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Hey! :) Book reviews (almost) every day!
I am an avid reader who loves discussing books. I post new book reviews almost every single day on a wide variety of topics- both fiction and non-fiction. Additionally I post study inspiration and study with me videos. Let's study together, read together, and enjoy life!
I am an avid reader who loves discussing books. I post new book reviews almost every single day on a wide variety of topics- both fiction and non-fiction. Additionally I post study inspiration and study with me videos. Let's study together, read together, and enjoy life!
Driving the Scenic Route: Barns of Michigan
Hello and welcome to my book reviw of Driving the Scenic Route: Barns of Michigan by Robert Aldrich. What did you think of this one?
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Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: Spirit of Place
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Hello and welcome to my review of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: Spirit of Place, a photography collection by Steve Brimm. What did you think of this one?
Medieval Craftsmen: Painters
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Hello and welcome to my review of Medieval Craftsmen: Painters by Paul Binski. What did you think of this one? About the author: www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/people/pb214@cam.ac.uk
The Remarried Empress vol. 6 | Book Review
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Finally a divorce! Welcome to my review of vol. 6 of the Remarried Empress series. What did you think of this book?
Assyrian Prophecies: Book Review
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Hello and welcome to my review of Assyrian Prophecies by Simo Parpola. This was an interesting deep dive into the religious society of Assyria. What did you think of this one? About the author: www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Parpola_Simo
What the Dead Know | Book Review
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Welcome to my review of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara Butcher. This book was on my TBR and I am finally getting to it. What did you think of this one?
The Bayeux Tapestry | Book Review
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Welcome to my book review of THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY: The Comic Strip by Gilles Pivard and Arthur Shelton. This book showcases the famous tapestry that recounts the events of 1066 and the Battle fo Hastings. What did you think of this one? If you enjoyed this book, you may enjoy this video (not from me, I randomly found it): ua-cam.com/video/KnieUa2-22o/v-deo.htmlsi=0LgmjSt87cUYPv5N
Seasons of Sleeping Bear | Book Review
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Hello and welcome to my review of Seasons of Sleeping Bear, a photography collection by Terry W. Phipps. This was a beautiful collection. What did you think?
August 2024 Reading Wrap Up
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Everything I read (or didn’t read) for August 2024. What did you read? How did your month go?
Medieval Craftsmen: English Tilers
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Hello and welcome to my review of English Tilers by Elizabeth Eames. This is another entry in the medieval craftsmen series that I have been reading and enjoying. What did you think of this book?
The Ship Who Sang | 1970 Hugo Finalist Book Review
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Hello and welcome to my review of The Ship Who Sang, the 1970 Hugo Finalist for Best Novella (specifically the Dramatic Mission section of this book). I really enjoyed this sci-fi piece by Ann McCaffrey as I have only read her fantasy works up to this point. What did you think of this one?
Flowers for the Sea | Book Review
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Hello and welcome to my book review for Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn. This book sucked me in, but was a heavy and dark read. I will definitely be thinking about this one for awhile! About the author: zinrock.com/about/
Correspondence from the End of the Universe vol. 4 | Manga Review
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Hello and welcome to the rich and interesting world that author Menota has created for us in volume 4 of Correspondence from the End of the Universe. What did you think of this entry in the series? What do you think of the series overall at this point?
Ennead vol. 2 | Book Review
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Hello and welcome to another book review! Today I am reviewing volume 2 in the Ennead series I have been reading, a book that takes a boy's love look at Egyptian Mythology. What did you think fo this series?
Komi Can't Communicate vol. 30 | Manga Review
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Komi Can't Communicate vol. 30 | Manga Review
Correspondence from the End of the Universe Vol. 3 | Manga Review
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Correspondence from the End of the Universe Vol. 3 | Manga Review
2024 Mid-Year Review and Favorite Books
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2024 Mid-Year Review and Favorite Books
Correspondence from the End of the Universe Vol. 2 | Manga Review
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Correspondence from the End of the Universe Vol. 2 | Manga Review
Saints in Medieval Manuscripts: Book Review
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Saints in Medieval Manuscripts: Book Review
Building the Medieval World: The Medieval Imagination
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Building the Medieval World: The Medieval Imagination
Correspondence from the End of the Universe vol. 1 | Manga Review
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Correspondence from the End of the Universe vol. 1 | Manga Review
See You Tomorrow At The Food Court | Manga Review
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See You Tomorrow At The Food Court | Manga Review
Inanna: Lady of the Largest Heart | Enheduanna’s Ancient Poetry
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Inanna: Lady of the Largest Heart | Enheduanna’s Ancient Poetry
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Makes me glad to be a Gen Xer, being born in a time where I understand late 20th Century words and the intention behind them as much as current year lingo. Enables me to just enjoy this book.
