Lol, the hardest ones are those by unknown authors -- I'll usually find a TH-cam video in which they pronounce the name, but most of the time I don't speak the language, so I'll have to rewind it a thousand times just to find at what point they're actually pronouncing the name 😂
My gosh, this is the kind of effort all booktubers should aspire to put in to pronouncing non-english names. It definitely makes me want to try harder. Brilliant video, as per usual!
As a linguist I really appreciate your code switching to pronounce the names in their original accents 💛 also the research you put into this, this is phenomenal!
Kiss of the Spider Woman is an incredible book! It has the feel of classic cinema. I've never read a book that felt like it was written in black and white, but this really had that effect. So gorgeous.
I have a Alejandra Pizarnik quote on my bookshelf: "I speak the way I speak inside. Not with the voice intent on sounding human, but with the other one, the one that insists I’m still a creature of the forest." Also, props to you for making this list. It's so wonderful to hear about so many queer books that I didnt know existed. Your recommendations are unmatched!!
ALL your content is always so so so well thought out and well rounded, amazing. You really see all of the work and passion going in there and I’m delighted to watch your videos each time ❤️ ALSO yes! That outfit!! 🥰😍 a shirt dress is always a good idea
Oh that's so awesome to hear!! I'm super excited to read it! I know New York Review Books also published her last manuscript, so hopefully I'll find a way to get my hands on that one as well :)
this is excellent! i'm studying to be a librarian and i want to recommend your channel to industry professionals wherever I can. I know libraries are not just about books anymore, but still it's a big part! hopefully, little by little, we can break away from tradition and get a true understanding of different people and, by reflection, ourselves. also i wanted to mention - thanks for your idea of reading poetry out loud; i've been trying that recently, and ever since that video, i've been enjoying poetry for the first time! thanks as always for all your insightful content
No stay away from this book. The main character was utterly boring! Plus the civil war backdrop and ages spent in boarding school. Please avoid that grit to get through 3star book.
Great selection, I recommend including in the list ‘my tender matador’ by Pedro Lemebel, such a good novel, short but precise, it’s a window to Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and it’s society of the 80’s from the perspective of an LGBTQ+ character that has fallen in love.
I wasn't expecting Argentina to be on the list. I live there and never heard of those books. I heard about the authors but never bothered to look them up, my bad. Your outfits are always amazing ♥
I can highly recommend The Kiss of the Spider Woman (el beso de la mujer araña), it's written in a really beautiful and interesting way! I got myself a copy some years ago when visiting Buenos Aires, and I loved it. It shouldn't be too hard to find in book stores, especially if you live in a bigger city. ☺️
I want to read "an underground life" by gad beck because I think it's really interesting how an jewish and homosexual boy survived the second world war. And because it's german so I can read it in german XD I love the pattern of your shirt by the way
Amazing! I’ve added the following to my list: ## Notes of a crocodile, Qiu Miaojin ## Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde ## Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima ## An underground Life: memoirs of a gay Jew in nazi Berlin, Gad Beck ## Bitter Eden, Tatamkhulu Afrika ## The Woman who owned the shadows, Paula Gunn Allen Always appreciate your videos and recommendations, keep it up!
I really love that you're putting your all into pronouncing the name of the authors ! This is so respectful. You are an example ! Also the content was super interesting. I may be picking some of this books. Thanks for you good work :D
I really appreciate your world lit recommendations. As a comparative literature student I love hearing about new books from all over the world and Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Confessions of a Mask are both now on my TBR!
I don't usually like leaving TH-cam comments but I am SHOOK omg so I'm Taiwanese-American and the fact that you put a book in there by a Taiwanese author made me so happy (I don't really have a strong connection to what my culture is and I don't normally hear about Taiwanese authors so this totally threw me for a loop). I'm not that good at speaking Chinese either but your pronunciation sounded pretty good and I'm beyond excited to read all of these books! Thank you so much for this fantastic list!!!!
I'm currently reading Notes of a Crocodile, I only just started and I'm so excited about it. This is the first time I heard anyone on booktube talk about it. I love your pronunciation, I tried to look up and pronounce the names too for a video I made for my library about Asian Heritage Month recommendations but I didn't do it well at all. Your German pronunciation was perfect! This is the first of your videos I've seen and I subbed :)
Another fantastic video! Seriously, I don’t know of a single booktuber who does the work that has to go into these types, and making it so much easier for us to diversify and find books we wouldn’t otherwise.
