My reviews on Miracle Creek by Angie Kim: youtu.be/FF30C0hEq9M Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips: youtu.be/g0H67XoaFA4 ---- Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/39676096-madelynReading Goals 2020 & 2021 [CC]MadeWithBooks2021-02-02 | Books and Channels mentioned: It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Theres Robinson) The Accusation by Bandi (translated by Deborah Smith) Ebony Rising edited by Craig Gable Ten Plays by Euripides translated by Paul Roche Birds of a Kind by Wajdi Mouawad (German translation Vögel by Uli Menke) Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler Gender Trouble by Judith Butler A History of Madness by Michel Foucault (translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa) The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault (translated by Robert Hurley) Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins Orientalism by Edward Said Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past by Daniel Schacter
Questions: 00:53 1) Which book you read this year would you recommend to anyone and why? 2:37 2) Which book you read this year has taught you something new? 4:53 3) Which book you read this year came just at the right time when you needed it? 5:17 4) Which book you read this year will stay with you for a long time? 6:38 5) Which book you read this year expanded your reading horizons (new genre, author, theme, style, format)? 9:07 6) Which bookish things did you particularly enjoy doing/purchasing/using this year? 11:47 7) Who are some booktubers, subscribers or other bookish friends that you got to know better this year (through watching, comments, personal contact online or in real life or otherwise)? 13:37 8) What Booktube video(s) did you particularly enjoy this year? 16:31 9) Did you discover a new all-time favorite book? 10) Tag your favorite bookish people!
Books mentioned: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen by Alice Hasters The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead: youtube.com/watch?v=_60Mwh8BPyo Bunny by Mona Awad: youtube.com/watch?v=hyJlQkfssp8 Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) in the German translation Das Seidenraupenzimmer (translated by Ursula Gräfe) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2:40 Books mentioned: Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta The Bone People by Keri Hulme When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Trumpet by Jackie Kay The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi The Periodic Table by Primo Levi The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa A Brief Life by Juan Carlos Onetti Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo The New Life by Orhan Pamuk Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer White Teeth by Zadie Smith The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Night by Elie Wiesel
Books mentioned: Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram (translated by Andrew X. Pham)
Drawing the Holocaust: A Teenager's Memory of Terezin, Birkenau, and Mauthausen (German translation by Kristina Kallert, not sure if Kraus himself did the English translation)
I forgot to mention that this also wasn't published until much later: 2015 in German, 2016 in English and if I'm not mistaken 2011 in the original Czech.
If you live in Germany and want a calendar, you can ask for it here: https://www.hr2.de/veranstaltungen/literaturland/wandkalender-2021-mit-12-monatsblaettern,literaturland-hessen-kalender-2020-2021-100.html?fbclid=IwAR2YTtiaHUNV41DmdM6wYaDrng-09k2Zpq1hd9fGmiQPy9cjDjMGZ6Lw3P4
Books mentioned: Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang It's Not About the Burqa edited by Mariam Khan The Stonewall Reader edited by The New York Public Library Disability Invisibility by Alice Wong Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
Books mentioned: Der falsche Inder (The Village Indian) by Abbas Khider Steltz & Brezoianu by Julia Schoch (illustrated by Sibylla Weisweiler) Ich hasse Menschen by Julius Fischer Ebbe & Blut by Luisa Stömer & Eva Wünsch Rotlicht by Nora Bossong ---- Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/39676096-madelynIm back and doing #Vlogmas [CC]MadeWithBooks2020-12-01 | Thanks for everybody who stuck around!
