LOCKDOWN: Every Book I Read ✨

hey guys hope you're all well! In this episode as promised I'm chatting you guys through everything that I read in lockdown. Let me know if you read any of the same things I did and what the best thing you read in lockdown
(so far) has been. Lots of love and see yah Sunday - EA x
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00:00 Intro
01:24 Notes on 'Camp' by Susan Sontag (Penguin Modern, 2018)
03:21 Stung by Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho (Penguin Classics, 2009)
06:54 Fredrick the Great by Nancy Mitford (Vintage, 2011)
08:21 An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Oneworld Publications, 2019)
10:50 Create Dangerously by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern, 2018)
12:11 The End by Samuel Beckett (Penguin Modern, 2018)
17:28 Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue by The Marquis de Sade (Oxford, 2012)
21:14 The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford (Penguin, 2018)
24:08 On Film-making by Alexander Mackendrick (Faber & Faber, 2006)
25:40 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate, 2017)
32:40 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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[@OpheliaVert]

this is the calm wholesome content we all need right now

[@rachelcoleman4693]

That emerald eyeshadow looks beautiful on you.

[@taracorradi2045]

best thing i read during lockdown was A Room of One's Own by Woolf. the essay blew my mind. and it broke me at the same time - the anxiety that came with the passage where Woolf explains that men and women write differently, that we are conditioned to read men's works and tend to find women's fiction frivolous or simplistic... it paralyzed me. i discovered that i don't like Austen or the Brontës because i am convinced that a novel about marriages and romance is lesser than a novel about war or politics (for example). i was confronted to the fact that whilst claiming to be a feminist, my reading choices were quite hypocritical and patriarcal. the realisation hurt. still freaked out about the fact that I am a misogynist when it comes to literature. if anyone had the same experience with Woolf's essay (or without), pls let me know. if not, i guess i'll continue to have this identity crisis, on my own. anyways, what a great essay it was. definitely not over it.

[@forcekrivanjeva8880]

My thesis is on gender equality in the Bronte sisters dialogues so i can relate to your experience. I have to include way too many quotes from Woolf's essay in the thesis because everything she writes is on point. I also consider myself as a feminist but almost all of my favorite books were by men. I had to change my whole mindset on literature and how i enjoyed what others told me to enjoy.

[@dokidoki719]

Read Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen if you have the time. It presents a wonderful commentary on Woolf and talks about the race and class complications that Woolf didn’t go into.

[@emma-gv3rn]

Olivia by Dorothy Strachey (published 1949) is a pretty recent book about a lesbian couple and it inspired Call Me By Your Name. I believe Strachey herself was bisexual

[@XxgabriellabxX]

i read this during lockdown. a good little book, and amazing for the time! it's fascinating as it's autobiographical; based on Strachey's time in boarding school, and one of the older students is based on Eleanor Roosevelt who attended the same school and allegedly was in love with the same woman as the author!!

[@sofabed-mh4ho]

I get so excited every time you post! Love your videos❤️

[@holliejadee]

omg this couldn’t have come at a better time, i’m literally looking for some new books to buy as we speak! ❤️❤️

[@TommyRogic18]

If you haven’t already please read Americanah by Adiche, it’s so topical at the moment and beautifully written. Love both your unusual mix of litfic, poetry and essays and your frank af reviewing style. Sartre, ugh.

[@zahrayerou854]

This is brilliant! I will be reading most of the books she talked about since I read the rest. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. The lockdown is lifted but I graduated and I have A LOT of time on my hands. Thank you!

[@wrighty321go]

This is such a good way of explaining why Sade is worth reading, I read Justine recently and I could not work out how I would explain it to someone. I always find books which have characters that push boundaries especially to the extreme so interesting.

[@VictorAugustus]

The Iliad was the best reading in the lockdown.. so far (because i'm not leaving my house this year, things in Brazil are crazy)

[@ceebee1461]

Victor augusto The Iliad is on my list to read soon, can’t wait. Stay safe over there!

[@raz8752]

It’s interesting that you think Camus wallows in misery. I guess this can be a takeaway from someone who has only read some of his fiction, but if you read The Rebel or The Myth of Sisyphus, he’s very much concerned with getting people out of misery instead. I highly recommend Sisyphus as a starting point for his philosophy.

[@hannahspencer9857]

I love your book videos!

[@lauragrillo27]

Ha ha! I love Camus and Beckett. I don't find Camus miserable in some ways it's uplifting lol!

[@enskogochhunden806]

your book recs are 😙🤏🏼💋

[@soundslikeknee]

Great video and insights in what you’ve read.Best books of lockdown for me are, Harry Thompson- This thing of darkness and Ngugi wa Thiongo - Devil on the cross.

[@SkyxoxStar]

Ty for this quality content ❤️

[@eugetel]

you just convinced me to pick up all of this books

[@jimmyhopkins1316]

Let alone that sartre is often described as more pessismistic than Camus... Have you read Kierkegaard?

[@thetruthfacts9267]

Damn she’s beautiful

[@RoseLike]

✅✅✅More books added to my to read list! ☺️

[@emilyp3647]

You’ve inspired me to pick up waiting for Godot again! I started with the audiobook and absolutely hated it but I think it was just the narration putting me off.

[@lauragrillo27]

Yes and Camus was the king of absurdism. Sorry I am commenting as I watch your video.

