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The Well-Read Society
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The Well-Read Society was founded by two bookworm besties who got fed up with the lack of diversity in literary spaces and decided to be part of the solution ! We're all about uplifting underrepresented voices in literature & educating ourselves and others while having fun 📚
✨ This channel is ran by Sunny Maria (@sunnynacia) & Sumaya (@fictionalpoet), alternating bi-weekly uploads
✨ You can join our wholesome community of bookworms by subscribing & following our bookstagram (@wellreadsociety)
✨ This channel is ran by Sunny Maria (@sunnynacia) & Sumaya (@fictionalpoet), alternating bi-weekly uploads
✨ You can join our wholesome community of bookworms by subscribing & following our bookstagram (@wellreadsociety)
Cool people read poetry! So you should too! (Welcome to my Ted Talk) 👵🏾
”Poetry is not the thing said, but a way of saying it."
Playlist to some spoken word poetry my friend made :)
th-cam.com/play/PLuUHugRCDPbsr4b33wVjRUHEYidDRgeNH.html
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INFO :
- Who is The Well-Read Society? -
We are an online book community that focuses on promoting diversity & inclusivity in the book world because we believe every story deserves to be heard. We also host a book club and share fun bookish things over our Instagram. You can find out more over our IG !: wellreadsociety
- Who's in this video? -
Sumaya :
IG: fictionalpoet
- Subscriber count at the time of posting the video -
2210 bookworms ;)
Playlist to some spoken word poetry my friend made :)
th-cam.com/play/PLuUHugRCDPbsr4b33wVjRUHEYidDRgeNH.html
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INFO :
- Who is The Well-Read Society? -
We are an online book community that focuses on promoting diversity & inclusivity in the book world because we believe every story deserves to be heard. We also host a book club and share fun bookish things over our Instagram. You can find out more over our IG !: wellreadsociety
- Who's in this video? -
Sumaya :
IG: fictionalpoet
- Subscriber count at the time of posting the video -
2210 bookworms ;)
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come christmas book shopping in Paris with me 🎄📚(+book haul)
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hi everyone, sunny here ! i went christmas book shopping around Paris and I thought I'd take you along with me ;) stay tuned until the end for a book haul and enjoy the pretty christmas lights and gorgeous bookstore displays ✨🤍 wellreadsociety - MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO - - @ebonykenae youtube channel - Shakespeare & Company bookstore - Galignani bookstore - Smith & Son Rivoli books...
Scandinavian book recs from a scandinavian person! 🇸🇪🏴🇳🇴
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8 great books from Scandinavia! INFO : - Who is The Well-Read Society? - We are an online book community that focuses on promoting diversity & inclusivity in the book world because we believe every story deserves to be heard. We also host a book club and share fun bookish things over our Instagram. You can find out more over our IG !: wellreadsociety - Who's in this video? - Sumay...
judging books based on their opening lines (inspired by jack edwards)
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Hi, Sunny here :) Today I’m back with a concept imagined by @jack_edwards on his second channel, Jack In The Books. I loved it and just had to do it. Stick around 'til the end for my ACTUAL ranking though ;) I hope you enjoy this video and I can’t wait to hear about your favorite lines ! - LINK TO THE ORIGINAL VIDEOS - - @jack_in_the_books video (which inspired this one) : th-cam.com/video/HqM3...
Recommending books based on five The 1975 songs! (They’re back and so are we!! 😭😭)
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New era for the 1975 and The Well-Read Society has begun! To celebrate here’s a book recommendation video about our favourite band! :)) Iweigh podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/4qIGuIzcDMMySB1hIhQSxJ?si=e9194b72f3ac49e4 INFO : - Who is The Well-Read Society? - We are an online book community that focuses on promoting diversity & inclusivity in the book world because we believe every sto...
Bookish places to visit in Stockholm! (libraries + bookstores) 📚📝 PART 1
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Happy travels ! INFO : - Who is The Well-Read Society? - We are an online book community that focuses on promoting diversity & inclusivity in the book world because we believe every story deserves to be heard. We also host a book club and share fun bookish things over our Instagram. You can find out more over our IG !: wellreadsociety - Who's in this video? - Sumaya : IG: instagra...
My minimalistic and slightly chaotic bookshelf tour!
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Do bookshelf usually fall apart in the middle of filming a tour??? Or is it just me that has had that experience lol 😂 INFO : - Who is The Well-Read Society? - We are an online book community that focuses on promoting diversity & inclusivity in the book world because we believe every story deserves to be heard. We also host a book club and share fun bookish things over our Instagram. You can fi...
