Lol, the hardest ones are those by unknown authors -- I'll usually find a UA-cam video in which they pronounce the name, but most of the time I don't speak the language, so I'll have to rewind it a thousand times just to find at what point they're actually pronouncing the name 😂
My gosh, this is the kind of effort all booktubers should aspire to put in to pronouncing non-english names. It definitely makes me want to try harder. Brilliant video, as per usual!
As a linguist I really appreciate your code switching to pronounce the names in their original accents 💛 also the research you put into this, this is phenomenal!
Kiss of the Spider Woman is an incredible book! It has the feel of classic cinema. I've never read a book that felt like it was written in black and white, but this really had that effect. So gorgeous.
I have a Alejandra Pizarnik quote on my bookshelf: "I speak the way I speak inside. Not with the voice intent on sounding human, but with the other one, the one that insists I’m still a creature of the forest." Also, props to you for making this list. It's so wonderful to hear about so many queer books that I didnt know existed. Your recommendations are unmatched!!
Oh that's so awesome to hear!! I'm super excited to read it! I know New York Review Books also published her last manuscript, so hopefully I'll find a way to get my hands on that one as well :)
this is excellent! i'm studying to be a librarian and i want to recommend your channel to industry professionals wherever I can. I know libraries are not just about books anymore, but still it's a big part! hopefully, little by little, we can break away from tradition and get a true understanding of different people and, by reflection, ourselves. also i wanted to mention - thanks for your idea of reading poetry out loud; i've been trying that recently, and ever since that video, i've been enjoying poetry for the first time! thanks as always for all your insightful content
No stay away from this book. The main character was utterly boring! Plus the civil war backdrop and ages spent in boarding school. Please avoid that grit to get through 3star book.
ALL your content is always so so so well thought out and well rounded, amazing. You really see all of the work and passion going in there and I’m delighted to watch your videos each time ❤️ ALSO yes! That outfit!! 🥰😍 a shirt dress is always a good idea
Amazing! I’ve added the following to my list: ## Notes of a crocodile, Qiu Miaojin ## Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde ## Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima ## An underground Life: memoirs of a gay Jew in nazi Berlin, Gad Beck ## Bitter Eden, Tatamkhulu Afrika ## The Woman who owned the shadows, Paula Gunn Allen Always appreciate your videos and recommendations, keep it up!
I don't usually like leaving UA-cam comments but I am SHOOK omg so I'm Taiwanese-American and the fact that you put a book in there by a Taiwanese author made me so happy (I don't really have a strong connection to what my culture is and I don't normally hear about Taiwanese authors so this totally threw me for a loop). I'm not that good at speaking Chinese either but your pronunciation sounded pretty good and I'm beyond excited to read all of these books! Thank you so much for this fantastic list!!!!
I really love that you're putting your all into pronouncing the name of the authors ! This is so respectful. You are an example ! Also the content was super interesting. I may be picking some of this books. Thanks for you good work :D
Another fantastic video! Seriously, I don’t know of a single booktuber who does the work that has to go into these types, and making it so much easier for us to diversify and find books we wouldn’t otherwise.
I wasn't expecting Argentina to be on the list. I live there and never heard of those books. I heard about the authors but never bothered to look them up, my bad. Your outfits are always amazing ♥
I can highly recommend The Kiss of the Spider Woman (el beso de la mujer araña), it's written in a really beautiful and interesting way! I got myself a copy some years ago when visiting Buenos Aires, and I loved it. It shouldn't be too hard to find in book stores, especially if you live in a bigger city. ☺️
I read extracts of an underground life in my german-english history class and I screamed when it came up, I can‘t wait to read the whole book since just the snippets I already know where so heart wrenching yet lovely yet gripping.
I'm currently reading Notes of a Crocodile, I only just started and I'm so excited about it. This is the first time I heard anyone on booktube talk about it. I love your pronunciation, I tried to look up and pronounce the names too for a video I made for my library about Asian Heritage Month recommendations but I didn't do it well at all. Your German pronunciation was perfect! This is the first of your videos I've seen and I subbed :)
i love you i love you i love youuuuuuuu i'm so happy i found your channel, this is one of the first times i've heard an english speaking booktuber actually nail the hispanic names
I really appreciate your world lit recommendations. As a comparative literature student I love hearing about new books from all over the world and Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Confessions of a Mask are both now on my TBR!
