Happy birthday mate. It made me genuinely happy to see you sufficiently presented for this new chapter of your life.
@mildrumpusКүн бұрын
Welcome to the Dirty Thirty - Happy Reading! 😎📚👍
@daubiebooks632 күн бұрын
I am envious! My family have known of my love of books for years but have never gifted me with a book. The one exception is my sister-in-law who gave me one book a few years ago. That’s it! You have very thoughtful friends and a wonderful family. Good for you!
@betinaceciliafeld98542 күн бұрын
Happy belated birthday! I was about to ask about that gorgeous box set behind you when I reached the end of the video 😅. How wonderful is to get books on your birthday! They are my favourite present to receive and to offer to my loved ones (not the biggest surprise for someone who's watching booktube, right? 😂).
@vesch50832 күн бұрын
If you like disturbing stories then you might like Shirley Jackson. She's my favorite American author. My favorite novel is We Have Always Lived in the Castle. My favorite short story is The Lottery.
@aniekanabasi2 күн бұрын
I read The Trial halfway and closed to never open it again. The Trial is an artistic expression of drepression. Anytime I find myself drawn to Kafka I start to suspect depression is around the corner. Time to touch grass.
@Read2live2 күн бұрын
Romantic Outlaws is excellent!
@RandallGriffithLCSW2 күн бұрын
What a delightful post. Thank you, and a very happy birthday wish.
@anjakuemski2 күн бұрын
Happy Birthday! Louis Couperus sounds really interesting, I think I will try Footsteps of Fate (in English or German, my Dutch is practically non-existent).
@Stephen9372 күн бұрын
Same! I'm also 30. The other day I was at work and one of my customers said "you don't look old enough to have a job." Happy late birthday btw!
@novelideea2 күн бұрын
Loved the quiet, gentle nature of Housekeeper 💗
@novelideea2 күн бұрын
I think at your age, & the fact that you are still in that “university” mindset, you will enjoy Winter’s Night. Especially if you have people you can debate meaning and technique with!
@novelideea2 күн бұрын
Eco’s works were too overly sexualized for my sensibilities 😂
@novelideea2 күн бұрын
I hope you love To Kill a Mockingbird 💕
@novelideea2 күн бұрын
I hope you love To Kill a Mockingbird 💕
@novelideea2 күн бұрын
I have Devotions on my shelf TBR also.
@novelideea2 күн бұрын
My friend just read Outlaws and it is on track to be one of her favorites of 2024!
@novelideea2 күн бұрын
Marita’s book sounds fascinating- but I don’t read Dutch 😔
@dqan73722 күн бұрын
Happy birthday! Some great sounding books there. 🎂☕📚
@gracetaylor73512 күн бұрын
Happy 30th birthday ! I am 36 I still get people thinking am in my 20s haha I have romantic laws in paperback still to read .❤
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
Thank you! Glad I'm not the only one!!
@davidmccalip57592 күн бұрын
Hello Celine! Happy Birthday and I hope all is well with you. I loved Eco's The Name of the Rose. It is one of my favorite books. I also read his The Prague Cemetery but I did not think it was as good as The Name of the Rose. I recently purchased Baudolino on the recommendation of the Booktuber Tristan and hope to get at it in the not too distant future as Tristan made it sound so interesting. I look forward to your next video. Have a great day! 🙂
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
Thank you for watching David, hope you have a great day too! Can't wait to dive into The Name of the Rose
@joelharris43992 күн бұрын
Should poetry be accessible? Depends who you ask really. If you take that question up with the late Geoffrey Hill, he would say that the language of poetry should strive to capture the complexity of life because life is difficult. If you ask the late Mary Oliver, she might say, "Oh well, I want my poems to reach as many people as humanly possible. I want to be a people's poet." It does raise some questions about reader expectations. Readers should know not all poems are going to be escapist in sensibility, let alone intelligible, and others frankly do require a great deal of archival work to simply tease out their hidden meanings. You taste in literature profoundly demonstrates how no one can escape the pervasive influence of the Greco-Roman culture, the bedrock of the West. And least I forget, Happy Belated Birthday Celine🎂🍭🥂🍾 May your days ahead be long and fruitful 🙏
@josephcossey18112 күн бұрын
If you enjoy To Kill A Mockingbird (and I suspect you will!) then by all means try Harper Lee's very belated sequel Go Set A Watchman which shares the same Deep South setting and some of the key figures from the original novel.
