every book I read this month 🌿 JUNE READING WRAP-UP
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Emmie I am amazed at the amount of books you read and how you describe them afterwards. You would be a great Professor.
indeed
I would follow her class!
Yeah ,right
😊
And in one of her recent videos she mentioned wanting to be a professor.
I read two books in june: the secrets history by Donna Tartt which left my soul shattered (but I somehow fell in love with it) and Susanna Clarke's Piranesi (adored it even though it was bizarre and confusing at the beginning).
I think that july will be my Agatha Christie month (I'm a big Poirot fan) and of course finishing Yellowface
yes, I've an Agatha Christie in the queue too. : )
I love the diversity of books you read each month - always keeps me glued to your videos!
I’ve read about 55 books this year and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches is my very favorite of the year so far! ❤
I read 15 books this month (mostly mangas😅) my favorite book was Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi and I discovered a really fun manga series, Bride Stories, that takes place in Central Asia 😊
Oh my god yes Bride Stories (Otoyomegatari) is amazing! I recommend it to anyone who loves reading manga 🦋
Transcendent Kingdom also seems to be very interesting, but I guess I should start by reading Homegoing?
I thought I'd see either The Stranger or The Brothers Karamazov in this wrap-up. I'm glad you got to have some chill holiday reads.
The Motorcycle Diaries is on of my favourite books! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Che's writing is beautiful and being able to witness how and why his convictions developed in a coming of age story of a revolutionary, perhaps THE revolutionary, one who truly lived the revolution to his last breath, was a deeply profound experience for me.
The movie adaptation is also really good! Would recommend!
Yes, the movie is incredible! 💖
I LOVE the movie! It's one of my favorites. (Haven't read the book yet.)
Same here!
Oh how i remember friendship bracelets, the safety pin on your jeans. The nostalgia is real.
Also, imagining little emma hustling braclets on the playground and getting "busted" is heart warming 😂
I've only recently discovered your channel, but just wanted to say that your videos are really relaxing, and I love your eloquence and quiet passion for the books you read :)
I really liked this video. The way you describe books in such a delicate and calming manner is so soothing. I want to read so many books you recommended in this video. Thank u so much for inspiration!
wow june has been such a weird reading month for me (three weeks of procrastinating and a week of reading non stop) I love watching your videos, it feels like reading through you, and I love your commentary on each book. Also your voice brings me peace. July is break up month so I 'm trying my best but not feeling like reading.. your videos are really helping me through this reading slump
Yes- vicarious reading!!!📚📚📚
finally started reading drowry of blood (which i discovered through your youtube) and omg it’s SO GOODDDD tysm em for blessing me with this amazing rec
I read Wide Sargasso Sea for my ap lit class. Love her style and now I’ll definitely have to check out Good Morning, Midnight
Wow you had quite the reading month! Thank you as always for sharing, listening to you describe books is inspiring. Happy Sunday to you. ❤
I just love the way you describe books 🩷
I haven’t read Richard II yet but ur description of how being king is all he has and he is just the title that has been given to him and without it he feels like nothing reminds me of Kendall roy from succession
All my fave books have been recommended from you. Thank u so much! I appreciate u and what you’re doing, keep it up! 🧡
I just began rewatching Gilmore Girls, and I want to thank you Emma because for all the times i've seen the series i thought literature classes and exams and things you got quizzed on made no sense to me, and now, i'm understanding the relevance of knowing the "little facts" of this was inspired by thay and it was written in this way. I didn't know i was learning with you and can now appreciate much more all the interactions, story-telling and references within the series and hopefully in life. It has been an amazing experience. Thank you.
the ambience and aesthetic of the surrounding looks so cool
So happy whenever you uploaded, emma 💓
One of my best read in June was Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed. It's a graphic novel based on alternate world Egypt where wishes are commercialized. The art is so stunning and expressive, the plot and worldbuilding is well written too.
