February & March reading wrap-up

All the books I finished in February & March

People mentioned:
@kiranreader
@literaryiggy
@batumanslittleidiot
@MatthewSciarappa

Books mentioned:
1:19 Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)
3:07 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (2009)
6:12 The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (2022)
8:30 If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English, Noor Naga (2022)
12:16 Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene (2021)
13:36 Thelonius Monk: the Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D.G. Kelley (2009)
14:55 Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress (2022)
16:34 Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv (2022)
18:02 After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz (2022)
20:13 Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz (1991)
22:21 The Idiot by Elif Batuman (2017) (reread)
24:49 Notre si chère vieille dame auteur by Anne Serre (2022)

I completely forgot to talk about one book:
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand (2020) — perhaps I’ll tack this onto another future video 👾

[radiantchristina]

your videos are always a vibe..never apologize for that :)

[alsopato]

sometimes i forget we have similar taste, but so much overlap in the last months - loved rabbit hutch, just read if an egyptian cannot speak english & loved it too, a lispector prospect i want to get to, thelonious monk bio is rlly interesting to me - theres a pre order for a sun ra autobio from one of the long time arkestra members so a similar vein, drive your plow has been on my shelf for forever - same with the idiot &&& sirens and muses has been on my radar for so long now i need it at my library already i dont want to own that big hardcover 😭 super stacked months!

[nathansnook]

sooo does this mean we can also do a buddy read of agua viva? 👀👀👀

[jorjastonej]

Great reads! I’m listening to Drive Your Plow on Libby audio, omg, the Polish American actor’s voice is amazing. Atmospheric. I’ve never heard any voice like it before. I’m sorry I’m blanking on her name at the moment. Gives me goosebumps. Perfect for the insufferable Janina and the sparse countryside and forest. 🏚️

[kiranreader]

tbh i dont think i'd have finished drive your bones over the plow if we didn't buddy read it - even if we werent the best buddy readers 😂

[booksthehausdown]

Strangers to Ourselves sounds like a very tough but important read, I've been wanting to read it but i'm

[rafaela.mp]

omg your accent when you said água viva really sounded like brazilian portuguese (the original language the book was written in, which you probably already know hehe)