Thanks thankyou so much fonding this so much ❤ from india
I agree, even a vague location attribution would be interesting!
I love the snow pictures at 5:20 and onward
The winter scenes are beautiful!
Have been enjoying your reviews, and just getting into graphic novels. Great timing, thanks! 😁
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Hey! Thanks for checking out another video!
Links to my reviews mentioned: Saints in Medieval Manuscripts: ua-cam.com/video/USeH6rhwajw/v-deo.html Glass-Painters: ua-cam.com/video/FPr6uRWI_IM/v-deo.html Embroiderers: ua-cam.com/video/A2BokV6LSiU/v-deo.html English Tilers: ua-cam.com/video/NxTmmTk1TQg/v-deo.html Graphic History: ua-cam.com/video/N-WfZdIDDxE/v-deo.html Seasons of Sleeping Bear: ua-cam.com/video/UryJ7mINX00/v-deo.html Correspondence v. 2: ua-cam.com/video/N0O60xvl1i0/v-deo.html Correspondence v. 3: ua-cam.com/video/vED7f4_Mi3Y/v-deo.html Correspondence v. 4: ua-cam.com/video/jjWuMEjQJDc/v-deo.html Komi v. 30: ua-cam.com/video/0VqAtjie6pY/v-deo.html Ennead v. 2: ua-cam.com/video/am3BFrJSZKs/v-deo.html The Tusks of Extinction: ua-cam.com/video/GNxM-ZY3fKg/v-deo.html Flowers for the Sea: ua-cam.com/video/Bu-L46Vy4xk/v-deo.html The Ship Who Sang: ua-cam.com/video/tEWZMW-F2NQ/v-deo.html
Great review as always!
Thank you!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing and for the comments too.
Thank you!
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Thanks for the review video. I'll have to scavenge my local bookstore for a copy.
Hopefully you find a good deal on a copy!
Do you think this book can be a good read for someone outside the US?
The book is very US-focused, but it might be interesting to read even if you are not US-based because the lessons to good city planning could be universally applied. The case studies and examples would just be very US focused.
The internet was not available when I sought out second hand versions of all science fiction 'bests' to read and what stood out was 'Timescape' by Gregory Benford of time travel novels which also motivated me to get a science degree, so I recommend it to you.
Thank you for the suggestion, I will have to check it out! I also find it interesting what books motivate us to change in real life- in your case getting a degree.
If you want a good book to read in line with the academic works of the medieval works you've covered prior, you should read Dionysos, Myth and Cultus by Walter F Otto. Fundamentally one of the best insights into Hellenic paganism bar none, to the point he even affirmed dates of the god's worship which was only vindicated through archaeology decades after his death (via cultural insight, he ascribed the god as dating far earlier than originally thought).
Thank you for the suggestion! That sounds like an interesting book and it looks like I can have it ordered to my library, I will certainly give it a read!
wait wait I love the video but KOMI HAS A GYATT ON THAT BOOK
That odd preoccupation/obsession is called "fetishism". Greetings from El Salvador.
I barely study out of work hours, so, here's a comment to support you with the algorithm!
Thank you- I appreciate it!
I’ve read about 120 of the online edition so far, and a huge trigger warning for future chapters 😭
uh-oh, I've been getting warnings! I believe I am reading the age-16/censored version, as I have been warned by other commenters that it becomes less family-friendly as the series goes on. I am waiting for my library to get volume 3 so I can keep reading!
@@badbettybooks4001 hope you enjoy the series! Not many physically copies are released yet, so if the library struggles to stock you’ll be able to get them online 🙏
Hey:) How are you ?
I am doing well! Thank you for stopping by and checking out another video!
I read this years ago and enjoyed it, I didn't know penguin classics had published it. Cool.
Can you share me the link of the book?
I checked this book out from my library, so I didn't have any link to the book. It looks like it may be available on Amazon according to the US site if you are looking to purchase!
Unrelated but I love the Logan Schmidt possum screen print behind you!! I’ve got the same one and have the matching raccoon hung up opposite it
Wow it’s cool that you recognized it! I really like his prints, I want more! Maybe someday you will see more behind me.
I rented that one from the library!
I'm glad you could get a library copy! I love my local library.
I rented two of the books from the library
Excited to try this! Thanks for your review. Very helpful ❤😊
I hope you enjoy it!