I loved The Wide Sargasso Sea, such an amazing book, I need to try more of her works ♡
❤❤❤ Always a pleasure to hear you talk about your reads
June was the first month I was able to complete my new self-imposed reading quota of six books on time and I'm rather happy with myself 🙂 also in July I'm planning on reading The Turn of the Screw and Juan Rulfo's short story collection so I think this is also likely to be a good reading month
honestly this was an awesome reading month, my lowest rating was 4 stars- i'm impressed. my favorite book of the month though has to be fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury. it's just so good and his writing- i am uncapable of articulating my thoughts every time i try to describe how much i adore this book. emma, you're such a motivation to keep reading more and honestly the way you talk about books is just so captivating. love your channel so much 💙
Love to hear you discussing Jean Rhys! She's one of my favourite authors - such an interesting/subversive writer. I'd really recommend reading the others in her quartet (After Leaving Mr Mackenzie in particular). I focused my Master's thesis on her works (alongside Clarice Lispector's)✨🥀
Thank you so much for reminding me of the intrinsic and emotional of value of books!
Yay! My Sunday afternoon is saved! BTW, really digging your dark aesthetic you've embraced in this video. It suits you! :-) Hope all is well.
I love being early here! I’m so happy you got to read that many books, Emmie! And I hope it continues like that, I would really like you to give us advice on being that organized and motivated to read, either for school or one’s pleasure. I love all witchy recommendations you give and I’ll always give them a try! ❤❤ love u!
My favorite books were definitely Amora, a Mexican LGBT book and Las malas, about a trans woman from Argentina 🥰
An ‘asmr’ vibe before I went to sleep 💕
Loved all of these !! My favorite read in June was either Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes or Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor. Townsend Warner is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, she’s so good, and I’m still confused and enthralled by Violent Bear It Away, such a strange book
if you’re interested in another book that takes place in ontario with places you could probably place, the adult by bronwyn fischer is a new book, the protagonist is from northern ontario (can’t remember where exactly but it was north of north bay) and she goes to university in toronto and theres also mentions of waterloo and other places
Wow the passages you've read from Good Morning, Midnight were fantastic, I was really intimidated by that book but you've convinced me to finally pick it up! My favorite read of the month was Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. It's a classic fairy tale novella which also has some gothic elements, it's really gorgeous and atmospheric. I think you'd really like it actually❤✨
also the narrator of Good Morning, Midnight sounds a lot like the unnamed narrator of Rebecca, although that character doesn't really hate people she's just socially awkward and pities herself a lot
I love to watch your videos as I have my breakfast and tea ☺️What a peaceful and fun start to the morning, thank you Emma ☕️
Not finished with this video and not caught up with your most recent ones, but are you gonna do a thesis diary kind of vlog? ☺️ I just love your study content. Actually found you through your big essay writing vlog and watch it all the time for motivation, currently writing my thesis too 😌
Babel was my favourite book of June. Absolutely loved it.
omg emma. not super important but we’re using the same freaking phone case and thats so funny to me bc last year i bought and used (until i couldn’t anymore) a cute case just because it reminded me so much of you (it looked like something you’d like!!)… and now our cases are the same? crazy. anyways, super excited for the video, im not even a minute in🤭🤭🤭
My best book of June was Summer in Baden-Baden which is a fictionalized biography of Dostoevsky written in the stream of consciousness technique. It was special.
Every single day i am waiting for emmie to start reading sally rooney books and give her opinions!!!
Thank you! I just ordered El capitán de los dormidos. I love finding books to add to my second language TBR.
I learned about The Summer Book because my favorite musician, Laufey, recommended it. I loved it and would recommend it too!
I read 2 books this month because I'm taking summer classes at uni, but my favorite was the Kukotsky enigma by Ludmila Ulitskaya, though I also loved chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
So glad you 've recommended Good Morning, Midnight and Icefields
Every Summer After sounds a lot like one I read in June as well. Mine was If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh. It was set in Nantucket and the live interest was even named Sam. Lol
You said "Mayra Montero" very well pronounced, dear Emma ❤
Thank you for respecting the Spanish language.
