Benjamin JournalThese were my favorite books I read this past year. Filming this gave me anxiety the house down, boots. Hugs to all that joined me this year on booktube and gave me so many wonderful recommendations. What are we going to read this year?
Books Mentioned: Assembly by Natasha Brown Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Autumn by Ali Smith The Pixels of Paul Cezanne by Wim Wenders Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante Second Place by Rachel Cusk Outline by Rachel Cusk Swimming Home by Deborah Levy The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg Death in Her Hands by Otessa Moshfegh Blueberries by Ellena Savage Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
@rebeccaeatsbooks and all my hottie friends that influenced my reads this year.
The Best Books of 2021Benjamin Journal2022-01-07 | These were my favorite books I read this past year. Filming this gave me anxiety the house down, boots. Hugs to all that joined me this year on booktube and gave me so many wonderful recommendations. What are we going to read this year?
Books Mentioned: Assembly by Natasha Brown Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Autumn by Ali Smith The Pixels of Paul Cezanne by Wim Wenders Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante Second Place by Rachel Cusk Outline by Rachel Cusk Swimming Home by Deborah Levy The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg Death in Her Hands by Otessa Moshfegh Blueberries by Ellena Savage Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
@rebeccaeatsbooks and all my hottie friends that influenced my reads this year.
In my thoughts and emotions this week so thanks for braving the internet tears. Some translated literature, a memoir and little daily moments.
Go read A Flat Place by Noreen Masud!
instagram.com/benjaminjournal Check out @bibliosophie and her book club! bibliosophie.substack.com @jameskatieVlog | A Week of Books & FilmsBenjamin Journal2024-07-12 | My try at a vlog after so long that I think I forgot how to do it. Enjoy a little babble about film we watched this week and getting through a messy novel about passion vs love!
Books: Want by Lynn Steger Strong If Only by Vigdis Hjorth (ARC*) Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminjournal Substack: benreadsandwines.substack.com Shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.com.Favorite books of the year (so far)Benjamin Journal2024-07-10 | Jumping in line to share my favorite books of the year (so far) 2024 edition Here are the best books I've read so far. My reading has been at a low this year but there have indeed been some real goodies.
Consider subscribing to my Substack: benreadsandwines.substack.com Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminjournal Shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comJune books | 2024Benjamin Journal2024-07-05 | June reading wrap up Quantity low but quality high! Things I've learned from my reading in June: Read more books you don't know anything about. Maybe you like beat poetry? Maybe you like Shakespeare?
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Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminjournal10 books for summer ... but Im bad at making listsBenjamin Journal2024-06-06 | The Substack! benreadsandwines.substack.com My attempt at making a list video and it's been confirmed that I'm pretty bad at it I think I didn't explain why any of these are "summer" books instead of "other times" books? But anyway there are 10 of them (or more?) Sophie's books for summer @bibliosophie youtu.be/ntcR0zLlP60?si=Q_8JPhLOzIvTWO33
instagram.com/benjaminjournal Send me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comA tipsy chat, San Francisco book haul, a big thank you and some haircut dramaBenjamin Journal2024-05-30 | Skip to 7:50 if you're not interested in the haircut dilemma A big thank you for all your support and for the other book tube hotties who have jumped on the Photo Booth train Definitely the mood is tipsy on German pet-nat rosé Hauled some books from SF that I hadn't shared with you
instagram.com/benjaminjournal Shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comGrabbed these 8 books from the library!Benjamin Journal2024-05-28 | Got myself my own library card after stealing from friends for years! Grabbed 8 books Lit fic, lit thrills, tiny books, authors in translation Travel updates
@casskrugNew poetry books, hello from New YorkBenjamin Journal2024-05-03 | 2 dollar book cart Brooklyn in Spring @bibliosophie New (used) poetry
instagram.com/benjaminjournalReading Arlington Park and loving it, a chatBenjamin Journal2024-04-24 | Needed a little Cusk in my life @jameskatie @r.enee.morris @casskrug Who's afraid of Parade? Chatty bits and fingerprintsYesterday I met Patti Smith and Olga Ravn and Ill never recoverBenjamin Journal2024-04-19 | No words needed my partner Ohad's substack: ohadmazor.substack.com @taurossstar McNally Jackson New York, I thank you for the best literary day of my life.New books, art residency, updatesBenjamin Journal2024-04-18 | Clarice Lispector New books, used books, gifted books @SavidgeReads @nathansnook Travel lethargy Some updates A very moody dogJust a journal with an audienceBenjamin Journal2024-04-11 | Title dedicated to (stolen from) @bibliosophie A migraine The new Deborah Levy A drastic haircut Aries traitsDaily, ordinary, but never boringBenjamin Journal2024-04-08 | a Melissa Broder "eating alone in my car"-esque Photo Booth recording. @AnaWallaceJohnson Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout out August 2024 by Random House. Thank you Random House for the early copy! The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy out later by FSG. via NetGalley. Life updates and a hug from New York.Vlog | Lost Clips, Checking InBenjamin Journal2024-03-20 | edit later .. big love big hugsThe Best Books of 2023Benjamin Journal2023-12-28 | it's been a minute. thank you for your patience while I've been taking a step back for a moment. I couldn't miss doing the yearly best books list though! hope you enjoy. what did you enjoy reading this year?
