The Killing Joke - Alan Moore/Brian Bolland Megahex - Simon Hanselman When I Hit You - Meena Kandasamy Trust Exercise - Susan Choi The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Idiophone - Amy Fusselman Live Through This (33 1/2 Series) - Anwen Crawford
April Wrap Up (Pt. 1)bigalbooks2019-05-05 | ~~~Books Mentioned~~~
The Killing Joke - Alan Moore/Brian Bolland Megahex - Simon Hanselman When I Hit You - Meena Kandasamy Trust Exercise - Susan Choi The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Idiophone - Amy Fusselman Live Through This (33 1/2 Series) - Anwen CrawfordMid-Month Reading Update (March of the Mammoths Readathon)bigalbooks2023-03-16 | We have reached the halfway point of the March of the Mammoths Readathon!
Let us know how your reading is going so far!
Books mentioned: -The Weird Compendium (ed. Jeff & Ann Vandermeer) -The Mirror and the Light - Hilary Mantel -The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (trans. Edward Seidensticker) -Ulysses - James JoyceMarch of the Mammoths TBR 2023bigalbooks2023-03-01 | Happy 1st of March! Here is what I'll be ~~attempting~~ to read this month for the March of the Mammoths readathon :)March of the Mammoths Announcement 2023bigalbooks2023-02-12 | It’s Mammoth Season! March of the Mammoths is back for another round this March.
Music Credits: youtube.com/watch?v=Mgw6oKGt4iEQuintessential Summer Readsbigalbooks2022-09-16 | Hi all! I’m not ready to say goodbye to summer, so I wanted to reminisce about some of the standout books I read during July & August. What do you think makes for a perfect summer read?
~~Books Mentioned~~
-When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations (ed. Joy Hard) -Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - William Finnegan -The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje -The Bay of Noon - Shirley Hazzard -A House in the Country - Jose Donoso (Trans. David Prichard) -Cereus Blooms at Night - Shani Mootoo -The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim - Marcia Douglas -Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid -The Bridge of Beyond - Simone Schwarz-Bart (trans. Barbara Bray) -Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison -Moby Dick - Herman Melville
~~Music Mentioned~~ Foundation Roots Reggae Mix: youtube.com/watch?v=MjL0ipgT7xgMarch of the Mammoths - Update #1bigalbooks2022-03-10 | Checking in on the first week of March of the Mammoths!
Also mentioned is an *unofficial* 24 in 48 hour readathon happening this weekend (Mar 12 & 13th). :)
~Books Mentioned~ Pessoa: A Biography - Richard Zenith
The Forsyte Saga (Vol 1) - John Galsworthy Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (trans. Tiina Nunnally)
The Best Poems of the English Language - Ed. Harold BloomMarch of the Mammoths TBR (2022)bigalbooks2022-03-01 | March of the Mammoths 2022 is officially upon us!
~Books Mentioned~ Pessoa: A Biography - Richard Zenith An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
The Forsyte Saga (Vol 1) - John Galsworthy
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (trans. Tiina Nunnally)
The Best Poems of the English Language - Ed. Harold BloomMarch of the Mammoths 2022 Announcement!bigalbooks2022-02-06 | Does reading an 800+ page book in the month of March sound like a fun time to you? Join us in the March of the Mammoths! :)
~~~Books Mentioned~~~ The Sentence - Louise Erdrich Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbon Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard The Turquoise Ledge - Leslie Marmon Silko The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje Possession - A.S. Byatt The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard The Oresteia - Aeschylus (trans. Grene & Lattimore) An Oresteia - trans. Anne Carson
~~Videos Mentioned~~ Agamemnon: youtube.com/watch?v=mdv3vkECqXA&t=1195s Dark Academic Reading Playlist - youtube.com/watch?v=Otqp3M3elzU&t=3089sMarch of the Mammoths Wrap Upbigalbooks2021-05-12 | Hello again long lost friends! Welcome to my better-late-than-never March Wrap Up. March ended up being a hectic month, but I still managed to read three fantastic mammoth-sized books. If you participated in March of the Mammoths, please let me know how it went! :)
~~~Books Mentioned~~~
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding Red Comet: The Short Life & Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (trans. Louise & Aylmer Maude) A Suitable Boy - Vikram SethMammoth Update - Week #1bigalbooks2021-03-12 | #MarchingmammothsMarch of the Mammoths TBRbigalbooks2021-03-01 | #MarchingMammoths
Happy March of the Mammoths! Here's what I'll be attempting to read this year :)
~~~Books Mentioned~~~ Tom Jones - Henry Fielding Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth Red Comet - Heath Clark
~~~Channels Mentioned~~~ Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerseBlack History Month Book Tagbigalbooks2021-02-08 | ~~~Channels Mentioned~~~ @booksbyleynes (original tag creator) youtube.com/watch?v=DuDYy5GJjk