HOW TO READ MORE : easy ways reach your reading goal in 2022
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hi fellow (or aspiring) bookworms ! in 2022, i’m sure we ALL want to read more books but the real question is HOW ? so i’m here today to share advice on how you can reach your reading goal for this year with 8 simple advice you can easily follow. my goodreads reading challenge is set at 50 books, what is yours ? let me know once you’ve watched the video which hopefully helped 💕 PS : remember to...
Somehow read 19 books...Don't know how😨 + a small tbr
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I've managed to stack up a number of read books, so here's my first wrap up of 2022! INFO : - Who is The Well-Read Society? - We are an online book community that focuses on promoting diversity & inclusivity in the book world because we believe every story deserves to be heard. We also host a book club and share fun bookish things over our Instagram. You can find out more over our IG !: instagr...
Ranking EVERY memoir I've ever read!!! Even if there's only 24 books on the list 🤓📚
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I said what I said INFO : - Who is The Well-Read Society? - We are an online book community that focuses on promoting diversity & inclusivity in the book world because we believe every story deserves to be heard. We also host a book club and share fun bookish things over our Instagram. You can find out more over our IG !: wellreadsociety - Who's in this video? - Sumaya : IG: insta...
10 books you NEED to read in 2022
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Hi ! In today’s video, I’m recommending 10 books in 10 minutes, with a brief synopsis and a couple reasons why I recommend them. I hope you choose to pick up some of these and if you do, I’d love to know in the comments ! ✨ links mentioned ✨ - Sumaya's video about Audre Lorde : th-cam.com/video/SuEonSqHd24/w-d-xo.html - Mieko Kawakami confronts Haruki Murakami about the women in his novels : li...
Reading Coraline by Neil Gaiman for the first time! (now I’ll send him all my therapy bills) VLOG📖
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INFO : - Who is The Well-Read Society? - We are an online book community that focuses on promoting diversity & inclusivity in the book world because we believe every story deserves to be heard. We also host a book club and share fun bookish things over our Instagram. You can find out more over our IG !: wellreadsociety - Who's in this video? - Sumaya : IG: fictionalp...
BOOKSHELF TOUR 2022 ✨ (+ building & organizing shelves)
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hi everyone ! today i'm giving you an updated version of my bookshelf tour 2022 and showing you the whole process of buying, building, organizing and decorating my shelves to turn my messy pile of books into an aesthetically pleasing & organized personal library. i hope you enjoy this video and if you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments below ! ✨mentioned in video - ikea billy ...
It’s time for a cozy library haul!! + library book wrap up📚💛
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Heres are all the books I got from the library and the book I returned. For a 10 minute video, I got through quite a few books so grab yourself some tea and press play! Books mentioned The witch boy books by Molly Knox Ostertag Heartstopper by Alice Oseman Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yu The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Suzanne Collins....
Let's do the last 10 book tag! (Definitely not because I'm running out of ideas 👀)
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The last 10 book tag is all about the last book in a specific category. It sounded really fun so I had to try doing the tag. Hope ya like it :)) Questions: 1. The last book you didn’t finish? 2. The last book you re-read? 3. The last book you bought 4. The last book you said you read but didn’t? 5. The last book you wrote in the margins of? 6. The last book you had signed? 7. The last book you ...
BOOK WRAP UP TIME: My favouite book of the year + my most disappointing read of the year? 👀📚
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BOOK WRAP UP TIME: My favouite book of the year my most disappointing read of the year? 👀📚
🍂 read with me aesthetic, with peaceful piano & fireplace asmr
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🍂 read with me aesthetic, with peaceful piano & fireplace asmr
Some of my favourite book-to-movie adaptations!! (From perks of being a wallflower to 1984!)📚
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Some of my favourite book-to-movie adaptations!! (From perks of being a wallflower to 1984!)📚
A Star Wars fan reads The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher: Reading by the ocean + park day 🌞
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A Star Wars fan reads The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher: Reading by the ocean park day 🌞
readathon in the french countryside ⛰📚 Ocean Vuong, Sally Rooney & Magazines
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readathon in the french countryside ⛰📚 Ocean Vuong, Sally Rooney & Magazines
Why you need to know the work of Toni Morrison!!
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Why you need to know the work of Toni Morrison!!
TIER RANKING VIRAL TIKTOK BOOKS | is booktok reliable ?
