yayyy love this tag!! i’ve had that same edition of nightwood on my shelf for a long time and completely forgot until you held yours up!! so keen to hear your thoughts on gliff as someone who has sworn off ali smith 😭 i’m also really looking forward to we do not part!!
i haven’t picked up Ali Smith in a hot minute and kinda scared! i think the last Smith i picked up was from the seasonal quartet and i thought it was just fine!!! How to Be Both still stands as my favorite and most bearable Smith HAHA
females is a funny thing -- imperfect, but worth a read. in general i've preferred their essays/reviews/commentaries. i do definitely want to check out authority next year though
My top 3 for 2024 in no particular order: Small Things Like These-- gorgeous economy of writing The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry- such a poignant story In The Dream House All 3 lit fic-- watching all these lit fic booktubers is rubbing off on me. I hope your 2025 is beautiful.
Did not get the chance to read that much this year but really liked 1) The cost of living by Deborah Levy; 2) Embers by Sandor Marai; 3) The death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy and 4)10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak. Now that I think about it, it wasn't too bad a year either...
I'm also interested in the Andrea Long Chu book. I'm not sure if it's a collection of older book reviews or newer stuff, but I'll still buy just to take it all in at once. I read Mishima's Confessions of a Mask earlier this year and really liked it. If I had to read another, I'd also pick Forbidden Colors. I love the cover for the edition you have.
same! and hard for me to say bc I haven’t read any of their work! but i feel cool literary criticism is dead and they are definitely keeping it alive and well! i’ve been hunting for older editions of his books and there’s a particular one i want for Confessions of a Mask! glad to hear you enjoyed it! ✨✊🏼
ohh i’d say my top three would be (1) stoner by john williams (2) the year of magical thinking by joan didion (3) if beale street could talk by james baldwin! but i’m currently reading the dud avocado by elaine dundy and having a lot of fun with it, so that might sneak into my top 3, if i manage to finish it before the end of the year!
all such great books! both Baldwin and Didion are so dear to me. and Stoner has my heart 😭😭😭 i hope you enjoy The Dud Avacado! it’s such a fun flirty one!
Yesss love this tag. Re: disco, I have just thoroughly enjoyed Jessie Ware’s time in that space. What’s Your Pleasure? and Oooh La La are disco heaven.
That's Swedish, my darling. And the museum is in Gothenburg/Sweden. Although it says the name of the art museum in different languages and one of them is German (Kunstmuseum). But Arsbillet would be Eintrittskarte in German. 😘 Btw when do you come to Berlin? Love your fall fashion style! Yes, yes, yes to autumn. The Door is fantastic! Five star read for me.
thank you for this correction ! i am so dumb 😭😭😭 and i miss berlin so much! i’m overdue for a visit 😮💨 fall is truly my medium! gimme all the foliage ✨🍂
i love how you lapped your goodreads challenge twice omg such a good bookish year :') and i'm so curious ab the new han kang too.. & i need to hop on the recommendation train-might send out a text to my friends and just ask them for recs at the beginning of the year and start from there haha i've had a slow reading year meself :') but a big one for rereading !! so my favs this year (and some of my favs forever) are 1) mrs. dalloway 2) sula 3) go tell it on the mountain one from each of my all-time-fav writers WHEEE
I always set my standards to the bare minimum of 52, and that way, if i do end up beating my goal, i feel a lot better about myself 😭😭😭 set those expectations low! i’m p sure you can get to the Han Kang in its original korean! but i’m enjoying it so far! tense and dreamlike! and i love that this year has been a big rereading year for you! it’s important to revisit the texts and all of my favorite authors too ✨💛
I may have enjoyed Queer but I can't remember if I did read that one. You should check out the doc about him, I believe it's called Burroughs: The Movie. My favorite disco tracks are probably "Got To Be Real" by Cheryl Lynn, "Native New Yorker" by Odyssey, "Let's All Chant" by the Michael Zager Band, "Doctor's Orders" by Carol Douglas and "Never Can Say Goodbye" by Gloria Gaynor. Some favorites of this year which are shorter and come to mind (as my faves were longer Bolano works) are The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth and "A Movable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway!
ok classics king!!! all these disco trax mean a lot to me! have definitely made days much easier in days gone and past. it’s criminal i’ve never done any Roth! perhaps this will be my first
Sharing my top three so far this year... 1) I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman; 2) Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino and 3) Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (still in progress but LOVING every page)
i’ve yet to do the Harpman ! might have to do it for next year 😭 Beautyland has my heart and always always always love Calvino for his playful and inventive worlds !