****Canadian Nonfiction/Fiction recommendations**** Black Writers Matter (Ed. Whitney French) The Hanging of Angelique - Afua Cooper Policing Black Lives - Robin Maynard Black Like Who - Rinaldo Walcott The Skin We’re In - Desmond Cole Fifteen Dogs - André Alexis Washington Black - Esi Edugyan The Rage of Dragons - Evan Winter Frying Plantain - Zalinka Reid-Benta Brother - David Chariandy Reproduction - Ian Williams Bread Out of Stone - Dionne Brand Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan Things Are Good Now - Djamila Ibrahim
***Other Books/Films Mentioned*** The Wizard of the Crow - Ngugi wa Thiong’o House of Stone - Novuyo Rose Tshuma Sunjata - Bamba Suso & Banna Kanute I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell The Deep - Rivers Solomon The African Trilogy - Chinua Achebe Four Hundred Souls - ed. Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain One Hundred Boyfriends - Brontez Purnell The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton
~~~Questions~~~
1. What is a book everyone should be reading during Black History Month? (give one fiction and one nonfiction title)
2. Which Black booktuber would you recommend watching and why?
3. What is your favorite book written by a Black author from an African country?
4. What is your favorite Black classic?
5. Which movie / book-to-movie-adaptation / documentary would you recommend watching during Black History Month?
6. What’s on your TBR for Black History Month?
7. Which new releases by Black writers are you looking forward to the most this year?March of the Mammoths 2021 - Announcement!bigalbooks2021-02-04 | #marchingmammoths2021
The March of the Mammoths readathon is back for another round this year! Challenge yourself to try and read at least one 800+ page book this March.
Lukáš @acruelreadersthesis5868 youtube.com/watch?v=zYrxR52AUuQFavourite Reads of 2020bigalbooks2021-01-02 | Welcome to my attempt to try and highlight a few favourites from the 286 books that I read this year!
~~~Books Mentioned~~~~
***2020 Honourable Mentions*** Disparates - Patrick Madden Sing Backwards and Weep - Mark Lanegan Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart The Subtweet - Vivek Shraya Noopiming - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson The Beguiling - Zsuzsi Gartner
***Top 10 Favourites*** Grendel - John Gardner Daytripper - Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen (trans. Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favolla Goldman) Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams The Novel: A Biography - Michael Schmidt The Red and the Black - Stendhal (trans. Burton Raffel) Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo (trans. Katherine Liu) In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (trans. Davis/Moncrieff/Enright/Kilmartin)
~~~ Videos Mentioned ~~~ Reading Proust in 2020: youtube.com/watch?v=_w1-g49DpsU&t=1280sIn Search of Lost Time: Reading Proust in a Pandemicbigalbooks2020-12-17 | Did you read anything game-changing during the pandemic? For me, it was Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
I ramble about life stuff at the start of the video, so please skip to 10:30 if you just want to hear about the book :)
~~Topics of Conversation~~ 3:24 - How reading Proust helped me throughout the pandemic 10:30 - Important ideas explored in the text 23:42 - 3 reasons why Proust is worth reading
~~Books Mentioned~~ In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (I read the Lydia Davis translation for Swann’s Way and then switched over to Everyman’s Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright translations for the rest!)
~~Videos Mentioned~~ My Misconceptions About Proust: youtube.com/watch?v=Zbn1_ome6IwCatch Up Wrap Up (Pt. 2)bigalbooks2020-12-10 | Here's what I was up to in September and October!
SEPTEMBER READING - “Reading My Heritage” ~~Books Mentioned~~ The Love Story of the Century - Märta Tikkanen (trans. Stina Katchadourian) The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories - Tove Jansson (trans. Thomas Teal & Silvester Mazzarella) Tove Jansson: Work and Love - Tuula Karjalainen (trans. David McDuff Purge - Sofie Oksanen (trans. Lola Rogers) The Colonel’s Wife - Rosa Liksom (trans. Lola Rogers) The Seven Brothers - Aleksis Kivi (trans. Richard Impola) True - Riika Pulkkinen (trans. Lola Rogers) Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart Summer - Ali Smith The Trick Is To Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway Poems - Thomas Hardy Roseanna - Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (trans. Lois Roth) La Celestina - Fernando de Rojas (trans. Lesley Bird Simpson) Les fluers de mal - Charles Baudelaire (trans. Francis Scarfe)
OCTOBER READING - “Gothic Lit/Books that Goths Would Like” ~~Books Mentioned~~ The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The Monk - Matthew Lewis The Italian - Anne Radcliffe Vathek - William Beckford Lost Souls - Poppy Z Brite Silk - Caitlin R. Kiernan The Crow - James O’Barr The Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina Rossetti Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury Disparates - Patrick MaddenCatch Up Wrap Up (Pt. 1)bigalbooks2020-12-06 | Well, look who showed up again...
