Double Tags: New Year New Me and Reading Habits
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- I tag the following Booktubers:
@booktalkingwithlibrarylin1924
@MicahCummins
@BradysBookshelf
@PlaguedbyVisions
All books mentioned can be found on my bookshop page.
The New Year, New Me BookTube Tag
This tag was created by @kevintowle9665 and I was tagged by Gavin @GenreBooks23
Prompts:
1. (Fears) What is one book from your 2025 reading goals that scares you?
2. (Patience) What is one book on your 2025 reading goals you want to start immediately? 
3. (Growth) What book last year pushed you to reflect and/or grow as a reader?
4. (New Paths) What is one author you plan to try for the first time in 2025?
5. (Self-Care) What is one book and or series you revisit for comfort? 
6. (Forging Ahead) What is your favorite debut book or first book in a series you read last year?
7. (Goals) Do you have a specific reading goal or challenge for the year ahead? 
8. (Breaking Walls) Bonus: Do you have a non-book related goal for 2025 you wish to share?
9. (Teamwork) Tag others.
The Reading Habits Book Tag
This tag was posted by Richard @Richard.HistoryLit
Prompts:
1. Do you have a certain place at home for reading?
2. Bookmark or random piece of paper?
3. Can you just stop reading or do you have to stop after a chapter or certain amount of pages?
4. Do you eat or drink while reading?
5. Multitasking: music or TV while reading?
6. One book at a time or several at once?
7. Reading at home or everywhere?
8. Reading out loud or silently in your head?
9. Do you read ahead or even skip pages?
10. Do you break the spine or keep it like new?
11. Do you write in your books?
12. Who do you tag? 
Good spine prepping tip! Thanks
I really enjoyed the Wolf Hall trilogy. Harry Potter is comforting. Your cat is beautiful. 😊
I’m encouraged by your reading experience with Wolf Hall. Yes, Harry Potter rocks! And, thank you for complimenting my kitty cat. I love your picture with your cat. I wish mine would do that!
Hello, I just found your channel thanks to Kevin. I've got the John Adams book on my TBR for later this year... probably September and October. I'm reading all the McCullough books in the order they were published. Right now I'm reading about the building of the Panama Canal. 🚢
@@BookLadyLinda oh wow, that’s fantastic! Which is the first of the McCullough books, by the way.
@daubiebooks63 The first is The Johnstown Flood.
Interesting idea, reading everything and in order. I have done that with a couple of authors, of novels, but not non-fiction/history. The exceptions are John Sugden but he has only written three books. And Maya Jasanoff. I went back to her debut book which I really liked, having already read the more prominent _Liberty's Exiles._
@ are those authors historians?
@@BookLadyLinda I haven’t that one. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it.
Denise, I love how much thought and care you put into your reading life! From prepping your book spines (which, honestly, is next-level dedication) to annotating with such precision, your approach is both meticulous and deeply engaged. Also, your take on The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory really hit-there’s something unsettling about watching people warp faith into something unrecognizable. And Redwall-what a fantastic comfort read! Hope your journey through the medieval and early Renaissance shelves is as rewarding as it sounds. Looking forward to seeing what you pick up next!
@@DrCrankyPantsReads you are incredibly kind. Thank you for your thoughtful and kind words. I’ll be checking out your channel and subscribing.
Hey Denise. Thanks for doing my tag! Its nice to meet you and your channel. I have truly met so many book lovers and BookTubers. I am now a new subscriber! Enjoyed your picks, some all the books i have never heard of but sound very intriguing! I believe Wolf Hall is one i have heard of, and Yes Harry Potter! Jim Dale does an amazing narration of Harry Potter! I have heard of Redwall but haven’t read any yet. I hope you have a great week, and again, nice to meet you!
Hi Kevin. Thanks for dropping in. Looking forward to more from your channel. 😊
17:08 Cool tip. As I didn't do this on my first couple of books, and their spine are... ah, how to put it, not matching their age? 😄
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I'm glad you found the tag! Really interesting answers to both. And I think we have some similar reading habits funnily enough. Which is nice! I have subscribed. Particularly things like one book or several, and stopping after a chapter... I did that last night and went back to the new film _Django._ (for 10 minutes). You highlight the whole issue of plot, and "don't tell me the ending!" I am constantly amazed with introductions to classics. In short I don't even look at them at all nowadays. To be fair there is the issue of drawing our attention away from the storyline towards meaningful points and deeper things if present, but that sells the reader a little short in our reading skills and abilities, imo at least. Giving the plot away in a movie however!!! Verboten! quite possibly scene from _fish called wanda_ time, out the window... with warm regards,
Hello Richard. I remember while watching your videos thinking that that here was a person who knew how to take care of his books.
Your 10 minute escape into Django made me laugh.
I quite agree with you about introductions. I quickly learned to avoid them at the beginning and save them for after I finished the book.
And that rude person who gave away the plot, he and I are no longer together!
Thank you for your kind words. I look forward to more of your videos. 😊
@@daubiebooks63 It's a pleasure. Meanwhile I would like to invite you to check out my two recent and original tags. Shelf Respect and Janstory, such as they are...
I own the same John Adams book by McCullough!
Have you read it yet?
@@daubiebooks63 I have read half of it.
@daubiebooks63 nope. It was on my original Jan 2025 tbr, but I did not begin.
@@Richard.HistoryLit how is it so far?
@@daubiebooks63 After a slightly unexpected beginning (for non-fiction), it very quickly became a thoroughly readable and enlightening read. There is plenty of good stuff with respect to Adams and his wife Abigail, including letters back and forth when they are apart. I'm not convinced we get the whole (and direct) story behind Adams thinking about possible independence but we do certainly get plenty of possible leading evidence. We do get a definite sense of the age in which he was living and what that means, for example, for his education, but there is a sense of time and place and how ordered society was or not as the case may be. I could do not less than recommend you give it a go.
with warm regards,