This is actually really good. I think I’m going to start paying attention to the seasonal themes. I currently happen to be reading two books, which have some strong winter vibes and I thought to myself, man! these are so out of place when it’s hot and muggy outside! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ (books in question are American Gods and Melancholy of Resistance).
I've added Monkey Beach to my tbr now! Hadn't even heard of it before you mentioned it in a previous vlog. Hope you're well, emma 🐙
I love Jansson’s Summer Book, too!
Comfotr channel is comfort channelling
Good morning midnight sounds like I would enjoy it a lot! I got Monkey Beach from the library, as per your recommendation.
My three favorite books (all 4☆ reads) in June were How we disappeared by Jing Jing Lee, The snow child by Eowyn Ivey and As long as the lemontrees grow by Zoulfah Katouh.
If you haven't read The snow child yet, you might like it, a lot of Alaskan nature and winter descriptions...
I just finished Monkey Beach, and I adore it. Thank you for the recommendation of another 4☆ read!
Definitely going to try The Lost Ryū and see how I feel about it and try to remember to come back and tell you how I felt about it
Found and read it! I really enjoyed it personally. The pacing was a little odd and the explanations near the end were confusing to me at times but ultimately I found it emotional and heartwarming.
My favorite book in June was the graphic novel Everything is OK by Debbie Tung. It’s based on her experience with anxiety and depression - it’s so good but SO EMO and accurate too. I shed many tears.
My least favorite was Siege and Storm; I found it to be disappointing actually compared to Shadow and Bone. It felt like a different iteration of the same plot mostly. But I enjoyed the last 100 pages! It needed more revisions.
AAHHHH YOU READ MY FAVOURITE BOOK!!! (monkey beach slay). So glad you liked it :')
I only read one book. Rabbits by Terry Miles. I loved it!
Crazy, I was reading an article on Electric Literature this morning, The Top 10 Party Girls in Literature, when I came across a book mention that sounded like something you'd talked about recently. Sure enough, Good Morning, Midnight! Never heard of this book but now twice in a week. Pretty sure I need to try it.
finished the selected diaries of virginia woolf, carried over from may, and then four of the five a song of ice and fire books.. which are.. interesting
expunging is my favorite word now
Just finished Marriage Portrait by O Farrell and like it. This is a story of how horrific women been treat true history. To be honest, in that time was the same for many people, it is a renascence Italy.
I've been shifting books over and over again not being able to finish one , but still trying to find a book to break my reading slump
Thank you so much for sharing all the books you read Emmie. Two of the books you read were also on my list for school. Good Morning Midnight and The Merchant Of Venice, I would love to reread these at some point to see if my opinion changes as we had to read them quote quickly, too quickly in my opinion. I'm on Winter Break from school so I'm free to read what I want to. So far I've read On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong and Girl In A Pink Dress by Kylie Needham. Currently I'm reading Scribbles, Sorrows and Russet Leather Boots by Liz Rosenberg and Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong. 📚
Least favorite was probably The Stranger. Didn’t hate it or anything but I only read 4 books and something’s gotta be on the bottom of the list 😅
ha - that's such a wonderful problem to have!
@@jamesduggan7200 agreed! I wish I could have read more but to have liked everything I read is a great thing 😁
1. Captain of the sleepers
2. Richard the second by William Shakespeare
3. Good morning midnight
4. The very secret society of irregular witches
5. The summer I turned pretty
6. The summer book
Great readings, Emma! I really want read The Motorcycle Diaries. This month i've reread Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, and i've read The Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, and Anne of Windy Poplars, by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
I just Merchant of Venice too. I want to read Shakespeare's less talked about plays and I wanted to know why this one wasn't talked about, now I know. I enjoy how you talk about what you read.
It’s a terrific play.
You should read some Kurt Vonnegut novels I just read The Sirens of Titan and it was great !
