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It's Too Late to Apologize
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This is a place where books are loved and discussed. I'm Stella Telleria, and I'm a writer and an avid reader. This channel is all about trying to balance working on my second novel while chipping away at my ever growing TBR pile.
Stella Telleria is an author who's dreamed of stories or has had her nose buried in one her whole life. She likes books with action, a good plot, and characters she'd get into a fight at the pub for. Not that she's a brawler or anything. Unless you think that out-of-print book or vintage piece at the thrift-shop is going home with you instead of her. Then, my friend, the gloves are off.
Stella's Blog @ www.stellatelleria.com
Instagram for books I'm currently reading: @stellatelleria
Stella's novel Across the Wire is available on Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, iTunes, and more.
Stella Telleria is an author who's dreamed of stories or has had her nose buried in one her whole life. She likes books with action, a good plot, and characters she'd get into a fight at the pub for. Not that she's a brawler or anything. Unless you think that out-of-print book or vintage piece at the thrift-shop is going home with you instead of her. Then, my friend, the gloves are off.
Stella's Blog @ www.stellatelleria.com
Instagram for books I'm currently reading: @stellatelleria
Stella's novel Across the Wire is available on Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, iTunes, and more.
The Edge of Reading Tag
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if you want to skip the whiskey talk and go straight to the book tag go to 11:30.
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-Give me your own definition of reading or use mine:
Reading is the act of interpretation of symbols that systematically put together in a certain sequence, allow the reader to extract meaning from them in an active form of creation that can develop into complex narratives.
-Given your chosen definition, are reading and interpretation the same thing? If not, In what do they differ?
-Are there any practices that you consider reading but that would fit that or other definitions of reading?
-Is there an ideal reading experience for you? What is it? Is there a book that represents it?
-If there is such thing as an ideal reading experience, it follows that there is a scale of value to reading. What is at the bottom?
-Is there a book on that bottom that you love or enjoyed as much as those on the top?
-Is reading as the art of associating symbols and creating meaning out of them, a predecessor of language, or does it come after as a consequence of those languages?
-Is everything that can be read with meaning a language?
-Mention a few languages that defy the conventional conception of what a language is. Could a book be written in any of those languages?
-If you could boundlessly read/understand the meaning in one of those languages. Which one would it be? Why?
if you want to skip the whiskey talk and go straight to the book tag go to 11:30.
Check out @materiagrix @:
ua-cam.com/video/-Qla0rgzxco/v-deo.html
-Give me your own definition of reading or use mine:
Reading is the act of interpretation of symbols that systematically put together in a certain sequence, allow the reader to extract meaning from them in an active form of creation that can develop into complex narratives.
-Given your chosen definition, are reading and interpretation the same thing? If not, In what do they differ?
-Are there any practices that you consider reading but that would fit that or other definitions of reading?
-Is there an ideal reading experience for you? What is it? Is there a book that represents it?
-If there is such thing as an ideal reading experience, it follows that there is a scale of value to reading. What is at the bottom?
-Is there a book on that bottom that you love or enjoyed as much as those on the top?
-Is reading as the art of associating symbols and creating meaning out of them, a predecessor of language, or does it come after as a consequence of those languages?
-Is everything that can be read with meaning a language?
-Mention a few languages that defy the conventional conception of what a language is. Could a book be written in any of those languages?
-If you could boundlessly read/understand the meaning in one of those languages. Which one would it be? Why?
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Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag
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I was tagged the very kind and awesome The Falcon Reads. Please Check out he video and channel@TH3F4LC0Nx : ua-cam.com/video/DUyuz4SGljo/v-deo.html My review of Story of the Eye: ua-cam.com/video/ofP2qaLeJCE/v-deo.html Content Creators mentioned: @Nerdforge @CinziaDuBois ua-cam.com/video/Q2cBC1KMCX0/v-deo.html @TheCanvasArtHistory @DamiLeeArch ua-cam.com/video/8go_xBWa_EA/v-deo.html @Design.The...
