This channel is for people who love books and Korean culture. I read a variety of books, but I read a lot of nonfiction (memoir, current events, history, biography, theology), classics, translated fiction, speculative fiction, and children's fiction. I also make youtube videos about books for the Lake County Library in Lakeport, CA.
The Unexpected Journal has published my fiction and nonfiction. I also write press releases and handle social media for the Lake County Library.
For business enquiries, please email me at [email protected] (no self-published fiction).
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Eventually the classics you know will fall into obscurity
Sorry I didn’t make it yesterday! ❤
We missed youuuu!
reading wandering inn ... its a great read....
"Just a single man, Fyodor Dostoevsky, is enough to defeat all the creative novelists of the world. If one has to decide on 10 great novels in all the languages of the world, one will have to choose at least 3 novels of Dostoevsky in those 10. Dostoevsky’s insight into human beings and their problems is greater than your so-called psychoanalysts, and there are moments where he reaches the heights of great mystics. His book BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is so great in its insights that no BIBLE or KORAN or GITA comes close. In another masterpiece of Dostoevsky, THE IDIOT, the main character is called ‘idiot’ by the people because they can’t understand his simplicity, his humbleness, his purity, his trust, his love. You can cheat him, you can deceive him, and he will still trust you. He is really one of the most beautiful characters ever created by any novelist. The idiot is a sage. The novel could just as well have been called THE SAGE. Dostoevsky’s idiot is not an idiot; he is one of the sanest men amongst an insane humanity. If you can become the idiot of Fyodor Dostoevsky, it is perfectly beautiful. It is better than being cunning priest or politician. Humbleness has such a blessing. Simplicity has such benediction."
"Just a single man, Fyodor Dostoevsky, is enough to defeat all the creative novelists of the world. If one has to decide on 10 great novels in all the languages of the world, one will have to choose at least 3 novels of Dostoevsky in those 10. Dostoevsky’s insight into human beings and their problems is greater than your so-called psychoanalysts, and there are moments where he reaches the heights of great mystics. His book BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is so great in its insights that no BIBLE or KORAN or GITA comes close. In another masterpiece of Dostoevsky, THE IDIOT, the main character is called ‘idiot’ by the people because they can’t understand his simplicity, his humbleness, his purity, his trust, his love. You can cheat him, you can deceive him, and he will still trust you. He is really one of the most beautiful characters ever created by any novelist. The idiot is a sage. The novel could just as well have been called THE SAGE. Dostoevsky’s idiot is not an idiot; he is one of the sanest men amongst an insane humanity. If you can become the idiot of Fyodor Dostoevsky, it is perfectly beautiful. It is better than being cunning priest or politician. Humbleness has such a blessing. Simplicity has such benediction."
She is so cute
Extremely thoughtful and it brings tears of sadness and appreciation for how much she was appreciated. Moving and so kind. Thanks.
What a lovely and thoughtful person you are, Jen is still missed
Love that this tag exists! Laughing at IBS 😂 I didn’t realize it was such a thing!
Not surprisingly, we mention quite a few of the same books/authors 😂 (although for different prompts) Twinsies to the core lately haha
We truly are twinsies to the core and I'm LOVING IT
Truck of Doom is totally a kdrama thing! So many times a random truck will come from nowhere and hit someone and they die 😂 I don’t know why it’s so common haha
Ahhh okay, thank you for explaining that!! 🤣🤣
This makeup look is everythinnngggg 😍😍
😍🥰😘 Colorful is the #ktropeathon VIBE lol
This is such a cool tag & I absolutely love the prompts!! Thanks so much for tagging me! I'll definitely go for it! 💜
I thought of you immediately, especially after you did the BTS tag 🤭💜
❤ this tag
Aww I'm so glad, thank you!! Would love it if you did it, too 🥰
Such a fun tag! The prompts are so fun. Can’t wait to do it.
Yessss I'm so excited for your answers!!!
Jane Austen July - yay.
Yes! It's almost here!!
Sorry about the mono sound 😅 New editor and my brain is spinning!
