The Break & Birdie (Double Book Review) bigalbooks 2024-10-20 | The Break & Birdie (Double Book Review)
Mid-Month Reading Update (March of the Mammoths Readathon) bigalbooks 2023-03-16 | We have reached the halfway point of the March of the Mammoths Readathon!Let us know how your reading is going so far!Books mentioned:-The Weird Compendium (ed. Jeff & Ann Vandermeer)-The Mirror and the Light - Hilary Mantel-The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (trans. Edward Seidensticker)-Ulysses - James Joyce
March of the Mammoths TBR 2023 bigalbooks 2023-03-01 | Happy 1st of March! Here is what I'll be ~~attempting~~ to read this month for the March of the Mammoths readathon :)
March of the Mammoths Announcement 2023 bigalbooks 2023-02-12 | It’s Mammoth Season! March of the Mammoths is back for another round this March. Check out creator and host Jason’s announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=m3Sj7iJeMVkMusic Credits: youtube.com/watch?v=Mgw6oKGt4iE
Quintessential Summer Reads bigalbooks 2022-09-16 | Hi all! I’m not ready to say goodbye to summer, so I wanted to reminisce about some of the standout books I read during July & August. What do you think makes for a perfect summer read?~~Books Mentioned~~-When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations (ed. Joy Hard)-Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - William Finnegan-The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje-The Bay of Noon - Shirley Hazzard-A House in the Country - Jose Donoso (Trans. David Prichard)-Cereus Blooms at Night - Shani Mootoo-The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim - Marcia Douglas-Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid-The Bridge of Beyond - Simone Schwarz-Bart (trans. Barbara Bray)-Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison-Moby Dick - Herman Melville~~Music Mentioned~~Foundation Roots Reggae Mix: youtube.com/watch?v=MjL0ipgT7xg
March of the Mammoths - Update #1 bigalbooks 2022-03-10 | Checking in on the first week of March of the Mammoths! Also mentioned is an *unofficial* 24 in 48 hour readathon happening this weekend (Mar 12 & 13th). :)~Books Mentioned~Pessoa: A Biography - Richard ZenithThe Forsyte Saga (Vol 1) - John GalsworthyKristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (trans. Tiina Nunnally)The Best Poems of the English Language - Ed. Harold Bloom
March of the Mammoths TBR (2022) bigalbooks 2022-03-01 | March of the Mammoths 2022 is officially upon us!~Books Mentioned~Pessoa: A Biography - Richard ZenithAn American Tragedy - Theodore DreiserThe Forsyte Saga (Vol 1) - John GalsworthyKristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (trans. Tiina Nunnally)The Best Poems of the English Language - Ed. Harold Bloom
March of the Mammoths 2022 Announcement! bigalbooks 2022-02-06 | Does reading an 800+ page book in the month of March sound like a fun time to you? Join us in the March of the Mammoths! :) Check out:Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse & Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868 youtube.com/c/OldBluesChapterandVerse youtube.com/channel/UCUboZP1VriVO2aYVBexY5rw/featured#marchingmammoths2022
Favourite Reads of 2021 bigalbooks 2022-01-13 | HELLO AGAIN :)~~~Books Mentioned~~~The Sentence - Louise ErdrichCrossroads - Jonathan FranzenCold Comfort Farm - Stella GibbonPilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie DillardThe Turquoise Ledge - Leslie Marmon SilkoThe Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David WengrowThe Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuinA Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George SaundersIn the Skin of a Lion - Michael OndaatjePossession - A.S. ByattThe Transit of Venus - Shirley HazzardThe Oresteia - Aeschylus (trans. Grene & Lattimore)An Oresteia - trans. Anne Carson~~Videos Mentioned~~Agamemnon: youtube.com/watch?v=mdv3vkECqXA&t=1195sDark Academic Reading Playlist - youtube.com/watch?v=Otqp3M3elzU&t=3089s
March of the Mammoths Wrap Up bigalbooks 2021-05-12 | Hello again long lost friends! Welcome to my better-late-than-never March Wrap Up. March ended up being a hectic month, but I still managed to read three fantastic mammoth-sized books. If you participated in March of the Mammoths, please let me know how it went! :)~~~Books Mentioned~~~Tom Jones - Henry FieldingRed Comet: The Short Life & Blazing Art of Sylvia PlathAnna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (trans. Louise & Aylmer Maude)A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
March of the Mammoths TBR bigalbooks 2021-03-01 | #MarchingMammothsHappy March of the Mammoths! Here's what I'll be attempting to read this year :)~~~Books Mentioned~~~Tom Jones - Henry FieldingAnna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude)A Suitable Boy - Vikram SethRed Comet - Heath Clark~~~Channels Mentioned~~~Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse
Black History Month Book Tag bigalbooks 2021-02-08 | ~~~Channels Mentioned~~~@booksbyleynes (original tag creator)youtube.com/watch?v=DuDYy5GJjkThe Artisan Geekyoutube.com/channel/UCamkpihJtPvMuH49D6FejEw Tiana Tea youtube.com/c/TianaTea/videos~~~Books/Films Mentioned~~~****Canadian Nonfiction/Fiction recommendations****Black Writers Matter (Ed. Whitney French)The Hanging of Angelique - Afua CooperPolicing Black Lives - Robin MaynardBlack Like Who - Rinaldo WalcottThe Skin We’re In - Desmond ColeFifteen Dogs - André AlexisWashington Black - Esi EdugyanThe Rage of Dragons - Evan WinterFrying Plantain - Zalinka Reid-BentaBrother - David ChariandyReproduction - Ian WilliamsBread Out of Stone - Dionne BrandHalf Blood Blues - Esi EdugyanThings Are Good Now - Djamila Ibrahim***Other Books/Films Mentioned***The Wizard of the Crow - Ngugi wa Thiong’oHouse of Stone - Novuyo Rose TshumaSunjata - Bamba Suso & Banna KanuteI Am Not Your Negro - James BaldwinThe Old Drift - Namwali SerpellThe Deep - Rivers SolomonThe African Trilogy - Chinua AchebeFour Hundred Souls - ed. Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. BlainOne Hundred Boyfriends - Brontez PurnellThe Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton~~~Questions~~~ 1. What is a book everyone should be reading during Black History Month? (give one fiction and one nonfiction title) 2. Which Black booktuber would you recommend watching and why? 3. What is your favorite book written by a Black author from an African country? 4. What is your favorite Black classic? 5. Which movie / book-to-movie-adaptation / documentary would you recommend watching during Black History Month? 6. What’s on your TBR for Black History Month? 7. Which new releases by Black writers are you looking forward to the most this year?
