wow! this was excellent. subscribing

Thank you for sharing these. I am a 27 year old man from India exploring non fiction and philosophy these days. The passion with which you explained the topics the books revolved around was amazing to see. Please keep posting. Have a good day :)

Thank you for the wonderful recommendations! I added a bunch to my TBR.

@AnnNovella

10 ай бұрын

You’re welcome, Christina!

wow....am adding this to my wish list immediately. thanks and happy 2023,

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

you’re welcome!

Congo has been on my TBR forever; you inspired me to bump it to the top of the list. Thanks for the video.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

Great list Ann! Added Congo to my TBR and quite intrigued by Marina Abramovic's memoir... although I'm pretty sure you could convince me to read any of the books in your list!

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

Haha, thank you! 📚🤓

Great list. Ann. I have Out of Africa on my TBR shelf. Will have to look at some of the others. They all sound good. 😊💙

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

Out of Africa is a great read!

This is the 1st time I've listened to one of your videos and I just loved it! The books sound so good that you mentioned. I had to laugh about your comment on the Out of Africa movie where Robert Redford washes Meryl Streep's hair. I watched it recently and that gave me a chuckle. You really make me want to read the book.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

It is written with so much love!

I'm late to this video but just wanted to say that I love your picks. I have the Highsmith waiting. Many of the others are new to me. Thank you for such thoughtful reviews of unique and wonderful books.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

that’s so sweet!

Great list! I have Out of Africa I think. The Highsmith book sounds fascinating! Maybe I’ll read it after we’ve read her books.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

It’s 1000 pages, Olly!

@CriminOllyBlog

Жыл бұрын

@@AnnNovella might take a couple of days then

I hope to get to Congo next year! And will also keep my eye out for Abramovic, she is a fascinating person!

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

She is!

What a list!

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed, what a list. All books you would love.

I'm always interested in reading writers from outside the Anglosphere, so Congo sounds fascinating. I've recently learned so much about the horrors committed by the British Empire from foreign writers as it seems they have more freedom to talk about it. British writers were never quiet about the Congo, though.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

There is another work by him that is now being translated: Revolusi. It’s about Indonesia.

Ann, since you enjoyed "Out of Africa" I think you would also enjoy reading "West with the Night" - Beryl Markham's own memoir of Kenya at the same time - her life entwined with Karen, including friends in common. It's a good companion piece.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

noted!

@heathergregg9975

Жыл бұрын

@@AnnNovella let me know your thoughts once you've read it, whenever that is, I'm sure you've many books ahead of it in your TBR. But it is very well written.

❤

I loved loved loved Congo! I met him once when he was on Aruba together with Rodaan al Galidi. It was a wonderful time.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

oh how cool!

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

oh how cool!

New subscriber here. Thank you for highlighting Patricia Highsmith, one of my favorite writers. I need to pick up a biography of her soon. Have you read Heather Clark’s biography of Sylvia Plath “Red Comet”? It is a marvelous book.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

Hi Joni, I have it on my shelf and is on my TBR. Welcome btw!

@joniheisenberg

Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did! Currently reading Beverly Gage’s masterful biography of J. Edgar Hoover entitled” G-MAN J.Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.” It is fascinating. Also just started “The Shards” by Bret Easton Ellis.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

@@joniheisenberg i really liked The Shards. G-man sounds interesting🤓

I will definitely look into Marina’s bio and Letters…

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

You are in for a treat!

Patricia Highsmith book sounds very interesting

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

It really is!

Well since I consider Susan Sontag to be absolutely brilliant (her and Hannah Arendt), I am now going to have to check out Patricia Highsmith’s diaries. I have a biography of Highsmith on TBR, but haven’t gotten to it yet. Maybe will read the two in conjunction with one another, though will be a while before I get there since I have a lot of TBR books. 😊

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

She has time. 🙌🏻

@StephanieJCohen

Жыл бұрын

@@AnnNovella 😉

Wow, I feel like I've been reading parallel books! The Congo book you suggest is on my shortlist for next year - previously the only book I've read on the subject was King Leopold's Ghost, which was I thought amazing and really opened my eyes, as embarassingly enough I hadn't realized the extent of Belgium's influence and history in Africa. I've only seen the movie version of Out of Africa, but I have read Beryl Markham's memoir West with the Night, which is also fantastic, and turns out Denis was two-timing Karen with Beryl while flying around Africa, so he figures prominently in that memoir as well. And last year I read a book of interviews with women who had spent time in Russian gulags, and one of them was with a woman who knew Marina Tsvetayeva's daughter there, and had a bunch of her (Marina's daughter Ariadna's) letters to Boris Pasternak, with whom she maintained a correspondence until his death, and many of those letters are reprinted in the book (Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustová)

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

wow, that is really parallel 😳🤓

@erinh7450

Жыл бұрын

@@AnnNovella I know, right? I'd never even heard of Marina Tsvetayeva before this year, now she's coming up all the time! 😂 I'm interested to hear that Out of Africa is so different from the movie - I'll have to get to it! You should read Beryl Markham's too! Denis flitted about with some amazing women, lol.

Apparently the Congo never was a Belgian colony, rather it was the personal fiefdom of King leopold II.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

At the beginning it was his personal property, and then he donated it to Belgium and it became a colony.

More books for my want to read list. I think I have read more by Patricia Highsmith than any other female author, but there is still so much of her oeuvre I haven't read. I read King Leopold's Ghost about the brutal colonial regime in Congo, it was very disturbing, as is the whole history of colonialism.

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

Congo is even better.

🐌🥬👜😂

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

Yes, can you imagine? 😂😂😂

I nearly saw Marina Abramovic once but the queue was too long

@AnnNovella

Жыл бұрын

yep, I get that. 🤓

@royreadsanything

Жыл бұрын

@@AnnNovella...I had to get to a work thing, it wasn't that my desire to see her couldn’t stand the wait. Though I can't now remember what the work thing was: I bet I'd remember the performance piece!