I made my first ever novel I read in Japanese Lonely Castle in the Mirror because of your recommendation, so I want to say thank you! I’m three years into my degree in Japanese, and I took a class where half the class is just reading a book in Japanese (how is that real??) I had never read a full novel in Japanese before and it was very daunting, and I thought I’d made a grave mistake when I realised Lonely Castle is over 500 pages. I found myself loving it so much and needing to know ever twist and turn, so that I ended up finishing way ahead of schedule and had the wonderful experience of a book in a language I am learning and struggling in managing to move me to tears (wonderful for me, although it did worry everyone else in the cafe - why the white girl is weeping and ordering hot chocolate after hot chocolate?) Thank you so much for your channel and all the wonderful book positivity you share with all of us! My aim is to become a literary translator (Japanese to English) so I hope I can give back with some more Tsujimura goodness (she is a very beloved author here - and a prolific one! So many books…) and introduce more wonderful Japanese authors for people to discover and enjoy 💚
Wait wait wait I have to recommend you Slewfoot!!! Gorgeous cover, gorgeous story! It gave me exactly what I wanted out of a witchy book and more. I'm dying for more people to read it.
Elliot Page funded and produced a documentary about environmental racism in his (and my) home province in Canada called There's Something in the Water. It explores how Black and Indigenous communities are put at risk when industrial projects or neglect impact the water sources in their areas. It's very well done.
Hi! I watched your video where you read “the magic fish” recently. I found it at my library and check it out and oh my gosh, instant favorite. It was everything you said and more. I cried while reading it and I knew I had to have a copy. Thank you for talking about this book, and thanks for everything you do.
Allllyyyyy, I was watching Jen Campbell (a booktuber you should DEFINITELY watch cuz she’s a disability advocate and I’m almost 1000% sure that, even if your tastes differ from hers, she’ll be someone you’d want to listen to regarding her views on disability and it’s rep in lit) and she mentioned this book: All in Your Head by Marcus Sedgwick which is about not being believed by your doctors about your symptoms🙃
I love seeing the Nova Scotia representation! The author of Ducks and Eliot Page are both from my home province of NS, Canada! I can’t wait to read both 🥰
Thank you! ❤️ I always look forward to your videos 🙂🪷 Also, I’d recommend you google trigger warnings for “Kafka on the shore” But I still liked the book 🙂
I once lived where Ducks takes place. Where she worked was north of the town. I know live in the city 5 hours south of there. I need to read Ducks my husband bought it
Deaf Republic is my second favorite poetry collection of ALL TIME. Also Danez Smith is an ARTIST and Don't Call Us Dead is stunning. I teach literature and I use some of his poems from that collection in class, so so so good. Ugh
I watch your videos for such a long time and I never leave comments so It’s time to start doing that, you are always making my Sunday better so thank you ❤ I am in love with all these books covers and also my TBR just got bigger so thank you or maybe not because I don’t think my wallet can handle that
a lot of them are speaking to me but especially Pageboy, new Tillie Walden (still didn’t read any of her but this year is year for her, in my county her graphic novels are just really expensive so that’s why I didn’t pick any of them), uzumaki (I am also a baby sooo we will see), ducks, dogs of summer and this year I really want to try reading Kazuo Ishiguro and I think the last one would be The book of goose (it’s the cover and the title for me) Yes I did mention a lot of the books I just wasn’t able to choose
When I sing mountains dances is incredible!!! Every chapter is narrated from a different point of view and some of them are incredible. It's set in the Spanish Pyrenees in a very rural area and the way the area is described is magical. It was one of the best books I read last year
omg! so excited for you to read Claudia Rankine, Natalie Diaz, Illya Kaminky, and Danez Smith! These are fantastic poets and I think especially Rankine is good for first-time readers of poetry because she's so fantastic at using language to get across a larger feeling. If you like these I'd recommend Franny Choi, Shira Erlichman, Chen Chen, Ross Gay, Ada Limón, and Tracy K. Smith. The last two are Poet Laureates. And if you're interested in poetry and listen to podcasts I'd recommend listening to "VS", where poets have conversations with each other and about their work!
YES, Remains of the Day is Ishiguro's best! I had no idea other fans felt this way but glad to know I'm not alone. Excited for you to read it -- I am rereading it right now since you mentioned it :)
So excited to see They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us on your TBR! It immediately become one of my favorite books and is one that I keep rebuying and gifting away to anyone who will listen to me talk about it.
