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I Haven’t Written Since 2024… | Confessions of a Former Writer (opens the original)
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I haven't written anything since October 2024.That's a very strange thing for me to say after spending most of my adult life wanting to be a writer.Recently I've started rereading my old work, including my urban fantasy series Chosen, and it's been a surprisingly interesting experience. There are parts I'm embarrassed by, parts I've completely forgotten about, and parts that have reminded me that maybe I wasn't actually terrible at this writing thing.But there's one thing that hasn't changed.I s
Convenience Store Woman | Conformity, Loneliness & Identity (opens the original)
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Convenience Store Woman* by Sayaka Murata is a fascinating piece of Japanese fiction about work, conformity, loneliness and the pressure to live a life that makes sense to everyone around you.Keiko has worked at the same Tokyo convenience store for eighteen years. The store gives her structure, purpose and a set of rules she understands. But as the people around her begin questioning her life, relationships and future, that carefully constructed world starts to become much more complicated.What
Reintroducing Myself to BookTube | What This Channel Is Actually About (opens the original)
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Welcome back to the channel — and hello if you're new here!I'm Dov, and I've been making videos about books for nearly a decade. But I've realised that with so many new people finding the channel, and with the channel itself changing quite a bit over the years, it was probably time for a proper reintroduction.This isn't really a traditional BookTube review channel. I like taking books apart and looking at the bigger picture: authors, literary movements, publishing, subcultures, themes, history,
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski | Is This Book Actually Worth Reading? (opens the original)
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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is one of those books that has somehow become legendary on BookTube, in horror fiction circles, and among readers who apparently enjoy making their lives unnecessarily difficult.A haunted house. A mysterious manuscript. Footnotes that develop their own lives. Pages that turn into complete chaos. And a novel that seems determined to make you work for every single page.In this video, I'm talking about House of Leaves, my experience reading it, the strange str
The Japanese Fiction We're Missing in the West (opens the original)
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Japanese fiction has exploded in popularity in the West over the last few years, with more and more novels being translated into English. And that's fantastic — but I can't help feeling that we're only seeing a very small part of what Japanese literature has to offer.A lot of the Japanese fiction making its way into the English-speaking book world has a particular atmosphere: cozy cafés, bookshops, Tokyo at night, Kyoto, quiet relationships and contemplative stories.But where is the crime fictio
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