FEBRUARY PLANS AND POSSIBILITIES
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this video, I discuss my reading plans for February including several ongoing events and group reads.
Books mentioned:
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: Swann's Way. Trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Modern Library, 2003.
Pineiro, Claudia. A Crack in the Wall. Trans. Miranda France. Bitter Lemon Press, 2013.
Pineiro, Claudia. Betty Boo. Trans. Miranda France. Bitter Lemon Press, 2016..
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. Trans. Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton, 2023.
Van Pelt. Shelby. Remarkably Bright Creatures. Harper Collins, 2022.
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Vintage, 1958.
Simak, Clifford D. Cosmic Engineers. Paperback Library/Coronet Communications, 1964.
Heinlein, Robert A. The Menace from Earth. Baen Books, 1987/1959.
Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. Liveright Publishing Corp./W.W. Norton & Co., 2015.
Beard, Mary. Emperor of Rome. Liveright Publishing Corp./W.W. Norton & Co., 2023.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: The Novels. Penguin Classics, 2015.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A & W Publishers, 1975.
Horowitz, Arthur. The House of Silk. Orion Publishing, 2011.
Simmons, Dan. The Fifth Heart. Little, Brown & Co., 2015.
Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. Vintage, 2021.
Baldree, Travis. Bookshops & Bonedust. TOR Publishing, 2023.
Kingfisher, T. Thorn Hedge. TOR Publishing, 2023.
Events:
Pineiro Project:
@BookChatWithPat8668
@readandre-read
@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
@scallydandlingaboutthebooks
@RaynorReadsStuff
@books_and_bocadillos
@stalkingkafka
@BookishTexan
@anotherbibliophilereads
@BernasBookishAdventures
@spreadbookjoy
Arianne F.
Erin H.
Simak Readathon hosted by Shawn @ShawnDStandfast and joined by
Scott@ScottDanielson
Ira @sfwordsofwonder
Matt @sciencefictionreads
Brandy @TheBookclectic .
Heinlein 2025 hosted by Shawn@ShawnDStandfast and Mark @richardsonreads573 and assisted by
Brandy@TheBookclectic
Scott @ScottDanielson
Matt @sciencefictionreads
Ira @sfwordsofwonder
Randy Ray @LiterateTexan
Endless Drama hosted by Angelia @readandre-read
Holmes is Where The Heart Is hosted by Jim @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn and assisted by
@anotherbibliophilereads
@BookTimewithElvis
@LiterateTexan
@bighardbooks770
The Brothers and Sisters Karamazov (formerly the Ulysses Six):
@anotherbibliophilereads
@bighardbooks770
@RaynorReadsStuff
@royreadsanything
@willchambers8065
@BookChatWithPat8668
The Proust Readathon hosted by Greg @anotherbibliophilereads and assisted by Randy Ray @LiterateTexan
Fantasy in February hosted by Gareth @bookssongsandothermagic in tribute to Scott, whom we lost last year, and his lovely wife, Becky @thebookishbryants
The Belief and Behavior Book Club hosted by Gareth@bookssongsandothermagic
Historathon hosted by Vin @revenantreads and assisted by
John David @NicholasOfAutrecourt
Bill @billruttenberg
Mark @BookTimewithElvis
Justin @TriumphalReads
Gareth @bookssongsandothermagic
Peg @TheHistoryShelf
Also mentioned: MJ, Reading This Life @M-J
#endlessdrama #proust #sherlockholmes #holmesiswheretheheartis
#historathon2025 #thebrotherskaramazov #dostoevsky #booktube #booktubecommunity #reading
That is a busy girl right there! Wow, and i thought i have over committed 😊 you are a reading dynamo my friend!
We'll see how much I can really do....
I know we’ll have many more opportunities to thank you as the anniversary date draws near, but my goodness, Pat, what a year of enjoyment, comfort, and education you’ve given us. It’s flown by so quickly! I didn’t start commenting right away, but I’ve been watching from the beginning. You’re a star. 💛😊
And you, my friend, are a star to me. "Commenter extraordinaire," as Allen says, and a dear, dear friend. Thank you for your presence here. I can't fully express how much you mean to me. 🥰
The cover of Cosmic Engineers is fabulous! You'd never guess that February is the shortest month based on your reading plans. I'm looking forward to our mutual groups and hearing about all the rest.
