Hi, Fran, thanks for your books recommendations! I am from Ukraine and I was very pleased to see our writer Gogol among the recommended ones. In Ukraine, Gogol's novels and short stories are included in the school curriculum. If you get a chance, please take a look at his collection of short stories, called "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka". These stories are a mixture of humor, ancient mythology of Gogol's homeland, and horror. I'm pretty sure that they should be published as comics one day)))
Great books! Did you know Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 15??? She was so good. I can't stand Lolita. I tried reading it and was so grossed out I couldn't finish it. I don't know why others enjoy it! Haha
please tell me: when reading science fiction, do you pay attention/memorize all new terms and names, or do you go through the story hoping the important names will stick? (currently feeling overwhelmed by the amount of new names on The Left Hand of Darkness)
I rely on repetition of names in a story so I can eventually memorize them (especially when I read Cien Años de Soledad,… good lord). I also write notes in the margins. I do like your method of creating character maps, tho! Also, Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorites and I hope you are enjoying it!
I also just keep reading and assume I'll figure it out. 😆 If there's a list of characters at the front, I don't read it super closely to begin with but will refer back to it if needed (sometimes I put a sticky note there if I am referring to it a lot). I also think it gets somewhat easier the more sff you read, though there are definitely different levels of difficulty, both due to the inherent nature of a book and how good an author is at their craft.
Tip/suggestion: Personally I’ve found a good book won’t make you work so hard and you’ll be able to pick up on words that are used often with ease. But it does help to listen to the audible book as you read the physical copy 🤜🤛. NOW plz plz plz go check out the book/ series The Three Body Problem. I am not a science fiction girly but this book has a HOLD on my soul. Also the audible version has a really good narrator who completely immerses you into the story. Happy reading 🫶
Entiendo taaaanto eso de "no comprar cosas porque estoy en modo me mudo pronto" y ahora que, al fin siento que estoy en mi casita de largo plazo, la horda de cosas que quiero coleccionar (con un tantito de autocontrol de consumismo consciente) esta ACTIVEITED
if you want to read Russian literature, regardless of the war that is happening now, then this is of course your business, but Gogol was Ukrainian and it is worth knowing.
Fran, you have to go to the library and check out more of Moebius' work. I have the two Edena books you have, and trust me, it just gets better and better and better.
Fran, I know you didn't specifically ask for sci-fi recommendations, but hearing you talk about Le Guin at the end made me want to give you one. If you're looking for a very approachable, non-jargon or made-up word heavy book, please read (literally anything) by Becky Chambers. Her stories are so beautifully written and so moving, yet easy to read. You can start with her Wayfarer series, or you can start with "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" which is a novella and readable in 2 hrs! Even though not all her characters are human, her books tell such lovely stories about humanity, relationships, identity, gender, race and love. Her worlds are so inventive and immersive, but they definitely don't overwhelm you with too many fancy terms. They're also not stressful or tense. but still very engaging. I recommend Chambers to everyone! She's hands down my favourite author. p.s. hi from Canada
Becky Chambers has become one of my all time favorite authors. Her hopeful and uplifting stories carried me through 2020, and she has such a unique and brilliant take on sci-fi. Highly recommend to all!
I don't read much science fiction, so Dune was a challenge for me too, but I found that if I just kept reading and didn't put pressure on myself to remember everything, I enjoyed it more and understood more. Remember that there will be no test at the end and it's okay not to remember or understand every little thing :)
I love Lolita. It is very troubling. For me ( a non American) it is primarily a story about America. It is dark and depressing and exquisitely written. And it is troubling in more than one way.
I am native Russian and I can't dismiss that the Leo's novel is translated incorrectly from Russian into other languages. In Russian language words "world" and "peace" are the same. This is why the most people think that the novel's name is "War and Peace", when it's "War and World".
Also liked Lolita. It is So strange when you catch yourself liking the guy and sad for his struggles. Then you realized but, but wait he is not a good guy. Realy cool.
Fraaaaan muchas graciiias por poner el link para poder ver MANBEN, no podia encontrar mas episodios de este show!!! mil graciias. Amo demasiado los pocos capitulos que he visto y me siento tan inspirado viendolos! 🥰
I love Manben!! Ito’s episode stuck with me because of his imagery… the girl on her bed with all the layers… it lives in head rent free. I love seeing the behind the scenes of artist’s lives, like your vlogs. Bakuman is a fun manga that also does the behind the scenes thing, kind of meta.
So the French pronunciation is Annie "Erno" ("aux"is always pronounced "o") and Alexandre Dumas is pronounced Dumà (very closed "u" and accent on the a, the "s" is silent) :)
While I haven't read Lolita myself I absolutely loved the Lolita Podcast created by Jamie Loftus. It explores the author & book but also looks at the film and cultural impact, it's one of my favourite limited run podcasts. I also want to tackle Rory Gilmore's list! But I'm not anywhere close lol
Realmente aprecio que traduzcas tus videos aun despues de tantos años creando videos por aqui tambien ver tu crecimiento al hacer videos es grandioso super fan de todo lo que haces Fran me inspiras a seguir dibujando 🙂🫂💜
OMG. Igual tengo dos bibliotecas no separadaspero en un panel tengo todo lo de arte, diseño gráfico y novelas gráficas y en el segundo panel novelas y ensayos. Gracias por los tips voy a buscar varios libros Fran :D
I can absolutely recommend the 2020 movie "Tove". The costumes and set designs are just gorgeous and paint a vivid picture how every room, weather and fabric must have felt. It is mesmerizing. Also the choice of actors and actresses is perfect. It is such a beautiful and bittersweet movie with ups and downs and, I feel, huge accuracy for the time and Tove's life.
Disclaimer: el narrador quería ser súper enfático en que esta novela se trata básicamente de la pedofilia. Más como algo enfermo que algo romántico. Vladimir Nabokov: “Lolita no es una niña perversa. Es una pobre niña que corrompen(...) "Lolita, la nínfula, solo existe a través de la obsesión que destruye a Humbert. Este es un aspecto esencial de un libro singular que ha sido falseado por una popularidad artificiosa". De hecho, como apunte, hasta hace pocos años la portada de la edición española del libro lo que mostraba era una mujer comiendo seductoramente una piruleta. No se trata de cancelar la obra, sino de entenderla en su significado original. De poder separarnos de la mirada de Humbert.
