The Metamorphosis by Kafka really stands out to me as one of those short punchy books that really stayed with me. I also really liked Clarice Lispector's Agua Viva. It was unlike anything I have read before.
Hi Carolyn. I love your videos and book suggestions. One of my favorite short books is "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. The 1992 movie adaptation with Gary Sinise and John Malkovich is also excellent. Both the book and movie really pack a punch.
a slim book I just finished and would highly recommend is “Kokoro” by Natsume Soseki. it’s definitely a short book that packs a punch. it’s about the friendship of an elder and a young man but, more than that, about the elder’s “mysterious” past that has changed his once free spirited nature to a more introspective, sadder one. this book will linger in my mind for a while, I loved it very much as I always do with japanese literature.
Notes from Underground and Chess are great. Some other impactful shorties; Steinbeck's - Of Mice and Men, Conrad's - Heart of Darkness, Turgenev's - Father and Sons & Zamyatin's - We
I have read Chess, Broken Wings, (came by them similarly), and Notes from Underground; loved them. As for my recommendations, I suggest: The Fall by Camus, Pedro Páramo by Rulfo, and No One Writes to the Colonel by Marques. Happy Read🎉!!! And thanks for the video.
I’ve been meaning to read James Baldwin and I think I’ll start with If Beale Street Could Talk. I remember watching the movie and while the story itself is so heartbreaking, it was also beautiful and has stuck with me ever since
Go Tell It On The Mountain was great too, it's like the early questioning faith section of A portrait of the artist as a young man, but it's a young gay black kid in Harlem.
Woman at Point Zero was really short but hit so hard I had to put it down midway to read the following day. It's not a pleasant story, but a powerful one. I also recommend Mary Oliver's works - both poetry and essays. Each collection is often less than 100 pages and they always make me feel more in tune with life and living. All the Murderbot Diaries books (except one) are really short and they're so much fun. Even non sci-fi fans I know have loved them because they're funny but also talk about what it means to be human (or in Murderbot's case, a robot) and what society could look like in the future. But mostly they're so much fun. Love these recs, and look forward to your future videos!
Yeah I read Notes From Undergound before moving on to Dostoevsky's longer works. Of Mice and Men, The Stranger and The Old Man and the Sea are other shoties I enjoyed.
Short books can be so powerful. Thank you for the recommendations. After reading Giovanni's Room last year I will now put "If Beale Street could talk" on my TBR. A good short book I read recently would be "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink. I did not anticipate it to have such an emotional impact.
Foster seems right up my alley, I immediately bought myself a copy. Can’t wait to get my hands on it soon! Thank you for this video, I’ll be sure to check out everything on this list.
If you keep recommending the House Keeper and the Professor I'm eventually going to read it lol. Short but powerful recommendations: The Sundays of Jean Dézert by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont and Il Conde by Joseph Conrad If you've had enough powerful and just want some fun read Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King (now a major motion picture).
So glad you liked the Zweig story, which often is translated as "The Royal Game." When you get a chance try Steiner's "Fields of Force," which is nominally about chess but really about the obsessive pathways of deep thought. NIce to see you again - take care.
I really want to get The Broken Wings because The Prophet by Gibran is one of my favourite books! My absolute favourite book of all time is Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, which is also a short and powerful book. I would really recommend if you want to cry A LOT and question everything you've ever believed about intelligence and the pursuit of knowledge. It's about love and kindness and friendship and loneliness and losing who you are for the sake of something that has perceived value and reaching the zenith and the realisation you will inevitably fall and fail. It's about humanity and the cycle of life- childhood and naivety then adulthood and knowledge and back to 'second childhood'. I feel it's mostly about love and finding connection though and remembering that love when you have nothing left. It makes me cry just thinking about it. I could go on and on about Flowers For Algernon (and frequently do lol)!!
"Notes from Underground" is inscutable. "Chess Story" or "Royal Game," amazed me, and deeply influenced Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" and Orwell's "1984." I'd add Nelson's "Bluets" to this list.