I love Fun Home! It's also one of my favorite musicals, so you must listen to the soundtrack after reading it, if you've never listened to it!! what a coincidence, too, because I've been listening to it again lately myself. And I've been looking at getting Are You My Mother? which is Bechdel's other graphic memoir, obviously focusing on her mom as opposed to her father. adding Dogs of Summer to my wishlist NOW. I bought Tell Me I'm Worthless around October. But a few booktubers I watch hated it and found it incredibly triggering, so much trauma stuffed in one book apparently. sooo, I haven't read it, yet, and I'm nervous to 😬
im not sure if it is kafka on the shore but im pretty sure that book has some pretty brutal animal cruelty so pls beware! that stuff is hard to read. im like 90% sure it was kafka on the shore
i too am trying to read the tbr shelf currently but I just stumbled across the most adorable independent bookshop near me and I simply can't walk out of there empty handed!
I don't know if your aware, but Danez Smith hosts a podcast along with another poet named Franny Choi. It is called "Vs." The tagline is "The podcast where poets confront the ideas that move them." The two hosts interview various Queer and/or BIPOC poets. It is equal parts profound discussion of artistic ideas and goofball shenanigans. It is delightful.
Claudia Rankine is one of my favorite authors and I hope you like Citizen! I have Postcolonial Love Poem out from the library and will be reading it soon!
If you’re looking for manga, you should definitely check out witch hat atelier! It’s about four girls who are studying magic under their teacher who is trying to get to the bottom of the existence of a mysterious organization of witches who interfered with the main characters life.. really sweet friendship and family vibes and the story is really well paced between exciting plot and moments of the main cast doing to sweetest stuff like running a magic shop at a festival or getting excited about spreading love through magic by pouring their souls into the spells they make. It’s one of my favorite fantasy stories of all time! Thanks so much for the video :)
I didn’t like “Blue is the warmest color” as graphic novel, but OMG please watch the movie, it’s the most beautiful, raw and realistic movie I’ve ever seen!
A win for the YT algorithm, I am inspired by your book buying rules and I love your enthusiasm 😎 intrigued by the poetry collections, rather than single-writer collections I love anthologies, I recommend the two 'good poems' collections edited by Garrison Keillor! If you want to start getting into Manga, definitely try Magus of the Library! It's about a young boy of mixed (fantasy) race who wants to become a kafna--basically a magic library agent. The series is full of love and reverence for books, but also for education and knowledge and tolerance and trying your best at everything you do. The art is gorgeous and the lessons/morals are aimed at younger readers and imo can be a little on-the-nose but they are good and kind lessons so I'm not mad about it!
I hated The remains of the day. I just didn't get it. I found it incredibly boring and reading about what it was trying to do just made me so mad that it didn't do i properly. Never let me go is by far BY FAR the best Ishiguro. But I also loved Klara and the Sun.
Oo, so exciting! Look at all those beautiful books! I am interested to see what you think about Hidden Pictures - I've heard some not so great things about it being transphobic, so I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Animal farm was really pretty drab in my opinion but I’ve heard great things about Glory so I’m going to pick that one up. I love your goal for every 10 books you read you can buy one more. I wish I could have that kind of control.
I just found your channel and I love your videos so much! I am in year 10 and suspected chronically ill, and finding someone else who shares that and a love of books is so amazing ❤
Danez Smith is incredible!!! Don’t call us dead is my favorite of the two, but Homie was amazing as well. Citizen is on my owned TBR, hoping to get to it in the first half of the year. And Never Let Me Go is without a doubt one of my fave books of all time - I don’t know if it can be supplanted by another Ishiguro, but we’ll see :)
I hope you like tell me I’m worthless it was my favourite fiction book I read last year though fair warning it’s A LOT even for a horror novel about trauma and fascism
Just FYI, devotions by mary Oliver is a selection of poems from other single collections, so there's more of her poems to enjoy from her other collections!
The edition you have of The turn of the key is the pocket books edition- it’s just another version of a mass market paperback. You can find many genres in that edition (or shape lol) 😊
My booktok friend and I did a (used) book advent calendar too! We basically spent the whole year hunting for books in thriftstore/usedbookstores in Brussels/all over Belgium. It was so much fun!
