Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The Spotify playlist for this week: open.spotify.com/playlist/7dyEl0TNKE0VGca1R1eN9R?si=5jkp1IxgQrCX1k2K0mc-YQ

Books discussed:
- The Lives of the Great Composers, by Harold Schonberg
- The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad
- Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
- The Histories, by Herodotus
- John Brown, Abolitionist, by David Reynolds
- Tracks, by Louise Erdrich
- Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men, by Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes

Links to the Indigathon announcement videos:
- Michelle @Thor Wants Another Letter: youtube.com/watch?v=ZSUcEIK6zSk
- Brody @Et Tu, Brody: youtube.com/watch?v=EuAuUFn8N30


Films discussed:
- Boyhood (dir: Richard Linklater)
- Ordinary Love (dir: Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn)
- The English Patient (dir: Anthony Minghella)

I also watched Sansho the Bailiff (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi) on Sunday of last week, but forgot to talk about it.





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