Always love watching your videos and seeing what you're reading! As for science fiction book, a lot of them do have a glossary in the back in case you get confused, but if the writing style is something you enjoy, you should be able to just continue on and eventually everything will click. It's a process of becoming familiar with a new world. And while it's never fun to be reading and not understand everything, that moment when it clicks and you get it is beautiful. :) I hope that helps!! Much love.
Haha I am a cis woman and I love Lolita (both the book and the movie). I had listened to the audiobook when I was very young actually and later I had watched both movie adaptions but I love the one with Jeremy Irons a lot more. (I'm not sure which movie you have seen?). So I encourage you to read it. The writing style is superb and the psychology behind it is absolutely fascinating. But then again I have always loved books that went into someone's unusual psyche :D
As a Russian and a Language and Literature graduate, I am so glad Russian classic novels find their audience in you, Fran. So please, don't be ashamed of pronouncing russian names wrong, it's completely fine for a non-russian speaker. Actually, Nabokov wrote "Lolita" in English and then translated it into Russian, and the fun fact is that he actually got a lot of the realia wrong and messed the book up with this translation. Also, "Lolita" is not an easy book to read, and the main point is quite opposite to the movie depiction (false narrative moment), so I would recommend you also to read his other novel - "Pnin" about a Russian professor in America, it's really entertaining and deserves more recognition.
Hi Fran! I love you and always looking for everything you do and I’m very glad that you so into books right now, but I want you to know that Russia is a terrorist country and killing thousands of people every day, I’m from Ukraine and we are suffering from the war that Russia began towards us, so, maybe you wouldn’t like to promote Russian literature and culture in the future, this country ruining not only lives of Ukrainian people but also the atmosphere in the whole world, many of my close friends are died, millions of people loses their homes and even whole cities, this is the genocide of our nation and culture I hope that you wouldn’t promote Russian culture in the future or at least raise awareness around what Russia do. I love so much, that’s why it’s so painful for me to watch this video full of Russian mentions
Произношение русских авторов и названий сносное. Все в порядке, товарищ. (Если автор канала читает комментарии, скопирует ли она этот комментарий в переводчик? Привет, если так!)
Fran, te ve muy linda en el video porque te defendiste con micrófono en mano y al mismo tiempo mostrándonos tus libros, si pareces una periodista jajajajajaja, muy buen video. Gracias por compartirnos y recomendarnos estos títulos 😉😍👌🎉
I completely understand what you mean when you mentioned clicking to the way Frankenstein was written. I didn't think I would like the book either but when I read it, it captivated me, and it became my absolute favorite book. I also loved learning afterwards that the genre of science fiction was created by Mary Shelley. Thanks for the recommendations as well, The Left Hand of Darkness is going to be the first on my list.
Let me tell you, you're going to adore Le Comte de Monte Cristo. It's one of the best french novels ever. ( and i'm a french literature teacher !). I'd like to recommend two french female writers : Elsa Triolet and Marguerite Duras. I think you'd like them both! As for Nabokov, the movie has nothing to do with the novel, you'll get it if you read it. But ... why say "cis women" ? This really makes no sense in that context whatsoever.
Hello Fran! This is a very interesting video thanks for making it! It's kinda shoking to see non russian people talk about russian literature haha. 'War and peace' is a heavy read and my controversial opinion is it's not even that good?? I'm sorry folks. There is a novel by Mikhail Sholokhov called 'Quiet Flows the Don' or 'The Silent Don'. It's as massive as 'War and Peace' but like way more brutal and in my opinion way more inpactful. There's some really strong anti war undertones. But it is indeed a heavy read. Sholokhov also won a Nobel prize for this bad boy. Also Dostoevskiy is the best russian auther ever you cannot change my mind. 'Crime and punishment', 'Demons' and 'Karamazov brothers' are freaking sick. I recommend everyone reading these I don't know how you wouldn't like it. Those books literally changed my life ngl. P.S. Gogol is largely consided a russian auther but he is in fact ukranian and never called himself russian. He's a big influence on russian literature thought (Dostoevskiy included).
For sci-fi, I find it easier to read the made-up words and move on, without worrying if I have memorized it. Often that means I have to go back and look up the words again to see what they were about, but at least I can stay "in" the story and not pause all the time. Maybe reading sci-fi in Spanish would make it easier as well, since you would recognize the made-up words or even understand their nuance a bit more. :)
Pausing this video to say, if you think moving homes with a book collection is hard, having a book and record collection will make you rethink whether you really even want to leave your place, lol... It's a privilege and an honor to be able to fill a home with the art and media you love though, so I'm not complaining one bit
been loving hearing u talk about books! i recently got a lot more into reading in the last year or so and am so happy seeing u talk about ur own book discoveries :0)
Best video ever, Fraaaan! 🎉🎉 One of my recent favorite graphic novels is DUCKS by Kate Beaton, I don’t know if it’s your style or not, but the story was so moving and frustating, that maybe you could check it out. I really like it when you talk books! 😊
thanks for this video, great art books recommendations! FYI, Gogol is not a russian writer but a Ukrainian one :) russia appropriated him and claimed as a russian poet when it’s not the case. he was originally from Poltava region of Ukraine and wrote lots about Ukrainian life. also I highly recommend to dip your toes into Ukrainian literature since russia is waging a genocidal imperialistic war on Ukrainian people.
Hi! Totally understand your sentiment. However, maybe Fran knows the different meanings of the word "Russian" and uses it not as "русский" but "российский"? As in "a writer from the Russian Empire"? If not, maybe she'd be curious to know that the said Empire comprised a great number of people and many of them were not ethnic Russian... P.S.: Could you recommend some Ukrainian authors to start with while exploring the Ukrainian literature beyond Gogol? Thank you.