I think Seth doesn’t just kill everyone and keep the throne is because family is a big thing for him
Also!!!! I don’t see romance between seth and Horus in this volume. The underwater ‘kiss’ was seth figuring out if Horus was breathing or not :D. It’s confusing though. Takes a few reads to fully understand everything going on but it’s soooo worth it
@@AutomaliceMostly correct on your first point, there are some other reasons why he doesn’t if your not caught up. And there are some signs in the book but I won’t point them out if you’re not caught up.
I think read romance into the scene because Horus was reflecting on it later in the book, but I guess if someone just kissed me out of nowhere (even if they were just trying to figure out how I was breathing) I would reflect on it later too!
Thank you for this review! I was primarily interested in gauging the size, it seems like it's on the smaller size. I like to hold bigger manga, with bigger pictures too obviously, but it doesn't look too small. After a good friend brought the series to my attention I watched the first episode today and loved it. Even as a boy almost everything she does and feels hit close to home. Had a great time overall and I'm about to order the first volume! Was so glad to see that despite a short anime, the series is apparently still ongoing!
The torrent of assessable video seems to be leaving the world of books behind. You are performing an important task to keep books a part of this culture.
It is considered an art for the inventors, originators and dynamic innovators. After that, it becomes a craft and a trade fulfilling a function.. What makes the stained glass a medium for expression is when the artist breaks the conventional rules or exerts skillful and brilliant artistry, The difference between art and craft is an ongoing controversy.
Please show the artwork, I’m much less interested in seeing someone talk
it’s a book review. go buy the book if you wanna see it
@@macie3731 it’s a podcast about the podcaster
Hey! Just wanted to leave a comment thanking you for reviewing this book! I'm not the author (lol) but I read it about a year ago and still find myself thinking about it from time to time. I like to watch reviews of books I've read because that's how I use parasociality to compensate for not having friends who read things I do 😂 I'm happy to feed your dopamine receptors in exchange for your feeding mine!
The best example is HIv and cancer especially when the chemotherapy (chemical=therapy) with addition of radiation for cancer or mental health even like borderline personality disorder being conflated with bipolar , or even schizophrenia but the patient's history childhood trauma is not taken in consideration in the attempts to make a soft science a hard science by pointing at a biological factor that may or may not be there or hiv where they tell you having antibodies means something bad on a pcr test designed for quantification not virus detection, even more so the medical industry work in disease management does not cure , where they pull form the negative so they can bill it and give petrochemicals faux heroin and cocaine for pain while ignoring the side effects on someone's immune system with so many suppressants
I had to watch the video three times…. I kept getting distracted wondering what the blue jay meme picture says. As well as the WV picture… I’m from WV… and that little feller strikes me as the most regal one I’ve yet seen. I kept trying to think of a funny kingly nickname for him… but I have no humor. Anyway, Awesome video! Oddly informative for a book review. I am of an unshakeable conviction that all books should be picture books. Every. Single. One. So I was drawn here by a writing topic that I figured would necessarily require the book to be one of…. Pictures. 10/10 +10 for a christological picture book. +6 for stained glass. +2 for the fun book shelf +1 cause I’m sexually attracted to any book that can accurately be described as a “pamphlet” (short in length) -3 for black and white So what’s that…. Like 26/10? Side note: Are you saying casseroles? They glimpsed information about stained glass windows from… Casseroles? An additional +4 if so. 30/10 I will definitely be seeking to acquire said picture book.
Thank you for your comment and your thoughts on the book- I really appreciate it! The minus 3 for black and white really captured how I felt- why put the pretty glass in black and white? As for the print, one side of my family is from West Virginia, and I picked up the WV print while on a visit! I think it is a fun addition to my bookshelf for filming. :)
I would also very lovingly describe this particular manhwa as the Shounen ( if your into Japanese anime/manga) of Bl as it is more focused on the action than the romance for the most part but don’t get me wrong it still does the romance better than most shounen.
And when it does focus on it you’ll understand why it is the way that it is.
If you have any questions I’ll answer to the best of my abilities without any spoilers!!!
I also recommend rereading the books when you have a chance because there are things you might miss the first time around. There are also hidden messages in the hieroglyphs that can be deciphered but not all have them. This was a awesome review of book 2 and hope to see more when you get the chance!!!
Hope you continue to like the series it’s really good!!! I will clarify a little that the kiss did happen and we were shown from his perspective what he saw. Also that the kiss was blocked by Seth’s mask. Seth just also kissed him at that moment to see how Horus was breathing underwater with Shu’s blessing.
I will also say that there are two versions of the manhwa the 16 plus version which you are reading already and the 19 plus version which is the uncensored version. The first two books of each version are more or less the same while starting from book 3 there will be some obvious differences.