***Books Mentioned***
~~~Shakespeare!~~~ Henry VIII King John Two Gentlemen of Verona As You Like It Love’s Labour’s Lost Troilus and Cressida The Sonnets The Narrative Poems Sonnet’s Shakespeare - Sonnet L’Abbé Vinegar Girl - Anne Tyler
~~~Classics~~~ The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (trans. Catherine Liu) The Red and the Black - Stendhal (trans. Burton Raffel) The Stranger - Albert Camus (trans. Matthew Ward) A Laodicean - Thomas Hardy Walden - Henry David Thoreau
~~~Women in Translation Month~~~ Flights - Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Jennifer Croft) Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor (trans. Sophie Hughes) Will and Testament - Vigdis Hjörth (trans. Charlotte Barsland) Kamouraska - Anne Hébert (trans. Norman Shapiro) Selected Poems - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (trans. Edith Grossman)
~~~Canadian Content~~~ Noopiming - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Rage of Dragons - Evan Winter The Dodecahedron: Or A Frame for Frames - Paul Glennon Frying Plantain - Zalinka Reid-Benta Black Writers Matter - Ed. Whitney French Black Live Who - Rinaldo Walcott The Hanging of Angelique - Afua Cooper The Skin We’re In - Desmond Cole
~~~Misc. Memoirs~~~ Wow, No Thank You - Samantha Irby I Will Never See the World Again - Ahmet Altan (trans. Yasemin Congar) Tomboy Survival Guide - Ivan CoyoteJuly Wrap Up Pt. 1 - South American Literaturebigalbooks2020-08-06 | ~~~Books Mentioned~~~
0:01:56 Colombia The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (trans. Randolph Hogan)
0:04:11 Chile Multiple Choice - Alejandro Zambra (trans. Megan McDowell) By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolaño (trans. Chris Andrews)
0:09:38 Brazil Daytripper - Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey) 26 Stories - Machado de Assis (trans. Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson)
0:18:24 Argentina Santa Evita - Tomàs Eloy Martinez (trans. Helen Lane) Blow Up - Julio Cortazar (trans. Paul Blackburn) Comemadre - Roque Larraquy (trans. Heather Cleary) People in the Room - Norah Lange (trans. Charlotte Whittle)
0:33:33 Misc. Countries The Seven Madmen - Roberto Arlt (trans. Nick Caistor)
~~~Videos Mentioned~~~ Ask a Mortician - Iconic Corpse: The Preservation of Eva Perón youtube.com/watch?v=FIwj0ybenmMCanadian Book Recommendations (Read-Eh-Thon)bigalbooks2020-07-31 | ~~~Check out some more information about the Read-Eh-Thon~~~ Announcement Video: youtube.com/watch?v=CyAkvDiQxKA
~~~Books Mentioned~~~ Refuse: CanLit in Ruins Islands of Decolonial Love - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson This Accident of Being Lost - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Dancing on the Turtle’s Back - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson As We Have Always Done - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Lynn Crosby Dionne Brand - Theory A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews Clearing the Plains - James Daschuk No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous - Sheldon Krasowski Children of the Broken Treaty - Charlie Angus In My Own Moccasins - Helen Knott Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations - Richard Wagamese Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club - Megan Gail Coles Policing Black Lives: State Vilence in Canada from Slavery to the Present - Robyn Maynard Shut Up You’re Pretty - Téa Mutonji Five Little Indians - Michelle Good The Dishwasher - Stéphane Larue (trans. Pablo Strauss) Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead Nîtîsanak - Lindsay Nixon Fierce Feems and Notorious Liars - Kai Chen Thom Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki (Ill. Rosemary Valerio-O’Connell) The Subtweet - Vivek Shraya The Skin We’re In - Desmond Cole Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call - Arthur Manuel Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada - Chelsea Vowel Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery Fifteen Dogs - André Alexis Days by Moonlight - André Alexis Fifth Business - Robertson Davies The Salterton Trilogy - Robertson Davies Reproduction - Ian Williams We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib A Chorus of Mushrooms - Hiromi Goto In Another Place, Not Here - Dionne Brand Washington Black - Esi Edugyan From the Ashes - Jesse Thistle A Mind Spread Out on the Ground - Alicia Elliott Black Writers Matter (ed. Whitney French) The Doll’s Alphabet - Camilla Grudova The Book of Jessica - Maria Campbell & Linda Griffiths Louis Riel - Chester Brown Hark! A Vagrant - Kate BeatonJune Wrap Up - 30 Books in 30 Days Challengebigalbooks2020-07-19 | I had the greatest time reading Indigenous authors throughout the month of June.