Just listening to your intro and the music you usually use in your videos already calms me down so much and brings me so much joy. And after a long day full of anxiety hits even harder. Thank you Ally for this safe space ❤
I've also been struggling with buying too many books and have loved Hannah Louise Poston's videos on her no buy year they have been so helpful for me. Would highly reccomend if you haven't already checked her out!
"when i sing mountains dance" is soooo good!!!! incredible use of pov chapters!!!! loved reading about my own country through a magical realism lens! might re-read it in english this time because that cover wow✨
We don’t really have the same taste in books (I love ones about terrible rich people) but you just radiate such cheeriness I watch every video anyway. Thanks for brightening my day 😊
Ahh I hope you enjoy The Remains of the Day! I only have his collection of short stories left to read for the first time, but I keep putting it off because I don’t want to have nothing left of his to read 🙈😭
Ooh I've also picked up Dolly Aldertons book today! I've been loving easy to read memoirs lately. So this one will fit perfectly I think. Also I very much appreciate you not just reading the back of the books to summarise the premise! I love how you just tell us your first impressions. ❤️❤️
I just googled When I Sing the Mountains Dance, and I'm not sure if you knew but it's actually translated from Catalan, not Spanish. I'm really excited about this I'm half Catalan and have never read from a Catalan author! Thanks for the rec! xx
Not sure if you have had this recommended before, but if you are trying to get into manga Cats of the Louvre by Taiyo Matsumoto is totally up your alley I think. The spine alone is totally gorgeous (and reminds me of Rumi). It is about the cats that live in the attic of the Louvre (duh) and the way art can draw us in.
I’m so curious what your libraries are like in the Netherlands since I never see library books on your channel. Are libraries widely accesible? Are there many books in English available? - a curious American :)
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/Opens story graph and cracks knuckles/
I'm ready!
Ditto! Which one are you most looking forward to read, Dayna?
@@roxannejoncas definitely elsewhere! I picked it up from the library today!!
Sales are honestly so lethal. It's not my fault those books are half price!!! I'm saving money really, if you think about it...
and that's on math!
I get poor when sales are ON!
I made my first ever novel I read in Japanese Lonely Castle in the Mirror because of your recommendation, so I want to say thank you!
I’m three years into my degree in Japanese, and I took a class where half the class is just reading a book in Japanese (how is that real??) I had never read a full novel in Japanese before and it was very daunting, and I thought I’d made a grave mistake when I realised Lonely Castle is over 500 pages. I found myself loving it so much and needing to know ever twist and turn, so that I ended up finishing way ahead of schedule and had the wonderful experience of a book in a language I am learning and struggling in managing to move me to tears (wonderful for me, although it did worry everyone else in the cafe - why the white girl is weeping and ordering hot chocolate after hot chocolate?)
Thank you so much for your channel and all the wonderful book positivity you share with all of us! My aim is to become a literary translator (Japanese to English) so I hope I can give back with some more Tsujimura goodness (she is a very beloved author here - and a prolific one! So many books…) and introduce more wonderful Japanese authors for people to discover and enjoy 💚
I actually really enjoyed kafka on the shore! I rated it lower because of his descriptions of women but the story and magical realism were beautiful!!
Wait wait wait I have to recommend you Slewfoot!!! Gorgeous cover, gorgeous story! It gave me exactly what I wanted out of a witchy book and more. I'm dying for more people to read it.
The cover for Never Let Me Go is beautiful! The cassette tape!😭😭😭
All the feelings are coming back and I may need to re-read it this year. 😭😭😭
Elliot Page funded and produced a documentary about environmental racism in his (and my) home province in Canada called There's Something in the Water. It explores how Black and Indigenous communities are put at risk when industrial projects or neglect impact the water sources in their areas. It's very well done.
Hi! I watched your video where you read “the magic fish” recently. I found it at my library and check it out and oh my gosh, instant favorite. It was everything you said and more. I cried while reading it and I knew I had to have a copy. Thank you for talking about this book, and thanks for everything you do.
Love both of Danez Smith's poetry collections! If you can, get the audiobook as they narrate it themselves.