I wish that world literature classics were discussed a bit more on Booktube since the world is just too big and there's too many writers from all over the world I think should be talked about more and uplifted. Thanks again for your excellent recommendations, I was shocked that I'd only heard of Mishima's work...and I added nearly all the others to my TBR list! Looking forward to your next videos :)))
Great selection, I recommend including in the list ‘my tender matador’ by Pedro Lemebel, such a good novel, short but precise, it’s a window to Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and it’s society of the 80’s from the perspective of an LGBTQ+ character that has fallen in love.
I already wanted to read the Audre Lorde book... I just finished Sister Outsider last week and it was outstanding. I hadn't heard of any of the other books you mentioned and they all sound intriguing! I think I've figured it out. You must not sleep. You're a robot. That's how you are able to do so many things. That must be it... :) I love your shirt-dress, the pattern is so pretty!
Very excited for this! The shirt dress is gorgeous 😍 and this might be a little off topic, but I'm partially deaf and your voice is so easy for me to understand and lipread. I'm not sure how accurate the auto CC captions are, but I didn't need to rely on them so much. You've also added so much to my TBR!
I want to read "an underground life" by gad beck because I think it's really interesting how an jewish and homosexual boy survived the second world war. And because it's german so I can read it in german XD I love the pattern of your shirt by the way
What a fantastic video! Another beautiful outfit + dance and so many great recommendations! The way you are so careful and serious about your reading and channel but at the same time spread so much joy and light impresses me so much 💚
I have never heard of these books before and I am glad you brought them to my attention. It’s quite refreshing to see for one international books and for another book recommendations that aren’t ya mainstream that everyone has read already. I am so glad I found your channel! It really is a gem.
Your videos are so expansiv,e, thorough, worldly, and impactful. I took some poetry books out of a local library a couple of weeks back and touched so many parts of the world in doing so. I can't help but to think your videos helped me reach further and wider than I would usually. You've pulled me out of my western/black diasporic bubble. Thank you so much.
oh my god the pronounciations were just BEAUTIFUL. Hearing the argentinian names pronounced as if you were a native was such a relief, I can't believe it's such an issue in the community. We should all learn to do the same thing. I love how much research you did for this video and how you included so many classics from all over the world, amazing video!!
omgggggggg the sheer diversity of this. THANK YOU, i was in shock as a jew to find that you'd chosen a jewish author as well. i rarely see people reading our literature. amazing, and i'm going to check out all of these books.
I'm so excited about the latin american recs😭❤️ latin america has such a rich tradition of literature. For queer authors i recommend the chilean Pedro Lemebel!!
Wow! What a great list. The only book I've read here is the Audre Lorde, but I've added these all to my TBR list. I also love how you show your outfits at the beginning of your videos.
always watching your videos with a goodreads window open to add your recs to my tr-lists - from this particular video I'm especially curios about Notes of a Crocodile, hope I can find it through my library!
Yes yes yes, I want to read all of these books! Also, you dancing to show the outfit is everything and your thumbnails are so colourful and beautiful! And thank you for always mentioning the translator, I feel like translators end up always inevitably adding much of their life experiences in translations, therefore, they should be mentioned as well.
Thank you so much for this video! I’m only familiar with two of these - Zami and Confessions of a Mask - and I’m extremely excited to read more! Classics are super fun, especially LGBT ones. It’s a very well-done video which makes all of them sound interesting, polished and put together well. Can’t wait for more!
I have heard of Audrey Lord. Right now as an English major, I don't have much time to read recreationally. I just finished Irish Literature and will be doing American Literature, Shakespearean Lit, and Poetry this semester.