March of the Mammoths 2021 - Announcement! bigalbooks 2021-02-04 | #marchingmammoths2021The March of the Mammoths readathon is back for another round this year! Challenge yourself to try and read at least one 800+ page book this March.~~Videos Mentioned~~Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse youtube.com/watch?v=g4nq_mOwIj0Lukáš @acruelreadersthesis5868 youtube.com/watch?v=zYrxR52AUuQ
Favourite Reads of 2020 bigalbooks 2021-01-02 | Welcome to my attempt to try and highlight a few favourites from the 286 books that I read this year! ~~~Books Mentioned~~~~***2020 Honourable Mentions***Disparates - Patrick MaddenSing Backwards and Weep - Mark LaneganShuggie Bain - Douglas StuartThe Subtweet - Vivek ShrayaNoopiming - Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonThe Beguiling - Zsuzsi Gartner***Top 10 Favourites***Grendel - John GardnerDaytripper - Fábio Moon and Gabriel BáThe Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen (trans. Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favolla Goldman)Measure for Measure - William ShakespeareA Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee WilliamsThe Novel: A Biography - Michael SchmidtThe Red and the Black - Stendhal (trans. Burton Raffel)Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall KimmererNotre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo (trans. Katherine Liu)In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (trans. Davis/Moncrieff/Enright/Kilmartin)~~~ Videos Mentioned ~~~Reading Proust in 2020:youtube.com/watch?v=_w1-g49DpsU&t=1280s
In Search of Lost Time: Reading Proust in a Pandemic bigalbooks 2020-12-17 | Did you read anything game-changing during the pandemic? For me, it was Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.I ramble about life stuff at the start of the video, so please skip to 10:30 if you just want to hear about the book :)~~Topics of Conversation~~3:24 - How reading Proust helped me throughout the pandemic10:30 - Important ideas explored in the text23:42 - 3 reasons why Proust is worth reading ~~Books Mentioned~~In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust(I read the Lydia Davis translation for Swann’s Way and then switched over to Everyman’s Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright translations for the rest!)~~Videos Mentioned~~My Misconceptions About Proust:youtube.com/watch?v=Zbn1_ome6Iw
Catch Up Wrap Up (Pt. 2) bigalbooks 2020-12-10 | Here's what I was up to in September and October! SEPTEMBER READING - “Reading My Heritage”~~Books Mentioned~~The Love Story of the Century - Märta Tikkanen (trans. Stina Katchadourian)The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories - Tove Jansson (trans. Thomas Teal & Silvester Mazzarella)Tove Jansson: Work and Love - Tuula Karjalainen (trans. David McDuffPurge - Sofie Oksanen (trans. Lola Rogers)The Colonel’s Wife - Rosa Liksom (trans. Lola Rogers)The Seven Brothers - Aleksis Kivi (trans. Richard Impola)True - Riika Pulkkinen (trans. Lola Rogers)Shuggie Bain - Douglas StuartSummer - Ali SmithThe Trick Is To Keep Breathing - Janice GallowayPoems - Thomas HardyRoseanna - Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (trans. Lois Roth)La Celestina - Fernando de Rojas (trans. Lesley Bird Simpson)Les fluers de mal - Charles Baudelaire (trans. Francis Scarfe)OCTOBER READING - “Gothic Lit/Books that Goths Would Like”~~Books Mentioned~~The Castle of Otranto - Horace WalpoleThe Monk - Matthew LewisThe Italian - Anne RadcliffeVathek - William Beckford Lost Souls - Poppy Z BriteSilk - Caitlin R. KiernanThe Crow - James O’BarrThe Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina RossettiSomething Wicked This Way Comes - Ray BradburyDisparates - Patrick Madden
Catch Up Wrap Up (Pt. 1) bigalbooks 2020-12-06 | Well, look who showed up again...***Books Mentioned***~~~Shakespeare!~~~Henry VIIIKing John Two Gentlemen of VeronaAs You Like ItLove’s Labour’s LostTroilus and CressidaThe SonnetsThe Narrative PoemsSonnet’s Shakespeare - Sonnet L’AbbéVinegar Girl - Anne Tyler~~~Classics~~~The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (trans. Catherine Liu)The Red and the Black - Stendhal (trans. Burton Raffel)The Stranger - Albert Camus (trans. Matthew Ward)A Laodicean - Thomas HardyWalden - Henry David Thoreau~~~Women in Translation Month~~~Flights - Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Jennifer Croft)Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor (trans. Sophie Hughes)Will and Testament - Vigdis Hjörth (trans. Charlotte Barsland)Kamouraska - Anne Hébert (trans. Norman Shapiro)Selected Poems - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (trans. Edith Grossman)~~~Canadian Content~~~Noopiming - Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonRage of Dragons - Evan WinterThe Dodecahedron: Or A Frame for Frames - Paul GlennonFrying Plantain - Zalinka Reid-BentaBlack Writers Matter - Ed. Whitney FrenchBlack Live Who - Rinaldo WalcottThe Hanging of Angelique - Afua CooperThe Skin We’re In - Desmond Cole~~~Misc. Memoirs~~~Wow, No Thank You - Samantha IrbyI Will Never See the World Again - Ahmet Altan (trans. Yasemin Congar)Tomboy Survival Guide - Ivan Coyote