Dostoevsky- Notes from Underground, Baldwin- Giovanni's Room, Joseph Benner- The Impersonal Life, James Allen- As A Man Thinketh, Gibran- The Prophet, Wilde- De Profundis, and Anne Bronte- Agnes Grey are all short/shorter books I would wholeheartedly recommend. I love your content, Carolyn! Thank you as always for being delightful. 😊
D. H. Lawrence wrote a number of short stories and Son’s & Lovers… I find his prose to be very poetic. I don’t think I’ve seen any recommendations about him on your channel. Claire B.
All of them. Lol I have already gotten some books you have suggested before and I loved them. So, I trust that these will be good to. Little by little of course. 😅 I hope you make another short books video.
I love short books too. I have so many favourites I can´t choose, but I can mention a few: "The Gambler" by Dostojevskij, "The Ice Palace" by Tarjei Vesaas, "Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Wolf, "Season of migration to the north" by Tayeb Salih, "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka and "The dead" by James Joyce. Those are some of my favourites but I could go on and on, and on...😅
A Chess Story blew me away… such an amazing story in such a short novel! Some of my favorite short stories: A Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Marquez and White Nights by Dostoyevsky
I love If Beale Street Could Talk! It's even better than Geovanni's Room in my opinion. Two very short but amazing books I read recently were Happening by Annie Ernaux and Minor Detail by Adania Shibli. Incredibly powerful and beautifully written
Emma and I were hoping to have the live show soon, but both of our schedules got unexpectedly busy… so I’m not really sure when *exactly* the live show for Middlemarch will be. If I had to guess I would say we’ll have it in mid-June, but I’m not 100% sure. I apologize for the delay!
A short but powerful book I would recommend is "The Long Walk" by Stephen King. It's a very unique idea for a story, and I still think about the characters in it to this day!
I am reading Notes from Underground now - I'm about halfway through and am loving it. His critique/parody(?)/variant of egoism and the absurdity of utopianism is fascinating. I think we all know someone like the underground man (or have interacted with him online) and his wisdom contrasted with his pathetic self pitying makes for a fascinating character. I'm super excited to explore more of his works!
All of your recommendations sound great. Thank you. I wasn’t quite sure about reading "Notes from underground" but based on your opinion, I’m going to read it asap. 😊 I don’t know if there’s an English copy of "Mortelle" by Christopher Frank, but I highly recommend it. Hope you enjoy this short story as well.
I dont read classics,I'm more into romance,fantasy and thrillers/mysteries. But I love hearing you talk about books and occasionally get some classics recs
I'm awestruck. Notes from Underground. I had just thought how fortunate I've been that I didn't start combing the works of Dostoyevsky of that book. How obnoxious a character and a book all in all! (Should I check out your vlog about that nasty little fouly? Hmm.) But what a luminous pearl one of his books is. The gambler. The perfect description of the lust for gambling.
The shortest most powerful book I ever read was "And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer" by Fredrick Backman. It's not even 100 pages long you can read it in a couple of hours but it evokes so many emotions that I had to take breaks every few pages.
I just finished this phenomenal new collection of short fairy tales entitled Sillies, Fancies, and Trifles - it was phenomenal and I think you'd love it. It would go with the lovely recommendations here. Keep up the beautiful videos :)
Thank you for the recommendations, Carolyn! I need them! And oh Emma was the one who made me read The Broken Wings too and i remember reading that last february, the same time i received the news my crush has been taken already, so yeah it was a tragic february and i was reading a tragic love story 💘 i had tissues all the way
Carolyn, I can honestly say that you are hands down my favorite book vlogger. Emma and also Elizabeth (Plant Based Bride) are up there as well, but yeah, you win. Honorable mention to @LouiseSavidgeMusings.
A few recommendations: Silas Marner, Of mice and men, Like water for chocolate, Pedro Páramo, Posthumous memories of Bras Cubas, Dr and Mr Hyde and The death of Ivan Ilitch. I'm adding Chess to my tbr, thanks for the suggestion!
A recent read that I finished this week and I have not stopped thinking about it is "The Light in the Forest" it's a middle grade book, that begs the sentiment, "Remember Me." Well, I think it does but I really need you to pick it up and read it. I feel very strongly to recommend this book around and to read it, to love it, and pass it on.
