The Lit Talk | January 2020 Wrap Up & February Plans
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Hi Guys, it's Kamil here, welcome to The Lit Talk, a casual segment on my channel where I talk about what I read, am reading and planning on reading next. At the end of this video, I'll talk about how I was handling my New Year's Reading Resolution in January and I'll wrap it up talking about my plans for February
Videos mentioned:
How to Read Better I 2020 Reading Resolutions
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35 Novels I Want to Read in 2020 I Reading Resolutions
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Books mentioned:
The Books of Jacobs by Olga Tokarczuk
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An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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To Catch The Rain, Inspiring stories of communities coming together to harvest their own rain and how you can do it too by Lonny Grafman
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Climate Wars by Harald Welzer
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Disappearing Erath by Julia Philips
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The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
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The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada
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Making of Modern Economics by Mark Skousen
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Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
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Weather by Jenny Offill
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
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Apeirogon by Colum McCann
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Always happy to hear you talk about Tokarczuk, not only because you have the inside scoop from this English-only reader’s perspective but also because her name is so pleasing when it’s pronounced correctly. I’m tired of hearing “talker-chuck”. Looking way forward to that one.
I read the first section of The Topeka School in December in one sitting then never picked it back up 😬
Thank you and loved how you wrote it - "talker-chuck", that's hilarious.
"An Unnecessary Woman" seems great! I cannot agree with you more on the necessity to educate oneself for food and water self sufficiency. I don't know if you're familiar with Octavia Butler but she wrote super cool dystopia about this in the 90's ( Parable of the Sower)
osmojam I’ve read kindred and Xenogenesis trilogy but haven’t anything else, although Parable of the sawed is on my long TBR list. I think she was a great writer and a thinker. An Unnecessary Woman - strongly recommended.
I totally agree with your opinion on Never Let Me Go. It took me ages to pick up because it didn't sound as my kind of novel. But I ended up loving it almost as much as Remains of the Day.
Yes, I was for quite a bit of it thinking, too little information about the outside world, give me some information about how this society functions, there might be some tentiontions related to the topic of clone.... He makes us wait quite a bit for it, but then when he delivers and when I finally understood what this book is about. My jaw dropped.
Really great to see literature on environmental issues in this month's list :)
Thank you Daniel, lovely to hear that.
So many great books!!!!! Your videos are always amazing.....
Thank you I really appreciate that
Finally watched this great video! You talking about Never let me go kind of makes me want to re-read it, but I stand by my comment on your other video, haha. I agree with you on the x3 speed audiobook thing, even though I can't get anything out of an audiobook. I can actually only concentrate fully when I read (or watch films in theaters, if they're good). I'll go catch up on your February wrap-up. I'm really looking forward to your thoughts on Weather, which I haven't read yet but am curious about. Also, the success of your book buying ban is inspiring :D
To be fair, in terms of a ban, I'm in a position that I can ask books from publishers, of course I won't get them all, but that helps, also I have over 500 books I haven't read on my shelves so I really am not suffering here :)
Thanks! I am eager to read Apeirogon and it is on my pre-hold list at my local library. I can’t wait to hear what you think!
Hannah's Books thank you I definitely will do it soon, planning to record it by 25th
So nice to see you back again. I'm reading Confessions by Kinae Minato.. I saw Colum McCann in person at a lecture and he was a wonderful speaker. Love his books.
Thank you 😊 oh that lecture by Colin McCann must have been a fantastic experience.
Wow! A lot of good books!
Thank you Lilia.
Such a long time to wait for the Tokarczuk
Linda Hall yep, but the pleasure should be even higher due to that extended waiting
Interesting take on The Disappearing Earth. Phillips did go to Kamchatka and live among the people so she does have some credibility in my eyes, but your take does give me pause about whether she was the best person to tell this story or whether it was necessary to have the setting it did.
Thank you Thienan, I appreciate that you instead of dismissing take the comment under consideration.
Hmm I’ve been hesitant about Disappearing Earth and now I think I’ll take it off my TBR, haha. Thanks for the helpful review!!
Ups, I mean maybe you would not be so conflicted about it as I was, but definitely there are better books than this one.
I had so much fun reading An Unrestored Woman and really enjoyed it. I really don't know why it is not more well known.
When I read Never Let Me Go for the first time, back in the days when it came out, it destroyed me. After I had finished it, I wanted everyone around me to read it and gifted it several times to people.
Yes, absolutely true, on both of those. In terms of An Unnecessary Woman not being widely read, I believe there might be a few factors to it, unfortunately the name of the writer might act as a blocker for a lot of people. And I don't mean in it in a way that those people are racist, I just think that seeing a book with a title and name as such people might expect something very demanding while it's an absolutely engrossing story. However I do believe that when one is not familiar, in a cultural way at least, with the books Aaliyah recalls, that takes away from the reading experience.
I cannot even imaging picking Never Let Me Go in the time when it was released going fresh into it without any pre-knowledge. That must have been the reading experience.
I must get to Olga T this year!
I like like al lot of English speakers make it easy for themselves calling her Olga T, as it makes her sounds like some MC😂😂
Your books are so interesting! I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel and that you go over books that are not the typical booktube books. Finally! haha I've been looking for these type of books with depth.
PS I'm Sara and I'm a pathology scientist :) And now, new sub.
Thank you Sara, I'm very glad you stumbled across my channel too :) Lovely to hear you enjoy it, and wow what an unusual and interesting profession you have.
Haha never a boring day, that’s for sure!
I am reading three books and they are:
Anne Of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - My Own Paperback Book
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens - Kindle Book
Agent Undercover by Lynette Eason - Library E Book
All of these books are really good.
