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The Bar and the Bookcase Tag! (and booktube shoutouts!)
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@taurossstar
@ClaireReadsBooks
@benjaminjournal
@nathansnook
@batumanslittleidiot
@MatthewSciarappa
9) Disorientation / Elaine Hsieh Chou
8) The Happy Couple / Naoise Dolan
7) Long Live the Post Horn / Vigdis Hjorth
6) My Struggle Book 2 / Karl Ove Knausgaard
5) Swimming Home / Deborah Levy
4) Hurricane Season / Fernanda Melchor
3) The Birthday Party / Laurent Mauvignier
2) A Girl’s Story / Annie Ernaux
1) Mating / Norman Rush
Questions:
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1. Best book you’ve read so far
2. Best sequel you've read so far in
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. Favorite new author (debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush
9. Newest favorite character
10. Book that made you cry
11. Book that made you happy
12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
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@yenasung video: youtube.com/watch?v=g8uKk_CCXQI
@nathansnook video: youtube.com/watch?v=1SOv8EsQdRs&t
Tagging:
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@EricKarlAnderson
@MatthewSciarappa
@ClaireReadsBooks
@alsopato
@lucyrutherford
@CJReads
@TheBarandtheBookcase
@somebenfen
@modernmalady : youtube.com/watch?v=ltSmDzNGPVA&t
9) Dogs of Summer / Andrea Abreu
8) Sula / Toni Morrison
7) Three Rooms / Jo Hamya
6) Hola Papi / John Paul Brammer
5) Paradise / Fernanda Melchor
4) My Struggle Book 1 / Karl Ove Knausgard
3) Simple Passion / Annie Ernaux
2) Either/Or / Elif Batuman
1) All Down Darkness Wide / Seán Hewitt
Claire’s video: youtu.be/3_lJGbvVkWc
Books mentioned:
- Writers and Lovers / Lily King
- An Exciting And Vivid Inner Life / Paul Dalla Rosa
- All The Lovers in the Night / Mieko Kawakami
- Paradise / Fernanda Melchor
- Bliss Montage / Ling Ma
- Hola Papi / John Paul Brammer
- All Down Darkness Wide / Seán Hewitt
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow / Gabrielle Zevin
2. Best sequel you've read so far this year
3. New release you haven't read yet from this year, but you want to
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of 2022.
5. Biggest disappointment this year.
6. Biggest surprise this year.
7. Favourite new author.
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favourite character.
10. Book that made you cry this year.
11. Book that made you happy this year.
12. Most beautiful book you've bought or received so far this year.
13. What do you need to read by the end of the year?
"West Elm Caleb and the Rise of the TikTok Tabloid": theconversation.com/west-elm-caleb-and-the-rise-of-the-tiktok-tabloid-175485
"How 'West Elm Caleb' Turned Into 2022's Most Embarrassing Witch Hunt": nypost.com/2022/01/24/west-elm-caleb-is-2022s-most-embarrassing-witch-hunt
Books mentioned:
- A Single Man / Christopher Isherwood
- The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov
- We Should All Be Feminists / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Beautiful World Where Are You / Sally Rooney
- The Last Samurai / Helen Dewitt
-Just Us / Claudia Rankine
-What Are You Going Through / Sigrid Nunez
-Pure Colour / Sheila Heti
-Death of Vivek Oji / Akwaeke Emezi
-Whereabouts / Jhumpa Lahiri
-Sorrow and Bliss / Meg Mason
-Here For It / R. Eric Thomas
-The Crying Book / Heather Christle
-Gentrifier / Anne Elizabeth Moore
-A Swim in the Pond in the Rain / George Saunders
-Sounds Like Titanic / Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
- Beautiful World Where Are You / Sally Rooney
- Joan Is Okay / Wieke Wang
- Transcendent Kingdom / Yaa Gyasi
- Carnival of Snackery / David Sedaris
- Punch Me Up To The Gods / Brian Broome
- Real Estate / Deborah Levy
My review of Beautiful World Where Are You: youtube.com/watch?v=Q0hiGX1EKfs&t
- Villette / Charlotte Bronte
- Tess of the D'urbervilles / Thomas Hardy
- Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
- Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte
Victober hosts!