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TIER RANKING VIRAL TIKTOK BOOKS | is booktok reliable ?
Reading Such A Fun Age for the first time! (Reading + making french toast = Cozy time 👵🏾)
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Reading Such A Fun Age for the first time! (Reading making french toast = Cozy time 👵🏾)
Recommending books to Phineas and Ferb characters 👵🏾📚
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Recommending books to Phineas and Ferb characters 👵🏾📚
Midyear Book Freakout Tag : 2021 Edition
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Midyear Book Freakout Tag : 2021 Edition
Disability Visibility book discussion: How to be a better ally
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Disability Visibility book discussion: How to be a better ally
How to get out of a reading slump 101!! (From someone that just survived one) 📖
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How to get out of a reading slump 101!! (From someone that just survived one) 📖
QUARTERLY WRAP-UP ✨📚 books i've read from january to march 2021
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QUARTERLY WRAP-UP ✨📚 books i've read from january to march 2021
Bookshelf Tour 2021 🌝 (aesthetic & organized with a ✨dash✨ of chaos)
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Bookshelf Tour 2021 🌝 (aesthetic & organized with a ✨dash✨ of chaos)
My first reading wrap up 2021! 👵🏾 📚 Mainly old faves and new loves!
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My first reading wrap up 2021! 👵🏾 📚 Mainly old faves and new loves!
your voice is so therapeutic 😍
" A book I really love: Jane Austen by Charlotte Bronte" girl 🤣🤣🤣
Superficial! Audre deserves more!
you are not scandinavian xDDDDDDDD
Don't you know about nationality ?
Leaving a comment for more engagement ^^ <3
Thank you for producing this piece and sharing your knowledge on Audre Lorde. I’ve only just started reading her work and this footage helps to put her words into context with your relaxing commentary. A pleasure
why do people still revere this women? didnt she commit dv on her partners ?
❤❤❤❤❤😢 sooo amazing thank you. I am 42 and just found this ...was familiar with her quotes but man was I sleeping on her life. Her words and Spirit are very much alive today.
Hi … Love this! The books that you show in the clip of Galignani are all in english? Is there a huge range of english books like fantasy and romance?
You never gave any examples of her work and your thoughts at the moment on it... :-)
What really struck me, having seen only the first few pages of the cancer journals (I will read it when I'm ready), was that when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977, women rallied round to help her. It doesn't happen now. Nobody is rallying round to help me. I am three weeks post masectomy. I'm going to get a cleaner in. There's no-one oferring to help me with mine. A FEW people have said, "Just ask if you need anything," but you can't just ask someone to do your cleaning...None of them have made the boundaries clear ie they haven't exolained what they can & can't do to help. i've even had a family member post online. "You're okay. You have a good support network" without asking me first. There are so many people out there who can't afford a cleaner. Yet no one will be oferring to help them either.
Love your advises. Goals really should be realistic. And it's all about finding time for something you love. My personal life hack: when i read a big book that is not very convenient to carry in my purse, i have the same book on my phone. So i read from my screen during the day and then come back to the printed book in the evening. It's always so satisfying to turn all the pages I've read during the wait time as you call it
I like the clips
I am a bengali male immigrant to the United states. I read her book The bluest Eye in my AP lit class in high school. It really broke my entire world view and the myths I bought into about America before coming to the United States. Her works changed my life for the better. Thank you for making a video about her. I wish more people read her. Also that quote at 2:40 is one of my fav quote.
She is my inspiration
What's funny on?
Yes please a second part! I love 1975
this is so well-made ❤keep it up!
Thank you!!! ❤️
Loved this! Your voice is so soothing and your recommendations impeccable, subscribed 😊😊😊
Ahhh so kind of you to say! Welcome ❤️❤️
200 books to try and catch up with all the books I've bought so I can buy more and also to try and get back into reading more. Im trying to do a book a day
maya angelou is such a woman. knowing how to read poetry is real work tbh! i feel like we grew up on the same internet, sarah kay and lorde (although i was more of a pure heroine teenager haha). i basically binged all of button poetry, spoken word (and rap!) are def a gateway to reading poetry collections
Love that both of us binged all of Button Poetry back then 😭❤️
Thank you for sharing 😊. I’m definitely going to be exploring more of her works into the future!!
Beautiful video 🤍 I’ve never seen before Angelou reading her poem 🥲 And yes to one about graphic novels !