July Wrap Up Pt. 1 - South American Literature bigalbooks 2020-08-06 | ~~~Books Mentioned~~~0:01:56 ColombiaThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (trans. Randolph Hogan)0:04:11 ChileMultiple Choice - Alejandro Zambra (trans. Megan McDowell)By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolaño (trans. Chris Andrews)0:09:38 BrazilDaytripper - Fábio Moon & Gabriel BáThe Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey)26 Stories - Machado de Assis (trans. Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson)0:18:24 ArgentinaSanta Evita - Tomàs Eloy Martinez (trans. Helen Lane)Blow Up - Julio Cortazar (trans. Paul Blackburn)Comemadre - Roque Larraquy (trans. Heather Cleary)People in the Room - Norah Lange (trans. Charlotte Whittle)0:33:33 Misc. CountriesThe Seven Madmen - Roberto Arlt (trans. Nick Caistor)~~~Videos Mentioned~~~Ask a Mortician - Iconic Corpse: The Preservation of Eva Perónyoutube.com/watch?v=FIwj0ybenmM
Canadian Book Recommendations (Read-Eh-Thon) bigalbooks 2020-07-31 | ~~~Check out some more information about the Read-Eh-Thon~~~Announcement Video: youtube.com/watch?v=CyAkvDiQxKABingo Card: booksandlala.com/blog/the-read-eh-thon~~~Books Mentioned~~~Refuse: CanLit in RuinsIslands of Decolonial Love - Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonThis Accident of Being Lost - Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonDancing on the Turtle’s Back - Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonAs We Have Always Done - Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonWhere Did You Sleep Last Night - Lynn CrosbyDionne Brand - TheoryA Complicated Kindness - Miriam ToewsClearing the Plains - James DaschukNo Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous - Sheldon KrasowskiChildren of the Broken Treaty - Charlie AngusIn My Own Moccasins - Helen KnottEmbers: One Ojibway’s Meditations - Richard WagameseSplit Tooth - Tanya TagaqSmall Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club - Megan Gail ColesPolicing Black Lives: State Vilence in Canada from Slavery to the Present - Robyn MaynardShut Up You’re Pretty - Téa MutonjiFive Little Indians - Michelle GoodThe Dishwasher - Stéphane Larue (trans. Pablo Strauss)Jonny Appleseed - Joshua WhiteheadNîtîsanak - Lindsay NixonFierce Feems and Notorious Liars - Kai Chen ThomLaura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki (Ill. Rosemary Valerio-O’Connell)The Subtweet - Vivek ShrayaThe Skin We’re In - Desmond ColeUnsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call - Arthur ManuelIndigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada - Chelsea VowelAnne of Green Gables - L.M. MontgomeryFifteen Dogs - André AlexisDays by Moonlight - André AlexisFifth Business - Robertson DaviesThe Salterton Trilogy - Robertson DaviesReproduction - Ian WilliamsWe Have Always Been Here - Samra HabibA Chorus of Mushrooms - Hiromi GotoIn Another Place, Not Here - Dionne BrandWashington Black - Esi EdugyanFrom the Ashes - Jesse ThistleA Mind Spread Out on the Ground - Alicia ElliottBlack Writers Matter (ed. Whitney French)The Doll’s Alphabet - Camilla GrudovaThe Book of Jessica - Maria Campbell & Linda GriffithsLouis Riel - Chester BrownHark! A Vagrant - Kate Beaton
June Wrap Up - 30 Books in 30 Days Challenge bigalbooks 2020-07-19 | I had the greatest time reading Indigenous authors throughout the month of June.I know that this video is super long, but I think that all these authors/books are well worth discussing! Please find some timestamps listed down below if you want to skip around :)0:1:38 ***Reasons why I found this to be a valuable reading challenge***0:6:19 *** My Favourite 5 Reads of the Month ***-Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer-Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson-Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton-Memory Serves: Oratories - Lee Maracle-Shell Shaker - LeAnne Howe0:16:54 ***Nonfiction***-Bobbi Lee Indian Rebel - Lee Maracle-Nîtîsanak - Lindsay Nixon-The Truth About Stories - Thomas King-Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview - E. Richard Atleo-The Truth that Wampum Tells - Lynn Gehl-Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto - Taiaiake Alfred-Red Skin White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition - Glen Sean Coulthard-The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present - David Treuer0:29:20 ***Novels***-Ravensong - Lee Maracle-Five Little Indians - Michelle Good-Tracks - Louise Erdrich-Keeper ’n Me - Richard Wagamese-Medicine River - Thomas King-Truth and Bright Water - Thomas King-Kynship - Daniel Heath Justice-Wyrwood - Daniel Heath Justice-Dreyd - Daniel Heath Justice-Blood Sports - Eden Robinson-The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy - Cherie