Bren Booth-Jones | Folio & Tome
You Dont Need an English Degree | You Only Need These 10 Books
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The Best & Worst Tag, created by @brenboothjones (me!) #best&worst
Prompt 1: The best work of poetry in your collection and the worst.
Prompt 2: The best work of fiction in your collection and the worst.
Prompt 3: The best worst of nonfiction in your collection and the worst.
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Check out the study programs available at the University of Amsterdam:
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Books mentioned in this video (with Amazon links):
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari amzn.to/4fxOmrh
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond amzn.to/3A5FaKd
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking amzn.to/4dtdKfW
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley amzn.to/3LNygvI
Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag amzn.to/4dsTJpH
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag amzn.to/3yqTvAC
An Interrupted Life by Etty Hillesum amzn.to/4dq5hKr
How to Read Literature Like a Professor amzn.to/3YpwXe8
How Literature Saved my Life by David Shields amzn.to/4ccorT9
The Fun Stuff by James Wood amzn.to/3LPxAWR
How Fiction Works by James Wood amzn.to/3WtZ3lU
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey amzn.to/3YpTMOT
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Part 1: Clarice Lispector, Louise Glück, Philip Larkin, James Baldwin, Etty Hillesum, Jacques Derrida
Part 2: Ben Lerner, Beowulf, John Milton, Wallace Stevens
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QUESTIONS:
1. What is your book title?
2. What is the genre?
3. What inspired you to write the book?
4. Is your book self published or traditionally published?
5. What do you love about your book?
6. What other books does yours resemble?
7. What scene or thing you were most excited for readers to read?
8. What's one thing readers may have missed or not picked up on when reading your book?
9. How much, if any, research went into your book?
10. Was your story set in or inspired by a place(s) you love/visited?
11. What in your book comes from writing what you know?
12. What did you learn from other authors that you were able to incorporate not your own book?
My book launch on the 29th of June will be hosted by @ToReadersItMayConcern
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#booktube #reading #poetry #books #poetrylovers
1. Andre Maurois (tr. Ella D'Arcy)--Ariel
2. Ernest Hemingway--A Farewell to Arms
6A. Agatha Christie--The Murder on the Links
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274. Oscar Wilde--The Importance of Being Earnest & Lady Windermere's Fan
297. George Orwell--Down and Out in Paris and London
312. Mulk Raj Anand--Untouchable
427. Jane Austen--Persuasion
442. Graham Greene--Brighton Rock
481. Virginia Woolf--A Room of One's Own
513. DH Lawrence--The Prussian Officer
524. Emily Brontë--Wuthering Heights
603. John Hersey--Hiroshima
616. Oscar Wilde--The Portrait of Dorian Grey
746. F Scott Fitzgerald--The Great Gatsby
759. DH Lawrence--Selected Letters
838. George Orwell--Animal Farm
896. Virginia Woolf--Between the Acts
907. Franz Kafka--The Trial
960. Charlotte Bronte--Jane Eyre
972. George Orwell--1984
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Books from the first 1000 I discuss:
274. O. Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest & Lady Windermere's Fan
297. George Orwell, Down & Out in Paris and London
427. Jane Austen, Persuasion
442. Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
481. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
524. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
603. John Hersey, Hiroshima
759. DH Lawrence, Selected Letters
838. George Orwell, Animal Farm
896. Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
#booktube #books #bookshelf #reading #library #shelflife #literature
1. What do you want your channel to be known for?
2. What content will people find on your channel?
3. What is the most represented genre of books?
4. What book are you known for championing?
5. What author is regularly featured on your channel?
6. What can people expect in the future? (reveal some exciting plans)
7. Tag people and state 'what you know them for?'.
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@saintdonoghue
@ToReadersItMayConcern
@JoeSpivey02
I tag:
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@BandysBooks
@brittabohlerthesecondshelf
My publisher:
On X: @hedgehogpoetry
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I didn't talk much about the tragedies of her life and how they informed her work, nor did I explore the classical allusions present in her major texts.
I'll have to save those topics for another video.
The books:
Monday or Tuesday
The Lady in the Looking Glass
Jacob's Room
Mrs Dalloway
The Common Reader (Vol 1)
To the Lighthouse
A Room of One's Own
Killing the Angel in the House
Flush
Between the Acts
Thanks for watching!
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