00:00Vinted is my downfall, so now I'm doing a book haul for you.
00:03Let's start with The Lerzo by Irving Welsh.
00:05This is supposed to be a pretty raw and disturbing story featuring an out-of-control cop.
00:11Welsh should take his way of describing the dirtiest and most degraded part of society to the extreme here.
00:17I'm very curious to see how much this will shock me.
00:21The next book is Aranzo Meccanica.
00:23The story should follow Alex and his gang through violence, individual freedom and attempts at control by the
00:30State.
00:31I'm really curious to know why this story is so popular.
00:35The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.
00:37It's a classic post-apocalyptic dystopian where an epidemic has virtually wiped out civilization.
00:43I really like these themes about what remains of humanity after all our certainties, everything that
00:49we built disappears.
00:51Literature, George Orwell's Gymnasium of Freedom
00:54It is a book that collects some of Orwell's texts, reflects on writing, on literature and on the relationship between culture and
01:00freedom.
01:01I always like reading Orwell because I think he is very current and especially in a historical period like this I think
01:08that it is really important to recover something by this author.
01:11Then I got influenced by social media and picked up The Wood God of Litzmoor.
01:15It's the 1970s at a summer camp for girls and at a certain point a young girl mysteriously disappears.
01:22The story unfolds through several characters and several timelines.
01:26I expect a good dose of mystery and also of tension and above all I hope that it will keep me glued from the first
01:31on the last page because that's what they say on social media.
01:35And I bought it for this very reason, to have one of those books that you never want to put down.
01:40and maybe you want to tackle a reading marathon with it.
01:45The next book is Requiem for a Dream.
01:47It should be a rather hard novel that tells the story of the descent into addictions of four characters, following their obsessions and
01:55their dreams slowly turning into nightmares.
01:58I'm always interested in stories like this because they never talk just about drugs but about addictions in general,
02:03of loneliness and how an obsessive desire can turn into something that destroys us.
02:09The other daughter is Annie Erno's. Erno starts from the discovery that she had a sister who died before her
02:15birth and from there he constructs a sort of impossible letter to this sister I have never known.
02:20It will be devastating, probably, since this writer is already devastated by the event, also a very short book
02:28but one of those short books that nevertheless have an enormous weight.
02:31I've already started the next one because you all told me to start reading it and I'm talking about
02:37Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.
02:39It tells the story of the journey to California of a family of farmers from Oklahoma forced to leave their land during
02:45the Great Depression.
02:46It is a novel about poverty, migration and social injustice.
02:50I have already read the first, very first 14 pages, and I was captivated by the unique descriptions of the landscapes.
02:57I'll let you know then.