Thank you!! And yes to loving Angelou read her poems : , )
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Rappers are definitely poets. A lot of the content and discussion surrounding the argument that claims otherwise usually comes from white people/white academics who try to invalidate rap and its genius (some have even been audacious enough to discredit it by saying it isn't "real music"). Rap makes poetry accessible, and takes it out of the elitism it is often shredded in. Rap, like traditional poetry, is written with intention, every word is chosen with care. I'd argue that clever wordplay, combined with an intentional beat, further elevated the emotional depth of poetry.
I could not have said it better myself!! Thank you for commenting that <3 //Sumaya
Thank you! This is so helpful, and I love how you interwove so many nice clips of her speaking with your experiences of her work.
Thanks for doing this book and sharing your intelligence and well thought out take on it. It was so helpful hearing your take on it, and hearing you give your personal stories that helped explain things and how they show up for all of us womyn every day. Anger is so important ,yet was shamed out of us womyn to access. This is a PATH back to integrating it back into our lives. Love & Light
Niggette
love this!
Best wishes from Cambodia. Thank you for this video and honoring Audre Lorde in this way. I was the director of a bilingual, multi-site AIDS education program and the facilitator of consortium of organizations in the South Bay of LA County from 1987-91. Audre Lorde's picture hung in my little office with the quote, “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”― Audre Lorde
My reading goal is 44 books because I want to read the rest of the Poirot series, then I'm finishing some books I started reading last year. I also want to read some other things.
What a gorgeously filmed and edited video! And even better, all the cozy positive vibes are so infectious. Keep it up girl, you’re on your way! 💜
Thank you so much for your kindness and encouragement Anna ! Also, happy new year ✨ Hoping to deliver more cosy & positive vibes + good book recs throughout 2023
This vlog felt so cozy 🥰 thank you for sharing it! I hope finals went well and you enjoyed the holidays with the family🎄☃ PS. "LA woman" & "brown girls" sound like a breath of fresh air, looking forward to hear your review, Sunny!🌊🤍
Thank you for your kind comment ! I am still awaiting grades and have a big exam tomorrow but I'll say finals went pretty well in general ☺️ And I've started reading LA Woman and i can confirm it IS a breath of fresh air, such a fun read !
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hii angel ! can't wait to watch your video about your favorite books 👀🤍✨
1:21 love ur outfit!!
thank you sm ! i loved it too, it's definitely going to be my winter uniform ✨
J’adore t’as tenue! Merci pour tes recommendations :)
merci beaucouuup ! j'espère que les livres te plairont si tu les lis 🤍📚
so grateful for these recs !
You’re welcome ❤️
Tack så mycket! Your channel is amazing and it’s definitely going to blow up in the future!
You’re too kind 😭❤️
Åh första boken låter som något för mig! Tack för dina rekommendationer och denna kanal <3
Åh va bra! Hoppas du gillar den!! :)
Thank you for the great recommendations, most of them I hadn't heard about and I added four of those to my tbr!
Mission accomplished hahah! Hope you like one of them!! :)
I’m getting back into reading after a long break and it’s soooo nice to see your beautiful faces on my TH-cam feed again 🖤 Thank you for the recs!
Ahhh! Justine!! Thank you hun for the support! You're very welcome ! :))
You a QUEEN! love this so much. Please do more videos like this. Phoebe Bridgers next ❤️❤️❤️
D e a l 🤓(Also thank you!!!)
Here I am, tea in one hand 🫖 notebook in the other 📓. I am ready for thiiiis amazing content ✨It's good to have you back, Sunny! 🤍
hiii júlia ! thank you so much for this lovely & supportive comment, i really hope you had a nice, relaxing time with your tea & our video ✨🤍
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Thank you for the support ☺️
Love this!!!!
Love this!!! My favorite favorite first line is from the book Piranesi!!
I've never read Piranesi but I looked up the first line after seeing your comment and it's so beautifully written !
Such a beautiful soul🥹
Hello! Thanks for sharing this... I just started booktube 2 month ago and I love the fact this list is for smaller TH-camrs!! th-cam.com/video/5n_-WrwX7zs/w-d-xo.html
Eeeeee! I'm a hopeless book nerd, live in Southern Finland and my husband has family in Sweden including near Stockholm, where I also have friends. We haven't visited since before the pandemic. Tack för att du gav oss ännu en orsak att ta färjan över!
I've been searching for good bookshops in Stockholm before my trip there and finally I found the most useful video on the topic!! Thank you!