Allllyyyyy, I was watching Jen Campbell (a booktuber you should DEFINITELY watch cuz she’s a disability advocate and I’m almost 1000% sure that, even if your tastes differ from hers, she’ll be someone you’d want to listen to regarding her views on disability and it’s rep in lit) and she mentioned this book: All in Your Head by Marcus Sedgwick which is about not being believed by your doctors about your symptoms🙃
Thank you for putting Elliot’s memoir on my radar
I love seeing the Nova Scotia representation! The author of Ducks and Eliot Page are both from my home province of NS, Canada! I can’t wait to read both 🥰
yaaaaaa! hello fellow nova scotian 🥰
Thank you! ❤️ I always look forward to your videos 🙂🪷
Also, I’d recommend you google trigger warnings for “Kafka on the shore”
But I still liked the book 🙂
agree with you about haruki murakami, BUT that cover is SO BEAUTIFUL ughhhh 😭
Alison bechdel has a second graphic novel where we follow her relationship with her mother in the same style as fun home. 17:28
I once lived where Ducks takes place. Where she worked was north of the town. I know live in the city 5 hours south of there. I need to read Ducks my husband bought it
Deaf Republic is my second favorite poetry collection of ALL TIME. Also Danez Smith is an ARTIST and Don't Call Us Dead is stunning. I teach literature and I use some of his poems from that collection in class, so so so good. Ugh
I watch your videos for such a long time and I never leave comments so It’s time to start doing that, you are always making my Sunday better so thank you ❤ I am in love with all these books covers and also my TBR just got bigger so thank you or maybe not because I don’t think my wallet can handle that
aww hi! i really appreciate hearing from folks :-) which book(s) are you most excited for? happy reading!
a lot of them are speaking to me but especially Pageboy, new Tillie Walden (still didn’t read any of her but this year is year for her, in my county her graphic novels are just really expensive so that’s why I didn’t pick any of them), uzumaki (I am also a baby sooo we will see), ducks, dogs of summer and this year I really want to try reading Kazuo Ishiguro and I think the last one would be The book of goose (it’s the cover and the title for me) Yes I did mention a lot of the books I just wasn’t able to choose
When I sing mountains dances is incredible!!! Every chapter is narrated from a different point of view and some of them are incredible. It's set in the Spanish Pyrenees in a very rural area and the way the area is described is magical. It was one of the best books I read last year
omg! so excited for you to read Claudia Rankine, Natalie Diaz, Illya Kaminky, and Danez Smith! These are fantastic poets and I think especially Rankine is good for first-time readers of poetry because she's so fantastic at using language to get across a larger feeling. If you like these I'd recommend Franny Choi, Shira Erlichman, Chen Chen, Ross Gay, Ada Limón, and Tracy K. Smith. The last two are Poet Laureates. And if you're interested in poetry and listen to podcasts I'd recommend listening to "VS", where poets have conversations with each other and about their work!
YES, Remains of the Day is Ishiguro's best! I had no idea other fans felt this way but glad to know I'm not alone. Excited for you to read it -- I am rereading it right now since you mentioned it :)
So excited to see They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us on your TBR! It immediately become one of my favorite books and is one that I keep rebuying and gifting away to anyone who will listen to me talk about it.
Yeah that copy of Kafka on the Shore is 😍😍😍 definitely making me reconsider reading it too 😂
I love Fun Home! It's also one of my favorite musicals, so you must listen to the soundtrack after reading it, if you've never listened to it!! what a coincidence, too, because I've been listening to it again lately myself. And I've been looking at getting Are You My Mother? which is Bechdel's other graphic memoir, obviously focusing on her mom as opposed to her father.
adding Dogs of Summer to my wishlist NOW.
I bought Tell Me I'm Worthless around October. But a few booktubers I watch hated it and found it incredibly triggering, so much trauma stuffed in one book apparently. sooo, I haven't read it, yet, and I'm nervous to 😬
Danez Smith is one of my all time favourite poets they are insanely talented!
I said, “Shut up!” out loud when you flashed the Murakami. What a gorgeous edition!
im not sure if it is kafka on the shore but im pretty sure that book has some pretty brutal animal cruelty so pls beware! that stuff is hard to read. im like 90% sure it was kafka on the shore
oh thank you for the heads up!
My tbr just grew so much!!!
i too am trying to read the tbr shelf currently but I just stumbled across the most adorable independent bookshop near me and I simply can't walk out of there empty handed!
I don't know if your aware, but Danez Smith hosts a podcast along with another poet named Franny Choi. It is called "Vs." The tagline is "The podcast where poets confront the ideas that move them." The two hosts interview various Queer and/or BIPOC poets. It is equal parts profound discussion of artistic ideas and goofball shenanigans. It is delightful.
