Book Vlog Q and A
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Hello everyone and welcome to my latest video where I answer some general questions about books and reading. This will be Part One of various videos that I will share over the coming months.
You may have asked these questions but I hazard to guess that you really haven't.
As I'm in a reading a non-fiction book at the moment I thought I'd take the time to create this short video to just gab in front of the camera.
Over to you.
Questions I talk about are:
(1) What books do you prefer to read?
(2) Where do you source your books?
(3) How many books do you read?
Go. 👇
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Loved getting to know you a bit more in this video! It’s funny how our paths have followed similar tracks and timelines-I wonder if it’s just a maturity thing, or maybe even a post-Covid reflection… Either way, it’s great to connect over shared experiences!
@@Deborahafter50 thanks Deborah. I think it might be a bit of both. For me, I’d say COVID just pushed me as it did many others methinks. Thank you once again for watching and commenting ☺️
i just binged on your channel while organizing and clearing out my bookshelf, book chair, book floor stack, book desk stack, boxes and bags etc. and it was perfect. your organized mind helped me to organize while giving me recs and definitely nots to file in the brain for when I get the shines for something you had enjoyed. Merry Christmas Helen, 2024.
Omg. Poor you. Listening to me droning on 🤣🤣🤣 Seriously though, hope there were some recommendations for you.
What were your favourite books in 2024 that you read? Recommendations?
Wish you a wonderful and happy new year filled with lots of great reading. Well now that you’ve emptied your shelves, there’s more space for more books…..📚 just saying. 🤣
@@LifeLessonsFromBooks Frankly, nothing stands out too shiningly. I enjoyed as fully well as anything else (what few I read in '24) The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess, whose prose is nothing if not wickedly bon-mot all the time, a well oiled machine made of words, Burgess. Riddley Walker I re-read, a holy book. I finally finished David Copperfield, perfect in some if not all parts. I read some Céline, Flaubert again. Isaac Bashevis Singer again, a great favorite of mine, I believe one of the greatest storytellers of all time: his short stories compare to stories from great scriptural stories and myths. I reread poetry and lit. crit essays as much as anything. Hardly do I ever read new stuff. I think I devoted more time to listening to Chomsky lecturing on linguistics in UA-cam videos than reading. HNY to you too way around there in tomorrowland.
Loved hearing your thoughts on books
Thank you, much appreciated 😊
It's funny you threw the Mantissa against the wall since it was the same reaction a friend had when I gave her a copy of the Magus. She was frustrated with the book, but was so angry with it she had to finish it. Rage is sometimes good.
Life lessons is true about books. It's like speaking to a friend who tells you what you don't want to hear but know it's the truth.
Never got interested in twitter, FB, and social media beyond youtube and email. I use a flip phone. Friends have given me iphones but I use them to make videos. I don't need the added distractions. And I find I have less anxiety than those who are married to their "toys." I used to read at coffee shops but I get distracted by conversations so that ended years ago. I too read in the mornings when my concentration is strongest. Never understood the reading in bed idea. Nor reading at the beach. Who can read with so many beautiful distractions? I think Kundera, Vidal, and Fuentes would agree on the latter:)
Well I’ve got The Magus and now you’ve intrigued me to read it. Only after I finish the abridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo. 🤣 Trust me, you’re not missing anything not being in the socials. I see that after I got off them. I love the flip phone idea. I think it’s cool but this is coming from someone who still calls her friends on the phone and has hour long conversations with them. Voice calls never see their faces…
It's a pleasure to follow your thoughts. Do we share similar interests? I think yes. My most recent book that I just finished yesterday was the last major work of Tolstoy: Resurrection. Have you read it and if so did you like it as much as I did? Look forward to your next video 😊. Cheers, Marianne
Thank you as always Marianne. I haven’t read Resurrection but have noted it down. At the moment I’m reading Count of Monte Cristo but the abridged version.
Have you ever read the quincunx from Charles Palliser, I loved but it was a one time read for me. Curious what you think
No I haven't heard of this book so I'm looking it up.
....Oooh, it's a big book and 'fairly' recently published too (I think 1989 is still recent, ha ha). I've put it down in my 'TBR' and will look out for it in my bookshop jaunts. Thank you for the recommendation. Please share here what you thought about it as I'd be interested to know.
@@LifeLessonsFromBooks that s difficult, it takes you on a journey to the 19 century with a boy and his mother. It s about classes it s about a mysterie, it absorbs you, it s a pretty big book (with small print in my case) but I couldn lay it down. I heard people that remind it of Dickens but I never read him. It s not the easiest but it s worth the journey
Sounds great. Well I now know about it so will look out for it. Thank you. ☺️