Top Three: Boulder- Eva Baltasar The Passion According to GH They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us- Hanif Abdurraqib (I'm at 165 books for the year and still going? so picking favorites is really hard.) I need to get to On The Road, Queer and maybe Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by the end of the year.
Baltasar and Lispector in top reads of the year ?! now that’s what i call SEXY 😮💨 Kerouac, Burroughs, and Thompson are literally so hot to cap the end of the year. they made my teen years!!!
My fave reads this year include Fishing for the Little Pike by Juhani Karila and Trust by Hernan Diaz. I would be thrilled if you would check out Fishing for the Little Pike which is described as Finnish Weird. I love this book because you have this creature called a raskel that just follows the MC around and everyone in town shrugs it off like it’s no big deal and it would just stay in the car and wait for you while you visit your neighbors. It’s light in character and plot development but I was delighted by the magical realism, the setting, and the general tone of the novel.
DISCO! Top of my list would be some San Francisco Hi-NRG Disco...Most things by Sylvester and/or Patrick Cowley Cowley's "I wanna take you home" is such a joyful tune. There is another "Goin Home" on Mind Warp, created just before he died..haunting Machine's "There before the grace of god go I" Arthur Russell's chaotic jazzy disco productions: Loose Joints "all over my face" both female or male vocal versions, Dinosaur L "Go Bang" Most Nile Rodger productions...Sister sledge's "Lost in Music" Edwards and Rodger remix
You will love The Door with your full chest, promise. Ok spoiler alert not that anyone is clawing at knowing lol but my top three is Another Country, Lies and Sorcery, and The Anthropologists 😎🤓📚
we are all clawing to know !!! we better have a top 10 list from you soon !!! ✨💪🏼 the Savas is a curious pick! so quiet! but also timely, i feel, after experiencing twink death lol
for me (unless i read a new fav in the last remaining month), my favs of the year have been: - frankenstein by mary shelley (ashamed to say it took me this long to read rip) - mythos by stephen fry (i listened to this on audiobook and it was the most fun i've ever had listening to an audiobook) - human acts by han kang (sooo excited for her new book! thanks for putting it on my radar) you didn't mention what UR top 3 of the year have been!! pls do tell
i’ve yet to do Frankenstein but totally feel you on this! i always feel last to some of these texts that have been around for ages 😭😭😭 ooop! currently thinking my top 10 of the year and can share that Human Acts is definitely making the list! such a harrowing read.. hope you have a good few last weeks of your reading year ✨✊🏼
I have an arc of we do not part I MUST get to next week but I’m very excited to read it! I read The Nightguest by Hildur Knútsdóttir and I just LOVED. It’s so kooky.
I come bearing recommendations: Books: The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst, The Golem by Gustav Meyrink, The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato, and Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo. Films: Little Otik (dir. Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová)
LOVE Little Otik!!! Jan is always so overlooked but he’s such a freak i love that lil man !!! love his version of Alice in Wonderland and thank you for these book recs! i’ve only done Pedro Paramo which i read in hs!
read The Locked Tomb series this year and I'm afraid they are my new favourite books of all time... also No one is talking about this by Patricia Lockwood!!!!
My Top Three for 2024 (so far): Still Life, by Sarah Winman The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, by Hendrik Groen Tomato Red, by Daniel Woodrell
literally was just watching an old episode of top chef that honoured jonathan gold after his passing - first i had heard of him - maybe it’s a sign to check out his book!
omg do you know which episode # it was?! would love to watch it! and i think you can find a good handful of his food reviews online! this is just a mass collection of everything he’s written!