I wish that world literature classics were discussed a bit more on Booktube since the world is just too big and there's too many writers from all over the world I think should be talked about more and uplifted. Thanks again for your excellent recommendations, I was shocked that I'd only heard of Mishima's work...and I added nearly all the others to my TBR list! Looking forward to your next videos :)))
I read extracts of an underground life in my german-english history class and I screamed when it came up, I can‘t wait to read the whole book since just the snippets I already know where so heart wrenching yet lovely yet gripping.
I already wanted to read the Audre Lorde book... I just finished Sister Outsider last week and it was outstanding. I hadn't heard of any of the other books you mentioned and they all sound intriguing! I think I've figured it out. You must not sleep. You're a robot. That's how you are able to do so many things. That must be it... :) I love your shirt-dress, the pattern is so pretty!
I have heard of Audrey Lord. Right now as an English major, I don't have much time to read recreationally. I just finished Irish Literature and will be doing American Literature, Shakespearean Lit, and Poetry this semester.
Very excited for this! The shirt dress is gorgeous 😍 and this might be a little off topic, but I'm partially deaf and your voice is so easy for me to understand and lipread. I'm not sure how accurate the auto CC captions are, but I didn't need to rely on them so much. You've also added so much to my TBR!
always watching your videos with a goodreads window open to add your recs to my tr-lists - from this particular video I'm especially curios about Notes of a Crocodile, hope I can find it through my library!
I recently read a German classic, Thoman Mann's The Magic Mountain, which isn't canonically queer but Mann was posthumously discovered to have been gay and there are definite signs of that being reflected in the main characters of some of his books. It was really interesting to analyse from that point of view, trying to piece together the main character's sexuality and the author's own feelings through the book. It's a mammoth of a novel and quite a slow read, but if you're looking for a challenge I would recommend!
So glad you commented on this. I have Mann's Death in Venice sitting on my TBR shelf, and I just looked thru his Wikipedia article. Interestingly, 3 of his 6 children were also gay/ lesbian, and his daughter Erika, an actress and writer, once had a relationship with Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was one of the other authors Seji mentioned. How cool is that? :)
@@katietatey Yes, it's so interesting! If his children didn't even know he was gay growing up that raises an interesting question about the genetic component in sexuality.. I've heard Death in Venice has the most obvious gay character or storyline from his books.
What a fantastic video! Another beautiful outfit + dance and so many great recommendations! The way you are so careful and serious about your reading and channel but at the same time spread so much joy and light impresses me so much 💚
I'm currently in the last 50 pages of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall and it's incredible, also a queer classic! I've added Notes of a Crocodile, Confessions of a Mask, An Underground Life, and Bitter Eden to my goodreads want to read list, and The Woman Who Owned the Shadows is already on there 😊
I highly recommend "The Golden Gate" by Vikram Seth. It uses the format of "Onegin sonnets," named after the "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, which the book is inspired by. The tone is great at switching from very funny to very serious and heartfelt and it deals with coming to terms with queerness, protests, and a lot of other things. I know he has a lot of other great books, but this is the only one I've read, and I love the format so much because I also love "Eugene Onegin."
These all sound fantastic, thank you Seji! I want to recommend one of my favourite queer classics from my country Australia, a memoir called Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave :)
Wow! What a great list. The only book I've read here is the Audre Lorde, but I've added these all to my TBR list. I also love how you show your outfits at the beginning of your videos.
I'm so excited about the latin american recs😭❤️ latin america has such a rich tradition of literature. For queer authors i recommend the chilean Pedro Lemebel!!
DHALGREN BY SAMUEL R. DELANY!!!!! It's about a guy who finds himself in a new city that is in disrepair, without remembering how he got there. It's run by a gang called the scorpions and it's incredible but it's really explicit in a few ways
oh my god the pronounciations were just BEAUTIFUL. Hearing the argentinian names pronounced as if you were a native was such a relief, I can't believe it's such an issue in the community. We should all learn to do the same thing. I love how much research you did for this video and how you included so many classics from all over the world, amazing video!!
Kiss of the Spider Woman is excellent! (The movie is also great) Puig's style can be a little difficult at times, being dialogue-only, but it's so emotional and worth reading. Going to check out these other titles!
