10 Hard Books I Want to Read (You Can Too if You Want)

hello hello hello thank you for being here I really appreciate it I really I'm grateful that you clicked on my video um I would really appreciate it if you liked and subscribed very helpful for me very helpful uh but today let's just get right into it we are talking about books woohoo surprise uh and we're going to talk about hor books books that are difficult that I want to read and I saw a couple other people do these videos I should have written down their names uh but I will link them Below in the description if you want to go go watch them and I was just really inspired to uh to I guess look through my library and see which books that um I find slightly daunting that maybe I've been avoiding uh because they're a little intimidating and just really bring them to the Forefront of my mind um and my attention also your attention you hold me accountable So eventually I do read them oh how embarrassing my alarm oh true I forgot I have buns in the oven one second aren't they beautiful I made pasca I still need to ice them put sprinkles on but yummy here we go I would burn everything I made if I didn't did not put a timer on completely forgot that was in the oven okay where were we oh yes reading a hard books someone's home someone's home there was a slight Interruption my husband came home was just walking around in the background oh there he bikes away but he's gone again he's gone so we can get back to important things over here we're doing important things okay I do not remember the last thing I said maybe the books are important that hard books reading hard books is important now often this tag I don't know if it's a tag but these videos have a bracket at the end of the title that says but you don't have to and my question is but do you have to read the other books in the other videos no you don't have to read anything you don't have to do anything I tell you to do but I just don't think that the hard books need a caveat I think that I'm recommending them to you the same amount that I'm recommending to you the easy ones maybe even a little more maybe even a little more maybe they'll help you grow a little more learn a little more read a little better I don't know you need them both you need them all you need them all but this video is mainly for me to remind myself of the hard books I want to read remind myself that wanting to read them is not the same as actually reading them owning them is not the same as reading them and since I am in my slow reading era and by Era I the time period that will Encompass the rest of my life ideally uh it'll be a great dime to dig in cuz I feel like sometimes when you're reading hard books often hard books are also long books and you tend to get not maybe lost cuz you take too long of a break or maybe a little bored or maybe you just lose track of a few things and I think close reading will help make reading these hard books maybe more enjoyable maybe I'll remember more of them hopefully I will hopefully I will and make make reading them worth it you know cuz if I just read it and I look at every page but I don't remember anything that was on those pages I looked at again what's the point what is the point so [Music] today I wish these books this is a long intro because I keep getting interrupted but we're finally here we've arrived at the video one more sip let me get my list and let me show you the books let me show you the books that you're here to see okay okay number one we have the odsy by Homer this is a epic poem for me this is hard because it is in verse and so it takes an extra bit of attention and focus to know what's going on again I've been putting it off because well I don't know if I specifically have been putting it off but there's just so many other books that I've read in front of it and we got to we got to push this guy up a line I think it'll just end up being a good story and maybe once they start reading it it won't seem hard at all but sometimes your perception of a book is a thing that feels hard to overcome and I have a theory that might be this but I think also it it might actually take some work to get through uh so first one Odyssey by Homer there's also the Iliad but I only own this one so we're going to start with this one we're going to start actually is this they're not sequels of each other are they that's something I should look into maybe I will investigate that and see if I should read one of them first but either way this one's on the lid LD okay A little step right there okay the next one was a big one we have the count of M of Monty Cristo by Dumas whoa famous very well-known novel I think the hard part about this is that it is long maybe the story lines are confusing I'm not sure but it's very famous I'm sure it's very good and I really want to read it inspired by a real life wrongful imprisonment what time period is this 1844 okay so 19th century very manageable language I think well I guess it's translated contemporarily so I'm sure it's very easy to read honestly anyway sometimes you don't know why books are hard and they just look long and hard like this is a story but I'm sure there's really powerful ideas in it that I'll have to figure out and work through but anyway I feel like it's going to be hard just for the time commitment alone okay and then just to really double down on that what we're going to do after we read the count of Monti Cristo is we're going to read the count of Monti Christo in French I happen to have who I happen to have this in French and English so like I really got to get to it I think I bought these at a thrift store once these guys are in two volumes which are kind of light because they become manageable I can easily read two books a size half like big books I find them a lot hard to read because they're hard to take around so I can only read them here and select other places uh where I feel like I could carry it like it's worth carrying around all day um like I read Samuel Richardson's clorissa which is just like humongous and it took me so long partly because it's humongous but also partly because I couldn't carry it anywhere so this is great and helpful also because it's in French which my French is like decent but it's not incredible and I it's supped to be rusty it's not a practice and I want to get it back into practice so I think if I read the English one first I will have a clear idea of the story and then it'll be a lot easier for me to go through the French version cuz I'll know what's happening and then reading it twice will really cement the goodness in my mind so we got these guys we got these guys okay the next couple are ones that I do not own a copy [Music] of whatever there's kids l the stairwell I don't care uh the next two are a couple books I do not have um but it's a similar exercise that I want to do with the can money Cristo is I want to read first Lis in English and then I want to read lame in French