Jennifer Jelinkova
Manhattan Beach | Womens Prize 2018 Review
updated
-One is None by Kätlin Kaldmaa (translated from Estonian by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov)
-The Cerulean Bird by Matilda Olkinaitė (translated from Lithuanian by Laima Vincë)
-Everything Indicates by Petr Hruška (translated from Czech by Jonathan Bolton)
-Dream of a Journey by Kateřina Rudčenková (translated from Czech by Alexandra Büchler)
-Julia Hungry by Hannah Louise Poston (video here!: youtube.com/watch?v=t_34IS0pDtY)
-Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
-Album for the Young (and Old) by Vera Pavlova (translated from Russian by Steven Seymour)
-Everything I Don't Know by Jerzy Ficowski (translated from Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer)
-Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow by Natalka Bilotserkivets (translated from Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky)
-The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
-Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius (translated from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles)
-Possession by A. S. Byatt
-At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
-The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
-Distant Fathers by Marina Jarre (translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein)
-Return to Latvia by Marina Jarre (translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein)
-The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
-Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton
-The Girls by John Bowen
-Rattlebone by Maxine Clair
-The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value by James F. English
-Remaining Relevant After Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe by Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Matthew's Channel: youtube.com/@MatthewSciarappa
You can buy me a coffee here! (once or monthly): ko-fi.com/insertlitpun
Ukraine Links:
-Victoria Amelina essay ("Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened"): arrowsmithpress.com/nothing-bad
-Razom (emergency response): razomforukraine.org
-The Kyiv Independent (news organization): gofundme.com/f/kyivindependent-launch
-Help Ukrainian pets: ifaw.org/ca-en/news/emergency-aid-ukraine
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00:00 A reading check-in
04:18 All about my thesis
17:18 The future is a gray cloud of nothingness
Books Mentioned:
-In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale)
-Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
-Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages by Maria Matios (translated from Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan and Olha Tytarenko)
-Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland (translated from Norwegian by Kari Dickson)
-Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel)
-Mondegreen: Songs About Death and Love by Volodymyr Rafeyenko (translated from Ukrainian by Mark Andryczyk)
-War with the Newts by Karel Čapek (translated from Czech by M. and R. Weatherall)
-The Cowards by Josef Škvorecký (translated from Czech by Jeanne Němcová)
-I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal (translated from Czech by Paul Wilson)
-City of Torment by Daniela Hodrová (translated from Czech by Véronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol)
-Dream of a Journey: Selected Poems by Kateřina Rudčenková (translated fromm Czech by Alexandra Büchler)
-Everything I Don't Know: Selected Poems by Jerzy Ficowski (translated from Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer)
-The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri
-Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance After Communism by Jelena Subotić
-Jozef Pilsudki (Józef Piłsudski): Founding Father of Modern Poland by Joshua D. Zimmerman
-Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow by Natalka Bilotserkivets (translated from Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky)
-Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation by Jessie Labov
-The Fawn by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
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Ukraine Links:
-Razom (emergency response): razomforukraine.org
-The Kyiv Independent (news organization): gofundme.com/f/kyivindependent-launch
-Help Ukrainian pets: ifaw.org/ca-en/news/emergency-aid-ukraine
Bookshop.org (US): bookshop.org/shop/insertlitpun
Blackwell's (UK, free US shipping): https://www.blackwells.co.uk?a_aid=insertlitpun
[Note: These are affiliate links. No pressure at all to buy from these sources (or to buy books in the first place), but if you do choose to buy through these links, I'll receive a small portion of the sale with no extra cost to you.]
Find me on Twitter: twitter.com/InsertLitPun
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This is not a sponsored video, and unless otherwise stated, I bought these books myself.