I'm so glad i stumbled upon your chanell! You are truly doing God's work with your videos. As a non-native english speaker, it is very hard for me to get access to diverse lgbtq+ books bc if they're even translated it's always only into English but videos like yours make it easier for me to discover new ones and diversify my TBR list so thank you so much
I saw this video and instantly thought of Bom Crioulo (1895) by Adolfo Caminha, this book was basically lost due to censorship untill it was rediscovered in 1980s. It's the first brazilian novel to openly portrait a gay relationship, and also an interracial one. The book is set during the reign of Pedro II of Brazil, after Amaro, fleeing slavery, enslists himself in the navy, where he meets Aleixo, his partner. It has the set of moral codes that you would expect from late 19th century, but also shows that homosexuality was not so hidden in the streets of Rio de Janeiro as expected.
Your videos are so expansiv,e, thorough, worldly, and impactful. I took some poetry books out of a local library a couple of weeks back and touched so many parts of the world in doing so. I can't help but to think your videos helped me reach further and wider than I would usually. You've pulled me out of my western/black diasporic bubble. Thank you so much.
Fantastic video! Question for anyone reading this- I love the African print shirt/dress but I definitely don't want to offend- if I wore it as a white person, would it be cultural appropriation?
I have never heard of these books before and I am glad you brought them to my attention. It’s quite refreshing to see for one international books and for another book recommendations that aren’t ya mainstream that everyone has read already. I am so glad I found your channel! It really is a gem.
omgggggggg the sheer diversity of this. THANK YOU, i was in shock as a jew to find that you'd chosen a jewish author as well. i rarely see people reading our literature. amazing, and i'm going to check out all of these books.
Great list! I’m happen to be reading Notes of a Crocodile and I have a friend obsessed by Pizarnik, so I definitely need to read her. I haven’t read Confessions of a Mask but I found Mishima a very compelling and odd author. Really awesome list... I’m going to check out the others as well.
Two of my favourite argentinian authors 💛 The kiss of the spider woman is set during the 70s militar dictatorship. The repressive context is very important to appreciate/understand better the novel: the leftist political movements but also minorities like LGBTQ were incarcelated, tortured and “disappeared” (it is estimated that 30.000 people were killed, although the bodies were never found) by the government. Thanks for sharing argentinian literature!
I read Kiss of the Spider Woman in high school and the style of the story is so interesting. With it being only dialogue, it leaves a lot up to the reader to fill in.
i love you i love you i love youuuuuuuu i'm so happy i found your channel, this is one of the first times i've heard an english speaking booktuber actually nail the hispanic names
These are great recommendations, thank you! I am happy to hear you mention Annemarie Schwarzenbach, she had a very interesting, if short, life. She came from a very conservative family (her grandfather was the Swiss general in WWI and basically the entire clan had Nazi-sympathies, the name still carries a bit of a stigma), but carved out an identity for herself, travelling the Middle East with another woman. The author Carson McCullers was apparently in love with Schwarzenbach; I think a book came out this year that touches upon it, called "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" or something along those lines. I haven't read it yet, but it is on my list. The book by Gad Beck and "Bitter Eden" also sound very interesting, I might pick those up.
me: i can’t add too many of these to my tbr because i already have enough books there. i need to be critical. also me: finishes the video having added practically every book
Any other booktuber: can’t read a name in english and doesn’t even try to learn. Seiji: *hold my obscure classics*
Lol, the hardest ones are those by unknown authors -- I'll usually find a TH-cam video in which they pronounce the name, but most of the time I don't speak the language, so I'll have to rewind it a thousand times just to find at what point they're actually pronouncing the name 😂
My gosh, this is the kind of effort all booktubers should aspire to put in to pronouncing non-english names. It definitely makes me want to try harder. Brilliant video, as per usual!
I must say, she is an exceptional co tent creator. Beautiful pronunciation!
I speak mandarin and she shocked me!!!
Yeah its very refreshing to hear people try instead of just fumbling
Yes! I’m a native Spanish speaker, and she pronounced it so well
As an LGBTQ+ POC these all sound super interesting and I'll be adding a lot to my tbr list!
Yaaay!! So delighted to hear that!!! Happy reading!! 🤗✨✨✨
@@TheArtisanGeek thank you!
As a linguist I really appreciate your code switching to pronounce the names in their original accents 💛 also the research you put into this, this is phenomenal!
i've never heard of any of these. your chinese pronunciation is pretty good! you're absolutely amazing~ thank you so much, seji!
