The Bookish Land | What's up, 2020? @TheBookishLand | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 56 minutes ago.
Hi friends, happy to see you again :) In this belated video, I talked about my reading goals for 2020. It's been a long time since we last talked, and I'm very happy to be back! I hope you all doing well, stay safe and healthy, and cheers to the (rest of the) year ahead of us!
◉ Some links to keep us warm:
→ Website: thebookishland.com
→ Twitter: twitter.com/Meonicorn
→ Instagram: instagram.com/meonicorn
→ Goodreads: bit.ly/2XLpeJV
Hi friends, happy to see you again :) In this belated video, I talked about my reading goals for 2020. It's been a long time since we last talked, and I'm very happy to be back! I hope you all doing well, stay safe and healthy, and cheers to the (rest of the) year ahead of us!
◉ Some links to keep us warm:
→ Website: thebookishland.com
→ Twitter: twitter.com/Meonicorn
→ Instagram: instagram.com/meonicorn
→ Goodreads: bit.ly/2XLpeJV
![All the Books YOU Recommended Me in Comments This Year! 😆 a Future Priority List or Such 2023 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BDjK1jiVj14/hqdefault.jpg "All the Books YOU Recommended Me in Comments This Year! 😆 a Future Priority List or Such 2023 [CC]
[CC] Lets chat about book recommendations in the other direction!
◉ LET’S BE FRIENDS
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→ Art Website: https://www.meoniarts.com/
→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meonicorn/
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→ Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2XLpeJV
◉ Check out these people who have awesome recommendations!
→@AlexBlackReads
→ @shawnbreathesbooks
→ @ThatsSoPoe
→@SluggishReader
→ @AlwaysDoing
→ https://labiblidelilly.wordpress.com
◉ BOOKS
[[The Hour of the Star]] by Clarice Lispector, and translated by Giovanni Pontiero
[[Written on the Body]] by Jeanette Winterson
[[In the Penal Colony]] by Franz kafka
[[A Month in the Country]] by J.L. Carr
[[Kristin Lavransdatter]] trilogy by Sigrid Undest, and translated by Tiina Nunnally
[[The Thorn puller]] by Ito Hiromi, translated by Jeffrey Angles
[[Heaven]] by Kawakami Mieko
[[The Lost Daughter]] by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
[[The Sum of Our Follies]] by Shih-Li Kow
[[Ripples and other stories]] by Shih-Li Kow
[[The Garden of Evening Mist]] by Tan Twan Eng
[[Milkman]] by Anna Burns
[[Cal]] by Bernard MacLaverty
[[The Lost Garden]] by Helen Humphreys
[[The Yellow Wallpaper]] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
[[The Adventures of China Iron]] by Gabriela Cabez and translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre
(*China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for Fierro, reference to the gaucho Martín Fierro, from José Hernández’s epic poem.)
[[Kindred]] by Octavia E Butler
[[The Bees]] by Laline Paull
[[After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall]] by Nancy Kress
[[Babel]] by R.F.Kuang
[[Real Queer America]] by Samantha Allen
[[The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting]] by Evanna Lynch
[[Everything is OK]] by Debbie Tung
[[Free]]: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
[[Rogues]] by Patrick Radden Keef
[[Say Nothing]] by Patrick Radden Keef
[[There Are No Accidents]] by Jessie Singer
[[My Fourth Time, We Drowned]] by Sally Hayden
[[On Tyranny]] 20 lessons from the 20th century by Timothy Snyder
[[浮出历史地表]] by 戴锦华
◉ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
1:30 classic/ modern classic
4:09 literary fiction
6:37 historical fiction
9:40 SFF
12:08 memoir
13:40 nonfiction")
![Gigantic Summer Book Haul 2023 📚 Six Month Worth of Books [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BDorIsfufpI/hqdefault.jpg "Gigantic Summer Book Haul 2023 📚 Six Month Worth of Books [CC]
[CC] Hi friends! Lets talk about the books I got this year and ignore the fact that I already have so many physical TBRs on my shelves LOL
◉ LET’S BE FRIENDS
→ Website: https://www.thebookishland.com/
→ Art Website: https://www.meoniarts.com/
→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meonicorn/
→ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@meonicorn
→ Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2XLpeJV
◉ BOOKS
→ I Who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman
→ No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu
→ The Wall** by Marlon Haushofer
→ The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farell
→ Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Marina Lo
→ One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
→ The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
→ The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
→ The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle
→ 狱门岛 Death on Gokumon Island by Yokomizo Seishi
→ 本阵殺人事件The Honjin Murders by Yokomizo Seishi
→ 犬神家族 The Inugami Curse by Yokomizo Seishi
→ 恶魔的彩球歌 by Yokomizo Seishi
→ 八墓村 The Village of Eight Graves by Yokomizo Seishi
→ 恶魔吹着笛子来 The Devil’s Flute Murders by Yokomizo Seishi
→ 化装舞会 by Yokomizo Seishi
→ 三首塔 by Yokomizo Seishi
→ 女王蜂 by Yokomizo Seishi
→ 夜行 by Yokomizo Seishi
→ The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
→ Why be Happy When You Could be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
→ Pageboy by Elliot Page
→ Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda J Brown