Story of the Eye / The Dangers of Entertaining Dark Fantasies
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Check out @BetterThanFoodBookReviews Story of the Eye review: ua-cam.com/video/LfXHFgmM3Rs/v-deo.html Susan Sontag Essays: www.academia.edu/39160786/_Susan_Sontag_Against_interpretation_and_other_es_BookZZ_org_ My Lord of the Flies Review and Analysis: ua-cam.com/video/90bbK_JCjd4/v-deo.html
The Why I Haven't Read These Books Yet TAG
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Jolene's channel @BookwormAdventureGirl Check out her video: ua-cam.com/video/anpdESEVSfA/v-deo.html Michael's @michaelk.vaughan8617 video about his reading challenge: ua-cam.com/video/iWed3Y6BxV8/v-deo.html
The Great Hitchcock Book Tag
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Check out @bookrisingwithbartj.gilber3785 and his video: ua-cam.com/video/lf_nURCm7KY/v-deo.html The Prompts: 1 - "Spellbound" - Name a book that had you SO completely enthralled, you couldn't put it down. 2 - "Rope" - Name a book where the murder weapon is anything other than a gun or a knife. 3 - "Vertigo" - Name a book with a notable scene from a dizzying height. 4 - "Psycho" - Name a book w...
Outer Dark : A Nihilistic Mind F@ck?
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Sorry this one ended up so long, but I couldn't seem to cut it any shorter. Editing fail!
2022 Reading Wrap Up : Top 10 Books of the Year
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Check out Marie Queen of Hearts: www.amazon.com/Marie-Stuart-Queen-Hearts-Jeffrey/dp/B0BBCWM3SK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16S3PMH2ZTOR0&keywords=marie queen of hearts jeffrey k hill&qid=1673308147&sprefix=marie queen of hearts jeffery k hill,aps,107&sr=8-1 Siddhartha Review: ua-cam.com/video/meBloVzjDR0/v-deo.html Madame Bovary Review: ua-cam.com/video/XNZCSodyvQQ/v-deo.html Lord of the Flies Review: ua-...
My Current 20 Favourite Books
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Moby Dick Review: ua-cam.com/video/6xNooZo839c/v-deo.html Blood Meridian Review: ua-cam.com/video/V8_FQYZC4VM/v-deo.html An Artist of the Floating World Review: ua-cam.com/video/8Nsca1n9aEM/v-deo.html Jane Erye Review: ua-cam.com/video/upuN6DyECYk/v-deo.html The Little Friend Review: ua-cam.com/video/k9CK922sPX8/v-deo.html The Secret History Review: ua-cam.com/video/5BfsEDNL9Cs/v-deo.html Madam...
An Artist of the Floating World : The Lies we Tell Ourselves
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Link to the interview: ua-cam.com/video/Uz9IHVDrIDc/v-deo.html
The Evolution of a Reader Tag
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I was tagged by Brian at Bookish: ua-cam.com/video/nT7aXvfkJAk/v-deo.html Original creator:www.youtube.com/@UCvaQ3XQ9hXSAqYIbKayjV4A Video: ua-cam.com/video/Is3PFUsw4-M/v-deo.html Prompts: 1) What you read: how has your taste in books evolved? 2) How you read: has the format of your reading changed much? 3) How much you read: do you read more/less than previously? When do you read? Has how ofte...
Fiction : The Greatest Art Form We Have
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Some studies of the impact of fiction (fiction is important, the proof and the fear of this fact can also be seen by who funded the research): www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4733342/ www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/brain.2013.0166
The Right in The Feels Book tag
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A Portrait of the Artist : When Genius is Lost on You
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Wikipedia was used to collect publication dates and information about the author. I use plagiarism software to scan my work before I record myself reading it to the camera. The CodeX Cantina: ua-cam.com/video/GmHBezsjdIs/v-deo.html Joyce Letters (not the lewd ones, you weirdo) : www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/02/james-joyce-love-letters-nora-barnacle/
The Orchard Keeper : Faulkner? Is that you?
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Check out TH3 F4LCON's channel : ua-cam.com/users/TH3F4LC0Nxvideos And check out TH3 F4LCON's The Orchard Keeper review: ua-cam.com/video/xEGRKBgcqrw/v-deo.html All thoughts and book analysis are my own. Wikipedia was used to confirm publication dates, biblical references, religious ethos, historical tribes, and translations for names.