Dimaline-Crow Winter - Karen McBride0:45:13 ***Short Stories/Novellas***-Midnight Sweatlodge - Waubgeshig Rice-One Good Story, That One - Thomas King-The Stone Collection - Kateri Akiwenzie Damm0:46:44 ***Drama***-The Rez Sisters - Tomsom Highway-Dry Lips Outta Move to Kapuskasing - Tomson Highway0:48:06 ***Poetry***-When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz-Passage - Gwen Benaway-Witness, I Am - Gregory Scofield-NDN Coping Mechanisms - Billy-Ray Belcourt-Hope Matters - Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb & Tanya Carter0:50:19 ***Comics/Graphic Novels***-Hiawatha & the Peacemaker - Robbie Robertson-Wendy Vols. 1-3 - Walter Scott-Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga - Michael Nicolls Yahgulanaas-A Tale of Two Shamans - Michael Nicolls Yahgulanaas-------------------------------In this video I'm wearing lipstick made by Cheekbone Beauty. The company is Indigenous-owned and they produce cruelty-free, vegan make up. You can check out their website here: cheekbonebeauty.ca
24 Hour Reading Vlog: National Indigenous Peoples Day bigalbooks 2020-07-09 | This year I decided to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21st) with a 24 Hour Readathon. Here are the results! :)~~Books Mentioned~~-Midnight Sweatlodge - Waubgeshig Rice-Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers-Keeper 'n Me - Richard Wagamese-NDN Coping Mechanisms - Billy-Ray Belcourt-The Truth About Stories - Thomas King-Nitisanak - Lindsay Nixon--The Stone Collection - Kateri Akiwenzie Damm-Wendy: Master of Art - Walter Scott-Braiding Sweatgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag - 2020 bigalbooks 2020-07-04 | I was tagged by Alex @whatpageareyouonyoutube.com/watch?v=v0FugSHYgrE~~~Questions~~~1) Best book 2) Best sequel3) New release haven’t read yet but want to 4) Most anticipated release for the second half of the year5) Biggest Disappointment(s?????)6) Biggest Surprise7) Favorite new author (debut or new to you)8) New Fictional Crush9) New Favorite character10) Book that made me cry 11) Book that made me happy 12) Most beautiful book I bought or received13) Books to read by the end of the year
May Wrap Up bigalbooks 2020-06-17 | ~~~Videos Mentioned~~~Asian Readathon Long Weekend Reading Vlogyoutube.com/watch?v=XG9lbZAVBIA&t=584s~~Books Mentioned~~Life for Sale - Yukio Mishima (trans. Stephen Dodd)The Factory - Hiroko Oyamada (trans. David Boyd)Ghachar Ghochar - Vivek Shanbhag (trans. Srinath Perur)Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (trans. Megan Backus)Audition - Ryu Murakami (trans. Ralph McCarthy)My Kind of Girl - Buddadeva Bose (trans. Arunava Sinha)Hear the Wind Sing/Pinball 1973 - Haruki Murakami (trans. Ted Goosen)The Paper Menagerie - Ken LiuThe Plotters - Un-Su Kim (trans. Sora Kim Russel)The Subtweet - Vivek ShrayaThe Captive and the Fugitive - Marcel Proust (trans. Moncrieff/Scott/Kilmartin)Time Regained - Marcel Proust (trans. Moncrieff/Scott/Kilmartin)Watership Down - Richard AdamsBeowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney)Grendel - John GardnerThe Mere Wife - Maria Dahvana HeadleyHowards End - E.M. ForsterOn Beauty - Zadie SmithTwo Noble Kinsmen - Shakespeare & FletcherTimon of Athens - Shakespeare (and Middleton?)Measure for Measure - ShakespeareRomantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley - Charlotte GordonHeart Berries - Therese Marie MailhotSing Backwards and Weep - Mark LaneganI Live Inside - Michelle Leon
June TBR: 30 Books in 30 Days (Reading Indigenous Authors) bigalbooks 2020-06-01 | This June, I will be spending some serious time decolonizing my bookshelves. Looking forward to sharing the process with you all! :)~~Books Mentioned~~***Nonfiction***-Bobbi Lee Indian Rebel - Lee Maracle-Nitisanak - Lindsay Nixon-Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton-The Truth About Stories - Thomas King-Memory Serves: Oratories - Lee Maracle-Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer-Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview - E. Richard Atleo-Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson-The Truth that Wampum Tells - Lynn Gehl-Red Skin White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition - Glen Sean Coulthard-Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto - Taiaiake Alfred-The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present - David Treuer***Novels***-Wyrwood - Daniel Heath Justice-Dreyd - Daniel Heath Justice-Midnight Sweatlodge - Waubgeshig Rice-Keeper ’n Me - Richard Wagamese-Truth and Bright Water - Thomas King-Medicine River - Thomas King-Tracks - Louise Erdrich-Blood Sports - Eden Robinson-The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy - Cherie Dimaline-Crow Winter - Karen McBride-Five Little Indians - Michelle Good***Short Stories***-One Good Story, That One - Thomas King-The Stone Collector - Kateri Akiwenzie Damm***Drama***-The Rez Sisters - Tomsom Highway-Dry Lips Outta Move to Kapuskasing - Tomson Highway***Poetry***-Witness, I Am - Gregory Scofield-NDN Coping Mechanisms - Billy-Ray Belcourt-Hope Matters - Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb & Tanya Carter-When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz***Comics/Graphic Novels***-Wendy Vol. 3 - Walter Scott-Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga - Michael Nicolls Yahgulanaas-A Tale of Two Shamans - Michael Nicolls Yahgulanaas
