My Favorite Authors
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- A video I've put off making for three years!
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Your Favorite Authors
6 "Not Quite"
4 "Maybe"
5 "Favorites" (Ranked)
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"As romantic as a vuvuzela" is probably my favourite line that I've heard all year. 👍🏼😆
This was a remarkable video. A few of these authors were completely new to me while others are also deeply held favorites. I fell madly into Antigone when I was a teenager and you reminded me of how much I was impacted by her character. I’m reading How To Be Both currently as a buddy read and I never want to read her alone again because she offers so much that it helps to have others along with me to pick up the references I miss. I am also making my way through The Farseer trilogy for the first time and am entranced. I appreciate the variety of your list. Thanks for doing this!
Great video, there were a few there that I did not know about and will check out.
My favorites at least those who pop up in my head at this moment are . .
1 - Milan Kundera.
2 - Bohumil Hrabal.
3 - Halldór Laxness.
4 - Kurt Vonnegut.
5 - Aldous Huxley.
6 - Haruki Murakami.
7 - Tove jansson.
OMG, your Iago impression! ❤️
Yep, totally get what you're saying about being nervous about making this sort of video but I'm glad you have because I was keen to hear who you'd select and, of course, it'll be interesting to see how your list changes if you revisit or do this video again in 5 or 10 years time.
I'm so with you on Liz Strout and so not with you on Austen. Haha. But I've not read several authors you talk about so will be keen to explore at some point - especially Schnitzler (if only I spoke German so I could read those diaries!)
With every American behemoth who dies let's shout from the rooftops "We've still got Marilynne Robinson!" 😂
Have you read Sophie & the Sibyl by Patricia Duncker? The way you talk about Eliot makes me think you'll love it.
Alex's video made me want to finally make a video on this subject too. Thanks for doing it!
That was a lot of fun! You did a great job. I appreciate many of the writers you discuss and even love some of them. I am terrified of doing this but I know that I will do it. I'm not really afraid of how people might respond to it. It is more about the soul-searching that I'll have to do just to put a list of authors together.
It's raining for the first time this fall- and in months. And you upload! This morning is conspiring to be perfect.
Your Yago impression was amazing. This is a great list and I think I walked away with a few I have yet to read. I completely agree with the Schnitzler. I recently discovered Durrenmatt who is honestly just as odd and wonderful. Great list!
I so enjoyed hearing your selections and your impressions about the authors' works. Intrigued by Schnitzler and Jacques, among others new to me. I feel like I need to get on it with checking out Cortazar! Love this series of videos and am keen to see more folks take up the question of fave writers.
This is so lovely - got me in my bookish feelings before 8:00am 😭 And a good reminder to read more George Eliot!
I was fortunate to be scared by watching a performance of Antigone in middle School. I love that play. I wonder if we are just wired to not process trama properly. It also might be an observation that just makes for the best cathartic consumption of art.
Very interesting! Glad to have found your channel.
Wonderful video! You have me thinking about my own favorite writers.
This was so interesting! I’m also trying to compile my own list, and I relate completely to feeling odd that I have favorite authors by whom I’ve only read a few books. It happens. With a lot of authors, it can take a lot to get through everything they wrote. I hope to read Middlemarch soon, so I’m looking forward to exploring Eliot! And Sontag and Robinson’s presence on this list made me very happy! They will certainly appear on mine, as well.
Great to see Ali Smith make your list. She is a gem. While I was not one of those who screamed this is the end of literature when Philip Roth passed away he would make my list of favorites. Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed this video and your lovely choices, Jen.
Your explanations were so heartfelt, informative and educational.
(P.S. I so love Brian Jacques, and his wonderful Redwall series.) :)
Brian Jacques came to my school and captivated a whole assembly hall of 11 year olds that had never heard of him. He was very charismatic and made me want to read the Redwall series but strangely I never did. I think it's because I never recovered from reading Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and have steered clear of anthropomorphized animal fiction ever since.
How tough to pick your favs eh? Great job and great personality and impressions. You rock
Some of my guesses made appearances! Wasn’t sure in what categories: Ali Smith, Eliot, Trollope-and yay Robinson!!
I’m rereading Middlemarch now, loved it during my first go-round in March, but finding out so much more upon a reread. Nice to see some Strout and Sontag love here too! And as always, lovely to see a video from you! 💫
I loved the breadth of this. I subscribed to you months back but haven’t sat down and enjoyed one of your videos yet. This was a wonderful place to start.
Where would you have someone start with Elizabeth Stout?
Brian Jacques is a great choice. He really is a master.
I loved the dialogue about Edward Eager vs. E. Nesbit... NO ONE I KNOW I WOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION BESIDES ME! I do fall on the Nesbit side. I think she gives children the wit/selfishness/passion that is ingrained in them. She would be one of my favorites. I recommend her all the time.
