books #pulomaghosh #spookyseason On Kiran Reader’s Youtube Channel you will get all things literature, travel, lifestyle vlogs, art gallery snippets, content from fashion shows and more - Kiran Reader reviews books from the most popular authors like Salman Rushdie, Ottessa Moshfegh, W. Somerset Maugham, Dennis Johnson, Eve Babitz, Fleur Jaggy, and more. She likes translated fiction, contemporary fiction, Russian literature, classics, some fantasy, the occasional romance book, plenty of non-fiction - what can we say? She’s with it all. (Cue Pop Smoke reference). Check out this monthly wrap up book video - one of many reading wrap-ups. Find out “What I read this mont” and “what I read this week” by watching my wrap up video. Kiran Reader reacts and predicts to a lot of things, especially the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize which includes former long listed authors like Olga Tokarczuk, Han Kang, Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, and more. Punjabi American book tuber Kiran Reader collaborates with some of the most ienresting book tube creators. Some of this channel’s most popular videos: “Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh 🐑🪺📚 Character Analysis, Shrek Comparisons and More”“Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize: A Series #13”“the BEST of books 2022!!!!! (literary fiction + nonfiction and RESOLUTIONS)”“Heaven by Mieko Kawakami 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist: A Series #6”Her most popular Short include a video of Naomi Cambell, a video of Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber, travel clips from Cappadocia, Turkey and the famous Cedric Grolet London cookie.
i watched FOUR films in september!!!!!!!! 🎥 kiran reader 2024-10-26 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com0:00 - intro chats0:24 - Along the Coast (doc from 1958)1:46 - Inu-Oh (2021) 3:26 - Came to Me (2023)5:09 - Xiao Wu (1997)✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
a feminist critique of the tropic of cancer 🙄 kiran reader 2024-10-22 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comfilmed this a while ago, who knows what i was even talking about lol super controversial book lmk if you have read it in the comments xo ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
all the books i read in september 2024! kiran reader 2024-10-17 | ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.comall of the books i read in september! a glorious beautiful month! ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader0:00 - Intro Chats🥞 The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf ALSO A BUDDY READ WITH THE GREAT @NerdyNurseReads 🥞 Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen by Jane Draycott🥞 The Stepdaughter by Caroline BlackwoodBUDDY READ WITH THE WONDERFUL YAHAIRA OF BITTERPURL FAME ON IGinstagram.com/bitterpurl 🥞 The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922 - 1968 by William Feaver🥞 The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford🥞 Mouth by Puloma Ghosh (shout out to Astra Publishing House) @astrapublishinghouse 🥞 The Murderess by Alexandros PapadiamantisRhine Journey by Ann SchleeBUDDY READ WITH THE WONDERFUL YAHAIRA OF BITTERPURL FAME ON IGinstagram.com/bitterpurl 🥞 When Women Run Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power of the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow28:26 - final thoughts on my reading life MISC MENTIONEDMalina by Ingeborg BachmannStrangers to Ourselves by Rachel AvivParadise Logic by Sophie KempAn Unmarried Woman (movie)Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy SchoenbergerBraised Pork by An YuGhost Music by An YuWhen Women Ruled the World by Kara Cooney
if only by vigdis hjorth discussion w/ cass & kiran kiran reader 2024-09-20 | Chatting all things If Only by Vigdis Hjorth with Cass and Kiran Cass' channel: youtube.com/@casskrug/videos ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com ✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran ✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com ✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader
birthday book haul!! 🎈 kiran reader 2024-09-18 | happy birthday to all of my virgos!!!!!!!! ✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran✨ email: kiran@kiran-gill.com✨ I now have a blackwell's affiliate link!! Check it out: blackwells.co.uk/?a_aid=kiranreader0:00 - blah blah blah!0:40 - a wonderful assortment of interesting books picked by an even more interesting reader! 5:07 - that's a wrap! BOOKS - possibly in a different order from the video:Franz Kafka's DiariesThe Stepdaughter by Caroline BlackwoodWill & Testament by Vigdis HjorthLong Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis HjorthMouth by Puloma Ghosh Shocking Life by Elsa Schiaparelli Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie DykstraThe Blue Sky by Galsan TschinagSomeone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED:Great Granny Webster by Caroline BlackwoodIf Only by Vigdis Hjorth Shoutout to Astra House for the final copy of Mouth