April Wrap Up bigalbooks 2020-05-31 | ~~Books Mentioned~~***Novels***Peter Pan - J.M. BarrieChildhood, Youth, and Dependency - Tove Ditlevsen (trans. Tiina Nunnally)Sodom and Gomorrah - Marcel Proust (trans. Montcrieff/Enright/Kilmartin)The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von ArnimThe Man Who Loved Children - Christina SteadDangerous Liaisons - Chodleros de Laclos (trans. Helen Constantine)Dunbar - Edward St. AubynIf We Were Villains - M.L. RioThe Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott LynchOryx and Crake - Margaret AtwoodThe Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil GaimanFahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury***Nonfiction***A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara TuchmanThe Black Count - Tom Reiss***Drama***1 Henry VI - Shakespeare2 Henry VI - Shakespeare3 Henry VI - ShakespeareRichard III - ShakespeareTwelfth Night - ShakespeareThe Misanthrope - Molière (trans. Richard Wilbur)The Theban Tragedies - Sophocles (trans. Wycoff/Grene/Fitzgerald)***Comics/Graphic Novels/Manga***Fables Vol. 2 and 3Heathen Vol. 2Glass Town - Isabel GreenbergUzumaki - Junji Ito~~Not mentioned in this video, but it still needs to be said~~Black Lives MatterHere is a link to a google doc that includes anti-racism resources, recommended places to make donations, and contact information for political officials.docs.google.com/document/d/1-0KC83vYfVQ-2freQveH43PWxuab2uWDEGolzrNoIks/preview?pru=AAABcod_c7g*5rNQ6ITOabUly2LZbfCDkg
Asian Readathon Long Weekend Reading Vlog bigalbooks 2020-05-26 | My long weekend was spent reading novellas and hanging out with pugs... no complaints!~~Asian Readathon Information~~youtube.com/watch?v=qweYGWPAmWU&t=693s~~Books Mentioned~~Hear the Wind Sing/Pinball 1973 - Haruki Murakami (trans. Ted Goosen)Ghachar Ghochar - Vivek Shanbhag (trans. Srinath Perur)The Factory - Hiroko Oyamada (trans. David Boyd)Life for Sale - Yukio Mishima (trans. Stephen Dodd)Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (trans. Megan Backus)My Kind of Girl - Buddadeva Bose (trans. Arunava Sinha)Audition - Ryu Murakami (trans. Ralph McCarthy)
Long Weekend Reading Vlog (4 Shakespeare Plays in 4 Days) bigalbooks 2020-04-16 | I decided to make the most of the Easter long weekend by immersing myself in the bloody spectacle of the War of the Roses #noregrets~~Books/Plays Mentioned~~Henry VI Pt. Henry VI Pt. 2Henry VI Pt. 3Richard IIIIf We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
March of the Mammoths Wrap Up bigalbooks 2020-04-09 | Thanks to everyone who participated in the March of the Mammoths readathon this year :}~~Mammoths Mentioned~~The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (trans. Robin Buss)The Guermantes Way - Marcel Proust (trans. Montrcrief/Kilmartin/Enright)The Novel: A Biography - Michael SchmidtThe Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio (trans. Michael A Rebhorn)Fathers and Crows - William T. Vollmann
Choosing Each Others TBR bigalbooks 2020-04-04 | Taylor and I decided to assign books to each other... what's the worst that could happen? In this video we examine our bookish compatibility and share our TBRs with each other :)
February Wrap Up bigalbooks 2020-04-02 | Let's dig up the past and talk about some books I read back in February!~~~~Channels Mentioned~~~~~books by leynes: youtube.com/channel/UCI3s7BuaU9KZiFw7IBNL-yw~~~~Books Mentioned~~~~~Locke & Key Vols. 1-6 - Joe Hill & Gabriel RodriguezAntigone - SophoclesEmma - Jane AustenWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward AlbeePolicing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present - Robin MaynardChester Himes: A Biography - Lawrence JacksonMama Day - Gloria NaylorHouse of Stone - Novuyo Rose TshumaReproduction - Ian Williams Bttm Fors - Ezra Clayton Daniels & Ben PassmoreFrom the Ashes - Jesse ThistleWe Have Always Been Here - Samra HabibRadicalized - Cory DoctorowWithin a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time Vol. 2) - Marcel Proust (trans. Montcrieff/Kilmartin/Enright/)
March of the Mammoths - Check-In #2 bigalbooks 2020-03-24 | We've finally made it to the homestretch of the #marchingmammoths readathon! Let me know how you're doing down below :)
March of the Mammoths - Check-In #1 bigalbooks 2020-03-15 | How are we already halfway through March already?!? #MarchingMammoths
March of the Mammoths Readathon TBR bigalbooks 2020-03-01 | Happy March of the Mammoths :)#marchingmammoths~~Readathon Announcement Videos~~Jason: youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1-Z1xSHf8Lukas: youtube.com/watch?v=8iLQaJm1HcQMine: youtube.com/watch?v=FPXvBNaXYWk&t=2s~~~Find me on Goodreads :) ~~~goodreads.com/user/show/10922578-big-al