@Paromita_M2 күн бұрын
Belated birthday wishes! Have a great time reading and in general wish you a very good year ahead.
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
Thank you! 🙂
@AbhijeetBorkar2 күн бұрын
Happy Birthday and welcome to the 30s! :)
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
Thanks! 🙂
@crypsid2 күн бұрын
What a great birthday haul! I especially like how many genres are represented here. And yeah, you will probably like the Calvino a lot if you enjoy those kind of narrative tricks, atleast I really did.
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
Glad to hear you enjoyed Calvino, I'm really looking forward to it!
@jamesduggan72002 күн бұрын
There's a study of memory loss which used a spiral maze and a mirror - very difficult. Nonetheless, the subjects with limited short-term memory improved across a few weeks of observation. A very nice haul: Congratulations and many happy returns! btw: I found Castor's Jean d'Arc on Audible, which I downloaded to my library. I hope to finish it this Summer. Thx
@joralemonvirgincreche5 күн бұрын
What 5 books did you find most overrated? (Others recommended or love them but you just didn't.) Name several (or one) authors everyone but you loves, or that you feel like you're supposed to love but just can't get into, or dislike?
@joralemonvirgincreche5 күн бұрын
I obsessively (some would say) track my books, which includes counting them. My books spreadsheet contains 3,656 books which includes owned books, read books, and got-rid-of books. I own 1,928 books today (spread over two locations). I acquire them much faster than I can read them. I read around 120-140 a year. I try to get rid of books but it can be hard.
@soundmanpt7 күн бұрын
Your right it has been 4 months since you posted your last video. During that time you got new glasses. I like them, but I also liked your previous glasses as well also. Now as a former optician usually unless you lost or broke your previous glasses the only reason for getting new glasses is a change in prescription. So I'm going to assume that you didn't loose or break your glasses and you had a slight change in your prescription. Were things at a distance becoming a little blurry even with your glasses on or were you simply due to get your eyes checked and you weren't having any issues with your eyesight at all? I can see by looking at your glasses, and through them, that your nearsighted or what you may call it shortsighted. So you really shouldn't need your glasses for reading. now there of course there is no harm in wearing your glasses to read if your more comfortable wearing them. But I do have a suggestion for you. By wearing them to rad your forcing your eyes to become fully adjusted to the prescription in your glasses. So to keep your eyesight from worsening for near things, such as reading, you should try wearing a weaker pair of glasses for reading. Your eye can even tell you which pair of previous glasses are most comfortable for reading simply by trying all of them that you have. Now it's possible that you may only have a couple pairs if you only started wearing glasses a few years ago. When did you get your first glasses and when did you start wearing them fulltime? How did you feel about getting glasses? Young attractive women, which you are certainly in that group, often aren't all that happy about getting glasses.