Just finished American Rapture by CJ Leede. It’s a dystopian thriller about a virus that turns people into sex-crazed zombie maniacs. But aren’t most people already like that haha? Be well.⚛❤
Omg another novella - food centric!? Reading a book on pdf!? Girl you doin werk! Ive also been chaotic mood reading and have been meaning to do this tag but i still wouldn’t know what to say and its already almost tday then vlogmas time 🫠 Off top of my mind my top 3 books this yr: hope - andrew ridker they cant kill us until they kill us - hanif abdurraqif (ik i finally read this) tell me everything - elizabeth strout
chaos mode in full swing 😵💫 i literally need to be you and audiobook most things like i always forget how busy this time of the year gets 😭 and is she doing vlogmas??? i would love to see! ahhh! so glad to see the Strout on here! it’s such a good one! i need to do the Hanif! if there’s an audiobook perhaps I’ll get to it sooner!!!
Smitten w you and Simon’s bookworm bromance 📕🪱💔🤍💙
he’s simply the best !!!
Notes of a Crocodile is so good!!
eep can’t wait !
yayyy love this tag!! i’ve had that same edition of nightwood on my shelf for a long time and completely forgot until you held yours up!! so keen to hear your thoughts on gliff as someone who has sworn off ali smith 😭 i’m also really looking forward to we do not part!!
i haven’t picked up Ali Smith in a hot minute and kinda scared! i think the last Smith i picked up was from the seasonal quartet and i thought it was just fine!!! How to Be Both still stands as my favorite and most bearable Smith HAHA
Fave Disco track: I Love The Nightlife (Disco Round)
females is a funny thing -- imperfect, but worth a read. in general i've preferred their essays/reviews/commentaries. i do definitely want to check out authority next year though
i think it was Matt who told me it was a very new york read so i want to get to it!
My top 3 for 2024 in no particular order:
Small Things Like These-- gorgeous economy of writing
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry- such a poignant story
In The Dream House
All 3 lit fic-- watching all these lit fic booktubers is rubbing off on me. I hope your 2025 is beautiful.
still need to do In The Dream House! all such fantastic picks! i love the booktube community ✨💛 ty love and i hope 2025 is wonderful for u too!!!
“I should just trust myself more” - preach
doubt likes to mess w me !!! 😤
oh man i can unexpectedly double up on my nathan videos this morning!
double fisting me ? i am HONORED ✨🍻
Did not get the chance to read that much this year but really liked 1) The cost of living by Deborah Levy; 2) Embers by Sandor Marai; 3) The death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy and 4)10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak. Now that I think about it, it wasn't too bad a year either...
it’s all about quality, not quantity! struck by the Shafak title only to find it was already in my tbr! need to pick it up! 😭
I'm also interested in the Andrea Long Chu book. I'm not sure if it's a collection of older book reviews or newer stuff, but I'll still buy just to take it all in at once.
I read Mishima's Confessions of a Mask earlier this year and really liked it. If I had to read another, I'd also pick Forbidden Colors. I love the cover for the edition you have.
same! and hard for me to say bc I haven’t read any of their work! but i feel cool literary criticism is dead and they are definitely keeping it alive and well!
i’ve been hunting for older editions of his books and there’s a particular one i want for Confessions of a Mask! glad to hear you enjoyed it! ✨✊🏼
ohh i’d say my top three would be (1) stoner by john williams (2) the year of magical thinking by joan didion (3) if beale street could talk by james baldwin!
but i’m currently reading the dud avocado by elaine dundy and having a lot of fun with it, so that might sneak into my top 3, if i manage to finish it before the end of the year!
all such great books! both Baldwin and Didion are so dear to me. and Stoner has my heart 😭😭😭
i hope you enjoy The Dud Avacado! it’s such a fun flirty one!
Yesss love this tag.
Re: disco, I have just thoroughly enjoyed Jessie Ware’s time in that space. What’s Your Pleasure? and Oooh La La are disco heaven.
Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure literally brought disco back! such a fun album!!!
That's Swedish, my darling. And the museum is in Gothenburg/Sweden. Although it says the name of the art museum in different languages and one of them is German (Kunstmuseum). But Arsbillet would be Eintrittskarte in German. 😘 Btw when do you come to Berlin?
Love your fall fashion style! Yes, yes, yes to autumn.
The Door is fantastic! Five star read for me.
thank you for this correction ! i am so dumb 😭😭😭
and i miss berlin so much! i’m overdue for a visit 😮💨
fall is truly my medium! gimme all the foliage ✨🍂
@nathansnook I'm sure you were just tired. 🤗
i love how you lapped your goodreads challenge twice omg such a good bookish year :') and i'm so curious ab the new han kang too..