Information on Solingen 29 May 1993 (in German but you can google it and find the English Wikipedia entry): https://www.bpb.de/politik/hintergrund-aktuell/161980/brandanschlag-in-solingenReview Bunny by Mona Awad [CC] | BookTube Prize Round 1 | Fiction Group GMadeWithBooks2020-05-24 | BookTube Prize channel: youtube.com/channel/UC4CDC3kHYL8z95SXXNli5Hg
Book mentioned: Bunny by Mona Awad
Listen to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Read by Jen Campbell: youtube.com/watch?v=u30p2oHQdYw&t=571s Read by Jennifer Ehle: youtube.com/watch?v=cVbLdOWjfhg ---- Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/39676096-madelynVietnam Travel VlogMadeWithBooks2020-05-19 | From the end of December until the middle of January when Corona hadn't yet taken a hold of the world, Daniel and I got to go to Vietnam for two weeks. We were only in the south and the footage doesn't cover everything we saw but I hope you will still enjoy it. It's a beautiful country and we do hope to go back at some point in the future.
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky Shawn's review: youtube.com/watch?v=DQ1VBoXnEb8 Der Zopf meiner Großmutter bei Alina Bronsky Kukolka by Lana Lux Jägerin und Sammlerin by Lana Lux Mit anderen Augen. Vom Kind gehörloser Eltern zum Komponisten by Helmut Oehring Lyrix-Anthologie 2018/2019 Literaturbote 130: Innere Landschaften
2:16 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 11:07 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Therese Robinson) English Translations of Sed Non Satiata: fleursdumal.org/poem/123 Black Venus by Angela Carter 14:40 The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse 17:48 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
1 What's your favorite book about somebody taking a vacation?
2 Do you read travel writing? And if so, favorites?
3 What are your books-on-vacation rituals?
4 What's your favorite book you found/read first while on vacation?
5 Have you ever light-fingered a book from a vacation stay?
6 Some of your favorite books set in exotic locales?
7 Do you think the corona virus will kill us all?
8 What was the last book you read while on vacation?
9 Tag people!
Books mentioned: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer Sovietistan by Erika Fatland The Border by Erika Fatland (comes out in October in English) A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee Lord of the Flies by William Golding Die Inseln, auf denen ich strande by Lucien Deprijck Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The mask video is in German - sorry! (you can just follow the visuals though) youtube.com/watch?v=K3mOrhxGiIUAn Asian Maybe Midrash Mentalhealthathon TBR or All the Readathons!MadeWithBooks2020-05-03 | Books, Channels and Readathons mentioned:
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Der Buddhismus (Buddhism) by Hedwig Schmidt-Glintzer The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata translated by Edward G. Seidensticker The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa translated by Stephen Snyder Shawn's review: youtube.com/watch?v=Ic8IyyIOGWs Goldener Reiter by Michael Weins The Accusation by Bandi translated by Deborah Smith Der falsche Inder by Abbas Khider translated into English by Donal McLaughlin as The Village Indian Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram translated by Andrew X. Pham Guapa by Saleem Haddad Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi translated by Jonathan Wright The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (English translation by John E. Woods) The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot Medea by Euripides (English translation by Paul Roche)
Ulysses by James Joyce Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer (there's several poetry editions by him translated into English available) Memories Look at Me: A Memoir by Tomas Tranströmer (English translator Robin Fulton)Bloopers #TBRClearOutMadeWithBooks2020-04-12 | Filming can be rough sometimes...
----- Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/39676096-madelynA Rather Windy Update and Some First Thoughts on Judging the Booktube Prize 2020 (Fiction Group G)MadeWithBooks2020-04-07 | Books and Channels mentioned:
Bunny by Mona Awad Miracle Creek by Angie Kim The Other Americans by Laila Lalami Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
1) Which book you read this year would you recommend to anyone and why? 2) Which book you read this year has taught you something new? 3) Which book you read this year came just at the right time when you needed it? 4) Which book you read this year will stay with you for a long time? 5) Which book you read this year expanded your reading horizons (new genre, author, theme, style, format)? 6) Which bookish things did you particularly enjoy doing/purchasing/using this year? 7) Who are some booktubers, subscribers or other bookish friends that you got to know better this year (through watching, comments, personal contact online or in real life or otherwise)? 8) What Booktube video(s) did you particularly enjoy this year? 9) Did you discover a new all-time favorite book? 10) Tag your favorite bookish people!