Thank you very much!!! The pleasure is absolutely mine!!! 🤗✨✨
Kiss of the Spider Woman is an incredible book! It has the feel of classic cinema. I've never read a book that felt like it was written in black and white, but this really had that effect. So gorgeous.
The Movie is truly wonderful. Check it out if you get a chance.
I have a Alejandra Pizarnik quote on my bookshelf: "I speak the way I speak inside. Not with the voice intent on sounding human, but with the other one, the one that insists I’m still a creature of the forest."
Also, props to you for making this list. It's so wonderful to hear about so many queer books that I didnt know existed. Your recommendations are unmatched!!
your fashion sense?? your voice?? your accent? AND YOU'RE A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT AND CONSIDERATE PERSON?? i think i'm in love
Fabulous recs! This is everything we need rn!
ALL your content is always so so so well thought out and well rounded, amazing. You really see all of the work and passion going in there and I’m delighted to watch your videos each time ❤️ ALSO yes! That outfit!! 🥰😍 a shirt dress is always a good idea
Notes of a Crocodile is one of my favorite books! I’m glad to see it mentioned and I hope that you enjoy it when you get to it!
Oh that's so awesome to hear!! I'm super excited to read it! I know New York Review Books also published her last manuscript, so hopefully I'll find a way to get my hands on that one as well :)
this is excellent! i'm studying to be a librarian and i want to recommend your channel to industry professionals wherever I can. I know libraries are not just about books anymore, but still it's a big part! hopefully, little by little, we can break away from tradition and get a true understanding of different people and, by reflection, ourselves.
also i wanted to mention - thanks for your idea of reading poetry out loud; i've been trying that recently, and ever since that video, i've been enjoying poetry for the first time!
thanks as always for all your insightful content
Guitar4Eva100 do so.
@B G i guess it depends on the country, but yes, for me I need qualifications to work as a librarian :D
I highly recommend Under the udala trees by Chinelo Okparanta. It's beautiful and I keep thinking about it.
No stay away from this book. The main character was utterly boring! Plus the civil war backdrop and ages spent in boarding school. Please avoid that grit to get through 3star book.
I appreciate the xtra little info you provide about the authors and translators.
Thank you so very much!! 🌸✨
The poems of Alejandra Pizarnik are really beautiful, and that book feels so especial.
Also that shirt is gorgeous.
Great selection, I recommend including in the list ‘my tender matador’ by Pedro Lemebel, such a good novel, short but precise, it’s a window to Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and it’s society of the 80’s from the perspective of an LGBTQ+ character that has fallen in love.
I wasn't expecting Argentina to be on the list. I live there and never heard of those books. I heard about the authors but never bothered to look them up, my bad.
Your outfits are always amazing ♥
I can highly recommend The Kiss of the Spider Woman (el beso de la mujer araña), it's written in a really beautiful and interesting way! I got myself a copy some years ago when visiting Buenos Aires, and I loved it. It shouldn't be too hard to find in book stores, especially if you live in a bigger city. ☺️
The time and effort you took to discover all these wonderful books is absolutely amazing. I will be adding some to my ever growing list ❤
So happy to hear that!! Thanks so much for watching!! 🤗✨✨
I want to read "an underground life" by gad beck because I think it's really interesting how an jewish and homosexual boy survived the second world war. And because it's german so I can read it in german XD
I love the pattern of your shirt by the way
Amazing!
I’ve added the following to my list:
## Notes of a crocodile, Qiu Miaojin
## Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde
## Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima
## An underground Life: memoirs of a gay Jew in nazi Berlin, Gad Beck
## Bitter Eden, Tatamkhulu Afrika
## The Woman who owned the shadows, Paula Gunn Allen
Always appreciate your videos and recommendations, keep it up!
THE QUALITY OF THE CONTENT. THE CARE FOR THE DETAILS. YOUR ACCENT. THE DRESS. EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO JUST WOW
I really love that you're putting your all into pronouncing the name of the authors ! This is so respectful. You are an example ! Also the content was super interesting. I may be picking some of this books. Thanks for you good work :D
I really appreciate your world lit recommendations. As a comparative literature student I love hearing about new books from all over the world and Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Confessions of a Mask are both now on my TBR!
Thanks for plugging Grassfields. When I saw the short I instantly wanted to know where you got it.