Great job on lighting in this video
Henry Bolingbroke likely had Chaucer killed. The latter disappears from the historical record in 1400 when Henry became King. Chaucer was a courtier/diplomat in the court of Richard II. The Lancastrians brought a level of brutality to their reign that wasn't there under Richard II; he had banned Burning for Heresy but Henry brought it back. In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc was burned under this revised policy.
JUNE 2023 was a good month for reading and I read nine (9) books. One was about the women who married the famous Rothschild bankers of Europe and those women wrote some interesting books I'll have to look up.
Here are the books in order of my liking them.
“The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair
“He Knew He Was Right” by Anthony Trollope
“The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty" by Natalie Livingstone
"Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life" by Alex Christofi
"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt
"The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Bonjour tristesse" by Françoise Sagan
“The Stranger” by Albert Camus
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
If one more book falls in the top 65 books list, I can then say this was my highest quality book reading year of my whole life.
TO READ NEXT
“Chesapeake” by James A. Michener
“James Madison: America's First Politician” by Jay Cost
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
“Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
“Tis” by Frank McCourt
"The Osage Indian Murders: The True Story of a Multiple Murder Plot to Acquire the Estates of Wealthy Osage Tribe Members" by Laurence J. Hogan
Some of those books by the women who married the famous Rothschild bankers of Europe, which I will read some day though not on my immediate to read list, are the following:
“The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine” by Rozsika Parker
“Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos” by Miriam Rothschild
"Torn in Two: the Experience of Maternal Ambivalence" by Rozsika Parker
I read some of those. You have IMHO good taste. I'm also happy to see Michener in the list, tho I haven't read that particular story. He's very good. So many years have gone by and still I don't know what to say about Angela's Ashes.
@@jamesduggan7200, "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt was better than "Angela's Ashes." I read "Poland" and felt I was learning the history of my own family in East Germany, but now Poland and maybe Poland in the past. I looked over other books by James Michener and the only one looking like "Poland" or "Roots" or "War and Peace" seems to be "Chesapeake" and so I am halfway through that book now. It is good. I will be able to say upon finishing it that this year was the highest quality reading year of my whole life and I'll have many months to make it even better. This year I turn 50 years old. I have made a top 190 favorite books list. I love Russian literature and focused on that last year, but now I have surpassed last years reading in quality.
What would you offer up as a good James Michener book? If it is "Tales of the South Pacific" tell me why. Does it span centuries or does it have some lesson about humanity and what is the lesson? You can't spoil a good book. Let me know why you like that or some other one as your favorite Michener.
"Poland" was the definition of a people and could be loved by any person, even if they didn't come from the area. Imagine Nazism or communism making you do things you don't want, but then doing other things because you are Polish and will remain so for life and will want that influencing all your progeny. That to me was the lesson. The knife hidden behind the back just waiting for the moment Nazism or communism will pay.
@@ReligionOfSacrifice Years ago I spent several weeks with "Texas," and thought it time well spent. There are one or two other titles of his that are less memorable to the extent I'm not 100% I actually read them. Very rarely do I compile long lists of what I've read, tho I do like to create syllabi based on what I've read plus what I believe I'd like to add to them. For example, in the following (abbreviated) list: Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, and Lady Chatterley's Lover; what might we add to make a three credit course?
@@jamesduggan7200, before I cover what you wrote, I wish to cover my question again and ask how I can get an answer to it. I wonder if there is some way to find information on books on the internet. I guess I have to ask again to see if you got my original question in full. Did any of the books you read by James Michener have that following a fake family in a real historical setting over centuries feel? I wonder if "Hawaii" has that feel when he tries to do millions of years or "Tales of the South Pacific" if it only covers WWII. Then there was "The Source" which I thought might be good, but it was archeology with findings taking you back to how those things were lost there and it was more a focus on religion rather than a feel of a family.
"Chesapeake" seems to be understanding America through embellishment of scenarios such that you feel race and development of family as the focus, but written in such grand style. I can't say I've finished it yet, but at over 60% read it is likely to fall high on my favorites list.
