Everything I Read in 2020

very proud of myself for this year i won't lie - EA x
*oop I recede my comments on Adichie being one of my favourite feminists in light of her being transphobic. CAN WE HAVE ANY NICE THINGS??? re: www.bitchmedia.org/article/ni...
🍊 Chapters 🍊
00:00 Intro
01:54 Richard Yates - A Good School
04:15 Albert Camus - Create Dangerously
05:49 Samuel Beckett - The End
07:25 Tayari Jones- An American Marriage
08:30 Susan Sontag - Notes on Camp
10:35 Nancy Mitford - Fredrick the Great
11:56 Marquis de Sade - Justine
15:03 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
17:38 Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love
19:06 Audre Lorde - The Master’s Tools
20:15 Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
21:22 Haruki Murakami - Talk About Running
22:01 Madeline Miller - Circe
23:09 Walter Murch - In the Blink of an Eye
24:17 Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles
24:59 Andy Warhol - Fame
26:14 Alain de Botton - The Course of Love
28:36 Chinua Achebe - Africa’s Tarnished Name
29:46 Haruki Murakami - South of the Border
32:17 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Dear Ijeawele
35:19 Outro
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[@catarinathebookworm]

I understand completly what you say about Murakami. I have read pretty much all of his books, I believe, and the feelings are all there. He is just such an amazing writer, the themes, the metaphors, the magical realism, the characters, the environments. Uau. So glad someone else feels the same. Also love the way you talk about your opinions and the way you just transmit knowledge. Could listen to you for hours. Thank you!

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Yesterday I finished Justine and I really needed to hear someone's opinion because it shocked me and left me thinking A LOT. Thanks Emma for the booktube content

[@saajidahfirdausi3794]

Yknow you mentioned that the Sally Rooney book was quite meh in one of your other videos, same, but aS a cOMp liT sTudENt, I think you would really appreciate Jack Edwards video on reading the books read by the protagonists in the book cose he draws so many connections to what happens in the book and what they’re reading and the author’s beliefs etc. etc. He did one on Harry Styles too btw.

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[@chrystianaw8256]

This channel is a ray of sunshine!

[@danni.phantom8184]

your cover/edition game is so on point that it looks like a bookworm mood board btw :) (edit) p.s. included in the trinity of Circe and Song of Achilles, you should read Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls

[@lucybalcombe4161]

Thank you so much for all your book videos! I've got so many great recommendations from them. I normally love retellings but I read the Penelopiad recently and it was quite disappointing, Margaret Atwood is normally brilliant but I felt that Penelope was a really 2D character, I did find it great that she gave the maids a voice though.

[@livnewton1187]

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[@oleander7635]

honestly very interested in that potential sade video...i've been intrigued for years now but haven't read anything by him

[@RobinPalmerTV]

We did Camus for french a level... no wonder my generation who took french were a little pessimistic

[@funfor1life]

Being a native French speaker who's read a lot of Camus' work, I wonder how he could come across as even slightly convoluted. He is rather famous for his minimalistic, simple style instead. Roland Barthes even described his work as "le degré zéro du style, une absence de style qui devient un style de l'absence", so "the degree 0 of style, an absence of style which becomes a style of the absence". I wonder what English translators made of his style though! I don't know if you've heard of or ever read Huysmans but he's very convoluted and "À Rebours" is still my favourite book to this day. Odd, scholarly, narrative prowesses one after the other. I could only recommend at least "À Rebours" :)

[@VasilikiS]

Haven't watched the whole video yet but your make up is just PERFECT. 😍 Where's the eyeshadow from?

[@dreamstakenbytrees]

ahh yes, emma rambling about books - we love to see it🤍 my favourite book of 2020 has to be my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell. it deals with grooming, abuse and coming to terms with your own trauma in such a realistic and important way, SUCH a stunning novel (even though it was super hard to read, for obvious reasons)

[@thomasma2014]

Oh Richard Yates! I remember reading him when Revolutionary Road came out, reading that and then reading The Easter Parade and loving them both! Truly disturbed me in the miserable monotony of married life in the 50s and 60s. I think he should be considered a pretty great American writer (but people dont really read him, he's not really taught). Maybe try some Philip Roth? He wrote around the same time and while its been a while aince I read him I can see similarities. I would suggest Roth's earlier stuff even though its a bit masculine at times

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[@Muna-nh6qs]

Yo Emma....we need a Story Time from you! You're great!

[@EmmaSophieChannel]

don’t wanna be That Person but you might wanna be aware that adichie has agreed with jk rowling on her transphobic bullshit. i do support reading books detached from their context at times, but i think it’s important to be aware of this when recommending a thinker even if everything else they do is excellent!

[@sarcastic_fish]

ye ye I've been told, I added a lil amendment in the description (also DO be that person, always be that person)

[@riinmclave1635]

omg i cannot believe this WHAT whyyyyy , she was one of my favorite feminists , it's really paradoxical when it comes to seperating the art from the artist you know , i guess i can just read her books borrowed from the library 🤷‍♀️

[@oleander7635]

@@riinmclave1635 tbh adichie was already transphobic even before JKR unfortunately, and i was hoping she had been educated but the JKR defense indicates she hasn't. also not trans related but still in regards to gender nonconformity: iirc in one of her feminist books--maybe "we should all be feminists"?--she also demonizes butch women which was ... not great either. she seems very oriented around feminine cis women?