January Wrap Up bigalbooks 2020-02-21 | January's Reading Experiment: reading only authors who I have never read before!~~~Videos Mentioned~~~-December Wrap Up (reading only previous-read authors)youtube.com/watch?v=Yp0wsOjn7V8&t=1623s-My Misconceptions About Proustyoutube.com/watch?v=Zbn1_ome6Iw&t=4s~~~Novels Mentioned~~~Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust (trans. Lydia Davis)Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec (trans. David Bellos)The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish - Katya ApekinaSmall Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club - Megan Gail ColesTheory - Dionne BrandSanaaq - Mitiarjuuk Napaluuk (trans. Bernard Saladin d’Anglure/Peter Frost)Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth HardwickThe Grimoire of Kensington Market - Lauren B. DavisThe Snow Queen - Eileen Kernaghan~~~Plays/Poetry/Short Stories/Nonfiction~~~Caesar and Cleopatra - George Bernard ShawThe Spanish Tragedy - Thomas KydBrute - Emily SkajaA Guide to Being Born - Ramona AusubelIn My Own Moccasins - Helen KnottPrairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder - Caroline Fraser~~~Comics/Graphic Novels~~~Agnes, Murderess - Sarah LeavittThe Backstagers Vol. 1: Rebels Without Applause - James Tynion IV (Ill. Rian Sygh & Walter Baiamonte)Rat Queens Vol. 1: Sass and Sorcery - Kurtis J. Wiebe (Ill. Roc Upchurch)Revenger - Charles ForsmanPunk’s Not Dead Vol 1: Teenage Kicks- David Barnett (Ill. Martin Simmonds)Heathen Vol. 1 - Natasha Alterici (Ill. Rachel Deering)Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile - Bill Willingham (Ill. Terry Moore/Mike Allred/Lan Medina)~~Goodreads~~goodreads.com/user/show/10922578-big-al
March of the Mammoths ROUND 2 (Readathon Announcement) bigalbooks 2020-02-05 | Your favourite extinct-animal themed readathon is back for another round this March! #MarchingMammothsThe Challenge: Read one 800+ page book in the month of March~~~Find me on Goodreads! ~~~goodreads.com/user/show/10922578-big-al~~~Channels mentioned~~~Jason's announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1-Z1xSHf8Lukas' announcement: youtube.com/watch?v=8iLQaJm1HcQ~~BONUS~~A nifty playlist of March of the Mammoths vids from last year:youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQR7MV0gwHp09TLzJtEe8H6I1e2LWZesN
December Wrap Up bigalbooks 2020-01-19 | Sorry that this video is kinda late & lengthy, but I am so excited to talk about one of my best reading months ever! :D~~~Books Mentioned~~~The Icelandic Sagas (various translators)We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley JacksonAcadia - Tom StoppardThe Unnamable - Samuel BeckettThe Keep - Jennifer EganThe Rehearsal - Eleanor CattonCleopatra: A Life - Stacy SchiffThe Remains of the Day - Kazuo IshiguroPastoralia - George SaundersHis Excellency Eugène Rougon - Emile Zola (trans. Brian Nelson)There but for the - Ali SmithMildred Pierce - James M. CainThe Castle - Franz Kafka (trans. Mark Harman)Days by Moonlight - André AlexisThe Ice Shirt - William T. VollmannThe Winter’s Tale - William ShakespeareAntony and Cleopatra - William ShakespeareThe Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov (trans. Michael Glenny)Memoirs from the House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Jesse Coulson)The Sandman Vols. 4-11 - Neil GaimanSnow, Glass, Apples - Neil Gaiman
Favourite Reads of 2019 bigalbooks 2020-01-05 | Trying to narrow down 180 books into a list of 10 was no easy feat, but this list reflects some of my most memorable reading experiences of the year :}~~~Books Mentioned~~~Milkman - Anna BurnsStories of Your Life and Other Stories - Ted ChiangThe Ice Shirt - William T. VollmannDeep River - Karl MarlantesBlack Leopard Red Wolf - Marlon James(review: youtube.com/watch?v=HNY-5Jg0YcQ&list=PLgNo8gDGvtkvOd32AiRgR2D5Tgu66sCkj)My Struggle 6: The End - Karl Ove Knausgaard (trans. Martin Aitken and Don Bartlett)The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir (trans. Leonard M. Friedman)The Sandman - Neil Gaiman Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac (trans. Marion Crawford)Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (trans. Chistine Donougher)
Catch Up Wrap Up Pt. 2 (November: Novellas, Novels, and Non-Fiction) bigalbooks 2019-12-31 | Didn't mean to upload this so late in the year, but my computer mysteriously died for a few days before returning to life like nothing was ever wrong! | Books Mentioned |~~~Novellas~~~Suddenly the Minotaur - Marie-Hélène Poitras (trans. Patricia Claxton)Double Indemnity - James M. CainMargaret the First - Danielle Dutton~~~Novels~~~The Graveyard Book - Neil GaimanGOTH - Otsuichi (trans. Andrew Cunningham)Everything I Never Told You - Celeste NgThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark HaddonPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James JoyceThe Dishwasher - Stéphane Larue (trans. Pablo Strauss)DNF: Sweetbitter - Stephanie DanlerSandman Vols. 1-3 - Neil GaimanFierce Femmes and Notorious Liars - Kai Cheng Thom~~~Non-Fiction~~~Waterloo You Never Knew - Joanna Rickert-HallHorror Stories - Liz PhairYear of the Monkey - Patti SmithSounds Like Titanic - Jessica Chiccehitto HindmanSemicolon - Celia WatsonThe Victorians - A.N. WilsonIn the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London - Christopher Skaife