Hi Christy, You have inspired me to read again. I started with the classics, such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck and Robert Heinlein. One of my favorite poets is Khalil Gibran. I would like to email you. How do I contact you? Thanks. 😀
That is WONDERFUL news! I am frequently on Instagram and occasionally I go live here on KZread. I would be thrilled to chat with you on either place! Welcome to booktube 😄
I always love listening to your book chat. 😍♥️I need to get going on Words of Radiance, too. My 16 yo, 15 yo, and I are trying to read them all before the 5th comes out. My kids are almost finished with the four and I’m only about halfway through Words of Radiance! 😮😂 I’m a bit more in the light fantasy side reader and these have SO many characters etc. Leaning high fantasy!😂
I loooove that your teens are enjoying Sando along with you 🥹 I always love to hear from you, friend ❤️ Thanks for leaving your thoughts.
The weird thing is Kim Jiha wrote a lot of protest poetry that was important to people back in the day but has since gone on to become a right wing crank.
Whaaaa that's so crazy! Two lefts don't make a right, but three do, as we say Stateside 😅
@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace during the candlelight protests at the end of Banned Book Club, he was on President Park's side! The daughter of the dictator who tortured him, who was trying to enact the same policies and blacklist authors of books like the ones he wrote! Bizarre.
For me, The Double is rather more interesting psychologically than philosophically. It strikes me as one part satire and one part horror, with very clever psychological play throughout. (Doubling, of course, plays a major role throughout FMD's works--e.g., Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in Crime and Punishment, Myshkin and Rogozhin in The Idiot, the two main players in Eternal Husband, etc. We might think of The Double as a first venture into this concept.) I've never read the original version, but I've heard it's awfully tedious. I'm sure you (like me) read the revised version from the 1860s. I actually hold that version in high regard, but part of the method is to play up various verbal tics of both narrator and Golyadkin (e.g., repeating someone's name a bunch of times), so it can be off-putting. (I'm actually getting a similar vibe from The Adolescent. The narrative structure for that later novel requires that the narrator be less-than-eloquent in his portrayal of events. So, FMD winds up displaying his artistry by annoying his readers. 🙂 )
I was wondering why the names were repeated so much! Now I'm curious about the original version. 😆 I am LOVING your audiobook and notes, though. That's what I'm going to listen to once I finish some of my other commitments.
@@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace You're very kind! I'm glad you enjoy it. (It was an early recording, so I wasn't sure how it held up.)
My list for Ktropeathon is waaaaaay to long! But I’m so excited!
Girl same 🤣🤣 We basically need ktropeathon all year round
We were going read GA vol 1. It was for August and September. Is that ok?
Yes, after recording this I saw you mentioned it in the Red September vcbat. Thanks, Faith!!
I’ve totally missed seeing you! I’ve been out of town for this month, so if you’ve done some videos, it’s me-not you.
Aww you're so sweet 🥹 I hope your travels were safe and for all good reasons!
@@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace I’m afraid not. My brother needed assistance to get set up in his home as a new amputee. It was good to help him, but definitely took me out of my life for a while. Nonetheless a worthwhile sacrifice.
What's this ? technics to read ? do we really need that ? or read is read and if didn't get it go back as many times necessary and then some light will begin to appear ? A young girl will teach ??!! US technics to read ? Dosto ?
