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@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

slowly morphing into an ootd café pics skincare routine aesthetic bookshelf girlie

I have a recommendation for anyone who watched The Idol and hated the show, for a book recommendation, I would recommend The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes. The book is about Cassidy Holmes, a former member of Gloss, a early 2000s girl group that's based on the Spice Girls. She commits suicide and the remaining members who haven't spoken to her since they disbanded attempt to process the loss and wondered what they could have done to save her. As for a movie recommendation, Beyond the Lights. The movie is about Noni, a British pop star in the vein of Beyonce and Rihanna who won an award for a song that dominated the radio charts. She faces a lot of pressure from her label and her mom to be the best and that pressure leads her to attempt suicide only for a police officer to save her. As she spends time with the police officer, she learns to put herself first and stand up for herself.

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

oooooh they sound so interesting thank you

@Capricorn152

11 ай бұрын

Beyond the Lights is fantastic! And I need to check the book out ASAP

@ccannon1

9 ай бұрын

Yes I thought they had the same vibe too

we don’t see enough booktube recs for “interior chinatown”!!! one of the best books i’ve read in recent years!!!!

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

it’s so underrated!!

Nightbitch sounds like a cool idea for a body horror film. As a reader and film buff, this is an absolutely wonderful idea for recommendations!! I hope you do more of these in the future :)

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

yes!! i’m excited to see what they do with it in the film

I recommend "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao to anyone who feels female rage and is tired of every other trope in writing. Also, the unique voice of the main character is extremely strong, the way she describes also shows how she sees things, to put it simply. I don't think I've ever consciously read Sci-Fi before, but with the element system, it's almost a bit like fantasy/magic/spirituality. Loved everything about it EXCEPT for the fact that the second volume can only come out next year

@elevenseven-yq4vu

9 ай бұрын

I recommend "The Night Was Pale, the Lights Were Twinkling" by Emma Braslavsky. It is a sci-fi novel about an A. I. undercover cop that is supposed to track down the relatives of suicides committed out of alienation and loneliness - so that the state doesn't have to come up for the funeral costs (instead of those estranged relatives). This problem has become pandemic in spite of A. I. life comrades being a widespread phenomenon, and this growing tide of suicides begins to threaten the fundamental economics of our future society... The secret A. I. cop prototype is framed as female to "appear less threatening" and starts as a blank slate persona. So she has to develop her own concept of our social reality including concepts of gender, human behavior, morals, psychology, detective research and keeping her identity secret. It is a novel that is at the same time dark and hilarious, philosophical and satirical, blunt and subtle, poetic and pulp, troubling and cathartic, full of melancholy and badassery, bridges the hyperreal with the surreal but never gets esoterical or magical in an escapist mode. It is oftentimes genius in its observant analysis, other times hilarious in the playfulness of recycling and subverting common sci-fi tropes without ever treading stale water. A trailblazing novel in our postmodern age.

@urdadsleftasshole69

9 ай бұрын

also read iron widow if you hate love triangles and wish the characters would just get into a polycule already, and you love chinese history and culture, and you love casual bi/implied trans rep, and you love a villain protagonist

Your fun, colorful pink look in this video paired with the surprising number of cannibal-themed recommendations was delightfully surprising! 😂 I had never heard of Nightbitch, but it's definitely on my reading list now. 👌

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

i love juxtaposing cute girly pop aesthetic with scary scary monster women hahaha

LOVE this video so much, I haven't finished yet, but next to Moonlight I think another great book rec would be The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, also chronicling the life of a young bi-racial gay man from childhood to early adulthood in England. SO good.

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

added to my TBR, thank you!! the cover is so gorgeous too I’m excited

What a clever idea for a list. 🖤

So the fact that Bunny was bookended by two of my favorite movies..... have to go find that, now

Okay now what do I do now that I’ve finished all of your recs 😩 please make another one of these I’m starving for books in the new year!

These were so good! Wrote down a bunch of your book recs ❤ this format was so fun too

I’m constantly switching between IMDB and letterboxed while watching this video lol these are great suggestions

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

hahahaha thank you i’m glad to add to the watchlists

The way you summarize and analyze these films and books gives me a whole new interest in a lot of the novels. For instance, Tender is the Flesh, Bunny and Everything I Know about Love are books that have sat on my TBR for a while and hearing you speak on them has given me a new energy to get to reading them

I'm obsessed with your channel! btw I highly highly recommend "Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown" by Almodovar, it's sooooo good! Keep up the great work, Ellen❤

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

omg i’m watching that this week! love Almodovar, thank you 🌸

a book that i would really recommend based on what books you’ve recommended is boy parts by eliza clark it’s about this english women in her late 20s who is a fetish photographer of men she finds on the street and it follows her descent into madness, and how her actions get more extreme until they lead to murder and she’s a very unlikable protagonist, but the book is amazing

I’m gonna look into some of the books you recommended 📚💕

I love love love the concept for this video! Also, i don't know if it makes any sense but you could totally be a character from Bunny 😊 Btw, tender is the flesh is an argentinian novel, not spanish one.