@@readandre-read well, I keep telling myself that some of these are ongoing events, not exclusively belonging to February. 😉
I almost picked up Beard's Emperor of Rome this weekend--but I'm making myself wait until I finish (or, heh heh, start...) SPQR. Babysteps in will-power!
Same. I'm slowly making my way through SPQR first.
I almost signed up to be a judge, but I decided my work schedule is just too hectic.
I love library sales! Hope you enjoy Holmes. It’s been a while since I read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sounds like you're going to have a great reading month!
It's been ages since I've read Sherlock Holmes. I think it's going to be fun. It is quite a commitment to be a judge. I know I never could have done it when I was teaching full-time. I hope you're doing well.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Doing great, thank you, Pat!
Wonderful!
Pat, your reading plans are always so ambitious and inspiring-it’s like watching a literary marathon unfold! The Pinero project alone is impressive, but adding Dostoevsky, Holmes, fantasy, classic sci-fi, and Oliver Sacks on top of it? Incredible. Also, happy early BookTube anniversary! Can’t wait to see how you mark the occasion. Wishing you the best with all of February’s reading adventures!
@@DrCrankyPantsReads thank you! These plans may be a bit ambitious, but they are mostly ongoing projects, so hopefully, I’ll be able to complete most of them. 😊
You certainly have a big month planned! Congratulations on your anniversary.
@@nonisnest9718 thank you! 😊
Holy moly, Pat 😮 I don’t know how you do it but I wish you a very happy reading month and a happy Booktube anniversary! I, like many others am so happy to have found your channel!
@@MyMessyBookshelf I’m a little overwhelmed right now…I’m so glad to have found you this year, Nicky. I treasure our friendship! 🥰
Thanks for this video filled with inspiration of different reading events. It's so easy to get caught up in too many so I also decided to just read the first volume of in search of lost time by Proust. I will continue to read but at a slower pace over the next year. With my patreon book club Life on Books, we just finished The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. Our next book is the Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison which I have had on my shelves for a long time. I have a copy of Anthony Horowitz The house of silk. I really really enjoyed the Magpie Murders and the Moonflower Murders by him! Excited that you have come up on a year with booktube and I am so glad that Kim from middle of the book March introduced me to you. It's been wonderful❤
Thanks for this lovely comment, Marcia. You have a wonderful reading month planned as well. I am also so glad that Kim sent you my way and that we have become friends. I treasure your presence on my channel and our contact offline as well.
Looking forward to everyone's thoughts on Karamazov Brothers. It'll only be my second Russian classics. Great plans as usual Pat
Thanks, Justin.
Good luck, Pat. The options are wonderful and I hope you enjoy whichever of the books you choose to pick up. I am still reading Dune but 2/3 of the way through and really loving it. I’ll be joining in The Brothers Karamazov group read and will watch whatever live streams are put up on Greg’s channel. Also reading War and Peace a chapter a day and finding it a very enjoyable pace. And then I have a bunch of books for Historathon. Plus various others. As you say a short month so we’ll see. Take care, my friend! ❤️📚
@@jf8559 oh I’m so glad you’ll be joining us for Brothers K. You have a very ambitious month planned too.
Wow Pat! You’ve got a lot on in February and your #booktube anniversary too! 🎉 I look forward to watching how you get on with it all.
@@AlansReads thanks, Alan. We’ll see….If I’m a Book Tube judge this round, my plans will definitely be adjusted. Hope you’re doing well.
I love all of the possibilities! It looks like a good month of reading is ahead for you. I continue to enjoy our Piñeiro group and I will see you in The Brothers Karamazov group.
@@ariannefowler455 our Pineiro group is fabulous. Glad you’re joining us in the Dostoevsky group too!
Pat, you are a treasure to this community! Please keep making your videos. I am very happy that I found your channel. Happy anniversary ❤
@@Wanderousreader aww thank you for this lovely comment! ❤️
I saw Mary Beard at an event where she spoke about Emperors of Rome with David Olusoga - amazing. They gave us copies of the book but I have yet to read it. Glad to be reading A Crack in the Wall with you all again. A year on Booktube already! 🎉 I’m reading two other books for events I’m hosting - How to Kill a Mockingbird for FOMO Bookclub and The Forgotten Book for the Reading the Globe YA readathon but otherwise no plans, which is nice. Happy reading Pat!
@@spreadbookjoy Mary Beard is a delight. I’m so glad you’re still with us in the Pineiro Project. Maybe we can read our Trollope sometime in the spring?