I know that this video is super long, but I think that all these authors/books are well worth discussing! Please find some timestamps listed down below if you want to skip around :)
0:1:38 ***Reasons why I found this to be a valuable reading challenge***
0:6:19 *** My Favourite 5 Reads of the Month *** -Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer -Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton -Memory Serves: Oratories - Lee Maracle -Shell Shaker - LeAnne Howe
0:16:54 ***Nonfiction*** -Bobbi Lee Indian Rebel - Lee Maracle -Nîtîsanak - Lindsay Nixon -The Truth About Stories - Thomas King -Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview - E. Richard Atleo -The Truth that Wampum Tells - Lynn Gehl -Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto - Taiaiake Alfred -Red Skin White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition - Glen Sean Coulthard -The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present - David Treuer
0:29:20 ***Novels*** -Ravensong - Lee Maracle -Five Little Indians - Michelle Good -Tracks - Louise Erdrich -Keeper ’n Me - Richard Wagamese -Medicine River - Thomas King -Truth and Bright Water - Thomas King -Kynship - Daniel Heath Justice -Wyrwood - Daniel Heath Justice -Dreyd - Daniel Heath Justice -Blood Sports - Eden Robinson -The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy - Cherie Dimaline -Crow Winter - Karen McBride
0:45:13 ***Short Stories/Novellas*** -Midnight Sweatlodge - Waubgeshig Rice -One Good Story, That One - Thomas King -The Stone Collection - Kateri Akiwenzie Damm
0:48:06 ***Poetry*** -When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz -Passage - Gwen Benaway -Witness, I Am - Gregory Scofield -NDN Coping Mechanisms - Billy-Ray Belcourt -Hope Matters - Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb & Tanya Carter
0:50:19 ***Comics/Graphic Novels*** -Hiawatha & the Peacemaker - Robbie Robertson -Wendy Vols. 1-3 - Walter Scott -Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga - Michael Nicolls Yahgulanaas -A Tale of Two Shamans - Michael Nicolls Yahgulanaas
------------------------------- In this video I'm wearing lipstick made by Cheekbone Beauty. The company is Indigenous-owned and they produce cruelty-free, vegan make up. You can check out their website here: cheekbonebeauty.ca24 Hour Reading Vlog: National Indigenous Peoples Daybigalbooks2020-07-09 | This year I decided to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21st) with a 24 Hour Readathon. Here are the results! :)
~~Books Mentioned~~ -Midnight Sweatlodge - Waubgeshig Rice -Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
-Keeper 'n Me - Richard Wagamese -NDN Coping Mechanisms - Billy-Ray Belcourt -The Truth About Stories - Thomas King
-Nitisanak - Lindsay Nixon --The Stone Collection - Kateri Akiwenzie Damm
-Wendy: Master of Art - Walter Scott -Braiding Sweatgrass - Robin Wall KimmererMid Year Book Freak Out Tag - 2020bigalbooks2020-07-04 | I was tagged by Alex @whatpageareyouon
~~~Questions~~~ 1) Best book 2) Best sequel 3) New release haven’t read yet but want to 4) Most anticipated release for the second half of the year 5) Biggest Disappointment(s?????) 6) Biggest Surprise 7) Favorite new author (debut or new to you) 8) New Fictional Crush 9) New Favorite character 10) Book that made me cry 11) Book that made me happy 12) Most beautiful book I bought or received 13) Books to read by the end of the yearMay Wrap Upbigalbooks2020-06-17 | ~~~Videos Mentioned~~~ Asian Readathon Long Weekend Reading Vlog youtube.com/watch?v=XG9lbZAVBIA&t=584s
~~Books Mentioned~~ Life for Sale - Yukio Mishima (trans. Stephen Dodd) The Factory - Hiroko Oyamada (trans. David Boyd) Ghachar Ghochar - Vivek Shanbhag (trans. Srinath Perur) Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (trans. Megan Backus) Audition - Ryu Murakami (trans. Ralph McCarthy) My Kind of Girl - Buddadeva Bose (trans. Arunava Sinha) Hear the Wind Sing/Pinball 1973 - Haruki Murakami (trans. Ted Goosen) The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu The Plotters - Un-Su Kim (trans. Sora Kim Russel) The Subtweet - Vivek Shraya The Captive and the Fugitive - Marcel Proust (trans. Moncrieff/Scott/Kilmartin) Time Regained - Marcel Proust (trans. Moncrieff/Scott/Kilmartin) Watership Down - Richard Adams Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney) Grendel - John Gardner The Mere Wife - Maria Dahvana Headley Howards End - E.M. Forster On Beauty - Zadie Smith Two Noble Kinsmen - Shakespeare & Fletcher Timon of Athens - Shakespeare (and Middleton?) Measure for Measure - Shakespeare Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley - Charlotte Gordon Heart Berries - Therese Marie Mailhot Sing Backwards and Weep - Mark Lanegan I Live Inside - Michelle LeonJune TBR: 30 Books in 30 Days (Reading Indigenous Authors)bigalbooks2020-06-01 | This June, I will be spending some serious time decolonizing my bookshelves. Looking forward to sharing the process with you all! :)