Katie: youtube.com/watch?v=h-rqG8KGluE
Kate: youtube.com/watch?v=CYcb5d3pBeY
Lucy: youtube.com/watch?v=wHaSnQkkJj8
-The Goldfinch / Donna Tartt
-On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Ocean Vuong
-Stoner / John Williams
-Lanny / Max Porter
-IV:essays / Chuck Klosterman
-Guardian article: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/05/softboi-what-is-it-instagram-q-and-a
-My Fictional F**kbois video: youtube.com/watch?v=h53MDIPQ-j0&t
- Infinite Country / Patricia Engel
- O Beautiful / Jung Yun
- Catch the Rabbit / Lana Bastasic
- Everything I Know About Love / Dolly Alderton
- Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels / Rachel Cohen
My Denying the Dream video: youtube.com/watch?v=tMCHI5TJjzM&t
-Assembly / Natasha Brown
-Trust / Domenico Starnone
-Crying in H Mart / Michelle Zauner
-Made in China / Anna Qu
-Filthy Animals / Brandon Taylor
Books mentioned:
- Pop Song / Larissa Pham
- Cool For America / Andrew Martin
- Rainbow Milk / Paul Mendez
- An I Novel / Minae Mizumura
- An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures / Clarice Lispector
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies / Deesha Philyaw
- Death In Venice / Thomas Mann
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed / Jon Ronson
Section 1: For the Allies
- The Great Believers / Rebbeca Makkai
- The Prettiest Star / Carter Sickels
Section 2: Forbidden
- Maurice / E.M. Forster
- A Single Man / Christopher Isherwood
Section 3: Fantasy
- Red White & Royal Blue / Casey McQuiston
- Song of Achilles / Madeline Miller
Section 4: The Future
- Detransition, Baby / Torrey Peters
- Dancer from the Dance / Andrew Holleran
- Memorial / Bryan Washington
Conclusion: What makes a gay novel?
- A Little Life / Hanya Yanagihara
- The Atlantic article by Garth Greenwell: theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/05/a-little-life-definitive-gay-novel/394436
Books mentioned:
-Cool For America / Andrew Martin
-When Watched / Leopoldine Core
-The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
-A Manual For Cleaning Women / Lucia Berlin
-How to Breathe Underwater / Julie Orringer
Books mentioned:
-Second Place / Rachel Cusk
-Days of Distraction / Alexandra Chang
-Detransition, Baby / Torrey Peters
-Parakeet / Marie-Helene Bertino
-Tokyo Ueno Station / Yu Miri
Books mentioned:
2015
• Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• A Little Life by Hanya Yangihara
2016
• The Liars Club by Mary Karr
• How to be Both by Ali Smith
• Raise High the Roofbeams Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by J.D. Salinger
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
2017
• The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
• Stoner by John Williams
2018
• The Idiot by Elif Batuman
• The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• Outline by Rachel Cusk
2019
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
• The Years by Annie Ernaux
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
2020
• Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
• Luster by Raven Leilani
2021
• Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
Books mentioned:
- Piranesi / Susanna Clarke
- Milk Fed / Melissa Broder
- The Copenhagen Trilogy / Tove Ditlevsen
- The Cost of Living / Deborah Levy
- A True Novel / Minae Mizumura
Channels mentioned:
Ben @somebenfen
AAPI resources:
- stopaapihate.org/actnow
- donate.givedirect.org/?cid=14711
- nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html
- aapifund.org/donate
Asian American bookstores:
- Eastwind Books: asiabookcenter.com
- Arkipelago: arkipelagobooks.com
- Philippine Expressions: philippinebookshop.com
- Kinokuniya: usa.kinokuniya.com
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Books mentioned:
- Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
- In the Country / Mia Alvar
- The Body Papers / Grace Talusan
- Sigh, Gone / Phuc Tran
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Ocean Vuong
- Severance / Ling Ma
- Minor Feelings / Cathy Park Hong
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Books mentioned:
- War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy
- A Little Life / Hanya Yanagihara
- The Goldfinch / Donna Tartt
- The Luminaries / Eleanor Catton
- Middlemarch / George Eliot
- The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky
March of the Mammoths hosts!
Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse : youtube.com/watch?v=g4nq_mOwIj0
Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868 : youtube.com/watch?v=zYrxR52AUuQ&t
Alex @bigalbooksforever : youtube.com/watch?v=1pfKTIfuZBY
Books mentioned:
-Troubling Love / Elena Ferrante
-Days of Abandonment / Elena Ferrante
-The Lost Daughter / Elena Ferrante
-Incidental Inventions / Elena Ferrante
-Klara and the Sun / Kazuo Ishiguro
-Black Buck / Mateo Askaripour
-Lot / Bryan Washington
-Let Me Tell You What I Mean / Joan Didion
-No One is Talking About This / Patricia Lockwood
Tier 3: "haha what would you do if I was there ;)"
- Swimming in the Dark / Tomasz Jedrowski
- Lie With Me / Philippe Besson
Tier 2: "pass me the aux cord"
- War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy
- Exciting Times / Naoise Dolan
- Autobiography of Red / Anne Carson
Tier 1: "Kyle from Lady Bird"
- Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen
- The Idiot / Elif Batuman
- My Brilliant Friend / Elena Ferrante
Thanks to Wilsonn for being the inspo for this vid 🙃
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Memorial / Bryan Washington
The Prettiest Star / Carter Sickels
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out / Jeremy Atherton Lin
Invisible Cities / Italo Calvino
Hamnet / Maggie O'Farrell
Fake Accounts / Lauren Oyler
- Jack / Marilynne Robinson
- Swann's Way / Marcel Proust
- The Idiot / Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Arturo's Island / Elsa Morante
- Idaho / Emily Ruskovich
The list!
