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It's a bit of a pity not to have any Molière piece, any Victor Hugo, Albert Camus, Marguerite Yourcenar and Jean D'Ormesson book. Hugo's novels Les Misérable and Ninety-Three are incredible, La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages) is one of the most wonderful pieces of poetry in history but also one of the closest thing to the Iliad and the Odyssey since the mythics history of the Francs Kings during the early Medieval Era. The Plague (La Peste) by Camus is a wonderful novel about how to react to absurd horor and a real masterpiece. Another masterpiece of Camus is L'Etranger (translated as The Stranger and as The Outsider), it's one of the most philosophical novel ever and one of the greatest books about Absurdism and the absurdity of live alongside The Myth of Sisyph and Caligula, one of the greatest theather pieces of the 20th Century. Memoirs of Hadrien and The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar are really great books, maybe 2 of the 10 or 20 best novels of the 20th Century. Cassimir mène la Grande Vie, Dieu, sa vie, son oeuvre (God, his life, his work) or Je Dirais malgré tout que cette vie fut belle are great books by Jean D'ormesson.

I didn't know these facts about Dumas - interesting!

Ahhhh! Your spoiler on Madame Bovary!! Guess I'll have to wait a few years to read it, just long enough for me to forget you said that!

Thanks for the tag. Ireland is still on my list to visit and I absolutely love Italy. 😊💙

Hooray!

Good job with this tag. I tagged you to do 'The Honest Booktuber Tag,' created by Harriet Rosie if you are interested in doing it. It's airing on Saturday.

I will try to finish Wilding! It's been staring at me for months. 😅

I did not finish ours

If you could only pick 1 book to recommend people read for Pride month, what would it be?

Delighted to see that you loved Small Joys! It was one of my top reads from last year and I did a longform interview with Elvin. I’m not able to paste in a URL link so you’ll have to search for it on TH-cam. I’m looking forward to getting acquainted with your channel and have just subscribed. I also see In Tongues on your shelf and I hope you liked it too. I have a longform interview with Tom on my channel too. But enough about me: looking forward to watching the rest of this video and following your channel from now on!

Great list of recommendations! Plenty of books I don't know at all, so lots to go on my TBR ;-) I loved The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - agree with everything you said about it. Such a fun book! Though I love all of Becky Chambers stuff I've read so far, she's such an inclusive, thoughtful and warm writer. I've got Gideon the Ninth on a list for a reading project of mine for later in the year - can't wait. It sounds so entertaining, I think I should have a really good time with it. Fab video, and Happy Pride to you! 😀🏳‍🌈 🏳‍⚧(I know Pride Month is 'officially' over now we're into July, but Pride is for all year round and not just for June, right!)

Interesting recommendations! Love seeing Still Life on the list.

Thanks for the recommendations!! I actually just picked up my first Jason June book today! It isn’t Jays gay agenda but it’s a different one that sounded fun! I read a lot of YA :)

Thank you so much for your intelligent review. I enjoyed the way you discussed the plot, Zola's writing style, and also placed the book in the context of its time.

Congrats on 100 subs! Love your videos! I hope to get to the Guncle and The Guncle Abroad soon! Both are on my shelf but I have some ARCs to review first!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Also, congrats on hitting 100 subs :)

Great stack of books! I have also dedicated the entire month of June to reading queer books! It’s been a blast so far!

I love the quiet, intelligent calm in your channel - thanks for the bookish inspiration.

I was thinking of tagging you, but I see you've already done this tag! It's so fun to see everyone's answers and I love seeing the library love ❤

Happy Pride, happy June!! I'm reading queer fiction almost exclusively this month too! Based on your bookcase and other video titles I think we have pretty similar tastes in books and similar focuses on our channel, so fun to find a kindred reading spirit! I'm excited to follow your channel!

Happy Pride! I think you will like my upcoming Vlog, which features Spirited Away. 😊

Hahahaha loved the cat attack of the camera. Hahaha. Brilliant. Also loved the book chat. Seeing Still Life on the shelves is a delight. I can’t decide if I want to read Nathan Hill, both books have intrigued me but not quite enough to read, I don’t know why. You’ve made me more intrigued though. I must, must, must read more Emily St John. A lovely catch up. Looking forward to more.

Hell yeah

Hi, Tristan! Welcome to booktube! You've got a lovely comfortable style. I'm looking forward to your future videos, especially your ideas about how French literature fits into literature more broadly.