00:00 Introoo
01:12 My grad school classes
02:34 Summer plans
03:44 Reading changes
04:30 My book-buying evolution
06:05 Books of 2020
06:26 Books of 2021
07:38 Books of 2022: Part 1
08:23 Books of 2022: Part 2
15:25 Books of 2023
17:12 Final tally
(Czech speaker corner: I misspoke and said prosím when I meant promiňte. Both preferable to przepraszam to be honest)
Books not really mentioned: Ottessa's tomfoolery
Do yourself a favor and follow Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: twitter.com/Tsihanouskaya
My new page! You can buy me a coffee (once or monthly): ko-fi.com/insertlitpun
Ukraine Links:
-I recommend Anton's videos: youtube.com/watch?v=DqIF2U4g7H8
-Razom (emergency response): razomforukraine.org
-The Kyiv Independent (news organization): gofundme.com/f/kyivindependent-launch
-Help Ukrainian pets: avmf.org/programs/disaster-relief-in-ukraine AND ifaw.org/ca-en/news/emergency-aid-ukraine
Bookshop.org (US): bookshop.org/shop/insertlitpun
Blackwell's (UK, free US shipping): https://www.blackwells.co.uk?a_aid=insertlitpun
[Note: These are affiliate links. No pressure at all to buy from these sources (or to buy books in the first place), but if you do choose to buy through these links, I'll receive a small portion of the sale with no extra cost to you.]
Find me on Twitter: twitter.com/InsertLitPun
Find me on Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/32647049-jennifer-insert-lit-pun
This is not a sponsored video, and unless otherwise stated, I bought these books myself.
Ukraine Links:
-I recommend Anton's videos: youtube.com/watch?v=DqIF2U4g7H8
-Razom (emergency response): razomforukraine.org
-The Kyiv Independent (news organization): gofundme.com/f/kyivindependent-launch
-Help Ukrainian pets: avmf.org/programs/disaster-relief-in-ukraine AND ifaw.org/ca-en/news/emergency-aid-ukraine
Bookshop.org (US): bookshop.org/shop/insertlitpun
Blackwell's (UK, free US shipping): https://www.blackwells.co.uk?a_aid=insertlitpun
[Note: These are affiliate links. No pressure at all to buy from these sources (or to buy books in the first place), but if you do choose to buy through these links, I'll receive a small portion of the sale with no extra cost to you.]
Books Mentioned:
-Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi
-Embers by Sándor Márai (translated from Hungarian by Carol Brown Janeway)
-Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
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This is not a sponsored video, and unless otherwise stated, I bought these books myself.
Donation Links:
-Razom (emergency response): razomforukraine.org
-The Kyiv Independent (news organization): gofundme.com/f/kyivindependent-launch
-Help Ukrainian pets: avmf.org/programs/disaster-relief-in-ukraine AND ifaw.org/ca-en/news/emergency-aid-ukraine
Find it on Bookshop.org (US): bookshop.org/a/11533/9780804170888
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Timothy Snyder discusses Ukraine on Ezra Klein's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/timothy-snyder-on-the-myths-that-blinded-the-west/id1548604447?i=1000554066715
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00:00 Introduction
01:02 Why I read this book (on Bloodlands & centering Eastern Europe)
03:00 Applebaum's thesis
03:18 Background geography & history
05:02 The Russian Revolution & Ukrainian uprisings
08:30 The USSR & "Ukrainization"
09:20 Diversity within Ukraine - urban vs. rural
10:13 Stalin & colonizing the peasantry
10:53 Collectivization (a disaster)
12:31 "Kulaks'
13:33 The purging of Ukrainian intellectuals
14:31 The decisions leading to the crisis
16:43 Starvation & cannibalism
17:24 The reaction in the cities
17:57 The international cover-up
20:28 Oral tradition & "genocide"
21:10 What is a nation?
