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I love the idea of annotation as active and transcendent engagement with the writer🥹Thank you for your inspirational advices!!!

I’m gonna start calling things “pretty rhetorically spicy” now 😂

Thank you! I love your channel! ### Key Points on Annotating - **Enhances Understanding**: Clarifies complex ideas. - **Boosts Memory Retention**: Reinforces information for better recall. - **Active Engagement**: Keeps readers focused and involved. - **Personal Connection**: Deepens understanding through personal notes. - **Organizes Information**: Simplifies review and summarization.

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Bren, you are objectively very well-read, especially since you are only in your 30s. But I wonder, do you have particular desires to have an equally comprehensive knowledge of another field or medium amidst the flurry of anxieties and time's arrow? Film, for example? Hundreds of books a year is a lot of tree tonnage. Very remarkable and inspiring to me.

A comprehensive video that truly means a lot to those of us who appreciate people who illume processes of artistic consumption and, consequently, creation. I cannot add much to your excellent video, but I would say that independently engaging with the art and mores of as many nations, cultures, and people as one can is very contributive to a well-nourished mind and comprehension when reading books that are beyond one's bailiwick.

Five seconds into this, I was asking, "I wonder when the Brilliant app ad will come?" Ha. I don't begrudge you earning a living, though. More power to you! I would love to see a more in-depth how-to video on your annotation method. I started organizing my fiction chronologically a few years ago and love the pleasing flow it lends to the shelf.

I see videos like this all the time, and they always offer the same advice. Imagine how thrilled I was to watch a video on this topic with some advice I haven't heard before! Brilliant. Thank you.

I obsessively try to forget what I read, so I can always re-read "new" stuff

I would love to hear other people’s thoughts on annotation and recalling what you read! Xx

I like the way you arrange the library!

I want to get through Anna Karenina, David Copperfield and The Brothers Karamazov this year. Your video motivated me!

Thanks for the advice about using the timer, Bully Maguire.

So happy infinite jest wasnt on your list 😂

You are boring, hard to listen to your ramblings

I’ve been wanting to read 2666, but it’s so intimidating.

Norman Davies is my favourite historian. He's written a similar book about the history of the British Isles, which is good because it of its global, long term viewpoint and lack of anglocentricism. His 'Rising 44' is a great account of the 1944 Warsaw uprising.

gonna read gravitys rainbow! 2666, infinite jest, the magus last year

Although it’s actually three books, I’m hoping sometime this year to reread William Faulkner’s “Snopes” trilogy, which I first read in the mid-‘70s, and might work my way through “War and Peace” again (3rd time). Another book that’s been staring at me from the shelf is John Dos Passos” “USA” trilogy, which I haven’t read before.

Going longest to shortest, I hope to manage A Suitable Boy (over the summer), Kristin Lavransdatter (one volume edition of the whole trilogy, probably in between other books)), The Tale of Genji (group read over the whole year), Swan Song (Robert McCammon), Daniel Deronda (group read 2. quarter), The Brothers Karamazov (group read over most of the year), No Name (Wilkie Collins), Solenoid, and The Idiot as a Q1 group read. I find it helps to read with a group and check in with each other. But I don't normally go for year long reads. I prefer to do one big book at the time, and to ideally fit each book into no more than three months. So we'll see how it goes! So far I've only started The Idiot, but I've also read several shorter books.

I saw the Leeszaal stamps on the bottom of some of your books, and thought it was funny that somewhere else would have such a similar stamp--until you mentioned you are in Rotterdam as well. Great finds there!

My goal is to read Dune!

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“Main Currents of Marxism” (Kolakowski) “Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years” “Omnibus volumes 1-4” Rabindranath Tagore “Decline of the West” Oswald Spengler

I just finished Roots by Alex Haley and plan on The Count of Monte Cristo for my next behemoth. My choices are not the breadth you have lined up for sure. I also feel it valid to read multiple books at a time, I need light reading with heavy topics to cleanse the palate. I may give that Capote a look. Thanks, be well.

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Wow, wow, wow, this is such a brimming, bountiful stack! I'm personally excited that one of these tomes is a history book. You're right in thinking that Davies may not introduce well, that rather he might leap around in a scattershot way that could confuse-that's precisely what he does. His enthusiasm for the subject emanates in his voice, though, and that might drive your pleasure in the reading of it. Unfortunately, I don't know that there is an easy way into history. Every overview either leaves a lot unsaid or says too much about idiosyncratic particulars. I'm still in the process of reading The Story of Civilization by Will & Ariel Durant, and that is, perhaps, the most inviting overview, but since it is across eleven volumes (and not always easy to find) it's not exactly an efficient way in to the subject. It may be the case-though counterintuitive-that it's better to read history out-of-chronological-order and by interest, steadily filling in gaps of knowledge along the way, book by book. That's how it's felt for me, like I read a book specializing in a small period of time, discover gaps along the margins, read books to fill in those gaps, discover new ones, and so on and so on, but the interest is always there because the impulse is always personally driven by curiosity. Like philosophy, it's one of those subjects that never feels wholly graspable until ten years down the line you suddenly feel as if you've begun to grasp it. But I guess that's like all subjects, isn't it? Overwhelming until it's not.

I'm sorry, first video I see, and wow, those are gorgeous eyes.

I am interested to hear your thoughts about the Ted Hughes and the Sylvia Plath books when you finish them. I am fascinated by this topic but I don't want to read it myself. I know it will put me in a bad place but I still want to know about it anyway. I am going to join The Brothers Karamazov group read and I've started In Search of Lost Time. I haven't planned any other hefty tomes but they might find their way to me.

I'd be more impressed if you tried to shove them all up your pretentious ass.

I really enjoy your channel and the thorough approach you take to serious literature. If you love a good literary biography I heartily recommend Knowlson’s book on Samuel Beckett. Called Damned to Fame it traces every path in his career, friendships and personal life. It shows his humanity and pleasure in friendships and challenges the grim image he is usually saddled with. For history I recommend Ron Chernows Alexander Hamilton which is rich and brilliant and charts the entire principles on which American was founded as well as drawing a thrilling portrait of the idealism of the Founding Fathers. I find that Victorian fiction like Eliot’s Middlemarch or Dickens’s more serious novels offer the full satisfaction of the longer read, especially Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend. George Gissing is a very neglected Victorian author whom I also greatly enjoy for the textures he weaves. . Hermione Lee,s book on Tom Stoppard is another wonderful long read, including a full analysis of all the plays. Thank you for your greatly enjoyable and informative videos.

John Dos Passos's USA trilogy and Tom Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel and Of Time And The River.

The blanket is burgundy than claret I would say 🥸I'm planning to read the complete essays of Montaigne and it's going surprisingly well!

Started the year off with Lord of the Rings which I really enjoyed. Currently making my way through Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy which I guess I’m counting as one work…? Hoping to get to Anna Karenina, The Idiot, and Allen Walker’s 3 volume biography of Franz Liszt. Haven’t gotten around to Capote yet, but watched the film staring Philip Seymour Hoffman recently and what a character! Thanks for the video, and happy reading

Reading Brothers Karamazov AGAIN! World Crisis by Winston Churchill. William Manchester/Reid vol 3 Churchill biography. Martin China spent & Little Doctor & Romney and Son by Dickens. St. Ignatius Bible by Curtis Mitch/Scott Hahn

My goal is to finally read the Brothers Karamazov and The Master and the Margarita this year!