Everything I read in January 🌘 classics, modern lit & new favourite books
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- A very long ramble about everything I read in January :)
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Reading a book from every country in the world is such an interesting idea
Some African literature recs ♥️
- Season of migration to the north (Sudan)
- Nervous conditions (Zimbabwe)
- Homegoing (Ghana)
- So long a letter (Senegal)
- Things fall apart (Nigeria)
- Cry, the beloved country (South Africa)
Behold the Dreamers (Cameroon)
I’d also recommend Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and J. M. Coetzee
I would recommend any of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's books (Nigeria) and my most recent favorite read which was The Girl Who Smiled Beads (Rwanda)
I recommend Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Nawal Al Sawadi (Egypt) and Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria)
José Eduardo Agualusa: A general Theory of Oblivion (Angola); Mia Couto: Confession of the Lioness (Mozambique); Dina Salústio: The Madwoman of Serrano (Cape Verde). Happy readings!
You´re probably the kind of person authors want to read their books
oh my heart, one of the best things anyone’s ever said to me so thank you!!🥺
I recommend ‘The Murderess’ by Alexandros Papadiamantis, which is a Greek classic I adore. ♥️🇬🇷 I guess it’d fit the dark academia theme!
I would recommend it too!
Antonis Samarakis' "The Flaw" and "Wanted: Hope" are also great! And Kavafy's poetry!
you have a very soothing voice, i tried finding other booktubers with your vibe but i just cant find one. I always fall back to your contents
You should try sunbeamjess she has long vids like this !
Same!
Not really a booktuber, but talks about books quite a bit - Ruby Granger is really cool. Her and Emma are my two favs
unrelated, but I love your profile picture
@@wannabehuman i might say she's a close one
omg stop you're gonna make me cry 😭 I'm ashamed that I've never seen your videos before and you spoke so nicely about me - thank you so so much! and oh my gosh you read SO diversely! You've got yourself a new subscriber cause I LOVE when people read widely!! :)
From my country, Portugal 🇵🇹:
“Fernando Pessoa - Book of disquiet”
I love your classics reviews. 😊♥️
One of my favorites! So beautiful
So many people have said amazing wonderful things about that one so definitely added to the list! Thank you!!☺️
@@emmiereads ♥️😘
i'm reading that, it's really good
Another Portuguese girl on here who loves books yay
Hunger by Knut Hamsun would be the perfect choice for norwegia it's a masterpiece
I’m surprised you haven’t read more murakami considering how much you loved after dark. I hope you read more by him. My favorites are Kafka on the shore, Norwegian wood and colorless Tsukuru tazaki 😊
almost an hour?? omg i'm so excited! i'm gonna be doing ap calculus homework during, so i might cry but that's okay!!
Update: I finished the homework right as the video ended, and I didn’t shed a single tear 😘✌🏼
@Channon Wilson I think it really depends on the teacher. Thankfully I have a really good teacher. I also really don’t like math but I’m pretty good at it, so I have an A right now.
very proud
Just what I needed today. Emma, I've been watching your channel for half a year now and have always loved your videos. But just 2 weeks ago, my grandmother died and I was really close to her. It was a hard hit and I've been watching your older videos daily since. It helps me calm down. I can't tell you how thankful i am for your content!
I'm so sorry for your loss. sending you a hug.
I am so sorry for your loss. Having lost my own grandmother quite a few years ago , I understand how tough it is. I am glad you found something that comforts you at a hard time like this :)
@@hyemiyah awh thank you so much! I really appreciate the hug
@@megnificent5979 I'm sorry for your loss as well!! Its tough agh. Ahh Emma has become my go-to youtuber whenever i feel any extreme emotions! She just manages to calm me down. I hope you found your comfort as well through the bitter journey :) lots of love
So sorry for ur loss, I hope u r okey ❤
Some Saudi Arabian lit recs:
Cities of salt by Abdul Rahman Munif
The Silk Road by Leila Al-johani
An Apartment called Freedom by Ghazi Algosaibi
SEVEN by Ghazi Algosaibi
thank you!!
@@emmiereads you're welcome!! I hope you enjoy it 🥰
I just finished Convenience Store Woman yesterday and loved it. I appreciate your assessment and totally agree that the marketing is off. I empathize with Keiko and Shiraha's angst against society, but I also feel that they could possibly have a personality disorder. Seeing the world through Keiko’s eyes reminds the reader of how petty and cold people can be to non-conformists or people with disorders.