I love several of these as well. I'll drop only a couple short works that come to mind that i loved. Like Death by Guy de Maupassant An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
I'd recommend the plays by Bertolt Brecht. "Mother Courage and Her Children" and "The Good Person of Szechwan" are probably my favourites. They focus on humanity, war, capitalism and so much more. Another powerful book I have to mention is "The Wave" by Morton Rhue. I don't want to say too much but it's a book everyone should read at least once in their life and I highly recommend it
Did you see that Giovanni’s room is getting a clothbound? I’ve never pre ordered something so fast! Also if there’s any UK books that you want I would be happy to send them to you!
Thanks for the great recommendations! Recently I've read 'I who have never known men' by Jacqueline Harpman. I will forever recommend this one, it's a book I've not stopped thinking about since I finished it.
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes - a story about identity and perception from the perspective of a person with mental disability. "A Month in the Country" by J. L. Carr - just quaint and lyrical.
I've just finished reading "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison and it was amazing!! Short and powerful. It's about two poor girls who first meet in an orphanage. One is white, one is black but you never discover which is which. It's an experiment that is supposed to make you rethink your perception of race and humanity in general...
Thank you very much for the interesting video, but I’m interested in whether you will read “The Master and Margarita” to share your opinion about one of my favorite novels?
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Most serious players are familiar with the story but I doubt it was direct inspiration. American GM Yasser Seirawan tells a very funny story about the development of the musical, which is of course set in Bangkok. Zweig's story is set on an ocean liner.
Hi Carolyn. Check out Cathedral of Mist by Paul Willems. A small but beautiful collection of short stories. Really Emma @*emmie* would like it too, except that she doesn’t care for short fiction. The stories are ephemeral, wintery, and lovely.
Loved Chess Story! Love love Stefan Zweig! I would highly recommend reading Stefan Zweig's longer fiction titled "Beware Of Pity," it's one of the best books I've ever read 🤍
I am rereading MILAN KUNDERA book THE FESTIVAL OF INSIGNIFICANCE.....it is.VERY SHORT...profound...he wrote THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING...which I would recommend too..but the movie doesn't give the insight like his prose...the dude is a big leaguer..!!!
As it happens, I was commenting about one of Kundera's works just the other day. In it he describes two strangers walking past each other in the subway and then explaining that it was actually a coincidence as these two would come together several years later. Do you agree it was a coincidence?
@@jamesduggan7200 where did they come together years later??? did they develop a significant relationship as a consequence? I used to belong to spiritual society back in 70s ...the focus was on out of the body traveling....I recorded my inner life meticuously and would go meeting in everyday outer life and see people from my inner life!!!! my mentor at the time was an architect student from tulsa ok and attending Oklahoma Univ..,and told me he kept seeing a particular brunette woman in his third eye....again and again....he met and married her the next year...she was born and raised in Canada...she moved to Oklahoma and later initiated me into THE MYSTERIES...she read from the BOOK OF FIVE RINGS by the undefeated samurai warrior myamoto mushai....i was dumbfounded...I was reading THE SAME BOOK....!!! I lived 40 miles away and had traveled for this meeting....HERE IS THE RUB.....SOME OF THE SAMURAI WERE BLACK MEN HISTORICALLY,,,and the movie THE LAST SAMURAI was made about him,,,!!!! I found this out last year...I asked you JAMES is this coincidence,,,fate,,,the law of attraction in our operation or WHAT...??? that's what I like about MILAN KUNDERA...he get the reader to ponder about things like that,,,,and so does ERSKINE CALDWELL the American writer...his short stories are gut wrenching....not for they faint hearted,,,,thanks for responding....GOD BLESS...!!!!
Appreciate the books recommendations! Short books are good especially during a reading slump 😅
The Metamorphosis by Kafka really stands out to me as one of those short punchy books that really stayed with me. I also really liked Clarice Lispector's Agua Viva. It was unlike anything I have read before.