@TheEclecticLibrary7 күн бұрын
I've had glasses since I was 12! Unfortunately, my right eye has a prescription of -4 and has recently become astigmatic as well, so I can't read without glasses or even with a previous prescription, as it doesn't correct the astigmatism. I'll keep it in mind for the future though! Overall I quite like glasses, although I've worn contacts as well
@soundmanpt4 күн бұрын
@@TheEclecticLibrary Thank you for your reply. So I assume your left eye is your better eye? I'm a little surprised that you only recently developed some astigmatism in your right eye. I'm sure you know what an astigmatisms is. If not it's the shape of the eye which usually is found much sooner. As a former optician it's always nice to hear you say that you quite like wearing glasses. But honestly I think glasses really can enhance the looks of almost every woman. And you look so nice wearing glasses. I'm sure it helps that glasses have really seemed to get more and more fashionable over the years. In my early years as an optician I had quite a few young girls in tears as they were picking out a frame for their glasses. In those days when a young girl got glasses to her it was the kiss of death because she was sure to never marry. But in my later years those same young girls were actually excited about getting glasses. And when they didn't need glasses they were very disappointed. Our doctor even caught quite few trying to fake the eye exam to get glasses. Only God knows how many may have done it well enough to get glasses. At 12 I'm sure you weren't one of them. haha So do you still wear contacts from time to time or do you only wear glasses now? I'm not really a fan of contacts because I have seen my share of people coming in with eye infections and eye ulcers. Those are things you don't need to worry about when you wear glasses. But to be fair contacts are very good option for anyone that plays sports, especially any type of contact sports. You should be getting close to when your eyes should stop changing . That usually happens somewhere between the ages of 19 and 25. So at your recent eye exam did your prescription increase other than having some astigmatism correct now? By the way did mention how cute you look wearing glasses?
@tahlia__nerds_out10 күн бұрын
Thanks for all the amazing book suggestions. I think that I might have to pick up the first two you mentioned. Quick question, though… wasn’t Mary I the first Queen Regnant, not Elizabeth I? If I misunderstood you, sorry about that.
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
You are probably right! I will have to reread the introduction to She-Wolves to investigate why Castor uses Elizabeth to book-end the other biographies.
@donovanmedieval10 күн бұрын
Joan of Arc's current reputation in the English speaking world was apparently established by Mark Twain. He wrote an account of her life under a different pseudonym, in a different than usual tone. Apparently, WASP Americans knew nothing about her until his work came out.
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
That's fascinating! As a European, Joan of Arc is definitely quite well-known. I would be curious to see how Twain portrayed Joan
@donovanmedieval2 күн бұрын
@@TheEclecticLibrary Far more respectfully than Shakespeare. He calls her Joan la Pucelle in Henry VI. She's a witch and woman of ill repute. And speaks in sexual innuendo.
@joshuacreboreads11 күн бұрын
“Medieval Women” sounds like it would be a good place for me to start for me! Thank you for the video. I have just discovered your channel from Justin @triumphalreads. Happy reading!
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@novelideea12 күн бұрын
Of course I love Joan, and Julian of Norwich & Margery Kempe. I recently read about Barbara of Cilli by Daniela Dvořáková (academic text) that was the first I had read of her.
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
I'd never heard of Barbara of Cilli before, but she sounds fascinating! I'll have to see if I can find something on her for a decent price
@faribareads13 күн бұрын
Love Marie de France's poems (lais). I look forward to reading about her.
@TriumphalReads13 күн бұрын
Helen Castor is really good for medieval history. I'll have to check out the Leyser book sometime. I recently read Medieval Women by Frances and Joseph Gies. An even older worl but I've liked everything so far that I've read by them. I'd recommend on this topic Empress Matilda as a subject and Hanley's biography in particular. Awesome video!
@TheEclecticLibrary2 күн бұрын
Thank you for the recommendations, I'll definitely have a look!
@spacecraft08013 күн бұрын
Thank you for the book recommendation. I will definitely check out the societal history one. 🎉
@TheEclecticLibrary13 күн бұрын
Thank you for watching! Hope you find the book interesting 🙂
@emersonviudez228413 күн бұрын
Hildegard of Bingen 😊
@joelharris439913 күн бұрын
Well yes, you gotta dress for the part as a "Medieval woman." Regale us with tales of HER / STORY 🤓
@Carlos_Machado_13 күн бұрын
Nice selection, congratulations! My favorite medieval figure/author/saint is Thomas Aquinas who was studied by Umberto Eco. Have you ever read any of the two?