22:06 Closing
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Books Mentioned:
-Gerta by Kateřina Tučková (translated from Czech by Véronique Firkusny)
-The Hot Summer of 1968 by Viliam Klimáček (translated from Slovak by Peter Petro)
-Full written Open Letters review: openlettersreview.com/posts/the-hot-summer-of-1968-by-villiam-klimacek
-Seeing People Off by Jana Beňová (translated from Slovak by Janet Livingstone)
-Current reads discussion: youtu.be/llWM1IQFgd4?t=676
-Abigail by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
-The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović (translated from Slovene by Olivia Hellewell)
-Balkans Wrap Up discussion: youtu.be/KSTbU5MoDK8?t=844
-Favorites of 2021: youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=833
-My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović (translated from Bosian by Celia Hawkesworth)
-Balkans Wrap Up discussion: youtu.be/KSTbU5MoDK8?t=560
-To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
-Balkans Wrap Up discussion: youtu.be/KSTbU5MoDK8?t=299
-Favorites of 2021: youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=911
-The Doll by Ismail Kadare (translated from Albanian by John Hodgson)
-Balkans Wrap Up discussion: youtu.be/KSTbU5MoDK8?t=56
-Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort (translated from Belarusian by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Franz Wright)
-Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort
-Favorites of 2021: youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=661
-The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
-Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustová (translated from Spanish by Julie Jones)
-Favorites of 2021: youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=107
-The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
-Favorites of 2021: youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=559
-The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
-Chatty discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=0x_DzQ-jTZk
-The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway)
-Full video review: youtube.com/watch?v=r2i44NjoJpA
-Favorites of 2021: youtu.be/Sq0bIIbbOL8?t=423
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This is not a sponsored video, and unless otherwise stated, I bought these books myself.
00:00 Hewo
00:35 Czechia
02:48 Slovakia
06:00 Hungary
07:00 Slovenia
07:57 Bosnia
09:02 Macedonia, Albania, & Greece
10:05 Albania
10:57 Belarus
15:15 Russia
18:34 Georgia
19:09 Bai
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[Note: These are affiliate links. No pressure at all to buy from these sources (or to buy books in the first place), but if you do choose to buy through these links, I'll receive a small portion of the sale with no extra cost to you.]
Books Mentioned:
-Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb
-A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
-The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
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00:00 When life is frantic
01:20 When life is theoretically less frantic
02:27 Assassin's Fate (aka I can't finish a book)
03:36 An actual reread (A Tale for the Time Being)
10:03 No buy & library potential
11:14 I used to read more ya know
11:50 A reading habit I want to break
13:41 Bai
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[Note: These are affiliate links. No pressure at all to buy from these sources (or to buy books in the first place), but if you do choose to buy through these links, I'll receive a small portion of the sale with no extra cost to you.]
Books Mentioned:
(note: if I've discussed these at length in previous videos, those links are included below)
-Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
-Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustová (translated from Spanish by Julie Jones)
-The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
-Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
-Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
-The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway): youtube.com/watch?v=r2i44NjoJpA
-Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
-The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
-Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort
Sample Poem ("To Antigone, a Dispatch"): griffinpoetryprize.com/to-antigone-a-dispatch
-Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead: youtube.com/watch?v=LFl_NAoKWKI
-The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović (translated from Slovene by Olivia Hellewell): youtube.com/watch?v=KSTbU5MoDK8
-To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova: youtube.com/watch?v=KSTbU5MoDK8
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Original Postcript Book Tag from mementomori: youtube.com/watch?v=yydtcQRDtMU&t=0s
Videos Mentioned:
-Little Women & March: youtube.com/watch?v=In2qc1OH3rk
-Robert Alter's Hebrew Bible: youtube.com/watch?v=1uZPSQeZqiE
-Review on No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood: youtube.com/watch?v=eBYzXhNriEE
Tag Questions:
1. The longest book you read this year and the book that took you the longest to finish
2. A book you read this year that was outside of your comfort zone
3. How many books did you re-read?
4. Favorite re-read of this year
5. A book you read for the first time that you look forward to re-reading in the future
6. Favorite single short story or novella that you read this year
7. Mass Appeal: A book you liked and would recommend to a wide variety of readers
8. Specialized Appeal: A book you liked but would be hesitant to recommend to just anyone
9. Reflect on your year as a bookish content creator (goals met, good/bad memories, favorite videos you made, etc)
Books Mentioned:
-Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
-Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
-Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
-The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
-The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
-Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb
-Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb
-The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
-The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
-The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
-Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
-The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
-The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
-The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
-The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain
-Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
-Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
-The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway): youtube.com/watch?v=r2i44NjoJpA
-Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort
-Abigail by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
-My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović (translated from Bosnan by Celia Hawkesworth): youtube.com/watch?v=KSTbU5MoDK8
-How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
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00:00 Why hewo
00:29 The longest book I read this year
02:09 The book that took me the longest to finish
02:45 A book I read this year that was outside of my comfort zone
03:44 How many books did I reread?
04:11 Favorite reread of this year
04:49 A book I read for the first time that I look forward to rereading in the future
05:58 Favorite single short story or novella that I read this year
06:45 A book I liked and would recommend to a wide variety of readers
07:38 A book I liked but would be hesitant to recommend to just anyone
09:10 My year as a bookish content creator
11:39 Reflections on the trashfire
14:24 The most random interlude ever
17:13 So looong fareweeell good riddaaance to 2021
-2020 Favorites: youtube.com/watch?v=EpsLcBtgMPE
-2019 Favorites: youtube.com/watch?v=NqD8eVPJB_c
-2018 Favorites: youtube.com/watch?v=RWWvZosHGlY
-2017 Favorites: youtube.com/watch?v=ECjLgxdWYyk
-2016 Favorites: youtube.com/watch?v=c98oZEEriig
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00:00 Hello there
00:24 2016 Favorites
03:59 2017 Favorites
07:58 2018 Favorites
11:12 2019 Favorites
15:49 2020 Favorites
19:41 My Most Absolute Favorites aka my literary children read them love yourself
31:50 Bai
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Videos Mentioned:
-2020 series on the books I bought:
-Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=q0Ky0KbevWc
-Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=-isOviTs2yE
-Part 3: youtube.com/watch?v=FtT2FqaQq1s
-Chat with Kendra & Matthew on Minor Detail: youtube.com/watch?v=Qxqd8_e9HKM
-Romanovs rundown: youtube.com/watch?v=0x_DzQ-jTZk
-Steve's video on Cold Comfort Farm: youtube.com/watch?v=Q7rP0oQk5o8
Books Mentioned:
-Summer by Ali Smith
-Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
-All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson)
-Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
-Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
-The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
-The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
-Obit by Victoria Chang
-Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
-Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette)
-Dressed for a Dance in the Snow by Monika Zgustová (translated from Spanish by Julie Jones)
-The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
-Abigail by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
-Seeing People Off by Jana Beňová (translated from Slovak by Janet Livingstone)
-The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
-The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
-Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
-Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
-Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
-Assassin’s Fate by Robin Hobb
-In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale)
-Trieste by Daša Drndić (translated from Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać)
-Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova (translated from Russian by D. M. Thomas)
-Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
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00:00 Hewo
00:46 Unread books from 2020
02:51 Books I've read from 2021!