& i need to hop on the recommendation train-might send out a text to my friends and just ask them for recs at the beginning of the year and start from there haha
i've had a slow reading year meself :') but a big one for rereading !! so my favs this year (and some of my favs forever) are 1) mrs. dalloway 2) sula 3) go tell it on the mountain one from each of my all-time-fav writers WHEEE
I always set my standards to the bare minimum of 52, and that way, if i do end up beating my goal, i feel a lot better about myself 😭😭😭 set those expectations low!
i’m p sure you can get to the Han Kang in its original korean! but i’m enjoying it so far! tense and dreamlike!
and i love that this year has been a big rereading year for you! it’s important to revisit the texts and all of my favorite authors too ✨💛
I may have enjoyed Queer but I can't remember if I did read that one. You should check out the doc about him, I believe it's called Burroughs: The Movie. My favorite disco tracks are probably "Got To Be Real" by Cheryl Lynn, "Native New Yorker" by Odyssey, "Let's All Chant" by the Michael Zager Band, "Doctor's Orders" by Carol Douglas and "Never Can Say Goodbye" by Gloria Gaynor. Some favorites of this year which are shorter and come to mind (as my faves were longer Bolano works) are The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth and "A Movable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway!
ok classics king!!! all these disco trax mean a lot to me! have definitely made days much easier in days gone and past.
it’s criminal i’ve never done any Roth! perhaps this will be my first
@ Last Days Of Disco core!! Also you absolutely should read Roth, I’d love to see you talk on him and hear your thoughts
Sharing my top three so far this year... 1) I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman; 2) Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino and 3) Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (still in progress but LOVING every page)
i’ve yet to do the Harpman ! might have to do it for next year 😭
Beautyland has my heart and always always always love Calvino for his playful and inventive worlds !
@@nathansnook Yes! Definitely put it on your list for next year. Different in tone, but they are kind of a good double feature tbh.
Top Three:
Boulder- Eva Baltasar
The Passion According to GH
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us- Hanif Abdurraqib
(I'm at 165 books for the year and still going? so picking favorites is really hard.)
I need to get to On The Road, Queer and maybe Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by the end of the year.
and also Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
Baltasar and Lispector in top reads of the year ?! now that’s what i call SEXY 😮💨
Kerouac, Burroughs, and Thompson are literally so hot to cap the end of the year. they made my teen years!!!
My fave reads this year include Fishing for the Little Pike by Juhani Karila and Trust by Hernan Diaz.
I would be thrilled if you would check out Fishing for the Little Pike which is described as Finnish Weird. I love this book because you have this creature called a raskel that just follows the MC around and everyone in town shrugs it off like it’s no big deal and it would just stay in the car and wait for you while you visit your neighbors. It’s light in character and plot development but I was delighted by the magical realism, the setting, and the general tone of the novel.
just added it to my tbr! i love anything that breaks the niceties and normalities of fiction! it sounds incredible !
DISCO!
Top of my list would be some San Francisco Hi-NRG Disco...Most things by Sylvester and/or Patrick Cowley
Cowley's "I wanna take you home" is such a joyful tune. There is another "Goin Home" on Mind Warp, created just before he died..haunting
Machine's "There before the grace of god go I"
Arthur Russell's chaotic jazzy disco productions: Loose Joints "all over my face" both female or male vocal versions, Dinosaur L "Go Bang"
Most Nile Rodger productions...Sister sledge's "Lost in Music" Edwards and Rodger remix
just had a look-see of all of these tracks and WOW! you’re on top of your disco game! thank you ✨🕺🏻
Didn’t even know a twin peaks book existed, 😮 how cool
yes! it’s a fun weird one on sex, dreams, and nightmares all inside Laura Palmer’s head!
Hope you're enjoying Garielle Lutz my brother! And it's gotta be Get Down Saturday Night ❤
da best! can never not unhear that song without thinking of the scene from Ex Machina ✨🕺🏻
You will love The Door with your full chest, promise.