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

omg thank you that is the highest level of compliment

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

omg yes argentinian! i think i was thinking spanish-language novel when i said it

Obsessed with everything I’ve seen/read from this list so everything I haven’t seen has been immediately added to my TBR/TBW lists!!

A Certain Hunger is one of the best novels I’ve ever read and I’m so glad you mentioned it! I don’t hear anyone talk about it and it’s a shame because it’s so beautifully written, which is kind of weird to say given its subject matter haha

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

i feel like those who know it love it but it’s a little bit of a niche gem

18:42 I think that quote applies to Barbie and why Gerwig spent so much time on Ken

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

yes!! i was originally going to include some of those quotes in my Barbie video but completely forgot when I was writing the script lol

@elevenseven-yq4vu

9 ай бұрын

She got so much right about Ken. It can be embarrassing but also liberating to watch from a male perspective. The comedy aspect lightens the mood, which is welcome at that point in time. Another female writer/director who portrayed the male experience astonishingly well is Melissa Miller Constanzo in her coming of age film "All These Small Moments". It seems to me as if male film makers either don't dare, don't self-reflect enough, or don't get the funding or green-light to portray the sensibilities of male puberty and adolescence in an emotionally honest manner. So it took a woman to make an indie film on this that is truly immersive - finally. I'm so tired of Hollywood perpetuating clichéd tropes of masculinity that are as "realistic" as cardboard cutouts. I know women weren't better off for the most part when it comes to actual representation. And yet, many mainstream movies are similarly "off" for non-macho-type men; and more so, the vast majority is especially "off" for non-macho-type BOYS. It seems even current media has rarely a place for them.

I feel like a book for the last batch of movies (pearl/gone girl) would be The Yellow Wallpaper

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

omg yes!! you’re so right. I love the Yellow Wallpaper, I need to revisit

Hightly reccommend the movie After Yang It shares themes with the Kazuo Ishiguro novel you mentioned. And in general Kogonada works expecially Columubs, one of my favourite movies ever!! Great video ❤

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

After Yang is on my list!! Love my little Irish lad Colin Farrell and I’ve been meaning to watch

@gloria7190

11 ай бұрын

@@elleliteracy Yes!!!Colin is amazing in it, and the movie is Such a gem!

Thank you so much for this video! As someone who is trying to read again after a gigantic block, having recomendations by you was super good!

I love your videos! Especially your video essays on trends. Can you do one on makeup trends going from maximalist to minimalist and the cycle repeating?

portrait of a lady on fire absolutely knocked my socks off. incredible film.

Thanks for these recs, this is great!

Thank you! Excited to check some of these out 🎉

Yeah, it is so weird how so much of the media (film, lit, even youtube) is from the US or US-centric throughout the rest of the world. You’re prob the only Irish yt channel I watch for ex and I wonder what percentage of films I’ve watched/books I’ve read this year are from the US

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

interesting!! yeah I feel like I need to make more of an effort to read non-Western authors/watch non-Western films because the perspective is soooo narrow lol

i love your videos so much :D

Love this!!!

I left a comment but it just disappeared from my data so apologies if you see this twice. I just wanted to recommend the book The Power by Naomi Alderman. I think you would like it. Amazing book about gender roles, female power, female rage and abuse of power. It follows several female characters all over the world in a setting where women everywhere start to develop a new muscle called a skein that allows them to shoot electricity from their fingers. It was recently made into a tv series with Toni Colette but the book is much better. Also adding Bunny to my TBR list so thank you. Another recommendation for a book about witchcraft and sisterhood is The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. It’s such a beautifully written book. Based in the same series as the book Practical Magic (which the film with Sandra Bullock is based on) but so much better!

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

I loved the Power!! I read it back in 2018 ish so it’s been a while but I remember finding the story and feminist politics really captivating

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

recently added the Rules of Magic to my TBR but I’ll bump it up now!

Along with “a certain hunger” I’d definitely recommend “boy parts”

Love your content and thanks for my next read/watch list. In the future, any chance we could get a book/movie/show list or sort of credit roll in the vid to make copying them down a bit easier. EDIT: OH!! and a book recommendation! ‘The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires’ I just finished it and it was great. Very on the nose, a filled with great feminine rage!

Thank you for expanding my book list further! I'd recommend the mini series Midnight Mass written & directed by Mike Flanagan. If you've seen it & liked it, what book would you suggest to read after watching it?