@ that would be lovely! Does April or May work for you? Drop me a message! 😁
@ I’m thinking May? I’ll send you a message on my thinking.
Congratulations on your one year anniversary.... you have been a wonderful addition to Booktube! It is a good thing that you are retired... the number of groups and read a longs you are part of and the number of episodes you send out (yay!) are increasing! Another booktuber i watch "religiously" had an episode about the benefits of rereading books; and i decided to reread Crime and Punishment this year. But then i heard you will be reading The Brothers Karamozov, so i thought i would do the same... it seems to be so high on Best Of- lists.
Oh how wonderful that you will be joining us on The Brothers K. Do you know about Greg's discord channel where we will be discussing it? Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I absolutely never could have started this channel when I was still teaching. I didn't even discover booktube until after I retired. I never, ever could have made videos when I was working full-time. I don't know how many of my friends here do it. Thanks again for supporting me.
@BookChatWithPat8668 i have to admit i know nothing about Discord, had never heard about it until i heard you mention it. I will have to Google it.
If you go to Greg's channel, Another Bibliophile Reads, you'll see his videos about the Brothers Karamazov, and he posts a link to his discord channel where the discussion will be taking place. If you are interested, you might want to check that out. I don't think I can put a link to the discord here, but you'll find it on Greg's channel.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 oh, thank you so much, Pat!
My pleasure.
i really love your vids
Awww thanks! 😊
Oh my goodness! I can’t imagine being beholden to so many reading groups plus being a judge. Do you read at a “Steve Donoghue speed”? Do you plot out your weeks as if following a class schedule?
Best wishes meeting all your Feb goals.
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I plot out each day’s reading, yes. If I am a judge, I will adjust accordingly because that will have to be a priority. I’m nowhere near Steve’s speed, but I’m a pretty intense reader. 😊
Congratulations on a year as a booktuber. You have impressive February plans. My main February plans are reading books for 4 book clubs I'm part of
@@stuartgriffin1001 thank you, Stuart. You always have terrific book choices through all of your clubs. 😊
Hi Pat, it’s hard to keep up with all the events. I have to check out Angelia’s event because I love drama, and I have Raisin in the sun and Bernard Shaw‘s Pygmalion. I hope you have a wonderful month. Aloha lovely friend.
@@MarilynMayaMendoza Angelia has a lot of great plays planned throughout the year! Hope you’re doing well, my friend! 🥰
I have really been enjoying your videos and your reading plans. I too seem to be reading lots of things at once and am enjoying all of it. The book I am now reading at night just before sleep is the second Library of America Volume of the Diaries of John Quincy Adams.I think I might have to switch to some natural history. The politics going on right before his term as president are not good for sleep. I'm also waiting to find out if I am reading for the book tube prize.
Thank you for this lovely comment. I agree: reading about politics--current or past--is probably not the best right before trying to go to sleep. I guess we'll know by tomorrow if we are judging this first round. Did you sign up for non-fiction, for fiction, or both? I did both last year, but I decided to focus on fiction this year. Thanks again for commenting.
Glad I caught ya on Gareth & Dave's show, yesterday, and I look forward to reading w you! 🎉
Thanks for being in the chat last night, Allen. Lots of fun. Looking forward to all of our upcoming projects too!
I hope you enjoy the Holmes. We’re definitely reading the Dan Simons
@@anotherbibliophilereads I’m sure I will enjoy! Ok, thanks for confirming the pastiche option. I thought I heard Jim or you mention it, but I wasn’t sure. Thanks, Greg!
Sounds like a good plan! 😊 I’m curious to see what books are nominated for the booktube prize, I hope you get selected and that the books are good! And if not this round, maybe next one will have even better books. And you know, I’m one week older than you, in booktube years! My anniversary is February 4th 😊 Happy joyful reading this month!
Thanks, Ellen! Oh my goodness!! Happy Almost Anniversary! 🥰
@ Thank you! 🥰
Great list of books Pat! I’ve never read any Dostoevsky. He kind of intimidates me haha. I’ve heard good things about Clifford Simak. House of Silk is on my list to read some point. I enjoyed the Magpie Murders by Horowitz.
@@BookishChas Hi Chas! I liked Magpie Murders too. I read Dostoevsky in college and grad school but somehow never got to the Brothers K. Hopefully, it will be a great reading experience. We’ll see…Hope you’re doing well.
@ yes I hope you really enjoy it. I’m doing well thanks. I hope you are too.
Happy Reading Pat!!