[@aisling8308]

Yes! Myth of Sisyphus is THE text on absurdism

[@gabrielarmstrong1308]

Very best thing I’ve read in lockdown is A Mercy by Toni Morrison! What she does with language is just astonishing

[@lfior]

I woke up realised it's Thursday and then checked KZbin. Do I have a booktube addiction?

[@sarahs4354]

i studied Sade in a french course and our prof showed Quills (a movie about his life) and i have been fascinated in reading some of his work ever since mans was batshit crazy

[@emilyrose6499]

You should read James Baldwin’s essays! ❤️

[@ineswotton7069]

more modern lqbtq stuff ; maurice by e.m forster is absolutely wonderful, any of Ginsbergs poetry, olivia by dorothy strachey is also GORGEOUS (id also recommend aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe but thats just my y.a guilty pleasure book ;) )

[@lfior]

On the Foucault point: I think Emma refers to labelling a piece of literature or writing as e.g. LGBTQ (belonging to a certain movement) is correct only if that work was written during or after the movement's appearance. So if one is looking for a feminist read, they cannot label Sappho as such for instance, because in antiquity feminism had not been defined yet?

[@sarcastic_fish]

oh beaut yea this is what i meant, yeah like you can't call things feminist until the movement pops up, so until then it's all protofeminism, but then again i do wonder where the line is with anything lgbtq+ actually lies

[@sarahmcdermott734]

@@sarcastic_fish i think the acronym is usually just split up for books that were written pre-lgbt movement. lesbian/bi women's literature and gay/bi men's literature are pretty different and didn't intersect until fairly recently. describing an older book as lesbian/gay/trans etc is just descriptive rather than labelling it as part of a movement that didn't exist yet.

[@erikholmsten1451]

I wondered what was missing from youtube, somehow I havent gotten your videos in my recommendations. :( Hey also, did you ever do a Myers-Briggs personality test? This video had me wondering what type you are.

[@sarcastic_fish]

oof super close, I usually come up or ENTJ or INTJ

[@erikholmsten1451]

Emma Angeline That’s interesting, I actually would’ve thought you were either ENFP or ENFJ. I figured if you were similar to my type it’d explain why I agree with you on things etc, but apprently not hehe.

[@qwerty10277]

Excellent Channel

[@languagesenrose1246]

So like I planned to read all the books I have on my shelf plus the ones I bought online... but like, I've read maybe 1.5 ? LOL oops. Imma keep buying books tho.

[@adelguerib1821]

16 : 30.. cf. Arthur Schopenhaueur, "The Art Of Being Happy", rule of life n°19

[@just_ella17]

Most of the lgbtq+ fiction I read is YA, so I am not entirely sure how interested you'd be in that, but I highly recommend Alice Oseman. She has published 4 novels and an ongoing graphic novel series, all of which have multiple lgbtq characters in the main cast. Again I don't know how interesting that is for you but as a teenager I find her work extremely relatable and I've heard a lot of people call her "the future of ya"

[@julialianjosecarrera5649]

In almost every ancient culture people had sex with both genres (despite their preferences) but only had heterosexual marriages. Sappho, even being homosexual may had slept with men, for sure (this is what my classic languages teacher told me)

[@madispeyer8887]

I just found your channel and you remind me so much of Charisma Carpenter !!

[@sofisolustri1697]

The best book ive read during lockdown was The marriage plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. I cant recommend it enough

[@lfior]

Oh my god this is SUCH a good recommendation for Emma I think.

[@sofisolustri1697]

@@lfior I KNOW, I NEED TO KNOW WHAT SHE THINKS ABOUT THAT BOOK. As a comp lit student my self (from south America) it was an Amazing reading experience bc it deals with mental health, religión, sex, what marriage is in literature and real life and above all LIT THEORY PUNS!!!

[@lfior]

@@sofisolustri1697 what did you think about Eugenides' writing style?

[@sofisolustri1697]

@@lfior i loved it. IT made me forget about everything else bc it introduced me into the story right away. I also read las virgenes suicidas in spanish but the translation wasnt up to his writing

[@lfior]

@@sofisolustri1697 I thought he wrote in a pretty disengaged/distant way, I felt that if I could write really well that would be my writing style, so I found it quite trite, but maybe it's because we tend to dislike our own writing style? I don't know!!

[@EmmaSophieChannel]

(i understand what you mean about romantic feelings but i wanna say that aromantic people exist and they’re not psychopaths or not human!)

[@EmmaSophieChannel]

Just wanna come on here and advise you to look into aromanticism and amatonormativity! Suggesting that not falling in love makes you a psychopath is arophobic and very harmful to those on the aromantic spectrum. I doubt you truly meant it like that but it’s important to be specific with these things, I think!💕

[@tamdf530]

ok but you kinda look like the girl from 365 dni 😂

[@witalamendes6571]

I'm obsess with your nose

[@JungianHeights]

Am I the only one who doesn’t think that the existentialists are hard to understand? I just think you have to be on their wavelength to really get it.

[@aisling8308]

I also think it's one of the more hopeful and optimistic philosophies? I don't understand why people find it depressing. I first read Sartre's Nausea during a particularly confusing and bleak period of my life when I was 20. I felt so seen and understood, I underlined and annotated the hell out of my copy, and the ending (not to spoil anything) gave me realistic hope. I've reread it several times since.

[@raz8752]

Aisling I think a lot of people see that they talk about meaninglessness and suicide a lot and conclude that it’s a sad philosophy without delving into the optimistic core of absurdism and existentialism.

[@ryanwhite2838]

You watched American Psycho? If you read it.... you find out the movie was really toned down. That's a disturbing read.