10) Selected Stories / Alice Munro
9) Thick: essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom
8) How We Fight For Our Lives: a memoir / Saeed Jones
7) The Lying Life of Adults / Elena Ferrante
6) Real Life / Brandon Taylor
5) Summer / Ali Smith
4) Sigh, Gone: a memoir / Phuc Tran
3) Uncanny Valley: a memoir / Anna Wiener
2) Exciting Times / Naoise Dolan
1) Luster / Raven Leilani
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Top Reads of 2019: youtube.com/watch?v=crH0Ld3uGf4&t
Review of Exciting Times: youtube.com/watch?v=1HbadKrD_Gc
Review of Luster: youtube.com/watch?v=XHbi3f1y2hE
Review of Real Life: youtube.com/watch?v=Zt8dpToAkv0&t
Review of The Lying Life of Adults: youtube.com/watch?v=J01JeePA5iU&t
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Jennifer’s video: youtube.com/watch?v=ov3pW6Lf-_8&t
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Books mentioned
-Lying Life of Adults / Elena Ferrante
-Daddy: Stories / Emma Cline
-In the Country: Stories / Mia Alvar
-The Body Papers / Grace Talusan
-Sigh, Gone / Phuc Tran
-They Called Us Enemy / George Takei
-I Remain in Darkness / Annie Ernaux
-Jane: A Murder / Maggie Nelson
-Thick: essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom
-Lie With Me / Philippe Besson
-The Accidental / Ali Smith
-Jack / Marilynne Robinson
Books mentioned:
-Summer / Ali Smith
-Spring / Ali Smith
-Winter / Ali Smith
-Autumn / Ali Smith
-Hotel World / Ali Smith
-There But For The / Ali Smith
-How to Be Both / Ali Smith
Hope you don’t mind some snapshots from Summers’ past! Didn’t want just static of staring at me read for a full minute haha
Matthew: youtube.com/watch?v=9_lkl8yKC7Y&t
Jennifer: youtube.com/watch?v=2EhsjFH8ZdI
Kendra: youtube.com/watch?v=E2ghFz3i4-I
Books mentioned:
-Convenience Store Woman / Sayaka Murata / trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori [Japanese]
-The Memory Police / Yoko Ogawa / trans. Stephen Snyder [Japanese]
The Nakano Thrift Shop / Hiromi Kawakami / trans. Allison Markin Powell [Japanese]
-The White Book / Han Kang / trans. Deborah Smith [Korean]
-The Years / Annie Ernaux / trans. Alison Strayer [French]
-Childhood / Tove Ditlevsen / trans. Tiina Nunnally [Danish]
-My Brilliant Friend / Elena Ferrante / trans. Ann Goldstein [Italian]
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Convenience Store Woman book review: youtube.com/watch?v=_otu02L2gaE&t
On Elena Ferrante: youtube.com/watch?v=0x3WAeckwB4&t
I know I said my next video would be a recent reads but I ended up writing thoughts that led to an individual review haha. Maybe next week!
Books mentioned:
-How to Be Both / Ali Smith
-I Love Dick / Chris Kraus
-Stoner / John Williams
-The Secret History / Donna Tartt
-Wild / Cheryl Strayed
-The Liars Club / Mary Karr
Books discussed:
-The Tidal Zone / Sarah Moss
-Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov
-The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion
-A Little Life / Hanya Yanagihara
Shoutouts!