Love seeing how your plant slowly grows on the wall behind you. 😊🌿
So glad 😊 It was my grandmother’s (Marie, who I’m named after) She grows with me 🌿
Hint: short books and audio books, smart ways to navigate TBR book piles so that you can flaunt a characteristically voracious (consumer) appetite.
Hi Carolyn. I love your videos and book suggestions. One of my favorite short books is "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. The 1992 movie adaptation with Gary Sinise and John Malkovich is also excellent. Both the book and movie really pack a punch.
I’m so glad! Thank you for the great recommendations 😊
I read the Beale Street novel and was so emotionally involved that I had to take breaks! Wow! This novel is a masterpiece!
a slim book I just finished and would highly recommend is “Kokoro” by Natsume Soseki. it’s definitely a short book that packs a punch. it’s about the friendship of an elder and a young man but, more than that, about the elder’s “mysterious” past that has changed his once free spirited nature to a more introspective, sadder one. this book will linger in my mind for a while, I loved it very much as I always do with japanese literature.
Notes from Underground and Chess are great.
Some other impactful shorties; Steinbeck's - Of Mice and Men, Conrad's - Heart of Darkness, Turgenev's - Father and Sons & Zamyatin's - We
I have read Chess, Broken Wings, (came by them similarly), and Notes from Underground; loved them. As for my recommendations, I suggest: The Fall by Camus, Pedro Páramo by Rulfo, and No One Writes to the Colonel by Marques. Happy Read🎉!!! And thanks for the video.
Thank *you* for the great recommendations!
I’ve been meaning to read James Baldwin and I think I’ll start with If Beale Street Could Talk. I remember watching the movie and while the story itself is so heartbreaking, it was also beautiful and has stuck with me ever since
Go Tell It On The Mountain was great too, it's like the early questioning faith section of A portrait of the artist as a young man, but it's a young gay black kid in Harlem.
Woman at Point Zero was really short but hit so hard I had to put it down midway to read the following day. It's not a pleasant story, but a powerful one. I also recommend Mary Oliver's works - both poetry and essays. Each collection is often less than 100 pages and they always make me feel more in tune with life and living. All the Murderbot Diaries books (except one) are really short and they're so much fun. Even non sci-fi fans I know have loved them because they're funny but also talk about what it means to be human (or in Murderbot's case, a robot) and what society could look like in the future. But mostly they're so much fun. Love these recs, and look forward to your future videos!
Yeah I read Notes From Undergound before moving on to Dostoevsky's longer works. Of Mice and Men, The Stranger and The Old Man and the Sea are other shoties I enjoyed.
Short books can be so powerful. Thank you for the recommendations. After reading Giovanni's Room last year I will now put "If Beale Street could talk" on my TBR.
A good short book I read recently would be "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink. I did not anticipate it to have such an emotional impact.
Hi Carolyn Marie! Thanks for posting this video.
You have dropped this video just on Time. I was looking for good short books recs and here you are with the same 😍. Thankyou 🌼
Meant to be 😊
Read and loved both Chess and Foster! Thanks for the rec, I think Notes from Underground will be a good book to start reading Dostoevsky!!
Foster seems right up my alley, I immediately bought myself a copy. Can’t wait to get my hands on it soon! Thank you for this video, I’ll be sure to check out everything on this list.
I hope you enjoy it!!! Thank you for watching and happy reading :)
Great recommendations. I read The Stranger by Albert Camus last year and loved it!
If you keep recommending the House Keeper and the Professor I'm eventually going to read it lol.
Short but powerful recommendations: The Sundays of Jean Dézert by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont and Il Conde by Joseph Conrad
If you've had enough powerful and just want some fun read Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King (now a major motion picture).
So glad you liked the Zweig story, which often is translated as "The Royal Game." When you get a chance try Steiner's "Fields of Force," which is nominally about chess but really about the obsessive pathways of deep thought. NIce to see you again - take care.
I love Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger! Also, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is absolutely amazing!
Love this video! My favorite short novels: Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson + anything by Cesar Aira.
Thank you for your videos, Carolyn! ❤
Thank you so much for watching!!
