May Reading Wrap Up (worst to best)
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- Talking you through all the books I read (and DNF'd) in May
Books Mentioned:
Letters to Camondo - Edmund de Waal
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre
At the Existentialist Cafe - Sarah Bakewell
The Guide - R.K. Narayan
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
In the House of the Interpreter- Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Dreams in a Time of War - Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Solar Bones - Mike McCormack
The House of Ulloa - Emilia Pardo Bazan
Erewhon - Samuel Butler
The Face of War - Martha Gellhorn
Flaneuse - Lauren Elkin
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Channels Mentioned:
@jack_edwards
@loverofpages
Instagram - / sarahreadingjounral
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sarahsreadingjournal@gmail.com
Well done with the DNF's! I have a strong personal rule about not finishing books I don't like. So many people feel forced to finish the books they start.
so glad you loved House of the Spirits! it's my favorite Allende!!!
Yes, it's so good! Annoyed at myself for putting it off for so long 😅
These books sound amazing 😊.
I had a really good reading month in May 😍
I feel so hard the feeling of liking reading about stuff like existentialism and the actual people involved, but not enjoying reading some of their actual work 😆 I get that a lot with modernism too! I accidentally started reading Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's memoirs with In The House of the Interpreter so this is a great reminder that I need to get my hands on the first one and carry on 😅
Yeah, I guess existentialism's not meant to be fun to read but I found Nausea so bleak 😅 Totally agree with modernism too. I would definitely recommend going back and reading the first in Thiongo's memoir series. I preferred it to In the House of the Interpreter. I'm so bad for reading the first book in the series and then completely forgetting about it ha ha!
Thank you, Sarah,
I'll definitely give Erewhon a go on the back of your description. I've recently discovered the Past, Present, Future podcast. I haven't heard that mentioned yet, but his history of ideas and great political fictions series is just brilliant. And One Hundred Years... has been on my shelf for many years, must get that read.
Yeah, definitely worth a go, especially if you like political fiction. You just need to push through the 50 pages ar the start. I've listened to some of his Past, Present, Future but it's got so many episodes I'm struggling to keep up!
I know! But as a reader I recommend scrolling through and picking out 'The Great Political Fictions' recently he did Middlemarch (fascinating take on it) and I'm about to listen to his take on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
@@user-sd4gq6jr4m Yes, I'll definitely do that. Thanks for the recommendation!
I'm I the only one getting a mirror image? I'm guessing not, but no one else is commenting, and it seems it would be any easy fix. It's off-putting to struggle to read the title of books, as sometimes I don't quite catch the audible.
Ah sorry, I can try and fix that for future videos!