One of the problems I find most notable, and lied to about is the aspect of safety. Women being most safe with a man who they are married to, who needs to be invested in her wellbeing because of their shared economy. Women being less safe living with a boyfriend. Even less when engaging in hookup culture. And the most likely to end up in a DV or divorce when in a relationship with another woman. Yeah. That's not my personal argument, just the statistics. Same as the outcomes for children, nuclear family gives the best result and least trauma. In second place it's single fathers, and single moms score lowest. In fact the vast majority of children with problems, juveniles, users, dropouts, come from single mother homes. The paper compared it to disbanding the police force in a society, the threat of their existence is not optional. A fundamental misunderstanding of how we learn behavior. And they also cited their concerns with so many men being single, not being in a protective role but in a situation where they benefit from creating social problems. And this really blew my mind. Things like hiking up prices to make themselves more economically attractive. Letting in immigrants with a criminal past to create a need for protection. Voting to stop the funding of social programs like daycare. They will just drag society down until it looks like Africa. And the whole reason the West always outperformed the rest of the world was because all the men were focused on making things better for their family. While in other countries hypergamy was much more prevalent, and with it all the corruption the men engaged in for competition. Understand that if you push hypergamy too far, the resulting competition among men is literally war. The dirty kind, gangs, drugs, shootings, in your backyard. I want no part of that. If that means you can't sleep with a different guy every week then you are just going to have to get over that sis. I also did not appreciate being told half truths by my school about feminism. Like men getting the vote only a few years before women, and they had to sign up for the draft. Women could have bank accounts because they clearly could inherit things. It's just that the government treated couples like one legal unit. All these half truths like that just made me look uneducated.
I have recently discovered your channel and you have inspired me to start reading again after many years! I started with White nighhts and Bobok and now just about to start The Brothers Karamazov! Thank you 🖤
That is wonderful to hear!! 🥹 Thank you for letting me know!
Seminary was the word I was looking for!
You speak way too fast, it’s difficult to keep up with all the things you’re saying.
Thanks for the feedback. I just learned recently that you can slow down or speed up youtube videos in settings FYI! But now I'm mostly doing unedited videos, so I probably don't speak to quickly anymore.
Wait. What? You white washed soon doobu? Noooooooo. It’s really not that spicy as long as you eat rice with it.
IBS, man. It sucks 😆
@@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace I understand. Dated a gluten allergic girl once.
What a lovely gesture.
your book cover designs are really bad. Turkish publishers are better than you in this regard. In addition, the book is very good in terms of subject matter and everyone should read it.
Ngl, that book cover was UGLY lol
Three month for the easiest mystery book in Italy? Try "Foucault Pendulum"
I think I'll pass 😆
Of course she would like Henry James. SMH
🤣🤣🤣 burn
So fun!!!
I am so sorry for this news but I will not be able to watch your amazing videos as my mom has been diagnosed with terminal cancer ❤❤❤
I'm so sorry to hear this, John 🥹 Praying for you and her!
This was fun to watch 🤣
Aww I'm so glad!! Thanks for letting me know!
So fun! You guys make me laugh! 😆
😍 I'm so glad!! We had a great time 🥰
This was the most adorably delightful thing I’ve ever seen. Also, jealous!
Funny, I was thinking the same thing about you 🤗 Ikr!! Why are we on the wrong coast lol
I can feel that! I've recently read classics such as Wax by Ethel Lina White, Stuart Little, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. I really enjoyed them all. Great remedy to the trashy movies that Hollywood is coming out with today. But with that said, every book I'm reading now was published in the 2020s, lol. It is nice to have a balance to expose myself to more modern ideas about family, culture, etc. The new ones are pretty entertaining, too.
Such a fun challenge!
Thanks, Cheryl!! 🤗
I loved this! Thank you for the laughs! 🥰🫶🤗
I'm so glad!! Thanks, Jess and thank you again for sharing it 😍
Yeeeessssssss so glad we got to do this! lol your editing is hilarious 😂
YOU are hilarious lol!! Your guesses kept me rolling. "Burger and fries!"
I also read the Bible daily to keep myself and my mind grounded in Truth, which is so necessary in this day and age. Voddie is an awesome preacher!
Just got done with the book today. Heard all these Amazing things. I felt more like you did. The names get confusing and yes, I got confused when I thought a character was dead then wasnt sure if they were actually alive. I gave it a 3.5 out of 5. Some passages I saw a deeper meaning and in others I saw nonsense. Definitely along for the ride. That was the first video I have seen of yours.I think I'm going to read Don Quixote after Claudius the God. Maybe you did a review on those.
What a beautiful and heartfelt tribute to Jenny ❤ ❤ Well done Christy for putting it all together!