@TheEclecticLibrary13 күн бұрын
Thank you! I recently received Eco's Name of the Rose as a present, so I'm really looking forward to giving him a try! Anything specific you'd recommend from Aquinas?
@Carlos_Machado_12 күн бұрын
Well, you can read the complete Summa Theologica, which despite having more than 1000 pages will certainly enrichen your cultural and spiritual life, i guess... Or, you can start with a small biographical text like the one GK Chesterton wrote. The Selected Writings are also good options. I am glad you are going to read Eco's Name of the Rose because I also read it a long time ago and it will definitely have and enduring impact on you. You'll probably want to read more of his novels, like: Baudolino, The Island of the Day Before, Foucault's Pendulum, and others. They are all extraordinarily well written. Good readings!
@Thetrilingualreader19 күн бұрын
Is that woman in white by wilkie collins right behind you on (my) left? I have the exact same copy, i bought it in turkey
@TheEclecticLibrary19 күн бұрын
It is, very well spotted! I haven't read it yet though 🙂
@Thetrilingualreader19 күн бұрын
@TheEclecticLibrary omg me too. Our bookclub is reading it in october!! U are welcome to join.
@TheEclecticLibrary19 күн бұрын
@@Thetrilingualreader Sounds fun! Do you have a link for the book club? I'll have a look - am reading The Moonstone atm so it just depends whether I feel like another Collins so soon after!
@williezhang74622 күн бұрын
Are your books all in English?
@TheEclecticLibrary19 күн бұрын
Most of them are (at least 80%). I do also have some Dutch, German, and French books 🙂
@jamesduggan720023 күн бұрын
Off the top of my head I'd say weirdness is a typical quality of dichotomy, since without the weirdness it would difficult to distinguish between the two categories, no?
@TheEclecticLibrary19 күн бұрын
That's a fair point! It's just that in practice the boundary between weird to not weird is porous. Kafka's Metamorphosis is pretty much always shelved with literary fiction, not fantasy, despite being about a man turning into a giant bug 😅 Similar for books in the magic realism tradition
@jamesduggan720019 күн бұрын
@@TheEclecticLibrary Only very rarely do I take seriously the transformation into a bug: almost always I interpret metaphorically, meaning that the bug is a government bureaucrat like the ones in the Castle or the Trial. Not only do they not start their careers as bugs, but many of them have families who are forced at some point to come to the conclusion the person they loved once has become a giant bug.
@josephcossey181123 күн бұрын
Q&A questions...what are your earliest reading memories? Classics or contemporary fiction (if you really had to choose?) Books/authors that you have always meant to read but have thus far felt too intimidated to start? Proust and Joyce would be at the top of my list! Physical books; ebooks; audio books...compare and contrast. Literary tropes/themes/cliches that make you want to tear out your hair?
@josephcossey181123 күн бұрын
For the forthcoming Q&A...desert island books perhaps? The 10 books that you simply couldn't live without!
@josephcossey181123 күн бұрын
As Groucho Marx once said..."Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read!"
@josephcossey181123 күн бұрын
I guessed 700! Think I deserve a silver medal! Great video (as always).
@TheEclecticLibrary19 күн бұрын
@@josephcossey1811 Well done, silver medal definitely deserved! Thank you for your questions as well 🙂
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Happy birthday mate. It made me genuinely happy to see you sufficiently presented for this new chapter of your life.
Welcome to the Dirty Thirty - Happy Reading! 😎📚👍
I am envious! My family have known of my love of books for years but have never gifted me with a book. The one exception is my sister-in-law who gave me one book a few years ago. That’s it! You have very thoughtful friends and a wonderful family. Good for you!
Happy belated birthday! I was about to ask about that gorgeous box set behind you when I reached the end of the video 😅. How wonderful is to get books on your birthday! They are my favourite present to receive and to offer to my loved ones (not the biggest surprise for someone who's watching booktube, right? 😂).