Catch Up Wrap Up (August/September/October) bigalbooks 2019-12-16 | Hellooo, long time no see!~~Books Mentioned~~***Women in Translation Readathon***August - Romina Paula (trans. Jennifer Croft)The Lover - Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray)The End - Fernanda Torres (trans. Alison Entrekin)Glory and Its Litany of Horrors - Fernanda Torres (trans. Eric M. B. Becker)The Party Wall - Catherine Leroux (trans. Lazer Lederhendler)Other Russias - Victoria Lemosko (trans. Thomas Campbell)City Folk and Country Folk - Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (trans. Nora Seligman Favorov)Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarchuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)Mad Shadows - Marie Claire Blais (trans. Merloyd Lawrence)The Complete Moomin - Tove Jansson***Victober***The Return of the Native - Thomas HardyAgnes Grey - Anne BronteOliver Twist - Charles Dickens***Canadian Novels***No Great Mischief - Alistair MacLeodThe Book of Negroes - Lawrence HillStation Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel***20th Century Reads***Petersburg - Andrei Bely (trans. David McDuff)The Reed - Edith WhartonHowards End - E. M. ForsterThe Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia HighsmithSalem's Lot - Stephen King***Misc.***Dom Casmurra - Joaqium Machado de Assis (trans. Helen Caldwell)Falling Is Like This - Kate RocklandDeep River - Karl MarlantesThis Place: 150 Years Retold (various authors/illustrators)Refuse: CanLit in RuinsTrick Mirror - Jia Tolentinoo***Shakespeare Related***The Taming of the ShrewMuch Ado About NothingOthelloNew Boy - Tracy Chevalier (Hogarth Shakespeare Series)HAMLET!Shakespeare - Anthony Burgess
TBR - Women in Translation Readathon bigalbooks 2019-08-24 | ~~More Info/Hosts of the Readathon~~Matthew Sciarappayoutube.com/watch?v=m11uD1rZrucKendra Winchesteryoutube.com/c/kendrawinchester~~Books Mentioned~~The Party Wall - Catherine Leroux (trans. Lazer Lederhendler)Mad Shadows - Marie Claire Blais (trans. Merloyd Lawrence)The Lover - Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray)The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector (trans. Caetano Veloso)Feebleminded - Ariana Harwicz (trans. Carolina Orloff and Annie McDermott)August - Romina Paula (trans. Jennifer Croft)People in the Room - Norah Lange (trans. Charlotte Whittle)City Folk and Country Folk - Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (trans. Nora Seligman Favorov)Other Russias - Victoria Lemosko (trans. Thomas Campbell)Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarchuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)Collected Fiction - Leena Krohn (various translators)The Complete Moomin - Tove Jansson
August Wrap Up (Pt. 1) bigalbooks 2019-08-22 | ~~~Books Mentioned~~~My Struggle Book 6: The End - Karl Ove Knausgaard (trans. Martin Aitken & Don Bartlett)Wendy’s Revenge - Walter ScottThe Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello (trans. William Weaver)Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen LeacockMolloy and Malone Dies - Samuel BeckettShip of Fools - Katherine Anne PorterA Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace~~Videos Mentioned~~20th C Reading Challenge: youtube.com/watch?v=gFQWcYd-d8k&lc=z23ruzfzxxfwvjic1acdp43220fjd0g4ytfdulfj13tw03c010c
20th Century Reading Challenge bigalbooks 2019-08-15 | Some details about my 2019 (and beyond) reading challenge where I am trying to read one book published in each year of the 20th century.Please leave any 20th century must-read recommendations down below :)
July Wrap Up bigalbooks 2019-08-08 | ~~Books Mentioned~~Howl’s Moving Castle - Diana Wynne JonesMadame de Pompadour - Nancy MitfordHonoré de Balzac - V.S. PritchettFeel Free - Zadie SmithThe Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux (translator unknown!)Eleven Stories for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction PrizeChanson Douce - Leila SlimaniA Heart So White - Javier Marías (trans. Margaret Jull Costa)The Merry Wives of Windsor - ShakespeareOf Human Bondage - W. Somerset MaughamThe Woodlanders - Thomas HardyBunny - Mona AwadA Complicated Kindness - Miriam ToewsWater for Elephants - Sara Gruen
