This is such a nice video, please don't ever lose your motivation to read and to make videos about it! You seem like a very kind, open-minded, well-edcuated person with good heart. I hope you'll fulfill these reading goals! Kafka and Camus are tough, but they worth it. Patti Smith is GENIUS! I hope one day I can finally make a book blog too, so I wish you luck with all my heart! P.S. Immaculate book taste
This is such a heartwarming thing to see at 5 in the morning and I am extremely thankful for this comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it and best advice anyone gave me to starting was to just go for it even though I had complained about not having the best phone or light or anything really and not having so much of the pretty type aesthetic thing. But after attempting last year, I just made the first video and I've loved it ever since. So this is encouragement to go for it❤
My thoughts and opinions (and they are just opinions): Chimamanda Adichie: My favorite is Half a Yellow Sun (HAYS). Americanah and Purple Hibiscus are good, but not as good a HAYS. I wish more people, especially Americans, would read HAYS. Cormac McCarthy: I'd recommend The Road or All The Pretty Horses, to start. I think No Country For Old Men is a bit outside his norm and if you don't like it, I wouldn't want that to stop you from reading his others. Blood Meridian is excellent, but brutal. And you should certainly watch a bunch of literary reviews of this one afterwards; there is so much layered in this book; it has so much to talk about in this one. It sticks with you. Even years later, I think about this book frequently. JD Salinger: Franny and Zooey is so much better than Catcher, IMO. I think Catcher is so popular because it is often required reading in American High School. It makes the Top 100 lists, especially by people who have only read 100 books (LOL). Morrison: Beloved is her most beloved in America. I have read a LOT of books and Song of Solomon is my top 10 (not top 10% but top 10). I think SoS and The Bluest Eye are better than Beloved. Sula is really good as well. I find her works pre-Beloved much better than those post-Beloved. Bukowski: Test his writing... a good reason to try. Same with Kafka, Camus and Woolf. I have not read Clarice Lispector or Claire Keegan but they seem to be popular on booktube / bookTok lately. Same with Amor Towles, Murakami, Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, but I've read some of their books. I'll probably read more Towles, but not sure if I'll read any more by the other 3.
This is such a nice video, please don't ever lose your motivation to read and to make videos about it! You seem like a very kind, open-minded, well-edcuated person with good heart. I hope you'll fulfill these reading goals! Kafka and Camus are tough, but they worth it. Patti Smith is GENIUS! I hope one day I can finally make a book blog too, so I wish you luck with all my heart! P.S. Immaculate book taste
This is such a heartwarming thing to see at 5 in the morning and I am extremely thankful for this comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it and best advice anyone gave me to starting was to just go for it even though I had complained about not having the best phone or light or anything really and not having so much of the pretty type aesthetic thing. But after attempting last year, I just made the first video and I've loved it ever since. So this is encouragement to go for it❤
incredibly ambitious with some incredible writers! i can't wait for you to get them! especially the Lispector! hehe
My thoughts and opinions (and they are just opinions):
Chimamanda Adichie: My favorite is Half a Yellow Sun (HAYS). Americanah and Purple Hibiscus are good, but not as good a HAYS. I wish more people, especially Americans, would read HAYS.
Cormac McCarthy: I'd recommend The Road or All The Pretty Horses, to start. I think No Country For Old Men is a bit outside his norm and if you don't like it, I wouldn't want that to stop you from reading his others. Blood Meridian is excellent, but brutal. And you should certainly watch a bunch of literary reviews of this one afterwards; there is so much layered in this book; it has so much to talk about in this one. It sticks with you. Even years later, I think about this book frequently.
JD Salinger: Franny and Zooey is so much better than Catcher, IMO. I think Catcher is so popular because it is often required reading in American High School. It makes the Top 100 lists, especially by people who have only read 100 books (LOL).
Morrison: Beloved is her most beloved in America. I have read a LOT of books and Song of Solomon is my top 10 (not top 10% but top 10). I think SoS and The Bluest Eye are better than Beloved. Sula is really good as well. I find her works pre-Beloved much better than those post-Beloved.
Bukowski: Test his writing... a good reason to try. Same with Kafka, Camus and Woolf.
I have not read Clarice Lispector or Claire Keegan but they seem to be popular on booktube / bookTok lately. Same with Amor Towles, Murakami, Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, but I've read some of their books. I'll probably read more Towles, but not sure if I'll read any more by the other 3.
Gosh, I always always appreciate these lengthy comments. They make my day. Definitely will be putting out reviews for ones I am able to.