I really want to get The Broken Wings because The Prophet by Gibran is one of my favourite books! My absolute favourite book of all time is Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, which is also a short and powerful book. I would really recommend if you want to cry A LOT and question everything you've ever believed about intelligence and the pursuit of knowledge. It's about love and kindness and friendship and loneliness and losing who you are for the sake of something that has perceived value and reaching the zenith and the realisation you will inevitably fall and fail. It's about humanity and the cycle of life- childhood and naivety then adulthood and knowledge and back to 'second childhood'. I feel it's mostly about love and finding connection though and remembering that love when you have nothing left. It makes me cry just thinking about it. I could go on and on about Flowers For Algernon (and frequently do lol)!!
"Notes from Underground" is inscutable. "Chess Story" or "Royal Game," amazed me, and deeply influenced Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" and Orwell's "1984." I'd add Nelson's "Bluets" to this list.
I would recommend Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
No One Writes to the Colonel and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Gracia Marquez
Dostoevsky- Notes from Underground, Baldwin- Giovanni's Room, Joseph Benner- The Impersonal Life, James Allen- As A Man Thinketh, Gibran- The Prophet, Wilde- De Profundis, and Anne Bronte- Agnes Grey are all short/shorter books I would wholeheartedly recommend. I love your content, Carolyn! Thank you as always for being delightful. 😊
D. H. Lawrence wrote a number of short stories and Son’s & Lovers… I find his prose to be very poetic. I don’t think I’ve seen any recommendations about him on your channel. Claire B.
The Catcher in the Rye; an amazing work, a must read.
Yes! One of my favorites!
All of them. Lol I have already gotten some books you have suggested before and I loved them. So, I trust that these will be good to. Little by little of course. 😅 I hope you make another short books video.
So glad you’ve enjoyed some of the books I’ve recommended! 😊
I love short books too. I have so many favourites I can´t choose, but I can mention a few: "The Gambler" by Dostojevskij, "The Ice Palace" by Tarjei Vesaas, "Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Wolf, "Season of migration to the north" by Tayeb Salih, "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka and "The dead" by James Joyce. Those are some of my favourites but I could go on and on, and on...😅
"The Dead" is a wonderful story. Especially I like when he describes the sound of the new powdery snow crunching under the wheels of the carriage.
Hot take: "The Dead" hits harder read as the culmination of "Dubliners." Not saying it can't be read in isolation, but, well.
One of my favorites is Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time. I keep re-reading this book every couple of years since high school. 📚
A Chess Story blew me away… such an amazing story in such a short novel! Some of my favorite short stories: A Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Marquez and White Nights by Dostoyevsky
I love If Beale Street Could Talk! It's even better than Geovanni's Room in my opinion. Two very short but amazing books I read recently were Happening by Annie Ernaux and Minor Detail by Adania Shibli. Incredibly powerful and beautifully written
Pushkine, the Queen of Spades. Short and impactful
Hey Carolyn! Been reading the total opposite of the short book: George Eliot's Middlemarch hahaha! When are you doing a video about it?
Emma and I were hoping to have the live show soon, but both of our schedules got unexpectedly busy… so I’m not really sure when *exactly* the live show for Middlemarch will be. If I had to guess I would say we’ll have it in mid-June, but I’m not 100% sure. I apologize for the delay!
A short but powerful book I would recommend is "The Long Walk" by Stephen King. It's a very unique idea for a story, and I still think about the characters in it to this day!
I am reading Notes from Underground now - I'm about halfway through and am loving it. His critique/parody(?)/variant of egoism and the absurdity of utopianism is fascinating. I think we all know someone like the underground man (or have interacted with him online) and his wisdom contrasted with his pathetic self pitying makes for a fascinating character. I'm super excited to explore more of his works!
All of your recommendations sound great. Thank you. I wasn’t quite sure about reading "Notes from underground" but based on your opinion, I’m going to read it asap. 😊
I don’t know if there’s an English copy of "Mortelle" by Christopher Frank, but I highly recommend it. Hope you enjoy this short story as well.