“The House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende is a classic of Chile 🇨🇱 and is also magic realism! It maybe a perfect fitttt, love ur channel
I love how each person recommended books from their country 😍 you have amazing people following you, I saved some recommendations.
I love your idea to read a book from every single country - it sounds soooo exciting!! As for my country's literature - Belarusian - I'd like to recommend you to read Uladzimir Karatkievich's historical (and mystery) novel King Stakh's Wild Hunt :)
Also, thanks to everyone who leaves their countries' books recs here! It's a heaven for a books-to-read-lists junkie :)
Would recommend Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe if you’re looking to branch out into African (in this case, Nigerian) literature this year, Emma! ☺️
The Overcoat is such a beautiful and defining story,. Now that you are so into Magic Realism, Gogol is one of those authors that many have related with that form of writing (him, Kafka, Proust,...). 'The Nose', 'Taras Bulba', 'Dead Souls', 'Leaving the Theater' ... all so fun to read, even if the subject matter is tragic. Funny enough, I gave a talk on Latin American Magic Realism a couple of weeks ago at my university and it was really interesting to rediscover some classics. As I Colombian, I would recommend Evelio José Rosero 'The Armies', but there are so many more to recommend. Thanks for the video!
One book that has always stayed with me is “The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea” by Yukio Mishima. There are a couple of slightly disturbing scenes, but his writing is beautiful (in Japanese in particular). I also enjoyed “I am a Cat” by Natsume Soseki.
If you don’t mind a longer read, “The Tale of Genji” is very famous and referenced a lot in Japanese literature.
it is always so lovely to see you and hear you talking about books 💕
For Italian literature I reccomend: Moravia ("The boredome" in particular), Buzzati (the short stories in particular, I think you'd love them if you like magic realism), Tondelli (Separate rooms) Morante, Ginzburg and Calvino. 💙
I have a strong feeling you will like 'The Fool' by Raffi. It is one of the rare English translations of Armenian literature, and it might surprise you with how complexly it conveys human connection, family dynamics, dependance and appeasement. Love you content 💖
Oh, a wonderful gift for the end of the week. An almost hour video from the beautiful Emma.
love love love the connection you made with convenience store woman and the thief. small detail yet super satisfying!
I just love how passionate you are about literature. I love classics as well. I am trying to read as many as I can too and hopefully, hit my 50 books 😸🖤
Hi Emma ❤️
Just wanted to let you know that South America does not include Mexico, as it is part of North America alongside USA and Canada. If you exclude Mexico, great authors like Juan Rulfo and Laura Esquivel are left out :((
LatinAmerica includes us all below USA, love u ❤️
I started reading the girl who drank the moon on my phone. When I finished chapter fifteen I realized that this book is so amazing that I want to continue to read it as a physical one. AND MY ORDER ARRIVED TODAY! I am so excited to finish it
Really recommend Gogol's Dead Souls. It's about a guy trying to get rich by buying the rights to dead serfs from a bunch of land owners. As you can imagine, there is a collection of weird people that the main character tries to do bussiness with and a lot of Gogol's humor. His short story The Nose is also very good, about a fancy and arrogant man that has his nose stolen.
Love Gogol's humor!
For Irish literature, you should try Tana French. She’s got that beautiful, slightly speculative Irish tint to her books, and she mostly writes really great, detailed literary detective/mystery fiction. Her debut, In The Woods, was incredibly impressive and a very unique read. I bet it creates a lot of controversy among readers. Really recommend. I’ve also read The Secret Place by her and loved it, and am currently reading The Likeness.
A couple weeks ago I finished reading "Convenience Store Woman" and you couldn't have described better my thoughts on the book, especially about the other authors' inaccurate quotes on the cover
The best start to the weekend!
Hello! I am a doing my PHD in french literature and I really enjoy your videos (such a joy to finally find a book tuber with good literary qualities!) ❤
you have the warmest, most comforting vibes and I love it so much :')
i need to be doing my psych reading, but this is the week where i really needed an hour long video. thank god.