I enjoyed listening to you talk about the books that you have read and are reading and your Audio Books as well.
Happy Reading ❤️📚📖🔰
Thank you Linda. I read Anne books often when I was younger, and really loved it. Little Dorrit is something I have on my TBR
Great video as always. I admire your restraint when it comes to buying new books😆👍 I am failing my goals on that front with flying colors. I have been reading Olga Tokarczuk and lots of MAIGRET mysteries by Georges Simenon. Now, I want to get into the WITCHER books by Andrzej Sapkowski before I watch the new Netflix show.
Thank you so much Olaf. When I was in high school I faked flu for two weeks to read all 7 books of Witcher. I loved it. I hope translations is good. Good luck with that and please let me know how it went.
WhatKamilReads 😂 Faking the flu to read is hilarious 🤣 I‘ll let u know. I wanted to read the books for years, but somehow never got around to them. The new show seems like a good excuse 😆📚
I really appreciate the diverse voices, and countries from which you choose your reading list. Where do you find, and how do you decide which books to read and review? Are some of the books you review books you already own, or do you only review ~recently published books?
Thank you so much, and answering your question, both, recent publications and older ones, it depends how much the book decimated with me, both in a good and a bad way. I am naturally I believe or maybe educationally, interested in various voices always were. One of my masters is in political science so world always fascinated me as it’s immense and beautiful regardless of humans endeavours.
Również walczę z sobą, żeby nie kupować nowych książek w tym roku, ale po Twojej story na instagramie o "Unnecessary Woman" nie mogłam się oprzeć 😊 jak opowiadałeś o głównej bohaterce, to tak sobie siebie wyobrażam za jakieś 15-20 lat 😉 może niekoniecznie pracującą nad tłumaczeniami, ale gdzieś na marginesie mainstreamowego społeczeństwa 🙈 na razie jeszcze czeka na swoją kolej, więc tylko proszę grzecznie, nie pokazuj już żadnych ciekawych książek o kobietach do końca roku, żebym w końcu przeczytała swoje zaległości 🙃pozdrawiam Natalia
Bardzo mi milo ze zainspirowałem. Unnecessary Woman jest niesamowita. Jest to wydane po polsku czy kupilas po angielsku? Ha, piekny obrazek sobie narysowalas, trzymam kciuki by sie ziscil bo to rzeczywiscie calkiem urzekajaca wizja starosci.
@@WhatKamilReads, po angielsku, z tego co patrzyłam wydaje mi się, że nie została przetłumaczona na polski 🙄
I mostly listen to audiobooks and podcasts somehwere between 1.2 and 1.5 speed. German audiobooks I can speed up more, because they are so slow talking, so I rarely listen to them. I tend to stretch my limit on speed when I don't enjoy the book but want to listen to the end, the fastest I think I went was 4x for Crime and Punishment's last 4 hours. But I agree it is less enjoyable and sometimess stressful if they talk too fast.
1book1review i can understand and be on the board here with pretty much everything you said , but why for the sake of god would you listened to Crime and Punishment at 4 times the speed, Wiebke!? 😄
@@WhatKamilReads Because I hated it and just wanted it to be over. With the length of that audiobook I could train my brain up to that speed and still follow the story. By that time that was all I wanted out of it.
@@1book1review Why did you hate it? this is such an excellent piece of literature.
@@WhatKamilReads I know people say that, I thought it was confusing, all over the place and deep down a crime fiction or psychological thriller, which is something I really have no patience with. I watched your video on the book after reading it and I can see what you liked in it and also some of the things I missed or didn't get while reading. I am glad I read it, but I can't say it has been a pleasure.
I’m finding it hard to get any reading time at the moment. Olga Tokarczuk book is something to look forward to.
Are Flights and Drive Your Plow, the only books by Tokarczuk that have been translated into English?
I’ve been trying to read read too many books at once and getting nowhere. I just have to settle on one and finish it. So which will I actually finish before months end?
The Topeka School
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
The Library Book
The Idea of Perfection
The Book of Dirt
Disappearing Earth is on my kindle TBR.
Have a great time in Dublin ☘️
Regarding Tokarczuk I think there was also House of Day House of Night translated and Primeval and Other Times. I know none from your books but the gwo I talked about. Happy Reading and hopefully you'll finish quite a few of them
Actually I do not like thick books, I prefer diversity in my reading and feel no need to dive deep into other fictional worlds - not that my real world were so interesting ... - , but, as it goes, I'm stuck at the moment parallel reading two giants: Knausgaard's My Struggle Vol. VI (12oo pages) and the recently published new work by Jürgen Habermas "Glauben und Wissen. Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" (1700 pages) tracing and reconstructing the historical roots and development of our modern ideas of democracy and human rights since pre-historic times in the way of the rationalization of originally religious ideas developed in the axial age. Luckily both books are very good, worth the time, and from Habermas, as always, you learn a lot. - From Knausgaard as well since the novel contains, among other theoretical passages, long interpretations of the poetry of Paul Celan and a several hundred pages long essay on the biography of Hitler, above all as a young man - I'm not far into that yet.
I read only only seasonal quartet by Knausgard and it was pretty much pointless writing and because of that I’m very hesitant in picking up any of his bigger novels. Never heard though that he includes those type of essays as that sounds fantastic so maybe worth reading at the end of a day. I’m a total ignorant when it comes to Habermas, haven’t read anything by him. By googling I just discovered there’s times of his works translated to Polish. Im quite similar I prefer shorter works and before was rather avoiding big novels thinking they take to much time but now I guess similarly to you, I stick to the ones worth the time.