i followed famous authors' daily routines for a week as an act of self-sabotage

I've just got to the bit where he meets F. Scott Fitzgerald and the descriptions are just incredible. ... if you are interested in reading his work I wouldn't necessarily start with A Moveable Feast. It's more for, like, the die-hard Hemingway fans.

One thing I unfortunately did not enjoy so much was this book: A Tale of Two Cities. ... I can appreciate the sheer talent that Charles Dickens had -- he crafts these really rich mosaics, there's so many characters and so many different events, so many different story lines, and this chorus of characters collide -- but I just don't enjoy reading it.

I've just finished the collection, it's so versatile and inventive, it uses a lot of kind of traditional meters and forms and Auden is the king of the elegy. This was just a masterclass in poetry writing, honestly there are so many beautiful lines.

This is Letter to my Daughter and this book just feels like a warm hug, genuinely. It feels so honest and compassionate and inviting so I enjoyed this so much and I am now a Maya Angelou stan.

I really enjoyed reading this because Jane Austen has this incredible ability to create characters you just despise. ... I thought it was witty and charming and silly and I really enjoyed it.

Now, listen, I know this is gonna sound so stupid because this book literally inspired this whole video, but I did not really enjoy this book ... at all. This felt like I was stuck in small talk with Haruki Murakami and there are so many things I would love to know about Murakami but it just-- it wasn't this.