I don't usually like leaving TH-cam comments but I am SHOOK omg so I'm Taiwanese-American and the fact that you put a book in there by a Taiwanese author made me so happy (I don't really have a strong connection to what my culture is and I don't normally hear about Taiwanese authors so this totally threw me for a loop). I'm not that good at speaking Chinese either but your pronunciation sounded pretty good and I'm beyond excited to read all of these books! Thank you so much for this fantastic list!!!!
I'm currently reading Notes of a Crocodile, I only just started and I'm so excited about it. This is the first time I heard anyone on booktube talk about it. I love your pronunciation, I tried to look up and pronounce the names too for a video I made for my library about Asian Heritage Month recommendations but I didn't do it well at all. Your German pronunciation was perfect! This is the first of your videos I've seen and I subbed :)
Another fantastic video! Seriously, I don’t know of a single booktuber who does the work that has to go into these types, and making it so much easier for us to diversify and find books we wouldn’t otherwise.
I wish that world literature classics were discussed a bit more on Booktube since the world is just too big and there's too many writers from all over the world I think should be talked about more and uplifted. Thanks again for your excellent recommendations, I was shocked that I'd only heard of Mishima's work...and I added nearly all the others to my TBR list! Looking forward to your next videos :)))
The Manuel Puig's novel title in spanish is "El Beso de la Mujer Araña" and it's really good! I'm glad you mentioned it ❤
I read extracts of an underground life in my german-english history class and I screamed when it came up, I can‘t wait to read the whole book since just the snippets I already know where so heart wrenching yet lovely yet gripping.
I already wanted to read the Audre Lorde book... I just finished Sister Outsider last week and it was outstanding. I hadn't heard of any of the other books you mentioned and they all sound intriguing! I think I've figured it out. You must not sleep. You're a robot. That's how you are able to do so many things. That must be it... :) I love your shirt-dress, the pattern is so pretty!
As a latinx, I'm kinda sursprised: Your spanish pronunctiation is so so good!
It's really great that you included the translators' names when possible. ❤️❤️
thanks for the recs!! also i love that u always show what you're wearing your style is really cool
I have heard of Audrey Lord. Right now as an English major, I don't have much time to read recreationally. I just finished Irish Literature and will be doing American Literature, Shakespearean Lit, and Poetry this semester.
Very excited for this! The shirt dress is gorgeous 😍 and this might be a little off topic, but I'm partially deaf and your voice is so easy for me to understand and lipread. I'm not sure how accurate the auto CC captions are, but I didn't need to rely on them so much. You've also added so much to my TBR!
Thank you! And also this might be wrong, but goodreads says the translator of kiss of the spider woman is Thomas Colchie💕
always watching your videos with a goodreads window open to add your recs to my tr-lists - from this particular video I'm especially curios about Notes of a Crocodile, hope I can find it through my library!
I recently read a German classic, Thoman Mann's The Magic Mountain, which isn't canonically queer but Mann was posthumously discovered to have been gay and there are definite signs of that being reflected in the main characters of some of his books. It was really interesting to analyse from that point of view, trying to piece together the main character's sexuality and the author's own feelings through the book. It's a mammoth of a novel and quite a slow read, but if you're looking for a challenge I would recommend!
So glad you commented on this. I have Mann's Death in Venice sitting on my TBR shelf, and I just looked thru his Wikipedia article. Interestingly, 3 of his 6 children were also gay/ lesbian, and his daughter Erika, an actress and writer, once had a relationship with Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was one of the other authors Seji mentioned. How cool is that? :)
@@katietatey Yes, it's so interesting! If his children didn't even know he was gay growing up that raises an interesting question about the genetic component in sexuality.. I've heard Death in Venice has the most obvious gay character or storyline from his books.
What a fantastic video! Another beautiful outfit + dance and so many great recommendations! The way you are so careful and serious about your reading and channel but at the same time spread so much joy and light impresses me so much 💚
Greatings from Argentina!!!! Puig is awesome and alejandra is truly an icon.
Im amazed of how well you pronounced the names. Love your channel ✨🌸🦊
This is everything I never knew I wanted, thanks!! This is great!