If you like disturbing stories then you might like Shirley Jackson. She's my favorite American author. My favorite novel is We Have Always Lived in the Castle. My favorite short story is The Lottery.
I read The Trial halfway and closed to never open it again. The Trial is an artistic expression of drepression. Anytime I find myself drawn to Kafka I start to suspect depression is around the corner. Time to touch grass.
Romantic Outlaws is excellent!
What a delightful post. Thank you, and a very happy birthday wish.
Happy Birthday! Louis Couperus sounds really interesting, I think I will try Footsteps of Fate (in English or German, my Dutch is practically non-existent).
Same! I'm also 30. The other day I was at work and one of my customers said "you don't look old enough to have a job." Happy late birthday btw!
Loved the quiet, gentle nature of Housekeeper 💗
I think at your age, & the fact that you are still in that “university” mindset, you will enjoy Winter’s Night. Especially if you have people you can debate meaning and technique with!
Eco’s works were too overly sexualized for my sensibilities 😂
I hope you love To Kill a Mockingbird 💕
I hope you love To Kill a Mockingbird 💕
I have Devotions on my shelf TBR also.
My friend just read Outlaws and it is on track to be one of her favorites of 2024!
Marita’s book sounds fascinating- but I don’t read Dutch 😔
Happy birthday! Some great sounding books there. 🎂☕📚
Happy 30th birthday ! I am 36 I still get people thinking am in my 20s haha I have romantic laws in paperback still to read .❤
Thank you! Glad I'm not the only one!!
Hello Celine! Happy Birthday and I hope all is well with you. I loved Eco's The Name of the Rose. It is one of my favorite books. I also read his The Prague Cemetery but I did not think it was as good as The Name of the Rose. I recently purchased Baudolino on the recommendation of the Booktuber Tristan and hope to get at it in the not too distant future as Tristan made it sound so interesting. I look forward to your next video. Have a great day! 🙂
Thank you for watching David, hope you have a great day too! Can't wait to dive into The Name of the Rose
Should poetry be accessible? Depends who you ask really. If you take that question up with the late Geoffrey Hill, he would say that the language of poetry should strive to capture the complexity of life because life is difficult. If you ask the late Mary Oliver, she might say, "Oh well, I want my poems to reach as many people as humanly possible. I want to be a people's poet." It does raise some questions about reader expectations. Readers should know not all poems are going to be escapist in sensibility, let alone intelligible, and others frankly do require a great deal of archival work to simply tease out their hidden meanings. You taste in literature profoundly demonstrates how no one can escape the pervasive influence of the Greco-Roman culture, the bedrock of the West. And least I forget, Happy Belated Birthday Celine🎂🍭🥂🍾 May your days ahead be long and fruitful 🙏
If you enjoy To Kill A Mockingbird (and I suspect you will!) then by all means try Harper Lee's very belated sequel Go Set A Watchman which shares the same Deep South setting and some of the key figures from the original novel.
Belated birthday wishes! Have a great time reading and in general wish you a very good year ahead.
Thank you! 🙂
Happy Birthday and welcome to the 30s! :)
Thanks! 🙂
What a great birthday haul! I especially like how many genres are represented here. And yeah, you will probably like the Calvino a lot if you enjoy those kind of narrative tricks, atleast I really did.
Glad to hear you enjoyed Calvino, I'm really looking forward to it!
There's a study of memory loss which used a spiral maze and a mirror - very difficult. Nonetheless, the subjects with limited short-term memory improved across a few weeks of observation. A very nice haul: Congratulations and many happy returns! btw: I found Castor's Jean d'Arc on Audible, which I downloaded to my library. I hope to finish it this Summer. Thx
What 5 books did you find most overrated? (Others recommended or love them but you just didn't.) Name several (or one) authors everyone but you loves, or that you feel like you're supposed to love but just can't get into, or dislike?
