@@dalaimommadrama8929 thank you for the kind comment! I am glad you’ve been enjoying the shelf tours.

@@tosiek444 it means a lot to hear you say that. Your comment gives me the faith to go on and keep expounding freely on whatever book is in my path!

@@NZAnimeManga thank you DEARLY for the suggestion. Of course this series is very limited in scope and I much appreciate ideas for what to focus on next

@@leafyconcern I’m a massive sucker for anything LOA, so if you have any others (remember a Nabokov one too) those would also make for great videos (there’s also a massive void on KZfaq when it comes to people showcasing books from LOA, which is a shame)

@@theonlyrealproperty2567 yay! And I’m lucky you’re here too! Ya might say “the poem has set me softly down beside you” (paradoxes n oxymorons)

@@errata9968 noted! And thank you!

Can't believe it's taken me this long to respond to this comment. "C of C D" is amazing. You look around the world at any D&D-style set of numbers and think of what kind of story they might possibly delineate. It's a powerful concept. Oulipan engineering. Practical Oulipo. I also like Montale! Have two books of his. For me this past year or so, he's been a go-to non-pretentious poet. Looking forward to reading some Ginzburg. I think she's actually related to Carlo, who wrote Cheese and the Worms, the book I just did a video on. (Is that actually true?) Her books are also published in nice NYRB editions which are a special favorite of mine. Looking forward to checking out some of those editions (or maybe buying some). Thanks again for watching the vid!

@@leafyconcern The titles that NYRB puts out are always top-notch band deserving of being put back into print. I just read a Swedish novel from the 50's about Vikings with a friend of mine. He's still reading it. The novel is titled "The Longships," and it was fantastic. In addition, I've been meaning to make a video on Geoffrey Wolff's book "Black Sun," which I was only able to read because NYRB republished it. So yes: I, too, am a big fan of their work. I've been meaning to make that video for ages; it was supposed to be a companion to a video I did about Geoffrey Wolff's "Duke of Deception," but that was done ages ago. And I have a book from NYRB right now I am excited to get around to reading, which is the collected Maqrall novellas by Alvaro Mutis. I have an older paperback (Plume maybe? it's boxed up somewhere) of what I thought was all three stories that I read when I was a teenager, and was very excited to discover that there are an additional four! And they are all available together in one NYRB volume. I did not know NYRB had some of Ginzberg's novels in print. That is definitely something I will keep my out our for going forward. I read "The Dry Heart" in a really nice paperback done by a small publisher whose name slips my mind at the moment, and I found an older Penguin orange spine of another novel of hers I have yet to read (the name of which also temporarily escapes me). "The Dry Heart" was a tight, tense, intimate little novel. I'm glad you enjoyed Castle of Crossed Destinies so much! Calvino is one of those writers where, when you're reading them for the first time, as a writer you feel like, "Wait, you're allowed to do that?" It is, as a matter of fact, the exact same feeling I had early in my math studies when I started practicing topology and thinking, "Wait, what? You can do that?"

@@hjeriz I have limited speaking facility with Spanish and Mandarin Chinese Thank you for watching this vid!