16:54 Books I have NOT read from 2021
23:33 Some stats & observations
24:49 Bai
**(she promises no such thing and in fact thinks you should do better whoever you may be)
Kyle Chayka on "The Rise of the Very Online Novel:" newrepublic.com/article/162641/rise-online-novel-patricia-lockwood-novel-review
Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/shop/insertlitpun
Blackwell's: https://www.blackwells.co.uk?a_aid=insertlitpun
Book Mentioned:
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
-US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780593189580
-UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/No-One-Is-Talking-About-This-by-Patricia-Lockwood/9781526629760?a_aid=insertlitpun
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00:00 Intro info
01:05 The First Half (aka how online are you)
09:37 The Second Half (aka weep o mine eyes)
13:30 Final Thoughts
18:17 Bai
Note: for those who care, there are no spoilers for either of these titles
Kaitlyn Greenidge on The Bearable Whiteness of Little Women: nytimes.com/2020/01/13/opinion/sunday/little-women-movie-race.html
Potential pairings video: youtube.com/watch?v=yYY2XHbXVTc
Thoughts on The Orestaia + House of Names: youtube.com/watch?v=d-boctXTUYU
Thoughts on Howards End + On Beauty: youtube.com/watch?v=0F-3wb7fohk
Books Mentioned:
-Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780147514011
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Little-Women-by-Louisa-May-Alcott-Elaine-Showalter/9780140390698?a_aid=insertlitpun
-March by Geraldine Brooks
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780143036661
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/March-by-Geraldine-Brooks/9780007165872?a_aid=insertlitpun
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-Bookshop.org (US) full favorites page: bookshop.org/lists/favorite-books-of-2020-04510d7b-2cae-47ec-9dd7-2eced9fae56b
-Thoughts on earlier Realm of the Elderings Books: youtube.com/watch?v=pI2ws3oZYCc
-Longer discussions of Border and Bloodlands: youtube.com/watch?v=ESfSvw2YhRk
-Excerpt from Blue Nights: youtube.com/watch?v=SALISp7a7ZQ
-Full written review of The Masochist: openlettersreview.com/posts/the-masochist-by-katia-perat?rq=the%20masochist
Books Mentioned:
-Pericles by William Shakespeare
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780743273299
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Pericles-by-William-Shakespeare-Roger-Warren/9780199536832?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Wasted Morning by Gabriela Adameșteanu (translated from Romanian by Patrick Camiller)
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780810126374
-When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780062353788
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/When-He-Was-Wicked-by-Julia-Quinn-author/9780349429472?a_aid=insertlitpun
-What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780593191415
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/What-Are-You-Going-Through-by-Sigrid-Nunez-author/9780349013664?a_aid=insertlitpun
-How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel (translated from Czech by Jindriska Badal and Robert McDowell)
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/How-I-Came-to-Know-Fish-by-Ota-Pavel/9780141192833?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780553392913
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Fools-Assassin-by-Robin-Hobb-author/9780007444205?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Passing by Nella Larsen
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780142437278
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Passing-by-Nella-Larsen-author/9780241472712?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9781555977863
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Border-by-Kapka-Kassabova-author/9781783783205?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780465031474
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Bloodlands-by-Timothy-Snyder/9780099551799?a_aid=insertlitpun
-The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780141441269
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Portrait-of-a-Lady-by-Henry-James/9780141199122?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Blue Nights by Joan Didion
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780307387387
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Blue-Nights-by-Joan-Didion/9780007432905?a_aid=insertlitpun
-The Masochist by Katja Perat (translated from Slovenian by Michael Biggins)
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9781912545179
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Masochist-by-Katja-Perat-Michael-Biggins-translator/9781912545179?a_aid=insertlitpun
-The Iliad by Homer (translated from Ancient Greek by Robert Fagles)
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780140275360
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Iliad-by-Homer-Robert-Fagles-Bernard-Knox/9780140445923?a_aid=insertlitpun