I'm so glad i stumbled upon your chanell! You are truly doing God's work with your videos. As a non-native english speaker, it is very hard for me to get access to diverse lgbtq+ books bc if they're even translated it's always only into English but videos like yours make it easier for me to discover new ones and diversify my TBR list so thank you so much
I'm currently in the last 50 pages of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall and it's incredible, also a queer classic! I've added Notes of a Crocodile, Confessions of a Mask, An Underground Life, and Bitter Eden to my goodreads want to read list, and The Woman Who Owned the Shadows is already on there 😊
I recently read a German classic, Thoman Mann's The Magic Mountain, which isn't canonically queer but Mann was posthumously discovered to have been gay and there are definite signs of that being reflected in the main characters of some of his books. It was really interesting to analyse from that point of view, trying to piece together the main character's sexuality and the author's own feelings through the book. It's a mammoth of a novel and quite a slow read, but if you're looking for a challenge I would recommend!
So glad you commented on this. I have Mann's Death in Venice sitting on my TBR shelf, and I just looked thru his Wikipedia article. Interestingly, 3 of his 6 children were also gay/ lesbian, and his daughter Erika, an actress and writer, once had a relationship with Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was one of the other authors Seji mentioned. How cool is that? :)
@@katietatey Yes, it's so interesting! If his children didn't even know he was gay growing up that raises an interesting question about the genetic component in sexuality.. I've heard Death in Venice has the most obvious gay character or storyline from his books.
I highly recommend "The Golden Gate" by Vikram Seth. It uses the format of "Onegin sonnets," named after the "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, which the book is inspired by. The tone is great at switching from very funny to very serious and heartfelt and it deals with coming to terms with queerness, protests, and a lot of other things. I know he has a lot of other great books, but this is the only one I've read, and I love the format so much because I also love "Eugene Onegin."
These all sound fantastic, thank you Seji! I want to recommend one of my favourite queer classics from my country Australia, a memoir called Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave :)
These are great recommendations, thank you! I am happy to hear you mention Annemarie Schwarzenbach, she had a very interesting, if short, life. She came from a very conservative family (her grandfather was the Swiss general in WWI and basically the entire clan had Nazi-sympathies, the name still carries a bit of a stigma), but carved out an identity for herself, travelling the Middle East with another woman. The author Carson McCullers was apparently in love with Schwarzenbach; I think a book came out this year that touches upon it, called "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" or something along those lines. I haven't read it yet, but it is on my list. The book by Gad Beck and "Bitter Eden" also sound very interesting, I might pick those up.
I've had Yukio Mishima and Alejandra Pizarnik's books in my wishlist for so long now I'm for sure gonna pick them up! (and some others from the video too)
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Any other booktuber: can’t read a name in english and doesn’t even try to learn. Seiji: *hold my obscure classics*
Lol, the hardest ones are those by unknown authors -- I'll usually find a UA-cam video in which they pronounce the name, but most of the time I don't speak the language, so I'll have to rewind it a thousand times just to find at what point they're actually pronouncing the name 😂
My gosh, this is the kind of effort all booktubers should aspire to put in to pronouncing non-english names. It definitely makes me want to try harder. Brilliant video, as per usual!
I must say, she is an exceptional co tent creator. Beautiful pronunciation!
I speak mandarin and she shocked me!!!
Yeah its very refreshing to hear people try instead of just fumbling
Yes! I’m a native Spanish speaker, and she pronounced it so well
As an LGBTQ+ POC these all sound super interesting and I'll be adding a lot to my tbr list!
Yaaay!! So delighted to hear that!!! Happy reading!! 🤗✨✨✨
@@TheArtisanGeek thank you!
As a linguist I really appreciate your code switching to pronounce the names in their original accents 💛 also the research you put into this, this is phenomenal!
Kiss of the Spider Woman is an incredible book! It has the feel of classic cinema. I've never read a book that felt like it was written in black and white, but this really had that effect. So gorgeous.
The Movie is truly wonderful. Check it out if you get a chance.
I have a Alejandra Pizarnik quote on my bookshelf: "I speak the way I speak inside. Not with the voice intent on sounding human, but with the other one, the one that insists I’m still a creature of the forest."