I dont read classics,I'm more into romance,fantasy and thrillers/mysteries. But I love hearing you talk about books and occasionally get some classics recs
I'm awestruck. Notes from Underground. I had just thought how fortunate I've been that I didn't start combing the works of Dostoyevsky of that book. How obnoxious a character and a book all in all! (Should I check out your vlog about that nasty little fouly? Hmm.) But what a luminous pearl one of his books is. The gambler. The perfect description of the lust for gambling.
NFU is the philosophical kickoff of Dosty’s mature work. It outlines the character type he would explore.
@@Tolstoy111 Maybe I don't like what it unveils: the rotten heart of humanity. And I, unfortunately, am the part of that.
The shortest most powerful book I ever read was "And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer" by Fredrick Backman. It's not even 100 pages long you can read it in a couple of hours but it evokes so many emotions that I had to take breaks every few pages.
Yes, I couldn’t agree more! It’s one of my favorite stories :)
I strongly recommend Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig!
I recently read 'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton and felt that it really packed that punch!
Ethan Frome by Wharton - an impactful short story. A great writer.
I just finished this phenomenal new collection of short fairy tales entitled Sillies, Fancies, and Trifles - it was phenomenal and I think you'd love it. It would go with the lovely recommendations here. Keep up the beautiful videos :)
Ooo that sounds amazing! I’ll definitely check it out! Thank you for the great recommendation :)
I love the broken wings by kahlil gibran, one of my favorites
Please read "Mornings in Jenin"
Thank you for the recommendations, Carolyn! I need them! And oh Emma was the one who made me read The Broken Wings too and i remember reading that last february, the same time i received the news my crush has been taken already, so yeah it was a tragic february and i was reading a tragic love story 💘 i had tissues all the way
Carolyn, I can honestly say that you are hands down my favorite book vlogger. Emma and also Elizabeth (Plant Based Bride) are up there as well, but yeah, you win. Honorable mention to @LouiseSavidgeMusings.
I’m honored 🥰 thank you for being so kind and supportive!! Sending you warm wishes!
@@CarolynMarieReads I just bought Notes From Underground. Thanks for the recommendation.
A few recommendations: Silas Marner, Of mice and men, Like water for chocolate, Pedro Páramo, Posthumous memories of Bras Cubas, Dr and Mr Hyde and The death of Ivan Ilitch.
I'm adding Chess to my tbr, thanks for the suggestion!
Thank *you* for the great suggestions as well 😊
My favorite short but powerful books are Tuck Everlasting, Bridge to Terabithia, and Because of Winn-Dixie.
Yesss I love all three of those too 🥰
Death of Ivan Ilyich is the one I thought of. Great tolstoy starter
That was my first try with Tolstoy and is one of the few stories/books I finished on the first day.
A recent read that I finished this week and I have not stopped thinking about it is "The Light in the Forest" it's a middle grade book, that begs the sentiment, "Remember Me."
Well, I think it does but I really need you to pick it up and read it. I feel very strongly to recommend this book around and to read it, to love it, and pass it on.
Ooo okay, I’ll definitely check it out!!!
Thank you all look great!
I love several of these as well. I'll drop only a couple short works that come to mind that i loved.
Like Death by Guy de Maupassant
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
I'd recommend the plays by Bertolt Brecht. "Mother Courage and Her Children" and "The Good Person of Szechwan" are probably my favourites. They focus on humanity, war, capitalism and so much more. Another powerful book I have to mention is "The Wave" by Morton Rhue. I don't want to say too much but it's a book everyone should read at least once in their life and I highly recommend it
Did you see that Giovanni’s room is getting a clothbound? I’ve never pre ordered something so fast! Also if there’s any UK books that you want I would be happy to send them to you!
Thanks for the great recommendations! Recently I've read 'I who have never known men' by Jacqueline Harpman. I will forever recommend this one, it's a book I've not stopped thinking about since I finished it.
Question : When are we gonna see the Middlemarch review with you and Emma?
I just finished Never Let Me Go per your recommendation, and I can confirm it is amazing!