-The Door by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9781590177716
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Door-by-Magda-Szab-Len-Rix-translator/9781784872403?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Lila by Marilynne Robinson
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9781250784032
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Lila-by-Marilynne-Robinson-author/9781844088829?a_aid=insertlitpun
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You can find this full edition of the Hebrew Bible here:
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UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Hebrew-Bible-by-Robert-C-Alter-translator/9780393292497?a_aid=insertlitpun
The Art of Biblical Narrative:
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780465022557
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Art-of-Biblical-Narrative-by-Robert-Alter/9780465022557?a_aid=insertlitpun
Wisdom Books:
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780393340532
UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Wisdom-Books-by-Robert-Alter/9780393340532?a_aid=insertlitpun
The Five Books of Moses:
US: bookshop.org/a/11533/9780393333930
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-Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
-Proud to be a Mammal by Czesław Miłosz (translated from Polish by Catherine Leach, Bogdana Carpenter, and Madeline G. Levine)
-A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
-Sing To It by Amy Hempel
-The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
-Brute by Emily Skaja
-Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort (translated from Belarussian by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Franz Wright)
-Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
-Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb
-All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
-Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
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-2018: youtube.com/watch?v=RWWvZosHGlY&t=
-2017: youtube.com/watch?v=ECjLgxdWYyk&t=
-2016: youtube.com/watch?v=c98oZEEriig&t=
Books Mentioned (with any other places I've previously discussed them):
15. The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum
14. Good Talk by Mira Jacob
13. Lovely War by Julie Berry
12. Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich: youtube.com/watch?v=lGTnjriZZT8&t=650s
11. Maggie Brown & Others by Peter Orner: youtube.com/watch?v=Mzj8igekk10&t=279s
10. Know My Name by Chanel Miller: openlettersreview.com/posts/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller?rq=know%20my%20name
9. Milkman by Anna Burns: youtube.com/watch?v=Mzj8igekk10&t=358s
8. Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
7. A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
6. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff: youtube.com/watch?v=5GbP4a8AkmA&t=420s
5. Old Baggage by Lissa Evans: youtube.com/watch?v=Mzj8igekk10&t=81s
4. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
3. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope: youtube.com/watch?v=5GbP4a8AkmA&t=614s
2. In America by Susan Sontag
1. Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout: youtube.com/watch?v=suJGwX_yVQU
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Potential pairings video: youtube.com/watch?v=yYY2XHbXVTc
More thoughts on The Odyssey & Circe: youtube.com/watch?v=qU8abKoqsPs
Books/Articles Mentioned:
-The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides) by Aeschylus (translated by Robert Fagles)
-House of Names by Colm Tóibín
-The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Robert Fagles)
-Circe by Madeline Miller
-The Heavens by Sandra Newman
-"The Death of Tragedy" by Susan Sontag
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Books Mentioned (with reviews, if available):
-Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain: youtube.com/watch?v=_jjASSUEnoA
-Gilead by Marilynne Robinson: youtube.com/watch?v=93CO-bKeHqM
-Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders: youtube.com/watch?v=njCCPwJda9M
-The Green Road by Anne Enright
-Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton: youtube.com/watch?v=ECjLgxdWYyk
-The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy: youtube.com/watch?v=RWWvZosHGlY
-Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien: youtube.com/watch?v=MzYzBjbWU-8
-The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal: youtube.com/watch?v=xgZmiOxeWDw
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(if I've discussed/reviewed them before on this channel, the respective videos are linked below)
Realm of the Elderlings (Non-Spoilery) Video: youtube.com/watch?v=pI2ws3oZYCc&t=780s
Books Mentioned:
10. After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell: youtube.com/watch?v=fp7VQAfE_8w