Ok spoiler alert not that anyone is clawing at knowing lol but my top three is Another Country, Lies and Sorcery, and The Anthropologists 😎🤓📚
Um yes the ppl are clawing!!
we are all clawing to know !!! we better have a top 10 list from you soon !!! ✨💪🏼
the Savas is a curious pick! so quiet! but also timely, i feel, after experiencing twink death lol
top 3 for the moment: How Should a Person Be - Sheila Heti, Spirit of Science Fiction - Robert Bolano, The Details - Ia Genberg
i still have yet to do this Heti! but sooo glad you enjoyed it! has me hyped for it !!! ✨🙏🏼
loved monkey diaries. one of my favourite reads of last year!
good to hear! can’t wait to get to it 💗
for me (unless i read a new fav in the last remaining month), my favs of the year have been:
- frankenstein by mary shelley (ashamed to say it took me this long to read rip)
- mythos by stephen fry (i listened to this on audiobook and it was the most fun i've ever had listening to an audiobook)
- human acts by han kang (sooo excited for her new book! thanks for putting it on my radar)
you didn't mention what UR top 3 of the year have been!! pls do tell
i’ve yet to do Frankenstein but totally feel you on this! i always feel last to some of these texts that have been around for ages 😭😭😭
ooop! currently thinking my top 10 of the year and can share that Human Acts is definitely making the list! such a harrowing read..
hope you have a good few last weeks of your reading year ✨✊🏼
I have an arc of we do not part I MUST get to next week but I’m very excited to read it! I read The Nightguest by Hildur Knútsdóttir and I just LOVED. It’s so kooky.
excited to get to it too! perhaps for december! and i love kooky! adding this to my tbr! thanks for sharing ✨💛
oh! i did not know there was a new han kang. i just watched a mishima film this month and it's really made me want to pick up another mishima
omg which one ?! was it the Schrader?? i’m in MISHIMA MODE ! i want to read em all 😮💨
I come bearing recommendations:
Books: The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst, The Golem by Gustav Meyrink, The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato, and Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo.
Films: Little Otik (dir. Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová)
Thank you! Haven't heard of a couple of these
LOVE Little Otik!!! Jan is always so overlooked but he’s such a freak i love that lil man !!! love his version of Alice in Wonderland
and thank you for these book recs! i’ve only done Pedro Paramo which i read in hs!
read The Locked Tomb series this year and I'm afraid they are my new favourite books of all time... also No one is talking about this by Patricia Lockwood!!!!
omg a series and literary fiction i call that RANGE !!! i’ve not done the Lockwood! need to get to it ✨💪🏼
My Top Three for 2024 (so far):
Still Life, by Sarah Winman
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, by Hendrik Groen
Tomato Red, by Daniel Woodrell
i’ve not heard of Tomato Red but it sounds fantastic! just added it to my tbr! thanks for sharing :)
Top Three:
1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
2. Matilda by Mary Shelley
3. Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
just read the summary for Matilda and WHAT ?! i need to get to this! and it will perhaps come before i ever get to Frankenstein 😭
@ It’s very good! Plus, the backstory to it is quite interesting!
literally was just watching an old episode of top chef that honoured jonathan gold after his passing - first i had heard of him - maybe it’s a sign to check out his book!
omg do you know which episode # it was?! would love to watch it! and i think you can find a good handful of his food reviews online! this is just a mass collection of everything he’s written!
@@nathansnook season 17 episode 2 :)
Ha. I’ll wait for you to get back to me but yes we are buddy reading that. But I’ll keep waiting. Hahaha. Get back to me 😂
who is tom n who is jerry what is this game of cat n mouse !!! meow 😸
Just finished American Rapture by CJ Leede. It’s a dystopian thriller about a virus that turns people into sex-crazed zombie maniacs. But aren’t most people already like that haha? Be well.⚛❤
excuse me WHAT !!! sounds like a romp i need to get to it 👀👀
Omg another novella - food centric!? Reading a book on pdf!? Girl you doin werk!
Ive also been chaotic mood reading and have been meaning to do this tag but i still wouldn’t know what to say and its already almost tday then vlogmas time 🫠
Off top of my mind my top 3 books this yr:
hope - andrew ridker
they cant kill us until they kill us - hanif abdurraqif (ik i finally read this)
tell me everything - elizabeth strout
chaos mode in full swing 😵💫 i literally need to be you and audiobook most things like i always forget how busy this time of the year gets 😭 and is she doing vlogmas??? i would love to see!
ahhh! so glad to see the Strout on here! it’s such a good one! i need to do the Hanif! if there’s an audiobook perhaps I’ll get to it sooner!!!