I rediscovered magical realism because of this channel. I wasn't a big reader but 10 years ago I read a Murakami book and it always stuck with me. I didn't know what to call the genre and just thought it was a Japanese thing. Absolutely grateful for all your picks!
You have no idea how happy these videos make me 💜
Timothy Findley! A wonderful Canadian author - I just finished The Wars and it was heartbreakingly beautiful. Commenting makes me so nervous but I thought I’d throw a rec back because you have given me SO MANY and I’m really thankful ☺️💕
I was just thinking when you are going to upload and this video popped up... Plus almost an hour long video!!... I am here for it! 💛
Oh my gosh! A 54 minute video from Emma! I am in heaven! The relaxed and happy times have commenced!
haha love you
The convinence store woman is now on my list because of you. Thank you! Your description reminded me what I felt regarding eleanor oliphant is completly fine most often described as "quirky" ...not really. Love your videos 😙😙
i can't fully emphasize as to how much i adore you
why are her videos a literal ray of sunshine !!!!?
What you feel of Tonya, I feel of you.
I think your voice is so soothing and I immediately subscribed when you talked about Snow Country. I'm really glad I came upon you because right now, I'm really into books so I want to see which books are worth the hype. You talk about those topics and I'm glad. Thank you.
Awe thank you so much that’s so kind💛
It truly is a pleasure listening to you talk about books, so intimate and insightful. Snow country is on my TBR for this year thanks to you.
And of course, some recommendations from Sweden coming your way:
1. Wilful disregard - Lena Andersson
2. City of my dreams - Per Anders Fogelström
3. Let the right one in - John Ajvide Lindqvist
I adored and loved and devoured the first one. Catch myself thinking about it way too often.
I never read introductions for classics. I always save them for later because I feel like they explain too much about what the book is instead of letting me decide for myself and they also have spoilers. T_T
Hungarian masterpieces: Journey by Moonlight & The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb 🇭🇺
YES!
Journey by Moonlight is one of my favourites ever! I wholeheartedly recommend it too
Aaand if we're talking about hungarian literature we can't omit the paul street boys/the boys of paul street
also work by Sandor Marai!
@@earl-grey-milk-tea There's no denying he's super important for hungarian lit, but unfortunately the only book of his that I've read (Embers) was a bit disappointing. The beginning intrigued me very much and the writing was beautiful, but turned out that the twist wasn't that different or surprising. Could you recommend something by him that would change that?
Oh I LOVE long videos gonna get ready and do hw today while watching this
loved the video ❤️ so many good recommendations, seems like my tbr pile will start haunting me like the tower from the protagonist at The Thief lmao.
I will forever be amazed at how many books you can read!!!! I'm late now, but I think my favourite read of January was Circe by Madeline Miller or perhaps The Castle by Franz Kafka
If you want something from Poland try Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz ;) it's such a strange book, but maybe you will like it♥️ oh, and also not from Poland, but if you haven't read it, you should definetely give Master and Margarita a chance. It's one of my favorites.
1 hour???? You're spoiling us, Emma!!! Not complaining tho. Thank you for being you
Margaret Atwood has been one of my favorite authors since uni. Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride and The Blind Assassin continue to be my favorites.
As a Finn, I will naturally recommend the Moomin books. They’re many-layered enough to suit all ages. Moominvalley in November is especially poignant and not really a children’s book, I feel.
I agree with your Atwood picks -- I also loved Alias Grace. And Moominvalley in November is a favourite as well!
Happy new year to you too!
All Gogol's stories are wonderful. A couple other of his stories that you should try: The Nose, and The Diary of a Madman.
Recommendation of Brazilian books 🇧🇷 :
- O cortiço (Aluísio Azevedo)
- Dom Casmurro (Machado de Assis)
I HAVE to recommend Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar! It's an Argentinian classic and it's AMAZING.
yes!! on my shelf and so excited to pick it up!! :)
Hi Emma! I'm so glad you found A Conjuring of Light as disappointing and empty as I did (I picked the series up as a light read during slow periods at work and abandoned the series 1/4 of the way through the final installment)...you're comments on the book are what convinced me to follow your channel 😅 I look forward to watching more!
I recommend you reading - now that you read Kawabata - the novels by Yukio Mishima specially The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Im in love with this author you wont leave his books once you start
I'd like to recommend Kokoro by Natsume Soseki from 1914, it is so elegant, heartbreaking and kind. A masterpiece of perfect length.
