A Reading Wrap Up

[@lsu1222]

Hallelujah ❤🙌🏻

[@ConnorStompanato]

really good point about adding quips and silliness into serious topics to try break tension, it does diminish the work.

[@InfiniteText]

Sometimes I think....damn this would have won some literary awards if it wasn't for the unnecessary swearing or "jokes"

[@SimpleHealth83]

I love Anne of Green Gables and have read the first 3 or 4 books in the series..plan to one day get back to it and finish the series. Thanks for sharing about the biography! I didn't know those facts about L.M. Montgomery's life. 😊

[@InfiniteText]

I was shocked too! My ideas literally came from the fiction! ...I guess for her it really was a form of escapism

[@nikkivenable73]

I really enjoy your channel and I’m glad you’re back. ❤ I also wanted to tell you that I’ve read both Independent People and World Light. I have searched your videos for your discussion of World Light but I haven’t found it. I could have sworn you discussed it at some point but I can’t find it if you did. I wanted to watch that video once I finished the book itself. I enjoyed both books and have them both 5* but IP has stuck with me the longest but WL was also just so so good.

[@InfiniteText]

Thank you so much. I'm so glad you enjoyed those books too! I read World Light when I was in Maine and I made a vlog there which I have since deleted. one day I'll probably sit down and make a video just on that book alone. Laxness brings me so much joy. I have a few books left and his biography and maybe that will lead to a full author spotlight. Thank you for your kind comment

[@nikkivenable73]

@@InfiniteText I live in Maine! And I hope you do make a stand-alone for that book because you brought me to Independent People and I’m forever grateful. I could listen to you talk about Laxness for days, I swear.

[@not2tees]

This channel interested me in reading Laxness, too. His books were certainly better than I had anticipated. Thank you, Andreea.

[@nikkivenable73]

@@not2tees which of his books have you read?

[@not2tees]

@@nikkivenable73 Independent People first, then World Light, Under the Glacier, and maybe another but I'm not sure of it. I'm overloaded with books at the moment, or I'd be down to the library for one more!

[@spinstercatlady]

Emma Donoghue is amazing! I have read Inseparable as well as Passions Between Women (which focuses on British lesbian culture), and thoroughly enjoyed both.

[@InfiniteText]

I'm adding it to my list..but wow it's tough to find! our library system doesn't have any copies and I can hardly find it in online stores. A rare gem.

[@not2tees]

Thich Nhat Hanh's first name, I learned, is pronounced Tick, as in tick tock. I used to say thitch, like thatch but with an i. I am so loaded with a couple of piles of books to read, I'll have to look at this later (if ever I get caught up). Always interesting to hear your thoughts - good wishes!

[@InfiniteText]

I pronounced it that way too for a long time but I listened to this audiobook from a monk who lived with him called Zen and the art of saving the planet, and every time she referred to him and his teachings she kept saying "ty" or "thai" -- I wonder if that's the friendly term for close ones and then "tick" is the official author name

[@not2tees]

@@InfiniteText Mere English speakers can be limited. Together in limitation, forward we go!!

[@williamoarlock8634]

Does that INSEPARABLE mention Natalie Clifford Barney and her Parisian circle of great women writers like Rachilde? I'm surprised you haven't read Waugh's THE LOVED ONE - one I'm sure you'd enjoy - which he dedicated to Nancy Mitford and also inspired her sister Jessica to write AN AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH.

[@InfiniteText]

I kid you not, I was thinking about you today wondering what you are reading! I'm reading some weird fiction from a British Library collection called "From the Depths" and it reminds me of ghost pirates. So funny! Glad you're here! She does mention Barney in passing twice. Once in Vivien's Une Femme m'apparut (1904) where the main character has a female love interest and the love interest is Vally (based on Barney) and at some other point she mentions that Barney inspired about EIGHT fictional characters to be based on her. Rachilde is mentioned a few times in passing (even more vaguely). Donoghue spends more time on fiction and english literature . Well I'm sold. I'm adding An American Way of Death and The Loved One to the list! Thank you!