"Poland" beat "Roots" but not "War and Peace" which are similar in style. It had grand tales of historical Poland happening to a fake family until finally at Nazi and communism oppression the richer families escape to other areas of Poland to avoid things happening to their family while the poor family stays and shows how Poland is not whether you carry some conditioning or traits of Polish identity, but whether you are the type which will stand as Polish till the end. Also, it doesn't matter if you are marrying into Polish families and loving Poland and the people (you are not Polish by such thoughts) as you wouldn't have what it takes to make Polish family anyway. It was a powerful ending.
Now "Roots" had it ended with just Kunta Kinte would have been an amazing ending and an amazing story which would be ranked very high for me, but the whole book was amazing. The movies or T.V. series changed character traits giving them to different people at different times in the book and made them silly, but the book showed this change in family character traits which was far more powerful and interesting.
"War and Peace" when I read it was like shutting my favorite book at completion in three and a half days, but since then it has been surpassed.
I gave up on "Anna Karenina" as a young man, but read it last year. It did not make the top 50 books, but nearly did. It was well worth the read. Perhaps as an older man (nearly 50 and same birthday as Barack Hussein Obama) I can read of a person who I once hated and now feel less and that might have helped. I think the mind of someone going nuts (bipolar & maniac depressive) was well represented by Leo Tolstoy and all characters were interesting. I think Levin's story a little weak along with the ending a little weak, but otherwise not bad.
What would sell "Lady Chatterley's Lover" or "Madame Bovary" and I don't care if you give spoilers as to why their cheating is interesting or worthy of reading. I think "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy the best book on cheating, but Leo Tolstoy can write of people and situations and environments and desires so well that it feel higher on the list of my favorite books.
53) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
71) "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy
TOP THIRTY (30) BOOKS
"The Holy Bible: King James Version" copyright 1967
1) "Verbal Behavior" by Dr. B. F. Skinner
2) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
3) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
5) Myth Adventures - series by Robert Asprin
6) The Chronicles of Narnia - series by C. S. Lewis
7) "Vilette" by Charlotte Brontë
8) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
9) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
10) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
11) "Poland" by James A. Michener
12) "Roots" by Alex Haley
13) The Silmarillion - The Hobbit, or there and back again - The Lord of the Rings - Middle Earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien
14) Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
15) "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin
16) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
17) "Paris 1919: six months that changed the world" by Margaret MacMillian
18) "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Brontë
19) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev
20) "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
21) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain
22) Old Mother West Wind series - wildlife series by Thornton Burgess
23) "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de Kruif
24) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
25) "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt
26) "Kon Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl
27) "From Beirut to Jerusalem" by Thomas Friedman
28) "The Berdine Un-Theory of Evolution: and Other Scientific Studies Including Hunting, Fishing, and Sex" by William C. Berdine
29) "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
30) "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosiński
@@ReligionOfSacrifice generally, I try to keep comments to a single paragraph, as I am a guest in this space and not the owner, As for Michener, I thought I did answer your question: The Texas saga follows one family, who are I believe named 'Cobb'. IIRC Centennial used a similar format but I'm not sure that qualifies as a Michener novel I've read. Memory is unreliable after so many years. Respecting your list, it's rare I see things like the KJV and Narnia. I've read KJV a few times (4? I'm not sure) and it is well-deserving its place on your list tho I'm not at all conversant on CS Lewis. I've read several of the others but for the most part we have a small frame of reference. Thank you very much for the Thomas Hardy recommendation, I expected to see something like Ulysses or the Scarlett Letter. If you wish to continue, feel free to E-mail, but I believe it improper to hijack someone else's space the way we're doing now. Thx - enjoyed.
My favorite book of the month was «Jamaica inn» by Daphne du Maurier.
