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Of course we want part 2 ❤ love to listen how you're talking about books

Check Teresa Wilms Montt 🙏 she is definitly your style! I love her writings but she is so unknown... she did have a rather short and tragic life 😢, but sooo interesting! And yes, I too would love a part 2!! I always love to see/hear you talking about books!

Your taste is so diverse, you are incredibly well-read, I am constantly in awe of how you compose your life! I also love how you styled our @studio.slo wildflower necklace 🖤

Another good book for a chunky non white family saga is One Hundred Years of Solitude. So amazing and beautiful and funny.

I would love a bookshelf tour!

Please, please do a part 2! Great recommendations!

I really enjoy how diverse your reading taste is, i’d love a bookshelf tour where you talk about your favorites and memorable, why and how you sort the books the way you do!

Loved this. Always keep recommending books. I followed your recommendation of The Offing earlier this year and I loved it and it's in my top 5 of all time. I would never have read it if it wasn't for you so thank you for talking about books like this even if they're not what anyone else is talking about ❤ Part 2 please 🙏

part 2 please! loved this

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i'm a huge clarice lispector fan and "The Apprenticeship" is one of my faves of hers and underrated imo! also, the anthropologists by aysegul savas is a new release that is kind of that vibe of like minimal plot but a lot of nice writing and philosophical meditations

Ah! I nearly got a heartattack, how can you but a mug on a book. You need a warning for that jumpscare. 🥵

What camera did you get? Also, happy belated birthday! Love this video❤

This is funny because there are some books in your recommendations that I loved and some that I really disliked. I loved The name of the wind, I agree it's one of the greatest fantasy novels I've ever read (although my favorite fantasy trilogy is a French trilogy called Ellana). By the way there's a fantasy author I think you would enjoy (but it's practicaly sure you know him already): David Gemell. I also love The perfume and The picture of Dorian Gray. The writing is so good in both these novels, the atmosphere is great, the moral reflexions are very interesting. But I hated The secret history. I didn't like the characters, they felt like rich entitled white kids and I thought the novel encouraged an amoral lifestyle if it was for the knowledge. I didn't like Women who run with wolves. It took me ages to read. It felt like every chapter was the same and it felt not practical at all. I added Bleuets, The Lonely city to my to read list (Mistborn is already on it). And while I'm at it I love your videos and vibe!

If you'd like a change of vibe in Shirley Jackson's writing you can try out her book Life among the savages, I believe it's a sort of diary that she keeps on her daily life as a mom with three kids, super cozy, fun, witty and emotional at times. Highly recommend!

I love your dress!!🤍

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Dude, your home is amazing.

So many wonderful books. It's lovely to see someone else talking about the Uncensored version of Dorian Gray, I adore that book

Annotating and underlining ruin a book.

Anyone who has a vinyl record player rocks in my book.

"Creating art sort of feels like the outcome of years of collecting" Love this so much, Quirine, and I strongly relate to this idea! When I'm reading a book or watching a film it feels very purposeful; it feels as if I am working towards something if that makes sense. It's a lovely feeling because everything becomes important and meaningful.

Such a lovely video, Quirine! The way you talk about books is very relaxing :) Also, your descriptions are very good! You describe what interested you and that is very contagious. The way you mention how a book seems like a combination of other books is also very helpful!

"Privileged white men" How perfectly contemporary american and irrelevant to the matter

Cool! Recently picked up Agua Viva while traveling at the bookshop owner's recommendation. Now I'm very excited to start it or at least move higher on the pile.

Loved this vid so much!! Based off your favourite books I would recommend Rosemary's Baby, it's such a culty classic and honestly reminds me of the movie Mother, so gooood.

Oh my gosh I voted for this thumbnail on threads! I love the name of the wind <3 I hope it gets finished

Some recommendations for you based on your choices, sorry if you've already read these! Blue Postcards by Douglas Bruton, a beautiful short novel about the colour blue, and art, set in Paris! Things we Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan (I loved this as much as Salt Slow). Anything by Carmen Maria Machado especially the brilliant In the Dream House. I have North Woods, and Clarice Lispector's stories, and can't wait to read them. Also - I love Mariana Enriquez so much!! Claire (@thebristolreader).

I agree about not being able to enjoy classics in teenage if you don't have a comprehensive understanding of english. But I've been getting into them again at 28 and now I'm enjoying them much more!

I really loved this video! Many 'favorite books' videos don’t dive into the specific time in the reader's life that made a particular book special, and that's so important because what makes a book meaningful to someone is personal and tied to a unique time and place.

New follower here. I'm glad i discovered this channel

Thank you for sharing! I'd recommend you check out Babel by R.F. Kaung especially if you like fantasy and A Secret History, it's brilliant.