Hi! I can highly recommend Oksana Zabuzhko overall and especially her book 'Museum of abandoned secrets'. Another modern ukrainian author with a lot of translated books is Serhiy Zhadan. 'Sweet darusya' by Maria Matios is one of my favourite too. As previous commentator mentioned Mykola Gogol wrote a great deal about his motherland but be careful because it has a lot of coloniser perspective (by Gogol himself or by russian censorship). Also, I don't understand logic between meaning of word 'russian'. It doesn't matter in what senses you use them towards Ukrainian author - they all harmful.
Aaand small clarification from me: '.said shitty Empire oppressed a great number of people and many of them were not ethnic russian which was reason for their appropriation or elimination...'
There’s literally no difference between the russian empire of 19th century and the current russian state as it’s still an empire comprised of multiple colonized nations. Also, the argument that it was a long time ago and it was russian empire times doesn’t allow to excuse past/current genocide or erasure of ethnic people
Fricking difficult to hear that you are exited of russian literature while russians still triying to occuupy Ukraine. Truly, try to look at Ukraine literature, we have lots of nice authors, not such depressive and melancholic. For example, Ivan Bagryaniy, Olexnder Dovjenko or even Lesya Ukrainka, if we talking about classic. From authors who lives and craete nowadays I'd recomend you Sergiy Jhadan, Lina Kostenko, Oksana Zabujko. To be true, I am from Ukraine, and for me is truly difficult to hear that someone could like russian literature nowadays. Maybe after 30 years when Russian stop doing what they do I will change my mind.
Gracias Fran, que buenas recomendaciones. ¿Sabias que Alexandre dumas era un hombre negro? Jejej siento que ha sido muy blanqueado y una vez que lo sabes las historias que escriboo se sienten con más fuerza
Lolita - The book is more disturbing than the movie, but worth a read once in your life. The writing is glorious but the content is creepy Count of Monte Cristo is wonderful! Worth the investment in time.
Hola Fran, me gusto mucho el video. Te cuento que hay un podcast que se llama Audiolibros porque leer, la chica que lo lleva adelante lee cuentos clasicos y actuales, eso me esta permitiendo conocer muchos autores y luego me compro los liros. Un beso
hi Fran, thank you for keeping me company while I knit :) The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favourite books, and I think it definitely gets better on the second (or third!) read. That's how I got comfortable with all the new names and terms. If you end up liking it, can I recommend the Lilith's Brood Trilogy by Octavia Butler? The first book is called Dawn. Soo fascinating and very character-driven, similar to The Left Hand of Darkness.
I think you might love the sci fi series by Becky Chambers called the "Wayfarer Series". Book one is The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and it doesn't have too much "sciencey" terminology and lots of positive queer representation!
On Lolita there's this incredible podcast that disects it (the book, the adaptations, the influence, etc), "Lolita Podcast" by Jamie Loftus. It's super well researched and insightful yyy en este punto no sé por qué lo escribí en inglés jaja, pero es muy recomendable si te interesa entrar más al mundo de Lolita y sus influencias/consecuencias.
Hola Fran! sé que llego tarde al video y quizás jamás leas esto, pero sobre la parte donde pides recomendaciones para ciencia ficción, te cuento un poco. Desde muy pequeña he amado leer fantasía y ciencia ficción, igual leo clásicos y otros géneros (amo las biografías por ejemplo), pero con el tiempo quizás de forma inconsciente al partir pequeña, me di cuenta que mas que memorizar nombres y palabras, trataba de entender el mundo. Por ejemplo si es magia, trato de poner mucha atención y releer las partes donde explican cómo funcionan la magia en ESE mundo o momento incluso. Los nombres los irás aprendiendo según se vayan repitiendo en el libro o en la historia (o saga incluso!). Con DUNE recuerdo tuve una experiencia similar a la tuya jajaja! el 1er libro lo leí en el colegio y no recuerdo mucho mi experiencia, pero la 2da vez que me enfrenté a la saga y tomé ella 1er libro... esas primeras hojas tienen una cantidad estúpidamente abrumadora de nombres, casas, mundos, ciudades, razas y ahhhh! entonces sabiendo que era imposible aprenderme todo eso marqué esas paginas con una etiqueta de "nombres/casas/razas/planetas" y luego me relajé durante el libro, solo disfruté la historia... y cada vez que un nombre me confundía o no estaba segura, regresaba a esas paginas marcadas. Y así lo hago con todos los libros :) por ejemplo los libros de Sanderson y su Cosmere que es gigante, pongo una etiqueta en los nombre nuevos.... porque nunca sabes en que otro libro, saga, o capitulo del mismo cosmere te lo vas a encontrar ajajjaa! un abrazo fran! Amo este formato estilo booktuber
Thank you for posting up what you're reading. I always like to get inspiration for what to read next. I totally relate with what you said about keeping up with names and terminology when reading sci-fi. It's hard to keep up sometimes. I just sort of accept that its not completely going in at first and just let the words wash over me. They do tend to cement themselves in with more of the story. Though I do think it depends on where your head is at the time, at least it is for me, and perhaps whether the story is resonating. I'd definitely recommend Rendezvous with Rama and Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke. I loved the Earthsea books by Ursula which is more fantasy but *shrugs*. Two of my absolute favourite books of all time though are KPAX by Gene Brewer and Contact by Carl Sagan, which talk about the universe and space but also what it means to be human. Just mentioning them here is making me want to reread them.
