December plans: Remember December, Christie's Missing, Indiecember and trying to read what I own
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- I have been enthused by reading events again. Hoping I haven't been over-optimistic.
Are you joining us for the Remember December Rereadathon? Joins the chat on Discord / discord
A reminder of the prompts and hosts:
@bouquinsbooks
@AnnNovella
@aaronfacer
@CriminOllyBlog
@MsReadsAlot
@Shellyish
Reread a book you have basically forgotten
Reread a book to find out how you really feel about it
Reread a book in a different way
Find out more about #christiesmissing2023 from Berna @BernasBookishAdventures • The Christie's Missing...
@naomisbookshelf
@RachaelFryman
See Bob @BobTheBookerer explain Indiedecember • Indiecember- A Month o...
And Olly on Read What You Own • Why I'm giving up buyi...
Books mentioned:
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Red Shift, Alan Garner
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
Lost Realms, Thomas Williams
Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon, Jorge Amado
The Professor's House, Willa Cather with @HannahsBooks
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
Beyond the Door of No Return, David Diop
The Queen of Darkness, Grazia Deledda
A Shining, Jon Fosse
Kibogo, Scholastique Mukosonga
Oh my goodness! So nice to see a face with time on it, like mine. And you are adorable how passionate you are about books.
I'm currently reading Little Women and will probably read A Christmas Carol sometime this month.
Rereading a book is a fascinating experience. As a teen, I thought Huckleberry Finn was a great adventure. As an adult of teen children, I was terrified for Huck!
I will check put the prompts for reread-a-thon.
I like that description. Yes my face has been around for a while and I have earned my wrinkles with happy years!
That's a good point about how our view of a book can shift on rereading.
Thank you for justifying reading library books when one is committed to clearing out some of the books one owns! I am delighted with your reasoning! I have been working on “reading what I own” for several weeks now but have 4 books on my library holds list. And, yes, til I heard your wisdom, I was feeling just a bit guilty about it. 😎😉
Well I feel it is justifiable so enjoy those library loans! And it doesn't add to the unread pile you own either.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 great point about not adding to the “owned” pile. You are enlightening!
Read Diop when he won the Booker and it was my favorite of the year. Have a lots of books on my TBR for December but hope there will be one Christy.
It was gruelling to read but beautifully written, wasn't it?
Came across your channel just now, and I'm already head over heels in love with your recommendations. For a couple of months, I have been quite unsatisfied with reading recommendations, and this was the very video I was. Shelves all the books you recommended and bought 3 of them😂. Thank you so much.
That's a very lovely thing to say 😊
I hope you enjoy them.
I'm so excited about Remember December! I've got two of the three figured out...still working out that last one. No hints!
There's a teaser.
Well, we won’t have a buddy reread because I have never read the books you want to reread. 😂 Happy rereading!
Happy rereading to you too Elisabeth.
I am so glad you will be a part of our readathon again ❤❤ I will certainly re-read two works and most probably three works for Remember December. I am starting to like rereading a bit more since I started following Booktube 😊
I am very slowly increasing my rereading as there are some special books I read decades ago. But it will always be just a bit of my overall reading I think. It is nice to have a mixture.
What a brilliant point about libraries. You are so right. This is a wonderful TBR. At Night All Blood is Black is so, so good. I also loved Treacle Walker. I am looking forward to Remember December. I also love the idea of the Christie event and the Indy event. I always sit with a notepad when I watch your videos and write down all the fabulous recommendations 😊
I really hope Beyond the Door of No Return matches up to At Night. It is good to hear you loved Treacle Walker. I know a fair few people who tried it and disliked it but it struck a chord for me.
I love getting new releases from the library too. I hope you enjoy all your December books Ros ❤️
You too Charlie.
I've checked out a handful of new releases from the library too--but mine are the holiday romances! ❤🔥
Jorge Amado is such an amazing writer ❤
So I am discovering!
As I've watched a few Netflix specials and such about Americans exploring roots and that "Door of No Return" that Diop book is intriguing!
I am very much looking forward to it.
Great point about the library. I am also reading my own books, but I plan to borrow audio books from my library when I run out of my own. Now I feel like I've helped pay for those.
Absolutely. Libraries need to be used to survive 😃
And I can highly recommend Aliss at the Fire as another great place to try Jon Fosse - short and extraordinary!
That's exciting to know. I wasn't sure where to start.
Death on the Nile is one of my favourites. It is even better on the reread.
Ooh good to know it won't be an anticlimax.
I sometimes reread a mystery, knowing full well “whodunnit,” seeing if I can spot the clues I missed the first time around. Doing that with Christie’s “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” was a real eye opener.
@@Kjt853 so you can appreciate the author's technique.
I loved the moonstone and far from the madding crowd, so hope you do too 😊 I’m doing your Readathon and Christie’s missing Readathon. So excited 🎉🎉
I expect to enjoy them both so feeling full of happy anticipation about December. Glad you are too ☺️
This TBR looks exciting. The Moonstone is fun; I reread it last year. I'm interested to hear about the Cather book; I'm not at all familiar with that one. You're so right about the library!
Thanks for supporting my logic on library books 😉
I am getting rather excited about The Moonstone as I keep getting positive comments from people who enjoy it.
Can’t believe it’s almost December. Lots of good books
I know. This year has passed so fast.