I obsessively (some would say) track my books, which includes counting them. My books spreadsheet contains 3,656 books which includes owned books, read books, and got-rid-of books. I own 1,928 books today (spread over two locations). I acquire them much faster than I can read them. I read around 120-140 a year. I try to get rid of books but it can be hard.
Your right it has been 4 months since you posted your last video. During that time you got new glasses. I like them, but I also liked your previous glasses as well also. Now as a former optician usually unless you lost or broke your previous glasses the only reason for getting new glasses is a change in prescription. So I'm going to assume that you didn't loose or break your glasses and you had a slight change in your prescription. Were things at a distance becoming a little blurry even with your glasses on or were you simply due to get your eyes checked and you weren't having any issues with your eyesight at all? I can see by looking at your glasses, and through them, that your nearsighted or what you may call it shortsighted. So you really shouldn't need your glasses for reading. now there of course there is no harm in wearing your glasses to read if your more comfortable wearing them. But I do have a suggestion for you. By wearing them to rad your forcing your eyes to become fully adjusted to the prescription in your glasses. So to keep your eyesight from worsening for near things, such as reading, you should try wearing a weaker pair of glasses for reading. Your eye can even tell you which pair of previous glasses are most comfortable for reading simply by trying all of them that you have. Now it's possible that you may only have a couple pairs if you only started wearing glasses a few years ago. When did you get your first glasses and when did you start wearing them fulltime? How did you feel about getting glasses? Young attractive women, which you are certainly in that group, often aren't all that happy about getting glasses.
I've had glasses since I was 12! Unfortunately, my right eye has a prescription of -4 and has recently become astigmatic as well, so I can't read without glasses or even with a previous prescription, as it doesn't correct the astigmatism. I'll keep it in mind for the future though! Overall I quite like glasses, although I've worn contacts as well
@@TheEclecticLibrary Thank you for your reply. So I assume your left eye is your better eye? I'm a little surprised that you only recently developed some astigmatism in your right eye. I'm sure you know what an astigmatisms is. If not it's the shape of the eye which usually is found much sooner. As a former optician it's always nice to hear you say that you quite like wearing glasses. But honestly I think glasses really can enhance the looks of almost every woman. And you look so nice wearing glasses. I'm sure it helps that glasses have really seemed to get more and more fashionable over the years. In my early years as an optician I had quite a few young girls in tears as they were picking out a frame for their glasses. In those days when a young girl got glasses to her it was the kiss of death because she was sure to never marry. But in my later years those same young girls were actually excited about getting glasses. And when they didn't need glasses they were very disappointed. Our doctor even caught quite few trying to fake the eye exam to get glasses. Only God knows how many may have done it well enough to get glasses. At 12 I'm sure you weren't one of them. haha So do you still wear contacts from time to time or do you only wear glasses now? I'm not really a fan of contacts because I have seen my share of people coming in with eye infections and eye ulcers. Those are things you don't need to worry about when you wear glasses. But to be fair contacts are very good option for anyone that plays sports, especially any type of contact sports. You should be getting close to when your eyes should stop changing . That usually happens somewhere between the ages of 19 and 25. So at your recent eye exam did your prescription increase other than having some astigmatism correct now? By the way did mention how cute you look wearing glasses?
Thanks for all the amazing book suggestions. I think that I might have to pick up the first two you mentioned. Quick question, though… wasn’t Mary I the first Queen Regnant, not Elizabeth I? If I misunderstood you, sorry about that.
You are probably right! I will have to reread the introduction to She-Wolves to investigate why Castor uses Elizabeth to book-end the other biographies.
Joan of Arc's current reputation in the English speaking world was apparently established by Mark Twain. He wrote an account of her life under a different pseudonym, in a different than usual tone. Apparently, WASP Americans knew nothing about her until his work came out.
That's fascinating! As a European, Joan of Arc is definitely quite well-known. I would be curious to see how Twain portrayed Joan
@@TheEclecticLibrary Far more respectfully than Shakespeare. He calls her Joan la Pucelle in Henry VI. She's a witch and woman of ill repute. And speaks in sexual innuendo.