Your EYES when you talked about moving with books and life making you pay for your heavy hobby...😂 I made the SAME expression a fraction of a second before you 🤣 I have over 1000 books, had over 3000 at one point. I've been reading and only keeping the books I want to reread or can't imagine not having. I had to move maybe 8 or 9 times with my entire collection. The irony is, I didn't start decluttering them until I got to a more "permanent" situation lol. But I'm like you with previously owned books. Like 95% of my physical library is and has always been preowned. Let's not talk about what's on my Kindle 😂
Holi Fran, te quiero mucho, he visto todos tus videos, como si fueran una serie de netflix, desde los primeros que encontré en tu canal, hasta éste, desde 2021. Ha sido muy chido ver tu crecimiento creativo, siempre me dejas algo cool por curiosar o experimentar. Gracias por ser tú, y por compartirnos una parte de tu cotidianidad. Te mando un fuerte abrazo, espero estés mucho mejor con tu interior y tus emociones, que te sea leve cada vez más´todo ese proceso, quiero aprovechar por recomendarte un libro que significó mucho para mí, en estas últimas semanas, Cartas a un joven Poeta de Rilke. La verdad ahora que me he devorado todos tus videos, yo creo que empezaré a considerar unirme a tu patreon. :) Muchos besos. :*
Always a pleasure to watch your vlogs. Such a cozy and calm atmosphere 😍 I have noticed that you read so many russian authors. It can be interesting for you to read "Imperial knowledge. Russian Literature and Colonialism" by Ewa M. Thompson. There are a lot of fresh thoughts about Tolstoy, Dostoyevskiy etc. It has changed my views and taste in books so much 📚
hi, Fran! i'm watching you for 8 years, so it was very interesting to hear your thoughts and impressions about russian writers. if i can recommend, please give your attention to Reading Lolita in Tehran by Nafisi Azar after you read Nabokov. i have both russian and iranian roots, so it was very helping for me to hear another point of view - Azar is writer and professor of English literature. many things have make sense for me after. and i want to ask if you read The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, cause i think you are interested in queer view. and if talk about abortion situation - i lastly read Happening by Annie Ernaux, it is autofiction book, full of sensitivity and physicality. hope to hear your book impressions someday
Have you read Brahm Stoker's "Dracula"? It's mesmerizing Fran. It's written as if the main characters are writing in their diaries or writing letters back and forth. I have read the novel twice now.
Fran you are my favorite person on TH-cam. Every one of your new videos is a special delight. You will love "The Count of Monte Cristo" and it provides exactly the type of big experience you are looking for. Check the paperback you got to make sure it's an unabridged edition -- sometimes the paperbacks excise some of the original story to make them slightly shorter. When you are ready to get into it, the full original book is totes worth it -- and would be worth looking for the full versh if the one you got doesn't include it
I remember i tried to do some of the rory gilmore Girls reading list too ! I think i still have "The amazing adventures of kavalier and clay" on my kindle. Not finished but enjoyable. And about Gilmore Girls hugs, it's so true
Hola Fran gracias por incrementar el numero de libros que deseo leer 🤭, si te puedo recomendar unos libros el primero es "En la tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos de Ocean Vuang" , y el otro es de Carmen María Machado "En la casa de los sueños", los dos libros son devastadores pero han sido lo mejor que e leído este año. Saludos 😗
Thanks for the video and for the Manben suggestion! Speaking about Lolita (I personally have been disturbed by both the book and the movie 😔) I loved a lot "Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books" by Azar Nafisi; I'm sure that if you read the mentioned book first, you could enjoy Nafisi's work even more. I put it in my super-fav spot on my library ✨
Hola Fraaan! amo tanto tus videos, podcast e ilustraciones. Te quería preguntar por un libro que mencionaste una vez (no recuerdo si en el podcast o en este canal) que hiciste para estimular la creatividad que era dividido en capitulos , por si podrias recomendarlo porfis
i think Tove flew under the radar because she was an artist and a member of the suedophone elite so allready outside the normal finnish society. it isn't even a widely known fact in Finland that she was bi (because she also had relationships with men though in the end she lived decades with her female "friend"). Finns largely see her just the mother of Moomins, discarding the rest of her art.
Loved this thick stack of book recs, Fran!! Definitelyyy adding the Manben series to my to-watch list. Also, I recommend Lolita podcast of iheartradio's for a literary and cultural analysis! It made me want to reread the book, which would probably be a very different experience from when I read it in high school.
There is no such thing as an "excess" of books or book libraries. Personal libraries are meant to GROW! I read THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO in high school. (I think it might have been an abridged edition, as the book is so long, but I can't be sure.) In any case, I found it to be gripping! I read FRANKENSTEIN several years ago. It is very different than what people would expect based on all the movies derived from her characters. It is an epistolary novel, told in the form of letters and journal entries. I have an eBook of THE LAST MAN, but I haven't read it yet. Perhaps I'll I give it a try now!
The last man is so funny to me! It’s set in the future but everything is like in the 19th century except that they use hot air balloons as a mean of transport
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Hi, Fran, thanks for your books recommendations! I am from Ukraine and I was very pleased to see our writer Gogol among the recommended ones. In Ukraine, Gogol's novels and short stories are included in the school curriculum. If you get a chance, please take a look at his collection of short stories, called "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka". These stories are a mixture of humor, ancient mythology of Gogol's homeland, and horror. I'm pretty sure that they should be published as comics one day)))
I remember that you’ve learnt hiragana so this is how you pronounce Junji Itō’s name: じゅんじ いとう 😉
Great books! Did you know Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 15??? She was so good. I can't stand Lolita. I tried reading it and was so grossed out I couldn't finish it. I don't know why others enjoy it! Haha
please tell me: when reading science fiction, do you pay attention/memorize all new terms and names, or do you go through the story hoping the important names will stick? (currently feeling overwhelmed by the amount of new names on The Left Hand of Darkness)
I rely on repetition of names in a story so I can eventually memorize them (especially when I read Cien Años de Soledad,… good lord). I also write notes in the margins. I do like your method of creating character maps, tho! Also, Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorites and I hope you are enjoying it!
I tend to read them twice! First pass I hope that seeing a name multiple times will make me remember who’s who
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I also just keep reading and assume I'll figure it out. 😆 If there's a list of characters at the front, I don't read it super closely to begin with but will refer back to it if needed (sometimes I put a sticky note there if I am referring to it a lot). I also think it gets somewhat easier the more sff you read, though there are definitely different levels of difficulty, both due to the inherent nature of a book and how good an author is at their craft.
Tip/suggestion: Personally I’ve found a good book won’t make you work so hard and you’ll be able to pick up on words that are used often with ease. But it does help to listen to the audible book as you read the physical copy 🤜🤛. NOW plz plz plz go check out the book/ series The Three Body Problem. I am not a science fiction girly but this book has a HOLD on my soul. Also the audible version has a really good narrator who completely immerses you into the story. Happy reading 🫶
obsessed with reading rn so I'm super down for more of this content! ty ty ,3
It’s so cute how you pronounced Junji Ito’s name in a Spanish way lol 💕
Dime que eres de Chile sin decirme que eres de Chile
Sabrina is my number one graphic novel I recommend to people who aren't into comics. It's SO GOOD and so impactful.