[@aisling8308]

You might enjoy Stoner by John Williams, it was written in 1965 and has an academic setting. I believe it follows a pretty average man's life? It's on my tbr so I can't say whether or not I enjoy it myself, but I've seen/heard a lot of good things about it.

[@riinmclave1635]

hiiii , look i KNOW your tbr is full but... i'vr got to recommend some books for you James Baldwin - literally anything , his essay the fire next time and his play the amen corner are all i've read so far but they are SO DAMN GOOD !! A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo is an italian feminist classic that i think everyone should read and if your looking for something a bit more contemporary then read 'Kim Jiyoung , born in 1982' its this amazing Korean novella published recently enough , and it's really interesting to see the similarities and differences between the experiences of women in Korea and in the west also i noticed in your last video you got 'Gender Trouble ' which is on my (horrifyingly long) tbr , i haven't read it yet (bc online school and aforementioned tbr) but flicked through the table of contents and the amount of times the 'heterosexual matrix' is mentioned it's sounds pretty awesome.

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Regardless of the subject of the video, You look great and happy.

[@JulEnglefaris]

I love Camus, but when you were like "I cant read anymore of this or I'll throw myself out the window" ----- THAT was exactly how I felt reading Norwegian Wood. Like, I've never had a suicidal thought in my life before that book, and I had to stop reading it because I wanted to jump off the roof lmao.

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Love this channel for book recs you just don't get anywhere else on Booktube

[@myayo]

read the bell jar!

[@chrystianaw8256]

Fantastic suggestion!

[@camilaalmeida3511]

As a dyslexic myself, i tell u that 20 books in a year is a great number ;)

[@aisling8308]

Have you tried Scribd or another audiobook service? It might help you read more books (if you wanted). I prefer physical copies but I find audiobooks are great for lighter, more contemporary novels that I want to read but know I won't be annotating or anything. I can listen to them while cooking dinner, doing housework etc. I'm listening to Normal People at the minute because I didn't want to buy it.

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Off topic but we need that makeup tutorial😍😍

[@_megwaters]

I don’t know if you have read it but we just looked at sexing the cherry by winterson and wow that is one sexy novella going into gender, construction of narratives presented to women and time set against the backdrop of the civil war

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hey emma, just wondering what are your career/job plans or ideas? I'm looking to study literature but I'm worried about job prospects after

[@yj6118]

Well she’s currently working on a masters in film so she’s probably going to go into the film industry

[@Alex-ne2pl]

hi i have a question, isn’t there a spoiler on the first page in the song of achilles?I was on page 80 and i was like hmm let’s read the first page 😭😭

[@josephine7583]

Have you read Georges Bataille? Tbh i tried to read The Story of the Eye and i couldn't get through it LOL (i really wanna read his works tho), but if you find libertinism interesting you might enjoy him !

[@CharlesJosepDelDotto]

The best thing I read in 2020 was probably Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities was close, but I loved Flaubert's small-scale world-building so much, and Emma really is That Bitch. I cackled so much reading that book. It's magnificent.

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This was amazing but I think it’s a bad influence for me because I should be reading - studying history, sociology and Ancient Greek philosophy for exams not these beautiful beautiful books 😢😢 - the description of the last murikami was so intriguing though❤️

[@nellsea8086]

I love reading murakami with a little misogyny in it for a lil razzle dazzle

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gotta add that bit of ✨spice ✨

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Apropos getting a little taste test of people, I recently stumbled upon the Penguin Great Ideas series which is amazing for that purpose

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remember kids, still not a booktube channel

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I get the whole still being at home thing - I'm stuck at home instead of in my uni room in Northern Ireland!!

[@zlzlzl2]

May well finish all the little penguin books, there is only 50 of them. You can review some bad ones (Gertrude Stein -> Food)

[@letterstolucilius399]

You should read Sputnik Sweethearth by Murakami, I think its worth your time.

[@jakmerriman4499]

You said you hated Camus' existentialism and then how much you love Beckett's absurdist worldview. Pain.

[@aisling8308]

Yes the whole point of philosophy is that it's supposed to challenge you & your views!

[@tamzinlittle5295]

If I could read only 20 books but read them with your level of analysis I would but I have no idea how to make myself pause to think deeper about them and I just get lost in them - HeLp

[@yj6118]

If you’re on goodreads, there are lots of reading groups where people will decide on a book to read, say Count of Monte Cristo, and will chat about it every week/month. You could also look for videos on the author and get to know them and what beliefs/background might influence how they write and what they write about. *i forgot to add, for most books you can try googling a study guide and that could force you to stop and think about what you’re reading while you’re reading it, and not retrospectively*

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Don't worry about your driving skills, we all have had that period when we started. It will improve a lot, even after you got your licence

[@chloeryan3029]

I had the exact same response to Andy Warhol's Fame

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read charles Bukowski

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23 hours ago.

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You look like Kendall Jenner in this video!!

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You're very beautiful ♥

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I can't tell if you are 18 or 32

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you're deffo not a booktuber hahahha