so that is number four and five L is in English L is in French again very long I know um one of the reasons lame is it's a hard book to read is because there it's just famous for its digressions it's historical digressions and you kind of almost lose track to the story because you've just got this long rabbit hole and apparently he does that a lot my mom read it and she said that sometimes she was like it was we were just like trying to get through but I love the musical a lot and I want to read the actual book and see what I'm missing out on and I want to read more French so having two French books like that part is also hard for me because French is not my first language So reading in French makes it hard as well okay so that's 1 2 3 four five number six the book that I own and I've owned it for a long time I asked for it for Christmas and it is on the origin of the species by Darwin and I have this fabulous Edition look at her she's beautiful glittering the top of the pages are yellow beautiful photos and I think it would just be really interesting to read this book because so many of his ideas or even his name is just in commmon P like people just say things about him all the time and I want to know what he actually said uh plus it's just kind of I love reading books I think this is 18th century maybe early 19 no it's 19th century 19th century okay I love a good 19th century I feel like it'll be a little bit of like a travel log Maybe not maybe his other work are more travel log and maybe this is more Theory yeah maybe not I don't know I don't know what's in it that's part of the reason it's hard for me to open it just has always felt like it's going to be a big one plus again it's just going to be thick and happy to carry around which I guess I'll just have to have a couple books on the go at a time my portable book and my heavy stay-at home book okay the next book I also do not have a copy of but I want to read the King James version of the Bible which is the one like the version that like if you don't read the Bible it's probably what you've heard quoted it's like the older English version um not Old English but older than what we currently speak and it is often the version that is quoted by all of like the writers of the 18th 19th 20th centuries and so from like a literary perspective I would love to read the Bible I've read the Bible in other translations I've read it in the English Standard Version and I've read it in the new international version but never in in its entirety in the King James version and I think it's really interesting to read books in different like books that have been translated by different like by different translators and read different translations and just see the differences and and I think I'm excited one of the reasons I'm excited to read the King James is I think it's also a lot more like poetical the language I think it's a lot more beautiful I also want to read it in a paperback because often like the Bibles I have are like show you you know what I'm saying they're like this where you have like the onion paper and this for me this Bible just feels like really normal and familiar um and I kind of want to read a Bible as a paperback that my mind thinks of it more as a book and less of like this text that I've read and known my whole life so I want to read the KJV and I want to read it in like paperback anyway okay number what is this eight yeah number eight we have Don Kos by cantes and this book is another novel a very long novel Spanish novel and I mainly want to read it because it's something that I've just heard about for as long as I can remember people reference it in culture in other books and I want to know what's up I think it's one of those books that has really shaped the world and so I think that that's important to investigate um I think it'll be hard or I think it's hard probably because it's long and I imagine it's not quite a page Turner I imagine books like it'll be a slow-going novel but I don't know much about what it's actually like I only know that the title is really famous also I'm going to go to Spain I think in the near future so I also want to read this book because of that because it's a bash book anyway santes okay uh the next and the last two are a couple books that I do not have either and they are both Russian novels so I want to read anarina to stoy and I think I want to read War and Peace by do stvi I really want to get into Russian novels this year and Russian novels are just known for being long and confusing and that's it long and confusing I guess uh anac feels really intriguing to me I think because I watched the movie with Kier in it and I don't remember much about it it was a long time ago but I remember really liking it we also have like the house I grew up in we have a beautiful addition of anrina and I was always drawn to it so I've always wanted to read it just never picked it up and I want to pick it up and then same with warm peace I feel like if I'm going to read Russian literature I've got to read it at some point and at some point I mean at multiple points cuz I think it's big I think it's big but yeah mostly novels mostly novels mostly long hard novels okay there we go there we go those are the 10 hard books that I want to read that I think are going to be good so I mean you don't have to read them but you don't have to read any book that I recommend but I would like I re I think you should read them I think you should if you want I it it Mak I want to start them right now but I'm thinking of all the books I'm in the middle of that I need to finish first and then I'll start one I'm always torn always torn about what book to start next always torn anyway I really hope that some of these will be in future uh what monthly read videos and if you don't start seeing them pop up in the next five to six months or so longterm holding me accountable uh feel free to mention in my comments kindly Renee haven't seen Monty Cristo Renee haven't seen Renee I thought you were read hard books I noticed you've only picked short contemporary novels what are you doing what are you doing than let me know hold me accountable hold me accountable that I think is it for today okay even my God even though I only have half of the the book that are on this list of 10 look how big this stack is it's so big it's so it's a lot of pages but one day I'll look at this stack and while I've read it all and it'll feel really good okay I'm going to go maybe I'm going to go read what else do I have to do today this has inspired me to want to read so maybe I'll read for now hour before I do anything else or think of some other task I'm sure I have to get done but thank you for being here please like Please Subscribe come by come back again I love to see you again and I hope that you can read today read a good book for me bye oh I cannnot come okay come a

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Published: Sun Mar 31 2024