Hi, Emma! Love your channel, it's soothing and exciting at the same time! I also trust your recommendations, because you give interesting observations on books! :) If you are interested in reading some Slovenian literature, I would suggest Drago Jančar and his book I Saw Her That Night, which is one of my favorite books. I really love his narrative style. The other would be a Slovenian classic, Alamut by Vladimir Bartol.:) I would be interested in hearing your opinion on these books. Take care !
Margaret Attwoods Oryx & Crake is an amazing sci-fi. I couldn’t put it down and highly recommend it! 4.5 ⭐️
I highly recommend Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto! I read it for a college class in Japanese literature and it continues to be one of my favorite books I've ever read ♡
From Turkey, I think you would really love Dear Shameless Death by Latife Tekin. It is a perfect example for magic realism.
i totally recomend 'The white ship', 'The first teacher', 'Plakha', 'The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years' which are kyrgyz classic books written by Chinghiz Aitmatov
If you want to real portuguese books i really recommend Saramago! My favorite book is blindness but baltasar and blimunda is also a great one!!
thank you!!
omg i read the girl who drank the moon as an advanced readers copy and it was SO GOOD! i was part of a book club where we would get to read ARCs of books coming out soon which was so fun
I'm really glad I found your channel. You're erudite and articulate, and have a beautiful soft voice and great smile as well. Do please keep it up.
will definitely check out some of these books! this winters been especially brutal; we just got like 2 feet of snow, so it certainly feels like a "snow country" lol
54 minutes, I'm so haaaaappy 🙈❤️❤️
Oh. My. Goodness. I love your voice so much~~~
emma, every single time I watch your videos I end up buying so many books ahahaha I don't even have room on my bookshelves anymore!!
Ohh Emma I didn't realize you were a fellow Canadian!!! I think we have some similar goals for this year - love classics & love the gothic vibes. On Canadian books, I'm trying to read more as well. You might enjoy By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart which is a whirlwind of poetry about her love affair with a poet & Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai is a diaspora coming of age story!
Book Recommendations from Egypt :))
-Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
- Granada by Radwa Ashour
basically EVERY single work for both of them if you have a chance ^^
ahhhh my exams just got over so excited to get back into reading!!
From Indonesia, The Earth of Mankind or The Buru Tetralogy by Pramoedya Ananta Toer!!
Some Canadian book I’d recommend: The Tin Flute, The Stone Angel, Medicine Walk, The Rebel Angels
I'm Italian and I really recommend Pirandello's novels and plays. Other than him, I also love Calvino and Eco (in particular The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum!).
I loved your video, greetings from Acapulco Mexico❤️❤️🙋🙋
I love Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, he is Icelandic author. And from my country, Poland, i'd like to recommend Primeval and Other Times
by Olga Tokarczuk
ooh thank you, I've added those to my list!
I was so excited to see a vid pop up, and it’s an hour!!
Hello Emmie. You are so right. CONVENIENT STORE WOMAN shows this brave girl not letting herself being affected by society. We could all (men and women) learn so much from her. And it is not just about Japan. I think it is also about our western society and all the expectations that are expected for all to fulfill. This book is a great lesson because this 'weird' girl allowed herself to be herself, and that made her happy, she disregarded prejudices, that is so admirable. Helloes from Mexico City !
What you said about the reviews written on this book: I have not read this book; however, this exactly was my problem with Eleanor is Completely Fine. The book cover says "Incredibly Funny" when in fact it was a heartbreaking story about terrible trauma and survival.
an hour long video, what a perfect way to start off my morning routine today! happy to see my apothecary postcard up on your wall, and to see so many good recommendations in the comments! some random authors to look into:
marina tsvetaeva and anna akhmatova (russian female poets! don't hear much about female russian authors).
adonis, maram al-masri and mahmoud darwish for middle eastern poetry (i am slowly making my way through an adonis collection and loving it! still yet to buy a darwish collection because $$ but i have loved the snippets i've seen). for turkish literature: orhan pamuk and elif shafak! i would start with one of her more straightforward novels, like the architect's apprentice or the bastard of istanbul.
for latin american and spanish lit, i have not read full collections, but have enjoyed what i've seen so far from gabriela mistral, jorge luis borges, mario llosa, and federico garcia lorca.