~~Books Mentioned~~
***Nonfiction*** -Bobbi Lee Indian Rebel - Lee Maracle -Nitisanak - Lindsay Nixon -Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton -The Truth About Stories - Thomas King -Memory Serves: Oratories - Lee Maracle -Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer -Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview - E. Richard Atleo -Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -The Truth that Wampum Tells - Lynn Gehl -Red Skin White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition - Glen Sean Coulthard -Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto - Taiaiake Alfred -The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present - David Treuer
***Novels*** -Wyrwood - Daniel Heath Justice -Dreyd - Daniel Heath Justice -Midnight Sweatlodge - Waubgeshig Rice -Keeper ’n Me - Richard Wagamese -Truth and Bright Water - Thomas King -Medicine River - Thomas King -Tracks - Louise Erdrich -Blood Sports - Eden Robinson -The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy - Cherie Dimaline -Crow Winter - Karen McBride -Five Little Indians - Michelle Good
***Short Stories*** -One Good Story, That One - Thomas King -The Stone Collector - Kateri Akiwenzie Damm
***Poetry*** -Witness, I Am - Gregory Scofield -NDN Coping Mechanisms - Billy-Ray Belcourt -Hope Matters - Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb & Tanya Carter -When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz
***Comics/Graphic Novels*** -Wendy Vol. 3 - Walter Scott -Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga - Michael Nicolls Yahgulanaas -A Tale of Two Shamans - Michael Nicolls YahgulanaasApril Wrap Upbigalbooks2020-05-31 | ~~Books Mentioned~~
***Novels*** Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie Childhood, Youth, and Dependency - Tove Ditlevsen (trans. Tiina Nunnally) Sodom and Gomorrah - Marcel Proust (trans. Montcrieff/Enright/Kilmartin) The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead Dangerous Liaisons - Chodleros de Laclos (trans. Helen Constantine) Dunbar - Edward St. Aubyn If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
***Nonfiction*** A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara Tuchman The Black Count - Tom Reiss
***Drama*** 1 Henry VI - Shakespeare 2 Henry VI - Shakespeare 3 Henry VI - Shakespeare Richard III - Shakespeare Twelfth Night - Shakespeare The Misanthrope - Molière (trans. Richard Wilbur) The Theban Tragedies - Sophocles (trans. Wycoff/Grene/Fitzgerald)
***Comics/Graphic Novels/Manga*** Fables Vol. 2 and 3 Heathen Vol. 2 Glass Town - Isabel Greenberg Uzumaki - Junji Ito
~~Not mentioned in this video, but it still needs to be said~~
~~Books Mentioned~~ Hear the Wind Sing/Pinball 1973 - Haruki Murakami (trans. Ted Goosen) Ghachar Ghochar - Vivek Shanbhag (trans. Srinath Perur) The Factory - Hiroko Oyamada (trans. David Boyd) Life for Sale - Yukio Mishima (trans. Stephen Dodd) Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (trans. Megan Backus) My Kind of Girl - Buddadeva Bose (trans. Arunava Sinha) Audition - Ryu Murakami (trans. Ralph McCarthy)Long Weekend Reading Vlog (4 Shakespeare Plays in 4 Days)bigalbooks2020-04-16 | I decided to make the most of the Easter long weekend by immersing myself in the bloody spectacle of the War of the Roses #noregrets
~~Books/Plays Mentioned~~ Henry VI Pt. Henry VI Pt. 2 Henry VI Pt. 3 Richard III If We Were Villains - M.L. RioMarch of the Mammoths Wrap Upbigalbooks2020-04-09 | Thanks to everyone who participated in the March of the Mammoths readathon this year :}
~~Mammoths Mentioned~~ The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (trans. Robin Buss) The Guermantes Way - Marcel Proust (trans. Montrcrief/Kilmartin/Enright) The Novel: A Biography - Michael Schmidt The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio (trans. Michael A Rebhorn) Fathers and Crows - William T. VollmannChoosing Each Others TBRbigalbooks2020-04-04 | Taylor and I decided to assign books to each other... what's the worst that could happen? In this video we examine our bookish compatibility and share our TBRs with each other :)February Wrap Upbigalbooks2020-04-02 | Let's dig up the past and talk about some books I read back in February!