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Michael K. Vaughan's Channel: ua-cam.com/channels/LqYEZfhPSeMuIqR_C_fZGw.html My book Across the Wire available: Amazon.ca : www.amazon.ca/Across-Wire-Earth-like-syndicate-stranglehold/dp/1493641018/ref=sr_1_1?crid=143KIF6XLR2SO&keywords=across the wire stella telleria&qid=1664662484&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjQ0IiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ &sprefix=across the wire stella telleria,aps,117&sr=8-...
Lord of the Flies : Is Humanity Doomed?
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Lord of the Flies : Is Humanity Doomed?
Siddhartha : A Moralist's Fable or an Aesthetic Achievement?
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Siddhartha : A Moralist's Fable or an Aesthetic Achievement?
Madame Bovary : Why What you Read Matters
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Madame Bovary : Why What you Read Matters
The Goldfinch : Did it Deserve the Pulitzer?
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The Goldfinch : Did it Deserve the Pulitzer?
Jane Eyre ; A Battle Between Happiness and Purpose
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Jane Eyre ; A Battle Between Happiness and Purpose
Stoicism: A Conversation About Hypocrisy
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Stoicism: A Conversation About Hypocrisy
Epitaph of a Small Winner ; The Road to Irreverence
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Epitaph of a Small Winner ; The Road to Irreverence
Did you know that "Cien Años de Soledad" was actually banned from being read in Cuban schools; it has a very strong religious foundation from the Genealogical tree of the Buendia family to the sign at the very entrance to Macondo: "Dios Existe."
Irish / English alcoholics and school trauma are 2 subjects that so worn out and uninteresting. I really hate it when every character other than the main one are jerks. So unpleasant to read. Authors who treat every character as human are superior. I started reading this book recently but gave up quickly. The characters were so awful
Thank you
Most excellent book review I have had the pleasure of seeing.
Winston is a journalist. Julia is a congress person in 2024.
Great review! I just finished it and I thought it was great. It felt like a Huck Finn story with a kid having a big dangerous adventure. I've loved all three of Tartt's novels and I'm ready for a fourth book!
I was delighted by the title, I had to click on this. I completely view McCarthy as the successor/heir to Faulkner. The Orchard Keeper was only published 3 years after the publication of The Reivers and Faulkner’s death in 1962. It is hard to imagine a more seamless torch passing. I just reread the opening of All The Pretty Horses earlier this evening and was struck by how much it could absolutely pass for the opening of a Faulkner novel. Their common obsession with light is present. Anyway, great review!
You might check out Better than Food Book Reviews since he loves the book so much that he actually bought the rights to it.
Aureliano Babilonia history it's devastating.
Too many redundant boring conversations in Messiah. It just drags on and on before any action takes place. The most interesting conversations were between the conspirators (who were disposed of too easily IMO). I imagine the movie will show more of the jihad to prevent it from being a total snoozefest.
Awesome review. Enjoyed it a lot. I would rate Messiah 4/5. It’s deep and certainly worth a reread. I think FH was very brave though in the turns he took on Paul, was the right thing to do to keep it interesting. Did people expect him to be the Good protagonist throughout the whole series? Anyway, feels like Messiah is underrated.
Great review and analysis, thank you for sharing it. I am reading it in French (I am French), the passage where Rudolphe writes his break-up letter..
I appreciate you.
"And it's golden Ponyboy!" ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
And when you temper with gods plan, that’s a sin
I here I thought Christopher Nolan was obsessed with time, William does play on time with his books very well, especially The Sound of Fury
Thanks, the recap helped put together some things where I understood what was happening, but wasn’t sure if it was happening. This is my 3rd mccarthy book and I love how the setting never fades into the background. It’s a lot like real life, especially for people who aren’t able to rise above their circumstances.
It’s years since I read McCarthy’s Orchard Keeper. What stands out for from all his writing is his style. It takes on a life of its own. It’s the background music ( as in film) to the plot. I love McCarthy. A veritable genius. R.I.P.Requiescat in Pace.( love to take this woman out for a few pints sometime: I live in Ireland, unfortunately !
I'm way late but you mentioned you like to visit libraries and I immediately thought you'd probably like to visit the Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Rio de Janeiro. Look for pictures and you'll understand
Thanks!
Thank you!
Great analysis but I'm surprised you didn't mention Homais, who Flaubert clearly despises, represents the banality and unscrupulousness of bourgeois rationalism, and whose success is the subject of the last line of the book.
Enjoyed it at the beginning but once it hit the Las Vegas stage and the sadistic Russian father, nausea began to set in and I finally threw the novel in the trash!