It's my absolute pleasure! Thanks so much for watching!! 🤗✨✨
I'm currently in the last 50 pages of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall and it's incredible, also a queer classic! I've added Notes of a Crocodile, Confessions of a Mask, An Underground Life, and Bitter Eden to my goodreads want to read list, and The Woman Who Owned the Shadows is already on there 😊
thank you for sharing and thank you for trying so beautifully to pronounce non-english names. you're amazing!
I highly recommend "The Golden Gate" by Vikram Seth. It uses the format of "Onegin sonnets," named after the "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, which the book is inspired by. The tone is great at switching from very funny to very serious and heartfelt and it deals with coming to terms with queerness, protests, and a lot of other things. I know he has a lot of other great books, but this is the only one I've read, and I love the format so much because I also love "Eugene Onegin."
Seji! I've studied mandarin for five years and your pronunciation was better than mine.
Great video!!
Writing these titles down so I don’t forget, thanks for the recs!!❤️
Super super awesome for putting the extra effort to learn the Chinese pronunciations of the names!!:))))
These all sound fantastic, thank you Seji! I want to recommend one of my favourite queer classics from my country Australia, a memoir called Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave :)
Wow! What a great list. The only book I've read here is the Audre Lorde, but I've added these all to my TBR list. I also love how you show your outfits at the beginning of your videos.
I absolutely love your enunciation - has anyone ever told you that? It’s brilliant.
Thank you very much! :)
I'm so excited about the latin american recs😭❤️ latin america has such a rich tradition of literature. For queer authors i recommend the chilean Pedro Lemebel!!
THANK YOU. I have been looking for a list like this for years, I am SO thankful.
So glad you found The Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Such a wonderful book :)
I really love how much attention you put into properly pronouncing authors' names
Especially the first one, the poetry collection and confessions of a mask sounds so interesting! Thanks so much for making this video!
i really enjoyed notes of a crocodile! this is a great video, i especially want to check out extracting the stone of madness.
I'm just about to start reading Zami and I'm very excited! I also feel like we have v different definitions of what can be read in one sitting 😂
Oh my!!!! Your pronunciation in other languages it’s amazing!!!!! The books are very interesting 🧐 by the way
I had not heard of any of these books although I had heard of Audre Lorde but Confessions of a Mask and Bitter Eden sound intriguing.
Yup me neither!! Zami came in a couple of days, really hoping to read it soon! :) ✨
The woman who owned the shadows and an underground life both sound very interesting and are now added to my reading list!
DHALGREN BY SAMUEL R. DELANY!!!!! It's about a guy who finds himself in a new city that is in disrepair, without remembering how he got there. It's run by a gang called the scorpions and it's incredible but it's really explicit in a few ways
oops I thought this said a "gang of scorpions" and not "gang called the scorpions" and was really excited to read about a city ran by scorpions...
OH MY GOD THIS IS EVERYTHING I WANTED TO FIND IN BOOKTUBE AND MORE
these all sound so interesting! I'll definitely be adding all of these books to my tbr
Yay!! So glad to hear that!! :D
the dance you do in the beginnings of your videos will forever make each day of mine better 🥺🖤
oh my god the pronounciations were just BEAUTIFUL. Hearing the argentinian names pronounced as if you were a native was such a relief, I can't believe it's such an issue in the community. We should all learn to do the same thing.
I love how much research you did for this video and how you included so many classics from all over the world, amazing video!!
Kiss of the Spider Woman is excellent! (The movie is also great) Puig's style can be a little difficult at times, being dialogue-only, but it's so emotional and worth reading. Going to check out these other titles!
I'm from Argentina and it's so nice to see someone reading things from here.
I'm so glad i stumbled upon your chanell! You are truly doing God's work with your videos. As a non-native english speaker, it is very hard for me to get access to diverse lgbtq+ books bc if they're even translated it's always only into English but videos like yours make it easier for me to discover new ones and diversify my TBR list so thank you so much
So many amazing sounding books here!
I saw this video and instantly thought of Bom Crioulo (1895) by Adolfo Caminha, this book was basically lost due to censorship untill it was rediscovered in 1980s. It's the first brazilian novel to openly portrait a gay relationship, and also an interracial one. The book is set during the reign of Pedro II of Brazil, after Amaro, fleeing slavery, enslists himself in the navy, where he meets Aleixo, his partner. It has the set of moral codes that you would expect from late 19th century, but also shows that homosexuality was not so hidden in the streets of Rio de Janeiro as expected.
such a cool, rich, beautiful and fun video idea! i'm definitely writing all of these down! i wish you a fantastic reading month this august ❤️
Your videos are so expansiv,e, thorough, worldly, and impactful. I took some poetry books out of a local library a couple of weeks back and touched so many parts of the world in doing so. I can't help but to think your videos helped me reach further and wider than I would usually. You've pulled me out of my western/black diasporic bubble. Thank you so much.