→ Claiming the B in LGBT edited by Kate Harrad
→ Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
→ Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
→ Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis
→ Selected Letters by Jane Austen
→ Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C Gibson
→ Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
→ Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton
◉ TIME STAMPS
00:00 fiction
09:52 nonfiction
15:20 play")
![January Reading Wrap Up 2024 ☁️ already have a disappointment of the year? 🥹 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CEqfD2sBTVE/hqdefault.jpg "January Reading Wrap Up 2024 ☁️ already have a disappointment of the year? 🥹 [CC]
[CC] Hi friends, hope you all had a wonderful January. The weather is mostly gloomy where I am at, but I liked the days are getting longer. Hopefully we will have more sunshine in February, and today lets talk about books! ☀️
◉ LET’S BE FRIENDS
→ Website: https://www.thebookishland.com/
→ Art Website: https://www.meoniarts.com/
→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meonicorn/
→ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@meonicorn
→ Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2XLpeJV
◉ BOOKS AND THINGS MENTIONED
→ THE HOUR OF THE STAR
by Clarice Lispector
translated by Benjamin Moser
→ THE HALFWAY HOUSE
by Guillermo Rosales
translated by Anna Kushner
→ KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
→ HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR
The Fight for our future
by Maria Ressa
→ HOW TO LOSE A COUNTRY
The Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
by Ece Temelkuran
→ HOW THE WORD IS PASSED
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
→ 嫌われ松子の一生
Memories of Matsuko
◉ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Jan overview
00:27 can you see her story
02:50 William lives here
05:14 fantastic nonfiction
07:35 what a disappointment")
![Longest Books on My Penguin English Library Collection | The Bookish Land [cc] 2022](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DXHV7ewpydE/hqdefault.jpg "Longest Books on My Penguin English Library Collection | The Bookish Land [cc] 2022
[cc] Let’s take a look together of the longest books I have in my penguin English library collections. Hopefully I will read some of them this year! Expand for details ↓↓↓
◉ FROM AND ABOUT ASIA READING PROJECT
→ Webpage: https://www.thebookishland.com/from-a…
→ Discord server: https://discord.gg/vAebuNqGPm
→ Announcement video: https://youtu.be/3GK1LfeU9OE
→ Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2tzFCjs38cS8qzRnH_rS-yjlpwZw_u5z
◉ LET’S BE FRIENDS
→ Website: https://www.thebookishland.com/
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Meonicorn
→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meonicorn/
→ Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2XLpeJV
◉ BOOKS MENTIONED
→ VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray: https://bit.ly/3r5uPWD
→ WIVES AND DAUGHTERS by Elizabeth Gaskell: https://bit.ly/3Fisdtw
→ SHIRLEY by Charlotte Brontë: https://bit.ly/3HSt4mp
→ MOBY DICK by Herman Melville: https://bit.ly/3GfHlcu
→ THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Henry James: https://bit.ly/3JU6QT3
→ FRAMLEY PARSONAGE by Anthony Trollope: https://bit.ly/3nc89Ti
→ THE MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collins: https://bit.ly/3t9beHM
→ VILLETTE by Charlotte Brontë: https://bit.ly/3JR6FHU
→ THE MILL ON THE FLOSS by George Eliot: https://bit.ly/3FdH20v
→ BARCHESTER TOWERS by Anthony Trollope: https://bit.ly/3fbu88I
→ SONS AND LOVERS by D. H. Lawrence: https://bit.ly/3HIOzGi
→ IVANHOE by Walter Scott: https://bit.ly/3r4zXKL
→ JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë: https://bit.ly/3r2x3pS
→ NORTH AND SOUTH by Elizabeth Gaskell: https://bit.ly/3HQ6oDb
→ THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL by Anne Brontë: https://bit.ly/3zHHQJK
→ EVELINA by Frances Burney: https://bit.ly/3zJGfmJ")
![Pride Weekend Reading Vlog 🌈 3 Books, SF Pride, Bahamian Recipe | The Bookish Land 2023 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Db_H798Yg4g/hqdefault.jpg "Pride Weekend Reading Vlog 🌈 3 Books, SF Pride, Bahamian Recipe | The Bookish Land 2023 [CC]
[CC] Hi friends, come along with me to this super weekend! I read 2 and a half books, went to watch the SF Pride Parade, and tried a Bahamian recipe for Invisible Cities reading project! The weather was gorgeous too! Hope you enjoy 🦄
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→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meonicorn/
→ Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2XLpeJV
◉ THINGS MENTIONED:
→ Recipe for Bahamian soup from @nicoleisheretolearn https://youtu.be/e-cg0Lk9oiE
→ Trevor Noah interviews Awaeke Emezi: https://youtu.be/KDncoRgU648
◉ BOOKS MENTIOEND
→ Dear Senthuran
by Awaeke Emezi
→ 殺人犯はそこにいる//足利女童连续失踪事件// Serial Missing Cases of Schoolgirls in Ashikaga
by 清水潔 (Shimizu Kiyoshi)
→ Lusca and Other Fantastic Tales
by Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
◉ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Weekend Plan and TBR
04:23 Into the Woods
04:40 Reading Update 1
07:00 Tidy with me
07:34 Reading Update 2
09:55 Reading Update 3
12:58 Pride Parade
14:06 Reading Update 4
17:48 Pride Parade Recap
23:17 Reading Update 4.5
24:15 Making Bahamian food!