Also, props to you for making this list. It's so wonderful to hear about so many queer books that I didnt know existed. Your recommendations are unmatched!!
your fashion sense?? your voice?? your accent? AND YOU'RE A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT AND CONSIDERATE PERSON?? i think i'm in love
i've never heard of any of these. your chinese pronunciation is pretty good! you're absolutely amazing~ thank you so much, seji!
Thank you very much!!! The pleasure is absolutely mine!!! 🤗✨✨
Notes of a Crocodile is one of my favorite books! I’m glad to see it mentioned and I hope that you enjoy it when you get to it!
Oh that's so awesome to hear!! I'm super excited to read it! I know New York Review Books also published her last manuscript, so hopefully I'll find a way to get my hands on that one as well :)
this is excellent! i'm studying to be a librarian and i want to recommend your channel to industry professionals wherever I can. I know libraries are not just about books anymore, but still it's a big part! hopefully, little by little, we can break away from tradition and get a true understanding of different people and, by reflection, ourselves.
also i wanted to mention - thanks for your idea of reading poetry out loud; i've been trying that recently, and ever since that video, i've been enjoying poetry for the first time!
thanks as always for all your insightful content
Guitar4Eva100 do so.
@B G i guess it depends on the country, but yes, for me I need qualifications to work as a librarian :D
Fabulous recs! This is everything we need rn!
I highly recommend Under the udala trees by Chinelo Okparanta. It's beautiful and I keep thinking about it.
No stay away from this book. The main character was utterly boring! Plus the civil war backdrop and ages spent in boarding school. Please avoid that grit to get through 3star book.
ALL your content is always so so so well thought out and well rounded, amazing. You really see all of the work and passion going in there and I’m delighted to watch your videos each time ❤️ ALSO yes! That outfit!! 🥰😍 a shirt dress is always a good idea
Amazing!
I’ve added the following to my list:
## Notes of a crocodile, Qiu Miaojin
## Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde
## Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima
## An underground Life: memoirs of a gay Jew in nazi Berlin, Gad Beck
## Bitter Eden, Tatamkhulu Afrika
## The Woman who owned the shadows, Paula Gunn Allen
Always appreciate your videos and recommendations, keep it up!
The poems of Alejandra Pizarnik are really beautiful, and that book feels so especial.
Also that shirt is gorgeous.
THE QUALITY OF THE CONTENT. THE CARE FOR THE DETAILS. YOUR ACCENT. THE DRESS. EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO JUST WOW
I appreciate the xtra little info you provide about the authors and translators.
Thank you so very much!! 🌸✨
I don't usually like leaving UA-cam comments but I am SHOOK omg so I'm Taiwanese-American and the fact that you put a book in there by a Taiwanese author made me so happy (I don't really have a strong connection to what my culture is and I don't normally hear about Taiwanese authors so this totally threw me for a loop). I'm not that good at speaking Chinese either but your pronunciation sounded pretty good and I'm beyond excited to read all of these books! Thank you so much for this fantastic list!!!!
I really love that you're putting your all into pronouncing the name of the authors ! This is so respectful. You are an example ! Also the content was super interesting. I may be picking some of this books. Thanks for you good work :D
Another fantastic video! Seriously, I don’t know of a single booktuber who does the work that has to go into these types, and making it so much easier for us to diversify and find books we wouldn’t otherwise.
Thanks for plugging Grassfields. When I saw the short I instantly wanted to know where you got it.
I wasn't expecting Argentina to be on the list. I live there and never heard of those books. I heard about the authors but never bothered to look them up, my bad.
Your outfits are always amazing ♥
I can highly recommend The Kiss of the Spider Woman (el beso de la mujer araña), it's written in a really beautiful and interesting way! I got myself a copy some years ago when visiting Buenos Aires, and I loved it. It shouldn't be too hard to find in book stores, especially if you live in a bigger city. ☺️
I read extracts of an underground life in my german-english history class and I screamed when it came up, I can‘t wait to read the whole book since just the snippets I already know where so heart wrenching yet lovely yet gripping.