Omg I’m reading it rn!!!
Entiendo taaaanto eso de "no comprar cosas porque estoy en modo me mudo pronto" y ahora que, al fin siento que estoy en mi casita de largo plazo, la horda de cosas que quiero coleccionar (con un tantito de autocontrol de consumismo consciente) esta ACTIVEITED
if you want to read Russian literature, regardless of the war that is happening now, then this is of course your business, but Gogol was Ukrainian and it is worth knowing.
I haven’t seen moebius books anywhere in Canada except at an anime con 10 years ago and I regret not getting them 🥺😭 such an Inspiration
Fran, you have to go to the library and check out more of Moebius' work. I have the two Edena books you have, and trust me, it just gets better and better and better.
Used bookstores are everything!!
the first o in tove is elongated, so TOO-ve is the correct pronunciation, just like you would say 'too' in english.
I'm so here for your book content. Love getting new recommendations and also fan our the books I love that you're reading.💖
I'm currently also reading Tove Jansson, Invisible Child, yesterday, adorable
Fran, I know you didn't specifically ask for sci-fi recommendations, but hearing you talk about Le Guin at the end made me want to give you one. If you're looking for a very approachable, non-jargon or made-up word heavy book, please read (literally anything) by Becky Chambers. Her stories are so beautifully written and so moving, yet easy to read. You can start with her Wayfarer series, or you can start with "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" which is a novella and readable in 2 hrs! Even though not all her characters are human, her books tell such lovely stories about humanity, relationships, identity, gender, race and love. Her worlds are so inventive and immersive, but they definitely don't overwhelm you with too many fancy terms. They're also not stressful or tense. but still very engaging. I recommend Chambers to everyone! She's hands down my favourite author. p.s. hi from Canada
Becky Chambers has become one of my all time favorite authors. Her hopeful and uplifting stories carried me through 2020, and she has such a unique and brilliant take on sci-fi. Highly recommend to all!
I don't read much science fiction, so Dune was a challenge for me too, but I found that if I just kept reading and didn't put pressure on myself to remember everything, I enjoyed it more and understood more. Remember that there will be no test at the end and it's okay not to remember or understand every little thing :)
I couldn't read Dune, I got overwhelmed too. I recently listened to Dune on Audible and listening instead of reading helped in the case of Dune.
I love Lolita. It is very troubling. For me ( a non American) it is primarily a story about America. It is dark and depressing and exquisitely written. And it is troubling in more than one way.
I am native Russian and I can't dismiss that the Leo's novel is translated incorrectly from Russian into other languages. In Russian language words "world" and "peace" are the same. This is why the most people think that the novel's name is "War and Peace", when it's "War and World".
Also liked Lolita. It is So strange when you catch yourself liking the guy and sad for his struggles. Then you realized but, but wait he is not a good guy. Realy cool.
Nice and easy to understand science fiction book is Mickey 7. Amazing book that recommend to you
Fran, Commodity has a fragrance called Book. It’s quite lovely.
amé muchísimo este video, amo los bookhauls gracias por hacerlo Fran!
Fran ya me acabé todas las temporadas del podcast de Edo y Fran 😢 compártenos la lista de tus podcast favoritos plissss. Atte tu fan de hace años ❤
Fraaaaan muchas graciiias por poner el link para poder ver MANBEN, no podia encontrar mas episodios de este show!!! mil graciias. Amo demasiado los pocos capitulos que he visto y me siento tan inspirado viendolos!
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I love Manben!! Ito’s episode stuck with me because of his imagery… the girl on her bed with all the layers… it lives in head rent free. I love seeing the behind the scenes of artist’s lives, like your vlogs. Bakuman is a fun manga that also does the behind the scenes thing, kind of meta.
So the French pronunciation is Annie "Erno" ("aux"is always pronounced "o") and Alexandre Dumas is pronounced Dumà (very closed "u" and accent on the a, the "s" is silent) :)
While I haven't read Lolita myself I absolutely loved the Lolita Podcast created by Jamie Loftus. It explores the author & book but also looks at the film and cultural impact, it's one of my favourite limited run podcasts. I also want to tackle Rory Gilmore's list! But I'm not anywhere close lol
Oh very interesting. Thank you for recommending the podcast :)
Realmente aprecio que traduzcas tus videos aun despues de tantos años creando videos por aqui tambien ver tu crecimiento al hacer videos es grandioso super fan de todo lo que haces Fran me inspiras a seguir dibujando 🙂🫂💜
Me encantó este vídeo ❤ amo la era de frannerd booktuber
I think if you wanted to make a science fiction glossary, that would be a great graphic novel idea! Why not?
I LOVE the way she talks/describes things!
OMG. Igual tengo dos bibliotecas no separadaspero en un panel tengo todo lo de arte, diseño gráfico y novelas gráficas y en el segundo panel novelas y ensayos. Gracias por los tips voy a buscar varios libros Fran :D
I can absolutely recommend the 2020 movie "Tove". The costumes and set designs are just gorgeous and paint a vivid picture how every room, weather and fabric must have felt. It is mesmerizing. Also the choice of actors and actresses is perfect. It is such a beautiful and bittersweet movie with ups and downs and, I feel, huge accuracy for the time and Tove's life.
Disclaimer: el narrador quería ser súper enfático en que esta novela se trata básicamente de la pedofilia. Más como algo enfermo que algo romántico. Vladimir Nabokov: “Lolita no es una niña perversa. Es una pobre niña que corrompen(...) "Lolita, la nínfula, solo existe a través de la obsesión que destruye a Humbert. Este es un aspecto esencial de un libro singular que ha sido falseado por una popularidad artificiosa". De hecho, como apunte, hasta hace pocos años la portada de la edición española del libro lo que mostraba era una mujer comiendo seductoramente una piruleta. No se trata de cancelar la obra, sino de entenderla en su significado original. De poder separarnos de la mirada de Humbert.