Emma have you read any books by T. J. Klune? I love his books so so much, they definitely give the most comforting vibe ever! If you haven't the you should give his book House on the Cerulean sea a go. It definitely is the comfiest book I have ever read, it has found family, finding yorself and finding love. Reading that book feels like a warm hug
Hi Emmie hope you had a nice Canada Day
Emma! I feel like you’d adore “the hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet” by jamie ford
Haha, I do not know what it is but if I am forced to read something for school, any negative feelings I have when reading are super multiplied. I still enjoy those works, but if I don't I will REALLY not like them. Must be some psychology thing 😅
For June I just read books I was really interested in (pride and prejudice, dorian grey, some short stories).
In July I mainly want to try and finish Don Quixote. We read parts of it in school but I was not able to approach it. It's a bit scary and intimidating book but I'm really loving it so far so I hope my motivation doesn't wane.
Is there anything specific you do when you have to read such massive monumental books, both to not forget the details from the beginning and to not get intimidated by the page count and dense paragraphs?
I think that most readers will agree that if you just enjoy Don Quixote you'll laugh and enjoy it without intimidation. I used to read it on the way to work in the morning. It was an hour commute (on the way home usually I fell asleep), so I read a few episodes a day over the course of about two months or so. Some of the scenes are intrinsically memorable and others aren't. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
@@jamesduggan7200I'll keep that in mind. I think I was approaching it too much like a school book with that 'remembering everything' question 😅 I will stress less about it, thanks!
I haven't read much in June but i finally got around to picking up I'm glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy and while i really liked it i think it's a bit overated (hot take lol)
I'm so glad you enjoyed the motorcycle diaries (i strongly recommend the movie too), i live 40 minutes away from his family's summer house which has been turned into a museum and visiting it after reading the book is an amazing experience. To this day i'm very conflicted about his legacy but my God, what a fascinating man!
i only finished one this month damn
if there's one person who could convince me to buy a new book after a book buying ban, it's gotta be emma. The Summer Book: ordered.
Hello! First of all, I love your videos! :) I would love to also read the books from your South America Uni course. Can you tell us the list? Trank you!
I would also be interested 😊
my fav book i read this month of june was delilah doesnt care, im a sucker for a good saphic romance book with layers
and my least fav book was fight club, hated every single thing about it
I have ember and the ice dragons on the way. ❤❤
I recommend hotel world by Ali Smith if your looking for more hotels in literature vibes
Wow that is a lot of interesting Books. Like a Movie review.
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0:35 Captain of the Sleepers - Mayra Montero
4:01 Richard the Second - William Shakespeare
6:33 Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
13:22 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna
18:22 The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han
21:26 The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
22:49 Monkey Beach - Edin Robinson
22:38 The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
27:52 Every Summer After - Carley Fortune
32:19 The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Che Guevara
33:56 Hotel Life - Caroline Field Lavander and Matthew Pratt Guterl
34:34 The Lost Ryu - Emi Watanabe Cohen
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Have you ever read Ilkka Remes books? They are super good very political but not in the boring way. Very fast to read even though they are over 500 pages imo. Ilkka Remes is a Finnish author.
sorry but i read no books in june because of semester exams 😢, but seeing your june read books makes me feel happy.
wish me luck for results (╥﹏╥)...
Good luck with your results!! 🍀🍀
don't apologize for prioritizing other things over reading, we all have months when we don't have time. good luck with the results :)
@@caitlin1008 thanks(´-﹏-`；)🤍
@@yaeli_i_guess tysm :,-)🤍
Good luck with the results!
Emmie! Have you read Ice by Anna Kavan? I really think you would love it if you have not.
I'm so excited about the very secret society of irregular witches 😢❤
Finished Every Summer After in June too. For me it was good -ish but certainly not a highlight. 🤣
You are taking “Merchant of Venice” completely out of historical context. Shylock was the most sympathetic and three dimensional Jewish character created by a non-Jewish writer up to that point. He gets to talk about how he is treated by the Christians, how he mourns his wife. And there wouldn’t be one near that for a couple centuries. Normally Jewish “villains” would be killed at the end as in Marlowe’s “Jew of Malta”. So in historical context, the play is philo-Semitic. The trial is one of the greatest scenes all of Shakespeare. Think about how little attention Shakespeare pays to the villains in other comedies. Don John, Duke Frederick etc. Shakespeare made an effort to make Shylock a much fuller character.