9. Educated by Tara Westover: youtube.com/watch?v=-apMMcYodhU&t=385s
8. When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy: youtube.com/watch?v=t2KI7qbmnQA&t=17s
7. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
6. The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb: youtube.com/watch?v=pI2ws3oZYCc&t=780s
5. Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss
4. Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag: youtube.com/watch?v=Yofql4SfX_w
3. Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro: youtube.com/watch?v=fLRzpqNJWAo
2. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy
1. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
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-Overlooking Anne (Ellis and I are not fans of this);
-Constructing these authors in our own images of perfection;
-Pitting the sisters against each other;
-Lazily distinguishing them;
-Treating their novels like autobiography;
-Dismissing their work;
-And treating Brontë romances like models for real relationships (love yourselves, people)
Books Mentioned:
-Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life by Samantha Ellis
-The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family by Juliet Barker
-Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
-The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
-Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
-Villette by Charlotte Brontë
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Timestamps:
-How I spaced them out: 0:40
-Farseer Trilogy: 2:30
-Liveship Traders Trilogy: 7:16
-Tawny Man Trilogy: 11:47
-Reading order: 17:21
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Other Works Mentioned:
-Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
-One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
-"Poem Without a Hero" by Anna Akhmatova
-Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
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Pairs/Groups Mentioned:
-Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie & The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
-Winter by Ali Smith & A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
-Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton & The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish
-The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell & Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
-Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill & All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, & The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell
-The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex by Marita Golden, & Passing by Nella Larsen
-The Tempest by William Shakespeare & Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
-Howards End by E.M. Forster & On Beauty by Zadie Smith
-The Odyssey by Homer, Circe by Madeline Miller, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, Hood by Emma Donoghue, & Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
-Florence and Giles by John Harding & The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
-Grimms' Fairy Tales (edited and translated by Jack Zipes) & The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth
-The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen & The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill
-Among Others by Jo Walton & books by Ursula LeGuin
-Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett, & Moby Dick by Herman Melville
-Orlando by Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, & Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
-Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, & Johannesburg by Fiona Melrose
-Middlemarch by George Eliot & My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
I Tag:
-Steve Donoghue: youtube.com/channel/UC1B9FfvVLRt8s6scUa79oag
-Britta Bohler: youtube.com/channel/UCpQsLKy0bh9hRZ3AWQzG-7g
-Adam @ mementomori: youtube.com/channel/UC6oWvnoj1O9kq0Mz_DFeIew
-Olive @ abookolive: youtube.com/channel/UC6wKgH6YIKKfNX9-EN0dxIA
-Mercedes @ MercysBookishMusings: youtube.com/channel/UCVptFL0H04tNBdJ6wW7vdYQ
-Lia @ Hyde and Seek: youtube.com/channel/UC7VLgxcHt8zbi11W1UXqt4A
-Jen Campbell: youtube.com/channel/UCwME97IPvhAXAV_bbgAvOtw
-Laura Frey: youtube.com/channel/UCFuViUPHXpzj4D8jlsvmO5w
-Kamil @ WhatKamilReads: youtube.com/channel/UC5EqdhJ8XWcgIeaD9IkjBAQ
-Harriet Rosie: youtube.com/channel/UC1D5YoaGpSKgfxCpTFBZ6mg
-Victoria @ Eve’s Alexandria: youtube.com/channel/UCi542B3twFEbcDZ8z2VgJXg
-Eric Karl Anderson: youtube.com/channel/UCYOfhQvPzZ7ALqeXa8NleHQ
-Kate Armstrong: youtube.com/channel/UCBBf6Nsb7fAQwd7rExydkYA
-Simon @ SavidgeReads: youtube.com/channel/UCBWnfrLiYSQtfgRVhWxCQ8A
-Mel @ Mel’s Bookland Adventures: youtube.com/channel/UCpyooWkAk5PyjfY-ksJtv5g
-Claire @ Claire Reads Books: youtube.com/channel/UCE1986mkMBPwxm-BCHDJCiQ
-Kendra Winchester: youtube.com/channel/UCeOsY9TGb2UitTOr-Qn5wJg
-Rincey @ rincey reads: youtube.com/channel/UCovQFgis-zwBWnO5axLzlmg