28:13 Final Update")
![Getting Back to Reading in an Eventful Week: AI Art, Museums & Accident | The Bookish Land 2023 [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dc6tTR8pXzk/hqdefault.jpg "Getting Back to Reading in an Eventful Week: AI Art, Museums & Accident | The Bookish Land 2023 [cc]
[cc] Hi friends 🙋🏻♀️ Join me as I dive back into the world of reading amidst an eventful week! This week of reading (and life) didnt quite go according to plan, as it unfolded with a series of unforeseen events. I also want to have a discussion about AI and things with you guys 🥰
◉ LET’S BE FRIENDS
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→ Art Website: https://www.meoniarts.com/
→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meonicorn/
→ Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2XLpeJV")
![Wrap Up - What I Read Since May | The Bookish Land 2021 [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EgOm3hnJEZA/hqdefault.jpg "Wrap Up - What I Read Since May | The Bookish Land 2021 [cc]
[cc] Hi friends! Hope you enjoy this video! More details↓↓↓
◉ FROM AND ABOUT ASIA READING PROJECT
→ Webpage: https://www.thebookishland.com/from-a...
→ Discord server: https://discord.gg/vAebuNqGPm
→ Announcement video: https://youtu.be/3GK1LfeU9OE
→ Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2tzFCjs38cS8qzRnH_rS-yjlpwZw_u5z
◉ LET’S BE FRIENDS
→ Website: https://www.thebookishland.com/
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Meonicorn
→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meonicorn/
→ Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2XLpeJV
◉ BOOKS MENTIONED
→ THE APPOINTMENT, by Herta Müller: https://bit.ly/3AOLJML
→ 鳥居の密室 (LOCKED ROOM IN THE TORII • 鸟居密室) by 島田 荘司 (Sōji Shimada): https://bit.ly/3i7ZuPt
→ DOPPLER by Erlend Loe: https://bit.ly/3kJ4L1B
→ NIGHT by Eli Wiesel: https://bit.ly/3EUiU41
→ 探偵AIのリアル (DETECTIVE AI • 侦探AI) by 早坂吝 (Hayasaka Yabusaka): https://bit.ly/3oaHaJl
→ THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE by Agatha Christie: https://bit.ly/3uhifVj
→ INFERIOR by Angela Saini: https://bit.ly/2XZpE02
→ MINOR FEELINGS by Cathy Park Hong: https://bit.ly/3AOMLbB
→ CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner: https://bit.ly/2XN5iGJ
→ アルファベット・パズラーズ (ALPHABET PUZZLES • 字母表疑案) by 大山 誠一郎 (Seiichirō Ōyama): https://bit.ly/3oc7fYo
→ 赤い博物館 (RED MUSEUM • 诡计博物馆) by 大山 誠一郎 (Seiichirō Ōyama): https://bit.ly/2WgTiwK
◉ CHECK OUT MY ART CHANNEL
→ Meonicorn (YouTube Channel): https://bit.ly/2XjMsli
◉ Time Stamp
00:00 My reading was fluctuated
00:40 The Appointment
03:28 鳥居の密室 (Locked Room in the Torii 鸟居密室)
05:30 Doppler
08:00 Night by Eli Wiesel
09:40 探偵aiのリアル (Detective Ai • 侦探ai)
11:26 The Murder at the Vicarage
12:55 Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research Thats Rewriting the Story
14:56 Minor Feelings
17:25 Crying in H Mart
19:12 アルファベット・パズラーズ (Alphabet Puzzles • 字母表疑案)
20:40 赤い博物館 (Red Museum • 诡计博物馆)")