The trial is very good. It works so well because up to that point we believe we're watching a comedy destined for some ridiculous reconciliation and then all of a sudden we're asked to consider the possibility of Angelo's tragic end. To die at the hands of a cruel wretch while only trying to help his friends because the law of Venice is primitive and brutal forces us to think about the characters and their plights. Then, in a human form of deus ex machina Portia appears to solve the problem simply. Thus, we have another one of Shakespeare's strong women.
@@jamesduggan7200 It IS a comedy. One is supposed to root for the couples to get together. I wouldn't call Portia's appearance at the trial a deus ex machina - since her wiles had been fully established. The play is largely about how she defeats three killjoy paternal figures. Her own dead father in Act 3, Shylock in Act 4 and Antonio in Act 5 (the whole ring business was meant to sever the emotional link she saw that her husband has with Antonio). That's part of why Emmie's comment that "the whole play" is about nothing but anti-Semitism is simply wrong. She didn't think about the play beneath the surface plot.
@@Tolstoy111 If you say so, For my taste no one but WS can suddenly twist a comedy into a tragedy or find an easy solution to impossible problem. As for the psychology, well, I believe it takes a back seat to a desire to please a paying audience.
@@jamesduggan7200 It does not end tragically. The couples all walk off in a flourish of happiness.
How much longer do you have to go for your degree? I love the content associated with your major in terms of book recommendations!
The premise of The Lost Ryui sounds so amazing but it's too bad that it didn't live it up to it :(
Does anyone have book recommendations similar to Kiki's delivery service or this book??
I know you’re hesitant to recommend The Lost Ryu, but I want to give it a go. The execution may not be perfect but the concept sounds so good.
What happened to your reading The Brothers Karamasov together with Carolyn Marie through May and June? You never spoke of it anymore in your last videos. Been very curious what you thought about it.
Song at the end?
I’m in such a reading slump. Max 2 per month 😢 Hold me 😆
You pronounce things in spanish very well🤚🏼
I have various problems with English degrees, and being forced to read books against your will is one of them.
R II is a good play but only a bore would place it in front of R III, which has always attracted the best actors. I especially like the speech Old John of Gaunt gives on his deathbed, wherein he describes England as a pearl set in the sea etc. The rest of the play is good, tho I can't say I like the way he used the French women as chattel to pay off royals. Henry IV part 1, Henry V, and Henry VI part 3 are the best in the series between the two Richards. When you get a chance watch some of the movie versions: They're the best in Shakespeare.
R3 is super early Shakespeare. It’s very Tamerlane-ish. Apart from the title character, no one else matters. everything is drawn out to ridiculous lengths. R2 is one greatest flights of lyricism in the entire Shakespearean canon. Not a single line is superfluous.
@@Tolstoy111 Well, I prefer the poetry of Henry V, of course, The main problem with R II is - as Emmie pointed out - the MC lacks substance and direction. That creates an opportunity to create a strong woman but as you yourself explain that's more characteristic of the later plays.
@@jamesduggan7200 He's a fascinating character! He starts as a fop and ends up as a metaphysical poet. The way he contemplates his growing irrelevance and impending demise is deeply moving. He's a fully imagined character. Richard 3 is a cartoon. An entertaining cartoon but...
@@Tolstoy111 I don't necessarily see it as "him or me, my way or the highway" situation. Mckellan, Oliver, and Branagh have delivered powerful R III and Pacino's Finding Richard is exquisite IMO. As for R II, it is an original in the sense you describe, as it is something of backwards character development we witness. Maybe it would be clever to start at the end - his ultimate demise - and then tell the story in reverse?
@@jamesduggan7200 "Looking for Richard" is a lot of fun. I feel the arc in R2 is perfect.
everyone has said that jenny han is better as a screenwriter than an author
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Where is A thousand steps into night😢?I'm waiting for that🙃
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Noice. I read some JoJo. That's it. Best manga.