I'm back with channel favourite and recurring guest Rosianna! We've got some ambitious but low-pressure reading goals for the year, and hopefully you can get some inspo from it too. Enjoy!
@notwellread
2 жыл бұрын
Awww this made me miss Rosianna on KZitem but also this whole friend group. You guys were fun to watch together 😭 Great vid!
@notwellread
2 жыл бұрын
Update: just saw she has been posting on her yt!
@CorinneDemyanovich
2 жыл бұрын
I can relate to building up big books in your head to the point of not reading them. I finally picked up one of the Witcher books and LOVED it. I appreciate the show so much more now for how rich the books are.
@thoroughlyenjoyedbooks8565
2 жыл бұрын
Every time I see you two post a video together I am reminded of why I started watching youtube in the first place. Loved this!
@evewithwonder
2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely want to stay away from any pandemic related books. I've been sick of hearing news about the pandemic from pretty much day one. One of my first reads of this year was a book by the author that wrote one of my favorite series of all times and it is set in that same world but centuries earlier. I was SO excited to explore more about the world and get to know new characters... and the main plot of the book was a pandemic that killed like half the population... Needless to say, I was hearbroken while reading and almost didn't finish it, but I ended up powering through. Good thing is it was very short. On another note, I read the Bear and the Nightingale not too long ago and loved it! I still have to continue on with the series, but I'm very much looking forward to it.
@ellenkarlsson9490
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a bit surprised that you've only read the first Winternight book. I read them two years ago and I could not put them down. So good! 😍 My recommendation for this year is The Women of Troy by Pat Barker. It's the sequel to The Silence of the Girls which is (yet another) retelling of the Iliad. Out of the four I've read thus far, The Silence of the Girls is definitely my favorite version of the story. I love retellings of Greek mythology and would love some more recommendations!
@btbesquire5
2 жыл бұрын
I have always enjoyed the TBRS and the way you both explain the details of the books. I have written down these books for future reading
@booksandquills
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Hope you end up liking them :)
@daysleeper1989
2 жыл бұрын
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!! Eduardo Galeano is absolute perfection. So lyrical and beautiful. First English speaking person that I heard talking about it. He also discusses the impact that Spain had in Latinamerica.
@szekelynora772
2 жыл бұрын
You're a good team together. Great vid, thank you for the recommendations.
@Maria_Efe
2 жыл бұрын
I bought a copy of Anna Karenina back when the Keira Knightley film came out, and I still haven't read it; it must be close to a decade now! 😅 I've also been meaning to read some Eduardo Galeano for ages, he's highly praised here in Greece as well.
@mrncasal
2 жыл бұрын
As a latina, Open veins of latin america is one of the most heart-breaking, raw and enraging literary experience I ever had. It changed me and how I experienced being latin.
@valkyrie_cain86
2 жыл бұрын
As you were talking about David Olusoga's book I was thinking 'it's like Stuff the British Stole'. And then you mentioned it!
@MilenaReads
2 жыл бұрын
So fun to see you both in a video! I quite enjoyed The Mill on the Floss! 🥰
@booksandquills
2 жыл бұрын
I deleted someone's lovely comment while looking through them on my phone and I can't get it back. If that was you, sorry! 😭
@katarinakidd9450
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, Cult of Progress by David Olusoga sounds really interesting! And thank you for the accompanying podcast rec as well. :)
@ItsmeKristieB
2 жыл бұрын
I read Anna Karenina last year and it was pretty digestible, despite its length. I kind of wish I could have read it for one of my undergraduate English classes as I think it would be a good one to discuss and study to get the full historical context. Hot tip: I decided to keep a character list, which I don’t typically do and I’m so grateful that I did. There are so many characters and several with similar names, so it helped a lot.
@booksandquills
2 жыл бұрын
My version comes with a character list in the front, so hopefully that helps! Good to hear that it was doable :D
@alishmahani3678
2 жыл бұрын
God, I watched your first video 7 years ago.
@bettyreads222
2 жыл бұрын
i want to read open veins of latin america this year as well. ooh the kraken wakes sounds so good! i also haven't read the sequel of octavia's book and might do that this year since i've been trying to read one of her books every year since i read parable of the sower. the lilith's brood trilogy by her is brilliant.
@actual-spinster
2 жыл бұрын
im currently reading anna karenina right now !!!! good luck with your reading! i feel like it reads pretty easily so i beleive in you! also i much prefer the old the bass rock cover than the new one, that's interesting :)
@booksandquills
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Good luck to you too haha! ☺️
@AbiofPellinor
2 жыл бұрын
This was such a fun vid!
@seyud4705
2 жыл бұрын
have you every read Magic 7
@lyndeegardner6178
2 жыл бұрын
Parable of a Sower was more bleak for you than A Little Life?? I read Parable of a Sower but have been afraid to read A Little Life because of so many reviews that have said that it is very traumatizing. I can handle Parable of a Sower. Maybe that means I can handle A Little Life?
@booksandquills
2 жыл бұрын
They're bleak in very different ways! Parable of the Sower kind of makes you question the future and behaviour of all of humanity (and how it can descend into chaos) and A Little Life is bleak on a personal level (and very upsetting in a variety of ways), so it really depends on the person reading it I think.
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