Always love watching your videos and seeing what you're reading! As for science fiction book, a lot of them do have a glossary in the back in case you get confused, but if the writing style is something you enjoy, you should be able to just continue on and eventually everything will click. It's a process of becoming familiar with a new world. And while it's never fun to be reading and not understand everything, that moment when it clicks and you get it is beautiful. :) I hope that helps!! Much love.
Haha I am a cis woman and I love Lolita (both the book and the movie). I had listened to the audiobook when I was very young actually and later I had watched both movie adaptions but I love the one with Jeremy Irons a lot more. (I'm not sure which movie you have seen?). So I encourage you to read it. The writing style is superb and the psychology behind it is absolutely fascinating. But then again I have always loved books that went into someone's unusual psyche :D
As a Russian and a Language and Literature graduate, I am so glad Russian classic novels find their audience in you, Fran. So please, don't be ashamed of pronouncing russian names wrong, it's completely fine for a non-russian speaker. Actually, Nabokov wrote "Lolita" in English and then translated it into Russian, and the fun fact is that he actually got a lot of the realia wrong and messed the book up with this translation. Also, "Lolita" is not an easy book to read, and the main point is quite opposite to the movie depiction (false narrative moment), so I would recommend you also to read his other novel - "Pnin" about a Russian professor in America, it's really entertaining and deserves more recognition.
Hi Fran!
I love you and always looking for everything you do and I’m very glad that you so into books right now, but I want you to know that Russia is a terrorist country and killing thousands of people every day, I’m from Ukraine and we are suffering from the war that Russia began towards us, so, maybe you wouldn’t like to promote Russian literature and culture in the future, this country ruining not only lives of Ukrainian people but also the atmosphere in the whole world, many of my close friends are died, millions of people loses their homes and even whole cities, this is the genocide of our nation and culture
I hope that you wouldn’t promote Russian culture in the future or at least raise awareness around what Russia do.
I love so much, that’s why it’s so painful for me to watch this video full of Russian mentions
40 min de video, que emocion!
Произношение русских авторов и названий сносное. Все в порядке, товарищ.
(Если автор канала читает комментарии, скопирует ли она этот комментарий в переводчик? Привет, если так!)
Fran, te ve muy linda en el video porque te defendiste con micrófono en mano y al mismo tiempo mostrándonos tus libros, si pareces una periodista jajajajajaja, muy buen video. Gracias por compartirnos y recomendarnos estos títulos 😉😍👌🎉
tuve que pausar el video e ir a comprarme uzumaki, no podía seguir con mi vida sino
tkm fran
I completely understand what you mean when you mentioned clicking to the way Frankenstein was written. I didn't think I would like the book either but when I read it, it captivated me, and it became my absolute favorite book. I also loved learning afterwards that the genre of science fiction was created by Mary Shelley.
Thanks for the recommendations as well, The Left Hand of Darkness is going to be the first on my list.
now i'm kinda fighting the urge to immediately grab 5 books within reach and read nonstop no matter how crazy things get when you stop working
Let me tell you, you're going to adore Le Comte de Monte Cristo. It's one of the best french novels ever. ( and i'm a french literature teacher !). I'd like to recommend two french female writers : Elsa Triolet and Marguerite Duras. I think you'd like them both! As for Nabokov, the movie has nothing to do with the novel, you'll get it if you read it. But ... why say "cis women" ? This really makes no sense in that context whatsoever.
Hello Fran! This is a very interesting video thanks for making it! It's kinda shoking to see non russian people talk about russian literature haha. 'War and peace' is a heavy read and my controversial opinion is it's not even that good?? I'm sorry folks. There is a novel by Mikhail Sholokhov called 'Quiet Flows the Don' or 'The Silent Don'. It's as massive as 'War and Peace' but like way more brutal and in my opinion way more inpactful. There's some really strong anti war undertones. But it is indeed a heavy read. Sholokhov also won a Nobel prize for this bad boy.
Also Dostoevskiy is the best russian auther ever you cannot change my mind. 'Crime and punishment', 'Demons' and 'Karamazov brothers' are freaking sick. I recommend everyone reading these I don't know how you wouldn't like it. Those books literally changed my life ngl.
P.S. Gogol is largely consided a russian auther but he is in fact ukranian and never called himself russian. He's a big influence on russian literature thought (Dostoevskiy included).
For sci-fi, I find it easier to read the made-up words and move on, without worrying if I have memorized it. Often that means I have to go back and look up the words again to see what they were about, but at least I can stay "in" the story and not pause all the time. Maybe reading sci-fi in Spanish would make it easier as well, since you would recognize the made-up words or even understand their nuance a bit more. :)
Pausing this video to say, if you think moving homes with a book collection is hard, having a book and record collection will make you rethink whether you really even want to leave your place, lol... It's a privilege and an honor to be able to fill a home with the art and media you love though, so I'm not complaining one bit
been loving hearing u talk about books! i recently got a lot more into reading in the last year or so and am so happy seeing u talk about ur own book discoveries :0)
it's great that you are open to try so many types of different books ☺☺
❤❤❤❤ tqm Fran
Best video ever, Fraaaan! 🎉🎉 One of my recent favorite graphic novels is DUCKS by Kate Beaton, I don’t know if it’s your style or not, but the story was so moving and frustating, that maybe you could check it out. I really like it when you talk books! 😊
thanks for this video, great art books recommendations! FYI, Gogol is not a russian writer but a Ukrainian one :) russia appropriated him and claimed as a russian poet when it’s not the case. he was originally from Poltava region of Ukraine and wrote lots about Ukrainian life. also I highly recommend to dip your toes into Ukrainian literature since russia is waging a genocidal imperialistic war on Ukrainian people.
Hi! Totally understand your sentiment. However, maybe Fran knows the different meanings of the word "Russian" and uses it not as "русский" but "российский"? As in "a writer from the Russian Empire"? If not, maybe she'd be curious to know that the said Empire comprised a great number of people and many of them were not ethnic Russian... P.S.: Could you recommend some Ukrainian authors to start with while exploring the Ukrainian literature beyond Gogol? Thank you.