“Medieval Women” sounds like it would be a good place for me to start for me! Thank you for the video. I have just discovered your channel from Justin @triumphalreads. Happy reading!
Thank you for watching!
Of course I love Joan, and Julian of Norwich & Margery Kempe. I recently read about Barbara of Cilli by Daniela Dvořáková (academic text) that was the first I had read of her.
I'd never heard of Barbara of Cilli before, but she sounds fascinating! I'll have to see if I can find something on her for a decent price
Love Marie de France's poems (lais). I look forward to reading about her.
Helen Castor is really good for medieval history. I'll have to check out the Leyser book sometime. I recently read Medieval Women by Frances and Joseph Gies. An even older worl but I've liked everything so far that I've read by them. I'd recommend on this topic Empress Matilda as a subject and Hanley's biography in particular. Awesome video!
Thank you for the recommendations, I'll definitely have a look!
Thank you for the book recommendation. I will definitely check out the societal history one. 🎉
Thank you for watching! Hope you find the book interesting 🙂
Hildegard of Bingen 😊
Well yes, you gotta dress for the part as a "Medieval woman." Regale us with tales of HER / STORY 🤓
Nice selection, congratulations! My favorite medieval figure/author/saint is Thomas Aquinas who was studied by Umberto Eco. Have you ever read any of the two?
Thank you! I recently received Eco's Name of the Rose as a present, so I'm really looking forward to giving him a try! Anything specific you'd recommend from Aquinas?
Well, you can read the complete Summa Theologica, which despite having more than 1000 pages will certainly enrichen your cultural and spiritual life, i guess... Or, you can start with a small biographical text like the one GK Chesterton wrote. The Selected Writings are also good options. I am glad you are going to read Eco's Name of the Rose because I also read it a long time ago and it will definitely have and enduring impact on you. You'll probably want to read more of his novels, like: Baudolino, The Island of the Day Before, Foucault's Pendulum, and others. They are all extraordinarily well written. Good readings!
Is that woman in white by wilkie collins right behind you on (my) left? I have the exact same copy, i bought it in turkey
It is, very well spotted! I haven't read it yet though 🙂
@TheEclecticLibrary omg me too. Our bookclub is reading it in october!! U are welcome to join.
@@Thetrilingualreader Sounds fun! Do you have a link for the book club? I'll have a look - am reading The Moonstone atm so it just depends whether I feel like another Collins so soon after!
Are your books all in English?
Most of them are (at least 80%). I do also have some Dutch, German, and French books 🙂
Off the top of my head I'd say weirdness is a typical quality of dichotomy, since without the weirdness it would difficult to distinguish between the two categories, no?
That's a fair point! It's just that in practice the boundary between weird to not weird is porous. Kafka's Metamorphosis is pretty much always shelved with literary fiction, not fantasy, despite being about a man turning into a giant bug 😅 Similar for books in the magic realism tradition
@@TheEclecticLibrary Only very rarely do I take seriously the transformation into a bug: almost always I interpret metaphorically, meaning that the bug is a government bureaucrat like the ones in the Castle or the Trial. Not only do they not start their careers as bugs, but many of them have families who are forced at some point to come to the conclusion the person they loved once has become a giant bug.
Q&A questions...what are your earliest reading memories? Classics or contemporary fiction (if you really had to choose?) Books/authors that you have always meant to read but have thus far felt too intimidated to start? Proust and Joyce would be at the top of my list! Physical books; ebooks; audio books...compare and contrast. Literary tropes/themes/cliches that make you want to tear out your hair?
For the forthcoming Q&A...desert island books perhaps? The 10 books that you simply couldn't live without!
As Groucho Marx once said..."Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read!"
I guessed 700! Think I deserve a silver medal! Great video (as always).
@@josephcossey1811 Well done, silver medal definitely deserved! Thank you for your questions as well 🙂