-Ben @ doomantidote: youtube.com/user/doomantidote
-Jaylen @ The Bar and the Bookcase: youtube.com/channel/UCTZ9I9tX1zOmp7woF7xwPFw
-Alyssa @ The Read Head: youtube.com/channel/UCnGnFHWx4bJ4ybLpetM_Uzw
-CJ @ CJ Reads: youtube.com/channel/UCRhFlyn6UUR-GSr1BQRhvLw
-Perry @ LiteraryKnitterary: youtube.com/channel/UCMkfsswG6e-Ylr4crDZ1nmQ
Conversations With Friends / Sally Rooney
The Friend / Sigrid Nunez
The Idiot / Elif Batuman
The Waves / Virginia Woolf
Real Life / Brandon Taylor
A Little Life / Hanya Yanagihara
Outline / Rachel Cusk
Pilgrim At Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard
Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion
Autobiography of a Face / Lucy Grealy
A Month in the Country / J.L. Carr
Autobiography of Red / Anne Carson
The Pisces / Melissa Broder
Tess of the D’urbervilles / Thomas Hardy
The New Me / Halle Butler
Severance / Ling Ma
Convenience Store Woman / Sayaka Murata
Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
Uncanny Valley / Anna Wiener
Howards End / E.M. Forster
Books mentioned:
-The Lonely City / Olivia Laing
-Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
-The Pisces / Melissa Broder
-Severance / Ling Ma
- Uncanny Valley / Anna Wiener
- Convenience Store Woman / Sayaka Murata
- The Friend / Sigrid Nunez
- An American Childhood / Annie Dillard
- Nine Stories / J.D. Salinger
- Dear Life / Alice Munro
- Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
Books mentioned:
- My Brilliant Friend
- The Story of a New Name
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
- The Story of the Lost Child
- Days of Abandonment
- Frantumaglia
The Art of Memoir / Mary Karr
In The Dream House / Carmen Maria Machado
Know My Name / Chanel Miller
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Honorable mentions:
- Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy
- The Pisces / Melissa Broder
- The Friend / Sigrid Nunez
- Where Reasons End / Yiyun Li
- Brothers Karamazov / Dostoyevsky
- The Stone Diaries / Carol Shields
- There But For The / Ali Smith
- Know My Name / Chanel Miller
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Top Ten:
10) My Antonia / Willa Cather
9) Early Work / Andrew Martin
8) The Overstory / Richard Powers
7) Pachinko / Min Jin Lee
6) Milkman / Anna Burns
5) Amongst Women / John McGahern
4) Villette / Charlotte Bronte
3) War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy
2) Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
1) Middlemarch / George Eliot
- Tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Brontë
- North and South / Elizabeth Gaskell
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy
- Villette / Charlotte Brontë
“Some rousing choruses struck me as the best part of the evening’s entertainment…Through the whole performance—timid instrumental duets, conceited vocal solos, sonorous, brass-lunged choruses—my attention gave but one eye and one ear to the stage, the other being permanently retained in the service of Dr. Bretton: I could not forget him, nor cease to question how he was feeling, what he was thinking, whether he was amused, or the contrary. At last he spoke. “And how do you like it all, Lucy? You are very quiet,” he said, in his own cheerful tone. “I am quiet,” I said, “because I am so very, very much interested: not merely with the music, but with everything about me.”
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Housekeeping
“Sylvie did not want to lose me. She did not want me to grow gigantic and multiple, so that I seemed to fill the whole house, and she did not wish me to turn subtle and miscible, so that I could pass through the membranes that separate dream and dream. She did not wish to remember me. She much preferred my simple, ordinary presence, silent and ungainly though I might be. For she could regard me without strong emotion—a familiar shape, a familiar face, a familiar silence. She could forget I was in the room. She could speak to herself, or to someone in her thoughts, with pleasure and animation, even while I sat beside her—this was the measure of our intimacy, that she gave almost no thought to me at all. But if she lost me, I would become extraordinary by my vanishing.”
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The Goldfinch
“It’s a big shift. I don’t know quite how to explain it. Between wanting and not wanting, caring and not caring. Of course it’s a lot more than that too…Things are stronger and brighter and I feel on the edge of something inexpressible…I watch the clouds reflected on sliding panes and marvel how even my sadness can make me happy…how it can all somehow seem necessary and right. I’d just as soon forget, but I can’t. It’s kind of the hum of a tuning fork. It’s just there. It’s here with me all the time. White noise, impersonal roar…And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.”
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Ashley's video: youtube.com/watch?v=6X1sXcUxaTQ
- The Road / Cormac McCarthy
- My Life In Middlemarch / Rebecca Mead
- 84 Charing Cross Road / Helene Hanff
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept / Elizabeth Smart
- Teaching a Stone to Talk / Annie Dillard
- On Being Ill / Virginia Woolf
- The Collected Schizophrenia’s / Esme Weijun Wang
- Say Nothing / Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Friend / Sigrid Nunez
- Rules For Visiting / Jessica Francis Kane
- The Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood
- The Memory Police / Yoli Ogawa
- Bottle Grove / Daniel Handler
- The Liar / Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
- Salt Slow: stories / Julia Armfield
- Crossing to Safety / Wallace Stegner
- Red doc / Anne Carson
- Glass, Irony, & God / Anne Carson
- Measure For Measure / William Shakespeare
1) Elena Ferrante
2) Ali Smith
3) Alice Munro
4) J.D. Salinger
5) Jonathan Safran Foer
6) Joan Didion
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Favorites:
1) Virginia Woolf
2) Jane Austen
3) Marilynne Robinson
4) Annie Dillard
5) Mary Karr
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Maybe?
1) John McGahern
2) Leo Tolstoy
3) E.M. Forster
4) Anne Carson