Bookshelf Tour #2

Love hear you talking about books, is there going to be a part 3 👀

Congrats on 1000 subs!

Love the erudite reviews. Hope you go beyond just penguin edition

Perusing books with you feels like one's thoughts echoing back, so considered and calm, non-intrusive as if pre-integrated with one's own sense of literary drifting.

Hmm, Flann O'Brien sounds fascinating the way you describe it. Then your reflection back on A Clockwork Orange—"I do struggle to enjoy books that have unsympathetic characters"—makes me wonder why I feel precisely the opposite: discomfort and disgust are fascinating feelings for me, made all the more curious when spurred by words on a page. I'm enchanted by that strength of language.

Do we think we have read what we read as children? There's a quote from the playwright Alan Bennett: "The books one remembers best are the books one has never read." When I return to books from youth I find myself reading something wholly new, and the feel of what I felt before remains distinct, as if something no longer in those pages. I've had to confront this feeling many times as I teach students books from my past. It's odd how much like strangers we can be to ourselves.

Love your videos

Plenty to keep you out of mischief there. Happy reading.

Congratulations on the 1000subs🥳🥳 Such a fast growth. I'm happy to have been here at the beginning 🌷

Hello! Great video! I found you through Maria's (Strange Lucidity) recent video.