Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Here's the Spotify playlist of the music I recommend for today: open.spotify.com/playlist/0o0ZnLomZwCwUHLw8llmVu?si=G_3mk0KlTi2_-YVMlJScqg


Books mentioned:
- The Lives of the Great Composers, by Harold Schonberg
- The Histories, by Herodotus (trans. Robin Waterfield)
- The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad
- John Brown, Abolitionist, by David S. Reynolds
- Ariel, by Sylvia Plath


Films discussed:
- Personal Shopper (dir: Olivier Assayas)
- The Thin Red Line (dir: Terrence Malick)
- The Tree of Life (dir: Terrence Malick)
- Andrei Rublev (dir: Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Come and See (dir: Elem Klimov)
- The Emigrants (dir: Jan Troell)
- The New Land (dir: Jan Troell)
- Non-Fiction (dir: Olivier Assayas)
- The Story of Oharu (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Parasite (dir: Bong Joon-ho)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (dir: Bela Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky)






If want to find me elsewhere:

I'm on Instagram as a_cruel_readers_thesis: instagram.com/a_cruel_readers_thesis/?hl=en
And on Twitter as @ReadersThesis: twitter.com/ReadersThesis
And of course Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/43502665-lukas-sotola