Thank you!! 😊
I saw the Sherlock Holmes deluxe edition at your channel and bought it as a present from myself, best wishes from İstanbul•
A present from yourself to yourself! I love it! thank you for tuning in and for commenting.
Great plans, huge plans my friend. Looking forward to reading with you again this month. For a short month there is so much going on in February. Enjoy 😊
Thanks, Debs. I'm thinking this is going to be too much for February, especially if I do end up being a judge. We'll see. I always look forward to reading and discussing with you, my friend.
Lots of interesting reading and évents on your calendar. I just went and put Legends and Lattes on hold on Libby it sounds like a fun read. I am not a big fantasty person but I like a good engaging story.
I've never been much of a fantasy reader either, but I'm finding comfort in this gentle series.
Wow to both all the events and your one year anniversary! It seems like you have always been here. I have several Sherlock Holmes short stories, I can't wait to read more of them.
Thank you, Helen, for your many kindnesses toward me! I haven't read Sherlock Holmes in a long, long time, and I think he might be "just what the doctor ordered." Yes, Feb. 11 marks one year. What a year it's been....
Wow. Such a big undertaking! I can only read one book at a time, or I certainly would get so confused!
I just finished Prairie Fires which is the story of Laura Ingalls, for myself, our book club read for February is The Days I Loved You Most (which scares me, so I'm on the fence on this one), and then a couple of self help books on health subjects, again, for myself, trying to get over some health issues before spring. I did put some of your recommendations on my 'Wish list'. Thank you for more ideas!
Thanks for commenting. I don't think I know about The Days I Loved You Most. I'll have to read up on it. I hope you're taking good care and that your health issues are manageable. Thanks for your presence here.
That’s great you’ve signed up to be a Booktube Prize judge too, looking forward to seeing which books made the first round.
@@Ali-AvidReader I’m excited to see the list too!
You know this is the short month? 😊 Looks like a good selection upcoming, and an anniversary to boot!
I know, I know. This sounds like a ridiculous number of books, but a bunch of these are ongoing projects. We'll see....I am looking forward to getting into The Brothers Karamazov as we've been talking about it forever. And I will be stepping off the Proust train soon...And I'm looking forward to our reading of The Anubis Gates next month.
If you like Legends and Latte, you would also The Spell Shop.
@@nancyjones1093 thank you!!
Holy shit, that's a very packed month indeed! I have very few concrete plans for the month. I want to get back to the Mormonism and Sanderson project as soon as my dental issues are fixed and I am going to read The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle as soon as I can get my hands on it now that it finally got an audio book release. Beyond that I only have two non-fiction books on my radar, Commander In Chief, the second volume of Ronald Hutton's biography of Oliver Cromwell and Summer Of Fire And Blood by Lyndal Roper, a history of the German peasant's war. I might read some more Italo Calvino as well if the fancy takes me. Good luck with all your projects!
Lovely to hear from you....I hope you're doing ok. Dental issues are no fun at all. Good luck with it all. I was going to ask you about your Mormonism project after I heard you mention it recently. I know you were just reading Ursula K. LeGuin. I've become very interested in her this past year. It sounds like you have a whole lot on your plate now, reading and otherwise. Please take care...
I'm audio book reading The Seque,l second book in what I think might just be a 2 book series. First book was The Plot. At home reading is Snow Falling on Cedars. I think I am going to find some brain candy for February, I need a break from such sad books.
Oh, I want to read The Sequel. I read The Plot when it first came out. Snow Falling on Cedars isn't ultimately a sad book. I mean, there is certainly a lot of sadness in it, but the ending is a bit more hopeful, I think. But I know what you mean. I had a very heavy January, and I, too, looked for some lighter reading as a relief.
PS I read Sherlock Holmes the case of the speckled band in high school. It’s really good.
I think I read it in high school too. Definitely time to revisit!
Celebrating Black History Month with my own read-a-thon.
@@creetyuk I’d love to hear your choices.
Have you had any new insights with re-reading Remarkably Bright Creatures?
@@paperpagespossibilities I’m not sure if they’re new insights, but I’m reading with a great sense of appreciation for it. I’ll talk about it more after my group meets. I think it’s such a lovely novel.
My book channel is called Angie‘s romance books. February is my birthday month. Can’t believe it’s already February reading plans.
Hi Angie. Thanks for telling me your channel name. I hope you have a lovely birthday! Thanks for commenting.
You do realize February is the SHORT one, right? 😉
Hahaha! 😂