So glad you’re enjoying Gabriella so much - I loved it, but maybe I should reread it as it was 30 years ago! Hoping to reread Frankenstein next month - but this time the 1818 version.
I can't believe I had not come across it before. Thirty years ago is impressive. I have only read the standard edition of Frankenstein. I hope the 1818 version proves interesting. More radical perhaps?
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I saw a recent video by Books and Bao that compared the two versions and it really piqued my interest! And 30 years ago I was reading a lot of South American fiction as I had spent a couple of years there and the books took me back.
Prejudice towards short stories? I feel called out! 😂
Glad to hear you liked Frost in May - I just got that book very recently. Virago is a great publisher.
Ha ha. I always feel guilty about my neglect of short stories. I hope you enjoy Frost in May.
Yay for Virago!
I share your love of Alan Garner and also read many of his books as a child. You've inspired me to dig them out .
Brilliant. I hope they live up to your recollection.
That is a lot Ros but I predict you’ll sail through them all! December is a weird month and for me I’ll only be reading the first half as I’ll have two weeks with family where I’ll barely read at all as I’ll be far too busy socializing 🧀🍇🎂🍷. I do plan on rereading Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head though and may even start my reread of Bleak House which will follow me into 2024- by quite a long way 😉 I have a lovely little collection of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short stories published by Pushkin Press to finish off too so I’ll be ticking my readthon boxes quite easily! Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon sounds wonderful but like you, I’m concentrating on reading my own books next year- and I like your library borrowing justification 👍😉 As for Fosse, I think you’ll enjoy him and hope to get to Shining myself next year.
December is unpredictable for me but I should get a few relaxed days after Boxing Day to catch up with reading if Christmas itself takes over. I think Bleak House is my favourite Dickens. Maybe I need to reread it to check. I haven't read any Murdoch for years. Does she stand up well? I think you would enjoy Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon. One for the future perhaps. I will approach Fosse positively.
This will be my first Iris Murdoch reread so 🤞
Loved this and definitely want to get involved in Remember December....just can't decide what - struggling with the last prompt for it too lol (trouble is I don't use a lot of different formats...)
Then ignore that one! But it doesn't have to be a different format. Could be anything that makes it a different experience in some way.
The rereadathon sounds good and the Agatha chirstie one . Love to read some books of my shelves and not buy as many but may get gifts of them .❤ thanks Ros
I hope for some books as Christmas presents even if they do add to my pile of unread books 📚
Love your perspective on libraries! It's true!
The three books for Remember December are picked and waiting. They are not believing their luck, because I'm usually not a big re-reader. Although no one knows, if they still end up being loved, so they should probably be afraid instead. 😂
I am sure all three are poised and eager to please as they are getting this unexpected attention 🙂
Great TBR for December. I love your view of the library. I’ve had After Sappho on my shelf for quite a while and still haven’t made time for it. I’ve got A Tale of Two Cities, Possession, and The Reformatory on my list.
I really must get to After Sappho. I will in January if not December. A Tale of Two Cities was my first favourite Dickens. It has been supplanted over the years but I should revisit it one day. I hope you enjoy Possession. I haven't tried Due. Is she good?
I read Jorge Amado years ago. I remember my mother loving his books and so when I was a teenanger I read the ones she had bought.
This one is definitely my sort of book so I am pleased to have found him at last. He is not much spoken of here in the UK.
Ooh, Red Shift is one of my favourite books. I first read it in the 70s whilst on holiday in the Midlands so it's tied up with good times for me. I read it again recently and got more out of it as an adult. Have you ever read any John Gordon? He's not dissimilar to Alan Garner in a way. I'd recommend him, particularly the Giant Under The Snow, which is a great winter read. I'm about to embark on A Christmas Carol on audio, read by Geoffrey Palmer. I've listened before and it's incredibly good.
Now I am even more optimistic about rereading Red Shift. I don't think I read any John Gordon as a child. Although when I looked up The Giant Under the Snow the Puffin cover looked familiar so maybe I did back then. I'd get a pile from the library every week.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I hope you enjoy Red Shift as much as I did.
Funny you should mention Alan Garner. He wasn’t even on my radar until this month when I read “The Owl Service.” I’m open to reading more by this author.
He is unusual and talented I think. I was tempted to reread The Owl Service but Red Shift won out as I am less sure how I will feel about it.
That’s a lot, but it all sounds good.
I am hoping for some holiday reading time over Christmas. I may have been over-optimistic of course.
Wow, what a list! They all seems so interesting. I can listen to The Professors House on Librovox, but I'm going to concentrate on remember december with an Angela Carter, chapter 10 of Moby Dick, 100 years of solitude and an Easy Rawlings book. I don't buy many books but I do have a couple of charity books including the paying guest. I'm reading Barrett Browning at the moment so I'll read her long poem next. Ros can you recommend any modern poets that use the sonnet form extensively please? I'm really into that at the mo. Thanks for such an interesting video.
Carter, Melville and Marquez is a hefty selection. I think I read Devil in a Blue Dress back in the 1990s. I suspect I would enjoy reading more of that series.
The modern enthusiast for sonnets that springs to mind is the Scottish poet Don Paterson. I appreciated his collection "40 Sonnets" and I know he has also edited a book of other people's sonnets that shows them through history and up to the late 20th century. Could be a starting place?