Robinson adoration is completely justified.
Julio Cortazar? I haven't heard many people mention him. IMO he's a genius as well.
Love this type of video, will probably do it! 😊
Some of my favorite authors are Becky Chambers, David Mitchell, Donna Tartt, Robin Hobb and Salman Rushdie :)
Salman Rushdie ❤️
I just discover your channel and you are an instant subscribe. Nice to know a Cortázar reader.
oh thank you for uploading this video Merci ! I loved it. I wrote on my blog about my favorite authors and books and it's been almost ten years, and though I've found new authors I really enjoy, the old ones are still around :-) I'm French so I didn't know about Brian Jacques or Edward Eager for instance (but I'm going to look their names up). I would definitely put Jane Austen in my favorite authors as well, and I agree with you about the fact she's universally known, and all the BBC adaptations and movies but her books, her talent ? and Ali Smith is also one my favorite authors of all time, her trilogy, her short stories - so cool to find her amongst your favorite authors (the top 3 I've noticed : only female ?). I'm going to participate in the Victober readathan and I will be reading George Eliot for the first time ever, wish me luck ! As for me, J.D Salinger remains my favorite author of all time. I reread Nine Stories last year and cried again (because of Seymour and of course Esme..) - every time, I read it, my emotions come back as strong as the first time.He has stolen my heart ! Ken Kesey and Ken Haruf as well. I'm going to turn this tag into a blog tag if you don't mind.
Yay for George Elliot! I have only read Adam Bede but she is already amongst my favorite authors. Her writing style is sublime. 😊
Such an interesting selection. I loved this video so much and am so happy about Eliot reigning supreme. Planning on reading Mill on the Floss for the first time this #Victober and I can't wait. Gaskell is possibly my favourite Victorian author though but I've read more by her.
I share your initial hesitations about this tag. And I was so happy to see you again. Yay Eliot!
I bought Middlemarch because of you, and this video reminded me that I should really get to it soon. I don't feel I'm well read enough for this list yet, but I do love Anne Bronte, Kurt Vonnegut and Brandon Sanderson, a whole lot.
Michelle, ditto for me with Middlemarch. If you'd like to do a read-a-long with me I'm thinking of reading it this February....It just seems like it may be that kind of mood month to read it. Let me know if you're on bookstagram, I'm there as phillybookfairy if you'd like to gather some ppl up so we can finally read Middlemarch!!
Mishelle- forgive me mispelling your name my stupid phone is on an autocorrect mission to thwart all my spellings. Damn over-zealous maniacal setting!! Lol
@@Phillybookfairy I am but I'm also on booktube! I'm definitely keen to do a Middlemarch read along. Can you DM me - mishellelexi on Twitter or mishelle.lexi on instagram
Your articulate dissection of not only the books you love but your own personal emotions is utter perfection. I bought George Elliot's #Middlemarch due to the video and your love for that book so yes! No big surprise that she is your favourite! I haven't read it yet but it's up there with a tremendous wall of TBR's. I hope one day I can hone in my reviews to be more "cerebral" - instead of just being so emotionally overwhelmed that I become a babbling idiot lol!!! Anyhow, loved loved LOVED this video, so glad you made it. Some of my top authors are Charlotte Bronte and John Steinbeck - who I think I'm a little posthumously in love with (husband will have to deal). I also love Marilyn Robinson and have a recently fallen in love with the prose of Jean Rhys, who's novel Wide Sargasso Sea inspired me to read her other novels and biographies on her life. Although I did not love the plot nor the portrayal of Mr Rochester in her story, I found her writing to be so raw and beautiful. The one scene where she she and Tia face off, and she gets but with a stone, and she says they stared at each other, "blood on my face, tears on hers. It was if I saw myself. Like in a looking-glass." Looking glass indeed, a mirror image (or backwards flipped image, same but vastly different). Something about that whole scene haunts me. It just struck me as the best part of the novel. The rest and all the coupled madness just didn't live up to that moment or to her beautiful writing, but anyhow it inspired me and I'm looking forward to her next novels - to see if t get magic lives up to that moment in Wide Sargasso Sea. Blabbing on, many ppl do not appreciate that book but it was an honest look at the racial tensions of post-slavery and again without that part the book would not have been so great, for me.
Mine is Ibrahim Nasrallah's Time of White Horses (2017). It's a book I love to reread in heaven. Another one is Tariq Ali's Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1991). Recently, I discovered Dina Leheta's When the Sidewalk Ends (2018). Please let me not forget the ones that blew my mind away (all of them actually did) Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin (2010), Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time (2016) & Kamilia Shamsie's Home Fire (2017). Anyway, thank you for letting me know that there exists book lovers in this world.