in terms of irish writers i have only read seamus heaney i think, but iirc colm toibin is also irish and well regarded. for australian authors, david malouf writes beautiful stuff, and for canadian lit i will second michael ondaatje, absolutely love his work! both his prose and poetry are worth a look.
for japanese lit, apart from osamu dazai and yukio mishima - junichiro tanizaki (the makioka sisters), keiga higashino (mysteries), and fumiko enchi (the waiting years) are all worth a look.
for indian literature, I have been impressed by arundhati roy's work, and also jhumpa lahiri's (more of diaspora lit)
I read The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali last year. Really enjoyed reading the book set in the backdrop of Iran’s coup d’état in 1953. Spans a summer and 6 decades and i still think about it. Really recommend!
I recommend The Hungry Tide by the Indian author Amitav Ghosh! I feel like the plot isn’t the strongest, but the writing about the setting is gorgeous, it provides a really interesting environmental justice commentary, and there are a lot of references to Rilke. Also The Name of the Rose is a wonderful dark academia Italian novel
Have you though about joining “invisible cities project/ readathon? One of the booktubers who created is “Curious reader”and they are reading three countries each month and other stuff, she also gives VERY good translated lit recs and she likes darker themes and i believe some magical realism too.. I think you’ll enjoy her channel and the project ♥️
Also I haven’t read but i live in spain and the most famous magical realism here from South America would be Isabel Allende’s “House of Spirits” and some of her early work and Gabriel García Marques with “One hundred years of solitud” (which you may have already read)
Hi Emmie! Last month I read Eartheater by Dolores Reyes and I think you might like it, it's a feminist magical realism novel. It may be hard to read because of how real and violent it can be, but the magical realism really helps to go through it and makes a beautiful metaphor.💚
Yay. A happy day! 🤍
A book recommendation from Switzerland would be “the physicists” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. I had to read it for school (I went to school in Germany) and I absolutely loved it. And from Germany it would be “Faust - the first part of the tragedy” by Goethe, also a book I had to read for school and really enjoyed.
i love your reviews emmie 💖
My love recommendation from Russia.🇷🇺 This is "A Hero of Our Time". The novel by Mikhail Lermontov, where the protagonist is the prototype of the author himself. The main character (Pechorin), a person who sees the world differently, he is indifferent, hides all feelings deeply in himself and plays with the feelings of strangers. If you look from the one side, then he is rather a negative hero, but if from the other side, then the past made him so:
*** I was ready to love the whole world, but he did not reciprocate and learned to hate. I was open to everyone, they laughed at me and I became secretive ....
A small excerpt.
I highly recommend this novel, and I hope you read it.))) ❤️
Hi Emmie! There are some books from Czech literature :
-Hana, Blind Map and Years of Silence by Alena Mornštajnová (she is my favourite Czech author)
-The Grandmother by Božena Němcová (Czech clasic)
-R.U.R by Karel Čapek (he is a famous Czech author and in this book he first mentioned the word robot, which he invented himself)
Your voice is so relaxing omg I need an audiobook with your voice... Just saying :)
Ashley is one of my favorite British booktubers. She has excellent recommendations on book.
do you mind telling me her youtube channel?
let me recommend you The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi! The author is one of the most loved Taiwanese writers, and this book discusses the nature and aboriginal people of Taiwan.
It has lots of magical realism too;)
You should definitely read "My mother's sin" by Georgios Vizyinos. A Greek classic, very dark, it stays with you forever..!! Keep up the good work Emma!! You are the best book tuber eeeeveeeer!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I love you and your amazing channel please stay safe and strong to you and your family love this video love from your number one Australia fan John
Recommendations from Germany: I would recommend books by J.W. Goethe, G. E. Lessing and Friedrich Schiller. :) However: great video ;)
You should read Atwood! I'm sure you'll love her 🥺
What I'd recommend is My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Istanbul) I adore this one because it has such gorgeous descriptions of artists at work and a lot of history of eastern traditional art and stuff while being a murder mystery/ love story on the side
Recommendation: The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat!
It's a short Persian/Iranian novel published in the 20th century. I've only read snippets of it for a translation class I was taking, but I loved the parts I read so much that I added it to my own TBR.