Summer Reading Plans! Poetry, Adventure, Travel, Middles Ages, Ancient Greece and more...
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- Here are my summer reading plans, all the books I hope to get through before the new semester begins in September.
The full list:
Alexander Pope, Heloisa to Abelard
John Keats, Isabella or The Pot of Basil
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressia
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Ceveness • Travels with a Donkey ...
Anthony Burgess, Enderby
Penelope Fitzgerald, Innocence
Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Virgil, The Aenied
Dante, The Divine Comedy (all three parts)
Homer, The Iliad / The Odyssey
Thomas Bernhard, The Rest is Slander / The Lime Works / Woodcutters
Marguerite Duras, Summer Rain / The Vice-Consul
Felix Feneon, Novels in Three Lines
Guy de Maupassant:
Alien Hearts
A Day in the Country and Other Stories • Cosmic Horror: Le Horl...
Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories
Bel-Ami
Alfred Jarry, The Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician
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I'd love to hear your own summer reading plans, why not leave them in the comments. Until the next time, nanu nanu!
Great video
Crazy ambitious summer reading plans!!! You have selected so many good and interesting books and authors. A varied selection too, I like that.
I enjoyed Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, though I felt more melancholy than humour in this great novel.
Taking note of Anthony Burgess and Erskine Childers whom I've never read. Both books seem to be excellent.
Haven't yet thought about the books I'll be reading this summer, but I already know that this is not going to be as impressive as your selection. Maybe some German/Austrian writers (Thomas Bernhard, Thomas Mann for example), some French classics (Alexandre Dumas or Stendhal), some travel writing and probably one or two History books on Middle Ages. Will see.
Hope you enjoy your summer and all these books! Happy reading to you Jason and everyone! Thank you very much for making this video, as it will be useful to come back to it for references and recommendations.
Thank you! Yes, an ambitious selection, but I intend to put in the necessary hours. I'm going to refer back to this video in subsequent uploads as I chalk off the books from the pile, (as well as making a Summer 2024 playlist). In fact, I've already completed the first one, Maupassant's short story collection, A Day in the Country and other stories, so just another 30 or so books to go!
Best of luck with your reading plans, and I hope in due course to hear what particularly impressed you.
Hi again! Found your channel earlier today and I've been enjoying your videos very much. Your summer to-read list seems very interesting, and I particularly like your Maupassant collection. I made a long to-read list for the summer as well (wanted to read as much as I could before starting my MA) but have not followed it strictly. I did read my first Zola ("Therese Raquin") and Dumas's "The Black Tulip", which I enjoyed very much. Have you read Dumas's "The Three Musketeers"? It is one of my favourites. I have read part of Maupassant's "Bel-Ami" years ago and would like to delve into more of his work, do you have any recommendations? Thanks for the content!
Glad you're enjoying the channel.
As for your question, no, I haven't read much Dumas because he was greatly influenced by one of my favorite writers, Sir Walter Scott, whose works I am currently making my way through. I do have The Three Musketeers, though, and The Count of Monte Cristo, and will get to them at some point.
Re Maupassant, I picked up Bel-Ami the other day (rather than the library copy I showed in this video), and will read it this month. I can recommend Alien Hearts, which appears to borrow and expand on Ivan Turgenev's novella, First Love (which is perhaps the superior work of art). Re Maupassant's short stories, I've read three collections, The Selected Short Stories (Reviews 20), A Day in the Country and Other Stories, and Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories. Of these, the first was the best collection. I've also read a bunch of them in the original, with the focus on the supernatural tales, and the best here was definitely Le Horla (which I made a short video about).
This website is a great resource for Maupassant's short stories:
www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article960
Best of luck with your MA. I would recommend you joining the channel's Discord server if you want to check out a lot more reading recommendations, there are approaching 100 on the reviews-and-reactions channel. It's free and you'll find me and a bunch of other good people there, constantly updating one another on our latest finds. (For the link, look in the description and scroll to the bottom.)
Wow, I did not know that Dumas was influenced by Sir Walter Scott! That is very interesting - I've only read his short story "The Two Drovers" for my Scottish literature module because our prof did not want to overwhelm us. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on Dumas when you get to his works eventually!
Thanks for sharing your recommendations, I'm excited to start reading some of Maupassant's many tales, and will look through the website. Thank you for your well wishes, and I am keen to join the Discord server as soon as I am able. Keep well and happy reading!
please make a video of the crimes of grindelwald books know you have been finding it in the walls, but i managed to get it back and hopefully you can make the video
You are so funny, Andrew! Be careful not to lose your invisible bookmarks, you know how hard they are to find. :-)
I recent came across a series of novels by J.I.M. Stewart that caused me to think of you. I am currently reading the first in the series of five titled, 'The Gaudy'. Have you heard of this writer? hope all is well.
As ever, great to hear from you. No, I was completely unaware of J.I.M Stewart, though, reading his Wikipedia entry, I can well imagine you are right and his writing would be right up my street.
The library doesn't have any of his novels, but they do have numerous critical works, so I will take a look at those. Many thanks for bringing him to my attention.
All is well here, thanks, hope the same is true for you.
@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan I also picked up these two used paperbacks by writers you might be familiar with-'Wolf Solent' a novel by John Cowper Powys (I have two other novels by Powys) and 'Father and Son' a novel by Edmund Gosse-peace
I'm not familiar with Powys, but Father and Son I have read. It's a memoir rather than a novel, initially published anonymously by a man who was a relative of Evelyn Waugh (Gosse is given a disparaging mention in Waugh's own memoir, A Little Learning).