I read mornings in Jenin and definitely loved it!
Self inflicted what?! I love this! You should come here more often! We miss you
Ditto, do more videos, come back to us!! We're starving!
Half Magic is my all time favorite book. I must have read it ten times or more. Knight's Castle is right up there in the line up of best evers.
That was an absolute pleasure to listen to. xx : )
From high school, all I remember of Antigone is a film adaptation and an histrionic Englishman importuning Crayon! Crayon! Ooooh, Crayon about something or another, and at times I catch myself (twenty-five years later) enjoining this same Crayon in the name of nothing in particular to come to my aid or ultimate destruction. I later reread Antigone and the entire Oedipus cycle and I also must include it in my personal pantheon of favorites.
Love this video. Trying to rank them is so hard! Some of my favorites are John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Stephen King, Jumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alex Haley, Amor Towles, Octavia Butler. And I have to be honest - J. K. Rowling!
Hurray what a great video!! Glad I read these comments re. vuvuzela as I thought you'd said "as romantic as a foofoo sailor" 😬
Oh my goodness, you're hilarious! I think this is, so far, my favorite video. And it more about you, not so much the authors. =) My favorite author is Margaret George.
My favorite author is definitely Elif Shafak. I have a special affection for her essays which sadly never get translated into English but I'm lucky enough to being able to read them in Turkish.
I also really really love Guillaume Musso, Tess Gerritsen and Leila Meacham.
I could name at least ten more authors but those are all people I've read only one or two books from so it doesn't seem realistic calling them favorites yet (i.e. Donna Tartt, John Marrs, Christine Mangan, Stuart Turton, Taylor Jenkins Reid etc).
I didn't see George Eliot coming ... no kidding, I'm new to the channel. But I love seeing more love for George Eliot, always! Btw, I get uncomfortable too, with appreciation for older work of mine. I totally get it. Am glad to see actually that there are others who experience that too!
Hi Jen! Could you maybe lend your opinions as to where to start and progress with Eliot? I have read quite a bit but never got around to Eliot, and I wanna start now. Which have you read, and where do you think I should start?
THANK YOU
Hello, this was so much fun to watch! :D Here are some of my favourite writers, along with my favourite book of them - Neel Mukherjee (The Lives of Others), Anita Desai (Clear Light of Day), Han Kang (The White Book; I am incredibly excited to read Human Acts), Orhan Pamuk (Snow), and Emily Dickinson (every word, every sentence she put on paper is almost sacred for me).Jennifer, I might be completely wrong here, but I somehow think you will really, really like Clear Light of Day. Check it/these out if/whenever you feel like it. I really enjoy watching your videos. Thank you. :)
I love Edward Eager's books! I wish he had written more.
Steinbeck, Hardy, Eliot. Easy for my top 3. Conroy, Wouk, Irving would be in the mix. And although I have only read one book by these two, I would consider them: Tartt and Proulx.
I always watch these videos hoping to make the list. Alas, not again. Sad Face Imoji here
I've been meaning to read Marilynne Robinson for more than a decade! Must bump her up the queue. Gilead is looking down on me from the bookshelf. Might borrow Housekeeping first from the library and read them in order.
You dont have to read them in order.... Gilead is my first and Housekeeping is staring me down from the bookshelves in defiance.
@@Phillybookfairy good to know, thank you :D
Missed you, jen! 😊
Forever favourites are Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, Homer... but recently really enjoyed Lauren Elkin, Jo Walton and Sarah Moss’ Names for the Sea and Jean Ray’s Malpertius. Weird but good.
I thought the first 6 you mentioned were your top 6, and I was so confused. "Where is Marilynne?" I was wondering. Sorry I doubted you! Haha.
"About as romantic as a vuvuzela." This is another reason I watch your videos, Jen. It know now for sure that it isn't because have similar reading tastes.
OhmiflippingGOSH. Edward Eager IS a wannabe E Nesbit (and EXTREMELY openly) and*singsong* brill-liaaaannnt. His work is just lovely and so precisely what a kid wants to read so that the child in you still loves them. The man can do wordplay and imagery and loving satire and sharp humor and the series becomes this grand central station of fantasy bringing in lands and references from the best children's stories.
Yes!!!! :)
A couple years ago I was sitting in the hallway at my high school having a Gay old time reading the mill on the floss, when my English teacher came up from behind me ,looked into my eyes and said "really that book?"... that wasn't very nice.
I AM needy! For example: WHEN'S MY NEXT VISIT????
Jen's Dream
U r 'in the world'? U r certainly NOT of this world. U r incontrovertibly lost in the world of literature and don't want to escape. From that world u r escape-free.