You can judge the humanities and those that pursue it, it's a diluted commercial market, but it has always been artists that push the boundaries of human thought. Art in all forms is a unique expression of our tortured, intelligent mind. A collection of our shared experience.

what a soothing aura! I have ADHD and it's really hard for me to stay on one video so i keep switching in between tabs and there's rarely something that keeps me hooked and I stayed for your video.♥

Thank you for your overview of so many books. Lately I've been into audiobooks and was pleased that some of your suggestions are available in that format. I look forward to your next video!

hi from nz, what a great channel! am a law student struggling with reading for myself because of my degree, so def needed some inspiration to get back into reading! :) love the pace of your video, george saunders is now on my list

I’m glad you mentioned Grabriel Garcia Marquez, he is an amazing writer. I tried to read One Hundred Years of Solitude in Spanish because I thought I was gonna understand the book more, since it’s my first language, but I couldn’t so I finished it in English. Also because I wanted to see things that have been lost in translation, it is interesting how many ideas that the authors implement into their works get lost in translation, sadly from those who can’t read them in the original langauge. But I really look forward to reading more from Marquez for sure. The one book i would recommend is Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, is really good. :) I am really into Latin American Literature, and i got exited when you mentioned Marquez. Nice video, enjoyed watching it :)

Name is Salustiano Berrios. I wrote a novel called Growing Children. It's a sci-fi thriller about a father struggling to accept his autistic son, and the lengths he goes to "rectify" that situation. It's a weekend read that will leave your jaw on the floor. But it was cathartic for me to write, because my own son is on the spectrum--which gives the book a memoir-esque flavor. In Barnes and on Amazon, alongside all of my other novels.

Looking forward to more of this type of vids!!

you've given me lots of great recommendations, i am excited to read them!!

As a cw concentration, this makes me so happy. I'm reading a lot this summer for inspiration for my thesis, so I'm taking down allllllll these recs.

Omg you’re so not alone with thinking that time shelter sort of fell off at the end. I really like the middle too where it dove into certain patients but it completely lost me as it got closer to the end. I still haven’t been able to completely finish it 2 months later.

Great Video Alex!

Great reading list! Really interesting choices, many of which I’m unfamiliar with but also a lot I recognize (Marquez and Saunders). I appreciate how authentic you are in these vids and I hope you continue making them. Also, is any of your work published/accessible? You’ve got great taste in fiction and I’m confident that I’d find your stories highly engaging.

Greetings from Stockholm ❤

I had no idea George Saunders was on substack, going to subscribe rn

I’ve never heard of The Happy Couple. It sounds interesting, so I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the recommendation! Have a great whatever day it is!😋

Great content!

Hi Alex. I'm Jon from Nigeria and im like you just getting used to the KZfaq thing. But I just finished college here, studying accounting and it was kind of a tumultuous four years since I did not love it. My primary passion is everything literature and writing on what I read and just writing as well. So I'm hoping that by some chance in the future I'm able to do like an English major abroad or something as that would be the coolest thing for me. So I'd actually be interested in what like being a creative major is like, if you could do a followup video about the courses and books read in the future maybe I can hope more through you😊I've enjoyed your vibe and energy so far so looking forward to more videos.

Loved Sweden - enjoy(sounds like you are)☺️ Enjoyed your perception on some of the books, - I think different age groups - add so much interest to how they see a book - Thanks for the tips, - havent done Knife yet, - intend to but also in the middle of a pile of TBR -

I have read chronicles of a death foretold. Very slim but quite affecting. The ending was nothing short of a gut punch.

i was just thinking about asking book recs to my friends but hey youtube algorithm knows me really well and it suggested this video!

i loveddd chronicle of a death foretold! genuinely one of the best books i've read

Sounds like you're gonna have a super memorable summer! If you're into Irish authors and dystopian novels, my first recommendation is The Call by Peadar Ó Guilín. Also, if I could erase my memory and read a book for the first time again, it would be Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Hoping to get stuck into Normal People myself this summer :)

Also if you like novels about translation I would recommend Babel by RF Kuang if you haven’t read it already!! I love the way she explores how languages change over time. It’s so much more than that too and I could never do it justice but it’s my fave book ever

This was so fun to watch! I'm taking time off from uni currently so I've missed being in class discussions and hearing people's thoughts on books but this felt like being back! (Also been meaning to get into Murakami and now i want to check out barn burning:)

agree on time shelter totally.