I'm currently reading Notes of a Crocodile, I only just started and I'm so excited about it. This is the first time I heard anyone on booktube talk about it. I love your pronunciation, I tried to look up and pronounce the names too for a video I made for my library about Asian Heritage Month recommendations but I didn't do it well at all. Your German pronunciation was perfect! This is the first of your videos I've seen and I subbed :)
i love you i love you i love youuuuuuuu i'm so happy i found your channel, this is one of the first times i've heard an english speaking booktuber actually nail the hispanic names
I really appreciate your world lit recommendations. As a comparative literature student I love hearing about new books from all over the world and Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Confessions of a Mask are both now on my TBR!
thanks for the recs!! also i love that u always show what you're wearing your style is really cool
I wish that world literature classics were discussed a bit more on Booktube since the world is just too big and there's too many writers from all over the world I think should be talked about more and uplifted. Thanks again for your excellent recommendations, I was shocked that I'd only heard of Mishima's work...and I added nearly all the others to my TBR list! Looking forward to your next videos :)))
I really love how much attention you put into properly pronouncing authors' names
It's really great that you included the translators' names when possible. ❤️❤️
The time and effort you took to discover all these wonderful books is absolutely amazing. I will be adding some to my ever growing list ❤
So happy to hear that!! Thanks so much for watching!! 🤗✨✨
THANK YOU. I have been looking for a list like this for years, I am SO thankful.
Great selection, I recommend including in the list ‘my tender matador’ by Pedro Lemebel, such a good novel, short but precise, it’s a window to Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and it’s society of the 80’s from the perspective of an LGBTQ+ character that has fallen in love.
Seji! I've studied mandarin for five years and your pronunciation was better than mine.
Great video!!
The Manuel Puig's novel title in spanish is "El Beso de la Mujer Araña" and it's really good! I'm glad you mentioned it ❤
Writing these titles down so I don’t forget, thanks for the recs!!❤️
I already wanted to read the Audre Lorde book... I just finished Sister Outsider last week and it was outstanding. I hadn't heard of any of the other books you mentioned and they all sound intriguing! I think I've figured it out. You must not sleep. You're a robot. That's how you are able to do so many things. That must be it... :) I love your shirt-dress, the pattern is so pretty!
Very excited for this! The shirt dress is gorgeous 😍 and this might be a little off topic, but I'm partially deaf and your voice is so easy for me to understand and lipread. I'm not sure how accurate the auto CC captions are, but I didn't need to rely on them so much. You've also added so much to my TBR!
I want to read "an underground life" by gad beck because I think it's really interesting how an jewish and homosexual boy survived the second world war. And because it's german so I can read it in german XD
I love the pattern of your shirt by the way
What a fantastic video! Another beautiful outfit + dance and so many great recommendations! The way you are so careful and serious about your reading and channel but at the same time spread so much joy and light impresses me so much 💚
Super super awesome for putting the extra effort to learn the Chinese pronunciations of the names!!:))))
Especially the first one, the poetry collection and confessions of a mask sounds so interesting! Thanks so much for making this video!
I have never heard of these books before and I am glad you brought them to my attention. It’s quite refreshing to see for one international books and for another book recommendations that aren’t ya mainstream that everyone has read already. I am so glad I found your channel! It really is a gem.
Your videos are so expansiv,e, thorough, worldly, and impactful. I took some poetry books out of a local library a couple of weeks back and touched so many parts of the world in doing so. I can't help but to think your videos helped me reach further and wider than I would usually. You've pulled me out of my western/black diasporic bubble. Thank you so much.
oh my god the pronounciations were just BEAUTIFUL. Hearing the argentinian names pronounced as if you were a native was such a relief, I can't believe it's such an issue in the community. We should all learn to do the same thing.
I love how much research you did for this video and how you included so many classics from all over the world, amazing video!!
omgggggggg the sheer diversity of this. THANK YOU, i was in shock as a jew to find that you'd chosen a jewish author as well. i rarely see people reading our literature. amazing, and i'm going to check out all of these books.
I'm so excited about the latin american recs😭❤️ latin america has such a rich tradition of literature. For queer authors i recommend the chilean Pedro Lemebel!!
OMG!!! I am so happy you put Notes of a Crocodile! That is one of favorite books! Yay!!