Hi! I can highly recommend Oksana Zabuzhko overall and especially her book 'Museum of abandoned secrets'. Another modern ukrainian author with a lot of translated books is Serhiy Zhadan. 'Sweet darusya' by Maria Matios is one of my favourite too. As previous commentator mentioned Mykola Gogol wrote a great deal about his motherland but be careful because it has a lot of coloniser perspective (by Gogol himself or by russian censorship).
Also, I don't understand logic between meaning of word 'russian'. It doesn't matter in what senses you use them towards Ukrainian author - they all harmful.
Aaand small clarification from me:
'.said shitty Empire oppressed a great number of people and many of them were not ethnic russian which was reason for their appropriation or elimination...'
Yeah! Boarding school and Voroshilovgrad by Zhadan are a must-read
There’s literally no difference between the russian empire of 19th century and the current russian state as it’s still an empire comprised of multiple colonized nations. Also, the argument that it was a long time ago and it was russian empire times doesn’t allow to excuse past/current genocide or erasure of ethnic people
Mary Shelley tiene una colección de cuentos que se llama "Amar y revivir " que me gusta mucho por si la quieres leer😉😉
Fricking difficult to hear that you are exited of russian literature while russians still triying to occuupy Ukraine. Truly, try to look at Ukraine literature, we have lots of nice authors, not such depressive and melancholic.
For example, Ivan Bagryaniy, Olexnder Dovjenko or even Lesya Ukrainka, if we talking about classic.
From authors who lives and craete nowadays I'd recomend you Sergiy Jhadan, Lina Kostenko, Oksana Zabujko.
To be true, I am from Ukraine, and for me is truly difficult to hear that someone could like russian literature nowadays. Maybe after 30 years when Russian stop doing what they do I will change my mind.
a big long video talking just about books?? i never clicked play so fast
lovely video, Fran! 🙂
Gracias Fran, que buenas recomendaciones. ¿Sabias que Alexandre dumas era un hombre negro? Jejej siento que ha sido muy blanqueado y una vez que lo sabes las historias que escriboo se sienten con más fuerza
Lolita - The book is more disturbing than the movie, but worth a read once in your life. The writing is glorious but the content is creepy
Count of Monte Cristo is wonderful! Worth the investment in time.
Hola Fran, me gusto mucho el video. Te cuento que hay un podcast que se llama Audiolibros porque leer, la chica que lo lleva adelante lee cuentos clasicos y actuales, eso me esta permitiendo conocer muchos autores y luego me compro los liros. Un beso
hi Fran, thank you for keeping me company while I knit :) The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favourite books, and I think it definitely gets better on the second (or third!) read. That's how I got comfortable with all the new names and terms. If you end up liking it, can I recommend the Lilith's Brood Trilogy by Octavia Butler? The first book is called Dawn. Soo fascinating and very character-driven, similar to The Left Hand of Darkness.
I think you might love the sci fi series by Becky Chambers called the "Wayfarer Series". Book one is The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and it doesn't have too much "sciencey" terminology and lots of positive queer representation!
Not exactly related but does someone knows which microphone she’s using 🥺
On Lolita there's this incredible podcast that disects it (the book, the adaptations, the influence, etc), "Lolita Podcast" by Jamie Loftus. It's super well researched and insightful yyy en este punto no sé por qué lo escribí en inglés jaja, pero es muy recomendable si te interesa entrar más al mundo de Lolita y sus influencias/consecuencias.
Hola Fran! sé que llego tarde al video y quizás jamás leas esto, pero sobre la parte donde pides recomendaciones para ciencia ficción, te cuento un poco. Desde muy pequeña he amado leer fantasía y ciencia ficción, igual leo clásicos y otros géneros (amo las biografías por ejemplo), pero con el tiempo quizás de forma inconsciente al partir pequeña, me di cuenta que mas que memorizar nombres y palabras, trataba de entender el mundo. Por ejemplo si es magia, trato de poner mucha atención y releer las partes donde explican cómo funcionan la magia en ESE mundo o momento incluso. Los nombres los irás aprendiendo según se vayan repitiendo en el libro o en la historia (o saga incluso!). Con DUNE recuerdo tuve una experiencia similar a la tuya jajaja! el 1er libro lo leí en el colegio y no recuerdo mucho mi experiencia, pero la 2da vez que me enfrenté a la saga y tomé ella 1er libro... esas primeras hojas tienen una cantidad estúpidamente abrumadora de nombres, casas, mundos, ciudades, razas y ahhhh! entonces sabiendo que era imposible aprenderme todo eso marqué esas paginas con una etiqueta de "nombres/casas/razas/planetas" y luego me relajé durante el libro, solo disfruté la historia... y cada vez que un nombre me confundía o no estaba segura, regresaba a esas paginas marcadas. Y así lo hago con todos los libros :) por ejemplo los libros de Sanderson y su Cosmere que es gigante, pongo una etiqueta en los nombre nuevos.... porque nunca sabes en que otro libro, saga, o capitulo del mismo cosmere te lo vas a encontrar ajajjaa!
un abrazo fran! Amo este formato estilo booktuber
genial EDENA!!! moebius es un crack!!
Thank you for posting up what you're reading. I always like to get inspiration for what to read next. I totally relate with what you said about keeping up with names and terminology when reading sci-fi. It's hard to keep up sometimes. I just sort of accept that its not completely going in at first and just let the words wash over me. They do tend to cement themselves in with more of the story. Though I do think it depends on where your head is at the time, at least it is for me, and perhaps whether the story is resonating. I'd definitely recommend Rendezvous with Rama and Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke. I loved the Earthsea books by Ursula which is more fantasy but *shrugs*. Two of my absolute favourite books of all time though are KPAX by Gene Brewer and Contact by Carl Sagan, which talk about the universe and space but also what it means to be human. Just mentioning them here is making me want to reread them.
Lovely creative inspiring content.