FINALLY a second video, I was waiting for it. lol also Sally Rooney mentioned? she's one of my favorite writers. What are your thoughts on Beautiful world, where are you?

happy to have stumbled upon your channel! i graduated as a creative writing major myself so i'm glad to see you in the field :) you're reading a bunch of different and engaging material! old and new, surreal and real, short stories and novels. i can't stress enough how important it is to read read read and just absorb all different forms of writing to hone in on your craft! Saunders is a wonderful inspiration! can't wait to hear your thoughts on the Murakami! he's a favorite of mine. if you ever get the chance, Sputnik Sweetheart is a wonderful one, short and sweet with all his usual wonder. also, did you ever watch the film adaptation of Barn Burning?

I just read The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders and I thought of it as Animal Farm meets a Nickelodeon show. It was bonkers. Have you read that one? I definitely want to read A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, and I just subscribed to his Substack - thanks for mentioning that! Also I am such a huge fan of Jason Isbell too! You got a new subscriber in me :)

Have you read conversations with friends by Sally Rooney? I liked it more than I did normal people. It’s a very unconventional love story but it was written really well

hii im a swedish student studying in stockholm, this was a very intersting video and i got it on my recommended randomly so the yt algorithm is lucky today woo🤗 pls give book recommendations for someone that havent read anything but harry potter 🙏

mmm im also trying to get back on reading more again, so i will def. read some of this books this next weeks, have you read anything by Bolaño?

Hey. Pelevin is great. T - is the best novel of his. And also - IPHUCK

Have u read some of the short stories by Stefan Zweig? Thx for the recommendations

Just found your channel Alex, these two first videos of yours are great. Just out of curiosity, do you hope to be a writer? Also, I'd love to know what is a book you've read that really got you thinking, I'm looking for the next book to read and always love books, movies, music, that gets you thinking about deeper things, or just things often untouched by our daily thoughts.

Yay thank you for the recs! I'm also studying in Stockholm right now! Have you checked out any english bookstores?

Read the posthumous memoirs of brás cubas

I bought time shelter in Sofia. The idea is interesting. But the story is week.

Hello!! I wanted to watch this video to hear your thoughts on some specific books from the title, so, as a suggestion, could your next videos have timestamps please, if you're able? That makes videos so much more comfy to use :]

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Both Norwegian Wood and Normal People are solid reads. I think Norwegian Wood overtime has lost a bit of it's magic for me but it's still a great coming of age (college student) read and my main beef with Normal People is that it abruptly finished (in my opinion) but otherwise I enjoyed the conversational tone of Rooney's writer. I'll definitely read more by both authors. I love Zadie Smith, I have yet to read Feel Free but I honestly plan on reading all her works.

I hope you'll enjoy Normal People by Sally Rooney, it's one of my favourite books. I can recommend 'White Nights' by Fyodor Dostoevsky and 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka, which are both pretty short, around 100 pages, I think. They are also both translated, from Russian and German. Also, personally I don't mind if your videos are over 20 minutes, they are really interesting and I enjoy hearing peoples opinions on books. :))

I read Norwegian Wood and liked it but I’m assuming the translator didn’t do a good job with the dialogue. Every time a character spoke all I could think was “nobody talks like this.” And if you liked Barn Burning, they made a great film adaptation called Burning in 2018.

Wow, I just discovered your channel, hear you talking about books is very relaxing, you have a very calm voice. Anyway, I haven't read Chronicle of a Death Foretold, but one of my favorite books by Gabriel García Márquez is "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which is very well written especially in its original language. Also I'd love to know your opinion on Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale." I just read it a few months ago and I think it's amazing, highly recommended.

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