I'm so glad I found your channel! Your taste is extremely similar to mine and the way you talk about the books is so great! Keep it up!

Loved the intro

Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel about broken families, cursed inheritances, and the sacrifices a father makes to help his son escape his fate.

Where did you get that mug in the intro? It's beautiful!

Great list of titles that bring others to mind. For fans of North Woods, I recommend a similar story cycle centered on the woods and coastline of New England: The History of Sound. Nothing can quite compare with North Woods, but The History of Sound is in the same vein and one of the best books of 2024 I’ve read. Anything by Shirley Jackson is recommendable, especially The Haunting of Hill House and her short stories, particularly “The Daemon Lover”, “The Summer People”, “Afternoon in Linen”, and “The Lottery”. For a similar sense of gothic subversiveness, one might check out the short stories of Daphne du Maurier which often feature uncanny situations in exotic locales, doubles and doppelgängers galore. Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley gave me a similar vibe to The Secret History while being less bleak and more stylish, making for a more fun reading experience. As for fantasy, I’m reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I cannot think of a more hypnotic stimulant than the prose style of Marquez. Such hallucinatory realism is right up my alley and reminds me of the surreal fantasy cycle of Gormenghast novels by the poet and illustrator Mervyn Peake. Lispector is in a class of her own. The Gospel According to G.H. is a good one to follow Agua Viva. Some other favorite authors of mine you might appreciate: Claire Keegan (Small Things Like These, and Foster); Mieko Kawakami (Breasts and Eggs, and Heaven); Mona Awad (Bunny, All's Well, and Rouge); and Carys Davies (Clear). I will have to check out Perfume as I keep hearing it mentioned in reviews. Thanks for sharing some of your favorite reads!

Love the video! For recommendations: for gothic, if you haven't read it already, jane eyre is THE classic of eerie, misty moors along with, of course, wuthering heights. While emily is known for capturing the intensity in a relationship so well, charlotte's writing is exquisite and that alone kept me reading the book. I would also add silent companions for both gothic AND horror. It's actually so good at jumpscares, especially on page? It's masterfully done. For obsession and dark academia vibes, brideshead revisited is one of my favorite books of all time. It takes place pre-wwii oxford and it's about the deep friendship between two men, but more than that, of religion and family. Hope you give these a try!

Hearing you call "Perfume" a classic when I vividly remember buying it right after it's release here in Germany, makes me feel very... vintage. 🙃😃 I would like to recommended "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier and "If we were villains" by M.L. Rio to you.

do you have a subsackkkk?????

Wordsworth are actually changing most of their covers and they look really nice now!

I have not seen a lot of people talking about Our share of night and it is amazing. Same I don’t know how to explain my love about it. I first read It in 2023 Jan, since then I have already read it 4 times …

I have bookshelf envy. 😮

Hey quirine! Have you read Brat by gabriel smith? Besos y abrazos desde Argentina 💘🇦🇷

We have always lived in the castle is a masterpiece. It is also so relevant and timeless. Honest and non sentimental about humanity.

please read Shirley jackson's HANGSMAN.. its soooo.. good.. it was my first Shirley jackson and picked it up right after the turn of the screw which is one of my all time favorites and so i wasn't even expecting i will like anything else as much so soon but hangsman also became one of my all time favorites. i recommend this to everyone.. check it out!

these are my favourites: - The Lord of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien - Fontamara - Ignazio Silone - If This Is A Man - Primo Levi - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind - Watership Down - Richard Adams - My Stupid Intentions - Bernardo Zannoni - The Novel of Ferrara - Giorgio Bassani - The Art Of Joy - Goliarda Sapienza

isnt the secret history a satire about rejecting pretentious academia tho

Hi, Quirine! I can relate a lot to Lispector in general (though I go carefully with her because there is a lot to take in and it is intense), Mariana Enríquez, Oscar Wilde and I loved "Bluets". Also read this year "M Train" and I thought I could live in that book. Because of that I would like to recommend you Alejandra Pizarnik's poetry and diaries, Marysé Conde ("I, Tituba, black with of Salem" sounds that you may like it) and "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. Love your content, by the way. Greeting from Granada, Andalusia!

I am a fan of Julia Armfield’s writing and I think salt slow is wonderful but I had never thought of it as horror! I think there’s certainly an unsettling atmosphere but I seem to limit horror to the more gory kind of stuff that I don’t go near! What I love most is her writing and the imagery she creates. The first paragraph of ‘Smack’ is amazing - all the stranded jellyfish on the beach . . . “are translucent, almost spectral, as though the sea has exorcised its ghosts.” ❤