I’m loving the Vibes…SUBSCRIBED!❣️✨
Your EYES when you talked about moving with books and life making you pay for your heavy hobby...😂 I made the SAME expression a fraction of a second before you 🤣 I have over 1000 books, had over 3000 at one point. I've been reading and only keeping the books I want to reread or can't imagine not having. I had to move maybe 8 or 9 times with my entire collection. The irony is, I didn't start decluttering them until I got to a more "permanent" situation lol. But I'm like you with previously owned books. Like 95% of my physical library is and has always been preowned. Let's not talk about what's on my Kindle 😂
Holi Fran, te quiero mucho, he visto todos tus videos, como si fueran una serie de netflix, desde los primeros que encontré en tu canal, hasta éste, desde 2021. Ha sido muy chido ver tu crecimiento creativo, siempre me dejas algo cool por curiosar o experimentar. Gracias por ser tú, y por compartirnos una parte de tu cotidianidad. Te mando un fuerte abrazo, espero estés mucho mejor con tu interior y tus emociones, que te sea leve cada vez más´todo ese proceso, quiero aprovechar por recomendarte un libro que significó mucho para mí, en estas últimas semanas, Cartas a un joven Poeta de Rilke. La verdad ahora que me he devorado todos tus videos, yo creo que empezaré a considerar unirme a tu patreon. :) Muchos besos. :*
Amazing video!! Thanks for posting more, your videos and art make my life better ❤️❤️❤️❤️ waiting for the spain vlog jiji
Always a pleasure to watch your vlogs. Such a cozy and calm atmosphere 😍
I have noticed that you read so many russian authors. It can be interesting for you to read "Imperial knowledge. Russian Literature and Colonialism" by Ewa M. Thompson. There are a lot of fresh thoughts about Tolstoy, Dostoyevskiy etc.
It has changed my views and taste in books so much 📚
hi, Fran! i'm watching you for 8 years, so it was very interesting to hear your thoughts and impressions about russian writers. if i can recommend, please give your attention to Reading Lolita in Tehran by Nafisi Azar after you read Nabokov. i have both russian and iranian roots, so it was very helping for me to hear another point of view - Azar is writer and professor of English literature. many things have make sense for me after.
and i want to ask if you read The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, cause i think you are interested in queer view. and if talk about abortion situation - i lastly read Happening by Annie Ernaux, it is autofiction book, full of sensitivity and physicality.
hope to hear your book impressions someday
Have you read Brahm Stoker's "Dracula"? It's mesmerizing Fran. It's written as if the main characters are writing in their diaries or writing letters back and forth. I have read the novel twice now.
Something I didn’t even know till this year is manga is printed in Japan with six different black inks. Crazy.
Fran you are my favorite person on TH-cam. Every one of your new videos is a special delight. You will love "The Count of Monte Cristo" and it provides exactly the type of big experience you are looking for. Check the paperback you got to make sure it's an unabridged edition -- sometimes the paperbacks excise some of the original story to make them slightly shorter. When you are ready to get into it, the full original book is totes worth it -- and would be worth looking for the full versh if the one you got doesn't include it
I remember i tried to do some of the rory gilmore Girls reading list too ! I think i still have "The amazing adventures of kavalier and clay" on my kindle. Not finished but enjoyable. And about Gilmore Girls hugs, it's so true
Have you checked out the manga, Akane-banashi? It’s about a girl on her journey to become a traditional Japanese storyteller.
Hola Fran gracias por incrementar el numero de libros que deseo leer 🤭, si te puedo recomendar unos libros el primero es "En la tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos de Ocean Vuang" , y el otro es de Carmen María Machado "En la casa de los sueños", los dos libros son devastadores pero han sido lo mejor que e leído este año. Saludos 😗
Thanks for the video and for the Manben suggestion! Speaking about Lolita (I personally have been disturbed by both the book and the movie 😔) I loved a lot "Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books" by Azar Nafisi; I'm sure that if you read the mentioned book first, you could enjoy Nafisi's work even more. I put it in my super-fav spot on my library ✨
Hola Fraaan! amo tanto tus videos, podcast e ilustraciones. Te quería preguntar por un libro que mencionaste una vez (no recuerdo si en el podcast o en este canal) que hiciste para estimular la creatividad que era dividido en capitulos , por si podrias recomendarlo porfis
Booktubes? omg have you hear of caricanread? she is a bookworm just like you! good to see you Fran!
i think Tove flew under the radar because she was an artist and a member of the suedophone elite so allready outside the normal finnish society. it isn't even a widely known fact in Finland that she was bi (because she also had relationships with men though in the end she lived decades with her female "friend"). Finns largely see her just the mother of Moomins, discarding the rest of her art.
when u said u love book hauls and putting them on the background 😭💖 exactly what I did hehe, love to hear what you’re checking out :)
Why do you pronounce Junji Ito's name as Hunhi? It's Japanese and it's pronounced as it's written : J as in Jug, not J as in Javier.
Loved this thick stack of book recs, Fran!! Definitelyyy adding the Manben series to my to-watch list. Also, I recommend Lolita podcast of iheartradio's for a literary and cultural analysis! It made me want to reread the book, which would probably be a very different experience from when I read it in high school.
Esto es muy al azar, pero por favor Fran, dime, ¿le pones azúcar a tu café?. Es una pregunta real, no trato de ser absurda.
There is no such thing as an "excess" of books or book libraries. Personal libraries are meant to GROW! I read THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO in high school. (I think it might have been an abridged edition, as the book is so long, but I can't be sure.) In any case, I found it to be gripping! I read FRANKENSTEIN several years ago. It is very different than what people would expect based on all the movies derived from her characters. It is an epistolary novel, told in the form of letters and journal entries. I have an eBook of THE LAST MAN, but I haven't read it yet. Perhaps I'll I give it a try now!
ya know, you might enjoy the horror podcast "the magnus archives"
I strongly recommend you to read Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
Omg not related to the content but finally an ad that I can relate, I love Native 😂😂 and thanks for the book recs!!
The last man is so funny to me! It’s set in the future but everything is like in the 19th century except that they use hot air balloons as a mean of transport
thanks for this video ! I really liked your microphone
Gosh didn’t even know you live in Spain 😮
fran how many time do you spend at day in reading im struggling reading 1 hr at day do i need to read more time??
THX Fran i enjoy this Bookhaul, i like y Videos