So good ! Thanks Stella !
THE BABIES SCENE!!!! YEAH
Sou do Brasil, e sinceramente foi a melhor análise que vi até agora desse livro brilhante de Machado de Assis, repito, você foi brilhante em sua resenha do livro. Adorei!
It's been a while since I've read it, but to me, the kid, the judge, and the priest, and possibly other characters were all aspects of a single man with multiple personality disorder.
Thank you for making this!!
You're so welcome!
If you're still interested in ancient Greek politics you should check Claude Mossé
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 I loved your humor in this pleasant review. And yes, Machado was a genius. ❤
WHAT A GREAT REVIEW!! I loved it, also your interpretations about the dedicatory was very interesting.
I loved this book as well. I was surprised it was rated relatively mid on GR. The perspective of someone who thought they were doing a good thing to have their life’s work belittled and damned. What do you do when everything you believed in is now considered wrong? And even if you went into it with theoretically justifiable causes (walking with Matasuda in the pauper village)
Li "memoria...", li "Quincas...", li "Dom Casmurro" (na verdade, acho que, dos nove romances dele, só não li "A Mão e a Luva", esse, da fase romântica) e sua analise é bastante válida. Gosto de todos, mas no "Memorial de Aires", o ultimo romance que ele escreveu, há essa síntese do cansaço com o mundo e com a aceitação dele. A soma dessas duas coisas, gera uma notável leveza. A vida, tal como ela é. Dos contos, obviamente, destaca-se "O Alienista". Esse conto foi devastador na minha vida. Outro conto nessa "categoria", mas de outro autor desse mesmo período, Lima Barreto, é "O Homem que falava javanês".
Great review!
First rate review thanks so much.
Holden puts ever Disney villain to shame. Honestly, switch out any villain with him and all the side characters saying to don't test him would make sense. Heck, if The Little Mermaid had someone like Holden, Sebastian saying to Ariel not to go see him, but she says, "Why don't you go tell my father? You're good at that.", only for him to do exactly that would make sense. Since I guarantee that any adult should be informed that they're child's making a deal with the devil.
Where are you? Hunh? You're awesome. Stick around. Wait for last year.
Quincas Borba u can try spell borba as bourbon but change the n for s
Hated Dune Messiah. Totally destroyed the first book.
Found your channel over your video on faulkners as i lay dying, I think that and this video are some of the coolest things (on this platform) honestly discussing books I’m interested in, so thanks so so much first of all. I wasn’t expecting you to start discussing something I’ve been wondering about, but I’ve been thinking about how to deal with art or media that supposedly is great but that I can’t recognize/ don’t see that way, i thought what u said was awesome. Listening to your thoughts on the book made me realize a bit more why I loved the book so much, I had similar impressions about a difficult type of person being portrayed, I loved it though because it seemed to understand a part of me. Like given all the stupid decisions and problems that the Stephen-life brings or needs, I have a soft spot for it, either cuz I relate or because I sympathize. Might be a bad way to live and might be an ignorant way to think but yk… In a sense I’m ready to put this up there with things that edgy teen boys relate to, right next to donnie darko and fight club.
Well, hello and welcome to my channel. This book, regardless of my aesthetic taste, is worth loving. Funny you should mention it but I really want to read Fight Club. It’s been ages since I’ve watched the movie so it would be perfect timing. Taste is so subjective and I find it silly when some people can’t put their taste aside to try to see what the artist is trying to convey. And sometimes when one doesn’t connect with a work of literature it may just be that one may be in the wrong place in their life to appreciate it. Chew on the meat and spit out the bones; this is the approach I try to take. Thank you for watching.
The one thing I have so far in my journey as a reader, associated with "bad writing" is didacticism. No matter the genre, if an author is more concerned with giving answers, rather than inspiring the reader to formulate their own questions, they are in my eyes, committing a literary cardinal sin. Siddhartha is happily innocent of this. I only read this book a year ago myself, but I have since then come to consider it one of those books that I would guiltlessly gift pretty much anyone - it is short, it reads like a fairy-tale, while at the same time it is packed with as much food-for-thought and insight, as the reader is inclined to perceive. So, for me it's not a question of choosing aesthetics over morality as all great works of fiction are unavoidably grappling with some moral issue. The question is: can you pull-off writing about morality/moral dilemmas, and can you conjure meaningful realisations for the reader without attempting to control what those will be?