Ahhhh yay! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 😊
Dear Carolyn, i'm in bed ill (flu and fever) and your video cheered me up! 😊
I’m so glad the video cheered you up! I hope you feel better very soon 😊
I love that you read books that are not on the booktube top 10 list
🌸 I’d recommend ‘The Old Man Who Read Love Stories’ by Luis Sepúlveda- a lyrical, kind of fable-like short Chilean novel
I’ll definitely check it out! Thank you for the recommendation :)
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes - a story about identity and perception from the perspective of a person with mental disability. "A Month in the Country" by J. L. Carr - just quaint and lyrical.
I can recommend "Hadji Murad" by Leo Tolstoy - 100 pages, but still a 'profound' read.
Notes from Underground is a book that stays with you for life.
I've just finished reading "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison and it was amazing!! Short and powerful. It's about two poor girls who first meet in an orphanage. One is white, one is black but you never discover which is which. It's an experiment that is supposed to make you rethink your perception of race and humanity in general...
Oh wow, what a brilliant idea! I’ll definitely check it out! Thank you for the recommendation :)
A meal in winter!
Is the James Baldwin book in a contemporary setting or historical? Which time period?
Thank you very much for the interesting video, but I’m interested in whether you will read “The Master and Margarita” to share your opinion about one of my favorite novels?
You might enjoy The Tao of Pooh, which is almost a philosophy study of Winnie the Pooh. Very short and comforting
Aw I’ll definitely check it out 😊
@@CarolynMarieReads ... And then 'The Te of Piglet.'
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1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Expuery
2. The Pearl by John Strinbeck
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That you know of is Chess the inspiration for Chess the musical? I loved it
Most serious players are familiar with the story but I doubt it was direct inspiration. American GM Yasser Seirawan tells a very funny story about the development of the musical, which is of course set in Bangkok. Zweig's story is set on an ocean liner.
Have you tried The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West?
Yes, I read it recently and thought it was very thought provoking!
Hi Carolyn. Check out Cathedral of Mist by Paul Willems. A small but beautiful collection of short stories. Really Emma @*emmie* would like it too, except that she doesn’t care for short fiction. The stories are ephemeral, wintery, and lovely.
You should read The Memory Police if you haven’t
I haven’t, but I’ve been wanting to!
Animal Farm, all the way. A powerful commentary on society and politics from George Orwell.
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Loved Chess Story! Love love Stefan Zweig! I would highly recommend reading Stefan Zweig's longer fiction titled "Beware Of Pity," it's one of the best books I've ever read 🤍
I am rereading MILAN KUNDERA book THE FESTIVAL OF INSIGNIFICANCE.....it is.VERY SHORT...profound...he wrote THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING...which I would recommend too..but the movie doesn't give the insight like his prose...the dude is a big leaguer..!!!
As it happens, I was commenting about one of Kundera's works just the other day. In it he describes two strangers walking past each other in the subway and then explaining that it was actually a coincidence as these two would come together several years later. Do you agree it was a coincidence?
@@jamesduggan7200 where did they come together years later??? did they develop a significant relationship as a consequence? I used to belong to spiritual society back in 70s ...the focus was on out of the body traveling....I recorded my inner life meticuously and would go meeting in everyday outer life and see people from my inner life!!!! my mentor at the time was an architect student from tulsa ok and attending Oklahoma Univ..,and told me he kept seeing a particular brunette woman in his third eye....again and again....he met and married her the next year...she was born and raised in Canada...she moved to Oklahoma and later initiated me into THE MYSTERIES...she read from the BOOK OF FIVE RINGS by the undefeated samurai warrior myamoto mushai....i was dumbfounded...I was reading THE SAME BOOK....!!! I lived 40 miles away and had traveled for this meeting....HERE IS THE RUB.....SOME OF THE SAMURAI WERE BLACK MEN HISTORICALLY,,,and the movie THE LAST SAMURAI was made about him,,,!!!! I found this out last year...I asked you JAMES is this coincidence,,,fate,,,the law of attraction in our operation or WHAT...??? that's what I like about MILAN KUNDERA...he get the reader to ponder about things like that,,,,and so does ERSKINE CALDWELL the American writer...his short stories are gut wrenching....not for they faint hearted,,,,thanks for responding....GOD BLESS...!!!!