The Warden by Anthony Trollope Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë Du bist nicht allein by Aref Hamza Still Alice by Lisa Genova: youtube.com/watch?v=DKk-YDU1j7E
And one thing I realized after I had finished editing is that the German Contemporary prompt fits with the readalong Read German Books 2020 hosted by Mel from Mel's Bookland Adventures: youtube.com/watch?v=zTBncHTM8XI and Britta Böhler: youtube.com/watch?v=5m-BgjibiZ0
---- Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/39676096-madelynBuilding Our Christmas Tree out of BooksMadeWithBooks2019-12-25 | Merry Christmas (or Chanukka or Kwanzaa or whatever you are celebrating!) and Happy Holidays everyone! Maybe Tchaikovsky is a tad dramatic for this but oh well... :)
Music: Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky Free use according to the Youtube Audio Library: youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1Victober Wrap Up (and a German Literature Intermission)MadeWithBooks2019-11-07 | A massive thank you to the Victober hosts!
Books mentioned: English Poetry: An Anthology edited by Raimund Borgmeier and Michael Hanke Fifty English Sonnets edited by Michael Hanke The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Und andere Formen menschlichen Versagens by Lennardt Loß Wo wir waren by Norbert Zähringer The Warden by Anthony Trollope Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Street Piemen by Henry Mayhew As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerald Manley Hopkins At the Back of the Northwind by George MacDonald
Middlemarch by George Eliot The Oxford Book of Essays edited by John Gross Fruit Of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy by Liv Strömquist Untenrum frei by Margarete Stokowski As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerald Manley Hopkins
Die Grenze by Erika Fatland Sovietistan by Erika Fatland Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer The Siege of Sarajevo: 1992-1996 by Amir Telibećirović and Sabaha Čolaković Mit anderen Augen. Vom Kind gehörloser Eltern zum Komponisten by Helmut Oehring Winterjahrbuch by Jan Wilm Human Acts by Han Kang Narrative of Sojourner Truth
---------------- Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/39676096-madelynBook Haul from Bosnia and CroatiaMadeWithBooks2019-10-08 | These are the books Daniel and I bought while travelling in Croatia and Bosnia:
The Siege of Sarajevo: 1992-1996 by Amir Telibećirović and Sabaha Čolaković (translated by Nina Begović)
Under Pressure by Faruk Šehić (translated by Mirza Purić)
Quiet Flows the Una by Faruk Šehić (translated by Will Firth)
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
The Hotel Tito by Ivana Bodrožić (translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać)
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresić (translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, Celia Hawkesworth and Mark Thompson)
plus the Victober books: As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins Of Street Piemen by Henry Mayhew
Lucy's challenge: Read an underrated Victorian book published in the same year as your favourite Victorian classic.
Ange's challenge: Read a book by a Victorian female author (Bonus: one that's new to you)
Katie's challenge: Read a Victorian book under 250 pages and/or over 500 pages
Kate's challenge: Re-read a Victorian book
Group challenge: Read by candlelight
Group readalong: The Importance of Being Earnest & A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
Other books mentioned:
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell Poetry by Christina Rossetti The Warden by Anthony Trollope Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins Of Street Piemen by Henry Mayhew
-------------- Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/39676096-madelyn3 Shout Outs for 300 SubscribersMadeWithBooks2019-09-29 | It's been a while so I'm a little rustic in front of the camera. Don'T let that deter your from checking out these amazing booktubers though! ;-)
Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/39676096-madelynAugust TBR and Reading Events I Went To (Classicsathon / AfricainAugust / WITReadathon)MadeWithBooks2019-08-06 | Booktubers, videos and books mentioned:
Orange Vol. 2 by Ichigo Takano translated by Amber Tamosaitis
Bruchstücke by Nanae Aoyama translated by Katja Busson and Frieder Lommatzsch
Tentacle by Rita Indiana translated by Angelica Ammar
Litprom and the Literary Prize (Liberaturpreis) promote literature from Latin America, Africa and Asia: https://www.litprom.de/en/best-books/liberaturpreis/nominees-2019/
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson, translated by Elizabeth Portch