June 2019 Wrap Up (20 books!) bigalbooks 2019-07-04 | Here are all the books I read for Pride Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day! :)~~Books Mentioned~~Akata Witch - Nnedi OkoraforThe Sun King - Nancy MitfordThe Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness OrczyClaudine à l’école - ColletteThree Lives - Gertrude SteinLaura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki (ill. Rosemary Valery-O'Connell)Bloom - Kevin Panetta (ill. Savanna Ganucheau)Blue is the Warmest Colour - Julie Maroh Wendy - Walter ScottThis Wound is a World - Billy-Ray BelcourtHoly Wild - Gwen BenawayNo Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous - Sheldon KrasowskiLouis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography - Chester BrownWhy Indigenous Literatures Matter - Daniel Health JusticeCelia’s Song - Lee MaracleLove Medicine - Louis ErdrichThe Bone People - Keri HulmeTrail of Lightning - Rebecca RoanhorseMoccasin Square Gardens - Richard Van Camp
Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag bigalbooks 2019-06-22 | I was tagged by:Alex @ whatpageareyouonyoutube.com/channel/UCsUwugvMAROjWUpnKYSdWJwLaura Freyyoutube.com/channel/UCFuViUPHXpzj4D8jlsvmO5w~~Questions~~1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2018.2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2018.3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to.4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.5. Biggest disappointment.6. Biggest surprise.7. Favourite new author. (Debut or new to you)8. Newest fictional crush.9. Newest favourite character.10. Book that made you cry.11. Book that made you happy.12. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year.13. Favourite review you've written this year. (Booktube version: Favourite video you have done so far in this year)14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?I Tag: The Weird Book Book Clubyoutube.com/channel/UCFBsV4a0F4PuJiZaPcQSHHQ
May/Asian Readathon Wrap Up bigalbooks 2019-06-15 | Here are the books I read in May for the #asianreadathon :)~~~Books Mentioned~~~Spring - Ali SmithSamuel Butler - The Way of All FleshThe Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. CainThe Best We Could Do - Thi BuiThe Sympathizer - Viet Thanh NguyenThe Collected Schizophrenias - Esme Weijung WangConvenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)I Am A Cat - Sōseki Natsume (trans Aiko Ito & Graham Wilson)Chorus of Mushrooms - Hiromi GotoPachinko - Min Jin LeeInterpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa LahiriStories of Your Life and Other Stories - Ted Chiang~~~Asian Readathon Hosts~~~youtube.com/readwithcindyyoutube.com/c/xreadingsolacexyoutube.com/bookswithchloeyoutube.com/channel/UCw-jjUaVPq5N_vngwwZefZwyoutube.com/channel/UCU-5uFv6XnhfV2qr_RC60iA~~~Asian Readathon Challenges~~~1. Read any book by an Asian author.2. Read a graphic novel featuring an Asian character or written/drawn by an Asian author (manga, manhua, manhwa, and comics count).3. Read a book featuring an intersectional Asian character or written by an intersectional Asian identity (i.e. queer, mixed, disabled, neurodiverse, etc).4. Read a book by Asian author that was originally written in their native language (translated books and graphic novels count).5. Read the group book: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh
April Wrap Up (Part 2) bigalbooks 2019-05-18 | ~~~Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=vwfO-B1nJLo&lc=z23cux3h5nmuztmspacdp43424wm1wvnpjw1ize5qj1w03c010c.1557322423170589~~~Books Mentioned~~~Monet: Itinerant of Light - Salvia Rubio & Ricard EfaVampires in the Lemon Grove - Karen RusselMilkman - Anna BurnsCousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac (trans. Marion Ayton Crawford)A Mind Spread Out on the Ground - Alicia ElliottThe Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family - Mary S. LovellHons and Rebels - Jessica Mitford
April Wrap Up (Pt. 1) bigalbooks 2019-05-05 | ~~~Books Mentioned~~~The Killing Joke - Alan Moore/Brian BollandMegahex - Simon HanselmanWhen I Hit You - Meena KandasamyTrust Exercise - Susan ChoiThe Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIdiophone - Amy FusselmanLive Through This (33 1/2 Series) - Anwen Crawford
Bookish Boxes & Buzzwords Tag bigalbooks 2019-04-28 | Original Tag (@ LizziefayeLovesBooks)youtube.com/watch?v=ECYgnIPxHsw&t=2s~~Questions~~1. Your go-to genre or favorite type of book2. Retellings you are drawn to.3. Lifestyles or careers of the book characters.4. Places or settings you are drawn to.5. Relationships you enjoy reading about.6. Buzzwords in the title of the book.7. Things on book covers that drawn you in.8. Non fiction buzzwords. Type of nonfiction are you drawn to.9. Medical or physical conditions of characters. 10. Time of year, or time in history or future that you are drawn to.~~bonus questions I didn't answer in the video but I'll answer here~~Bonus #1: Any other bookish boxes or buzzwords not already mentioned.-creepy clowns/carnivals/circuses-hags/cronesBonus #2: What Bookish boxes or buzzwords turn you away from a book?-Math/Physics/Hard Science-books with "Girl" in the title-historical fiction set during WWII (over-saturated genre?)-Recent Canada Reads winners ;)