-Shawn the Book Maniac: youtube.com/channel/UCXFFuV_loS97oL-UTCazcXA
-Katie @ Books and Things: youtube.com/channel/UCNBgyHiLdu0lVN9Hr-xTLLw
-Maria @ Read Create Repeat Homeschool: youtube.com/channel/UCYl71FgLz7H7tFxnViHd3gw
-Vanessa @ chboskyy: youtube.com/channel/UCHIjJA0gIF5RUhoyjHVUNKA
-Katie @ Life Between Words: youtube.com/channel/UCR5rcjWGGH-BnjE-zA1dGHg
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Year-End Videos:
-My Favorite Booktube Videos of 2017: youtube.com/watch?v=roksq4oZnrI&t=255s
-The 5 Most Disappointing Books of 2017: youtube.com/watch?v=QA4XOWagG5Y&t=1s
-6 Striking Books of 2017: youtube.com/watch?v=FN5BxBfctQg
Books Mentioned:
-No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre (translated by S. Gilbert)
-The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
-When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
Sample poem - "No More Cake Here": poetryfoundation.org/poems/56356/no-more-cake-here
-The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride: youtube.com/watch?v=ceIMDnlKscQ
-The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge (at 5:01): youtube.com/watch?v=6LLs00gOuq4
-The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson
-Winter by Ali Smith: youtube.com/watch?v=JEPIKe3xYYQ&t=1s
-Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
-Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders: youtube.com/watch?v=njCCPwJda9M
-A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (at 7:22): youtube.com/watch?v=Usw1HFlwgiw
-Middlemarch by George Eliot (readalong playlist): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmSK9lZbDG1S8ewvhsEdu7oQxNkGmi8i8
-Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
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Sorry about the sound - the wind was howling outside!
Autumn Review (RIP my tan): youtube.com/watch?v=_P7iJjxeQlU&t=1s
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Original Tag: http://itsabooksworld.booklikes.com/post/1104267/the-classics-booktag-original
Videos Mentioned:
-My Favorite Books Ever (Playlist): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmSK9lZbDG1SkXSipU0CCIv1bJznDz5XV
-July Book Haul: youtube.com/watch?v=EOliu90OcuI
Books Mentioned:
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
-The Iliad by Homer
-I, Claudius by Robert Graves
-The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
-The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by Ladislav Klíma
-Dream Story by Arthur Schnitlzer
-The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
-Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
-Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler
-La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas
-Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes
Editions Mentioned:
-Penguin Deluxe Classics
-Modern Library Classics
Questions/Prompts:
1. An overhyped classic you really didn't like
2. Favorite time period to read about
3. Favorite fairy-tale
4. What is the classic you're most embarrassed about having not read
5. Top 5 classics you would like to read (soon)
6. Favorite modern book/series based on a classic
7. Favorite movie version/TV series based on a classic
8. Worst classic to movie adaptation
9. Favorite edition(s) you'd like to collect more classics from
10. An underhyped classic you'd recommend to everyone
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Part I (favorites #7-10): youtube.com/watch?v=mZ53cxARnPU
Part II (favorites #4-6): youtube.com/watch?v=Bc1eu4iUbYw
Books Mentioned:
3. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
2. "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
1. "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot
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Part I (favorites #7-10): youtube.com/watch?v=mZ53cxARnPU
-Armistead talks about his friendship with Hancock: youtube.com/watch?v=mGFkW39Ljho
-Armistead falls: youtube.com/watch?v=Bm6kHM2TPuE
Books Mentioned:
6. "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara
5. "Fräulein Else" by Arthur Schnitzler
4. "The Cranes Dance" by Meg Howrey
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Books Mentioned:
10. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
9. "Wives and Daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell
8. "Persuasion" by Jane Austen
7. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
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Books Mentioned:
9. "Villette" by Charlotte Brontë
8. "Bodies of Light" by Sarah Moss
7. "Do Not Say We Have Nothing" by Madeleine Thien
6. "One" by Sarah Crossan
5. "The Laramie Project" by Moisés Kauffman and the Tectonic Theater Project
4. "The Accidental" by Ali Smith
3. "One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment" by Mei Fong
2. "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" by Fredrik Backman
1. "The Portable Veblen" by Elizabeth McKenzie
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