Life's too sh;ort.
I have just finished the book and the connection I sense began from the beginning, like how it started off with Darl, the one that I see myself through. The things I personally appreciate are the growth of Cash's consciousness or like when Faulkner puts you in another angle to look at Jewel from, not as a nagger but who has misbehaved when deserved respect due to his heroic labor to get himself a horse.
I've felt about this book exactly like you did. I Ve got so impressed about the way Faulkner was able to tell the story, I was unable to connect with it, though. But this was still awakening curiosity for his work as a writer and I'm sure I'm going to read more!
Such an excellent review. I just red the book and I'm attending to read it once again without making a pause because, from the opening scene and a raw atmosphere that I felt , I knew that I will cope with in the end, and now, I just want to reenjoy in the organised haos of Faulkner's style. You helped me a lot (My apologies for mistakes , I haven't wrote something on english for a long time)
Quincas Borba's Humanitism is Machado mocking Auguste Comte's Positivism. It's not meant to be taken seriously
How do you get to understand a book so much ? I haven't been much of a reader most of my life except for random spurs of the moment thing, randomly picking up a classic sometime in a year and i would love it but feel like i barely scratched its surface. Otherwise the few other books i've read have been fantasy so nothing too arduous. So i've finished this book over the last 3 days and decided to get help from sparknotes after each chapter i'd finish. Then i just found your video and it makes me feel frustrated. Why does it always seem so obvious after you've explained it but i'm completely unable to really get there by myself ? Patterns i don't see, deeper meanings i don't think about and, most of all, character's traits and motives i don't really identify and make sense of. To come to all these conclusions, do you have a process ? Like annotations in a particular way or reading some more material about the book ? Or do you simply think of it on your own by taking the time ? Because at the end of the book i feel like i can't remember enough to think or it rationally. I'd love to know more about your process if you have any time small time to spare me. Thank you
This process can look very different for different people, but let me put you at ease by saying that while I have always loved reading I have never read as deeply as I do now and it is a very different process, at least for me. I started this channel because I sucked at analyzing books. I used to read in only a literal lense and to analyze you have to look through a metaphoric lense. I tend to read a dense novel 3 times to feel I really understand and connect the dots. The first read is to get the emotions out of the way and know the plot: I will hate certain characters or root for others and this gets in the way of understanding the story. The second reading shows me the details I missed the first time and theories begin to come together. The third read through I’m actively looking for things that connect the theory more solidly. Each read through I annotate with small sticky notes about different things that stand out in the story, or connect to other things I’ve read in the story, or things I don’t understand. I ponder the things that don’t make sense and often after asking myself why would anyone do this or that, a reason usually comes to me that related to the theme. This all takes a lot more time than the way I used to read did. Reading other people’s thoughts about the books you read can also help open your mind up to thinking about things differently. I hope something here helped and remember your process can look a lot different than mine and that’s ok. I’ve been asked this question before so I’ll probably dedicate a video to it. Thank you watching and happy reading!!
As teenagers, in high school in Brazil, we are forced to read the work of Machado de Assis among the classics. Posthumous Memoirs of Braz Cubas, Quincas Borba and Dom Casmurro are mandatory. I always thought Assis's formal language a bit boring. He writes in a formal and old language typical of the 2nd Empire and the beginning of the Republic, only when I got older when I reread Braz Cubas I realized how fun it is. Good reading. If you allow me to make a recommendation among the classic works, my favorite is The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Guimarães Rosa and The Time and The Wind by Érico Veríssimo.
O Brasil devia voltar a falar latim ❤
Machado de Assis realism movement is the cream of the cream of Portuguese literature. Is the history being tell by the losers, it's all sentiments that tries fit closest to any human reaction in the world. The way that Machado can write about feelings in such naturality and his narrative is always so close to the reader, like he breaks the 4th wall to talk directly to you. Machado also loves to performed cross books, so he really loves to use characters that he already wrote about, that way he can always go deep in the character and also brings a little bit of nostalgia for the readers. One of his favorites is Aires, that will make appearances "Memorial de Aires" and "Esaú e Jacó" (Other two great books). Quincas Borba also has his own book, I've never read.
Amazing book