@rebeccaeatsbooksReading Vlog | Books as Escapism & Days At HomeBenjamin Journal2023-10-11 | vlogging the current reads that are helping me get me mind of things while I'm spending these days at home. drinking a lot of wine and petting my dog.
books mentioned: Vengeance is Mine, Marie NDiaye (out October 17, Knopf)* Self Portrait in Green, Marie NDiaye The Trojan Women: A Comic, Euripides, Words by Anne Carson, Illustrations by Rosanna Bruno Three, Ann Quin The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt Girls Against God, Jenny Hval Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout
*thank you to Knopf & NetGalley for the digital proof of Marie NDiaye, Vengeance is Mine out October 17, 2023.july, august & september books | 2023Benjamin Journal2023-10-09 | thank you for all of your amazing messages on social media checking in on me and my family during these hard days. we are safe and we are sending a warm hug to all of you. this is a reading wrap up from the last 3 months. I hope you enjoy it, as it gave me a little break from my own anxiety filled days to film this.
thank you to FSG & NetGalley for the digital proof of Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries, out in February 2024.Reading Vlog | Greece, Trying to Write, Deborah LevyBenjamin Journal2023-09-22 | A montage of my week in Greece and a lot of Deborah Levy!
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Books mentioned: Real Estate, Deborah Levy August Blue, Deborah Levy Alphabetical Diaries, Sheila Heti
Let's chat on Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminjournal Shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comI recommend these books to you.Benjamin Journal2023-08-29 | My few-glasses-of-wine-in attempt at the book recommendations tag. I don't remember if anyone officially tagged me but here I am giving myself permission.
Books mentioned: Outline, Rachel Cusk LESTE Erotic Magazine lestemag.bigcartel.com In the Woods, Tana French Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy Cost of Living, Deborah Levy The Stillest Day, Josephine Hart The Summer Without Men, Siri Hustvedt Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer The Secret History, Donna Tartt Slow Days, Fast Company, Eve Babitz Welcome to America, Linda Bostrom Knausgard Is Mother Dead, Vigdis Hjorth Devotion, Patti Smith South & West, Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem,Joan Didion
Let's be friends on Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminjournal Shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comReading Vlog | Unpacking Books, House Stuff, A DNF, New ReadsBenjamin Journal2023-08-26 | Get yourself a beverage because this is a long one! Quite a lot of house bits in this one so I hope you find that enjoyable in some way. I had only a few mental breakdowns this week but all shall pass eventually. What are you reading these days? Have you engaged in any Women in Translation books this month?
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Books mentioned: Outline, Rachel Cusk Flights, Olga Tokarczuk The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen Summer, Ali Smith Medea (Euripides), Rachel Cusk The Lake, Banana Yoshimoto Asylum Road, Olivia Sudjic
People mentioned: Ohad instagram.com/ohadmazor Katie @jameskatie Renee @r.enee.morris CJ @CJReads
Let's chat on Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminjournal Shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comVlog | Women in Translation, New Hair, Days At HomeBenjamin Journal2023-08-16 | subscribe to Ciska or else!!!!!! @andtheyread
Patreon: patreon.com/benjaminjournalVlog | days in the new flat, Eve Babitz, august book clubBenjamin Journal2023-08-11 | Getting into the vlogging game in the new flat & barely reading as of late. I did manage to finish one book and I loved it. Join me for our August Book Club!
I am so grateful for all of you and the beautiful community we have built here together. 4k! Insane!
Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminjournal (and yes I am on Threads lol, help.) shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comapril, may & june books | 2023Benjamin Journal2023-07-02 | ...I read this book and cried for 10 minutes straight.Benjamin Journal2023-06-30 | Thank you @r.enee.morris for sending me this little gem all the way from New Zealand.
