I’m with these people on staying home to consume less 😂 I love how many tags you participate in. I need to start to diversify my reading. Amazing recs 🖤
@@thebaileygrind yeah, staying home is my default state so it’s probably a much harder suggestion for some people! And yeah, it’s fun to try to read a bit outside of what I might normally read. It does mean going searching for books that aren’t on display at a bookstore, but you can find some cool things that way.
Writing all of these down! How did you read so much on top of Tom Jones?! 😂 I’m in awe. I have a couple of Vandana Shiva books I need to read. I might have to read Walking the Twilight Path! Joyce Carol Oates is intense. I have Bellefleur on my goth lit TBR (which I forgot to include) and I’m not sure I’ll have time for, but we’ll see. It’s been a long time since I’ve read Poe’s poetry, but I think I agree: I like it best. It’s nuts I haven’t read Frenchman’s Creek yet. I’ll look for a copy of On a Woman’s Madness. Bend Sinister is interesting because I believe it was his only ‘political’ novel, as he hated political novels. And of course Nabokov would use the index in an expansive way and turn it into art. I haven’t read Pale Fire yet; I’ve been saving it, because I know it will be a favorite. Have you read Series of Unfortunate Events? It’s like Nabokov for kids. My daughter wanted to read the series with me a few years ago. She stopped after 4 or 5 books, but I continued on. The Italo Covino book sounds like a trip! I’ll have to check it out. I haven’t read Ghandi’s autobiography, but it sounds interesting, and I should.
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Lots of audiobooks is the answer. Tom Jones I definitely listened to sped up. I can usually do 1.5-2x depending on the narrator but for parts of that one it was 2.5x because it was just so slow! It came up in the Cambridge companion to gothic fiction, though-Fielding wanted to be an ultra-naturalistic alternative to the pre-gothic romances that he didn’t think highly of! These were the first Joyce Carol Oates stories I’ve ever read but I am interested in more now. I read Unfortunate Events years ago and loved it. I remember thinking it was so clever and good fun. As memoirs go, Gandhi’s was interesting. He did t try to always make himself look good, which I appreciated, but he certainly lived an eventful life.
Even so … that’s a lot of reading 😊 I’m still interested in Tom Jones when the time is right. I caved ….. I went ahead and got a copy of the Cambridge Companion to Gothic Literature. I agree with your words on Ghandi: I think if we look for perfection in all of our heroes and myths, there will be nothing left to look up to.
I’m with these people on staying home to consume less 😂 I love how many tags you participate in. I need to start to diversify my reading. Amazing recs 🖤
@@thebaileygrind yeah, staying home is my default state so it’s probably a much harder suggestion for some people! And yeah, it’s fun to try to read a bit outside of what I might normally read. It does mean going searching for books that aren’t on display at a bookstore, but you can find some cool things that way.
Writing all of these down! How did you read so much on top of Tom Jones?! 😂 I’m in awe.
I have a couple of Vandana Shiva books I need to read.
I might have to read Walking the Twilight Path!
Joyce Carol Oates is intense. I have Bellefleur on my goth lit TBR (which I forgot to include) and I’m not sure I’ll have time for, but we’ll see.
It’s been a long time since I’ve read Poe’s poetry, but I think I agree: I like it best.
It’s nuts I haven’t read Frenchman’s Creek yet.
I’ll look for a copy of On a Woman’s Madness.
Bend Sinister is interesting because I believe it was his only ‘political’ novel, as he hated political novels. And of course Nabokov would use the index in an expansive way and turn it into art. I haven’t read Pale Fire yet; I’ve been saving it, because I know it will be a favorite. Have you read Series of Unfortunate Events? It’s like Nabokov for kids. My daughter wanted to read the series with me a few years ago. She stopped after 4 or 5 books, but I continued on.
The Italo Covino book sounds like a trip! I’ll have to check it out.
I haven’t read Ghandi’s autobiography, but it sounds interesting, and I should.
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Lots of audiobooks is the answer. Tom Jones I definitely listened to sped up. I can usually do 1.5-2x depending on the narrator but for parts of that one it was 2.5x because it was just so slow! It came up in the Cambridge companion to gothic fiction, though-Fielding wanted to be an ultra-naturalistic alternative to the pre-gothic romances that he didn’t think highly of!
These were the first Joyce Carol Oates stories I’ve ever read but I am interested in more now.
I read Unfortunate Events years ago and loved it. I remember thinking it was so clever and good fun.
As memoirs go, Gandhi’s was interesting. He did t try to always make himself look good, which I appreciated, but he certainly lived an eventful life.
Even so … that’s a lot of reading 😊 I’m still interested in Tom Jones when the time is right. I caved ….. I went ahead and got a copy of the Cambridge Companion to Gothic Literature. I agree with your words on Ghandi: I think if we look for perfection in all of our heroes and myths, there will be nothing left to look up to.
@ I also don’t have kids. That’s a big time-saver!
It’s true! lol