~~~~Books Mentioned~~~~~ Locke & Key Vols. 1-6 - Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez Antigone - Sophocles Emma - Jane Austen Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present - Robin Maynard Chester Himes: A Biography - Lawrence Jackson Mama Day - Gloria Naylor House of Stone - Novuyo Rose Tshuma Reproduction - Ian Williams Bttm Fors - Ezra Clayton Daniels & Ben Passmore From the Ashes - Jesse Thistle We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib Radicalized - Cory Doctorow Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time Vol. 2) - Marcel Proust (trans. Montcrieff/Kilmartin/Enright/)March of the Mammoths - Check-In #2bigalbooks2020-03-24 | We've finally made it to the homestretch of the #marchingmammoths readathon! Let me know how you're doing down below :)March of the Mammoths - Check-In #1bigalbooks2020-03-15 | How are we already halfway through March already?!? #MarchingMammothsMarch of the Mammoths Readathon TBRbigalbooks2020-03-01 | Happy March of the Mammoths :) #marchingmammoths
~~~Novels Mentioned~~~ Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust (trans. Lydia Davis) Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec (trans. David Bellos) The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish - Katya Apekina Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club - Megan Gail Coles Theory - Dionne Brand Sanaaq - Mitiarjuuk Napaluuk (trans. Bernard Saladin d’Anglure/Peter Frost) Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick The Grimoire of Kensington Market - Lauren B. Davis The Snow Queen - Eileen Kernaghan
~~~Plays/Poetry/Short Stories/Nonfiction~~~ Caesar and Cleopatra - George Bernard Shaw The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd Brute - Emily Skaja A Guide to Being Born - Ramona Ausubel In My Own Moccasins - Helen Knott Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder - Caroline Fraser
~~~Comics/Graphic Novels~~~ Agnes, Murderess - Sarah Leavitt The Backstagers Vol. 1: Rebels Without Applause - James Tynion IV (Ill. Rian Sygh & Walter Baiamonte) Rat Queens Vol. 1: Sass and Sorcery - Kurtis J. Wiebe (Ill. Roc Upchurch) Revenger - Charles Forsman Punk’s Not Dead Vol 1: Teenage Kicks- David Barnett (Ill. Martin Simmonds) Heathen Vol. 1 - Natasha Alterici (Ill. Rachel Deering) Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile - Bill Willingham (Ill. Terry Moore/Mike Allred/Lan Medina)
~~Goodreads~~ goodreads.com/user/show/10922578-big-alMarch of the Mammoths ROUND 2 (Readathon Announcement)bigalbooks2020-02-05 | Your favourite extinct-animal themed readathon is back for another round this March! #MarchingMammoths
The Challenge: Read one 800+ page book in the month of March
~~BONUS~~ A nifty playlist of March of the Mammoths vids from last year: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQR7MV0gwHp09TLzJtEe8H6I1e2LWZesNMy Misconceptions about Proustbigalbooks2020-01-29 | My journey from avoidance to obsession :}December Wrap Upbigalbooks2020-01-19 | Sorry that this video is kinda late & lengthy, but I am so excited to talk about one of my best reading months ever! :D
~~~Books Mentioned~~~ The Icelandic Sagas (various translators) We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson Acadia - Tom Stoppard The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett The Keep - Jennifer Egan The Rehearsal - Eleanor Catton Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Pastoralia - George Saunders His Excellency Eugène Rougon - Emile Zola (trans. Brian Nelson) There but for the - Ali Smith Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain The Castle - Franz Kafka (trans. Mark Harman) Days by Moonlight - André Alexis The Ice Shirt - William T. Vollmann The Winter’s Tale - William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare The Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov (trans. Michael Glenny) Memoirs from the House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Jesse Coulson) The Sandman Vols. 4-11 - Neil Gaiman Snow, Glass, Apples - Neil GaimanFavourite Reads of 2019bigalbooks2020-01-05 | Trying to narrow down 180 books into a list of 10 was no easy feat, but this list reflects some of my most memorable reading experiences of the year :}
~~~Books Mentioned~~~ Milkman - Anna Burns Stories of Your Life and Other Stories - Ted Chiang The Ice Shirt - William T. Vollmann Deep River - Karl Marlantes Black Leopard Red Wolf - Marlon James (review: youtube.com/watch?v=HNY-5Jg0YcQ&list=PLgNo8gDGvtkvOd32AiRgR2D5Tgu66sCkj) My Struggle 6: The End - Karl Ove Knausgaard (trans. Martin Aitken and Don Bartlett) The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir (trans. Leonard M. Friedman) The Sandman - Neil Gaiman Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac (trans. Marion Crawford) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (trans. Chistine Donougher)Catch Up Wrap Up Pt. 2 (November: Novellas, Novels, and Non-Fiction)bigalbooks2019-12-31 | Didn't mean to upload this so late in the year, but my computer mysteriously died for a few days before returning to life like nothing was ever wrong!