Claudia Rankine is one of my favorite authors and I hope you like Citizen! I have Postcolonial Love Poem out from the library and will be reading it soon!
Oh no not glory. Good luck lmao
The holographic duck is likely calling back to what oil looks like on water
These Silent Woods sounds so interesting! Added immediately to my tbr 🙈
I have ‚my brilliant friend‘ it sounds like a book you might really like✨
Had no idea Elliot Page had a memoir coming out this year!! Omg!!
I've added the elliot page book to my amazon wishlist but there's more I'll be adding for sure ❤️
honestly the women in kaftka on the shore are super yikes but the rest of the story is stunning so it's worth a try!
Reading upstream (first Mary Oliver) it’s FANTASTIC! Hope you like it too :)
If you’re looking for manga, you should definitely check out witch hat atelier! It’s about four girls who are studying magic under their teacher who is trying to get to the bottom of the existence of a mysterious organization of witches who interfered with the main characters life.. really sweet friendship and family vibes and the story is really well paced between exciting plot and moments of the main cast doing to sweetest stuff like running a magic shop at a festival or getting excited about spreading love through magic by pouring their souls into the spells they make. It’s one of my favorite fantasy stories of all time! Thanks so much for the video :)
Yes! Especially if you love Ghibli films.
I didn’t like “Blue is the warmest color” as graphic novel, but OMG please watch the movie, it’s the most beautiful, raw and realistic movie I’ve ever seen!
You should try Saul Williams's poetry! 'Said the shotgun to the head' and 'US(a)' are particularly powerful!
A win for the YT algorithm, I am inspired by your book buying rules and I love your enthusiasm 😎 intrigued by the poetry collections, rather than single-writer collections I love anthologies, I recommend the two 'good poems' collections edited by Garrison Keillor!
If you want to start getting into Manga, definitely try Magus of the Library! It's about a young boy of mixed (fantasy) race who wants to become a kafna--basically a magic library agent. The series is full of love and reverence for books, but also for education and knowledge and tolerance and trying your best at everything you do. The art is gorgeous and the lessons/morals are aimed at younger readers and imo can be a little on-the-nose but they are good and kind lessons so I'm not mad about it!
not now sweetie, mommy’s busy watching allisonpaiges new video
The journeyyyyy I went through in that 3 seconds of Call it Off lmao, how did I forget listening to that song on repeat for hoursss.. DAYS
I hated The remains of the day. I just didn't get it. I found it incredibly boring and reading about what it was trying to do just made me so mad that it didn't do i properly. Never let me go is by far BY FAR the best Ishiguro. But I also loved Klara and the Sun.
Oo, so exciting! Look at all those beautiful books! I am interested to see what you think about Hidden Pictures - I've heard some not so great things about it being transphobic, so I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Animal farm was really pretty drab in my opinion but I’ve heard great things about Glory so I’m going to pick that one up. I love your goal for every 10 books you read you can buy one more. I wish I could have that kind of control.
I found my matching edition of The Remains of the Day from book depository and it's still available :'D
I just found your channel and I love your videos so much! I am in year 10 and suspected chronically ill, and finding someone else who shares that and a love of books is so amazing ❤
Danez Smith is incredible!!! Don’t call us dead is my favorite of the two, but Homie was amazing as well. Citizen is on my owned TBR, hoping to get to it in the first half of the year. And Never Let Me Go is without a doubt one of my fave books of all time - I don’t know if it can be supplanted by another Ishiguro, but we’ll see :)
I hope you like tell me I’m worthless it was my favourite fiction book I read last year though fair warning it’s A LOT even for a horror novel about trauma and fascism
Just FYI, devotions by mary Oliver is a selection of poems from other single collections, so there's more of her poems to enjoy from her other collections!
omg there’s moooooore!
The edition you have of The turn of the key is the pocket books edition- it’s just another version of a mass market paperback. You can find many genres in that edition (or shape lol) 😊
just added more than half of the books to my tbr hahaha i love your videos and your vibe Ally!
My booktok friend and I did a (used) book advent calendar too! We basically spent the whole year hunting for books in thriftstore/usedbookstores in Brussels/all over Belgium. It was so much fun!
I just found and read Gleanings and I loved it! Super fun companion to Arc of a Scythe!