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

hmmmm that’s a good question, I saw that when it came out so it’s been a while. I feel like there’s probably some classic gothic lit (besides Dracula obv) that feels similar but I can’t think of an equivalent off the top of my head

ngl i been DYING for more s*x and the city type stories. gonna add everything i know about love to my reading list!

@elevenseven-yq4vu

9 ай бұрын

Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus wrote a scathing satire called "Citizen Girl", somewhat pulpish in tone, that has a similar setting and similar themes as "Sex in the City", but it tears down any pretense of glamour in the postmodern workplace for female employees. It's a biting comment on workplace (self-) exploitation, prolonged internships, bullshit jobs, the digital precariat, social hierarchies hiding behind hipster jargon, and on how much of it is gendered, misogynist and sexist. It also deals with problems of the dating world, although work obligations leave little time and space for this...

the way I snorted at “you better werk”

I loooove this

lol the clique book jumpscare hehe

i would say if you’re interested in cannabilism as a subject i thought bones and all took a really fresh take on the idea by using it is as a metaphor for love instead of objectification. it was very refreshing, while simultaneously horrifying and beautiful.

Very BooksandLala recommendations! I love it.

Thanks for the recommendations, Ellen, they are very insightful.

I think After Yang (2021) would fit nicely into your Her/Klara and the Sun vibe-space.

Have you seen/analyzed the Irreversible (Gaspar Noe's 2002 film)? Would be great to hear the take (it's not an easy film, but nothing too hard for those who managed to read the Modelland...😅)

I LIVE for Ellen’s recs ✨✨✨

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

tee hee 👉👈

Have you seen Ravenous ('99)? I think you'd like it. It's about cannibalism and a critique on western expansion. It's also pretty homoerotic lol

I just ❤ LOVE ❤ your video concept here; linking books to cinema and vice versa - genius at play! It inspired me to try and find matches myself, so here goes... Movie: "The Thin Red Line" (Terence Malick) It gives you multiple perspectives on the same events in war (an episode from world war 2 in the pacific region), using visual perspectives as well as off-screen thoughts to sort of hover above the scenes and then zoom into different characters' perception. Book 1: "Higher Command" (Edlef Köppen) It gives you a multifaceted insight into the German war effort during world war 1, mostly as an expressionistic war novel but interspersed with and juxtaposed by quotations from varied actual media from the time such as army reports, advertisement, news, propaganda articles, etc. to turn it into a literary montage. Book 2: "War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam" (Bernd Greiner) It gives you structured insight into a mass of documents on the Vietnam war on various levels of military organisation; on the political, professional, structural, informational, bureaucratical, geographical, psychological, sociological, career optional and other systemic factors and forces at play within an ongoing war and how these shaped how it was being waged. It is a non-fiction book by a historian with unprecedented access to (hitherto and afterwards) secret files from American war archives. It has been researched and written during a window in time between the workings of the freedom of information act and the patriot act respectively.

I love anything by Keigo Higashino, but Journey Under the Midnight Sun was truly heartbreaking.

I was wondering if A Certain Hunger was going to be on here.

I watched this and your Barbie video two thumbs up

💙 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 💜

@elevenseven-yq4vu

9 ай бұрын

Another movie dealing with class and gender and power-dynamics in an intimate personal story is 🖤 Ammonite 🤍, which I did not love quite as much, but which is still a very well-made and likeable movie if you have an interest in period pieces, character driven plots and great acting.

1000th like. Lowkey highkey flexing

loved the video but 16:14 argentinian novel, not spanish, big difference lol but okay! keep doing this recs ! xoxo

16:22 it's so funny to me people would rather start eating each other than meat alternatives 😂

Where can I find these books?

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

your local bookshop / ebooks online !

Bones and All (book) I think has some really interesting points on female rage and the idea of hating yourself because you don’t fit the narrative. The movie was beautifully shot but is nothing like the book, also the cannibalism as a metaphor for queerness did not sit well with me.(that is only in the movie, the book has a very different take.)

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

ooooh i didn’t know it was a book, I’ll definitely check it out!

Loved the recommendations. Had one gentle rebuttal to one comment: queerness isn’t more or less taboo in Black communities than it is in others. Would push back on that (without dismissing the extent to which homophobia is in Black American communities)

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can we be besties

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

hell yeah

Ha! Joke's on you I only watch movies girl!

If all the meat is inedible, why would they not just eat plants????? Wtffffffff Did they really just say "oops, we're out of meat, i guess ill just have to eat Samantha for dinner"

thank you for noting your eyeshadow 🩷 i bought a bento! your influence 🩷🩷🩷

@elleliteracy

11 ай бұрын

no prob!! they are my absolute faves I literally just smear them on with my finger and they look like stardust on my eyes, hope you like it!