I don't want what they're selling. Friday Reads
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- #booktube #fridayreads
I talk about @LiterateTexan 's go-fund-me. Give if you can at gofund.me/f56cdf17
Also Daniel Emmett's Virginia Minstrels
Retail bookstores vs. used bookstores.
The Supreme Court and my representative's email
If you want a one-month trial of Steve Reads from @saintdonoghue send me you email address qcvbooktube@gmail.com
I also recommend checking out @fictionesque1992 for some quality booktubin'.
Books mentioned:
James by Percival Everett
The Death of the Artist by William Deresiewicz
Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Arthur Ashe: a Life by Raymond Arsenault
Levels of the Game by John McPhee
Awesome! I work at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, and I hosted Percival Everett for an author talk. It was definitely a high point of my year so far!
Amazing! Is there a video of his talk available?
@@JamesRuchala Definitely! ua-cam.com/users/liveppcamx588NE?si=eINuGafPDELNVVyW
I was at that museum in 2021. Quirky but fun place.
Politics are so frustrating. I’ve always believed in questioning everything and it’s been even more important in the past decade. I find myself not being able to get behind anyone in positions of power. Always enjoy hearing about what you’ve been reading 😊
Thanks for watching, Summer. Frustrating is right. I aspire to be apathetic sometimes. Hope you're having a good reading week.
@@JamesRuchala Thanks James! I’m enjoying what I’m reading 😊
Hi James. I’m sorry to hear who your representative is….I agree with you about JAMES. It’s a brilliant novel, and it’s definitely my top novel for the year so far too. Nothing else even comes close.
Thanks for watching. Makes me eager to read more P.E.
@@JamesRuchala I am too. I’ve bought a few of his earlier novels.
Yay! More poodle!
Louise says hi.
I can't wrap my head around the direction this country is taking, Immunity, the erosion of the separation of church and state, Roe reversal, etc etc ad nauseum I am reading One Hundred Years of Solitude currently - one of my book groups is reading Catch 22 so looking forward to it (hopefully a faster read than 500+ pages suggests) Will have to slip in a "beach read" to lighten the July TBR
It's a lot of bad news at once. Most people seem to like 100 YofS. It was not my favorite, but it's been a long time. Let us know how you like it. Thanks for watching!
I read Catch-22 this winter. It’s not a quick read, but I think the length adds to the absurdity of it. As someone who already thought war is stupid, this book did not convince me otherwise. You might like it or you might not. It just wasn’t an Amy book.
I find it astonishing the Supreme Court came to that conclusion, but I read that Trump stuffed the higher judiciary with his puppets. I'm in the UK , but even I know that presidential immunity is wrong, but our Government passes laws to say that they can't be sued, then turns around and passes another law saying demonstrations and strikes are restricted. A uyway they are gone, and now we have Starmer. Seems like out of the frying pan into the fire.
Nice 😊 Yes, Randy's a friend of mine, too. I'm waiting for _James_ from the library. _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ is one of my favorite American novels. 🌴
Huckleberry Finn was long one of the top ones in my memory, but I hadn't read it until this year and it was a little less than I remembered. Mostly, I think, the Tom Sawyer section at the end diminishes it.
_James_ sounds a bit too didactic for my taste - though if I read _Huck Finn_ (for the first time) this year I will consider it. (I’ve been closing out my years with a Twain.) Just that detail about the tennis court proximity makes me hunger for more Ashe.
You'll definitely get more from the Everett if you read Twain first, and it'd be a good one for your year-end. I might do Innocents Abroad.
Ugh. When you held up the cover with Arthur Ashe I realized that I am beginning to envy the dead.
Oh, no, P-Crabs! You're my best commenter!
(I do feel like that too, sometimes)
(Let me know if you hate the nickname)
@@JamesRuchala The dark cloud over my head is a Cat. 5. Have been checking with England if they might take us back. My therapist is booked to forever; you and Dave Novak are all I've got. Stay Quaint; curiosity is a stretch. Am hiding in cruel eighteenth century novels; I used to feel superior to them, not anymore.
P - 🦀🦀🦀!!
I try not to dwell on reality (or what passes itself as such).
@@davidnovakreadspoetry Am reminded of the 1930s 'good Germans' who tried hard not to dwell on their reality. When Thomas Wolfe visited Munich in 1938, he noticed folks were beaten if they didn't salute Hitler when he passed by. I don't want to get hit by our new reality. (P.S. I respect your process though.)
@@PatriciaCrabtree-wm8xd The phrase inner emigration comes to mind.
"She is a graduate student in literature, which I don't recommend." Pretty funny:)
I think what it is about Barnes & Noble are the flowery and colorful paperbacks even in the literature section which are as bland as strip malls seen from a highway.
Regarding the courts, I've been thinking about outgoing President John Adams packing the federal courts with Federalists and appointing Thomas Jefferson's cousin, John Marshall, as chief Justice between December up til midnight March 3rd 1801 when his "friend" T.J. was sworn into office. Jefferson wrote to Abigail three years into the presidency that what her husband had done was appoint his enemies to thwart his presidency, which is funny because that's all Jefferson did not only to John but to Washington when they were presidents. Marshall didn't like Jefferson, going back to revolutionary days when Marshall served in the militia and Jefferson did not, something that bothered him his entire life. Mutual antipathy. It's funny because as early as 1792 T.J, writing to Madison, had learned that his other nemesis, Hamilton, was encouraging Marshall to run for congress. To remove him from any legislative power, T.J. suggested to Madison he should be given a judgeship instead. Be careful what you wish for! When Jefferson became president and both houses were controlled by little "r" republicans they wanted the federal courts not to interpret the law, but execute it, giving Congress exclusive power to interpret the laws. Which is of course the complete opposite of what the anti-federalists wanted during the Washington and Adams administration when they wanted laws like the Alien and Sedition Acts to be found illegal, something that did not happen. But now power was in their hands and they wanted the judiciary to be a mere extension of the Executive and Legislative branches. But Marshall and the lawyer who argued many of the landmark cases establishing the power of the judiciary as a check on both the legislative and executive branches, Daniel Webster, would have none of it. And now here we are, in 2024, two years away from the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we have have not only a supreme court, but also many federal judges who are willing to defer to the executive in unprecedented ways, now, apparently giving a president immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. When I met Vidal in 2006, he told me and my friend that the country was ripe for a dictator. He sensed the mood of the country as angry, especially Iraq war veterans. He died before the 2016 election. I don't think he would've been surprised by the outcome.
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt Testosterone creates the biological imperative of greed, power, and violence. It's tough being a girl on this still cooling planet. I wish I could be a flatworm again.
In 2006 we thought W was the worst possible president. Well, those of us who were not in the majority that re-elected him. Weird that we've had only one popularly-elected Republican president since 1992, and yet all our laws are being re-written by justices appointed by Republicans.
Barnes and Noble may be an age thing…certainly my 15 year old daughter becomes enthralled by their YA fiction section. However I do wonder if there is much there to enthrall a male of the same age…maybe in the overflowing manga section.
oy... manga is encroaching like kudzu
oy... manga is encroaching like kudzu