| Books Mentioned | ~~~Novellas~~~ Suddenly the Minotaur - Marie-Hélène Poitras (trans. Patricia Claxton) Double Indemnity - James M. Cain Margaret the First - Danielle Dutton
~~~Novels~~~ The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman GOTH - Otsuichi (trans. Andrew Cunningham) Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce The Dishwasher - Stéphane Larue (trans. Pablo Strauss) DNF: Sweetbitter - Stephanie Danler Sandman Vols. 1-3 - Neil Gaiman Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars - Kai Cheng Thom
~~~Non-Fiction~~~ Waterloo You Never Knew - Joanna Rickert-Hall Horror Stories - Liz Phair Year of the Monkey - Patti Smith Sounds Like Titanic - Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Semicolon - Celia Watson The Victorians - A.N. Wilson In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London - Christopher SkaifeCatch Up Wrap Up (August/September/October)bigalbooks2019-12-16 | Hellooo, long time no see!
~~Books Mentioned~~
***Women in Translation Readathon*** August - Romina Paula (trans. Jennifer Croft) The Lover - Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray) The End - Fernanda Torres (trans. Alison Entrekin) Glory and Its Litany of Horrors - Fernanda Torres (trans. Eric M. B. Becker) The Party Wall - Catherine Leroux (trans. Lazer Lederhendler) Other Russias - Victoria Lemosko (trans. Thomas Campbell) City Folk and Country Folk - Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (trans. Nora Seligman Favorov) Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarchuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) Mad Shadows - Marie Claire Blais (trans. Merloyd Lawrence) The Complete Moomin - Tove Jansson
***Victober*** The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
***Canadian Novels*** No Great Mischief - Alistair MacLeod The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
***20th Century Reads*** Petersburg - Andrei Bely (trans. David McDuff) The Reed - Edith Wharton Howards End - E. M. Forster The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith Salem's Lot - Stephen King
***Misc.*** Dom Casmurra - Joaqium Machado de Assis (trans. Helen Caldwell) Falling Is Like This - Kate Rockland Deep River - Karl Marlantes This Place: 150 Years Retold (various authors/illustrators) Refuse: CanLit in Ruins Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino o ***Shakespeare Related*** The Taming of the Shrew Much Ado About Nothing Othello New Boy - Tracy Chevalier (Hogarth Shakespeare Series) HAMLET! Shakespeare - Anthony BurgessTBR - Women in Translation Readathonbigalbooks2019-08-24 | ~~More Info/Hosts of the Readathon~~
The Party Wall - Catherine Leroux (trans. Lazer Lederhendler) Mad Shadows - Marie Claire Blais (trans. Merloyd Lawrence) The Lover - Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray) The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector (trans. Caetano Veloso) Feebleminded - Ariana Harwicz (trans. Carolina Orloff and Annie McDermott) August - Romina Paula (trans. Jennifer Croft) People in the Room - Norah Lange (trans. Charlotte Whittle) City Folk and Country Folk - Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (trans. Nora Seligman Favorov) Other Russias - Victoria Lemosko (trans. Thomas Campbell) Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarchuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) Collected Fiction - Leena Krohn (various translators) The Complete Moomin - Tove JanssonAugust Wrap Up (Pt. 1)bigalbooks2019-08-22 | ~~~Books Mentioned~~~
My Struggle Book 6: The End - Karl Ove Knausgaard (trans. Martin Aitken & Don Bartlett) Wendy’s Revenge - Walter Scott The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello (trans. William Weaver) Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen Leacock Molloy and Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
Please leave any 20th century must-read recommendations down below :)July Wrap Upbigalbooks2019-08-08 | ~~Books Mentioned~~ Howl’s Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones Madame de Pompadour - Nancy Mitford Honoré de Balzac - V.S. Pritchett Feel Free - Zadie Smith The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux (translator unknown!) Eleven Stories for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize Chanson Douce - Leila Slimani A Heart So White - Javier Marías (trans. Margaret Jull Costa) The Merry Wives of Windsor - Shakespeare Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy Bunny - Mona Awad A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews Water for Elephants - Sara GruenJune 2019 Wrap Up (20 books!)bigalbooks2019-07-04 | Here are all the books I read for Pride Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day! :)