Fantastic video! Question for anyone reading this- I love the African print shirt/dress but I definitely don't want to offend- if I wore it as a white person, would it be cultural appropriation?
Absolutely not. African prints are for all
I don't see it as cultural appropriation, they're lovely prints!! :) Thanks so much for watching 🤗✨
I love African textiles and had the same question... good to know.
I have never heard of these books before and I am glad you brought them to my attention. It’s quite refreshing to see for one international books and for another book recommendations that aren’t ya mainstream that everyone has read already. I am so glad I found your channel! It really is a gem.
OMG!!! I am so happy you put Notes of a Crocodile! That is one of favorite books! Yay!!
Ooh how awesome!! Super excited to pick that one up!! :D ✨
omgggggggg the sheer diversity of this. THANK YOU, i was in shock as a jew to find that you'd chosen a jewish author as well. i rarely see people reading our literature. amazing, and i'm going to check out all of these books.
If you like Kiss of the Spiderwoman, I’d recommend that you also check out the musical that’s based off of it!
Great list! I’m happen to be reading Notes of a Crocodile and I have a friend obsessed by Pizarnik, so I definitely need to read her. I haven’t read Confessions of a Mask but I found Mishima a very compelling and odd author. Really awesome list... I’m going to check out the others as well.
I just found your videos and I'm amazed to see that you mentioned argentinian books! I'll sure read those. Greetings from Bs. As. Argentina ☺️
ur so great!!! i'm LGBT+ and new in the literature world, i am so grateful for your channel and this video, they really help me through this journey
Amazing! You broaden my book world with every video. So many books I hadn’t know about that I want to check out now. Thank you!
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Thank you for noticing!! I spent a good couple of hours yesterday making a bunch! Very exciting to show the rest 🤗✨✨
My god! That's the kind of content booktube should have more! Congrats on the list and on the content 🥰
As always, this is so amazing and thorough. I’m currently reading “around the world in 80 books” and am definitely adding some of these to my list!
Two of my favourite argentinian authors 💛 The kiss of the spider woman is set during the 70s militar dictatorship. The repressive context is very important to appreciate/understand better the novel: the leftist political movements but also minorities like LGBTQ were incarcelated, tortured and “disappeared” (it is estimated that 30.000 people were killed, although the bodies were never found) by the government. Thanks for sharing argentinian literature!
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I'm flattered!!
i deff appreciate the worldwide recommendations. I need more perspectives in my life
Enjoyed the video. You do great work in broadening people's awareness of what classics exist.
I read Kiss of the Spider Woman in high school and the style of the story is so interesting. With it being only dialogue, it leaves a lot up to the reader to fill in.
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I just borrowed The Kiss of the Spider Woman from the library, I can't wait to read it!
Awesome video. I already have Confessions of a mask on my shelf waiting to be read.
Thank you so much for these recommendations, I'm so excited to be emersed into these literal worlds.
It's my absolute pleasure!! I'm very happy to hear that! :D
here am i adding more books to my to read list 😭 amazing video btw!
These are great recommendations, thank you!
I am happy to hear you mention Annemarie Schwarzenbach, she had a very interesting, if short, life. She came from a very conservative family (her grandfather was the Swiss general in WWI and basically the entire clan had Nazi-sympathies, the name still carries a bit of a stigma), but carved out an identity for herself, travelling the Middle East with another woman. The author Carson McCullers was apparently in love with Schwarzenbach; I think a book came out this year that touches upon it, called "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" or something along those lines. I haven't read it yet, but it is on my list.
The book by Gad Beck and "Bitter Eden" also sound very interesting, I might pick those up.
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I only know the classics from my country and gosh Puig and Pizarnik's works are amazing masterpieces.
I normally don't pay attention to classics, but I'm very curious about the titles you recommended here. Great video :)
Ooh I'm so glad to hear that!! Thank you very much!! :D
me: i can’t add too many of these to my tbr because i already have enough books there. i need to be critical.
also me: finishes the video having added practically every book