Ooh how awesome!! Super excited to pick that one up!! :D ✨
Wow! What a great list. The only book I've read here is the Audre Lorde, but I've added these all to my TBR list. I also love how you show your outfits at the beginning of your videos.
thank you for sharing and thank you for trying so beautifully to pronounce non-english names. you're amazing!
always watching your videos with a goodreads window open to add your recs to my tr-lists - from this particular video I'm especially curios about Notes of a Crocodile, hope I can find it through my library!
and just when i thought i was done with booktubers you’ve brought me back in. subscribed just for that title let’s gooooo
Greatings from Argentina!!!! Puig is awesome and alejandra is truly an icon.
Im amazed of how well you pronounced the names. Love your channel ✨🌸🦊
So glad you found The Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Such a wonderful book :)
Yes yes yes, I want to read all of these books! Also, you dancing to show the outfit is everything and your thumbnails are so colourful and beautiful! And thank you for always mentioning the translator, I feel like translators end up always inevitably adding much of their life experiences in translations, therefore, they should be mentioned as well.
Thank you so much for this video! I’m only familiar with two of these - Zami and Confessions of a Mask - and I’m extremely excited to read more! Classics are super fun, especially LGBT ones.
It’s a very well-done video which makes all of them sound interesting, polished and put together well. Can’t wait for more!
I have heard of Audrey Lord. Right now as an English major, I don't have much time to read recreationally. I just finished Irish Literature and will be doing American Literature, Shakespearean Lit, and Poetry this semester.
I'm so glad i stumbled upon your chanell! You are truly doing God's work with your videos. As a non-native english speaker, it is very hard for me to get access to diverse lgbtq+ books bc if they're even translated it's always only into English but videos like yours make it easier for me to discover new ones and diversify my TBR list so thank you so much
ur so great!!! i'm LGBT+ and new in the literature world, i am so grateful for your channel and this video, they really help me through this journey
your thumbnail game >>>>>>
Thank you for noticing!! I spent a good couple of hours yesterday making a bunch! Very exciting to show the rest 🤗✨✨
Amazing! You broaden my book world with every video. So many books I hadn’t know about that I want to check out now. Thank you!
As always, this is so amazing and thorough. I’m currently reading “around the world in 80 books” and am definitely adding some of these to my list!
I'm currently in the last 50 pages of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall and it's incredible, also a queer classic! I've added Notes of a Crocodile, Confessions of a Mask, An Underground Life, and Bitter Eden to my goodreads want to read list, and The Woman Who Owned the Shadows is already on there 😊
i really enjoyed notes of a crocodile! this is a great video, i especially want to check out extracting the stone of madness.
I recently read a German classic, Thoman Mann's The Magic Mountain, which isn't canonically queer but Mann was posthumously discovered to have been gay and there are definite signs of that being reflected in the main characters of some of his books. It was really interesting to analyse from that point of view, trying to piece together the main character's sexuality and the author's own feelings through the book. It's a mammoth of a novel and quite a slow read, but if you're looking for a challenge I would recommend!
So glad you commented on this. I have Mann's Death in Venice sitting on my TBR shelf, and I just looked thru his Wikipedia article. Interestingly, 3 of his 6 children were also gay/ lesbian, and his daughter Erika, an actress and writer, once had a relationship with Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was one of the other authors Seji mentioned. How cool is that? :)
@@katietatey Yes, it's so interesting! If his children didn't even know he was gay growing up that raises an interesting question about the genetic component in sexuality.. I've heard Death in Venice has the most obvious gay character or storyline from his books.
I just found your channel AND I AM SO HAPPY!! I'm always trying to find new books and this is perfect
I highly recommend "The Golden Gate" by Vikram Seth. It uses the format of "Onegin sonnets," named after the "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, which the book is inspired by. The tone is great at switching from very funny to very serious and heartfelt and it deals with coming to terms with queerness, protests, and a lot of other things. I know he has a lot of other great books, but this is the only one I've read, and I love the format so much because I also love "Eugene Onegin."
such a cool, rich, beautiful and fun video idea! i'm definitely writing all of these down! i wish you a fantastic reading month this august ❤️
I definitely enjoy the little world you drew for the thumbnail. :)
Ah thank you very much!! 🤗✨✨✨
Thank you! And also this might be wrong, but goodreads says the translator of kiss of the spider woman is Thomas Colchie💕
Thanks for compiling this list! So many new books to check out!