Dolly Alderton is a joy to read for me, personable and conversational reading that just feels so natural. I hope you like too!! 😊
consider me influenced, i threw infinite country and the book of goose full speed into my TBR
I loved Tell Me I'm Worthless but I can see why it's too much for a lot of people. Definitely one to check the content warnings on
i will not keep my socks on for mary oliver!
so excited your reading my favorite poet!!!
An Elliot Page memoir?! Ooh I'm so excited!
Postcolonial love poem is one of my favorite collections of poetry ever! I hope you enjoy it!!
I love your videos ally!!!!!❤ thanks for all your hard work(:
uploaded literally the second i was looking for something great to watch!
Instantly added Ducks to my storygraph tbr, I didn't know Kate Beaton had a memoir so I'm very excited to read that now!
I love that I can hear animal crossing music in the background :)
Just listening to your intro and the music you usually use in your videos already calms me down so much and brings me so much joy. And after a long day full of anxiety hits even harder. Thank you Ally for this safe space ❤
I already know you're going to love uzumaki!!!
Thank you for posting, i got my daily dose of serotonin!!
so excited for this reading year whoooooooot let's go!!! 🐌🐌🐌
I read a lot of the book you recommend. I just borrow them for free from the library! 🎉🎉😊
WHERE did you find that edition of kafka on the shore?!?
fnac!
I was on board with the book buying ban until I watched the rest of the video and now I need all these books 😅
the question should really be whether there are any of these that i DIDN’T add to my tbr 😂
I've also been struggling with buying too many books and have loved Hannah Louise Poston's videos on her no buy year they have been so helpful for me. Would highly reccomend if you haven't already checked her out!
Post Colonial Love Poems is one of my favorite recent poetry collections. It's heartbreaking and beautiful
Oh God! You speak so fast I can barely keep up. :D
An Immense World is very good!! Well written!!
i love the perspective of a tbr being "beautifully overwhelming" 🥰
I am also a big baby & some of the images in Uzumaki are stuck in my brain years later 😬
Ahhhhh!!! Just extended my never ending tbr!😅😂
"when i sing mountains dance" is soooo good!!!! incredible use of pov chapters!!!!
loved reading about my own country through a magical realism lens!
might re-read it in english this time because that cover wow✨
We don’t really have the same taste in books (I love ones about terrible rich people) but you just radiate such cheeriness I watch every video anyway. Thanks for brightening my day 😊
Ahh I hope you enjoy The Remains of the Day! I only have his collection of short stories left to read for the first time, but I keep putting it off because I don’t want to have nothing left of his to read 🙈😭
fun home is such a sad story, I think that's why I didn't like it
so many books on here that i’ve never heard of !! thank you ally !
Ooh I've also picked up Dolly Aldertons book today! I've been loving easy to read memoirs lately. So this one will fit perfectly I think.
Also I very much appreciate you not just reading the back of the books to summarise the premise! I love how you just tell us your first impressions. ❤️❤️
I just googled When I Sing the Mountains Dance, and I'm not sure if you knew but it's actually translated from Catalan, not Spanish. I'm really excited about this I'm half Catalan and have never read from a Catalan author! Thanks for the rec! xx
oh so good to know - thank you!
I'm so excited for you to read Fun Home!
I just added so many books to my StoryGraph tbr 🙈
I read hidden pictures and loved it ! Super creepy 😊
I put most of these on my TBR now I have to save up $300 😮
the covers here are indeed SUPERB omg
The seas and never let me go two of my favorite books ever. ❤
Not sure if you have had this recommended before, but if you are trying to get into manga Cats of the Louvre by Taiyo Matsumoto is totally up your alley I think. The spine alone is totally gorgeous (and reminds me of Rumi). It is about the cats that live in the attic of the Louvre (duh) and the way art can draw us in.
And the book, The Walking Cat.
I’m so curious what your libraries are like in the Netherlands since I never see library books on your channel. Are libraries widely accesible? Are there many books in English available? - a curious American :)
i'm in belgium! and the english section where i live is pretty slim pickins
citizen is great I read it in an africana studies course last year
Kafka on the shore is one of the most traumatic books I’ve ever read in my life .-. But the writing is very beautiful.
Also, about animal farm: ur not losing anything. Is just anti Communist propaganda… i was so disappointed:/
But this Glory sounds amazing
Darn, I have the blue cover of everything i know about love. Wish I had the pale yellow :(
omg i wish i had the blue wish we could trade hehe
Can you please share where that edition of Kafka on the shore is from? It’s stunning!!
fnac!