Thank you for your comments! They are very helpful. It was around the first kiss that I started thinking I was missing something. I was not looking at the hierogplyphics at all, I thought they were decoration to set the scene. Now I want to get these books back out to review them! I did review the kiss scene over and over trying to figure out what exactly had happened there since I had questions. As for the two types, my library has this 16 version and I doubt they will get the 19 version. I assume the 19 version has either more explicit or violent content, neither of which I prefer, but if the plot is substantially different I may need to at least reference it to see what happens. Thanks again for your comments, I really appreciate it!
@@badbettybooks4001 Your welcome!!! In the 19 plus it’s a little more bloody and let’s say since you don’t like very explicit scenes the 16 plus version has more of the thoughts and feelings of the characters in the scenarios while the in the 19 version has all the *action* if you catch my meaning.
Also I hate to call him this but Horus is a walking talking spoiler and whenever you catch up you’ll know exactly what I mean.
@@badbettybooks4001 also for some reason the pages sometimes stick together so make sure your not accidentally missing a page because I have unfortunately done that before.
I love the cover art on this one!!!
I did too! It wasn't my favorite scene from the volume but it was really pretty!
nice , antedeluvian nice . still, histrorigraphy = good
This sounds like it would be the perfect kind of thing for my 6th grader for some history highlights as we study history.
I think this sort of book would have been so interesting to me in middle school - if you do get it for him I hope he enjoys it!
I need to read that book! I just found out about Inanna because of Francesca Stavrakopoulou book.
i love maths....nice
Hey girly could you give us book recommendations that are similar to this?
It would depend on what aspects of The Remarried Empress you enjoy- I am very picky with what romances I enjoy, and I am enjoying this one. I am also enjoying the intrigue that is going on and the political manipulating that has to happen in the story. Another romance that I enjoyed was "Kaguya-sama Love is War" - it is quite popular but if you haven't checked it out and want a good romance I would recommend.
@@badbettybooks4001 thank you!!
Great review! I think you were right to contest her dismissal of the renaissance as integral to european history. Like you, I found the argument interesting, especially since most countries, even european ones, don't talk about "The Renaissance" as an era from a national context. The tone used and simplistic reasoning for not finding it important was definitely not fitting though!
Thanks for the comment! As I mentioned, I would be open to hearing her idea, but I don't think this book was the time or place. And to quote her reasoning from the book :"The 'Renaissance' is a problematic idea because it focuses on Italian art, while equally amazing art was being made across Europe, sometimes earlier" and she then goes on to call out Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, and Albrecht Dürer as examples. This was the quote I forgot to tab before filming so I couldn't find it, but I found this argument to be really weak and not in line with any Humanities, Art History, or European History course I have ever taken.
I came across your channel completely at random on YT. But I actually enjoyed your video, I'll stay for longer
Thank you for stopping by and watching!
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I’m sold lol. I don’t read this type of book normally but I really need to check these out!
It has been a fun little read! I hope you enjoy it!
The thing is, before the Enlightenment, craftspeople _were_ artists. The definition of art and artist has changed, but we treat it todays as if it had always meant what it means today. Thank you for the review, this book sounds interesting. Especially about women, as I know women were kept out of most paid crafts, but then again the middle ages were surprisingly not as harsh on women as some later ages. Shows progress is not always linear.
they got separated into artists and artisans
I really want to explore the medieval arts more, it's so forgotten in modern culture. Mostly the paintings are viewed as primitive and dull, people have never heard the astonishing beauty of music of especially the late middle ages, and the pictures you showed of the embroidery certainly exceeded my expectations! Great video, I look forward to checking out your other videos on medieval art :) Do you have any recommendations of medieval literature?
Thanks for watching,and for the comment! I've been really enjoying learning about the art from the era. As for recommendations, I am not sure I am the most well-read in literature that stems from the medieval era. I have read many of the Icelandic sagas for a class on Icelandic history I took in college. I remember enjoying those. I also enjoyed reading Beowulf. I feel like it is late medieval, if it can be considered medieval at all, but I enjoyed Dante's Inferno as well. I read that as part of a Humanities course in college and the discussion was great. In the past year I have read Forbidden Rites which dissects a surviving manuscript on necromancy magic from the middle ages. I also read A Medieval Book of Beasts: The Second Family Beastiary, which was the text + commentary from a beastiary. I also read and loved Basilisks and Beowulf by Tim Flight which discussed the role of monsters in Anglo-Saxon literature. Hopefully something in this wall of text piques your interest!
@@badbettybooks4001 Thank you! I feel particularly drawn to the Icelandic sagas, I've heard that the writing style inspired some modern authors which is interesting. Forbidden Rites also sounds intriguing!