Pleasure's mine! Happy reading :D
I'm from Argentina and it's so nice to see someone reading things from here.
Hey um thanks for making this channel! I think it's getting me into reading again! Hope you have a good day :)
It's my absolute pleasure, thanks so much for watching!! I hope you have a splendid day as well 🌸✨
i just found your channel, im so excited to binge all your videos !!! youre so kind and worldly, such an A+ human being i stg
Ah thank you so much!! That's lovely to hear!! 🥺 ✨✨
This is everything I never knew I wanted, thanks!! This is great!
It's my absolute pleasure! Thanks so much for watching!! 🤗✨✨
Girl you have GOT to start linking the clothing brands you get your clothes from they sound so great and their clothes are 👌🏾
I had not heard of any of these books although I had heard of Audre Lorde but Confessions of a Mask and Bitter Eden sound intriguing.
Yup me neither!! Zami came in a couple of days, really hoping to read it soon! :) ✨
Seiji, thank you for making these videos! You’re the best🌻
Ah thank you so much!! 🤗🌸✨
Enjoyed the video. You do great work in broadening people's awareness of what classics exist.
these all sound so interesting! I'll definitely be adding all of these books to my tbr
Yay!! So glad to hear that!! :D
Your recommendations are always so refreshing and new! Thank you for putting in the work
Thank you very much! It's an absolute pleasure to make these videos🤗✨
I’ve been trying to read more classics. This was an excellent recommendation video; always great expanding readings. Also, love the outfit!
I'm so happy to hear that!! :D And thank you so much! 🤗✨
These all sound fantastic, thank you Seji! I want to recommend one of my favourite queer classics from my country Australia, a memoir called Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave :)
here am i adding more books to my to read list 😭 amazing video btw!
These are great recommendations, thank you!
I am happy to hear you mention Annemarie Schwarzenbach, she had a very interesting, if short, life. She came from a very conservative family (her grandfather was the Swiss general in WWI and basically the entire clan had Nazi-sympathies, the name still carries a bit of a stigma), but carved out an identity for herself, travelling the Middle East with another woman. The author Carson McCullers was apparently in love with Schwarzenbach; I think a book came out this year that touches upon it, called "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" or something along those lines. I haven't read it yet, but it is on my list.
The book by Gad Beck and "Bitter Eden" also sound very interesting, I might pick those up.
So many amazing sounding books here!
I absolutely love your enunciation - has anyone ever told you that? It’s brilliant.
Thank you very much! :)
I only know the classics from my country and gosh Puig and Pizarnik's works are amazing masterpieces.
As a latinx, I'm kinda sursprised: Your spanish pronunctiation is so so good!
Some great suggestions! I loved the movie of Kiss of the Spiderwoman (from the 80's) but didn't know it was based on a novel.
You are amazing, I love your channel. You serve looks and knowledge consistently. Thank you so so so much for creating these videos
the dance you do in the beginnings of your videos will forever make each day of mine better 🥺🖤
I just found your videos and I'm amazed to see that you mentioned argentinian books! I'll sure read those. Greetings from Bs. As. Argentina ☺️
Oh my!!!! Your pronunciation in other languages it’s amazing!!!!! The books are very interesting 🧐 by the way
Your outfit reveals are the absolute BEST
Awesome video. I already have Confessions of a mask on my shelf waiting to be read.
I normally don't pay attention to classics, but I'm very curious about the titles you recommended here. Great video :)
Ooh I'm so glad to hear that!! Thank you very much!! :D
My god! That's the kind of content booktube should have more! Congrats on the list and on the content 🥰
Super video! Your outfit is really cute! That fabric looks so nice on you too. Thanks for the reading ideas!
I've had Yukio Mishima and Alejandra Pizarnik's books in my wishlist for so long now I'm for sure gonna pick them up! (and some others from the video too)