~~Books Mentioned~~ Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor The Sun King - Nancy Mitford The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy Claudine à l’école - Collette Three Lives - Gertrude Stein Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki (ill. Rosemary Valery-O'Connell) Bloom - Kevin Panetta (ill. Savanna Ganucheau) Blue is the Warmest Colour - Julie Maroh Wendy - Walter Scott This Wound is a World - Billy-Ray Belcourt Holy Wild - Gwen Benaway No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous - Sheldon Krasowski Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography - Chester Brown Why Indigenous Literatures Matter - Daniel Health Justice Celia’s Song - Lee Maracle Love Medicine - Louis Erdrich The Bone People - Keri Hulme Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse Moccasin Square Gardens - Richard Van CampMid Year Book Freak Out Tagbigalbooks2019-06-22 | I was tagged by: Alex @ whatpageareyouon youtube.com/channel/UCsUwugvMAROjWUpnKYSdWJw
1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2018. 2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2018. 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. Favourite new author. (Debut or new to you) 8. Newest fictional crush. 9. Newest favourite character. 10. Book that made you cry. 11. Book that made you happy. 12. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year. 13. Favourite review you've written this year. (Booktube version: Favourite video you have done so far in this year) 14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received) 15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
~~~Books Mentioned~~~ Spring - Ali Smith Samuel Butler - The Way of All Flesh The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain The Best We Could Do - Thi Bui The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen The Collected Schizophrenias - Esme Weijung Wang Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori) I Am A Cat - Sōseki Natsume (trans Aiko Ito & Graham Wilson) Chorus of Mushrooms - Hiromi Goto Pachinko - Min Jin Lee Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri Stories of Your Life and Other Stories - Ted Chiang
~~~Asian Readathon Challenges~~~ 1. Read any book by an Asian author. 2. Read a graphic novel featuring an Asian character or written/drawn by an Asian author (manga, manhua, manhwa, and comics count). 3. Read a book featuring an intersectional Asian character or written by an intersectional Asian identity (i.e. queer, mixed, disabled, neurodiverse, etc). 4. Read a book by Asian author that was originally written in their native language (translated books and graphic novels count). 5. Read the group book: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen OhApril Wrap Up (Part 2)bigalbooks2019-05-18 | ~~~Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=vwfO-B1nJLo&lc=z23cux3h5nmuztmspacdp43424wm1wvnpjw1ize5qj1w03c010c.1557322423170589
~~~Books Mentioned~~~ Monet: Itinerant of Light - Salvia Rubio & Ricard Efa Vampires in the Lemon Grove - Karen Russel Milkman - Anna Burns Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac (trans. Marion Ayton Crawford) A Mind Spread Out on the Ground - Alicia Elliott The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family - Mary S. Lovell Hons and Rebels - Jessica MitfordBookish Boxes & Buzzwords Tagbigalbooks2019-04-28 | Original Tag (@ LizziefayeLovesBooks) youtube.com/watch?v=ECYgnIPxHsw&t=2s
~~Questions~~ 1. Your go-to genre or favorite type of book 2. Retellings you are drawn to. 3. Lifestyles or careers of the book characters. 4. Places or settings you are drawn to. 5. Relationships you enjoy reading about. 6. Buzzwords in the title of the book. 7. Things on book covers that drawn you in. 8. Non fiction buzzwords. Type of nonfiction are you drawn to. 9. Medical or physical conditions of characters. 10. Time of year, or time in history or future that you are drawn to.
~~bonus questions I didn't answer in the video but I'll answer here~~ Bonus #1: Any other bookish boxes or buzzwords not already mentioned. -creepy clowns/carnivals/circuses -hags/crones
Bonus #2: What Bookish boxes or buzzwords turn you away from a book? -Math/Physics/Hard Science -books with "Girl" in the title -historical fiction set during WWII (over-saturated genre?) -Recent Canada Reads winners ;)