Welcome to America, Linda Boström Knausgård Death by Landscape, Elvia Wilk (@jameskatie book club pick) Vertigo, Joanna Walsh
shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.com befriend me on instagram: instagram.com/benjaminjournalI conquered my reading slump & finished two books.Benjamin Journal2023-06-15 | edit laterWhat Im reading & wearing in Paris, France.Benjamin Journal2023-06-07 | Uh oh, there are a few editing mistakes. Sorry for the repetition, that’s what I get for trying to edit at 1am. These are the books I am reading while working in Paris and a lot of little elevator outfit clips along the way.
Books: This Is Not Miami, Fernanda Melchor Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh August Blue, Deborah Levy*
Shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.com Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminjournal Join on Patreon: patreon.com/benjaminjournalI impulsively bought 20 books so I drink wine and tell you about them.Benjamin Journal2023-05-16 | aka a big book haul. have you read any of these or have any on your list? what should we read together?
The goal is shorter vlogs -- more often. This one didn't turn out so short but let me know if you like these more spontaneous vlogs. Settling back in at home after a month away and a lot of dog content.
Books: The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis Oblivion, Josephine Hart Optic Nerve, Maria Gainza
A round up of the very few but mighty books I read in March during a major slump.
Books: The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas, Jamaica Kincaid They, Kay Dick
#readingwrapupI Read 6 Books & Most Of Them Were Great.Benjamin Journal2023-03-31 | A record-breaking late February wrap up.
Books: Delphi, Clare Pollard Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle The Wellspring, Sharon Olds The Woman Who Killed the Fish, Clarice Lispector Kudos, Rachel Cusk The Fell, Sarah Moss
Daddy 02.07.2023 💔January Reading Wrap Up | 2023Benjamin Journal2023-02-07 | It's the first reading wrap up of the year! This year started out with some incredible reads, even though I might not have had as much time as I wanted for reading. What did y'all read in the first month of 2023?
A Horse At Night: On Writing, Amina Cain The Body Artist, Don DeLillo The Choreography of Everyday Life, Annie-B Parson * (Verso) The Door, Magda Szabo Delphi, Clare Pollard
*ARC/review copy provided by the publisher and/or NetGalley.
#readingwrapupReading Vlog | Best First Reads of 2023, Puppy Parenting, Amina CainBenjamin Journal2023-01-21 | First reading vlog of 2023 and it started off with some incredible reads.
Books: A Horse At Night: On Writing, Amina Cain The Body Artist, Don DeLillo Delphi, Clare Pollard The Door, Magda Szabo The Choreography of Everyday Life, Annie-B Parson * (Verso Books)
#readingvlog #vlogBig Book Haul | 2023Benjamin Journal2023-01-16 | I've got to run to work but I will update this later! New books! Gifts from the amazing @r.enee.morris and @SavidgeReads plus some secondhand book shopping.
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instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjaminjournal shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comThe Best Books of 2022Benjamin Journal2023-01-01 | The infamous best books of the year video. I tried not to get stressed out this time. I am so grateful for your support this year. Here are my favorite 12 books (with some extra honorable mentions along the way) of 2022! So many amazing memories on and off the internet this year. To more in 2023...cheers!
Let's be instagram friends: http://www.instagram.com/benjaminjournal Shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comReading Vlog | What I Read This Week, Holidays in Rome, French AuthorsBenjamin Journal2022-12-30 | Hi from Rome! Hope all of you that celebrate holidays happening in December enjoyed yourselves and all your stomachs are full of good food! Here is a little reading vlog which surprisingly became cohesively themed. Big hugs.
#readingvlog #vlogReading Vlog | Journal of a Solitude, Wine, Holiday in RomeBenjamin Journal2022-12-25 | A little reading vlog around the holidays. I read May Sarton and after finishing this video I have continued to discuss this book with my family. I like it more and more. Happy holidays!
let's be instagram friends: http://www.instagram.com/benjaminjournal shoot me an email: benreadsandwines@gmail.comReading Vlog | Jeanette Winterson Blew My Mind, Rachel Cusks Travel Memoir, Dog DiariesBenjamin Journal2022-12-20 | update later xxNovember Reading Wrap Up | 2022Benjamin Journal2022-12-11 | It's been months since my last monthly reading wrap up, but I was determined to not let this one slip away...especially because I had some bangin' reads in November.
Jane: A Murder, Maggie Nelson 00:29 The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, Maggie Nelson 2:13 Lapvona, Ottessa Moshfegh 4:13 The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020, Rachel Kushner 6:06 Still Pictures: On Photography & Memory, Janet Malcolm* 8:57 (FSG) Island City, Laura Adamczyk* 11:14 (FSG)
*ARC/review copy provided by the publisher and/or NetGalley.