Reading YOUR Bookish Comments (Austen, Dostoyevsky, Proust, Borges, Tolstoy, Blake) (Patreon)

Your comments consistently blow me away.

Nuanced thought, interesting avenues of discussion, beautifully worded comments are the norm.

These comments really reveal a deep, enthusiastic reading of your books.

Here is just a choice selection of ideas surrounding Jane Austen, Dostoyevsky, Proust, Tolstoy, Jorge Luis Borges, and William Blake.

Thank you everyone for connecting with these great books and sharing your insights.

Video Timestamps:

• 0:00 showing you my secondhand books
• 5:00 Jane Austen’s Persuasion
• - 9:00 the rise of the anti-hero
• 10:00 Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment
• - 11:30 uncomfortable reading experiences
• 14:00 Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
• - 15:00 handling books with gloves
• - 17:00 reading like children and lost innocence
• 18:50 Jorge Luis Borge’s ‘The Library of Babel
• - 19:30 the infinite monkey theorem
• 21:00 June 2021 What Are You Reading?
• 22:00 Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
• - 26:00 being trapped in abusive relationships
• 30:20 The Poetry of William Blake
• - 31:20 the lost plays of William Shakespeare
• 32:54 Jane Austen’s Persuasion
• - 36:30 the rise of the reading public
• 38:40 thank you, and quick personal life update

Happy reading, everybody!