I love the Tiffany books! And the Granny Weatherwax books, too.

Hi. I am loving this tag. Well done.

I really need to get to Beck Chambers - I've heard so many great things!

Congrats!!🎓 I hope you'll like Becky's book! I think it's one of the best ones I've ever read🙌

Congrats! I read Lonely Castle and also enjoyed it, but not as much as I expected. I typically feel that Japanese Lit may not be as well translated as some other languages and kept having that feeling during some of the interactions. I didn't find the characters posturing bothered me, it felt very middle school appropriate. It wasn't my favorite portal fantasy, but think it's a must read for parents and middle schoolers; it has such great insight on bullying.

Hi Tristan I hope you’re well. I will be doing this on Tuesday wanted to think about the questions.

Isn’t is fun to create a tag! Yay! Thanks for tagging us! We will definitely give this a try. I love that you could equate the shire with a place that you lived 💕 I’m a little jealous now I think! 😂

Thanks for the tag! I loved The Soul of an Octopus. I still haven’t been to Seattle which is high on my “to explore” list. 😊💙

Thanks so very much for the tag.

Hi, thanks for tagging me, I will set to thinking on this one!

Creative tag, thanks for including me! I'll try to get to this soon!

HI Tristan. What a great tag. Thanks so much for thinking of me. I will definitely do this one soon. I loved Remarkably Bright Creatures. I hope you do get back to Seattle some time soon. 🥰

Congratulations… That is an impressive feat to obtain!

The first thing I upgraded on my channel was a mic. I got a $10 lapel mic and it improved my sound a lot. And then I upgraded my lighting, which makes my videos look so much better and I don't feel like I need to upgrade my camera xD I've been curious about Lonely Castle in the Mirror, so it was interesting hearing your thoughts on it! I think some of those same things would bother me too. I love The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and I hope you enjoy it too!

Congrats on finishing your thesis! I have not heard mention of Therese Desqueyroux since I read it back in college over 25 years ago. I actually just found my copy and was thinking of giving it a reread, but it's been awhile since I've read a French novel. Also good to hear that The Tainted Cup was good. I just picked that one up. The Becky Chambers series is really good also. I'm up to the last one. Each of them are almost stand-alones which is an interesting way to write a series I think.

Congrats on your successful defense! 🎉

Congratulations on your defense of your thesis! Well done! Glad you’re feeling better now too.😊

Thanks for doing the tag and thanks for the very kind words. Stendhal is definitely haunting you with The Red and the Black! I can relate to your "what if I hate it?" fear. I have that feeling with Frances Burney, 18th century British Lit (my major) renowned female writer that I've never read.

Hi Tristan. Thank you for the tag. I will be doing this one soon. I enjoyed hearing your answers to the prompts. I am very impressed that you are considering reading Les Miserables and The Red and The Black in French. (I do understand that your field is French literature, but still, very impressive....) I have read The Red and The Black in English--but that was a lifetime ago in graduate school. I just read Les Miserables for the first time ever last month in a group here on BookTube. It was a magnificent experience. Do you know about Classics and Company? You might like to participate in a group read. We read Middlemarch together and then Les Mis. I had read Middlemarch several times before, but it was still fun to read it again with a group, and reading Les Miserables with a group was magnificent. Forty plus years ago, I read Spanish literature in Spanish, and I can remember being very intimidated by the prospect of reading Cien Anos de Soledad by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Spanish, so I totally understand what you are talking about with Les Mis and Red and Black. Anyway, thank you for the tag. I will get to this soon.

Thanks for the tag; it's always great to find new channels. I may be about (7 ? weeks) behind on tags, but I'm catching up. I might sneak yours in early, however, because I do have a library week coming up!

Flummoxed that people under 30 are au fait with VHS. Be kind, rewind..

Thanks for doing our tag!! Huge Libby fan here too. Good luck printing your thesis!! That’s an important library activity! 👏😄

Thank you, for tagging me.

Blue Lard sounds trippy! I wonder if you need to have read some Russian literature in order to get the context?

I will try Enter Ghost purely for your point about good dialogue.

I'd be really interested to know if the meanings change when books are translated. I read The She Was Gone and didn't really fancy it, but perhaps the French version will convey a different tone. Have you ever read a French and English version of a book back-to-back or in tandem?