stuff I read in February and March!

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Fourth Wing AND Yellowface? Now I am become e-girl.
I forgot to make a video for just books in February, so here’s an unscripted double album!
Books
0:54 - Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
5:15 - A Horse Walks Into A Bar by David Grossman
8:37 - Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi (again)
10:48 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
10:52 - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
12:34 - Not a River by Selva Almada
12:47 - Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong
13:07 - Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener
Poetry
13:26 - A bunch of Louise Gluck (again)
16:51 - Odysseas Elytis/George Seferis (Selected Poems)
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Thanks for watching, and remember: re-read Ninth Building, you won't, odds on you won't.
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Пікірлер: 16

@nathansnook 3 ай бұрын

if king stoops down to read Yellowface, he can definitely do Pounded by the Pound. also a rereading of 9th Building?? it's moving up in my tbr!!!

@blipsontheradar 4 ай бұрын

Love the April fools idea, pls make it a yearly tradition

@PattiReadsALot 4 ай бұрын

Your Sally Rooney commentary was accurate and had me cackling 😂

@TommyRogic18 3 ай бұрын

Her marketing budget will block out the sun

@TheLeniverse 3 ай бұрын

Flaubert's Parrot made me want to read Flaubert, and now I want to read Pale Fire too. I read Yellowface with a group and agree, entertaining but extremely over-hyped. Kuang does experiment though, she keeps changing genres. But I get what you're saying. But Fourth Wing, wth?! Nothing could compel me to read that. 😅

@MartasTBRProject 3 ай бұрын

love your review on Fourth Wing and fully agree with Yellowface! I read the second one in one sitting only because of an amazing audiobook :D

@Showmeyourshelfie 3 ай бұрын

Cool reading project - the Nobel poets. Have you just started? Would love to see a ranking vid.

@AmalijaKomar 3 ай бұрын

Love to hear about Flaubert , Barnes, and Nabokov. Also, read Gluck, but poems she wrote later in life. I'm planning to read more En Carson, she kind of interests me more. And I truly hate Sally R.

@quinntessentialreads6496 3 ай бұрын

Recently found your channel from the trivia you hosted, loving your stuff. It's nice to hear someone call poets out on their bullshit lol. I'm looking forward to what you have to say about Diane Seuss, if she's included in your project.

@TangibleReads 3 ай бұрын

Enjoy ur reading

@literaryleila 4 ай бұрын

I love Sally Rooney but your impression made me laugh out loud !! Regardless of a poet's talent, I think that the poetry that one likes or that speaks to one is always very subjective. Louise Glück speaks to me, but maybe not to everyone, and I find that beautiful. I don't think there is a "right" way to read poetry :)

@NerdyNurseReads 4 ай бұрын

I feel like Kuang does better with contemporary novels than fantasy. I hope she moves away from fantasy if I"m honest. Also shut your mouth Sally Rooney is amazing 😠 (Oh and Dakota read that Louise Gluck collection in March too - TWINS)

@yenasung 4 ай бұрын

…but, DO you love me?? 😂

@Thiccythiccreads 3 ай бұрын

I slammed down on that ‘subscribe’ button with the quickness! Yes to everything you said about Rebecca and Sally!!! Rebecca has the capacity for greatness and you can see it in Babel, but she fumbled that second half so hard 🤦🏽‍♀️ What Patricia Lockwood books would you recommend?

@TheDiscoKingOfficial 3 ай бұрын

Sweet! I've always been a fan of her book Priestdaddy! Thanks for the subscribe!

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd 4 ай бұрын

agree with u about yellowface it just barely kept my interest plus the main plot device of someone stealing her friend's manuscript is identical to another novel called about the author. Don't mind if they actually borrowed it but it was just kind of annoying to see the same thing repeated. Also don't think barnes is that bad though probably shouldn't have gotten the booker for a sense of an ending⚛😀